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  1. You're in the US, right? Nice "twin towers" you have, shame they fell down. But terrorism isn't a real threat. Right. Got it.

    One event that resulted in some 3000 dead and a spectactular display in more than 15 years. Yeah, I'd call that not much of a threat, in purely objective terms.

    Compared to Spain or Northern Ireland, when it comes to terrorism the USA is a veritable haven. Unless you start counting mass shootings of course, but for some reason calling for extreme vetting of gun owners is not done.

  2. Re:Standard for bullying on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    To you and the other AC: Bullshit.

  3. Re:Standard for bullying on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1
    Well, yes, I think it's pretty close. Your definition (which BTW, is not exclusive to people of colour) actually covers the situation you describe pretty well. Micro-agressions are usually perceived as slightly less obvious than what you describe, but that's all.

    So given that, why do you object to the term?

  4. Re:"Gee I've gone off Richard Spencer... on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0

    Right. I had given you the benefit of the doubt, but it appears you are one of those alt-right snowflakes. That makes things easy then: fuck off, scum.

  5. Re:Standard for bullying on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'll agree that the idea of "microaggressions" is garbage,

    And yet your first paragraph is a perfectly decent description of them. Don't you even see that?

  6. Re:"Gee I've gone off Richard Spencer... on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0

    Given the screams of outrage, as evidenced on this discussion, the right-wing snowflakes obviously see it is as more than just virtue signalling.

    Oh, and that term? It's a shibboleth that marks you as an asshole. I should avoid it if I were you, it poisons people's perceptions of the point you're trying to make.

  7. Re:Non-Story on Asgardia Becomes the First Nation Deployed in Space (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    And obviously a lot of special snowflakes who can't take a bit of ribbing, witnessing the -1 I just got.

  8. Re:Non-Story on Asgardia Becomes the First Nation Deployed in Space (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Libertarianism tends to attract people prone to Dunning-Kruger Syndrome.

  9. Re:Misleading headline on The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The headline is completely fine. The phone does become unresponsive. That there is a workaround that keeps you fanbois from admitting there is a problem does not change the actual, you know, facts.

  10. Re:That brings up an interesting question... on Bitcoin Drops Over $1,000 In Value Over 48 Hours (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    [...]only a limited amount of BTC available, [...] making the value go higher and higher.

    Yeah, that's called deflation. And as us more educated people do not tire of explaining to the BitCoin fanbois, that's a bad thing.

    Think of it: if your currency increases in value, the incentive is to hoard it, taking it out of circulation. This is called a 'credit crunch', which leads to economic contraction. This is why central banks and governments want a stable currency or even mild inflation.

    Thank you for once more proving why people call BitCoin 'Dunning-Krugerrands'

  11. Re:Never comment but... on Interviews: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst Answers Your Questions (redhat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just being efficient. If the very first point of a longer post is moronic, I can expect the rest to be the same tired FUD, so I just skip it.

  12. Re:Never comment but... on Interviews: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst Answers Your Questions (redhat.com) · · Score: 1

    Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel. Poettering: "To make this work weÃ(TM)d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"

    And this very first entry made me stop reading. You're a moron.

    In order to be able to constrain services' resource usage, systemd needs cgroup support, that's why it is, among other things, a cgroup manager. Obviously running without cgroups is not a supported configuration right now, as who in his right mind would run a fucking cgroup manager without cgroups?

  13. Re:Guillotine time. on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not turning them into cartoon villains. I am trying to inject some much-needed reality into your irrational American Exceptionalism. And yes, irrational. Witness you equation glorification and worship with empiricism. You keep using that word...

  14. Re:Guillotine time. on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're missing the point. I'm not stating the obvious that the founding fathers were hypocrites, but that you are one when you praise them as paragons of virtue, defenders of liberty while at the same time defending their support of slavery.

    There was little empiricism in the American revolution. Your nation is built by a bunch of local oligarchs who just didn't want any higher secular authoritiy over them. This is nothing special, but Americans' insistence that it is is 'special'.

  15. Re:Guillotine time. on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The founders deserve credit for creating the first government devoted to liberty and democracy for all,

    Except for those pesky 3/5ths of a person in some States.

    Look, all you do is apologise for something that was quite obvious at the time: slavery was a noxious institution completely at odds with high-minded professions of liberty. The reason the founding fathers were unwilling to make an issue of it was simply because it would have cut into their profits, either directly, because their farms and factories were run on slave labour, or indirectly because a schism would make their rebellion fail.

    As for things like smuggling, land speculation and outright genocide, I haven't even begun to mention them.

    And oh dear. If you can't even see the hand of Montesquieu in the separation of powers in your precious constiution, I'm giving up. You're just blindly spouting propaganda here.

  16. Re:Guillotine time. on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at the founders.

    I have.

    The Founder worship in America is really weird. These guys were not high-minded philosphers. They were a bunch of plantation owners and criminals who clothed their lust for profit in high-minded ideals, most of them badly ripped off from French and English philosophers. The only one with some claim to integrity among them is Thomas Paine.

  17. Re:Guillotine time. on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The American revolution was carried out primarily by practical, science-minded thinkers who just wanted their interests represented.

    You mean a bunch of smugglers and slavers who wanted to keep their profits to themselves instead of paying taxes and stop selling human beings like everyone else under British rule?

  18. Re:Is there a problem? on Uber Faces Engineers' Lawsuit Alleging Gender, Race Bias (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, thanks for putting up with the sarcasm. That is a lot clearer.

  19. Re:Is there a problem? on Uber Faces Engineers' Lawsuit Alleging Gender, Race Bias (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As open source projects are driven by work you actually do

    Oh sweet Summer Child. You actually believe Open Source is immune to politics and is a perfectly level playing field. How endearingly naive.

  20. Heh. It's a nice system, and I like it for snapshotting and incremental backups, but yeah, it still has weird hangups here and there.

  21. Quick question for you: do you have quota's enabled? Updating qgroups takes an enormous amount of time, I had the same symptoms on my laptop on a 1T drive, and turning of quotas and removing qgroups solved it.

  22. Re:That's not their job on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Your entire argument is "people can't think for themselves so Google and Facebook should"

    Pray quote me where I said that. Oh wait, you can't. Have fun fucking your strawman, you dishonest fuck.

  23. Re:truth in advertising on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    You keep using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

  24. Re:truth in advertising on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    As I said, you'd make less of a fool of yourself if you don't use big words you don't understand.

  25. Re:truth in advertising on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 0

    And this is the stereotypical bulshitting by an idiot who thinks throwing around terms without knowing what they mean makes him (and it's almost always 'him') sound intelligent.