show us any useful software that has never had a bug......
Defend yourself sir.
The problems are not the bugs. The problem is what is CAUSING the bugs. The "We told you so" is addressing the CAUSE of the bugs, not the individual bugs themselves.
So you need to defend why your comment is not an outright troll because that is EXACTLY what you are doing whether you realize it or not.
Quite why redhat are in thrall to the arrogant little twerp in charge is anyones guess.
Eh? This is all being driven by Redhat. Poettering is merely the useful idiot in this scenario. Redhat would have chosen someone like Poettering if he was not available.
Redhat wants control. That is the answer to your question.
SystemD will be completely unavoidable in another 5 to 7 years. I just gave up on Linux two days ago. I can't use insane software and I can't fight it. The only thing left to do is quit entirely. The software world is FUCKED and there is no hope. Microsoft happily collects all of your data (including passwords and such) so that every portion of your life that touches binary communication will be available for analysis. Microsoft sells access to that data to any large group that wants it. Especially concerning since the NSA seems to have gone off the rails and forgotten that the 4th and 5th amendments take precedence over any executive orders or laws that Congress pass (unless those laws are created as a new Amendment!). Linux has Redhat using Poettering to utterly corrupt and "control" the Free Software stack.
OpenBSD is the only operating system worth using at this point. Theo may be a politically incorrect raging asshole (or not) but he has honor, ethics, and morals which appear to be impeccable.
Indeed, I already had two remote servers lost over this very issue. I never had systems fail before systemd, either. The first was one that consistently failed to shutdown, but no logging and nothing in the journal made it impossible to ever discover exactly why. Another failed to boot, and it is equally unclear why. It really is rather crappy.
Again, this is totally your fault. SystemD will do everything that syslog will do if you take the time to configure it correctly. A new paradigm is upon us and your outdated way of doing things will be flushed down the toilet. Get with the times old man, learn how to use PROPER software instead of that ancient junk that you started out with 30 years ago. The old tools are not compatible with the new reality that is upon us. Adapt or die.
(it should be noted that adapting is the same as dying since the philosophical framework behind SystemD does not support actually working correctly in the real world, but being logically coherent and consistent with reality is NOT a requirement in this new paradigm. Gotta love insanity, but meh... )
As you have been informed repeatedly in this thread...
As I said in my earlier response to you: Logic and reason do NOT apply here. The words you are arguing against have no meaning of their own, they are just words that convey the message of, "Poettering is right and everyone is wrong."
You are wasting your time arguing about any of this. (We are on the same side of all of this if it is not obvious yet)
The fact that Poettering can't see that after 10 seconds of thinking about it tells me that I wouldn't want his code anywhere near my system.
Welcome to the "Frothing at the mouth Poettering haters club". Your opinion will now be ignored because you can now be classified as a hater.
It does not matter what the reality of the situation is because this is NOT about logic or reasonableness. It is about one group forcing their power and control on another group. Logic and reasonableness have no place in a political fight for control. THAT is why there is no use discussing any of this. Poettering and Redhat have made their stance clear: They will dominate and control Linux and fuck you if you do anything that could jeopardize that control.
I am just shocked that nobody else seems to see this and call it out. But then, I have never been politically savvy so I end up calling out shit like this at all the wrong times. Meh. Linux will be a political beast no less than Microsoft and I can't help wondering why more people are not fighting against it. I want code that does what *I* want it to do, not what someone else wants it to do.
Slackware was my second distro. My first distro, Red Hat, lasted about two weeks before I had to blow it away (long but interesting story which fits right in with the current dislike of SystemD).
I tried Slackware again in 2013. Still same ncurses issues that existed back in 1997. Installing 32 bit capable software on the 64 bit version of Slackware is... an interesting exercise.
Long story short, I have VERY fond memories of Slackware but it is not a reasonable distribution for me. If/when Slackware dies, I may actually cry. It is the only "pure" Linux distribution left.
Perhaps we need to get rid of Linux kernel as well.
