Sorry friend but you can't just do that anymore, you can't even keep gas in your car with a minimum wage job as they won't let you get full time hours anymore, he looked at the GI Bill but considering how they have refused to let soldiers leave when their enlistment is up? No thanks, not to mention his grandma is getting up there in years and her health is declining and if my mom passed on while he was overseas he would be devastated, and its pretty much just the one college here as the only other one in the state is a 120 mile round trip which again, gas prices.
So its all well and good you got lucky by being born at the right time but...that America? Really doesn't exist now, being 19 today is a hell of a lot different than being 19 then, nobody will give you full time hours, jobs are scarce, there just isn't any real paying jobs to be had. Hell I've had 3 guys, including one in his 50s bless his heart, trying to get the job mowing my mother's lawn, things are THAT bad now friend.
The reason you are seeing this crap in the press is the same reason you always see things pushed that don't match the evidence...money.
In this case several of the usual suspects, including Goldman Sachs which if anything is dirty or underhanded you just KNOW they are getting a cut, have a nice scam built around Cap & Trade, complete with shell companies and loopholes galore for their friends, it'll be a tax on everyone but the upper 5% who will be handed the money on a silver platter, the biggest reverse robin hood since the robber barons were handed the Indian lands in the 1800s so its gonna be an orgy of greed if they can get that shit passed.
Which is why i urge even those that support AGW to be against Cap & Trade, Crap & Trade is like saying "There is pollution in the world...so i get to rob your house" one does nothing to change the other, has nothing to do with the other, because the worst offenders already have their loopholes you can drive a truck through like ZERO PENALTIES for simply exporting the factories to India and China, both of whom have already said they will NOT play the crap & trade game.
So if you are for less pollution? hey so am I, what a coincidence...now explain to me how giving billions of dollars to Goldman Sachs and pals is gonna do a damned thing about that. Do not let them fool you with their press mouthpiece screaming "We have to do something!" No we do not have to do SOMETHING, we have to do SOMETHING EFFECTIVE, hell of a big difference between those two statements.
Yep, got a nephew that is gonna end up having to drop out of college halfway through because he can't get the aid to finish even though he has high marks while the same school trips over themselves to court these third and fourth generation money kids that can just fuck off for four years for all they care, they'll have a diploma and a cushy job waiting at daddy's firm when they get out. He is gonna end up buried in 37k of debt without even a piece of paper, damned shame is what it is, poor kid worked his ass off and got screwed..
George Carlin said it best "Its called the American Dream...because you have to be asleep to believe in it"
Translation "Wahh he won't drink the GNUaid, he's a dirty poo poo head". NO counter arguments, NO defense of your shitty driver model, ONLY insults.
I on the other hand can wallpaper this page with citations proving without a SHADOW of a doubt that I am correct, i can give you major OEMs having the drivers break, countless pages of users having their drivers break, I can even post "advice" on the forums that you should NEVER update Linux, even with critical security patches because...drumroll...drivers break!
Its been 20 years and you are still lower than the margin for error, true or false? Every B&M has tried selling your OS on units only to quickly abandon it, true or false? not a SINGLE OS other than Torvalds uses his piss poor driver model, including the other two major FOSS OSes, true or false? You can't even take a GPU driver from 3 years ago and run it on the latest release, true or false?
Nobody is taking your OS because its not free as in beer or freedom, its free as in worthless. it doesn't have to be this way, but as long as users like you accept garbage and call it ambrosia things will NEVER get any better, Linux will NEVER gain any share, because the planet isn't made up of those that will treat an OS like a religion. Its a tool and either the tool works or it does not, i can prove with the challenge that it does not, checkmate.
Nope they use knives, which ended up with the lawmakers actually arguing about regulating the owning of KNIVES in the country! I guess the people in the UK better get used to soup, no steak for you!
And I can pick up a pipe for $2 in any scrap yard in America that will be strong enough to fire a standard.38 round...your point?
This is what one security researcher called the "threat of a TV plot" scenario where they are acting like a "24" style plot is a real significant threat while ignoring there are a million easier and cheaper ways to attain the same end result.
I mean which do YOU think is more likely, a criminal spend a good $3k+ on the equipment and training required to operate the equipment just to make a plastic gun that can maybe shoot a clip before it starts failing, or spending $500 on the black market for an AK or a Glock that will fire hundreds or even thousands of rounds without fail? Hell even if they wanted for some reason to go DIY a half an hour in any machine shop with maybe $50 worth of raw materials and they would end up with a MUCH better weapon than what they would get from this $3k+ printer.
This is like passing a law against owning a bat'leth because somebody might use it in a crime while ignoring the guy selling a machine gun kit for $50, it just doesn't make any sense logically no matter how you spin it.
I think even that pales in comparison to how any machine shop in America could build MUCH better for MUCH cheaper. Basically this is like banning James bond ejector seats while telling that guy building a technical out of a pickup truck "Nah you can go right ahead".
Lets face it friend criminals by their very nature are lazy and are gonna go with the path of least resistance, so you have someone wanting to ban lasers because they could possibly be used to cut open an ATM to rob it when the crook can just yank the thing out of the ground with a chain tied to a truck. Any way you slice it the logic behind this just doesn't make any damned sense.
Isn't the.223 roughly the same as the 5mm NATO round? And I agree as a southerner that has grown up around guns all his life i don't remember ever hearing of a "wounding shell". I mean sure some have more stopping power than others and if you were to shoot an intruder with say a 22 round its gonna be a lot more likely to just wound than say a.44 mag. But even the 22 was designed for animals, where I come from they call it a "varmint" round and is usually used to deal with snakes, rats, anything small and nasty where you don't want or need a large round to deal with the problem. We pretty much always carry a 22 pistol in the summer just for that reason, you run into a snake on a creek bank during dog days when the snakes will strike at anything and are really aggressive? You'll be glad you have that 22 pistol with you.
How I learned about it was a documentary, sorry i can't remember the name as it was ages ago, which was basically "the history of repression in the USA, 1890-1990" and one of the things brought up was how when the slaves were first freed? It was a HANGING OFFENSE for a black man to even OWN a gun in several areas. Then when those laws were no longer allowed just as with poll taxes they came up with ways to make sure that "fear of an armed negro" such as demonizing any gun that could be had for cheap because guess who couldn't afford an expensive firearm?
