Working class bullshit... The working class is evacuating your coastal la-la lands as fast as they can rent U-Haul trailers because of the policies you inflict through the statists you elect, and you're thrilled to see the back of them.
There! See? Never the least problem coming up with yet more reasons to increase taxes on drivers and their fuel to maintain roads. Yet here we see post after post filled with with all sorts of reasons that taxing bikers to fund bike paths is somehow misguided and unfair.
But I thought you liked paying taxes. Ordinarily when a tax matter appears on slashdot any number of liberals chime in to lecture everyone on how we should all appreciate our opportunity to contribute to the system and be thankful for having the means to do so. Then they list their favorite government goodies (forever avoiding the 'common defense' part) and share how great they feel when they see their pay stub and all the fine institutions their funding.
What could be more wonderful than funding bike paths? The same logic that rationalizes ever higher gas taxes to fund roads seems applicable here as well. Now you have a brand new opportunity to contribute. Enjoy.
XP didn't irk me too much. Windows 7 was straightforward and pleasant; I miss it. KDE 3, later versions of KDE 4 and KDE 5 were/are all pretty tolerable. It's not about "stuff that pisses you off," it's about actively hostile design: designs that impede users that aren't just printing emails all day. It is absolutely clear to me that the people responsible for the "start menu" in Windows have it as their mission to thwart and confound power users; they don't give fuck number one about what we want. They've messed up the taskbar by conflating launcher icons with running instances of applications. The "ribbon" crap has added nothing while creating bizarre and unintuitive behavior and unnecessary programming complexity. The split brain Settings/Control Panel stuff is just tragic; a drunken crew operating a rudderless ship. Making the start menu into Microsoft's/MSN app showcase is obnoxious; more and more bullshit in every direction you look. The update process is slow, glitchy and mysterious with incredibly long waits; every other operating system in wide use today has better update management than Windows 10.
There has been some good underlying work in Windows. Startup is fast, the OS is very stable, power management, sleep/hibernate seems rock solid, etc. But damn, the crazy UI people and the update management just ruin it. Then there's the whole telemetry thing and Microsoft's indifference to privacy...
"Windows 10 is failing us" is a fair assessment. The unnecessary, self-inflicted suck that permeates the OS deserves criticism.
Robbed on the Metro. They can spot foreigners and know that foreigners carry cash because only idiots travel without cash. Got hit in the ribs and lost $900. Got beat for a bike once. I don't mention the nice things I own to people; one of their menace kids gets wind of it and they'll dwell on it for years, watching for an opening. Saw this happen twice to my father, once to an uncle and also a former employer.
If you're a healthy young male living the dream on the posh side of town during daylight hours no one will mess with you. The minute you venture outside your little safespace or appear vulnerable at the wrong time they'll jump your ass. Flash some cash in a liquor store some time. You'll find out. You claim experience in "all sorts of places" but I'll bet that anyone goofy enough to pose this question on Slashdot hasn't got clue number one.
If you're looking for some "too big" to get worked up about.... 2016: Amazon revenue: $136 billion. Walmart revenue: $486 billion.
The latter has been wiping out competitors and distorting the wholesale and retail supply chain of the US for decades. Amazon has a looong way to go before they approach the damage of Walmart.
There are a lot of things "off" here.
Amazon has made a mistake. They disturbed the US professional class when they dared touch one of its refuges by grabbing Whole Foods. So yeah, sic the government ban hammer on them. Completely in character.
UBS, climate fear mongering, open borders, SJW grandstanding... He's threatened to fire anyone that dared replace "black" with "all" on Facebook's graffiti wall.
Do you actually know any Jews? Not in the "saw one on teevee" sense, but an actual Jewish person that might speak with you about something other than getting their printer fixed? Or is the whole authoritarian Jew thing completely abstract for you?
wait until they start challenging Zuckerberg's Chinese ties.
Who is this "they" you have in mind? Zuckerberg has always demonstrated proper mainstream group-think; he is not at risk of being questioned for anything. "They" will automatically attribute whatever "ties" you're thinking of to benign and entirely lawful purposes. Whatever involvement he has with China will be unquestioningly regarded as an asset.
