I've seen it go as far as people wanting to ban manual transmission because it takes your mind off the road and you need both hands on the wheel--while statistics show that manual transmission drivers are better drivers
I would love to see those statistics -- just to back me up. The idea just seems logical. If you can manage to use both hands and both feet to accomplish something, it would seem to indicate good motor skills. Consider the safest class of drivers on the road -- pros who drive tractor-trailer rigs, which almost universally have manual transmissions.
Most of the worst driving I see on the highways are vehicles that don't come with a manual option, like large SUVs. It would seem more likely that driving a vehicle with an automatic requires less focus on the task of driving, thus increasing the ease of distraction.
I'll go so far as to say that a person (barring some physical handicap) who cannot manage the coordination to drive stick probably shouldn't be driving at all.
And that's not even touching the subject of the superior fuel economy with manual transmissions... automatics are bad for the environment!
Recently I attended a small dinner party. After dinner, everyone gathered in the living room, ostensibly to play board and card games. I ended up being the only one paying any attention to the game, or anyone or anything else. The others were too busy constantly checking Facebook or whatever else stupid shit on their smartphones. The Whole Damn Evening. It looked for all the world like I was sitting in a gathering of zombies mindlessly poking at their little screens, grudgingly deigning to be interrupted only when it's their turn to play.
It was so wrong on so many levels -- not least of which is that it's just poor manners. Why invite guests to your home if you're going to ignore them? Are you too busy tweeting about your party to actually mentally join the same space your body is physically occupying? Are we all too boring for each other? Has the "like" button become a substitute for conversation?
An amusing parallel presented itself. Author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) philosophizes, a bit tongue-in-cheek, that we humans don't use corn so much as it uses us to spread its genes around the planet. Corn cannot spread itself, so it's found a way to make us its servant. Are the technological gewgaws doing the same thing? Are humans just hosts for the proliferation of electronic parasites? Are we simply becoming part of a global machine, a la Lawnmower Man?
On second thought, perhaps it's not so amusing. It's just sad. It's not like anyone gives two shits when people they sorta know get a new pair of shoes, or are sitting at Starbucks, or has this trendy new political opinion. Ask them; they don't. Yet they cannot help themselves. They must watch the feeds and occasionally add their own half-sentence of nonsense to the meaningless chatter. It's becoming the dystopian "hive-mind" where the "social network" exercises more control over thought and behavior than does the individual himself. Let's not kid ourselves: someone who spends multiple hours per day on Facebook is, in some way, controlled by it.
To a point, yes. If I were engaging in a debate, I would have to provide evidence.
Most of the time, however, I'm not. I am not impressed by the consensus of large groups of people who spend half their day on Facebook proving what vapid idiots they are. Since when has consensus ever been an indication of truth, anyway? Everyone once agreed on geocentrism.
It is amazing how much "it's settled science!" sounds like "God said so!" isn't it?
I know people who regularly drop the "settled science" quips on social media (average intellectual level: ZOMG AGW is totally fer realz!!) -- people I personally know who could not even define the word "science". It's important to remember that there's a gulf between those who understand the method, and those who mindlessly parrot whatever is popular. The latter we call religion.
Indeed, replication is good. One should always look askance at "hot new science" until it's repeated enough. But then you just go off the rail and make it political.
Fox's interpretation of this story or the tardbaggers' interpretation of that. I've already assigned "herp", "derp" and "6,000 years" to hotkeys.
Right... so believing that the federal government is too big and out of control, equates, in your mind, to a complete lack of scientific understanding to the point of mental retardation.
Got it.
Just about everyone believes in something nonsensical and unscientific. Whether it's the 6,000 year nonsense of the religious wingnuts, or the notion that all humans are somehow equal in ability, per the lefty wingnuts. We'll probably also find that most First World people are firmly behind the concept of science -- that is, as a tool -- but more skeptical of the results sometimes generated. It's far too often nowadays that science is bent to the will of the politician or the ad-man.
I'm all for cutting military spending -- my exact words were, see above, "any spending cut is a good spending cut." I'm not sure why anyone is having trouble with that. The Constitution spells out the responsibilities of the federal government specifically.
Tax rebates are not spending. A tax rebate is where government takes my money, and then gives some of it back. Or takes less money from me in the first place. It's not government just giving me something, or spending money on me. Do you understand the difference, or do I need to use smaller words?
