The Horrible Shit They Say Will Happen If Trump Is Elected is almost identical to the Horrible Shit They Said Would Happen If Reagan Was Elected. Somehow it kinda worked out to the exact opposite, funny thing that.
No, no, no. Their argument is "I didn't do anything wrong when I did X. That guy over THERE did something wrong when he did not-really-X." Clinton logic.
I wonder if it's that as readers got faster, they have less time to deal with errors from disks that were crap to start with, so errors that have been there all along are now causing visible issues.
I remember a study that found there were problems caused by writing CDs at slower speeds on hardware designed to write faster -- causing more write errors. I've always written disks at the fastest available speed, which might be why I never ran into that issue. (Tho I still have an old 4x unit should I ever run into it.)
Commercial disks are pretty durable, as you say (unless exposed to weather, then they fall apart fairly quick). The only commercial disk I've seen fail were bad out of the box. But burnables, not so much. Mine have done well (my oldest ones are still readable) but I lived in the desert. Dampness and CDRs do not play well together, as they're not completely sealed around the edges, so I'm not surprised by tales of woe.
I still use CDRs and DVDRs for sneakernet to the DOS machine that doesn't speak network or USB, and occasionally for a specific type of backup (movie or album) but no longer routinely use them for system backup. I can get a whole stack of DVDs on a single 128GB flash drive (not to mention backup is much faster and needs far less babysitting), and per the torture tests I've read about, flash drives beat everything else for durability (retaining data through all manner of abuse; one even partially survived being shot).
And until recently I was still using them for live CDs for testing OS distros, but along came that bootable-flash-drive app and now I have 40+ distros on a single flash stick, plus a place to save files convenient to whatever I'm testing.
I never did acquire a Blu-Ray, tho I suppose now that prices have gotten sane I'll pick one up just so I have it if I need one. Which might be never at the present rate (I don't buy BR movies, so what is it good for? burned BR are reputed very unreliable, failing in as little as six months.)
And as someone who thought they'd got it right as of somewhere in 4.x and dislikes the direction 5.x is going, I wish they'd stop "improving" it. Just fix anything that ails it, stop fucking with the interface and removing features, egads. That's why I no longer even try Gnome-based distros; can't stand the giant cellphone it's become.
Interesting from a grazing efficiency standpoint. I do wonder what it does to total gut balance and mortality in the event of scours or other pathogenic processes.
But as to the nominal topic... in North America, there used to be about 20% more bison than there are cattle today. Bison mass about double what cattle do, and eat proportionately more -- therefore farted more, probably producing about twice as much methane in total. Somehow this failed to cause global warming.
.... you were in B.C., where it snowed last week. Was supposed to snow here in parts of Montana as well but I haven't seen whether it happened. But this is probably the coldest August I've seen... lows down to 45F this past week.
Also, LinkedIn has been rather less annoying than the alternatives. I can actually find people there, should I wish. And apparently they can find me. Nearly all have been people I know -- not getting the who-the-hell?? so common in followers elsewhere.
Exactly. Its function is as a business card kiosk, where you WANT people to take your "card" (info), to remind your fellow professionals that you exist, and maybe let other professionals find you.
If you're using it for personal info, you've misspelled "Facebook".
I have a LinkedIn account, but it doesn't get access to my email. I use it mostly to keep track of professional acquaintances; why would I put personal info there or give it access to my address book?
I expect the main fallout from this targeted scrape (it doesn't sound like an actual data breach) will be a minor uptick in spam. Like that's news...
That's why BI needs to be restricted to citizens. Not to legally here, not to illegally here, but only to citizens, with proof of citizenship. And only to minor children of citizens (and no others), to nix the anchor-baby problem.
I'm not much for socialist welfare and such, but I do think BI is better than the current impossible tangle. Get rid of the entire welfare state (with the possible exception of some medical aid to low income) and replace it with BI, and it would probably cost taxpayers less and do more good.
One of the problems with the current system is that it enforces poverty, because if you do save and invest what little you've got, or own your home, or for one disabled payment program, so much as own a car -- you're no longer eligible. I know people who stay poor on purpose because otherwise they'd lose their benefits. I myself have been dirt-poor/homeless yet ineligible because I'd socked away my paltry little inheritance as the only retirement fund I'd get, rather than spending it right off.
I would bet they could find enough native speakers of Arabic, if only those people didn't feel like their very lives might be threatened by exposure. I can think of at least a couple Saudi atheists who really would rather not live in a theocracy that wants them dead, and would help defeat it if they could do so without extreme risk.
