The Japanese have far more culture than you'll ever have. "riffraff"? "low class"? Japan is a nation where there's virtually no petty crimes. Finland probably isn't much worse. America OTOH is full of crime and poverty by comparison.
Unlike law, medicine and traditional engineering fields, software development is completely unregulated with no real standard certifications (even a degree is optional).
Bullshit.
Electrical engineering is absolutely a "traditional" engineering field, but I challenge you to point out any certifications for the electrical engineers who designed the computer you're reading this on.
Mechanical engineering is absolutely a "traditional" engineering field too, but I challenge you to point find any certifications for the automotive engineers who designed the car you drove this morning.
Engineers have been operating with an "industrial exemption" for ages now; all the products you use are not designed by PEs at all. PEs are still used for things like buildings and bridges of course, but that's about it.
I don't give a shit about your personal experience. My whole point is that, for most people who have any kind of corporate job involving sitting at a computer, that computer is going to be running Windows. If you've avoided that somehow, then good for you (or not, if you hate Macbooks and got stuck with those), but if you believe that your experience is commonplace, you're completely deluded. Your personal experience is irrelevant for the hundreds of millions of us out here who are stuck using Windows at work.
You do realize that these "big 5" represent a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the total employment in the US (and world), don't you? And I'm pretty sure Intel is a bigger employer than several of these; it currently has 106,700 employees. It's a mostly MS shop. And IBM is still bigger than any of these, with 380,000 employees currently.
Now I'm curious, so I went ahead and looked these up. Facebook is a puny, puny little company, with only 10,082 employees. That's a tiny 1/10 of the size of Intel. Apple is a much more sizeable 115,000, so that probably is one the top tech employers. Google has just shy of 60,000 employees, so it's actually rather small. Amazon has 222,400 employees, so it's actually become quite a large employer very quickly, considering how long they've been around (since 1994, compared to Intel which has been around since the 70s, and IBM which has been around for over a century). Finally, Microsoft has 118,584 employees.
Cisco Systems is larger than FB and Google, at 70,112 employees. Oracle has 135,070 employees, making it larger than everyone on your list except Amazon. And of course there's Samsung, which has 489,000 employers, bigger than everyone else here.
Regardless, all of these put together are still a tiny, tiny portion of employers nationwide or worldwide. Most employers are MS shops to some degree (usually a very large degree). Why do you think MS is so profitable? It's because of their Windows/Office cash cow, but also because of all their enterprise products. Apple has NO enterprise products at all, they don't even have servers. They make all their money on individuals buying iDevices.
Huh? WTF are you talking about? Where on Earth are you where you're having Apple shit forced on you? Are you in a parallel universe or something?
At ANY corporate or government job in the US, you are absolutely going to have MS shit forced on you. Everyone uses MS here. There is a very, very rare (usually small) company which uses Apples, but everyplace else you go, it's all MS. Even if a company uses a lot of Linux, they usually use MS for regular Office programs and Outlook email, and you end up using Linux on another PC or in a VM.
That's a big part of the reason why people don't dislike OpenBox. People don't get angry with something if it doesn't cause them any problems. But people do get royally pissed off when something totally unwanted is basically forced up their rectums.
Yeah, that's exactly why I don't dislike Apple nearly as much as I dislike Microsoft, despite all these claims about how evil Apple is these days. Sure, Apple is evil, but I'm not being forced or pressured to use Apple products. I don't spend all my free cash on Apple crap, so it just doesn't affect me. Not so with Microsoft; it's pretty hard to have any kind of tech job without being required to use MS products.
The only time I've even used Apple products in recent memory is the last time I went to a Panera Bread and placed an order with one of their tablets. I'm fairly sure those were iPads.
So given that there's several other things which "MS" stands for already, I think it's perfectly reasonable to relegate Microsoft to the "M$" abbreviation, in order to reduce confusion.
Also, its not that crime is low in Japan, its that honesty is high, and that the overwhelming majority of people will go out of their way to do the right thing
Interesting that honesty is so high there, since there's almost zero Christianity. Whereas here in the US, much of the population is Christian (and before the last few decades practically everyone was Christian) and people here have always been lying, thieving bastards.
