My mobo allows me to load my own keys. I'm assuming it's not the only UEFI implementation on the face of the planet that allows one to load one's own keys. I'd be secure booting my systemd-free Gentoo install if not for sheer laziness.
Oh come on, people! -1? The apps guy actually has a point here! (Stopped watch and all that.) Throw the man a funny mod or two.
Email is fundamentally insecure for the layperson. I'm not going to expect a layperson to dig through email headers to figure out if something is a spearphishing attack or not, and laypeople generally lack the attention to detail to even have red flags go up in the first place. That's assuming their email client is even configured to display the actual email address of the sender in the <brackets> instead of just the sender's name.
On the other hand, if instead of using Luddite email, SnapChat had been using something cryptographically secure for internal communications (like an APP!), spearphishing would not have succeeded.
You're running an extremely pedantic argument here. I'm going to make the completely baseless assertion that the average person could live a dignified life on $250/week. That works out to $13,000 per year. I've done it before and plan to do it again.
So let's head over to the CIA World Factbook entry for the USA. The population of the USA is listed as 321,368,864. There's a breakdown by age below that figure, and if we add up the population that's 15 and over we get 260,351,528. Double checking against the 0-14 year old demographic (61,017,336) looks good.
The point of generating the two different numbers is whether or not somebody wants to argue that childrens' parents should get an extra $250/week/child (this is dangerous imnsho) or nothing per extra child (not quite right either in my book, so let's pretend since I don't have an 18 and over population count that the 15-17 year olds represent some kind of additional income that would be given to parents per child, probably good to cap at 2 children).
Estimated GDP in 2015 was $17,970,000,000,000. (I'm not going to bother with significant figures here.) Now, IANAEconomist, so let's do one thing to that number: multiply by 68.8%, which was the portion of the GDP from household consumption. We get $12,363,360,000,000.
So, here is what I'm proposing: eliminate every welfare program in place (except healthcare, different debate), scrap minimum wage laws, and just give everybody $250/week. A lot of people will need to move out here to flyover country and that may upset the dynamics that allow me to assert that $250/week is enough to live a dignified life on. We'd probably also need to take up Mr. Trump's proposal to build a wall. Total cost given our two population counts to arrive at an annual cost of doing this: between $3,384,569,864,000 and $4,177,795,232,000, little over an order of magnitude less than GDP.
What I'm saying is that we don't need unicorns, rainbows, or Star Trek replicators (unless I've made some completely stupid amateur error because IANAEconomist) to be "post-scarcity enough" to implement a universal basic income tomorrow if we wanted to.
In before the "people are lazy bums who would just spend all day high on the couch" bugbear. (Frankly, when somebody runs this, it makes me think that they are not a very creative, inventive, or motivated person but like projecting their flaws on others.) People currently stay on welfare because the minute they obtain gainful employment, they stand to lose benefits of value that exceeds what any employer would offer to pay them. I have seen this happen first hand: somebody runs the numbers from their subsidized housing, welfare, etc, and concludes that they stand to lose if they start working. Trials of universal basic incomes show that many people keep their jobs because the dynamic is different: the basic income is in addition to what they earn. Other people innovate, showing a very important synergy with capitalism and the free market or become more involved in the community. As for the people who actually are lazy bums--there's nothing you can do about them. Better to house and feed them than spend upwards of $100,000,000 per year per individual by some estimates I've read (no idea the credibility there) on homeless services or incarceration.
My calculation may have been horrendously flawed (I'll expect to get flamed to death), but the point is that there are only two ways for an increasingly wealthy technological society to go: universal basic income Star Trek utopia or back to the dark ages due to wealth disparity. The only question is when the right time is to implement universal basic income. I'll accept arguments that 2016 isn't the right time; maybe 2030 or 2050 when I'll be retired anyway is.
I switched over to LibreOffice a few months back, and the only thing I've really missed is the word art. Nobody who sends me documents uses any of the advanced features like document fields beyond table of contents or page number, math, or even mail merge so it's worked for me.
But anyway, I wanted to write about the reason why I switched to LibreOffice. I actually like the ribbon! (I know, heresy.) We ran out of license keys for Office 2010 at work so I got whatever was the newest when my workstation got an upgrade (2013? 2014? don't remember don't care). Within two weeks it was apparent that it wouldn't work. I deal with documents that have a lot of images and nested tables. A few times, documents that appeared correctly to me were missing pages when viewed by Office 2010 users. What finally made me switch was when I was editing a particularly lengthy document when Office decided that pasting an image on say page 45 meant that what I had apparently wanted to do was remove pages 20-30. I could not figure out how to make the edit I needed to make without Office eating about 10 pages of the document.