Funny that you should mention that... The main difference (re monolithic) between SystemD and the Linux kernel is that the Linux kernel is generally stable and well written... but yeah, we actually do need to get rid of the monstrosity that is known as the Linux kernel. Let me know when you find or create something that is a worthy successor please.
It is easy to have this misconception since the Golden Crescent region does include parts of Iran.
Mesopotamia is the land in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers... which become conjoined around Baghdad. In other words, Iraq.
I have to wonder about the this being the hottest temperature ever recorded. Summer in Baghdad 2005, early July IIRC, I saw a thermometer claim that it was ~145F. To be honest, it was the harshest heat I had ever felt in my life. I stayed inside an air conditioned room (~17C) and had to step outside from time to time as my body temperature would drop. The hot sun would feel glorious for about 10 minutes (perfect for smoking a cigarette) then going back inside to chill again. Well, on the day that I saw ~145F, I stepped outside with an unlit cigarette in my mouth and before I could light it, I stepped right the the fuck back inside not caring about missing a chance to smoke. It was so hot that even 10 seconds of it did not feel good on my semi-frozen body.
Florida is the closest I have seen to that kind of hell. Not because the temperature is so hot but that the humidity starts feeling solid after about ~98F.
If you have authority over spending, you are part of management. Reread my words and stop thinking of things being structured the way you were told they were structured. What you are describing is just a contorted form of blame passing... but yeah, you can think it was purely May and your opponent can think it was all purely the upper echelons of the police force and nothing will ever get done... because you participate gladly.
I doubt you will understand what I am getting at. No big deal. Long story short, you blame May and you are correct that some blame lies there. We can let it be here as there is no hope for you to understand anything deeper than "he did it! no, she did it!".
Without scripts, how would an interactive web application like pix2pix work?
Hm. You are correct that it does not work without scripts. I just went there and only saw a few lines of text crediting some people for something.
After turning on scripts, it seems like a nifty niche thing that could be considered useful.
I am unsure why the need for this particular app to exist requires me to agree on an architecture that is fundamentally broken. I am sure nifty apps like that can exist without twisting a markup language into an application serving protocol.
Perhaps create something not called HTML/HTTP that is specifically designed to allow interactivity? You could even use HTML within that new something.;)
There is so much foul shit on the internet right now. With scripts enabled, I have watched in horror as my web browser started downloaded hostile executable (Windows viruses) code twice this morning.
Why would you want to expose yourself to this cesspool? I am even more curious how normal Windows users keep their computer virus free for more than 24 hours nowadays. Just what the fuck is going on out there?
Turn. Off. Scripts.
To make it a bit more manageable, you can do what I have done for the past decade and use noscript in firefox... but Mozilla is saying that will be over soon.:(
For myself, if someone offers me candy wrapped in poison, my instinct is to just throw it all away rather than try to extract the candy. This is not always true but it is a good general rule for me.
TL;DR, I have no idea what "the web" has become because I have been isolated through noscript. I have no space in my heart for "necessary" apps that require a broken document model.
With the greatest possible respect always means that you wish to heap tons of disrespect upon someone but are too civilized to go down that route. Don't worry, I am used to abuse. Be as rude as your inner self wants you to be. Nobody else holds back, why should you?
Anyways, yes. I realize how things work, my comment was about how they are working the wrong way... but whatever. I should not expect anyone to actually think about any of the obvious implications of my words and I should spell every concept out like I am speaking to someone in kindergarten. The only problem with that is if I want speak about anything deeper than colours being pretty, it becomes a TL;DR.
Ah well. Such is life. Have a nice day. I will not bother to comment on any of your comments again. If I do, feel free to tear me a new one but keep in mind it was done only because I did not pay enough attention.
This sounds like a good idea. It will never be implemented though as protecting is not part of their remit. If in doubt, refer to the Supreme Court: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06...
Unfortunately, our police forces are for revenue generation and for primitive behavioural control.
Revenue could be (but not limited to) speeding tickets or prison profits.
Behavioural control is the war on * where they can lodge a case against your possessions instead of you and just take them without any legal recourse by the individual. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... if in doubt.
