AWD hybrid minivan? Cool. RHD hybrid minivan that is literally impossible to find parts for on this continent? Not so cool. Kind of a neat van but way too rare over here to be even a remotely good idea. When you need anything at all for it, you'll spend forever trying to match parts from Toyota's massive catalog of locally available parts, and probably end up having to order shit from Japan most of the time.
Widespread desperation and misery in the country with the richest oil reserves in Latin America. Everyone is poor (except the leaders) and it's all the fault of the CIA (or whoever it's convenient to blame this time). And yet, no matter how many times it brings disaster, some people keep believing stories about how spending others' money instead of earning their own will work out good for them.
Your incorrect conclusion about socialism is based on a false premise - that Venezuela operates under socialism. What you have there is a crook and his crook friends mismanaging everything they can't embezzle or otherwise misappropriate, not a socialist state, no matter what they call it.
Can you define "leftism"? Some of the most successful economies in the world could be defined as "leftists" if you include social Democrat nations like Sweden and Germany.
Don't be ridiculous - of course someone who throws around the term "leftism" in that manner can't adequately articulate what it means. Present day Venezuela is no more an evolved and truly Marxist state than were the Soviet "socialist" republics, which were also more like the a "kleptocracy." "Leftism" is typically used to refer to ill-fated attempts to institute communism, which has never existed in the pure, altruistic, governmental end state that itself evolves into a mutually beneficial pseudo-anarchy.
The Soviets may have cited Marx as an inspiration but they did not follow his guidance, and what we have now in Venezuela is just a chaotic, budding dictatorship. I'd argue that Sweden is further left than is Maduro, though the Swedes have thus far been able to maintain control of their government and made it work for them, and they are generally happy because their socialistic ways are working for them. Maduro is not instituting socialism or so-called communism, he's a crook in way over his head, plain and simple.
No problem, we'll just hold Def Con in Toronto form now on if Vegas doesn't want us. Not the same casino scene, but literally everything else is better there.
Thank you. When I read the summary I thought, "Another delay?" This is old news, basically. Bad title, bad summary that isn't a summary but is instead an excerpt missing context. TFA mentions that the first episode will air next month, while the summary makes it sound as though we'll have to wait longer. Naturally I wanted to blame FOX news because they are the source for this non-news, but their write-up is fine.
it is not realistic for a group like this to NOT use 10GB+ per day
Which is why there were no big tours prior to the dawn of the internet
That's an idiotic comment. There was a time before buses when people traveled for extended periods too, so do you think band should stop whining about the cost of buses and just walk, like Jesus did? There are solutions to a need for mobile data other than just paying Verizon's scammy overages or not using the internet.
Why in gods name do you need continual, high-speed internet? Can you not pull yourself away from the computer? That's a problem all by itself.
Have you tried touring for extended periods? In a bus? It isn't like these bands just go out for a day then go home at night, or even every week or two. Many spend months at a time on the road, with lots of long drives (hence the bus) and a sizable crew (the 12-14 mentioned). In 2017 it is not realistic for a group like this to NOT use 10GB+ per day. It isn't like they are just sitting around watching Netflix all day, and you obviously have no clue how this works. Few people on Slashdot would go days or weeks by choice without streaming anything.
Mobile data consumption is not the problem, the problem I see is people like you trying to tell the OP what his problem is rather than bothering to offer a solution. Folks on the road don't have their home internet connection to fall back on, or even slow hotel wifi, much of the time. Believe it or not, many bands also do a lot of work while travelling too, which requires internet use.
Your money is just as much at risk in either scenario
It clearly isn't, as for reasons you stated. You can get that credit card money back by making some calls and signing a few papers, but no level of careful of accounting will convince anyone to reimburse you for stolen cash, unless your mom counts.
CorpGov wants to track everyone. Everywhere. Always. Cash is difficult to monitor.
Bah, cash is dinosuar money. I tumble my BTC thoroughly, use shell companies to obfuscate my identity, and bank off shore. Cash is for po' folks who only spend so little money they can physically carry it around. Mere 10's and 20's don't cut it, I measure by the 1e10.
