Astronomy is the just start; hopefully physics, computer science, engineering, philosophy and economics are next.
Fuck you, Dice.
Just who harassed the person I was mentoring until she quit? Me? Another programmer?
No. It was a gaslighting asshole manager, probably not too different from the asshole managers in control at Dice. Literally the only reason that guy was even hired was because of how skilled of a confidence man he was. And holy fucking shit, sexual harassment was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to him.
What do I get for it? I get a fucking SJW airhead babysitting my mentoring sessions with the next one until he realized that truth tables were way too far over his fucking head to even understand while my student grasped the concepts instantly.
Also, why is one of the best hackers I know out of work, and why did she get outright *fired* from a software company by a gaslighting asshole manager? If she wins the lawsuit, I had better see the news on Dicedot's front page!
So there, if I include myself, you can have 3 skilled and experienced female programmers right now, this instant, two of whom are not in IT jobs because of gaslighting asshole managers.
This is the reason why you should get out of IT as fast as you can. How long until your name is going to be on SJWdot's front page because some airhead used your assigned gender at birth and profession as conclusive evidence that you must be sexually harassing somebody somehow and that your field is filled with pro-rape misogynerds who are all sexual harassers and think women shouldn't be in the field?
Isn't there a poll about fallacies around here somewhere?
Also, how did philosophy and economics wind up in that list? Are there no professions that are immune to this hysteria? Well, I guess burger flipping is immune. Nobody's ever called me a sexist for being good at flipping burgers or insinuated in the slighted that I didn't think women could flip burgers. I just have to keep my sanity together for a little more now, and I can go back to flipping burgers, having positive relationships with my colleagues, satisfied customers, and meaningful work.
Also don't forget about the HU series as well. HU-210 and JWH-018 were the primary chemicals in the "old" Spice before the DEA cracked down on HU-210. Spice was reformulated.
Several JWH chemicals were still available then for a while longer, then the DEA cracked down. Spice was reformulated again.
The Spice you, dear reader, probably read about in the news contained the chemicals from the AM series, and it sent people to the hospital. That time laws were made.
Horray big government! Sending people to the hospital and killing them and enriching drug lords (both the kinds with guns and the kinds with MDs) instead of just letting us have the perfectly safe plant for our own quiet enjoyment! The cannabis must flow!
Only in the media. There's one Caitlyn Jenner. There are tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of the rest of us who are being roped into this horseshit. You read about Caitlyn Jenner and whatever she's getting the media spotlight for today, then you get paranoid and lash out at somebody trans who is scrambling to keep her head above water or out of a job and is basically a nobody. Well done. Good job acting out what the Illuminati (or whatever they call themselves) wanted you to do.
Turn the TV off and you'll see that transphobia has gotten worse in the past two years especially. I'd say it was right around the time Faux News was screeching about "free Obamacare sex changes." I stopped watching even comedy news, because there was nothing to lol about.
"Gamers are dead" was another thing to point to as the start of most of this shit.
Keep your rage directed at the journalists.
angry lesbians and transsexuals
Fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you. I wish I could beam the memory in my head into yours of an angry lesbian screaming at a good friend of mine that she wasn't a real woman. Why don't you go visit the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival some time and see for yourself what lesbians and feminists think of trans women? Why the fuck... seriously... why the actual fuck do you think cisgendered lesbians and trans women get along and stand for the same things?
I will never stop posting about this issue until you get it through your thick, fucking head. Why is my rage directed at you? Because you aren't directing your rage at the media, and instead you're smooshing multiple demographics together and revealing that you're nothing more than an uneducated bigot, plain and simple.
Sure, you blame me for people who want to make Christmas illegal. You blame me because some cunt gets media attention for nothing more than taking her meds and putting on a dress. You blame me for everything wrong and bigoted that feminism's done, even though feminism is at war with me, even though I am a Libertarian (actually was big L until the TEA party scared the bejeezus out of me after turning into an astroturf movement).
You want to go to war with an innocent bystander? You'd better make damned sure you do it before I get a concealed carry permit. I'm dead serious about this.
have you tried hand-coding a web app from scratch these days?
That was my hobby project for last weekend. I had trouble getting the strong nuclear force to condense from electroweak, then I divided by zero and the whole thing gravitationally collapsed! It took me a few hours to get the dark matter out of the carpet. I'll give it another try this weekend. I'm not certain if I should keep going with 11 dimensions or try with 9, but my problem is probably a set of fundamental operations in the number theory I'm using that gives division by zero a logically consistent value. I'll try again with infinity as an asymptote instead of a value and let you know how it goes!
"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." --oblig
We know what the fuck it means, dipshit. Still, though, what the flying fuck? What the actual fuck does Stack Overflow have to do with the recently popular "two wrongs make a right" warrior movement?
