Except of a law or guideline (also written by people) was preventing her from getting money, you'd still say "Law prevents woman from getting her money."
If real journalism is dead, then how can we rely on "journalists" us what's fake?
Does nobody see the fundamental flaw here?
Look at the amount of establishment MSM pandering for Hillary Clinton during the election. We're supposed to trust these same journalists to "protect" us and highlight... pro-Clinton news as staged, fake news? Likewise, for any other conflict-of-interest. The MAJORITY of media companies are owned by a few multi-billion dollar corporations. Are we going to take their word on whether or not multi-billion dollar corporations are corrupt and ruining the country?
What the hell is a troll anyway? The news uses it so often now to basically mean, "Anyone we don't like."
It's like when these rags go to write a story they just roll a die full of meaningless words "Troll. Nazi. Misogynist. Sexist. Racist. White Supremicist. Deplorable. Rape apologist." and whatever word comes up, they just throw it out and expect nobody to question it. "They used Nazi to describe this person, so I'm pretty sure they're talking about a bad guy!"
Seems like a great strategy for gaining power. Promise liberals feel-good utopia to get their votes and money, and then as the other poster said, "drag them behind the shed and shoot them."
Like did you know Al Gore, Mr. Inconvenient Truth? While I'm NOT debating the validity of global warming, it's pretty alarming that Al Gore just-so-happens to own and run companies that directly benefit from green energy grants, including IIRC, one where polluting companies "buy" pollution credits from his company who gets the credits from companies that don't use their full allotment of pollution. So he's actually ENCOURAGING pollution by allowing shitty companies to buy the excess "not pollution" from actually green companies.
It should be read as: of people who were UNSATISFIED with their first doctor to the point they got a second opinion, were correct in their belief.
Not that 88% of doctors visits are wrongly identified. 99.999% of people who get a cold, and get some antibiotics, and feel better in a couple of days, aren't seeking a second doctor.
Maybe after you twats realize Democrats also voted for the bill, you could stop letting them get away with goddamn murder while you scream "REEEEEEEEE" at only half of the problem.
Once a year per vehicle? Once every ten years per fleet?
And I'm ALL FOR Right To Repair laws, and have spent literally hundreds of hours this year alone tearing apart things from vacuums, to computers, to synthesizers.
But before I can just give this guy my vote of support, I need to know what the actual stakes are.
The article doesn't provide any more details. Though, the quotes from the manufacturer already make me lean toward him. The manufacturer is trying to "protect pollution controls" (my ass) and "ensure resellability"... how does software impact vehicle wear? A vehicle hits a pothole, it breaks a rim. You check the rim. An engine blows, you replace the engine. What the hell could the software possibly touch that isn't also a part that could also mechanically fail?
I miss the days of being able to Google/Infoseek/Altavista/whatever whatever the hell I wanted, and not even REMOTELY or subconsiously worry about someone finding out about it and:
1 - Blackmailing me
2 - Government agents knocking on my door
All that mattered was finding information to satisfy curiosity. Now, my freaking TELEVISION is a permanently-on microphone being used to sell everything about me (per their own ToS!) to the manufacturer, to "business partners", and "third-party affiliates" and everyone else under the sun.
Remember when you first read the Anarchists Cookbook, as a kid? It didn't mean you were gonna blow up a school. It was just cool, stupid stuff to read. But now, you might as well be asking for a visit from federal agents. And it's been statistically proven that I'm no edge case, and that people aren't searching a variety of topics they used to.
We've passed from the Information Age of citizens using nearly infinite information to better themselves, into the age of Big Data wherein ALL INFORMATION no matter how conceptually small, must be tracked and exploited by billion dollar corporations and shady governments. And with every sensor and internet connection shrinking in price, the cost of tracking our every biometric data, every thought, every action, everything is now quickly becoming registered in a database... and we're just supposed to "trust" and have "faith" that these gigantic actors won't abuse their power, or, accidentally LEAK that same data.
It's no damn coincidence that hackers are worth big money now. Information is literal power. And any information that you take from citizens, the more valuable, the more likely someone will steal it--just like any valuable physical object. So our governments may not "abuse" tracking our every move, but SOMEONE will. If you build it, they will come. You can't stack untold amounts of valuable information into a single vault, and not expect a robber to sneak in during the night.