That's simply not acceptable. The client was breathing down our neck to get an updated copy of that document, too.
So, I installed LibreOffice and while it's different and has strengths and weaknesses vs. MS Office, it's been working just fine for me. I wouldn't doubt that everyone's forgotten I switched over to LibreOffice.
That's a right fine number. I never thought I'd see the day. That being said....
I would believe Civ 4 may run just fine under Wine (haven't tried), but do Star Citizen, Firefall, Diablo 3, and Fallout 4 run just fine with Wine? They certainly do not have Linux ports. Star Citizen (when it launches) and Firefall I think may have Linux ports in the works, but who knows when that'll be. None of these games are currently available from Steam or $vendor for Linux so Wine is looking like the only option.
Microsoft is hardly abusing me here. I pirated (yarr!) Windows 8, installed it, turned off all updates, and have been eating popcorn while the telemetry gets backported to Windows 8 and 7--just not my install. I don't do random web surfing while booted into ArcadeOS 8, so I've been just fine without updates. Hell, I don't even do NetFlix. That's what my PS3 is for.
I mean, sure, I could continue seeding torrents while playing games, but there's no way I'm doing Folding or SETI @Home while playing modern games (Star Citizen and Fallout 4 in particular) without melting my computer down. It doesn't make sense for me to spend hours fiddling with things and trying to find FAQs/guides/howtos just so I don't have to boot into Windows every now and then.
Also a note for Microsoft: Star Citizen doesn't nag me for constant feedback. I just fire it up, maybe there's a ship everyone can use this week for free, and head into a dogfight. Instead, the more I play, the more REC I get, which means I get to rent better ships. Positive vs. negative reinforcement.
Well, I do not want to live in an all white country. I also don't think that statement should necessarily be hate speech, but it does say something about the speaker. (Generally, I like to hear what people have to say--gives me a good idea of which people I want nothing to do with.)
That being said, I'd like to offer up a compromise with people who want to live in an all-white country! I nominate Michigan and Indiana at least, maybe Ohio, as a designated Aryan autonomous zone. I assume such an autonomous zone will be a place where many people who also do not want to be around homosexuals or people with androgynous appearances will be able to call home. I'll leave it up to that zone's administration whether they still want tourist money from folks like me.
Michigan and Indiana have some wonderful scenery and rich Aryan subcultures, including many people who practice Christian Identity and believe that the Aryan race is the lost tribe of Israel and their god's elect to inherit New Jerusalem after the end of days. Also, Michigan has some fine terroir. I, myself, wouldn't be disinclined to continue buying Michigan's wines were it to become an Aryan state. I highly recommend Leelanau Cellars, and I would hope this Aryan autonomous zone would at least be open to trade with people like me.
Now, there are several Amish communities in Indiana that may need to relocate. However, being that they are descended mostly from Germans and speak a unique Dutch-German dialect, I hope I may assume that they would be able to continue their communities inoffensively to an Aryan state. They're respectful of outsiders, polite, and generally keep to themselves. I promise they won't be a problem!
I'm sure there will need to be considerations for people in Europe who would want to move to such a place. We'll also need to make sure to relocate many black communities. I don't think I would mind some level of government funding to relocate undesirable outside of Michigan/Indiana and Aryans from across the globe to a single geographic area where they can fume about how the world is out to get them and leave the rest of us alone.
(Undesirable here! Yeah, I'm asking for free shit! Get me out of this madhouse! Halp [sic]!)
(Disclaimer: white person here with blood relatives that practice Christian Identity. Not on speaking terms with them.)
But... what if there is some unflattering FACT about a group that offends and insults most members of that group?
I would posit that in an overwhelming majority of cases, that fact is not, in fact, a fact. There may be some individual members in the demographic you're talking about who demonstrate the proposed fact, but it will not be borne out across every last individual in the demographic. If it is borne out for a vast majority of the demographic, chances are it's not going to be something to get your panties in a twist about.
This is particularly interesting when considering the difference between a cult and a religion. We can make factual statements that will hold true for anybody who is say a Scientologist. That's low-hanging fruit.
Since we're almost certainly talking about Muslims, we can also make the observation that pretty much all of them will display similarities in manner of worship, but this is not something to be concerned about quite yet. If we go to assert that young Muslim men are rapists, that's a fairly broad brush to paint with.