China is dumb for disallowing Symantec because they think it includes backdoors for the USG, while they continue to use Windows which almost certainly has such backdoors.
I guess you're one of those old folks who only looks at one tab at a time, and never opens more than one tab.
When you open 6 tabs at a time with middle-clicks because you're reading the news and selecting the articles of interest to you, it's easy for one or more of those to have some auto-playing video BS.
Body building is usually going too far, but it definitely IS "better" to be physically fit. You're healthier and you live longer; I can't imagine why that wouldn't be considered "better".
Now of course, there's a big difference between a reasonable amount of effort to stay in shape, and going to extremes as the professional body builders do, which is probably quite unhealthy. But when you mention it in the context of having expensive watched and cars and other luxury items, things that lots and lots of people do/have (unlike being pro body builders), I get the idea that you're criticizing people for having a gym membership and doing regular workouts.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the point of OS/2 would be at this time. It's straight from the days of Windows 3.1 and maybe Win95.
If you want an alternative to Windows 10, we already have many Linux distros. OS/2 was nice in its day, but it's not going to provide support for modern hardware, or a reasonably modern user interface.
LBJ changed things all right, just not in a good way. He massively deepened America's involvement in the Vietnam War, leading to the deaths of 50,000 Americans and around a million Vietnamese. He was one of the worst Presidents in US history.
He did manage to get the Civil Rights Act passed, so that's good, and he tried to do something good with his Great Society program (though the actual results weren't that great), but his involvement in the war more than makes up for all that.
This is probably coming down to a difference in taste. I can't imagine putting crispy breadcrumbs and parmesan in mac-and-cheese. In fact, I would instead add some cheddar. I also hate having the cheese crisped on top.
Also, I usually don't even eat the actual mac-and-cheese from Annie's, I normally eat the yellow cheddar shells-and-cheese (in an orange box). Try that if you've never had it; I like it a lot more than the blue-box mac-and-cheese. I'll also have the purple-box white cheddar shells-and-cheese sometimes.
As for 3 tablespoons of milk, that doesn't sound like much. Are you straining all the water out completely? Are you putting in too much butter? Also, don't be afraid to deviate from instructions. I normally use a small pat of butter, probably around 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, maybe a tablespoon or two of milk.
That's really weird about the chicken: that's something that most grocery stores have which is consistently good. Someone in their kitchen doesn't know what they're doing.
Yes, absolutely! If you hate the Xindi arc, skip straight to season 4. It probably has the best episodes of the whole series. Definitely don't miss the "In a Mirror, Darkly" episodes, but most of the others are well worth watching too. You will see some wind-down from the Xindi stuff though in the first few episodes, but it doesn't ruin it.
Just a technical note: spandex and lycra are the exact same thing. Lycra is a trademark, spandex is the generic name for it.
And this is exactly correct too. The biggest problem with TNG overall (aside from the first two seasons, Wesley, and Pulaski) is the uniforms: they went to women wearing pants. Blah. Luckily Troi had some sexy tight-fitting outfits sometimes, but that was it.
I disagree. I really didn't like seeing such an obvious parallel to 9/11, rather shortly after 9/11 itself. It was really too in-your-face with the parallelism, and it didn't really paint their response in the best light: they brought the MACO soldiers on board, echoing America's increasing militarism, but basically they ended up sticking around for good. And then they finally figure out who's behind it all and why, and it's an extremely contrived story. People from an alternate universe convince the Xindi to make a superweapon to wipe out the Federation before it's created by destroying Earth, and the Xindi are dumb enough to fall for this?
If they wanted to make some commentary, I'd prefer them to find another culture on their travels which has gone down some dark road. That's what they did in TOS, like the episode about the two sister planets at perpetual war with each other, having a virtual war and "casualties" have to report to the nearest disintegration chamber, or the episode about the Nazis, or the episode about the Chicago gangs.
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The Japanese have far more culture than you'll ever have. "riffraff"? "low class"? Japan is a nation where there's virtually no petty crimes. Finland probably isn't much worse. America OTOH is full of crime and poverty by comparison.
According to your moronic logic, the computer you're using was not designed by engineers.
Unlike law, medicine and traditional engineering fields, software development is completely unregulated with no real standard certifications (even a degree is optional).