Then the head of the rainbow coalition came on and explained the whole history of "fear of an armed negro" while they showed clips of everything from Birth Of A Nation to news broadcasts of Black Panthers and while he is explaining this they put on screen the senators and congressmen who had written and lobbied hard for gun laws...and what else they had lobbied for. Several had lobbied for Jim Crow laws, one had lobbied for a permanent curfew for blacks to "curb violence" and they put up clips from these gun control advocates speeches and...yeah. I was shocked I didn't actually hear the word "uppity nigger" because i heard every way you could allude to that, from "inner city thugs" to "armed ghettos" and it was clear just by their own words that it really did all boil down to fear of an armed negro.
Like I said no matter which side of the debate you are on I urge everyone to look this stuff up, as it really is shocking how many of the laws on the books were put there by men so damned racist it was incredible, we are talking guys that sounded like something out of the Klan. I know I had never thought that gun laws could be racist before seeing that and after seeing the evidence now i at least have to think about it, because it was pretty damned obvious "fear of an armed negro" really did shape a lot of our gun laws from the 1890s-1990s.
But they could easily do this without being assholes about it, which i would argue they have been with regard to previous cancellations. Instead of merely pulling the plug they should say "Well this doesn't really fit where we are going, but here is the code so if somebody wants to set up their own back end and keep this going that is fine by us, we'll give you 90 days before pulling the plug to get something set up".
If they would do that then not only would pulling a plug not hurt them, it would give people MORE confidence and willingness to try their new services as they would know "Well if i start to depend on this and they pull the plug at least they will let somebody else take over so as long as there is a dev willing to support this i won't end up losing anything". Instead as the other poster pointed out they are getting the rep i alluded to, where you should avoid anything made by Google unless/until it has become a proven megahit because there is a good chance it'll get the rug pulled out from under it.
And I really get pissed by some of these posts that boil down to "Its free you can't complain" oh really? so if i give you a free shit sandwich you should just eat it and not complain? just because the software costs nothing does NOT mean that the time or effort i invested in using it is likewise worthless, nor is their reputation which is damaged with users every time they kill something that had those users depending on it.
Its clickbait, its a sensational headline to make everyone think "ZOMFG if I have Fallout or Skyrim i could get teh viruz!" when IRL probably the most that will come of this will be some +whatever trainers.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep an eye on games, personally I'm waiting for it to come out some big FTP MMO has a backdoor the size of Kansas because they wanted the ability to insert ads later but this? The guy is using the console to manipulate the program...and?
Can you get 10 years worth of patches for Ubuntu 8? No? then sorry it very much IS a fair comparison and frankly the only comparison you can make, unless you are actually sitting here arguing that the lifecycle of a PC is the same length as an Ubuntu release, is that what you are trying to convince us of here? When you have one OS that abandons users after a pathetic year and a half and another that gives you 10 years then frankly the ONLY comparisons you CAN do is to base the simulation on the hardware not the software,otherwise no comparisons can be made at all.
But like so many others here whether by design or just by not thinking you ignored the fundamental point...I'm giving you a test ALREADY rigged in your favor by only making your OS have HALF the lifecycle of your competition and nobody will take the challenge because they know even in a test rigged in Linux favor they WILL lose, thanks to the piss poor driver model.
As a PC retailer I can tell you the typical lifecycle of a laptop is currently 3-5 years depending on how much or little they baby it, and for desktops its even older, with plenty of first gen C2D and Athlon X2s still running in homes and offices across America...do you dispute this? if not then what is the problem, other than you know the product is so poor it won't pass even a simple simulation?
At the end of the day either your product works or it don't and the challenge can trivially let anybody see that it doesn't. If I as a retailer can't even put your product on a shelf because there is a damned good chance that the first update will break wireless, the second sound, and so on so that in 3 years time they have a system that makes an old XP box filled with malware look like heaven because at least the hardware works, what is your selling point? that if they want to get a masters in comp sci they can fix it themselves? Who gives a shit?
The simple fact is Windows can pass this test with flying colors, I can take a 10 year old box and install Win2K and simulate the entire lifespan of the OS, from the very first patches to the ones released a month before it went EOL and the drivers working at the start WILL be working at the end, with your product? Even only picking 2 random systems off the shelf and only having to show half the length of time your OS WILL FAIL, hell in just the past 5 years you've had both major DEs tossed by the devs, ALSA replaced by the shitastic Pulse that is deep fried ass to this very day when it comes to stability, and of course you got Linus crapping all over the kernel so shit that worked in Foo won't work in Foo+1. if your system was great, why has nobody, not a single OS, adopted it? Not BSD, not Solaris, nobody.
Ironic that so many here can only throw insults which is just further proof they are afraid because they know the truth, its the same thing Dell saw when they tried selling Linux units which riddle me this: If one of the largest OEMs on the planet can NOT get your product to function without having to run their own fork? What chance does a normal user have?
Uhhh...having trouble reading posts I take it? Sure Australia has a lot of land mass...with practically no population on a good 70%+ of it. Now compare Australia to North AND South america put together, because THAT is reality here, with countries THIS close together and so many boats and planes the borders really don't mean shit so all I need is a single "Die Yankee dog!" country that will let me bring in loads of anything I want (of which there are several in South America) and I WILL be able to get it into the USA, again look at the millions of pounds of smack and coke and even thousands of slaves (last i checked the USA is estimated to have over 30,000 slaves in the country right now) because on a land mass that fricking huge its impossible to stop.
And can you please show me where I said anything about the people of New York? I said quite clearly "NYC Cowardice Rules" which is not the people but the government of the state along with their LEOs that shovel that horseshit, time and time again we have seen criminals slaughter the victims regardless of what they do, but every single thing you hear from officials in that state can be summed up as "You are weak,crawl and beg and maybe after he's done raping and robbing he won't murder you, don't resist". We have even seen their prosecutors try to punish the VICTIM for daring to fight back, like that store owner they had a few years ago where the prosecutor tried to nail the victim because as he was bleeding on the floor where he had already been shot by the criminal (who didn't ask for anything IIRC, just shot him THEN went for the register) who managed to crawl to his gun and shot the criminal in the back which i guess just isn't sporting. Fuck in the south he would have gotten a medal.
But please go back to advocating being prey, because at the end of the day that is what you are, they are the predator, you are the prey. And if you think the cops will save you might want to look up Castle Rock V Gonzales to see what the courts said about that.
