aaaaaand they charge (way) too much. Get an i7 Thinkpad x220 if you want a US-made BSD and Linux friendly laptop. I also used to work (very) close by the System76 downtown Denver office. They look like a bunch of annoying spandex bike faggots eating at the sushi joint downstairs. Very Pottering-like Linuxy folks. So, if you like that sort of thing...
Sherman anti-trust act gives all the needed legal cover. Do it. They are fully formed evil megacorps and trusts if there ever were any. Break them up and let them compete with the fragments of themselves. Competition is the soul of capitalism, not monopolies.
I thought you were going to fuck off? You said you would. I guess you are a liar in addition to an idiot. It's not surprising though. Anyone who'd defend systemd is going to need to lie something awful to get anywhere in a factual debate. Of course, then again, you are fact free. I bet you couldn't even write your own fucking unit file for systemd. Then again, you've had significant trouble just forming complete sentences, so maybe that's not fair. We should probably give you something easier at first, to test you like breathing or stacking rocks.
Losing an argument you never had any business in *is* a good reason to get lost, true. Well, that and your lack of ability to tell "a" from "are" seems to indicate that, in addition to not understanding what the fuck you are talking about, you also can't write. You're just another angry script kiddie that can't find any angle to defend systemd so you turn to personal attacks instead. When I hand you back some more creative insults you cry and run off. It's a simple case of being able to dish it out but having a meltdown when you are on the other end of it which I'd expect from somebody as whiny as you consistently are. You heard the rhetoric and saw the public argument about systemd and you decided you *really* had to take a side. OK, just one problem, without any practical experience, your only tactic is to make personal attacks, but you suck at it, and break down like a bitch when they come back your way. So, feel free to fuck off - nobody will miss you.
I'm all about nuance. Hey, I got another idea. Let's keep corporate personhood and let the corporate "people" be subject to criminal penalties like actual people. Corporation accidentally kills someone? Manslaughter. Corporation kills a few dozen folks, then it gets the death penalty. BTW, commenters, you guys are high or something. Citizens United was about removing limits on corporate donations to political campaigns. However, Corporate Personhood goes back to Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. and some even earlier law.
You make a lot of assertions with zero facts. I never said I didn't "grasp" scrotumd, I do remember saying I fixed other people's problems with it frequently and that it sucked, though. Seems you have some serious reading comprehension issues. Maybe grandma took a couple of shots at you with a coat-hanger. Too bad she didn't finish the job, metaphorically speaking. Stick to physics, bro (if indeed you even know that well), leave systems administration to your betters.
Nice fact-free and content free profanity rant. Did you actually have some material criticism or are you as apoplectic you seem over the complete lack of any basis for defending sYsTem-dee? (like that, spelling better, chum?)
Systemd is terrible. I say so, and I'm definitely no poser. I take support calls from systemd victims multiple times a week. I started with Linux in 1993 using SLS. I work as a professional supporting Unix variants (AIX, HPUX, Solaris, Tru64, IRIX, and more). I'm an RHCA, RHCE, RHCSA, and I'm certified on AIX, HPUX, and Solaris, also (tends to happen when you support Unix for 25 years). I loved Linux up until Red Hat started calling it "Enterprise" and setting about supporting the Fedora crowd who has zero understanding of the Unix philosophy and is basically trying hard to re-invent NT 4.0 and svchost.exe. Having used BSD off and on through the late 1980's and 1990's I knew it wasn't perfect, but when I came back to BSD in about 1996 (after the 386BSD debacle was well settled), I found that that NetBSD and FreeBSD had made amazing strides and were pointed in much more rational directions than Linux. I know systemd quite well (after all I solve problems teams of sysadmins can't solve with it and have to call me for) and usually I find that some silver lining in things once I study them thoroughly. In the case of systemd, it's been the exact opposite. I felt it was a bad idea at first, then after diving in, I thought "this isn't a bad idea, it's the end of Linux as a decent OS." Turns out I was right. I've noticed now at trade shows, hacker spaces, and UUG meetings that only the clueless teenagers and older nincompoops try to pimp systemd. It's kinda nice because it makes it easy to see who's a total fucking idiot really fast if they bow up over someone complaining about systemd's terrible security, awful implementation, disgusting politics, or ridiculously stupid design decisions.
