Political parties in America are a cancer. This is not football and blindly following someone and not caring what they support just to win and smirk and winning and blocking the other guy creates dysfunction and in actuality bet against the country just to see your guy win.
Is there anyone American left who cares about principles like no interference regardless of party? The hoopla about how wrong the electoral college is by Trump before he won vs after he won with a 180 turnaround in his views highlight the narrow and dangerous thinking.
Let me ask you this? If Hillary won and Russia was behind it would you feel the same?
I think it would be hypocritical either way if you care about your country if you're an American. I am a democrat so of course I am beyond furious but would be too if Hillary won and the reverse was true.
No if a republican like Mitt Romney signed it the GOP would favor it. It is the traitorous republicans who would vote no because a black liberal signed it. No more no less.
The polls on CNN showed the GOP almost equal with democrats. The Trump fans who watch Fox news and gun nuts are very eager and will do everything to make sure he stays in office to the point of a civil war what I read today.
I think you are in a dream. Let's say Iran goes nuts. How do you propose we move 1 million troops to the region easily and quickly? Iraq and Syria will side with Iran and so will Russia eager to want to stop western influence.
Iran will threaten the US with a nuke if we get involved and we will cave.
Japan is very unhappy with Trump. He pulled out of TTP, then tried to bully them into a shitty deal for beef and cars, and now wants back in to TTP.
Russia is quite pleased with Trump, he is exactly what they wanted.
Europe has largely given up on the guy, except for the UK that desperately needs a trade deal in a year or two.
Right but now since your savior Trump backed out of the TTP which was meant to be a hold on China's strength it means the next president will sign another agreement favoring the China instead of the US/Japan/South Korea as China will have even more leverage in 4 years.
South Korea broke the ice during the olympics. Not Trump. He was not even invited to the talks!
Also why makes you think Kim won't back out of the agreement with the US? After all Trump showed the US will lie and won't back their word with Iran. How does Kim know a future president won't back out of the deal? America has no integrity as it does not value its commitments or words. Thanks Trump.
All Trump does is send insulting low IQ tweets at 4am calling him rocket man. He is not qualified to be President nor do the tweets help the US.
Yes because sending insulting Tweets at 4am is so presidential and professional deserving a peace prize. They sure work and respect Trump's intelligence and Hubris as a result.
It is not that. Kim could say to Trump well since you do not honor your agreements how do I know if the next American President will dishonor the agreement you want to sign?
You Americans have shown you do not follow your word. How do you have any credibility?
As an American this angers me GREATLY and was a terrible move! We lost face and shows we need a professional as president and future presidents need to honor past presidents and stop thinking of themselves and the next 4 years only!
Iran has every right to scream DEATH TO AMERICA and develop nuclear weapons and so does Syria and Saudia Arabia. If World War 3 developers in 15 years I blame Trump and his stupid voters who want to make liberals squirm and view this as a fucking football game of teams and loyality rather than what is right for the people.
George Washington was right with not wanting and even wanting to ban political parties. They are the most toxic.
You are saying that Trump undid what Obama did. This is wrong. The unwinding of the deal puts America in a far worse position than we started in.
When the Iranians seized the American embassy in 1979, the US seized Iranian financial assets in America. There was never any question that the money belonged to Iran, and would be returned someday when relations improved. By 2017, these assets were worth $50B, and the money was returned to Iran as part of the nuke deal. Getting that money back was a major incentive for Iran to sign the deal.
So, now that America has reneged, is Iran going to send the money back? Absolutely not.
Trump has FAR less leverage for negotiating than Obama did. In addition to the money issue, the other signatories (China, Russia, Germany, Britain, France) are not reneging, and will not reimpose sanctions. So trade deals that could have gone to America will go elsewhere. Iranian Airlines will buy from Airbus, not Boeing, etc.
So even if you think Obama's deal was terrible, reneging on it, and having NO AGREEMENT and NO LEVERAGE, just makes the situation even worse.
