What's wrong with you? I'm not addressing liberal vs conservative points of view, I'm talking about political left vs right. In fact I went to lengths to point out the distinction to you, something you seem happy to keep ignoring.
But, in the spirit of Slashdot snarkiness, I suppose I'd best turn your own words on you:
I don't know if you're left wing, what I do know is you have no idea who or what "conservatives" are or what they believe, and instead you believe in an absurd caricature that is identical to what American left-wing media tells people.
Maybe you're just really ignorant of what other people believe, and all your friends are uneducated liberals with false beliefs about what conservatives believe?
I notice in your response a complete lack of interest in discovering what conservatives actually believe, so surely you really are an ignorant liberal and are just lying.
Is that really what Fox News tells you? I've no idea since I don't watch it. Perhaps you're some triggered liberal who has to think every definition that doesn't fit their narrative must be right-wing == authoritarian == conservative propaganda.
Do you think for some reason I'm right wing? Have you not yet seen the critical flaw in the right's basic premise? It has been demonstrated throughout history again and again that people DO NOT use their money foremost to benefit those around them.
That is why I am left-leaning, but feel free to continue with your narrow and wrong political definitions.
Propaganda for one side? A little sensitive are we?
Let's put it another way that perhaps you might have a better chance of understanding:
A Right wing political system has low taxes. A Left wing political system has high taxes.
A Right wing political system assumes that people who earn money will use it for good (ie help the poor, maintain the community, etc). A Left wing political system assumes that people who earn money will not use it for good, so takes some of their money (tax) to do this good themselves (build hospitals, roads, etc).
Sorry if you inferred a preference for one system over the other from my prior post.
Whenever I see quotes from him or Stalin I always assume they're going for the latter case.
I don't recall ever seeing any quotes from such abhorrent people that could be interpreted as giving credibility, but perhaps I don't frequent the right websites.
"Individuals can be trusted to do the right thing with their money so let's let them manage all of it" vs "Individuals can not be trusted to do the right thing with their money so let's take a bit of it and do the right thing for them".
It's on a completely different axis from governance Authoritarian vs Anarchist, and again from moral Conservative vs Liberal.
People often align into clusters where one axis correlates with another to have a sense of belonging to a particular group, but there is no real reason that has to be the case.
Since this would be a massive solar collector it would have access to effectively limitless energy. Since it would be deployed from Earth which is already orbiting the Sun, only very small corrections would need to be made over time. The biggest effort would be in continuously rotating it to keep its plane normal to the Sun. The thrust to perform such corrections would of course need to come from something that didn't depend on rocket fuel, so perhaps ion or EM thrusters could do it.
Can't we just put a large, thin, solar array a few thousand kilometers out into space that tracks the sun and reduces the total irradiance received by the Earth. If we can't reduce the greenhouse part of the equation, surely we could tweak the input, right?
Bonus, effectively free power for future space vehicles that are... already in orbit.
Yeah Postfix + Dovecot + Davical is probably the best FOSS mix at the moment, though CalDAV web clients are still lacking, so are anchored to standalone programs like Lightning.
I hope you enjoy your time here. Feel free to take a look around and stay as long as you like, but I suspect in the end you'll find that this site isn't for you.
That happened to someone I know. His kid flicked the switch and stuck a fork into the socket past the shutters.
Fortunately his house was wired this century, so the RCD for that circuit on the fuseboard tripped within a few milliseconds so the kid didn't feel a thing.
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What's wrong with you? I'm not addressing liberal vs conservative points of view, I'm talking about political left vs right. In fact I went to lengths to point out the distinction to you, something you seem happy to keep ignoring.
But, in the spirit of Slashdot snarkiness, I suppose I'd best turn your own words on you:
I don't know if you're left wing, what I do know is you have no idea who or what "conservatives" are or what they believe, and instead you believe in an absurd caricature that is identical to what American left-wing media tells people.
Maybe you're just really ignorant of what other people believe, and all your friends are uneducated liberals with false beliefs about what conservatives believe?
I notice in your response a complete lack of interest in discovering what conservatives actually believe, so surely you really are an ignorant liberal and are just lying.
Funny, that seems to fit quite well, doesn't it?
The Net interprets the United States as damage and routes around it.
