I am glad at least one other person is seeing right through this "evil" article.
I do kind of wish you had explored WHY it is flamebait, but I am happy enough just seeing someone else call it out. This kind of crap literally (yes, literally literally) drives me towards insanity.
Both you and the person you are responding to fell for this article's bullshit and now you both are engaged in the "blame game".
Do not participate.
Inside users are more dangerous (by definition, they are ON THE INSIDE!) than outside users.
Software Engineering, as practiced by most businesses, is so poor, that is can't really be called engineering anymore. I would guess this is because the people who have the money and are paying for software to be created (and sold!) have no idea what they are actually asking for and are unwilling to pay the price to get it. So we end up with shit like Microsoft Windows or McAfee Antivirus.
Reality is. There is nothing more to be said after that, but these fuckers writing this article manage to do so. And here you and other people are, just falling right into that trap. Honestly, this type of (mental/social) programming is, from my point of view, one of the sickest parts of modern society, Creating value judgements around reality, usually done as a way of evading responsibility but also used in other ways, is sick and twisted. Now we argue about the judgement (users are the worst!) rather than fixing the issues and dealing with reality.
There is some relation to the anti-vax movement here, but I haven't quite figured out what it is yet. Reality. Judgements. Denial. Ultimately, ignoring reality. This shit is just insanity on so many different levels.
Why are things being characterized like this? If you examine all security breaches, the numbers roughly align with what IT security "believe!". All that is happening here is that a survey was done and they found that Security Researchers and IT Personnel happen to "believe" what the numbers actually are.
And yet... all of this is being spun as "IT Security thinks people are the worst."
Why is this being spun like that? What kind of division are they trying to sow? Why is an "article" (for various definitions of article) like this on this site?
Seriously, I think 5% of the world is insane and is working VERY hard to keep the rest of us insane. This article is insane. It makes no fucking sense. Security folks do not think like this. I know, IT Security is what I do.
This "article" is a glowing example of something deeply disturbing about our current "social order". Where observing and acknowledging reality is being spun as something judgemental and therefore to be avoided. What. The. Fuck. is going on here folks? Are the social programmers getting lazy here or what? This is soooooooooo poorly done that it is super easy to see the agenda. I can see behind the curtain very clearly on this one.
If you don't stop this absurd shit, I will become very angry and you won't like me when I am angry (Hulk reference;))
There have long been laws against certain things like child porn, plagiarism, and defamation.
One of these things is not like the other. Can you guess which one it is?
Child porn. Pictures of naked children, even in suggestive poses, was perfectly legal when I was a child.
So no, not all of those have been illegal for a long time. Can you identify *WHY* the ban on child porn is so recent?
Because, constitutionally, there is no basis for making it illegal and it is a direct infringement on the First Amendment.
Go ahead, I will give you time. Think of *ANY* reason child porn should be illegal other than it is detestable. I can help a little with this...
In order for child porn to be created, a child has to have something illegal done to them.
Well, yeah, but I can go on the Internet right now and find a video documenting a person being carved into smaller and smaller pieces until that person is dead. All without anesthesia and without the permission of the person being murdered. As terrible as child abuse is, I would consider the act of carving up a person unwillingly is worse... and yet we can watch the Mexican drug cartels doing their thing up close and in technicolor... so, child porn is documentation of a crime, but it is not actually a crime itself... until you criminalize possession of certain 1s and 0s.
Another reason is that the production of child porn can be done for money if the imagery is legal to sell. We all know how people are about money and it is guaranteed that people would find children to molest if they thought they could sell the images afterwards.
You know what? This subject is too disturbing. I am done.
TL;DR, child porn is documentation of a crime that is so heinous that the Attorney General at the time (80s?) thought that enacting a law counter to the Constitution was a worthwhile trade.
Also post to an appropriate reddit rather than slashdot!
Why? He is getting great answers here. Further, some of the most qualified people on the planet are here.
Reddit is high-traffic, so it is a great place to ask, but the person asking has been around Slashdot for a VERY long time (as have you!) so why not ask here? Hell, he might end up with someone like the person who invented Apple (Woz!) answering. John Carmack lives in Texas and might answer too (hasn't in years, but still possible). I imagine working on rockets gives some insight into designing computing systems that are resistant to extremes. Maybe?
