I am generally annoyed with gratuitous icon changes - but in this case it seems like they (mostly) maintained recognizability, while improving legibility, which should be especially nice for those who choose to use smaller icon sizes. Can't tell you how annoyed I get about projects that go for the monochrome icon b.s. - icons are important functional components that must be easy to recognize, and they remove one of the most dramatic differentiating features for an arguable improvement in aesthetics?
You can say that again. Prime example of the moment being Blender, a massive, popular open source graphics app with hundreds of icons, no less. They are re-designing their icons in black and white designs for their major new version that is expected to make a big splash on this market segment, and it's caused pretty big arguments...
It's even worse than how you described it. They just used their hands and feet, no ropes. 15 seconds from standing on the ground to going over the top. With huge "backpacks" (more like blocks) on their backs. Good grief. 77 billion dollars to slow people down for 15 seconds.
I don't know about Germany, but Norway is not really a capitalist economy with social programs the way you are trying to represent it, at least not in the way that people in the English-speaking world usually understand as "capitalist economy". The Nordic countries in general, for instance, have vast state ownership of the enterprises and almost complete union representation, in stark contrast with the US. Read this article for more information: http://mattbruenig.com/2017/07...
Wait, are you really saying that your school had a two-to-one ratio of students to administrators by the time you left? I would love to see a citation for that. I'm not saying it's not true, but it sounds outrageous. I work at a large state university (which happens to be very affordable), and our ratio last time I looked was closer to 8 to 1 students to admins. If it was really 2 to 1 at your school, that's insane. Were they literally chaperoning every other individual student through their classes?
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the TannhÃuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. "
You appear to be misinformed on this, or your claim was unclear. If you're speaking of manufacturing textile cloth, i'm pretty sure that is extensively automated. But (nearly?) all clothes that we buy today are still sewn by human hands.
No problem, thanks for the additional information anyway. I did some brief digging and found an article that says that AAC was not the only county with an appointed board but it was one of the last ones, implying that this was not uncommon: https://conduitstreet.mdcounti...
Perhaps it is just some kind of historic legacy, rather than anything specific.
Thanks for providing concrete examples, rather than hypotheticals or totally unrelated "what abouts". Your first point about the county split sounds like a case of gerrymandering, which is out of scope of what I was talking about since it's not about individual voter disenfranchisement. I realize that it disenfranchises voters collectively, but it's (unfortunately) an old, bipartisan practice in the US. This is a real "they all do it!" situation.
I was talking about things that either block or discourage individuals from voting, like what is being described in the article at hand. That's the situation that I said some claim "they all do it!" despite most evidence appearing to contradict that.
Regarding the school board situation, I would need to know more before making a judgement. It seems unlikely that they would take away the ability to elect a school board without providing some reason for doing it. Were there misdeeds by the previous schoolboards or in their elections?
In case you haven't been following the news on this, at the same time that some cable networks have been folding in the last couple of years, new over the air broadcast networks and channels have been appearing.
Sure, it varies by local broadcast market, but look for this to accelerate and expand as ATSC 3.0 rolls out. The growth of streaming will also accelerate with the roll out of 5G.
Expect major changes in the TV industry over the next 5 years.
I think democrats often tend to err on the opposite end of republicans, and thereby appearing too spineless to fight (Obama being a classic example). There's a happy medium, where one can stand up and fight hard, but clean.
Personally, requiring ID to vote would be perfectly fine with me if it would be effortless for every citizen to get ID. Essentially, if you could get a valid, accepted ID card at any government office, including post offices, police stations, fire departments, etc. Also, obtaining the documentation required to get such ID card should also be just as effortless.
As long as there are significant barriers to getting IDs for a significant number of citizens, IDs should not be required to vote.
As far as registration, it should happen automatically with pretty much every interaction you have with the government, and perhaps even some private entities: Get a driver's license? Automatically registered (or updated) to vote. Register for college? Automatically registered (or updated) to vote. Get a credit card? Automatically registered (or updated) to vote. Sign up to receive electricity at your new place? Automatically registered (or updated) to vote.
I get what you're claiming and there may be some truth to it (but I don't think much) in some respects, but I don't think it does in this case. If there were frequent cases of democrat governors or secretaries of state disenfranchising or in any other way screwing over voters in conservative areas we would surely hear about it.
