...Only work when authorized by a persistent online connection to the MAFIA.
You got that wrong, it's the "MAFIAA" (two As on the end): Music And Film Industries Association of America. This comes from its two constituent organizations, the RIAA and the MPAA (Recording Industry Ass. of America, and Motion Picture Ass. of America).
About 1,500 years ago, people stopped shitting in the pools and tubs: That was a big turning point for community health.
Waitaminute... so you're saying that back in those days, when people went to communal pools, it was considered perfectly acceptable to be relaxing in the pool while floating turds were in the water with you?
I have a hard time imaging humans, even in ancient societies, liking the idea of being in constant contact with other peoples' turds. Even most animals are smart enough to avoid turds and try to dispose of them somewhere outside their home. Housecats bury them in litter if they can, and if they can't find a litterbox will find some back corner somewhere to leave them, unless they're really mad at you and want to express their displeasure by crapping on your pillow.
Or maybe they're not measuring properly. They're only looking for one specific artificial sweetener. So people who don't consume foods with that sweetener will have their urine go undetected.
That said, the idea of a kids-free pool is very attractive.
Yes, but does this really apply across Canada? Canada is a huge country spanning many time zones, from British Columbia (including Victoria island) and Yukon in the west, all the way to Newfoundland in the east. It's wider than the continental US.
I've only been to Canada a few times, to Ontario and BC and Yukon, but I find it hard to believe that this phenomenon you cite exists all across the country. I don't remember anyone talking like that in BC. And also, that accent reminds me a lot of how people talk in Minnesota, which is in the US. On top of all that, there's a bunch of people in Quebec who speak French, not English.
How are asshole cops "useful" when you're adult? (Fighting crime, doing investigations, establishing a police presence to deter crime, etc., do not require one to be an asshole.)
For the life of me, I simply cannot imagine the appeal of sitting around with a bunch of naked dudes, or sharing a bath with them (esp. when many of them are likely to be old, fat, etc.). The thought of it makes me ill.
First - this is a copy/paste from Soylent. I thought they were supposed to be trying to be like Slashdot, not the other way around? We're used to mainstream news beating Slashdot to the punch by days, but when our own RIPOFF site has news before we do, that Slashdot copies...WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK?!?
This just shows how Slashdot is circling the drain. SoylentNews has been better than Slashdot in many ways for quite some time now, most especially with its software and how the user interface works.
One gigantic improvement they made: you can both moderate and comment in the same story. I *never* moderate on this site because of that moronic rule, and the moderation here is obviously shit, largely because of that most likely. Anyone who can make good moderations is likely to also have something to say, so forcing them to choose one or the other is simply stupid and counterproductive. On the other site, you're perfectly able to do both, just not directly in the same thread (e.g., you can't down-mod someone who responded to your post, because that's obviously biased).
There's also far less AC trolls over there, and there's no APK filling the place up with his spam and insanity. The main downsides to SN are 1) there just aren't as many commenters, and 2) there's a few ultra-right-wing extremists (much worse than the ones here) who've made a home there.
I used to live in AZ, but I never had my own pool What are these horror stories with pool-cleaning contractors that you speak of? I'm genuinely curious.
Rumor has it that the next iPhone will be USB-C, but I wouldn't be suprised if they added some proprietary protocols that require Apple/Beats branded headphones or earbuds for that as well.
I sincerely hope that's exactly what they do. It'll be great to make fun of Apple buyers for buying into this.
That depends on the tech work. System administration is something that's needed everywhere. Certain more obscure types of programming work, not so much. I mainly do embedded C and C++; there isn't work for me in "every city" by a long shot. I'm not confined to the Bay Area (nor have I ever lived or worked there), but I can't just go pick some random medium-sized city like Omaha and expect to find decent work there. And usually, when there is work there, it's only at one place, which is bad for several reasons.
You're the one whining, as seen in your original post with your grandstanding statement "You don't get to decide if I get interrupted either today or 3 days later,". Yes, MS *does* get to decide that. If you use their OS, then you've implicitly given them that power to decide.
If were weren't using Windows, you wouldn't be bitching and complaining about this, because it wouldn't affect you. I don't use Windows on my personal systems, so you won't hear me complaining about their update policies, because it doesn't affect me. I just sit back and laugh at Windows users as they whine about it, while refusing to abandon a vendor that treats them so poorly. Personally, I wish MS would treat them even worse.