Foxnews is the damn problem is so is Rush Limbaugh and Shawn Hannity on rightwing radio. You may dismiss that as fringe but tens of millions WATCH IT and BELIEVE it and recite the points in their Trump messiah. Russian intelligence on social media too quote the falsehoods of Obama paying Iran to pay them off etc.
This is quite dangerous... not the deal or lack of but the misinfornation and a strong urge to get these damn liberals to squirm while sabatoging your own country's interests to help Russia.
Atom.IO, and even MS Visual Studio Code is free and available for all platforms for the win32 fanboys and are very simple to use unlike Emacs and gVIM.
In 2018, Microsoft VS Code editor and Atom.IO are easy to use and very powerful electron based text editors and are free and multiple platform. No you did not misread that as VS Code editor is not Visual Studio but a fork of Atom.IO.
And yet you have the greatest concentration of fund managers, a job that has been demonstrated repeatedly to be of no more use than a random number generator, in the world.
The US is a funny place where people are paid a lot of money to consult and come up with metrics and analytics and software to track it all so that "underperforming" peons can be fired and then judged to be inferior persons because they don't have a job.
That doesn't mean half the jobs aren't useless. It just means the useless jobs are concentrated at the top, and there's a lot of abuse of the lower classes. So they don't forget their place.
While that arrogance does exist, fund manager do provide an excellent value... to their employers. Think of them as salespeople rather than financial advisers where they try to get as much money as possible going through BOA or Canter Fitzgerald rather than the customer investing on his own. True the customer is getting ripped off or the customer inherited money and knows shit about investing but doesn't want to have it sit in a savings account.
The consultants and architects design the process so they are worth alot. Then peons can be picked off and with a process can be done with less education and overseas for less money.
The US is very extreme in other direction with no job security
The only real job security is to be so valuable to the company that replacing you would clearly be a large net loss. Other countries are in denial about this.
If a charity wants to help those who lose their jobs, then that charity can do so. A business is not a charity, and it strikes me as both immoral and inefficient (both for the business and the person losing their job) to make charity itself a business's job.
If a society doesn't want to leave the safety net to charity, then society should take on that burden itself. From what I gather, Denmark doesn't burden employers the same way as does, say, France, yet has a strong safety net. This separation of concerns (business vs job security) is a pretty strong argument for a basic income, too.
That is delusional at best. Your employer can do just fine without you thank you very much. If the employer existed before you came aboard odds are they will continue to exist long after you are gone. The CEO of McDonalds contributed more to his company than you or I could ever dream that we could contribute to ours. Yet he was fired and MCDonalds is still serving more coffees and Big Macs than ever without him.
You may have a big ego but you are replaceable. An Indian can do your job just fine for less money and if you say you provide a better service your employer can replace you with just as good if not good a programmer tomorrow. That is a fact.
True being more valuable does certainly help you are still at mercy if an MBA comes in and wants to save money by going cheap. The US LOVES doing this as Asian and European countries typically do this alot less. Employees are people too.
Or rather the shareholders want one man to do the job of 3 with that nice productivity saved.
Worse today in 2018 wages reman stagnant besides record growth and low unemployment due to an excess supply of labor including 3rd world countries. Corporations win again with a slimmer workforce that creates an employers market too to set wages
No offense but I bet you never worked a real job at fast food or a call center or retail in your youth? We get fired regularly and worked off the clock to pass metrics or were fired.
Read about Amazon where workers piss in bottles to keep their jobs to show metrics and values.
The US is very extreme in other direction with no job security
Keep in mind Japanese has a radically different culture than Europe or Both America.
In USA you are valued on money and job title. In Europe you are valued on your contribution and character. Americans irritate HR as we become job hoppers to outdo the fellow man and make more $$$$
In Japan your face is who you work for. Job title is irrelevant. A VP for a company that makes shit is less valued than an assistant at Toyota or Ninetendo. The culture of die for the emperor and defend your honor from World War 2 is alive and well. They stay many hours working too.
