I don't disagree with what is being said against Hillary. But to assume Trump is beyond this sort of conduct is at best naive, and the fact that people only point fingers at Clinton when talking about corporate corruption is a little odd.
There is Pinta, which aspires to be a unofficial port of paint.net. But it is slow coming, and many features aren't present that are in paint.net. But it's WAY better than almost anything else, aside from Gimp (but it's way easier to pick up and use).
I have been using Vivaldi in Windows for a while now, and it has a built-in vertical tab option. The browser isn't fully open sourced, but if Firefox ever goes too far off the deep end, it's nice to have an alternative that offers vertical tabs.
There's nothing terribly wrong with incrementally better levels of autonomy in a vehicle. They just have to label it correctly and responsibly. The biggest issue with Tesla's 'autopilot' is the name. They want the title to get a lot of recognition for the system, but they are also over-hyping it's capabilities. People need to understand going into it that autopilot is not complete, and that attention needs to be used just like with cruise control and auto-parking features in other cars. As long as people know the limitations exist and get reminders during the drive, you can't blame the automaker for using the features as much as they want. This is the quickest and perhaps the only way to eventually reach a fully autonomous car that needs no driver; with real world testing and baby steps forwards.
I think this is definitely different from normal product/service based ads, in that trying to talk to a stranger on a random webpage about something as private and life-altering as abortion is different from trying to sell them a new pair of shoes on that same page, or trying to convince horny guys that you can grow their dicks with magic bullshit pills while they are visiting a pornographic website. Context matters.
Your opinion on desktop interfaces is not universal. I would not say I HATE simple desktops like Mate or XFCE or LXDE, but the straightforwardness of Unity and the fact that it's mostly set up in a pleasant way out of the box make it more ideal for me. The trade-off is they seem to have a fear of supporting large amounts of interface tweaking, but every desktop has strengths and weaknesses.
I think teaching kids not to be immediately terrified of the genitals of other humans is probably a better choice in this situation. Sometimes it makes sense for a middle school kid of be afraid of a particular naked person, but putting such an enormous taboo on sex and the human body in every instance does not help anybody except people with a puritan mindset.
They DO have tab stacking along with their verticle tabs feature, which I tolerate... but it's truly no replacement for the unstacking method used by Tree Style Tabs in Firefox. I would rather them fold downward than pop up as big thumbnails all over the screen. They could greatly improve this feature by allowing users to turn off thumbnails in the tab stack and just having a column of plaintext showing tab names.
See, again, it looks like you're saying almost nobody is trying to do ANYTHING. It can't be surprising for me to think you're misinterpreting the existence of bad actors and loudmouths as a lack of anyone trying to actually help. You spew off exaggerated emotional appeals in an insulting tone and expect me not to think you are trying to downplay the threats, which is as much a case of bad communication than me being bad at understanding your message. If it looks like a strawman and smells like a pile of straw, I'm gonna think it's a strawman. Of course, humanity should be doing waaaay more, but not everyone has the same interests or motivations. There _are_ people and groups who want to make actionable changes, but they are constantly fighting other people who are too comfy/greed/uninformed to go along with any plan that involves making a large switch-over to new energy sources. The media loves to sensationalize it, but you should know that isn't always the most accurate representation of what everyone thinks. In my mind, the correct thing to do isn't pay too much attention to useless hyperbole, but actually join the conversation to help clarify what's actually going on and what needs to be done. When I see people angry at the vocal alarmists without trying to grow meaningful discourse, I can't help but feel like they are cutting off their noses to spite their face.
I'm not going to respond to your strawman, to humor it would only help derail the actual conversation that most people try to have.
Destabilized climates can increase the strain on local and regional economies and make it easier for the scum of humanity to get a nice grip on desperate or angry populations. Climate change can only help spread the influence of terrorists and other evil organizations.