That's most of your LTE infrastructure vendors, and all are not US based.
That is what happens when you rest on your laurels after dominating the entire world. Maybe Americans should be looking at creating new fields to farm rather than staying stuck 50 years in the past trying to squeeze the maximum amount of money of what existed then?
It is almost like the Apollo Program was the last big hurrah and everything after that has just been harvesting the results... and it is ending. The resources are drying up. In a few more decades, America will be no more special than the UK or Portugal despite both being world powers at one point or another.
Those wanting to put it into embedded devices, it's original intent, were ignored by Sun Microsystems.
This is patently (lol) untrue. I recall seeing Java implementations running on smart cards in 15k of RAM back around the 2k time frame.
Licensing was likely a serious issue, but there was Java in embedded spaces, so it was not "ignored". There was some other reason... likely had to do with money.
Summon the meteors, already, for our reign has gone on long enough. Let us be done with it.
Sure man... but you first. Let's make sure you really are dedicated before the rest of us miserable humans make this commitment to purging reality of our offensive existence.
What? Why are you still alive? You weren't actually serious and just passing judgement on others while excluding yourself? That's not nice.
Yes, this is the reason I am still on a 2013 Mac Book Pro.
My last Macbook Pro was a 5.1. I think that was from... 2010?
I am honestly surprised you stayed with Apple for so long. I loved my 17 inch Powerbook. I liked my 15 inch Macbook Pros. Then they went back to their old proprietary ways and started soldering RAM in and other lock-in style things and I ran. I ran so far away.
Fuck Apple and fuck what they turned OS X into.
Oh. And fuck their phones too. The last one I bought was the 3GS. That was the last great phone that they produced. Antenna issues on the 4 leading all the way to current issues where this is no headphone jack and such.
When a company goes out of their way to say "we fucked up; we're sorry, and here is how we're going to fix it" they gain so many respect points (personally) that they're almost guaranteed I will make it worth their while in the end.
Me too; however...
I sometimes wonder if I'm the outlier, or if people are just really bad at business.
You are not the outlier, but you are a bit rare, but not an outlier.
The issue is that no company wants to actually pay the penalty for fucking up. Money is king. Nothing matters more than money. They will sing you any song in the world, but they will never, ever, in all of time, let a single penny fall from their clutching hands.
When money is your focus, ideas like "taking responsibility" and "apologizing" all equal to admitting liability which means letting pennies fall from those clutching hands.
While I agree that accounting is an EXTREMELY important aspect of business, the bottom line is that you want people to give you money. Actually earning that money takes work and it is easier to con you or defraud you out of your money than to build an actual reliable product and stand behind it.
1. Bitch 2. Fuck you. 3. This site doesn't cater to morons. 4. Oh wait, you didn't do a 4 so there is nothing smartass to put here. *sigh* Next time. Maybe next time.;)
I recently went to a local stand up show and almost all performances were extremely bland (or about Trump)
I am of an age where I could give less than one fuck about other people's faux outrage. I should go to one of those open mic nights and trigger an entire room.
Is nagger (forgot this word was censored) a powerful word again? Are Pollacks still a target? Or do I need to get more modern and attack an immigrant lesbian mother on welfare?
Hm. I am no George Carlin but I think I can piss people off pretty good if I tried. This sounds like fun.:)
How is this Airbnb's problem? They have policies in place against them and they appear to enforce those policies. So, how is it Airbnb's problem?
No. The problem belongs completely to two parties, with a third party, the police, having to deal with this. The two parties are (wait for it, I know this will be surprising as fuck to everyone) the host and the guest.
I am not even going to read the article (is there one even linked?) because the title says, "I was written by a noob SJW who assumes they know everything about everything and if you don't agree with me, you are wrong. And I know EXACTLY where to place the blame."
Um, dude? Really? You don't know shit and flaunting your ignorance so arrogantly is, quite frankly, disgusting.
They have patents and aggressive lawyers, you probably can't build a competing tractor for a long time.
