No, it's not new. Americans have been acting like this for a long time with all that puritan outrage bullshit despite being the land of commercial sleaze.
There is nothing correct about it. It's puritanism. It's coming from the opposite direction from the people who want fairness, truth and less blackface "humor".
People who care about social issues wouldn't give a shit. It's the right wing puritans from the far side of crazy who want to carefully regulate what is going on in the bedrooms.
Didn't the massive fuss over a bared nipple at the superbowl teach you anything?
It is actually embarassing enough that people that 'think about' / 'write about' or even 'fight for' equality and human rights get defamed as SJWs
It's just a new meaningless insult used because "commie" and n* lover just doesn't have the impact it used to have. Take a look at some of the comments and you'll see that the sort of over the top puritans who would jail a woman for a miscarriage are being called "SJW" despite fighting AGAINST equality and human rights.
It's kind of funny how many posters here are attempting to blame the left for a right wing puritan action.
You've only just noticed and you are doing a Godwin to boot? You didn't even notice when there was the hysteria over a bared nipple at the superbowl? Don't blame the left for this, it's a puritan problem from the far right and has nothing whatsoever to do with anyone who gives a shit about social justice.
I suggest running Knoppix from a CDROM or DVD. Unless you specifically tell it to it's not going to change anything on your hard disk. You are not going to mess anything up by accident. If you want to keep stuff save it to a USB disk, or even run Knoppix from a USB disk. I've seen a lot of people who had never used linux before run knoppix with no trouble.
Where is it written that a government *MUST* tax sales?
Because relying on import duties caused pissed off shipowners to send the Fourth Crusade to hit Constantinople and relying on a single commodity has really fucked over Venezuela. The simple, all eggs in one basket ways have been tried so if a society wants to fund infrastructure their governing body has to grab cash wherever they can find it while pissing off the minority of the people.
This also gets into the "mark of the beast" territory from Christian tradition... religion does play a part in this
Oh fucking hell get a grip - NRA shit has rotted your brain. As for your sig, your popgun is not going to protect you from artillery deployed by the National Guard (you know the guys, the militia the second amendment is actually about and not some rifle club gone feral while run by a traitor (Oliver North)). You are free because a LOT of people around you value freedom and your popgun has nothing to do with it no matter how impressive it looks.
It doesn't even need a disaster. In a few situations it's required no more than someone digging in the wrong place to kill a link between a city and where the funds are being processed. The trend is towards processing in less locations so fragility is increasing. I expect a major storm hitting Manilla would fuck up the payment processing of a large number of US based banks and a few others. Consider the hard drive shortage when Bangkok got flooded only for communication.
For those Americans confused by the above "chop-chop" is tobacco sold outside the mainstream so not subject to very high rates of tax on over the counter tobacco products. While there is likely to be a massive black market it's probably less than the tax even just Apple avoids in Australia.
What this kind of paranoid person doesn't understand is that they can already track you to an incredible degree
In Australia not so much. People disappear all the time just because they don't want to be found. Sometimes (eg. battered wives with a homicidal spouse looking for them for extreme examples (which do happen)) it's not a bad thing. I think you'll find it's not unheard of in the USA either despite efforts to track people getting onto busses etc. There are still a lot of cash in hand jobs so it's possible to get by with no identification in a lot of places apparently.
We should probably be designing things to not fail.
Testing is part of that. About the most obvious example is Edison not designing a perfect lightbulb on day one. Refer to my post above about why aircraft scale models are still used. Simulating how the design works on a computer is still prone to producing results that diverge from reality unless you get a bit of feedback on what sort of modelling applies. Turbulent flow is a pain, laminar flow is not as simple as you would think and once things go supersonic many things that you would think are obvious get turned inside out (eg. subsonic nozzle converges, supersonic diverges such as the nozzles on the Saturn V).
It's because fluid flow is not only computationally difficult but also the rules are all empirical with uncertain boundaries between different domains so sometimes it's not clear what equations to use. That's why there is still wind tunnel testing of scale models. Since the end product is going to be very large (and supersonic wind tunnels are very difficult things to deal with apart from very short test durations) it makes sense for the scale model to be a flyable aircraft that can reach supersonic speeds itself.
When you go to scale up, you're practically building an entirely new vehicle.
Not entirely. The model won't be a precise shrink down of the full design because it's a test of how the air will behave over the full sized design.
