I know that recycling in Germany is vastly different than in America. It is required to recycle and if you don't, or don't separate properly, you are fined. Stores which sell products in recyclable containers are required to accept those containers back.
Recycling in America is appalling. Perhaps the mafia-controlled Big Waste companies which pushed for non-separated recycling have something to do with it. In my city there once were independent recyclers whom a building could opt to serve them and collect recyclables, but the mafia-run Big Waste got a monopoly from the city and the smaller, much better independent companies were forced out of business.
And yes - if you examine the contents of a typical businesses' dumpster - all of which goes to landfill - you will find that the vast majority of the contents are recyclables.
China rejects the extremely low-grade American "recyclables" that are very poorly separated from other forms of waste.
Blame China for large amounts being subsequently sent to landfills.
Bullshit.
I have personally witnessed materials placed in recycling bins at a company I worked at in the Bay Area being collected by a non-recycling, waste truck.
Visit any business' waste dumpster in the Bay Area and you will see more recyclable materials than other types of waste.
Recycling is mostly a lie. It's a way for politicians to score green points.
Mozilla, Apache, or Eclipse are ones that come to mind. I think even IntelliJ taking over would have been a lot better. One hopes that they will jump in and set up a source code repository/change control system even better than GitHub.
I will never like Microsoft. As I said in another comment, no amount of time passing will ever make a war criminal less guilty and more likeable.
LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft) is already creepy and gross. Already cancelled my GitHub account. If that is what it means to use my talent to "participate" in the economy I refuse. Piss on Microsoft.
This is what I find troubling. GitHub was too significant to have been a business. It should have been a foundation. GitHub's being sold reminds me of how all these small, holistic natural products companies start and and eventually end up getting swallowed by the same 3 or 4 enormous conglomerates, before their quality declines and they become part of the same, evil globooligarchistic ecorapacious system.
And I will never trust nor like Microsoft, nor more than I like war criminals regardless of how much time has elapsed after their crimes were committed.
What do you do to replace Cygwin sshd? No way to run persistent daemons with WSL. Everything stops when you close terminal session. No services - no init system integrated with Windows...
If that's true, WSL has a really long way to go before it obsoletes Cygwin. Presently, even with the new touted ability to background tasks, it's not much more than a toy.
GitLab is free. You can self-host it. There are pre-packaged appliances you can install.
Not sure what Microsoft's motive was in making the purchase. No way they couldn't have known there'd be backlash. Maybe because they are such a coding-intensive company they consider coding and infrastructure a major part of their business which is understandable to the extent they don't commercialize it or threaten OSS.
I still use Chrome for certain purposes. I prefer using it for my online courses. It's nice to have a separate browser for them. Also, because of my heavy use of ad-blocking and privacy addons in Firefox, there's the occasional site that has issues and it's nice to have Chrome as a backup.
Just thought I'd chime in and say that performance- and feature-wise Firefox is one of the top browsers, along with Chrome, which however because of it's much better policies and intentions I definitely prefer Firefox.
Yes the upgrade to Quantum was not completely smooth. I notice that many Quantum-compatible addons are not as flawless as pre-Quantum ones, but overall performance is vastly better. For the better performance and stability the tradeoff seems worth it although one hopes that the addon quality will improve more over time.
Agreed. The caller nor the person who hired him killed that boy. The cops did. The cops should be the ones facing jail for life, as should all others who've committed similar atrocities (such as the horrendous one in Arizona where the guy was laying prostrate on the floor unarmed).
Pale? That means: Too white. Funny, no one would ever say that a genre is "too asian" or "too black" or too any-other-race. Only white. This is blatant anti-white racism. Fuck you Slashdot.
When they showed videos on the news of employees evacuating YouTube I have to say I was shocked and immediately understood how fucked up Silicon Valley is. The employees are not even close to representative of the people of the Bay Area nor of people anywhere. To say that it's a bubble is an understatement.
The premise of the editorial is wrong. There *are* things about which every aware American should be outraged. Allowing our country to be flooded with literally tens of millions of illegals - 3/4 of whom are illiterate - is an arch-crime and act of treason and betrayal on a scale hitherto unimaginable in history.
That much of Silicon Valley is in fact the most egregious offender in the flooding of America with legions of foreigners, displacing American citizens, says a lot about the situation.
These types of acts have NEVER occurred before in history and they should NEVER occur in a society which truly cares for its own people, not treats them like throwaway pieces of crap.
1. There were no massive flood of illegal immigrants pouring into the country.
2. Welfare such as subsidized housing to highly crime-prone, f*up segments of the population were cut.
??
