We have two parties for the same reason that there were two sides in WW2. The only way to get more parties is to lower the stakes of power such that people feel comfortable to stand on principle.
That is... you need to make people comfortable enough to not choose the lesser of evils simply to win.
Everyone is going to vote republican or democrat... red or blue... team 1 or team 2... and what holds either side together is not any central idea or shared values... its hatred/fear of the opposition. That's it.
Think Libertarians and social cons like each other? They view each other as cannon fodder. And you get the same thing on the left. Think Greens and industrial unions like each other? Nope.
As the man said, political parties is how we organize our animosities. You don't choose one side or the other based on liking one thing or another more but because you DON"T like something more.
That is the nature of the parties. They're both clubs of people that don't like the other club.
And why don't they like the other club? Because the cost of losing is too high. Republicans lost an election and the ACA happened out of fucking no where. Democrats lose an election and who knows what could happen. But the thing is that raises the stakes such that you can't let the opposition win. And that means you can't shake and be friends. And that means you afford to do anything but choose your faction of choice... dig in like its WW1... and tell gallows humor jokes while the rubble from artillary shells rains down on your mates in the trenches.
There are solutions to this... but there is no way out of this unless the power of government is cut back to something that is small enough that people don't get so worked up when an election goes one way or the other.
There are factions in both parties that don't want government power to be cut back... and those are the factions that are causing the problem. Because when the government can change everything based on a few percentage points in an election... then there is going to be hate. No way out of it unless the power is scaled back and too many people are married not only to the existing power but expanding it.
This is going to get a lost worse until it gets better.
You realize by this standard, Trump would be a credible contender... right?
I don't buy your notion that pissing off the opposition means you're credible. Fucktards on both sides draw fire occasionally either because its easy or because the opposition is starved for targets and so goes after the lower order idiots or because the people that are typically meaningless happen to be in the right place at the right time to be annoying and so it is a big issue that draws the fire and not the person themselves.
In regards to the water issue... I can find a dozen imerisble cases that have a port on the side that permits charging.
And frankly I like the convienece of being able to use any USB cable to charge. Your QI idea only works with a QI charger which is going to be where with any reliability? Oh that's right... at your home an no where else.
How do you charge your stupid fucking phone at the office? Oh that's right, you need another QI charger which you'll buy seperately. Fantastic. And how do you charge your phone in the car?
Another fucking QI transmitter?
This is already getting expensive.
And now what about if you travel or you're at a friend's house and your phone gets low? I just say "hey do you have a USB cable I can use?".... and they always do. You however would be in the comical position of saying " uh... do you have a QI charger".
But it gets funnier because the fucking thing has both a USB port and a headphone jack. Which means SOMEHOW your water proof phone that can't be water proof if it has a USB power plug has a USB power plug... and a headphone jack.
Which means you'll be fine if you need to charge it in the car or the office... because you can just use a cable... like everyone fucking else.
And apparently its water "whatever you want to call it" despite having the jack that you say it can't have and retain its water whatever.
Dude. There is a reason QI isn't taking off. Its a joke.
Its not going to make any difference because it isn't a systemic change. And what is more, people keep thinking the big corps don't like the green movement. THEY LOVE IT. The pork spending in the name of the environment has been legendary. All the corps are feeding on the issue at this point. They all have some green product or green initiative and they all get big grants from the feds for it.
These solar panels... We're talking about the clintons here... there will be quid pro quo on who gets the contract.
The only way it becomes enviro friendly is if it is distributed.
The big problem with the green power plant concept is that they are building power plants. These are distributed energy sources. Put them on houses.
Instead of giving the subsidies to corporations, give them to TAX PAYERS to buy panels to off set their energy usage.
Especially in places that are hot... because they have sun and their air conditioners will sync up with their solar power generation.
Don't even worry about other parts of the country. Hit the suburbs first. Possibly some rural communities.
here someone will say "what about the cities"... nuclear power.
