Your real enemy is Wall Street. And the best you can do is go on jihad on against your delusions, tilting at windmills, attacking innocents who are suffering at the hands of Wall Street just the same as you are. The only Jihadists I've met here in the USA are the Michigan Militia and others who practice Christian Identity.
You are nothing more than useful idiots and stooges for the 0.1%.
You really fucking believe Michigan is an Islamic state?
You are a complete fucking idiot. You are so deep in your own fucking delusions that somebody puts out a poor attempt at satire concerning Dearborn and *poof* we've got them mooslims all over the place and state-wide Sharia law!
That being said, since you are a complete fucking moron, let me try to keep this simple. We have Jihadists here in Michigan all right. They're the Michigan Militia. They practice Christian Identity. And you better betcha they want their own version of Sharia law. Just a few months ago some gender non-conforming friends and I had to deal with the "Merry Christmas" jihadis. It could have been worse. We've got people ready to rough up any cisgendered woman who would have the temerity to have short hair!
I'm really hoping my sarcasm detector is just low on tea. I mean, seriously, what the fuck? How can I take any of this shit seriously? Have conservatives gone this far off the fucking deep end? Why don't you head over to Dearborn some time? It's one of the wealthier suburbs in the Detroit/Ann Arbor region. The only Muslims we have are the ones providing tasty ethnic food.
In my local community in a redder part of the state, we mostly have a population of Hindus. I used to live just down the road from a Hindu cultural center that held services every Sunday. I never really inquired, but I have about the same apathy concerning the saner Christian denominations.
Whatever delusions make you happy. Just don't be surprised that the next person you try to rough up on suspicion that they're part of the gay agenda to make Christmas illegal or enact Sharia law has a concealed weapon. That's not a threat as long as you keep your mental illness limited to just shouting crazy shit at people in public and making yourself look like an ass.
Seconded. This particular case has dubious merits, but!
I don't see anything particularly wrong with the FBI using the power of a subpoena or warrant or whatever the correct legal term is here. The source code already exists. The signing keys already exist. Apple has to be able to release updates to its devices somehow.
Let's say loading a new OS on to the phone requires the entry of a password that is unknowable at this point. Let's say that attempting to brute force the password will, oh I don't know, physically melt the storage. This is all purely hypothetical.
The FBI would still be within its rights as law enforcement to request whatever existing documentation it needs from the manufacturer (as we all know, sometimes the documentation is the source code). I would argue that signing keys are fair game, too. (All though I would also argue that the government should be liable if the signing keys are leaked.)
In that hypothetical, then the FBI would be up shit creek without a paddle. I'm sure if I were more mechanically inclined I could imagine some kind of uber secure vault for which the combination has been lost. Attempting to break into the vault in any way would cause its contents to be destroyed. I don't believe it's illegal to build such a vault nor can law enforcement hold the vault's manufacturer accountable for being unable to retrieve the information stored in the vault.
I'd encourage the FBI to be able to get all the documentation the manufacturer has about how that vault is constructed. From there, they're on their own. Maybe they'll luck out and find some vulnerability the manufacturer hadn't accounted for or overlooked. Maybe the documents will show some weird corner scenario that the manufacturer considered too off-the-wall to bother designing against. The vault's manufacturer should never be compelled to do that work for the FBI, only to turn over what they already have.
Yeah, ok, so the FBI's going to build this big scary mass privacy invasion tool! Be afraid! Don't be afraid of a tool that the FBI can plug your phone into that will bypass something like a PIN number that's only secure enough because one can only try 7 or however many times per hour. That's security by obscurity in my book since we're talking about having physical possession of the device. (I would still recommend login timeouts for remote login fails.) The difference is physical access. Be afraid if the FBI requires iGummy owners to regularly submit their iGummies for weekly image dumps or mandatory government-built OS updates.
As far as I can tell, so far at least, while I disagree with the direction this is all headed, it appears due process is being upheld here. If somebody can link me precedent that a device manufacturer can't be compelled to share information it already has on how its products are built, then obviously I'm wrong. Circle of protection: IANAL.
I am at the moment. A psychologist combined with the sticky icky once saved me when I literally had a knife against my jugular. I remembered the mindfulness in which he had instructed me, and I took a hit off a bong. I went to somewhere fantastic. They called us mages and sorceresses in that reality, those of us who understood very deeply how to program the nanomachines. I was a princess waiting for Prince Charming in a wood on a hill while the sun was setting in roughly the 11th century in our timeline when nanotechnology had become ubiquitous. I remember that it was sunset, and I was fearful that he wouldn't come. (The calendar year was much greater, and it counted from a time forgotten since the burning of the Library during the rise of Christianity.) In that reality, Hypatia had lived on to be a hero and soundly defeated Plato in the arena of ideas. I never found out whether Prince Charming arrived or not to Sorceress Princess Gwyneth in that alternate timeline.
Gwyneth is a name that the Goddess gave me during an earlier experiment with shrooms. The Goddess told me to protect a field of flowers, but at present, I only desire to watch it burn.
I am not certain a psychologist alone can save me again. We'll see, I suppose, but who cares, eh? If I kill myself, that's one less all-men keeping your cisgendered hunnies out of programming careers!
I do not want to live in a world where the cisgendered hunnies override my every concern. I do not want to live with mutilated genitals knowing full well I cannot possibly afford to mutilate them to my desire. The world owes me nothing, but likewise I owe the world nothing in exchange.
I was only a princess in that reality because I had mastered (mistressed?) a complete comprehension of nanomachine programming and perfected a transformation spell for myself.
