A guy I know connected the xml-socket datastream of a very large media/music database of a very large global media corporation wth the online service of a very large global telco provider with a sed script he wrote in 30 minutes. They paid him 15000 Euros per month for a few years to mainain it / guarantuee a reaction time of und 60 minutes, not really caring for the details.
Thinking twice about this had me conclude that there probably is no better tool for this job than said sed script. Imagine the hassle and flakyness with some large convoluted Java Appserver setup requiring extra hardware with failovers and stuff.
... for the time being. It's cost that's currently the main hindrance. And that is being squished big time as we speak, or so a notable amount of credible experts say.
An modern IC engine has north of 200 moving Parts, required gearbox not counted. A modern electric Car engine has 18 moving Parts and needs no gearbox. Once battery prices have dropped beyond a certain threshhold the entire global Auto industry will Flip so fast it will make our heads spin. This is bound to happen in the next 5 years, probably in the next 3, once battery prices are low enough.
Gasoline in Personal Transport is on the way out, that's pretty much a given. And the advancements in cars will feel like the transition from steam to oil back in the day. Or even more significant.
Slower than TCP/IP, but 100% deterministic network behaviour and speed. Basically it's what you want to run your Nuclear Power Plants, live-saving medical devices and bizarly expensive "failure is not an option" Space Equiment with.
How about switching to unicode, dear Slashdot Team. It's 2016, for chrissakes. Or is this just mobile? 'Sänger' is the Name. (Let's hope HTML Umlaut renders correctly.... It's like 10 years ago that I last had to use these)
We're been dreaming about this ever since the 70ies. I remember as a Kid - both my father and grandpa worked for and with Nasa - seeing the SÃnger concepts.
We'd leapfrog SpaceX if this would finally happen, but I'm not holding my breath. This is difficult. Really difficult. But cool if the chinks can make it happen. Two thumbs up for the attempt.
... legal action often is and only can be an approximation of justice. In fact, legal action usually is done when justice has been abandoned.
That powerful men with lots of money have the power to give a fat loud prankster and charlatan a hard time and go after him with very 'imaginative' ways shouldn't be of any surprise. Watching them actually do it is some absurd spectacle though, I have to admit.
No, that's not Elon Musks response. Elon Musks response would be something like this:
"Let's wait for the blackbox data of that car to come in and then tear this guys story to pieces in a very calm and professional manner like we do with most of these incidents".
Adapting to the new takes a higher frustration tolerance - which older people have. At least if they are still in the workforce and have an incentive to be more frustration tolerant. In other words, if you are a somewhat mentally and physically healthy older person, you experience with the world and yourself gives you an edge when adopting to the new.
Actually not that surprising if you think about it.
- I've seen it running on my collegues machines. It looks good. The last few releases of windows look way less shitty than WinXP and all that. Win 10 seems to build on that. That's nice, I like it.
- I like some of the ms powershell stuff of recent years - I've done some stunts already with that and it was cool.
- I like the Ubuntu / Linux layer they are working on. Looks intriguing - especially for those who need to use Windows at work but rather would use a *nix.
- I heard it's for free or something like that. I like that MS is somewhat following Google Suit in that it at least gives you their OS for free for spying on you. In my opinion though Google still has a headstart with Chrome OS and Android in that area. All computer n00bs that ask me I recommend the Google ecosystem. Price-performance of chromebooks is very hard to beat.
- MS seems to have the professional tablet thing pretty much squared away. More than a decade of work in that field seems to finally pay of. However, their Hardware is very expensive if you want to use it with a stylus and high-power specs.
- Win 10 and other Windows Systems seem to be the only ones that can run "Homeworld - Deserts of Kharak" - a nice bonus.
- I don't like that MS has been spying on it's users since Win XP. That's why I don't use it. Same goes for Win 10 - that's a shame. Google does this too, that's a given, but at least their stuff has always been "for free" and will continue to be. And Chrome OS boots fast. Really fast.
Other than this I can't say much about Windows because the last time I actually used it for everyday work was back in 2002 or something. Win2K it was. Here are the systems I recommend - in order of recommendation:
- Refurbished SSD'd Corprorate Lenovo Thinkpad (or something like that) with added RAM running x86 Linux (Xubuntu LTS, Evolution, Mint or something...). - Chromebook (price/performance very interesting, downside: spyware) - Remix OS Tablet or Desktop system - High-Power Android Tablet (Lenovo yoga pro 3 or something) with HMI & Keyboard adapter. Mobile leads in ubiquity and it's hard to beat USB power/charging, 15+ hours of battery time and the ubiquity of HDMI screens.
