You attitude is one of the biggest reason I hate Linux. Apparently you feel that I have no right to complain about bugs unless I am also going to do the work of fixing them. I work full time. I have a family. If in order to use your OS I need to also code it, I'm going to bloody well use Windows cause my time is worth something. If you want me to use you OS, then don't write shit code. Test your releases, and don't say 'how are you improving it?' when I tell you it's broken.
A screen unlock bug should never have shipped. It is trivial to reproduce and trivial to test. It's not a "dance up and down and do the hokey pokey and you blue screen sometimes" bug. It's a "every time you try to authenticate after walking away from the machine bug".
I could see your logic if, for example, you were giving the driver a blow job. But by sending a text message, you do not force the driver to answer the phone. It is actually fairly easy to not answer the phone.
It's clearly not the fault of the driver for answering the text while driving... Isn't the point of text messaging that you can send it and they can read when convinenent?
The CentOS install I have doesn't let you unlock the screen. You have to switch users to get back in. Apparently testing isn't part of the Linux mantra so I'm right there with you on the Linux hating.
I have a serious problem with calling it child abuse to not follow a doctor's advice regarding medical care. While not getting the MMR vaccine is probably a poor choice, the parents are ultimately responsible for the well being of their child and we should not take that responsibility away from them. We also should not take away their power to make decisions regarding their children's upbringing. Just because you don't agree with it, doesn't make it abusive. Abuse should involve the intent to harm or actions that had no outcome other than harm. Most people in the US who are unvaccinated do not get sick. It's a calculated risk, just like getting in a car or going boating. It is not generally child abuse to drive your child to the grocery store even though there is a high risk that you will die on the journey. There is also a high risk that you will kill someone else's child while driving to the grocery store.
If you as a parent truly believe that the doctors treating your sick child are incompetent and stop seeing them, is that child abuse? This year a hospital in Kentucky? shut down it's neo-natal surgery unit because it had insanely high mortality rates. Were the parents who moved their children out of that hospital wrong? Was it right to take this child from his parents?
I'm glad we are in agreement:) You can't blame one man for the world falling apart and none of our presidents are actually evil.
Grant was another pretty terrible president. Next time you start thinking about how terrible Bush or Obama is, compare him to Grant, Harding, Buchanan, and Nixon. We actually have a LOT of terrible presidents to choose from.
I think the more disturbing part of the GP is "no one will be able to decide what is wrong unless it's defined that way".
In other words people are incapable of making their own decisions. The Mayor of San Diego gets a pass for harassing women because he didn't get the appropriate training. No one told me it was wrong, so I assumed I could do it. It is the final and complete rejection of any kind of personal responsibility. It is not YOUR fault. You were just doing what you were told/trained to do and therefor the fault lies with whoever told/trained you.
And you can make the exact same argument involving the economy and political instability in the middle east. Or do you claim that had Bush not been president 9/11 would not have happened? Had Bush not been president the deregulation of the banking industry started by Clinton would not have caused the banks to go nuts and crash the economy?
You speak of the civil war as if it were a certainty, completely unavoidable. There are actually historians that disagree with that and claim that industrialization was ending slavery without the war. There is also the minor issue that war was not actually fought over slavery. It was an issue, but not the primary one by a long shot. The southern states seceded because they did not like the mandates coming down from the federal government and the feds were imposing tariffs that were hurting their trade relationships with Europe. Lincoln went to war in order to preserve the union. Slavery was not actually outlawed until well after the war began.
You still fail to redress Johnson's punishing of the south. There was a president (and congress) who intentionally set out to impose hardships on a significant set of the population.
Lincoln had half the country in an open, armed rebellion that resulted in far more devastating consequences to the economic stability of the country. His successor then decided the best way to deal with the newly re-unified nation was to impose crippling sanctions upon the southern states that many would argue the south never fully recovered from.
Regardless of if you thought the Civil War was "Right" or "Wrong" morally, the simple fact is it was the bloodiest and most devastating war we (the US) have EVER fought. The WWs may have killed more people, but Europe took the brunt of the infrastructure damage and civilian casualties.
As much you dislike Bush, comparing him to Islamic fundamentalists is a bit far fetched. The reality is that the vast majority of American's are actually very well off (compared to the masses of Egypt and other countries in that region) and Bush did very little to change that. Even when the economy 'collapsed' we didn't have even close to the kinds of problems Egypt is having right now.
