There's one of those playing out in the courts in Australia at the moment between the head of a broadcasting company and his former lover - be honest this time, who do you REALLY think lost their job. Like just about all of these cases in reality the person who started with the most power is the one who get to keep their job while the woman is painted as a whore. Sucks, and is that really what you'd want your daughter to go through? It's not about feminism in any way it's about people being treated unfairly.
Fair enough, but I very strongly disagree with the market saturation excuse. It's been bullshit since before the United States were founded and a large chunk of the economy of the colonies was based on exports.
It doesn't matter what it is related to what matters is that it has been a major language spoken in Spain since before the country of that name existed.
So can you cite the Spanish law
Another goalpost shift to avoid admitting deliberate deception.
You must have utter contempt for the people reading this site when you play such petty little deceptive games that rely on ignorance of the reader.
There's praising a great leader, which is fine, but then there is being misleading about on of their mistakes - not cool.
John F. Kennedy very much kept his cool during the Cuban missile crisis, and possibly prevented World War 3 by being cool, calm, and collected - though not at all wimpy.
WTF? It was a mad scramble to accept the second deal in case a third was worse. It was a long list of fuckups that among other things resulted in the death of a U2 pilot who was only there to add to some sabre rattling. Kennedy did a lot of good things but the Cuban missile crisis was a result of very stupid brinkmanship. It was so stupid that the fiction of a conspiracy in an X-Men movie seems more credible than the posturing that actually happened.
Betting that Russian leaders who had lived through WW2 would not be prepared to throw away millions of lives in another conflict was beyond stupid. The Russians knew that Kennedy would fold right from the start because he was not prepared to sacrifice millions of Americans while the Russians had already been through that and were prepared to go through it over again.
As another example, there are a lot of good things to say about Churchill but nobody praises him for his Gallipolli plan. The Cuban missile crisis was not Kennedy's best work.
Here's my comment when people do this shit. "Women shouldn't wear headscarves? Are you going to tell the Queen that are you?" In other places: "What do you have against Nuns?"
the politicians did nothing while Uber broke numerous laws
Not quite correct. The politicians have not been doing nothing, they have been drinking and dining on Uber's dime while being "lobbied". The first thing Uber do when they come into a place is to make friends with the powerful. It's a bit insulting that they are treating the west as if it's all a 1970s African dicatatorship, but it seems to be working in terms of slowing down legal processes if nothing else in most places.
No it's more a libertarian thing I'd say, where the large number of poor in an ideal libertarian society means that their below minimum wage chauffeur can be chosen for their language skills. Taxis? Ubers? They are for nobodies. Drive on Pedro
I doubt unions have enough money at the end of the year to give meaningful donations to a party.
Unions are different in different countries. In the UK and some Commonwealth countries unions do give meaningful donations to a party. In the USA (where unions are very different again and almost powerless) of days long past the unions were involved in the political process.
It's a belittling insult dripping with contempt that most likely comes from the top instead of junior PR. Yes it is poor English but that's part of the tactic - look at Rumsfeld for thousands of examples.
The libertarians will be fine in the type of nation they crave. The libertarians can just hire a food taster at less than minimum wage. It's the rest of us that don't want a society where the rich can do anything they want that will suffer.
Great story, but with this bit you've been sold something not so great.
Now can you imagine what would have happened if the company was selling this stuff in stores in 1945 ? They'd be out of business ages ago since their business sales could never exceed population growth
You forgot about export markets. Manufacturers who get large enough to last do not. Some slick salesguy probably sold you that snake oil like about how it's necessary to make crap that doesn't last but it is bullshit. Quality stuff finds a large enough market. Marketing shit has really fucked a lot of us up to believe all kinds of manipulative bullshit so it's best to try to dig your way out of it instead of spreading lame excuses for poor quality. The "throwaway consumer culture" that has been pervasive since the 1970s needs no excuses. It's not about sustaining a business, it's about gouging by charging close to the price of a quality product while selling utter crap. There's plenty of stuff made now that is made to last despite the vast amount of crap that does not. It's hard to find due to misinformation from salesfolk hyping crap and crap marked up to the same price as quality products.
The first rule of criminal law if that you never, ever talk to police without your lawyer present. Never. No matter how innocent or how innocuous the situation is
That works in a perfect world where the police respect you. A lot of people on this site are not in that perfect world and have a choice of talking very politely to police or suffering consequences, sometimes physical ones, if they are silent.