Long story short, government is just a bunch of brigands working together to rob everyone blind. The governments that succeed for a while are the ones smart enough to leave enough crumbs around for their victims to continue surviving. They are not advanced enough yet to farm us properly for maximum yields but they are extremely advanced at farming us for maximum efficiency.
Have no illusions, if the government happens to do something that you think is good and protecting, it is merely a serendipitous coincidence that allows them to be a little more convincing that they might have society's needs at heart.
It is cute that you think something should be centrally controlled. If you disagree with my assessment, re-read your own words. Central control is implicit within what you are saying.
For myself, I fail to see a problem, and in all actuality, I see the numerous competing distros as ideal. To me, this is just like evolution: lots of little variations with constant pressure killing off the less useful variations. Eventually, we will end up with some fairly advanced, possibly sentient, Linux distributions. It may take a few million more years, but meh. Time is not a serious issue.
If you choose not to have an enlightened and relaxed view and feel that human control MUST be impressed upon the process, then feel free to do it yourself. Nobody but people like yourself will try to stop you (cant have too much choice).
Billions of choices may be confusing for new people, but then, new people probably should be relying on those with more knowledge rather than relying on some mystical entity to put out an approved "Linux must be this way" distro.
It scares me that your words might be considered insightful. I guess I should not be surprised that government employees are jumping at shadows. America will fall if this shit keeps up.
I suspect that is still a few years off. They learned with Trusted Computing that the chains have to go on a bit more slowly for the public to not cause a fuss about it.
On a side note: Holy shit Slashdot is terrible without noscript. Actually, all of the web is. Been redirected to viruses twice so far this morning. How does this ecosystem even exist? Turn off the scripts,
I'm just entirely shocked that Microsoft's stock price hasn't cratered into the pit it deserves.
Hm. Why should their stock price go down? It is guaranteed income. Everyone needs an operating system and Microsoft has a legal stranglehold on the consumer and business markets. Microsoft could do something utterly evil, like monitor everything you do on a computer for analysis by the government and I bet there would barely even be a peep about it. Sure, some knowledgeable people will whine and complain needlessly about how such monitoring is merely to make Microsoft's products better, but the thought space that we all are subjected to has a much more controlled message on hand so you will never know if your neighbor agrees with you.
Keep watching. Feet will be obliterated in typical C++ fashion.
Too obscure?
They are shooting themselves in the foot as someone else politely pointed out higher up re: Canadian Pharmacies and US Laws.
The C++ reference is to an old quote from Bjarne: C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...
Anyways, the level of stupidity just went up several hundred notches so this should get quite entertaining as long as you are able to "dodge the crossfire" (bad pun, sue me).
you can vaccinate against NotPetya by creating and adding 3 write-protected files to your C:\Windows folder: perfc, perfc.dat, and perfc.dll.
I'm royally screwed, then. Not only does my Mac not have that folder - it won't even let me create a C: drive!
Typical Mac user. Sheesh. Any semi-competent Linux user would tell you to install Wine (or buy Cider) first. At least us Linux users do not expect our hands to be held all the time.;)
A report (PDF) from the University of Washington (UW), found that when wages increased to $13 in 2016, some companies may have responded by cutting low-wage workers' hours.
So things are never simple and more things are entwined than expected? It is almost as if all of the actual money has been removed from the economy and all that raising minimum wage is doing is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Almost.
I wonder what epic fail is coming that will open up more people's eyes? For me, it was an American Interstate Highway System bridge collapsing and killing people. For some unknown reason, I had always believed that those bridges were the best in the world and properly maintained. The concept of one collapsing would require an astoundingly huge earthquake... but no. It just fell. And now I see the American government in the same light: a fragile, barely working system that is teetering on the edge of collapse because people can only use it to extract more power and wealth for themselves.
What am I supposed to be outraged about now? A casual glance at the words seem to imply that white men are allowed to be racist while black children are allowed to be discriminated against; however, due to the weasel wording, you have to fully "get with" whatever agenda is being pushed before you can participate in any discussion about it.
