Thought I'd log in for a change to post this instead of just being yet another AC complaining about the direction mainstream distros have seem to taken.
I did Google to try to confirm whether or not Poettering had anything to do with NetworkManager. I didn't find anything to back up that assertion.
I have been a Linux user in one capacity or another for almost 20 years now; it's certainly been my kernel of choice for everything but video games for a little over 10 years. Whether or not Poettering has anything to do with NetworkManager or not doesn't change the fact that it's shit. PulseAudio is also shit. I have no idea whether SystemD is shit or not. I've never used it, and my distro of choice (Gentoo) uses OpenRC by default.
I've used most every major distro at one point or another from Slackware to Ubuntu. I've even gone through Linux from Scratch a couple times. I recommend everybody who wants to "learn computers" do a Linux from Scratch just for the educational experience. I've dabbled a bit with the BSDs but never really used them.
NetworkManager: as others have posted, it's just flat out unreliable. I used BodhiLinux on a laptop for a few years before the laptop died. It seemed to work well enough with wired and the home wifi, but it wouldn't connect at all, no matter what I tried, the last time I stayed in a hotel. It took me about an hour to figure out upstart and how to tear NetworkManager out (not nearly as familiar with Ubuntu as Gentoo and no Google to turn to without internet). After editing wpa_supplicant.conf, the thing connected just fine.
Maybe NetworkManager has its place, but it's not difficult for me to do iwlist wlan0 scanning and just edit a damned config file. That's just my desktop/laptop needs. I also have a IPv6 router/IPv4 NAT/wireless access point running Gentoo. I'm not sure I could imagine any kind of consumer oriented technology that would give an easy GUI to bridge the wireless nic with the wired lan, dhcp the wan side up, and also manage a 6RD tunnel. (Not to mention hostapd, dnsmasq, and radvd.) Well, I should say I can imagine it, but I would never spend time developing such a thing unless I were getting paid.
PulseAudio: while network transparency is neat and all, I never could figure out how to remove about 1 whole second of delay. I used ESD until ALSA became the audio stack of choice. I have no idea what PulseAudio provides above and beyond ALSA's built-in dmix. I'm also using the swmixer module since my headset is just way too damned loud by default for whatever reason.
SystemD: I still don't understand what I would gain by switching to systemd. Then again, I don't even use XDM or an XDM alternative. I understand how my system works inside and out right now. If I switched to systemd, same as with upstart, I would have to relearn all of that. If I ever get a job as a Linux admin, I'll worry about learning systemd then.
Honestly, I don't care what Debian and Fedora (and the derivative distros) do. When I was younger and had more free time, I didn't mind trying new things even if they were slightly broken. Hell, up until about 6 or 7 years or so ago, there was always something that was slightly wonky when it came to Linux on the desktop. The system I have now is solid as a rock and just works. I really don't give a crap if what I have set up would work well for a mobile device or whether a layperson can use it or not, because my computer isn't a mobile device, and I'm not a layperson.
I hear you. I'm predicting World War 3 if Clinton is elected, and all polling data says she will be. I have every reason to believe that we're on the verge of yet another market crash, and it may happen before I had even estimated when posting as my time traveler character. Trump might just be able to make lemonade out of lemons. I'm convinced that Clinton will only serve her Wall Street interests until we all lose.
Trump has said some unfortunate things. I think he's far from being a dummy. He might actually be an effective president.
That being said, I'm abstaining because his supporters are the ones who scare the hell out of me. I have a cannabis daydream I can always retreat to where I'm not transgendered. I'll put this out there. If Trump can promise to leave states that have legalized recreational cannabis alone, I'll very much consider voting for him in the general election. Clinton scares the hell out of me because of the malleability of her opinions and her historic support for TPP/TTIP/TISA.
I meant to imply that doctors have no work/life balance. I'm sure there are statistics that say that less than 50% of doctors are women. The doctor who's helped me the most recently is a woman.
Interestingly, there are pushes in the nursing and homecare fields for more male nurses and home health aids. We just never hear about that from the media who are obsessed at painting all assigned males in tech fields as misogynerds.
The non-technical people I work with are less productive. That demographic also has a huge overlap with the female demographic. Don't let yourself be fooled. Plenty of men fall into the category of people chatting about fashion^H^H^H^Hsports and celebrities than doing actual work.
Of the technically minded women I've had the privilege to work with, I can assure you that they don't really give a flying fuck about fashion and celebrities when they're on the clock. These are people I can talk to about database design or memory allocation. Here's a hint about where the source of the gender problems we've had in tech may be: one of those women was an English major. Yes, I was discussing database design with an English major because she fucking got it. I'm guessing that at some point somebody erroneously told her to avoid maths and science because they were male dominated fields. She was quite the logical thinker.
Meanwhile, after she was sexually harassed out of her programming job by a gaslighting asshole manager, I'm currently stuck with a dimwitted oaf of a man who can't operate a command prompt or even begin to understand join tables as a cow-orker. I refuse to call him a colleague or even put the hyphen in the grammatically correct place.
One woman I particularly looked up to (cisgendered but not a cisgendered hunny by a longshot) was particularly focused. She's one of the more rational people I know, and she showed me that women don't need to be cowed by men who are aggressive and outgoing. I learned quite a bit from observing her about how to be assertive if one is not wired for masculine aggressiveness.
I would tell you her one weird trick except that I'm a cis het misogynerd as far as feminism is concerned as long as I'm a "programmer...."
as demonstrated by trump being hostile works well as a male strategy
It works with racist rednecks and their cisgendered hunnies.
Everyone already knows that make dominated environments are hostile to women.
That's because most people going around calling themselves "software engineers" these days are dumb as a box of rocks and can't understand any build process that doesn't involve clicking Run -> Clean and Build in an IDE. The women I've mentored don't find make to be a sign of hostility. Only a digbat feminist who doesn't know jack about programming would interpret things that way.
I realize you made a typo, but I'm being half serious.
It may also be a contributor to the various gender disparities we have in tech. For a cisfemale who wants a work/life balance, tech is the last place to be. For a cisfemale who wants prestige because of her career and doesn't care about work/life balance, tech is also the last place to be. Doctors don't have near the diversity problems as in tech.
I'm going to have to ask for a citation needed on this one. Specifically, I want to know how the kid's preference had anything to do with pink and blue switching genders.
Today, people still don't care what male infant prefer when they mutilate their genitals.
I would be willing to propose an experiment where we attempt to raise a few hundred babies in an environment where orange is a girl's color and green is a boy's color. I don't think I'd be able to get it past an ethics committee even if I were a researcher, though.