Bullshit.
Electrical engineering is absolutely a "traditional" engineering field, but I challenge you to point out any certifications for the electrical engineers who designed the computer you're reading this on.
Mechanical engineering is absolutely a "traditional" engineering field too, but I challenge you to point find any certifications for the automotive engineers who designed the car you drove this morning.
Engineers have been operating with an "industrial exemption" for ages now; all the products you use are not designed by PEs at all. PEs are still used for things like buildings and bridges of course, but that's about it.
I don't give a shit about your personal experience. My whole point is that, for most people who have any kind of corporate job involving sitting at a computer, that computer is going to be running Windows. If you've avoided that somehow, then good for you (or not, if you hate Macbooks and got stuck with those), but if you believe that your experience is commonplace, you're completely deluded. Your personal experience is irrelevant for the hundreds of millions of us out here who are stuck using Windows at work.
You do realize that these "big 5" represent a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the total employment in the US (and world), don't you? And I'm pretty sure Intel is a bigger employer than several of these; it currently has 106,700 employees. It's a mostly MS shop. And IBM is still bigger than any of these, with 380,000 employees currently.
Now I'm curious, so I went ahead and looked these up. Facebook is a puny, puny little company, with only 10,082 employees. That's a tiny 1/10 of the size of Intel. Apple is a much more sizeable 115,000, so that probably is one the top tech employers. Google has just shy of 60,000 employees, so it's actually rather small. Amazon has 222,400 employees, so it's actually become quite a large employer very quickly, considering how long they've been around (since 1994, compared to Intel which has been around since the 70s, and IBM which has been around for over a century). Finally, Microsoft has 118,584 employees.
Cisco Systems is larger than FB and Google, at 70,112 employees. Oracle has 135,070 employees, making it larger than everyone on your list except Amazon. And of course there's Samsung, which has 489,000 employers, bigger than everyone else here.
Regardless, all of these put together are still a tiny, tiny portion of employers nationwide or worldwide. Most employers are MS shops to some degree (usually a very large degree). Why do you think MS is so profitable? It's because of their Windows/Office cash cow, but also because of all their enterprise products. Apple has NO enterprise products at all, they don't even have servers. They make all their money on individuals buying iDevices.
Huh? WTF are you talking about? Where on Earth are you where you're having Apple shit forced on you? Are you in a parallel universe or something?
At ANY corporate or government job in the US, you are absolutely going to have MS shit forced on you. Everyone uses MS here. There is a very, very rare (usually small) company which uses Apples, but everyplace else you go, it's all MS. Even if a company uses a lot of Linux, they usually use MS for regular Office programs and Outlook email, and you end up using Linux on another PC or in a VM.
That's a big part of the reason why people don't dislike OpenBox. People don't get angry with something if it doesn't cause them any problems. But people do get royally pissed off when something totally unwanted is basically forced up their rectums.
Yeah, that's exactly why I don't dislike Apple nearly as much as I dislike Microsoft, despite all these claims about how evil Apple is these days. Sure, Apple is evil, but I'm not being forced or pressured to use Apple products. I don't spend all my free cash on Apple crap, so it just doesn't affect me. Not so with Microsoft; it's pretty hard to have any kind of tech job without being required to use MS products.
The only time I've even used Apple products in recent memory is the last time I went to a Panera Bread and placed an order with one of their tablets. I'm fairly sure those were iPads.
It can also stand for Multiple Sclerosis.
So given that there's several other things which "MS" stands for already, I think it's perfectly reasonable to relegate Microsoft to the "M$" abbreviation, in order to reduce confusion.
I've read also that Japanese cars frequently have TV tuners built in, so you can watch TV on the in-dash LCD screen.
Also, its not that crime is low in Japan, its that honesty is high, and that the overwhelming majority of people will go out of their way to do the right thing
Interesting that honesty is so high there, since there's almost zero Christianity. Whereas here in the US, much of the population is Christian (and before the last few decades practically everyone was Christian) and people here have always been lying, thieving bastards.
No shit, that sounds just like me.
Makes me wonder how long it's worth continuing to live, if it's just going to get worse from here.
Slackware fits that bill too, as do some other Linux distros.
