Like most people I thought pythons enforced white space and avoidance of braces and elimination of semicolons was constricting. Then I realized how easy it was to read other people programs.
Ever looked at the source for Anaconda, Redhat's installing program? Go ahead, take a moment...
Protecting people from evil cults (even if they got the specifics of meme transmission a bit off by choosing "X-Files" and similar) is definitely something I would like my government to do.
I do not want my government involved in such things. I want my government involved in infrastructure and physical harm mediation. Protecting me is not on my list of things a government should do.
Yes, there is some protection afforded by the fact that the government will mediate physical harm issues, but the subtle point is that it is not done for protection but to mediate after the harm has already been done. You can not actually prevent ANYTHING.
People aren't really ripping Star Wars to protest against long copyright periods. They're ripping Age of Ultron so they can watch it for free.
I am not so sure of that claim. Sure, some people are downloading it so they can watch it for free...
I am considering downloading it myself currently. I could watch a censored version in the theater. I could wait 6 months or however long for a dvd (I do not do bluray) to come out.
I downloaded the first Avengers movie for the same reason. I eventually bought the dvd and ripped that and deleted the version I had downloaded... but only because the version I had downloaded was inferior to rip I had made.
I also downloaded Star Wars. The REAL version where Han shot first and there was no CGI Jabba. I think you can guess why.
People aren't downloading cracked versions of Donkey Kong. They're downloading cracked versions of the latest Assassin's Creed.
Actually, I did download Donkey Kong last month. I wanted to try out MAME again and lost all of my old ROMs. Assassins Creed is crap, but to stay true to your argument, I did download Skyrim and Civilization 5.
DRM pisses me off and I never buy anything prepackaged anymore. I found Skyrim and Civ 5 on Steam and decided the DRM that Steam provides is a worthwhile trade for the convenience of being able to download it anywhere and anytime and play it on any computer. I plain bought GTA V through Steam without even downloading a cracked copy first... but only because the GTA series always has an interesting world to discover even if gameplay can be flat at times.
In short, downloading games is a try before you buy proposition for many people. If you like a game and never buy it, you will not continue to see good games being made.
These things would have been illegal under even the earliest and shortest periods of copyright protection. These are titles that took hundreds of people and millions of dollars of investment to make, and the law effectively requiring people to contribute in return for their copy does promote the useful arts by making such projects financially viable.
Fuck them. They lobbied for and got copyright extensions that are so beyond reasonable that those laws actually violate the entire purpose of copyright. I do not care what is right in relationship to copyright anymore. It is pure fucking war. I try to play fair but get fucked every god damned time. Fuck them. They already said fuck me.
Not that I am arguing for or against any of this... If what you say is true, then why don't I get paid for the hour+ each day I spend in traffic going to and from work?
Resisting invasion and occupation of one's country does not make one a terrorist except to the invaders.
Indeed; however, that is not entirely the case in Iraq. There were numerous groups in Iraq. All said they were doing the suicide bombing of civilians to resist America. Note how the suicide bombings of civilians never stopped once America had left.
In other words, it was terrorism with a goal of NOT resisting the evil invaders but rather to take control of the region once America had left.
Concerning IEDs and such that were killing American soldiers, I would agree with you and not call it terrorism; however, America was going to leave eventually, so in theory, it could have been called terrorism with the goal of changing American policies while America was still present... God what a clusterfuck.:(
It sucks watching officers do the 911 hangup/open line wild goose chase when there's legit emergencies to respond to.
Perhaps they could NOT respond to those types of calls from NSI phones? Being able to dial 911 from anything anywhere seems too useful to just throw away entirely.
Pro-tip: Use a modern browser and look for the little red squiggles under words. That means they are misspelled.
Pro-tip: Not all squiggles indicate misspelled words.
If you are bored someday, go back through my comments and you will see me constantly wondering why a word I am spelling has squiggles under it when it is in the dictionary.
I am unsure if browser makers merely have incomplete spell-checking or if they are trying to control language.
So you object to having fun just because it is dangerous? I would rather die having fun than live a long a long and safe life. I am pretty sure a dog would see it the same way.