WTF does that word salad even mean? Numbers have identity? Do I need to send my sarcasm detector back in to the shop?
Just help me understand one thing. Let's say that there is an honest to goodness pay gap here, not nearly the gap that the inflammatory headline suggests, but a measurable one. Why the fuck is it the responsibility of people in tech who happened to be assigned the male gender at birth to fix it? Why the fuck do the asshole managers get a pass here?
Is it because the asshole managers are "good with women" or whatever?
There are two women I've mentored who are no longer in tech careers because of asshole managers. One of them quit after being sexually harassed and psychological abused. Is sexual harassment a-ok when it's coming from a manager because he's probably "good with women" or some shit? The other one was fucking fired basically because she had the temerity to have a personal life. In both cases, all of their technical colleagues enjoyed working with them and respected them. It was damned non-technical managers who drove them out of tech.
Plenty of direct experience with that half of the human race here.
Your problem is you're starting from the presumption that all assigned males want to get in bed with your cisgendered hunnies. There, does the term cisgendered hunny work better for you? It sure as hell works for me! It's the only way I can understand you assholes who think that every single fucking assigned male in the world desires to have sex with your cisgendered hunnies. As a fucking assigned male, I prefer men.
Get a damned clue. I have colleagues who are women. WHY THE FUCK WOULD I WANT A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A COLLEAGUE WHO'S NOT THE GENDER I'M ATTRACTED TO?
As others have pointed out, there are tons of valid uses of the word female to refer to women and girls. women themselves use the word.
You'll need to excuse me now. I need to catch the bus. I've lent my car to a (a different) woman who was chased out of a programming job basically for having a personal life so she can get to an anime convention this weekend.
First I was going to downmod you, then I was going to flame you, but you actually make some kind of point in the most crass and misogynist way possible.
See, here's the problem. We have an article that says that software engineers and mobile developers have almost reached pay parity. This is great news! Listen up, women, you don't want to be a video game artist and only get paid 85 cents on the dollar, you want to be in software engineering and development! Right? Right?
For some reason we have a headline that plays on the long discredited 75-ish cent pay gap between men and women. This is nothing more than a flamebait/clickbait article and yet another attack on all assigned males who went into programming careers.
Really, the only useful way to use the often-cited ammunition that's supposed to make all assigned males FEEL GUILTY that women make 75 cents on the dollar is in a sociological sense. I can't seem to find it anymore (pretty sure I found the correct AVFM article but the links were all mysteriously broken), but level of education is a pretty good predictor of the amount of a "gender gap" that women will face. Women who have a college education will find themselves making roughly what their male counterparts are making. (I'm also failing to find an article that I think was posted to this site a while ago that women pay women less than men pay women.) Women who only have a high school education have a huge pay gap.
This is fairly easy to explain. If you were assigned the male gender at birth and you only have a high school education, you're still going to need to make money if you want to raise a family. You might become a truck driver or a plumber or learn how to weld. If you're a cisfemale and you only have a high school education, the state will provide for you. All the state asks is that you find a minimum wage job somewhere. Plus, cisfemales believe that their husbands should make more than them and are fundamentally uncomfortable with the other way around. A cisfemale who wants to use her animal functions as her sole contribution to society has no reason to seek anything over minimum wage.
So, what you wish you would have said is that women who have no interest in a career and would rather be mothers first don't seek jobs that pay as much.
The headline chosen is quite perplexing. I'm reading an article that says that has a headline that says women "programmers" make 72 cents on the dollar, and in the article I find that "software engineers" and "mobile developers" make 94 and 97 cents on the dollar respectively.
Shouldn't the headline be that female software engineers and developers are in a field that gives them nearly equal footing?
Yeah, you're fucked. So am I. So is everyone else. Maybe some other news will come out at 11. Maybe you should just fucking hold on to the stock for a few weeks until it recovers. Seems fair to me.
I thought stocks were about fucking investing. I can only change my fucking 401k once per day and even then they discourage that. On a majority of days it goes up. Some days it goes down. I'm vested in two funds which are vested in a bunch more stocks. On average, it goes up. Stop twitching to every breaking news story and fucking live with it.
In fact, I even wonder if Black Monday (either of them) could have been softened or even prevented with a rule like GP is proposing in place. I mean, I was led to understand that stock markets represented a valuation of wealth, no some fucking casino. Of course, I realize now how fucking astray I was led by capitalist wage slave perpetually embarrassed millionaire brainwashing.
Your cisgendered hunnies frankly lack passion when it comes to anything else other than spinning some kind of FEEL GUILTY narrative. I suppose if I had all the privileges of a cisfemale in today's world, I might not have been too different. I'd like to imagine I would have been the same person in the end, but I'm not stupid enough to think that all the bad shit I went through that cisfemales have the privilege of being even unaware they had the privilege of avoiding hasn't helped make me the insane misanthrope I am today.
I'll tell you the breadth and scope of the interest every cisfemale who has ever gone "I wanna be a programmer" was envisioning: they wanted my job. When they found out that the reason I had my job was because I combine areas of expertise from system administration to programming and multiple OS paradigms such as Windows, Linux, OS 7 (back before iThingies) and even back from Second Age of the Internet before Eternal September when a consumer computer just booted to a prompt where one could type in a program in BASIC. No DOS, nothing. Just a prompt. And I'm on the young side here. I missed all the fun of the First Age of the Internet when Ma Bell wouldn't let modems connect directly to the phone system and tic-tac-toe games were programmed on punch cards.
I realize I started a sentence there but never finished it. Every cisfemale who has ever gone "I wanna be a programmer" was envisioning having my job. When they found out that the reason I have my job is because of extensive experience brought about by utter passion, suddenly I became the sexist who was just making everything too technical because for some reason I think cisfemales shouldn't be programmers. I see no neurological reason cisfemales cannot be programmers. After all, I've got the same wetware in my head and the same hormones in my blood. The difference is socialization. It was made utterly clear to me that if I wasn't the fucking best, I'd be a fucking homeless bum.
Yeah, I'm being half-facetious here by comparing the evolution of information systems to the history of Middle Earth, but I hope it drives the point home. The reason I know shit is because I was passionate about it. I wanted to know where it came from and where it was going. I'd never imagine that I'd be carrying around a supercomputer in my pocket that I'm unable to program myself simply because of digital restrictions management.