The only possible connection I can make is to that article a while back, don't remember if it was this site or the red one or both, where some CEO posted about her l33t sk1llz because she figured out that all one needs to do to become a programmer is copy and paste from Stack Overflow.
If that's the case, isn't this anti-SJW?
Requiring attribution is still unfeasible and completely moronic, granted.
Yes, everybody loves to knee jerk about that term whether it's the homosexual SJWs who want to make Christmas illegal or the anti-SJWs who want women back in the kitchen. All knee jerkers can shut the fuck up until they've been told in an official capacity many, many times that official policy was to consider them rapists and sexual harassers and then they can continue keeping shut the fuck up until they get called a sexist and treated like one to their fucking face WHILE MENTORING CISFEMALE PROGRAMMERS AND BEING DENIED HEALTHCARE BECAUSE YOU WERE INVOLUNTARILY "VOLUNTEERED" FOR A WOMEN'S HEALTH PROJECT THAT GOT CANCELED BY OBAMACARE BUT IT'S APPARENTLY YOUR FUCKING FAULT BECAUSE OF YOUR ASSIGNED GENDER AT BIRTH! Then you can bitch about SJWs.
I'm not sure. Consider the nature of reincarnation. I don't know where I'm going with this.
Usually, I say I want to be cremated because I don't trust the living to respect my body, since I have body parts of both genders. I always imagine they'd do something more fucked up to it than they already have, just to make a good looking young man in that coffin. So, I want it burned in the event that a Matheson "What Dreams May Come" afterlife is the true fate of souls. Then I can lol as I watch the monstrosity that isn't me burn before I go into the light.
However, if somebody could guaranteed that this body would be added to a composting heap undisturbed, to let microorganisms break down its proteins, then perhaps that compost could be laid somewhere and maybe somebody would plant wildflowers (or some kind of flowers at least) in it. Then its proteins and other molecules could be repurposed as a flower garden. I wouldn't mind that, even in a Matheson "What Dreams May Come" scenario.
But yeah, ultimately, I cannot trust humans to respect my body parts. Burn it, I say. Less to hang on to after death. I guess it's vanity in the end. Vanity ties us to this existence.
In an empirical sense, yes, funerals are for the living. I'm just worried all this mysticism shit might not be made up. Funerals could be for the dead as well.
It works pretty well for me at least. I don't use Exherbo's repos, but I've found paludis' correctness, while aggravating at time, to at least be correct in that it doesn't break my system in the weird ways Gentoo portage does.
If you have a Gentoo box for 3 or 4 years, eventually it'll get weirdly broken with emerge. That's why I even sought out paludis.
It would be interesting to see Europe in 100 years. There are a lot of similarities between Islamophobia and the "Catholcisi-phobia" back when the Irish were coming off the boats. Think about it: they both significantly differ from Protestantism, and they use the same source material. Islam has the additional prophet thing with a 3rd testament going for it, and Catholicism, from what little personal exposure I've had to it, also has what might as well be a 3rd testament bolted on to it, not to mention having a patron saint for anything and everything.
I used to have a Catholic friend way back when I was a kid, and I remember being fascinated that while Protestant children were only required to be able to quickly find a verse in scripture given the name of the book, chapter, and verse, Catholic children, at least him, were required to memorize the entire Catechism word-for-word. I didn't ask about the details so perhaps a Catholic here can correct me about what "memorizing the Catechisms" means.
(Granted, Protestants do tend to memorize certain passages, but my impression is that the choice of which passages is a more personal matter. Then again, there are so many distros of Protestantism, it's hard to keep tract. I'll keep that typo there.)
The major difference it seems would be underlying culture and unfamiliarity geographic distance creates between Islam distros and Christian distros. I also get the impression that Islam is just at the Catholic/Eastern Orthodox/early Lutheran stage of development. I can only think of two Islam distros which probably belies my ignorance and also laziness about just heading over to Wikipedia now.
My (USA) state is not one of the states taking in refugees, so ultimately I have to take the word of European posters here as to the true situation. I haven't seen many at all (any?) trying to refute the general consensus that this is a cultural takeover.
Then again, I live in flyover country, and I have a plethora of ethnic restaurants all within driving distance. I could have authentic ethnic cuisine from just about any place on earth except Africa (and even then, I'm probably just not looking hard enough) and taste a different culture probably every night of the week for a month. Are there many places in rural Europe that's possible? That might be a key to understanding what's happening here as well.
(Ironically, the only cultures I don't think I could taste with merely a bank card and some gas are Algonquin or Pokegan. I'm forgetting the other tribe that lived around here before my ancestors conquered the continent by advancing the weapon and transportation tech trees rapidly. Salish maybe?)