I will soldier on until I get to Colorado, even if I go homeless and have to amputate my genitals in the end when I am starving in a gutter. At least I'll be high as a kite and in my fantasy world where I'm one of the cisgendered hunnies as well!
What dreams may come?
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
The way I read the Bill of Rights, both of those things are protected. I see the first as a 4th and 9th Amendment issue and the second as a 1st and 9th Amendment issue, if I'm correctly interpreting the second one.
No, I don't look very favorably on the mainstream on either the D and R side. One of my patented off-topic rants backed up by my personal guarantee that at least one reactionary or feminist will get triggered by the word cisgendered follows. Bonus points if that person is in the Apache attack copter demographic, but I haven't seen any representation of that demographic here yet. Read on, all the way to the end, because I am going to come around to a position on the matter you'd find favorable.
Now if you're asking whether the Bill of Rights compels me to pay for what I can only presume you're using a loaded term to describe--contraception for (some) cisgendered hunnies (who are capable of growing a child in their bodies because there are a lot of people who get to be in the cisgendered hunny crowd that can't)--it sure as fuck doesn't. Additionally, refusing to pay for a health service you can't afford DOES NOT FUCKING MEAN that I am "controlling" your body. My genitals were forcibly torn apart, and a body part I needed was amputated at birth. I think assigned males in the USA have way better experience with the desire of others to control their bodies than any fucking cisgendered hunny.
When you're in a very small demographic that is absolutely universally hated by the religious (Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Wiccans, and feminists) and have medical needs that are very different from the average person's medical needs, you tend to gravitate towards libertarianism. I'm not the only transgendered person who's come to that conclusion.
It's the only way to be fair to everybody. I pay for my medical needs. Your cisgendered hunnies pay for their medical needs or get you to. Either way, I don't care. Everybody was happy that way. Now we have Religious Objection!
The only reason I support single payer healthcare (only!) is because if I have to be inconvenienced by Religious Objection! and travel over 150 miles to get access to medical care, and if some kind of "get everybody health care" scheme has to be in place, I'd like for it to be fucking sane. I'm not even asking for a single payer system to pick up what I spend on gas getting over to the big city or reimburse me for lost wages since I have to take a half day off work every time I go. I like road trips every now and then.
Now, I do not necessarily want to pay for health care services for (some) cisgendered hunnies any more than feminists want to pay for my health care services. But I have a question to pose to anybody who wants to insist that (especially but not only) contraception should not be a covered health service: what would you rather pay for? Here's your choice. You're either going to pay for a woman to receive the pill at a cost (assuming here it's similar to one of my meds since it's nearly the same thing) of $30 per month, OR you're going to pay for that woman to have an unwanted pregnancy that will reduce her capacity to earn wages and pay to clothe, house, and feed her unwanted child for 18 years, keeping in mind that once a woman has one unwanted pregnancy, she tends to go for top score and have several others. The choice is yours.
Like I said, seeing as how socialized medicine is here to stay, as much as I am spiteful towards the cisgendered hunnies for all the worship they get for their animal functions (that not even all of them are capable of), I personally choose to pay $30 per month. Abstinence doesn't work, and on top of that, shit happens. (Yes, occasionally when a cisgendered hunny screams Rape! there actually was a violent assault involved.) I encourage every cisgendered hunny who is unsure about her fertility to take the pill. Those of us who can't make babies outnumber the cisgendered hunnies who
jfyi, in case other feminist elements haven't been in communication with you, GVSU is a hotbed of TERF and anti-gay santiment, so I guess anti-GBT, as if you fucking lesbians have anything to lose by accepting us assigned males who aren't good little sex objects for you as equals. University of Michigan has a famously gatekeeper-driver program to discourage assigned males from transitioning while marketing itself as something that's supposed to fucking help trans women.
In short, you're a fucking asshole. You know why C+= came about? Because of gaslighting assholes like you. You know why this paper exists? Because gaslighting assholes like you are desperate to find some fucking reason why the rest of us should listen to airhead cisgendered women on topics they have no chance of understanding. So you cisfemale feminists post shit like this paper and call the rest of us sexist when we point out how much of a piece of stinking shit it is.
I helped give Sanders the win in Michigan last night, but I know you cisfemale assholes (yeah, you claim to be a guy) are going to try to give Clinton a coronation. I've made up my mind. I'm tired of you feminist cisfemale assholes fucking with my access to meds and fucking with my life in general because you, for some airhead feminist reason, think that my having breasts means I've metaphysically raped you.
As a Sanders supporter, fully aware that Trump is repeating the same mistakes of 1930s Germany, I will vote for Trump in November if I have to keep putting up with discrimination and general fuckery from you cisfemales.
Seriously, what gives you the right to judge me as all-men? Your operatives have been working since I was 7! They even admitted that I was "just as well behaved as a girl" but that I would need to be punished because it would be unfair to the other boys if I were pardoned for something I didn't fucking do.
Where do you think I got the red pill from? Maybe I FUCKING GOT IT FROM BEING JUDGED A RAPIST AND SEXUAL ABUSER, by yourself nonetheless, OVER AND FUCKING OVER AGAIN.
At some point, one grows tired of you and your cisgendered hunnies.
Give me a path to a legitimate existence as a cisfemale, and I might be of some utility to your cisgendered hunnies when there is rioting in every major city after BRICS switches away from the US dollar.
You won't though. You think it serves your best interests to encourage cisfemales to value being baby mommas. You can't even imagine any higher intellectual path.
And what will it fucking matter when the bombs fall?!
Oh, you want me to believe I'm some kind of authentic woman programmer, but you will never grant me legitimate authenticity as a woman.
You won't go that distance! You won't give me the limb to stand on!
Actually, you've reminded me. The doctor has me on a 12 hour schedule for taking the blue pill./me noms the estradiol!
