You screwed up. The current government is a joke. Bogged down in legal proceedings, and its relationship with the press is a disaster. Trump is so divisive half the country is basically pulling in the opposite direction to the other, and governance is only possible as long as the Republicans control both houses. Policies are made based on alternate facts and fake news, fed directly to Trump's brain through his favourite sources of media - Fox News, Brietbart and Infowars.
Sounds fine to me... at least compared to the industrial scale starvation of the American people that Clinton would have continued.
By any objective measure, I have been living with half the resources my parents had available. My children have half the resources that I had available. Their children will have... nothing, if this shit continues. Better to have an amazing train wreck where we all die than to allow those fuckers to kill us while they live large.
Remember when like 70% of slashdot thought that it was a good idea to put this buffoon in power because Hillary was too "establishment" and was a dumbass about classified emails?
Any regrets yet?
Nope. He is proving to be just as terrible as I thought he would; however, he is STILL a better choice than Clinton.
You do not fully understand why Clinton is so despised do you? Well, Clinton herself is not actually so terrible. Directly. It is what she would have allowed to continue that is so terrible.
The United States is crumbling around us. All of the wealth is being tied up into personal accounts of a very few people. A fucking interstate bridge fell on people and killed them. In America. Absolutely inconceivable... and yet, due to the resources all being tied up in personal accounts, people are DYING. Trump will not fight this, but he is a disruption in how that shit show works.
It is sad that the people in power essentially forced us to choose Trump as a reaction to their unholy greed. As bad as Trump wants to be, he will not be enough to cause more damage to America than the industrialized asphyxiation that a Clinton administration would have happily continued.
Don't pretend he was the better candidate, every act and objective measure demonstrates that to be false. At least be honest, you voted for him because you care more about seeing your team win politics than about your country.
I did not get the same meaning out of his words that you did... or you have weird logic.;)
What I heard him say was that he could not in all conscience vote for Clinton. The only choice left at that point is Trump. I did not hear him mention political parties at all... and yet you did mention political parties. Perhaps YOU are what is wrong with this country?
People did manage to use the internet over dial up before HTTP/HTML came along and sucked up as much bandwidth as it could!
Anything lower than 2400 baud was quite painful as I can read faster than the text can arrive. 240 bytes per second is still quite slow though. 9600 was much more usable for text.
More to the point, we stuck him there. After his travel documents were revoked, he couldn't go anywhere else.
This is something I do not understand. Passports and such are just rules. Governments break their own rules all the time. Why wouldn't they be able to break a rule about documents? Who would enforce the rule?
For example, let's say Iceland wanted to offer Snowden sanctuary or whatever. Why would they necessarily care if America has revoked Snowden's travel documents? Those are not Icelandic documents. Iceland could let him in just as easily as Russia did.
Can I remind you of some of my other predictions....
No. You are an Anonymous Coward. You have predicted everything from the fall of Rome to the splitting of the Moon. You have no history. You have no future. You have no reputation. While occasionally, deep words of wisdom are indeed uttered by you, they are one-time things and in no way related to any other things that you have said.
In short, if you want your predictions to have ANY chance of having any meaning, create an account.
Kick this whiney buttercup out of office and put a Republican in.
Then give us a real Republican to vote for. Seriously, between Trump and Clinton, Trump was the only sane choice.
Here is the REAL kicker, Trump was an insane choice overall; he only looked like a sane next to Clinton. Seriously, what the fuck is going on when the best person presented for the office of President of the United States of America is an outright scoundrel and thief?
The people who influence this country are deeply troubled. Too many groups are willing to outright slaughter in the name of an ideology. Here is an idea: If your ideology requires killing people, your ideology is likely WRONG. If your ideology requires the stripping of resources from the majority of sentient creatures, then your ideology is like WRONG.
You do not have to hug and love the person next to you, but holy shit, how about letting them live without being molested by your ideologies?
Booth babes are an annoyance to me because most are not actually beautiful, they merely have some proportions that are generally considered desirable. Furthermore, they get in the way of finding information.
On the other side of that coin, they are pleasant to look at and they do not outright prevent finding out information... There is no harm being done.
So why the outrage? Booth babes are not a big deal. Let marketers try to use booth babes if they want. This really is a non-issue. I suspect some hysterical females and some testosterone challenged males are behind this absurdity. Just chill out people. Nobody makes it out alive.
I do not understand the need to try and shove remotely hosted applications into a web browser. WTF people? Do you try to make horses fly or do you just say horses are completely unsuitable for air travel and create a jetliner?