Patents? What could there possibly be to patent on a fucking tractor? IIRC, patents are for things that not obvious to anyone familiar with the subject. What could fail to be obvious about a tractor? Using GPS? How is that not obvious? Are they using some sort of new combustion technique? Surely, combustion is exhausted of all patents by now. What could possibly be patented ON A TRACTOR?
I could see Copyright on the software... but god, what an abomination of a thought. The purpose is the tractor, not the software.
I just don't see John Deere having any patents that should be considered valid.
Wait! I figured it out! They patented Air Conditioning the cab. Of course it's not obvious. Look at all the old tractors: Open to the air, no protection from sunlight, etc. And I am sure that no farmer anywhere or even tractor manufacturer anywhere, except John Deere, had the idea and the courage to add a climate controlled cab to the tractor.
I hear you man. I hear you; however, it does seem like American manufacturers have been infected by the same disease that infected American Automobile companies back in the 60s. I have not willingly paid money to use a car built by an American company for my entire life. Apparently, it is now extending to aircraft manufacturers too.
Cutting costs is fine. Cutting costs without valuing the customer is what America has done, which is absolutely 100% completely NOT fucking fine.
In the 70s, American Car manufacturers perfected cutting costs without regard to consumer experience. If you bought an American built car, it was guaranteed (by GM!) that you would have something major fail on the car within the first 20 thousand miles. An American vehicle that made it to 70k miles was completely unsellable as a used car. You would be lucky to be able to get the vehicle to a junk yard without towing it.
In the 80s, the American vehicle manufacturers were all going bankrupt (sound familiar?!) and Chrysler ended up in a crisis bankruptcy that the American government bailed them out of (sound familiar again?!).
The Japanese got it. They knew that the customer had to get some amount of value for their money or there would not be repeat customers. Furthermore, they weren't lazy like American executives and now, American executives get trained in (but only give lip service to) a technique created by Toyota, called... Continuous Improvement? Crap, I forget the exact term. Anyways, it was basic common sense to everyone on the fucking planet except the privileged executives in charge of American vehicle manufacturing.
TL;DR, you have a valid point, but fuck Boeing for killing people like that.
Continued rant: I am not ever flying on another Being product as long as I live, and I used to absolutely adore Boeing over Airbus because Boeing planes were designed to honor the pilot rather than fear the pilot. *sigh*
STOP STEALING ALL THE MONEY YOU FUCKERS! Use it to make a quality fucking product and to hire quality employees! Sure, you saved a million dollars by paying some third-world recent graduate to write the code (with poor/no specifications!), but you KILLED PEOPLE. I get it, you and your loved ones were not one of the people killed, so it doesn't matter to you, but it does matter to other people and those other people are the ones that give you money. How can you be SO FUCKING STUPID?
Meh. That was fun and a bit catharctic. Airbus might not be much better, but they have yet to intentionally kill someone through willful negligence.
Jesus H fucking Christ... the more I find out about this debacle, the more I am horrified. Why aren't executives explaining themselves in front of judges right now?
I read a comment a few days ago about how the FAA may have lost its assumed authority throughout the world over this fiasco. As I learn more, I am seeing the truth of this.
This is EXACTLY what a crumbling and unrecoverable empire looks like. I wonder if anyone will take up the banner of quality, accuracy, and pride in work now that America has completely fallen away from those ideals... It won't be China or Russia. The Japanese do some interesting stuff, but TEPCO and the subsequent handling of that disaster tells me no.
I really don't see anyone picking it up. Are we doomed to retreat back to trees and caves (over thousands of years, not tomorrow)?
And all the white nationalists talking about foreigners in this thread is sickening. Sad to see Slashdot being overrun by these maggots.
Your userid is what, 20 years old... and yet
Slashdot being overrun by these maggots
Really?! I mean REALLY?! You don't recall GNAA or any of that other crap? Slashdot has ALWAYS had some of the most obnoxious people on the Internet trying to troll since forever. There is nothing new about this. Nothing new at all.
Did you recently change your filters? Maybe that is why you are sensing that this is a new change?
The Slashdot moderation system is absurdly bad, but compared to every other system out there, it is a shining example of perfection. Rather like the fundamental ideas behind Capitalism and Democracy: absurdly bad, but a shining example of perfection compared to everything else.