Ask me now I know this complete bullshit. I love explaining to clients they got fucked because they bought a product that Microsoft halfheartedly supported.
...that liked Unity. And I'm NO casual. But it made excellent use of space on a Netbook. I dislike how they basically use every possible meta key combination, but in exchange for that, I get super fast virtual-desktop commands, moving windows inside a desktop, and moving windows across desktops. My little 2 GB RAM Chromebook with ~10 inch screen converted to Ubuntu is the workhorse of my day. I use it for clients, for RDP, I use it at home for fun and programming hobby games.
I honestly don't know what I'm going to switch to now. I hate that you can't customize everything in Unity, but what you could customize with a few tools, worked well for me.
I combine Unity with Guake. Guake is a top-down multi-tab terminal like the Quake drop-down console. So I've got virtual desktops for each task, one for personal internet, one for business internet, one for taking notes, and one for running Audacity while recording conferences. Meanwhile, I use Guake and quake pops down with F5, and goes back up with F5. And, Guake doesn't change when you change virtual desktops. So I can have four tasks running, and tasks inbetween them can be in Guake. (Of course, Guake also has multi-tabs.)
So between the two, I'm very fast and efficient with my keypresses. People will watch me work and be amazed. And I go, "This is Linux, and it's awesome."
But Unity is a big chunk of that efficiency for me. People say it's slow and fat, but my 2 GB RAM laptop seems to be just fine with it. It almost never crashes. I've got some plugins for it that work well for monitoring stats. Meanwhile, I open a single Google Doc in Chrome on my system and it takes almost half of my entire machine's memory and CPU usage. And even sites that aren't as notoriously fat as Google Docs, still fill up my RAM fast. So my entire supposedly "fat slow" system is dwarfed by most websites.
So, yeah, this kind of sucks. Just when these dumb twats at Canonical get people to change (while telling us the whole time "this is the BEST way to do Linux!") they change their minds and go back. So whatever high ground they had before, they just lost by going right back to GNOME3. Who the hell is running that company? A couple of monkey's humping a random number generator? I can't wait to find the next "modern feature" they shoved down our throats, only to change their minds on.
You don't get it mostly because you're an idiot.:P
You know what men like? COMPETITION. You know what those games represent? COMPETITION. They have "hunting". They have gathering resources.
Quake 3 isn't about killing people. It's about winning a game. (Notice I said "Game" and not "Video game".) An abstract game where people don't actually die. It's NO different than playing tag. No different than playing cops and robbers. The robbers "compete" to FLEE, and cops "compete" to CATCH.
When someone in Quake 3 dies, there is no family crying. There is no funeral. There is no sadness. You just respawn.
Men naturally (that is BIOLOGICALLY) create hierarchical systems, and then compete within those systems for the top. Men compete in chess. Men compete in drag racing. Men compete in soccer. Men. Compete. It's a biological need. And only in the last couple decades where we've forgotten 95% of "what it means to be a man" is this a remotely novel concept.
Now, contrast this with war and, accidentally, some modern games. Google the death scenes in Dead Space. They're horrific. I can't play those games without intentionally desensitizing myself--and I don't want to. They're graphic. They're horrible. I don't want to watch my guy, screaming and crying out for help, as his spine is ripped out from his living body by a monster. We're heading fast for the uncanny valley and past it, where we're no longer shooting at 2-D sprite monsters going "ugh." every time they get hit, and heading for realistic looking pain and suffering. When you can actually empathize with simulated pain and suffering, that's no longer a abstracted "game" like cops-and-robbers. It's a simulation. And we SHOULD be super-careful about letting our kids play that.
It's pretty pathetic that Windows didn't support that back in... what... Windows Vista? You know, when multiple-core solutions starting becoming common...
But then again, this is Microsoft. Where they add a feature Linux has had for literally decades, like "virtual desktops" or "resizable console windows" and call it bleeding-edge technology.
It's 2017, and WE STILL DON'T HAVE A PACKAGE MANAGER. Oh, they added one... but it only works through the Windows Store so they can charge people for it. Embrace, Extended, Extinguish, indeed.
If you need a game optimized for your CPU, why not instead do this thing called "wait two years" and just play it with a faster CPU?