Then welcome to slavery as that can apply to just about any sentence. "Work like a dog for less than a living wage" No, "I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to this guy who's just been reassigned to your former position." See how easily that fits?
If everyone adopts YOUR attitude we might as well just go ahead and pull the plug on the WWW now, because it'll be "The Home Shopping Network, now with extra domestic spying and DRM!" in less time than it takes to say wage slave.
I hate to say this but frankly its true...its Google, what did you or anybody else expect?
Its one of "those" rules, like how you don't buy a MSFT mobile product before the press has officially declared it a hit as MSFT pulls the plug quickly, in the same vein one doesn't use nor should care about any Google service that has less than 10 million users because with Google there really only is two states of a service, runaway hit or dying. There really seems to be no third state with them and it doesn't even matter if they are making enough in ads from a product that it isn't losing money, either its a smash hit and stays that way or its adios.
Its a damned shame and I felt sorry for those in the early days who didn't have this rule but by now it should be obvious that is just how things work at Google.
Dude have you EVER been around a junkie? Because I've played in mob bars and behind chicken wire and I've known more than my fair share of junkies and fools. again if the argument held then there would be ZERO credit cards stolen since every ATM has built in cameras making it practically 100% that you WILL be caught...yet they still do it.
Hell if for no other reason they'd keep stealing them because having certain models are status symbols, whether they work or not being seen with one is a status thing. Would it help? Possibly but I doubt it, criminals just aren't that bright, look at how many cut open fiber optics to steal copper, or electrocute themselves trying to steal power lines which is worth less per pound than a set of rims off a sportscar. You are thinking logically, but logic and criminals really don't go together, hell I should know as i had a cousin that did 5 years for stealing AIR, not oxygen...air. Stupid fucker broke into a dentist's office and couldn't even think of a way to tell the tanks apart...like say turning one on for a sec and smelling it, so he went eany meany and got an air tank.
Ya know why? Because they CAN't deny it, because I can fricking wallpaper this post in "update foo broke my driver" posts and they KNOW this, so all they can do is throw a tantrum like a petulant child or say "Ur a bad mean old poo poo head". You see i'm their worst fricking nightmare...A retailer that has actually USED their product and ended up seeing the same thing Dell saw which is their driver model is BROKEN. I mean here is Dell, one of the largest retailers of PCs on the entire fricking planet, and they were selling...what? maybe a dozen different Linux units MAX? And they couldn't even keep drivers functional on a dozen units, maybe 8 fricking pieces of hardware all told?
The sad part is unlike the koolaid drinkers I WANT Linux to get better, I WANT Linux to pass the challenge, I WANT Linux to be a functional OS...but its not. Its really not. And notice how quickly they dismiss my challenge? If their product works and they believe in it... what are they afraid of? hell i even tilt the test in their favor which anybody doing a legitimate test should NEVER do by only giving them HALF the support cycle of Windows, yet all they can do is insult and try to make me out to be a bad man...why? Why are they so afraid if their product works?
Because it doesn't work and they KNOW this, but like any religious zealot (which is why I call 'em FOSSies instead of Freetards) that is told something against dogma it just can't be true, the scripture HAS to be right. this is why I've blocked the Linux articles from my feeds and have learned to ignore them as its always the same routine, "ur a sekret M$ ninja", "let's move the goal posts", "lets talk about web servers" when the topic is the desktop, its the entire circle of loon bit. Know what I find truly depressing and sad? Go to Linux TM Repo, which was set up as a fricking joke site to lampoon the FOSS zealots, and look at their top 20 Linux TMs, go on I'll wait...there you have just seen EVERY argument they have right there, from "it works for me!" to "Linux runs on supercomputers" its just the same excuses, the same insults, they simply can't face reality so instead of doing something about the situation they just insult all those that don't drink the GNUaid.
You watch they will probably downmod us both to hell rather than even attempt to come up with a counter argument,its because they can't. They piss and moan and make excuses like "companies don't support us!" yet I can take my HD4850 graphics card, uninstall the latest driver, and install the nearly 5 year old driver that came on the disc and it WILL work, when you can't even take the driver from last year and use it on the latest kernel thanks to the stupid ass backwards way Linus set up the driver model. I mean here it is 2013 and a company STILL can't just put a penguin on the God damned box because the drivers on the CD won't even work before it gets to the shelves...how pathetic is that?
Bullshit they buy from bumfuckistan by a pretty large margin which is why AG Holder committed numerous crimes and should be in a holding cell looking at a death penalty case over Fast & Furious. But you keep right on chugging the koolaid friend, i'm sure the government would NEVER lie to you.
Thank you. I mean for the love of Christ does anybody think the rapist murdering scum that did the Wichita massacre would have said "ya know, i really want to rob that house, repeatedly rape the women, and kill them all, but the law says i can't have a gun so i guess i'll go play bingo".
It just shows George Carlin was right, the meaning of words is of extreme importance, when people are gonna honestly sit here and argue laws are gonna be obeyed by criminals without even considering what the word criminal means. All the laws have EVER done is punish AFTER the fact, its not gonna make the criminal think twice before he does a crime because after all, if I'm looking at multiple counts of rape, murder, robbery, drugs, etc do you REALLY think i'm gonna give a rat fuck if you add a weapons beef? that would be like saying that slaver in Ohio is in trouble now, he had unsafe living conditions so he's screwed!
The only weapon you'd make with the Staples printer would be a suicide machine as the first trigger pull and it would explode, you can NOT use an ordinary 3D printer, it has to be industrial grade that can handle processing high stress plastics. And as far as untraceable...how are you gonna trace a zip gun? Hell how are you gonna trace a gun i buy from some dope dealer who traded a few kilos for a shipment from bumfuckistan?
But all of that misses the even bigger point, regulating 3D printers would be like arresting someone at the airport for having nail clippers while ignoring the guy walking in with the RPG.
The simple fact is in any machine shop, of which there have to be thousands if not tens of thousands in the USA, you can make something MUCH more deadly and accurate than the best a 3D printer can make, and while a printer that can process high stress plastic costs a minimum of $5k (and that price is unlikely to go down because it simply costs more to manufacture) whereas $300 worth of metal, hell even $5 worth of scrap metal from any salvage yard, could make a weapon superior in every possible metric to this 3D printer gun.