Yeah, I found that with Earth too... tho that had ceased to be an issue because Earth won't run anyway. But this automatically installing (NOT updating -- it installed entirely new and left the old install alone) wasn't happening til this little escapade, and I think the last time Earth ran before it decided not to was about a year ago. So the updater hadn't run since then.
But then I installed Talk, and yep, that's when the new Chrome dates to. Hadn't thought to look in Task Mangler and kill GoogleUpdate.:(
I'd be fine with it asking, or at least informing me that if I want to run X, it will update Y. But this doing it *entirely* behind my back -- that put Google on my permanent shit list.
I don't disagree, but I'd also like a way to turn off that crowdsourced moderation, because if it becomes groupthink points that's not useful either.
As it stands... this banning people because they don't get along (for any value of getting along) will, as Milo puts it, result in the most interesting people leaving (at least for some values of interesting).
Because about a month ago, Chrome installed a new version of itself without asking, without permission, and the first hint I had (since I don't use the nasty thing unless I have to) was a new icon on my desktop. (Didn't even put it in a sane location. It's somewhere down in User Application Data.)
Apparently if you have Google Talk installed, this is what Google does behind your back.
Yeah, you'd think it would be fairly simple to incorporate a block-user command that could be applied whenever you wish, with a perusable block list so you can change your mind later. Geez, just a friend/foe function like we have here would suffice.
Or, of course, folks could just ignore people they don't like.
"No one is advocating that little 6 year old Johnny gets to play "nurse" with his little girlfriends at school, then gets whisked off to a hospital to undergo a sex change because he wants to be one of the girls."
Actually, some of the more loony voices ARE advocating exactly that, or at least that Johnny promptly gets dosed with puberty-suppressing hormones; there's already been some backlash given this is not a risk-free or entirely reversible medical procedure.
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The Horrible Shit They Say Will Happen If Trump Is Elected is almost identical to the Horrible Shit They Said Would Happen If Reagan Was Elected. Somehow it kinda worked out to the exact opposite, funny thing that.
This is true. And one critical mark of a good leader is the ability to surround themselves with competent staff.
The saga of Hillary's mail server is not a tale of competent staff.
And why blame Apple, when it's Chinese labor laws that allow it in the first place? Every company will seek the lowest cost denominator.
No, no, no. Their argument is "I didn't do anything wrong when I did X. That guy over THERE did something wrong when he did not-really-X." Clinton logic.
I wonder if it's that as readers got faster, they have less time to deal with errors from disks that were crap to start with, so errors that have been there all along are now causing visible issues.
I remember a study that found there were problems caused by writing CDs at slower speeds on hardware designed to write faster -- causing more write errors. I've always written disks at the fastest available speed, which might be why I never ran into that issue. (Tho I still have an old 4x unit should I ever run into it.)
Commercial disks are pretty durable, as you say (unless exposed to weather, then they fall apart fairly quick). The only commercial disk I've seen fail were bad out of the box. But burnables, not so much. Mine have done well (my oldest ones are still readable) but I lived in the desert. Dampness and CDRs do not play well together, as they're not completely sealed around the edges, so I'm not surprised by tales of woe.
I still use CDRs and DVDRs for sneakernet to the DOS machine that doesn't speak network or USB, and occasionally for a specific type of backup (movie or album) but no longer routinely use them for system backup. I can get a whole stack of DVDs on a single 128GB flash drive (not to mention backup is much faster and needs far less babysitting), and per the torture tests I've read about, flash drives beat everything else for durability (retaining data through all manner of abuse; one even partially survived being shot).
And until recently I was still using them for live CDs for testing OS distros, but along came that bootable-flash-drive app and now I have 40+ distros on a single flash stick, plus a place to save files convenient to whatever I'm testing.
I never did acquire a Blu-Ray, tho I suppose now that prices have gotten sane I'll pick one up just so I have it if I need one. Which might be never at the present rate (I don't buy BR movies, so what is it good for? burned BR are reputed very unreliable, failing in as little as six months.)
And as someone who thought they'd got it right as of somewhere in 4.x and dislikes the direction 5.x is going, I wish they'd stop "improving" it. Just fix anything that ails it, stop fucking with the interface and removing features, egads. That's why I no longer even try Gnome-based distros; can't stand the giant cellphone it's become.
Interesting from a grazing efficiency standpoint. I do wonder what it does to total gut balance and mortality in the event of scours or other pathogenic processes.