I usually only carry a few dollars in cash, typically maybe $20, up to about $50 max. Not because I think anyone is dumb enough to try to rob me, but because if I have cash I tend to fucking blow it way too easily on stupid shit I don't need or really want. I don't have such problem with debit or credit cards, for some reason. No idea why it works any differently, but it does. That paper just begs to get the hell out of my pocket.
Besides, real modern day ballers don't need fat stacks of cheese any more, they just have accounts everywhere and people know them by name. Or something.
City View Center in Garfield Heights, just outside of Cleveland, is a similar but more recent failure. The EPA admitted they had no idea what all was in the landfill, because monitoring was very poor when it was in operation and jobs trumped regulation (why does that phrase sound so relevant now?). There have been gas issues, an unusual rate of rare cancers in the area, and settling that has resulted in building problems. It has also been an economic failure.
The whole problem with Love Canal is not that it was built on a landfill, it's that people had been dumping toxic waste there...
There is no mention of that in this landfill. If there's no toxic waste then what's the problem? What many here seem not to understand is that building stuff atop old landfills is extremely common; what did you guys think happened to them anyway???
So you're sure that no toxic waste was dumped at this landfill? And that landfill operators and dumpers are inherently trustworthy enough to be entrusted with our health? I only know of one re-purposed landfill site in my area, and there have been gas issues there. I do know of some others that are not being built upon, even now that they are no longer taking in garbage. If you want to live and work on top of dumps, go for it, but I'll pass.
The Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View was built on landfill and fires broke out when concert goers lit up their joints.
Very well said, because clearly rock and roll and no-good dirty hippies and their narcotics are the problem here, not building regulations and uncontrolled natural gas.
If you ran Mint for a year and it wouldn't boot 25% of the time, that's on you, your install, an/or your hardware, not Mint. In the same vein, I can't claim that Mint is perfect just because it boots perfectly 99.98% of the time for me on my laptop.
Why? What makes Mint special, or separate from the pack? Because it's called Mint? It's Ubuntu! -- and Ubuntu is Debian! -- and Debian is just Linux!
Everyone also seems to forget that some people use versions of Mint based directly on Debian, without the Ubuntu mumbo-jumbo. Still, it is worse than oversimplification to say "Mint is Ubuntu," because that is not true, even when talking about mainstream Mint, nor is it accurate to say "Ubuntu is Debian, Debian is Linux." If that were true, you could just say Mint = Ubuntu = Linux = computer = Windows 3.1 = Mac OS, which is just ridiculous.
...is that slashdot is officially dead, as there is no more news for nerds nor stuff that matters. I find it unbelievable that we now have "articles" that are nothing more than someone whining about no one wanting to hang out with them. I can't even call this fake news. SAD.
This Piz Daint is efficient, too, consuming less than 30% as much power as the Opteron-based Titan. TaihuLight is still very, very impressive, though the new one at Oak Ridge should top it.
"We still haven't done much to build out our distribution or source networks, our ecommerce attempts are feeble to non-existent, all of our old customers are dying off, and the damn kids these days just don't respect dinosaur b'n'm retail anymore. But it isn't our fault we suck, it's all on the shipping carriers. We'll show you - we'll close store after store without replacing them with anything else visible. Surely that'll save our business!"
Obvious prediction for 5 years from now: JCP, Sears, K-Mart, and most mall-based clothing retailers will be fully gone. Even mighty Macy's will be teetering, and Kohl's will be surviving while being forced to close scores of stores. Go on, git!
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AWD hybrid minivan? Cool. RHD hybrid minivan that is literally impossible to find parts for on this continent? Not so cool. Kind of a neat van but way too rare over here to be even a remotely good idea. When you need anything at all for it, you'll spend forever trying to match parts from Toyota's massive catalog of locally available parts, and probably end up having to order shit from Japan most of the time.
