Ahhh. Your problem is you don't know the difference between an apostrophe and single or curly quotes.
Neither do you. The appropriate punctuation symbol for it's and they're is an apostrophe.
It looks like the AC got some of the quotation marks correct, but wanted to use a righthand single curly quotation mark in place of an apostrophe (and clicked through the preview without looking at it).
I notice that you didn't say what your favorite was, but I guarantee that somebody else thinks it tasted like shit. For every nasty MRE, there was somebody who really liked it. (Except menu 4. WTF was up with that one?)
He's referring to Voyager 1, which is about 139 AU (0.002 ly) from Earth. The gravitational lens probe would have to go to 550 AU, which is nearly four times farther than Voyager 1 has made it in 40 years.
It was clear from the first sentence of Katatsumuri's post that the thread had shifted from sending an interstellar probe to sending a local probe, but "local" is still way farther than we've ever managed to send anything (to some extent, because we haven't tried).
I think that Obama 2012 stickers make a very specific (and still relevant) point: "I voted for Obama even after he made it clear that 'Hope and Change' was a bunch of bullshit."
An Obama 2008 sticker, but no Obama 2012 sticker, says, "I only fell for it once... but everybody else did too, so there's no shame in that."
Having both, especially accompanied by a Hillary sticker, says, "You could run a dirty dishrag and I'd vote for it as long as it had a (D) after its name."
3) I think having a Trump bumper sticker in the bay area would be a great way to get your car vandalized.
Having any bumper sticker is a great way to get your car vandalized. Bumper stickers -- all of them, in all forms -- are fucking retarded and serve no useful purpose that I've been able to discern.
The one use I've seen is covering up previous acts of vandalism, but since those acts were likely motivated by already present bumper stickers, it's hard to count that as a "useful purpose".
The quote is, "Googlers are writing in, concerned about their safety and worried they may be 'outed' publicly for asking a question in the Town Hall."
Given that this guy was 'outed', fired, and had people online wishing him harm (yeah right, but whatever...), I'd say that people being modded down on Slashdot are less seriously impacted by voicing their opinions.
It's probably anyone who doesn't want to just parrot some vague and meaningless corporate "celebration of diversity" message that's scared to participate.
Apple makes extensive use of open source software and has no issues with partitioning the licensing of their systems and releasing open source and modified open source components. At this point, how could anyone who is familiar with open source software not know this?
The other half gets barfed up in a random place throughout the house.
You're lucky that the places are random. There are apparently designated vomit spots in my house depending on when they are deposited: during the day, it's under the bed or in an equally hard to clean spot; during the night, it's on the floor between the bedroom and the bathroom.
Well I was on board with the "different pesticide" argument. But you mean to tell me you feel better about the fact that it wasn't the pesticide that killed people, but some unrelated manufacturing contaminate that the company mixed in?
Welcome to the world of government contract manufacturing.
Monsanto didn't develop the manufacturing process for Agent Orange and didn't "mix in" the dioxin (nor were they the only company manufacturing it under this contract). They apparently even detected the dioxin contamination in the final formulation but weren't permitted to change the manufacturing process to remove it.
If we can get food producers to separate plants that process peanuts and shell fish from the rest of their products, why can't we require processing of dangerous chemicals in plants separate from safe pesticides?
We can and do, but in this particular case the requests by the manufacturing companies to revise the process and further purify the product was denied by the government. The best that the companies could have done is refuse to enter or fulfill the contract in the first place.
I'm right there with you on requiring the manufacture of safe products, but this particular case was caused by governmental malfeasance and not industrial corner-cutting.
Why would Uber want to fix this? Surge prices benefit the drivers as well as Uber. I'd be surprised if this strategy wasn't directly seeded by Uber itself.
Open office is simply a much less pleasant environment in which to work.
Of course it is, as demonstrated by the people who made these decisions giving themselves offices with doors. Executives and upper management, whose almost entire job function is socialization and "collaboration" don't deprive themselves of offices with doors.
I think it's all about management not having a very solid understanding of what the workers do and needing to literally see them in their seats furiously tapping at their keyboards to feel like they're "managing".
