I think you need to explain how it's propaganda, unless you're actually arguing it's a good thing that some AirBNB hosts are both unable to cater to guests with disabilities. It seems a massive leap to look at a study that says a certain type of business has a major problem with catering to certain types of client, determining the reason why they don't, and then claiming that it's "propaganda" when, in fact, you've just re-enforced the thesis of the study (by providing an explanation) rather than debunked it.
Not if the agreement collapses because the country with the biggest CO2 footprint just opted out.
In the time I've been on this planet, the US has gone from being the most revered and respected, albeit with justified criticism, to one of the most feared, to one of the most irrelevant. That last part took a little over a hundred days. How did we get here? And no, the answer isn't "emails".
Sure you did. Clinton was awful, but she was no worse than any of the Presidents we've had since before her husband took office. She was the victim of a 25 year old smear campaign, but unless you were asleep you wouldn't have missed that, and you would have taken into account the fact the recent talking points against her, about emails and Benghazi, were so shaky they'd been rejected even by Republican congressional committees.
Meanwhile, Trump was clearly a fraud. You knew about Trump U. You knew about the spate of bankruptcies. You knew about his ripping off suppliers. And at the same time, for all Clinton's post-Bush-I New World Orderish/Neo-conservatism, Trump was actually acting like an actual fascist - he was scapegoating vulnerable minorities for America's problems, and he was actually, directly, encouraging violence against protestors and claiming he'd abuse the law to lock up his political opponents.
And he was doing so completely openly.
You're saying that Trump vs Clinton was some difficult vote where Trump wasn't ideal, but Clinton was just so bad? Bullshit. You voted for Trump because you wanted Trump. Maybe you wanted to watch the world burn, I don't know, but you had enough information at the time to know that Clinton, while bad, wasn't anything like as terrible as her detractors pretended, and that Trump was one of the worst candidates ever to run a democratic nation that tries, for all of its faults, to be a beacon for freedom and democracy across the world. You voted for a low rent Mussolini to prevent a low rent still-better-than-Dubya from taking office.
Don't pretend otherwise. Nobody voted for Trump reluctantly. If you're voting for lesser of two evils, you're not voting for Trump.
frankly, if my life is down to discussing what Hollywood is doing this week, fucking shoot me.
Sure. I don't want to discuss the latest Adam Sandler movie either.
But occasionally something comes up that's actually a big deal (think "Star Wars" as an example. Also I'm told the first decent DC movie since Batman Returns* is coming out this week, which sounds interesting), and I'd like to talk about it when everyone else is, in the same way as people like to see certain sports games live and talk about them afterwards with friends, and would find it actually pretty awkward and cramping their social lives if the only way to watch a game was either live, or six months later.
* OK, OK, I know, some of the recent Batman movies weren't bad, but it feels like that, right? Regardless, I suspect WW will be a disappointment, just because they always are.
Yeah, and you don't have to see a movie in the first place!
But... people do. And people often want to watch it at the same time as everyone else. It would have been really nice to be able to talk to people about Star Wars 7 when it came out (difficult because of various issues at home), rather than trying to avoid discussions and then finding when I finally did watch it I really couldn't participate in a "discussion" as such as everyone else had moved on to something else.
I watched the movie in the end but I missed the social experience because I couldn't see it when everyone else did.
The jobs that went away in the past were the trivial ones, where you may literally have been able to replace a person with a transistor or automatic valve. (Elevator/lift operator).
That's probably true in Cambodia or Ethiopia or wherever the dickens it is you live. In my lifetime, living in the UK and then the US, I've seen most factory jobs disappear (in part because of globalization), most jobs relating to farming and agriculture disappear (100% due to automation), and work in transportation and similar sectors massively reduced (changing economy combined with improved technologies and automation.) All three were non trivial parts of the economy.
Probably the subsidies that kicked off the electric car industry.
The gas prices dropping really isn't something under Presidential control - insofar as public policy affected gas prices, it was probably the pro-fracking, pro-ethanol policies that were adopted at various points during the Bush administration. OPEC basically dropped prices to try to kill both, but found it's more complicated than that and taking much longer to happen than anyone hoped.