(Even given the conspiracy theories ACs like to post about some massive cover up of these rapes going on, it still strikes me that the portion of young Muslim men who are rapists can't possibly be above a rounding error. Whether or not they're just looking for a welfare handout is beyond the scope of this comment. There are also most certainly young Muslim men who have committed acts of rape. I'm not attempting to argue that being a member of any demographic ensures that one isn't beyond violent acts.)
Essentially, I think your breakdown works out. It's indeed not a liberal/conservative thing. My go-to example on the liberal side is the phenomenon of rape cultures on college campuses. They begin with the offensive assertion that all young assigned males (regardless of lived gender or any medical facts really) are serial rapists. Er, well, in that case they never make it to the second half of considering whether it's true, but I gather that's how it goes with that direction of reasoning.
I mean, one can point out any day that there are a large number of trans women who don't pass well. It's unflattering, but I would be disingenuous not to recognize it as a fact.
I don't know why more people don't realize this. Trump was a Democrat up until 1999. Now, maybe my tinfoil's on too tight, but I can't help but to wonder if The Donald is more of a Trojan horse intent on handling Clinton the oval office in November.
At any rate, this season of reality television hit The Candidate has been entertaining so far. I can't wait for the season finale!
DuckDuckGo user here. Would subscribe if it came to it. Google pissed me off one day when I started up chromium and it had some line about how code.org is going to somehow make girls into programmers and solve the diversity problem.
If chromium goes away, feh. Midori would quickly mature.
SoylentNews subscriber here. I also pay to host my own stuff on Linode and use Namecheap as my registrar. In addition, internet routable IPv6 at home.
Frankly, websites that exist solely because of advertising can die in a fire. Nothing of value will be lost.
All that needs to happen is some serious momentum towards IPv6 adoption and federated protocols such as XMPP. DNS might remain a bugbear, but it would be neat if an ISP wanted to offer either 6RD or native IPv6 and also allow me to set up say vel-ex-tech.customers.awesomeisp.com and give me some way to point that at 2600:1337:543:8A30::1 (or::2 depending on how they're routing from my personal/64 if::1 is on the ISP side). Not saying that will ever happen. Hey, maybe it has the side effect of giving people who know wtf they're doing with technology an escape from Eternal September.
(Also note: if I wanted to have vel-ex-tech.customers.awesomeisp.com point to my desktop, I'd add 2600:1337:543:8A30::10/64 say as an address and have the XMPP server bind to that address. Then for non-server traffic use IPv6 privacy extensions to generate a random address in the/64, so on the rare occasion I go to MyFace, one day I'm coming from 2600:1337:543:8A30::DEAD:BEEF, then next day 2600:1337:543:8A30::1234.)
Granted, another alternative is some kind of micropayment service. I want a way to direct my money towards websites that are doing actual investigative journalism. I feel the hidden danger of advertisement-based services is that the mainstream players like WSJ, WaPo, etc get all the pageviews simply for having a brand when what I really want is something like Breitbart or The Root (flame away, well aware of both sites' biases, just examples of the kind of detail in reporting I want). Sites that repost repost the AP and Reuters feeds don't need my money--I can go straight to AP and Reuters myself. (Hey, they deserve at least a few peanuts for cranking out short summaries of events in different parts of the world!)
I'm not sure what is meant by "legal limbo." As others have suggested, just ask your boss. If you're in an industry stuck in the 80s like mine the answer will be "No! They'll steal all our SEKRETS if they have our sauce!" In that case, let it be and move on. If they give you the go-ahead, then party on, dude(tte).
While in a larger theological sense you're correct, I'm afraid that the overwhelming majority of Bible thumpers out there who interpret hell through the lens of the first third of Dante's Divine Comedy (you know, the one where being gay is equivalent to committing suicide or murder)... er... Trump that view!
I wouldn't worry about anyone actually learning anything about general purpose computing.
How does the Disney princess get from Code.org to my screen? It's magic!
Think about how many people you know with high school diplomas who can handle basic algebra. Some level of remedial algebra is usually involved when I handle "I wanna be a programmer!" requests (not always).
The public education system in the USA is nothing more than a daycare that enables psychological abuse of children. Nobody goes to school to actually become educated. What do I mean by psychological abuse of children? Public school in the USA is a shared cultural form of child abuse. One of the most surreal things I've witnessed here in flyover country is parents who are dumb as fuck; functionally illiterate; certainly innumerate; lacking in any basic knowledge of history, science, philosophy, or civics; and willfully ignorant about so many subjects demanding their children get better grades or else!