For hundreds of years to come probably that will be the best answer for cities. People will say "but they're dangerous"... power is always dangerous. The first person to discover fire said "Ouch"... You make peace with the danger and you respect it. But shunning it because it is dangerous means you sleep in the cold.
Respect it. The Japanese plant that everyone is exercised about had shitty maintenance. They were doctoring their reports to make it look like they were doing their jobs but they weren't. Result? Problems. You don't follow procedure in a powder mill and don't be surprised when it explodes.
That's how this works. Nuclear power is wonderful. We could completely remove fossil fuels from our power grid with nuclear alone. economically.
No other technology will let us do that.
"green" power makes up about 4 percent of US generation minus the hydro. If you want to add the hydro that's still only 10 percent. Nuclear even though we haven't built a plant since the 1970s and many plants have closed... nuclear is comfortably around 22~25 percent of our power. Coal alone is about 45 percent of US electrical generation. And the balance is other fossil fuels.
Nothing short of nuclear is making a dent in that.
So choose. Nuclear or coal. Because unless your country has lots of Hydro like Canada... that's what you're doing. Anyone else that tells you differently is blowing green smoke up your ass.
hardening a Windows system is easier than most people realize.
I mean... there are brute force things you can do anything.
1. None of the terminal operating systems can be modified. Files are locked at the file system level. Things that need to change for the OS to function properly can change... temp files and paging files etc. But things that don't change and don't need to change are literally locked. The virus isn't going to get the permissions to fuck with anything.
2. Even if it did, the operating systems are all restored from a static template on each login. And the OS on logout is entirely lost. I do this with all the terminals. There are a few templates and all users use one of the templates depending on their group.
We already have a lot of ways of controlling shitty web browsers. We don't bother with blacklisting systems. We do pervasive whitelisting. We determine what should run and we white list it. We add stuff to the white list all the time. The conventional blacklist system is a false sense of security that at this point everyone should know is worthless.
An AC that hides his history uses my history to accuse me of hypocrisy?
I ask him to log in and he says the situation speaks for itself.
You're right. It does.
You're AC shithead and there's a reason I only ask you to login or tell you to fuck off and die. You're everything that is wrong with Slashdot. And I have nothing to prove to you.
You're clearly a troll... the only question that remains if you're a sockpuppet as well. Most of you shift between a few known personas and this AC bullshit.
I've caught them doing it a few times. How deep are we in this thread for example. Who would read this deep down and then comment on something so trivial? You're almost certainly a sock puppet for that alone.
Regardless... people that hide their own records don't get to criticize the records of other people... and to stack on top of that the criticism you're leveling is hypocrisy?
If I were an AC like you... what would you be saying right now? Nothing.
The other guy is an idiot and you're garbage... and chances are you're the same person. Thus making you stupid and garbage at the same time.
I don't know who peed in your gene pool but you've nothing of value to contribute to this community. Fuck off.
Login and we'll talk about it. Otherwise I can safety conclude you're an troll/sock puppet.
I've no patience for dealing with people I'm arguing with pretending that they're multiple people by abusing the AC system or in dealing with some faceless hydra of trolls.
The ones that do things that don't actually have to be done. Nothing would control budget bloat better.
The amount they're asking for is odd... but what do I know.
I did some calculations and found it very hard to claim more than 170k to actually restore one of the suits. So the 500k initial ask was odd. And now they're adding another suit and apparently that is costing an extra 200k... which is suspiciously close to my initial calculation of 170k.
The question I have on all that is where is the other 300k going because THAT appears to be going for "pictures and websites"... and that simply baffles me.
Your complaint is idiotic then. If you accept the UK then my position stands. You say I lied... about what? My "lie" was that you were standing behind the UK... which you just admitted you were.
So you're a fucking moron. You're a legit idiot. Like actually. You're not just saying stupid things... you are actually stupid.
Fuck off. You're officially too stupid to have this discussion.