Systemd, the init system, is workable and has welcome improvements over sysvinit scripts. (Along with the other replacement init systems, even though I'm partial to the init scripts myself.)
Systemd, the ever growing cancer that seeks to subsume the entire linux userland, is a clusterfuck and the source of almost all of these security issues. Init system have no place enforcing arbitrary username restrictions, handling domain name resolution, or making network time calls. Having the entire thing depend on a system-wide, constantly changing, the-implementation-is-the-documentation protocol is not a welcome improvement to the state of things.
I'm convinced that the only substantial success of advertising is in getting companies to pay for advertising. There may be some marginal benefit for entirely unknown brands, but there's no way that companies get $100bn of value out of it, in the US alone.
Is that not the case in the US right now (at the federal level anyway)? I can't think of any weapon that law enforcement can have that ordinary citizens can't legally own. Some things require more paperwork (which is bullshit) for an ordinary citizen, like short-barreled shotguns, machine guns, or concussion grenades, but everything is still available to be had. Automatic firearms are stupidly expensive for ordinary citizens to obtain, but law enforcement don't use automatic weapons either.
The only weapon that I can think of that ordinary citizens can't own is a switchblade and the laws surrounding those are slowly being dismantled.
Physicians are heavily regulated by a private organization composed entirely of physicians. We could just let guns be "heavily regulated" by the NRA and make the comparison complete.;)
Your "legitimate use cases" are business critical functions that you're running as fucking web apps hosted by third parties and your solution is to set up a framework for malicious advertisers to spam everybody in the world in a new way?
If an internet connection is critical for the functioning of your business, get a decent SLA or a redundant connection. Don't offload your poor business decisions onto the rest of us.
The idea of your business's robots and conveyors being monitored and managed by some goofy web app running "in the cloud" is terrifying.
A whole bunch of fucking websites with chatboxes beeping at me, why the hell would I want that?
I'm a contract programmer. One client prefers to discuss requirements using Skype, another using Discord, etc. I want to know when my client has answered my question about a particular point of the requirements.
Then get a more reliable internet connection or convince them to use deeply unhip, but curiously reliable, technology like telephone and email.
No... I'm sure the correct solution to your very specific and not at all universal problem is to set up a framework for malicious advertisers to spam everybody in the world in a new way.
The only thing I've ever bought at Wal-Mart is ammo and that's only because I was riding with somebody else who insisted in stopping there to get shells and clays. Using cut-rate ammo seemed a sketchy choice, so I left the rest of it with him.
Rubbermaid aren't considering the cost of wrecking their brand...
Sure they are. Somebody (or several somebodies), somewhere in Rubbermaid, is actively and deliberately converting the brand's reputation into personal (and maybe stockholder) wealth. It has value and they're cashing it out. Caring about the longevity of the company is outdated thinking.
Wordpad is also standard on all Windows systems and handles all line breaks properly. It also doesn't shit itself as often when you open gigantic files.
Anything can go to court; you just have to file a suit.
ICANN arbitration may be the appropriate place for reappropriating a domain name, but any idiot can sue you for reading their personal correspondence or interfering with their business interactions or stealing their email address or whatever. In a civil court, with the right amount of money and a decent legal team, you can keep anything in court for quite a long time.
You should know by now that there is no correlation whatsoever between "having access to enough money to bankrupt you in court costs" and "not being stupid", especially stupid about technical issues.
If you like fast startup but you like not wasting electricity, I suggest you look into putting your system into suspend or hibernate mode. I haven't seen the grub prompt on my desktop or servers for a while and even my laptop has an uptime measured in weeks. Who cares how fast it can startup services?!
(On the other hand, since using systemd on one of my systems, I've had to reboot that machine way more than I ever had to before. It reminds me of Windows now. I can see why fast boot times are an important feature of systemd!)
That's awesome! I love how quickly the conversation turns to not documenting this behavior because none of the previous behavior was documented anyway and it can change at any moment. Solid foundation, for sure!
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Ahhh. Your problem is you don't know the difference between an apostrophe and single or curly quotes.
