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  1. Re:What target platform? on OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going · · Score: 1

    I'm just wondering - what's the point?

    1/ To use software that only runs on Solaris.
    2/ Zones and all the other features.

    That said, I do not run it myself because the stuff I need to run that only runs on Solaris also only runs on SPARC.

  2. Re:Airstrikes on population centers on US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital · · Score: 1

    We've never learned from even as far back as Yalta. The warnings from the Brits that "Uncle Joe" Stalin was a monster not to be trusted were laughed off by the US delegation. They even laughed at his jokes about mass murder that made Churchill squirm.

  3. Re:Wait a day or two before passing judgment on US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital · · Score: 1

    Now you've hit and run with the analogy! The bit implying we should give people a free pass due to incompetence is very weird and very much showing contempt for our forces. The difference between professional military and the stupid "warriors" shit Rumsfeld kept going on about is rules of engagement, staying on mission, and having enough adult supervision to prevent fuckups by individuals taking things off mission.

  4. Re:Wait a day or two before passing judgment on US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital · · Score: 1

    Hit and run driving is a far better analogy since this was not an accident.

  5. Re:Airstrikes on population centers on US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital · · Score: 1

    but AFAIK he didn't burn people alive in cages

    He goes in for industrial style death instead of events like that. Please look up the huge death toll before making such distasteful and stupid mistakes.

  6. Re:Airstrikes on population centers on US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital · · Score: 1

    A problem is some of what we see as the rational groups in Syria we see as the irrational ones in Iraq, while all of those groups ignore the border. The exception is the Kurds but the Turkish and the Russians see them as "irrational groups" and something more worthy of attack than Daash/ISIS.

  7. Re:This was not a screw-up on US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital · · Score: 2

    Do we even know at this point that it was approved?

    Because several planes flew expensive missions and dropped expensive bombs on it at intervals - PFC Pyle can't sign off on something like that.

  8. Re:This was not a screw-up on US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital · · Score: 1

    as do the groups operating in the Israeli occupied territories

    That's the excuse, but it gets a bit old the tenth time they've killed a bunch of UN peacekeepers instead.

  9. Re: Liberals on US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital · · Score: 1

    I think not, or perhaps US allies indirectly help them.

    It's direct - a lot of money from the Saudis and a lot of help from Turkey.

  10. Re:What he should have done ... on DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords · · Score: 1

    When you've got plenty of time to waste and are happy to be in the company of self-important bullies for many hours whether you get a result or not your suggestion makes sense. In others giving way and complaining afterwards is far less painful and is less dependant on the people exceeding their authority being honest.

    Threatening the job security of someone who is already operating outside of the rules who has you in their power and can get you charged on their word alone, or can physically harm you with little or no consequences is unwise.

  11. Re:Within 100 miles of a border... on DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords · · Score: 1

    The same ones that let the NSA do so as well - they can get away with it without pressure from above holding them to the law.

  12. Re: Socalim is organized psychopathy on DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords · · Score: 1
    Now that's way over the top bullshit and you know it - you really only get 120 hours of sleep a month and work 120 hours every week? A late night here and there is working hard but such over the top lies to boast about how your time is far too important to ever take time to take a shit is the sort of misinformation we should not be feeding the kiddies no matter how self important it makes you feel.
    Sure, I know doctors who've done those hours for a couple of months running, actually "causing 10x more to happen per given hour" than you or I have even done, but they can't live like that in the long term and I'll bet you are not either.

    Outside of leviathan-esque companies this is mostly true

    Now that is where your misinformation is getting truly disgusting and where it can actually fool some of the kiddies with little life experience. You should be ashamed of yourself, but you are probably really some nineteen year old political intern doing "social media work" instead of being a CIO and feel no shame.

  13. Re: America on DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords · · Score: 1

    It was all useless bullshit because the USSR was run by aged leaders who operated on the idea that they could keep going after serious damage just like they did in WWII. They may have been totally wrong, but either way they just ignored the Star Wars idea and just kept cranking out the same warheads and the same missiles at a fraction of the cost of Star Wars (even with the vast number produced by the end) with the idea that something would get through and a damaged USSR could handle whatever it was hit with. If the USSR's economy had not already been an utter basket case before Reagan even started his term the consequences of Reagan's moves to escalate the cold war could have been dire.

  14. Re: America on DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords · · Score: 1

    Having Bush on vacation for two terms while the previous moves designed to protect the economy were stripped away seemed to have a lot more of a poor influence on the economy than if there was a sitting President who was paying attention.

  15. Re: Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    The thing with a rigged economy is that the stock market doesn't mean crap since so little of the economy has anything at all to do with it. There are plenty of other more reliable signs of a slowdown at the moment (decreased coal imported etc) and we'll know about it in plenty of other ways when a recession hits.

  16. From wikipedia on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Taiwan (Listeni/tawn/; Chinese: or ; pinyin: Táiwn; see below), officially the Republic of China

  17. Re:Natural effects of a maturing field? on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Mind you, the minute you do have a professional association, that does mean certifications, which means that a lot of self-taught workers (like myself) could be screwed pretty badly unless some sort of a grandfathering mechanism is put in place.

    That's why it should really be a union but just call it a "professional association", which is exactly the same thing 99% of the time but doesn't fall prey to all the propaganda about unions being all about satanic baby eating communists.

  18. Re:Ethics on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, under good growth projections (which don't look to hold for the coming 12-18 months) it will be 2045 before china approaches wage parity and 2065 before india approaches wage parity.

    Since the US banks haven't learned from 2008 it may happen a lot sooner than that but not in a way we will like.

  19. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    If the deals are impossible to fund why did the city agree to the deal? Was the city being dishonest in agreeing to a term that they had no intention to abide by?

  20. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Whether or not that is possible to create such a union is left as an exercise to psychology majors.

    Or someone willing to look at existing examples instead of political propaganda - bonus points for looking at unions overseas where there has been a less "us and them" view of unions.

  21. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Did you really just blame the generational fuckups of the car industry on unions instead of not seeing the Japanese coming despite years of warnings? Funny thing is GM, Ford and the bits they own are doing pretty well in overseas branches where the unions have far more say than in the US which shows you couldn't be any more wrong.

  22. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 2

    Saying you can't get together on an issue because that would be like the Teamsters is like saying you can't have a commercial company because of Enron.
    You are being screwed over due to years of propaganda that equated unions with commies, baby eaters or whatever.

  23. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 2

    I have said it over and over again. Why don't we outsource all these CEO jobs to Indians and Filipinos.

    That is steadily happening and has already happened on a large scale where outsourcing to China resulted in Chinese companies being able to outcompete US ones. Dell versus ASUS is a good example, as is Lenovo - their CEOs are eating the lunch that the Dell CEO thought he had to himself.

  24. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    I see the propaganda has worked citizen. Papers please?
    I'm not in a union but I'm really astonished by the number of Americans that think they are some sort of baby eating evil arm of communism instead of a group of employees getting together to protect their jobs. As for the screwdriver bit - even medical doctors have unions in some places even if they call them "associations" or similar.

  25. Re:This author clearly is a Google marketroid on $50 Fire Tablet With High-capacity SDXC Slot Doesn't See E-books On the SD Card · · Score: 1

    Calibre application for android:
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