To replace people behind the wheel self-driving cars only need to be +1 better than human drivers.
Hold on a second there buddy. Human drivers cover a WIDE variation in skills. Being +1 better than the average driver is NOT acceptable to me as a reason for me to give up control.
Sure, everyone thinks they are better than average. I have miles, speed, and time to prove that I am MUCH better than average.
I will allow that autonomous cars can be on the road if they are better than average, but they need to be better than the best before humans are no longer allowed to control their own vehicles.
Honestly, I would like to see how those cars fare in hostile driving conditions like Kuwait or South Korea.
Regarding cheating: Yes, because real sports, especially the professional/competitive level, is known to be free of cheaters.
ROFLCOPTER. Do you REALLY believe that? All sorts of athletes keep getting banned for cheating by using/abusing performance enhancing substances. That is just the first and most obvious example I can think of.
I have a Nexus 5. I run Cyanogenmod on it. My battery lasts at least 24 hours under regular usage.
I would highly recommend running some sort of custom ROM so that you can determine which features are available and control apps and battery usage better.
All of that crap translates to the following: By the time we hit 40's we shouldn't not be directly competing for the same type of jobs with right-out-of-school kids. Or in more general terms, we should allow ourselves to fall into a situation of having to compete with people 15-20 years our junior.
While there is good advice in your comment, I do have to ask you: Are there enough management jobs available for everyone over 40 to be a manager? Population growth has flat-lined which implies that roughly 50% of the workforce would have to be managers if your advice were taken to be a truism.
What if the cops just took him at his word and left? They'd be held liable if he really did intend to knock himself off.
WTF are you smoking? Held liable? Women were raped and murdered while on the phone with 911 and a police unit never even showed up. The judge said that the police do NOT have a responsibility to protect and serve. Police shoot people dead all the time and even in some of the grossest of negligence cases, the police walk free.
Held liable. Over a neglected suicide? Meh. When unicorns start farting iridescent rainbows on my front lawn while the fairies frolic about with the wood nymphs.
2) It potentially creates a layer between kernel and the rest of the system that becomes entrenched and irreplaceable.
You would think this reason alone should be enough to push people far away form SystemD. To me, that is probably the largest reason to avoid it, but certainly not the only valid reason.
I wish your point could be echoed loud and clear and that the concern could be addressed. I do not see how it can be addressed though.
I am not saying you are wrong but you are not right.
Da'esh got their initial serious funding from Kuwaiti and Saudi citizens who had family wronged by Iraqis during the US-led invasion of Iraq. Da'esh went into Iraq in small teams and started killing ex-military personnel, judges, etc. They made a video of these executions and other activities (which I can not say more about) and distributed the video to the "proper" personnel to prove what they had done. Those personnel then provided much larger funding and MUCH better equipment.
In short, Obama's actions may have created some of the "environment" but it was Bush, Kuwaitis, and Saudis who really created Da'esh, aka ISIS/ISIL.
They're doing it so that US businesses will pressure the NSA to stop, and then if it succeeds, China will have the upper hand in espionage.
Boo fucking hoo. If the NSA had not abused its privileges, they would not be in this position now. They should have stuck to their job instead of trying so hard to become Big Brother. This could potentially tumble America into destruction. They should have thought of that before they started this bullshit.
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Erm, uh... what about the situation where you are running 4 drives in RAID 0 but the pairs are RAID1?
I keep forgetting if that is called RAID10 or RAID0+1. Meh. Regardless, RAID0 is not just used for unimportant data.
Like most people I thought pythons enforced white space and avoidance of braces and elimination of semicolons was constricting. Then I realized how easy it was to read other people programs.
Ever looked at the source for Anaconda, Redhat's installing program? Go ahead, take a moment...
Yeah... about Python being easy to read...
Protecting people from evil cults (even if they got the specifics of meme transmission a bit off by choosing "X-Files" and similar) is definitely something I would like my government to do.
I do not want my government involved in such things. I want my government involved in infrastructure and physical harm mediation. Protecting me is not on my list of things a government should do.