It's funny too how Kamala Harris - who got her break in politics by being Willy Brown's side ho - is one of the most rabid supporters of these crackdowns against Internet companies.
That might be a separate issue about overpasses. Unlike for instance Germany where there are virtually no road/rail crossings, the corridor along the peninsula has many road/rail crossings (and consequent traffic snarls, pedestrian deaths, vehicles being hit).
Part of the money for the high-speed rail project will be to eliminate road/rail crossings along the corridor and have only overpasses similar to places like Germany.
Most if not all wastewater treatment facilities are located in low-lying coastal areas. Such facilities already frequently fail whenever there is excessive storm water drainage (from heavy storms), releasing untreated sewage into the bay.
Imagine the cost of having to completely replace all these treatment facilities at a time when all these other things are already going critical.
Another sad thing will be the loss of a lot of the protected wildlife habitat zones which exist around the bay. That they were even created after a more ruinous, environmentally catastrophic earlier period was a big thing. But now that they're established they will soon disappear.
One other thing - they're planning to build the new high-speed rail along the same corridor that is used by Caltrain - a corridor which almost hugs the coastline. When everything goes critical from rising water levels, sections of this line will either be submerged or extremely close to being submerged. It was probably a major mistake to build the high speed rail corridor along that route instead of further inland.
My guess is the 10,000 people are in somewhere like India or the Philippines. (More great Silicon Valley goodness.)
It's unrealistic to expect people from many parts of the world to comprehend much less uphold basic freedoms which are implicitly understood and taken for granted in Western European countries.
It's one thing to have them attempt to handle your customer support call, another when they're entrusted with responsibility over something which is lacking in their own culture.
I find it interesting to note that it's the year 2018 and humans are still working on ways to be able to conduct financial transactions without fraud or theft. There must be something that, how something that seems like it would be such a simple thing actually is not...
Slashdot Mirror
If this article isn't facetious, then people are really retarded.
If you own a domain you can use any e-mail address you want.
Are people really that retarded? Yes, I believe they probably are.
I know that recycling in Germany is vastly different than in America. It is required to recycle and if you don't, or don't separate properly, you are fined. Stores which sell products in recyclable containers are required to accept those containers back.
Recycling in America is appalling. Perhaps the mafia-controlled Big Waste companies which pushed for non-separated recycling have something to do with it. In my city there once were independent recyclers whom a building could opt to serve them and collect recyclables, but the mafia-run Big Waste got a monopoly from the city and the smaller, much better independent companies were forced out of business.
And yes - if you examine the contents of a typical businesses' dumpster - all of which goes to landfill - you will find that the vast majority of the contents are recyclables.
China rejects the extremely low-grade American "recyclables" that are very poorly separated from other forms of waste.
Blame China for large amounts being subsequently sent to landfills.
Bullshit.
I have personally witnessed materials placed in recycling bins at a company I worked at in the Bay Area being collected by a non-recycling, waste truck.
Visit any business' waste dumpster in the Bay Area and you will see more recyclable materials than other types of waste.
Recycling is mostly a lie. It's a way for politicians to score green points.
Mozilla, Apache, or Eclipse are ones that come to mind. I think even IntelliJ taking over would have been a lot better. One hopes that they will jump in and set up a source code repository/change control system even better than GitHub.
I will never like Microsoft. As I said in another comment, no amount of time passing will ever make a war criminal less guilty and more likeable.
LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft) is already creepy and gross. Already cancelled my GitHub account. If that is what it means to use my talent to "participate" in the economy I refuse. Piss on Microsoft.
Github is still a business.
This is what I find troubling. GitHub was too significant to have been a business. It should have been a foundation. GitHub's being sold reminds me of how all these small, holistic natural products companies start and and eventually end up getting swallowed by the same 3 or 4 enormous conglomerates, before their quality declines and they become part of the same, evil globooligarchistic ecorapacious system.
And I will never trust nor like Microsoft, nor more than I like war criminals regardless of how much time has elapsed after their crimes were committed.
What do you do to replace Cygwin sshd? No way to run persistent daemons with WSL. Everything stops when you close terminal session. No services - no init system integrated with Windows...
If that's true, WSL has a really long way to go before it obsoletes Cygwin. Presently, even with the new touted ability to background tasks, it's not much more than a toy.
GitLab is free. You can self-host it. There are pre-packaged appliances you can install.
Not sure what Microsoft's motive was in making the purchase. No way they couldn't have known there'd be backlash. Maybe because they are such a coding-intensive company they consider coding and infrastructure a major part of their business which is understandable to the extent they don't commercialize it or threaten OSS.