A lot of remote desktop solutions have issues. I personally use about 10 of them with each one contextual to platforms, programs, security situations, amount/type of media coming through, etc.
Look, so long as what you're doing doesn't compromise the lock down on secure systems so that executable code/unauthorized access remains EFFECTIVELY impossible... I'm cool with whatever you're doing.
That is my job. You do your job. I'll do my job. One big happy family.
I will fight in the trenches with you, trade war stories, and give you everything I have for the shared cause. But that only happens if we're on the same team. You undermine what I am doing and you're calling down artillery strikes on my position. Doing that occasionally out of ignorance or a mistake or something is annoying but unavoidable.
good point... make the H1B's liable for all the insurance, work man's comp, etc... and then require that they're paid 20 percent more.
If facebook still wants more... they can have as many as they want at those rates.
Everyone knows this is just about money. It has nothing to do with a labor shortage. Idiot progressives petitioned for the ACA, minimum wage, etc etc etc... and then when it comes time to actually hire people... its all illegals and H1B visas and out sourcing and automation.
This is why I object to all this stuff. Let employees negociate their own terms of employment. If I have a choice between getting all this socialized bullshit and being unemployed or not getting it and having a job. I'm opting for the job.
And while some might disagree about that... that's YOUR choice. let people decide for themselves what matters to them. What is so offensive about all this shit is all the fucking retards that demand the right to tell everyone else what to do and take away every one else's choices.
... You say it won't... but I saw nothing in your post to suggest that it wouldn't work.
You say they'll fudge numbers? Then don't have taxes. Taxes are fudged with all the time. Apparently there's no point. Just stop. All regulations are fudged with... so no need for any of those either apparently because fudging means give up.
As to the free market... I'm not even going to get into that.
As to people elsewhere being willing to do X Y or Z... then outsource. Just do it. Relocate your whole operation to Mumbai. Double dog dare you.
As to training being cheaper, then US universities would enjoy no competitive advantage. Except they do.
Your whole post seemed like an argument for suicide.
Go ahead and do it then. *hands poster bucket of rat poison*
Do yourself in. The living have issues to deal with without the dead telling us how awesome it would be if we killed ourselves.
And what is your problem with gaming with windows that isn't 1000 times worse on Sony?
And as to exclusives, those are just games that are arbitarily held hostage by corporations. Rewarding the corps for holding games hostage makes you a dupe.
As to PC gamers being a master race... sales on the PC equal that of any of the consoles. As to paying less... you're right... we do... we're less stupid.
We also have more control over our platform. We have mods. We don't have to pay for multiplayer like complete fucktards. I can't believe you console nitwits pay for MP. That's fucking hilarious.
And don't get me started on you shitty interface. And its so sad... because you want to be the PC so badly. You keep lusting after shooters that don't work properly on you consoles because you're using the wrong interface. And you keep trying to look like the PC with your graphics even though you fail because your hardware is always outdated by the time it hits stores.
You endlessly talk about how much better console X looks than console Y... but then your betters point out that both you shitty consoles look worse than the PC you say that graphics don't matter.
The only console worth buying are the nintendo ones. The sony and MS consoles are stupid machines for stupid people.
Give me a specific example and I'll give you a specific way of mitigating the situation without compromising security.
What I find often as not is that people don't even like to ask for permission. They get offended that they even need to ask.
And then there are issues of "well, my home computer can do X so why can't my office work station do X"... never mind that X is sometimes something as dumb as installing iTunes or something that you should ask permission for like installing Y unknown software on the system.
Understand me.
The goal is for everyone to do what they need to do.
However... I'm not disemboweling the security system every time some jackass says they need to do something.
The reasons people have for this stuff are very rarely good reasons. It is often something silly.
BUT... if you have a good reason. I will move heave and earth to help you with the problem. I will join your team just as the legal team would send someone, or the accounting team would send someone if you need constant support in an extreme situation then that can be arranged.
