Because every damn candidate is a liar, and their loyalties are to the rich elite and not to the people at large?
Some *actual* change and jail time in response to the recent scandals might do a lot of good to instill voter interest and confidence. But *that* will never happen, especially since many of the people driving this campaign are the same people that would wind up behind bars.
Ron Paul
I don't care for him or his politics, either, but imprisoning him seems a bit of a stretch. Unless, of course, he's committed some actual crimes.
In a lot of other countries, you don't even have to say you're married. Cohabiting for some time and identifying one another as one's partner is usually sufficient. Some places (including Sweden) also allow you to register your status as partners (in Sweden, the usual term is "sambo", short for "samma bostad", or same residence), and if you're registered at the same address for a given length of time, you're more or less automatically regarded as partners, as long as one of you isn't married or otherwise partnered with someone else. Not exactly the same as (common-law) marriage, but close enough for most practical purposes.
People do get married here, though--usually when they start having kids together.
hoplophobian. A neologism coined in a pathetic attempt by gun nutters to frame people as "mental" who have the temerity to point out that (a) guns kill people and (b) most civilised countries get along just fine without people carrying guns around all the time.
I recently got to vote here in Sweden, and I'm not even a citizen. I didn't even know I was eligible until the card from the election board showed up in the post.
I thought this had to be some sort of mistake, but I was informed by the elections people that here, as in many European countries, non-citizens who are legal residents may vote in local elections for their listed town/district, but not for the national legislature. So I got to vote for kommun and län (basically municipal and provincial) offices as well as candidates for seats in Stockholms Landsting, but not for the Riksdag or the EU Parliament.
I had planned on voting for the Pirate Party but their campaign posters were so annoying, faux-cutesy, and condescending that I voted for the Social Democrats instead. Would've voted Communist just for spite but they weren't running any candidates in my district.
FreeBSD has a Linux compatibility layer, so most stuff compiled for Linux can run on it.
I knew that, but had forgot--thanks for the reminder.
Most of the stuff I use is open source. My major sources of concern are:
a Java-based XML IDE (DISCLAIMER: I got a free 1-year licence from them a few years ago in exchange for them being allowed to quote me in some of their ads. Otherwise, I'm just a satisfied and [now once again, paying] customer.)
Skype (optional--it'd be convenient to have it running on the desktop, but it's on my phone and tablet, so I'm covered in any event)
my Nvidia GeForce card ()
whether or not I'll have to rewrite a bunch of shell scripts that are full of bash-isms.
I've played with PC-BSD before, but only in a VM. Need to dig out an old laptop and see how it goes on the metal.
As I've said before, I have come to believe that the whole systemd kerfuffle has its origins in narcissism. Poettering's. How else to explain his apparent complete lack of tolerance for dissent or divergence?
...SystemD should be optional, you want it on your phone/IOT device? fine. My server that I reboot about once every 2-3 months? I want init.
Like many people's servers, my *desktop* gets rebooted once every 2-3 months.
This is one of the 2 main reasons I run Linux on my desktop, the other being *cough* freedom *cough*... *sigh*
It's more like Poettering sees himself as the next Linus, ignoring the fact that Linus is who he is and does what he does because he's simply being himself.
I'm looking at PC-BSD as a way to jump-start myself into FreeBSD. The desktop is not too bad, but I'm as yet unsure whether all my tools will run there or not, though.
BTW, I take exception to the attempt to draw a dividing line between desktop and server use. There are lots of us who use Linux on the desktop because we're doing software, Web, or other development, or work that's related to it.
Not that it's really anybody else's business, but her ex-bf's blog indicates that Zoe is anything but "penis-hating". Brianna Wu is married (to a man). The others I don't know about, nor do I actually care, but since you raised the point... there you go.
More seriously, in my experience, men expressing such epithets generally mean something more like, “In my world, women are good for one thing only; therefore, any woman whom I find desirable but won't put out for me, or whom I don't find desirable, is a dyke who wants to put all men in concentration camps.”
ProTip: Stop blaming women for your own shortcomings, and you might even start getting laid.
Apparently you are intimidated by complete sentences. There's a cure for that problem: Learn how to do it right. Then people will understand you better, and you'll no longer have to try to hide your ignorance behind "I know what I meant and you're an idiot if you can't read my mind".
Perhaps His Holiness is old enough to have learnt about something called "The Law Of Unintended Consequences". This often seems to crop up in conjunction with the implementation of Solutions Without Problems. You should read up on it sometime.
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I hadn't heard of those guys before. Too bad we don't seem to have them in Sweden.
Because every damn candidate is a liar, and their loyalties are to the rich elite and not to the people at large?
Some *actual* change and jail time in response to the recent scandals might do a lot of good to instill voter interest and confidence. But *that* will never happen, especially since many of the people driving this campaign are the same people that would wind up behind bars.
Ron Paul
I don't care for him or his politics, either, but imprisoning him seems a bit of a stretch. Unless, of course, he's committed some actual crimes.
So you'd rather fill that chair with someone whom, demonstrably, *nobody* wants in it?
Yeah, that's real smart.
The Pirate Party would do well to stop insulting the intelligence of the very people who would be most likely to vote for them.