So not only are the crazy hoop gun laws stupid just on GP but this law is thumb up your ass retarded since its ignoring that ANY criminal could make something MUCH better without any stupid blueprints with nothing but scrap tubing and a few tools...we gonna regulate pipes next?
Why did he get modded down? look at the history of gun laws in this country and like poll taxes a LOT of them were designed to keep them "uppity niggers" from having guns. Look at how the media has demonized the so called "Saturday Night Special"...wanna guess which minority favored those for home protection in the 40s-70s?
I can't remember which black leader said it, i think the head of the rainbow coalition, that "No matter how you feel about gun laws if you look at them, trace them back to their roots, you'll find a lot of them can be summed up as "fear of an armed negro" because an armed negro can fight back, its a lot more risky to try to lynch an armed negro than a defenseless one" and sadly he is right, look up who wrote the gun laws of the 30s-70s and its the same ones that were supporting Jim Crow and separate but equal. No matter how you feel about the gun laws i urge you to read more about it, what you find will probably shock you.
Thanks for the link but you'd think common fricking sense would tell you its not gonna work. does it work in the UK? Sure it does and in Australia too because they are islands and its really not that hard with today's tech to police an island.
Now compare this to North and South America, which you would have to look at as one entity since the massive borders and literally millions of fast boats (coke boats) and light aircraft means that the borders between countries on this land mass mean jack and squat, and you can see just by using common fricking sense why this shit ain't gonna work. How many fucking years has America had a "war on drugs" going now? 80+ years isn't it? yet I can walk out my door even in BF AR and score any drug i want in less than 2 hours, less than 1 hour if you exclude driving time...you think guns will ever be ANY different? think Mr Dope Dealer would have ANY problem selling me an AK if draconian gun laws mean he can make several hundred percent profit on each gun?
The sad part is this has become a left/right issue and its not, its a common sense issue. 1.- Criminals don't obey laws, 2.- you have a border that leaks so bad that you can buy everything from smack to slaves because its so damned easy to smuggle across so 3.-Gun bans will ONLY affect those that OBEY the law which guess what? is the ones you WANT to be able to defend themselves against the criminals!
I'll get hate for saying this but fuck it, i always say how I feel and don't pull punches, to me it comes down to what I call "NYC cowardice rules". its that complete horseshit that the ones in power sell in NYC, that "Don't resist, do as your told,you are weak and the criminal is strong, don't fight back" which is a bunch of fucking bullshit, because time and time again we have seen criminals slaughter everybody just for the fuck of it. Maybe the Wichita massacre would have turned out differently if those in the home had a gun, how many think the outcome of the flight (93 i think) that crashed in PA on 9/11 would have been positive if they had followed the NYC cowardice rule?
At the end of the day you can NOT count on the cops or anybody else BUT YOURSELF to protect you and your loved ones. Either you stand or you get on your knees and beg like prey. Well fuck the NYC cowardice crap, i'm nobody's god damned prey. that criminal may kill me but I can guaran-damn-tee you that you won't have any problem catching the criminal later, just follow the trail of blood coming from the scumbag to his door.
Because it lets the Apple ifanboys wave the "Its open!" flag while ignoring its a patent and copyright DRM minefield, just like H.264 which they screamed "Its open!" about last time?
Lets be honest guys, we ALL know who did this, its the same company that got an open codec banned for the patent trolling H.264...Apple. what is sad is the same devs that screamed bloody murder about MSFT and their hamfisted IE centric bullshit will happily kiss the iRing and line up to do what Apple wants because they are just drooling at the thought of iMoney.
This is one place where devs CAN STOP THIS, by simply refusing to support HTML V5 as long as its broken. Refuse to use it with your websites, refuse to add any of its features, tell the W3C they can go walk off a cliff before you'll give an inch.
But sadly we all know what is gonna REALLY happen, Apple will release an iToy that only supports HTML V5 and they'll say "Bow down bitches, or no iStore for you BWA HA HA HA!" and devs will come crawling to kiss the ring while MSFT lurks like Renfield in the back, happy to take the scraps.
What is wrong with it? Fuck what is wrong with any of it? The Linux guys can laugh at the registry and shit but ya know what? I can actually patch Windows and not have the drivers shit on by devs that don't give a fuck about anything but "works for me!" I have a machine in the shop I'm retired after NINE YEARS of being my netbox...NINE fucking years. That is TWO service packs and probably over 4000 patches and NOT A SINGLE DRIVER BROKEN, not a single one! hell you can't even update Linux without the wireless or sound being shit all over.
When you can show me ONE distro, just one, that can pass "The Hairyfeet Challenge"* then you have something to brag about but until then Linux will stay last place for a REASON, because normal folks aren't gonna deal with dead wireless, sound, graphics getting screwed, and a million other pains in the ass because linus the arrogant ass torvalds thinks he is fucking smarter than every OS designer that has ever lived and can't build a driver interface that works.
*.- For those that don't know "The Hairyfeet Challenge" simulates the typical 5 year cycle of your average PC, we take one random laptop and one random desktop out of the pile, we install ANY distro release from 5 years ago and we update it to current. Wanna guess what happens when you hold Linux up to just HALF the Windows lifecycle? it DIES, it DIES HARD, it shits all over its drivers and by the end you'll be lucky if even 30% of what was working at the start is 100% functional at the end.
We all know what the definition of insanity is and that is the Linux driver model, 20 god damned years of forum hunts, googling for fixes, shit breaking in Foo+1 that worked in Foo and kinda but not really being fixed in Foo+2 before its fixed in Foo+3 only to have something else shit on. Its 2013 guys, that shit is NOT gonna fucking cut it which is why the ONLY gains after 20 years has been Android where a big corp gave a finger to the devs and brought some sanity to the driver model.
If you want the masses to accept you then you are gonna have to stop taking shit sammiches from Torvalds and demand he fix it or step down for somebody who will. Don't you DESERVE better? Do you really think so little of yourself and your community that "free equals shit" is just fine and dandy to you? I mean MSFT has released an OS more hated than Vista, ME, and Bob rolled together and you are gaining NO SHARE...if that doesn't slap some reality into you then i don't know what will. Hell at this rate Win 9 could be "Win Goatse in smell-o-rama" and it would still sell 60 million copies because while it would smell terrible at least the fucking drivers would work.
