Based on what? Pictures of white people at his rallies?
The immigration is the big boogeyman.
Immigration, often illegal, of desperate poor people takes away jobs from blue-collar workers. And you admit jobs are already shrinking due to automation. And you say, "because others are better at it than they are", but what is really true many of those jobs are shifting overseas to countries that don't have all the protections of the United States.
I suspect Microsoft would have been delighted - just as Sun was
Sun may have put on a brave face, but they weren't particularly happy about losing control of "mobile Java" to Google. They tried working out a licensing deal early on and failed, and knew they were going to lose a lot of licensing money to Android.
As for Microsoft, we'll never know. But we do knew Microsoft has a cutthroat culture and are a bunch of corporate assholes. They can be trusted just as much as Oracle.
That's reasonable. It allows implementors to implement whatever they want of the spec.
And as soon as you fall off the spec, those patents aren't covered. Whether Google would have run afoul or not would depend on how they deviated, as in did they use any of the patents in non-conforming material.
Note that Android manufacturers are already paying Microsoft licensing fees for open source software that they are shipping
Showing that Microsoft is more than happy to use the patent hammer when it suits them, so you'd better be careful you don't step over the lines Microsoft has laid out.
Finally, any patents relevant to most of.NET are expired or soon expiring, so they don't matter anymore.
Is that so? Because.NET keeps evolving and new patents keep on being filed. Just take a look at the list of patents. I picked one of the later numbers, and it was filed in 2013.
I don't have them. I'm an electrical engineer. Get the political gurus to comment on that.
The political gurus in the Netherlands think it's mainly because of an aging demographic, which a massive immigration of a predominantly young and male population will reverse.
The type of people you find at rallies, they're of the "I don't like black people because they took my job" type. They are racist assholes.
I think it's pretty shitty to call blue-collar workers who have lost their jobs to immigration "racist assholes". Your strawman characterization of the issue says more about you than them.
The rest of the 49% aren't voting Trump to brand muslims and kick the mexican rapists out
What are they voting for, Mr. "I'm an electrical engineer.", and not a political guru?
While open source is all about scratching your own itch, I'm still very surprised the project has reached this state with regards to memory usage. Did not one of the developers think to profile memory usage and see what the fuck is going on?
The devil is in the details. If Google had did to.NET what they did to Java, do you think they would have been covered? I think not. The promises are limited in scope.
For instance, the Open Specification Promise only applies to conforming implementations, something Google intentionally violated when they made their tweaked variation of Java.
The promises are a legal landmine. They cover only certain technologies, including only certain versions of technologies, sometimes only certain groups (such as open source developers, but not commercial developers or even users), etc.
If you blindly believe Microsoft "made legal commitments not to assert any patents", then you are a fool.
Why do you think putting "internet" in front of something grants exemptions from laws?
The reasonable assumption that site owners should only have the onus to adhere to the laws of the host country, and not have to be world police to 196 countries (and the many regions within those countries) just because somebody visits the site.
Should Western sites be forced to police their sites for citizens coming from Iran, China, or Russia, just to name a few?
All it really means is that basically nobody owns it, and any revenue they make above their costs just ends up going to its employees, or alternatively, being dispersed as grants.
Not quite. Employee compensation should be "reasonable".
Which is to say, companies are having to do it because "parents" (if they can be called that) no longer will.
They don't have to do shit. They just got infected by political correctness gone mad. In Github's case, they crossed the Rubicon when they tossed out their "Meritocracy" rug. They did this to appease an employee more interested in gender politics than coding and that they were already coddling.
Said employee ended up causing even more drama before eventually leaving. Did Github learn their lesson? No, they doubled down and hired some tranny who was already causing drama on the site and trying to turn individual projects into social "justice" crusades.
Doesn't surprise me at all that they are losing money.
Do you mean crime wave? Because there's been plenty of that. They're filling up the prisons. Also, maybe you think a massive, public, sexual assault on women on New Year's Eve is normal and unrelated to immigration.
total Islamification of Germany/Europe has completely failed to emerge
It wasn't predicted to happen overnight, but saying "completely failed to emerge" is bullshit. It's already starting to happen in the spots they congregate to. They aren't integrating. Even Merkel knew that in 2010 before she opened up the floodgates.
Because they have to have a registered presence in a country to do business there.
Well the odd thing is Facebook is an Internet company, so it would seem strange to have to "register" in Germany before Germans can visit your site, sign up for an account, and see ads.
Of course, every country has their own interpretation of how laws on the Internet work, and we've seen the United States go after overseas companies for stuff like online gambling (though I think they only nailed some executives when they traveled to the US).
Good catch! I did indeed install the restricted addons but unless I'm mistaken, thats because the installer prompts that they are needed to have the MP3 decoder.