You neglected to mention that Australia also has proportional representation, which changes the equation quite a bit.
I've noticed no such group. Please provide links or stop trying to stir up what seems to me to be not an issue.
In a lot of other countries, you don't even have to say you're married. Cohabiting for some time and identifying one another as one's partner is usually sufficient. Some places (including Sweden) also allow you to register your status as partners (in Sweden, the usual term is "sambo", short for "samma bostad", or same residence), and if you're registered at the same address for a given length of time, you're more or less automatically regarded as partners, as long as one of you isn't married or otherwise partnered with someone else. Not exactly the same as (common-law) marriage, but close enough for most practical purposes.
People do get married here, though--usually when they start having kids together.
hoplophobia n. A neologism coined in a pathetic attempt by gun nutters to frame people as "mental" who have the temerity to point out that (a) guns kill people and (b) most civilised countries get along just fine without people carrying guns around all the time.
Why is voter registration even required?
I recently got to vote here in Sweden, and I'm not even a citizen. I didn't even know I was eligible until the card from the election board showed up in the post.
I thought this had to be some sort of mistake, but I was informed by the elections people that here, as in many European countries, non-citizens who are legal residents may vote in local elections for their listed town/district, but not for the national legislature. So I got to vote for kommun and län (basically municipal and provincial) offices as well as candidates for seats in Stockholms Landsting, but not for the Riksdag or the EU Parliament.
I had planned on voting for the Pirate Party but their campaign posters were so annoying, faux-cutesy, and condescending that I voted for the Social Democrats instead. Would've voted Communist just for spite but they weren't running any candidates in my district.
It's too bad that the misogynist assholes got mod points today, eh.
FreeBSD has a Linux compatibility layer, so most stuff compiled for Linux can run on it.
I knew that, but had forgot--thanks for the reminder.
Most of the stuff I use is open source. My major sources of concern are:
a Java-based XML IDE (DISCLAIMER: I got a free 1-year licence from them a few years ago in exchange for them being allowed to quote me in some of their ads. Otherwise, I'm just a satisfied and [now once again, paying] customer.)
Skype (optional--it'd be convenient to have it running on the desktop, but it's on my phone and tablet, so I'm covered in any event)
my Nvidia GeForce card ()
whether or not I'll have to rewrite a bunch of shell scripts that are full of bash-isms.
I've played with PC-BSD before, but only in a VM. Need to dig out an old laptop and see how it goes on the metal.
For one thing, MariaDB competes on FUD, rather than on its merits.
Poettering get to pretend that he's Linus.
As I've said before, I have come to believe that the whole systemd kerfuffle has its origins in narcissism. Poettering's. How else to explain his apparent complete lack of tolerance for dissent or divergence?
...SystemD should be optional, you want it on your phone/IOT device? fine. My server that I reboot about once every 2-3 months? I want init.
Like many people's servers, my *desktop* gets rebooted once every 2-3 months.
This is one of the 2 main reasons I run Linux on my desktop, the other being *cough* freedom *cough*... *sigh*
It's more like Poettering sees himself as the next Linus, ignoring the fact that Linus is who he is and does what he does because he's simply being himself.
I'm looking at PC-BSD as a way to jump-start myself into FreeBSD. The desktop is not too bad, but I'm as yet unsure whether all my tools will run there or not, though.
BTW, I take exception to the attempt to draw a dividing line between desktop and server use. There are lots of us who use Linux on the desktop because we're doing software, Web, or other development, or work that's related to it.
As reported by the BBC two months ago, f'cryin'outloud.
Another reason for the systemd hate is the fact that it's been brought in by the back door. I dislike MariaDB for much the same reason.
Not that it's really anybody else's business, but her ex-bf's blog indicates that Zoe is anything but "penis-hating". Brianna Wu is married (to a man). The others I don't know about, nor do I actually care, but since you raised the point... there you go.
More seriously, in my experience, men expressing such epithets generally mean something more like, “In my world, women are good for one thing only; therefore, any woman whom I find desirable but won't put out for me, or whom I don't find desirable, is a dyke who wants to put all men in concentration camps.”
ProTip: Stop blaming women for your own shortcomings, and you might even start getting laid.
The issue is not (merely) about my device connecting to others. It's (also) about other devices connecting to mine.
Let me help you consult a more up-to-date dictionary.
As a consolation prize, you get to mow PopeRatzo's lawn, since I live in a flat and don't have one.
Apparently you are intimidated by complete sentences. There's a cure for that problem: Learn how to do it right. Then people will understand you better, and you'll no longer have to try to hide your ignorance behind "I know what I meant and you're an idiot if you can't read my mind".
Perhaps His Holiness is old enough to have learnt about something called "The Law Of Unintended Consequences". This often seems to crop up in conjunction with the implementation of Solutions Without Problems. You should read up on it sometime.
No data travels to or from the card unless I put it in the card reader, or the salesperson does so under my watchful eye.
NFC should be renamed NAG: No Air Gap.
/me recalls hearing about something called "single point of failure"...
What magstripe? I live in Europe, where we dropped that nonsense in favour of chip+PIN years ago.
NFC is disabled on all my devices that support it, and it'll stay that way.