Nobody really knows what the consequences of the pipeline would have been, given pipelines do, actually, leak, and given rail safety, as we saw at Lac Megantic, has ample space to be improved. The main argument for it was efficiency, and efficiency in moving oil is likely to drive down oil prices, and increase usage. It's hard to come up with a sensible argument that the right way to solve global warming is to build more oil pipelines.
Depended on the version of BASIC, I know most Microsoft versions did allow you to say "APPLE=2: PRINT APLPE" (sic) and it'd print 2, but there were quite a few that didn't and rigorously enforced the 1 or 2 letter limit.
OTOH, the BASIC I used on the ZX81 (my first home computer!) did allow you unlimited variable names. And I guess as GO SUB (sic) accepted formulas in Sinclair BASICs (alas not Microsoft's) you could have used named subroutines (ie 10 LET DRAWBOX=1000 / 20 GO SUB DRAWBOX) so in that respect...
FWIW BASIC before 1983ish was like that. Subroutines were defined as the line numbers of the first statements in them (ie GOSUB 1000, not GOSUB DrawBox(x, y, 16, 24))
Not that I'm disagreeing with you in spirit, just technically you're wrong, which is the best kind of wrong, or something;-) You youngsters have it so good with your procedures and functions and classes and, uh, methods, and properties and... back in my day we had line numbers and variables with one or two letters maybe followed by a dollar or percent and we liked it no we didn't it sucked.
Whenever I go printer shopping, they have oodles of different inkjet models, and relatively few lasers. In any case, color inkjets cost $50-100, the $100 models also doubling as scanners, photocopiers, and fax machines. Color laser printers tend to be way more expensive than that - and the cheaper color lasers usually have similar problems with unrefillable overpriced toner cartridges.
Which, in fairness, is all they have done. Contrary to myth they've never sued farmers who accidentally grew GM seeds that blew into their fields. The infamous case where Monsanto sued anyone over growing Roundup-Ready seeds was a farmer who signed a contract not to (essentially he bought soybeans intended for human consumption and replanted them instead, after signing a contract with Monsanto that said he never would.)
I believe at one point Monsanto reserved the right (and fought a lawsuit trying to prevent them from exercising that right - note that's not the same thing as initiating a lawsuit) to sue farmers whose crop is more than 1% of unauthorized RR, but they never actually sued before their patents ran out anyway. In all probability, they'd have lost the lawsuit despite winning the right to file it, which is probably why they never did.
Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 is old hat, they'll be rolling out Turbo Boost Max Technology Extreme next year, and that's way better because it's Extreme.
If you are used to working with A/V systems, then you know that Adapters are a way of life.
Everybody works with A/V systems. Car radios are a common example. We usually consider a car radio a better model if it comes with standard cables.
If you are consistently, or even fairly occasionally, losing adapters, then the problem is not the adapters; but rather it is you. I still have audio adapters I purchased in the mid-1970s, and video adapters from the mid 1980s.
You must have a lot of pockets if you're carrying around so many audio and video adapters with you all of the time.
Normal people do not carry around audio adapters with them. Sure, if you're a professional, you might, but I suspect even the guy who mixed the last CD I bought wouldn't have a 3.5mm to microUSB adapter if I stopped him randomly in the middle of the street. Who are you kidding?
The headphone jack has been causing problems with the placement of components, especially antennas, for years now because the thing is enormous, cutting deep into the device, and has to be on the edge and at one end. The USB port is a similar problem, it's less than half as deep and it serves many purposes -- including audio.
Curiously enough, a similar post came in from 2020 (still in Trump-as-president universe, obviously) when I was using my timescanner, it reads:
The screen has been causing problems with the placement of components, especially antennas, for years now because the thing is enormous, cutting deep into the device, and has to be on the whole surface of the phone. The speaker is a similar problem, it's less than half as deep and it serves many purposes -- including communication with the user.
I thought it's Windows 10 that crashes after 49.7 days of continuous usage? Except they replaced the blue screen of death with one that says "Please do not turn off your computer. Installing update 3/49"
No, it didn't happen (and it wasn't Mozilla who "badgered Eich out of the company" - they did the opposite, they appointed him CEO. If he'd remained in his then current position nobody would have given a rat's ass); besides which Mozilla had already become an also-ran against Chrome by the time the entire Eich CEO stuff happened.