People commit suicide if they leave and are unemployable again. With such loyalty companies can't just do this to employees like in the US which encourages fear and a revolving door
Ask any MBA manager who does nothing but has meetings all day to set you straight. Technology is not important nor impacts productivity at all. Now back to generating wealth for the shareholders by having management who make up 50% of the office do more meetings
Gnome does relay on pulse audio, ALSA, and other Linux oriented things. It is a huge undertaking just to get it compile on anything non linux these days. SystemD integration is another thing. Yes Gimp and other components rely on it and you need custom patches just to disable it.
I gave up on Linux with the gui for all but a few simple things. KDE won initially in the early 2000s and I see them and gnome shoot themselves in the foot for no reason at all. So frustrating.
GNome is not Unix based anymore but heavily dependent on Linux with things like ALSA and pulse audio built in. It is a castrated and re-engineered version to get it to even compile on the BSDs.
I am convinced when it comes to desktop use that you should use Windows or MacOSX and keep the Unixy stuff in a VM or a server. XFCE will work but it a clone of the 25 year old outdated CDE.
It is so frustrating that KDE killed itself and I do not mean to sound pessimistic or a troll but FreeBSD, Pfsense, and Ubuntu for me have moved to virtual machines since 2011 when Windows 7 came out.
Is there any real demand or excitement again since 1998 when KDE was announced to create a real modern desktop complete with a notification center 3d acceleration and other things? Not basing it off of Xorg will be a plus too.
I disagree. This used to be true but the xboxoneX uses a modified RX 580 which is on par with a 1060. A 1060 costs $380. A whole console is just $20 more with the same graphics. $2,000 to play games is stupid and soo 1999. Times changed and now are going backwards
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Political parties in America are a cancer. This is not football and blindly following someone and not caring what they support just to win and smirk and winning and blocking the other guy creates dysfunction and in actuality bet against the country just to see your guy win.
Is there anyone American left who cares about principles like no interference regardless of party? The hoopla about how wrong the electoral college is by Trump before he won vs after he won with a 180 turnaround in his views highlight the narrow and dangerous thinking.
Let me ask you this? If Hillary won and Russia was behind it would you feel the same?
I think it would be hypocritical either way if you care about your country if you're an American. I am a democrat so of course I am beyond furious but would be too if Hillary won and the reverse was true.
No if a republican like Mitt Romney signed it the GOP would favor it. It is the traitorous republicans who would vote no because a black liberal signed it. No more no less.
The polls on CNN showed the GOP almost equal with democrats. The Trump fans who watch Fox news and gun nuts are very eager and will do everything to make sure he stays in office to the point of a civil war what I read today.
It will be a tough fight
I think you are in a dream. Let's say Iran goes nuts. How do you propose we move 1 million troops to the region easily and quickly? Iraq and Syria will side with Iran and so will Russia eager to want to stop western influence.
Iran will threaten the US with a nuke if we get involved and we will cave.
Japan is very unhappy with Trump. He pulled out of TTP, then tried to bully them into a shitty deal for beef and cars, and now wants back in to TTP.
Russia is quite pleased with Trump, he is exactly what they wanted.
Europe has largely given up on the guy, except for the UK that desperately needs a trade deal in a year or two.
Right but now since your savior Trump backed out of the TTP which was meant to be a hold on China's strength it means the next president will sign another agreement favoring the China instead of the US/Japan/South Korea as China will have even more leverage in 4 years.
Thanks Trump.
South Korea broke the ice during the olympics. Not Trump. He was not even invited to the talks!
Also why makes you think Kim won't back out of the agreement with the US? After all Trump showed the US will lie and won't back their word with Iran. How does Kim know a future president won't back out of the deal? America has no integrity as it does not value its commitments or words. Thanks Trump.
All Trump does is send insulting low IQ tweets at 4am calling him rocket man. He is not qualified to be President nor do the tweets help the US.
