The Republican party has long been owned by Telco's, it seems
Looks at open secrets, and finds out that telcos have predominantly even in this election year dumped money to democrats. Hmm....yep sure does look like republicans are owned by telcos. Just like the pharma industry, who've been throwing money at the democrats - especially after Trump forced through generics on a whole pile of drugs.
So no, when lack of density prevents cable or DSL from being available, you can't always depend on cellular - until AT&T et al start building more towers.
Lack of density? How about when there's plenty of density. A friend of mine lives in a city of 41k people, if you want DSL the fastest you can get is 3mb/512k service. The other option is cable, but at least you can get up to 100Mbps service, and that's in one of the most densely populated areas of Canada(southern ontario). Rogers fought tooth and nail against opening the market to TPIA options and the CRTC had to sanction them with fines. It's actually bad enough that a local ISP has started laying their own fiber links, because Bell refused to do so and they're still on plain copper, not even FTTN.
It's interesting because in Canada there's already provincial legislation that makes this illegal. My guess is that they're going to try going the federal route(that there's no legislation covering all canadians) when this is challenged in court stating that the provinces are unable to regulate it, the courts of course already have already set precedent in other issues similar to this. The insurance industry was slapped over similar attempts with cars and driving habits a few years ago.
Yeah enjoy the shitshow. Things have changed a lot since 2009, first consoles don't make up nearly as much of the market now. PC's and mobile games do. Remove mobile games, and the PC gaming market is now larger then all three consoles. Some companies have tried the "touchy feely" approach, and it's backfired in amazing fashion. Look up the EA suit(exec) that told gamers that if they didn't like black-female-cyborgs in their WWII game(that they marketed as), they could piss off and not buy it. Well people aren't buying it, the suit quit EA just before the earnings call with the investor statement explicitly stating that the pre-sale numbers were far below expectations and gamers were not preordering that title.
That's what we'd call "weaponized autism on the low scale." It still doesn't mean the person gets everything wrong, rather you need to learn how to winnow.
If you waffled any harder, you could open a franchise. You don't seem to understand, maybe because you don't fall into any of these areas that a person doesn't "get there" by the opinions of the person who hired them. They got there based on their abilities previously, gaining skills, achievements, accolades, and showing their worth. There is basic hard criteria to become a doctor, engineer, working in a field where applied mathematics is used, mechanic, autobody, even most trades, and so on. Let's say you schmooze your way into a mechanics job. So they drop you right in front of a car(buick 1996, 3800 series w/supercharger) and tell you to figure out why only one of two cooling fans for the radiator are working. What's the answer? I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt since the car's right in front of you.
The point is, you don't seem to understand that if you're working in sales, retail, being a picker in a warehouse, that you can get to *some* jobs by kissing ass and making people think you're the perfect one for the job by cashing in on connections. There are however, many jobs that you have to show competency in an area of expertise. That question in the previous paragraph? The only way you're answering is by having learned something. No amount of training will get you there. No amount of reading a schematic will give you the answer. No amount of plugging a diagnostic tool will fix the problem. The persons ass you kissed, and friends you used to land the job that lied to get you there? They're not going to help you. Nor will kissing ass make you into a spectacular neurosurgeon, or a nuclear chemist either. Your entire premise is based on the belief that "higher board" will always be because of "wealth or connections" making the person to the top. That's called cronyism, and in most of the west is not the norm.
Do you treat everyone you meet with zero respect until they earn it?
Of course, don't you? Or are you one of those people who turn around and fawn over someone because reasons. You know, because they've said the right thing, align with your ideology, you believe them to be important for whatever reason.
Or do you afford everyone a basic level of respect by default?
A reasonable person treats everyone with basic courtesy. That's fundamentally different then respect. The difference between the two is respect can be brought by deeds or misdeads, power, or wealth. Treating a person with courtesy is a sign you were brought up properly.
What does that have to do with the "destruction of the free Internet"?
Well how is the internet free, when you're sanction for having wrong-think opinions, and using images to create memes. I'll be clear, this entire thing stretches far beyond memes. Read the entirety of the text itself, it's been linked several times. It's like the STASI magically came back from the dead, giggled happily and started singing hymns to the USSR.
