There are a constant stream of fake stories out of Chinese media on a daily basis. This smells just like one of them. Wait for the retraction in a few days. In the meantime, shame on Slashdot for posting obvious crap. Let this kind of shit stay on TMZ and Gawker where it belongs.
In the 1930s, chemical warfare was looked on the same way. It was just assumed that the next war would be chemical. Remember all the gas masks that were issued during the London Blitz? It looks bizarre to modern eyes as chemical weapons were not used during WWII but everyone certainly expected it. The only ones who actually used chemical weapons were the Italians invading Ethiopia, a conflict mostly forgotten today. To the extent the 30s are remembered, it is for the Spanish Civil War and little else.
So the worst kind of overreach is OK as long as it makes Middle America look bad, eh? You people suck. You lose all sense of fairness and objectivity and just think that the people you despise should always lose. This is why the current year is so enlightening, we are seeing all sorts of people come out of the shadows and finally declare what they really stand for. Hypocrites, you say? Look in the mirror.
I see your trenchant analysis has totally ignored the fact that Gawker was very clearly in the wrong the entire time. When presented with an opportunity to repent, they laughed and doubled down on their despicable behavior. It's a good thing that the billionaire came along, otherwise the victim in this case wouldn't have been able to have his day in court. The good guys won, the bad guys lost. That's how it's supposed to happen.
So, I'm curious, Mr. Password Wizard, what do you do when your 24 character password has to be typed in by hand to the password field? Do you seriously do that every time? Copy and paste? No, this password field doesn't allow that. Just wondering what you do in this event.
And applying 20/20 hindsight to contemporary decisions is a disease. They made the decision with the evidence they had on hand at the time, they didn't know 300 years down the road they were going to get invaded. Sheesh...how do you even justify idiot opinions like these to yourself? What should we today predict will happen 300 years from now, so that we can make the correct decision now. A decision that likely appears quite un-obvious to us in 2016? Damn, educated people scare me because they don't believe they can ever be wrong.
To Xiaomi's servers in Beijing. I have a Xiaomi pocket router and it sends my connection stats to their office as well. Once a week on Friday I get a little graphic showing me how much I used and which devices were used most. It has scolded me before for spending too much time online ("What's the matter, don't you have a job?")
"Make little sense"? What do you mean? It made plenty of sense to get rid of this hugely expensive white elephant. China had looked out into the world and found nothing but squabbling barbarians in every direction. There was nothing in the world worth having, China already made everything it needed (autarky). Where is the idea that scientific growth was needed to succeed? China was already the most developed nation in the world. I think you have a very narrow-minded and Western-focused view of what history should be like. It's kind of frightening because you consider yourself educated and yet don't know anything about the motivations of foreign cultures.
"When was the last time you stopped yourself from saying something you believed to be true for fear of being punished or criticized for saying it? If you live in America, it probably hasn't been long."
When people start flooding into your state from California, it sounds great, right? They're coming for the jobs, the good life you have, the environment that allows businesses to exist without choking the life out of them. But what happens next?
They start complaining that things aren't like they were in California. And then they start making changes. Like all new arrivals, they don't give a shit about you've been doing things, they're going to be doing it their way from now on. And that means the California way. It's what they were fleeing in the first place, but they plan to re-implement it in your home. These people vote, too. Once they outnumber your city's people, what are you going to do?
This is what happened to my beloved Austin. When I left, I think the population was booming over 500,000 and it was already terrible. Today? Something like 1.2 million. Sad, my city will never be the place it was when I lived there.
I've just been reading some articles from 1980 and that's exactly what everyone was saying about Ronald Reagan. Yaknow, just because you don't get your way one measly election doesn't mean the world is going to end. Seriously, "nightmarish dystopia"? You really think our nation is that weak? We've withstood eight years of cultural Marxism with Comrade Obama in charge. Sometimes, in a democracy, you lose. I think a lot of people on your side think that you get to win every election from now on, until the end of time. That is not the case.
...and yet, the locals will never find a better paid job above minimum wage as long as our elites keep importing millions of illiterate third-world peasants. Let's help them get back home and then millions of low wage jobs will open up for our own people. We'd even be able to improve these jobs because the employers wouldn't be able to hold the workers' feet to the fire. They'd pay more and the working conditions would be better, and corporations would have to take this out of their already sky-high profits. We have to worry about our own people first. The illegals have had a nice, long visit but now it's time to go home.
In China, if a company renews the first 12 month contract with an employee, that contract must be renewed in perpetuity. It's lifetime employment. How is it that Finland, a Scandinavian socialist paradise, doesn't have punitive laws like this to punish layoff-prone corporations?
Heck, why do the people even need jobs in the first place? There is a safety net waiting to catch them and make sure they are provided for. Why should the Finnish people have to work just to generate *spit* profit for a foreign megacorporation? This goes against everything I've ever heard about how great Scandinavia is and how we Americans need to adopt their system, pronto. "To each according to his needs" is how the saying goes.