China is dumb for disallowing Symantec because they think it includes backdoors for the USG, while they continue to use Windows which almost certainly has such backdoors.
You can. Install NoScript or FlashBlock.
I guess you're one of those old folks who only looks at one tab at a time, and never opens more than one tab.
When you open 6 tabs at a time with middle-clicks because you're reading the news and selecting the articles of interest to you, it's easy for one or more of those to have some auto-playing video BS.
Body building is usually going too far, but it definitely IS "better" to be physically fit. You're healthier and you live longer; I can't imagine why that wouldn't be considered "better".
Now of course, there's a big difference between a reasonable amount of effort to stay in shape, and going to extremes as the professional body builders do, which is probably quite unhealthy. But when you mention it in the context of having expensive watched and cars and other luxury items, things that lots and lots of people do/have (unlike being pro body builders), I get the idea that you're criticizing people for having a gym membership and doing regular workouts.
. I don't have that much time to spend just getting my system working.
Try switching to Linux Mint. I recommend the KDE version, but if you don't like that, there's 3 other variants: Xcfe, MATE, and Cinnamon.
There's a lot more distros out there than just Debian and Gentoo.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the point of OS/2 would be at this time. It's straight from the days of Windows 3.1 and maybe Win95.
If you want an alternative to Windows 10, we already have many Linux distros. OS/2 was nice in its day, but it's not going to provide support for modern hardware, or a reasonably modern user interface.
LBJ changed things all right, just not in a good way. He massively deepened America's involvement in the Vietnam War, leading to the deaths of 50,000 Americans and around a million Vietnamese. He was one of the worst Presidents in US history.
He did manage to get the Civil Rights Act passed, so that's good, and he tried to do something good with his Great Society program (though the actual results weren't that great), but his involvement in the war more than makes up for all that.
This is probably coming down to a difference in taste. I can't imagine putting crispy breadcrumbs and parmesan in mac-and-cheese. In fact, I would instead add some cheddar. I also hate having the cheese crisped on top.
Also, I usually don't even eat the actual mac-and-cheese from Annie's, I normally eat the yellow cheddar shells-and-cheese (in an orange box). Try that if you've never had it; I like it a lot more than the blue-box mac-and-cheese. I'll also have the purple-box white cheddar shells-and-cheese sometimes.
As for 3 tablespoons of milk, that doesn't sound like much. Are you straining all the water out completely? Are you putting in too much butter? Also, don't be afraid to deviate from instructions. I normally use a small pat of butter, probably around 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, maybe a tablespoon or two of milk.
That's really weird about the chicken: that's something that most grocery stores have which is consistently good. Someone in their kitchen doesn't know what they're doing.
Yes, absolutely! If you hate the Xindi arc, skip straight to season 4. It probably has the best episodes of the whole series. Definitely don't miss the "In a Mirror, Darkly" episodes, but most of the others are well worth watching too. You will see some wind-down from the Xindi stuff though in the first few episodes, but it doesn't ruin it.
Just a technical note: spandex and lycra are the exact same thing. Lycra is a trademark, spandex is the generic name for it.
And this is exactly correct too. The biggest problem with TNG overall (aside from the first two seasons, Wesley, and Pulaski) is the uniforms: they went to women wearing pants. Blah. Luckily Troi had some sexy tight-fitting outfits sometimes, but that was it.
The only good character on that series was Seven. And really only because she was so hot.
I disagree. I really didn't like seeing such an obvious parallel to 9/11, rather shortly after 9/11 itself. It was really too in-your-face with the parallelism, and it didn't really paint their response in the best light: they brought the MACO soldiers on board, echoing America's increasing militarism, but basically they ended up sticking around for good. And then they finally figure out who's behind it all and why, and it's an extremely contrived story. People from an alternate universe convince the Xindi to make a superweapon to wipe out the Federation before it's created by destroying Earth, and the Xindi are dumb enough to fall for this?
If they wanted to make some commentary, I'd prefer them to find another culture on their travels which has gone down some dark road. That's what they did in TOS, like the episode about the two sister planets at perpetual war with each other, having a virtual war and "casualties" have to report to the nearest disintegration chamber, or the episode about the Nazis, or the episode about the Chicago gangs.
Yep, especially the mirror universe ones.