No. Urgency is needed because it short-circuits critical thought. Can't have people thinking rationally. The flow of money might get disrupted... and it is the flow of money that matters, not individual dollars.
Our government loves to espouse their hate of socialism but when finding ways to create jobs back in their states or districts, they gladly distribute military and other large programs across the US.
Kind of. They don't do it for Socialist reasons, they do it because they get kickbacks. Legalized corruption so to speak. It has nothing to do with Socialism other than it can look like Socialism from a certain angle.
You don't see that as sexist? Let's use another demographic to make it clearer for you:
For clarity purposes, let's do it with lots of categories:
But the first black-only venture outside of the confines of the space station will have to happen on another day... In the end, both black people will have done a spacewalk -- just not together.
or
But the first Jewish-only venture outside of the confines of the space station will have to happen on another day... In the end, both Jewish people will have done a spacewalk -- just not together.
or
But the first Disabled-only venture outside of the confines of the space station will have to happen on another day... In the end, both disabled people will have done a spacewalk -- just not together.
or
But the first dog-only venture outside of the confines of the space station will have to happen on another day... In the end, both dog people will have done a spacewalk -- just not together.
You should not be surprised that AmiMoJo sees it as not sexist. Women have been held back forever! This is their time to shine!... which is sexist, just "reverse" sexist. Which is still sexist. But of course he can't see it. He is enabling women! How could that be sexist? But it is.
People. lol. So funny. What is even more amazing is that he has a brain that works. He just has too many "rigidities" that prevent him from seeing certain things. Attack all axioms. Keep that which survives. Even if it survived before, it needs to be tested again. And again.
If that legislation hadn't passed, you'd still shelves full of incandescent bulbs and people would still be buying them.
That is the symptom of a broken market. If LED bulbs really are more efficient and save more money, then the market would have provided them as an option regardless of, and even in spite of, any legislation.
Look at crystal meth. Lots of legislation around that. Right? And yet the market continues to provide regardless of laws supposedly preventing that from happening.
The same is true of LED bulbs. You could actually legislate AGAINST them, and if they were desirable, they would still sell.
So what is going on here? Why do LED bulbs need laws to force manufacturers to produce them and citizens to buy them?
I don't know but capitalism is not being allowed to work. That much is clear.
Do I sound pissed? You're damn right. Why the fuck is one party holding the country hostage when the people have clearly voted against it?
This one is easy to answer!
Because the Democrats are no better and they are the ONLY other option available.
Sure, the Democrats don't do all the same things that piss you off about Republicans; however, they do other, equally objectionable things. DMCA comes to mind really quickly here. Stealing from state Democratic funds to increase Hillary's funding for running for president is another. Deplatforming Bernie Sanders is another. The Democrats are so fucking corrupt that if you close your eyes far enough, the Republicans can seem like a decent choice versus Democrats.
Of course, the real problem is the way voting is handled and that there are only two possible parties. With those two limitations in place, we are stuck with people like you who think "anything but Republicans", which supports the Democrats in their form of corruption.
TL;DR, the answer to your final question is larger than the way you framed it. The two party system is the short answer.
They require a receipt to actually make a claim. How many people are going to bother to keep paperwork on every light bulb in their house for ten years?
People call me an old fogey, but even the younglings seem to forget that modern technology has a solution for this: Take a fucking picture with your damned fondleslab (how long has it been since you heard THAT term?) and send that in an email to yourself with a searchable title (such as date/content) so you can find it again in 10 years when you need it.
Of course, with a userid such as yours, you MUST be at least 34 years old, and likely much older than that. So yeah, you are NOT a youngling.
But of course, you are speaking of the "average" person... but the average person can barely blow their own nose without assistance.
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I am glad at least one other person is seeing right through this "evil" article.
I do kind of wish you had explored WHY it is flamebait, but I am happy enough just seeing someone else call it out. This kind of crap literally (yes, literally literally) drives me towards insanity.
Both you and the person you are responding to fell for this article's bullshit and now you both are engaged in the "blame game".
Do not participate.
Inside users are more dangerous (by definition, they are ON THE INSIDE!) than outside users.