Yes because sending insulting Tweets at 4am is so presidential and professional deserving a peace prize. They sure work and respect Trump's intelligence and Hubris as a result.
It is not that. Kim could say to Trump well since you do not honor your agreements how do I know if the next American President will dishonor the agreement you want to sign?
You Americans have shown you do not follow your word. How do you have any credibility?
As an American this angers me GREATLY and was a terrible move! We lost face and shows we need a professional as president and future presidents need to honor past presidents and stop thinking of themselves and the next 4 years only!
Iran has every right to scream DEATH TO AMERICA and develop nuclear weapons and so does Syria and Saudia Arabia. If World War 3 developers in 15 years I blame Trump and his stupid voters who want to make liberals squirm and view this as a fucking football game of teams and loyality rather than what is right for the people.
George Washington was right with not wanting and even wanting to ban political parties. They are the most toxic.
You are saying that Trump undid what Obama did. This is wrong. The unwinding of the deal puts America in a far worse position than we started in.
When the Iranians seized the American embassy in 1979, the US seized Iranian financial assets in America. There was never any question that the money belonged to Iran, and would be returned someday when relations improved. By 2017, these assets were worth $50B, and the money was returned to Iran as part of the nuke deal. Getting that money back was a major incentive for Iran to sign the deal.
So, now that America has reneged, is Iran going to send the money back? Absolutely not.
Trump has FAR less leverage for negotiating than Obama did. In addition to the money issue, the other signatories (China, Russia, Germany, Britain, France) are not reneging, and will not reimpose sanctions. So trade deals that could have gone to America will go elsewhere. Iranian Airlines will buy from Airbus, not Boeing, etc.
So even if you think Obama's deal was terrible, reneging on it, and having NO AGREEMENT and NO LEVERAGE, just makes the situation even worse.
Foxnews is the damn problem is so is Rush Limbaugh and Shawn Hannity on rightwing radio. You may dismiss that as fringe but tens of millions WATCH IT and BELIEVE it and recite the points in their Trump messiah. Russian intelligence on social media too quote the falsehoods of Obama paying Iran to pay them off etc.
This is quite dangerous ... not the deal or lack of but the misinfornation and a strong urge to get these damn liberals to squirm while sabatoging your own country's interests to help Russia.
Atom.IO, and even MS Visual Studio Code is free and available for all platforms for the win32 fanboys and are very simple to use unlike Emacs and gVIM.
In 2018, Microsoft VS Code editor and Atom.IO are easy to use and very powerful electron based text editors and are free and multiple platform. No you did not misread that as VS Code editor is not Visual Studio but a fork of Atom.IO.
Visual Studio Code is amazing and fast compared to Atom.
How? It is the same editor just different skin as both are electron based and use the same pluggin model
And yet you have the greatest concentration of fund managers, a job that has been demonstrated repeatedly to be of no more use than a random number generator, in the world.
The US is a funny place where people are paid a lot of money to consult and come up with metrics and analytics and software to track it all so that "underperforming" peons can be fired and then judged to be inferior persons because they don't have a job.
That doesn't mean half the jobs aren't useless. It just means the useless jobs are concentrated at the top, and there's a lot of abuse of the lower classes. So they don't forget their place.
While that arrogance does exist, fund manager do provide an excellent value ... to their employers. Think of them as salespeople rather than financial advisers where they try to get as much money as possible going through BOA or Canter Fitzgerald rather than the customer investing on his own. True the customer is getting ripped off or the customer inherited money and knows shit about investing but doesn't want to have it sit in a savings account.
The consultants and architects design the process so they are worth alot. Then peons can be picked off and with a process can be done with less education and overseas for less money.
The US is very extreme in other direction with no job security
The only real job security is to be so valuable to the company that replacing you would clearly be a large net loss. Other countries are in denial about this.
If a charity wants to help those who lose their jobs, then that charity can do so. A business is not a charity, and it strikes me as both immoral and inefficient (both for the business and the person losing their job) to make charity itself a business's job.
