So far as 2020 goes: If you want to help, you've got to convince people you know who are Independents to register as Democrat
Eh? Why would registering as Democrat help? Are you under the illusion that Democrats are better than Republicans? Both are extremely corrupt, just in different ways. Ultimately, voting for either party is a vote for the status quo of corruption.
What happened to Sanders in the runup to the election? His own party conspired to work against him. That is one exact definition of corruption. The way the Democratic party moved funds around is another exact definition of corruption.
Why would you support Democrats?
If you supported Republicans, I would be asking the exact same question.
Trump is a moron. He does not realize how/why the "swamp" ever became a thing. Since he was on the "outside" before, he fails to see how his actions are the same actions that created the original "swamp".
Regardless, at least there is some mixing action going on. New players, new swamp, more chances at discovering old corruption.
It is a sad state of affairs where the only two people you can realistically vote for are both corrupt as hell and the only reason one won over the other is because it is a new corruption rather than the already present corruption. *sigh*
What you say may be true for some. The only thing pushing me away from Firefox is Firefox itself. The ONLY reason I am using it right now to post this is because noscript still seems to work. If it did not, I would be on the sickeningly invasive Chrome.
That said, to be honest, I have absolutely no idea how to maintain good backups of my Linux systems.
I don't mean to be rude, but you should turn in your geek card. Maintaining good backups is even easier in Linux than any other operating system.
Everything unique will be under/home/username. You can back this up with rsync, cp, tar, or even dd if it is a partition. There is no hand holding, but then, it really shouldn't be necessary when the design itself is so elegantly simple. What is even cooler is that this knowledge of backing up carries across to the various BSDs and other Unix-like operating systems.
I have to admit, since Windows 10 came out, I find myself using Windows a LOT less. I only ever boot into it to patch it. Every time I try to do something in it, I end up giving up after an hour and go back to Linux. Windows 10 feels like slipshod engineering along with the whole "microscope up my ass" feeling.
The point of gun legislation is not to get at the people who are determined to kill you no matter what. It's to get at the people who don't, but who with a gun might kill you anyway.
That is noble and all, but I will take the Freedom to act over the supposed safety provided by being prohibited to act. In this case, it is about guns. I will take the Freedom to use a gun over the supposed safety provided by the regulation/prohibition of guns.
There is no middle ground. You can either have Freedom, or you can have complications that tend to encourage safety, but do not guarantee safety.
You seem like a fairly open minded guy. What do you think of the idea that gravity is a just time gradient that respects Lorentz's Law of Invariance?
Long story short, Time moves faster the further you are from a mass. It would be the Time gradient that gives a sense of gravity. Is there any a priori reason I should stop investigating this?
The original idea that prompted this line of thought has to do with galactic rotation curves, but the implications are exceedingly... erm, interesting.
That said, the idea that a set of modifications to a copyright product, distributed separately, constitutes a derivative work is terrible policy and is philosophically counter to the 'freedom to tinker' that the tech community holds dear.
I have always felt that it was a bit of an overreach too. Kind of like how EULAs overreach. *sigh* So many greedy and selfish people on all sides. It also annoys me that they think linking is a copyright issue too. No, you are using an API. Just because my code can talk to your code, that does not give you any right to my code.
There is an account setting where you can assign values to comments based on various things such as who sent the message, what kind of moderation it has received, etc. Just set Anonymous Coward to -2 and your wishes will come true.:)
You can't work as part of a team if you can't do the work.
Present a persuasive series of slides?
Presenting slides is fine and all, but what about the questions afterwards?
Be able to focus for six/twelve months on a mission critical project that doesn't show results until the end?
Again, being able to focus is not of any help if you can't do anything.
So, writing code is the Only thing Google wants people to do??
No, but writing code is central to what they do...
Either women can do the job or they can't. If a man can't do the job, they don't hire him and nobody says anything about it. Duh, you have to be able to do the job. If you can't do the job, then don't expect to be able to get the job.