Short version of the summary: San Francisco is expensive, so some people who work there live far away and have long commutes. Boo-hoo.
Widespread desperation and misery in the country with the richest oil reserves in Latin America. Everyone is poor (except the leaders) and it's all the fault of the CIA (or whoever it's convenient to blame this time). And yet, no matter how many times it brings disaster, some people keep believing stories about how spending others' money instead of earning their own will work out good for them.
Your incorrect conclusion about socialism is based on a false premise - that Venezuela operates under socialism. What you have there is a crook and his crook friends mismanaging everything they can't embezzle or otherwise misappropriate, not a socialist state, no matter what they call it.
Can you define "leftism"? Some of the most successful economies in the world could be defined as "leftists" if you include social Democrat nations like Sweden and Germany.
Don't be ridiculous - of course someone who throws around the term "leftism" in that manner can't adequately articulate what it means. Present day Venezuela is no more an evolved and truly Marxist state than were the Soviet "socialist" republics, which were also more like the a "kleptocracy." "Leftism" is typically used to refer to ill-fated attempts to institute communism, which has never existed in the pure, altruistic, governmental end state that itself evolves into a mutually beneficial pseudo-anarchy.
The Soviets may have cited Marx as an inspiration but they did not follow his guidance, and what we have now in Venezuela is just a chaotic, budding dictatorship. I'd argue that Sweden is further left than is Maduro, though the Swedes have thus far been able to maintain control of their government and made it work for them, and they are generally happy because their socialistic ways are working for them. Maduro is not instituting socialism or so-called communism, he's a crook in way over his head, plain and simple.
No problem, we'll just hold Def Con in Toronto form now on if Vegas doesn't want us. Not the same casino scene, but literally everything else is better there.
Thank you. When I read the summary I thought, "Another delay?" This is old news, basically. Bad title, bad summary that isn't a summary but is instead an excerpt missing context. TFA mentions that the first episode will air next month, while the summary makes it sound as though we'll have to wait longer. Naturally I wanted to blame FOX news because they are the source for this non-news, but their write-up is fine.
Which is why there were no big tours prior to the dawn of the internet
That's an idiotic comment. There was a time before buses when people traveled for extended periods too, so do you think band should stop whining about the cost of buses and just walk, like Jesus did? There are solutions to a need for mobile data other than just paying Verizon's scammy overages or not using the internet.
Why in gods name do you need continual, high-speed internet? Can you not pull yourself away from the computer? That's a problem all by itself.
Have you tried touring for extended periods? In a bus? It isn't like these bands just go out for a day then go home at night, or even every week or two. Many spend months at a time on the road, with lots of long drives (hence the bus) and a sizable crew (the 12-14 mentioned). In 2017 it is not realistic for a group like this to NOT use 10GB+ per day. It isn't like they are just sitting around watching Netflix all day, and you obviously have no clue how this works. Few people on Slashdot would go days or weeks by choice without streaming anything.
Mobile data consumption is not the problem, the problem I see is people like you trying to tell the OP what his problem is rather than bothering to offer a solution. Folks on the road don't have their home internet connection to fall back on, or even slow hotel wifi, much of the time. Believe it or not, many bands also do a lot of work while travelling too, which requires internet use.
Your money is just as much at risk in either scenario
It clearly isn't, as for reasons you stated. You can get that credit card money back by making some calls and signing a few papers, but no level of careful of accounting will convince anyone to reimburse you for stolen cash, unless your mom counts.
CorpGov wants to track everyone. Everywhere. Always. Cash is difficult to monitor.
Bah, cash is dinosuar money. I tumble my BTC thoroughly, use shell companies to obfuscate my identity, and bank off shore. Cash is for po' folks who only spend so little money they can physically carry it around. Mere 10's and 20's don't cut it, I measure by the 1e10.
Don't worry. Slashdot has a money-back guarantee.
Too bad there's no time-back guarantee.
You want to carry some cash, like $40 or something, in case you actually do get robbed.