I still use Chrome for certain purposes. I prefer using it for my online courses. It's nice to have a separate browser for them. Also, because of my heavy use of ad-blocking and privacy addons in Firefox, there's the occasional site that has issues and it's nice to have Chrome as a backup.
Just thought I'd chime in and say that performance- and feature-wise Firefox is one of the top browsers, along with Chrome, which however because of it's much better policies and intentions I definitely prefer Firefox.
Yes the upgrade to Quantum was not completely smooth. I notice that many Quantum-compatible addons are not as flawless as pre-Quantum ones, but overall performance is vastly better. For the better performance and stability the tradeoff seems worth it although one hopes that the addon quality will improve more over time.
To the question of the article: Yes. Boomers are vacuous, fuckshit, scammers who have ruined Earth.
Need an example: https://youtu.be/E_PGTXVWB7U
Agreed. The caller nor the person who hired him killed that boy. The cops did. The cops should be the ones facing jail for life, as should all others who've committed similar atrocities (such as the horrendous one in Arizona where the guy was laying prostrate on the floor unarmed).
No trackpoint.
Pffffttt
Pale? That means: Too white.
Funny, no one would ever say that a genre is "too asian" or "too black" or too any-other-race. Only white.
This is blatant anti-white racism.
Fuck you Slashdot.
Bannon/Nunes 2020
When they showed videos on the news of employees evacuating YouTube I have to say I was shocked and immediately understood how fucked up Silicon Valley is. The employees are not even close to representative of the people of the Bay Area nor of people anywhere. To say that it's a bubble is an understatement.
The premise of the editorial is wrong. There *are* things about which every aware American should be outraged. Allowing our country to be flooded with literally tens of millions of illegals - 3/4 of whom are illiterate - is an arch-crime and act of treason and betrayal on a scale hitherto unimaginable in history.
That much of Silicon Valley is in fact the most egregious offender in the flooding of America with legions of foreigners, displacing American citizens, says a lot about the situation.
These types of acts have NEVER occurred before in history and they should NEVER occur in a society which truly cares for its own people, not treats them like throwaway pieces of crap.
Google prioritizes censoring channels that engage in legally protected speech but allows video spam en masse.
Google is fucked up. Really fucked up. Maybe fucked up in a different sort of way than Facebook, but just as grubby and noxious.
How much would sex trafficking be reduced if:
1. There were no massive flood of illegal immigrants pouring into the country.
2. Welfare such as subsidized housing to highly crime-prone, f*up segments of the population were cut.
??
It's funny too how Kamala Harris - who got her break in politics by being Willy Brown's side ho - is one of the most rabid supporters of these crackdowns against Internet companies.
That might be a separate issue about overpasses. Unlike for instance Germany where there are virtually no road/rail crossings, the corridor along the peninsula has many road/rail crossings (and consequent traffic snarls, pedestrian deaths, vehicles being hit).
Part of the money for the high-speed rail project will be to eliminate road/rail crossings along the corridor and have only overpasses similar to places like Germany.
Most if not all wastewater treatment facilities are located in low-lying coastal areas. Such facilities already frequently fail whenever there is excessive storm water drainage (from heavy storms), releasing untreated sewage into the bay.
Imagine the cost of having to completely replace all these treatment facilities at a time when all these other things are already going critical.
Another sad thing will be the loss of a lot of the protected wildlife habitat zones which exist around the bay. That they were even created after a more ruinous, environmentally catastrophic earlier period was a big thing. But now that they're established they will soon disappear.
One other thing - they're planning to build the new high-speed rail along the same corridor that is used by Caltrain - a corridor which almost hugs the coastline. When everything goes critical from rising water levels, sections of this line will either be submerged or extremely close to being submerged. It was probably a major mistake to build the high speed rail corridor along that route instead of further inland.
My guess is the 10,000 people are in somewhere like India or the Philippines. (More great Silicon Valley goodness.)
It's unrealistic to expect people from many parts of the world to comprehend much less uphold basic freedoms which are implicitly understood and taken for granted in Western European countries.
It's one thing to have them attempt to handle your customer support call, another when they're entrusted with responsibility over something which is lacking in their own culture.
I find it interesting to note that it's the year 2018 and humans are still working on ways to be able to conduct financial transactions without fraud or theft. There must be something that, how something that seems like it would be such a simple thing actually is not...
Wow the whole point of this article is to bag on someone because of who they support politically and some (non-abusive) statements they made?
This type of abuse and hatred is exactly what drives people far from "the left".
"The left" is hatred. Is intolerance. Is abusive.
I would never want to live in a society that was controlled by the left. It would be hell.