It's a tragedy of the commons. There is so much cultural momentum against education and intellectualism I can only conclude that sending children to public schools and demanding they keep their grades up serves no other purpose than psychological abuse. I honestly believe that any schooling beyond 5th grade is a complete waste of taxpayer resources.
What will happen is that kids will get turned off to computing en masse. One of the most difficult things to deal with when somebody goes "I wanna be a programmer" is getting past the psychological damage that a bad math teacher or two can do. Maths become a confusing and logically incomprehensible cipher, and many people simply memorize the necessary rituals to keep the grades up without making any connections among different parts of the subject matter. How could they? They were sent to an institution specializing in psychological abuse instead of an institution of learning.
I am aware of this position, thank you. I have been on its receiving end before, although not in a racist sense. I have no quarrel with different ethnic groups, and they have no quarrel with me. We support each other, because we're a community, and that's what community members do.
You forget: I'm a certified cis+het all-men shitlord! (Doubly so for liking learning sewing and baking in home ec much to the chagrin of cisgendered women!) I am merely trying to negotiate some other position because I have found evidence that AmiMoJo and BarbaraHudson are not full of shit.
I would not leave a career where I have 20+ years of experience for flipping burgers lightly.
The only thing I can't do in Linux I can in Windows is offload H.265 decoding to hardware, which I understand is not a permanent limitation (as soon as nVidia gets around to blessing me with a driver that supports it). The last time I ran benchmarks, I got better numbers from Linux than Windows. Admittedly, that was a few years ago before my current gaming rig (which is currently folding proteins at breakneck speed for the red site's team under Linux--had to make sure it didn't run during the day so it wouldn't be ~10 degrees warmer in my room than the rest of the house).
That's nothing compared to when systemd got on the basement router. It drank all the beer and kicked a puppy from my 6RD prefix! Then it accused me of hating handicapped people! Posting AC for obvious reasons.
*submit!*
Forgot to click the post AC box! Oh shi---!%$^^%#$NO CARRIER
We're talking about Windows 10 here which I've only seen but not used. (The person I watched using it eventually downgraded back to Windows 7.)
However, I'd like to report that the Windows 8 tile menu makes a very good video game launch interface. I get big tiles for Star Citizen and Fallout 4, I can make a group of little tiles for various Civ 4 expansions, and my Battle.net games get their own group of little tiles. I can even conveniently sort my programs into "Apps!" for Chrome and PuTTY and "Apping Game Apps!" for the games. I could even create a "Cow Apps MOO!" category if necessary! Not sure what else I'd use anything past Windows 7 for.
I usually don't, but (especially) since my user at work has some network administration privileges, I'm in the habit of pressing Win+L any time I leave the computer. (It's a small business, so hey.)
I would be completely pissed if, upon returning, I found myself looking at Lara Croft's oversized tits. 1.) I don't care about video game characters meant to appeal to the adolescent heterosexual male market, and frankly they make sure I won't buy or play those games. 2.) What if one of the sexist assholes I work with walked by while I was returning from a meeting or before the screen completely blanked and believed I had put Lara Croft's oversized tits on my lock screen because I like ogling grossly disproportionate women?
(Circle of protection: I'm a complete hypocrite! I may or may not have set my background to a series of images of Kevin Sorbo as Hercules and Kevin Smith [the beefcake one, not the silent one] as Ares with interludes of Leonardo DiCaprio characters! Ok, I haven't. It's currently the Crab Nebula.)
Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification. I had read the jargon and interpreted it as a license to harass since that's been what I've encountered for the most part from people claiming to be "feminists."
If what you're saying is true, I would be able to support the Open Code of Conduct with the provision that it should be more clear that it is not facilitating the kind of revenge discrimination (including threats of violence and death wishes) that many cisgendered women here in bizarro world feel is necessary. If somebody were to attempt to hold me personally accountable for the lack of cisgendered women in tech on GitHub, especially if they were making threats, I would hope such a code of conduct would have my back.
I feel I'm not the only person who's been on the receiving end of revenge discrimination. It's important for the social justice movement to recognize that it does happen if it wants these codes of conduct to stand apart from extremist feminist policies.
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Oh good grief. Fine.
My mobo allows me to load my own keys. I'm assuming it's not the only UEFI implementation on the face of the planet that allows one to load one's own keys. I'd be secure booting my systemd-free Gentoo install if not for sheer laziness.
