The reason for it is there are no jobs there and people have learned how to game the system.
It's so fucking difficult to get on disability even with an obviously valid reason that reports such as this make me suspect bullshit neocon propaganda...
You can't be serious? I injured my back at 19. I was declared legally 51% disabled. I didn't want to be. I could walk, run, even lift things. I just suffered from the occasional re-injury. I've worked ever since. I could have gone on disability and stayed there for quite some time.
Are you older? Oh just go to a friendly doc and tell them you have a mood disorder, which makes up 15 or so percent of all disability claims. Getting on disability is simple.
My parents live in a small town in Oregon. The last I heared roughly 60% of the population there were on "disability" of one kind or another. I'm certain some of them need it, but the majority do not. The reason for it is there are no jobs there and people have learned how to game the system.
This is systematic through out certain parts of the USA. I've heard of parents who taut their kids to play "crazy" so they can get put on social security at a very young age and therefor, never have to work in their life. I've seen first hand areas of New Orleans where there are 3rd and 4th generations of welfare recipients.
When the Gov starts handing out money, there are large swaths of the population who will look to abuse it as much as possible. These days it seems these people are the majority of the recipients and not the minority. Granted thats my own personal observation and nothing I can back up with data, but I've been around the country more than a few times and I've seen a lot. I believe I can make a pretty educated guess.
You aren't being cynical. This is dead on. I work as a threat intelligence analyst and engineer for a fortune 500 IT department. We have a revolving door of products sold to us in just this way that our exec team falls for. The cyber security biz is rife with snake oil salesmen selling the latest and greatest. I showed my CSO just how bad it was by bringing him into 5 different vendor meetings where we were sold the same exact buzz word salad "They're already in you're network! The average detection takes 18 months!" etc etc.
Most of it is bullshit. Luckily I have a new CTO that gets it. Now maybe we can spend less money on vendors and contractors and more our existing personel.
Generally speaking, people only post about Ubuntu because they hate it. The people happy with it really have nothing to say in these threads. Complainers always have the loudest voices. It's best to just ignore them.
As to your point. I'm not a huge Ubuntu fan but when it comes to distros I'm not "religious." I'm presently using Arch and Windows and could really care less about the distro and OS wars in general. They are just tools. I use what works.
As he said, it is definitely now possible. I have been using a Linux desktop at work for about 2 years now. It's integrated with our corporate Active Directory, Exchange, windows file shares, etc. The printers work, all my peripherals work, everything I need works. That being said, the process isn't for the faint of heart and is nowhere near stable enough that I'd deploy it to my users. So the next steps are clear: more automation, ease of configuration, and stability. Basically quality control and interface design work, which is not something the Linux community traditionally excels at. I am optimistic though.
This is dead on. I can't emphasize the stability part enough though. Even Debian which is "stable" has major software issues for the simplest of things. I spent the last two days trying to get bluetooth headphones to work on Ubuntu 15.10, Fedora 23, Korora 23 and Arch Linux. None of them could handle it without the bluetooth daemon cry and running off to shit itself in the corner.
Debian wouldn't even boot on my system. Fedora shat all over my monitor when I tried to install nvidia drivers. Ubuntu did ok for a while until I tried to actually use it, in which case I had to install a different PPA for each fucking application I wanted to install.
Arch gets closest apart from the easy to install bit. Once I get Arch up and running it's usually the best, in no small part due to having the best documentation. The problem is that no one bothers with Arch because frankly, we have better shit to do than spend 3 hours installing a system using a guide on a website and another week trying to get things setup the way we want.
Linux is a fucking disaster on the desktop. This wont be changing any time soon and that saddens me as I've been using it for over 20 years.
>> hacking groups working at the behest of China's government
But...it's for the communist Chinese government (the evil "ChiComs!!!"), because they what? Hate businesses? Need money? Isn't it more likely that ransom software that delivers money to specific criminals is being used by...mere criminals?
They do it for a number of reasons. Grooming youngsters on the methods, later to be forced into working for the gov on more important things. They can do it simply to then print in the gov run news papers how weak the US is.
Basically anything that makes the US bad is good for the ChiComs (as you put it). They have a vested interest in making us look stupid.
I don't believe they can be civilly debated at all. Modern day feminists are not rational. My feminist professors in school very clearly, openly and without fear, gave extreme preference to the women in class. It was out in the open for all to see, but because almost every professor was a women, every administrator etc on up the chain, they could operate with impunity.