What is up with this hatred? Previously, on the red site, I was role playing a fucking Chinese Amazon for a good half a year before I realized how fucked up it all was.
What will you do about the TERFs? What will you do about the assaults on your cisgendered hunnies as you attempt to engage in some ridiculous argument that I am all-men?
Fuck your tl;dr. GP was hardly long enough. All of bluefoxlucid's arguments hold water. I was merely trying to be diplomatic with my post, but s/he blew me out of the water and rightly so.
Can't undo the damage done. The one thing that can is green and sticky. Goodness knows whether I'll have access to it or decide it's futile and conclude this existence with amputating the already mutilated genitals that were forced on me.
Yeah, I was whining about doing that as an act of protest a couple months back. The cisfemale hacker I'd found is interested in sewing now! Normally, I would have no judgement about that. Is not sewing a form of hacking involving equal parts intellect and creativity? Alas, the TERFs and SJWs have forced my hand! I am clearly a rapist who doesn't think women can handle tasks of creativity and intellectual engagement such as sewing and programming!
Who else is there? There's the cisfemale I was able to introduce to the basics of programming before she launched her management career. I think she'll be quite successful in that career and I support her 100%, but she's not a programmer, so I'm supposed to FEEL GUILTY!
Face it, the more that cisfemales decry maths, the worse this diversity issue in tech is going to be. You folks want to blame me? Personally? For your own shit when it comes to educating cisfemales who could otherwise be upstanding examples of the Amazon potential there?
I'd rather flip burgers and smoke weed. At least my fantasy world includes intelligent women instead of dumbing shit down.
I gave the Wikipedia article about Quantum Break a once over. Probably should have done that before opening my mouth, but the only thing I have to add is that if Quantum Break does poorly, maybe it was a bad game. The concept seemed intriguing, sort of like an FPS/scifi take on Braid.
If releasing as a Windows 10/Windows Store exclusive becomes a clearly unprofitable decision, then developers won't be keen to release more Windows Store exclusives. Also looks like I won't be playing Quantum Break any time soon.
On the other hand, if all that happens is a bunch of gamergaters yelling loudly while releasing Windows Store exclusive is profitable, then this is the future of PC gaming, say sorry.
I think GP has a valid point here. If that many things are broken (the file permission item seems a little blown out of proportion--so what if one needs to use Administrator; I sudo all the time in Linux), then don't buy games from the Windows Store.
The Windows Store becomes unprofitable because gamers stick with Steam? Boo hoo.
Pondering a bit about the next move from Microsoft to pursue their Unified Windows Platform. Windows 10 locks gaming down so tight that Steam can't run on Windows? Developers and gamers finally switch to Linux.
I can't imagine Microsoft would actually be dumb enough to chase gaming over to Linux. On the other hand, I've paid for all my games. I yarr! pirated Fallout 4 because I caved to peer pressure and the roommate already had the thing downloaded. Then it promptly blew my socks off and I bought a legit copy. The only thing in the software stack I've yarr! pirated and have every intention to continue to use without paying is Windows.
If I've completely missed the issue please help me out. I'm not much of a gamer myself but there is the occasional title now and then that dominates my spare time.
It will be interesting what happens when Windows 8.1 reaches end of life. I would be very hesitant to install Windows 10 unless there's a yarr! pirated release that's been neutered of telemetry. As far as I care, Windows is ArcadeOS. I keep updates disabled and only do important stuff when booted into Linux.
tl;dr if Microsoft wants to sufficiently piss off gamers, Steam+Linux is waiting in the wings.
I hope you're just being snarky about GP's effort to represent the units correctly.
Otherwise, I think I've found the poster child for what we can expect from the next generation of children who no longer need to learn things like maths because they're hard. Yeah, I should be posting to the other discussion.
I suppose it's a natural conclusion. If you're too stupid to understand maths, you're probably also too stupid to realize everything you're missing out on by only being competent in punching shit into a calculator. I mean, how many apes realize they're missing out on anything because they haven't learned maths?
I thought just reading this site and the red site was depressing. Now that I've started perusing Google News to watch the train wreck that is the 2016 USA election season, I've realized that I really, truly do not wish to live on this planet any more.
Very well said. One thing that set of alarm bells in my head was when people were talking about a $15/hr minimum wage. Now that's a reality in some places. We also see the phenomenon of farmers paying migrants (the Mexican kind, not the Muslim kind) under the table because those jobs aren't even worth $8/hr.
Minimum wage is a band aid measure, a rather crude one at that, to create a society where everybody is doing $something 39.5 hours per week (now 29.5, thanks Obama) and everybody who can get a job doing $something can live a dignified lifestyle.
I suppose in an ideal fantasy land (let's call this thought experiment, say, Germany) unions would be a much better alternative for labor to negotiate decent wages in most sectors and lines of work. Again, this place I've made up called Germany is of course purely hypothetical. As we know, unions never work in the real world.
One other thing I'd like to put out there is that I've heard a number of curious stories through the years about friends of co-workers who live entirely off government benefits already. Usually the story goes that they get bored and want to do something, so they apply for some jobs, do a few interviews, and ultimately walk away from the employment market for one simple reason: if they were to take any jobs that had been offered to them, their benefits would evaporate. They are receiving more from the government for doing a bunch of nothing than they would earn working for a living.
A citizen's dividend or universal guaranteed income seems like the perfect answer to both problems.