- Apple MB Air (Price performance still OK/bearable)
- Windows Tablets/Laptops/Machines
Generally speaking today I would only recomment Apple or MS in cases where software is needed that only runs on one of those systems. For clueles endusers I recommend the Google stuff and for regular users wo don't cry of confusion when they see a context menu or for actual computer professionals I recommend Linux. For instance, I'm pretty certain that my next computer will not be an Apple. They are nice, but I just don't need it for my work anymore - although I will miss Kaleidoskope Diff - that's for sure.
There are still relatively few female CEOs, for example, and I think many in the 60s expected it to be about 50/50 by now.
True thing But you forget that the incentive to become a hard-bitten CEO of a company working 70+ hours per week is larger for men that it is for women. A women can get by by simpling having a womb - she doesn't even have to carry her own weight if she's beautiful or streetsmart enough. A man has to prove his worth, simply because in evolutionary terms he actually is less worth - as I illustrated above. That's why we have more male CEOs and more male bums whereas women mostly coast along in the middle corridor outside the domain of hard competition.
Lose those facts out of sight and your society will die out. That's a simple hard biological fact. I'm all for womans rights, but please don't moan to me about not having CEO pay. Get a job where you get that pay or go and build a company like Apple, starting in a garage, all risks and rewards included. It's actually that simple.
The Future of World Religions: Estimated Change in Population Size 2010-2050: Muslims: 73% Christians: 35% Hindus: 34% Jews: 16% Folks Religions: 11%
Newsflash: Old-Testament Reveletion Cults that put women squarely in the child-bearing slaves of reproduction department have more children. Film at 11.
I get all the arguments about declining buying power, wealth disparity and our media/online culture turning everybody into aloof nerds with no time for sex and the successful social interaction that is required for that, and it could very well be that that all factors into this development.
However, I don't think that that is the sole problem. In Germany I observe the women of my generation and a decade or so younger caught up in demands and expectations that can only be called patently absurd. And I think it is very much the same in the USA, as in certain dynamics and structures in society these two countries are very similar.
There are a lot of factors playing into this, such as women not yet completely atuned to having equal rights vis-a-vis their male peers and not yet having fully adjusted their expectations and their true responsibilities and 'duties' that come with it. Such as carefully balancing resource acquisition, mating and active survivaly strategies - by evolutionary and thus old-testatment definition a classic "mans job". There are studies that women are actually more unhappy today than they were back in the sixties, when they basically were second-class citizens. This could be due to the fact that despite all the media hype about women wanting to lead corporations and earn the big bucks, the vast majority of women would maybe rather have a guy doing all that annoying external survival stuff and rather sit at home with the tribe nurturing little humans.
I very much think this is also due to some choice-effect coming up with equal rights and an abundance of goods needed for pure survival. For the first time in this planets history more people are obese than hungry or starving and a woman doesn't need a set of leader-warshipping willing-to-die-for-the-honor men close by to survive the other tribe warriors or the sabretooth lions roaming the area. She is free to choose when and if she takes a man and doesn't even need one to reproduce.
That a modern society that succsessfully has decoupled sex from reproduction and moves everyting concerning mating and reproduction squarely into the domain of conscious decision shouldn't be too surprised about the development described in TFA.
I expect this development to get worse and only change once society has moved into some sort of utopian mating-and-reproduction ritual or mechanism that tries to mitigate the effects of humanity moving further away from their mammal originins.
Then again, statistical analysis of humanities gene-pool show that throughout the history of mankind, 4 out of 5 men never got to reproduce whereas 4 out of 5 women did - which very much fits the fact that women take 9 months to build a human but men roughly 20 minutes to squirt one into a woman. In evolutionary terms a male individual is measurably less worth than a woman, which these numbers, odly enough, reflect again.
It's complicated, but I defenitely observe first-worlds women, equal rights and a choice effect with women playing into this. Especially after just having visited a classic macho-culture the last two weeks and observing mens and womens behaviour there. I was in moscow and my fairly recent new sweetheart is a russian lady. A difference of night and day in some aspects of socialisation vis-a-vis German or US women. No doubt. I wouldn't say it's all good that way, but until society fully grows up about these things I'd rather go 'classic couple' than have no stable relationship at all.
Bottom line concerning this aspect of the problem: Women in the west need to emanzipate further and need to notice what work comes with being more independant. I'm sure us men can help by keeping a wide berth around women who aren't quite there yet and who's demands and expectations reflect that.