The truth is your users are rebelling because you are were taking an FU we do what we want approach to your customers and MS is discovering that with tablets and smartphones and Windows 7 install base, most customers are not all that locked into MS products.
Oh please. The consumers are bitching and complaining, and you're right, they didn't buy into MS smartphones, but overall they're all adopting Windows 10 for their PCs/laptops. Sure, some people are sticking with Win7 for now, but they saw the same thing with XP. They all eventually came around and moved to 7; they'll do the same with 10.
The users aren't "rebelling", they're whining. If they were rebelling, they wouldn't be using Windows any more.
I thought it was fairly obvious I'm not running Windows, and I disagree anyway.
Yeah, unfortunately English makes it hard to differentiate between you-singular and you-plural (and in this case, 2nd person addressed to everyone in general), which is why I added the aside about my comment being addressed to anyone running Windows.
Having complaints ignored, or barely recognized, again and again and again... sure, then it's time to move on to someone else that does listen, but complaining can be very useful.
I think it should be fairly obvious by now that MS is not listening and does not care about consumers' complaints. And why should they? The OS is not the product, the user data is; why do you think they were giving the OS away for free? Moreover, MS updates have been a PITA for a very long time; they've only gotten more annoying and intrusive in the last few years. The idea that MS is suddenly going to change their ways and make their OS more convenient and privacy-respecting for consumers is pure lunacy.
Exactly, and this is just how it should be. This is good for MS because it increases their profits, by screwing over the consumers, which is fine because they're perfectly willing to bend over and take it, so it'd be dumb for MS not to take advantage.
Chinese is actually in an entirely different language family than Japanese. They even have entirely different sentence structure.
Yeah, I believe I said this before. The only similarity they have is that Japanese borrowed a bunch of words/glyphs from Chinese and then called them "Kanji". It's not that much different than English borrowing words from French or Sanskrit, except that in Japanese, all they borrowed was the glyphs and the meaning of the word, while coming up with their own, different pronunciation.
The language closest to Japanese is Korean
According to Wikipedia, the relationship between Japanese and Korean is highly debated, with some linguists saying that it appears the languages are converging, rather than diverging, because of borrowing between the two, which suggests that there is not a common root to the two languages as would be the case with divergent languages. Linguists in Korea and Japan don't think the two languages are related at all. It's not at all like French and Spanish, where the two have a common root language in Latin. There's no evidence of a common root with Japanese and Korean. Your point about loan words (esp. German) just reinforces the notion of them being convergent: they're borrowing from each other in modern times. The evidence points to Japanese (plus its related Japonic languages) being a language isolate.
Must be nice to not have to deal with average Joe users at all...they see an interface that looks a little different from the Windows they're used to, and they're paralyzed. Putting an unfamiliar operating system on a computer they have to use would literally be at least as disruptive as changing Windows' UI language to Japanese.
So how did the Average Joes manage to figure out how to use Windows 8-10?
For now.... Before long, Win7 will no longer receive security updates, and it'll be just like WinXP. Plus there's the issue of older OSes not working on newer hardware because of a lack of drivers.
More testing before rolling out upgrades would be nice.
Lots of things "would be nice". It'd be nice if I could stop paying rent and just get to live in my house for free. It'd be nice if I didn't have to work for a living. It'd be nice if there was vaccination for cancer. It'd be nice if we built a nice Moon base with a fancy hotel for tourists, and I could go there for free for a week.
Lots of smaller things would be nice too: it'd be nice if Apple iPhones weren't overpriced and didn't have glued-in batteries and crappy screens and a crappy UI and still had headphone jacks. But Apple doesn't care about my opinion, so I don't buy their devices. It'd be nice if Jeeps weren't overpriced, horrifically ugly, poorly handling gas guzzlers, and instead were all very attractive, extremely reliable, and fuel-efficient small cars like I prefer. But Chrysler doesn't care about my opinion, so I don't buy Jeeps. It'd be nice if McDonald's only sold high-quality, healthy food. But McDonald's doesn't care about my opinion, so I don't eat there.
If having well-tested software is important to you, and having an OS that forces you to reboot and then wait 30 minutes to attempt a failed update, over and over again is something you don't like, then maybe your preferences are not aligned with Microsoft's, and you should look for another vendor.
3 days is not enough. I shouldn't have to actively "snooze" it. I should be able to schedule a check for updates to only happen once a month, or any period of time I like, including never. Who's computer is it?