Eventually people are going to have to realize that Bush/Obama was not the great Satan; he did not doom us as a nation; other presidents before him have committed equally heinous acts, and life doesn't actually suck that badly in the US. People setting stuff on fire and getting shot for political/theological disputes is the exception rather than the norm here.
Yes, there is room for improvement, but there will always be room for improvement. We will never have utopia for the simple reason that my version of utopia is different from yours so we will end up with some sludge of a compromise in which no one is happy.
You have to start somewhere. You can't just say "Fuck it, there is always going to be some big problem causing misery and suffering!" Help the people you know you can help today and worry about tomorrow tomorrow.
Developing and agrarian societies have high birth rates because they have high mortality rates and children are an asset. Children can work. Children can help support you. You can sell... er marry... your children for personal gain.
Once you take away the advantages of having a pile of children (child labor laws) and turn children into an economic burden (college), the incentive to have a pile of children decreases and birth raters slow. 50 years ago in the US it was common to have 5 or 6 kids per family. Now a days we are looking at 1 or 2, maybe 3. Yes there are outliers, but our birth rates have been steadily decreasing since we industrialized.
I had a Jewish friend and I always felt bad for the poor guy. He's never had a bacon cheeseburger, or a meat lasagna, or a pepperoni pizza... What really gets when trying to cook is kosher is that you can't toss some butter in with the mashed potatoes for the pot roast...
People strap themselves in to small metal boxes and hurl themselves down freeways at 60+ MPH several times a day... And automobile accidents are the leading cause of death in the US. But we still do it.
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Linux hating is easy when it really is broken.
You attitude is one of the biggest reason I hate Linux. Apparently you feel that I have no right to complain about bugs unless I am also going to do the work of fixing them. I work full time. I have a family. If in order to use your OS I need to also code it, I'm going to bloody well use Windows cause my time is worth something. If you want me to use you OS, then don't write shit code. Test your releases, and don't say 'how are you improving it?' when I tell you it's broken.
A screen unlock bug should never have shipped. It is trivial to reproduce and trivial to test. It's not a "dance up and down and do the hokey pokey and you blue screen sometimes" bug. It's a "every time you try to authenticate after walking away from the machine bug".
Sorry, linux really just sucks that much that they can't properly code a screen saver to do an unlock using ldap.
I could see your logic if, for example, you were giving the driver a blow job. But by sending a text message, you do not force the driver to answer the phone. It is actually fairly easy to not answer the phone.
It's clearly not the fault of the driver for answering the text while driving... Isn't the point of text messaging that you can send it and they can read when convinenent?
The CentOS install I have doesn't let you unlock the screen. You have to switch users to get back in. Apparently testing isn't part of the Linux mantra so I'm right there with you on the Linux hating.
I have a serious problem with calling it child abuse to not follow a doctor's advice regarding medical care. While not getting the MMR vaccine is probably a poor choice, the parents are ultimately responsible for the well being of their child and we should not take that responsibility away from them. We also should not take away their power to make decisions regarding their children's upbringing. Just because you don't agree with it, doesn't make it abusive. Abuse should involve the intent to harm or actions that had no outcome other than harm. Most people in the US who are unvaccinated do not get sick. It's a calculated risk, just like getting in a car or going boating. It is not generally child abuse to drive your child to the grocery store even though there is a high risk that you will die on the journey. There is also a high risk that you will kill someone else's child while driving to the grocery store.
If you as a parent truly believe that the doctors treating your sick child are incompetent and stop seeing them, is that child abuse? This year a hospital in Kentucky? shut down it's neo-natal surgery unit because it had insanely high mortality rates. Were the parents who moved their children out of that hospital wrong? Was it right to take this child from his parents?
Simple. If the animal is small enough to cause no damage on impact, hit it and keep going. If it is big enough to damage the vehicle, don't hit it.
If it can read road signs, it can see a deer.
Holy fuck... you're right. I'm not yet 30 and I see 2020 and think "more than 10 years".
If going that route, Guild Wars 2 doesn't require a monthly tax.
Microsoft partnering with EA would be like Bubba partnering with Ray Ray to chase you down in the woods.
I'm glad we are in agreement :) You can't blame one man for the world falling apart and none of our presidents are actually evil.