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Sorry friend but you can't just do that anymore, you can't even keep gas in your car with a minimum wage job as they won't let you get full time hours anymore, he looked at the GI Bill but considering how they have refused to let soldiers leave when their enlistment is up? No thanks, not to mention his grandma is getting up there in years and her health is declining and if my mom passed on while he was overseas he would be devastated, and its pretty much just the one college here as the only other one in the state is a 120 mile round trip which again, gas prices.
So its all well and good you got lucky by being born at the right time but...that America? Really doesn't exist now, being 19 today is a hell of a lot different than being 19 then, nobody will give you full time hours, jobs are scarce, there just isn't any real paying jobs to be had. Hell I've had 3 guys, including one in his 50s bless his heart, trying to get the job mowing my mother's lawn, things are THAT bad now friend.
The reason you are seeing this crap in the press is the same reason you always see things pushed that don't match the evidence...money.
In this case several of the usual suspects, including Goldman Sachs which if anything is dirty or underhanded you just KNOW they are getting a cut, have a nice scam built around Cap & Trade, complete with shell companies and loopholes galore for their friends, it'll be a tax on everyone but the upper 5% who will be handed the money on a silver platter, the biggest reverse robin hood since the robber barons were handed the Indian lands in the 1800s so its gonna be an orgy of greed if they can get that shit passed.
Which is why i urge even those that support AGW to be against Cap & Trade, Crap & Trade is like saying "There is pollution in the world...so i get to rob your house" one does nothing to change the other, has nothing to do with the other, because the worst offenders already have their loopholes you can drive a truck through like ZERO PENALTIES for simply exporting the factories to India and China, both of whom have already said they will NOT play the crap & trade game.
So if you are for less pollution? hey so am I, what a coincidence...now explain to me how giving billions of dollars to Goldman Sachs and pals is gonna do a damned thing about that. Do not let them fool you with their press mouthpiece screaming "We have to do something!" No we do not have to do SOMETHING, we have to do SOMETHING EFFECTIVE, hell of a big difference between those two statements.
Yep, got a nephew that is gonna end up having to drop out of college halfway through because he can't get the aid to finish even though he has high marks while the same school trips over themselves to court these third and fourth generation money kids that can just fuck off for four years for all they care, they'll have a diploma and a cushy job waiting at daddy's firm when they get out. He is gonna end up buried in 37k of debt without even a piece of paper, damned shame is what it is, poor kid worked his ass off and got screwed..
George Carlin said it best "Its called the American Dream...because you have to be asleep to believe in it"
Translation "Wahh he won't drink the GNUaid, he's a dirty poo poo head". NO counter arguments, NO defense of your shitty driver model, ONLY insults.
I on the other hand can wallpaper this page with citations proving without a SHADOW of a doubt that I am correct, i can give you major OEMs having the drivers break, countless pages of users having their drivers break, I can even post "advice" on the forums that you should NEVER update Linux, even with critical security patches because...drumroll...drivers break!
Its been 20 years and you are still lower than the margin for error, true or false? Every B&M has tried selling your OS on units only to quickly abandon it, true or false? not a SINGLE OS other than Torvalds uses his piss poor driver model, including the other two major FOSS OSes, true or false? You can't even take a GPU driver from 3 years ago and run it on the latest release, true or false?
Nobody is taking your OS because its not free as in beer or freedom, its free as in worthless. it doesn't have to be this way, but as long as users like you accept garbage and call it ambrosia things will NEVER get any better, Linux will NEVER gain any share, because the planet isn't made up of those that will treat an OS like a religion. Its a tool and either the tool works or it does not, i can prove with the challenge that it does not, checkmate.
Nope they use knives, which ended up with the lawmakers actually arguing about regulating the owning of KNIVES in the country! I guess the people in the UK better get used to soup, no steak for you!
And I can pick up a pipe for $2 in any scrap yard in America that will be strong enough to fire a standard .38 round...your point?
This is what one security researcher called the "threat of a TV plot" scenario where they are acting like a "24" style plot is a real significant threat while ignoring there are a million easier and cheaper ways to attain the same end result.
I mean which do YOU think is more likely, a criminal spend a good $3k+ on the equipment and training required to operate the equipment just to make a plastic gun that can maybe shoot a clip before it starts failing, or spending $500 on the black market for an AK or a Glock that will fire hundreds or even thousands of rounds without fail? Hell even if they wanted for some reason to go DIY a half an hour in any machine shop with maybe $50 worth of raw materials and they would end up with a MUCH better weapon than what they would get from this $3k+ printer.
This is like passing a law against owning a bat'leth because somebody might use it in a crime while ignoring the guy selling a machine gun kit for $50, it just doesn't make any sense logically no matter how you spin it.
I think even that pales in comparison to how any machine shop in America could build MUCH better for MUCH cheaper. Basically this is like banning James bond ejector seats while telling that guy building a technical out of a pickup truck "Nah you can go right ahead".
Lets face it friend criminals by their very nature are lazy and are gonna go with the path of least resistance, so you have someone wanting to ban lasers because they could possibly be used to cut open an ATM to rob it when the crook can just yank the thing out of the ground with a chain tied to a truck. Any way you slice it the logic behind this just doesn't make any damned sense.
Isn't the .223 roughly the same as the 5mm NATO round? And I agree as a southerner that has grown up around guns all his life i don't remember ever hearing of a "wounding shell". I mean sure some have more stopping power than others and if you were to shoot an intruder with say a 22 round its gonna be a lot more likely to just wound than say a .44 mag. But even the 22 was designed for animals, where I come from they call it a "varmint" round and is usually used to deal with snakes, rats, anything small and nasty where you don't want or need a large round to deal with the problem. We pretty much always carry a 22 pistol in the summer just for that reason, you run into a snake on a creek bank during dog days when the snakes will strike at anything and are really aggressive? You'll be glad you have that 22 pistol with you.
How I learned about it was a documentary, sorry i can't remember the name as it was ages ago, which was basically "the history of repression in the USA, 1890-1990" and one of the things brought up was how when the slaves were first freed? It was a HANGING OFFENSE for a black man to even OWN a gun in several areas. Then when those laws were no longer allowed just as with poll taxes they came up with ways to make sure that "fear of an armed negro" such as demonizing any gun that could be had for cheap because guess who couldn't afford an expensive firearm?