Everybody has their reason why we buried ourselves in this shit, why we slept it, ate it, drank it, etc. I lived in a world I couldn't understand. My genitals hurt because I had to be cut up all for your cisfemale hunnies. I knew I was a girl. I even had a teacher confirm that I acted like a girl, but she also informed me I would need to be punished simply because of the gender I was assigned at birth. So, I dove into technology.
What did it get me? I was promised millions. I currently have nothing but a pile of shit to show for it in the end.
Frankly, I really don't give a shit about your cisgendered hunnies. The one thing people like you need to get through your tiny little heads is that there is nothing standing in their way.
Well, there is one thing. I'm sure in an alternate reality I was able to buy the cosmetic surgery I had wished I'd be able to buy with my millions (really, only roughly $20,000 as a high estimate), GP and I might have run into each other, and his mind would have been blown that this hot chick is talking about how to troubleshoot his double free with him over lunch. Of course, his mind would be unblown upon finding out I was assigned the male gender, the expendable gender, at birth. (I think I've said before I've come around to a revelation about TERFs. They're exactly right, and they're exactly wrong, with apologies to Captain Sulu.)
I'll leave you with one last thing. I've recently learned that your cisgendered hunnies have their heads so far up their asses they've managed to fin
all the social issue ones seem to have gone which is a shame
How many cisfemale programmers did they create? How many cisfemales installed Linux from Scratch to get practical experience with how an operating system is put together from individual software packages?
When all the evil assigned male rapists no longer have interest in continuing to take abuse from people like you just to make an average, median wage, will that help the cisfemale hunnies?
I don't think it will. At least after leaving tech, I'll never again need to hear about how I'm keeping your cisgendered hunnies out of programming either a.) because I'm too much of a creep and slob to date them or b.) because I'm sexually abusing them and raping them.
HAS IT EVER OCCURRED TO YOU THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO FEEL NO SEXUAL ATTRACTION TO YOUR CISFEMALE HUNNIES?
At any rate, I'm sick of it. I'll be going off to spend the rest of my life blazed and living in a fantasy world where I'm an individual.
I don't know how that will help your cisfemale hunnies date better men (NOT ME YOU ASSHOLE--THE THOUGHT DISGUSTS ME FOR THE SAME REASON THE THOUGHT OF HAVING SEX WITH A MAN DISGUSTS MOST MEN. FIGURE IT OUT YOU ASSHOLE) or learn programming, but hey, I don't care. I don't have the problems with rape and stalkers and harassers and slobs with men that you and your cisfemale hunnies seem to have. I think you're all just bad with men. Maybe you need some sensitivity training. Maybe you need to realize that men are not prizes for you to win. Have you ever tried not leaping to the conclusion that all assigned males are constantly staring at your cisgendered hunnies and thinking about sex and looking for the first opportunity to sexually abuse them?
I'm not an individual to you or any other feminist or SJW, and I never will be. I'm not an individual to people who don't understand tech. I'm just all-men misogynerd 5 of 8 Unimatrix 253 subjuncture 4 alpha.
I can go into a fantasy land where I am an individual. I like it better there. I guess getting high and daydreaming about being there is a lot like Unimatrix 0.
Barring that, I'm ok with dying. The world doesn't owe me anything, and I owe the world doodly squat. Find some other all-men to FEEL GUILTY. I don't want to live in a world where no matter what I do I'm all-men misogynerd rapist 5 of 8 Unimatrix 253 subjuncture 4 alpha. I would rather die if I can't get to Unimatrix 0.
Personally I realized I had nothing left to say. (Other than this I guess!)
- The next president is going to be Trump or Clinton. Either way we lose.
- The more you know about tech, the less social status you have.
- If you were assigned the male gender at birth and you're into tech, you're a sexual harasser, a creep, and a misogynist automatically. I guess whatever. I still don't see how cisgendered women can contribute anything of value. They want me to believe I'm keeping women out of tech? Whatever. They can all go to hell. How many cisfemale programmers will pop into existence out of the aether when I am able to go back to making minimum wage flipping burgers? Zero. Congratulations, feminism. Call me when a cisfemale gets serious about learning shit and follows my advice to install a Linux from Scratch. I can rest assured that phone will never ring.
- I bitched a while back about an API I was working on. It turned out to be the Rube Goldberg machine I thought it would be. I said that when I published it, it would go unused. Sure enough, it's going unused. Just one example among many why understanding how tech works can only work against you.
- It's hip to go "math is hard!" Somehow, again, assigned males are responsible for this. I mean, really, what the fuck ever. If cisgendered women wanted to know shit, it's all over the place to learn. If all they want to do is call me a piece of shit because they're lazy fucks, they can fuck off. I date men, not women. Cisgendered women are universally assholes for all the times they've acted like I'm pissed at their stereotyping of me because I'm a "nice guy" who thinks they're prized to win. I mean, they need to fucking get a life. I could have told them their boyfriend wasn't a good guy. I don't have these problems with men. They can fuck off. I'm looking at you, AmiMoJo. All people like her do is further piss me off. I want nothing to do with their cisgendered hunnies. I just want them to fuck off and leave me the fuck alone if they're not willing to admit that maybe rape cultures create hostile environments. They'll need to find somebody else to fulfill their stalker/harasser/rape fantasies. I'm NOT FUCKING INTERESTED.
- Feminism seems some sensitivity training.
- For a while I was into the MHRM, but I found they agree with feminists on too many things that affect me. Feminists shout at me, "Ur not a rael womyn! Ur a rapist!" The MHRM shouts at me, "Ur not a rael womyn! Ur a communist!" No answers there, just more bullshit.
- And no, for the millionth time, if you saw me IRL, you'd think I was cisgendered. Everything is peechy-keen until I have to show my papers. Then it all goes to hell. Christians seem to be believe that I can deceive them that I'm a cisgendered woman (hey, I never made any fucking claims--you assholes were the one that came to that conclusion then freak the fuck you when it's factually wrong) because I've made a pact with the devil.
- Also, Merry Christmas jihadists and the Apache attack copter demographic.
- All I care about any more is getting to Colorado so I can spend the rest of my life blazed. When I'm blazed, I can go to a fantasy world where instead of constantly being blamed as all-men for cisgendered women's constant fuck-ups, poor choice in men, and refusal to take their own fucking initiative to learn programming and maths, I instead can be an individual.
- I will never be an individual in this world.
- No, so far seeing a psychologist hasn't helped. That's probably because the problem isn't me. The next time one of the cisgendered hunnies wants to bitch about why there are no cisfemale programmers, she can look in the fucking mirror.
- I guess that's about all.
For what it's worth, the new owners seem to be doing good. It's probably too little too late. I've pretty much stopped posting to the red site as well.