TL;DR, What kind of fucked up summary is this? I only clicked on this article so I could ask that question.
Fired? The person who wouldn't give them a budget to upgrade is Prime Minister now. It was a deliberate "austerity" policy.
Um, if someone has the ability to allocate resources then they are part of management. The implication is obvious.
I guess as long as The Met can claim that it was the politicians and the politicians can blame the Met, the situation never needs to get fixed. For myself, it is all government and it has become ineffective at what is is supposed to do and should be fired/removed from responsibility.
I am going to build a guillotine. Hopefully I can put it to good use sooner rather than later. Vive la France!
You should not be modded downwards, but then, you should have never been modded up either.
You said:
The problem is that while the government fully recognises (sic) that upgrading is worthwhile, convincing tax payers that spending millions on upgrading computers is a valid thing to do is nigh on impossible.
The person above you said:
It's called managing your resources. Or maybe "scare the government into giving us more money than we need cuz look how outdated we are". Either way, the folks in charge need to be fired and the entire culture changed.
Let me re-target the discussion for you: An entity gets $x amount (through profits/taxes/whatever) to perform certain things. Management is supposed to manage $x in such a way as to ensure the proper performance of the entity.
You seem to be under the impression that the normal operation of the entity should not include budgeting resources for upkeep of the software and hardware environment. To restate what you are implying: Normal upkeep costs should always be an external expense.
If there are enough resources to upgrade from XP to 8.1 then there are resources to go from XP to 10.
This is not primarily about money. This is about an organisation that is so brittle that the organization as a whole is ineffective. What is the answer to this situation? Well, the grandparent already told you: "Either way, the folks in charge need to be fired and the entire culture changed. "
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show us any useful software that has never had a bug......
Defend yourself sir.
The problems are not the bugs. The problem is what is CAUSING the bugs. The "We told you so" is addressing the CAUSE of the bugs, not the individual bugs themselves.
So you need to defend why your comment is not an outright troll because that is EXACTLY what you are doing whether you realize it or not.
Quite why redhat are in thrall to the arrogant little twerp in charge is anyones guess.
Eh? This is all being driven by Redhat. Poettering is merely the useful idiot in this scenario. Redhat would have chosen someone like Poettering if he was not available.
Redhat wants control. That is the answer to your question.
SystemD will be completely unavoidable in another 5 to 7 years. I just gave up on Linux two days ago. I can't use insane software and I can't fight it. The only thing left to do is quit entirely. The software world is FUCKED and there is no hope. Microsoft happily collects all of your data (including passwords and such) so that every portion of your life that touches binary communication will be available for analysis. Microsoft sells access to that data to any large group that wants it. Especially concerning since the NSA seems to have gone off the rails and forgotten that the 4th and 5th amendments take precedence over any executive orders or laws that Congress pass (unless those laws are created as a new Amendment!). Linux has Redhat using Poettering to utterly corrupt and "control" the Free Software stack.
OpenBSD is the only operating system worth using at this point. Theo may be a politically incorrect raging asshole (or not) but he has honor, ethics, and morals which appear to be impeccable.
Indeed, I already had two remote servers lost over this very issue. I never had systems fail before systemd, either. The first was one that consistently failed to shutdown, but no logging and nothing in the journal made it impossible to ever discover exactly why. Another failed to boot, and it is equally unclear why. It really is rather crappy.
Again, this is totally your fault. SystemD will do everything that syslog will do if you take the time to configure it correctly. A new paradigm is upon us and your outdated way of doing things will be flushed down the toilet. Get with the times old man, learn how to use PROPER software instead of that ancient junk that you started out with 30 years ago. The old tools are not compatible with the new reality that is upon us. Adapt or die.
(it should be noted that adapting is the same as dying since the philosophical framework behind SystemD does not support actually working correctly in the real world, but being logically coherent and consistent with reality is NOT a requirement in this new paradigm. Gotta love insanity, but meh ... )
It sucks managing a lot of special snowflake servers with systemd since so often error messages don't make it to the journal.