I will sit there or someone like me will sit there and simply ensure that you can do what you need to do without fucking everything up.
For example, we have certain departments that have multiple computers at given desks. And one of those machines is unlocked and you can do whatever you want on it. And the other one is a thin client that links to the terminal server and that links to the file servers and databases.
Now how many people in the organization need a second machine to do that stuff? Very few. But if you need it and can explain why you need it convincingly... then you'll get it. The expense of the second machine is meaningless.
What if they need to input information from the unlocked system to the locked down system? We have a system for that. I won't get into it but it effectively transcribes certain files or information into templates and then pushes the output to a directory on a file server. The point is that viruses can't cross the blood brain barrier. No executable code or scripts. Even meta data is stripped. The files are cored and the data is transcribed by a program one of my colleagues wrote.
If you have a reason to do something... tell me what it is... I'll either show you how to do that inside the security bubble, I'll give you additional tools to allow you to do it, I'll give you a on hand security tech to help you so that there is no hamfisted user shenanigans, or I'm going to tell you no.
I generally agree. I merely object to the notion that US spending is too high because German spending is so low.
The reality is that while US spending could be cut, the immediate result would be that most of the model countries used as examples of what our spending should be would immediately have to start spending more.
The Russians are increasingly looking like they're going to be a long term issue again. Putin is talking about rebuilding the old Russian empire... you know, the one that fell prior to the rise of the USSR. And that's going to be something the Europeans... especially the eastern europeans but really all the europeans are going to have to deal with in the long term.
Add to that, the middle east is apparently going nuclear and no one seems to think that is concerning. Iran is going nuclear and you can bet your ass that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, etc are all going to follow suit if only to counter Iran. How the Turks fit into that model is going to be interesting as well since the Euros thought it was a good idea to add Turkey into their club. That was likely a mistake.
I could go on. But your point is apt... sure, the US could save money by pulling out of a lot of places. But we spend something like 3.3 percent of our GDP on the military. That really isn't that much. Most of our rivals while a great deal poorer are spending a greater percentage of their GDP.
And what do the more enlightened powers that ultimately mooch off our security pay? Something between 2.2 and 1 percent. Its less in proportion to itself but not really a big deal when you're talking about the whole economy.
Spending 1 if you're germany doesn't make a big difference when compared to 3 if you're the US. We're bitching about 2 percent GDP.
And it gets dumber because if you look at what the British Empire was spending on their military around 1905 or so you'll find it was pretty much identical to what the US is spending now. Aka... about 3.3ish GDP.
US spending on the military is minor when you consider what we get for it. And the countries that gainsay the US's spending are mostly cutting their own stupid throats since they ultimately depend on US spending to back up their otherwise shotty security.
They can't claim that they're starved for labor when they're terminating it left right and center... then importing labor that has to be trained by the people they're firing.
My attitude on the whole H1B visa thing is that you need to require that they pay them... lets say 20 percent more than the going rate for domestic labor of the same kind.
If they NEED the labor then they'll pay the 20 percent. If this is just about money then suddenly their insatiable interest in H1B will vanish.
Highly skilled and high demand labor will still get imported and that's good. That's great. And the 20 percent in that context won't matter.
But the importing of entry level techs?... that should stop.
I can't win... I say he gets burned by hot pokers and that's a reward... I say he gets the donkey dick and that's a reward too... I say he gets locked in a trunk and forgotten and that's a reward... I mean... I can't win.
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We have two parties for the same reason that there were two sides in WW2. The only way to get more parties is to lower the stakes of power such that people feel comfortable to stand on principle.
That is... you need to make people comfortable enough to not choose the lesser of evils simply to win.
Everyone is going to vote republican or democrat... red or blue... team 1 or team 2... and what holds either side together is not any central idea or shared values... its hatred/fear of the opposition. That's it.