Do you think lower-class black people voted Romney? You whine and complain about what I say, but you haven't got a factual leg to stand on. Find me ONE working-class black person who voted for Romney over Obama! Oh, but that's not bias, is it? Give me a break. How many fresh immigrants vote Republican? Oh right, none. You're complaining because I'm speaking the truth and you can't deny it.
We all know what dregs look like. We all know where we don't want to walk alone at night, or walk at all. We know what appearances to avoid: nice looking Jewish or Asian men in suits don't rob us. Unless they're lawyers, but that's another story. This isn't prejudice. It's observation.
"The Daily Show" is not a news program. It's a comedy show. Did you notice it's on a network called "Comedy Central"? Though I'm hardly surprised a liberal doesn't understand the difference.
Scientific knowledge isn't everything when it comes to leadership, management, politics, etc..
It sure was everything when an idiot Republican congressman made some idiotic remarks about rape just a few months ago. Oh, then it was all about how conservatives are scientifically illiterate and should be retroactively aborted.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, isn't it? Now that someone has shown that conservatives average higher scientific literacy, suddenly that doesn't matter as much as your vague "squishy human factors".
FWIW, 535 members of Congress hold about 10 STEM degrees. I cannot see any harm in having more scientists in Congress.
The stereotypical Tea Partier is, for me, an unemployed truck driver in front of the Capitol Building holding an effigy of Obama and a sign with racist epithets. I'm not trolling here; it's what a lot of people saw during the early days of its "coming out" on the cable news networks 4-5 years ago.
You should probably learn the difference between what's on television, and what is reality. You have just described a Democrat voter -- because your unemployed truck driver is probably a Teamster who votes Democrat because his union does.
I am a college graduate, a business owner, and I was Tea Party before you ever heard of it.
Stereotypes can be useful things, but only if you pull your head out of your ass and get them right.
2) Refused to even allow debate about gun-law reform as children are murdered in movie theatres and preschools. (2012)
That's because some of us are intelligent enough to have observed that criminals do not obey laws. We have also observed that governments which disarm their people become tyrannical. Want my guns? Come get 'em.
3) Held hostage the national debt forcing the most austere sequester in federal government history, leading to spending cuts and furloughs (2013)
Good. Any spending cut is a good spending cut. As it turns out, us fiscally conservative people you hate use our money more wisely than the government does.
4) Shut down the government and almost lead to the worst global economic disaster since the Great Depression (TWO DAYS AGO)
Funny. Two weeks of no government and I didn't notice a single difference. Global economic disaster? Melodrama much?
If you were to get a proper representation of the Tea-Party demographic (the three-C's: climate-change deniers, creationists, capitalists), you would find that there are more GEDs and high-school drop-outs than college elite. You would also find that multiple studies have proven that the college elite (read: EDUCATED) tend to be liberal.
You might not be patting yourself on the back if you'd stood in line to vote in my precinct. Obama's biggest constituencies seem to be welfare trash, non-English-speaking immigrants, drug addicts, and various other dregs of the big city. Conversely, everyone I know who owns a business AND a college degree votes Republican. The backbone of the American economy is not interested in the opinions of ivory tower liberals or Starbucks coffee-jerks.
I support a good part of the Tea Party platform because I can do math. Taxes are too high, spending is too high, and if the segment of our populace that depends on taxpayer funds for its living grows much more in contrast to those who provide the funds, the whole system will collapse.
I'm also pretty liberal on social issues, a passionate environmentalist, and a gun owner. I believe in equal rights for all under the Constitution. I'm okay with gay marriage. I'm agnostic. And I've never voted for a Democrat in my life.
Kahan wrote. 'But then again, I don't know a single person who identifies with the tea party,' he continued.'"
That's because Mr. Kahan has never left his Yale Law ivory tower long enough to meet anyone unlike himself.
He is also probably unaware of some important historical facts. Tea Party was not originally a GOP subset. It was a non-affiliated movement called "Taxed Enough Already" consisting mostly of independent voters. I am not pleased that the movement has been co-opted and turned into something different, but someone has to carry the torch of smaller government.