Oh come on, people! -1? The apps guy actually has a point here! (Stopped watch and all that.) Throw the man a funny mod or two.
Email is fundamentally insecure for the layperson. I'm not going to expect a layperson to dig through email headers to figure out if something is a spearphishing attack or not, and laypeople generally lack the attention to detail to even have red flags go up in the first place. That's assuming their email client is even configured to display the actual email address of the sender in the <brackets> instead of just the sender's name.
On the other hand, if instead of using Luddite email, SnapChat had been using something cryptographically secure for internal communications (like an APP!), spearphishing would not have succeeded.
First off, human want is basically infinite
You're running an extremely pedantic argument here. I'm going to make the completely baseless assertion that the average person could live a dignified life on $250/week. That works out to $13,000 per year. I've done it before and plan to do it again.
So let's head over to the CIA World Factbook entry for the USA. The population of the USA is listed as 321,368,864. There's a breakdown by age below that figure, and if we add up the population that's 15 and over we get 260,351,528. Double checking against the 0-14 year old demographic (61,017,336) looks good.
The point of generating the two different numbers is whether or not somebody wants to argue that childrens' parents should get an extra $250/week/child (this is dangerous imnsho) or nothing per extra child (not quite right either in my book, so let's pretend since I don't have an 18 and over population count that the 15-17 year olds represent some kind of additional income that would be given to parents per child, probably good to cap at 2 children).
Estimated GDP in 2015 was $17,970,000,000,000. (I'm not going to bother with significant figures here.) Now, IANAEconomist, so let's do one thing to that number: multiply by 68.8%, which was the portion of the GDP from household consumption. We get $12,363,360,000,000.
So, here is what I'm proposing: eliminate every welfare program in place (except healthcare, different debate), scrap minimum wage laws, and just give everybody $250/week. A lot of people will need to move out here to flyover country and that may upset the dynamics that allow me to assert that $250/week is enough to live a dignified life on. We'd probably also need to take up Mr. Trump's proposal to build a wall. Total cost given our two population counts to arrive at an annual cost of doing this: between $3,384,569,864,000 and $4,177,795,232,000, little over an order of magnitude less than GDP.
What I'm saying is that we don't need unicorns, rainbows, or Star Trek replicators (unless I've made some completely stupid amateur error because IANAEconomist) to be "post-scarcity enough" to implement a universal basic income tomorrow if we wanted to.
In before the "people are lazy bums who would just spend all day high on the couch" bugbear. (Frankly, when somebody runs this, it makes me think that they are not a very creative, inventive, or motivated person but like projecting their flaws on others.) People currently stay on welfare because the minute they obtain gainful employment, they stand to lose benefits of value that exceeds what any employer would offer to pay them. I have seen this happen first hand: somebody runs the numbers from their subsidized housing, welfare, etc, and concludes that they stand to lose if they start working. Trials of universal basic incomes show that many people keep their jobs because the dynamic is different: the basic income is in addition to what they earn. Other people innovate, showing a very important synergy with capitalism and the free market or become more involved in the community. As for the people who actually are lazy bums--there's nothing you can do about them. Better to house and feed them than spend upwards of $100,000,000 per year per individual by some estimates I've read (no idea the credibility there) on homeless services or incarceration.
My calculation may have been horrendously flawed (I'll expect to get flamed to death), but the point is that there are only two ways for an increasingly wealthy technological society to go: universal basic income Star Trek utopia or back to the dark ages due to wealth disparity. The only question is when the right time is to implement universal basic income. I'll accept arguments that 2016 isn't the right time; maybe 2030 or 2050 when I'll be retired anyway is.
I switched over to LibreOffice a few months back, and the only thing I've really missed is the word art. Nobody who sends me documents uses any of the advanced features like document fields beyond table of contents or page number, math, or even mail merge so it's worked for me.
But anyway, I wanted to write about the reason why I switched to LibreOffice. I actually like the ribbon! (I know, heresy.) We ran out of license keys for Office 2010 at work so I got whatever was the newest when my workstation got an upgrade (2013? 2014? don't remember don't care). Within two weeks it was apparent that it wouldn't work. I deal with documents that have a lot of images and nested tables. A few times, documents that appeared correctly to me were missing pages when viewed by Office 2010 users. What finally made me switch was when I was editing a particularly lengthy document when Office decided that pasting an image on say page 45 meant that what I had apparently wanted to do was remove pages 20-30. I could not figure out how to make the edit I needed to make without Office eating about 10 pages of the document.