Mod to -1 I guess. I'll probably never know because I don't even care enough to check back later to see one way or the other.
This speaks to the complete state of disrepair the various fields in tech are in. Fast talking con artists can play bullshit buzzword bingo and get in even though they can't code their way out of a paper box.
I don't know what the answer is. Certifications have clearly shown to be inadequate. Degrees are so hopelessly watered down as to be meaningless (not to mention the cost of obtaining one is spiraling out of control thanks to the student-loan-college-industrial-complex).
I mean, I don't doubt the guy's skills. I haven't really maintained my skills lately because I no longer want to have anything to fucking do with tech, so he could probably take me to school. On the other hand, I doubt he could break into webapps I publish because I understand the underpinnings and RFCs and generally know what the fuck I'm doing. I may have said I'm not maintaining my skills, but the old rule of "validate all input and trust no input" is as true as the day I got into this field. Who says he's not just a metasploit jockey? I have that installed on my server in the clouds, just haven't had time or lately interest to learn how to use it for penetration testing.
You're point is valid if we remove all ethical concerns from the question. Do you really want somebody who had no problem defacing websites and stealing user data working for you? Maybe you do. I don't know. It's a free country.
It's just a damned shame that the state of the field is in such shambles.
Yep. Yet another sign that things aren't right when it comes to tech jobs. We have massive diversity problems because of asshole managers who demand that workers have zero personal life and 24/7/365 availability, driving women out of the industry.
Those of us who did what we were told, didn't go blackhat with our skills, and didn't try to rock the boat hoping we'd get ahead didn't. Hell, a lot of us here have stories about being harassed, railroaded, and either threatened with criminal prosecution or actually prosecuted by our middle schools and high schools.
Our jobs are getting shipped overseas with H1B visas all the while companies can't figure out either telecommuting or opening branch offices in places with lower costs of living. Meanwhile, hiring managers can't be arsed to even figure out what the fuck it is we do for and can offer to an organization, chalking it up to magic that's somehow just socially below them but intellectually above them and expecting to find people with 10 years experience with Visual Basic 2015 when what they really fucking need is somebody who's been a dot net developer since dot net 1.0 who writes code in a non-brain damaged dialect like C#--it all compiles to the same fucking MSIL.
Oh, but if you're a rock star like Mustafa Al-Bassam here, they'll roll out the red carpet!
Takeaway: if you want to go into tech to make a living, go blackhat. Get creative. Maybe hack some bank accounts. Steal bitcoins. Steal user credentials. Sell credit card numbers on the black market. Cause grief for megacorps. Build botnets and DDOS websites until the owner pays up. Send out trojans that encrypt and hold user data hostage for a modest sum of bitcoins, usually worth less than the data is worth were it to be destroyed. I hear a lot of these data ransom scams actually have good customer service! See, you can even work on your people skills as a blackhat!
Maybe make a load of cash this way, waaay more than you'll make for shit per hour/year. Then when you're ready to get a normal job and are tired of dodging the authorities, just publicly dox yourself, serve a token sentence, and get hired for god knows how much!
Normally I'd agree with you. I'll probably show up in November and cast a straight Libertarian ticket. I think Gary Johnson is a really good choice. In a fair system he'd be my first choice, Sanders being 2nd.
You're missing the inevitable consequences of a first-past-the-pole election system. We're always voting for the less worst lizard. I voted for Sanders. I'm not an official member of the Libertarian party any more, so I can't go to that convention (nor could I afford to) to voice my support for Johnson. The choice in November will be Trump or Clinton. Which is the worse lizard? Clinton will win, and then we're all doomed.
I'm saying that my voice doesn't matter. Your voice doesn't matter. All is lost.
I wish you were being sarcastic. I get interrupted when I'm speaking all the time. Women interrupt me. Men interrupt me. When somebody lucky enough to get assigned the female gender at birth gets interrupted, now it's a matter of patriarchy and oppression and sexism.
It's pretty damned sad. I can't figure out why blacks en masse think that lying, two-faced, elitist, racist Barry Goldwater supporter is somehow a civil rights activist. Oh, but now I'm just calling her those things because she's exhibiting traits that would be seen as a sign of leadership in a man! Feminists should go get fucked. I think I read about ONE and only one opinion piece about how stupid it is to hold Nancy Reagan up as a role model for women. Yay, Nancy Reagan! Feminist hero!... standing by her husband's side... then she goes into the kitchen to make a sammich... feminist hero... giving us father knows best from the 1950s.... Of all fucking things, Clinton got egg on her face over AIDS! Of all fucking things wrong with trying to praise Reagan as a role model for women... AIDS! GRID!
I cast my vote for the Bern. I'm not even sure if I'm going to bother voting in the general election. Clinton is as good as coronated at this point. I used to be one of those people who would post here, "Get out and vote! Vote for somebody! Anybody!" Seeing the amount of control the media has over who gets votes, voting has been shown to be truly pointless.
It would be one thing if Clinton's support of Barry Goldwater were a blemish on her record and if she were able to help us understand her change of heart. According to the media, her volunteer work for Goldwater's campaign never happened, and to add insult to injury, Sanders apparently wasn't even involved in the civil rights movement. It would be one thing if Trump actually did have a bad earpiece in that interview wrt the KKK endorsing him. Trump had already disavowed the KKK's endorsement at that point. Article after article after article still acts like Trump had never disavowed the KKK. Completely missing from all this is the Nation of Islam's endorsement of Trump.
The TPP is coming. There will be some politically handy thing that happens that will allow Clinton to do an about face back to her original position on the TPP when she gets into the Oval Office. The cows will be just fine with this. Chocolate rations will be up to 25 grams per week because of the glorious TPP! The cows will rejoice. Then TTIP and TISA. We should probably prepare to take discussion sites like this to darknets, depending on how bad TISA really is.
I suppose Jill Stein or Gary Johnson will probably be on the ballot in November.
I guess when you live in a country full of easily manipulated cows being led to the slaughter... I don't know. I'll guess I'll just go back to posting one-line insults as AC. Never mind me.
I'm just wondering if it's all the same person. We've seen this pattern before with the truth+mercy=justice "trust in moms" troll. What do you folks think here? VPN that's hopping endpoints? Botnet? TOR?
Slashdot Mirror
See, Mr. Eich, we can reach equitable terms. Give me all your bitcoins! I will fund the gay agenda! Bwahahahaha!
Thought I'd log in for a change to post this instead of just being yet another AC complaining about the direction mainstream distros have seem to taken.