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Yikes! If it were that complex, I'd have dropped Fedora already. It's a bit simpler than that, luckily...
yum install akmod-nvidia
As long as you have kernel-devel, akmod will build your driver when you boot your new kernel.
That, right there, is my biggest beef with Fedora -- they push out kernel updates in the repos without waiting for nvidia modules to match. Of course, akmod solves that problem, but it's definitely one bugaboo of having to get drivers from rpmfusion instead of them being a part of the main repo. They were doing better for a while, but recently, the problem is back. What was it, over a week, the nvidia module was behind? All it would take is a little communication and coordination, I should think.
Fedora is indeed superior on external monitors for laptops, but since I use my laptops for field work, I don't like having to dick with them, never knowing when some update is going to break something. I don't have time for it. I run Mint on the laptops now. One with Cinnamon, one with KDE. Going to KDE on the second one, too, soon as I get a new SSD for it. Never, ever, ever liked Gnome. Mint is polished, stable, usable by non-techies, and I feel good about migrating Windows users to it.
Fedora is still my go-to non-GUI server distro though... as long as I stay a version behind. I've gotten used to the structures of Fedora since the days of FC3, and I suppose it's more habit than anything.
so people like me, who administer hundreds of servers, dumped red hat. I've actively been phasing out redhat on hundreds of servers in favor of two other distributions at my employer who has over a million users. At my last employer, I lead the same effort, with clients who have billion dollar plus IT budgets.
Seems to me those are the types of companies with the types of budgets that can both pay for RedHat's subscriptions, and benefit from them.
And it should be mutual... as I understand it, Red Hat *Enterprise* Linux is geared toward just that target market. As handsomely paid as I'm sure you are, I'm not sure why I'm picking up a tone of sour grapes in your post. Also, if you want RHEL for free, there is CentOS... which is still based on work done by the evil Red Hat Corporation.
And really, it's not that much different than the business model of other Linux companies. SuSE doesn't give you their enterprise stuff for free, nor does Ubuntu. None of it bothers me. As far as I'm concerned, Linux has always been free for nerds... and someday, when my company has a billion-dollar budget to upgrade our cloud, we'll no doubt be writing checks, happily, to RedHat.
anyone who kills or risks being killed for the US Constitution should have our respect.
I do not think the people who will do that are the people you think they are.
As it stands, soldiers do what they're told. Their orders come from Congress (theoretically) and the president (currently), neither of which give a flying fuck about the Constitution.
Today's soldier is no less the gullible young testosterone-laden hellion than any soldier of the last umpteen-thousand years of history, and no less prone to penis-waving and patriotic bullshit. The only rule of history that never changes... is that we never learn from it.
First AC I've seen at +5 Insightful for a while.
But by the time I hit "reply" it was down to +4. What fuckwit is down-modding this? (Uhhh.... I'll take "Monsanto Shills" for $500, Alex!)
Someone out there has a problem with the idea that *life itself* shouldn't be subject to patent law? I'll wring your fucking chicken neck.
There's at least one of you on every fucking forum on the internet. How much do they pay you?
Do you think we don't notice the very narrow range of threads you post on? Shit, I bet I've run across YOU before, with a different user name. Are you guys subcontractors, or do you work full time in PR? I'd say desperate college kids in some stupid major that will never pay anything (Communications!) trying to make a buck, or some such.
I've seen you everywhere from extreme right-wing political forums to organic gardening BBSs. Same words, same phrasing, same links to the same few bullshit court cases. It's always EXACTLY the fucking same story from you fucks.
Sure, there are some things you need to disconnect your battery for.
But changing your spark plugs ain't one of them, and anyone who knows a ratchet from his elbow knows it. Some people are just born to be raped I guess.
The funny thing is, it's been years since I've heard of a car stereo theft. They just aren't worth it any more. I have, however, had my door locks destroyed and a window smashed out to get at an old iPod. I've never bought another one.:-P
I might as well be a molecular biochemist trying to discuss DNA coding with a construction foreman.
Okay, I'm a corner case, but....
Careful with your insults there. I was once a construction foreman myself. I grew up in the business, am good at it, and enjoy the smell of sawdust. I'm in IT now because construction doesn't pay much and has too many foreigners. I'll still build my own house one day.