Rising temperatures will cause certain plants and animals to either move closer to the poles or die off. This may not seem like a big deal, and at a reasonable time scale it isn't really, ecosystems can adapt over long periods of time. Especially for people way up north. However, the speed at which the temperature could shoot up will not offer that window of transition for all life. This will also effect marine life. For every migration, there will be ecosystems that no longer match up correctly and species reaching dead ends they can't get around. Then you factor in the changing rain patterns... Droughts in places that aren't used to it, flooding in others. Human beings are NOT going to enjoy these changes, as crops will stop being as predictable and large regions may find themselves without cash crops they used to enjoy And those who hunt for food might not have much luck in that area anymore if their normal food start to move away en masse or die off. Granted, your family will likely have the money to import all the food they might need for a while, but for the poorest humans on the planet, this can be a pretty grim look forward.
I could get into ocean acidification (which is definitely NOT good, considering how much of our planet depend on small marine life to hold up the food chain and absorb CO2 from the air), rising sea levels that will devastate poor people and nations that can't afford big expensive walls to keep the sea at bay, all the mass migrations that will make Syria look like a fucking cakewalk, the occasional more powerful hurricane/typhoons, the slowing down of ocean currents that drag warm water into Europe, and the massive feedback loops from natural gas melting out of the permafrost and shrinking ice caps reflecting less sunlight etc (which is when things would REALLY get interesting)... but I don't know where you set your threshold for 'alarmist'. These things aren't just the ramblings of fear mongers, these are real and possible dangers based on pretty solid science that NEED to be brought forward. The reason why they may look like warnings is because, frankly, they should be. For a rough analogy, when there's a pretty good chance of hurricane hitting my area I damn well want to hear about it. Even if the chances that It'll kill me are very low and it's a week or so away, the threat is definitely worth getting a little worked up over.
Indeed, some people do choose to cry about the falling sky and employ hyperbole either for dramatic effect or just to further some stupid agenda. But if you're only going to concentrate on the loudmouths and overly comfortable politicians, it means you ignore the scientists, citizens, and other government workers who actually want to do something useful despite being held back by people with vested interests in keeping us on oil and coal. We don't need to be intentionally alarming to get the point across, but if we don't state the urgency now, eventually there might actually be cause for sirens going off and there won't be much anyone can do about it.
"Saying that the US would just dump people in a place they would shortly die from exposure or dehydration is not supportable. We don't do that and we didn't do it in the past when we deported people quiet freely."
No... I said he would not personally care if they did that. But I also said he does not really care if it never happens, and that the rest of the government would not allow him to even if he really wanted it to happen.
I'm not arguing for or against the rest of the post, I'm just being clear that Trump doesn't give a shit about anything as long as he gets a return on his investment, which he already has in many ways. If being a catalyst for bigotry, xenophobia, and inequality benefits his priorities, he'll go along with it.
I agree that this is an interesting project they are doing. I might end up trying it myself... But at the end of the day, the reasons I use Ubuntu extend beyond the interface and utilities it offers. Windows 10 is in many ways a privacy nightmare, and I use Linux as a way to get AWAY from that. I might fiddle with this as a way to play around while using Windows compatible software but It certainly won't replace Linux on my computer.
My post was 50 percent joke. I wasn't making any statement about whether or not illegal immigrants should be able to stay here, or how much of Mexico is a desert. On the other hand, I don't imagine Trump would really care about where they dump off the people they deport, and knowing what I do about the Mexican government, they likely wouldn't either. He doesn't give a rats ass about their well being, so if it were somehow possible and cheap to just dump them into Chihuahua and leave them, it wouldn't surprise me even a smidge. Saying the Mexican government is also shit doesn't prove that ours is not. And i'm not necessarily saying we treat immigrants and refugees badly. But proposing we spend enormous amounts of *extra* money to fortify and maintain that border more than we do now does not seem very cost effective.
Not that I expect him to actually succeed in deporting a large number of people anyway even if he wins in November. Dude's pissed off so many people on both sides of congress, cooperation doesn't look incredibly likely. Besides, actually following through with this plan wouldn't do much to benefit him. That just isn't his style to do work that he doesn't think he can get a return on.
I don't think I'd say trump wants to jam people into literal ovens, but he is talking about sending people back to deserts and making sure they stay there. If I had to compare a desert to any household appliance I would say it's an oven. Geologically speaking.