Yeah, hi that's called "Existing every damn day as a woman" everywhere outside of feminist classes in college. The sad thing is you notice it sucks, but you don't connect that it sucks when guys do it to women. Not that all men walk around planning how to keep the ladies down, it's more insidious than that because the majority of the time we just don't think about it at all. That's how games get released with no female character options, or female NPC's with redonkulous boobs, because the guys making the game just never put in a second to think "how will women, who are a huge factor in life, think about this".
I don't wish harm on this woman, but I honestly don't give a rats ass that she is being threatened. She and her kind do more harm to men in this country than anyone else and subsequently more harm to women with their chicken little calls of intolerance and mysogyny. I no longer listen to women that complain about it precisely because of this woman and her ilk. It's all just noise now like calls of racism from Al Sharpton.
Okay, right there you've just justified every bad feminist example that you whine about. You are the problem.
Your victim mentality is astounding. Your "every damn day" BS is interesting though. Shows how pathetic and thin skinned you are if you think women are the only ones that actually have to deal with "life"
You blame everything on men. Blame racism, sexism etc etc etc. You have a fucking "ism" for everything and never actually learn to cope with people and their BS. You would rather point fingers and tell everyone else how society has wronged you and tell everyone else to change for your benefit because you simply can't cope with how hard living actually is.
I've had verbal abuse from bosses. I've had bosses call me at 3am to tell me how crap I am, only to ask favors the very next day. I've had women bosses (the majority of my bosses are women now because my company actively hires them precisely because they are women) come on to me and tell me "you aren't really faithful to your wife are you?". I didn't run off and blame society.
Your problem is you simply aren't able to deal with real people with real issues. You can't roll with the punches so you throw your own, then cry when you get knocked down/out. I actually feel kind of bad for your type because you've never actually grown up. You still kick and scream and stomp your feet like a child that didn't get his/her own way. It's pathetic.
But, they still contain very valid points and can be civilly debated.
I don't believe they can be civilly debated at all. Modern day feminists are not rational. My feminist professors in school very clearly, openly and without fear, gave extreme preference to the women in class. It was out in the open for all to see, but because almost every professor was a women, every administrator etc on up the chain, they could operate with impunity.
Feminists in the 50's-60's even 70's were about equality, something that has long been achieved. Today's feminist is about superiority and the subjugation of men. They are completely different animal. It's like comparing Dr. Martin Luther King to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. These people are extremists that are heavily dependant, financially and in their careers, on their extremism.
I don't wish harm on this woman, but I honestly don't give a rats ass that she is being threatened. She and her kind do more harm to men in this country than anyone else and subsequently more harm to women with their chicken little calls of intolerance and mysogyny. I no longer listen to women that complain about it precisely because of this woman and her ilk. It's all just noise now like calls of racism from Al Sharpton.
Things like this is why I despise all the quacks that vilify the medical profession.
Homeopathy does not cure people, doctors do.
Careful throwing around that word "cure" because doctors actually "cure" very little. They "treat" a great deal however.
Anti-Vaxers don't end Autism, doctors will.
How can you be sure of this? They dont even know for sure what causes it.
And some day soon, we will be able to grow replacement Thalmuses, hopefully with kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs soon to follow.
You jump to this conclusion from one article related to a mouse? You're far to willing to buy into this. When/if it gets to human trials then you can start making these types of claims.
God bless real doctors, for they deliver miracles onto us.
No they deliver science and medicine. Look up the word miracle. You're using it wrong.
Scientific/CentOS/Fedora/Fuduntu/OpenSUSE just to name a few. I could also list off all the spins like Korora etc. Yes it is a monoculture where the only people using DEB's are the hobbyists. Ubuntu was the one shining hope for something other than RPM but they crapped all over that.
If you want a job doing any type of linux work, you better know RPM. Period.
My question then is why are we seeing a near universal switch?
Because Lennart works for Red Hat which is pretty much the only profitable Linux distro out there and has a massive amount of control in the Linux arena. If the change happens in Red Hat there is a 90% chance it'll happen everywhere else, which is basically what we're seeing with only a few holdouts on systemd like Gentoo.
I know that someone was beheaded. It is clear that this is an horrible and cruel act, that nobody and nobody's family should experience. What information does it add to watch the video? You can convey the relevant information in text.
No, you can't. The fact you think so is the entire problem. You're just talking out of your ass.
But I can tell from your attitude, you'll be outraged the moment trolls start posting the video with humorous audio editing.
I don't actually give two fucks what someone edits. As long as the original is out there. So fuck you for trying to stereotype me. You can go fuck yourself now.
As far as I am concerned, no one should comment on it unless they've seen it. The arm chair quarterbacks who are removed from the issue and not exposed to it should shut the hell up.
