The UK government operates on the assumption that most people are bigots. They hate foreigners and want less of them. They hate the EU. They hate the poor. That's the basis of Tory policy.
Don't take it from me. Vince Cable said as much and he was right. And he's seen it from the inside.
It would have been bad for all involved if that trial had collapsed because of Robinson's actions.
These days he's just trying to martyr himself because the far right/UKIP support is drying up after the Brexit vote. His supporters are the types who used to be football hooligans and have now moved on to a slightly more respectable brand of tribalism.
Actually they started out with a fairly secure OS, Windows NT. It had Unix-like permissions and actually went well beyond what most Unix-like systems of the time did in terms of access control.
They they made it into a desktop OS (2000 and XP) which meant compromising the security in order to make it more compatible with Windows 98/ME. So they took a secure OS and added layers of insecurity on top.
Depends where it is... Electric scooters and rental bikes are everywhere in Fuzhou. I saw a guy riding one, with a woman on the back, and phone in hand. His horn must have been broken because he was using a horn app on his phone to shoo people out of his way as he rode through a shopping centre.
In Guangzhou they are rare. It's all cars and the pedestrian areas are safe except for phone zombies.
It takes effort to understand that saving, investing, is the most important factor in your life after the necessities (food, shelter). Entertainment comes last. If after all the effort there is no money to save then you need to make changes ASAP. Either to improve your income or reduce your expenses or both.
This is useless advice. Improving your income is not a trivial thing for most people, especially millennials. Don't you think they would earn more if they could? You think they choose to earn less?
Reducing expenses is not simple either. People cite things like mobile phone contracts, but without a phone how are you going to get that better job you also need? And then they start complaining about £8/month on Netflix, because £8/month on your pension is going to make all the difference so you should forego any small thing that might make your life a little more bearable.
The actual problem is that rent is insane, house prices are insane and wages are low. They compare young people to their parents who were able to support the entire family and own a home on a single average wage.
Yes, a person in the west does deserve to earn mode because they also pay more tax and need more to afford basic necessities of life such as housing and food.
You can't directly compare places where the cost of living is vastly different. Indians will get paid more as their economy and society builds up, which is entirely fair.
You say "Americans" like they are one homogeneous group. In reality, the majority didn't vote for Trump, didn't want this. All is not right with the world when the loser wins and gets to try to force his policies on the majority who rejected him.
Democracy isn't "winner takes all" anyway, it's a continual compromise. The tyranny of the majority (or minority in this case) is not democracy. That's why we have elected officials and checks and balances in the system, it's why there is a constitution that is very hard to amend - they are all supposed to stop this kind of thing happening.
There is a general feeling that politics doesn't matter and that it makes no difference who you vote for.
I have heard a few Trump supporters claiming that they voted for him just to piss off "liberals". They clearly think that it doesn't matter if an imbecile is in charge, that their vote has few real consequences.
In many ways they are not even wrong, at least as far as their own corner of the world goes.
The problem is that the far right calls everyone a racist bigot, so if you decide you are going to stop supporting anything a "racist" says then you end up with no ideology other than the far right. It's the modern silencing tactic, evolved from "political correctness" and (ironically) complaints about identity politics.
There has also been a deliberate policy of confusing the traditional right/left politics and trying to re-frame the far right as the centre. Often this involves trying to dumb down the conversation to absurd levels, such as:
The next time someone says trump is racist because he hates immigrants, see what happens you you introduce a fact such as "legal immigrants are different from illegal immigrants".
That kind of ridiculous straw man is just bait, and if anyone engages with it get they called a racist and a Trump hater and a leftist and then the conversation is swiftly moved on before any real defence has to be made.
The only solution is to stop engaging with this and just present your own narrative, your own compelling argument. Know that you won't get a proper response, know that they will try to change the subject, and just ignore it.
The biggest danger is that after Brexit we might be able to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, which among other things guarantees freedom of expression.
Even though the government already curtails freedom of expression, the ECHR limits how far they can go. Once it's gone they will be unrestrained.
Basic Android is pretty secure these days, with FDE enabled by default. But there is also a market for extra security on top, such as Copperhead OS and Samsung Knox.
Having another competitor in the market is a good thing.
Kanban is for manufacturing though. I mean you can't keep refining and iterating your electronic designs. You would end up with many versions in the field, many versions to support. Your firmware would need to support it all too.