Then the head of the rainbow coalition came on and explained the whole history of "fear of an armed negro" while they showed clips of everything from Birth Of A Nation to news broadcasts of Black Panthers and while he is explaining this they put on screen the senators and congressmen who had written and lobbied hard for gun laws...and what else they had lobbied for. Several had lobbied for Jim Crow laws, one had lobbied for a permanent curfew for blacks to "curb violence" and they put up clips from these gun control advocates speeches and...yeah. I was shocked I didn't actually hear the word "uppity nigger" because i heard every way you could allude to that, from "inner city thugs" to "armed ghettos" and it was clear just by their own words that it really did all boil down to fear of an armed negro.
Like I said no matter which side of the debate you are on I urge everyone to look this stuff up, as it really is shocking how many of the laws on the books were put there by men so damned racist it was incredible, we are talking guys that sounded like something out of the Klan. I know I had never thought that gun laws could be racist before seeing that and after seeing the evidence now i at least have to think about it, because it was pretty damned obvious "fear of an armed negro" really did shape a lot of our gun laws from the 1890s-1990s.
But they could easily do this without being assholes about it, which i would argue they have been with regard to previous cancellations. Instead of merely pulling the plug they should say "Well this doesn't really fit where we are going, but here is the code so if somebody wants to set up their own back end and keep this going that is fine by us, we'll give you 90 days before pulling the plug to get something set up".
If they would do that then not only would pulling a plug not hurt them, it would give people MORE confidence and willingness to try their new services as they would know "Well if i start to depend on this and they pull the plug at least they will let somebody else take over so as long as there is a dev willing to support this i won't end up losing anything". Instead as the other poster pointed out they are getting the rep i alluded to, where you should avoid anything made by Google unless/until it has become a proven megahit because there is a good chance it'll get the rug pulled out from under it.
And I really get pissed by some of these posts that boil down to "Its free you can't complain" oh really? so if i give you a free shit sandwich you should just eat it and not complain? just because the software costs nothing does NOT mean that the time or effort i invested in using it is likewise worthless, nor is their reputation which is damaged with users every time they kill something that had those users depending on it.
Its clickbait, its a sensational headline to make everyone think "ZOMFG if I have Fallout or Skyrim i could get teh viruz!" when IRL probably the most that will come of this will be some +whatever trainers.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep an eye on games, personally I'm waiting for it to come out some big FTP MMO has a backdoor the size of Kansas because they wanted the ability to insert ads later but this? The guy is using the console to manipulate the program...and?
Can you get 10 years worth of patches for Ubuntu 8? No? then sorry it very much IS a fair comparison and frankly the only comparison you can make, unless you are actually sitting here arguing that the lifecycle of a PC is the same length as an Ubuntu release, is that what you are trying to convince us of here? When you have one OS that abandons users after a pathetic year and a half and another that gives you 10 years then frankly the ONLY comparisons you CAN do is to base the simulation on the hardware not the software,otherwise no comparisons can be made at all.
But like so many others here whether by design or just by not thinking you ignored the fundamental point...I'm giving you a test ALREADY rigged in your favor by only making your OS have HALF the lifecycle of your competition and nobody will take the challenge because they know even in a test rigged in Linux favor they WILL lose, thanks to the piss poor driver model.
As a PC retailer I can tell you the typical lifecycle of a laptop is currently 3-5 years depending on how much or little they baby it, and for desktops its even older, with plenty of first gen C2D and Athlon X2s still running in homes and offices across America...do you dispute this? if not then what is the problem, other than you know the product is so poor it won't pass even a simple simulation?
At the end of the day either your product works or it don't and the challenge can trivially let anybody see that it doesn't. If I as a retailer can't even put your product on a shelf because there is a damned good chance that the first update will break wireless, the second sound, and so on so that in 3 years time they have a system that makes an old XP box filled with malware look like heaven because at least the hardware works, what is your selling point? that if they want to get a masters in comp sci they can fix it themselves? Who gives a shit?
The simple fact is Windows can pass this test with flying colors, I can take a 10 year old box and install Win2K and simulate the entire lifespan of the OS, from the very first patches to the ones released a month before it went EOL and the drivers working at the start WILL be working at the end, with your product? Even only picking 2 random systems off the shelf and only having to show half the length of time your OS WILL FAIL, hell in just the past 5 years you've had both major DEs tossed by the devs, ALSA replaced by the shitastic Pulse that is deep fried ass to this very day when it comes to stability, and of course you got Linus crapping all over the kernel so shit that worked in Foo won't work in Foo+1. if your system was great, why has nobody, not a single OS, adopted it? Not BSD, not Solaris, nobody.
Ironic that so many here can only throw insults which is just further proof they are afraid because they know the truth, its the same thing Dell saw when they tried selling Linux units which riddle me this: If one of the largest OEMs on the planet can NOT get your product to function without having to run their own fork? What chance does a normal user have?
Uhhh...having trouble reading posts I take it? Sure Australia has a lot of land mass...with practically no population on a good 70%+ of it. Now compare Australia to North AND South america put together, because THAT is reality here, with countries THIS close together and so many boats and planes the borders really don't mean shit so all I need is a single "Die Yankee dog!" country that will let me bring in loads of anything I want (of which there are several in South America) and I WILL be able to get it into the USA, again look at the millions of pounds of smack and coke and even thousands of slaves (last i checked the USA is estimated to have over 30,000 slaves in the country right now) because on a land mass that fricking huge its impossible to stop.
And can you please show me where I said anything about the people of New York? I said quite clearly "NYC Cowardice Rules" which is not the people but the government of the state along with their LEOs that shovel that horseshit, time and time again we have seen criminals slaughter the victims regardless of what they do, but every single thing you hear from officials in that state can be summed up as "You are weak,crawl and beg and maybe after he's done raping and robbing he won't murder you, don't resist". We have even seen their prosecutors try to punish the VICTIM for daring to fight back, like that store owner they had a few years ago where the prosecutor tried to nail the victim because as he was bleeding on the floor where he had already been shot by the criminal (who didn't ask for anything IIRC, just shot him THEN went for the register) who managed to crawl to his gun and shot the criminal in the back which i guess just isn't sporting. Fuck in the south he would have gotten a medal.
But please go back to advocating being prey, because at the end of the day that is what you are, they are the predator, you are the prey. And if you think the cops will save you might want to look up Castle Rock V Gonzales to see what the courts said about that.