If a society doesn't want to leave the safety net to charity, then society should take on that burden itself. From what I gather, Denmark doesn't burden employers the same way as does, say, France, yet has a strong safety net. This separation of concerns (business vs job security) is a pretty strong argument for a basic income, too.
That is delusional at best. Your employer can do just fine without you thank you very much. If the employer existed before you came aboard odds are they will continue to exist long after you are gone. The CEO of McDonalds contributed more to his company than you or I could ever dream that we could contribute to ours. Yet he was fired and MCDonalds is still serving more coffees and Big Macs than ever without him.
You may have a big ego but you are replaceable. An Indian can do your job just fine for less money and if you say you provide a better service your employer can replace you with just as good if not good a programmer tomorrow. That is a fact.
True being more valuable does certainly help you are still at mercy if an MBA comes in and wants to save money by going cheap. The US LOVES doing this as Asian and European countries typically do this alot less. Employees are people too.
Or rather the shareholders want one man to do the job of 3 with that nice productivity saved.
Worse today in 2018 wages reman stagnant besides record growth and low unemployment due to an excess supply of labor including 3rd world countries. Corporations win again with a slimmer workforce that creates an employers market too to set wages
No offense but I bet you never worked a real job at fast food or a call center or retail in your youth? We get fired regularly and worked off the clock to pass metrics or were fired.
Read about Amazon where workers piss in bottles to keep their jobs to show metrics and values.
The US is very extreme in other direction with no job security
Keep in mind Japanese has a radically different culture than Europe or Both America.
In USA you are valued on money and job title. In Europe you are valued on your contribution and character. Americans irritate HR as we become job hoppers to outdo the fellow man and make more $$$$
In Japan your face is who you work for. Job title is irrelevant. A VP for a company that makes shit is less valued than an assistant at Toyota or Ninetendo. The culture of die for the emperor and defend your honor from World War 2 is alive and well. They stay many hours working too.
People commit suicide if they leave and are unemployable again. With such loyalty companies can't just do this to employees like in the US which encourages fear and a revolving door
Ask any MBA manager who does nothing but has meetings all day to set you straight. Technology is not important nor impacts productivity at all. Now back to generating wealth for the shareholders by having management who make up 50% of the office do more meetings
It's open like Windows if you look at it that way. It ties to Linux and not UNIX so it's proprietary like the original poster mentioned with openbsd.
Like Ubuntu there are spinoffs with Cinnamon and Mate.
Gnome does relay on pulse audio, ALSA, and other Linux oriented things. It is a huge undertaking just to get it compile on anything non linux these days. SystemD integration is another thing. Yes Gimp and other components rely on it and you need custom patches just to disable it.
I gave up on Linux with the gui for all but a few simple things. KDE won initially in the early 2000s and I see them and gnome shoot themselves in the foot for no reason at all. So frustrating.
GNome is not Unix based anymore but heavily dependent on Linux with things like ALSA and pulse audio built in. It is a castrated and re-engineered version to get it to even compile on the BSDs.
I am convinced when it comes to desktop use that you should use Windows or MacOSX and keep the Unixy stuff in a VM or a server. XFCE will work but it a clone of the 25 year old outdated CDE.
It is so frustrating that KDE killed itself and I do not mean to sound pessimistic or a troll but FreeBSD, Pfsense, and Ubuntu for me have moved to virtual machines since 2011 when Windows 7 came out.
Is there any real demand or excitement again since 1998 when KDE was announced to create a real modern desktop complete with a notification center 3d acceleration and other things? Not basing it off of Xorg will be a plus too.
I disagree. This used to be true but the xboxoneX uses a modified RX 580 which is on par with a 1060. A 1060 costs $380. A whole console is just $20 more with the same graphics. $2,000 to play games is stupid and soo 1999. Times changed and now are going backwards
Except a 1060 is worth $390 today. For $10 more I can get a xboxoneX which has the same GPU performance as it's an RX 580.
The 1060 is not even high end??! Something is up and I smell monopoly.