That's simply not acceptable. The client was breathing down our neck to get an updated copy of that document, too.
So, I installed LibreOffice and while it's different and has strengths and weaknesses vs. MS Office, it's been working just fine for me. I wouldn't doubt that everyone's forgotten I switched over to LibreOffice.
Steam has more than 200 titles
That's a right fine number. I never thought I'd see the day. That being said....
I would believe Civ 4 may run just fine under Wine (haven't tried), but do Star Citizen, Firefall, Diablo 3, and Fallout 4 run just fine with Wine? They certainly do not have Linux ports. Star Citizen (when it launches) and Firefall I think may have Linux ports in the works, but who knows when that'll be. None of these games are currently available from Steam or $vendor for Linux so Wine is looking like the only option.
Microsoft is hardly abusing me here. I pirated (yarr!) Windows 8, installed it, turned off all updates, and have been eating popcorn while the telemetry gets backported to Windows 8 and 7--just not my install. I don't do random web surfing while booted into ArcadeOS 8, so I've been just fine without updates. Hell, I don't even do NetFlix. That's what my PS3 is for.
I mean, sure, I could continue seeding torrents while playing games, but there's no way I'm doing Folding or SETI @Home while playing modern games (Star Citizen and Fallout 4 in particular) without melting my computer down. It doesn't make sense for me to spend hours fiddling with things and trying to find FAQs/guides/howtos just so I don't have to boot into Windows every now and then.
Also a note for Microsoft: Star Citizen doesn't nag me for constant feedback. I just fire it up, maybe there's a ship everyone can use this week for free, and head into a dogfight. Instead, the more I play, the more REC I get, which means I get to rent better ships. Positive vs. negative reinforcement.
The idea that legislation needs "funding" is odious in unto itself.
Well, I do not want to live in an all white country. I also don't think that statement should necessarily be hate speech, but it does say something about the speaker. (Generally, I like to hear what people have to say--gives me a good idea of which people I want nothing to do with.)
That being said, I'd like to offer up a compromise with people who want to live in an all-white country! I nominate Michigan and Indiana at least, maybe Ohio, as a designated Aryan autonomous zone. I assume such an autonomous zone will be a place where many people who also do not want to be around homosexuals or people with androgynous appearances will be able to call home. I'll leave it up to that zone's administration whether they still want tourist money from folks like me.
Michigan and Indiana have some wonderful scenery and rich Aryan subcultures, including many people who practice Christian Identity and believe that the Aryan race is the lost tribe of Israel and their god's elect to inherit New Jerusalem after the end of days. Also, Michigan has some fine terroir . I, myself, wouldn't be disinclined to continue buying Michigan's wines were it to become an Aryan state. I highly recommend Leelanau Cellars, and I would hope this Aryan autonomous zone would at least be open to trade with people like me.
Now, there are several Amish communities in Indiana that may need to relocate. However, being that they are descended mostly from Germans and speak a unique Dutch-German dialect, I hope I may assume that they would be able to continue their communities inoffensively to an Aryan state. They're respectful of outsiders, polite, and generally keep to themselves. I promise they won't be a problem!
I'm sure there will need to be considerations for people in Europe who would want to move to such a place. We'll also need to make sure to relocate many black communities. I don't think I would mind some level of government funding to relocate undesirable outside of Michigan/Indiana and Aryans from across the globe to a single geographic area where they can fume about how the world is out to get them and leave the rest of us alone.
(Undesirable here! Yeah, I'm asking for free shit! Get me out of this madhouse! Halp [sic]!)
(Disclaimer: white person here with blood relatives that practice Christian Identity. Not on speaking terms with them.)
But... what if there is some unflattering FACT about a group that offends and insults most members of that group?
I would posit that in an overwhelming majority of cases, that fact is not, in fact, a fact. There may be some individual members in the demographic you're talking about who demonstrate the proposed fact, but it will not be borne out across every last individual in the demographic. If it is borne out for a vast majority of the demographic, chances are it's not going to be something to get your panties in a twist about.
This is particularly interesting when considering the difference between a cult and a religion. We can make factual statements that will hold true for anybody who is say a Scientologist. That's low-hanging fruit.
Since we're almost certainly talking about Muslims, we can also make the observation that pretty much all of them will display similarities in manner of worship, but this is not something to be concerned about quite yet. If we go to assert that young Muslim men are rapists, that's a fairly broad brush to paint with.