Then welcome to slavery as that can apply to just about any sentence. "Work like a dog for less than a living wage" No, "I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to this guy who's just been reassigned to your former position." See how easily that fits?
If everyone adopts YOUR attitude we might as well just go ahead and pull the plug on the WWW now, because it'll be "The Home Shopping Network, now with extra domestic spying and DRM!" in less time than it takes to say wage slave.
I hate to say this but frankly its true...its Google, what did you or anybody else expect?
Its one of "those" rules, like how you don't buy a MSFT mobile product before the press has officially declared it a hit as MSFT pulls the plug quickly, in the same vein one doesn't use nor should care about any Google service that has less than 10 million users because with Google there really only is two states of a service, runaway hit or dying. There really seems to be no third state with them and it doesn't even matter if they are making enough in ads from a product that it isn't losing money, either its a smash hit and stays that way or its adios.
Its a damned shame and I felt sorry for those in the early days who didn't have this rule but by now it should be obvious that is just how things work at Google.
Dude have you EVER been around a junkie? Because I've played in mob bars and behind chicken wire and I've known more than my fair share of junkies and fools. again if the argument held then there would be ZERO credit cards stolen since every ATM has built in cameras making it practically 100% that you WILL be caught...yet they still do it.
Hell if for no other reason they'd keep stealing them because having certain models are status symbols, whether they work or not being seen with one is a status thing. Would it help? Possibly but I doubt it, criminals just aren't that bright, look at how many cut open fiber optics to steal copper, or electrocute themselves trying to steal power lines which is worth less per pound than a set of rims off a sportscar. You are thinking logically, but logic and criminals really don't go together, hell I should know as i had a cousin that did 5 years for stealing AIR, not oxygen...air. Stupid fucker broke into a dentist's office and couldn't even think of a way to tell the tanks apart...like say turning one on for a sec and smelling it, so he went eany meany and got an air tank.
Ya know why? Because they CAN't deny it, because I can fricking wallpaper this post in "update foo broke my driver" posts and they KNOW this, so all they can do is throw a tantrum like a petulant child or say "Ur a bad mean old poo poo head". You see i'm their worst fricking nightmare...A retailer that has actually USED their product and ended up seeing the same thing Dell saw which is their driver model is BROKEN. I mean here is Dell, one of the largest retailers of PCs on the entire fricking planet, and they were selling...what? maybe a dozen different Linux units MAX? And they couldn't even keep drivers functional on a dozen units, maybe 8 fricking pieces of hardware all told?
The sad part is unlike the koolaid drinkers I WANT Linux to get better, I WANT Linux to pass the challenge, I WANT Linux to be a functional OS...but its not. Its really not. And notice how quickly they dismiss my challenge? If their product works and they believe in it... what are they afraid of? hell i even tilt the test in their favor which anybody doing a legitimate test should NEVER do by only giving them HALF the support cycle of Windows, yet all they can do is insult and try to make me out to be a bad man...why? Why are they so afraid if their product works?
Because it doesn't work and they KNOW this, but like any religious zealot (which is why I call 'em FOSSies instead of Freetards) that is told something against dogma it just can't be true, the scripture HAS to be right. this is why I've blocked the Linux articles from my feeds and have learned to ignore them as its always the same routine, "ur a sekret M$ ninja", "let's move the goal posts", "lets talk about web servers" when the topic is the desktop, its the entire circle of loon bit. Know what I find truly depressing and sad? Go to Linux TM Repo, which was set up as a fricking joke site to lampoon the FOSS zealots, and look at their top 20 Linux TMs, go on I'll wait...there you have just seen EVERY argument they have right there, from "it works for me!" to "Linux runs on supercomputers" its just the same excuses, the same insults, they simply can't face reality so instead of doing something about the situation they just insult all those that don't drink the GNUaid.
You watch they will probably downmod us both to hell rather than even attempt to come up with a counter argument,its because they can't. They piss and moan and make excuses like "companies don't support us!" yet I can take my HD4850 graphics card, uninstall the latest driver, and install the nearly 5 year old driver that came on the disc and it WILL work, when you can't even take the driver from last year and use it on the latest kernel thanks to the stupid ass backwards way Linus set up the driver model. I mean here it is 2013 and a company STILL can't just put a penguin on the God damned box because the drivers on the CD won't even work before it gets to the shelves...how pathetic is that?
Bullshit they buy from bumfuckistan by a pretty large margin which is why AG Holder committed numerous crimes and should be in a holding cell looking at a death penalty case over Fast & Furious. But you keep right on chugging the koolaid friend, i'm sure the government would NEVER lie to you.
Thank you. I mean for the love of Christ does anybody think the rapist murdering scum that did the Wichita massacre would have said "ya know, i really want to rob that house, repeatedly rape the women, and kill them all, but the law says i can't have a gun so i guess i'll go play bingo".
It just shows George Carlin was right, the meaning of words is of extreme importance, when people are gonna honestly sit here and argue laws are gonna be obeyed by criminals without even considering what the word criminal means. All the laws have EVER done is punish AFTER the fact, its not gonna make the criminal think twice before he does a crime because after all, if I'm looking at multiple counts of rape, murder, robbery, drugs, etc do you REALLY think i'm gonna give a rat fuck if you add a weapons beef? that would be like saying that slaver in Ohio is in trouble now, he had unsafe living conditions so he's screwed!
The only weapon you'd make with the Staples printer would be a suicide machine as the first trigger pull and it would explode, you can NOT use an ordinary 3D printer, it has to be industrial grade that can handle processing high stress plastics. And as far as untraceable...how are you gonna trace a zip gun? Hell how are you gonna trace a gun i buy from some dope dealer who traded a few kilos for a shipment from bumfuckistan?
But all of that misses the even bigger point, regulating 3D printers would be like arresting someone at the airport for having nail clippers while ignoring the guy walking in with the RPG.
The simple fact is in any machine shop, of which there have to be thousands if not tens of thousands in the USA, you can make something MUCH more deadly and accurate than the best a 3D printer can make, and while a printer that can process high stress plastic costs a minimum of $5k (and that price is unlikely to go down because it simply costs more to manufacture) whereas $300 worth of metal, hell even $5 worth of scrap metal from any salvage yard, could make a weapon superior in every possible metric to this 3D printer gun.