I am cool with this as long as it applies to all jobs, not just "some" jobs. Let's make sure the ratios are the same for plumbers, kindergarten teachers, etc.
All i'm saying is the people who claim to be living paycheck-to-paycheck and unable to afford to save at all for retirement or future needs are Full of Shit: if they are spending any money on non-essentials, then they are Not "unable", but they CHOOSE not to --- The fact they DO have the choice to spend the $$$ on Non-Essentials PROVES that the Money would be available to save for their future, BUT they choose to prioritize the Immediate non-essential Luxury as MORE IMPORTANT or PRIORITIZED over saving for Retirement and prioritized over saving to help build an emergency fund or improve their overall Financial well-being.
In theory, you are correct. I am glad that your theory matches your reality.
The reality is that if you saved that $50/mo and put it into the stock market, you either did it as a fund or against individual stocks. If you chose the correct individual stocks, you just waited for the downturn to reverse itself. If you invested in hedge funds, you likely did not lose everything, but you did lose a lot.
Look, there are very few scenarios where you end up with enough money to retire in America. The economy in America is designed in such a way as to fleece the sheep very effectively. You think you can escape the fleecing? Nope. There are some guaranteed ways to drain your cash too. Medical expenses are the last hurdle that you need to clear before you can retire. The only way I know of to escape those is to... well, die.
Well ask yourself this, where does the majority of mass of a proton come from?
I am pretty sure that if you measure the strength of the "gravity" field around the proton, it would correspond nicely to the mass field of the proton.
The existence of matter causes the existence of space-time. The reverse is also true, but it is difficult to talk about this stuff from the POV of the standard model.
Except the Democratic party actually finds ways to pay for what they spend.
Keep enabling the status quo. What is with the heavily democratic Anonymous Cowards today? The system is BROKEN. Choosing either side is choosing a broken system. Just fuck off.
Lets cut the crap... republicans and conservatives are traitors to the country and people
Fucking moron. This is NOT a partisan issue. Voting democrat will NOT help. Just stop. The problem is corruption and nepotism which infects BOTH political parties. Even if it is possible to say one side is worse than the other, it makes no difference. It is like saying being burned alive is worse than being drawn and quartered. You may be correct, but you are still going to die an extremely painful death. Let's talk about the dying rather than the method of dying.
Now show us some evidence that the people who are getting the most money in our society are actually earning any of it.
That is a fair point; however, show us the absurdly wealthy who are incapable of shirking their tax burdens. This money will be taken from people who are working and earning their money. If we want UBI, it should start by removing direct taxes from citizens.
There are those in every crowd. I know you have a thick skin, but even then, it can get a bit depressing. I am happy that you are trying to do good things, as are many others. The negativity will never go away, but I would like to offer something positive: Thank you.
That being said, I know that Social Justice stuff drives a lot of page views... but can we kill it please? That is the primary thing that has made me consider quitting Slashdot after so many years. I like Tech. I don't like being tossed into whatever current social battles are being fought. There is no way to be rational in those articles because they are not for rational discussion, they are for enlisting soldiers. It is disgusting.
gun control in the United States. School shooters are a profit center. Instead of spending money on teaches and classroom supplies we are spending money on security theater.
The quote looks absurd because someone thought it would be a good idea to start the discussion in the Subject line instead of using the Subject line in its intended use: To give a subject. Regardless, you are out of touch with reality if you truly believe the lack of gun control is to support spending money on Security Theater. Check yourself before you wreck yourself bro.
If we ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines, as they have done in Australia, we could protect school children and the rest of us.
How many school shootings involved an "assault weapon" and/or "high capacity" magazines? Forget about school shootings, how many crimes are committed with assault weapons and/or high capacity magazines?
While your proposals sound good on paper, what actual effect would they have on crime? Be prepared to demonstrate the efficacy of your proposal. I submit that it is better to do absolutely nothing than to infringe on liberty without sound arguments and coherent, demonstrable desired effects.