(Even given the conspiracy theories ACs like to post about some massive cover up of these rapes going on, it still strikes me that the portion of young Muslim men who are rapists can't possibly be above a rounding error. Whether or not they're just looking for a welfare handout is beyond the scope of this comment. There are also most certainly young Muslim men who have committed acts of rape. I'm not attempting to argue that being a member of any demographic ensures that one isn't beyond violent acts.)
Essentially, I think your breakdown works out. It's indeed not a liberal/conservative thing. My go-to example on the liberal side is the phenomenon of rape cultures on college campuses. They begin with the offensive assertion that all young assigned males (regardless of lived gender or any medical facts really) are serial rapists. Er, well, in that case they never make it to the second half of considering whether it's true, but I gather that's how it goes with that direction of reasoning.
I mean, one can point out any day that there are a large number of trans women who don't pass well. It's unflattering, but I would be disingenuous not to recognize it as a fact.
I can get behind considering post-modernism hate speech!
I don't know why more people don't realize this. Trump was a Democrat up until 1999. Now, maybe my tinfoil's on too tight, but I can't help but to wonder if The Donald is more of a Trojan horse intent on handling Clinton the oval office in November.
At any rate, this season of reality television hit The Candidate has been entertaining so far. I can't wait for the season finale!
DuckDuckGo user here. Would subscribe if it came to it. Google pissed me off one day when I started up chromium and it had some line about how code.org is going to somehow make girls into programmers and solve the diversity problem.
If chromium goes away, feh. Midori would quickly mature.
SoylentNews subscriber here. I also pay to host my own stuff on Linode and use Namecheap as my registrar. In addition, internet routable IPv6 at home.
Frankly, websites that exist solely because of advertising can die in a fire. Nothing of value will be lost.
All that needs to happen is some serious momentum towards IPv6 adoption and federated protocols such as XMPP. DNS might remain a bugbear, but it would be neat if an ISP wanted to offer either 6RD or native IPv6 and also allow me to set up say vel-ex-tech.customers.awesomeisp.com and give me some way to point that at 2600:1337:543:8A30::1 (or ::2 depending on how they're routing from my personal /64 if ::1 is on the ISP side). Not saying that will ever happen. Hey, maybe it has the side effect of giving people who know wtf they're doing with technology an escape from Eternal September.
(Also note: if I wanted to have vel-ex-tech.customers.awesomeisp.com point to my desktop, I'd add 2600:1337:543:8A30::10/64 say as an address and have the XMPP server bind to that address. Then for non-server traffic use IPv6 privacy extensions to generate a random address in the /64, so on the rare occasion I go to MyFace, one day I'm coming from 2600:1337:543:8A30::DEAD:BEEF, then next day 2600:1337:543:8A30::1234.)
Granted, another alternative is some kind of micropayment service. I want a way to direct my money towards websites that are doing actual investigative journalism. I feel the hidden danger of advertisement-based services is that the mainstream players like WSJ, WaPo, etc get all the pageviews simply for having a brand when what I really want is something like Breitbart or The Root (flame away, well aware of both sites' biases, just examples of the kind of detail in reporting I want). Sites that repost repost the AP and Reuters feeds don't need my money--I can go straight to AP and Reuters myself. (Hey, they deserve at least a few peanuts for cranking out short summaries of events in different parts of the world!)
I've found the infidel!
How dare you depict the Prophet's angry face!
I'm not sure what is meant by "legal limbo." As others have suggested, just ask your boss. If you're in an industry stuck in the 80s like mine the answer will be "No! They'll steal all our SEKRETS if they have our sauce!" In that case, let it be and move on. If they give you the go-ahead, then party on, dude(tte).
Where were you taking your observations? Here in flyover country, I observed what appeared to be an unusually early spring during January.
Not that I'm complaining. Didn't need to shovel the driveway once.
While in a larger theological sense you're correct, I'm afraid that the overwhelming majority of Bible thumpers out there who interpret hell through the lens of the first third of Dante's Divine Comedy (you know, the one where being gay is equivalent to committing suicide or murder)... er... Trump that view!
I wouldn't worry about anyone actually learning anything about general purpose computing.
How does the Disney princess get from Code.org to my screen? It's magic!
Think about how many people you know with high school diplomas who can handle basic algebra. Some level of remedial algebra is usually involved when I handle "I wanna be a programmer!" requests (not always).
The public education system in the USA is nothing more than a daycare that enables psychological abuse of children. Nobody goes to school to actually become educated. What do I mean by psychological abuse of children? Public school in the USA is a shared cultural form of child abuse. One of the most surreal things I've witnessed here in flyover country is parents who are dumb as fuck; functionally illiterate; certainly innumerate; lacking in any basic knowledge of history, science, philosophy, or civics; and willfully ignorant about so many subjects demanding their children get better grades or else!