For one, that would be relatively big news and any reporters breaking such news would raise their profile. For another, there are conservative media outlets, commentators, column writers, etc. They would surely scream from the tops of the mountains about these cases. Except that you never hear about it. This leads me to conclude that this is a lot more common in republican administrations than in democratic administrations.
Voter disenfranchisement seems to flow in one direction only, as far as I can tell.
I understand that "they all do it!!!1!one!" is a popular sentiment with a lot of people, but why is it that whenever you hear of a politician or public administrator disenfranchising or otherwise outright fucking voters over it's virtually always a republican?
I presume that it's a cultural problem, in that many people with the personality type that favors "conservative values" don't see a problem with fighting dirty. To those people, the ends really justify the means. Besides, voter disenfranchisement usually benefits republicans, so that compounds the problem.
The solar may be helpful in some respects (like providing the power for the life-support systems on the ship), but I'm talking about a return to classic sail cargo ships like used for all shipping before motorized ships became popular.
I did a quick search and was glad to find some articles confirming that many people are indeed thinking about exactly these things:
That would be one way to help partially address some of the sources of climate change, and at the same time address any possible future where fossil fuels aren't as cheap to obtain reliably. That would be more forward-looking. Too bad.
I'm a little behind in reading slashdot, but I'm flabbergasted that this comment was modded up to 5 and has stood that way for this long. One look at this graph should be enough to tell you what's really going on: https://goo.gl/images/X13u8h
If you don't want to click on the link, essentially it shows that from 1979-2007, income for the bottom quintile has increased by 10% over that entire time span, not per year, while income for the top 1% has increased nearly 300% over the same period. In other words, the vast majority of the additional wealth that's been generated in the economy since Reagan started in office has been sucked up by the ultra-wealthy in this country.
By the way, this info comes from the Congressional Budget Office via The Economist magazine, hardly some left-wing crackpot source.
The parent poster appears to favor measures to help them suck the wealth up even more, and faster.
I do something similar, but with my own domain, using the domain name where I'm registering in the part before the @. No need to create a new mailbox or forwarder for each site, as it's a global forwarder. You can be more selective in the forwarding by requiring a specific string as part of the address in order to forward, so you don't get messages sent to random addresses in your domain.
It would end up something like this (obviously much shorter - this is just for explanation): DomainNameWhereI'mRegistering.com.customstring@myowndomain.com
You can do this either if you have domain hosting that also offers email forwarding, or I believe that there are also dedicated email forwarding services dedicated to this kind of use. I've done this for several years (through a website hosting service) and have caught a few major domains that either sold my email address or had their customer data hacked:
dropbox.com adobe.com (known to have customer data exfiltrated) equifax.com (back in 2011, years before their big security meltdown a couple of years ago)
Yes, and here's a previous Slashdot story about the apparent discovery of what made Roman concrete so durable, just a few years ago: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Like an AC mentioned above, over the air TV is the answer to the issue of someone with a bandwidth cap who wants to watch 16 hours of TV a day. In fact OTA should be a major component of most cord cutting solutions, if it's available to you.
Some over the air broadcast TV benefits (some are dependent on your location and/or type/location of antenna):
- Unlimited free programming - All the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CW) usually in HD - Better picture quality than cable or satellite - A lot more channel options than one would expect. I get about 160 - Some programming that you can't find elsewhere (many sub-channels, niche networks, foreign language channels, etc) - More and more channels are being introduced as people cut the cord
Given your expertise, I would love to hear your opinion on this other news story from a few days ago (about the use of graphene for filtering water): https://news.google.com/news/s...
You may want to check your information on the Orlando gay nightclub shooting. I recently learned that there is no(?) evidence that the shooter had anything against gays in particular, or that he picked Pulse nightclub because it had gays in it. For reference, check Glenn Greenwald's recent articles in the Intercept regarding the recent prosecution of his wife. It seems that it was just an untruth that spread like wildfire.
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I am generally annoyed with gratuitous icon changes - but in this case it seems like they (mostly) maintained recognizability, while improving legibility, which should be especially nice for those who choose to use smaller icon sizes. Can't tell you how annoyed I get about projects that go for the monochrome icon b.s. - icons are important functional components that must be easy to recognize, and they remove one of the most dramatic differentiating features for an arguable improvement in aesthetics?
