Even suggesting these hypocrisies might exist will get you labeled a 'hater'. Welcome to the newspeak/doublethink world of political correctness. You are, in fact, correct: People who are not on the current in-play protected list (whether it's race, gender or something else), have no rights. They are expected to shut up and pick up the slack when 'equality' becomes inconvenient for those on the list.
Well, like men, women are supposedly adult human beings.. they could just deal. It sure beats having their bags searched like they're prisoner-slaves (oh wait, they're apple employees maybe they're used to it). I only meant that from Apple's perspective, it's legally safer to just ban the bags than it is to search. Even in today's broken PC culture, I highly doubt telling a woman not to bring her bags into the building would result in a winnable case.
Nope, unless you want freedom loving organizations like the islamic controlled 'human rights commission' to have say in running things.. While rampant socialist (and, yes, that includes the corporate sponsored variety) censorship and 'political correctness' are squeezing through the cracks and politician-punched holes in the US constitution, the other major powers represented by the UN are decidedly NOT in favor of things like free speech or calling out the emperor's stupidity for what it is. America is getting pretty bad, I agree, but this problem is way worse elsewhere.
I don't think they should be searching or banning the bags, but it would've been easier from their standpoint to just ban them. Their policy exposes them to unneeded legal risk.
Why don't they just ban the bags from the stores in the first place? A lot easier to enforce, a lot less time consuming, and a lot less legally dubious. I wonder if Apple management just enjoys lawsuits as well as any opportunity to violate the privacy of others.
1. good luck getting laws passed that actually protect citizen rights 2. ditto 3. ditto 4. good luck enforcing this consistently 5. might work.. better off just not carrying a phone, period. 6. that invites its own form of tracking...ala amazon's custom pricing schemes etc. 7. if you're actually successful enough to affect its bottom line, the cops get called and you get labeled a terrorist.
um what? Sure, there are modules (in windows\drivers), most of which are hardware drivers, but the registry is a database, not an api for devices. I suppose the kernel does use it to track device configurations and such, but that's it. Typical applications do not have kernel modules. Many do have services, now, mainly for DRM, which sucks, but services run in userland, not kernel space.
Actually the NT kernel is probably the most well engineered component of modern windows. hell, it is what gave windows things like preemptive multithreading, proper memory protection, and hardware abstraction. The win32 base runtime sits on top of this, and pretty much everything else microsoft has released over the years acted as a wrapper for it. Windows 95 was the attempt to squeeze win32 into 4MB of ram for consumer machines while keeping hardware ports accessible by dos applications. These two goals were fundamentally in conflict with stable and reliable software. The reason we don't have to reboot windows every few hours anymore is due to the windows NT kernel.. As bad as you may think windows to be, it's A LOT better than the days of 3.x/9x.
yes.. soon citizens from all three nations can have the oppressive, paranoid, and freedom leeching state of the soviet union, the thankless slave lifestyle of the average chinese, and the corporate greed of america, I can't wait!
compared with the mangina leadership of most of western europe that led to the rise of the nazis and soviets?.. I'll take american style over that any time..
Chernobyl is a litany of shortcuts, coverups, and bad technology (huge, positive void, graphite moderated cauldrons = blatant stupidity), and it was all publicly funded, from the reactor design work in the 50s, to the construction of the plant in the late 70s/mid 80s. The fact they named it the 'V.I Lenin' NPP is a fitting ironic epitaph because the issue was his politics.. Defending the ideology became more important than the laws of physics. This leads to the same kinds of shortcuts taken for profit motive in a private ownership scenario.
The people who run the reactor should not be financially motivated to cut corners, period, no matter who owns it, be it the public via a corrupt state, or a private profit seeking entity. This is the old, intractable 'who watches the watchers' problem.
That said, we need to do something because nuclear is the only energy dense power source we have that doesn't involve greenhouse gas release. If those hippies want their electric cars, we need nuclear to charge their batteries.