Mormonism is probably too new to make a comparison, and from what I understand, Mormons in general are just really nice people towards outsiders.
That gives me an idea, though. What about a setting that plays back movies in Momento style? Maybe some kind of heuristic to determine where scenes start and end?
Note to self: prepare to add media-video/ffmpeg to the Anti-Lennartware section of/etc/paludis/package_mask.conf!
(Disclaimer: I haven't used systemd yet, kind of been meaning to so I can also play around with KVM at the same time, but I completely believe the horror stories based on my experience with pulseaudio.)
I had a Unicomp but it died after 4 maybe 5 years. I'm still debating whether to send it in for repair since I think it's just the USB controller (maybe I should have stuck with classic PS/2?) or else take a shot at trying to find the problem myself. I'd take the keys off, wash those with soap, and wipe the rest of the hardware with a moist rag.
I wound up replacing it with a "gamer" keyboard with Cherry switches. It's decent (even has glowing key bling--the bling started with a headset with LED lighting, then a case with a plastic window, then I had to get the power supply with an LED, and now the keyboard completes my journey to the bling side), but there's nothing that can compete with the way buckling spring feels.
The buckling spring switches made sure I'd never accidentally depress a key in the middle of a frantic fight in a game. Ironically, I've caught myself doing that more than a few times with the "gamer" keyboard.
But yeah, Unicomp did a very good job of recreating the indestructible feel of the Model M, at least.
Gentoo user here! What is this systemd you speak of? It sounds truly awful.
Ok, I jest! I might try a systemd install in a vm just to see what it's like since Gentoo supports it, just not my Gentoo. Instead, I created a section in my package_mask.conf (Paludis user also) to permaban systemd, pulseaudio, and any other Poetteringware that may pop up.
But yeah, Firefox is unusable, so I bit the bullet and went to Chromium. Even in Windows, Firefox, goodness knows why or how, will spin up my CPU fan. Granted, it's a stock fan, but this is a 3 module (6 integer cores) Bulldozer for crying out loud! The only other things that do that are Star Citizen, Firefall, Fallout 4, and make -j7!
Let me add another complaint. WTF is with NetworkManager? Isn't all this crap intended to make Linux work with laptops and tablets better? I had to tear it out kicking and screaming from an install of BodhiLinux before the thing would reliably connect to my wireless.
That reminds me. Enlightenment E19 emerged to my Poettering-proofed Gentoo flawlessly. I heard they increased the level of systemd integration in E20, but I couldn't find an ebuild when I last went to look.
It's not the only possible explanation, of course, but if you really want to take the red pill, you'll see that sexism is alive and well.*
Try to read what GP actually wrote. There is clearly a double-standard going on here with a good probability.
I mean, the other place I'd look is nepotism. Either way, it's not looking fair, and I'd suggest GP's sister start looking for another job. Sometimes jumping ship for greener pastures is the only way towards a promotion.
* Amazon qualification: when you take the red pill, you'll note that there's a large majority of women who believe a woman's place is in the kitchen. This makes them happy. Whatever. They're not me, and I don't give a fuck about non-Amazon feminists who want to blame me for them.
I'm sure if you keep repeating this enough times without providing any reason that you believe the allegations are false, it'll be true!
Do you have some problem with bringing the accused to court and if found guilty punishing them? Why do you believe criminals shouldn't be punished?
Do you have a problem with the appeals process? Do you think everything a judge says should be final and forever binding, written in stone? Do you think judges are infallible? Are you arguing we should get rid of the appeals system all together?
Wow, very well said. Please mod up. (Millennial by about 6 hours and 2 minutes here.)
"Shallow" is a very good way of putting it. My job has become more and more digital burger flipping without satisfied customers. Actually, I think I got more recognition when I used to flip burgers. People can understand burgers. However, it's been more and more glaringly obvious that nobody understands what I do or even why I should do it. They just use me for no particular reason--just because they can. The work is all meaningless. It's like I show up at 8 am, and someone starts shooting at me saying "dance!" so I dance, and I dance mad. Then at 5, I go home, and I've contributed nothing to the world except perhaps entertainment for 5 or 6 individuals.
I mean, granted, I used to keep dancing mad into the night because I thought it'd keep them happy. Now it's just 8-5, because I don't care anymore and they've given me no reason to care anymore other than to keep the paycheck coming so that I can get myself out of the stupid financial situation I got myself into thinking I had a career ahead of me.
Flipping actual burgers is the way to go. Somebody's always going to cuss you out over something, but I felt a deep satisfaction when I used to flip burgers for a living because, well, burgers make people happy by and large. What I do now makes nobody happy. It's a mine field, and there's no point to it at all. People give me tasks just to see me fail at them because I didn't notice some stupid detail five forwards down in an email.