Yes, there is some protection afforded by the fact that the government will mediate physical harm issues, but the subtle point is that it is not done for protection but to mediate after the harm has already been done. You can not actually prevent ANYTHING.
People aren't really ripping Star Wars to protest against long copyright periods. They're ripping Age of Ultron so they can watch it for free.
I am not so sure of that claim. Sure, some people are downloading it so they can watch it for free...
I am considering downloading it myself currently. I could watch a censored version in the theater. I could wait 6 months or however long for a dvd (I do not do bluray) to come out.
I downloaded the first Avengers movie for the same reason. I eventually bought the dvd and ripped that and deleted the version I had downloaded... but only because the version I had downloaded was inferior to rip I had made.
I also downloaded Star Wars. The REAL version where Han shot first and there was no CGI Jabba. I think you can guess why.
People aren't downloading cracked versions of Donkey Kong. They're downloading cracked versions of the latest Assassin's Creed.
Actually, I did download Donkey Kong last month. I wanted to try out MAME again and lost all of my old ROMs. Assassins Creed is crap, but to stay true to your argument, I did download Skyrim and Civilization 5.
DRM pisses me off and I never buy anything prepackaged anymore. I found Skyrim and Civ 5 on Steam and decided the DRM that Steam provides is a worthwhile trade for the convenience of being able to download it anywhere and anytime and play it on any computer. I plain bought GTA V through Steam without even downloading a cracked copy first... but only because the GTA series always has an interesting world to discover even if gameplay can be flat at times.
In short, downloading games is a try before you buy proposition for many people. If you like a game and never buy it, you will not continue to see good games being made.
These things would have been illegal under even the earliest and shortest periods of copyright protection. These are titles that took hundreds of people and millions of dollars of investment to make, and the law effectively requiring people to contribute in return for their copy does promote the useful arts by making such projects financially viable.
Fuck them. They lobbied for and got copyright extensions that are so beyond reasonable that those laws actually violate the entire purpose of copyright. I do not care what is right in relationship to copyright anymore. It is pure fucking war. I try to play fair but get fucked every god damned time. Fuck them. They already said fuck me.
Not that I am arguing for or against any of this... If what you say is true, then why don't I get paid for the hour+ each day I spend in traffic going to and from work?
I wonder why communists always seem to get a free pass on the tyranny train?
Because they lost and are no longer the major threat in the world. Rose colored glasses and such...
Resisting invasion and occupation of one's country does not make one a terrorist except to the invaders.
Indeed; however, that is not entirely the case in Iraq. There were numerous groups in Iraq. All said they were doing the suicide bombing of civilians to resist America. Note how the suicide bombings of civilians never stopped once America had left.
In other words, it was terrorism with a goal of NOT resisting the evil invaders but rather to take control of the region once America had left.
Concerning IEDs and such that were killing American soldiers, I would agree with you and not call it terrorism; however, America was going to leave eventually, so in theory, it could have been called terrorism with the goal of changing American policies while America was still present... God what a clusterfuck. :(
It sucks watching officers do the 911 hangup/open line wild goose chase when there's legit emergencies to respond to.
Perhaps they could NOT respond to those types of calls from NSI phones? Being able to dial 911 from anything anywhere seems too useful to just throw away entirely.
Pro-tip: Use a modern browser and look for the little red squiggles under words. That means they are misspelled.
Pro-tip: Not all squiggles indicate misspelled words.
If you are bored someday, go back through my comments and you will see me constantly wondering why a word I am spelling has squiggles under it when it is in the dictionary.
I am unsure if browser makers merely have incomplete spell-checking or if they are trying to control language.
So you object to having fun just because it is dangerous? I would rather die having fun than live a long a long and safe life. I am pretty sure a dog would see it the same way.
NON-Self-driving cars need to be banned.
Ever driven a Mercedes for any length of time? Ever notice how expensive sensors are always failing?
So we have a German car manufacturer, known to generally make high quality vehicles, and the sensors are constantly failing.
How would an autonomous car know what is around it? Sensors.
Solve that first before you go banning NON-Self-driving cars.
To replace people behind the wheel self-driving cars only need to be +1 better than human drivers.