I did Google to try to confirm whether or not Poettering had anything to do with NetworkManager. I didn't find anything to back up that assertion.
I have been a Linux user in one capacity or another for almost 20 years now; it's certainly been my kernel of choice for everything but video games for a little over 10 years. Whether or not Poettering has anything to do with NetworkManager or not doesn't change the fact that it's shit. PulseAudio is also shit. I have no idea whether SystemD is shit or not. I've never used it, and my distro of choice (Gentoo) uses OpenRC by default.
I've used most every major distro at one point or another from Slackware to Ubuntu. I've even gone through Linux from Scratch a couple times. I recommend everybody who wants to "learn computers" do a Linux from Scratch just for the educational experience. I've dabbled a bit with the BSDs but never really used them.
NetworkManager: as others have posted, it's just flat out unreliable. I used BodhiLinux on a laptop for a few years before the laptop died. It seemed to work well enough with wired and the home wifi, but it wouldn't connect at all, no matter what I tried, the last time I stayed in a hotel. It took me about an hour to figure out upstart and how to tear NetworkManager out (not nearly as familiar with Ubuntu as Gentoo and no Google to turn to without internet). After editing wpa_supplicant.conf, the thing connected just fine.
Maybe NetworkManager has its place, but it's not difficult for me to do iwlist wlan0 scanning and just edit a damned config file. That's just my desktop/laptop needs. I also have a IPv6 router/IPv4 NAT/wireless access point running Gentoo. I'm not sure I could imagine any kind of consumer oriented technology that would give an easy GUI to bridge the wireless nic with the wired lan, dhcp the wan side up, and also manage a 6RD tunnel. (Not to mention hostapd, dnsmasq, and radvd.) Well, I should say I can imagine it, but I would never spend time developing such a thing unless I were getting paid.
PulseAudio: while network transparency is neat and all, I never could figure out how to remove about 1 whole second of delay. I used ESD until ALSA became the audio stack of choice. I have no idea what PulseAudio provides above and beyond ALSA's built-in dmix. I'm also using the swmixer module since my headset is just way too damned loud by default for whatever reason.
SystemD: I still don't understand what I would gain by switching to systemd. Then again, I don't even use XDM or an XDM alternative. I understand how my system works inside and out right now. If I switched to systemd, same as with upstart, I would have to relearn all of that. If I ever get a job as a Linux admin, I'll worry about learning systemd then.
Honestly, I don't care what Debian and Fedora (and the derivative distros) do. When I was younger and had more free time, I didn't mind trying new things even if they were slightly broken. Hell, up until about 6 or 7 years or so ago, there was always something that was slightly wonky when it came to Linux on the desktop. The system I have now is solid as a rock and just works. I really don't give a crap if what I have set up would work well for a mobile device or whether a layperson can use it or not, because my computer isn't a mobile device, and I'm not a layperson.
I hear you. I'm predicting World War 3 if Clinton is elected, and all polling data says she will be. I have every reason to believe that we're on the verge of yet another market crash, and it may happen before I had even estimated when posting as my time traveler character. Trump might just be able to make lemonade out of lemons. I'm convinced that Clinton will only serve her Wall Street interests until we all lose.
Trump has said some unfortunate things. I think he's far from being a dummy. He might actually be an effective president.
That being said, I'm abstaining because his supporters are the ones who scare the hell out of me. I have a cannabis daydream I can always retreat to where I'm not transgendered. I'll put this out there. If Trump can promise to leave states that have legalized recreational cannabis alone, I'll very much consider voting for him in the general election. Clinton scares the hell out of me because of the malleability of her opinions and her historic support for TPP/TTIP/TISA.
I'll do that as soon as I have $10,000 laying around that I don't need to hang on to for sex change surgery.
I brought up the 401k thing.
I meant to imply that doctors have no work/life balance. I'm sure there are statistics that say that less than 50% of doctors are women. The doctor who's helped me the most recently is a woman.
Interestingly, there are pushes in the nursing and homecare fields for more male nurses and home health aids. We just never hear about that from the media who are obsessed at painting all assigned males in tech fields as misogynerds.
The non-technical people I work with are less productive. That demographic also has a huge overlap with the female demographic. Don't let yourself be fooled. Plenty of men fall into the category of people chatting about fashion^H^H^H^Hsports and celebrities than doing actual work.
Of the technically minded women I've had the privilege to work with, I can assure you that they don't really give a flying fuck about fashion and celebrities when they're on the clock. These are people I can talk to about database design or memory allocation. Here's a hint about where the source of the gender problems we've had in tech may be: one of those women was an English major. Yes, I was discussing database design with an English major because she fucking got it. I'm guessing that at some point somebody erroneously told her to avoid maths and science because they were male dominated fields. She was quite the logical thinker.
Meanwhile, after she was sexually harassed out of her programming job by a gaslighting asshole manager, I'm currently stuck with a dimwitted oaf of a man who can't operate a command prompt or even begin to understand join tables as a cow-orker. I refuse to call him a colleague or even put the hyphen in the grammatically correct place.
One woman I particularly looked up to (cisgendered but not a cisgendered hunny by a longshot) was particularly focused. She's one of the more rational people I know, and she showed me that women don't need to be cowed by men who are aggressive and outgoing. I learned quite a bit from observing her about how to be assertive if one is not wired for masculine aggressiveness.
I would tell you her one weird trick except that I'm a cis het misogynerd as far as feminism is concerned as long as I'm a "programmer...."
The study also suggests for software engineers it's 94 and for mobile developers it's 97.
as demonstrated by trump being hostile works well as a male strategy
It works with racist rednecks and their cisgendered hunnies.
Everyone already knows that make dominated environments are hostile to women.
That's because most people going around calling themselves "software engineers" these days are dumb as a box of rocks and can't understand any build process that doesn't involve clicking Run -> Clean and Build in an IDE. The women I've mentored don't find make to be a sign of hostility. Only a digbat feminist who doesn't know jack about programming would interpret things that way.
I realize you made a typo, but I'm being half serious.
I'm going to have to agree with you on this one.
It may also be a contributor to the various gender disparities we have in tech. For a cisfemale who wants a work/life balance, tech is the last place to be. For a cisfemale who wants prestige because of her career and doesn't care about work/life balance, tech is also the last place to be. Doctors don't have near the diversity problems as in tech.
I'm going to have to ask for a citation needed on this one. Specifically, I want to know how the kid's preference had anything to do with pink and blue switching genders.
Today, people still don't care what male infant prefer when they mutilate their genitals.