Think Libertarians and social cons like each other? They view each other as cannon fodder. And you get the same thing on the left. Think Greens and industrial unions like each other? Nope.
As the man said, political parties is how we organize our animosities. You don't choose one side or the other based on liking one thing or another more but because you DON"T like something more.
That is the nature of the parties. They're both clubs of people that don't like the other club.
And why don't they like the other club? Because the cost of losing is too high. Republicans lost an election and the ACA happened out of fucking no where. Democrats lose an election and who knows what could happen. But the thing is that raises the stakes such that you can't let the opposition win. And that means you can't shake and be friends. And that means you afford to do anything but choose your faction of choice... dig in like its WW1... and tell gallows humor jokes while the rubble from artillary shells rains down on your mates in the trenches.
There are solutions to this... but there is no way out of this unless the power of government is cut back to something that is small enough that people don't get so worked up when an election goes one way or the other.
There are factions in both parties that don't want government power to be cut back... and those are the factions that are causing the problem. Because when the government can change everything based on a few percentage points in an election... then there is going to be hate. No way out of it unless the power is scaled back and too many people are married not only to the existing power but expanding it.
This is going to get a lost worse until it gets better.
You realize by this standard, Trump would be a credible contender... right?
I don't buy your notion that pissing off the opposition means you're credible. Fucktards on both sides draw fire occasionally either because its easy or because the opposition is starved for targets and so goes after the lower order idiots or because the people that are typically meaningless happen to be in the right place at the right time to be annoying and so it is a big issue that draws the fire and not the person themselves.
It isn't easier to charge.
In regards to the water issue... I can find a dozen imerisble cases that have a port on the side that permits charging.
And frankly I like the convienece of being able to use any USB cable to charge. Your QI idea only works with a QI charger which is going to be where with any reliability? Oh that's right... at your home an no where else.
How do you charge your stupid fucking phone at the office? Oh that's right, you need another QI charger which you'll buy seperately. Fantastic. And how do you charge your phone in the car?
Another fucking QI transmitter?
This is already getting expensive.
And now what about if you travel or you're at a friend's house and your phone gets low? I just say "hey do you have a USB cable I can use?".... and they always do. You however would be in the comical position of saying " uh... do you have a QI charger".
But it gets funnier because the fucking thing has both a USB port and a headphone jack. Which means SOMEHOW your water proof phone that can't be water proof if it has a USB power plug has a USB power plug... and a headphone jack.
Which means you'll be fine if you need to charge it in the car or the office... because you can just use a cable... like everyone fucking else.
And apparently its water "whatever you want to call it" despite having the jack that you say it can't have and retain its water whatever.
Dude. There is a reason QI isn't taking off. Its a joke.
Stop annoying me with your freight train of fail.
Its not going to make any difference because it isn't a systemic change. And what is more, people keep thinking the big corps don't like the green movement. THEY LOVE IT. The pork spending in the name of the environment has been legendary. All the corps are feeding on the issue at this point. They all have some green product or green initiative and they all get big grants from the feds for it.
These solar panels... We're talking about the clintons here... there will be quid pro quo on who gets the contract.
The only way it becomes enviro friendly is if it is distributed.
The big problem with the green power plant concept is that they are building power plants. These are distributed energy sources. Put them on houses.
Instead of giving the subsidies to corporations, give them to TAX PAYERS to buy panels to off set their energy usage.
Especially in places that are hot... because they have sun and their air conditioners will sync up with their solar power generation.
Don't even worry about other parts of the country. Hit the suburbs first. Possibly some rural communities.
here someone will say "what about the cities"... nuclear power.
For hundreds of years to come probably that will be the best answer for cities. People will say "but they're dangerous"... power is always dangerous. The first person to discover fire said "Ouch"... You make peace with the danger and you respect it. But shunning it because it is dangerous means you sleep in the cold.
Respect it. The Japanese plant that everyone is exercised about had shitty maintenance. They were doctoring their reports to make it look like they were doing their jobs but they weren't. Result? Problems. You don't follow procedure in a powder mill and don't be surprised when it explodes.