Grant was another pretty terrible president. Next time you start thinking about how terrible Bush or Obama is, compare him to Grant, Harding, Buchanan, and Nixon. We actually have a LOT of terrible presidents to choose from.
I think the more disturbing part of the GP is "no one will be able to decide what is wrong unless it's defined that way".
In other words people are incapable of making their own decisions. The Mayor of San Diego gets a pass for harassing women because he didn't get the appropriate training. No one told me it was wrong, so I assumed I could do it. It is the final and complete rejection of any kind of personal responsibility. It is not YOUR fault. You were just doing what you were told/trained to do and therefor the fault lies with whoever told/trained you.
And you can make the exact same argument involving the economy and political instability in the middle east. Or do you claim that had Bush not been president 9/11 would not have happened? Had Bush not been president the deregulation of the banking industry started by Clinton would not have caused the banks to go nuts and crash the economy?
You speak of the civil war as if it were a certainty, completely unavoidable. There are actually historians that disagree with that and claim that industrialization was ending slavery without the war. There is also the minor issue that war was not actually fought over slavery. It was an issue, but not the primary one by a long shot. The southern states seceded because they did not like the mandates coming down from the federal government and the feds were imposing tariffs that were hurting their trade relationships with Europe. Lincoln went to war in order to preserve the union. Slavery was not actually outlawed until well after the war began.
You still fail to redress Johnson's punishing of the south. There was a president (and congress) who intentionally set out to impose hardships on a significant set of the population.
Lincoln had half the country in an open, armed rebellion that resulted in far more devastating consequences to the economic stability of the country. His successor then decided the best way to deal with the newly re-unified nation was to impose crippling sanctions upon the southern states that many would argue the south never fully recovered from.
Regardless of if you thought the Civil War was "Right" or "Wrong" morally, the simple fact is it was the bloodiest and most devastating war we (the US) have EVER fought. The WWs may have killed more people, but Europe took the brunt of the infrastructure damage and civilian casualties.
I wanted them to eat soup in a vacuum...
As much you dislike Bush, comparing him to Islamic fundamentalists is a bit far fetched. The reality is that the vast majority of American's are actually very well off (compared to the masses of Egypt and other countries in that region) and Bush did very little to change that. Even when the economy 'collapsed' we didn't have even close to the kinds of problems Egypt is having right now.
Eventually people are going to have to realize that Bush/Obama was not the great Satan; he did not doom us as a nation; other presidents before him have committed equally heinous acts, and life doesn't actually suck that badly in the US. People setting stuff on fire and getting shot for political/theological disputes is the exception rather than the norm here.
Yes, there is room for improvement, but there will always be room for improvement. We will never have utopia for the simple reason that my version of utopia is different from yours so we will end up with some sludge of a compromise in which no one is happy.
And here I was hoping for some fun chemistry. Instead we get "no electricity? Use the sun!" What if I have no sun you insensitive clod!
you've as much as told us you don't give a shit about what it is that we want.
Then why do they keep removing all the heinous features everyone complains about?
Actually, if you RTFA one of the complaints was that black searches were rougher than white searches, so I don't think your plan would work.
The difference between patriotism and treason has always depended on which side wins.
Anyone else notice how terrible an acronym US is? Specifically when people are too lazy to capitalize it.
You have to start somewhere. You can't just say "Fuck it, there is always going to be some big problem causing misery and suffering!" Help the people you know you can help today and worry about tomorrow tomorrow.
Developing and agrarian societies have high birth rates because they have high mortality rates and children are an asset. Children can work. Children can help support you. You can sell... er marry... your children for personal gain.
Once you take away the advantages of having a pile of children (child labor laws) and turn children into an economic burden (college), the incentive to have a pile of children decreases and birth raters slow. 50 years ago in the US it was common to have 5 or 6 kids per family. Now a days we are looking at 1 or 2, maybe 3. Yes there are outliers, but our birth rates have been steadily decreasing since we industrialized.
Oh no! 94 cases on a planet of 8 billion! The horrors!
I had a Jewish friend and I always felt bad for the poor guy. He's never had a bacon cheeseburger, or a meat lasagna, or a pepperoni pizza... What really gets when trying to cook is kosher is that you can't toss some butter in with the mashed potatoes for the pot roast...
People strap themselves in to small metal boxes and hurl themselves down freeways at 60+ MPH several times a day... And automobile accidents are the leading cause of death in the US. But we still do it.