So why don't they do it? I'm not against nukes. I think they're mandatory if we want that all electric transport of the future. I just said that the economics have to work.
Not envy. There's nothing wrong with being rich. It's laughable when rich progressives, who claim to care about the little guy, claim what's good for him is ever increasing taxation and needlessly more expensive necessities.
The post I responded to made a generalization that 'most' people are willing to pay more. I disagree. Some few may. Most would not because they can't afford it.
You mean the rich progressive hypocrites who pretend to care about the little guy? I'm all for weaning off fossil fuels but the economics have to work too.
As long as it's not muslim of course. That would be 'racist' and 'islamophobic.'
I also wonder if it allows 'extremist' content in the same vein as Galileo's observations about the solar system. Somehow I think this will end up as a simple anti popularity filter.
Nope. Anonymity allows expression of unpopular positions/facts. If you want rigorous discussion then anonymity is necessary. This is funny considering you posted as anonymous.
All in all, Slashdot is still worthwhile for a quick read and an occasional post here and there, but for high quality discussion / dedicating much time posting, there are far better venues.
All that creates is a target rich zone. Why do you think asymmetric warfare (ie terrorism) works well in so called 'progressive' countries? Their citizens are unarmed, unaware, and unconcerned.
..or just pick an OS that best services the applications you want/need and live with its shortcomings. No os is perfect, but they're all better than trying to build workflows in a browser.
Thanks to those modern cost saving measures, most now know to try solving the problem themselves first, with web searches and trial by error. As a result, by the time they call, they are desperate and no automated chatbot or menu will help them. In fact they increase frustration because the goal at that point is to talk to a more knowledgeable human.
Fuck web apps as 'first class' citizens. If you want that level of control over the user's machine, then the user should have that level of control over access and use of the software. The last thing I'd want is a 'web app' having control of my system's layout/rendering layer.
Currently, users understand web sites as ephemeral, as any services they provide can disappear at any time, and like users, developers see them as something they can change at any time. This is very different from conventional standalone programs, where users see them as something they have control over (and can thus trust more), and developers see them as for-pay version upgrades. Blurring this line is consumer hostile.
I feel like this covers this: "left wing economic policy"
and social policy too. For example, they've approached the bedroom micromanagement of the religious right a few decades ago (eg feminist anti-male propaganda, 'nomeansno', 'yesallwomen', 'manspreading' laws etc). The 'everything is a social construct' position regarding sex is also quite harmful as well.
Oh, an ideological extreme. How insightful of you. Maybe consider the Western social democracies the entire West enjoys.
You mean the ones that ignore problems caused by their supposedly more moderate ideological stances (eg Malmo Sweden, Germany etc)? How about the ones that end up levying almost 70% tax in places (income+VAT)? Perhaps it's the places who put people in jail for speaking words? The difference between them and the Soviets is largely a matter of degree, not of kind, esp in EU land.
You don't see racist banners flying high and proud at left wing rallies in this country and if you did they would be asked to leave the private event. Now I'm not saying the right is uniformly racist in this country by a long shot but xenophobia is certainly a Right wing thing with their problems with Muslims, gays, and the like.
So blacklivesmatter, antifa, and BAMN aren't racist? In more moderate circles, affirmative action policy forces institutions to discriminate (for and against) based on race and sex. This is based on the false assumption that equal opportunity can be measured and applied with equal outcome. In addiction left wing cultural bastions like college campuses routinely advocate for 'minority' safe spaces and encourage anti white/straight/male bigotry. Perhaps at one time you were right, but they've come full circle. They're also a lot more politically potent than the far right/nationalist/neo-nazi groups.
Um, okay.
Equality before the law is something the left has problems with. They prefer a caste system that judges individual circumstance by group metrics (ie race and sex) rather than the behavior of the individuals involved.
That would put programming out of the reach of just about everyone but the largest institutions. I'm not sure such power held by so few is good for a free society.
1. Big government is a left wing position. 2. The communist bloc was well known for its huge rallies and personality cults. The remnant countries from that era still are. 3. It's not that they're not big on minorities. They're just not big on unchecked immigration. 4. Rule of law is a good thing. It prevents preferential treatment (you know like via all your favorite -isms?). The real problem is bad law.
You're also forgetting post ww2. You'd be living in a soviet nightmare if the US wasn't backing the idea of Europe as independent nations. A cold war sucks. A hot war followed by tyranny sucks worse.
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So why don't they do it? I'm not against nukes. I think they're mandatory if we want that all electric transport of the future. I just said that the economics have to work.
Not envy. There's nothing wrong with being rich. It's laughable when rich progressives, who claim to care about the little guy, claim what's good for him is ever increasing taxation and needlessly more expensive necessities.