Software Engineering, as practiced by most businesses, is so poor, that is can't really be called engineering anymore. I would guess this is because the people who have the money and are paying for software to be created (and sold!) have no idea what they are actually asking for and are unwilling to pay the price to get it. So we end up with shit like Microsoft Windows or McAfee Antivirus.
Reality is. There is nothing more to be said after that, but these fuckers writing this article manage to do so. And here you and other people are, just falling right into that trap. Honestly, this type of (mental/social) programming is, from my point of view, one of the sickest parts of modern society, Creating value judgements around reality, usually done as a way of evading responsibility but also used in other ways, is sick and twisted. Now we argue about the judgement (users are the worst!) rather than fixing the issues and dealing with reality.
There is some relation to the anti-vax movement here, but I haven't quite figured out what it is yet. Reality. Judgements. Denial. Ultimately, ignoring reality. This shit is just insanity on so many different levels.
The twisting... it is... extreme!
Why are things being characterized like this? If you examine all security breaches, the numbers roughly align with what IT security "believe!". All that is happening here is that a survey was done and they found that Security Researchers and IT Personnel happen to "believe" what the numbers actually are.
And yet... all of this is being spun as "IT Security thinks people are the worst."
Why is this being spun like that? What kind of division are they trying to sow? Why is an "article" (for various definitions of article) like this on this site?
Seriously, I think 5% of the world is insane and is working VERY hard to keep the rest of us insane. This article is insane. It makes no fucking sense. Security folks do not think like this. I know, IT Security is what I do.
This "article" is a glowing example of something deeply disturbing about our current "social order". Where observing and acknowledging reality is being spun as something judgemental and therefore to be avoided. What. The. Fuck. is going on here folks? Are the social programmers getting lazy here or what? This is soooooooooo poorly done that it is super easy to see the agenda. I can see behind the curtain very clearly on this one.
If you don't stop this absurd shit, I will become very angry and you won't like me when I am angry (Hulk reference ;))
There have long been laws against certain things like child porn, plagiarism, and defamation.
One of these things is not like the other. Can you guess which one it is?
Child porn. Pictures of naked children, even in suggestive poses, was perfectly legal when I was a child.
So no, not all of those have been illegal for a long time. Can you identify *WHY* the ban on child porn is so recent?
Because, constitutionally, there is no basis for making it illegal and it is a direct infringement on the First Amendment.
Go ahead, I will give you time. Think of *ANY* reason child porn should be illegal other than it is detestable. I can help a little with this...
In order for child porn to be created, a child has to have something illegal done to them.
Well, yeah, but I can go on the Internet right now and find a video documenting a person being carved into smaller and smaller pieces until that person is dead. All without anesthesia and without the permission of the person being murdered. As terrible as child abuse is, I would consider the act of carving up a person unwillingly is worse... and yet we can watch the Mexican drug cartels doing their thing up close and in technicolor... so, child porn is documentation of a crime, but it is not actually a crime itself... until you criminalize possession of certain 1s and 0s.
Another reason is that the production of child porn can be done for money if the imagery is legal to sell. We all know how people are about money and it is guaranteed that people would find children to molest if they thought they could sell the images afterwards.
You know what? This subject is too disturbing. I am done.
TL;DR, child porn is documentation of a crime that is so heinous that the Attorney General at the time (80s?) thought that enacting a law counter to the Constitution was a worthwhile trade.
Also post to an appropriate reddit rather than slashdot!
Why? He is getting great answers here. Further, some of the most qualified people on the planet are here.
Reddit is high-traffic, so it is a great place to ask, but the person asking has been around Slashdot for a VERY long time (as have you!) so why not ask here? Hell, he might end up with someone like the person who invented Apple (Woz!) answering. John Carmack lives in Texas and might answer too (hasn't in years, but still possible). I imagine working on rockets gives some insight into designing computing systems that are resistant to extremes. Maybe?
That's most of your LTE infrastructure vendors, and all are not US based.
That is what happens when you rest on your laurels after dominating the entire world. Maybe Americans should be looking at creating new fields to farm rather than staying stuck 50 years in the past trying to squeeze the maximum amount of money of what existed then?