But I assure you, I can discuss all sorts of scientific minutiae with you, oh great genius who has never stooped to manual labor. You might have a skill or two I don't... I've got hundreds you don't, I promise you.
I'll never forget the time, when I was a 17-year-old lowly construction grunt, listening to some classical music in my truck whilst eating my lunch... the foreman came over to talk to me, and asked... "is that Debussy?" It was.
What the fuck? We're not running out of water. What we don't have is storage.
(Speaking for the US here, but) the civil engineers have, for decades, engineered every city to make water RUN OFF as fast as possible, downhill.
Then we wonder why the Mississippi and the Ohio and the Missouri fucking flood every year.
But it's fucking ILLEGAL up here in Colorado, where the water falls highest, to dig a wee pond to hold some, or even to put a rain barrel at the bottom of your downspout.
This isn't a science problem, it's a political problem. Oh, and hey, watch this! We stop so much water running back to the ocean... we check those rising sea levels!
There's oceans full of water that evaporate into fresh water and fall on the land... but only so much falls in a year. Hold the water ON THE LAND. This is a fuckin' no-brainer, people. Get out the bulldozers, build ponds, cut swales, trap the water.
I always test new Fedora releases on my laptop, not my work machine (Fedora user since FC4)... and other than the new disk partitioning scheme in the F18, I see nothing horrible. That is to say, the partitioning bit of Anaconda is fucking horrible in F18. 14 releases of Fedora for me, and I've been loyal... and this is fucking shit.
I'm a KDE user. Once installed, F18 with KDE is fine. Great. I love it. Fedora/KDE is the dog's bollocks.
My major beef is with the partitioning utility part of the installer. Fix that, Fedora crew, and you will regain my faith. Oh, and I want the option back to select packages.
I will not pitch a fit, or go drama-queen and go to NoobUntu. I love you, Fedora. But srsly. Fix that fucking installer. Nao.
Meanwhile, my work machines run F17. The best desktop Linux evar!!!, IMO.
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Hey now... we were promised transparency by the Precedent, and we got it! All the corruption is completely out in the open now!
I've seen it go as far as people wanting to ban manual transmission because it takes your mind off the road and you need both hands on the wheel--while statistics show that manual transmission drivers are better drivers
I would love to see those statistics -- just to back me up. The idea just seems logical. If you can manage to use both hands and both feet to accomplish something, it would seem to indicate good motor skills. Consider the safest class of drivers on the road -- pros who drive tractor-trailer rigs, which almost universally have manual transmissions.
Most of the worst driving I see on the highways are vehicles that don't come with a manual option, like large SUVs. It would seem more likely that driving a vehicle with an automatic requires less focus on the task of driving, thus increasing the ease of distraction.
I'll go so far as to say that a person (barring some physical handicap) who cannot manage the coordination to drive stick probably shouldn't be driving at all.
And that's not even touching the subject of the superior fuel economy with manual transmissions... automatics are bad for the environment!
Recently I attended a small dinner party. After dinner, everyone gathered in the living room, ostensibly to play board and card games. I ended up being the only one paying any attention to the game, or anyone or anything else. The others were too busy constantly checking Facebook or whatever else stupid shit on their smartphones. The Whole Damn Evening. It looked for all the world like I was sitting in a gathering of zombies mindlessly poking at their little screens, grudgingly deigning to be interrupted only when it's their turn to play.
It was so wrong on so many levels -- not least of which is that it's just poor manners. Why invite guests to your home if you're going to ignore them? Are you too busy tweeting about your party to actually mentally join the same space your body is physically occupying? Are we all too boring for each other? Has the "like" button become a substitute for conversation?
An amusing parallel presented itself. Author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) philosophizes, a bit tongue-in-cheek, that we humans don't use corn so much as it uses us to spread its genes around the planet. Corn cannot spread itself, so it's found a way to make us its servant. Are the technological gewgaws doing the same thing? Are humans just hosts for the proliferation of electronic parasites? Are we simply becoming part of a global machine, a la Lawnmower Man?
On second thought, perhaps it's not so amusing. It's just sad. It's not like anyone gives two shits when people they sorta know get a new pair of shoes, or are sitting at Starbucks, or has this trendy new political opinion. Ask them; they don't. Yet they cannot help themselves. They must watch the feeds and occasionally add their own half-sentence of nonsense to the meaningless chatter. It's becoming the dystopian "hive-mind" where the "social network" exercises more control over thought and behavior than does the individual himself. Let's not kid ourselves: someone who spends multiple hours per day on Facebook is, in some way, controlled by it.