I just practice good robbery prevention - I'm big, mean, wear a scowl, and roll strapped.
I usually only carry a few dollars in cash, typically maybe $20, up to about $50 max. Not because I think anyone is dumb enough to try to rob me, but because if I have cash I tend to fucking blow it way too easily on stupid shit I don't need or really want. I don't have such problem with debit or credit cards, for some reason. No idea why it works any differently, but it does. That paper just begs to get the hell out of my pocket.
Besides, real modern day ballers don't need fat stacks of cheese any more, they just have accounts everywhere and people know them by name. Or something.
City View Center in Garfield Heights, just outside of Cleveland, is a similar but more recent failure. The EPA admitted they had no idea what all was in the landfill, because monitoring was very poor when it was in operation and jobs trumped regulation (why does that phrase sound so relevant now?). There have been gas issues, an unusual rate of rare cancers in the area, and settling that has resulted in building problems. It has also been an economic failure.
I know of several housing developments that were built there over former landfills
I know of several operating landfills that are nicer than most housing developments in New Jersey.
The whole problem with Love Canal is not that it was built on a landfill, it's that people had been dumping toxic waste there...
There is no mention of that in this landfill. If there's no toxic waste then what's the problem? What many here seem not to understand is that building stuff atop old landfills is extremely common; what did you guys think happened to them anyway???
So you're sure that no toxic waste was dumped at this landfill? And that landfill operators and dumpers are inherently trustworthy enough to be entrusted with our health? I only know of one re-purposed landfill site in my area, and there have been gas issues there. I do know of some others that are not being built upon, even now that they are no longer taking in garbage. If you want to live and work on top of dumps, go for it, but I'll pass.
The Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View was built on landfill and fires broke out when concert goers lit up their joints.
Very well said, because clearly rock and roll and no-good dirty hippies and their narcotics are the problem here, not building regulations and uncontrolled natural gas.
Slackware is actually number one by a wide margin, but everyone knows Slackware users don't bother responding to stupid surveys, duh.
If you ran Mint for a year and it wouldn't boot 25% of the time, that's on you, your install, an/or your hardware, not Mint. In the same vein, I can't claim that Mint is perfect just because it boots perfectly 99.98% of the time for me on my laptop.
Why? What makes Mint special, or separate from the pack? Because it's called Mint? It's Ubuntu! -- and Ubuntu is Debian! -- and Debian is just Linux!
Everyone also seems to forget that some people use versions of Mint based directly on Debian, without the Ubuntu mumbo-jumbo. Still, it is worse than oversimplification to say "Mint is Ubuntu," because that is not true, even when talking about mainstream Mint, nor is it accurate to say "Ubuntu is Debian, Debian is Linux." If that were true, you could just say Mint = Ubuntu = Linux = computer = Windows 3.1 = Mac OS, which is just ridiculous.
...is that slashdot is officially dead, as there is no more news for nerds nor stuff that matters. I find it unbelievable that we now have "articles" that are nothing more than someone whining about no one wanting to hang out with them. I can't even call this fake news. SAD.
I'm doing it wrong - I'm reading slashdot on the weekend instead of relaxing.
Nah, they're mining bitcoin.
Uh, you mean Ethereum? This isn't the old days of 2016.
This Piz Daint is efficient, too, consuming less than 30% as much power as the Opteron-based Titan. TaihuLight is still very, very impressive, though the new one at Oak Ridge should top it.
"We still haven't done much to build out our distribution or source networks, our ecommerce attempts are feeble to non-existent, all of our old customers are dying off, and the damn kids these days just don't respect dinosaur b'n'm retail anymore. But it isn't our fault we suck, it's all on the shipping carriers. We'll show you - we'll close store after store without replacing them with anything else visible. Surely that'll save our business!"
Obvious prediction for 5 years from now: JCP, Sears, K-Mart, and most mall-based clothing retailers will be fully gone. Even mighty Macy's will be teetering, and Kohl's will be surviving while being forced to close scores of stores. Go on, git!