Firefox isn't on life support because of concerns about homophobia, it's on life support because numerous poor technical and UX decisions were made a decade ago that resulted in a browser that became less friendly and familiar, much slower, and much less memory efficient. Firefox 4 was the beginning of the end. Not Eich funding ads claiming gays are a danger to children.
He said most, not all. I think everyone recognizes there are free speech absolutists. There are even free speech absolutists who single out arbitrary groups as somehow extraordinarily harmful.
But the problem is that there are also a lot of Nazis pretending to be free speech absolutists, who reveal themselves whenever the issue of speech from those they whip up hate against comes up.
As I said in a sibling to yours post, there's no irony here. This is exactly what you'd expect them to do.
However the entire point of Linux was that it was never UNIX
I have to say that pretty much everyone I know who tried GNU/Linux in the 1990s did so because it was a free (as in beer AND as in freedom) version of UNIX. Many would have gone for the BSDs instead if the legal dispute hadn't limited BSD's distribution during that critical time, and in any case, a selling point of GNU/Linux was that it was much closer to "real Unix" in terms of how it worked than BSD was, for better or worse.
As the OP says, we're talking about a system that has always had a certain number of (painful) binary logs. I'm not necessarily blessing that behavior, and I think the default in systemd should be to write both (is disk space really at such a premium these days you can't write a nice indexed searchable binary log and the text equivalent?), but complaints that it's just not the Unix/GNU+Linux way are, frankly, historically completely inaccurate.
I don't think many of the people complaining about systemd are "crusty old sys admins", I think we're talking about mostly hobbyists who don't like change. SysV init has never been considered a thing of beauty by those who have to maintain GNU/Linux (or any *ix) systems. That's why systemd is the latest in a long line of replacements, from Apple's LaunchD (also about to be used in FreeBSD) to Ubuntu's Upstart.
And much of hate seems to be the developer rather than anything to do with the program itself. Upstart never got this amount of hate, and many claim, probably trollishly, that they switched to FreeBSD, which is in the process of upgrading from the simpler and less flexible BSD Init and has never, to the best of my knowledge, run sysvinit.
Sound on Linux in the late 1990s didn't really "just work". If you were lucky, you could get one application (and only one) to send audio to your audio card. The situation was so bad that many people used ESD, a quick and dirty hack from the Enlightenment people with horrible latency, to try to get something approximating to manageable sound on the GNU/Linux desktop.
The reason you probably think sound "worked" during the late 1990s was that it was considered a small miracle if sound worked at all, given the lack of drivers, and most people were happy if they reached the point that they got anything to work. Back then it wouldn't matter if running your MP3 player meant no notification noises, because the chances are the latter weren't important (and could be resolved with ESD anyway), and the MP3 player being capable of playing MP3s was "good enough". This problem ran right into the early 2000s.
It was once the drivers started to work, ALSA reached critical mass, etc, that the shortcomings of having the kernel manage audio as a single device started to really show up.
PulseAudio has a bad reputation not because it isn't necessary, but because early versions (1) had problems, (2) clashed with mountains of hacks that everyone else had installed to get around the problems kernel audio, and (3) the developer had a reputation for being a little bit prickly.
If PA wasn't necessary, then given 1-3, do you really think all significant GNU/Linux distributions would have adopted it?
You see, the people who are doing this are people who want to scapegoat a particular vulnerable minority, in this case ordinary, peaceful, Muslims, demonizing them, encouraging hate against them, blessing directly or indirectly violence against them, advocating laws against them that discriminate against them.
For these people, every lone nut who lets of a bomb is not an tragedy, but an event to be celebrated for it makes the scapegoating of Muslims that much easier, it makes it easier to blame Muslims those who criticize the campaign against peaceful law abiding Muslims, it makes it easier to get those laws passed that will cause legal discrimination.