To contradict myself, the only thing that's staggering to me--and perhaps somewhat frightening--is when I think about all the economic actors who get my money solely because I have a meaningless job I hate. If some kind of guaranteed income were enacted tomorrow, I'd quit my job before the ink on the newspapers could dry. I'd probably also end up living the same quality of life, probably even better, but much more cheaply. I'd no longer fork over a good cut of my paycheck to cigarette companies, beer companies, and fast food companies. Some of those jobs, mostly the tobacco ones, could conceivably follow my money to grow cannabis for me (yep let's all head to Colorado! go west!). There are these completely unhealthy processed meat cubes from the vending machine made by Jack's Links that would no longer siphon off my money either. Logistics jobs would easily pivot from delivering sealed packs of mystery meat to vending machines to an increased demand for actual food at supermarkets. I'd no longer need sleeping pills. The list goes on.
How many other people are in my same boat? IANAEconomist, but it's clear to me that more jobs than just welfare bureaucrat would be made redundant. Maybe that's a good thing? Refocus the economy and free market to innovate in positive areas instead of selling unhealthy, toxic stuff to people who have lost the will to live. Can the economy as a whole survive people leading more healthy lives, or does Western Capitalism chug on solely by poisoning people who have no hope?
On the other hand, if I decided tomorrow that it was no longer acceptable to me to participate in a world where I will never be able to reach my goals, the demand that exists only because on the average day I'm too stressed, too angry, too unhappy, too sad, would disappear anyway along with a lot more demand. In the grand scheme of things, I'm a rounding error, though. Most people have reasons to want to live and to continue to accept wage slavery. A basic guaranteed income at the national level for the USA or especially if implemented cooperatively with the rest of the developed world, would completely rearrange the status quo
I agree. This is a perfect idea. Think of all the time that will be freed up so that we can make damned sure that all assigned males know they're little rapists and incomplete beings. We need to absolutely make sure that all assigned males understand how horrible they are and how much they deserve to live with painful mutilated genitals.
Understanding how worthless and evil they are is the number one life skill that assigned males need to learn. I would suggest taking a note from my 10th grade English teacher and including on tests more questions involving whether houses are pregnant or not and the phases of the moon, which will be marked incorrect on all assigned males' tests.
Make sure they understand they are the problem. If any one of those rapists fucks expresses a desire to be a woman instead, that makes the little rapist even worse since now he wants to invade the female form and rape women in the bathroom.
Maths are an evil system designed to oppress womyn. We need to make sure assigned males, especially those faggots who think they have some right to call themselves "women" because they stole and raped a pair of breasts from a real womyn, understand that they are incomplete and that we will no longer tolerate their oppression.
Never mind me. Maybe in a month or two I'll be able to kill myself with a clean conscience.
Exactly what I was thinking. It's not entrapment merely because law enforcement asks you to do something. We see the FBI use this all the time to catch "terrorists." Regular pigs will sell drugs to make arrests. Are they giving any guarantee that being arrested under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act isn't the real prize? Is that a guarantee that law enforcement can even credibly make?
On top of that, redmond is already slowly turning on the screws. So next upgrade, who knows?
This is a very legitimate concern, I will admit. It's one reason why updates are disabled on my Windows^H^H^H^H^HArcadeOS 8 install. I was somewhat worried when I learned that UEFI settings can be detected from and changed from an OS.
Yes and originally the senators were supposed to be chosen by the states, not the people. Hey, at least an amendment changed that! I see nowhere in the enumerated powers of congress that give federal government the authority to make it illegal for me to grow certain plants or funguses on my own property. Where's the fucking authority to tax people contingent on whether or not they've purchased a government-certified good or service? Alcohol prohibition and income tax both needed amendments. That's just what immediately comes to mind.
This ship has long sailed. Get used to it.
Also: there is no reason an amendment couldn't authorize congress to implement single payer health care or a universal basic income. Hell, an amendment could actually make the plants and funguses I'm interested in growing illegal instead of just relying on collective brain damage routing around the 9th and 10th Amendments.
The people are COWS. You can shout "hurr durr federal republic not democracy!!eleven!!!1!!one!11!!" until your face is blue. It's not a fucking magic spell or some fucking occult magick that will undo how fucked the USA is right now thanks to how fucking uneducated Americans are.
Trump? Clinton? Either way, we're fucked. Start stockpiling.
Uh, wow. So instead of systemd causing you a problem, it was NetworkManager. *slow clap*
The only time I've used NetworkManager was while I had BodhiLinux installed on a laptop that's since died. The damned thing would not reliably connect to the correct access point. I eventually just ripped NetworkManager out, configured wpa_supplicant, and it worked perfectly. Really, I should have just installed Gentoo, especially since I found an overlay that has a systemd-free Enlightenment E19. (Haven't seen whether or not E20 will compile as easily without systemd.)
I say compile, but I haven't typed "./configure && make && make install" in ages.
My Gentoo boxes are all still Poettering/RedHat-free. No systemd. No PulseAudio. No NetworkManager. I have a desktop, a wireless access point/IPv4 NAT/IPv6 router, and a server in the clouds all running Poettering-free Gentoo.
Take Ted Cruz, for example. He attacks the other candidates - rarely - but he does it using their own words and their own record. He doesn't insult them or threaten lawsuits. Bernie Sanders also does not stoop to this level and has, on several occasions, even risen to defend his political opponents against attacks.
I would like to counter this with another quote:
...Now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
Did you follow a how-to? Any links you'd care to share? Was this part of those distros' installers? I tried to do this with Gentoo but I just don't have the time to learn new things anymore apparently. Thanks in advance
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There's truly no helping you assholes, is there?
Your real enemy is Wall Street. And the best you can do is go on jihad on against your delusions, tilting at windmills, attacking innocents who are suffering at the hands of Wall Street just the same as you are. The only Jihadists I've met here in the USA are the Michigan Militia and others who practice Christian Identity.