Hold on a second there buddy. Human drivers cover a WIDE variation in skills. Being +1 better than the average driver is NOT acceptable to me as a reason for me to give up control.
Sure, everyone thinks they are better than average. I have miles, speed, and time to prove that I am MUCH better than average.
I will allow that autonomous cars can be on the road if they are better than average, but they need to be better than the best before humans are no longer allowed to control their own vehicles.
Honestly, I would like to see how those cars fare in hostile driving conditions like Kuwait or South Korea.
Regarding cheating: Yes, because real sports, especially the professional/competitive level, is known to be free of cheaters.
ROFLCOPTER. Do you REALLY believe that? All sorts of athletes keep getting banned for cheating by using/abusing performance enhancing substances. That is just the first and most obvious example I can think of.
As of 2009 or so, medical bills are not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
On a sidenote, why is there word such as dischargeable or sidenote? Spellcheck is odd.
I have a Nexus 5. I run Cyanogenmod on it. My battery lasts at least 24 hours under regular usage.
I would highly recommend running some sort of custom ROM so that you can determine which features are available and control apps and battery usage better.
All of that crap translates to the following: By the time we hit 40's we shouldn't not be directly competing for the same type of jobs with right-out-of-school kids. Or in more general terms, we should allow ourselves to fall into a situation of having to compete with people 15-20 years our junior.
While there is good advice in your comment, I do have to ask you: Are there enough management jobs available for everyone over 40 to be a manager? Population growth has flat-lined which implies that roughly 50% of the workforce would have to be managers if your advice were taken to be a truism.
You may believe that it is an infringement of your "freedom" to be forced to serve black people.
Fuck you.
I run a tanning salon you insensitive clod! ;)
What if the cops just took him at his word and left? They'd be held liable if he really did intend to knock himself off.
WTF are you smoking? Held liable? Women were raped and murdered while on the phone with 911 and a police unit never even showed up. The judge said that the police do NOT have a responsibility to protect and serve. Police shoot people dead all the time and even in some of the grossest of negligence cases, the police walk free.
Held liable. Over a neglected suicide? Meh. When unicorns start farting iridescent rainbows on my front lawn while the fairies frolic about with the wood nymphs.
Did you marry Angel_X11?
You nailed it on a lot of points.
2) It potentially creates a layer between kernel and the rest of the system that becomes entrenched and irreplaceable.
You would think this reason alone should be enough to push people far away form SystemD. To me, that is probably the largest reason to avoid it, but certainly not the only valid reason.
I wish your point could be echoed loud and clear and that the concern could be addressed. I do not see how it can be addressed though.
FYI, I was able to solve it with about 15-20 minutes of Googling + a reboot.
My my, how far we have come. How much more like Windows can we get?
I am not saying you are wrong but you are not right.
Da'esh got their initial serious funding from Kuwaiti and Saudi citizens who had family wronged by Iraqis during the US-led invasion of Iraq. Da'esh went into Iraq in small teams and started killing ex-military personnel, judges, etc. They made a video of these executions and other activities (which I can not say more about) and distributed the video to the "proper" personnel to prove what they had done. Those personnel then provided much larger funding and MUCH better equipment.
In short, Obama's actions may have created some of the "environment" but it was Bush, Kuwaitis, and Saudis who really created Da'esh, aka ISIS/ISIL.
Eh? The results are clear and effective. General Petraeus and Mr. Spitzer found out the hard way.
I would be surprised if these capabilities were not abused to blackmail or otherwise coerce leaders of industry and members of congress.
Someone has a LOT of power at their fingertips now because of these "programs". People are getting hurt already.
They're doing it so that US businesses will pressure the NSA to stop, and then if it succeeds, China will have the upper hand in espionage.
Boo fucking hoo. If the NSA had not abused its privileges, they would not be in this position now. They should have stuck to their job instead of trying so hard to become Big Brother. This could potentially tumble America into destruction. They should have thought of that before they started this bullshit.
Missile defence systems normally have a fully autunomous setting.
The machine is trusted not to shoot down airlines.
Worked real well in the Ukraine recently eh? (CAPTCHA is grossly relevant this time: obituary, are these really random coincidences?)