Very true. Most websites could learn a thing or two from Craigslist. Function over Form, KISS.
To a point, yes. If I were engaging in a debate, I would have to provide evidence.
Most of the time, however, I'm not. I am not impressed by the consensus of large groups of people who spend half their day on Facebook proving what vapid idiots they are. Since when has consensus ever been an indication of truth, anyway? Everyone once agreed on geocentrism.
It is amazing how much "it's settled science!" sounds like "God said so!" isn't it?
I know people who regularly drop the "settled science" quips on social media (average intellectual level: ZOMG AGW is totally fer realz!!) -- people I personally know who could not even define the word "science". It's important to remember that there's a gulf between those who understand the method, and those who mindlessly parrot whatever is popular. The latter we call religion.
Fox's interpretation of this story or the tardbaggers' interpretation of that. I've already assigned "herp", "derp" and "6,000 years" to hotkeys.
Right... so believing that the federal government is too big and out of control, equates, in your mind, to a complete lack of scientific understanding to the point of mental retardation.
Got it.
Just about everyone believes in something nonsensical and unscientific. Whether it's the 6,000 year nonsense of the religious wingnuts, or the notion that all humans are somehow equal in ability, per the lefty wingnuts. We'll probably also find that most First World people are firmly behind the concept of science -- that is, as a tool -- but more skeptical of the results sometimes generated. It's far too often nowadays that science is bent to the will of the politician or the ad-man.
I'm all for cutting military spending -- my exact words were, see above, "any spending cut is a good spending cut." I'm not sure why anyone is having trouble with that. The Constitution spells out the responsibilities of the federal government specifically.
Tax rebates are not spending. A tax rebate is where government takes my money, and then gives some of it back. Or takes less money from me in the first place. It's not government just giving me something, or spending money on me. Do you understand the difference, or do I need to use smaller words?
Do you think lower-class black people voted Romney? You whine and complain about what I say, but you haven't got a factual leg to stand on. Find me ONE working-class black person who voted for Romney over Obama! Oh, but that's not bias, is it? Give me a break. How many fresh immigrants vote Republican? Oh right, none. You're complaining because I'm speaking the truth and you can't deny it.
We all know what dregs look like. We all know where we don't want to walk alone at night, or walk at all. We know what appearances to avoid: nice looking Jewish or Asian men in suits don't rob us. Unless they're lawyers, but that's another story. This isn't prejudice. It's observation.
What is hear on the news (CNN, the Daily Show)
"The Daily Show" is not a news program. It's a comedy show. Did you notice it's on a network called "Comedy Central"? Though I'm hardly surprised a liberal doesn't understand the difference.
Scientific knowledge isn't everything when it comes to leadership, management, politics, etc..
It sure was everything when an idiot Republican congressman made some idiotic remarks about rape just a few months ago. Oh, then it was all about how conservatives are scientifically illiterate and should be retroactively aborted.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, isn't it? Now that someone has shown that conservatives average higher scientific literacy, suddenly that doesn't matter as much as your vague "squishy human factors".
FWIW, 535 members of Congress hold about 10 STEM degrees. I cannot see any harm in having more scientists in Congress.
The stereotypical Tea Partier is, for me, an unemployed truck driver in front of the Capitol Building holding an effigy of Obama and a sign with racist epithets. I'm not trolling here; it's what a lot of people saw during the early days of its "coming out" on the cable news networks 4-5 years ago.
You should probably learn the difference between what's on television, and what is reality. You have just described a Democrat voter -- because your unemployed truck driver is probably a Teamster who votes Democrat because his union does.
I am a college graduate, a business owner, and I was Tea Party before you ever heard of it.
Stereotypes can be useful things, but only if you pull your head out of your ass and get them right.
2) Refused to even allow debate about gun-law reform as children are murdered in movie theatres and preschools. (2012)
That's because some of us are intelligent enough to have observed that criminals do not obey laws. We have also observed that governments which disarm their people become tyrannical. Want my guns? Come get 'em.