"Our country first, our people first" is Trumpism. Blaming foreigners for your own problems is Trumpism as well. How do you conservatives look at yourselves in the mirror in the morning? What's it feel like to be a nationalistic jingoist?
"We got screwed by globalists and now it's our turn" is basically Trump's message. Did you even listen to yourself talk? Sheesh, it's people like you who put him above the 2700 delegates he needed. Now all we can pray for is that the Republicans screw him out of the nomination somehow with trickery at the convention. Good going, jerkwads.
These policies are clearly jingoistic and nativistic. Why should the people of one country be privileged over the people of any other? Just because they were born there? That's not thinking globally. That's the kind of thinking that leads people to believe that building walls is the solution to problems.
Xiaomi is all about the hype. They see themselves as the Chinese Apple. Up to and including their chairman wearing a black turtleneck. Xiaomi's MIUI phone OS looks just like Apple's (and they ripped off GNU code and refused to release their changes). They copy Apple every way they can - in China this isn't seen as pathetic me-tooism, it's seen as clever because you're copying someone who is successful. Xiaomi is notorious for releasing only a small amount of product at launch and providing no other way to buy than at certain times from their official website.
But now, they've done Apple one better! Crowdfunding! This keeps them in the news for an even longer period of time, as various goals are met. Plus, most people in China don't know what crowdfunding is. The government doesn't like platforms that allow people to collectively organize in any way, even innocuous ways. Xiaomi loves, loves, loves getting publicity and now they're doing things that even Apple isn't doing. This is the beginning of them shedding their "student/inferior/listen to you" status and taking on the "teacher/superior/you listen to ME" attitude that will likely characterize their relationship with Apple from now on.
If you're not paying the monthly subscription fee, you're not a customer. Customers have a relationship with the company involving the exchange of cash. You're a freeloader. I can see why M$ is so insistent on getting everyone off of Windows 7 and 8.
The difference is that you freely chose to do so, nobody tricked you into doing it with a misleading dialog box. This is so well-written and wrapped up nicely with a bow, it sounds just like a Microsoft social media consultant (i.e. paid shill). If you're not a paid shill, you should look into that line of work because nobody should be writing posts like yours for free.
Slashdot Mirror
There are a constant stream of fake stories out of Chinese media on a daily basis. This smells just like one of them. Wait for the retraction in a few days. In the meantime, shame on Slashdot for posting obvious crap. Let this kind of shit stay on TMZ and Gawker where it belongs.
Obviously there are spies in their ranks. How else are the good guys getting info on where the high-value targets are?
Let's not forget all of the people at universities who are protesting and trying to get the war on Daesh to stop. No more drones! No war!
You win the "Jackass of the Thread" award for changing the topic to an already thread-worn distraction. Good job, jackass.
In the 1930s, chemical warfare was looked on the same way. It was just assumed that the next war would be chemical. Remember all the gas masks that were issued during the London Blitz? It looks bizarre to modern eyes as chemical weapons were not used during WWII but everyone certainly expected it. The only ones who actually used chemical weapons were the Italians invading Ethiopia, a conflict mostly forgotten today. To the extent the 30s are remembered, it is for the Spanish Civil War and little else.
So the worst kind of overreach is OK as long as it makes Middle America look bad, eh? You people suck. You lose all sense of fairness and objectivity and just think that the people you despise should always lose. This is why the current year is so enlightening, we are seeing all sorts of people come out of the shadows and finally declare what they really stand for. Hypocrites, you say? Look in the mirror.
I see your trenchant analysis has totally ignored the fact that Gawker was very clearly in the wrong the entire time. When presented with an opportunity to repent, they laughed and doubled down on their despicable behavior. It's a good thing that the billionaire came along, otherwise the victim in this case wouldn't have been able to have his day in court. The good guys won, the bad guys lost. That's how it's supposed to happen.
So, I'm curious, Mr. Password Wizard, what do you do when your 24 character password has to be typed in by hand to the password field? Do you seriously do that every time? Copy and paste? No, this password field doesn't allow that. Just wondering what you do in this event.
And applying 20/20 hindsight to contemporary decisions is a disease. They made the decision with the evidence they had on hand at the time, they didn't know 300 years down the road they were going to get invaded. Sheesh...how do you even justify idiot opinions like these to yourself? What should we today predict will happen 300 years from now, so that we can make the correct decision now. A decision that likely appears quite un-obvious to us in 2016? Damn, educated people scare me because they don't believe they can ever be wrong.
To Xiaomi's servers in Beijing. I have a Xiaomi pocket router and it sends my connection stats to their office as well. Once a week on Friday I get a little graphic showing me how much I used and which devices were used most. It has scolded me before for spending too much time online ("What's the matter, don't you have a job?")
"Make little sense"? What do you mean? It made plenty of sense to get rid of this hugely expensive white elephant. China had looked out into the world and found nothing but squabbling barbarians in every direction. There was nothing in the world worth having, China already made everything it needed (autarky). Where is the idea that scientific growth was needed to succeed? China was already the most developed nation in the world. I think you have a very narrow-minded and Western-focused view of what history should be like. It's kind of frightening because you consider yourself educated and yet don't know anything about the motivations of foreign cultures.