It's a tragedy of the commons. There is so much cultural momentum against education and intellectualism I can only conclude that sending children to public schools and demanding they keep their grades up serves no other purpose than psychological abuse. I honestly believe that any schooling beyond 5th grade is a complete waste of taxpayer resources.
What will happen is that kids will get turned off to computing en masse. One of the most difficult things to deal with when somebody goes "I wanna be a programmer" is getting past the psychological damage that a bad math teacher or two can do. Maths become a confusing and logically incomprehensible cipher, and many people simply memorize the necessary rituals to keep the grades up without making any connections among different parts of the subject matter. How could they? They were sent to an institution specializing in psychological abuse instead of an institution of learning.
I am aware of this position, thank you. I have been on its receiving end before, although not in a racist sense. I have no quarrel with different ethnic groups, and they have no quarrel with me. We support each other, because we're a community, and that's what community members do.
You forget: I'm a certified cis+het all-men shitlord! (Doubly so for liking learning sewing and baking in home ec much to the chagrin of cisgendered women!) I am merely trying to negotiate some other position because I have found evidence that AmiMoJo and BarbaraHudson are not full of shit.
I would not leave a career where I have 20+ years of experience for flipping burgers lightly.
The only thing I can't do in Linux I can in Windows is offload H.265 decoding to hardware, which I understand is not a permanent limitation (as soon as nVidia gets around to blessing me with a driver that supports it). The last time I ran benchmarks, I got better numbers from Linux than Windows. Admittedly, that was a few years ago before my current gaming rig (which is currently folding proteins at breakneck speed for the red site's team under Linux--had to make sure it didn't run during the day so it wouldn't be ~10 degrees warmer in my room than the rest of the house).
That's nothing compared to when systemd got on the basement router. It drank all the beer and kicked a puppy from my 6RD prefix! Then it accused me of hating handicapped people! Posting AC for obvious reasons.
*submit!*
Forgot to click the post AC box! Oh shi---!%$^^%#$NO CARRIER
A STRANGE GAME.
THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS
NOT TO PLAY.
HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF MINESWEEPER?
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
We're talking about Windows 10 here which I've only seen but not used. (The person I watched using it eventually downgraded back to Windows 7.)
However, I'd like to report that the Windows 8 tile menu makes a very good video game launch interface. I get big tiles for Star Citizen and Fallout 4, I can make a group of little tiles for various Civ 4 expansions, and my Battle.net games get their own group of little tiles. I can even conveniently sort my programs into "Apps!" for Chrome and PuTTY and "Apping Game Apps!" for the games. I could even create a "Cow Apps MOO!" category if necessary! Not sure what else I'd use anything past Windows 7 for.
I usually don't, but (especially) since my user at work has some network administration privileges, I'm in the habit of pressing Win+L any time I leave the computer. (It's a small business, so hey.)
I would be completely pissed if, upon returning, I found myself looking at Lara Croft's oversized tits. 1.) I don't care about video game characters meant to appeal to the adolescent heterosexual male market, and frankly they make sure I won't buy or play those games. 2.) What if one of the sexist assholes I work with walked by while I was returning from a meeting or before the screen completely blanked and believed I had put Lara Croft's oversized tits on my lock screen because I like ogling grossly disproportionate women?
(Circle of protection: I'm a complete hypocrite! I may or may not have set my background to a series of images of Kevin Sorbo as Hercules and Kevin Smith [the beefcake one, not the silent one] as Ares with interludes of Leonardo DiCaprio characters! Ok, I haven't. It's currently the Crab Nebula.)
Would you care to post a link?
Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification. I had read the jargon and interpreted it as a license to harass since that's been what I've encountered for the most part from people claiming to be "feminists."
If what you're saying is true, I would be able to support the Open Code of Conduct with the provision that it should be more clear that it is not facilitating the kind of revenge discrimination (including threats of violence and death wishes) that many cisgendered women here in bizarro world feel is necessary. If somebody were to attempt to hold me personally accountable for the lack of cisgendered women in tech on GitHub, especially if they were making threats, I would hope such a code of conduct would have my back.
I feel I'm not the only person who's been on the receiving end of revenge discrimination. It's important for the social justice movement to recognize that it does happen if it wants these codes of conduct to stand apart from extremist feminist policies.