You are doing it wrong. You can have SystemD export text logs. Go reconfigure the defaults on those thousands of servers if you don't like it.
As you have been informed repeatedly in this thread ...
As I said in my earlier response to you: Logic and reason do NOT apply here. The words you are arguing against have no meaning of their own, they are just words that convey the message of, "Poettering is right and everyone is wrong."
You are wasting your time arguing about any of this. (We are on the same side of all of this if it is not obvious yet)
The fact that Poettering can't see that after 10 seconds of thinking about it tells me that I wouldn't want his code anywhere near my system.
Welcome to the "Frothing at the mouth Poettering haters club". Your opinion will now be ignored because you can now be classified as a hater.
It does not matter what the reality of the situation is because this is NOT about logic or reasonableness. It is about one group forcing their power and control on another group. Logic and reasonableness have no place in a political fight for control. THAT is why there is no use discussing any of this. Poettering and Redhat have made their stance clear: They will dominate and control Linux and fuck you if you do anything that could jeopardize that control.
I am just shocked that nobody else seems to see this and call it out. But then, I have never been politically savvy so I end up calling out shit like this at all the wrong times. Meh. Linux will be a political beast no less than Microsoft and I can't help wondering why more people are not fighting against it. I want code that does what *I* want it to do, not what someone else wants it to do.
Slackware was my second distro. My first distro, Red Hat, lasted about two weeks before I had to blow it away (long but interesting story which fits right in with the current dislike of SystemD).
I tried Slackware again in 2013. Still same ncurses issues that existed back in 1997. Installing 32 bit capable software on the 64 bit version of Slackware is... an interesting exercise.
Long story short, I have VERY fond memories of Slackware but it is not a reasonable distribution for me. If/when Slackware dies, I may actually cry. It is the only "pure" Linux distribution left.
Perhaps we need to get rid of Linux kernel as well.
Funny that you should mention that... The main difference (re monolithic) between SystemD and the Linux kernel is that the Linux kernel is generally stable and well written... but yeah, we actually do need to get rid of the monstrosity that is known as the Linux kernel. Let me know when you find or create something that is a worthy successor please.
What? Did you think Linux was a religion? lol
Isn't Iran in the old Mesopotamia region?
It is easy to have this misconception since the Golden Crescent region does include parts of Iran.
Mesopotamia is the land in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers... which become conjoined around Baghdad. In other words, Iraq.
I have to wonder about the this being the hottest temperature ever recorded. Summer in Baghdad 2005, early July IIRC, I saw a thermometer claim that it was ~145F. To be honest, it was the harshest heat I had ever felt in my life. I stayed inside an air conditioned room (~17C) and had to step outside from time to time as my body temperature would drop. The hot sun would feel glorious for about 10 minutes (perfect for smoking a cigarette) then going back inside to chill again. Well, on the day that I saw ~145F, I stepped outside with an unlit cigarette in my mouth and before I could light it, I stepped right the the fuck back inside not caring about missing a chance to smoke. It was so hot that even 10 seconds of it did not feel good on my semi-frozen body.
Florida is the closest I have seen to that kind of hell. Not because the temperature is so hot but that the humidity starts feeling solid after about ~98F.
If you have authority over spending, you are part of management. Reread my words and stop thinking of things being structured the way you were told they were structured. What you are describing is just a contorted form of blame passing... but yeah, you can think it was purely May and your opponent can think it was all purely the upper echelons of the police force and nothing will ever get done... because you participate gladly.
I doubt you will understand what I am getting at. No big deal. Long story short, you blame May and you are correct that some blame lies there. We can let it be here as there is no hope for you to understand anything deeper than "he did it! no, she did it!".
Have a nice day. :)
Without scripts, how would an interactive web application like pix2pix work?
Hm. You are correct that it does not work without scripts. I just went there and only saw a few lines of text crediting some people for something.
After turning on scripts, it seems like a nifty niche thing that could be considered useful.