The video is horrifying and Youtube and other services removing it is an injustice to humanity. People should see this and remember it. Just as people should see the horrors of the holocaust and remember. All removing the content does is ensure people are ignorant to the truth. Look how well banning Nazi memorabilia has worked out in France where they now have a HUGE uptick in the amount of anti-semitism.
Hiding the unpleasantness in life does not make it go away.
Would be a shame to see it get destroyed through aggressive anti-competitive practices.
Fuck off. Everything you posted IS COMPETITION. Dropbox refuses to compete. They offer 2 tiers and ridiculous prices. If they had offered me a 30GB plan I would have jumped at it but my money is no good to them. Instead I would have to beg for "extra" space and game the system. So FUCK dropbox. They wont offer what I want so I've gone elsewhere. Thats called competition.
I find a study like this to be highly suspect. It's a 28 page story, hardly anything special. Have them read an actual novel instead. In 28 pages the "plot" is going to either be very convoluted or extremely thin. I find it just as likely that the 28 page story bored the kindle folks half to death and they didn't bother trying to recall it.
You're going to have to do better than 28 pages. That's barely a chapter in the books I read.
Windows 8 basically handed Linux an opportunity on a silver platter. Now they just need to make the desktop significantly better than what Microsoft is currently offering.
And to take advantage of the Windows 8 fiasco Linux created it's own with Gnome 3, Unity and KDE 4. Honestly, Linux had the Windows 8 problem before Microsoft did. The state of UI's on Linux is a travesty.
Microsoft probably has somewhere between 6 and 20 thousand engineers working on device drivers for various windows versions out there making about 80k a pop. Sorry but Linux simply does not have these kinds of resources. It would be nice but I don't see it happening.
Try 500-600. Most of those are "project managers" too who farm the work out to Indian contractors. Microsoft doesn't have the development force you think they do.
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The reason for it is there are no jobs there and people have learned how to game the system.
It's so fucking difficult to get on disability even with an obviously valid reason that reports such as this make me suspect bullshit neocon propaganda...
You can't be serious? I injured my back at 19. I was declared legally 51% disabled. I didn't want to be. I could walk, run, even lift things. I just suffered from the occasional re-injury. I've worked ever since. I could have gone on disability and stayed there for quite some time.
Are you older? Oh just go to a friendly doc and tell them you have a mood disorder, which makes up 15 or so percent of all disability claims. Getting on disability is simple.
My parents live in a small town in Oregon. The last I heared roughly 60% of the population there were on "disability" of one kind or another. I'm certain some of them need it, but the majority do not. The reason for it is there are no jobs there and people have learned how to game the system.
This is systematic through out certain parts of the USA. I've heard of parents who taut their kids to play "crazy" so they can get put on social security at a very young age and therefor, never have to work in their life. I've seen first hand areas of New Orleans where there are 3rd and 4th generations of welfare recipients.
When the Gov starts handing out money, there are large swaths of the population who will look to abuse it as much as possible. These days it seems these people are the majority of the recipients and not the minority. Granted thats my own personal observation and nothing I can back up with data, but I've been around the country more than a few times and I've seen a lot. I believe I can make a pretty educated guess.
You aren't being cynical. This is dead on. I work as a threat intelligence analyst and engineer for a fortune 500 IT department. We have a revolving door of products sold to us in just this way that our exec team falls for. The cyber security biz is rife with snake oil salesmen selling the latest and greatest. I showed my CSO just how bad it was by bringing him into 5 different vendor meetings where we were sold the same exact buzz word salad "They're already in you're network! The average detection takes 18 months!" etc etc.
Most of it is bullshit. Luckily I have a new CTO that gets it. Now maybe we can spend less money on vendors and contractors and more our existing personel.
Generally speaking, people only post about Ubuntu because they hate it. The people happy with it really have nothing to say in these threads. Complainers always have the loudest voices. It's best to just ignore them.
As to your point. I'm not a huge Ubuntu fan but when it comes to distros I'm not "religious." I'm presently using Arch and Windows and could really care less about the distro and OS wars in general. They are just tools. I use what works.
As he said, it is definitely now possible. I have been using a Linux desktop at work for about 2 years now. It's integrated with our corporate Active Directory, Exchange, windows file shares, etc. The printers work, all my peripherals work, everything I need works. That being said, the process isn't for the faint of heart and is nowhere near stable enough that I'd deploy it to my users. So the next steps are clear: more automation, ease of configuration, and stability. Basically quality control and interface design work, which is not something the Linux community traditionally excels at. I am optimistic though.