Executive jets hold that market today. No checks at either end, just off you go. Even if you are smuggling something as large as a couple of dogs into a rabies-free continent there is nobody to even notice. How do you guys getting groped by the TSA feel about that?
My Linux machine today can't copy to a USB hard drive without making the rest of the system unusable.
That's due to the bridge chips being a bottleneck and it impacts on everything - MS Windows, Solaris etc also act that way on the same hardware. It becomes painfully obvious on things like the Raspberry Pi (where a broadcom chip is the weakest link and used for usb, network, etc) but it applies elsewhere. That old system you describe was dealing with it in the cpu so it's much easier to divide up the load.
At the time of OS/2, it really was the best operating system available for PCs
And then there was the hype that MS Windows 95 would be better - it wasn't. Being a cheapskate that false promise drove me to linux instead of the OS/2 I wanted. I forget the price, but I think it was high enough that IBM priced themselves out of the market and people put up with MS Windows 95.
If you think Vista was bad you're not old enough to remember NT 4.0.
I retired the last NT4 thing in the place a year after Vista came out, and no, Vista was indeed a truly craptacular piece of shit compared with NT4. It got patched a lot so people forget how shitty Vista was when it first came out. You needed to run stuff from the command line just to get it onto an MS Windows network, plus there were many diver issues.
No, OS/2 had all kinds of warts. Strange issues with memory management
Maybe hardware specific? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... On something current (apart from maybe a few ARM chips) memory management is trivial so those memory quirks may go away.
I don't think anyone would run something as sensitive as an ATM on Windows.
Diebold do. Some Windows XP based ones are still in the wild. I'm seen the blue screens. This is from 2014 but you can expect it to still apply in some places: http://www.zdnet.com/article/w...
With respect, it's most definitely a bit of both in a lot of cases. Maybe you've only seen the latter but once things really blow up with suicides or whatever the investigations turn up both (or so I'm told). We are discussing the general case and not whatever specific disfunctional workplace you are complaining about.
Because it always a laugh when I'm blackmailed by a female co-worker threatening false reports
Seriously? Did that really happen and you were so much of a doormat that you did not do the incredibly fucking obvious and pre-emptively tell your management about that threat before any blackmail material came out?
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No, it's not new. Americans have been acting like this for a long time with all that puritan outrage bullshit despite being the land of commercial sleaze.
So right wing puritans are SJW's now? Your strawmen are amazing, they can do absolutely everything that you do not like!
There is nothing correct about it.
It's puritanism.
It's coming from the opposite direction from the people who want fairness, truth and less blackface "humor".
People who care about social issues wouldn't give a shit.
It's the right wing puritans from the far side of crazy who want to carefully regulate what is going on in the bedrooms.
Didn't the massive fuss over a bared nipple at the superbowl teach you anything?
So ... context never matters?
It's just a new meaningless insult used because "commie" and n* lover just doesn't have the impact it used to have.
Take a look at some of the comments and you'll see that the sort of over the top puritans who would jail a woman for a miscarriage are being called "SJW" despite fighting AGAINST equality and human rights.
It's kind of funny how many posters here are attempting to blame the left for a right wing puritan action.
You've only just noticed and you are doing a Godwin to boot? You didn't even notice when there was the hysteria over a bared nipple at the superbowl?
Don't blame the left for this, it's a puritan problem from the far right and has nothing whatsoever to do with anyone who gives a shit about social justice.
FFS loser I read a lot about Bernie and Trump in mid 2015 in fucking Australia. Stratfor picking it up is not difficult.
I suggest running Knoppix from a CDROM or DVD.
Unless you specifically tell it to it's not going to change anything on your hard disk. You are not going to mess anything up by accident.
If you want to keep stuff save it to a USB disk, or even run Knoppix from a USB disk.
I've seen a lot of people who had never used linux before run knoppix with no trouble.
Because relying on import duties caused pissed off shipowners to send the Fourth Crusade to hit Constantinople and relying on a single commodity has really fucked over Venezuela. The simple, all eggs in one basket ways have been tried so if a society wants to fund infrastructure their governing body has to grab cash wherever they can find it while pissing off the minority of the people.
Oh fucking hell get a grip - NRA shit has rotted your brain. As for your sig, your popgun is not going to protect you from artillery deployed by the National Guard (you know the guys, the militia the second amendment is actually about and not some rifle club gone feral while run by a traitor (Oliver North)). You are free because a LOT of people around you value freedom and your popgun has nothing to do with it no matter how impressive it looks.