Totally agree. I'm a *box user (Blackbox, Fluxbox, Openbox) and many times I eschew X11 altogether and just operate on the framebuffer console. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to edit images with CLI tools. However, as a Unix guru, I don't really need to do any type of GUI tasks and it really just gets into the way. I've noticed over years that the smartest and most productive people I've worked with used thin and light desktop environments that put the focus on the terminal & CLI and respect the Unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well." The fancier the IDE the worse the coder. The prettier the desktop, the more superficial and lazy the user. That's been my experience, at least.
1. Eliminate corporate personhood. 2. Drag the C-level out into the street, hang them from lamp posts, and hand their employees sticks to beat them like pinatas. Don't worry I'm sure everyone loves them and someone will cut them down. Maybe. Probably. Well, okay, probably not, but it was a thought. 3. Watch wages grow like they did after the French dragged their aristofucks out into the street. Funny, they were cool with wages rising after that shit.
Goddamn. I can barely keep it together working one job. I dunno how anyone maintains juggling all those bosses and work schedules, but hey, right on folks. Good on you for working hard and hanging tough.
Dunno, what's it like to be an asshole with no sense of humor? I'm sure Bezos is glad that he's got at least one lil' bitch out there rooting for his greedy ass.
Amazon wears people out and throws them away.. They are one of the worst corporate feudal lords trying to dominate us. I'd love to see them broke up like AT&T. I'd love to see Bezos kidnapped by crazies and made to pay the worlds first billion dollar ransom.
You forget, almost everyone has practical experience with teachers, not with building 777's. My practical experience says they mostly suck and should be replaced (by damn near anything and many better options exist).
Also, if it's so weird/crazy/farfetched then why do you think colleges are scared shitless of Wikipedia? They know damn well that in almost every case the $250 textbook could be replaced by a free Wikimedia book or set of articles. I'd take it that much farther and assert that most of them could be replaced by a decent textbook or set of videos. Imagine if all the money we've spent giving teachers raises was spent on producing quality instructional content and giving it away? Look at news articles around open text books and you'll see a ton of them saying that teachers are having freak outs about them and so are the people who get kickbacks from textbooks. How (the fuck) is that helping to educate people?
I'd mod this up if I could. This is exactly what I'm saying. I'd rather learn from a really competent instructor via book, web, or video rather than hearing the same material live from whatever goober the local public ISD can scrape off the street. It's a lot cheaper to hire minders for the classroom than teachers who go on strike every 15 minutes trying to convince me, an engineering major, that their party-major bullshit lack of effort in college should get them the same salary as me. Teachers need to accept that they goofed off in school, took a shitty major, and now have to live with it. When was the last time artists and musicians all went on strike statewide to fleece more money from taxpayers? They don't typically do it because they know it's a waste of time - they were art or music majors and they didn't come out expecting someone to pay them a shitton. They expected to be starving artists and deal with it, unless of course they become teachers in which case you'll never hear the end of how valuable they are.
Easy, Coward. Teachers should have been replaced in the 1980's by best-available instruction on video. Then, just put babysitters and minders in the classroom to keep the kids from going wild and destroying the VCR and TV and centralize questions from students through syndication (phone, email, postal mail, etc..). I'd rather learn physics from Stephen Hawking while some adult low-paid dweeb keeps the loud & emotionally dis-regulated kids quiet than some retard history/teacher coach re-purposed to read me the text book in class (my *actual* experience was the latter). Out of around 90 teachers I had in public school only two could have been called "decent". Yes, I grew up poor and going to poor schools. I'd have got a (far) superior education spending the same time with video instruction and actually decent teachers. The teachers I had could rarely answer any questions I had, or would just scolded me for trying to do math in some way that deviated from the book they didn't understand in the first place. How about the fact that my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade teachers tried to use "blended learning" on me (I had dyslexia badly) and had it not been for my dad teaching me to read using the phonetic method, I'd probably partially or completely illiterate right now which is what happens to most dyslexics who get some lazy asshole grade school teacher using "blending learning". Again, video instruction (remember "Hooked on Phonics" ?) would have been FAR superior and in fact *was* far superior. It's the source material my father used to teach me because he wasn't an educator but he was smart enough to know you don't try teaching dyslexics to read using word-recognition, not to mention that research shows nearly all kids learn to read faster using phonetics. Don't count on public school teachers to know that, though. They are likely to keep doing whatever they always did, despite newer better methods (that could easily be disseminated over video) existing to educate folks.