Slashdot in a nutshell: "Optimization is the root of all evil! BUT I'm PISSED WHEN PEOPLE DON'T DO IT FOR MY CPU."
I really don't get everyone's strange fascination with needing to play stuff the second it comes out. I've got an AMD FX-8370 and it runs games in 4K just fine. Why the hell would I care whether I get 85 or 110 FPS? Likewise, even if a Ryzen "isn't as fast as an i7" I NEVER WANTED IT TO BE. What I wanted, was a fast, AFFORDABLE processor. I wanted bang for my buck. I've got plenty of other things that cost money every day, why would I spend $1000 on a CPU that'll be in a bargin in a few years.
However, Freedom of Speech predates the first amendment. The bill of rights didn't create the freedom of speech, it merely acknowledged it. The ancient Athens in 500 BC were doing just fine with freedom-of-speech before the USA ratified the Bill of Rights.
There is a long-standing precedent that societies that value freedom of speech create are freer, and create more content. Go ahead. Look at the countries with shit protections for speech, and watch how much art they produce. We're all waiting-in-line to grab the next hot Pakistani pop band's tickets!
Places that value freedom of speech flourish. Those that don't, collapse in upon themselves. The law is irrelevant. Values don't exist solely if they are ratified in law.
>Even if you are a rampant MS hater, this would set a really bad precedent: That software companies could be liable for data loss caused by things only incidentally related to their software.
What world do you live in where they're NOT liable?
If SQL server had a bug that deleted millions of dollars worth of banking data, they'd sure as hell get their asses sued. But when it's a customers data, it's okay?
Slashdot Mirror
Except of a law or guideline (also written by people) was preventing her from getting money, you'd still say "Law prevents woman from getting her money."
Nope, John Oliver still has a job in 2017.
Most people applying for bank accounts aren't zero years old. Seems reasonable.
If you haven't figured out how to use a condom yet, you should probably refrain from having sex.
If real journalism is dead, then how can we rely on "journalists" us what's fake?
Does nobody see the fundamental flaw here?
Look at the amount of establishment MSM pandering for Hillary Clinton during the election. We're supposed to trust these same journalists to "protect" us and highlight... pro-Clinton news as staged, fake news? Likewise, for any other conflict-of-interest. The MAJORITY of media companies are owned by a few multi-billion dollar corporations. Are we going to take their word on whether or not multi-billion dollar corporations are corrupt and ruining the country?
If you want an emulator, why not just emulate the windows version? What's the difference?
What the hell is a troll anyway? The news uses it so often now to basically mean, "Anyone we don't like."
It's like when these rags go to write a story they just roll a die full of meaningless words "Troll. Nazi. Misogynist. Sexist. Racist. White Supremicist. Deplorable. Rape apologist." and whatever word comes up, they just throw it out and expect nobody to question it. "They used Nazi to describe this person, so I'm pretty sure they're talking about a bad guy!"
Seems like a great strategy for gaining power. Promise liberals feel-good utopia to get their votes and money, and then as the other poster said, "drag them behind the shed and shoot them."
Like did you know Al Gore, Mr. Inconvenient Truth? While I'm NOT debating the validity of global warming, it's pretty alarming that Al Gore just-so-happens to own and run companies that directly benefit from green energy grants, including IIRC, one where polluting companies "buy" pollution credits from his company who gets the credits from companies that don't use their full allotment of pollution. So he's actually ENCOURAGING pollution by allowing shitty companies to buy the excess "not pollution" from actually green companies.
Unless its about Trump, then we immediately know we can take any person's claims as 100% truth.
At least, that's what I've learned from Slashdot. People we know are the bad guys, always did the thing people claim they did.
It should be read as: of people who were UNSATISFIED with their first doctor to the point they got a second opinion, were correct in their belief.
Not that 88% of doctors visits are wrongly identified. 99.999% of people who get a cold, and get some antibiotics, and feel better in a couple of days, aren't seeking a second doctor.
So wait, it kills shit, so it's good to inhale into your body?
You list all of those things as if we wouldn't be super happy with our noses not being assaulted on a daily basis by shit smells.
Maybe after you twats realize Democrats also voted for the bill, you could stop letting them get away with goddamn murder while you scream "REEEEEEEEE" at only half of the problem.
https://legiscan.com/TN/bill/H...
Facts? Get those goddamn facts out of here.