"Ubuntu Restricted Extras is a software package for the computer operating system Ubuntu that allows the user to install essential software which is not already included due to legal or copyright reasons. It is a meta-package that installs: Support for MP3 and unencrypted DVD playback. Microsoft TrueType core fonts."
And ubuntu-restricted-extras depends on ubuntu-restricted-addons as well as recommending gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse.
I'm just pointing out that he was a better candidate.
You don't know that. By conventional thinking he wasn't. You wouldn't even have voted for him.
Good thing I didn't do that then. Once again, it's the observation that superdelegates helped Clinton win in two ways, first by giving her an edge in the beginning and second, of course by throwing the election in her favor rather than Sanders' favor.
Repeating your bullshit doesn't make it true. Sanders lost regardless of the superdelegates. It's extremely petty to complain about their existence and then complain when they didn't override the vote in a manner opposite to their function.
Good thing then that Clinton was so much better. Because otherwise they might have lost.
Good thing hindsight is 20/20, where you can always claim to be right by making a different choice after the fact. Since this is going in circles, this is my last reply.
Sorry, not feeling it. There are two complaints about how superdelegates threw the election.
And I'm not feeling it on your position. You're just whining that Bernie didn't win, and looking to assign blame, regardless of logical consistency.
Further, heads I win, tails you lose is the superdelegate game. Non-establishment candidates have a huge vote portion that they're going to have a very hard time winning.
Yes, that's the point of superdelegates, you admit it. So it's bullshit to complain that the superdelegates didn't throw the election to Bernie when complaining about superdelegates.
And the obvious rebuttal is that you can say the above as well no matter who wins.
That's not a rebuttal. That's reinforcing what I'm saying. Hindsight is 20/20. We can always play "what ifs", but it is speculation.
But Sanders doesn't have a 40 year history of skullduggery; doesn't have ongoing pay for play with several hundred million dollars put in; didn't show felony-grade "extreme carelessness" about national security; isn't an extremely unlikable candidate; etc.
The problem with Sanders was that he was a self-described socialist. It's the extreme wing candidate that appeals to the base but tends to turn off the middle of the country. He was also a career politician with no business experience. And he looked whimpy.
Because it's weak sauce. It's heads I win, tails you lose.
And the obvious rebuttal would have been a list of the problems Clinton brings along with the question, "Would Democrats really be that dumb as to nominate a sure loser?"
Hindsight is 20/20. Sanders also might have lost, and then we'd be discussing why the Democrats had picked a "sure loser". We don't know. Given any candidate, you can find a list of downsides.
It's just the latest "news" story in the parade of "news" stories to explain why Trump unfairly won the election, and harrumph, something ought to be done about it.
We've gotten past denial, anger, and are now in the bargaining stage.
The Superdelegates had enough votes to give the nomination to Bernie, which they should have done.
So first the Bernie supporters blame superdelagates for unfairly rigging the election against Bernie, then when Bernie would have lost without them anyways they blame the superdelagates for not backing him.
That's the whole reason they exist, so that terrible candidates such as Clinton don't get the nomination and then lose the general election.
They exist to keep candidates like Bernie (and Trump) from winning the nomination, and you damn well know it. It's just that this election cycle turned conventional thinking on its head. If Bernie had actually won the nomination and lost to Trump we'd be hearing how stupid the Democrats were for not going with Hillary.
Right. And then I'm supposed to believe that the well-written "answers" from "Hillary Clinton" on Quora are really from Hillary herself - someone who demonstrably is baffled by a fax machine.
There's also an email from Hillary asking an aide to find out what time a show was on TV. These people are like Mr. Burns, living in a bubble surrounded by aides who do everything for them. In all the email leaks I've seen, I have yet to see a single email from Hillary of any substance.
Now granted, she was good at prepping for debates and parroting talking points. But that's as far as it went.
Passive monitoring isn't 'getting involved'. Where do you guys even come from with this logic? Is there some kind of training course for this?
What the fuck do you think police are doing on routine patrols? The primary function of police is to prevent and respond to crime. Part of that is passive monitoring of the public. You can argue about the scope, but that's been a part of police work for as long as there have been police.
Building a business requires work. Business owners put in that work, and often their own capital, with the expectation of making profits. Take away ownership and profit rights, and you're back into communism, a failed experiment that ended in the 20th century.
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I'm calling racist arseholes racist arseholes.
Based on what? Pictures of white people at his rallies?
The immigration is the big boogeyman.
Immigration, often illegal, of desperate poor people takes away jobs from blue-collar workers. And you admit jobs are already shrinking due to automation. And you say, "because others are better at it than they are", but what is really true many of those jobs are shifting overseas to countries that don't have all the protections of the United States.
I suspect Microsoft would have been delighted - just as Sun was
Sun may have put on a brave face, but they weren't particularly happy about losing control of "mobile Java" to Google. They tried working out a licensing deal early on and failed, and knew they were going to lose a lot of licensing money to Android.