Seriously though, I hope this has something to do with an eventual Graphical refresh patch or something of the sort, where the resolution is bumped up to HD for modern machines to use on classic Blizzard titles. If they do some kind of re-release, I hope it goes out free to those with currently working copies of the game.
What grabbed my attention immediately was the vertical tab option. But now with the new tab suspension and session management, it's looking to replace Firefox if things keep going south at Mozilla. Very nice additions to Chrome from a small company. I hope they work on the tab grouping feature (like how tree-style-tabs handles them, the folding/collapsing feature is very convenient), and one day allow greater tweaking of the UI. Impressive work so far though!
Biggest issue is the non-free code... it's a crying shame, and it's forcing me to cling to Firefox as long as I can.
Same here. I am using uBlock origin as a NoScript substitute on my chrome-based browser, and decided to add ABP's acceptable ad list to it. I can never tell if it actually does anything because I still pretty much never see any adverts. Odd.
In addition to this, it would be a good idea to have any and all edits be viewable by other readers. A little "edited" icon will appear somewhere on the post, and clicking on it could highlight which lines were altered/removed and hovering/clicking over those lines will show the original text. Something like that should be possible if they were going to add an edit feature.
I modded someone else but I must throw it away to make a humble suggestion:
Perhaps -1 Incorrect would work if it's the only mod that not only allows posting after it, but requires it just to be used. So anyone who wants to downmod someone for being wrong MUST then go on to explain why they are wrong, and if they do not actually explain anything relevant, then I guess they'd get modded down and their mod removed from the post they downmodded.
Of course, that would likely be more complicated than it needs to be and would still be abused by people who don't understand the word "explain".
The logic still isn't there. A number of folks are talking about how Trump is the lesser evil compared to Hillbot. I don't know, maybe he is in some ways. But in other ways, It's clearly obvious that he is a disaster waiting to happen. At least with another Clinton, we'd get business as usual. Business as usual is shit, of course. But it's pretty predictable and routine. She is a snake with an obvious agenda. The only upsides to a Trump presidency is that he would be way more entertaining to watch, and the shitty U.S. political system DESERVES him for how much it screws people over with a broken two party system.
Trump tries to be a reaction to radical overly sensitive idealistic garbage and corrupt politicians. I can understand the allure of someone who is an asshole to people with that mindset, I really can. But Trump is a drastic OVER correction to the problem. He swings too far in the other direction. He spews hate, or more likely, words that inspire hate and imply hateful conclusions. And he embodies the driving force behind political corruption, but from the other side of the fence. He adds a greater divide to the population, and profits from it in ways he cares about; Notoriety and influence. And he doesn't care if he helps or hurts anyone else in the process. It's always about looking out for #1. Everyone who disagrees with him is worthless.
He obviously plans on using this to get more money, but right now it's feeding his ego and his image at the expense of everyone it touches. He's using simple manipulation and tribalism to exploit the anger, fear and 'values' of his fanbase. It's sickeningly effective, and proves that he is really good at being a terrible politician, which is ironic considering he runs on a campaign of not being a politician at all. He most certainly knows how to use their toolbox,
The only way I'm able to see this is as Trump doing more harm than good. Like a spark in a fireworks factory; really fun to watch but definitely something to enjoy from where it can't hurt you. Running up to embrace the colorful explosion to spite people in the neighborhood who complain about noise too often will not actually fix anything. Maybe I'm just naive, but I would rather try my best to fix the issues that surround me without hurting myself and causing undue harm to others. I would rather attack the disease, and not the symptoms. And find out what's actually causing the most problems and going after them the hardest, rather than concentrate on superficial problems or whether or not someone "earned" something without me knowing how deep cause and effect really go. Trump isn't trying to do any of those things, but does have people believe he has their best interests in mind because he reinforces their biases so effortlessly.
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I don't disagree with what is being said against Hillary. But to assume Trump is beyond this sort of conduct is at best naive, and the fact that people only point fingers at Clinton when talking about corporate corruption is a little odd.