No, as a pretty experienced C programmer too, it's *really* hard to find people who are even vaguely competent C programmers.
Big deal. Try finding vaguely competent PHP programmers or LAMP Webstack programmers in general - that's a real drag.
Finding competent C programmers is probably compareatively easy, because whoever picked up C probably knows what he/her got him/herself into. At least after a week or so. So whoever voluntarily programms in C usually knows what problems they'll be facing.
Zero-fuss Mouse + Keyboard + Homeworld Deserts of Kharak. That would make me curious.
Basically it goes like this: Turn the XBox One into an affordable zero-fuss gaming PC and I'm in.
Since that's not happening because it would directly canibalise MSes OEM market - probably the only place they still make money selling Windows - this most probably won't happen.
So, no, I don't think I'm getting an XBone.
Concerning consoles in general: I see their point and I do have the last edition of the XBox 360 (my very first console) + ~30 bargain-bin priced GOTY/Ultimate/Directors-Cut/Platinum Edition gaming titles that each have won multiple awards for being excellent, superb and whatnot. The whole package was dirt-cheap and I have gaming fun for years to come - so no big pressure here to get a new console.
... German regulations that actually makes sense. This isn't too far of from what these cars have already, it's probably no sweat at all for the manufacturers to add a blackbox on top of the tracking and analysis alread built in.
I switched from Snow Leopard to Maveriks roughly 2 years ago, and only because a piece of software - I think it was Kaleidoscope - didn't work with Snow Leopard anymore. Maveriks is staying. Don't see me moving to El Capitan with my 2011 MB Air anytime soon. As for my Linux Workstation Laptop: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS it still is. I might upgrade within the next 10 months or so.
I stick with tried, true and mature Software for all mission critical stuff. It's annoying enough as it is upgrading from one version to the next. Might aswell be one that is known to work. That and skipiing every odd version at least works for me aswell.
... my old Cyrix 200+ with 75Mhz Motherboard running Windows 3.11 and DOS 5 around anymore. Dang, missed a free laptop....
However; I do have my Sharp PC 1403 lying right here, strip-printer, datasette and all. I wonder it that counts. It *is* a PC - as in Pocket Computer - but a PC none-the-less. It's got kick-ass multimedia capabilities too - as you can see here. I'd be impressed if they get Windows 10 running on that.
Who the hell are you to decide what's right and wrong for Turkey? That's nobody's business but the Turks. They'll decide for themselves what they want to have, and if Islam is what they want then that's what they get. Erdogan was elected democratically.
So was Hitler. The point about democracy is that even its elected leaders have to follow its rules. Which Erdogan evidently doesn't. He redoes the constitution to suit his whim, cleanses Universities, locks away people not in party line, removes power from the courts, incites witch-hunts, has close to 300 charges for "insulting the president" ongoing including the incarceration of minors, etc. I'm not the guy to ask for military coups and apparently, as news rolls in, this isn't quite the usual coup but some other faction just as backwards as the guy in charge. Also, it didn't go without bloodshed. ~300 people dead. Not what anybody wanted.
But (big BUT): Now that Erdogan apparently has come out on top he'll probably turn turkey into a theo- and autocratic state even more so. I hope he doesn't, but I don't expect anything else from a guy who builds himself a presidential palace with 1000 rooms on tax money desperately needed elsewhere or does the things I mentioned above.
Make no mistake, Turkey is on the downslope and unless Erdogan takes this occasion to take a step back and start repairing the divide between conservative ismalists and kemalists, I see dark times coming up for Turkey. It's under this impression that one might had hoped for a coup that sort of works our for everybody in the end, but I guess those hopes weren't warranted.
... and I hope the military wins and reestablishes a working Kemalism.
Erdogan was a huge leap backwards for Turkey. They need to reestablish secularism and seperation of power. And new rules and a new democratic election.
Keep your fingers crossed. My thoughts and hopes are with Turkey now. Yours should be too.
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A guy I know connected the xml-socket datastream of a very large media/music database of a very large global media corporation wth the online service of a very large global telco provider with a sed script he wrote in 30 minutes. They paid him 15000 Euros per month for a few years to mainain it / guarantuee a reaction time of und 60 minutes, not really caring for the details.
Thinking twice about this had me conclude that there probably is no better tool for this job than said sed script. Imagine the hassle and flakyness with some large convoluted Java Appserver setup requiring extra hardware with failovers and stuff.