I would be willing to propose an experiment where we attempt to raise a few hundred babies in an environment where orange is a girl's color and green is a boy's color. I don't think I'd be able to get it past an ethics committee even if I were a researcher, though.
WTF does that word salad even mean? Numbers have identity? Do I need to send my sarcasm detector back in to the shop?
Just help me understand one thing. Let's say that there is an honest to goodness pay gap here, not nearly the gap that the inflammatory headline suggests, but a measurable one. Why the fuck is it the responsibility of people in tech who happened to be assigned the male gender at birth to fix it? Why the fuck do the asshole managers get a pass here?
Is it because the asshole managers are "good with women" or whatever?
There are two women I've mentored who are no longer in tech careers because of asshole managers. One of them quit after being sexually harassed and psychological abused. Is sexual harassment a-ok when it's coming from a manager because he's probably "good with women" or some shit? The other one was fucking fired basically because she had the temerity to have a personal life. In both cases, all of their technical colleagues enjoyed working with them and respected them. It was damned non-technical managers who drove them out of tech.
Plenty of direct experience with that half of the human race here.
Your problem is you're starting from the presumption that all assigned males want to get in bed with your cisgendered hunnies. There, does the term cisgendered hunny work better for you? It sure as hell works for me! It's the only way I can understand you assholes who think that every single fucking assigned male in the world desires to have sex with your cisgendered hunnies. As a fucking assigned male, I prefer men.
Get a damned clue. I have colleagues who are women. WHY THE FUCK WOULD I WANT A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A COLLEAGUE WHO'S NOT THE GENDER I'M ATTRACTED TO?
As others have pointed out, there are tons of valid uses of the word female to refer to women and girls. women themselves use the word.
You'll need to excuse me now. I need to catch the bus. I've lent my car to a (a different) woman who was chased out of a programming job basically for having a personal life so she can get to an anime convention this weekend.
First I was going to downmod you, then I was going to flame you, but you actually make some kind of point in the most crass and misogynist way possible.
See, here's the problem. We have an article that says that software engineers and mobile developers have almost reached pay parity. This is great news! Listen up, women, you don't want to be a video game artist and only get paid 85 cents on the dollar, you want to be in software engineering and development! Right? Right?
For some reason we have a headline that plays on the long discredited 75-ish cent pay gap between men and women. This is nothing more than a flamebait/clickbait article and yet another attack on all assigned males who went into programming careers.
Really, the only useful way to use the often-cited ammunition that's supposed to make all assigned males FEEL GUILTY that women make 75 cents on the dollar is in a sociological sense. I can't seem to find it anymore (pretty sure I found the correct AVFM article but the links were all mysteriously broken), but level of education is a pretty good predictor of the amount of a "gender gap" that women will face. Women who have a college education will find themselves making roughly what their male counterparts are making. (I'm also failing to find an article that I think was posted to this site a while ago that women pay women less than men pay women.) Women who only have a high school education have a huge pay gap.
This is fairly easy to explain. If you were assigned the male gender at birth and you only have a high school education, you're still going to need to make money if you want to raise a family. You might become a truck driver or a plumber or learn how to weld. If you're a cisfemale and you only have a high school education, the state will provide for you. All the state asks is that you find a minimum wage job somewhere. Plus, cisfemales believe that their husbands should make more than them and are fundamentally uncomfortable with the other way around. A cisfemale who wants to use her animal functions as her sole contribution to society has no reason to seek anything over minimum wage.
So, what you wish you would have said is that women who have no interest in a career and would rather be mothers first don't seek jobs that pay as much.
The headline chosen is quite perplexing. I'm reading an article that says that has a headline that says women "programmers" make 72 cents on the dollar, and in the article I find that "software engineers" and "mobile developers" make 94 and 97 cents on the dollar respectively.
Shouldn't the headline be that female software engineers and developers are in a field that gives them nearly equal footing?
Yeah, you're fucked. So am I. So is everyone else. Maybe some other news will come out at 11. Maybe you should just fucking hold on to the stock for a few weeks until it recovers. Seems fair to me.
I thought stocks were about fucking investing. I can only change my fucking 401k once per day and even then they discourage that. On a majority of days it goes up. Some days it goes down. I'm vested in two funds which are vested in a bunch more stocks. On average, it goes up. Stop twitching to every breaking news story and fucking live with it.
In fact, I even wonder if Black Monday (either of them) could have been softened or even prevented with a rule like GP is proposing in place. I mean, I was led to understand that stock markets represented a valuation of wealth, no some fucking casino. Of course, I realize now how fucking astray I was led by capitalist wage slave perpetually embarrassed millionaire brainwashing.
Yeah, +5 for that misogynist crap.
Your cisgendered hunnies frankly lack passion when it comes to anything else other than spinning some kind of FEEL GUILTY narrative. I suppose if I had all the privileges of a cisfemale in today's world, I might not have been too different. I'd like to imagine I would have been the same person in the end, but I'm not stupid enough to think that all the bad shit I went through that cisfemales have the privilege of being even unaware they had the privilege of avoiding hasn't helped make me the insane misanthrope I am today.
I'll tell you the breadth and scope of the interest every cisfemale who has ever gone "I wanna be a programmer" was envisioning: they wanted my job. When they found out that the reason I had my job was because I combine areas of expertise from system administration to programming and multiple OS paradigms such as Windows, Linux, OS 7 (back before iThingies) and even back from Second Age of the Internet before Eternal September when a consumer computer just booted to a prompt where one could type in a program in BASIC. No DOS, nothing. Just a prompt. And I'm on the young side here. I missed all the fun of the First Age of the Internet when Ma Bell wouldn't let modems connect directly to the phone system and tic-tac-toe games were programmed on punch cards.
I realize I started a sentence there but never finished it. Every cisfemale who has ever gone "I wanna be a programmer" was envisioning having my job. When they found out that the reason I have my job is because of extensive experience brought about by utter passion, suddenly I became the sexist who was just making everything too technical because for some reason I think cisfemales shouldn't be programmers. I see no neurological reason cisfemales cannot be programmers. After all, I've got the same wetware in my head and the same hormones in my blood. The difference is socialization. It was made utterly clear to me that if I wasn't the fucking best, I'd be a fucking homeless bum.
Yeah, I'm being half-facetious here by comparing the evolution of information systems to the history of Middle Earth, but I hope it drives the point home. The reason I know shit is because I was passionate about it. I wanted to know where it came from and where it was going. I'd never imagine that I'd be carrying around a supercomputer in my pocket that I'm unable to program myself simply because of digital restrictions management.