>. If they still decided to go I would always hope they would lose
What a narcissist. ;)
...how often does the software actually break?
Once a year per vehicle? Once every ten years per fleet?
And I'm ALL FOR Right To Repair laws, and have spent literally hundreds of hours this year alone tearing apart things from vacuums, to computers, to synthesizers.
But before I can just give this guy my vote of support, I need to know what the actual stakes are.
The article doesn't provide any more details. Though, the quotes from the manufacturer already make me lean toward him. The manufacturer is trying to "protect pollution controls" (my ass) and "ensure resellability"... how does software impact vehicle wear? A vehicle hits a pothole, it breaks a rim. You check the rim. An engine blows, you replace the engine. What the hell could the software possibly touch that isn't also a part that could also mechanically fail?
I miss the days of being able to Google/Infoseek/Altavista/whatever whatever the hell I wanted, and not even REMOTELY or subconsiously worry about someone finding out about it and:
1 - Blackmailing me
2 - Government agents knocking on my door
All that mattered was finding information to satisfy curiosity. Now, my freaking TELEVISION is a permanently-on microphone being used to sell everything about me (per their own ToS!) to the manufacturer, to "business partners", and "third-party affiliates" and everyone else under the sun.
Remember when you first read the Anarchists Cookbook, as a kid? It didn't mean you were gonna blow up a school. It was just cool, stupid stuff to read. But now, you might as well be asking for a visit from federal agents. And it's been statistically proven that I'm no edge case, and that people aren't searching a variety of topics they used to.
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
We've passed from the Information Age of citizens using nearly infinite information to better themselves, into the age of Big Data wherein ALL INFORMATION no matter how conceptually small, must be tracked and exploited by billion dollar corporations and shady governments. And with every sensor and internet connection shrinking in price, the cost of tracking our every biometric data, every thought, every action, everything is now quickly becoming registered in a database... and we're just supposed to "trust" and have "faith" that these gigantic actors won't abuse their power, or, accidentally LEAK that same data.
It's no damn coincidence that hackers are worth big money now. Information is literal power. And any information that you take from citizens, the more valuable, the more likely someone will steal it--just like any valuable physical object. So our governments may not "abuse" tracking our every move, but SOMEONE will. If you build it, they will come. You can't stack untold amounts of valuable information into a single vault, and not expect a robber to sneak in during the night.
...by the amount of willful blindness in Australia's government.
I mean, I thought for sure, once serious, real, things started dying on the planet, people would start caring. But I'm proven wrong every year.
Windows RT is depreciated, as are the tablets.
Ask me now I know this complete bullshit. I love explaining to clients they got fucked because they bought a product that Microsoft halfheartedly supported.
...that liked Unity. And I'm NO casual. But it made excellent use of space on a Netbook. I dislike how they basically use every possible meta key combination, but in exchange for that, I get super fast virtual-desktop commands, moving windows inside a desktop, and moving windows across desktops. My little 2 GB RAM Chromebook with ~10 inch screen converted to Ubuntu is the workhorse of my day. I use it for clients, for RDP, I use it at home for fun and programming hobby games.
I honestly don't know what I'm going to switch to now. I hate that you can't customize everything in Unity, but what you could customize with a few tools, worked well for me.
I combine Unity with Guake. Guake is a top-down multi-tab terminal like the Quake drop-down console. So I've got virtual desktops for each task, one for personal internet, one for business internet, one for taking notes, and one for running Audacity while recording conferences. Meanwhile, I use Guake and quake pops down with F5, and goes back up with F5. And, Guake doesn't change when you change virtual desktops. So I can have four tasks running, and tasks inbetween them can be in Guake. (Of course, Guake also has multi-tabs.)
So between the two, I'm very fast and efficient with my keypresses. People will watch me work and be amazed. And I go, "This is Linux, and it's awesome."
But Unity is a big chunk of that efficiency for me. People say it's slow and fat, but my 2 GB RAM laptop seems to be just fine with it. It almost never crashes. I've got some plugins for it that work well for monitoring stats. Meanwhile, I open a single Google Doc in Chrome on my system and it takes almost half of my entire machine's memory and CPU usage. And even sites that aren't as notoriously fat as Google Docs, still fill up my RAM fast. So my entire supposedly "fat slow" system is dwarfed by most websites.