You are nothing more than useful idiots and stooges for the 0.1%.
You really fucking believe Michigan is an Islamic state?
You are a complete fucking idiot. You are so deep in your own fucking delusions that somebody puts out a poor attempt at satire concerning Dearborn and *poof* we've got them mooslims all over the place and state-wide Sharia law!
That being said, since you are a complete fucking moron, let me try to keep this simple. We have Jihadists here in Michigan all right. They're the Michigan Militia. They practice Christian Identity. And you better betcha they want their own version of Sharia law. Just a few months ago some gender non-conforming friends and I had to deal with the "Merry Christmas" jihadis. It could have been worse. We've got people ready to rough up any cisgendered woman who would have the temerity to have short hair!
I'm really hoping my sarcasm detector is just low on tea. I mean, seriously, what the fuck? How can I take any of this shit seriously? Have conservatives gone this far off the fucking deep end? Why don't you head over to Dearborn some time? It's one of the wealthier suburbs in the Detroit/Ann Arbor region. The only Muslims we have are the ones providing tasty ethnic food.
In my local community in a redder part of the state, we mostly have a population of Hindus. I used to live just down the road from a Hindu cultural center that held services every Sunday. I never really inquired, but I have about the same apathy concerning the saner Christian denominations.
Whatever delusions make you happy. Just don't be surprised that the next person you try to rough up on suspicion that they're part of the gay agenda to make Christmas illegal or enact Sharia law has a concealed weapon. That's not a threat as long as you keep your mental illness limited to just shouting crazy shit at people in public and making yourself look like an ass.
Seconded. This particular case has dubious merits, but!
I don't see anything particularly wrong with the FBI using the power of a subpoena or warrant or whatever the correct legal term is here. The source code already exists. The signing keys already exist. Apple has to be able to release updates to its devices somehow.
Let's say loading a new OS on to the phone requires the entry of a password that is unknowable at this point. Let's say that attempting to brute force the password will, oh I don't know, physically melt the storage. This is all purely hypothetical.
The FBI would still be within its rights as law enforcement to request whatever existing documentation it needs from the manufacturer (as we all know, sometimes the documentation is the source code). I would argue that signing keys are fair game, too. (All though I would also argue that the government should be liable if the signing keys are leaked.)
In that hypothetical, then the FBI would be up shit creek without a paddle. I'm sure if I were more mechanically inclined I could imagine some kind of uber secure vault for which the combination has been lost. Attempting to break into the vault in any way would cause its contents to be destroyed. I don't believe it's illegal to build such a vault nor can law enforcement hold the vault's manufacturer accountable for being unable to retrieve the information stored in the vault.
I'd encourage the FBI to be able to get all the documentation the manufacturer has about how that vault is constructed. From there, they're on their own. Maybe they'll luck out and find some vulnerability the manufacturer hadn't accounted for or overlooked. Maybe the documents will show some weird corner scenario that the manufacturer considered too off-the-wall to bother designing against. The vault's manufacturer should never be compelled to do that work for the FBI, only to turn over what they already have.
Yeah, ok, so the FBI's going to build this big scary mass privacy invasion tool! Be afraid! Don't be afraid of a tool that the FBI can plug your phone into that will bypass something like a PIN number that's only secure enough because one can only try 7 or however many times per hour. That's security by obscurity in my book since we're talking about having physical possession of the device. (I would still recommend login timeouts for remote login fails.) The difference is physical access. Be afraid if the FBI requires iGummy owners to regularly submit their iGummies for weekly image dumps or mandatory government-built OS updates.
As far as I can tell, so far at least, while I disagree with the direction this is all headed, it appears due process is being upheld here. If somebody can link me precedent that a device manufacturer can't be compelled to share information it already has on how its products are built, then obviously I'm wrong. Circle of protection: IANAL.
I am at the moment. A psychologist combined with the sticky icky once saved me when I literally had a knife against my jugular. I remembered the mindfulness in which he had instructed me, and I took a hit off a bong. I went to somewhere fantastic. They called us mages and sorceresses in that reality, those of us who understood very deeply how to program the nanomachines. I was a princess waiting for Prince Charming in a wood on a hill while the sun was setting in roughly the 11th century in our timeline when nanotechnology had become ubiquitous. I remember that it was sunset, and I was fearful that he wouldn't come. (The calendar year was much greater, and it counted from a time forgotten since the burning of the Library during the rise of Christianity.) In that reality, Hypatia had lived on to be a hero and soundly defeated Plato in the arena of ideas. I never found out whether Prince Charming arrived or not to Sorceress Princess Gwyneth in that alternate timeline.
Gwyneth is a name that the Goddess gave me during an earlier experiment with shrooms. The Goddess told me to protect a field of flowers, but at present, I only desire to watch it burn.
I am not certain a psychologist alone can save me again. We'll see, I suppose, but who cares, eh? If I kill myself, that's one less all-men keeping your cisgendered hunnies out of programming careers!
I do not want to live in a world where the cisgendered hunnies override my every concern. I do not want to live with mutilated genitals knowing full well I cannot possibly afford to mutilate them to my desire. The world owes me nothing, but likewise I owe the world nothing in exchange.
I was only a princess in that reality because I had mastered (mistressed?) a complete comprehension of nanomachine programming and perfected a transformation spell for myself.
I will soldier on until I get to Colorado, even if I go homeless and have to amputate my genitals in the end when I am starving in a gutter. At least I'll be high as a kite and in my fantasy world where I'm one of the cisgendered hunnies as well!
What dreams may come?
The way I read the Bill of Rights, both of those things are protected. I see the first as a 4th and 9th Amendment issue and the second as a 1st and 9th Amendment issue, if I'm correctly interpreting the second one.
