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  1. Re: Recession is really a depression on US Death Rate Rises, Health Officials Aren't Sure Why (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    4 years ago I could buy a lbs of beef for $1.99, it's around $5.99-7.30lbs these days. Top that out with 94m people not in the labor force, you've got a recipe for people popping themselves off. Past trends show that as well regardless of what the government says the unemployment rate is, especially unemployment rates where you simply fall off after several years.

  2. Re:It is worth what somebody will pay for it on Windows Zero-Day Affecting All OS Versions On Sale For $90,000 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Learning Linux is like learning to drive a stick shift.

    A few more skills, in exchange for more efficiency and better performance.

    The only downside is that for gaming in general, 'nix is pretty shitty. I know some idiot will go, blahblah,gaming,blahblah,nicheshit. Keep in mind that most of what people use 'nix for would also be considered niche shit. That's changing at last though, especially with vulkan and the number of developers that are on board with it vs DX12 and that all video card manufacturers are on board with it. With any luck it'll finally put the nail in the coffin of OpenGL and that giant clusterfuck it has yet to recover from back ~5 years ago. They get it worked out, and we'll finally see "year of the 'nix desktop" ... finally... after almost 20 years of people claiming it so.

  3. Re:Death By A Thousand Cuts on Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Others Agree To Remove Hate Speech Across the EU · · Score: 1

    Given the complaints against having some books in libraries, religious displays that aren't the traditional Judeo-Christian, etc. I'd say there certainly is butthurt on their side as well; only the focus of their butthurt is different. I've found some people on both sides are more than willing to support free speech as long it says what they want it to say but have a surprising lack of tolerance for a differing view. I find that wrong no matter which side of the fence takes that position. Critical thinking and good decision making requires hearing various points of view, not just those that agree with yours.

    Well I'll start out with the obvious, I'm against any type of censorship and get what you're saying. Though there is a difference between the two. Those religious display issues and so on that you're seeing from the religious right? Those in themselves are generally pretty tiny. You're not seeing "ban all books because reasons" mentality from them unless they're extremist muslims for example. On the other hand, there are a lot on the left especially progressives that are pushing whole banning on speech/though/expression. Most recent example at the government level would be NYC and their "we'll fine you if you hurt someones feelings for not using their pronouns." Then you can get into the whole bit with leftist university professors actively coming out and advocating banning all unapproved speech, saying that free speech isn't a right and so on.

    But I do agree, I've found plenty of people on both sides who are ardent free speech advocates. What's interesting is that these people all fall into the libertarian camp, whether they're left or right libertarian is moot in their eyes. Both sides see a greater danger from progressives and the religious right attacking fundamental freedoms for various reasons, whether those reasons are "someone drew a picture" or "those words hurt my feelings."

    As someone who's been all over the political spectrum(from socialist to hard conservative to middle of the road and having been actively involved in politics at a federal(Liberal Party Cdn) party level) in the last ~35+ years, the problem right now is with the left. It's very much the same as it was with the religious right in the 60's through 80's. The progressives on the left are exactly the same in their tone. Anti-free speech, anti-sex, anti-porn, etc., some even go as far as being anti-womens lib and against the sexual liberation movement of the 70's. It's interesting to note though that this started in the 90's(see Clinton/Gore/etc's anti-violence/sex/music crusade), so with luck no one will have to put up with their BS much longer, especially since we're starting to see a larger cultural backlash against and that's good. But the liberals in general need to get their crazies under control as much as the conservative right did. As it stands right now, I've met more ex-progressives and liberals who are moving towards the middle of the road or right then ever before because of it. And are disgusted with what the left has become, especially the pro-violence, attacking/threatening people who have different opinions and so on. Myself? I see similarities in this with the religious right of the 70's, and then becoming radicalized and committing acts of domestic terrorism. Anyway cheers.

  4. Re:Death By A Thousand Cuts on Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Others Agree To Remove Hate Speech Across the EU · · Score: 1

    Conservatives as well, it's just a different source for the butthurt.

    Haven't seen very many conservatives lining up over the last 20 years pushing for limiting speech. Progressives on the other hand? Lots of them pushing for it. Especially on university campuses.

  5. Re:Um on Massive Backlash Building Over Windows 10 Upgrades (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact is, SJW as you define it is unrelated to how others use it. That you may be the only person on the world to use it "correctly" doesn't mean that the general definition of it is useful in any way.

    No, that's not how I define it. That's how most people define it, except for those involved in social justice and are trying to reclaim the word. Which of course is falling flat on it's face. I should probably add in for future reference, SJW's also enjoy things like hashtag activism which gives them great feels, but does nothing. You can like it or not, but as a reminder SJW's made that label for themselves. Their own actions have tainted it, the normies have caught on and use the label as it should be for a group of whiny kids with no life experience and demand that the world should cater to them. Let me say that again, the reason why people use the label as such is because of their own actions.

  6. That's not a surprise, but to be realisitc those career protesters are still evironuts and of the worst kind. Look at the oil pipeline BS. Thousands of people who wanted to speak at the hearings? Oh surprise, thousands of those people didn't live in the country and many of them never put their name in, in the first place. Said environmentalists and career protesters did.

    Oxford county in Ontario has been dealing with them for the last two years, and they've done nothing bug screw with people who live there. If they're not protesting the dump or incinerator they want to build, they're protesting the oil and NG pipelines that run through the county and crying about "how they're all evil and dangerous" or other BS, while slowing everything to a snails pace.

  7. Re:Um on Massive Backlash Building Over Windows 10 Upgrades (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, facts not feels determine my reality. Maybe this handy picture will help you out.