Are there any Killian document believers still lurking around here? Despite the obvious nature of the fraud those people clung to their delusions for a long time; Bush Derangement Syndrome was a powerful thing.
There is no evidence of a Haley/McMaster bump in numbers of escapes. Here are the figures for SC department of corrections inmate escapes for the last quarter century by year and facility type. How does the vast decline in escapes between the 1990's (~100-ish per year) and the present (11 in 2016) square with your "austerity ruins everything herp derp" group-think? SC has observed the same decline in escapes as every other region in the US despite similar growth in prison population.
No, the targets will not be met; the targets are not only the renewable fraction of power generation. The terms also include a vast annual wealth transfer. Not underwriting another UN/worldbank/blahblah slush fund will continue to be excellent policy regardless of how many wind turbines we erect. And no, I don't care how few F-35 equivalent dollars our share of the payoff was to be; I'd rather have the F-35s and forego building palaces for Pacific Island potentates.
I wonder how this is going to work for our "progressives"...? I mean, if renewables really do get cheap enough they'll mitigate the bulk of the carbon emission problem. Yet we haven't made so much as a dent in the prevalence of cars, exurbanites and the deplorables beyond them haven't been forced to consolidate into urban efficiency apartments, everyone is still eating beef... How awful. The US doesn't even have a proper federal carbon tax yet! What good is all this if people can't be made to bend to the will of "our values (tm)"?
Of course, I'll believe all these promises when they're delivered. Getting the banksters at Morgan Stanley to put their name to another piece of green group-think no one will hold them accountable for isn't any great feat, so I'll continue to indulge my skepticism.
1994 saw 931 murdered. 970 in 1974. The ~760 of 2016 is only remarkable in that it is a recent spike: the previous 3 years were all <500.
The spike is the Ferguson effect. Black inner cities around the US have all seen the same spike since Ferguson; the police have withdrawn and the gangs are running wild. The worm will turn at some point; we've reached peak BLM and in places like Baltimore the citizens are clamoring for a crackdown. A few years from now, once the police inculcate the fact that the DOJ isn't spending all it's resources persecuting them, the numbers will improve.
This stupidity will die in court. The first class that has >1 student denied a diploma will form the basis of a class action; Chicago is filled to the brim with the sort of lawyers that will not hesitate to argue that this policy is discriminatory due to the minority demographics of the district. They'll be climbing over each other to get the case. If you are a Chicago student that may graduate under this policy and do not otherwise have plans you could win a nice settlement by setting yourself up to have your diploma denied; the lawyers will be looking for a poster child. Groom yourself and practice some lines about how your "future is in jeopardy" because you can't get your diploma. This stuff writes itself.
The whole thing is so obviously infeasible that all the possible explanations one is left with for how Chicago's leadership thought it was a good idea to float this trial balloon are cynical. Maybe they really are that profoundly naive... Maybe they think the citizens are dumb enough to give them credit for trying... Maybe it's a scheme to embiggen student financing. Which of these is the worst?
You just want to play video games. Mommy's basement gamer clicking "like!" "like!" "like!" on UBI stories. She's on board as well; no hope of getting rid of you otherwise.
Indeed. Oh look, another wonderkin billionaire believes his will should be public policy, while his army of lawyers "double irish" his tax liabilities out of existence. And don't you take your next breath until you've vectored this "news" to the next node of the progressive echo chamber. Yay slashdot.
You can use any conductor as an antenna without burning up your transmitter... just have to impedance match it. Damp trees have been resonated. Now, whether anyone will hear you is another question: your crap antenna is likely to be down a few db.
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Working class bullshit... The working class is evacuating your coastal la-la lands as fast as they can rent U-Haul trailers because of the policies you inflict through the statists you elect, and you're thrilled to see the back of them.
There! See? Never the least problem coming up with yet more reasons to increase taxes on drivers and their fuel to maintain roads. Yet here we see post after post filled with with all sorts of reasons that taxing bikers to fund bike paths is somehow misguided and unfair.