I am unsure why the need for this particular app to exist requires me to agree on an architecture that is fundamentally broken. I am sure nifty apps like that can exist without twisting a markup language into an application serving protocol.
Perhaps create something not called HTML/HTTP that is specifically designed to allow interactivity? You could even use HTML within that new something. ;)
There is so much foul shit on the internet right now. With scripts enabled, I have watched in horror as my web browser started downloaded hostile executable (Windows viruses) code twice this morning.
Why would you want to expose yourself to this cesspool? I am even more curious how normal Windows users keep their computer virus free for more than 24 hours nowadays. Just what the fuck is going on out there?
Turn. Off. Scripts.
To make it a bit more manageable, you can do what I have done for the past decade and use noscript in firefox... but Mozilla is saying that will be over soon. :(
For myself, if someone offers me candy wrapped in poison, my instinct is to just throw it all away rather than try to extract the candy. This is not always true but it is a good general rule for me.
TL;DR, I have no idea what "the web" has become because I have been isolated through noscript. I have no space in my heart for "necessary" apps that require a broken document model.
With the greatest possible respect always means that you wish to heap tons of disrespect upon someone but are too civilized to go down that route. Don't worry, I am used to abuse. Be as rude as your inner self wants you to be. Nobody else holds back, why should you?
Anyways, yes. I realize how things work, my comment was about how they are working the wrong way... but whatever. I should not expect anyone to actually think about any of the obvious implications of my words and I should spell every concept out like I am speaking to someone in kindergarten. The only problem with that is if I want speak about anything deeper than colours being pretty, it becomes a TL;DR.
Ah well. Such is life. Have a nice day. I will not bother to comment on any of your comments again. If I do, feel free to tear me a new one but keep in mind it was done only because I did not pay enough attention.
This sounds like a good idea. It will never be implemented though as protecting is not part of their remit. If in doubt, refer to the Supreme Court: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06...
Unfortunately, our police forces are for revenue generation and for primitive behavioural control.
Revenue could be (but not limited to) speeding tickets or prison profits.
Behavioural control is the war on * where they can lodge a case against your possessions instead of you and just take them without any legal recourse by the individual. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... if in doubt.
Long story short, government is just a bunch of brigands working together to rob everyone blind. The governments that succeed for a while are the ones smart enough to leave enough crumbs around for their victims to continue surviving. They are not advanced enough yet to farm us properly for maximum yields but they are extremely advanced at farming us for maximum efficiency.
Have no illusions, if the government happens to do something that you think is good and protecting, it is merely a serendipitous coincidence that allows them to be a little more convincing that they might have society's needs at heart.
It is cute that you think something should be centrally controlled. If you disagree with my assessment, re-read your own words. Central control is implicit within what you are saying.
For myself, I fail to see a problem, and in all actuality, I see the numerous competing distros as ideal. To me, this is just like evolution: lots of little variations with constant pressure killing off the less useful variations. Eventually, we will end up with some fairly advanced, possibly sentient, Linux distributions. It may take a few million more years, but meh. Time is not a serious issue.
If you choose not to have an enlightened and relaxed view and feel that human control MUST be impressed upon the process, then feel free to do it yourself. Nobody but people like yourself will try to stop you (cant have too much choice).
Billions of choices may be confusing for new people, but then, new people probably should be relying on those with more knowledge rather than relying on some mystical entity to put out an approved "Linux must be this way" distro.
I am unsure why you are modded funny.
It scares me that your words might be considered insightful. I guess I should not be surprised that government employees are jumping at shadows. America will fall if this shit keeps up.
I suspect that is still a few years off. They learned with Trusted Computing that the chains have to go on a bit more slowly for the public to not cause a fuss about it.
On a side note: Holy shit Slashdot is terrible without noscript. Actually, all of the web is. Been redirected to viruses twice so far this morning. How does this ecosystem even exist? Turn off the scripts,
I'm just entirely shocked that Microsoft's stock price hasn't cratered into the pit it deserves.