3) Held hostage the national debt forcing the most austere sequester in federal government history, leading to spending cuts and furloughs (2013)
Good. Any spending cut is a good spending cut. As it turns out, us fiscally conservative people you hate use our money more wisely than the government does.
4) Shut down the government and almost lead to the worst global economic disaster since the Great Depression (TWO DAYS AGO)
Funny. Two weeks of no government and I didn't notice a single difference. Global economic disaster? Melodrama much?
If you were to get a proper representation of the Tea-Party demographic (the three-C's: climate-change deniers, creationists, capitalists), you would find that there are more GEDs and high-school drop-outs than college elite. You would also find that multiple studies have proven that the college elite (read: EDUCATED) tend to be liberal.
You might not be patting yourself on the back if you'd stood in line to vote in my precinct. Obama's biggest constituencies seem to be welfare trash, non-English-speaking immigrants, drug addicts, and various other dregs of the big city. Conversely, everyone I know who owns a business AND a college degree votes Republican. The backbone of the American economy is not interested in the opinions of ivory tower liberals or Starbucks coffee-jerks.
I support a good part of the Tea Party platform because I can do math. Taxes are too high, spending is too high, and if the segment of our populace that depends on taxpayer funds for its living grows much more in contrast to those who provide the funds, the whole system will collapse.
I'm also pretty liberal on social issues, a passionate environmentalist, and a gun owner. I believe in equal rights for all under the Constitution. I'm okay with gay marriage. I'm agnostic. And I've never voted for a Democrat in my life.
Kahan wrote. 'But then again, I don't know a single person who identifies with the tea party,' he continued.'"
That's because Mr. Kahan has never left his Yale Law ivory tower long enough to meet anyone unlike himself.
He is also probably unaware of some important historical facts. Tea Party was not originally a GOP subset. It was a non-affiliated movement called "Taxed Enough Already" consisting mostly of independent voters. I am not pleased that the movement has been co-opted and turned into something different, but someone has to carry the torch of smaller government.
Yikes! If it were that complex, I'd have dropped Fedora already. It's a bit simpler than that, luckily...
yum install akmod-nvidia
As long as you have kernel-devel, akmod will build your driver when you boot your new kernel.
That, right there, is my biggest beef with Fedora -- they push out kernel updates in the repos without waiting for nvidia modules to match. Of course, akmod solves that problem, but it's definitely one bugaboo of having to get drivers from rpmfusion instead of them being a part of the main repo. They were doing better for a while, but recently, the problem is back. What was it, over a week, the nvidia module was behind? All it would take is a little communication and coordination, I should think.
Fedora is indeed superior on external monitors for laptops, but since I use my laptops for field work, I don't like having to dick with them, never knowing when some update is going to break something. I don't have time for it. I run Mint on the laptops now. One with Cinnamon, one with KDE. Going to KDE on the second one, too, soon as I get a new SSD for it. Never, ever, ever liked Gnome. Mint is polished, stable, usable by non-techies, and I feel good about migrating Windows users to it.
Fedora is still my go-to non-GUI server distro though... as long as I stay a version behind. I've gotten used to the structures of Fedora since the days of FC3, and I suppose it's more habit than anything.
so people like me, who administer hundreds of servers, dumped red hat. I've actively been phasing out redhat on hundreds of servers in favor of two other distributions at my employer who has over a million users. At my last employer, I lead the same effort, with clients who have billion dollar plus IT budgets.
Seems to me those are the types of companies with the types of budgets that can both pay for RedHat's subscriptions, and benefit from them.
And it should be mutual... as I understand it, Red Hat *Enterprise* Linux is geared toward just that target market. As handsomely paid as I'm sure you are, I'm not sure why I'm picking up a tone of sour grapes in your post. Also, if you want RHEL for free, there is CentOS... which is still based on work done by the evil Red Hat Corporation.
And really, it's not that much different than the business model of other Linux companies. SuSE doesn't give you their enterprise stuff for free, nor does Ubuntu. None of it bothers me. As far as I'm concerned, Linux has always been free for nerds... and someday, when my company has a billion-dollar budget to upgrade our cloud, we'll no doubt be writing checks, happily, to RedHat.
anyone who kills or risks being killed for the US Constitution should have our respect.