There is Pinta, which aspires to be a unofficial port of paint.net. But it is slow coming, and many features aren't present that are in paint.net. But it's WAY better than almost anything else, aside from Gimp (but it's way easier to pick up and use).
We can only hope
I have been using Vivaldi in Windows for a while now, and it has a built-in vertical tab option. The browser isn't fully open sourced, but if Firefox ever goes too far off the deep end, it's nice to have an alternative that offers vertical tabs.
I accidentally modded you redundant, but now I'm commenting to say I agree and also sorry.
There's nothing terribly wrong with incrementally better levels of autonomy in a vehicle. They just have to label it correctly and responsibly. The biggest issue with Tesla's 'autopilot' is the name. They want the title to get a lot of recognition for the system, but they are also over-hyping it's capabilities. People need to understand going into it that autopilot is not complete, and that attention needs to be used just like with cruise control and auto-parking features in other cars. As long as people know the limitations exist and get reminders during the drive, you can't blame the automaker for using the features as much as they want. This is the quickest and perhaps the only way to eventually reach a fully autonomous car that needs no driver; with real world testing and baby steps forwards.
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I bet next you'll tell us that was unintentional.
I think this is definitely different from normal product/service based ads, in that trying to talk to a stranger on a random webpage about something as private and life-altering as abortion is different from trying to sell them a new pair of shoes on that same page, or trying to convince horny guys that you can grow their dicks with magic bullshit pills while they are visiting a pornographic website. Context matters.
Your opinion on desktop interfaces is not universal. I would not say I HATE simple desktops like Mate or XFCE or LXDE, but the straightforwardness of Unity and the fact that it's mostly set up in a pleasant way out of the box make it more ideal for me. The trade-off is they seem to have a fear of supporting large amounts of interface tweaking, but every desktop has strengths and weaknesses.
I think teaching kids not to be immediately terrified of the genitals of other humans is probably a better choice in this situation. Sometimes it makes sense for a middle school kid of be afraid of a particular naked person, but putting such an enormous taboo on sex and the human body in every instance does not help anybody except people with a puritan mindset.
They DO have tab stacking along with their verticle tabs feature, which I tolerate... but it's truly no replacement for the unstacking method used by Tree Style Tabs in Firefox. I would rather them fold downward than pop up as big thumbnails all over the screen. They could greatly improve this feature by allowing users to turn off thumbnails in the tab stack and just having a column of plaintext showing tab names.
aaaand /. logged me out with me realizing it. Cool beans.
See, again, it looks like you're saying almost nobody is trying to do ANYTHING. It can't be surprising for me to think you're misinterpreting the existence of bad actors and loudmouths as a lack of anyone trying to actually help. You spew off exaggerated emotional appeals in an insulting tone and expect me not to think you are trying to downplay the threats, which is as much a case of bad communication than me being bad at understanding your message. If it looks like a strawman and smells like a pile of straw, I'm gonna think it's a strawman. Of course, humanity should be doing waaaay more, but not everyone has the same interests or motivations.
There _are_ people and groups who want to make actionable changes, but they are constantly fighting other people who are too comfy/greed/uninformed to go along with any plan that involves making a large switch-over to new energy sources. The media loves to sensationalize it, but you should know that isn't always the most accurate representation of what everyone thinks.
In my mind, the correct thing to do isn't pay too much attention to useless hyperbole, but actually join the conversation to help clarify what's actually going on and what needs to be done. When I see people angry at the vocal alarmists without trying to grow meaningful discourse, I can't help but feel like they are cutting off their noses to spite their face.
I'm not going to respond to your strawman, to humor it would only help derail the actual conversation that most people try to have.
Destabilized climates can increase the strain on local and regional economies and make it easier for the scum of humanity to get a nice grip on desperate or angry populations. Climate change can only help spread the influence of terrorists and other evil organizations.