It is almost like the Apollo Program was the last big hurrah and everything after that has just been harvesting the results... and it is ending. The resources are drying up. In a few more decades, America will be no more special than the UK or Portugal despite both being world powers at one point or another.
Those wanting to put it into embedded devices, it's original intent, were ignored by Sun Microsystems.
This is patently (lol) untrue. I recall seeing Java implementations running on smart cards in 15k of RAM back around the 2k time frame.
Licensing was likely a serious issue, but there was Java in embedded spaces, so it was not "ignored". There was some other reason... likely had to do with money.
Summon the meteors, already, for our reign has gone on long enough. Let us be done with it.
Sure man... but you first. Let's make sure you really are dedicated before the rest of us miserable humans make this commitment to purging reality of our offensive existence.
What? Why are you still alive? You weren't actually serious and just passing judgement on others while excluding yourself? That's not nice.
Have a nice day. :)
Can someone explain this one to me?
Sure. Unprecedented for India or any other country that is not seen as a major space force.
But, the meanings of the words don't actually matter. Mother fucker! It was *UNPRECEDENTED! Get excited and be awed! It was unprecedented!
*For certain values of unprecedented.
Yes, this is the reason I am still on a 2013 Mac Book Pro.
My last Macbook Pro was a 5.1. I think that was from ... 2010?
I am honestly surprised you stayed with Apple for so long. I loved my 17 inch Powerbook. I liked my 15 inch Macbook Pros. Then they went back to their old proprietary ways and started soldering RAM in and other lock-in style things and I ran. I ran so far away.
Fuck Apple and fuck what they turned OS X into.
Oh. And fuck their phones too. The last one I bought was the 3GS. That was the last great phone that they produced. Antenna issues on the 4 leading all the way to current issues where this is no headphone jack and such.
No. Fuck Apple and their crappy shit.
When a company goes out of their way to say "we fucked up; we're sorry, and here is how we're going to fix it" they gain so many respect points (personally) that they're almost guaranteed I will make it worth their while in the end.
Me too; however...
I sometimes wonder if I'm the outlier, or if people are just really bad at business.
You are not the outlier, but you are a bit rare, but not an outlier.
The issue is that no company wants to actually pay the penalty for fucking up. Money is king. Nothing matters more than money. They will sing you any song in the world, but they will never, ever, in all of time, let a single penny fall from their clutching hands.
When money is your focus, ideas like "taking responsibility" and "apologizing" all equal to admitting liability which means letting pennies fall from those clutching hands.
While I agree that accounting is an EXTREMELY important aspect of business, the bottom line is that you want people to give you money. Actually earning that money takes work and it is easier to con you or defraud you out of your money than to build an actual reliable product and stand behind it.
1. Bitch ;)
2. Fuck you.
3. This site doesn't cater to morons.
4. Oh wait, you didn't do a 4 so there is nothing smartass to put here. *sigh* Next time. Maybe next time.
I recently went to a local stand up show and almost all performances were extremely bland (or about Trump)
I am of an age where I could give less than one fuck about other people's faux outrage. I should go to one of those open mic nights and trigger an entire room.
Is nagger (forgot this word was censored) a powerful word again? Are Pollacks still a target? Or do I need to get more modern and attack an immigrant lesbian mother on welfare?
Hm. I am no George Carlin but I think I can piss people off pretty good if I tried. This sounds like fun. :)
How is this Airbnb's problem? They have policies in place against them and they appear to enforce those policies. So, how is it Airbnb's problem?
No. The problem belongs completely to two parties, with a third party, the police, having to deal with this. The two parties are (wait for it, I know this will be surprising as fuck to everyone) the host and the guest.
I am not even going to read the article (is there one even linked?) because the title says, "I was written by a noob SJW who assumes they know everything about everything and if you don't agree with me, you are wrong. And I know EXACTLY where to place the blame."
Um, dude? Really? You don't know shit and flaunting your ignorance so arrogantly is, quite frankly, disgusting.
They have patents and aggressive lawyers, you probably can't build a competing tractor for a long time.