That's a group you'd expect to worry about "censorship" if the topic under discussion is censoring a violent political movement whose underlying ideology, and crime, was about scapegoating, discriminating against, and ultimately slaughtering a vulnerable minority.
No, it's not ironic. There are some people here who post in the name of free speech, you and I can respect them even if from time to time we'll disagree, but don't think for a moment that those who promote free speech for Nazis, and censorship for Muslims are the same group. They're not.
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I think you need to explain how it's propaganda, unless you're actually arguing it's a good thing that some AirBNB hosts are both unable to cater to guests with disabilities. It seems a massive leap to look at a study that says a certain type of business has a major problem with catering to certain types of client, determining the reason why they don't, and then claiming that it's "propaganda" when, in fact, you've just re-enforced the thesis of the study (by providing an explanation) rather than debunked it.
Not if the agreement collapses because the country with the biggest CO2 footprint just opted out.
In the time I've been on this planet, the US has gone from being the most revered and respected, albeit with justified criticism, to one of the most feared, to one of the most irrelevant. That last part took a little over a hundred days. How did we get here? And no, the answer isn't "emails".
Yes. Yes there were.
Sure you did. Clinton was awful, but she was no worse than any of the Presidents we've had since before her husband took office. She was the victim of a 25 year old smear campaign, but unless you were asleep you wouldn't have missed that, and you would have taken into account the fact the recent talking points against her, about emails and Benghazi, were so shaky they'd been rejected even by Republican congressional committees.
Meanwhile, Trump was clearly a fraud. You knew about Trump U. You knew about the spate of bankruptcies. You knew about his ripping off suppliers. And at the same time, for all Clinton's post-Bush-I New World Orderish/Neo-conservatism, Trump was actually acting like an actual fascist - he was scapegoating vulnerable minorities for America's problems, and he was actually, directly, encouraging violence against protestors and claiming he'd abuse the law to lock up his political opponents.
And he was doing so completely openly.
You're saying that Trump vs Clinton was some difficult vote where Trump wasn't ideal, but Clinton was just so bad? Bullshit. You voted for Trump because you wanted Trump. Maybe you wanted to watch the world burn, I don't know, but you had enough information at the time to know that Clinton, while bad, wasn't anything like as terrible as her detractors pretended, and that Trump was one of the worst candidates ever to run a democratic nation that tries, for all of its faults, to be a beacon for freedom and democracy across the world. You voted for a low rent Mussolini to prevent a low rent still-better-than-Dubya from taking office.
Don't pretend otherwise. Nobody voted for Trump reluctantly. If you're voting for lesser of two evils, you're not voting for Trump.
Sure. I don't want to discuss the latest Adam Sandler movie either.
But occasionally something comes up that's actually a big deal (think "Star Wars" as an example. Also I'm told the first decent DC movie since Batman Returns* is coming out this week, which sounds interesting), and I'd like to talk about it when everyone else is, in the same way as people like to see certain sports games live and talk about them afterwards with friends, and would find it actually pretty awkward and cramping their social lives if the only way to watch a game was either live, or six months later.
* OK, OK, I know, some of the recent Batman movies weren't bad, but it feels like that, right? Regardless, I suspect WW will be a disappointment, just because they always are.
Yeah, and you don't have to see a movie in the first place!
But... people do. And people often want to watch it at the same time as everyone else. It would have been really nice to be able to talk to people about Star Wars 7 when it came out (difficult because of various issues at home), rather than trying to avoid discussions and then finding when I finally did watch it I really couldn't participate in a "discussion" as such as everyone else had moved on to something else.
I watched the movie in the end but I missed the social experience because I couldn't see it when everyone else did.
That said, $50? Fuck no.
If you buy the right Android phone, you can do that already. Go to xda-developers.com for help if you need it.
That's probably true in Cambodia or Ethiopia or wherever the dickens it is you live. In my lifetime, living in the UK and then the US, I've seen most factory jobs disappear (in part because of globalization), most jobs relating to farming and agriculture disappear (100% due to automation), and work in transportation and similar sectors massively reduced (changing economy combined with improved technologies and automation.) All three were non trivial parts of the economy.
Probably the subsidies that kicked off the electric car industry.
