Have you asked your government if there are any laws that make it onerous, unprofitable, or unreasonable for companies to provide service to your country?
I hear Australia has similar problems getting electronics for reasonable prices and getting video games which might depict violence.
Google also mandates verified boot for devices with AES performance over 50MB/s.
Who verifies it?
Google verifies it (with NSA consent)?
Or is it completely, 100% open source such that I can compile my own boot loader and sign it with my own key and install it myself?
Anything else really just means that the NSA have a backdoor to your device that you cannot remove because your boot loader is locked against you.
Look at the net worth of the top 500 richest people in the country.
Even if we confiscated every single penny from every single one-percenter in the entire country it wouldn't even pay off the deficit of a single year of Federal spending.
You see, the problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
But they shouldn't kid themselves that GCHQ or the British government or military is protecting them, the only thing that protects them is the bad press that would result.
And if the press should be controlled by the government?
This is precisely why, in the USA, we have the Second Amendment. The first line of defense against tyranny is the First Amendment. But if that fails then there's no other way but threat and/or usage of force and arms.
I would rather have a school shooting every single day killing tens of people each time than have death camps, mass starvation, secret police, and ultimate poverty like they have in totalitarian states like Cuba, North Korea, Iran, China, Soviet Russia, etc. etc.
But it's not a dichotomy is it? We can defend against mass shootings (which really are actually quite rare) and protect liberty at the same time thanks to the foresight of the founders of the USA.
If I were a UK citizen right now I'd emigrate to the US. Failing that I'd work day and night to secure the freedom of UK citizens to keep and bear military arms. Because the alternative is far far worse than a couple MPs being embarrassed or blackmailed. History has proven it over and over again.
What is the root of the problem?
What solution would solve the problem?
By the way, I consider anything involving socialism, oligarchy, or any totalitarian state to be much worse than the current system.
Any "striking at the root" must improve the system, not merely destroy it so that it can replaced by garden variety misery.
It's not about safety.
It's not about "thinking of the children".
It's not about school shootings.
The whole point is to disarm the American public. That's it. Plain and simple.
Why? So that "they" can ass rape the constitution even harder than they already are... or just throw the piece of paper and all pretense directly in the trash and take us galloping back toward a good ole fashioned oligarchy.
Soccer moms and self-righteous-on-your-behalf liberal pussies are just useful idiots. And considering that/. editors posted this blatantly political bullshit they're making it obvious whose side they're on. Fuck you,/. editors and Dice.
Does the government physically build the roads and bridges? Well... no... contractors do that Does the government pay the contractors? Well... no... the taxpayers do. So... What... would you say... the government does here?
Why not just skip the middlemen? (politicians getting rich after they get into office?!)
Because building up a huge all-encompassing governmental establishment is what the statist Democrats are all about. Good luck getting the parasites to bite the hand that feeds.
I am not forking the kernel out of a sense of entitlement. Nor am I offended or angry at any of my co-workers though we have had actual shouting matches that got personal on more than one occasion. On the contrary, I feel like my co-workers are family.
My list of accomplishments is very very short and none of them weighty or important.
But all of that is completely irrelevant to the point that I was making. AC GP, what you just did was nothing more than an ad hominem attack.
What talent? The SJWs are all pretty talented at being hypocritical and shedding crocodile tears at the UN, but they don't seem to be any good at actually writing code.
If they were then Zoe Quinn's "game" would have been more than reams of self-pitying text and some multiple-choice. A teenage script kiddie could do better.
Sarkeesian would have several AAA titles under her belt instead of just talking about how everyone else should make games to suit her.
That female kernel dev from yesterday would have forked the kernel herself or done something really impressive if she had the chops-- instead she apparently couldn't hang with the real bad asses and tried to make it sound like it was everyone being mean to poor little her. But as far as I can tell she butted into some good-natured ribbing between friends on the mailing list and got all offended at remarks that had absolutely nothing to do with her.
Ellen Pao is precisely the same way: lots of talk and being offended but has never actually accomplished anything aside from ruining Reddit (love it or hate it).
Poetering is the only programmer target of persecution I've ever heard of that actually doesn't deserve the hatred and who has actually accomplished something. But, oh, look: he's not a SJW and he doesn't make a living from being permanently offended; he makes a living writing code and gettin' stuff done (regardless of whether you hate systemd).
The FOSS community will be much better off without the SJW "contributions". Kernel development should be done by programmers not by self-righteous whiners who complain on twitter about how offended they always feel instead of fixing bugs. We'll never hear of this fork of the kernel ever again because the people behind it are not trying to make good software. I'm not saying that Linus' methods are efficient or effective, just that the goals are different.
Prediction: next week Amazon will announce a brand new product that is super special-- a streaming device that integrates Amazon Prime called AmazonTVCast.
We'll know which depending on what happens to the underpaid crackers.
If the underpaid crackers are arrested and disappeared then we know they failed.
If the underpaid crackers are able to finagle their legal way to getting out of the contract yet continue to bring in more government contracts then we know they succeeded and that their "failure" was a lie.
Thank you for being deep and insightful, doublebackslash.