WTF does this have to do with Trump? He may have the most anti-climate policies possible to conceive and he would not be able to make the ocean rise by a millimeter... so why bring Trump into this?
Do you have some sort of fetish for Trump? Or maybe it is just the office of President of the United States that you are so fascinated with? It is rather annoying. I do not like Trump and do not want to hear about him all the time but people like you keep bringing him up for absolutely everything.
My google-fu is a bit weak right now for some reason, but a general once said that a computer with a bullet hole in it is useless but a paper map with a bullet hole in it is still useful.
Right, As much as I hate seeing people get hurt I am hopeful this how the left with its us against them identity politics it always engages in finally burns itself out.
George W. Bush was on the left side of the spectrum? "You are either with us or against us" to paraphrase some words from a little over a decade ago.
Methinks you are missing the forest for the trees. Divide and conquer. Some are better at it than others, but "both" sides (there are not really only two sides) will use it. Even discussing this presupposes divide and conquer. How delightful.
That you need to ask this question at all might be an indicator that programming is not for you.
True in a sense.
While I really hate to roll out this tired and over-used meme, if this solution has not already answered your question, there is no hope: GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND.
Also true in a sense.
Ultimately, you are trolling... but then, your nick already shows that.
If you have to ask, then the drive is not so deep and inherent that you have already found the answer and do not need to ask. At the age of 20, it should be obvious to you whether or not programming is deep within you just bursting to get out. This part is true; however:
When I was a child (7?), I could imagine machines (before I knew that computers even existed) where you could set up switches and such in patterns that could perform certain "calculations" on arbitrary input. I put calculations in quotes because I did not think of it as calculating at that age. I also foresaw digital music but not with transistors, but physical switches.
Regardless, the first part is a troll by you because you know the truism behind what you are saying but you are intentionally neglecting the fact that everyone has to start somewhere at some point in time. His (her?) time might be now.
The second part is a more obvious troll. Sure, you can fine LOTS of information out there by using Google Search; however, what is the quality of any particular resource? Only someone "on the inside" will be able to ascertain quality from junk. Just using Google is not sufficient as then you have to do lots of original research... which has already been done exhaustively... but you do not know about any of the previous research.
Chrome prompts the user for which one (or none), and the website can then interact with the selected device.
Yes. yes. yes.
There is never an alternative path through the code that bypasses the prompt. All software engineers are very industrious about removing test code and such. Even better, all software engineers I know use safe languages like Rust so of course, there is never a way to trigger that functionality without prompting the user.
Of course, Google told the NSA to outright fuck off when asked to put in place a code-path that bypasses the prompt. Of course, the NSA employee who works at Google (without Google knowing) would never place such code in without Google management agreeing to it... which they would never do. Of course.
Sorry. In theory, theory and reality match up perfectly. In reality... not so much.
I do appreciate your facts against the uninformed hysteria here; however, the uninformed hysteria is actually the proper response here. This shit is evil and should be purged with prejudice.
OMFG. Whomever started the rumor that Trumps choices for travel bans do not include where his businesses are was a fucking genius.
The reason Saudi Arabia is not affected is because of of weapons sales. One year of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia is worth more than all of Trumps monetary wins during his entire life.
In other words, Trump couldn't do anything about Saudi Arabia even if it was his deepest darkest desire.
But of course, the meme that Trump did not add Saudi Arabia to the ban because of his business holdings, fits sooooo smoothly. Remind me again exactly how much business (monetary worth is sufficient) Trump personally has in Saudi Arabia?
Regardless of ANY of the preceding, of course Trump has no business ventures in the countries that were banned. There are already sanctions and such. It would illegal for him to have any business there.
Long story short, I did not vote for Trump, and yet all of these lies and mischaracterizations are just disgusting to see. Attack the mother fucker on legitimate grounds. It surely can't be that hard with someone like him.
It seems rather obvious that the primary reason for sleep is to conserve energy when being awake isn't very useful (at night when you can't see anything). It also makes sense that the body has then evolved to do other useful things while sleeping.
Doesn't pass the basic acid test. Why do nocturnal creatures sleep? The night is when they are active and they can see perfectly fine in the day. No need for sleep at all according to your theory.:)
Universal basic income is good and all, but with free time, leisure and this supposed surge in creativity also comes all sorts of problems that happen when you have a bunch of people with nothing else to do.