People with nothing to hide, such as a 70 year old children's book author this week (on her 116th trip to the USA), are getting detained by the TSA and treated badly.
Displayport is another hassle especially when you want 4k and audio in Linux which I think is still very broken in Xorg
Why do you think that? A lot of people seem to be using it without any problems. Have you actually heard of someone with a current problem or are you just dredging up stuff from back when the hardware was under development?
Are they saying UAC is broken and applications are trivially executing privilege escalation attacks?
Not so much "broken" as in it was never enough to do what you suggest since it was about limiting SOME admin level activities for users with full admin rights. Sudo is completely and utterly different because the *nix user model is very different to the MS one and much simpler. There is not really much point in comparing the *nix user model and the MS one. MS is about "flexibility" to put things politely, which is why there are so many things that do not behave in an obvious way if you are looking at it as if it was like the *nix model.
The internet, as designed, will treat this like damage to be routed around
Australia is an island continent with a very small number of cables transferring data to Asia, across the Pacific and one across the Indian Ocean. Given that, go talk to a network engineer and ask them how trivial it would be to block things going via half a dozen gateways owned by something like three companies, two of which have substantial ownership by governments. The people on satellite links will be exceptions but there are not a lot of those. Even state to state links go through tight bottlenecks.
The only reason things are not blocked properly is because nobody has put in enough effort (eg. pirate bay is blocked but some proxies are not), mainly because the people that know how to do it (apart from the DSD who want to block all encrypted traffic) do not want to block everything properly (and in the process piss off everyone using a VPN etc). It would be many times easier to implement than "the great firewall of China".
A similar situation will apply to a rural area near you where everyone is at the mercy of the policies of whoever owns the single way in or out.
Is there perhaps a larger moral to be learned from this? Is there something about farm equipment -- or FARMERS -- that's different?
Not really IMHO. They are at the same level as people who buy industrial plant and expect it to last for decades as well. They are buying commercial grade equipment and expect commercial grade parts availability instead of the cheap short lifetime stuff the retail consumer is expected to put up with. I once visited a foundry for an agricultural pump manufacturer. They had the patterns for up to 70 year old equipment and cast those parts every now and again to maintain their policy of "lifetime" support. While that's an extreme example that is what is sometimes expected of equipment that is used in production instead of the throwaway consumer items we are expected to put up with.
Another relative ended up with it but it was not rare by all accounts so is probably scanned and online already. I actually got to apply some stuff about the epicyclic gears and brake bands at University where the mechanical engineering department had a gearbox from a model-t to use in second year practical classes.
I think the book was this one (published 1920, going now for ten Bristish pounds): https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=7791062620&searchurl=tn%3Dthe%2Bbook%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bford%26sortby%3D17%26an%3Dr%2Bt%2Bnicholson
Yes I know - "it was only one goat" - being an utter amoral prick once just because you want to should be forgiven right? While a joke about beer with careful disclaimer at the bottom so as not to offend the incredibly thin skinned - burn him! WTF is wrong with you?
That they would be terrified of right to repair is a no-brainer
Indeed. Isn't it funny when companies like Sony scream "let the market decide" and then put barriers in the way of capitalism when that market decides that repairing broken Sony stuff is worthwhile?
What's happened for a very long time is third party manuals. My Grandmother's copy of "Book of The Ford" was a guide to repairing the Model T and was not written by the Ford Motor Company. That was in the early 1920s and was nowhere near the first edition. Ford had their own manuals but they were not that only ones, and apart from the DCMA there has been little to stop third party manuals since. So IMHO there's nothing wrong with them saying "purchase and install Comprehensive Assembly #012934" so long as third parties are allowed to publish alternative manuals and supply alternative parts.
Your fake outrage about me telling you to "take art classes"
So when you make a personal attack the people you attempt to bully are supposed to remain silent? Also it was so incredibly fucking ridiculous - take art classes to learn about the world or something? Of course you are going to get ridiculed by that Mr Kiddies version ten page Moby Dick. Unfortunately it is very easy to know far too much about you and far too much about "what makes you tick" from what you have written. You are a naive blank slate that the NRA and other manipulative pricks have written whatever they wanted on.