As for Microsoft, we'll never know. But we do knew Microsoft has a cutthroat culture and are a bunch of corporate assholes. They can be trusted just as much as Oracle.
That's reasonable. It allows implementors to implement whatever they want of the spec.
And as soon as you fall off the spec, those patents aren't covered. Whether Google would have run afoul or not would depend on how they deviated, as in did they use any of the patents in non-conforming material.
Note that Android manufacturers are already paying Microsoft licensing fees for open source software that they are shipping
Showing that Microsoft is more than happy to use the patent hammer when it suits them, so you'd better be careful you don't step over the lines Microsoft has laid out.
Finally, any patents relevant to most of .NET are expired or soon expiring, so they don't matter anymore.
Is that so? Because .NET keeps evolving and new patents keep on being filed. Just take a look at the list of patents. I picked one of the later numbers, and it was filed in 2013.
I don't have them. I'm an electrical engineer. Get the political gurus to comment on that.
The political gurus in the Netherlands think it's mainly because of an aging demographic, which a massive immigration of a predominantly young and male population will reverse.
The type of people you find at rallies, they're of the "I don't like black people because they took my job" type. They are racist assholes.
I think it's pretty shitty to call blue-collar workers who have lost their jobs to immigration "racist assholes". Your strawman characterization of the issue says more about you than them.
The rest of the 49% aren't voting Trump to brand muslims and kick the mexican rapists out
What are they voting for, Mr. "I'm an electrical engineer.", and not a political guru?
Sounds like a nice project for you.
While open source is all about scratching your own itch, I'm still very surprised the project has reached this state with regards to memory usage. Did not one of the developers think to profile memory usage and see what the fuck is going on?
made legal commitments not to assert any patents
The devil is in the details. If Google had did to .NET what they did to Java, do you think they would have been covered? I think not. The promises are limited in scope.
For instance, the Open Specification Promise only applies to conforming implementations, something Google intentionally violated when they made their tweaked variation of Java.
The promises are a legal landmine. They cover only certain technologies, including only certain versions of technologies, sometimes only certain groups (such as open source developers, but not commercial developers or even users), etc.
If you blindly believe Microsoft "made legal commitments not to assert any patents", then you are a fool.
Microsoft has been much better behaved lately
*cough* Windows 10 *cough*
I highly doubt the way a government runs a country or manages immigration can be considered fairy dust.
So you haven't offered any specifics of what they are doing right and what those other countries I mentioned are doing wrong.
But while you're talking about peachyness note that the gangs well and truly predate this migration.
You say, "this migration". Are those gang members from previous migrations?
You don't really think 49% of Americans are racist assholes do you?
I think a large number of people who are sick of immigration are tired of being called racist assholes, and the name calling isn't working anymore.
Why do you think putting "internet" in front of something grants exemptions from laws?
The reasonable assumption that site owners should only have the onus to adhere to the laws of the host country, and not have to be world police to 196 countries (and the many regions within those countries) just because somebody visits the site.
Should Western sites be forced to police their sites for citizens coming from Iran, China, or Russia, just to name a few?
They need to buy magical Holland fairy dust? Or did you have specifics in mind?
And it's not like everything is just peachy with immigration in the Netherlands. They have gang problems and a growing resistance to immigration.
I'm sure Sweden, Germany, and the UK will take comfort in that.
All it really means is that basically nobody owns it, and any revenue they make above their costs just ends up going to its employees, or alternatively, being dispersed as grants.
Not quite. Employee compensation should be "reasonable".
Which is to say, companies are having to do it because "parents" (if they can be called that) no longer will.
They don't have to do shit. They just got infected by political correctness gone mad. In Github's case, they crossed the Rubicon when they tossed out their "Meritocracy" rug. They did this to appease an employee more interested in gender politics than coding and that they were already coddling.
Said employee ended up causing even more drama before eventually leaving. Did Github learn their lesson? No, they doubled down and hired some tranny who was already causing drama on the site and trying to turn individual projects into social "justice" crusades.
Doesn't surprise me at all that they are losing money.
Google has been doing this for ages..
Yep, and Microsoft jumped in with both feet for Windows 10. So have people stopped using Google for web search, Gmail, Chrome, and Android?
However, the predicted cringe wave
Do you mean crime wave? Because there's been plenty of that. They're filling up the prisons. Also, maybe you think a massive, public, sexual assault on women on New Year's Eve is normal and unrelated to immigration.
total Islamification of Germany/Europe has completely failed to emerge
It wasn't predicted to happen overnight, but saying "completely failed to emerge" is bullshit. It's already starting to happen in the spots they congregate to. They aren't integrating. Even Merkel knew that in 2010 before she opened up the floodgates.
Because they have to have a registered presence in a country to do business there.