Rising temperatures will cause certain plants and animals to either move closer to the poles or die off. This may not seem like a big deal, and at a reasonable time scale it isn't really, ecosystems can adapt over long periods of time. Especially for people way up north. However, the speed at which the temperature could shoot up will not offer that window of transition for all life. This will also effect marine life. For every migration, there will be ecosystems that no longer match up correctly and species reaching dead ends they can't get around. Then you factor in the changing rain patterns... Droughts in places that aren't used to it, flooding in others. Human beings are NOT going to enjoy these changes, as crops will stop being as predictable and large regions may find themselves without cash crops they used to enjoy And those who hunt for food might not have much luck in that area anymore if their normal food start to move away en masse or die off. Granted, your family will likely have the money to import all the food they might need for a while, but for the poorest humans on the planet, this can be a pretty grim look forward.
I could get into ocean acidification (which is definitely NOT good, considering how much of our planet depend on small marine life to hold up the food chain and absorb CO2 from the air), rising sea levels that will devastate poor people and nations that can't afford big expensive walls to keep the sea at bay, all the mass migrations that will make Syria look like a fucking cakewalk, the occasional more powerful hurricane/typhoons, the slowing down of ocean currents that drag warm water into Europe, and the massive feedback loops from natural gas melting out of the permafrost and shrinking ice caps reflecting less sunlight etc (which is when things would REALLY get interesting)... but I don't know where you set your threshold for 'alarmist'. These things aren't just the ramblings of fear mongers, these are real and possible dangers based on pretty solid science that NEED to be brought forward. The reason why they may look like warnings is because, frankly, they should be. For a rough analogy, when there's a pretty good chance of hurricane hitting my area I damn well want to hear about it. Even if the chances that It'll kill me are very low and it's a week or so away, the threat is definitely worth getting a little worked up over.
Indeed, some people do choose to cry about the falling sky and employ hyperbole either for dramatic effect or just to further some stupid agenda. But if you're only going to concentrate on the loudmouths and overly comfortable politicians, it means you ignore the scientists, citizens, and other government workers who actually want to do something useful despite being held back by people with vested interests in keeping us on oil and coal. We don't need to be intentionally alarming to get the point across, but if we don't state the urgency now, eventually there might actually be cause for sirens going off and there won't be much anyone can do about it.
I just went there with the WOT extension enabled. What a jolly chuckle that gave me.
"Saying that the US would just dump people in a place they would shortly die from exposure or dehydration is not supportable. We don't do that and we didn't do it in the past when we deported people quiet freely."
No... I said he would not personally care if they did that. But I also said he does not really care if it never happens, and that the rest of the government would not allow him to even if he really wanted it to happen.
I'm not arguing for or against the rest of the post, I'm just being clear that Trump doesn't give a shit about anything as long as he gets a return on his investment, which he already has in many ways. If being a catalyst for bigotry, xenophobia, and inequality benefits his priorities, he'll go along with it.
I agree that this is an interesting project they are doing. I might end up trying it myself... But at the end of the day, the reasons I use Ubuntu extend beyond the interface and utilities it offers. Windows 10 is in many ways a privacy nightmare, and I use Linux as a way to get AWAY from that. I might fiddle with this as a way to play around while using Windows compatible software but It certainly won't replace Linux on my computer.
My post was 50 percent joke. I wasn't making any statement about whether or not illegal immigrants should be able to stay here, or how much of Mexico is a desert. On the other hand, I don't imagine Trump would really care about where they dump off the people they deport, and knowing what I do about the Mexican government, they likely wouldn't either. He doesn't give a rats ass about their well being, so if it were somehow possible and cheap to just dump them into Chihuahua and leave them, it wouldn't surprise me even a smidge. Saying the Mexican government is also shit doesn't prove that ours is not. And i'm not necessarily saying we treat immigrants and refugees badly. But proposing we spend enormous amounts of *extra* money to fortify and maintain that border more than we do now does not seem very cost effective.
Not that I expect him to actually succeed in deporting a large number of people anyway even if he wins in November. Dude's pissed off so many people on both sides of congress, cooperation doesn't look incredibly likely. Besides, actually following through with this plan wouldn't do much to benefit him. That just isn't his style to do work that he doesn't think he can get a return on.