3 days is far more than enough, and really too much IMO. It's not your computer; it's Microsoft's. You made that choice when you chose to install their OS, as you implicitly accepted all their terms and conditions and their way of managing the system, which includes annoying and frequent updates requiring reboots. So shut up and stop complaining when you refuse to vote with your feet (this isn't targeted just at you, but for anyone who chooses to use Windows). Complaining about something is useless, futile, and annoying when you absolutely refuse to make any change to alleviate your problem.
It's sort of like if someone explains Japanese is a language, you know, like Spanish or Portuguese. Don't use two other mutual-intelligible languages, which happen to be totally different than the one you're talking about, as your examples.
To be fair, there really aren't *any* languages similar to Japanese. The closest is probably Chinese (Mandarin), but that's only because Japanese borrows a bunch of written characters from it, for one of the three character sets, called Kanji. (So Japanese people can make out a few written words in Chinese, and vice versa, much like English speakers can make out a few words in French which we've borrowed.) The pronunciation, grammar rules, syntax, etc. are all completely different. Japanese isn't even a tonal language like Chinese.
The only languages similar to Japanese are other "Japonic" languages, which are all used only in Japan, and within Japan are merely considered dialects of Japanese, and almost no one outside of Japan would have heard of these languages anyway as they're endangered, much like other languages spoken only by a small number of people, such as Romansh used in a small part of Switzerland by about 60k people, or the Frisian languages used by about 500k people in Netherlands and Germany.
So if you wanted to say "Japanese is a language, you know like...", you'd do best just listing 2 or 3 completely unrelated languages, such as Portuguese, Russian, and Hindi, because there simply aren't any well-known languages that are similar to Japanese.
Whether you are politically left, right or agnostic, the surveillance state should be a serious concern for all those who value privacy and liberty.
Which is who? Not very many Americans, as proven by all the people who use Twitter and Facebook and happily make themselves dependent on monopolistic corporations.
However, every time that people point to a single incidence or something like that and then use it to characterize the entire community of intelligence or law enforcement, all it does is make those people feel like they are being attacked.
Every time cops do something wrong, all the other cops, and the prosecutors and judges, stand behind them even when it's as blatant as shooting unarmed people in the back.
These people *should* be attacked.
That is not actually a good thing. If you think it is, go talk to the people in neighborhoods that the police now avoid because they feel like they don't have the support of the community. Ask them if they think it is a good thing.
Why should I care about what a bunch of thugs and murderers think is a good thing? If they weren't such abusive assholes, then maybe they'd have more community support. They've earned their reputation fairly.
Second, I have said this before and I will say this again: the government (at all levels, from local to federal, including military, policy, intelligence, etc.) is a representation of the society from which it is drawn.
Now this is exactly correct. The problem is, our society is not homogeneous. So the police are not drawn from across society; they're drawn from one part of society that loves authoritarianism and approves of brutality and murder of anyone who doesn't meekly obey their racist authority. But there is a significant part of society which does back up the police, including authoritarians like you, which is why they stay in power.
Absolutely, if something is being done against the law, the perpetrators need to be dealt with
Except when it's done by the police, right? Because that's the way it's been up until everyone and their brother had portable video recorders in their pockets to document their abuses.
In fact, when you look at law enforcement and intelligence, the special power which they have over their fellow citizens means that any violation should be dealt with very harshly.
Sounds great; an authoritarian giving lip service to doing the right thing. Problem is, it doesn't work out that way in practice; people like you will always side with the cops no matter how blatant their abuse.
In addition to that, if Trump gets the defense budget increases he is seeking, that will translate directly into increased funding for the intelligence community, which will likely improve morale overall.
No it won't. You're somehow assuming that increased defense spending will somehow equate to higher salaries, which is simply preposterous. Increased spending just means more mandates to do more stuff: build more ships, more weapons, etc. That doesn't mean that individual salaries will actually go up, in fact likely the opposite, because Trump is really big on decreasing Federal spending and "doing more with less". So sure, maybe the intelligence community will get more funding, but that comes with the provision that they hire more people and do more stuff. The actual workers will still be held to the same Federal worker pay schedules, and most likely the cost-of-living increases will be cut to keep spending low.
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...Only work when authorized by a persistent online connection to the MAFIA.