Don't worry, I'm sure that the AC will turn around and tell you that the trans-lesbian-black-asian-otherkin with a double amputation, that has never coded in their life, doesn't know what linux is, and is there crying over the words "master" "slave" and "suicide" and getting core contributors sanctioned and/or removed from the maintainers because they told them to "stop fucking around" will be doing a very good job on future security issues, kernel updates and API all on their own.
The level of SJW outrage is pretty minimal as there are almost no SJWs of the boogey-man definition people seem to have (as it is mostly a reds-under-the-bed fantasy
Well, why not take a look from video games and table top games where the infestation is starting to peak out. How'd say, Wolfenstien 2 do vs the first game? About 40% of the number of sales. How about Dishonored 2 vs the 1st game? Well about 30%, with "death of the outsider" selling around 25% of the first game. Know what's similar? Both had a heavy sjw influence, with the developers openly bowing to those loud voices. Dishonored is now shelved. Not enough? How about Mass Effect through to Mass Effect Andromeda. ME:A selling so poorly that the entire series is now shelved. Take a look at Pathfinder and just how degraded it's become over the last 5 years. Take a look at AD&D from 2.5 through 5, especially 4th to 5th edition. Not enough? I mean I can keep going.
This isn't some mystical slippery slope, where it's happening in one-off cases. It's cases where people aren't the core demographic impacting something to the point people leave.
f they posted a link to anything ESR has written in around a decade, they have no sanity, either
Yeah and eccentric people still manage to post interesting things that make plenty of sense. I mean if we used your reasoning, Tesla wouldn't be Tesla.
That actually proves my point, read...more slowly. That's cumulative commits, there were more commits between 2.1 and 4 then the last three main branch releases.
You mean besides your long history of screeching for feminism?
By the way I can see your sock puppets.
That must be projection, I only post with one account here. The site admins can happily post any ID's tied to my IP address if they want. Boy would you be in a shock.
"Mansplaining" or I'm a sexist piece of shit that can only compete by being a sexist, and using the sex of a person as the primary complaint.
Can't wait for the next round that you'll defend. We're already seeing the leftwing segregationists trying new words for "complaining about something because of the commenters race disqualifies them." Luckily no one is taking the bait...yet.
You're confusing "respect" with "courtesy" those are two fundamentally different things. You can treat a person with courtesy and have zero respect for them. Believing the two are the same is simply a failure of understanding social norms. In turn, not treating a person courtesy but fawning over them, is simply an example of a poor upbringing. As the only thing you've learned is to place the importance assigned, either by yourself or by others.
You're saying that the people in hard sciences didn't get there by skill and ability? How about in math? Engineering? Comp.sci(applied)? Physics? Hmm...well I guess not, they got there by crying and screeching, not by proving that their theories, and understanding of subject matter made them the best at the time.
You see the contradiction in your words, don't you?
No, because you're missing the context. Let's fix your reply, so it reflects what happens when there's an infestation of socjus.
Problem: I'm managing a project bigger than what I could possibly achieve by myself. Solution: Make other valuable people share my goals and work aligned to my vision to make it happen. Private response from offendotron: Look at all those cis-white-males and asians! It's obvious they were hired because of their race and sex! *insert screeching about the patriarchy, and how it's male dominated workforce." Public response: Those people are racist, sexist, homophobic, nazis! We won't buy your product!(They weren't before). Business response: Well maybe we should hire on a token force just to quell the complains. *blood in the water* Public/private response: *insert more screeching* We need 50% representation! Business response: Well..okay, but there aren't enough... Public/private response: *more screeching* Business response: Jesus, just find a corner for them. Inevitably finding their way into HR. PR Business response: Greetings nominally huxirs! Our new woke policy will require mandatory discussions of race and sexual orientation before you can buy your product!
Now: you either brilliantly find the way from problem to solution or you don't and you're dealing with loud squakers on social media, the media itself, and from special interest groups trying to inject their identity politics into your business. And then you polish your CV, and pray you can find somewhere else quickly enough.
Just think back the last 3 years or so, and you can find companies that have done exactly this and are now suffering mass market losses as regular people go "what the fuck..."