Everybody has their reason why we buried ourselves in this shit, why we slept it, ate it, drank it, etc. I lived in a world I couldn't understand. My genitals hurt because I had to be cut up all for your cisfemale hunnies. I knew I was a girl. I even had a teacher confirm that I acted like a girl, but she also informed me I would need to be punished simply because of the gender I was assigned at birth. So, I dove into technology.
What did it get me? I was promised millions. I currently have nothing but a pile of shit to show for it in the end.
Frankly, I really don't give a shit about your cisgendered hunnies. The one thing people like you need to get through your tiny little heads is that there is nothing standing in their way.
Well, there is one thing. I'm sure in an alternate reality I was able to buy the cosmetic surgery I had wished I'd be able to buy with my millions (really, only roughly $20,000 as a high estimate), GP and I might have run into each other, and his mind would have been blown that this hot chick is talking about how to troubleshoot his double free with him over lunch. Of course, his mind would be unblown upon finding out I was assigned the male gender, the expendable gender, at birth. (I think I've said before I've come around to a revelation about TERFs. They're exactly right, and they're exactly wrong, with apologies to Captain Sulu.)
I'll leave you with one last thing. I've recently learned that your cisgendered hunnies have their heads so far up their asses they've managed to fin
all the social issue ones seem to have gone which is a shame
How many cisfemale programmers did they create? How many cisfemales installed Linux from Scratch to get practical experience with how an operating system is put together from individual software packages?
When all the evil assigned male rapists no longer have interest in continuing to take abuse from people like you just to make an average, median wage, will that help the cisfemale hunnies?
I don't think it will. At least after leaving tech, I'll never again need to hear about how I'm keeping your cisgendered hunnies out of programming either a.) because I'm too much of a creep and slob to date them or b.) because I'm sexually abusing them and raping them.
HAS IT EVER OCCURRED TO YOU THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO FEEL NO SEXUAL ATTRACTION TO YOUR CISFEMALE HUNNIES?
At any rate, I'm sick of it. I'll be going off to spend the rest of my life blazed and living in a fantasy world where I'm an individual.
I don't know how that will help your cisfemale hunnies date better men (NOT ME YOU ASSHOLE--THE THOUGHT DISGUSTS ME FOR THE SAME REASON THE THOUGHT OF HAVING SEX WITH A MAN DISGUSTS MOST MEN. FIGURE IT OUT YOU ASSHOLE) or learn programming, but hey, I don't care. I don't have the problems with rape and stalkers and harassers and slobs with men that you and your cisfemale hunnies seem to have. I think you're all just bad with men. Maybe you need some sensitivity training. Maybe you need to realize that men are not prizes for you to win. Have you ever tried not leaping to the conclusion that all assigned males are constantly staring at your cisgendered hunnies and thinking about sex and looking for the first opportunity to sexually abuse them?
I'm not an individual to you or any other feminist or SJW, and I never will be. I'm not an individual to people who don't understand tech. I'm just all-men misogynerd 5 of 8 Unimatrix 253 subjuncture 4 alpha.
I can go into a fantasy land where I am an individual. I like it better there. I guess getting high and daydreaming about being there is a lot like Unimatrix 0.
Barring that, I'm ok with dying. The world doesn't owe me anything, and I owe the world doodly squat. Find some other all-men to FEEL GUILTY. I don't want to live in a world where no matter what I do I'm all-men misogynerd rapist 5 of 8 Unimatrix 253 subjuncture 4 alpha. I would rather die if I can't get to Unimatrix 0.
End of line.
Personally I realized I had nothing left to say. (Other than this I guess!)
- The next president is going to be Trump or Clinton. Either way we lose.
- The more you know about tech, the less social status you have.
- If you were assigned the male gender at birth and you're into tech, you're a sexual harasser, a creep, and a misogynist automatically. I guess whatever. I still don't see how cisgendered women can contribute anything of value. They want me to believe I'm keeping women out of tech? Whatever. They can all go to hell. How many cisfemale programmers will pop into existence out of the aether when I am able to go back to making minimum wage flipping burgers? Zero. Congratulations, feminism. Call me when a cisfemale gets serious about learning shit and follows my advice to install a Linux from Scratch. I can rest assured that phone will never ring.
- I bitched a while back about an API I was working on. It turned out to be the Rube Goldberg machine I thought it would be. I said that when I published it, it would go unused. Sure enough, it's going unused. Just one example among many why understanding how tech works can only work against you.
- It's hip to go "math is hard!" Somehow, again, assigned males are responsible for this. I mean, really, what the fuck ever. If cisgendered women wanted to know shit, it's all over the place to learn. If all they want to do is call me a piece of shit because they're lazy fucks, they can fuck off. I date men, not women. Cisgendered women are universally assholes for all the times they've acted like I'm pissed at their stereotyping of me because I'm a "nice guy" who thinks they're prized to win. I mean, they need to fucking get a life. I could have told them their boyfriend wasn't a good guy. I don't have these problems with men. They can fuck off. I'm looking at you, AmiMoJo. All people like her do is further piss me off. I want nothing to do with their cisgendered hunnies. I just want them to fuck off and leave me the fuck alone if they're not willing to admit that maybe rape cultures create hostile environments. They'll need to find somebody else to fulfill their stalker/harasser/rape fantasies. I'm NOT FUCKING INTERESTED.
- Feminism seems some sensitivity training.
- For a while I was into the MHRM, but I found they agree with feminists on too many things that affect me. Feminists shout at me, "Ur not a rael womyn! Ur a rapist!" The MHRM shouts at me, "Ur not a rael womyn! Ur a communist!" No answers there, just more bullshit.
- And no, for the millionth time, if you saw me IRL, you'd think I was cisgendered. Everything is peechy-keen until I have to show my papers. Then it all goes to hell. Christians seem to be believe that I can deceive them that I'm a cisgendered woman (hey, I never made any fucking claims--you assholes were the one that came to that conclusion then freak the fuck you when it's factually wrong) because I've made a pact with the devil.
- Also, Merry Christmas jihadists and the Apache attack copter demographic.
- All I care about any more is getting to Colorado so I can spend the rest of my life blazed. When I'm blazed, I can go to a fantasy world where instead of constantly being blamed as all-men for cisgendered women's constant fuck-ups, poor choice in men, and refusal to take their own fucking initiative to learn programming and maths, I instead can be an individual.
- I will never be an individual in this world.
- No, so far seeing a psychologist hasn't helped. That's probably because the problem isn't me. The next time one of the cisgendered hunnies wants to bitch about why there are no cisfemale programmers, she can look in the fucking mirror.