No, I don't look very favorably on the mainstream on either the D and R side. One of my patented off-topic rants backed up by my personal guarantee that at least one reactionary or feminist will get triggered by the word cisgendered follows. Bonus points if that person is in the Apache attack copter demographic, but I haven't seen any representation of that demographic here yet. Read on, all the way to the end, because I am going to come around to a position on the matter you'd find favorable.
Now if you're asking whether the Bill of Rights compels me to pay for what I can only presume you're using a loaded term to describe--contraception for (some) cisgendered hunnies (who are capable of growing a child in their bodies because there are a lot of people who get to be in the cisgendered hunny crowd that can't)--it sure as fuck doesn't. Additionally, refusing to pay for a health service you can't afford DOES NOT FUCKING MEAN that I am "controlling" your body. My genitals were forcibly torn apart, and a body part I needed was amputated at birth. I think assigned males in the USA have way better experience with the desire of others to control their bodies than any fucking cisgendered hunny.
When you're in a very small demographic that is absolutely universally hated by the religious (Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Wiccans, and feminists) and have medical needs that are very different from the average person's medical needs, you tend to gravitate towards libertarianism. I'm not the only transgendered person who's come to that conclusion.
It's the only way to be fair to everybody. I pay for my medical needs. Your cisgendered hunnies pay for their medical needs or get you to. Either way, I don't care. Everybody was happy that way. Now we have Religious Objection!
The only reason I support single payer healthcare (only!) is because if I have to be inconvenienced by Religious Objection! and travel over 150 miles to get access to medical care, and if some kind of "get everybody health care" scheme has to be in place, I'd like for it to be fucking sane. I'm not even asking for a single payer system to pick up what I spend on gas getting over to the big city or reimburse me for lost wages since I have to take a half day off work every time I go. I like road trips every now and then.
Now, I do not necessarily want to pay for health care services for (some) cisgendered hunnies any more than feminists want to pay for my health care services. But I have a question to pose to anybody who wants to insist that (especially but not only) contraception should not be a covered health service: what would you rather pay for? Here's your choice. You're either going to pay for a woman to receive the pill at a cost (assuming here it's similar to one of my meds since it's nearly the same thing) of $30 per month, OR you're going to pay for that woman to have an unwanted pregnancy that will reduce her capacity to earn wages and pay to clothe, house, and feed her unwanted child for 18 years, keeping in mind that once a woman has one unwanted pregnancy, she tends to go for top score and have several others. The choice is yours.
Like I said, seeing as how socialized medicine is here to stay, as much as I am spiteful towards the cisgendered hunnies for all the worship they get for their animal functions (that not even all of them are capable of), I personally choose to pay $30 per month. Abstinence doesn't work, and on top of that, shit happens. (Yes, occasionally when a cisgendered hunny screams Rape! there actually was a violent assault involved.) I encourage every cisgendered hunny who is unsure about her fertility to take the pill. Those of us who can't make babies outnumber the cisgendered hunnies who
No, you asshole, this is how feminists operate. I'm actually surprised that this came from one of the coasts instead of Grand Valley State University or University of Michigan.
jfyi, in case other feminist elements haven't been in communication with you, GVSU is a hotbed of TERF and anti-gay santiment, so I guess anti-GBT, as if you fucking lesbians have anything to lose by accepting us assigned males who aren't good little sex objects for you as equals. University of Michigan has a famously gatekeeper-driver program to discourage assigned males from transitioning while marketing itself as something that's supposed to fucking help trans women.
In short, you're a fucking asshole. You know why C+= came about? Because of gaslighting assholes like you. You know why this paper exists? Because gaslighting assholes like you are desperate to find some fucking reason why the rest of us should listen to airhead cisgendered women on topics they have no chance of understanding. So you cisfemale feminists post shit like this paper and call the rest of us sexist when we point out how much of a piece of stinking shit it is.
I helped give Sanders the win in Michigan last night, but I know you cisfemale assholes (yeah, you claim to be a guy) are going to try to give Clinton a coronation. I've made up my mind. I'm tired of you feminist cisfemale assholes fucking with my access to meds and fucking with my life in general because you, for some airhead feminist reason, think that my having breasts means I've metaphysically raped you.
As a Sanders supporter, fully aware that Trump is repeating the same mistakes of 1930s Germany, I will vote for Trump in November if I have to keep putting up with discrimination and general fuckery from you cisfemales.
Thank you.
Seriously, what gives you the right to judge me as all-men? Your operatives have been working since I was 7! They even admitted that I was "just as well behaved as a girl" but that I would need to be punished because it would be unfair to the other boys if I were pardoned for something I didn't fucking do.
Where do you think I got the red pill from? Maybe I FUCKING GOT IT FROM BEING JUDGED A RAPIST AND SEXUAL ABUSER, by yourself nonetheless, OVER AND FUCKING OVER AGAIN.
At some point, one grows tired of you and your cisgendered hunnies.
Give me a path to a legitimate existence as a cisfemale, and I might be of some utility to your cisgendered hunnies when there is rioting in every major city after BRICS switches away from the US dollar.
You won't though. You think it serves your best interests to encourage cisfemales to value being baby mommas. You can't even imagine any higher intellectual path.
And what will it fucking matter when the bombs fall?!
Oh, you want me to believe I'm some kind of authentic woman programmer, but you will never grant me legitimate authenticity as a woman.
You won't go that distance! You won't give me the limb to stand on!
Actually, you've reminded me. The doctor has me on a 12 hour schedule for taking the blue pill. /me noms the estradiol!