Want to fix school shootings? Put a waiting period on all gun purchases to allow the mentally ill to "cool off."
What makes you think a waiting period would have stopped ANY of the school shootings? Are you under the impression that these kids are going out to buy guns just before they start shooting? Do kids even get a background check when acquiring guns?
Look, I can respect that you want to do something to stop school shootings. Knee-jerk, emotional reactions feel good, but will those reactions solve the problem or do they just make you feel better?
I can see why you would be under the impression that making guns harder to buy would prevent school shootings. The logic, in a perfect world, is obvious. The world is not perfect and it is incumbent upon you to demonstrate that such restrictions would assist in this situation.
There is a reason that the Second Amendment exists. It would appear that you fully discount the reason that it exists. That is fine. Each person is allowed to have their opinion. Do you truly feel comfortable forcing your opinion on others who have different opinions? If so, you will have quite a few people who will strongly disagree with you. Are your arguments airtight enough to withstand altering the root document that created this country?
Polls in the US show a majority of voters favour increased gun control.
Be honest. Stop calling it gun control. You want to remove guns from public availability entirely.
It is up to you to show that removing guns from the populace at large is possible AND that it will reduce the violence that guns can enable. If I have to choose being shot to death versus being beat to death with a baseball bat, the situation has not really improved.
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So far as 2020 goes: If you want to help, you've got to convince people you know who are Independents to register as Democrat
Eh? Why would registering as Democrat help? Are you under the illusion that Democrats are better than Republicans? Both are extremely corrupt, just in different ways. Ultimately, voting for either party is a vote for the status quo of corruption.
What happened to Sanders in the runup to the election? His own party conspired to work against him. That is one exact definition of corruption. The way the Democratic party moved funds around is another exact definition of corruption.
Why would you support Democrats?
If you supported Republicans, I would be asking the exact same question.
Trump is the swamp.
Indeed he is; however, he is a different "swamp".
Trump is a moron. He does not realize how/why the "swamp" ever became a thing. Since he was on the "outside" before, he fails to see how his actions are the same actions that created the original "swamp".
Regardless, at least there is some mixing action going on. New players, new swamp, more chances at discovering old corruption.
It is a sad state of affairs where the only two people you can realistically vote for are both corrupt as hell and the only reason one won over the other is because it is a new corruption rather than the already present corruption. *sigh*
What you say may be true for some. The only thing pushing me away from Firefox is Firefox itself. The ONLY reason I am using it right now to post this is because noscript still seems to work. If it did not, I would be on the sickeningly invasive Chrome.
That said, to be honest, I have absolutely no idea how to maintain good backups of my Linux systems.
I don't mean to be rude, but you should turn in your geek card. Maintaining good backups is even easier in Linux than any other operating system.
Everything unique will be under /home/username. You can back this up with rsync, cp, tar, or even dd if it is a partition. There is no hand holding, but then, it really shouldn't be necessary when the design itself is so elegantly simple. What is even cooler is that this knowledge of backing up carries across to the various BSDs and other Unix-like operating systems.
I have to admit, since Windows 10 came out, I find myself using Windows a LOT less. I only ever boot into it to patch it. Every time I try to do something in it, I end up giving up after an hour and go back to Linux. Windows 10 feels like slipshod engineering along with the whole "microscope up my ass" feeling.
The point of gun legislation is not to get at the people who are determined to kill you no matter what. It's to get at the people who don't, but who with a gun might kill you anyway.
That is noble and all, but I will take the Freedom to act over the supposed safety provided by being prohibited to act. In this case, it is about guns. I will take the Freedom to use a gun over the supposed safety provided by the regulation/prohibition of guns.
There is no middle ground. You can either have Freedom, or you can have complications that tend to encourage safety, but do not guarantee safety.
I choose Freedom.