I mean, literally! I'm currently implementing an API which is a Rube Goldberg machine to work around a piece of shitty proprietary software, and I know it will never be used.
When I cook somebody a burger, I can see them eat it and be satisfied. When I'm done cooking this API, it'll be thrown straight into the trash the moment the cocaine-snorting assholes who wanted it have their next cocaine-induced vision, which will happen just as it gets ready, and then that next one will be thrown straight in the trash as well.
It's like a restaurant full of people all ordering absurd burgers, complaining that they're starving to death but they just need a mayonnaise sushi burger with Worcestershire sauce made with ground duck and half a bell pepper so they don't starve to death, and when it's ready, they just throw it in the trash and demand another absurdity.
Sibling comment covers the brand issue. I've had similar experience with CFLs, all though these days I can easily find them for $1 per bulb. I'd say my mean time to failure is about 5 to 6 years, more or less depending on whether there's a roommate in the house who never turns lights off after leaving a room. The bulb lighting up the room I'm posting from is going on 7 years old.
I don't have experience with LEDs outside of the tiny red ones found in electronics kits and LED flashlights, but I would recommend at least a 17 watt CFL to replace a 60 watt incandescent. The 13 watt CFL 60 watt "equivalents" are way too dim for lighting a room. Bump up to 23 watt CFL if replacing a 75 or 100 watt incandescent (in general bump the actual wattage up one size over the recommended "equivalent," all though 23 watt is bright enough for me at least for 100 watt replacement). It sounds like the same thing may apply to LEDs and should be classified as a marketing failure*, not a technological failure. Remember to select a warmer temperature for lights meant to be used in the evening, while cooler ones are best for vanities.
* Note: Different brands can't seem to agree which actual wattage should replace any particular watt incandescent, either. Imnsho they never should have tried to be substitute incandescents.
Barely-on-topic ramble: It's a lot like garden burgers. The ones that try to be substitute meat universally suck; however when buying a garden burger for what it is, a vegetable patty, there are some quite good flavors out there. Disclaimer: I'm far, far from being a vegetarian--there's no way I'm giving up nuclear chicken wings, ribs, or bison burgers! Some days I just want a veggie burger instead of meat, not that veggie burger is healthier or significantly cheaper than meat either. (They aren't, check the nutrition info, might actually be more unhealthy than meat!) That reminds me; I've been meaning to try to locate an insect burger just to try one out and see if they're more amenable to bbq sauce and bacon than veggie burgers (protip: definitely go for bison here along with thick-cut smoked bacon and Jack Daniel's original recipe sauce if you don't make your own--your arteries will hate you but your taste buds will love you).
I think that's my number one pet peeve from incandescent fanboys. I've been using CFLs since about 2002 everywhere I can. I can't think of a single one that's taken time to come to life. The only thing that was weird was getting used to the new spectrum. It took about a week or two, and I haven't looked back.
I always wonder if I missed the bad old days of CFLs for whatever reason. No idea which country GP is posting from, but they'll ship to Germany from China. I mean, incandescents aren't contraband they'll seize at the border in the EU, are they? I also had no idea such a thing as vintage bulbs existed. If I ever have a private library, I think I'll be buying some of those!
No, ok, I looked on Breitbart even. I can't find evidence of Eich objecting to DRM being the cause of his internet lynch mob target status.
Why did you even link to Advocate?
Eh, there's probably too much blood in my alcohol stream at the moment. I still think Eich's outsting was weird, but I do like my conspiracy theories to have some semblance of truth. Just a teensy bit, at least.
Here, have an American Spirit black. It's a damned good fag.
Ok, mi, we're going to need some big [citation needed] there.
No, seriously, I can totally get into a good conspiracy theory. Personally I only cared because they were talking about browser-served ads. Well, then Firefox started seriously sucking dicks, and I really had no reason to go back. I mean like causing my gaming rig's fans to spin all the way up visiting simple sites like the red site!
I'll be out back smoking a faggot.
No, seriously. Ok, not being sarcastic. It's true! I really want to believe!
That's how fucked up the world is today. Truth be told, it was pretty fucking strange how it all happened. *lights up*
Slashdot Mirror
Astronomy is the just start; hopefully physics, computer science, engineering, philosophy and economics are next.
Fuck you, Dice.
Just who harassed the person I was mentoring until she quit? Me? Another programmer?
No. It was a gaslighting asshole manager, probably not too different from the asshole managers in control at Dice. Literally the only reason that guy was even hired was because of how skilled of a confidence man he was. And holy fucking shit, sexual harassment was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to him.