So not only are the crazy hoop gun laws stupid just on GP but this law is thumb up your ass retarded since its ignoring that ANY criminal could make something MUCH better without any stupid blueprints with nothing but scrap tubing and a few tools...we gonna regulate pipes next?
Why did he get modded down? look at the history of gun laws in this country and like poll taxes a LOT of them were designed to keep them "uppity niggers" from having guns. Look at how the media has demonized the so called "Saturday Night Special"...wanna guess which minority favored those for home protection in the 40s-70s?
I can't remember which black leader said it, i think the head of the rainbow coalition, that "No matter how you feel about gun laws if you look at them, trace them back to their roots, you'll find a lot of them can be summed up as "fear of an armed negro" because an armed negro can fight back, its a lot more risky to try to lynch an armed negro than a defenseless one" and sadly he is right, look up who wrote the gun laws of the 30s-70s and its the same ones that were supporting Jim Crow and separate but equal. No matter how you feel about the gun laws i urge you to read more about it, what you find will probably shock you.
Thanks for the link but you'd think common fricking sense would tell you its not gonna work. does it work in the UK? Sure it does and in Australia too because they are islands and its really not that hard with today's tech to police an island.
Now compare this to North and South America, which you would have to look at as one entity since the massive borders and literally millions of fast boats (coke boats) and light aircraft means that the borders between countries on this land mass mean jack and squat, and you can see just by using common fricking sense why this shit ain't gonna work. How many fucking years has America had a "war on drugs" going now? 80+ years isn't it? yet I can walk out my door even in BF AR and score any drug i want in less than 2 hours, less than 1 hour if you exclude driving time...you think guns will ever be ANY different? think Mr Dope Dealer would have ANY problem selling me an AK if draconian gun laws mean he can make several hundred percent profit on each gun?
The sad part is this has become a left/right issue and its not, its a common sense issue. 1.- Criminals don't obey laws, 2.- you have a border that leaks so bad that you can buy everything from smack to slaves because its so damned easy to smuggle across so 3.-Gun bans will ONLY affect those that OBEY the law which guess what? is the ones you WANT to be able to defend themselves against the criminals!
I'll get hate for saying this but fuck it, i always say how I feel and don't pull punches, to me it comes down to what I call "NYC cowardice rules". its that complete horseshit that the ones in power sell in NYC, that "Don't resist, do as your told,you are weak and the criminal is strong, don't fight back" which is a bunch of fucking bullshit, because time and time again we have seen criminals slaughter everybody just for the fuck of it. Maybe the Wichita massacre would have turned out differently if those in the home had a gun, how many think the outcome of the flight (93 i think) that crashed in PA on 9/11 would have been positive if they had followed the NYC cowardice rule?
At the end of the day you can NOT count on the cops or anybody else BUT YOURSELF to protect you and your loved ones. Either you stand or you get on your knees and beg like prey. Well fuck the NYC cowardice crap, i'm nobody's god damned prey. that criminal may kill me but I can guaran-damn-tee you that you won't have any problem catching the criminal later, just follow the trail of blood coming from the scumbag to his door.
Because it lets the Apple ifanboys wave the "Its open!" flag while ignoring its a patent and copyright DRM minefield, just like H.264 which they screamed "Its open!" about last time?
Lets be honest guys, we ALL know who did this, its the same company that got an open codec banned for the patent trolling H.264...Apple. what is sad is the same devs that screamed bloody murder about MSFT and their hamfisted IE centric bullshit will happily kiss the iRing and line up to do what Apple wants because they are just drooling at the thought of iMoney.
This is one place where devs CAN STOP THIS, by simply refusing to support HTML V5 as long as its broken. Refuse to use it with your websites, refuse to add any of its features, tell the W3C they can go walk off a cliff before you'll give an inch.
But sadly we all know what is gonna REALLY happen, Apple will release an iToy that only supports HTML V5 and they'll say "Bow down bitches, or no iStore for you BWA HA HA HA!" and devs will come crawling to kiss the ring while MSFT lurks like Renfield in the back, happy to take the scraps.
What is wrong with it? Fuck what is wrong with any of it? The Linux guys can laugh at the registry and shit but ya know what? I can actually patch Windows and not have the drivers shit on by devs that don't give a fuck about anything but "works for me!" I have a machine in the shop I'm retired after NINE YEARS of being my netbox...NINE fucking years. That is TWO service packs and probably over 4000 patches and NOT A SINGLE DRIVER BROKEN, not a single one! hell you can't even update Linux without the wireless or sound being shit all over.
When you can show me ONE distro, just one, that can pass "The Hairyfeet Challenge"* then you have something to brag about but until then Linux will stay last place for a REASON, because normal folks aren't gonna deal with dead wireless, sound, graphics getting screwed, and a million other pains in the ass because linus the arrogant ass torvalds thinks he is fucking smarter than every OS designer that has ever lived and can't build a driver interface that works.
*.- For those that don't know "The Hairyfeet Challenge" simulates the typical 5 year cycle of your average PC, we take one random laptop and one random desktop out of the pile, we install ANY distro release from 5 years ago and we update it to current. Wanna guess what happens when you hold Linux up to just HALF the Windows lifecycle? it DIES, it DIES HARD, it shits all over its drivers and by the end you'll be lucky if even 30% of what was working at the start is 100% functional at the end.
We all know what the definition of insanity is and that is the Linux driver model, 20 god damned years of forum hunts, googling for fixes, shit breaking in Foo+1 that worked in Foo and kinda but not really being fixed in Foo+2 before its fixed in Foo+3 only to have something else shit on. Its 2013 guys, that shit is NOT gonna fucking cut it which is why the ONLY gains after 20 years has been Android where a big corp gave a finger to the devs and brought some sanity to the driver model.
If you want the masses to accept you then you are gonna have to stop taking shit sammiches from Torvalds and demand he fix it or step down for somebody who will. Don't you DESERVE better? Do you really think so little of yourself and your community that "free equals shit" is just fine and dandy to you? I mean MSFT has released an OS more hated than Vista, ME, and Bob rolled together and you are gaining NO SHARE...if that doesn't slap some reality into you then i don't know what will. Hell at this rate Win 9 could be "Win Goatse in smell-o-rama" and it would still sell 60 million copies because while it would smell terrible at least the fucking drivers would work.