That's how this works. Nuclear power is wonderful. We could completely remove fossil fuels from our power grid with nuclear alone. economically.
No other technology will let us do that.
"green" power makes up about 4 percent of US generation minus the hydro. If you want to add the hydro that's still only 10 percent. Nuclear even though we haven't built a plant since the 1970s and many plants have closed... nuclear is comfortably around 22~25 percent of our power. Coal alone is about 45 percent of US electrical generation. And the balance is other fossil fuels.
Nothing short of nuclear is making a dent in that.
So choose. Nuclear or coal. Because unless your country has lots of Hydro like Canada... that's what you're doing. Anyone else that tells you differently is blowing green smoke up your ass.
... can we try to vote for someone that hasn't been CAUGHT lying... yet?
Look, I know all politicians are liars but do we have to be so desensitized to it to actually vote for people that were caught lying?
There are plenty of politicians on both sides that haven't been caught lying. Pick one of them please.
hardening a Windows system is easier than most people realize.
I mean... there are brute force things you can do anything.
1. None of the terminal operating systems can be modified. Files are locked at the file system level. Things that need to change for the OS to function properly can change... temp files and paging files etc. But things that don't change and don't need to change are literally locked. The virus isn't going to get the permissions to fuck with anything.
2. Even if it did, the operating systems are all restored from a static template on each login. And the OS on logout is entirely lost. I do this with all the terminals. There are a few templates and all users use one of the templates depending on their group.
We already have a lot of ways of controlling shitty web browsers. We don't bother with blacklisting systems. We do pervasive whitelisting. We determine what should run and we white list it. We add stuff to the white list all the time. The conventional blacklist system is a false sense of security that at this point everyone should know is worthless.
Want to talk about that seriously and login or stay AC and keep trolling?
An AC that hides his history uses my history to accuse me of hypocrisy?
I ask him to log in and he says the situation speaks for itself.
You're right. It does.
You're AC shithead and there's a reason I only ask you to login or tell you to fuck off and die. You're everything that is wrong with Slashdot. And I have nothing to prove to you.
You're clearly a troll... the only question that remains if you're a sockpuppet as well. Most of you shift between a few known personas and this AC bullshit.
I've caught them doing it a few times. How deep are we in this thread for example. Who would read this deep down and then comment on something so trivial? You're almost certainly a sock puppet for that alone.
Regardless... people that hide their own records don't get to criticize the records of other people... and to stack on top of that the criticism you're leveling is hypocrisy?
If I were an AC like you... what would you be saying right now? Nothing.
The other guy is an idiot and you're garbage... and chances are you're the same person. Thus making you stupid and garbage at the same time.
I don't know who peed in your gene pool but you've nothing of value to contribute to this community. Fuck off.
Login and we'll talk about it. Otherwise I can safety conclude you're an troll/sock puppet.
I've no patience for dealing with people I'm arguing with pretending that they're multiple people by abusing the AC system or in dealing with some faceless hydra of trolls.
Login or fuck off.
Once that email is in the wind... its free... you're not calling anything back unless you control the receiver's email server.
The ones that do things that don't actually have to be done. Nothing would control budget bloat better.
The amount they're asking for is odd... but what do I know.
I did some calculations and found it very hard to claim more than 170k to actually restore one of the suits. So the 500k initial ask was odd. And now they're adding another suit and apparently that is costing an extra 200k... which is suspiciously close to my initial calculation of 170k.
The question I have on all that is where is the other 300k going because THAT appears to be going for "pictures and websites"... and that simply baffles me.
Your complaint is idiotic then. If you accept the UK then my position stands. You say I lied... about what? My "lie" was that you were standing behind the UK... which you just admitted you were.
So you're a fucking moron. You're a legit idiot. Like actually. You're not just saying stupid things... you are actually stupid.