Is that really what Fox News tells you? I've no idea since I don't watch it. Perhaps you're some triggered liberal who has to think every definition that doesn't fit their narrative must be right-wing == authoritarian == conservative propaganda.
Do you think for some reason I'm right wing? Have you not yet seen the critical flaw in the right's basic premise? It has been demonstrated throughout history again and again that people DO NOT use their money foremost to benefit those around them.
That is why I am left-leaning, but feel free to continue with your narrow and wrong political definitions.
Propaganda for one side? A little sensitive are we?
Let's put it another way that perhaps you might have a better chance of understanding:
A Right wing political system has low taxes.
A Left wing political system has high taxes.
A Right wing political system assumes that people who earn money will use it for good (ie help the poor, maintain the community, etc).
A Left wing political system assumes that people who earn money will not use it for good, so takes some of their money (tax) to do this good themselves (build hospitals, roads, etc).
Sorry if you inferred a preference for one system over the other from my prior post.
Whenever I see quotes from him or Stalin I always assume they're going for the latter case.
I don't recall ever seeing any quotes from such abhorrent people that could be interpreted as giving credibility, but perhaps I don't frequent the right websites.
Exactly.
Right vs Left is only really about taxation:
"Individuals can be trusted to do the right thing with their money so let's let them manage all of it"
vs
"Individuals can not be trusted to do the right thing with their money so let's take a bit of it and do the right thing for them".
It's on a completely different axis from governance Authoritarian vs Anarchist, and again from moral Conservative vs Liberal.
People often align into clusters where one axis correlates with another to have a sense of belonging to a particular group, but there is no real reason that has to be the case.
Since this would be a massive solar collector it would have access to effectively limitless energy. Since it would be deployed from Earth which is already orbiting the Sun, only very small corrections would need to be made over time. The biggest effort would be in continuously rotating it to keep its plane normal to the Sun. The thrust to perform such corrections would of course need to come from something that didn't depend on rocket fuel, so perhaps ion or EM thrusters could do it.
Can't we just put a large, thin, solar array a few thousand kilometers out into space that tracks the sun and reduces the total irradiance received by the Earth. If we can't reduce the greenhouse part of the equation, surely we could tweak the input, right?
Bonus, effectively free power for future space vehicles that are... already in orbit.
It's like your entire country has never heard of No Junk Mail stickers.
Amazing.
Or they have a sense of perspective.
Where's your juicy steak going to come from, champ?
Which of those benchmarks measures browser performance after leaving a couple dozen tabs open for three weeks? Huh?
Funny, I don't recall my SLES support contracts being free.
I bet a lot of people will be saying that right about now.
All without realising that, if you had done so, you could have saved them.
So what do you plan to do? Fork the FF 55 codebase, or start your own browser engine from scratch?
If it's the latter, please be kind enough to share it with the rest of us.
Yeah Postfix + Dovecot + Davical is probably the best FOSS mix at the moment, though CalDAV web clients are still lacking, so are anchored to standalone programs like Lightning.
Which works fine until the day the discontinue the free service without notice.
Except that by putting it "on a computer" makes it a software patent, and therefore NOT FUCKING VALID.
Speak for yourself. Linux distros have come a long way since one had to compile a new kernel to install it.
Now I, like you, just want to get shit done and my family and colleagues all do that with Linux.
I hope you enjoy your time here. Feel free to take a look around and stay as long as you like, but I suspect in the end you'll find that this site isn't for you.
That happened to someone I know. His kid flicked the switch and stuck a fork into the socket past the shutters.
Fortunately his house was wired this century, so the RCD for that circuit on the fuseboard tripped within a few milliseconds so the kid didn't feel a thing.
A very good point. My oldest Android tablet is 5 years old now, and I still use it for e-books, watching video content and puzzle games.
Still on Ice Cream Sandwich, and all offline (although when the need arises I can still load YouTube [albeit slowly] and play SD content from there).
No, it really is. Android is every bit a Linux distribution as Ubuntu or Fedora.
What it is not, is a GNU/Linux distribution. As if that mattered.
What fundamental problem cannot be solved by trivially tweaking or skinning the existing OSes?
They are controlled by very large companies that want to control you and your data.
No amount of tweaking or skinning is going to fix that.
I heard K was a bit of a Dick in this one.