What do I get for it? I get a fucking SJW airhead babysitting my mentoring sessions with the next one until he realized that truth tables were way too far over his fucking head to even understand while my student grasped the concepts instantly.
Also, why is one of the best hackers I know out of work, and why did she get outright *fired* from a software company by a gaslighting asshole manager? If she wins the lawsuit, I had better see the news on Dicedot's front page!
So there, if I include myself, you can have 3 skilled and experienced female programmers right now, this instant, two of whom are not in IT jobs because of gaslighting asshole managers.
This is the reason why you should get out of IT as fast as you can. How long until your name is going to be on SJWdot's front page because some airhead used your assigned gender at birth and profession as conclusive evidence that you must be sexually harassing somebody somehow and that your field is filled with pro-rape misogynerds who are all sexual harassers and think women shouldn't be in the field?
Isn't there a poll about fallacies around here somewhere?
Also, how did philosophy and economics wind up in that list? Are there no professions that are immune to this hysteria? Well, I guess burger flipping is immune. Nobody's ever called me a sexist for being good at flipping burgers or insinuated in the slighted that I didn't think women could flip burgers. I just have to keep my sanity together for a little more now, and I can go back to flipping burgers, having positive relationships with my colleagues, satisfied customers, and meaningful work.
Mod parent up please.
Also don't forget about the HU series as well. HU-210 and JWH-018 were the primary chemicals in the "old" Spice before the DEA cracked down on HU-210. Spice was reformulated.
Several JWH chemicals were still available then for a while longer, then the DEA cracked down. Spice was reformulated again.
The Spice you, dear reader, probably read about in the news contained the chemicals from the AM series, and it sent people to the hospital. That time laws were made.
Horray big government! Sending people to the hospital and killing them and enriching drug lords (both the kinds with guns and the kinds with MDs) instead of just letting us have the perfectly safe plant for our own quiet enjoyment! The cannabis must flow!
transphobic
Only in the media. There's one Caitlyn Jenner. There are tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of the rest of us who are being roped into this horseshit. You read about Caitlyn Jenner and whatever she's getting the media spotlight for today, then you get paranoid and lash out at somebody trans who is scrambling to keep her head above water or out of a job and is basically a nobody. Well done. Good job acting out what the Illuminati (or whatever they call themselves) wanted you to do.
Turn the TV off and you'll see that transphobia has gotten worse in the past two years especially. I'd say it was right around the time Faux News was screeching about "free Obamacare sex changes." I stopped watching even comedy news, because there was nothing to lol about.
"Gamers are dead" was another thing to point to as the start of most of this shit.
Keep your rage directed at the journalists.
angry lesbians and transsexuals
Fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you. I wish I could beam the memory in my head into yours of an angry lesbian screaming at a good friend of mine that she wasn't a real woman. Why don't you go visit the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival some time and see for yourself what lesbians and feminists think of trans women? Why the fuck... seriously... why the actual fuck do you think cisgendered lesbians and trans women get along and stand for the same things?
I will never stop posting about this issue until you get it through your thick, fucking head. Why is my rage directed at you? Because you aren't directing your rage at the media, and instead you're smooshing multiple demographics together and revealing that you're nothing more than an uneducated bigot, plain and simple.
Sure, you blame me for people who want to make Christmas illegal. You blame me because some cunt gets media attention for nothing more than taking her meds and putting on a dress. You blame me for everything wrong and bigoted that feminism's done, even though feminism is at war with me, even though I am a Libertarian (actually was big L until the TEA party scared the bejeezus out of me after turning into an astroturf movement).
You want to go to war with an innocent bystander? You'd better make damned sure you do it before I get a concealed carry permit. I'm dead serious about this.
War never changes.
have you tried hand-coding a web app from scratch these days?
That was my hobby project for last weekend. I had trouble getting the strong nuclear force to condense from electroweak, then I divided by zero and the whole thing gravitationally collapsed! It took me a few hours to get the dark matter out of the carpet. I'll give it another try this weekend. I'm not certain if I should keep going with 11 dimensions or try with 9, but my problem is probably a set of fundamental operations in the number theory I'm using that gives division by zero a logically consistent value. I'll try again with infinity as an asymptote instead of a value and let you know how it goes!
"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." --oblig
We know what the fuck it means, dipshit. Still, though, what the flying fuck? What the actual fuck does Stack Overflow have to do with the recently popular "two wrongs make a right" warrior movement?
The only possible connection I can make is to that article a while back, don't remember if it was this site or the red one or both, where some CEO posted about her l33t sk1llz because she figured out that all one needs to do to become a programmer is copy and paste from Stack Overflow.
If that's the case, isn't this anti-SJW?
Requiring attribution is still unfeasible and completely moronic, granted.