I do not think the people who will do that are the people you think they are.
As it stands, soldiers do what they're told. Their orders come from Congress (theoretically) and the president (currently), neither of which give a flying fuck about the Constitution.
Today's soldier is no less the gullible young testosterone-laden hellion than any soldier of the last umpteen-thousand years of history, and no less prone to penis-waving and patriotic bullshit. The only rule of history that never changes... is that we never learn from it.
First AC I've seen at +5 Insightful for a while. But by the time I hit "reply" it was down to +4. What fuckwit is down-modding this? (Uhhh.... I'll take "Monsanto Shills" for $500, Alex!) Someone out there has a problem with the idea that *life itself* shouldn't be subject to patent law? I'll wring your fucking chicken neck.
There's at least one of you on every fucking forum on the internet. How much do they pay you?
Do you think we don't notice the very narrow range of threads you post on? Shit, I bet I've run across YOU before, with a different user name. Are you guys subcontractors, or do you work full time in PR? I'd say desperate college kids in some stupid major that will never pay anything (Communications!) trying to make a buck, or some such.
I've seen you everywhere from extreme right-wing political forums to organic gardening BBSs. Same words, same phrasing, same links to the same few bullshit court cases. It's always EXACTLY the fucking same story from you fucks.
Burn in hell.
Sure, there are some things you need to disconnect your battery for.
But changing your spark plugs ain't one of them, and anyone who knows a ratchet from his elbow knows it. Some people are just born to be raped I guess.
The funny thing is, it's been years since I've heard of a car stereo theft. They just aren't worth it any more. I have, however, had my door locks destroyed and a window smashed out to get at an old iPod. I've never bought another one. :-P
I might as well be a molecular biochemist trying to discuss DNA coding with a construction foreman.
Okay, I'm a corner case, but....
Careful with your insults there. I was once a construction foreman myself. I grew up in the business, am good at it, and enjoy the smell of sawdust. I'm in IT now because construction doesn't pay much and has too many foreigners. I'll still build my own house one day.
But I assure you, I can discuss all sorts of scientific minutiae with you, oh great genius who has never stooped to manual labor. You might have a skill or two I don't... I've got hundreds you don't, I promise you.
I'll never forget the time, when I was a 17-year-old lowly construction grunt, listening to some classical music in my truck whilst eating my lunch... the foreman came over to talk to me, and asked... "is that Debussy?" It was.
Nerds don't always come in Dockers, dude.
Even when they were parading around people claiming we don't pay enough in taxes, those people were taking every possible break they could find.
Like Warren Buffett?
That one guy who says everyone should be forced to pay more tax, but seems to have forgotten that anyone may voluntarily pay more than the minimum?
What the fuck? We're not running out of water. What we don't have is storage.
(Speaking for the US here, but) the civil engineers have, for decades, engineered every city to make water RUN OFF as fast as possible, downhill.
Then we wonder why the Mississippi and the Ohio and the Missouri fucking flood every year.
But it's fucking ILLEGAL up here in Colorado, where the water falls highest, to dig a wee pond to hold some, or even to put a rain barrel at the bottom of your downspout.
This isn't a science problem, it's a political problem. Oh, and hey, watch this! We stop so much water running back to the ocean... we check those rising sea levels!
There's oceans full of water that evaporate into fresh water and fall on the land... but only so much falls in a year. Hold the water ON THE LAND. This is a fuckin' no-brainer, people. Get out the bulldozers, build ponds, cut swales, trap the water.
I always test new Fedora releases on my laptop, not my work machine (Fedora user since FC4)... and other than the new disk partitioning scheme in the F18, I see nothing horrible. That is to say, the partitioning bit of Anaconda is fucking horrible in F18. 14 releases of Fedora for me, and I've been loyal... and this is fucking shit.
I'm a KDE user. Once installed, F18 with KDE is fine. Great. I love it. Fedora/KDE is the dog's bollocks.
My major beef is with the partitioning utility part of the installer. Fix that, Fedora crew, and you will regain my faith. Oh, and I want the option back to select packages.
I will not pitch a fit, or go drama-queen and go to NoobUntu. I love you, Fedora. But srsly. Fix that fucking installer. Nao.
Meanwhile, my work machines run F17. The best desktop Linux evar!!!, IMO.