Best piece of advice, buy a snowblower. The older you get the more you appreciate it, especially when the sun is just coming up at 8am and is setting at 4:30pm. I sure don't miss living further north, I mean the summers were great, the sun really doesn't go down at all and at best you've got 1.5h of twilight, but the whole 5hrs of daylight in the winter gets to be kinda annoying after awhile. Especially since the roads are closer to "plowed, and coated with sand and gravel" and the next nearest city is 5hrs away.
Look at it this way. We've already been down the path of "group identity" it stuck around for the better part of 300 years, it created groups like identiarians, nazi's, racial fascists, eugenics, segregation just to name a few things. SJW's that are pushing this crap are not in favor of equality or even diversity, the only real way you get to equality is by meritocracy. That also means recognizing not all people will rise to the top, creating specialized programs for xyz person will not make those people rise to the top either.
The diversity issue, which those same people are pushing like "mandatory female board members" and so on is their views of diverse. Of course, they drag everyone down. And of course that type of diversity also means that if you happen to be the wrong race/sex/etc you'll be actively discriminated against because reasons.
Interesting how the FreeBSD CoC didn't end up destroying the project. It's had multiple solid releases since then, community seems as strong as ever.
Guess that's why the number of actual commits to the core code base has dropped off while the number of commits to rename things, or simply tinker with GUI issues has increased. FreeBSD is stagnant.
You complained about unfounded smears and allegations in a post you made like 5 minutes ago. Now you're posting a link to an unfounded allegation. You have no shame.
Really? So you haven't see all the cases where men aren't mentoring women anymore, and you haven't seen the cases with people leaving doors open for fear of false sexual harassment claims?
Well, thanks for clarifying, you sure aren't working in a company with more then 2500 people.
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The Republican party has long been owned by Telco's, it seems
Looks at open secrets, and finds out that telcos have predominantly even in this election year dumped money to democrats. Hmm....yep sure does look like republicans are owned by telcos. Just like the pharma industry, who've been throwing money at the democrats - especially after Trump forced through generics on a whole pile of drugs.
So no, when lack of density prevents cable or DSL from being available, you can't always depend on cellular - until AT&T et al start building more towers.
Lack of density? How about when there's plenty of density. A friend of mine lives in a city of 41k people, if you want DSL the fastest you can get is 3mb/512k service. The other option is cable, but at least you can get up to 100Mbps service, and that's in one of the most densely populated areas of Canada(southern ontario). Rogers fought tooth and nail against opening the market to TPIA options and the CRTC had to sanction them with fines. It's actually bad enough that a local ISP has started laying their own fiber links, because Bell refused to do so and they're still on plain copper, not even FTTN.
It's interesting because in Canada there's already provincial legislation that makes this illegal. My guess is that they're going to try going the federal route(that there's no legislation covering all canadians) when this is challenged in court stating that the provinces are unable to regulate it, the courts of course already have already set precedent in other issues similar to this. The insurance industry was slapped over similar attempts with cars and driving habits a few years ago.
Yeah enjoy the shitshow. Things have changed a lot since 2009, first consoles don't make up nearly as much of the market now. PC's and mobile games do. Remove mobile games, and the PC gaming market is now larger then all three consoles. Some companies have tried the "touchy feely" approach, and it's backfired in amazing fashion. Look up the EA suit(exec) that told gamers that if they didn't like black-female-cyborgs in their WWII game(that they marketed as), they could piss off and not buy it. Well people aren't buying it, the suit quit EA just before the earnings call with the investor statement explicitly stating that the pre-sale numbers were far below expectations and gamers were not preordering that title.
Are you angling for an Internet Drama award? =). Itâ(TM)s so cute!
Don't worry, they're not abusing it already. Oh...FUCKING WAIT.
That's what we'd call "weaponized autism on the low scale." It still doesn't mean the person gets everything wrong, rather you need to learn how to winnow.
If you waffled any harder, you could open a franchise. You don't seem to understand, maybe because you don't fall into any of these areas that a person doesn't "get there" by the opinions of the person who hired them. They got there based on their abilities previously, gaining skills, achievements, accolades, and showing their worth. There is basic hard criteria to become a doctor, engineer, working in a field where applied mathematics is used, mechanic, autobody, even most trades, and so on. Let's say you schmooze your way into a mechanics job. So they drop you right in front of a car(buick 1996, 3800 series w/supercharger) and tell you to figure out why only one of two cooling fans for the radiator are working. What's the answer? I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt since the car's right in front of you.