You can say that again. Prime example of the moment being Blender, a massive, popular open source graphics app with hundreds of icons, no less. They are re-designing their icons in black and white designs for their major new version that is expected to make a big splash on this market segment, and it's caused pretty big arguments...
https://blenderartists.org/t/n...
It's even worse than how you described it. They just used their hands and feet, no ropes. 15 seconds from standing on the ground to going over the top. With huge "backpacks" (more like blocks) on their backs. Good grief. 77 billion dollars to slow people down for 15 seconds.
I don't know about Germany, but Norway is not really a capitalist economy with social programs the way you are trying to represent it, at least not in the way that people in the English-speaking world usually understand as "capitalist economy". The Nordic countries in general, for instance, have vast state ownership of the enterprises and almost complete union representation, in stark contrast with the US. Read this article for more information: http://mattbruenig.com/2017/07...
Wait, are you really saying that your school had a two-to-one ratio of students to administrators by the time you left? I would love to see a citation for that. I'm not saying it's not true, but it sounds outrageous. I work at a large state university (which happens to be very affordable), and our ratio last time I looked was closer to 8 to 1 students to admins. If it was really 2 to 1 at your school, that's insane. Were they literally chaperoning every other individual student through their classes?
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the TannhÃuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Clothing is almost entirely made by machines.
You appear to be misinformed on this, or your claim was unclear. If you're speaking of manufacturing textile cloth, i'm pretty sure that is extensively automated. But (nearly?) all clothes that we buy today are still sewn by human hands.
Here are a couple of sources (from last year, couldn't find anything newer on a quick search):
https://www.economist.com/scie...
https://www.fastcompany.com/30...
No problem, thanks for the additional information anyway. I did some brief digging and found an article that says that AAC was not the only county with an appointed board but it was one of the last ones, implying that this was not uncommon: https://conduitstreet.mdcounti...
Perhaps it is just some kind of historic legacy, rather than anything specific.
Thanks for providing concrete examples, rather than hypotheticals or totally unrelated "what abouts". Your first point about the county split sounds like a case of gerrymandering, which is out of scope of what I was talking about since it's not about individual voter disenfranchisement. I realize that it disenfranchises voters collectively, but it's (unfortunately) an old, bipartisan practice in the US. This is a real "they all do it!" situation.
I was talking about things that either block or discourage individuals from voting, like what is being described in the article at hand. That's the situation that I said some claim "they all do it!" despite most evidence appearing to contradict that.
Regarding the school board situation, I would need to know more before making a judgement. It seems unlikely that they would take away the ability to elect a school board without providing some reason for doing it. Were there misdeeds by the previous schoolboards or in their elections?
In case you haven't been following the news on this, at the same time that some cable networks have been folding in the last couple of years, new over the air broadcast networks and channels have been appearing.
Sure, it varies by local broadcast market, but look for this to accelerate and expand as ATSC 3.0 rolls out. The growth of streaming will also accelerate with the roll out of 5G.
Expect major changes in the TV industry over the next 5 years.
I don't usually reply to ACs, but you had a reasoned analysis in your response. Thanks for writing it.
I think democrats often tend to err on the opposite end of republicans, and thereby appearing too spineless to fight (Obama being a classic example). There's a happy medium, where one can stand up and fight hard, but clean.
Personally, requiring ID to vote would be perfectly fine with me if it would be effortless for every citizen to get ID. Essentially, if you could get a valid, accepted ID card at any government office, including post offices, police stations, fire departments, etc. Also, obtaining the documentation required to get such ID card should also be just as effortless.
As long as there are significant barriers to getting IDs for a significant number of citizens, IDs should not be required to vote.
As far as registration, it should happen automatically with pretty much every interaction you have with the government, and perhaps even some private entities:
Get a driver's license? Automatically registered (or updated) to vote.
Register for college? Automatically registered (or updated) to vote.
Get a credit card? Automatically registered (or updated) to vote.
Sign up to receive electricity at your new place? Automatically registered (or updated) to vote.
I get what you're claiming and there may be some truth to it (but I don't think much) in some respects, but I don't think it does in this case. If there were frequent cases of democrat governors or secretaries of state disenfranchising or in any other way screwing over voters in conservative areas we would surely hear about it.