My specific criticism is that it always seems like/. takes the side of NASA (and science/scientists in general) every time on every issue and treats it all like its some kind of democratic process. Then when anyone dares to question "what 99.99% of scientists say" they're modded into oblivion. A key example: climate change. Another one: systemd. Another one: leftist/socialist ideas of economics and social governance.
I'm not necessarily opposed to coming to a consensus if that consensus is reached through a careful, rigorous, and tested and reproduced approach. But that never seems to be the case with the institution of science itself and scientists themselves. It's always assumed by the crowd that they "did the research" and did it correctly.
Yet almost every day on/. I see articles about how medical research can't be replicated, popular governmental regulations backfiring, public healthcare falling far short and far over budget, anyone who questions the "scientific consensus" being modded down (but not for any real reason), slashdotters getting shrill and calling for blood if anyone dares to cut funding to this or that program which would ultimately just give us more pictures of places that we'll never see etc.
At times I feel like one should be required to post a three-point essay with citations in order to mod others down lest dissenting opinions be trashed for no other reason than that they're speaking an unpopular opinion.
I guess really what I want is a good system to filter merely unpopular (and potentially golden) opinion from plain garden variety trolling, off-topic stupidity, and trash.
I'm not a profound fellow, though I wish I was, and I need clarity to think and to reason about a subject. I can't get that if dissent is squashed mercilessly. And I think a lot of babies are and have been thrown out with the bathwater so to speak.
At the time all I could think of was how asinine the suit was and what a pretentious jerk Apple was being.
Now I think that Samsung was never worried either way because they could just continue business as usual and by the time the suit actually caught up (whether you agree with the ruling or not) it would already be way too late to actually affect Samsung. Brilliant, if this was the plan of some bean-counter all along.
You're 100% right and yet/. will flame you for saying anything bad about their precious messiah. Really slashdotters truly do worship science and scientists. I can't tell if it's pure narcissism (especially for those slashdotters that are themselves scientists and indulge in science worship) or just because we're losers that hope that science will save us... from ourselves.
And now they'll mod me down. Thus proving my point.
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Can they be as durable as the metal firearms?
They could actually be metal firearms.
Have you asked your government if there are any laws that make it onerous, unprofitable, or unreasonable for companies to provide service to your country?
I hear Australia has similar problems getting electronics for reasonable prices and getting video games which might depict violence.
Google also mandates verified boot for devices with AES performance over 50MB/s.
Who verifies it?
Google verifies it (with NSA consent)?
Or is it completely, 100% open source such that I can compile my own boot loader and sign it with my own key and install it myself?
Anything else really just means that the NSA have a backdoor to your device that you cannot remove because your boot loader is locked against you.
Look at the net worth of the top 500 richest people in the country.
Even if we confiscated every single penny from every single one-percenter in the entire country it wouldn't even pay off the deficit of a single year of Federal spending.
You see, the problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
TL;DR: get a job, hippie.
The same people that get derisive with us whenever we do anything too intelligent for them to follow.
Self-flattery is just about the least intelligent thing one can do.
But they shouldn't kid themselves that GCHQ or the British government or military is protecting them, the only thing that protects them is the bad press that would result.
And if the press should be controlled by the government?
This is precisely why, in the USA, we have the Second Amendment. The first line of defense against tyranny is the First Amendment. But if that fails then there's no other way but threat and/or usage of force and arms.
I would rather have a school shooting every single day killing tens of people each time than have death camps, mass starvation, secret police, and ultimate poverty like they have in totalitarian states like Cuba, North Korea, Iran, China, Soviet Russia, etc. etc.
But it's not a dichotomy is it? We can defend against mass shootings (which really are actually quite rare) and protect liberty at the same time thanks to the foresight of the founders of the USA.
If I were a UK citizen right now I'd emigrate to the US. Failing that I'd work day and night to secure the freedom of UK citizens to keep and bear military arms. Because the alternative is far far worse than a couple MPs being embarrassed or blackmailed. History has proven it over and over again.
Strike the root
What is the root of the problem?
What solution would solve the problem?
By the way, I consider anything involving socialism, oligarchy, or any totalitarian state to be much worse than the current system.
Any "striking at the root" must improve the system, not merely destroy it so that it can replaced by garden variety misery.
No. It needs a blob which includes special NSA software to run, which is only out for Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
I wish I had mod points. +1 for on-point Foundation reference.
It's not about safety.
/. editors posted this blatantly political bullshit they're making it obvious whose side they're on. Fuck you, /. editors and Dice.
It's not about "thinking of the children".
It's not about school shootings.
The whole point is to disarm the American public. That's it. Plain and simple.
Why? So that "they" can ass rape the constitution even harder than they already are... or just throw the piece of paper and all pretense directly in the trash and take us galloping back toward a good ole fashioned oligarchy.
Soccer moms and self-righteous-on-your-behalf liberal pussies are just useful idiots. And considering that
My humble attempt:
Strife yields Man's best.
Peace is not as bountiful.
What is excellence?
And this decision simply has to be reversed to fix this.
I think the decision that needs to be reversed is the decision to use Turd-press in the first place.
Does the government physically build the roads and bridges?