But as to the nominal topic... in North America, there used to be about 20% more bison than there are cattle today. Bison mass about double what cattle do, and eat proportionately more -- therefore farted more, probably producing about twice as much methane in total. Somehow this failed to cause global warming.
.... you were in B.C., where it snowed last week. Was supposed to snow here in parts of Montana as well but I haven't seen whether it happened. But this is probably the coldest August I've seen... lows down to 45F this past week.
Exactly.
Also, LinkedIn has been rather less annoying than the alternatives. I can actually find people there, should I wish. And apparently they can find me. Nearly all have been people I know -- not getting the who-the-hell?? so common in followers elsewhere.
Exactly. Its function is as a business card kiosk, where you WANT people to take your "card" (info), to remind your fellow professionals that you exist, and maybe let other professionals find you.
If you're using it for personal info, you've misspelled "Facebook".
I have a LinkedIn account, but it doesn't get access to my email. I use it mostly to keep track of professional acquaintances; why would I put personal info there or give it access to my address book?
I expect the main fallout from this targeted scrape (it doesn't sound like an actual data breach) will be a minor uptick in spam. Like that's news...
That's why BI needs to be restricted to citizens. Not to legally here, not to illegally here, but only to citizens, with proof of citizenship. And only to minor children of citizens (and no others), to nix the anchor-baby problem.
I'm not much for socialist welfare and such, but I do think BI is better than the current impossible tangle. Get rid of the entire welfare state (with the possible exception of some medical aid to low income) and replace it with BI, and it would probably cost taxpayers less and do more good.
One of the problems with the current system is that it enforces poverty, because if you do save and invest what little you've got, or own your home, or for one disabled payment program, so much as own a car -- you're no longer eligible. I know people who stay poor on purpose because otherwise they'd lose their benefits. I myself have been dirt-poor/homeless yet ineligible because I'd socked away my paltry little inheritance as the only retirement fund I'd get, rather than spending it right off.
Haha, yes. I read both sides. Only one outright called for harrassment. The other, you have to squint.
Milo has the right of it here. Run off all the interesting people and what do you have left? falling stocks.
I would bet they could find enough native speakers of Arabic, if only those people didn't feel like their very lives might be threatened by exposure. I can think of at least a couple Saudi atheists who really would rather not live in a theocracy that wants them dead, and would help defeat it if they could do so without extreme risk.
I heard something like 1/3rd-owned by Saudi interests. Anyone got actual data?
I once saw a very long list... many could be explained as coincidental deaths, but some required, ah, willing suspension of disbelief.
'Course, could be they're just trying to live up to the Kennedy legacy.
Yeah, I found that with Earth too... tho that had ceased to be an issue because Earth won't run anyway. But this automatically installing (NOT updating -- it installed entirely new and left the old install alone) wasn't happening til this little escapade, and I think the last time Earth ran before it decided not to was about a year ago. So the updater hadn't run since then.
But then I installed Talk, and yep, that's when the new Chrome dates to. Hadn't thought to look in Task Mangler and kill GoogleUpdate. :(
I'd be fine with it asking, or at least informing me that if I want to run X, it will update Y. But this doing it *entirely* behind my back -- that put Google on my permanent shit list.
I don't disagree, but I'd also like a way to turn off that crowdsourced moderation, because if it becomes groupthink points that's not useful either.
As it stands... this banning people because they don't get along (for any value of getting along) will, as Milo puts it, result in the most interesting people leaving (at least for some values of interesting).
Because about a month ago, Chrome installed a new version of itself without asking, without permission, and the first hint I had (since I don't use the nasty thing unless I have to) was a new icon on my desktop. (Didn't even put it in a sane location. It's somewhere down in User Application Data.)
Apparently if you have Google Talk installed, this is what Google does behind your back.
Yeah, you'd think it would be fairly simple to incorporate a block-user command that could be applied whenever you wish, with a perusable block list so you can change your mind later. Geez, just a friend/foe function like we have here would suffice.
Or, of course, folks could just ignore people they don't like.
Good point.
"No one is advocating that little 6 year old Johnny gets to play "nurse" with his little girlfriends at school, then gets whisked off to a hospital to undergo a sex change because he wants to be one of the girls."
Actually, some of the more loony voices ARE advocating exactly that, or at least that Johnny promptly gets dosed with puberty-suppressing hormones; there's already been some backlash given this is not a risk-free or entirely reversible medical procedure.
Just wait. It's a-comin', tho it'll be called something like "Intro to Victimology".
I kinda wonder if he's really why gays got pushed off the progressive stack. Cuz, ya know, gay guy who doesn't feel oppressed, ruins our image.