This is dead on. I can't emphasize the stability part enough though. Even Debian which is "stable" has major software issues for the simplest of things. I spent the last two days trying to get bluetooth headphones to work on Ubuntu 15.10, Fedora 23, Korora 23 and Arch Linux. None of them could handle it without the bluetooth daemon cry and running off to shit itself in the corner.
Debian wouldn't even boot on my system. Fedora shat all over my monitor when I tried to install nvidia drivers. Ubuntu did ok for a while until I tried to actually use it, in which case I had to install a different PPA for each fucking application I wanted to install.
Arch gets closest apart from the easy to install bit. Once I get Arch up and running it's usually the best, in no small part due to having the best documentation. The problem is that no one bothers with Arch because frankly, we have better shit to do than spend 3 hours installing a system using a guide on a website and another week trying to get things setup the way we want.
Linux is a fucking disaster on the desktop. This wont be changing any time soon and that saddens me as I've been using it for over 20 years.
>> ransomware attacks against U.S. companies
OK...so they get cash money for being a nuisance.
>> hacking groups working at the behest of China's government
But...it's for the communist Chinese government (the evil "ChiComs!!!"), because they what? Hate businesses? Need money? Isn't it more likely that ransom software that delivers money to specific criminals is being used by...mere criminals?
They do it for a number of reasons. Grooming youngsters on the methods, later to be forced into working for the gov on more important things. They can do it simply to then print in the gov run news papers how weak the US is.
Basically anything that makes the US bad is good for the ChiComs (as you put it). They have a vested interest in making us look stupid.
http://letsencrypt.org/
I don't believe they can be civilly debated at all. Modern day feminists are not rational. My feminist professors in school very clearly, openly and without fear, gave extreme preference to the women in class. It was out in the open for all to see, but because almost every professor was a women, every administrator etc on up the chain, they could operate with impunity.
Yeah, hi that's called "Existing every damn day as a woman" everywhere outside of feminist classes in college. The sad thing is you notice it sucks, but you don't connect that it sucks when guys do it to women. Not that all men walk around planning how to keep the ladies down, it's more insidious than that because the majority of the time we just don't think about it at all. That's how games get released with no female character options, or female NPC's with redonkulous boobs, because the guys making the game just never put in a second to think "how will women, who are a huge factor in life, think about this".
I don't wish harm on this woman, but I honestly don't give a rats ass that she is being threatened. She and her kind do more harm to men in this country than anyone else and subsequently more harm to women with their chicken little calls of intolerance and mysogyny. I no longer listen to women that complain about it precisely because of this woman and her ilk. It's all just noise now like calls of racism from Al Sharpton.
Okay, right there you've just justified every bad feminist example that you whine about. You are the problem.
Your victim mentality is astounding. Your "every damn day" BS is interesting though. Shows how pathetic and thin skinned you are if you think women are the only ones that actually have to deal with "life"
You blame everything on men. Blame racism, sexism etc etc etc. You have a fucking "ism" for everything and never actually learn to cope with people and their BS. You would rather point fingers and tell everyone else how society has wronged you and tell everyone else to change for your benefit because you simply can't cope with how hard living actually is.
I've had verbal abuse from bosses. I've had bosses call me at 3am to tell me how crap I am, only to ask favors the very next day. I've had women bosses (the majority of my bosses are women now because my company actively hires them precisely because they are women) come on to me and tell me "you aren't really faithful to your wife are you?". I didn't run off and blame society.
Your problem is you simply aren't able to deal with real people with real issues. You can't roll with the punches so you throw your own, then cry when you get knocked down/out. I actually feel kind of bad for your type because you've never actually grown up. You still kick and scream and stomp your feet like a child that didn't get his/her own way. It's pathetic.
Well, no. Not with you and the reason is you are clearly very very bigoted:
Thanks for proving my point. You can go hang out with Al Sharpton now.
But, they still contain very valid points and can be civilly debated.
I don't believe they can be civilly debated at all. Modern day feminists are not rational. My feminist professors in school very clearly, openly and without fear, gave extreme preference to the women in class. It was out in the open for all to see, but because almost every professor was a women, every administrator etc on up the chain, they could operate with impunity.
Feminists in the 50's-60's even 70's were about equality, something that has long been achieved. Today's feminist is about superiority and the subjugation of men. They are completely different animal. It's like comparing Dr. Martin Luther King to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. These people are extremists that are heavily dependant, financially and in their careers, on their extremism.