Fuck off. You're officially too stupid to have this discussion.
Login and we can see who missed what.
I'd just assume use RDP... What's the difference.
A lot of remote desktop solutions have issues. I personally use about 10 of them with each one contextual to platforms, programs, security situations, amount/type of media coming through, etc.
Look, so long as what you're doing doesn't compromise the lock down on secure systems so that executable code/unauthorized access remains EFFECTIVELY impossible... I'm cool with whatever you're doing.
That is my job. You do your job. I'll do my job. One big happy family.
I will fight in the trenches with you, trade war stories, and give you everything I have for the shared cause. But that only happens if we're on the same team. You undermine what I am doing and you're calling down artillery strikes on my position. Doing that occasionally out of ignorance or a mistake or something is annoying but unavoidable.
You do it on purpose... and:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's fine... so long as your security doesn't conflict with mine, you can do whatever you want.
if your security conflicts with mine, then you're not connecting to company servers with that device.
They've already been doing that.
good point... make the H1B's liable for all the insurance, work man's comp, etc... and then require that they're paid 20 percent more.
If facebook still wants more... they can have as many as they want at those rates.
Everyone knows this is just about money. It has nothing to do with a labor shortage. Idiot progressives petitioned for the ACA, minimum wage, etc etc etc... and then when it comes time to actually hire people... its all illegals and H1B visas and out sourcing and automation.
This is why I object to all this stuff. Let employees negociate their own terms of employment. If I have a choice between getting all this socialized bullshit and being unemployed or not getting it and having a job. I'm opting for the job.
And while some might disagree about that... that's YOUR choice. let people decide for themselves what matters to them. What is so offensive about all this shit is all the fucking retards that demand the right to tell everyone else what to do and take away every one else's choices.
... You say it won't... but I saw nothing in your post to suggest that it wouldn't work.
You say they'll fudge numbers? Then don't have taxes. Taxes are fudged with all the time. Apparently there's no point. Just stop. All regulations are fudged with... so no need for any of those either apparently because fudging means give up.
As to the free market... I'm not even going to get into that.
As to people elsewhere being willing to do X Y or Z... then outsource. Just do it. Relocate your whole operation to Mumbai. Double dog dare you.
As to training being cheaper, then US universities would enjoy no competitive advantage. Except they do.
Your whole post seemed like an argument for suicide.
Go ahead and do it then. *hands poster bucket of rat poison*
Do yourself in. The living have issues to deal with without the dead telling us how awesome it would be if we killed ourselves.
And what is your problem with gaming with windows that isn't 1000 times worse on Sony?
And as to exclusives, those are just games that are arbitarily held hostage by corporations. Rewarding the corps for holding games hostage makes you a dupe.
As to PC gamers being a master race... sales on the PC equal that of any of the consoles. As to paying less... you're right... we do... we're less stupid.
We also have more control over our platform. We have mods. We don't have to pay for multiplayer like complete fucktards. I can't believe you console nitwits pay for MP. That's fucking hilarious.
And don't get me started on you shitty interface. And its so sad... because you want to be the PC so badly. You keep lusting after shooters that don't work properly on you consoles because you're using the wrong interface. And you keep trying to look like the PC with your graphics even though you fail because your hardware is always outdated by the time it hits stores.
You endlessly talk about how much better console X looks than console Y... but then your betters point out that both you shitty consoles look worse than the PC you say that graphics don't matter.
The only console worth buying are the nintendo ones. The sony and MS consoles are stupid machines for stupid people.
Give me a specific example and I'll give you a specific way of mitigating the situation without compromising security.
What I find often as not is that people don't even like to ask for permission. They get offended that they even need to ask.
And then there are issues of "well, my home computer can do X so why can't my office work station do X"... never mind that X is sometimes something as dumb as installing iTunes or something that you should ask permission for like installing Y unknown software on the system.
Understand me.
The goal is for everyone to do what they need to do.