The point is, you don't seem to understand that if you're working in sales, retail, being a picker in a warehouse, that you can get to *some* jobs by kissing ass and making people think you're the perfect one for the job by cashing in on connections. There are however, many jobs that you have to show competency in an area of expertise. That question in the previous paragraph? The only way you're answering is by having learned something. No amount of training will get you there. No amount of reading a schematic will give you the answer. No amount of plugging a diagnostic tool will fix the problem. The persons ass you kissed, and friends you used to land the job that lied to get you there? They're not going to help you. Nor will kissing ass make you into a spectacular neurosurgeon, or a nuclear chemist either. Your entire premise is based on the belief that "higher board" will always be because of "wealth or connections" making the person to the top. That's called cronyism, and in most of the west is not the norm.
Do you treat everyone you meet with zero respect until they earn it?
Of course, don't you? Or are you one of those people who turn around and fawn over someone because reasons. You know, because they've said the right thing, align with your ideology, you believe them to be important for whatever reason.
Or do you afford everyone a basic level of respect by default?
A reasonable person treats everyone with basic courtesy. That's fundamentally different then respect. The difference between the two is respect can be brought by deeds or misdeads, power, or wealth. Treating a person with courtesy is a sign you were brought up properly.
What does that have to do with the "destruction of the free Internet"?
Well how is the internet free, when you're sanction for having wrong-think opinions, and using images to create memes. I'll be clear, this entire thing stretches far beyond memes. Read the entirety of the text itself, it's been linked several times. It's like the STASI magically came back from the dead, giggled happily and started singing hymns to the USSR.
Nah this is actually a pretty bad thing.
Don't worry, I'm sure that the AC will turn around and tell you that the trans-lesbian-black-asian-otherkin with a double amputation, that has never coded in their life, doesn't know what linux is, and is there crying over the words "master" "slave" and "suicide" and getting core contributors sanctioned and/or removed from the maintainers because they told them to "stop fucking around" will be doing a very good job on future security issues, kernel updates and API all on their own.
The level of SJW outrage is pretty minimal as there are almost no SJWs of the boogey-man definition people seem to have (as it is mostly a reds-under-the-bed fantasy
Well, why not take a look from video games and table top games where the infestation is starting to peak out. How'd say, Wolfenstien 2 do vs the first game? About 40% of the number of sales. How about Dishonored 2 vs the 1st game? Well about 30%, with "death of the outsider" selling around 25% of the first game. Know what's similar? Both had a heavy sjw influence, with the developers openly bowing to those loud voices. Dishonored is now shelved. Not enough? How about Mass Effect through to Mass Effect Andromeda. ME:A selling so poorly that the entire series is now shelved. Take a look at Pathfinder and just how degraded it's become over the last 5 years. Take a look at AD&D from 2.5 through 5, especially 4th to 5th edition. Not enough? I mean I can keep going.
This isn't some mystical slippery slope, where it's happening in one-off cases. It's cases where people aren't the core demographic impacting something to the point people leave.
f they posted a link to anything ESR has written in around a decade, they have no sanity, either
Yeah and eccentric people still manage to post interesting things that make plenty of sense. I mean if we used your reasoning, Tesla wouldn't be Tesla.
That actually proves my point, read...more slowly. That's cumulative commits, there were more commits between 2.1 and 4 then the last three main branch releases.
Wait, why do you think I'm defending her?
You mean besides your long history of screeching for feminism?
By the way I can see your sock puppets.
That must be projection, I only post with one account here. The site admins can happily post any ID's tied to my IP address if they want. Boy would you be in a shock.
"Mansplaining" or I'm a sexist piece of shit that can only compete by being a sexist, and using the sex of a person as the primary complaint.
Can't wait for the next round that you'll defend. We're already seeing the leftwing segregationists trying new words for "complaining about something because of the commenters race disqualifies them." Luckily no one is taking the bait...yet.