You got that wrong, it's the "MAFIAA" (two As on the end): Music And Film Industries Association of America. This comes from its two constituent organizations, the RIAA and the MPAA (Recording Industry Ass. of America, and Motion Picture Ass. of America).
About 1,500 years ago, people stopped shitting in the pools and tubs: That was a big turning point for community health.
Waitaminute... so you're saying that back in those days, when people went to communal pools, it was considered perfectly acceptable to be relaxing in the pool while floating turds were in the water with you?
I have a hard time imaging humans, even in ancient societies, liking the idea of being in constant contact with other peoples' turds. Even most animals are smart enough to avoid turds and try to dispose of them somewhere outside their home. Housecats bury them in litter if they can, and if they can't find a litterbox will find some back corner somewhere to leave them, unless they're really mad at you and want to express their displeasure by crapping on your pillow.
Or maybe they're not measuring properly. They're only looking for one specific artificial sweetener. So people who don't consume foods with that sweetener will have their urine go undetected.
That said, the idea of a kids-free pool is very attractive.
Yes, but does this really apply across Canada? Canada is a huge country spanning many time zones, from British Columbia (including Victoria island) and Yukon in the west, all the way to Newfoundland in the east. It's wider than the continental US.
I've only been to Canada a few times, to Ontario and BC and Yukon, but I find it hard to believe that this phenomenon you cite exists all across the country. I don't remember anyone talking like that in BC. And also, that accent reminds me a lot of how people talk in Minnesota, which is in the US. On top of all that, there's a bunch of people in Quebec who speak French, not English.
How are asshole cops "useful" when you're adult? (Fighting crime, doing investigations, establishing a police presence to deter crime, etc., do not require one to be an asshole.)
For the life of me, I simply cannot imagine the appeal of sitting around with a bunch of naked dudes, or sharing a bath with them (esp. when many of them are likely to be old, fat, etc.). The thought of it makes me ill.
First - this is a copy/paste from Soylent. I thought they were supposed to be trying to be like Slashdot, not the other way around? We're used to mainstream news beating Slashdot to the punch by days, but when our own RIPOFF site has news before we do, that Slashdot copies...WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK?!?
This just shows how Slashdot is circling the drain. SoylentNews has been better than Slashdot in many ways for quite some time now, most especially with its software and how the user interface works.
One gigantic improvement they made: you can both moderate and comment in the same story. I *never* moderate on this site because of that moronic rule, and the moderation here is obviously shit, largely because of that most likely. Anyone who can make good moderations is likely to also have something to say, so forcing them to choose one or the other is simply stupid and counterproductive. On the other site, you're perfectly able to do both, just not directly in the same thread (e.g., you can't down-mod someone who responded to your post, because that's obviously biased).
There's also far less AC trolls over there, and there's no APK filling the place up with his spam and insanity. The main downsides to SN are 1) there just aren't as many commenters, and 2) there's a few ultra-right-wing extremists (much worse than the ones here) who've made a home there.
I used to live in AZ, but I never had my own pool What are these horror stories with pool-cleaning contractors that you speak of? I'm genuinely curious.
Rumor has it that the next iPhone will be USB-C, but I wouldn't be suprised if they added some proprietary protocols that require Apple/Beats branded headphones or earbuds for that as well.
I sincerely hope that's exactly what they do. It'll be great to make fun of Apple buyers for buying into this.
That depends on the tech work. System administration is something that's needed everywhere. Certain more obscure types of programming work, not so much. I mainly do embedded C and C++; there isn't work for me in "every city" by a long shot. I'm not confined to the Bay Area (nor have I ever lived or worked there), but I can't just go pick some random medium-sized city like Omaha and expect to find decent work there. And usually, when there is work there, it's only at one place, which is bad for several reasons.
You're the one whining, as seen in your original post with your grandstanding statement "You don't get to decide if I get interrupted either today or 3 days later,". Yes, MS *does* get to decide that. If you use their OS, then you've implicitly given them that power to decide.
If were weren't using Windows, you wouldn't be bitching and complaining about this, because it wouldn't affect you. I don't use Windows on my personal systems, so you won't hear me complaining about their update policies, because it doesn't affect me. I just sit back and laugh at Windows users as they whine about it, while refusing to abandon a vendor that treats them so poorly. Personally, I wish MS would treat them even worse.