Well... no... contractors do that
Does the government pay the contractors?
Well... no... the taxpayers do.
So... What... would you say... the government does here?
Why not just skip the middlemen? (politicians getting rich after they get into office?!)
Why can't the Democrats do the same?
Because building up a huge all-encompassing governmental establishment is what the statist Democrats are all about. Good luck getting the parasites to bite the hand that feeds.
I am not forking the kernel out of a sense of entitlement. Nor am I offended or angry at any of my co-workers though we have had actual shouting matches that got personal on more than one occasion. On the contrary, I feel like my co-workers are family.
My list of accomplishments is very very short and none of them weighty or important.
But all of that is completely irrelevant to the point that I was making. AC GP, what you just did was nothing more than an ad hominem attack.
I'm interested. Could you please post that saying here?
What talent? The SJWs are all pretty talented at being hypocritical and shedding crocodile tears at the UN, but they don't seem to be any good at actually writing code.
If they were then Zoe Quinn's "game" would have been more than reams of self-pitying text and some multiple-choice. A teenage script kiddie could do better.
Sarkeesian would have several AAA titles under her belt instead of just talking about how everyone else should make games to suit her.
That female kernel dev from yesterday would have forked the kernel herself or done something really impressive if she had the chops-- instead she apparently couldn't hang with the real bad asses and tried to make it sound like it was everyone being mean to poor little her. But as far as I can tell she butted into some good-natured ribbing between friends on the mailing list and got all offended at remarks that had absolutely nothing to do with her.
Ellen Pao is precisely the same way: lots of talk and being offended but has never actually accomplished anything aside from ruining Reddit (love it or hate it).
Poetering is the only programmer target of persecution I've ever heard of that actually doesn't deserve the hatred and who has actually accomplished something. But, oh, look: he's not a SJW and he doesn't make a living from being permanently offended; he makes a living writing code and gettin' stuff done (regardless of whether you hate systemd).
The FOSS community will be much better off without the SJW "contributions". Kernel development should be done by programmers not by self-righteous whiners who complain on twitter about how offended they always feel instead of fixing bugs. We'll never hear of this fork of the kernel ever again because the people behind it are not trying to make good software. I'm not saying that Linus' methods are efficient or effective, just that the goals are different.
Or am I the only one to think that?
Prediction: next week Amazon will announce a brand new product that is super special-- a streaming device that integrates Amazon Prime called AmazonTVCast.
We'll know which depending on what happens to the underpaid crackers.
If the underpaid crackers are arrested and disappeared then we know they failed.
If the underpaid crackers are able to finagle their legal way to getting out of the contract yet continue to bring in more government contracts then we know they succeeded and that their "failure" was a lie.
Thank you for being deep and insightful, doublebackslash.
/. takes the side of NASA (and science/scientists in general) every time on every issue and treats it all like its some kind of democratic process. Then when anyone dares to question "what 99.99% of scientists say" they're modded into oblivion. A key example: climate change. Another one: systemd. Another one: leftist/socialist ideas of economics and social governance.
/. I see articles about how medical research can't be replicated, popular governmental regulations backfiring, public healthcare falling far short and far over budget, anyone who questions the "scientific consensus" being modded down (but not for any real reason), slashdotters getting shrill and calling for blood if anyone dares to cut funding to this or that program which would ultimately just give us more pictures of places that we'll never see etc.
My specific criticism is that it always seems like
I'm not necessarily opposed to coming to a consensus if that consensus is reached through a careful, rigorous, and tested and reproduced approach. But that never seems to be the case with the institution of science itself and scientists themselves. It's always assumed by the crowd that they "did the research" and did it correctly.
Yet almost every day on
At times I feel like one should be required to post a three-point essay with citations in order to mod others down lest dissenting opinions be trashed for no other reason than that they're speaking an unpopular opinion.
I guess really what I want is a good system to filter merely unpopular (and potentially golden) opinion from plain garden variety trolling, off-topic stupidity, and trash.
I'm not a profound fellow, though I wish I was, and I need clarity to think and to reason about a subject. I can't get that if dissent is squashed mercilessly. And I think a lot of babies are and have been thrown out with the bathwater so to speak.
I was about to post the same observation.
At the time all I could think of was how asinine the suit was and what a pretentious jerk Apple was being.
Now I think that Samsung was never worried either way because they could just continue business as usual and by the time the suit actually caught up (whether you agree with the ruling or not) it would already be way too late to actually affect Samsung. Brilliant, if this was the plan of some bean-counter all along.
You're 100% right and yet /. will flame you for saying anything bad about their precious messiah. Really slashdotters truly do worship science and scientists. I can't tell if it's pure narcissism (especially for those slashdotters that are themselves scientists and indulge in science worship) or just because we're losers that hope that science will save us... from ourselves.
And now they'll mod me down. Thus proving my point.
No sense of humor? No idea what "facetious" means? Have you never seen or heard of the Bayeaux Tapestry?
Aren't you dodging the point and bringing up irrelevant bullshit to derail and distract?
It's interesting to me that you made this into a religious thing while dodging the point. Not once have I mentioned anything religious at all.