You're confusing "respect" with "courtesy" those are two fundamentally different things. You can treat a person with courtesy and have zero respect for them. Believing the two are the same is simply a failure of understanding social norms. In turn, not treating a person courtesy but fawning over them, is simply an example of a poor upbringing. As the only thing you've learned is to place the importance assigned, either by yourself or by others.
You're saying that the people in hard sciences didn't get there by skill and ability? How about in math? Engineering? Comp.sci(applied)? Physics? Hmm...well I guess not, they got there by crying and screeching, not by proving that their theories, and understanding of subject matter made them the best at the time.
You see the contradiction in your words, don't you?
No, because you're missing the context. Let's fix your reply, so it reflects what happens when there's an infestation of socjus.
Problem: I'm managing a project bigger than what I could possibly achieve by myself.
Solution: Make other valuable people share my goals and work aligned to my vision to make it happen.
Private response from offendotron: Look at all those cis-white-males and asians! It's obvious they were hired because of their race and sex! *insert screeching about the patriarchy, and how it's male dominated workforce."
Public response: Those people are racist, sexist, homophobic, nazis! We won't buy your product!(They weren't before).
Business response: Well maybe we should hire on a token force just to quell the complains.
*blood in the water*
Public/private response: *insert more screeching* We need 50% representation!
Business response: Well..okay, but there aren't enough...
Public/private response: *more screeching*
Business response: Jesus, just find a corner for them. Inevitably finding their way into HR.
PR Business response: Greetings nominally huxirs! Our new woke policy will require mandatory discussions of race and sexual orientation before you can buy your product!
Now: you either brilliantly find the way from problem to solution or you don't and you're dealing with loud squakers on social media, the media itself, and from special interest groups trying to inject their identity politics into your business. And then you polish your CV, and pray you can find somewhere else quickly enough.
Just think back the last 3 years or so, and you can find companies that have done exactly this and are now suffering mass market losses as regular people go "what the fuck..."
(Hint: It's Republican vs. Democrat.)
That's where you're wrong, it's authoritarian vs libertarian.
Best piece of advice, buy a snowblower. The older you get the more you appreciate it, especially when the sun is just coming up at 8am and is setting at 4:30pm. I sure don't miss living further north, I mean the summers were great, the sun really doesn't go down at all and at best you've got 1.5h of twilight, but the whole 5hrs of daylight in the winter gets to be kinda annoying after awhile. Especially since the roads are closer to "plowed, and coated with sand and gravel" and the next nearest city is 5hrs away.
Look at it this way. We've already been down the path of "group identity" it stuck around for the better part of 300 years, it created groups like identiarians, nazi's, racial fascists, eugenics, segregation just to name a few things. SJW's that are pushing this crap are not in favor of equality or even diversity, the only real way you get to equality is by meritocracy. That also means recognizing not all people will rise to the top, creating specialized programs for xyz person will not make those people rise to the top either.
The diversity issue, which those same people are pushing like "mandatory female board members" and so on is their views of diverse. Of course, they drag everyone down. And of course that type of diversity also means that if you happen to be the wrong race/sex/etc you'll be actively discriminated against because reasons.
Something along these lines:
https://medium.com/@bgourlie/n...
https://medium.com/@rvagg/the-...
https://archive.is/TIcAa
https://galpotha.wordpress.com...
Oh and then the cancer of banning speakers like Douglas Crockford for making people feel "uncomfortable."
Interesting how the FreeBSD CoC didn't end up destroying the project. It's had multiple solid releases since then, community seems as strong as ever.
Guess that's why the number of actual commits to the core code base has dropped off while the number of commits to rename things, or simply tinker with GUI issues has increased. FreeBSD is stagnant.
Except that is not true in practice.
Except that's true, unless you're living in a culture where you have to fear for your job/position/etc.
Courtesy is always granted, but respect is earned.
You complained about unfounded smears and allegations in a post you made like 5 minutes ago. Now you're posting a link to an unfounded allegation. You have no shame.
Really? So you haven't see all the cases where men aren't mentoring women anymore, and you haven't seen the cases with people leaving doors open for fear of false sexual harassment claims?
Well, thanks for clarifying, you sure aren't working in a company with more then 2500 people.