The truth is your users are rebelling because you are were taking an FU we do what we want approach to your customers and MS is discovering that with tablets and smartphones and Windows 7 install base, most customers are not all that locked into MS products.
Oh please. The consumers are bitching and complaining, and you're right, they didn't buy into MS smartphones, but overall they're all adopting Windows 10 for their PCs/laptops. Sure, some people are sticking with Win7 for now, but they saw the same thing with XP. They all eventually came around and moved to 7; they'll do the same with 10.
The users aren't "rebelling", they're whining. If they were rebelling, they wouldn't be using Windows any more.
I thought it was fairly obvious I'm not running Windows, and I disagree anyway.
Yeah, unfortunately English makes it hard to differentiate between you-singular and you-plural (and in this case, 2nd person addressed to everyone in general), which is why I added the aside about my comment being addressed to anyone running Windows.
Having complaints ignored, or barely recognized, again and again and again... sure, then it's time to move on to someone else that does listen, but complaining can be very useful.
I think it should be fairly obvious by now that MS is not listening and does not care about consumers' complaints. And why should they? The OS is not the product, the user data is; why do you think they were giving the OS away for free? Moreover, MS updates have been a PITA for a very long time; they've only gotten more annoying and intrusive in the last few years. The idea that MS is suddenly going to change their ways and make their OS more convenient and privacy-respecting for consumers is pure lunacy.
Exactly, and this is just how it should be. This is good for MS because it increases their profits, by screwing over the consumers, which is fine because they're perfectly willing to bend over and take it, so it'd be dumb for MS not to take advantage.
Because people are gluttons for punishment and abuse, and would feel lost and empty without it.
Chinese is actually in an entirely different language family than Japanese. They even have entirely different sentence structure.
Yeah, I believe I said this before. The only similarity they have is that Japanese borrowed a bunch of words/glyphs from Chinese and then called them "Kanji". It's not that much different than English borrowing words from French or Sanskrit, except that in Japanese, all they borrowed was the glyphs and the meaning of the word, while coming up with their own, different pronunciation.
The language closest to Japanese is Korean
According to Wikipedia, the relationship between Japanese and Korean is highly debated, with some linguists saying that it appears the languages are converging, rather than diverging, because of borrowing between the two, which suggests that there is not a common root to the two languages as would be the case with divergent languages. Linguists in Korea and Japan don't think the two languages are related at all. It's not at all like French and Spanish, where the two have a common root language in Latin. There's no evidence of a common root with Japanese and Korean. Your point about loan words (esp. German) just reinforces the notion of them being convergent: they're borrowing from each other in modern times. The evidence points to Japanese (plus its related Japonic languages) being a language isolate.
Must be nice to not have to deal with average Joe users at all...they see an interface that looks a little different from the Windows they're used to, and they're paralyzed. Putting an unfamiliar operating system on a computer they have to use would literally be at least as disruptive as changing Windows' UI language to Japanese.
So how did the Average Joes manage to figure out how to use Windows 8-10?
For now....
Before long, Win7 will no longer receive security updates, and it'll be just like WinXP. Plus there's the issue of older OSes not working on newer hardware because of a lack of drivers.
More testing before rolling out upgrades would be nice.
Lots of things "would be nice". It'd be nice if I could stop paying rent and just get to live in my house for free. It'd be nice if I didn't have to work for a living. It'd be nice if there was vaccination for cancer. It'd be nice if we built a nice Moon base with a fancy hotel for tourists, and I could go there for free for a week.
Lots of smaller things would be nice too: it'd be nice if Apple iPhones weren't overpriced and didn't have glued-in batteries and crappy screens and a crappy UI and still had headphone jacks. But Apple doesn't care about my opinion, so I don't buy their devices. It'd be nice if Jeeps weren't overpriced, horrifically ugly, poorly handling gas guzzlers, and instead were all very attractive, extremely reliable, and fuel-efficient small cars like I prefer. But Chrysler doesn't care about my opinion, so I don't buy Jeeps. It'd be nice if McDonald's only sold high-quality, healthy food. But McDonald's doesn't care about my opinion, so I don't eat there.
If having well-tested software is important to you, and having an OS that forces you to reboot and then wait 30 minutes to attempt a failed update, over and over again is something you don't like, then maybe your preferences are not aligned with Microsoft's, and you should look for another vendor.
3 days is not enough. I shouldn't have to actively "snooze" it. I should be able to schedule a check for updates to only happen once a month, or any period of time I like, including never. Who's computer is it?