For one, that would be relatively big news and any reporters breaking such news would raise their profile. For another, there are conservative media outlets, commentators, column writers, etc. They would surely scream from the tops of the mountains about these cases. Except that you never hear about it. This leads me to conclude that this is a lot more common in republican administrations than in democratic administrations.
Voter disenfranchisement seems to flow in one direction only, as far as I can tell.
I understand that "they all do it!!!1!one!" is a popular sentiment with a lot of people, but why is it that whenever you hear of a politician or public administrator disenfranchising or otherwise outright fucking voters over it's virtually always a republican?
I presume that it's a cultural problem, in that many people with the personality type that favors "conservative values" don't see a problem with fighting dirty. To those people, the ends really justify the means. Besides, voter disenfranchisement usually benefits republicans, so that compounds the problem.
Thanks. I meant more the part about body language for interviews, but I suppose some of it is interchangeable.
Any particular recommendations for further reading/research?
The solar may be helpful in some respects (like providing the power for the life-support systems on the ship), but I'm talking about a return to classic sail cargo ships like used for all shipping before motorized ships became popular.
I did a quick search and was glad to find some articles confirming that many people are indeed thinking about exactly these things:
https://www.machinedesign.com/...
https://www.popularmechanics.c...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
That would be one way to help partially address some of the sources of climate change, and at the same time address any possible future where fossil fuels aren't as cheap to obtain reliably. That would be more forward-looking. Too bad.
I'm a little behind in reading slashdot, but I'm flabbergasted that this comment was modded up to 5 and has stood that way for this long. One look at this graph should be enough to tell you what's really going on: https://goo.gl/images/X13u8h
If you don't want to click on the link, essentially it shows that from 1979-2007, income for the bottom quintile has increased by 10% over that entire time span, not per year, while income for the top 1% has increased nearly 300% over the same period. In other words, the vast majority of the additional wealth that's been generated in the economy since Reagan started in office has been sucked up by the ultra-wealthy in this country.
By the way, this info comes from the Congressional Budget Office via The Economist magazine, hardly some left-wing crackpot source.
The parent poster appears to favor measures to help them suck the wealth up even more, and faster.
I do something similar, but with my own domain, using the domain name where I'm registering in the part before the @. No need to create a new mailbox or forwarder for each site, as it's a global forwarder. You can be more selective in the forwarding by requiring a specific string as part of the address in order to forward, so you don't get messages sent to random addresses in your domain.
It would end up something like this (obviously much shorter - this is just for explanation): DomainNameWhereI'mRegistering.com.customstring@myowndomain.com
You can do this either if you have domain hosting that also offers email forwarding, or I believe that there are also dedicated email forwarding services dedicated to this kind of use. I've done this for several years (through a website hosting service) and have caught a few major domains that either sold my email address or had their customer data hacked:
dropbox.com
adobe.com (known to have customer data exfiltrated)
equifax.com (back in 2011, years before their big security meltdown a couple of years ago)
Yes, and here's a previous Slashdot story about the apparent discovery of what made Roman concrete so durable, just a few years ago: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Like an AC mentioned above, over the air TV is the answer to the issue of someone with a bandwidth cap who wants to watch 16 hours of TV a day. In fact OTA should be a major component of most cord cutting solutions, if it's available to you.
Some over the air broadcast TV benefits (some are dependent on your location and/or type/location of antenna):
- Unlimited free programming
- All the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CW) usually in HD
- Better picture quality than cable or satellite
- A lot more channel options than one would expect. I get about 160
- Some programming that you can't find elsewhere (many sub-channels, niche networks, foreign language channels, etc)
- More and more channels are being introduced as people cut the cord
Thanks for taking the time to respond. That makes sense and goes along with what you said in your initial post.
Given your expertise, I would love to hear your opinion on this other news story from a few days ago (about the use of graphene for filtering water): https://news.google.com/news/s...
You may want to check your information on the Orlando gay nightclub shooting. I recently learned that there is no(?) evidence that the shooter had anything against gays in particular, or that he picked Pulse nightclub because it had gays in it. For reference, check Glenn Greenwald's recent articles in the Intercept regarding the recent prosecution of his wife. It seems that it was just an untruth that spread like wildfire.