It's already happening. Boomers say the younger generations are irresponsible and lazy and that's why they don't have a golden final salary pension scheme and half million pound house.
I've heard that claim made before too... Are we really in a situation where a combination of laziness and conspiracy has forced most distros on to systemd, yet there is apparently enough support to build a fork of Debian without it?
Wouldn't it make more sense to, say, fix Gnome and a few other key bits of software to work without systemd, thus freeing all these distros that were forced to adopt it? Or just move to other window managers?
I find it interesting that everyone can see the flaws in systemd (and particularly in Poettering's attitude), but no-one has come up with a better alternative.
How do I know there is nothing better? All the major distros have adopted systemd. If there was a better alternative I'm sure they would adopt it.
Perhaps you have an alternative explanation, if so I would like to hear it.
Another common flaw is that the stakeholders don't understand why certain things are so much effort to implement, so get upset when they propose something and you tell them it will take six months to do. They get used to the idea that they can request changes and features but all that does is encourage quick fixes and huge amounts of technical debt.
I find it's usually better to build a really solid foundation first, and then start getting users involved with prototypes. You also have to put your foot down sometimes or push hard for the users to change their habits and workflow when there are major advantages to doing so.
Agile may be suited to some types of development... Maybe mobile apps or web apps, but not so much platforms that are expected to exist for a decade or more and grow along the way, or where high reliability is important, or where it's not just software but also hardware that is much harder to change.
Android comes with Google's messaging apps, which supports video chat. It works fine.
It's all there, it's just that people prefer WhatsApp or whatever is hot this year. Google's failing is not lack of infrastructure or product, it's a failure to market it. But then again maybe Google are not that bothered, because there isn't really any money to be made from encrypted chat and video conferencing.
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It's interesting how badly triggered the Trump voters are by any discussion of things that might de-legitimize his presidency.
As we see here at least one of them considers is "flamebait", which is triggered snowflake speak for "the truth hurts".
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Where am I going to get support for my Zune!?
I was only there for a few days, maybe I avoided the bad areas.
The UK government operates on the assumption that most people are bigots. They hate foreigners and want less of them. They hate the EU. They hate the poor. That's the basis of Tory policy.
Don't take it from me. Vince Cable said as much and he was right. And he's seen it from the inside.
It would have been bad for all involved if that trial had collapsed because of Robinson's actions.
These days he's just trying to martyr himself because the far right/UKIP support is drying up after the Brexit vote. His supporters are the types who used to be football hooligans and have now moved on to a slightly more respectable brand of tribalism.
Actually they started out with a fairly secure OS, Windows NT. It had Unix-like permissions and actually went well beyond what most Unix-like systems of the time did in terms of access control.
They they made it into a desktop OS (2000 and XP) which meant compromising the security in order to make it more compatible with Windows 98/ME. So they took a secure OS and added layers of insecurity on top.
Surely it's fraud if it needs security updates, since they are an admission that it's not actually secure.
Depends where it is... Electric scooters and rental bikes are everywhere in Fuzhou. I saw a guy riding one, with a woman on the back, and phone in hand. His horn must have been broken because he was using a horn app on his phone to shoo people out of his way as he rode through a shopping centre.
In Guangzhou they are rare. It's all cars and the pedestrian areas are safe except for phone zombies.
It takes effort to understand that saving, investing, is the most important factor in your life after the necessities (food, shelter). Entertainment comes last. If after all the effort there is no money to save then you need to make changes ASAP. Either to improve your income or reduce your expenses or both.
This is useless advice. Improving your income is not a trivial thing for most people, especially millennials. Don't you think they would earn more if they could? You think they choose to earn less?
Reducing expenses is not simple either. People cite things like mobile phone contracts, but without a phone how are you going to get that better job you also need? And then they start complaining about £8/month on Netflix, because £8/month on your pension is going to make all the difference so you should forego any small thing that might make your life a little more bearable.
The actual problem is that rent is insane, house prices are insane and wages are low. They compare young people to their parents who were able to support the entire family and own a home on a single average wage.
Yes, a person in the west does deserve to earn mode because they also pay more tax and need more to afford basic necessities of life such as housing and food.
You can't directly compare places where the cost of living is vastly different. Indians will get paid more as their economy and society builds up, which is entirely fair.