What is up with this hatred? Previously, on the red site, I was role playing a fucking Chinese Amazon for a good half a year before I realized how fucked up it all was.
What will you do about the TERFs? What will you do about the assaults on your cisgendered hunnies as you attempt to engage in some ridiculous argument that I am all-men?
Fuck your tl;dr. GP was hardly long enough. All of bluefoxlucid's arguments hold water. I was merely trying to be diplomatic with my post, but s/he blew me out of the water and rightly so.
Ironically, my estradiol pills are blue.
Can't undo the damage done. The one thing that can is green and sticky. Goodness knows whether I'll have access to it or decide it's futile and conclude this existence with amputating the already mutilated genitals that were forced on me.
Yeah, I was whining about doing that as an act of protest a couple months back. The cisfemale hacker I'd found is interested in sewing now! Normally, I would have no judgement about that. Is not sewing a form of hacking involving equal parts intellect and creativity? Alas, the TERFs and SJWs have forced my hand! I am clearly a rapist who doesn't think women can handle tasks of creativity and intellectual engagement such as sewing and programming!
Who else is there? There's the cisfemale I was able to introduce to the basics of programming before she launched her management career. I think she'll be quite successful in that career and I support her 100%, but she's not a programmer, so I'm supposed to FEEL GUILTY!
Face it, the more that cisfemales decry maths, the worse this diversity issue in tech is going to be. You folks want to blame me? Personally? For your own shit when it comes to educating cisfemales who could otherwise be upstanding examples of the Amazon potential there?
I'd rather flip burgers and smoke weed. At least my fantasy world includes intelligent women instead of dumbing shit down.
I gave the Wikipedia article about Quantum Break a once over. Probably should have done that before opening my mouth, but the only thing I have to add is that if Quantum Break does poorly, maybe it was a bad game. The concept seemed intriguing, sort of like an FPS/scifi take on Braid.
If releasing as a Windows 10/Windows Store exclusive becomes a clearly unprofitable decision, then developers won't be keen to release more Windows Store exclusives. Also looks like I won't be playing Quantum Break any time soon.
On the other hand, if all that happens is a bunch of gamergaters yelling loudly while releasing Windows Store exclusive is profitable, then this is the future of PC gaming, say sorry.
I think GP has a valid point here. If that many things are broken (the file permission item seems a little blown out of proportion--so what if one needs to use Administrator; I sudo all the time in Linux), then don't buy games from the Windows Store.
The Windows Store becomes unprofitable because gamers stick with Steam? Boo hoo.
Pondering a bit about the next move from Microsoft to pursue their Unified Windows Platform. Windows 10 locks gaming down so tight that Steam can't run on Windows? Developers and gamers finally switch to Linux.
I can't imagine Microsoft would actually be dumb enough to chase gaming over to Linux. On the other hand, I've paid for all my games. I yarr! pirated Fallout 4 because I caved to peer pressure and the roommate already had the thing downloaded. Then it promptly blew my socks off and I bought a legit copy. The only thing in the software stack I've yarr! pirated and have every intention to continue to use without paying is Windows.
If I've completely missed the issue please help me out. I'm not much of a gamer myself but there is the occasional title now and then that dominates my spare time.
It will be interesting what happens when Windows 8.1 reaches end of life. I would be very hesitant to install Windows 10 unless there's a yarr! pirated release that's been neutered of telemetry. As far as I care, Windows is ArcadeOS. I keep updates disabled and only do important stuff when booted into Linux.
tl;dr if Microsoft wants to sufficiently piss off gamers, Steam+Linux is waiting in the wings.
Personally, I would go back farther than the 41st president.
I hope you're just being snarky about GP's effort to represent the units correctly.
Otherwise, I think I've found the poster child for what we can expect from the next generation of children who no longer need to learn things like maths because they're hard. Yeah, I should be posting to the other discussion.
I suppose it's a natural conclusion. If you're too stupid to understand maths, you're probably also too stupid to realize everything you're missing out on by only being competent in punching shit into a calculator. I mean, how many apes realize they're missing out on anything because they haven't learned maths?
I thought just reading this site and the red site was depressing. Now that I've started perusing Google News to watch the train wreck that is the 2016 USA election season, I've realized that I really, truly do not wish to live on this planet any more.
Very well said. One thing that set of alarm bells in my head was when people were talking about a $15/hr minimum wage. Now that's a reality in some places. We also see the phenomenon of farmers paying migrants (the Mexican kind, not the Muslim kind) under the table because those jobs aren't even worth $8/hr.
Minimum wage is a band aid measure, a rather crude one at that, to create a society where everybody is doing $something 39.5 hours per week (now 29.5, thanks Obama) and everybody who can get a job doing $something can live a dignified lifestyle.
I suppose in an ideal fantasy land (let's call this thought experiment, say, Germany) unions would be a much better alternative for labor to negotiate decent wages in most sectors and lines of work. Again, this place I've made up called Germany is of course purely hypothetical. As we know, unions never work in the real world.
One other thing I'd like to put out there is that I've heard a number of curious stories through the years about friends of co-workers who live entirely off government benefits already. Usually the story goes that they get bored and want to do something, so they apply for some jobs, do a few interviews, and ultimately walk away from the employment market for one simple reason: if they were to take any jobs that had been offered to them, their benefits would evaporate. They are receiving more from the government for doing a bunch of nothing than they would earn working for a living.
A citizen's dividend or universal guaranteed income seems like the perfect answer to both problems.