Yes, everybody loves to knee jerk about that term whether it's the homosexual SJWs who want to make Christmas illegal or the anti-SJWs who want women back in the kitchen. All knee jerkers can shut the fuck up until they've been told in an official capacity many, many times that official policy was to consider them rapists and sexual harassers and then they can continue keeping shut the fuck up until they get called a sexist and treated like one to their fucking face WHILE MENTORING CISFEMALE PROGRAMMERS AND BEING DENIED HEALTHCARE BECAUSE YOU WERE INVOLUNTARILY "VOLUNTEERED" FOR A WOMEN'S HEALTH PROJECT THAT GOT CANCELED BY OBAMACARE BUT IT'S APPARENTLY YOUR FUCKING FAULT BECAUSE OF YOUR ASSIGNED GENDER AT BIRTH! Then you can bitch about SJWs.
TYVM. HAND.
I'm not sure. Consider the nature of reincarnation. I don't know where I'm going with this.
Usually, I say I want to be cremated because I don't trust the living to respect my body, since I have body parts of both genders. I always imagine they'd do something more fucked up to it than they already have, just to make a good looking young man in that coffin. So, I want it burned in the event that a Matheson "What Dreams May Come" afterlife is the true fate of souls. Then I can lol as I watch the monstrosity that isn't me burn before I go into the light.
However, if somebody could guaranteed that this body would be added to a composting heap undisturbed, to let microorganisms break down its proteins, then perhaps that compost could be laid somewhere and maybe somebody would plant wildflowers (or some kind of flowers at least) in it. Then its proteins and other molecules could be repurposed as a flower garden. I wouldn't mind that, even in a Matheson "What Dreams May Come" scenario.
But yeah, ultimately, I cannot trust humans to respect my body parts. Burn it, I say. Less to hang on to after death. I guess it's vanity in the end. Vanity ties us to this existence.
In an empirical sense, yes, funerals are for the living. I'm just worried all this mysticism shit might not be made up. Funerals could be for the dead as well.
It works pretty well for me at least. I don't use Exherbo's repos, but I've found paludis' correctness, while aggravating at time, to at least be correct in that it doesn't break my system in the weird ways Gentoo portage does.
If you have a Gentoo box for 3 or 4 years, eventually it'll get weirdly broken with emerge. That's why I even sought out paludis.
It would be interesting to see Europe in 100 years. There are a lot of similarities between Islamophobia and the "Catholcisi-phobia" back when the Irish were coming off the boats. Think about it: they both significantly differ from Protestantism, and they use the same source material. Islam has the additional prophet thing with a 3rd testament going for it, and Catholicism, from what little personal exposure I've had to it, also has what might as well be a 3rd testament bolted on to it, not to mention having a patron saint for anything and everything.
I used to have a Catholic friend way back when I was a kid, and I remember being fascinated that while Protestant children were only required to be able to quickly find a verse in scripture given the name of the book, chapter, and verse, Catholic children, at least him, were required to memorize the entire Catechism word-for-word. I didn't ask about the details so perhaps a Catholic here can correct me about what "memorizing the Catechisms" means.
(Granted, Protestants do tend to memorize certain passages, but my impression is that the choice of which passages is a more personal matter. Then again, there are so many distros of Protestantism, it's hard to keep tract. I'll keep that typo there.)
The major difference it seems would be underlying culture and unfamiliarity geographic distance creates between Islam distros and Christian distros. I also get the impression that Islam is just at the Catholic/Eastern Orthodox/early Lutheran stage of development. I can only think of two Islam distros which probably belies my ignorance and also laziness about just heading over to Wikipedia now.
My (USA) state is not one of the states taking in refugees, so ultimately I have to take the word of European posters here as to the true situation. I haven't seen many at all (any?) trying to refute the general consensus that this is a cultural takeover.
Then again, I live in flyover country, and I have a plethora of ethnic restaurants all within driving distance. I could have authentic ethnic cuisine from just about any place on earth except Africa (and even then, I'm probably just not looking hard enough) and taste a different culture probably every night of the week for a month. Are there many places in rural Europe that's possible? That might be a key to understanding what's happening here as well.
(Ironically, the only cultures I don't think I could taste with merely a bank card and some gas are Algonquin or Pokegan. I'm forgetting the other tribe that lived around here before my ancestors conquered the continent by advancing the weapon and transportation tech trees rapidly. Salish maybe?)
Mormonism is probably too new to make a comparison, and from what I understand, Mormons in general are just really nice people towards outsiders.
I'll bet they're using a bunch of these. Always works for me! Just don't hook a terminal up to them if player characters are a threat....
(I always keep trying to figure out where they get the gas and seemingly infinite ammo to keep operating.)
Heh.