Hm. Why should their stock price go down? It is guaranteed income. Everyone needs an operating system and Microsoft has a legal stranglehold on the consumer and business markets. Microsoft could do something utterly evil, like monitor everything you do on a computer for analysis by the government and I bet there would barely even be a peep about it. Sure, some knowledgeable people will whine and complain needlessly about how such monitoring is merely to make Microsoft's products better, but the thought space that we all are subjected to has a much more controlled message on hand so you will never know if your neighbor agrees with you.
Keep watching. Feet will be obliterated in typical C++ fashion.
Too obscure?
They are shooting themselves in the foot as someone else politely pointed out higher up re: Canadian Pharmacies and US Laws.
The C++ reference is to an old quote from Bjarne: C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...
Anyways, the level of stupidity just went up several hundred notches so this should get quite entertaining as long as you are able to "dodge the crossfire" (bad pun, sue me).
you can vaccinate against NotPetya by creating and adding 3 write-protected files to your C:\Windows folder: perfc, perfc.dat, and perfc.dll.
I'm royally screwed, then. Not only does my Mac not have that folder - it won't even let me create a C: drive!
Typical Mac user. Sheesh. Any semi-competent Linux user would tell you to install Wine (or buy Cider) first. At least us Linux users do not expect our hands to be held all the time. ;)
A report (PDF) from the University of Washington (UW), found that when wages increased to $13 in 2016, some companies may have responded by cutting low-wage workers' hours.
So things are never simple and more things are entwined than expected? It is almost as if all of the actual money has been removed from the economy and all that raising minimum wage is doing is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Almost.
I wonder what epic fail is coming that will open up more people's eyes? For me, it was an American Interstate Highway System bridge collapsing and killing people. For some unknown reason, I had always believed that those bridges were the best in the world and properly maintained. The concept of one collapsing would require an astoundingly huge earthquake... but no. It just fell. And now I see the American government in the same light: a fragile, barely working system that is teetering on the edge of collapse because people can only use it to extract more power and wealth for themselves.
What am I supposed to be outraged about now? A casual glance at the words seem to imply that white men are allowed to be racist while black children are allowed to be discriminated against; however, due to the weasel wording, you have to fully "get with" whatever agenda is being pushed before you can participate in any discussion about it.
TL;DR, What kind of fucked up summary is this? I only clicked on this article so I could ask that question.
But either way it's pretty obvious the problem is a lack of funding...
Eh? There are PLENTY of funds. It is the distribution of those funds that are an issue.
Fired? The person who wouldn't give them a budget to upgrade is Prime Minister now.
It was a deliberate "austerity" policy.
Um, if someone has the ability to allocate resources then they are part of management. The implication is obvious.
I guess as long as The Met can claim that it was the politicians and the politicians can blame the Met, the situation never needs to get fixed. For myself, it is all government and it has become ineffective at what is is supposed to do and should be fired/removed from responsibility.
I am going to build a guillotine. Hopefully I can put it to good use sooner rather than later. Vive la France!
You should not be modded downwards, but then, you should have never been modded up either.
You said:
The problem is that while the government fully recognises (sic) that upgrading is worthwhile, convincing tax payers that spending millions on upgrading computers is a valid thing to do is nigh on impossible.
The person above you said:
It's called managing your resources. Or maybe "scare the government into giving us more money than we need cuz look how outdated we are". Either way, the folks in charge need to be fired and the entire culture changed.
Let me re-target the discussion for you: An entity gets $x amount (through profits/taxes/whatever) to perform certain things. Management is supposed to manage $x in such a way as to ensure the proper performance of the entity.
You seem to be under the impression that the normal operation of the entity should not include budgeting resources for upkeep of the software and hardware environment. To restate what you are implying: Normal upkeep costs should always be an external expense.
If there are enough resources to upgrade from XP to 8.1 then there are resources to go from XP to 10.
This is not primarily about money. This is about an organisation that is so brittle that the organization as a whole is ineffective. What is the answer to this situation? Well, the grandparent already told you: "Either way, the folks in charge need to be fired and the entire culture changed. "
I hope this helped you. :)