3 days is far more than enough, and really too much IMO. It's not your computer; it's Microsoft's. You made that choice when you chose to install their OS, as you implicitly accepted all their terms and conditions and their way of managing the system, which includes annoying and frequent updates requiring reboots. So shut up and stop complaining when you refuse to vote with your feet (this isn't targeted just at you, but for anyone who chooses to use Windows). Complaining about something is useless, futile, and annoying when you absolutely refuse to make any change to alleviate your problem.
It's sort of like if someone explains Japanese is a language, you know, like Spanish or Portuguese. Don't use two other mutual-intelligible languages, which happen to be totally different than the one you're talking about, as your examples.
To be fair, there really aren't *any* languages similar to Japanese. The closest is probably Chinese (Mandarin), but that's only because Japanese borrows a bunch of written characters from it, for one of the three character sets, called Kanji. (So Japanese people can make out a few written words in Chinese, and vice versa, much like English speakers can make out a few words in French which we've borrowed.) The pronunciation, grammar rules, syntax, etc. are all completely different. Japanese isn't even a tonal language like Chinese.
The only languages similar to Japanese are other "Japonic" languages, which are all used only in Japan, and within Japan are merely considered dialects of Japanese, and almost no one outside of Japan would have heard of these languages anyway as they're endangered, much like other languages spoken only by a small number of people, such as Romansh used in a small part of Switzerland by about 60k people, or the Frisian languages used by about 500k people in Netherlands and Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So if you wanted to say "Japanese is a language, you know like...", you'd do best just listing 2 or 3 completely unrelated languages, such as Portuguese, Russian, and Hindi, because there simply aren't any well-known languages that are similar to Japanese.
Whether you are politically left, right or agnostic, the surveillance state should be a serious concern for all those who value privacy and liberty.
Which is who? Not very many Americans, as proven by all the people who use Twitter and Facebook and happily make themselves dependent on monopolistic corporations.
Face it; no one cares about privacy any more.
I wish I had a cubicle...
In the private sector, open-plan offices are all the rage these days.
However, every time that people point to a single incidence or something like that and then use it to characterize the entire community of intelligence or law enforcement, all it does is make those people feel like they are being attacked.
Every time cops do something wrong, all the other cops, and the prosecutors and judges, stand behind them even when it's as blatant as shooting unarmed people in the back.
These people *should* be attacked.
That is not actually a good thing. If you think it is, go talk to the people in neighborhoods that the police now avoid because they feel like they don't have the support of the community. Ask them if they think it is a good thing.
Why should I care about what a bunch of thugs and murderers think is a good thing? If they weren't such abusive assholes, then maybe they'd have more community support. They've earned their reputation fairly.
Second, I have said this before and I will say this again: the government (at all levels, from local to federal, including military, policy, intelligence, etc.) is a representation of the society from which it is drawn.
Now this is exactly correct. The problem is, our society is not homogeneous. So the police are not drawn from across society; they're drawn from one part of society that loves authoritarianism and approves of brutality and murder of anyone who doesn't meekly obey their racist authority. But there is a significant part of society which does back up the police, including authoritarians like you, which is why they stay in power.
Absolutely, if something is being done against the law, the perpetrators need to be dealt with
Except when it's done by the police, right? Because that's the way it's been up until everyone and their brother had portable video recorders in their pockets to document their abuses.
In fact, when you look at law enforcement and intelligence, the special power which they have over their fellow citizens means that any violation should be dealt with very harshly.
Sounds great; an authoritarian giving lip service to doing the right thing. Problem is, it doesn't work out that way in practice; people like you will always side with the cops no matter how blatant their abuse.
In addition to that, if Trump gets the defense budget increases he is seeking, that will translate directly into increased funding for the intelligence community, which will likely improve morale overall.
No it won't. You're somehow assuming that increased defense spending will somehow equate to higher salaries, which is simply preposterous. Increased spending just means more mandates to do more stuff: build more ships, more weapons, etc. That doesn't mean that individual salaries will actually go up, in fact likely the opposite, because Trump is really big on decreasing Federal spending and "doing more with less". So sure, maybe the intelligence community will get more funding, but that comes with the provision that they hire more people and do more stuff. The actual workers will still be held to the same Federal worker pay schedules, and most likely the cost-of-living increases will be cut to keep spending low.