Neither do you. The appropriate punctuation symbol for it's and they're is an apostrophe.
It looks like the AC got some of the quotation marks correct, but wanted to use a righthand single curly quotation mark in place of an apostrophe (and clicked through the preview without looking at it).
I notice that you didn't say what your favorite was, but I guarantee that somebody else thinks it tasted like shit. For every nasty MRE, there was somebody who really liked it. (Except menu 4. WTF was up with that one?)
He's referring to Voyager 1, which is about 139 AU (0.002 ly) from Earth. The gravitational lens probe would have to go to 550 AU, which is nearly four times farther than Voyager 1 has made it in 40 years.
It was clear from the first sentence of Katatsumuri's post that the thread had shifted from sending an interstellar probe to sending a local probe, but "local" is still way farther than we've ever managed to send anything (to some extent, because we haven't tried).
I think that Obama 2012 stickers make a very specific (and still relevant) point: "I voted for Obama even after he made it clear that 'Hope and Change' was a bunch of bullshit."
An Obama 2008 sticker, but no Obama 2012 sticker, says, "I only fell for it once... but everybody else did too, so there's no shame in that."
Having both, especially accompanied by a Hillary sticker, says, "You could run a dirty dishrag and I'd vote for it as long as it had a (D) after its name."
Having any bumper sticker is a great way to get your car vandalized. Bumper stickers -- all of them, in all forms -- are fucking retarded and serve no useful purpose that I've been able to discern.
The one use I've seen is covering up previous acts of vandalism, but since those acts were likely motivated by already present bumper stickers, it's hard to count that as a "useful purpose".
The quote is, "Googlers are writing in, concerned about their safety and worried they may be 'outed' publicly for asking a question in the Town Hall."
Given that this guy was 'outed', fired, and had people online wishing him harm (yeah right, but whatever...), I'd say that people being modded down on Slashdot are less seriously impacted by voicing their opinions.
It's probably anyone who doesn't want to just parrot some vague and meaningless corporate "celebration of diversity" message that's scared to participate.
Apple makes extensive use of open source software and has no issues with partitioning the licensing of their systems and releasing open source and modified open source components. At this point, how could anyone who is familiar with open source software not know this?
The other half gets barfed up in a random place throughout the house.
You're lucky that the places are random. There are apparently designated vomit spots in my house depending on when they are deposited: during the day, it's under the bed or in an equally hard to clean spot; during the night, it's on the floor between the bedroom and the bathroom.
Well I was on board with the "different pesticide" argument. But you mean to tell me you feel better about the fact that it wasn't the pesticide that killed people, but some unrelated manufacturing contaminate that the company mixed in?
Welcome to the world of government contract manufacturing.
Monsanto didn't develop the manufacturing process for Agent Orange and didn't "mix in" the dioxin (nor were they the only company manufacturing it under this contract). They apparently even detected the dioxin contamination in the final formulation but weren't permitted to change the manufacturing process to remove it.
If we can get food producers to separate plants that process peanuts and shell fish from the rest of their products, why can't we require processing of dangerous chemicals in plants separate from safe pesticides?
We can and do, but in this particular case the requests by the manufacturing companies to revise the process and further purify the product was denied by the government. The best that the companies could have done is refuse to enter or fulfill the contract in the first place.
I'm right there with you on requiring the manufacture of safe products, but this particular case was caused by governmental malfeasance and not industrial corner-cutting.
Why would Uber want to fix this? Surge prices benefit the drivers as well as Uber. I'd be surprised if this strategy wasn't directly seeded by Uber itself.
Open office is simply a much less pleasant environment in which to work.
Of course it is, as demonstrated by the people who made these decisions giving themselves offices with doors. Executives and upper management, whose almost entire job function is socialization and "collaboration" don't deprive themselves of offices with doors.
I think it's all about management not having a very solid understanding of what the workers do and needing to literally see them in their seats furiously tapping at their keyboards to feel like they're "managing".
Systemd, the init system, is workable and has welcome improvements over sysvinit scripts. (Along with the other replacement init systems, even though I'm partial to the init scripts myself.)