So, yeah, this kind of sucks. Just when these dumb twats at Canonical get people to change (while telling us the whole time "this is the BEST way to do Linux!") they change their minds and go back. So whatever high ground they had before, they just lost by going right back to GNOME3. Who the hell is running that company? A couple of monkey's humping a random number generator? I can't wait to find the next "modern feature" they shoved down our throats, only to change their minds on.
You don't get it mostly because you're an idiot. :P
You know what men like? COMPETITION. You know what those games represent? COMPETITION. They have "hunting". They have gathering resources.
Quake 3 isn't about killing people. It's about winning a game. (Notice I said "Game" and not "Video game".) An abstract game where people don't actually die. It's NO different than playing tag. No different than playing cops and robbers. The robbers "compete" to FLEE, and cops "compete" to CATCH.
When someone in Quake 3 dies, there is no family crying. There is no funeral. There is no sadness. You just respawn.
Men naturally (that is BIOLOGICALLY) create hierarchical systems, and then compete within those systems for the top. Men compete in chess. Men compete in drag racing. Men compete in soccer. Men. Compete. It's a biological need. And only in the last couple decades where we've forgotten 95% of "what it means to be a man" is this a remotely novel concept.
Now, contrast this with war and, accidentally, some modern games. Google the death scenes in Dead Space. They're horrific. I can't play those games without intentionally desensitizing myself--and I don't want to. They're graphic. They're horrible. I don't want to watch my guy, screaming and crying out for help, as his spine is ripped out from his living body by a monster. We're heading fast for the uncanny valley and past it, where we're no longer shooting at 2-D sprite monsters going "ugh." every time they get hit, and heading for realistic looking pain and suffering. When you can actually empathize with simulated pain and suffering, that's no longer a abstracted "game" like cops-and-robbers. It's a simulation. And we SHOULD be super-careful about letting our kids play that.
It's pretty pathetic that Windows didn't support that back in... what... Windows Vista? You know, when multiple-core solutions starting becoming common...
But then again, this is Microsoft. Where they add a feature Linux has had for literally decades, like "virtual desktops" or "resizable console windows" and call it bleeding-edge technology.
It's 2017, and WE STILL DON'T HAVE A PACKAGE MANAGER. Oh, they added one... but it only works through the Windows Store so they can charge people for it. Embrace, Extended, Extinguish, indeed.
If you need a game optimized for your CPU, why not instead do this thing called "wait two years" and just play it with a faster CPU?
Slashdot in a nutshell: "Optimization is the root of all evil! BUT I'm PISSED WHEN PEOPLE DON'T DO IT FOR MY CPU."
I really don't get everyone's strange fascination with needing to play stuff the second it comes out. I've got an AMD FX-8370 and it runs games in 4K just fine. Why the hell would I care whether I get 85 or 110 FPS? Likewise, even if a Ryzen "isn't as fast as an i7" I NEVER WANTED IT TO BE. What I wanted, was a fast, AFFORDABLE processor. I wanted bang for my buck. I've got plenty of other things that cost money every day, why would I spend $1000 on a CPU that'll be in a bargin in a few years.
First Amendment, yes.
However, Freedom of Speech predates the first amendment. The bill of rights didn't create the freedom of speech, it merely acknowledged it. The ancient Athens in 500 BC were doing just fine with freedom-of-speech before the USA ratified the Bill of Rights.
There is a long-standing precedent that societies that value freedom of speech create are freer, and create more content. Go ahead. Look at the countries with shit protections for speech, and watch how much art they produce. We're all waiting-in-line to grab the next hot Pakistani pop band's tickets!
Places that value freedom of speech flourish. Those that don't, collapse in upon themselves. The law is irrelevant. Values don't exist solely if they are ratified in law.
>Even if you are a rampant MS hater, this would set a really bad precedent: That software companies could be liable for data loss caused by things only incidentally related to their software.
What world do you live in where they're NOT liable?
If SQL server had a bug that deleted millions of dollars worth of banking data, they'd sure as hell get their asses sued. But when it's a customers data, it's okay?
::cough:: I'll just leave this here... ::cough::
1,400 raped children in the UK by Muslim pedo ring while the UK police looked the other way to "not seem racist." (That's not even exaggerating.)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I guess ignorance really is bliss.