You lack imagination. How about:
Throw a net around the prop, wait for the boat to sieze up, then use an acetylene torch to break in and and steal the cargo.
Hit the prop with a torpedo, and break in with a shaped charge
Put kevlar rope in front of the ship, wait for the prop to catch it and sieze up, then break in by picking the locks or cutting off the hatch covers with abrasive cutters
Ride up in a speedboat and hit the ship with molotovs. Laugh as as it sinks with nobody around to do shit about it. Don't steal anything, just do it to hurt the shipping company or country.
I could go on all day.
Celebrities aren't immune to being obsolete. When digital character animation is so real looking that it's cheaper to use 3D models than humans (and they look suitably real). It's just a cost/benefit analysis to the studios. As soon as it stops making financial sense to keep a stable of actors and instead use 3D models and synthetic voices, they will. Sure, they might throw in a few cheap extras just for fun, but I doubt they'll want to pay any actor $50 million bucks just to be the star in a movie. They'll develop their own "digital actor properties" themselves. Personally, since I mostly dislike them, I won't be too disappointed. They can go out in the streets and hold signs with teachers (who are also long overdue for being replaced).
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aaaaaand they charge (way) too much. Get an i7 Thinkpad x220 if you want a US-made BSD and Linux friendly laptop. I also used to work (very) close by the System76 downtown Denver office. They look like a bunch of annoying spandex bike faggots eating at the sushi joint downstairs. Very Pottering-like Linuxy folks. So, if you like that sort of thing...
Sherman anti-trust act gives all the needed legal cover. Do it. They are fully formed evil megacorps and trusts if there ever were any. Break them up and let them compete with the fragments of themselves. Competition is the soul of capitalism, not monopolies.
It must run in your family. Your mom doesn't read well either, but she has other nice qualities. She can suck a golf ball through a garden hose.
I thought you were going to fuck off? You said you would. I guess you are a liar in addition to an idiot. It's not surprising though. Anyone who'd defend systemd is going to need to lie something awful to get anywhere in a factual debate. Of course, then again, you are fact free. I bet you couldn't even write your own fucking unit file for systemd. Then again, you've had significant trouble just forming complete sentences, so maybe that's not fair. We should probably give you something easier at first, to test you like breathing or stacking rocks.
Losing an argument you never had any business in *is* a good reason to get lost, true. Well, that and your lack of ability to tell "a" from "are" seems to indicate that, in addition to not understanding what the fuck you are talking about, you also can't write. You're just another angry script kiddie that can't find any angle to defend systemd so you turn to personal attacks instead. When I hand you back some more creative insults you cry and run off. It's a simple case of being able to dish it out but having a meltdown when you are on the other end of it which I'd expect from somebody as whiny as you consistently are. You heard the rhetoric and saw the public argument about systemd and you decided you *really* had to take a side. OK, just one problem, without any practical experience, your only tactic is to make personal attacks, but you suck at it, and break down like a bitch when they come back your way. So, feel free to fuck off - nobody will miss you.
I'm all about nuance. Hey, I got another idea. Let's keep corporate personhood and let the corporate "people" be subject to criminal penalties like actual people. Corporation accidentally kills someone? Manslaughter. Corporation kills a few dozen folks, then it gets the death penalty. BTW, commenters, you guys are high or something. Citizens United was about removing limits on corporate donations to political campaigns. However, Corporate Personhood goes back to Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. and some even earlier law.