30hz is unusable for almost everything besides watching 4k tv. Plus the 30" panel forces the user to pan his head around. I'd rather have 2560x1600 in a 23" panel at 60hz, than 3840x2160 in a 30" panel at 30hz. Of course, they don't make the former either.
Some people are unbreakable..and that's because they've spent most of their lives in situations like this course, being mistreated and manipulated. There is such a thing as going too far to save a buck as it can cause more damage than it fixes. While some people might benefit from this course, others could be made more resistant to hierarchy.. It's usually the latter who are actually smart enough to not need the training and who are the better employees. This 'course' is a one-size-fits-all attempt at weeding out those who do not fit management's 68-pieces-of-flair, square peg for square hole picture of their 'ideal' employee. This results in companies who have mediocre culture, products, and profit...like ford.
Yeah, there are two issues. I think she is complaining partly due to her politics, evidenced by her google+ and her "scared to talk to a girl kernel developer" comment in the thread. People like this look for opportunities to stir up trouble when they think they have a shot of gaining leverage.
No, you are projecting your own perspective onto 'the rest of the world.' 'the rest of the world' doesn't use linux because windows is good enough for most uses and has established business software. That momentum is hard to beat. This has nothing to do with the behavior of the kernel devs on their own damn mailing list..who 99% of the user base never talk to anyway. This mailing list has been in operation with its own established culture for over 20 years, which proves that it works for them. Then she comes along and starts preaching and whining, and because she's a woman, this ultra PC culture expects them, as men, to get their manginas all hot and bothered over it. Linus said to hell with that and I agree.
Technical correctness > political correctness should rule the day, and I'm glad that's what linus intends. She can fork the kernel and create her own project; make her own 'diversity' distribution that's maintained by vetted politically correct maintainers who bend over backwards to never offend anyone, even if it causes more work for more people, and more trouble for more users, later on.. Then she'll find out for sure whether anyone with any technical knowledge will really want to put up with that long term.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137398683002304&w=2 This guy's example is right on the money. Political correctness and the obsession with everyone's damn feelings routinely gets in the way of productivity, especially when management tries to graft it on to their employees.
You mean like sarah sharp? She's 'trolling' for pity points. It's off topic and not relevant to the linux kernel. She's trying to push her own expectations on others. Playing the victim card IS trolling.
The truly uniquely bright ones usually have limited tolerance for passive aggressive dances by insecure, less capable people, especially when they're on deadline. As someone who is not one of these uber techs, I have found that being blunt and direct back to them usually puts a shocked smile on their faces. They're happy to have found a coworker who is more interested in efficient communication over warm'n'fuzzy oprah tingles.
She's playing a "my feelings are hurt" routine with a possibly implied "you better watch out because I'm a woman". Glancing at her google+, it looks like she is probably a feminist..and that's what these people do: they're always looking to push their politics and pc codes of conduct onto everyone else involved in the things they are. This is usually done by playing the victim role and hoping white knights in the group will save this 'damsel' in 'distress,' by doing her dirty work for her. She says on google+ that she'll "happily stand alone", and then suggests you're welcome to join her. Later in the thread, she says
I've been through verbal abuse before. I won't take that shit from you,or any of the other Linux kernel developers. Tell me, politely, what I have done wrong, and I will fix it. You don't need to SHOUT, call me names, or tell me to SHUT THE FUCK UP! I'm not the only one that won't take verbal abuse. Stop abusing your developers.
Seems like linus is smart enough to see this for what it is. People like this just want attention and notoriety, usually because they have none in the relevant subjects the forum was created for in the first place. Snarky comments like "scared to talk to a girl kernel developer" make this quite clear (read the thread). Apparently, it's ok for her to resort to ad hominem while she complains about Linus' behavior. Typical feminist hamster mentality..
the PC pantywaists haven't gotten to yet? they show up everywhere, now, demanding every interaction revert to a kindergarten level G rating, because, to them, feelings matter more than direct, clear communication.. "OK everyone! time to fill each other's buckets with love!" Often, they show up acting like they're oldschool, expecting everyone to cater to their whims, when they're newbs who haven't done anything. Fuck them. Let linus swear if he wants to, along with the rest of the people who get work done. The only thing that is supposed to matter is technical correctness, not political correctness. If she gets butthurt over that, she doesn't have the stomach for technical work. Why? She's still running to mommy when someone's words upset her. She's an equal, supposedly, so she should've already learned to handle vocabulary that most boys learn by age 13.