That gives me an idea, though. What about a setting that plays back movies in Momento style? Maybe some kind of heuristic to determine where scenes start and end?
Note to self: prepare to add media-video/ffmpeg to the Anti-Lennartware section of /etc/paludis/package_mask.conf!
(Disclaimer: I haven't used systemd yet, kind of been meaning to so I can also play around with KVM at the same time, but I completely believe the horror stories based on my experience with pulseaudio.)
Beat me to the Model M mention.
I had a Unicomp but it died after 4 maybe 5 years. I'm still debating whether to send it in for repair since I think it's just the USB controller (maybe I should have stuck with classic PS/2?) or else take a shot at trying to find the problem myself. I'd take the keys off, wash those with soap, and wipe the rest of the hardware with a moist rag.
I wound up replacing it with a "gamer" keyboard with Cherry switches. It's decent (even has glowing key bling--the bling started with a headset with LED lighting, then a case with a plastic window, then I had to get the power supply with an LED, and now the keyboard completes my journey to the bling side), but there's nothing that can compete with the way buckling spring feels.
The buckling spring switches made sure I'd never accidentally depress a key in the middle of a frantic fight in a game. Ironically, I've caught myself doing that more than a few times with the "gamer" keyboard.
But yeah, Unicomp did a very good job of recreating the indestructible feel of the Model M, at least.
Gentoo user here! What is this systemd you speak of? It sounds truly awful.
Ok, I jest! I might try a systemd install in a vm just to see what it's like since Gentoo supports it, just not my Gentoo. Instead, I created a section in my package_mask.conf (Paludis user also) to permaban systemd, pulseaudio, and any other Poetteringware that may pop up.
But yeah, Firefox is unusable, so I bit the bullet and went to Chromium. Even in Windows, Firefox, goodness knows why or how, will spin up my CPU fan. Granted, it's a stock fan, but this is a 3 module (6 integer cores) Bulldozer for crying out loud! The only other things that do that are Star Citizen, Firefall, Fallout 4, and make -j7!
Let me add another complaint. WTF is with NetworkManager? Isn't all this crap intended to make Linux work with laptops and tablets better? I had to tear it out kicking and screaming from an install of BodhiLinux before the thing would reliably connect to my wireless.
That reminds me. Enlightenment E19 emerged to my Poettering-proofed Gentoo flawlessly. I heard they increased the level of systemd integration in E20, but I couldn't find an ebuild when I last went to look.
It's not the only possible explanation, of course, but if you really want to take the red pill, you'll see that sexism is alive and well.*
Try to read what GP actually wrote. There is clearly a double-standard going on here with a good probability.
I mean, the other place I'd look is nepotism. Either way, it's not looking fair, and I'd suggest GP's sister start looking for another job. Sometimes jumping ship for greener pastures is the only way towards a promotion.
* Amazon qualification: when you take the red pill, you'll note that there's a large majority of women who believe a woman's place is in the kitchen. This makes them happy. Whatever. They're not me, and I don't give a fuck about non-Amazon feminists who want to blame me for them.
Lol!
This is what happens when you let devices to which you have no access to repair control things that matter.
Personally, I'd just simulate the call for heat until I could debug the thing. But whatever.
I'm sure if you keep repeating this enough times without providing any reason that you believe the allegations are false, it'll be true!
Do you have some problem with bringing the accused to court and if found guilty punishing them? Why do you believe criminals shouldn't be punished?
Do you have a problem with the appeals process? Do you think everything a judge says should be final and forever binding, written in stone? Do you think judges are infallible? Are you arguing we should get rid of the appeals system all together?
I'm perplexed, to say the least.
WTF is with this thread? Is Dice paying people to generate fake comments now?
Agreed, there can't be that many identical morons in the world.
I was wondering the same thing. It's like an AC Gish gallop.
Wow, very well said. Please mod up. (Millennial by about 6 hours and 2 minutes here.)
"Shallow" is a very good way of putting it. My job has become more and more digital burger flipping without satisfied customers. Actually, I think I got more recognition when I used to flip burgers. People can understand burgers. However, it's been more and more glaringly obvious that nobody understands what I do or even why I should do it. They just use me for no particular reason--just because they can. The work is all meaningless. It's like I show up at 8 am, and someone starts shooting at me saying "dance!" so I dance, and I dance mad. Then at 5, I go home, and I've contributed nothing to the world except perhaps entertainment for 5 or 6 individuals.
I mean, granted, I used to keep dancing mad into the night because I thought it'd keep them happy. Now it's just 8-5, because I don't care anymore and they've given me no reason to care anymore other than to keep the paycheck coming so that I can get myself out of the stupid financial situation I got myself into thinking I had a career ahead of me.