You make a lot of assertions with zero facts. I never said I didn't "grasp" scrotumd, I do remember saying I fixed other people's problems with it frequently and that it sucked, though. Seems you have some serious reading comprehension issues. Maybe grandma took a couple of shots at you with a coat-hanger. Too bad she didn't finish the job, metaphorically speaking. Stick to physics, bro (if indeed you even know that well), leave systems administration to your betters.
Nice fact-free and content free profanity rant. Did you actually have some material criticism or are you as apoplectic you seem over the complete lack of any basis for defending sYsTem-dee? (like that, spelling better, chum?)
Yep. True. Completely switched years ago. Nothing funny about it; I'm just loving it.
Systemd is terrible. I say so, and I'm definitely no poser. I take support calls from systemd victims multiple times a week. I started with Linux in 1993 using SLS. I work as a professional supporting Unix variants (AIX, HPUX, Solaris, Tru64, IRIX, and more). I'm an RHCA, RHCE, RHCSA, and I'm certified on AIX, HPUX, and Solaris, also (tends to happen when you support Unix for 25 years). I loved Linux up until Red Hat started calling it "Enterprise" and setting about supporting the Fedora crowd who has zero understanding of the Unix philosophy and is basically trying hard to re-invent NT 4.0 and svchost.exe. Having used BSD off and on through the late 1980's and 1990's I knew it wasn't perfect, but when I came back to BSD in about 1996 (after the 386BSD debacle was well settled), I found that that NetBSD and FreeBSD had made amazing strides and were pointed in much more rational directions than Linux. I know systemd quite well (after all I solve problems teams of sysadmins can't solve with it and have to call me for) and usually I find that some silver lining in things once I study them thoroughly. In the case of systemd, it's been the exact opposite. I felt it was a bad idea at first, then after diving in, I thought "this isn't a bad idea, it's the end of Linux as a decent OS." Turns out I was right. I've noticed now at trade shows, hacker spaces, and UUG meetings that only the clueless teenagers and older nincompoops try to pimp systemd. It's kinda nice because it makes it easy to see who's a total fucking idiot really fast if they bow up over someone complaining about systemd's terrible security, awful implementation, disgusting politics, or ridiculously stupid design decisions.
Totally agree. I'm a *box user (Blackbox, Fluxbox, Openbox) and many times I eschew X11 altogether and just operate on the framebuffer console. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to edit images with CLI tools. However, as a Unix guru, I don't really need to do any type of GUI tasks and it really just gets into the way. I've noticed over years that the smartest and most productive people I've worked with used thin and light desktop environments that put the focus on the terminal & CLI and respect the Unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well." The fancier the IDE the worse the coder. The prettier the desktop, the more superficial and lazy the user. That's been my experience, at least.
Hehe, that's like when people buy those little golf putting machines for their manager. You keep their attention distracted like a rat in a wheel.
1. Eliminate corporate personhood. 2. Drag the C-level out into the street, hang them from lamp posts, and hand their employees sticks to beat them like pinatas. Don't worry I'm sure everyone loves them and someone will cut them down. Maybe. Probably. Well, okay, probably not, but it was a thought. 3. Watch wages grow like they did after the French dragged their aristofucks out into the street. Funny, they were cool with wages rising after that shit.
Goddamn. I can barely keep it together working one job. I dunno how anyone maintains juggling all those bosses and work schedules, but hey, right on folks. Good on you for working hard and hanging tough.
Nazi troll. Is that like a little blue-haired plastic doll with a swastika t-shirt? I'll ask your mom once she gets out of bed.
Wow, you sound idiotic. Maybe you should dispose of yourself quietly?
Dunno, what's it like to be an asshole with no sense of humor? I'm sure Bezos is glad that he's got at least one lil' bitch out there rooting for his greedy ass.
Bonus.
Amazon wears people out and throws them away.. They are one of the worst corporate feudal lords trying to dominate us. I'd love to see them broke up like AT&T. I'd love to see Bezos kidnapped by crazies and made to pay the worlds first billion dollar ransom.