Everyone is acting so overconcerned about everyone else's feelings these days that it comes across as fake and smarmy. It's fake because these people don't really care about the reason the gathering exists, they just want a lead in to push their brand of identity politics in order to gain control of the social dynamics. No, doing this does not make her more 'sophisticated', 'caring', or 'professional'. It just makes her sound like a tween princess demanding her entitlement.
No, the pc card is played by people who think it's the responsibility of others to prop up their own, personal code of ethics/behavior, or political tolerance bounding box.
Your agument is a fallacy. Just because there are worse problems elsewhere does not mean that the problems you're currently facing are not worthy of attention and resource. politicians love to use this argument to justify growth in the bureaucracy and higher taxes, but it is bullshit.
Your second argument is unreasonable. The problem is that it takes years to train to be considered (the key word here), a pro by society at a given job, and months for the market to decide your skills and $80000 degree are now worth $5000 a year. There's only so much flexibility one can have when he is expected to pay his bills on time, raise a family, and lead a solid, healthy life. if the 99% are flipping jobs every 18-24 months, the average wage is low, and probably dropping.
Perhaps a partial solution is to force companies to hire americans at livable wages. if those companies want americans to work for pennies a day like the slave wagers in india or china, then those companies cannot sell their goods here. This doesn't fix everything by any means, but it would force those hell pits to raise their standards of living if they want to sell to americans. Right now, their low standard of living is lowering ours, radically. Americans need to stand up for themselves, globally if they don't want to end up like the average chinese citizen 50 years from now.
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Even suggesting these hypocrisies might exist will get you labeled a 'hater'. Welcome to the newspeak/doublethink world of political correctness. You are, in fact, correct: People who are not on the current in-play protected list (whether it's race, gender or something else), have no rights. They are expected to shut up and pick up the slack when 'equality' becomes inconvenient for those on the list.
Well, like men, women are supposedly adult human beings.. they could just deal. It sure beats having their bags searched like they're prisoner-slaves (oh wait, they're apple employees maybe they're used to it). I only meant that from Apple's perspective, it's legally safer to just ban the bags than it is to search. Even in today's broken PC culture, I highly doubt telling a woman not to bring her bags into the building would result in a winnable case.
Nope, unless you want freedom loving organizations like the islamic controlled 'human rights commission' to have say in running things.. While rampant socialist (and, yes, that includes the corporate sponsored variety) censorship and 'political correctness' are squeezing through the cracks and politician-punched holes in the US constitution, the other major powers represented by the UN are decidedly NOT in favor of things like free speech or calling out the emperor's stupidity for what it is. America is getting pretty bad, I agree, but this problem is way worse elsewhere.
I don't think they should be searching or banning the bags, but it would've been easier from their standpoint to just ban them. Their policy exposes them to unneeded legal risk.
Why don't they just ban the bags from the stores in the first place? A lot easier to enforce, a lot less time consuming, and a lot less legally dubious. I wonder if Apple management just enjoys lawsuits as well as any opportunity to violate the privacy of others.
1. good luck getting laws passed that actually protect citizen rights
2. ditto
3. ditto
4. good luck enforcing this consistently
5. might work.. better off just not carrying a phone, period.
6. that invites its own form of tracking...ala amazon's custom pricing schemes etc.
7. if you're actually successful enough to affect its bottom line, the cops get called and you get labeled a terrorist.
That only works as long as there are stores that don't do this.. Inevitably this will become cheap enough that every store will have it. what then?
or leave your phone at home.. it is possible to survive without one for a few hours..
um what? Sure, there are modules (in windows\drivers), most of which are hardware drivers, but the registry is a database, not an api for devices. I suppose the kernel does use it to track device configurations and such, but that's it. Typical applications do not have kernel modules. Many do have services, now, mainly for DRM, which sucks, but services run in userland, not kernel space.
Actually the NT kernel is probably the most well engineered component of modern windows. hell, it is what gave windows things like preemptive multithreading, proper memory protection, and hardware abstraction. The win32 base runtime sits on top of this, and pretty much everything else microsoft has released over the years acted as a wrapper for it. Windows 95 was the attempt to squeeze win32 into 4MB of ram for consumer machines while keeping hardware ports accessible by dos applications. These two goals were fundamentally in conflict with stable and reliable software. The reason we don't have to reboot windows every few hours anymore is due to the windows NT kernel.. As bad as you may think windows to be, it's A LOT better than the days of 3.x/9x.
yes.. soon citizens from all three nations can have the oppressive, paranoid, and freedom leeching state of the soviet union, the thankless slave lifestyle of the average chinese, and the corporate greed of america, I can't wait!
compared with the mangina leadership of most of western europe that led to the rise of the nazis and soviets?.. I'll take american style over that any time..
Chernobyl is a litany of shortcuts, coverups, and bad technology (huge, positive void, graphite moderated cauldrons = blatant stupidity), and it was all publicly funded, from the reactor design work in the 50s, to the construction of the plant in the late 70s/mid 80s. The fact they named it the 'V.I Lenin' NPP is a fitting ironic epitaph because the issue was his politics.. Defending the ideology became more important than the laws of physics. This leads to the same kinds of shortcuts taken for profit motive in a private ownership scenario.
The people who run the reactor should not be financially motivated to cut corners, period, no matter who owns it, be it the public via a corrupt state, or a private profit seeking entity. This is the old, intractable 'who watches the watchers' problem.
That said, we need to do something because nuclear is the only energy dense power source we have that doesn't involve greenhouse gas release. If those hippies want their electric cars, we need nuclear to charge their batteries.
30hz is unusable for almost everything besides watching 4k tv. Plus the 30" panel forces the user to pan his head around. I'd rather have 2560x1600 in a 23" panel at 60hz, than 3840x2160 in a 30" panel at 30hz. Of course, they don't make the former either.
vertical vs horizontal space... Those who do more with their computers than watch broadcast tv prefer it.
Some people are unbreakable..and that's because they've spent most of their lives in situations like this course, being mistreated and manipulated. There is such a thing as going too far to save a buck as it can cause more damage than it fixes. While some people might benefit from this course, others could be made more resistant to hierarchy.. It's usually the latter who are actually smart enough to not need the training and who are the better employees. This 'course' is a one-size-fits-all attempt at weeding out those who do not fit management's 68-pieces-of-flair, square peg for square hole picture of their 'ideal' employee. This results in companies who have mediocre culture, products, and profit...like ford.
Yeah, there are two issues. I think she is complaining partly due to her politics, evidenced by her google+ and her "scared to talk to a girl kernel developer" comment in the thread. People like this look for opportunities to stir up trouble when they think they have a shot of gaining leverage.
No, you are projecting your own perspective onto 'the rest of the world.' 'the rest of the world' doesn't use linux because windows is good enough for most uses and has established business software. That momentum is hard to beat. This has nothing to do with the behavior of the kernel devs on their own damn mailing list..who 99% of the user base never talk to anyway. This mailing list has been in operation with its own established culture for over 20 years, which proves that it works for them. Then she comes along and starts preaching and whining, and because she's a woman, this ultra PC culture expects them, as men, to get their manginas all hot and bothered over it. Linus said to hell with that and I agree.
Technical correctness > political correctness should rule the day, and I'm glad that's what linus intends. She can fork the kernel and create her own project; make her own 'diversity' distribution that's maintained by vetted politically correct maintainers who bend over backwards to never offend anyone, even if it causes more work for more people, and more trouble for more users, later on.. Then she'll find out for sure whether anyone with any technical knowledge will really want to put up with that long term.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137398683002304&w=2
This guy's example is right on the money. Political correctness and the obsession with everyone's damn feelings routinely gets in the way of productivity, especially when management tries to graft it on to their employees.
You mean like sarah sharp? She's 'trolling' for pity points. It's off topic and not relevant to the linux kernel. She's trying to push her own expectations on others. Playing the victim card IS trolling.
The truly uniquely bright ones usually have limited tolerance for passive aggressive dances by insecure, less capable people, especially when they're on deadline. As someone who is not one of these uber techs, I have found that being blunt and direct back to them usually puts a shocked smile on their faces. They're happy to have found a coworker who is more interested in efficient communication over warm'n'fuzzy oprah tingles.
Focus on being technically correct instead of politically correct and you have little to fear.
She's playing a "my feelings are hurt" routine with a possibly implied "you better watch out because I'm a woman". Glancing at her google+, it looks like she is probably a feminist..and that's what these people do: they're always looking to push their politics and pc codes of conduct onto everyone else involved in the things they are. This is usually done by playing the victim role and hoping white knights in the group will save this 'damsel' in 'distress,' by doing her dirty work for her. She says on google+ that she'll "happily stand alone", and then suggests you're welcome to join her. Later in the thread, she says
I've been through verbal abuse before. I won't take that shit from you,or any of the other Linux kernel developers. Tell me, politely, what I have done wrong, and I will fix it. You don't need to SHOUT, call me names, or tell me to SHUT THE FUCK UP! I'm not the only one that won't take verbal abuse. Stop abusing your developers.
Seems like linus is smart enough to see this for what it is. People like this just want attention and notoriety, usually because they have none in the relevant subjects the forum was created for in the first place. Snarky comments like "scared to talk to a girl kernel
developer" make this quite clear (read the thread). Apparently, it's ok for her to resort to ad hominem while she complains about Linus' behavior. Typical feminist hamster mentality..
the PC pantywaists haven't gotten to yet? they show up everywhere, now, demanding every interaction revert to a kindergarten level G rating, because, to them, feelings matter more than direct, clear communication.. "OK everyone! time to fill each other's buckets with love!" Often, they show up acting like they're oldschool, expecting everyone to cater to their whims, when they're newbs who haven't done anything. Fuck them. Let linus swear if he wants to, along with the rest of the people who get work done. The only thing that is supposed to matter is technical correctness, not political correctness. If she gets butthurt over that, she doesn't have the stomach for technical work. Why? She's still running to mommy when someone's words upset her. She's an equal, supposedly, so she should've already learned to handle vocabulary that most boys learn by age 13.
Everyone is acting so overconcerned about everyone else's feelings these days that it comes across as fake and smarmy. It's fake because these people don't really care about the reason the gathering exists, they just want a lead in to push their brand of identity politics in order to gain control of the social dynamics. No, doing this does not make her more 'sophisticated', 'caring', or 'professional'. It just makes her sound like a tween princess demanding her entitlement.
No, the pc card is played by people who think it's the responsibility of others to prop up their own, personal code of ethics/behavior, or political tolerance bounding box.
Your agument is a fallacy. Just because there are worse problems elsewhere does not mean that the problems you're currently facing are not worthy of attention and resource. politicians love to use this argument to justify growth in the bureaucracy and higher taxes, but it is bullshit.
Your second argument is unreasonable. The problem is that it takes years to train to be considered (the key word here), a pro by society at a given job, and months for the market to decide your skills and $80000 degree are now worth $5000 a year. There's only so much flexibility one can have when he is expected to pay his bills on time, raise a family, and lead a solid, healthy life. if the 99% are flipping jobs every 18-24 months, the average wage is low, and probably dropping.
Perhaps a partial solution is to force companies to hire americans at livable wages. if those companies want americans to work for pennies a day like the slave wagers in india or china, then those companies cannot sell their goods here. This doesn't fix everything by any means, but it would force those hell pits to raise their standards of living if they want to sell to americans. Right now, their low standard of living is lowering ours, radically. Americans need to stand up for themselves, globally if they don't want to end up like the average chinese citizen 50 years from now.