Delivery only in continental UK/Europe. *sigh*
I was just about to buy one. Seems like a nice phone at a reasonable price. ~$600.
Americans, this phone is not for you unless you have a shipping location in the EU. :(
But on a serious note, will be you able to disable and turn the fucking thing OFF??
That was my first thought as well. If the electric plug is visible, then yes; otherwise... um, maybe, maybe not.
You seem like a fairly open minded guy. What do you think of the idea that gravity is a just time gradient that respects Lorentz's Law of Invariance?
Long story short, Time moves faster the further you are from a mass. It would be the Time gradient that gives a sense of gravity. Is there any a priori reason I should stop investigating this?
The original idea that prompted this line of thought has to do with galactic rotation curves, but the implications are exceedingly... erm, interesting.
That said, the idea that a set of modifications to a copyright product, distributed separately, constitutes a derivative work is terrible policy and is philosophically counter to the 'freedom to tinker' that the tech community holds dear.
I have always felt that it was a bit of an overreach too. Kind of like how EULAs overreach. *sigh* So many greedy and selfish people on all sides. It also annoys me that they think linking is a copyright issue too. No, you are using an API. Just because my code can talk to your code, that does not give you any right to my code.
There is an account setting where you can assign values to comments based on various things such as who sent the message, what kind of moderation it has received, etc. Just set Anonymous Coward to -2 and your wishes will come true. :)
Not work as a team?
You can't work as part of a team if you can't do the work.
Present a persuasive series of slides?
Presenting slides is fine and all, but what about the questions afterwards?
Be able to focus for six/twelve months on a mission critical project that doesn't show results until the end?
Again, being able to focus is not of any help if you can't do anything.
So, writing code is the Only thing Google wants people to do??
No, but writing code is central to what they do...
Either women can do the job or they can't. If a man can't do the job, they don't hire him and nobody says anything about it. Duh, you have to be able to do the job. If you can't do the job, then don't expect to be able to get the job.
I am cool with this as long as it applies to all jobs, not just "some" jobs. Let's make sure the ratios are the same for plumbers, kindergarten teachers, etc.
All i'm saying is the people who claim to be living paycheck-to-paycheck and unable to afford to save at all for retirement or future needs are Full of Shit: if they are spending any money on non-essentials, then they are Not "unable", but they CHOOSE not to --- The fact they DO have the choice to spend the $$$ on Non-Essentials PROVES that the Money would be available to save for their future, BUT they choose to prioritize the Immediate non-essential Luxury as MORE IMPORTANT or PRIORITIZED over saving for Retirement and prioritized over saving to help build an emergency fund or improve their overall Financial well-being.
In theory, you are correct. I am glad that your theory matches your reality.
The reality is that if you saved that $50/mo and put it into the stock market, you either did it as a fund or against individual stocks. If you chose the correct individual stocks, you just waited for the downturn to reverse itself. If you invested in hedge funds, you likely did not lose everything, but you did lose a lot.
Look, there are very few scenarios where you end up with enough money to retire in America. The economy in America is designed in such a way as to fleece the sheep very effectively. You think you can escape the fleecing? Nope. There are some guaranteed ways to drain your cash too. Medical expenses are the last hurdle that you need to clear before you can retire. The only way I know of to escape those is to... well, die.
Anyways, yeah. You are right.
Well ask yourself this, where does the majority of mass of a proton come from?
I am pretty sure that if you measure the strength of the "gravity" field around the proton, it would correspond nicely to the mass field of the proton.
The existence of matter causes the existence of space-time. The reverse is also true, but it is difficult to talk about this stuff from the POV of the standard model.
Except the Democratic party actually finds ways to pay for what they spend.
Keep enabling the status quo. What is with the heavily democratic Anonymous Cowards today? The system is BROKEN. Choosing either side is choosing a broken system. Just fuck off.