Well the odd thing is Facebook is an Internet company, so it would seem strange to have to "register" in Germany before Germans can visit your site, sign up for an account, and see ads.
Of course, every country has their own interpretation of how laws on the Internet work, and we've seen the United States go after overseas companies for stuff like online gambling (though I think they only nailed some executives when they traveled to the US).
Good catch! I did indeed install the restricted addons but unless I'm mistaken, thats because the installer prompts that they are needed to have the MP3 decoder.
That seems to be the case:
"Ubuntu Restricted Extras is a software package for the computer operating system Ubuntu that allows the user to install essential software which is not already included due to legal or copyright reasons. It is a meta-package that installs: Support for MP3 and unencrypted DVD playback. Microsoft TrueType core fonts."
And ubuntu-restricted-extras depends on ubuntu-restricted-addons as well as recommending gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse.
I'm just pointing out that he was a better candidate.
You don't know that. By conventional thinking he wasn't. You wouldn't even have voted for him.
Good thing I didn't do that then. Once again, it's the observation that superdelegates helped Clinton win in two ways, first by giving her an edge in the beginning and second, of course by throwing the election in her favor rather than Sanders' favor.
Repeating your bullshit doesn't make it true. Sanders lost regardless of the superdelegates. It's extremely petty to complain about their existence and then complain when they didn't override the vote in a manner opposite to their function.
Good thing then that Clinton was so much better. Because otherwise they might have lost.
Good thing hindsight is 20/20, where you can always claim to be right by making a different choice after the fact. Since this is going in circles, this is my last reply.
Sorry, not feeling it. There are two complaints about how superdelegates threw the election.
And I'm not feeling it on your position. You're just whining that Bernie didn't win, and looking to assign blame, regardless of logical consistency.
Further, heads I win, tails you lose is the superdelegate game. Non-establishment candidates have a huge vote portion that they're going to have a very hard time winning.
Yes, that's the point of superdelegates, you admit it. So it's bullshit to complain that the superdelegates didn't throw the election to Bernie when complaining about superdelegates.
And the obvious rebuttal is that you can say the above as well no matter who wins.
That's not a rebuttal. That's reinforcing what I'm saying. Hindsight is 20/20. We can always play "what ifs", but it is speculation.
But Sanders doesn't have a 40 year history of skullduggery; doesn't have ongoing pay for play with several hundred million dollars put in; didn't show felony-grade "extreme carelessness" about national security; isn't an extremely unlikable candidate; etc.
The problem with Sanders was that he was a self-described socialist. It's the extreme wing candidate that appeals to the base but tends to turn off the middle of the country. He was also a career politician with no business experience. And he looked whimpy.
Why can't both be true?
Because it's weak sauce. It's heads I win, tails you lose.
And the obvious rebuttal would have been a list of the problems Clinton brings along with the question, "Would Democrats really be that dumb as to nominate a sure loser?"
Hindsight is 20/20. Sanders also might have lost, and then we'd be discussing why the Democrats had picked a "sure loser". We don't know. Given any candidate, you can find a list of downsides.
What don't they want us looking at?
It's just the latest "news" story in the parade of "news" stories to explain why Trump unfairly won the election, and harrumph, something ought to be done about it.
We've gotten past denial, anger, and are now in the bargaining stage.
The Superdelegates had enough votes to give the nomination to Bernie, which they should have done.
So first the Bernie supporters blame superdelagates for unfairly rigging the election against Bernie, then when Bernie would have lost without them anyways they blame the superdelagates for not backing him.
That's the whole reason they exist, so that terrible candidates such as Clinton don't get the nomination and then lose the general election.
They exist to keep candidates like Bernie (and Trump) from winning the nomination, and you damn well know it. It's just that this election cycle turned conventional thinking on its head. If Bernie had actually won the nomination and lost to Trump we'd be hearing how stupid the Democrats were for not going with Hillary.
Right. And then I'm supposed to believe that the well-written "answers" from "Hillary Clinton" on Quora are really from Hillary herself - someone who demonstrably is baffled by a fax machine.
There's also an email from Hillary asking an aide to find out what time a show was on TV. These people are like Mr. Burns, living in a bubble surrounded by aides who do everything for them. In all the email leaks I've seen, I have yet to see a single email from Hillary of any substance.
Now granted, she was good at prepping for debates and parroting talking points. But that's as far as it went.
Passive monitoring isn't 'getting involved'. Where do you guys even come from with this logic? Is there some kind of training course for this?
What the fuck do you think police are doing on routine patrols? The primary function of police is to prevent and respond to crime. Part of that is passive monitoring of the public. You can argue about the scope, but that's been a part of police work for as long as there have been police.
Building a business requires work. Business owners put in that work, and often their own capital, with the expectation of making profits. Take away ownership and profit rights, and you're back into communism, a failed experiment that ended in the 20th century.