Patents? What could there possibly be to patent on a fucking tractor? IIRC, patents are for things that not obvious to anyone familiar with the subject. What could fail to be obvious about a tractor? Using GPS? How is that not obvious? Are they using some sort of new combustion technique? Surely, combustion is exhausted of all patents by now. What could possibly be patented ON A TRACTOR?
I could see Copyright on the software... but god, what an abomination of a thought. The purpose is the tractor, not the software.
I just don't see John Deere having any patents that should be considered valid.
Wait! I figured it out! They patented Air Conditioning the cab. Of course it's not obvious. Look at all the old tractors: Open to the air, no protection from sunlight, etc. And I am sure that no farmer anywhere or even tractor manufacturer anywhere, except John Deere, had the idea and the courage to add a climate controlled cab to the tractor.
Never mind. Carry on. Everything is normal.
I didn't even get in on Slashdot when it was fresh, yet my user ID should tell you how old I am.
Missed the Chips & Dip phase did we? ;)
Noob! Oh wait, for that time frame, it was still newb. Sorry.
I hear you man. I hear you; however, it does seem like American manufacturers have been infected by the same disease that infected American Automobile companies back in the 60s. I have not willingly paid money to use a car built by an American company for my entire life. Apparently, it is now extending to aircraft manufacturers too.
Cutting costs is fine. Cutting costs without valuing the customer is what America has done, which is absolutely 100% completely NOT fucking fine.
In the 70s, American Car manufacturers perfected cutting costs without regard to consumer experience. If you bought an American built car, it was guaranteed (by GM!) that you would have something major fail on the car within the first 20 thousand miles. An American vehicle that made it to 70k miles was completely unsellable as a used car. You would be lucky to be able to get the vehicle to a junk yard without towing it.
In the 80s, the American vehicle manufacturers were all going bankrupt (sound familiar?!) and Chrysler ended up in a crisis bankruptcy that the American government bailed them out of (sound familiar again?!).
The Japanese got it. They knew that the customer had to get some amount of value for their money or there would not be repeat customers. Furthermore, they weren't lazy like American executives and now, American executives get trained in (but only give lip service to) a technique created by Toyota, called ... Continuous Improvement? Crap, I forget the exact term. Anyways, it was basic common sense to everyone on the fucking planet except the privileged executives in charge of American vehicle manufacturing.
TL;DR, you have a valid point, but fuck Boeing for killing people like that.
Continued rant:
I am not ever flying on another Being product as long as I live, and I used to absolutely adore Boeing over Airbus because Boeing planes were designed to honor the pilot rather than fear the pilot. *sigh*
STOP STEALING ALL THE MONEY YOU FUCKERS! Use it to make a quality fucking product and to hire quality employees! Sure, you saved a million dollars by paying some third-world recent graduate to write the code (with poor/no specifications!), but you KILLED PEOPLE. I get it, you and your loved ones were not one of the people killed, so it doesn't matter to you, but it does matter to other people and those other people are the ones that give you money. How can you be SO FUCKING STUPID?
Meh. That was fun and a bit catharctic. Airbus might not be much better, but they have yet to intentionally kill someone through willful negligence.
Jesus H fucking Christ... the more I find out about this debacle, the more I am horrified. Why aren't executives explaining themselves in front of judges right now?
I read a comment a few days ago about how the FAA may have lost its assumed authority throughout the world over this fiasco. As I learn more, I am seeing the truth of this.
This is EXACTLY what a crumbling and unrecoverable empire looks like. I wonder if anyone will take up the banner of quality, accuracy, and pride in work now that America has completely fallen away from those ideals... It won't be China or Russia. The Japanese do some interesting stuff, but TEPCO and the subsequent handling of that disaster tells me no.
I really don't see anyone picking it up. Are we doomed to retreat back to trees and caves (over thousands of years, not tomorrow)?
And all the white nationalists talking about foreigners in this thread is sickening. Sad to see Slashdot being overrun by these maggots.
Your userid is what, 20 years old... and yet
Slashdot being overrun by these maggots
Really?! I mean REALLY?! You don't recall GNAA or any of that other crap? Slashdot has ALWAYS had some of the most obnoxious people on the Internet trying to troll since forever. There is nothing new about this. Nothing new at all.