... for the time being. It's cost that's currently the main hindrance. And that is being squished big time as we speak, or so a notable amount of credible experts say.
An modern IC engine has north of 200 moving Parts, required gearbox not counted. A modern electric Car engine has 18 moving Parts and needs no gearbox.
Once battery prices have dropped beyond a certain threshhold the entire global Auto industry will Flip so fast it will make our heads spin. This is bound to happen in the next 5 years, probably in the next 3, once battery prices are low enough.
Gasoline in Personal Transport is on the way out, that's pretty much a given. And the advancements in cars will feel like the transition from steam to oil back in the day.
Or even more significant.
"the point of Token Ring"
Enlighten us.
Slower than TCP/IP, but 100% deterministic network behaviour and speed.
Basically it's what you want to run your Nuclear Power Plants, live-saving medical devices and bizarly expensive "failure is not an option" Space Equiment with.
... fight for privacy needs world-wide initative.
"(1) Das Briefgeheimnis sowie das Post- und Fernmeldegeheimnis sind unverletzlich."
meaning
"(1) The privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommunications shall be inviolable."
This is one field where France can actually just STFU and learn a little from other democracies.
How about switching to unicode, dear Slashdot Team. It's 2016, for chrissakes. Or is this just mobile? 'Sänger' is the Name. (Let's hope HTML Umlaut renders correctly .... It's like 10 years ago that I last had to use these)
We're been dreaming about this ever since the 70ies. I remember as a Kid - both my father and grandpa worked for and with Nasa - seeing the SÃnger concepts.
We'd leapfrog SpaceX if this would finally happen, but I'm not holding my breath. This is difficult. Really difficult. But cool if the chinks can make it happen. Two thumbs up for the attempt.
My 2 Eurocents.
... legal action often is and only can be an approximation of justice. In fact, legal action usually is done when justice has been abandoned.
That powerful men with lots of money have the power to give a fat loud prankster and charlatan a hard time and go after him with very 'imaginative' ways shouldn't be of any surprise. Watching them actually do it is some absurd spectacle though, I have to admit.
No, that's not Elon Musks response. Elon Musks response would be something like this:
"Let's wait for the blackbox data of that car to come in and then tear this guys story to pieces in a very calm and professional manner like we do with most of these incidents".
There you go, FTFY.
... and wait 'till it costs 30 Euros in the bargain bin.
Adapting to the new takes a higher frustration tolerance - which older people have. At least if they are still in the workforce and have an incentive to be more frustration tolerant. In other words, if you are a somewhat mentally and physically healthy older person, you experience with the world and yourself gives you an edge when adopting to the new.
Actually not that surprising if you think about it.
- I've seen it running on my collegues machines. It looks good. The last few releases of windows look way less shitty than WinXP and all that. Win 10 seems to build on that. That's nice, I like it.
- I like some of the ms powershell stuff of recent years - I've done some stunts already with that and it was cool.
- I like the Ubuntu / Linux layer they are working on. Looks intriguing - especially for those who need to use Windows at work but rather would use a *nix.
- I heard it's for free or something like that. I like that MS is somewhat following Google Suit in that it at least gives you their OS for free for spying on you. In my opinion though Google still has a headstart with Chrome OS and Android in that area. All computer n00bs that ask me I recommend the Google ecosystem. Price-performance of chromebooks is very hard to beat.
- MS seems to have the professional tablet thing pretty much squared away. More than a decade of work in that field seems to finally pay of. However, their Hardware is very expensive if you want to use it with a stylus and high-power specs.
- Win 10 and other Windows Systems seem to be the only ones that can run "Homeworld - Deserts of Kharak" - a nice bonus.
- I don't like that MS has been spying on it's users since Win XP. That's why I don't use it. Same goes for Win 10 - that's a shame. Google does this too, that's a given, but at least their stuff has always been "for free" and will continue to be. And Chrome OS boots fast. Really fast.
Other than this I can't say much about Windows because the last time I actually used it for everyday work was back in 2002 or something. Win2K it was.
Here are the systems I recommend - in order of recommendation:
- Refurbished SSD'd Corprorate Lenovo Thinkpad (or something like that) with added RAM running x86 Linux (Xubuntu LTS, Evolution, Mint or something ...).
- Chromebook (price/performance very interesting, downside: spyware)
- Remix OS Tablet or Desktop system
- High-Power Android Tablet (Lenovo yoga pro 3 or something) with HMI & Keyboard adapter. Mobile leads in ubiquity and it's hard to beat USB power/charging, 15+ hours of battery time and the ubiquity of HDMI screens.