However... I'm not disemboweling the security system every time some jackass says they need to do something.
The reasons people have for this stuff are very rarely good reasons. It is often something silly.
BUT... if you have a good reason. I will move heave and earth to help you with the problem. I will join your team just as the legal team would send someone, or the accounting team would send someone if you need constant support in an extreme situation then that can be arranged.
I will sit there or someone like me will sit there and simply ensure that you can do what you need to do without fucking everything up.
For example, we have certain departments that have multiple computers at given desks. And one of those machines is unlocked and you can do whatever you want on it. And the other one is a thin client that links to the terminal server and that links to the file servers and databases.
Now how many people in the organization need a second machine to do that stuff? Very few. But if you need it and can explain why you need it convincingly... then you'll get it. The expense of the second machine is meaningless.
What if they need to input information from the unlocked system to the locked down system? We have a system for that. I won't get into it but it effectively transcribes certain files or information into templates and then pushes the output to a directory on a file server. The point is that viruses can't cross the blood brain barrier. No executable code or scripts. Even meta data is stripped. The files are cored and the data is transcribed by a program one of my colleagues wrote.
If you have a reason to do something... tell me what it is... I'll either show you how to do that inside the security bubble, I'll give you additional tools to allow you to do it, I'll give you a on hand security tech to help you so that there is no hamfisted user shenanigans, or I'm going to tell you no.
I generally agree. I merely object to the notion that US spending is too high because German spending is so low.
The reality is that while US spending could be cut, the immediate result would be that most of the model countries used as examples of what our spending should be would immediately have to start spending more.
The Russians are increasingly looking like they're going to be a long term issue again. Putin is talking about rebuilding the old Russian empire... you know, the one that fell prior to the rise of the USSR. And that's going to be something the Europeans... especially the eastern europeans but really all the europeans are going to have to deal with in the long term.
Add to that, the middle east is apparently going nuclear and no one seems to think that is concerning. Iran is going nuclear and you can bet your ass that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, etc are all going to follow suit if only to counter Iran. How the Turks fit into that model is going to be interesting as well since the Euros thought it was a good idea to add Turkey into their club. That was likely a mistake.
I could go on. But your point is apt... sure, the US could save money by pulling out of a lot of places. But we spend something like 3.3 percent of our GDP on the military. That really isn't that much. Most of our rivals while a great deal poorer are spending a greater percentage of their GDP.
And what do the more enlightened powers that ultimately mooch off our security pay? Something between 2.2 and 1 percent. Its less in proportion to itself but not really a big deal when you're talking about the whole economy.
Spending 1 if you're germany doesn't make a big difference when compared to 3 if you're the US. We're bitching about 2 percent GDP.
And it gets dumber because if you look at what the British Empire was spending on their military around 1905 or so you'll find it was pretty much identical to what the US is spending now. Aka... about 3.3ish GDP.
US spending on the military is minor when you consider what we get for it. And the countries that gainsay the US's spending are mostly cutting their own stupid throats since they ultimately depend on US spending to back up their otherwise shotty security.
They can't claim that they're starved for labor when they're terminating it left right and center... then importing labor that has to be trained by the people they're firing.
My attitude on the whole H1B visa thing is that you need to require that they pay them... lets say 20 percent more than the going rate for domestic labor of the same kind.
If they NEED the labor then they'll pay the 20 percent. If this is just about money then suddenly their insatiable interest in H1B will vanish.
Highly skilled and high demand labor will still get imported and that's good. That's great. And the 20 percent in that context won't matter.
But the importing of entry level techs?... that should stop.
I can't win... I say he gets burned by hot pokers and that's a reward... I say he gets the donkey dick and that's a reward too... I say he gets locked in a trunk and forgotten and that's a reward... I mean... I can't win.
Rule 34, right...
I looked again to see if you cited a country as a contrasting reference point.
You didn't do it.
Concession stands. Better luck next time.
Good day.