- I guess that's about all.
For what it's worth, the new owners seem to be doing good. It's probably too little too late. I've pretty much stopped posting to the red site as well.
Mod to -1 I guess. I'll probably never know because I don't even care enough to check back later to see one way or the other.
You have a point here.
This speaks to the complete state of disrepair the various fields in tech are in. Fast talking con artists can play bullshit buzzword bingo and get in even though they can't code their way out of a paper box.
I don't know what the answer is. Certifications have clearly shown to be inadequate. Degrees are so hopelessly watered down as to be meaningless (not to mention the cost of obtaining one is spiraling out of control thanks to the student-loan-college-industrial-complex).
I mean, I don't doubt the guy's skills. I haven't really maintained my skills lately because I no longer want to have anything to fucking do with tech, so he could probably take me to school. On the other hand, I doubt he could break into webapps I publish because I understand the underpinnings and RFCs and generally know what the fuck I'm doing. I may have said I'm not maintaining my skills, but the old rule of "validate all input and trust no input" is as true as the day I got into this field. Who says he's not just a metasploit jockey? I have that installed on my server in the clouds, just haven't had time or lately interest to learn how to use it for penetration testing.
You're point is valid if we remove all ethical concerns from the question. Do you really want somebody who had no problem defacing websites and stealing user data working for you? Maybe you do. I don't know. It's a free country.
It's just a damned shame that the state of the field is in such shambles.
Yep. Yet another sign that things aren't right when it comes to tech jobs. We have massive diversity problems because of asshole managers who demand that workers have zero personal life and 24/7/365 availability, driving women out of the industry.
Those of us who did what we were told, didn't go blackhat with our skills, and didn't try to rock the boat hoping we'd get ahead didn't. Hell, a lot of us here have stories about being harassed, railroaded, and either threatened with criminal prosecution or actually prosecuted by our middle schools and high schools.
Our jobs are getting shipped overseas with H1B visas all the while companies can't figure out either telecommuting or opening branch offices in places with lower costs of living. Meanwhile, hiring managers can't be arsed to even figure out what the fuck it is we do for and can offer to an organization, chalking it up to magic that's somehow just socially below them but intellectually above them and expecting to find people with 10 years experience with Visual Basic 2015 when what they really fucking need is somebody who's been a dot net developer since dot net 1.0 who writes code in a non-brain damaged dialect like C#--it all compiles to the same fucking MSIL.
Oh, but if you're a rock star like Mustafa Al-Bassam here, they'll roll out the red carpet!
Takeaway: if you want to go into tech to make a living, go blackhat. Get creative. Maybe hack some bank accounts. Steal bitcoins. Steal user credentials. Sell credit card numbers on the black market. Cause grief for megacorps. Build botnets and DDOS websites until the owner pays up. Send out trojans that encrypt and hold user data hostage for a modest sum of bitcoins, usually worth less than the data is worth were it to be destroyed. I hear a lot of these data ransom scams actually have good customer service! See, you can even work on your people skills as a blackhat!
Maybe make a load of cash this way, waaay more than you'll make for shit per hour/year. Then when you're ready to get a normal job and are tired of dodging the authorities, just publicly dox yourself, serve a token sentence, and get hired for god knows how much!
Whiskey tango foxtrot?!
Normally I'd agree with you. I'll probably show up in November and cast a straight Libertarian ticket. I think Gary Johnson is a really good choice. In a fair system he'd be my first choice, Sanders being 2nd.
You're missing the inevitable consequences of a first-past-the-pole election system. We're always voting for the less worst lizard. I voted for Sanders. I'm not an official member of the Libertarian party any more, so I can't go to that convention (nor could I afford to) to voice my support for Johnson. The choice in November will be Trump or Clinton. Which is the worse lizard? Clinton will win, and then we're all doomed.
I'm saying that my voice doesn't matter. Your voice doesn't matter. All is lost.
I wish you were being sarcastic. I get interrupted when I'm speaking all the time. Women interrupt me. Men interrupt me. When somebody lucky enough to get assigned the female gender at birth gets interrupted, now it's a matter of patriarchy and oppression and sexism.
It's pretty damned sad. I can't figure out why blacks en masse think that lying, two-faced, elitist, racist Barry Goldwater supporter is somehow a civil rights activist. Oh, but now I'm just calling her those things because she's exhibiting traits that would be seen as a sign of leadership in a man! Feminists should go get fucked. I think I read about ONE and only one opinion piece about how stupid it is to hold Nancy Reagan up as a role model for women. Yay, Nancy Reagan! Feminist hero!... standing by her husband's side... then she goes into the kitchen to make a sammich... feminist hero... giving us father knows best from the 1950s.... Of all fucking things, Clinton got egg on her face over AIDS! Of all fucking things wrong with trying to praise Reagan as a role model for women... AIDS! GRID!
I cast my vote for the Bern. I'm not even sure if I'm going to bother voting in the general election. Clinton is as good as coronated at this point. I used to be one of those people who would post here, "Get out and vote! Vote for somebody! Anybody!" Seeing the amount of control the media has over who gets votes, voting has been shown to be truly pointless.
It would be one thing if Clinton's support of Barry Goldwater were a blemish on her record and if she were able to help us understand her change of heart. According to the media, her volunteer work for Goldwater's campaign never happened, and to add insult to injury, Sanders apparently wasn't even involved in the civil rights movement. It would be one thing if Trump actually did have a bad earpiece in that interview wrt the KKK endorsing him. Trump had already disavowed the KKK's endorsement at that point. Article after article after article still acts like Trump had never disavowed the KKK. Completely missing from all this is the Nation of Islam's endorsement of Trump.
The TPP is coming. There will be some politically handy thing that happens that will allow Clinton to do an about face back to her original position on the TPP when she gets into the Oval Office. The cows will be just fine with this. Chocolate rations will be up to 25 grams per week because of the glorious TPP! The cows will rejoice. Then TTIP and TISA. We should probably prepare to take discussion sites like this to darknets, depending on how bad TISA really is.
I suppose Jill Stein or Gary Johnson will probably be on the ballot in November.
I guess when you live in a country full of easily manipulated cows being led to the slaughter... I don't know. I'll guess I'll just go back to posting one-line insults as AC. Never mind me.
I'm just wondering if it's all the same person. We've seen this pattern before with the truth+mercy=justice "trust in moms" troll. What do you folks think here? VPN that's hopping endpoints? Botnet? TOR?
As the resident expert on all things cis and trans, I'm way ahead of you, AC!
May I recommend Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion?