You tell me. According to you they clearly want it but haven't done it. So whatever is already stopping them seems to be working.
Alright, let me spell it out for mr. Simpleton then. It's because we still have the option of taking our cash out completely. In a cashless society that's no longer an option, so the bank can apply an interest rate of -10% if it wants to.
My bank currently gives me a whopping 0.03% (not 3%, not 0.3%, but 0.03%) interest on my savings account. I could move to a different bank, of course... Oh wait, the maximum I can get in this country is 0.05%. That will net me a few euros each year, hardly worth switching bank over.
Now tell me this: what is stopping them from just applying the negative interest rate they so clearly want?
It may have promised to cut down on car ownership, but that's simply because of a more efficient allocation of cars to rides. The number of rides, on the other hand, was never promised to go down, and in fact easy availability has only made it go up. I'm not quite sure why nobody was expecting that, it seems a basic economic principle...
It's still an utter mystery to me why this is even possible, given the draconian nature of copyright laws in the US. The webpage is copyrighted; the webpage with ads is therefore a modification of somebody else's copyrighted work.
Go ahead, try that with a work by (say) Disney, see how far you'll get. So why do ISPs regularly get away with it?
- Unlimited immigration. - Letting crime run rampant without any attempt at enforcement or punishment. - Running grand social experiments on the population. - Raising tensions with Russia. - General war-mongering. - Elites fighting among each other with no regard for actually taking care of the country.
Encryption actually ranks pretty low on the list of things that keep people unsafe.
They are deported from some countries very aggressively. I remember reading stories about plain clothed immigration officials hijacking people from the streets, or chemical sedation used to get the deported into planes.
Bullshit. You're just making up scare stories. The authorities in Europe are too afraid to even stop asylum seekers from breaking the law. Deportation doesn't come into it.
" Admittedly, some refugees do lie on their asylum applications."
Who writes this stuff? There is a difference between an asylum seeker and an immigrant and a migrant and an illegal immigrant. To conflate it all is disingenuous.
It's our politicians and media that lie continuously by calling everything that shows up at the border a 'refugee'. Many refugees claim to come from countries that are perfectly safe (like Morocco).
On TV they tell us that we cannot close the borders, "because then all trade will also stop". Talk about conflation... Who is talking about stopping trade? What we, the people, want is to stop the import of poor Africans who will never contribute anything to the economy and only raise the crime rate, but somehow we must believe that a government that has rules for the tiniest minutiae is unable to distinguish between cargo and asylum seekers...
I have no Earthly idea why Merkel and the rest of the EU is so hell-bent on getting more refugees.
It's all part of the Kalergi plan. Look it up: the man was a european diplomat who dreamed about a unified europe, with its white, culturally strong population replaced by a race of coffee-colored mongrels (his word) who lacked a cultural history and would be easy to manipulate. In other words, it is all about power.
And really, why wouldn't you destroy _everything_ in your quest for power?:-(
Well, when I'm dealing with code that is infested with bugs all day . . . I sometimes dream about them at night. So I guess that means I'm infested with bugs in my sleep.
Quite bizarrely, I sometime figure out the problems while I'm dreaming.
But I also have nightmares, where I am furiously debugging problems in code that doesn't exist . . . a waste of prime dreaming time.
You seriously need some hobbies that don't involve computers.
I just learned gnome has its own fucking virtual filesystem for things like removable drives. That is something the OS should be handling not your goddamn window manager.
Are you still loving your monolithic kernel? A microkernel would allow you to split responsibilities correctly, with the window manager managing windows, the desktop application running the desktop, and file systems as separate tasks directly under the kernel.
What I really want in a browser is this: I want the window to be split horizontally into two panes. The left-hand pane contains a site, such as the Slashdot frontpage. Clicking on a link opens whatever you click on in the right-hand pane, replacing what was already there. It would let you skim articles quickly without opening an ungodly number of tabs.
I suppose I would also be ok with decreasing memory usage per tab, but I guess that ship sailed long ago...
I have been proposing this for a while, and I'm glad to see others pick up on it. My proposal had one additional component: the fee would be progressive over the years, ultimately forcing _any_ work into public domain.
As I see it:
- Copyright protection costs money. This money should be paid by those who benefit, i.e. the copyright holder. - The first ten years of protection are free. - Afterwards, a work may have its copyright extended for ten years for a fee. This fee increases for each extension. - There is no possibility to retroactively copyright a work. Once in public domain, is forever in public domain.
The public wins, because the public domain is significantly increased. The government wins, because extra revenue. The copyright holder wins, because extra copyright length.
Or... they're money-grabbing monopolistic bastards who have found yet another legal trick to wipe out the competition. Of course that doesn't make for nearly as good a press release...
It needs ridicule because _every_ profession on this planet comes with its own unique, impenetrable terminology, yet somehow computer professionals are the only group always being called out on it. Has there ever been an article about someone being amazed at the number of different tools a carpenter uses? If not, why is an article expressing amazement about the number of programming languages ok? And don't even get me started on legal, financial, or medical professions, where you need a professional just to interpret what the other professionals are saying...
So yes, it's perfectly fine to ridicule someone who barges in and acts like he is visiting the bloody Morlocks, like we are some sub-human tribe that cannot possibly be expected to hold a normal human conversation. It's idiotic and demeaning.
I came here to ridicule the article, but you have already done all I could have hoped for and more. Thank you.
For anyone who thinks it is only computer nerds that speak an 'alien' language full of 'weird terminology', try talking to a builder, a plumber, a farmer, a teacher, or really anyone of any other profession about his work. You'll soon discover that their professions are also full of weird and alien terminology, rituals, and habits that make absolutely no sense to an outsider. The fact that we need words to describe things in our little corner of the world is not strange, it's what every profession does. The difference with us is that everyone uses computers, so everyone gets exposed to our terminology.
And of course we are also in a unique position of our tools appearing to be magic. I very much doubt any blacksmith ever received a bug report like "I bought an axe for cutting down trees from you. I then tried to cut down a skyscraper, but the axe failed completely at this task. There is a bug in my axe. It should cut down anything I want to cut down." or "I prefer holding the axe by the metal part, since the metal feels smooth and cool. However, the wooden part is terrible at cutting things down. It doesn't even cut grass in this configuration! I think my axe is broken. It should cut properly in every orientation, not just when you are holding the wood part. Some people prefer to hold the metal part, they should be accomodated as well."
That last one is just about literally a bug report that I received last week. Of course I'm a programmer, not a blacksmith, so nobody bats an eye at it...
Slashdot Mirror
You tell me. According to you they clearly want it but haven't done it. So whatever is already stopping them seems to be working.
Alright, let me spell it out for mr. Simpleton then. It's because we still have the option of taking our cash out completely. In a cashless society that's no longer an option, so the bank can apply an interest rate of -10% if it wants to.
My bank currently gives me a whopping 0.03% (not 3%, not 0.3%, but 0.03%) interest on my savings account. I could move to a different bank, of course... Oh wait, the maximum I can get in this country is 0.05%. That will net me a few euros each year, hardly worth switching bank over.
Now tell me this: what is stopping them from just applying the negative interest rate they so clearly want?
It may have promised to cut down on car ownership, but that's simply because of a more efficient allocation of cars to rides. The number of rides, on the other hand, was never promised to go down, and in fact easy availability has only made it go up. I'm not quite sure why nobody was expecting that, it seems a basic economic principle...
That's clearly personal use, while the other one is a for-profit activity on a commercial scale.
It's still an utter mystery to me why this is even possible, given the draconian nature of copyright laws in the US. The webpage is copyrighted; the webpage with ads is therefore a modification of somebody else's copyrighted work.
Go ahead, try that with a work by (say) Disney, see how far you'll get. So why do ISPs regularly get away with it?
- Unlimited immigration.
- Letting crime run rampant without any attempt at enforcement or punishment.
- Running grand social experiments on the population.
- Raising tensions with Russia.
- General war-mongering.
- Elites fighting among each other with no regard for actually taking care of the country.
Encryption actually ranks pretty low on the list of things that keep people unsafe.
You're full of it. C++11 was a fantastic upgrade, it really improved the language.
...the second half of the message is about mass pardons, in case that wasn't clear. Somehow the quote-block disappeared :-(
They are deported from some countries very aggressively. I remember reading stories about plain clothed immigration officials hijacking people from the streets, or chemical sedation used to get the deported into planes.
Bullshit. You're just making up scare stories. The authorities in Europe are too afraid to even stop asylum seekers from breaking the law. Deportation doesn't come into it.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Netherlands has done it numerous times, the last time in 2007.
Spain has had no less than 7 mass pardons in 15 years.
Germany had one in 2007.
" Admittedly, some refugees do lie on their asylum applications."
Who writes this stuff? There is a difference between an asylum seeker and an immigrant and a migrant and an illegal immigrant. To conflate it all is disingenuous.
It's our politicians and media that lie continuously by calling everything that shows up at the border a 'refugee'. Many refugees claim to come from countries that are perfectly safe (like Morocco).
On TV they tell us that we cannot close the borders, "because then all trade will also stop". Talk about conflation... Who is talking about stopping trade? What we, the people, want is to stop the import of poor Africans who will never contribute anything to the economy and only raise the crime rate, but somehow we must believe that a government that has rules for the tiniest minutiae is unable to distinguish between cargo and asylum seekers...
I have no Earthly idea why Merkel and the rest of the EU is so hell-bent on getting more refugees.
It's all part of the Kalergi plan. Look it up: the man was a european diplomat who dreamed about a unified europe, with its white, culturally strong population replaced by a race of coffee-colored mongrels (his word) who lacked a cultural history and would be easy to manipulate. In other words, it is all about power.
And really, why wouldn't you destroy _everything_ in your quest for power? :-(
No they didn't. They used short-term storage pools for long-time storage.
Google, just buy Valve Corp. for Steam and call it a day. That would be a lot easier than starting from scratch.
Please don't. Google has a history of suddenly closing services they buy and leaving their users in the dust.
I hate their guts for closing Panoramio and Picasa.
How do you want to power an airplane with nukes? Safely?
The nukes are on the ground, and used to produce fuel. See the reaction by jnaujok, up above.
Click the little ruler in the top bar. I can't remember that ever not being there and know for a fact it's been there for bare-minimum 5 years.
But now it's on mobile!
Well, when I'm dealing with code that is infested with bugs all day . . . I sometimes dream about them at night. So I guess that means I'm infested with bugs in my sleep.
Quite bizarrely, I sometime figure out the problems while I'm dreaming.
But I also have nightmares, where I am furiously debugging problems in code that doesn't exist . . . a waste of prime dreaming time.
You seriously need some hobbies that don't involve computers.
Except my company has a corporate policy against using open source software. So that's not an alternative to not paying Oracle.
So uhh, what business are you in? I'm, uhh, asking for a friend...
Thanks, that's really useful! I don't really like the fact that it opens two windows, but otherwise this is exactly what I meant.
What other options are there? I'd like to see if there are any that feel better...
I just learned gnome has its own fucking virtual filesystem for things like removable drives. That is something the OS should be handling not your goddamn window manager.
Are you still loving your monolithic kernel? A microkernel would allow you to split responsibilities correctly, with the window manager managing windows, the desktop application running the desktop, and file systems as separate tasks directly under the kernel.
What I really want in a browser is this: I want the window to be split horizontally into two panes. The left-hand pane contains a site, such as the Slashdot frontpage. Clicking on a link opens whatever you click on in the right-hand pane, replacing what was already there. It would let you skim articles quickly without opening an ungodly number of tabs.
I suppose I would also be ok with decreasing memory usage per tab, but I guess that ship sailed long ago...
I have been proposing this for a while, and I'm glad to see others pick up on it. My proposal had one additional component: the fee would be progressive over the years, ultimately forcing _any_ work into public domain.
As I see it:
- Copyright protection costs money. This money should be paid by those who benefit, i.e. the copyright holder.
- The first ten years of protection are free.
- Afterwards, a work may have its copyright extended for ten years for a fee. This fee increases for each extension.
- There is no possibility to retroactively copyright a work. Once in public domain, is forever in public domain.
The public wins, because the public domain is significantly increased.
The government wins, because extra revenue.
The copyright holder wins, because extra copyright length.
Everybody wins.
Or... they're money-grabbing monopolistic bastards who have found yet another legal trick to wipe out the competition. Of course that doesn't make for nearly as good a press release...
I feel your pain, man.
It needs ridicule because _every_ profession on this planet comes with its own unique, impenetrable terminology, yet somehow computer professionals are the only group always being called out on it. Has there ever been an article about someone being amazed at the number of different tools a carpenter uses? If not, why is an article expressing amazement about the number of programming languages ok? And don't even get me started on legal, financial, or medical professions, where you need a professional just to interpret what the other professionals are saying...
So yes, it's perfectly fine to ridicule someone who barges in and acts like he is visiting the bloody Morlocks, like we are some sub-human tribe that cannot possibly be expected to hold a normal human conversation. It's idiotic and demeaning.
I came here to ridicule the article, but you have already done all I could have hoped for and more. Thank you.
For anyone who thinks it is only computer nerds that speak an 'alien' language full of 'weird terminology', try talking to a builder, a plumber, a farmer, a teacher, or really anyone of any other profession about his work. You'll soon discover that their professions are also full of weird and alien terminology, rituals, and habits that make absolutely no sense to an outsider. The fact that we need words to describe things in our little corner of the world is not strange, it's what every profession does. The difference with us is that everyone uses computers, so everyone gets exposed to our terminology.
And of course we are also in a unique position of our tools appearing to be magic. I very much doubt any blacksmith ever received a bug report like "I bought an axe for cutting down trees from you. I then tried to cut down a skyscraper, but the axe failed completely at this task. There is a bug in my axe. It should cut down anything I want to cut down." or "I prefer holding the axe by the metal part, since the metal feels smooth and cool. However, the wooden part is terrible at cutting things down. It doesn't even cut grass in this configuration! I think my axe is broken. It should cut properly in every orientation, not just when you are holding the wood part. Some people prefer to hold the metal part, they should be accomodated as well."
That last one is just about literally a bug report that I received last week. Of course I'm a programmer, not a blacksmith, so nobody bats an eye at it...