To contradict myself, the only thing that's staggering to me--and perhaps somewhat frightening--is when I think about all the economic actors who get my money solely because I have a meaningless job I hate. If some kind of guaranteed income were enacted tomorrow, I'd quit my job before the ink on the newspapers could dry. I'd probably also end up living the same quality of life, probably even better, but much more cheaply. I'd no longer fork over a good cut of my paycheck to cigarette companies, beer companies, and fast food companies. Some of those jobs, mostly the tobacco ones, could conceivably follow my money to grow cannabis for me (yep let's all head to Colorado! go west!). There are these completely unhealthy processed meat cubes from the vending machine made by Jack's Links that would no longer siphon off my money either. Logistics jobs would easily pivot from delivering sealed packs of mystery meat to vending machines to an increased demand for actual food at supermarkets. I'd no longer need sleeping pills. The list goes on.
How many other people are in my same boat? IANAEconomist, but it's clear to me that more jobs than just welfare bureaucrat would be made redundant. Maybe that's a good thing? Refocus the economy and free market to innovate in positive areas instead of selling unhealthy, toxic stuff to people who have lost the will to live. Can the economy as a whole survive people leading more healthy lives, or does Western Capitalism chug on solely by poisoning people who have no hope?
On the other hand, if I decided tomorrow that it was no longer acceptable to me to participate in a world where I will never be able to reach my goals, the demand that exists only because on the average day I'm too stressed, too angry, too unhappy, too sad, would disappear anyway along with a lot more demand. In the grand scheme of things, I'm a rounding error, though. Most people have reasons to want to live and to continue to accept wage slavery. A basic guaranteed income at the national level for the USA or especially if implemented cooperatively with the rest of the developed world, would completely rearrange the status quo
We'd probably also actually need to build a wall.
I agree. This is a perfect idea. Think of all the time that will be freed up so that we can make damned sure that all assigned males know they're little rapists and incomplete beings. We need to absolutely make sure that all assigned males understand how horrible they are and how much they deserve to live with painful mutilated genitals.
Understanding how worthless and evil they are is the number one life skill that assigned males need to learn. I would suggest taking a note from my 10th grade English teacher and including on tests more questions involving whether houses are pregnant or not and the phases of the moon, which will be marked incorrect on all assigned males' tests.
Make sure they understand they are the problem. If any one of those rapists fucks expresses a desire to be a woman instead, that makes the little rapist even worse since now he wants to invade the female form and rape women in the bathroom.
Maths are an evil system designed to oppress womyn. We need to make sure assigned males, especially those faggots who think they have some right to call themselves "women" because they stole and raped a pair of breasts from a real womyn, understand that they are incomplete and that we will no longer tolerate their oppression.
Never mind me. Maybe in a month or two I'll be able to kill myself with a clean conscience.
Exactly what I was thinking. It's not entrapment merely because law enforcement asks you to do something. We see the FBI use this all the time to catch "terrorists." Regular pigs will sell drugs to make arrests. Are they giving any guarantee that being arrested under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act isn't the real prize? Is that a guarantee that law enforcement can even credibly make?
On top of that, redmond is already slowly turning on the screws. So next upgrade, who knows?
This is a very legitimate concern, I will admit. It's one reason why updates are disabled on my Windows^H^H^H^H^HArcadeOS 8 install. I was somewhat worried when I learned that UEFI settings can be detected from and changed from an OS.
*slams forehead on desk*
Yes and originally the senators were supposed to be chosen by the states, not the people. Hey, at least an amendment changed that! I see nowhere in the enumerated powers of congress that give federal government the authority to make it illegal for me to grow certain plants or funguses on my own property. Where's the fucking authority to tax people contingent on whether or not they've purchased a government-certified good or service? Alcohol prohibition and income tax both needed amendments. That's just what immediately comes to mind.
This ship has long sailed. Get used to it.
Also: there is no reason an amendment couldn't authorize congress to implement single payer health care or a universal basic income. Hell, an amendment could actually make the plants and funguses I'm interested in growing illegal instead of just relying on collective brain damage routing around the 9th and 10th Amendments.
The people are COWS. You can shout "hurr durr federal republic not democracy!!eleven!!!1!!one!11!!" until your face is blue. It's not a fucking magic spell or some fucking occult magick that will undo how fucked the USA is right now thanks to how fucking uneducated Americans are.
Trump? Clinton? Either way, we're fucked. Start stockpiling.
You're completely out of touch.
Uh, wow. So instead of systemd causing you a problem, it was NetworkManager. *slow clap*
The only time I've used NetworkManager was while I had BodhiLinux installed on a laptop that's since died. The damned thing would not reliably connect to the correct access point. I eventually just ripped NetworkManager out, configured wpa_supplicant, and it worked perfectly. Really, I should have just installed Gentoo, especially since I found an overlay that has a systemd-free Enlightenment E19. (Haven't seen whether or not E20 will compile as easily without systemd.)
I say compile, but I haven't typed "./configure && make && make install" in ages.
My Gentoo boxes are all still Poettering/RedHat-free. No systemd. No PulseAudio. No NetworkManager. I have a desktop, a wireless access point/IPv4 NAT/IPv6 router, and a server in the clouds all running Poettering-free Gentoo.
Take Ted Cruz, for example. He attacks the other candidates - rarely - but he does it using their own words and their own record. He doesn't insult them or threaten lawsuits. Bernie Sanders also does not stoop to this level and has, on several occasions, even risen to defend his political opponents against attacks.
I would like to counter this with another quote:
...Now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
Looks like others understand this as well.
Eh, everybody knows Protectrons are worthless. Best to just salvage their military-grade circuit boards.
Woah, another time traveler! This one seems to be from 2002-2003 ish.
Did you follow a how-to? Any links you'd care to share? Was this part of those distros' installers? I tried to do this with Gentoo but I just don't have the time to learn new things anymore apparently. Thanks in advance