Eh? Reality says that "The Final Solution" will be implemented again. I am sure the technical details will change and if fought hard enough, the masses will be left alone to starve to death rather than "liquidated", but if there is one thing that is certain, there will be lots of pain and suffering followed by death. Soma? LOL, fuck you. You do not matter enough for Soma to be used.
Where public justice fails private 'Anonymous' action can still succeed.
Vigilante Justice: Always torturing the correct person. GG WP.
Meh. As long as someone suffers terribly for a crime not being properly addressed through official channels. The situation is even better when the person being tortured didn't actually do it but is socially unpopular anyways. The reason being is that TWO problems have been taken care of, not just one. Of course, the original criminal is still out there ready to do evil again, but that is just random. There is no way to take care of that. Fuck yeah! Vigilante Justice for the win.
I heard yesterday about a senior executive at Oracle who regularly travels internationally to places like China for meetings with suppliers. He manages about 500 people. He's now stuck in the country and unable to do a large part of his job because he happened to be born in Iran.
So what you are saying is that there is an upside to this. Note the bolded word in the quote.;)
Turns out Mozilla can't compete against the world's largest advertiser who push chrome at very opportunity.
I helped make Firefox popular. I no longer do so, because they have given no reason for Firefox to be popular anymore.
The only advantage Firefox has anymore is that it can run NoScript. People need and want control over their software. Firefox with NoScript allows me to tightly control my web browsing experience. Gnome, anything from Microsoft (operating system or browser), Chrome, anything from Apple (operating system or browser), etc all do not let you control what happens, which is why everyone gets "infected" with ransomware and other nasty shit.
Mozilla has been steadily stripping away the ability for you to control the software. Interface changes, outright removal of controls, etc. Mozilla should ask themselves this question: Would you use software that did things regardless of whether or not you wanted those things?
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You screwed up. The current government is a joke. Bogged down in legal proceedings, and its relationship with the press is a disaster. Trump is so divisive half the country is basically pulling in the opposite direction to the other, and governance is only possible as long as the Republicans control both houses. Policies are made based on alternate facts and fake news, fed directly to Trump's brain through his favourite sources of media - Fox News, Brietbart and Infowars.
Sounds fine to me... at least compared to the industrial scale starvation of the American people that Clinton would have continued.
By any objective measure, I have been living with half the resources my parents had available. My children have half the resources that I had available. Their children will have... nothing, if this shit continues. Better to have an amazing train wreck where we all die than to allow those fuckers to kill us while they live large.
Globalization is causing the lowering of wages, and it won't stop until the poorest country becomes as rich as the richest one.
Odd. The billionaires in America seem to be getting wealthier. It is only those with less than 100 million dollars that seem to be losing. Fuck that.
Remember when like 70% of slashdot thought that it was a good idea to put this buffoon in power because Hillary was too "establishment" and was a dumbass about classified emails?
Any regrets yet?
Nope. He is proving to be just as terrible as I thought he would; however, he is STILL a better choice than Clinton.
You do not fully understand why Clinton is so despised do you? Well, Clinton herself is not actually so terrible. Directly. It is what she would have allowed to continue that is so terrible.
The United States is crumbling around us. All of the wealth is being tied up into personal accounts of a very few people. A fucking interstate bridge fell on people and killed them. In America. Absolutely inconceivable... and yet, due to the resources all being tied up in personal accounts, people are DYING. Trump will not fight this, but he is a disruption in how that shit show works.
It is sad that the people in power essentially forced us to choose Trump as a reaction to their unholy greed. As bad as Trump wants to be, he will not be enough to cause more damage to America than the industrialized asphyxiation that a Clinton administration would have happily continued.
Do you understand now why Trump won the election?
Don't pretend he was the better candidate, every act and objective measure demonstrates that to be false. At least be honest, you voted for him because you care more about seeing your team win politics than about your country.
I did not get the same meaning out of his words that you did... or you have weird logic. ;)
What I heard him say was that he could not in all conscience vote for Clinton. The only choice left at that point is Trump. I did not hear him mention political parties at all... and yet you did mention political parties. Perhaps YOU are what is wrong with this country?
People did manage to use the internet over dial up before HTTP/HTML came along and sucked up as much bandwidth as it could!
Anything lower than 2400 baud was quite painful as I can read faster than the text can arrive. 240 bytes per second is still quite slow though. 9600 was much more usable for text.
More to the point, we stuck him there. After his travel documents were revoked, he couldn't go anywhere else.
This is something I do not understand. Passports and such are just rules. Governments break their own rules all the time. Why wouldn't they be able to break a rule about documents? Who would enforce the rule?