Lets cut the crap... republicans and conservatives are traitors to the country and people
Fucking moron. This is NOT a partisan issue. Voting democrat will NOT help. Just stop. The problem is corruption and nepotism which infects BOTH political parties. Even if it is possible to say one side is worse than the other, it makes no difference. It is like saying being burned alive is worse than being drawn and quartered. You may be correct, but you are still going to die an extremely painful death. Let's talk about the dying rather than the method of dying.
You were signed into law by a Democrat, so expect to be repealed soon by a Republican majority Congress.
Shut up troll. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is not sports. Just shut the fuck up.
Now show us some evidence that the people who are getting the most money in our society are actually earning any of it.
That is a fair point; however, show us the absurdly wealthy who are incapable of shirking their tax burdens. This money will be taken from people who are working and earning their money. If we want UBI, it should start by removing direct taxes from citizens.
yet I still get some really vile hatred
There are those in every crowd. I know you have a thick skin, but even then, it can get a bit depressing. I am happy that you are trying to do good things, as are many others. The negativity will never go away, but I would like to offer something positive: Thank you.
That being said, I know that Social Justice stuff drives a lot of page views... but can we kill it please? That is the primary thing that has made me consider quitting Slashdot after so many years. I like Tech. I don't like being tossed into whatever current social battles are being fought. There is no way to be rational in those articles because they are not for rational discussion, they are for enlisting soldiers. It is disgusting.
Good luck. :)
With comments like these, it is not possible to have a rational discussion. Thank you for your contribution to solving this issue.
gun control in the United States. School shooters are a profit center. Instead of spending money on teaches and classroom supplies we are spending money on security theater.
The quote looks absurd because someone thought it would be a good idea to start the discussion in the Subject line instead of using the Subject line in its intended use: To give a subject. Regardless, you are out of touch with reality if you truly believe the lack of gun control is to support spending money on Security Theater. Check yourself before you wreck yourself bro.
If we ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines, as they have done in Australia, we could protect school children and the rest of us.
How many school shootings involved an "assault weapon" and/or "high capacity" magazines? Forget about school shootings, how many crimes are committed with assault weapons and/or high capacity magazines?
While your proposals sound good on paper, what actual effect would they have on crime? Be prepared to demonstrate the efficacy of your proposal. I submit that it is better to do absolutely nothing than to infringe on liberty without sound arguments and coherent, demonstrable desired effects.
Want to fix school shootings? Put a waiting period on all gun purchases to allow the mentally ill to "cool off."
What makes you think a waiting period would have stopped ANY of the school shootings? Are you under the impression that these kids are going out to buy guns just before they start shooting? Do kids even get a background check when acquiring guns?
Look, I can respect that you want to do something to stop school shootings. Knee-jerk, emotional reactions feel good, but will those reactions solve the problem or do they just make you feel better?
.. or we could just make guns harder to buy.
I can see why you would be under the impression that making guns harder to buy would prevent school shootings. The logic, in a perfect world, is obvious. The world is not perfect and it is incumbent upon you to demonstrate that such restrictions would assist in this situation.
There is a reason that the Second Amendment exists. It would appear that you fully discount the reason that it exists. That is fine. Each person is allowed to have their opinion. Do you truly feel comfortable forcing your opinion on others who have different opinions? If so, you will have quite a few people who will strongly disagree with you. Are your arguments airtight enough to withstand altering the root document that created this country?
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Polls in the US show a majority of voters favour increased gun control.
Be honest. Stop calling it gun control. You want to remove guns from public availability entirely.
It is up to you to show that removing guns from the populace at large is possible AND that it will reduce the violence that guns can enable. If I have to choose being shot to death versus being beat to death with a baseball bat, the situation has not really improved.
But yeah, we already did the whole "compete" thing
Links to where this is demonstrated?
net-tools sucked so bad, it wasn't hard convincing the folks on every level to start focusing on the new tools.
Quite a few grandiose claims here. Nobody has convinced me at my level.
Your words are persuasive but you offer nothing to validate the truth behind your words. I remain unconvinced.