It doesn't even need a disaster. In a few situations it's required no more than someone digging in the wrong place to kill a link between a city and where the funds are being processed. The trend is towards processing in less locations so fragility is increasing.
I expect a major storm hitting Manilla would fuck up the payment processing of a large number of US based banks and a few others. Consider the hard drive shortage when Bangkok got flooded only for communication.
For those Americans confused by the above "chop-chop" is tobacco sold outside the mainstream so not subject to very high rates of tax on over the counter tobacco products. While there is likely to be a massive black market it's probably less than the tax even just Apple avoids in Australia.
In Australia not so much. People disappear all the time just because they don't want to be found. Sometimes (eg. battered wives with a homicidal spouse looking for them for extreme examples (which do happen)) it's not a bad thing.
I think you'll find it's not unheard of in the USA either despite efforts to track people getting onto busses etc.
There are still a lot of cash in hand jobs so it's possible to get by with no identification in a lot of places apparently.
Testing is part of that. About the most obvious example is Edison not designing a perfect lightbulb on day one.
Refer to my post above about why aircraft scale models are still used. Simulating how the design works on a computer is still prone to producing results that diverge from reality unless you get a bit of feedback on what sort of modelling applies. Turbulent flow is a pain, laminar flow is not as simple as you would think and once things go supersonic many things that you would think are obvious get turned inside out (eg. subsonic nozzle converges, supersonic diverges such as the nozzles on the Saturn V).
It's because fluid flow is not only computationally difficult but also the rules are all empirical with uncertain boundaries between different domains so sometimes it's not clear what equations to use. That's why there is still wind tunnel testing of scale models. Since the end product is going to be very large (and supersonic wind tunnels are very difficult things to deal with apart from very short test durations) it makes sense for the scale model to be a flyable aircraft that can reach supersonic speeds itself.
Not entirely. The model won't be a precise shrink down of the full design because it's a test of how the air will behave over the full sized design.
Executive jets hold that market today. No checks at either end, just off you go. Even if you are smuggling something as large as a couple of dogs into a rabies-free continent there is nobody to even notice.
How do you guys getting groped by the TSA feel about that?
Not much point after 2000 called and we sent a script for the "Lone Gunman" pilot and a full Tom Clancy novel to try to warn them about 9/11.
That's due to the bridge chips being a bottleneck and it impacts on everything - MS Windows, Solaris etc also act that way on the same hardware. It becomes painfully obvious on things like the Raspberry Pi (where a broadcom chip is the weakest link and used for usb, network, etc) but it applies elsewhere. That old system you describe was dealing with it in the cpu so it's much easier to divide up the load.
And then there was the hype that MS Windows 95 would be better - it wasn't. Being a cheapskate that false promise drove me to linux instead of the OS/2 I wanted. I forget the price, but I think it was high enough that IBM priced themselves out of the market and people put up with MS Windows 95.
I retired the last NT4 thing in the place a year after Vista came out, and no, Vista was indeed a truly craptacular piece of shit compared with NT4. It got patched a lot so people forget how shitty Vista was when it first came out. You needed to run stuff from the command line just to get it onto an MS Windows network, plus there were many diver issues.
Maybe hardware specific?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
On something current (apart from maybe a few ARM chips) memory management is trivial so those memory quirks may go away.
and runs on modern windows.
I don't think anyone would run something as sensitive as an ATM on Windows.
Diebold do. Some Windows XP based ones are still in the wild. I'm seen the blue screens.
This is from 2014 but you can expect it to still apply in some places:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/w...
With respect, it's most definitely a bit of both in a lot of cases. Maybe you've only seen the latter but once things really blow up with suicides or whatever the investigations turn up both (or so I'm told). We are discussing the general case and not whatever specific disfunctional workplace you are complaining about.
You are expecting Trump to fix anything?
If you are in that category I pity you, four years of bitter disappointment is coming.
It took three years to get rid of Nixon over Watergate and Trump is less likely to go quietly no matter what, so he's in for the long haul.
Seriously? Did that really happen and you were so much of a doormat that you did not do the incredibly fucking obvious and pre-emptively tell your management about that threat before any blackmail material came out?
Or did you see it on TV?