- Apple MB Air (Price performance still OK/bearable)
- Windows Tablets/Laptops/Machines
Generally speaking today I would only recomment Apple or MS in cases where software is needed that only runs on one of those systems. For clueles endusers I recommend the Google stuff and for regular users wo don't cry of confusion when they see a context menu or for actual computer professionals I recommend Linux. For instance, I'm pretty certain that my next computer will not be an Apple. They are nice, but I just don't need it for my work anymore - although I will miss Kaleidoskope Diff - that's for sure.
My 2 cents.
Corrupt bunch of douchebags.
EOM
There are still relatively few female CEOs, for example, and I think many in the 60s expected it to be about 50/50 by now.
True thing But you forget that the incentive to become a hard-bitten CEO of a company working 70+ hours per week is larger for men that it is for women. A women can get by by simpling having a womb - she doesn't even have to carry her own weight if she's beautiful or streetsmart enough. A man has to prove his worth, simply because in evolutionary terms he actually is less worth - as I illustrated above. That's why we have more male CEOs and more male bums whereas women mostly coast along in the middle corridor outside the domain of hard competition.
Lose those facts out of sight and your society will die out. That's a simple hard biological fact. I'm all for womans rights, but please don't moan to me about not having CEO pay. Get a job where you get that pay or go and build a company like Apple, starting in a garage, all risks and rewards included. It's actually that simple.
The Future of World Religions: Estimated Change in Population Size 2010-2050:
Muslims: 73%
Christians: 35%
Hindus: 34%
Jews: 16%
Folks Religions: 11%
Newsflash: Old-Testament Reveletion Cults that put women squarely in the child-bearing slaves of reproduction department have more children. Film at 11.
I get all the arguments about declining buying power, wealth disparity and our media/online culture turning everybody into aloof nerds with no time for sex and the successful social interaction that is required for that, and it could very well be that that all factors into this development.
However, I don't think that that is the sole problem. In Germany I observe the women of my generation and a decade or so younger caught up in demands and expectations that can only be called patently absurd. And I think it is very much the same in the USA, as in certain dynamics and structures in society these two countries are very similar.
There are a lot of factors playing into this, such as women not yet completely atuned to having equal rights vis-a-vis their male peers and not yet having fully adjusted their expectations and their true responsibilities and 'duties' that come with it. Such as carefully balancing resource acquisition, mating and active survivaly strategies - by evolutionary and thus old-testatment definition a classic "mans job".
There are studies that women are actually more unhappy today than they were back in the sixties, when they basically were second-class citizens. This could be due to the fact that despite all the media hype about women wanting to lead corporations and earn the big bucks, the vast majority of women would maybe rather have a guy doing all that annoying external survival stuff and rather sit at home with the tribe nurturing little humans.
I very much think this is also due to some choice-effect coming up with equal rights and an abundance of goods needed for pure survival. For the first time in this planets history more people are obese than hungry or starving and a woman doesn't need a set of leader-warshipping willing-to-die-for-the-honor men close by to survive the other tribe warriors or the sabretooth lions roaming the area. She is free to choose when and if she takes a man and doesn't even need one to reproduce.
That a modern society that succsessfully has decoupled sex from reproduction and moves everyting concerning mating and reproduction squarely into the domain of conscious decision shouldn't be too surprised about the development described in TFA.
I expect this development to get worse and only change once society has moved into some sort of utopian mating-and-reproduction ritual or mechanism that tries to mitigate the effects of humanity moving further away from their mammal originins.
Then again, statistical analysis of humanities gene-pool show that throughout the history of mankind, 4 out of 5 men never got to reproduce whereas 4 out of 5 women did - which very much fits the fact that women take 9 months to build a human but men roughly 20 minutes to squirt one into a woman. In evolutionary terms a male individual is measurably less worth than a woman, which these numbers, odly enough, reflect again.
It's complicated, but I defenitely observe first-worlds women, equal rights and a choice effect with women playing into this. Especially after just having visited a classic macho-culture the last two weeks and observing mens and womens behaviour there. I was in moscow and my fairly recent new sweetheart is a russian lady. A difference of night and day in some aspects of socialisation vis-a-vis German or US women. No doubt. I wouldn't say it's all good that way, but until society fully grows up about these things I'd rather go 'classic couple' than have no stable relationship at all.