"When was the last time you stopped yourself from saying something you believed to be true for fear of being punished or criticized for saying it? If you live in America, it probably hasn't been long."
-- Tucker Carlson
It's a surprise because Google Maps isn't always running on our phones.
When people start flooding into your state from California, it sounds great, right? They're coming for the jobs, the good life you have, the environment that allows businesses to exist without choking the life out of them. But what happens next?
They start complaining that things aren't like they were in California. And then they start making changes. Like all new arrivals, they don't give a shit about you've been doing things, they're going to be doing it their way from now on. And that means the California way. It's what they were fleeing in the first place, but they plan to re-implement it in your home. These people vote, too. Once they outnumber your city's people, what are you going to do?
This is what happened to my beloved Austin. When I left, I think the population was booming over 500,000 and it was already terrible. Today? Something like 1.2 million. Sad, my city will never be the place it was when I lived there.
I've just been reading some articles from 1980 and that's exactly what everyone was saying about Ronald Reagan. Yaknow, just because you don't get your way one measly election doesn't mean the world is going to end. Seriously, "nightmarish dystopia"? You really think our nation is that weak? We've withstood eight years of cultural Marxism with Comrade Obama in charge. Sometimes, in a democracy, you lose. I think a lot of people on your side think that you get to win every election from now on, until the end of time. That is not the case.
...and yet, the locals will never find a better paid job above minimum wage as long as our elites keep importing millions of illiterate third-world peasants. Let's help them get back home and then millions of low wage jobs will open up for our own people. We'd even be able to improve these jobs because the employers wouldn't be able to hold the workers' feet to the fire. They'd pay more and the working conditions would be better, and corporations would have to take this out of their already sky-high profits. We have to worry about our own people first. The illegals have had a nice, long visit but now it's time to go home.
In China, if a company renews the first 12 month contract with an employee, that contract must be renewed in perpetuity. It's lifetime employment. How is it that Finland, a Scandinavian socialist paradise, doesn't have punitive laws like this to punish layoff-prone corporations?
Heck, why do the people even need jobs in the first place? There is a safety net waiting to catch them and make sure they are provided for. Why should the Finnish people have to work just to generate *spit* profit for a foreign megacorporation? This goes against everything I've ever heard about how great Scandinavia is and how we Americans need to adopt their system, pronto. "To each according to his needs" is how the saying goes.
Since when is Microsoft "heavy industry"? Put down the pipe, comrade, you're stoned. Smoking more when you're already stoned is just wasting it.
Donald Trump, is that you? Or just one of your paid shills? "Think locally" sounds an awful lot like "America first".
"Our country first, our people first" is Trumpism. Blaming foreigners for your own problems is Trumpism as well. How do you conservatives look at yourselves in the mirror in the morning? What's it feel like to be a nationalistic jingoist?
"We got screwed by globalists and now it's our turn" is basically Trump's message. Did you even listen to yourself talk? Sheesh, it's people like you who put him above the 2700 delegates he needed. Now all we can pray for is that the Republicans screw him out of the nomination somehow with trickery at the convention. Good going, jerkwads.
These policies are clearly jingoistic and nativistic. Why should the people of one country be privileged over the people of any other? Just because they were born there? That's not thinking globally. That's the kind of thinking that leads people to believe that building walls is the solution to problems.
It's a federal court, dumbass. The State of Texas has nothing to do with it and couldn't influence events if it tried.
Xiaomi is all about the hype. They see themselves as the Chinese Apple. Up to and including their chairman wearing a black turtleneck. Xiaomi's MIUI phone OS looks just like Apple's (and they ripped off GNU code and refused to release their changes). They copy Apple every way they can - in China this isn't seen as pathetic me-tooism, it's seen as clever because you're copying someone who is successful. Xiaomi is notorious for releasing only a small amount of product at launch and providing no other way to buy than at certain times from their official website.
But now, they've done Apple one better! Crowdfunding! This keeps them in the news for an even longer period of time, as various goals are met. Plus, most people in China don't know what crowdfunding is. The government doesn't like platforms that allow people to collectively organize in any way, even innocuous ways. Xiaomi loves, loves, loves getting publicity and now they're doing things that even Apple isn't doing. This is the beginning of them shedding their "student/inferior/listen to you" status and taking on the "teacher/superior/you listen to ME" attitude that will likely characterize their relationship with Apple from now on.
If you're not paying the monthly subscription fee, you're not a customer. Customers have a relationship with the company involving the exchange of cash. You're a freeloader. I can see why M$ is so insistent on getting everyone off of Windows 7 and 8.
The difference is that you freely chose to do so, nobody tricked you into doing it with a misleading dialog box. This is so well-written and wrapped up nicely with a bow, it sounds just like a Microsoft social media consultant (i.e. paid shill). If you're not a paid shill, you should look into that line of work because nobody should be writing posts like yours for free.