The gas prices dropping really isn't something under Presidential control - insofar as public policy affected gas prices, it was probably the pro-fracking, pro-ethanol policies that were adopted at various points during the Bush administration. OPEC basically dropped prices to try to kill both, but found it's more complicated than that and taking much longer to happen than anyone hoped.
Nobody really knows what the consequences of the pipeline would have been, given pipelines do, actually, leak, and given rail safety, as we saw at Lac Megantic, has ample space to be improved. The main argument for it was efficiency, and efficiency in moving oil is likely to drive down oil prices, and increase usage. It's hard to come up with a sensible argument that the right way to solve global warming is to build more oil pipelines.
Depended on the version of BASIC, I know most Microsoft versions did allow you to say "APPLE=2: PRINT APLPE" (sic) and it'd print 2, but there were quite a few that didn't and rigorously enforced the 1 or 2 letter limit.
OTOH, the BASIC I used on the ZX81 (my first home computer!) did allow you unlimited variable names. And I guess as GO SUB (sic) accepted formulas in Sinclair BASICs (alas not Microsoft's) you could have used named subroutines (ie 10 LET DRAWBOX=1000 / 20 GO SUB DRAWBOX) so in that respect...
FWIW BASIC before 1983ish was like that. Subroutines were defined as the line numbers of the first statements in them (ie GOSUB 1000, not GOSUB DrawBox(x, y, 16, 24))
Not that I'm disagreeing with you in spirit, just technically you're wrong, which is the best kind of wrong, or something ;-) You youngsters have it so good with your procedures and functions and classes and, uh, methods, and properties and... back in my day we had line numbers and variables with one or two letters maybe followed by a dollar or percent and we liked it no we didn't it sucked.
Whenever I go printer shopping, they have oodles of different inkjet models, and relatively few lasers. In any case, color inkjets cost $50-100, the $100 models also doubling as scanners, photocopiers, and fax machines. Color laser printers tend to be way more expensive than that - and the cheaper color lasers usually have similar problems with unrefillable overpriced toner cartridges.
Which, in fairness, is all they have done. Contrary to myth they've never sued farmers who accidentally grew GM seeds that blew into their fields. The infamous case where Monsanto sued anyone over growing Roundup-Ready seeds was a farmer who signed a contract not to (essentially he bought soybeans intended for human consumption and replanted them instead, after signing a contract with Monsanto that said he never would.)
I believe at one point Monsanto reserved the right (and fought a lawsuit trying to prevent them from exercising that right - note that's not the same thing as initiating a lawsuit) to sue farmers whose crop is more than 1% of unauthorized RR, but they never actually sued before their patents ran out anyway. In all probability, they'd have lost the lawsuit despite winning the right to file it, which is probably why they never did.
Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 is old hat, they'll be rolling out Turbo Boost Max Technology Extreme next year, and that's way better because it's Extreme.
Everybody works with A/V systems. Car radios are a common example. We usually consider a car radio a better model if it comes with standard cables.
You must have a lot of pockets if you're carrying around so many audio and video adapters with you all of the time.
Normal people do not carry around audio adapters with them. Sure, if you're a professional, you might, but I suspect even the guy who mixed the last CD I bought wouldn't have a 3.5mm to microUSB adapter if I stopped him randomly in the middle of the street. Who are you kidding?
Curiously enough, a similar post came in from 2020 (still in Trump-as-president universe, obviously) when I was using my timescanner, it reads:
It follows the usual pattern with Android phones: the more expensive it is, the shittier it'll be in practice.
That's what he means: it's all gormet food, not a deep fried Mars Bar or pork pie in sight...
I thought it's Windows 10 that crashes after 49.7 days of continuous usage? Except they replaced the blue screen of death with one that says "Please do not turn off your computer. Installing update 3/49"
No, it didn't happen (and it wasn't Mozilla who "badgered Eich out of the company" - they did the opposite, they appointed him CEO. If he'd remained in his then current position nobody would have given a rat's ass); besides which Mozilla had already become an also-ran against Chrome by the time the entire Eich CEO stuff happened.