You say "Americans" like they are one homogeneous group. In reality, the majority didn't vote for Trump, didn't want this. All is not right with the world when the loser wins and gets to try to force his policies on the majority who rejected him.
Democracy isn't "winner takes all" anyway, it's a continual compromise. The tyranny of the majority (or minority in this case) is not democracy. That's why we have elected officials and checks and balances in the system, it's why there is a constitution that is very hard to amend - they are all supposed to stop this kind of thing happening.
There is a general feeling that politics doesn't matter and that it makes no difference who you vote for.
I have heard a few Trump supporters claiming that they voted for him just to piss off "liberals". They clearly think that it doesn't matter if an imbecile is in charge, that their vote has few real consequences.
In many ways they are not even wrong, at least as far as their own corner of the world goes.
The problem is that the far right calls everyone a racist bigot, so if you decide you are going to stop supporting anything a "racist" says then you end up with no ideology other than the far right. It's the modern silencing tactic, evolved from "political correctness" and (ironically) complaints about identity politics.
There has also been a deliberate policy of confusing the traditional right/left politics and trying to re-frame the far right as the centre. Often this involves trying to dumb down the conversation to absurd levels, such as:
The next time someone says trump is racist because he hates immigrants, see what happens you you introduce a fact such as "legal immigrants are different from illegal immigrants".
That kind of ridiculous straw man is just bait, and if anyone engages with it get they called a racist and a Trump hater and a leftist and then the conversation is swiftly moved on before any real defence has to be made.
The only solution is to stop engaging with this and just present your own narrative, your own compelling argument. Know that you won't get a proper response, know that they will try to change the subject, and just ignore it.
The biggest danger is that after Brexit we might be able to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, which among other things guarantees freedom of expression.
Even though the government already curtails freedom of expression, the ECHR limits how far they can go. Once it's gone they will be unrestrained.
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It's a slow Sunday, don't get your knickers in a twist.
Nice try but I'll take more money over a single name email address. Fake perks don't count.
Not really, no.
Basic Android is pretty secure these days, with FDE enabled by default. But there is also a market for extra security on top, such as Copperhead OS and Samsung Knox.
Having another competitor in the market is a good thing.
Kanban is for manufacturing though. I mean you can't keep refining and iterating your electronic designs. You would end up with many versions in the field, many versions to support. Your firmware would need to support it all too.
It's already happening. Boomers say the younger generations are irresponsible and lazy and that's why they don't have a golden final salary pension scheme and half million pound house.
Thanks, that explains a lot. So there needs to be an alternative that suits distro devs as well as users in order to replace systemd.
I've heard that claim made before too... Are we really in a situation where a combination of laziness and conspiracy has forced most distros on to systemd, yet there is apparently enough support to build a fork of Debian without it?
Wouldn't it make more sense to, say, fix Gnome and a few other key bits of software to work without systemd, thus freeing all these distros that were forced to adopt it? Or just move to other window managers?
I find it interesting that everyone can see the flaws in systemd (and particularly in Poettering's attitude), but no-one has come up with a better alternative.
How do I know there is nothing better? All the major distros have adopted systemd. If there was a better alternative I'm sure they would adopt it.
Perhaps you have an alternative explanation, if so I would like to hear it.
Another common flaw is that the stakeholders don't understand why certain things are so much effort to implement, so get upset when they propose something and you tell them it will take six months to do. They get used to the idea that they can request changes and features but all that does is encourage quick fixes and huge amounts of technical debt.
I find it's usually better to build a really solid foundation first, and then start getting users involved with prototypes. You also have to put your foot down sometimes or push hard for the users to change their habits and workflow when there are major advantages to doing so.
Agile may be suited to some types of development... Maybe mobile apps or web apps, but not so much platforms that are expected to exist for a decade or more and grow along the way, or where high reliability is important, or where it's not just software but also hardware that is much harder to change.
Hangouts works fine for me. What issue do you have?
It's not pretty but the speaker icon system is very functional.
Android comes with Google's messaging apps, which supports video chat. It works fine.
It's all there, it's just that people prefer WhatsApp or whatever is hot this year. Google's failing is not lack of infrastructure or product, it's a failure to market it. But then again maybe Google are not that bothered, because there isn't really any money to be made from encrypted chat and video conferencing.