Did you recently change your filters? Maybe that is why you are sensing that this is a new change?
The Slashdot moderation system is absurdly bad, but compared to every other system out there, it is a shining example of perfection. Rather like the fundamental ideas behind Capitalism and Democracy: absurdly bad, but a shining example of perfection compared to everything else.
Why? Is it going somewhere?
No. Urgency is needed because it short-circuits critical thought. Can't have people thinking rationally. The flow of money might get disrupted... and it is the flow of money that matters, not individual dollars.
That is EXACTLY where my brain went at first. :)
The second was killing people who obstruct progress. (was that evil?)
Our government loves to espouse their hate of socialism but when finding ways to create jobs back in their states or districts, they gladly distribute military and other large programs across the US.
Kind of. They don't do it for Socialist reasons, they do it because they get kickbacks. Legalized corruption so to speak. It has nothing to do with Socialism other than it can look like Socialism from a certain angle.
You don't see that as sexist? Let's use another demographic to make it clearer for you:
For clarity purposes, let's do it with lots of categories:
But the first black-only venture outside of the confines of the space station will have to happen on another day... In the end, both black people will have done a spacewalk -- just not together.
or
But the first Jewish-only venture outside of the confines of the space station will have to happen on another day... In the end, both Jewish people will have done a spacewalk -- just not together.
or
But the first Disabled-only venture outside of the confines of the space station will have to happen on another day... In the end, both disabled people will have done a spacewalk -- just not together.
or
But the first dog-only venture outside of the confines of the space station will have to happen on another day... In the end, both dog people will have done a spacewalk -- just not together.
You should not be surprised that AmiMoJo sees it as not sexist. Women have been held back forever! This is their time to shine! ... which is sexist, just "reverse" sexist. Which is still sexist. But of course he can't see it. He is enabling women! How could that be sexist? But it is.
People. lol. So funny. What is even more amazing is that he has a brain that works. He just has too many "rigidities" that prevent him from seeing certain things. Attack all axioms. Keep that which survives. Even if it survived before, it needs to be tested again. And again.
If that legislation hadn't passed, you'd still shelves full of incandescent bulbs and people would still be buying them.
That is the symptom of a broken market. If LED bulbs really are more efficient and save more money, then the market would have provided them as an option regardless of, and even in spite of, any legislation.
Look at crystal meth. Lots of legislation around that. Right? And yet the market continues to provide regardless of laws supposedly preventing that from happening.
The same is true of LED bulbs. You could actually legislate AGAINST them, and if they were desirable, they would still sell.
So what is going on here? Why do LED bulbs need laws to force manufacturers to produce them and citizens to buy them?
I don't know but capitalism is not being allowed to work. That much is clear.
Do I sound pissed? You're damn right. Why the fuck is one party holding the country hostage when the people have clearly voted against it?
This one is easy to answer!
Because the Democrats are no better and they are the ONLY other option available.
Sure, the Democrats don't do all the same things that piss you off about Republicans; however, they do other, equally objectionable things. DMCA comes to mind really quickly here. Stealing from state Democratic funds to increase Hillary's funding for running for president is another. Deplatforming Bernie Sanders is another. The Democrats are so fucking corrupt that if you close your eyes far enough, the Republicans can seem like a decent choice versus Democrats.
Of course, the real problem is the way voting is handled and that there are only two possible parties. With those two limitations in place, we are stuck with people like you who think "anything but Republicans", which supports the Democrats in their form of corruption.
TL;DR, the answer to your final question is larger than the way you framed it. The two party system is the short answer.
They require a receipt to actually make a claim. How many people are going to bother to keep paperwork on every light bulb in their house for ten years?
People call me an old fogey, but even the younglings seem to forget that modern technology has a solution for this: Take a fucking picture with your damned fondleslab (how long has it been since you heard THAT term?) and send that in an email to yourself with a searchable title (such as date/content) so you can find it again in 10 years when you need it.
Of course, with a userid such as yours, you MUST be at least 34 years old, and likely much older than that. So yeah, you are NOT a youngling.
But of course, you are speaking of the "average" person... but the average person can barely blow their own nose without assistance.