For example, let's say Iceland wanted to offer Snowden sanctuary or whatever. Why would they necessarily care if America has revoked Snowden's travel documents? Those are not Icelandic documents. Iceland could let him in just as easily as Russia did.
Can I remind you of some of my other predictions....
No. You are an Anonymous Coward. You have predicted everything from the fall of Rome to the splitting of the Moon. You have no history. You have no future. You have no reputation. While occasionally, deep words of wisdom are indeed uttered by you, they are one-time things and in no way related to any other things that you have said.
In short, if you want your predictions to have ANY chance of having any meaning, create an account.
Kick this whiney buttercup out of office and put a Republican in.
Then give us a real Republican to vote for. Seriously, between Trump and Clinton, Trump was the only sane choice.
Here is the REAL kicker, Trump was an insane choice overall; he only looked like a sane next to Clinton. Seriously, what the fuck is going on when the best person presented for the office of President of the United States of America is an outright scoundrel and thief?
The people who influence this country are deeply troubled. Too many groups are willing to outright slaughter in the name of an ideology. Here is an idea: If your ideology requires killing people, your ideology is likely WRONG. If your ideology requires the stripping of resources from the majority of sentient creatures, then your ideology is like WRONG.
You do not have to hug and love the person next to you, but holy shit, how about letting them live without being molested by your ideologies?
I just don't get why anyone cares at all...
Booth babes are an annoyance to me because most are not actually beautiful, they merely have some proportions that are generally considered desirable. Furthermore, they get in the way of finding information.
On the other side of that coin, they are pleasant to look at and they do not outright prevent finding out information... There is no harm being done.
So why the outrage? Booth babes are not a big deal. Let marketers try to use booth babes if they want. This really is a non-issue. I suspect some hysterical females and some testosterone challenged males are behind this absurdity. Just chill out people. Nobody makes it out alive.
I do not understand the need to try and shove remotely hosted applications into a web browser. WTF people? Do you try to make horses fly or do you just say horses are completely unsuitable for air travel and create a jetliner?
People. Are. Insane.
WTF does this have to do with Trump? He may have the most anti-climate policies possible to conceive and he would not be able to make the ocean rise by a millimeter... so why bring Trump into this?
Do you have some sort of fetish for Trump? Or maybe it is just the office of President of the United States that you are so fascinated with? It is rather annoying. I do not like Trump and do not want to hear about him all the time but people like you keep bringing him up for absolutely everything.
Go grab a pussy or something and relax.
My google-fu is a bit weak right now for some reason, but a general once said that a computer with a bullet hole in it is useless but a paper map with a bullet hole in it is still useful.
I do not identify with your politics but +6 insightful.
Right, As much as I hate seeing people get hurt I am hopeful this how the left with its us against them identity politics it always engages in finally burns itself out.
George W. Bush was on the left side of the spectrum? "You are either with us or against us" to paraphrase some words from a little over a decade ago.
Methinks you are missing the forest for the trees. Divide and conquer. Some are better at it than others, but "both" sides (there are not really only two sides) will use it. Even discussing this presupposes divide and conquer. How delightful.
That you need to ask this question at all might be an indicator that programming is not for you.
True in a sense.
While I really hate to roll out this tired and over-used meme, if this solution has not already answered your question, there is no hope: GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND.
Also true in a sense.
Ultimately, you are trolling... but then, your nick already shows that.
If you have to ask, then the drive is not so deep and inherent that you have already found the answer and do not need to ask. At the age of 20, it should be obvious to you whether or not programming is deep within you just bursting to get out. This part is true; however:
When I was a child (7?), I could imagine machines (before I knew that computers even existed) where you could set up switches and such in patterns that could perform certain "calculations" on arbitrary input. I put calculations in quotes because I did not think of it as calculating at that age. I also foresaw digital music but not with transistors, but physical switches.
Regardless, the first part is a troll by you because you know the truism behind what you are saying but you are intentionally neglecting the fact that everyone has to start somewhere at some point in time. His (her?) time might be now.
The second part is a more obvious troll. Sure, you can fine LOTS of information out there by using Google Search; however, what is the quality of any particular resource? Only someone "on the inside" will be able to ascertain quality from junk. Just using Google is not sufficient as then you have to do lots of original research... which has already been done exhaustively... but you do not know about any of the previous research.
Chrome prompts the user for which one (or none), and the website can then interact with the selected device.
Yes. yes. yes.