I don't think I'd say trump wants to jam people into literal ovens, but he is talking about sending people back to deserts and making sure they stay there. If I had to compare a desert to any household appliance I would say it's an oven. Geologically speaking.
Seriously though, I hope this has something to do with an eventual Graphical refresh patch or something of the sort, where the resolution is bumped up to HD for modern machines to use on classic Blizzard titles. If they do some kind of re-release, I hope it goes out free to those with currently working copies of the game.
What grabbed my attention immediately was the vertical tab option. But now with the new tab suspension and session management, it's looking to replace Firefox if things keep going south at Mozilla. Very nice additions to Chrome from a small company. I hope they work on the tab grouping feature (like how tree-style-tabs handles them, the folding/collapsing feature is very convenient), and one day allow greater tweaking of the UI. Impressive work so far though!
Biggest issue is the non-free code... it's a crying shame, and it's forcing me to cling to Firefox as long as I can.
Same here. I am using uBlock origin as a NoScript substitute on my chrome-based browser, and decided to add ABP's acceptable ad list to it. I can never tell if it actually does anything because I still pretty much never see any adverts. Odd.
In addition to this, it would be a good idea to have any and all edits be viewable by other readers. A little "edited" icon will appear somewhere on the post, and clicking on it could highlight which lines were altered/removed and hovering/clicking over those lines will show the original text. Something like that should be possible if they were going to add an edit feature.
I modded someone else but I must throw it away to make a humble suggestion:
Perhaps -1 Incorrect would work if it's the only mod that not only allows posting after it, but requires it just to be used. So anyone who wants to downmod someone for being wrong MUST then go on to explain why they are wrong, and if they do not actually explain anything relevant, then I guess they'd get modded down and their mod removed from the post they downmodded.
Of course, that would likely be more complicated than it needs to be and would still be abused by people who don't understand the word "explain".
The logic still isn't there. A number of folks are talking about how Trump is the lesser evil compared to Hillbot. I don't know, maybe he is in some ways. But in other ways, It's clearly obvious that he is a disaster waiting to happen. At least with another Clinton, we'd get business as usual. Business as usual is shit, of course. But it's pretty predictable and routine. She is a snake with an obvious agenda. The only upsides to a Trump presidency is that he would be way more entertaining to watch, and the shitty U.S. political system DESERVES him for how much it screws people over with a broken two party system.
Trump tries to be a reaction to radical overly sensitive idealistic garbage and corrupt politicians. I can understand the allure of someone who is an asshole to people with that mindset, I really can. But Trump is a drastic OVER correction to the problem. He swings too far in the other direction. He spews hate, or more likely, words that inspire hate and imply hateful conclusions. And he embodies the driving force behind political corruption, but from the other side of the fence. He adds a greater divide to the population, and profits from it in ways he cares about; Notoriety and influence. And he doesn't care if he helps or hurts anyone else in the process. It's always about looking out for #1. Everyone who disagrees with him is worthless.
He obviously plans on using this to get more money, but right now it's feeding his ego and his image at the expense of everyone it touches. He's using simple manipulation and tribalism to exploit the anger, fear and 'values' of his fanbase. It's sickeningly effective, and proves that he is really good at being a terrible politician, which is ironic considering he runs on a campaign of not being a politician at all. He most certainly knows how to use their toolbox,
The only way I'm able to see this is as Trump doing more harm than good. Like a spark in a fireworks factory; really fun to watch but definitely something to enjoy from where it can't hurt you. Running up to embrace the colorful explosion to spite people in the neighborhood who complain about noise too often will not actually fix anything.
Maybe I'm just naive, but I would rather try my best to fix the issues that surround me without hurting myself and causing undue harm to others. I would rather attack the disease, and not the symptoms. And find out what's actually causing the most problems and going after them the hardest, rather than concentrate on superficial problems or whether or not someone "earned" something without me knowing how deep cause and effect really go. Trump isn't trying to do any of those things, but does have people believe he has their best interests in mind because he reinforces their biases so effortlessly.