But I thought you liked paying taxes. Ordinarily when a tax matter appears on slashdot any number of liberals chime in to lecture everyone on how we should all appreciate our opportunity to contribute to the system and be thankful for having the means to do so. Then they list their favorite government goodies (forever avoiding the 'common defense' part) and share how great they feel when they see their pay stub and all the fine institutions their funding.
What could be more wonderful than funding bike paths? The same logic that rationalizes ever higher gas taxes to fund roads seems applicable here as well. Now you have a brand new opportunity to contribute. Enjoy.
Look, every OS has some stuff that pisses you off
XP didn't irk me too much. Windows 7 was straightforward and pleasant; I miss it. KDE 3, later versions of KDE 4 and KDE 5 were/are all pretty tolerable. It's not about "stuff that pisses you off," it's about actively hostile design: designs that impede users that aren't just printing emails all day. It is absolutely clear to me that the people responsible for the "start menu" in Windows have it as their mission to thwart and confound power users; they don't give fuck number one about what we want. They've messed up the taskbar by conflating launcher icons with running instances of applications. The "ribbon" crap has added nothing while creating bizarre and unintuitive behavior and unnecessary programming complexity. The split brain Settings/Control Panel stuff is just tragic; a drunken crew operating a rudderless ship. Making the start menu into Microsoft's/MSN app showcase is obnoxious; more and more bullshit in every direction you look. The update process is slow, glitchy and mysterious with incredibly long waits; every other operating system in wide use today has better update management than Windows 10.
There has been some good underlying work in Windows. Startup is fast, the OS is very stable, power management, sleep/hibernate seems rock solid, etc. But damn, the crazy UI people and the update management just ruin it. Then there's the whole telemetry thing and Microsoft's indifference to privacy...
"Windows 10 is failing us" is a fair assessment. The unnecessary, self-inflicted suck that permeates the OS deserves criticism.
Robbed on the Metro. They can spot foreigners and know that foreigners carry cash because only idiots travel without cash. Got hit in the ribs and lost $900. Got beat for a bike once. I don't mention the nice things I own to people; one of their menace kids gets wind of it and they'll dwell on it for years, watching for an opening. Saw this happen twice to my father, once to an uncle and also a former employer.
If you're a healthy young male living the dream on the posh side of town during daylight hours no one will mess with you. The minute you venture outside your little safespace or appear vulnerable at the wrong time they'll jump your ass. Flash some cash in a liquor store some time. You'll find out. You claim experience in "all sorts of places" but I'll bet that anyone goofy enough to pose this question on Slashdot hasn't got clue number one.
Something is off here.
If you're looking for some "too big" to get worked up about.... 2016: Amazon revenue: $136 billion. Walmart revenue: $486 billion.
The latter has been wiping out competitors and distorting the wholesale and retail supply chain of the US for decades. Amazon has a looong way to go before they approach the damage of Walmart.
There are a lot of things "off" here.
Amazon has made a mistake. They disturbed the US professional class when they dared touch one of its refuges by grabbing Whole Foods. So yeah, sic the government ban hammer on them. Completely in character.
Mark is about as lefty as they come.
UBS, climate fear mongering, open borders, SJW grandstanding... He's threatened to fire anyone that dared replace "black" with "all" on Facebook's graffiti wall.
Pure establishment group-think.
Do you actually know any Jews? Not in the "saw one on teevee" sense, but an actual Jewish person that might speak with you about something other than getting their printer fixed? Or is the whole authoritarian Jew thing completely abstract for you?
wait until they start challenging Zuckerberg's Chinese ties.
Who is this "they" you have in mind? Zuckerberg has always demonstrated proper mainstream group-think; he is not at risk of being questioned for anything. "They" will automatically attribute whatever "ties" you're thinking of to benign and entirely lawful purposes. Whatever involvement he has with China will be unquestioningly regarded as an asset.
News at 11.
Are there any Killian document believers still lurking around here? Despite the obvious nature of the fraud those people clung to their delusions for a long time; Bush Derangement Syndrome was a powerful thing.