Systemd, the ever growing cancer that seeks to subsume the entire linux userland, is a clusterfuck and the source of almost all of these security issues. Init system have no place enforcing arbitrary username restrictions, handling domain name resolution, or making network time calls. Having the entire thing depend on a system-wide, constantly changing, the-implementation-is-the-documentation protocol is not a welcome improvement to the state of things.
I'm convinced that the only substantial success of advertising is in getting companies to pay for advertising. There may be some marginal benefit for entirely unknown brands, but there's no way that companies get $100bn of value out of it, in the US alone.
Is that not the case in the US right now (at the federal level anyway)? I can't think of any weapon that law enforcement can have that ordinary citizens can't legally own. Some things require more paperwork (which is bullshit) for an ordinary citizen, like short-barreled shotguns, machine guns, or concussion grenades, but everything is still available to be had. Automatic firearms are stupidly expensive for ordinary citizens to obtain, but law enforcement don't use automatic weapons either.
The only weapon that I can think of that ordinary citizens can't own is a switchblade and the laws surrounding those are slowly being dismantled.
Physicians are heavily regulated by a private organization composed entirely of physicians. We could just let guns be "heavily regulated" by the NRA and make the comparison complete. ;)
Your "legitimate use cases" are business critical functions that you're running as fucking web apps hosted by third parties and your solution is to set up a framework for malicious advertisers to spam everybody in the world in a new way?
If an internet connection is critical for the functioning of your business, get a decent SLA or a redundant connection. Don't offload your poor business decisions onto the rest of us.
The idea of your business's robots and conveyors being monitored and managed by some goofy web app running "in the cloud" is terrifying.
A whole bunch of fucking websites with chatboxes beeping at me, why the hell would I want that?
I'm a contract programmer. One client prefers to discuss requirements using Skype, another using Discord, etc. I want to know when my client has answered my question about a particular point of the requirements.
Then get a more reliable internet connection or convince them to use deeply unhip, but curiously reliable, technology like telephone and email.
No... I'm sure the correct solution to your very specific and not at all universal problem is to set up a framework for malicious advertisers to spam everybody in the world in a new way.
What I do is use http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ho......
I use that URL too, but I use it in the referrer field whenever I visit uBlock or JS Blocker to grab them. I hear that's how APK gets his wings.
I cringed when he said milk, too.
The only thing I've ever bought at Wal-Mart is ammo and that's only because I was riding with somebody else who insisted in stopping there to get shells and clays. Using cut-rate ammo seemed a sketchy choice, so I left the rest of it with him.
Rubbermaid aren't considering the cost of wrecking their brand...
Sure they are. Somebody (or several somebodies), somewhere in Rubbermaid, is actively and deliberately converting the brand's reputation into personal (and maybe stockholder) wealth. It has value and they're cashing it out. Caring about the longevity of the company is outdated thinking.
Wordpad is also standard on all Windows systems and handles all line breaks properly. It also doesn't shit itself as often when you open gigantic files.
Anything can go to court; you just have to file a suit.
ICANN arbitration may be the appropriate place for reappropriating a domain name, but any idiot can sue you for reading their personal correspondence or interfering with their business interactions or stealing their email address or whatever. In a civil court, with the right amount of money and a decent legal team, you can keep anything in court for quite a long time.
You should know by now that there is no correlation whatsoever between "having access to enough money to bankrupt you in court costs" and "not being stupid", especially stupid about technical issues.
If you like fast startup but you like not wasting electricity, I suggest you look into putting your system into suspend or hibernate mode. I haven't seen the grub prompt on my desktop or servers for a while and even my laptop has an uptime measured in weeks. Who cares how fast it can startup services?!
(On the other hand, since using systemd on one of my systems, I've had to reboot that machine way more than I ever had to before. It reminds me of Windows now. I can see why fast boot times are an important feature of systemd!)
That's awesome! I love how quickly the conversation turns to not documenting this behavior because none of the previous behavior was documented anyway and it can change at any moment. Solid foundation, for sure!