Firefox isn't on life support because of concerns about homophobia, it's on life support because numerous poor technical and UX decisions were made a decade ago that resulted in a browser that became less friendly and familiar, much slower, and much less memory efficient. Firefox 4 was the beginning of the end. Not Eich funding ads claiming gays are a danger to children.
He said most, not all. I think everyone recognizes there are free speech absolutists. There are even free speech absolutists who single out arbitrary groups as somehow extraordinarily harmful.
But the problem is that there are also a lot of Nazis pretending to be free speech absolutists, who reveal themselves whenever the issue of speech from those they whip up hate against comes up.
As I said in a sibling to yours post, there's no irony here. This is exactly what you'd expect them to do.
I have to say that pretty much everyone I know who tried GNU/Linux in the 1990s did so because it was a free (as in beer AND as in freedom) version of UNIX. Many would have gone for the BSDs instead if the legal dispute hadn't limited BSD's distribution during that critical time, and in any case, a selling point of GNU/Linux was that it was much closer to "real Unix" in terms of how it worked than BSD was, for better or worse.
As the OP says, we're talking about a system that has always had a certain number of (painful) binary logs. I'm not necessarily blessing that behavior, and I think the default in systemd should be to write both (is disk space really at such a premium these days you can't write a nice indexed searchable binary log and the text equivalent?), but complaints that it's just not the Unix/GNU+Linux way are, frankly, historically completely inaccurate.
I don't think many of the people complaining about systemd are "crusty old sys admins", I think we're talking about mostly hobbyists who don't like change. SysV init has never been considered a thing of beauty by those who have to maintain GNU/Linux (or any *ix) systems. That's why systemd is the latest in a long line of replacements, from Apple's LaunchD (also about to be used in FreeBSD) to Ubuntu's Upstart.
And much of hate seems to be the developer rather than anything to do with the program itself. Upstart never got this amount of hate, and many claim, probably trollishly, that they switched to FreeBSD, which is in the process of upgrading from the simpler and less flexible BSD Init and has never, to the best of my knowledge, run sysvinit.
Sound on Linux in the late 1990s didn't really "just work". If you were lucky, you could get one application (and only one) to send audio to your audio card. The situation was so bad that many people used ESD, a quick and dirty hack from the Enlightenment people with horrible latency, to try to get something approximating to manageable sound on the GNU/Linux desktop.
The reason you probably think sound "worked" during the late 1990s was that it was considered a small miracle if sound worked at all, given the lack of drivers, and most people were happy if they reached the point that they got anything to work. Back then it wouldn't matter if running your MP3 player meant no notification noises, because the chances are the latter weren't important (and could be resolved with ESD anyway), and the MP3 player being capable of playing MP3s was "good enough". This problem ran right into the early 2000s.
It was once the drivers started to work, ALSA reached critical mass, etc, that the shortcomings of having the kernel manage audio as a single device started to really show up.
PulseAudio has a bad reputation not because it isn't necessary, but because early versions (1) had problems, (2) clashed with mountains of hacks that everyone else had installed to get around the problems kernel audio, and (3) the developer had a reputation for being a little bit prickly.
If PA wasn't necessary, then given 1-3, do you really think all significant GNU/Linux distributions would have adopted it?
Ironic? Not really.
You see, the people who are doing this are people who want to scapegoat a particular vulnerable minority, in this case ordinary, peaceful, Muslims, demonizing them, encouraging hate against them, blessing directly or indirectly violence against them, advocating laws against them that discriminate against them.
For these people, every lone nut who lets of a bomb is not an tragedy, but an event to be celebrated for it makes the scapegoating of Muslims that much easier, it makes it easier to blame Muslims those who criticize the campaign against peaceful law abiding Muslims, it makes it easier to get those laws passed that will cause legal discrimination.
That's a group you'd expect to worry about "censorship" if the topic under discussion is censoring a violent political movement whose underlying ideology, and crime, was about scapegoating, discriminating against, and ultimately slaughtering a vulnerable minority.
No, it's not ironic. There are some people here who post in the name of free speech, you and I can respect them even if from time to time we'll disagree, but don't think for a moment that those who promote free speech for Nazis, and censorship for Muslims are the same group. They're not.