I don't wish harm on this woman, but I honestly don't give a rats ass that she is being threatened. She and her kind do more harm to men in this country than anyone else and subsequently more harm to women with their chicken little calls of intolerance and mysogyny. I no longer listen to women that complain about it precisely because of this woman and her ilk. It's all just noise now like calls of racism from Al Sharpton.
Most people I know that used Ubuntu.... Have moved on to Mint.
This isn't about desktops.
Things like this is why I despise all the quacks that vilify the medical profession.
Homeopathy does not cure people, doctors do.
Careful throwing around that word "cure" because doctors actually "cure" very little. They "treat" a great deal however.
Anti-Vaxers don't end Autism, doctors will.
How can you be sure of this? They dont even know for sure what causes it.
And some day soon, we will be able to grow replacement Thalmuses, hopefully with kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs soon to follow.
You jump to this conclusion from one article related to a mouse? You're far to willing to buy into this. When/if it gets to human trials then you can start making these types of claims.
God bless real doctors, for they deliver miracles onto us.
No they deliver science and medicine. Look up the word miracle. You're using it wrong.
Scientific/CentOS/Fedora/Fuduntu/OpenSUSE just to name a few. I could also list off all the spins like Korora etc. Yes it is a monoculture where the only people using DEB's are the hobbyists. Ubuntu was the one shining hope for something other than RPM but they crapped all over that.
If you want a job doing any type of linux work, you better know RPM. Period.
My question then is why are we seeing a near universal switch?
Because Lennart works for Red Hat which is pretty much the only profitable Linux distro out there and has a massive amount of control in the Linux arena. If the change happens in Red Hat there is a 90% chance it'll happen everywhere else, which is basically what we're seeing with only a few holdouts on systemd like Gentoo.
I know that someone was beheaded. It is clear that this is an horrible and cruel act, that nobody and nobody's family should experience. What information does it add to watch the video? You can convey the relevant information in text.
No, you can't. The fact you think so is the entire problem. You're just talking out of your ass.
But I can tell from your attitude, you'll be outraged the moment trolls start posting the video with humorous audio editing.
I don't actually give two fucks what someone edits. As long as the original is out there. So fuck you for trying to stereotype me. You can go fuck yourself now.
As far as I am concerned, no one should comment on it unless they've seen it. The arm chair quarterbacks who are removed from the issue and not exposed to it should shut the hell up.
The video is horrifying and Youtube and other services removing it is an injustice to humanity. People should see this and remember it. Just as people should see the horrors of the holocaust and remember. All removing the content does is ensure people are ignorant to the truth. Look how well banning Nazi memorabilia has worked out in France where they now have a HUGE uptick in the amount of anti-semitism.
Hiding the unpleasantness in life does not make it go away.
Would be a shame to see it get destroyed through aggressive anti-competitive practices.
Fuck off. Everything you posted IS COMPETITION. Dropbox refuses to compete. They offer 2 tiers and ridiculous prices. If they had offered me a 30GB plan I would have jumped at it but my money is no good to them. Instead I would have to beg for "extra" space and game the system. So FUCK dropbox. They wont offer what I want so I've gone elsewhere. Thats called competition.
I find a study like this to be highly suspect. It's a 28 page story, hardly anything special. Have them read an actual novel instead. In 28 pages the "plot" is going to either be very convoluted or extremely thin. I find it just as likely that the 28 page story bored the kindle folks half to death and they didn't bother trying to recall it.
You're going to have to do better than 28 pages. That's barely a chapter in the books I read.
Windows 8 basically handed Linux an opportunity on a silver platter. Now they just need to make the desktop significantly better than what Microsoft is currently offering.
And to take advantage of the Windows 8 fiasco Linux created it's own with Gnome 3, Unity and KDE 4. Honestly, Linux had the Windows 8 problem before Microsoft did. The state of UI's on Linux is a travesty.
Microsoft probably has somewhere between 6 and 20 thousand engineers working on device drivers for various windows versions out there making about 80k a pop. Sorry but Linux simply does not have these kinds of resources. It would be nice but I don't see it happening.
Try 500-600. Most of those are "project managers" too who farm the work out to Indian contractors. Microsoft doesn't have the development force you think they do.
They want their user interface back.
Climate change is expected to soon kill off 1/8th of all bird species.
Yeah, sure. Because all the other "global warming" prediction have been so fucking accurate. You morons are batting 0.0000
God you're an idiot Timothy. I've watched your fucking drivel for years and you're by far the worst "editor" Slashdot has ever had.
Never worked as an academic physicist, never even completed a degree apparently.
Never worked in the power industry.
Never manufactured EE Equipment.
Nevertheless knows how to power the world?
This is pretty much every liberal.......... ever.