You forget, almost everyone has practical experience with teachers, not with building 777's. My practical experience says they mostly suck and should be replaced (by damn near anything and many better options exist).
Also, if it's so weird/crazy/farfetched then why do you think colleges are scared shitless of Wikipedia? They know damn well that in almost every case the $250 textbook could be replaced by a free Wikimedia book or set of articles. I'd take it that much farther and assert that most of them could be replaced by a decent textbook or set of videos. Imagine if all the money we've spent giving teachers raises was spent on producing quality instructional content and giving it away? Look at news articles around open text books and you'll see a ton of them saying that teachers are having freak outs about them and so are the people who get kickbacks from textbooks. How (the fuck) is that helping to educate people?
I'd mod this up if I could. This is exactly what I'm saying. I'd rather learn from a really competent instructor via book, web, or video rather than hearing the same material live from whatever goober the local public ISD can scrape off the street. It's a lot cheaper to hire minders for the classroom than teachers who go on strike every 15 minutes trying to convince me, an engineering major, that their party-major bullshit lack of effort in college should get them the same salary as me. Teachers need to accept that they goofed off in school, took a shitty major, and now have to live with it. When was the last time artists and musicians all went on strike statewide to fleece more money from taxpayers? They don't typically do it because they know it's a waste of time - they were art or music majors and they didn't come out expecting someone to pay them a shitton. They expected to be starving artists and deal with it, unless of course they become teachers in which case you'll never hear the end of how valuable they are.
Easy, Coward. Teachers should have been replaced in the 1980's by best-available instruction on video. Then, just put babysitters and minders in the classroom to keep the kids from going wild and destroying the VCR and TV and centralize questions from students through syndication (phone, email, postal mail, etc..). I'd rather learn physics from Stephen Hawking while some adult low-paid dweeb keeps the loud & emotionally dis-regulated kids quiet than some retard history/teacher coach re-purposed to read me the text book in class (my *actual* experience was the latter). Out of around 90 teachers I had in public school only two could have been called "decent". Yes, I grew up poor and going to poor schools. I'd have got a (far) superior education spending the same time with video instruction and actually decent teachers. The teachers I had could rarely answer any questions I had, or would just scolded me for trying to do math in some way that deviated from the book they didn't understand in the first place. How about the fact that my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade teachers tried to use "blended learning" on me (I had dyslexia badly) and had it not been for my dad teaching me to read using the phonetic method, I'd probably partially or completely illiterate right now which is what happens to most dyslexics who get some lazy asshole grade school teacher using "blending learning". Again, video instruction (remember "Hooked on Phonics" ?) would have been FAR superior and in fact *was* far superior. It's the source material my father used to teach me because he wasn't an educator but he was smart enough to know you don't try teaching dyslexics to read using word-recognition, not to mention that research shows nearly all kids learn to read faster using phonetics. Don't count on public school teachers to know that, though. They are likely to keep doing whatever they always did, despite newer better methods (that could easily be disseminated over video) existing to educate folks.
You lack imagination. How about:
Throw a net around the prop, wait for the boat to sieze up, then use an acetylene torch to break in and and steal the cargo.
Hit the prop with a torpedo, and break in with a shaped charge
Put kevlar rope in front of the ship, wait for the prop to catch it and sieze up, then break in by picking the locks or cutting off the hatch covers with abrasive cutters
Ride up in a speedboat and hit the ship with molotovs. Laugh as as it sinks with nobody around to do shit about it. Don't steal anything, just do it to hurt the shipping company or country.
I could go on all day.
Celebrities aren't immune to being obsolete. When digital character animation is so real looking that it's cheaper to use 3D models than humans (and they look suitably real). It's just a cost/benefit analysis to the studios. As soon as it stops making financial sense to keep a stable of actors and instead use 3D models and synthetic voices, they will. Sure, they might throw in a few cheap extras just for fun, but I doubt they'll want to pay any actor $50 million bucks just to be the star in a movie. They'll develop their own "digital actor properties" themselves. Personally, since I mostly dislike them, I won't be too disappointed. They can go out in the streets and hold signs with teachers (who are also long overdue for being replaced).