The post I responded to made a generalization that 'most' people are willing to pay more. I disagree. Some few may. Most would not because they can't afford it.
RBMK != current reactor technology
Just because building nukes on a faultline is a bad idea doesn't mean nukes are a bad idea.
You mean the rich progressive hypocrites who pretend to care about the little guy? I'm all for weaning off fossil fuels but the economics have to work too.
As long as it's not muslim of course. That would be 'racist' and 'islamophobic.'
I also wonder if it allows 'extremist' content in the same vein as Galileo's observations about the solar system. Somehow I think this will end up as a simple anti popularity filter.
Dumping Anonymous Coward may be a good start.
Nope. Anonymity allows expression of unpopular positions/facts. If you want rigorous discussion then anonymity is necessary. This is funny considering you posted as anonymous.
All in all, Slashdot is still worthwhile for a quick read and an occasional post here and there, but for high quality discussion / dedicating much time posting, there are far better venues.
Such as?
slack, gentoo, devuan are options..
All that creates is a target rich zone. Why do you think asymmetric warfare (ie terrorism) works well in so called 'progressive' countries? Their citizens are unarmed, unaware, and unconcerned.
because they know eventually such features would be mandated..as you damned well know.
I am not a gun nut either.
..or just pick an OS that best services the applications you want/need and live with its shortcomings. No os is perfect, but they're all better than trying to build workflows in a browser.
Whatever you say, great grandpa.
Thanks to those modern cost saving measures, most now know to try solving the problem themselves first, with web searches and trial by error. As a result, by the time they call, they are desperate and no automated chatbot or menu will help them. In fact they increase frustration because the goal at that point is to talk to a more knowledgeable human.
Fuck web apps as 'first class' citizens. If you want that level of control over the user's machine, then the user should have that level of control over access and use of the software. The last thing I'd want is a 'web app' having control of my system's layout/rendering layer.
Currently, users understand web sites as ephemeral, as any services they provide can disappear at any time, and like users, developers see them as something they can change at any time. This is very different from conventional standalone programs, where users see them as something they have control over (and can thus trust more), and developers see them as for-pay version upgrades. Blurring this line is consumer hostile.
No. In other words, the policies in place to handle this sort of thing usually disqualify the affected from serving.
sjws don't like void pointers.
It's still a bad default assumption.
There's still plenty of room for improvement in the software, both OS and applications.
Are you really that naive?
Someone's jealous.
I feel like this covers this: "left wing economic policy"
and social policy too. For example, they've approached the bedroom micromanagement of the religious right a few decades ago (eg feminist anti-male propaganda, 'nomeansno', 'yesallwomen', 'manspreading' laws etc). The 'everything is a social construct' position regarding sex is also quite harmful as well.
Oh, an ideological extreme. How insightful of you. Maybe consider the Western social democracies the entire West enjoys.
You mean the ones that ignore problems caused by their supposedly more moderate ideological stances (eg Malmo Sweden, Germany etc)? How about the ones that end up levying almost 70% tax in places (income+VAT)? Perhaps it's the places who put people in jail for speaking words? The difference between them and the Soviets is largely a matter of degree, not of kind, esp in EU land.
You don't see racist banners flying high and proud at left wing rallies in this country and if you did they would be asked to leave the private event. Now I'm not saying the right is uniformly racist in this country by a long shot but xenophobia is certainly a Right wing thing with their problems with Muslims, gays, and the like.
So blacklivesmatter, antifa, and BAMN aren't racist? In more moderate circles, affirmative action policy forces institutions to discriminate (for and against) based on race and sex. This is based on the false assumption that equal opportunity can be measured and applied with equal outcome. In addiction left wing cultural bastions like college campuses routinely advocate for 'minority' safe spaces and encourage anti white/straight/male bigotry. Perhaps at one time you were right, but they've come full circle. They're also a lot more politically potent than the far right/nationalist/neo-nazi groups.
Um, okay.
Equality before the law is something the left has problems with. They prefer a caste system that judges individual circumstance by group metrics (ie race and sex) rather than the behavior of the individuals involved.
That would put programming out of the reach of just about everyone but the largest institutions. I'm not sure such power held by so few is good for a free society.
1. Big government is a left wing position.
2. The communist bloc was well known for its huge rallies and personality cults. The remnant countries from that era still are.
3. It's not that they're not big on minorities. They're just not big on unchecked immigration.
4. Rule of law is a good thing. It prevents preferential treatment (you know like via all your favorite -isms?). The real problem is bad law.
You're also forgetting post ww2. You'd be living in a soviet nightmare if the US wasn't backing the idea of Europe as independent nations. A cold war sucks. A hot war followed by tyranny sucks worse.
That depends what is meant by change.
I browse at -1.