Finally, fuck off and die
So you've given up on the smug vegan thing of telling me I should never have killed things? Are all the losers that have been conned by Oliver North's NRA as utterly pathetic and thin skinned as you are?
A gun is a tool for killing. It is not a flag. It is not a penis substitute. Why the fuck do you losers treat it as if it is both?
Yes and I was born yesterday. WTF is wrong with you? I know there are some shameless liars in this place but I never expected one had been hanging around for so long.
Lowering yourself that far to defend against a joke? What a piece of work you are.
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There's one of those playing out in the courts in Australia at the moment between the head of a broadcasting company and his former lover - be honest this time, who do you REALLY think lost their job. Like just about all of these cases in reality the person who started with the most power is the one who get to keep their job while the woman is painted as a whore. Sucks, and is that really what you'd want your daughter to go through? It's not about feminism in any way it's about people being treated unfairly.
Fair enough, but I very strongly disagree with the market saturation excuse. It's been bullshit since before the United States were founded and a large chunk of the economy of the colonies was based on exports.
Another goalpost shift to avoid admitting deliberate deception.
You must have utter contempt for the people reading this site when you play such petty little deceptive games that rely on ignorance of the reader.
Ask the cheerleader for him not me.
WTF? It was a mad scramble to accept the second deal in case a third was worse. It was a long list of fuckups that among other things resulted in the death of a U2 pilot who was only there to add to some sabre rattling.
Kennedy did a lot of good things but the Cuban missile crisis was a result of very stupid brinkmanship. It was so stupid that the fiction of a conspiracy in an X-Men movie seems more credible than the posturing that actually happened.
Betting that Russian leaders who had lived through WW2 would not be prepared to throw away millions of lives in another conflict was beyond stupid. The Russians knew that Kennedy would fold right from the start because he was not prepared to sacrifice millions of Americans while the Russians had already been through that and were prepared to go through it over again.
As another example, there are a lot of good things to say about Churchill but nobody praises him for his Gallipolli plan. The Cuban missile crisis was not Kennedy's best work.
Here's my comment when people do this shit.
"Women shouldn't wear headscarves? Are you going to tell the Queen that are you?"
In other places:
"What do you have against Nuns?"
Not quite correct. The politicians have not been doing nothing, they have been drinking and dining on Uber's dime while being "lobbied". The first thing Uber do when they come into a place is to make friends with the powerful. It's a bit insulting that they are treating the west as if it's all a 1970s African dicatatorship, but it seems to be working in terms of slowing down legal processes if nothing else in most places.
Catalan IS a Spanish language you shameless goalpost shifter.
No it's more a libertarian thing I'd say, where the large number of poor in an ideal libertarian society means that their below minimum wage chauffeur can be chosen for their language skills. Taxis? Ubers? They are for nobodies. Drive on Pedro
Unions are different in different countries. In the UK and some Commonwealth countries unions do give meaningful donations to a party. In the USA (where unions are very different again and almost powerless) of days long past the unions were involved in the political process.
IMHO there should be a baseline of standards so you don't end up with unlucky fried kitten instead of chicken.
It's a belittling insult dripping with contempt that most likely comes from the top instead of junior PR. Yes it is poor English but that's part of the tactic - look at Rumsfeld for thousands of examples.
The libertarians will be fine in the type of nation they crave. The libertarians can just hire a food taster at less than minimum wage. It's the rest of us that don't want a society where the rich can do anything they want that will suffer.
You forgot about export markets.
Manufacturers who get large enough to last do not.
Some slick salesguy probably sold you that snake oil like about how it's necessary to make crap that doesn't last but it is bullshit. Quality stuff finds a large enough market. Marketing shit has really fucked a lot of us up to believe all kinds of manipulative bullshit so it's best to try to dig your way out of it instead of spreading lame excuses for poor quality. The "throwaway consumer culture" that has been pervasive since the 1970s needs no excuses. It's not about sustaining a business, it's about gouging by charging close to the price of a quality product while selling utter crap.
There's plenty of stuff made now that is made to last despite the vast amount of crap that does not. It's hard to find due to misinformation from salesfolk hyping crap and crap marked up to the same price as quality products.
That works in a perfect world where the police respect you. A lot of people on this site are not in that perfect world and have a choice of talking very politely to police or suffering consequences, sometimes physical ones, if they are silent.
