On the contrary, I think Linus did an excellent job of explaining reality to this developer. Reality being that thing that has a funny way of not giving a shit about your feelings, and Linus not being required to cater to every developer's unwarranted self-importance.
Oh, and please don't use the term "scare quotes" if you don't know what they are. Thanks!
The press could have written "Government Malware Outbreak caused by web browsing", but no, they had to violate someone's privacy in passing. It's like writing "car accident on Main Street, the faulty driver was on his way to an extramarital affair". Why do reporters do this?
Ex-reporter here to inform you that, if it's in a police report, it's not private.
In 2006, my laptop got dropped down a flight of steps by a fumble-fingered customs agent in Malaysia. One of those horrible moments when you see everything in slow-motion... BOUNCE... spinspinspin... BOUNCE... spinspinspin... BOUNCE... *WHUMPPPP* To give the poor fellow credit, he turned almost as white as I am and dived the stairs to retrieve it. There was a crack in the top, so I was not hopeful, but I powered it up... and it ran.
That laptop still sits in my office. It still runs great. I still use it for audio/video/reading.
What kind is it? It's an off-the-fucking-shelf Acer, that's what it is.
Moral: LEARN TO BUY HARDWARE THAT DOES NOT FUCKING SUCK.
... do you REALLY want to be treated to a nice, fat KERNEL PANIC screen because your RAM or SSD socket glitched when someone bumped the table your laptop was sitting on?
I've never, ever had that happen. I guess I'll have to try buying shittier hardware next time.
Tell that to the 3/4 million who marched in London this weekend demanding a new referendum, this time without all the lies from the Leavers under cover of officialdom.
Democracy is a fine idea, but doesn't just depend on votes. It depends on choices made by informed voters. The Brexit voters were deliberately misinformed by the side that won, which it admitted to doing after the referendum.
The West didn't do shit. The people took to the streets after their soon-to-be-former president tried to go back on a key promise on which he'd been elected, and the country's legally-elected parliament voted legally and unanimously to kick him out. The fact that he spirited away a goodly portion of the country's treasury didn't go down well with a lot of folks, either.
Then Uncle Vlad can quit spending his money on all these nasty little nationalist/separatist movements he's been growing in various EU member states, right?
Conspiring to commit a crime is a crime; the crime you conspired to commit doesn't matter.
Fraud is a crime; whom the fraud is committed against does not matter.
Break into your neighbour's house, then claim in court, "The criminal court doesn't actually say 'Robbery of Mrs Betty Taylor of 1234 Main St. is a crime', therefore, I'm innocent." Be sure to let us know how that works out for you.
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Exception proving the rule?
WTF?
BTW, DST sucks just as bad in Europe.
Whaddaya know...
On the contrary, I think Linus did an excellent job of explaining reality to this developer. Reality being that thing that has a funny way of not giving a shit about your feelings, and Linus not being required to cater to every developer's unwarranted self-importance.
Oh, and please don't use the term "scare quotes" if you don't know what they are. Thanks!
FakeBeauHD, do you not have a life? Seriously.
Were you actually frothing at the mouth when you typed that?
The press could have written "Government Malware Outbreak caused by web browsing", but no, they had to violate someone's privacy in passing. It's like writing "car accident on Main Street, the faulty driver was on his way to an extramarital affair". Why do reporters do this?
Ex-reporter here to inform you that, if it's in a police report, it's not private.
I am heartened on this cold, dark morn by the knowledge that I am not the only one who has noticed this travesty. :-)
(Now if we could just do something about moronic seasonal time changes...)
That's amazingly (and tellingly) butthurt, even by Kohath standards.
(Bring it on, I already posted in this thread and I got me some karmas to burn.)
You do a good job not killing innocent people because you aren't tasked with law enforcement duties.
No, but the law enforcement personnel of other countries are so tasked, and they manage to get the job done with a *much* lower kill ratio.
I also blame Apple's love for the needlessly dramatic for supplanting "contact" with "reach out". Ugh.
In 2006, my laptop got dropped down a flight of steps by a fumble-fingered customs agent in Malaysia. One of those horrible moments when you see everything in slow-motion... BOUNCE... spinspinspin... BOUNCE... spinspinspin... BOUNCE... *WHUMPPPP* To give the poor fellow credit, he turned almost as white as I am and dived the stairs to retrieve it. There was a crack in the top, so I was not hopeful, but I powered it up... and it ran.
That laptop still sits in my office. It still runs great. I still use it for audio/video/reading.
What kind is it? It's an off-the-fucking-shelf Acer, that's what it is.
Moral: LEARN TO BUY HARDWARE THAT DOES NOT FUCKING SUCK.
... do you REALLY want to be treated to a nice, fat KERNEL PANIC screen because your RAM or SSD socket glitched when someone bumped the table your laptop was sitting on?
I've never, ever had that happen. I guess I'll have to try buying shittier hardware next time.
Get over the loss and start actually presenting the people with sensible solutions.
Here's one: Don't shoot yourselves in the foot by exiling yourselves from Europe and rolling over for Putin.
Tell that to the 3/4 million who marched in London this weekend demanding a new referendum, this time without all the lies from the Leavers under cover of officialdom.
Democracy is a fine idea, but doesn't just depend on votes. It depends on choices made by informed voters. The Brexit voters were deliberately misinformed by the side that won, which it admitted to doing after the referendum.
The West didn't do shit. The people took to the streets after their soon-to-be-former president tried to go back on a key promise on which he'd been elected, and the country's legally-elected parliament voted legally and unanimously to kick him out. The fact that he spirited away a goodly portion of the country's treasury didn't go down well with a lot of folks, either.
Long but well worth the read. Thank you for your contribution.
I hope someone will mod this up.
And then he did even better, didn't he? Glad to see that you also agree!
Then Uncle Vlad can quit spending his money on all these nasty little nationalist/separatist movements he's been growing in various EU member states, right?
Conspiring to commit a crime is a crime; the crime you conspired to commit doesn't matter.
Fraud is a crime; whom the fraud is committed against does not matter.
Break into your neighbour's house, then claim in court, "The criminal court doesn't actually say 'Robbery of Mrs Betty Taylor of 1234 Main St. is a crime', therefore, I'm innocent." Be sure to let us know how that works out for you.
Because the pot was getting stirred by folks like you, naturally.
(And thanks for proving my point.)
And what lies were these? Go ahead—we're waiting.
A 6-digit ID means he's been around since 2000 or so, well before any of the current nonsense began.
When did you say that you registered your account...?
In the US, you can run against the incumbent and very likely not get shot.