Bottom line concerning this aspect of the problem:
Women in the west need to emanzipate further and need to notice what work comes with being more independant. I'm sure us men can help by keeping a wide berth around women who aren't quite there yet and who's demands and expectations reflect that.
My 2 cents.
My last Windows was Windows 2000.
x86 Linux and Mac OS X ever since. Probably down to Linux only in the next hardware cycle.
Honestly, I really couldn't care less.
My 2 cents.
No, as a pretty experienced C programmer too, it's *really* hard to find people who are even vaguely competent C programmers.
Big deal. Try finding vaguely competent PHP programmers or LAMP Webstack programmers in general - that's a real drag.
Finding competent C programmers is probably compareatively easy, because whoever picked up C probably knows what he/her got him/herself into. At least after a week or so. So whoever voluntarily programms in C usually knows what problems they'll be facing.
Zero-fuss Mouse + Keyboard + Homeworld Deserts of Kharak. That would make me curious.
Basically it goes like this:
Turn the XBox One into an affordable zero-fuss gaming PC and I'm in.
Since that's not happening because it would directly canibalise MSes OEM market - probably the only place they still make money selling Windows - this most probably won't happen.
So, no, I don't think I'm getting an XBone.
Concerning consoles in general: I see their point and I do have the last edition of the XBox 360 (my very first console) + ~30 bargain-bin priced GOTY/Ultimate/Directors-Cut/Platinum Edition gaming titles that each have won multiple awards for being excellent, superb and whatnot. The whole package was dirt-cheap and I have gaming fun for years to come - so no big pressure here to get a new console.
Facebook is your friend.
Facebook watches over you.
Everybody loves Facebook.
Trust Facebook.
... German regulations that actually makes sense. This isn't too far of from what these cars have already, it's probably no sweat at all for the manufacturers to add a blackbox on top of the tracking and analysis alread built in.
I switched from Snow Leopard to Maveriks roughly 2 years ago, and only because a piece of software - I think it was Kaleidoscope - didn't work with Snow Leopard anymore. Maveriks is staying. Don't see me moving to El Capitan with my 2011 MB Air anytime soon.
As for my Linux Workstation Laptop: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS it still is. I might upgrade within the next 10 months or so.
I stick with tried, true and mature Software for all mission critical stuff. It's annoying enough as it is upgrading from one version to the next. Might aswell be one that is known to work. That and skipiing every odd version at least works for me aswell.
EOM
... my old Cyrix 200+ with 75Mhz Motherboard running Windows 3.11 and DOS 5 around anymore. Dang, missed a free laptop. ...
However; I do have my Sharp PC 1403 lying right here, strip-printer, datasette and all. I wonder it that counts. It *is* a PC - as in Pocket Computer - but a PC none-the-less. It's got kick-ass multimedia capabilities too - as you can see here. I'd be impressed if they get Windows 10 running on that.
But I'll also take the free Laptop, thank you.
Who the hell are you to decide what's right and wrong for Turkey? That's nobody's business but the Turks. They'll decide for themselves what they want to have, and if Islam is what they want then that's what they get. Erdogan was elected democratically.
So was Hitler. The point about democracy is that even its elected leaders have to follow its rules. Which Erdogan evidently doesn't. He redoes the constitution to suit his whim, cleanses Universities, locks away people not in party line, removes power from the courts, incites witch-hunts, has close to 300 charges for "insulting the president" ongoing including the incarceration of minors, etc. I'm not the guy to ask for military coups and apparently, as news rolls in, this isn't quite the usual coup but some other faction just as backwards as the guy in charge. Also, it didn't go without bloodshed. ~300 people dead. Not what anybody wanted.
But (big BUT): Now that Erdogan apparently has come out on top he'll probably turn turkey into a theo- and autocratic state even more so. I hope he doesn't, but I don't expect anything else from a guy who builds himself a presidential palace with 1000 rooms on tax money desperately needed elsewhere or does the things I mentioned above.
Make no mistake, Turkey is on the downslope and unless Erdogan takes this occasion to take a step back and start repairing the divide between conservative ismalists and kemalists, I see dark times coming up for Turkey. It's under this impression that one might had hoped for a coup that sort of works our for everybody in the end, but I guess those hopes weren't warranted.
My 2 cents.
... and I hope the military wins and reestablishes a working Kemalism.
Erdogan was a huge leap backwards for Turkey. They need to reestablish secularism and seperation of power.
And new rules and a new democratic election.
Keep your fingers crossed.
My thoughts and hopes are with Turkey now. Yours should be too.
My 2 Eurocents.