There is no evidence of a Haley/McMaster bump in numbers of escapes. Here are the figures for SC department of corrections inmate escapes for the last quarter century by year and facility type. How does the vast decline in escapes between the 1990's (~100-ish per year) and the present (11 in 2016) square with your "austerity ruins everything herp derp" group-think? SC has observed the same decline in escapes as every other region in the US despite similar growth in prison population.
No, the targets will not be met; the targets are not only the renewable fraction of power generation. The terms also include a vast annual wealth transfer. Not underwriting another UN/worldbank/blahblah slush fund will continue to be excellent policy regardless of how many wind turbines we erect. And no, I don't care how few F-35 equivalent dollars our share of the payoff was to be; I'd rather have the F-35s and forego building palaces for Pacific Island potentates.
I wonder how this is going to work for our "progressives"...? I mean, if renewables really do get cheap enough they'll mitigate the bulk of the carbon emission problem. Yet we haven't made so much as a dent in the prevalence of cars, exurbanites and the deplorables beyond them haven't been forced to consolidate into urban efficiency apartments, everyone is still eating beef... How awful. The US doesn't even have a proper federal carbon tax yet! What good is all this if people can't be made to bend to the will of "our values (tm)"?
Of course, I'll believe all these promises when they're delivered. Getting the banksters at Morgan Stanley to put their name to another piece of green group-think no one will hold them accountable for isn't any great feat, so I'll continue to indulge my skepticism.
Telsa has a history of squabbling with safety testing regimes
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/11/21/1959244/nhtsa-tells-tesla-to-stop-exaggerating-model-s-safety-rating
Over 700 people were murdered in Chicago in 2016
1994 saw 931 murdered. 970 in 1974. The ~760 of 2016 is only remarkable in that it is a recent spike: the previous 3 years were all <500.
The spike is the Ferguson effect. Black inner cities around the US have all seen the same spike since Ferguson; the police have withdrawn and the gangs are running wild. The worm will turn at some point; we've reached peak BLM and in places like Baltimore the citizens are clamoring for a crackdown. A few years from now, once the police inculcate the fact that the DOJ isn't spending all it's resources persecuting them, the numbers will improve.
This stupidity will die in court. The first class that has >1 student denied a diploma will form the basis of a class action; Chicago is filled to the brim with the sort of lawyers that will not hesitate to argue that this policy is discriminatory due to the minority demographics of the district. They'll be climbing over each other to get the case. If you are a Chicago student that may graduate under this policy and do not otherwise have plans you could win a nice settlement by setting yourself up to have your diploma denied; the lawyers will be looking for a poster child. Groom yourself and practice some lines about how your "future is in jeopardy" because you can't get your diploma. This stuff writes itself.
The whole thing is so obviously infeasible that all the possible explanations one is left with for how Chicago's leadership thought it was a good idea to float this trial balloon are cynical. Maybe they really are that profoundly naive... Maybe they think the citizens are dumb enough to give them credit for trying... Maybe it's a scheme to embiggen student financing. Which of these is the worst?
You just want to play video games. Mommy's basement gamer clicking "like!" "like!" "like!" on UBI stories. She's on board as well; no hope of getting rid of you otherwise.
Indeed. Oh look, another wonderkin billionaire believes his will should be public policy, while his army of lawyers "double irish" his tax liabilities out of existence. And don't you take your next breath until you've vectored this "news" to the next node of the progressive echo chamber. Yay slashdot.
Tiny orange hand covered in Mexican blood, gripping a .50 assault bullet...
That's enough slashdot today.
Woke as in #staywoke; keep being outraged.
Make sure I have enough sodium for My Creepy Girl.
you'll end up burning up your transmit stage
You can use any conductor as an antenna without burning up your transmitter... just have to impedance match it. Damp trees have been resonated. Now, whether anyone will hear you is another question: your crap antenna is likely to be down a few db.
We're in space. There is this thin layer of atmosphere confusing you about your location.
It hasn't happened yet
It's not just that you're ignorant of history, it's that the history inside your head is fictional.
What, precisely, is "Informative" about this tripe?