People with nothing to hide, such as a 70 year old children's book author this week (on her 116th trip to the USA), are getting detained by the TSA and treated badly.
Why do you think that? A lot of people seem to be using it without any problems. Have you actually heard of someone with a current problem or are you just dredging up stuff from back when the hardware was under development?
Not so much "broken" as in it was never enough to do what you suggest since it was about limiting SOME admin level activities for users with full admin rights.
Sudo is completely and utterly different because the *nix user model is very different to the MS one and much simpler. There is not really much point in comparing the *nix user model and the MS one. MS is about "flexibility" to put things politely, which is why there are so many things that do not behave in an obvious way if you are looking at it as if it was like the *nix model.
Australia is an island continent with a very small number of cables transferring data to Asia, across the Pacific and one across the Indian Ocean.
Given that, go talk to a network engineer and ask them how trivial it would be to block things going via half a dozen gateways owned by something like three companies, two of which have substantial ownership by governments. The people on satellite links will be exceptions but there are not a lot of those. Even state to state links go through tight bottlenecks.
The only reason things are not blocked properly is because nobody has put in enough effort (eg. pirate bay is blocked but some proxies are not), mainly because the people that know how to do it (apart from the DSD who want to block all encrypted traffic) do not want to block everything properly (and in the process piss off everyone using a VPN etc). It would be many times easier to implement than "the great firewall of China".
A similar situation will apply to a rural area near you where everyone is at the mercy of the policies of whoever owns the single way in or out.
Not really IMHO.
They are at the same level as people who buy industrial plant and expect it to last for decades as well.
They are buying commercial grade equipment and expect commercial grade parts availability instead of the cheap short lifetime stuff the retail consumer is expected to put up with. I once visited a foundry for an agricultural pump manufacturer. They had the patterns for up to 70 year old equipment and cast those parts every now and again to maintain their policy of "lifetime" support. While that's an extreme example that is what is sometimes expected of equipment that is used in production instead of the throwaway consumer items we are expected to put up with.
Another relative ended up with it but it was not rare by all accounts so is probably scanned and online already. I actually got to apply some stuff about the epicyclic gears and brake bands at University where the mechanical engineering department had a gearbox from a model-t to use in second year practical classes.
I think the book was this one (published 1920, going now for ten Bristish pounds):
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=7791062620&searchurl=tn%3Dthe%2Bbook%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bford%26sortby%3D17%26an%3Dr%2Bt%2Bnicholson
Yes I know - "it was only one goat" - being an utter amoral prick once just because you want to should be forgiven right? While a joke about beer with careful disclaimer at the bottom so as not to offend the incredibly thin skinned - burn him!
WTF is wrong with you?
Indeed. Isn't it funny when companies like Sony scream "let the market decide" and then put barriers in the way of capitalism when that market decides that repairing broken Sony stuff is worthwhile?
What's happened for a very long time is third party manuals. My Grandmother's copy of "Book of The Ford" was a guide to repairing the Model T and was not written by the Ford Motor Company. That was in the early 1920s and was nowhere near the first edition. Ford had their own manuals but they were not that only ones, and apart from the DCMA there has been little to stop third party manuals since.
So IMHO there's nothing wrong with them saying "purchase and install Comprehensive Assembly #012934" so long as third parties are allowed to publish alternative manuals and supply alternative parts.
No, that was your cheap knife line.
So when you make a personal attack the people you attempt to bully are supposed to remain silent? Also it was so incredibly fucking ridiculous - take art classes to learn about the world or something? Of course you are going to get ridiculed by that Mr Kiddies version ten page Moby Dick. Unfortunately it is very easy to know far too much about you and far too much about "what makes you tick" from what you have written. You are a naive blank slate that the NRA and other manipulative pricks have written whatever they wanted on.
So you've given up on the smug vegan thing of telling me I should never have killed things? Are all the losers that have been conned by Oliver North's NRA as utterly pathetic and thin skinned as you are?
A gun is a tool for killing. It is not a flag. It is not a penis substitute. Why the fuck do you losers treat it as if it is both?
Yes and I was born yesterday.
WTF is wrong with you? I know there are some shameless liars in this place but I never expected one had been hanging around for so long.
Lowering yourself that far to defend against a joke? What a piece of work you are.