There is never an alternative path through the code that bypasses the prompt. All software engineers are very industrious about removing test code and such. Even better, all software engineers I know use safe languages like Rust so of course, there is never a way to trigger that functionality without prompting the user.
Of course, Google told the NSA to outright fuck off when asked to put in place a code-path that bypasses the prompt. Of course, the NSA employee who works at Google (without Google knowing) would never place such code in without Google management agreeing to it... which they would never do. Of course.
Sorry. In theory, theory and reality match up perfectly. In reality... not so much.
I do appreciate your facts against the uninformed hysteria here; however, the uninformed hysteria is actually the proper response here. This shit is evil and should be purged with prejudice.
OMFG. Whomever started the rumor that Trumps choices for travel bans do not include where his businesses are was a fucking genius.
The reason Saudi Arabia is not affected is because of of weapons sales. One year of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia is worth more than all of Trumps monetary wins during his entire life.
In other words, Trump couldn't do anything about Saudi Arabia even if it was his deepest darkest desire.
But of course, the meme that Trump did not add Saudi Arabia to the ban because of his business holdings, fits sooooo smoothly. Remind me again exactly how much business (monetary worth is sufficient) Trump personally has in Saudi Arabia?
Regardless of ANY of the preceding, of course Trump has no business ventures in the countries that were banned. There are already sanctions and such. It would illegal for him to have any business there.
Long story short, I did not vote for Trump, and yet all of these lies and mischaracterizations are just disgusting to see. Attack the mother fucker on legitimate grounds. It surely can't be that hard with someone like him.
It seems rather obvious that the primary reason for sleep is to conserve energy when being awake isn't very useful (at night when you can't see anything). It also makes sense that the body has then evolved to do other useful things while sleeping.
Doesn't pass the basic acid test. Why do nocturnal creatures sleep? The night is when they are active and they can see perfectly fine in the day. No need for sleep at all according to your theory. :)
Universal basic income is good and all, but with free time, leisure and this supposed surge in creativity also comes all sorts of problems that happen when you have a bunch of people with nothing else to do.
Eh? Reality says that "The Final Solution" will be implemented again. I am sure the technical details will change and if fought hard enough, the masses will be left alone to starve to death rather than "liquidated", but if there is one thing that is certain, there will be lots of pain and suffering followed by death. Soma? LOL, fuck you. You do not matter enough for Soma to be used.
He who owns the first factory producing robots with a human-level general-purpose AI will have the opportunity to rule the world.
Being alone in a world full of AI robots sounds pretty terrible. Better to die with the rest of the populace.
Where public justice fails private 'Anonymous' action can still succeed.
Vigilante Justice: Always torturing the correct person. GG WP.
Meh. As long as someone suffers terribly for a crime not being properly addressed through official channels. The situation is even better when the person being tortured didn't actually do it but is socially unpopular anyways. The reason being is that TWO problems have been taken care of, not just one. Of course, the original criminal is still out there ready to do evil again, but that is just random. There is no way to take care of that. Fuck yeah! Vigilante Justice for the win.
Except there's a strong link between red and smoked meats and increased chance of colorectal cancer.
There is something poetic about a guy named PoopJuggler having a link handy that shows a correlation between meat and colorectal cancer.
More oddly, I do not recall seeing this name until recently and yet the userid is relatively low.
I heard yesterday about a senior executive at Oracle who regularly travels internationally to places like China for meetings with suppliers. He manages about 500 people. He's now stuck in the country and unable to do a large part of his job because he happened to be born in Iran.
So what you are saying is that there is an upside to this. Note the bolded word in the quote. ;)
Many existing addons will never work under the restrictions that system places because WebExtensions offers no way to do low level customization.
If NoScript no longer functions the way it does now, Firefox will be fully and completely dead for me then. There will be no web browsers worth using.
Turns out Mozilla can't compete against the world's largest advertiser who push chrome at very opportunity.
I helped make Firefox popular. I no longer do so, because they have given no reason for Firefox to be popular anymore.
The only advantage Firefox has anymore is that it can run NoScript. People need and want control over their software. Firefox with NoScript allows me to tightly control my web browsing experience. Gnome, anything from Microsoft (operating system or browser), Chrome, anything from Apple (operating system or browser), etc all do not let you control what happens, which is why everyone gets "infected" with ransomware and other nasty shit.
Mozilla has been steadily stripping away the ability for you to control the software. Interface changes, outright removal of controls, etc. Mozilla should ask themselves this question: Would you use software that did things regardless of whether or not you wanted those things?