Flipping actual burgers is the way to go. Somebody's always going to cuss you out over something, but I felt a deep satisfaction when I used to flip burgers for a living because, well, burgers make people happy by and large. What I do now makes nobody happy. It's a mine field, and there's no point to it at all. People give me tasks just to see me fail at them because I didn't notice some stupid detail five forwards down in an email.
I mean, literally! I'm currently implementing an API which is a Rube Goldberg machine to work around a piece of shitty proprietary software, and I know it will never be used.
When I cook somebody a burger, I can see them eat it and be satisfied. When I'm done cooking this API, it'll be thrown straight into the trash the moment the cocaine-snorting assholes who wanted it have their next cocaine-induced vision, which will happen just as it gets ready, and then that next one will be thrown straight in the trash as well.
It's like a restaurant full of people all ordering absurd burgers, complaining that they're starving to death but they just need a mayonnaise sushi burger with Worcestershire sauce made with ground duck and half a bell pepper so they don't starve to death, and when it's ready, they just throw it in the trash and demand another absurdity.
Sibling comment covers the brand issue. I've had similar experience with CFLs, all though these days I can easily find them for $1 per bulb. I'd say my mean time to failure is about 5 to 6 years, more or less depending on whether there's a roommate in the house who never turns lights off after leaving a room. The bulb lighting up the room I'm posting from is going on 7 years old.
I don't have experience with LEDs outside of the tiny red ones found in electronics kits and LED flashlights, but I would recommend at least a 17 watt CFL to replace a 60 watt incandescent. The 13 watt CFL 60 watt "equivalents" are way too dim for lighting a room. Bump up to 23 watt CFL if replacing a 75 or 100 watt incandescent (in general bump the actual wattage up one size over the recommended "equivalent," all though 23 watt is bright enough for me at least for 100 watt replacement). It sounds like the same thing may apply to LEDs and should be classified as a marketing failure*, not a technological failure. Remember to select a warmer temperature for lights meant to be used in the evening, while cooler ones are best for vanities.
* Note: Different brands can't seem to agree which actual wattage should replace any particular watt incandescent, either. Imnsho they never should have tried to be substitute incandescents.
Barely-on-topic ramble: It's a lot like garden burgers. The ones that try to be substitute meat universally suck; however when buying a garden burger for what it is, a vegetable patty, there are some quite good flavors out there. Disclaimer: I'm far, far from being a vegetarian--there's no way I'm giving up nuclear chicken wings, ribs, or bison burgers! Some days I just want a veggie burger instead of meat, not that veggie burger is healthier or significantly cheaper than meat either. (They aren't, check the nutrition info, might actually be more unhealthy than meat!) That reminds me; I've been meaning to try to locate an insect burger just to try one out and see if they're more amenable to bbq sauce and bacon than veggie burgers (protip: definitely go for bison here along with thick-cut smoked bacon and Jack Daniel's original recipe sauce if you don't make your own--your arteries will hate you but your taste buds will love you).
Confirmed! The Incans got permabanned in the 16th century, and the descendants were ravaged by disease by the early 17th century.
instant-on
I think that's my number one pet peeve from incandescent fanboys. I've been using CFLs since about 2002 everywhere I can. I can't think of a single one that's taken time to come to life. The only thing that was weird was getting used to the new spectrum. It took about a week or two, and I haven't looked back.
I always wonder if I missed the bad old days of CFLs for whatever reason. No idea which country GP is posting from, but they'll ship to Germany from China. I mean, incandescents aren't contraband they'll seize at the border in the EU, are they? I also had no idea such a thing as vintage bulbs existed. If I ever have a private library, I think I'll be buying some of those!
No I'm AC!
No, ok, I looked on Breitbart even. I can't find evidence of Eich objecting to DRM being the cause of his internet lynch mob target status.
Why did you even link to Advocate?
Eh, there's probably too much blood in my alcohol stream at the moment. I still think Eich's outsting was weird, but I do like my conspiracy theories to have some semblance of truth. Just a teensy bit, at least.
Here, have an American Spirit black. It's a damned good fag.
Ok, mi, we're going to need some big [citation needed] there.
No, seriously, I can totally get into a good conspiracy theory. Personally I only cared because they were talking about browser-served ads. Well, then Firefox started seriously sucking dicks, and I really had no reason to go back. I mean like causing my gaming rig's fans to spin all the way up visiting simple sites like the red site!
I'll be out back smoking a faggot.
No, seriously. Ok, not being sarcastic. It's true! I really want to believe!
That's how fucked up the world is today. Truth be told, it was pretty fucking strange how it all happened. *lights up*
What about microneutrals????
Chances are you're behind a firewall. Or else microbeta! Submit! Microsubmit! Nanosubmit! Ok, fine. Femptosubmit!