  8. Hydroelectric and wind only works as long as environmentalists don't throw a hissy fit over the installation of it. Which is what you're seeing in BC and Alberta.

  9. Re:security best practice? on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    Pixie dust, don't use fairy dust or it'll install emacs, maybe vim if the fairy had it in for you. Blood for the Blood God will protect either from installing though.

  10. Re:Um on Massive Backlash Building Over Windows 10 Upgrades (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, SJW means whiny millennial's or gen-xer's trying to cash in with massive amounts of whining over first world problems on microblogging sites, and screams everything is sexist, everything is homophobic, and problematic and then screams misogyny when someone tells them that their whining is shit. Key hallmarks include: Problem glasses and aposematism. Other defining features is a strong desire to ignore real world problems, screaming that free speech is problematic/dangerous/not a right and running away when someone asks why they aren't doing something actually help disadvantaged individuals.

  11. Re:Misandry on Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your reply reminds me of those folks in the editorials back in the 1910's and 1920's about how women don't need more rights.

  12. Re:My intro to operating systems on Upcoming OS/2 Release Will Be Called ArcaOS 5.0 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    It's over there, with my stack of FreeBSD books and CD repository copies of FreeBSD from 1998.

  13. Article is wrong, so very wrong. Then again it's the Toronto Star, also known in Canada as the Red Star and is known to take a very authoritarian view on things. You enjoy that citation now which will give you a brief overview on criminal and non-criminal privacy rights and you can enjoy this one too. Which reinforced S.8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. You can also find more cases using "the citizen's right to a reasonable expectation of privacy" on this site.

  14. Yeah and people said clickbait is here to stay, and it's been collapsing in on itself for the last 8 months and sites are laying off or shutting down because of it.

    But no the PC isn't retreating back, it's being replaced by those small devices because people only used it for specific things and those other devices can do it just as well. But that "expensive gaming computer?" You can make one cheaper then a console costs these days that will out preform it. Sure is expensive in here.

  15. Better learn that it is an invasion of privacy if you ever come to Canada. You wouldn't want to spend 6mo to 4 years in prison for it. See this is what falls into "private areas" there's also semi-public like the walkway going to the front of your house, and public like the sidewalk or street in front of the house/building.

  16. Re:Misandry on Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How'd MRA's create this monster when it was feminists(in the 80's and 90's) that pushed this stuff in the first place. Unless of course you're going to say they have a time machine and use it to haunt your dreams of a better future.

  17. Re:Not bad on Mars Is Coming Out Of An Ice Age (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Looking at Vancouver and Toronto, I thought the Chinese were already buying up Canada even without the bottling.

    Only the buildings, but the jokes on them. They're just made out of sheet rock and used pinball machine parts.

  18. Not if it is plain view.

    Even in plain view. Statue and case law on that stuff is generally pretty clear, but can vary from place to place.

  19. Re:I would like a simpler electric car on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Heck, I'm pretty sure a modern car has over 100 ball bearings alone.

    Closer to a thousand on your modern vehicle. Wheel bearings depending on their design can have 50 per axle. But you can build an engine with 20 moving parts, they're called wankel engines. They can even be fully air cooled, require no oil pump, and so on. There's also been a few designs like ceramic engines which can have no traditional bearings at all.

  20. Re:I would like a simpler electric car on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that those 10,000 moving parts also mean the bearings on the door, the door pins, the wiper blades, wheel bearings, hinges, roller bearings for moving the seat, toggle switches and so on. Engines are for the most part, simple mechanically speaking. Same with manual transmissions which have fallen out of favor in a lot of places. Though I'm quite impressed over the last 10 years with the changes to automatics especially with the move to harmonic transaxles.

  21. This is more like "if someone leaves their curtains open, can I look inside from across the street and even take pictures if I want?" To which the correct answer is, yes.

    Actually the correct answer is "maybe, but likely no." Most places that's considered an invasion of privacy because it's a private dwelling, and an individual has the right to privacy even with their curtains open.

  22. Re:Woman that don't like competition... on Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    call other woman sluts because they are affraid "their" men will more easily start an affair with them and they don't want to invest effort in more sex to keep them,

    More true then what most people expect. Anyone who's worked in a female dominated environment can tell you the horror stories including the rampant sexual harassment that goes on in them. It's only the sexists that believe in the "women are wonderful" effect that don't seem to see it.

  23. Re:Study released on Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The other 50% all come from realDonaldTrump.

    Never seen Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders supporters have you? Well that's okay, when you listen to what the media tells you, you get garbage like this: "Women are suffering so much sexism on the internet." Which of course is refuted with the above study...

    Then again in my 35+ years of life, women have always been the most vicious attackers. They'd rather use psychologically based attacks then hitting, but they're not above that either. Which easily shows up in police stats these days, and over the last 20 years the number of violent women has literally exploded. With that, women are more likely to use knives, hammers, etc., when they attack someone as well.

  24. Re:Not bad on Mars Is Coming Out Of An Ice Age (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah. Talking about far northern Canada. That's what happens when you bottle it up and sell it to the Chinese.

  25. Re:Misandry on Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    When it's as serious a problem as misogyny.

    I'm not saying to ignore misandry, it should be studied and I'm sure people are studying it. But misogyny, especially online, is far more prevalent, arguably a much bigger problem, and rightly deserves the majority of the attention.

    Women are strong, independent, and just the equals of men!

    Until things get just a bit difficult, and then they scream that men need to defend them. Yep that's a great example of sexism.