Posts by Youngone 1582 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jun 2009
While you're not wrong, every time I read a piece about how Americans have to pay for this or that thing which the rest of us get as part of the whole taxpayer experience in the country we inhabit, I ask myself who the government of America is set up to benefit.
I don't think its you.
I've been living entirely with Linux Mint for about a year now. Civ VI runs fine and it's the only game I still play.
The only thing I do miss is Photoshop but everything else has a Linux equivalent that works just as well (or better) than whatever I was using under Windows.
America has had several "federal subsidised push(es) for a national fiber infrastructure." The corporations took the money and didn't do the installs, then they asked for more money which resulted in not much more fibre.
Then they sponsored laws to prevent communities building their own fibre networks.
I'm sorry, but her "her obvious creative and business talents." are completely unobvious to me.
She's the child of multi-generational wealth who gained her first recording contract because her father bought a large stake in the company.
The Grammys have no integrity and never did. They're an award for whoever sold the most records last year.
I have heard her described as "the McDonalds of pop music" which sounds about right to me.
Thanks, I really enjoyed that story.
It makes my own situation feel a little less unique. I too work for a vast American corporation that has lost it's way. We however don't care enough to attempt to subvert the corporate bureaucracy in an attempt to actually do good work, so everything is circling the drain.
I would also disagree with his assertion that the powerpc Macs were great machines. As an end user at the time, we put up with them an no more.
Two thoughts came to me.
The first was that this new city will be "socioeconomically integrated" because the servants need to live somewhere and the second was that State Senator Bill Dodd seems to not understand how America works if he thinks this whole project will be decided "based on facts, not slogans, misdirection and massive campaign spending."
China are not going to invade Taiwan, because they can't.
The last time any significant amphibious invasion was attempted, the invaders had been fighting for 4 years (most of them anyway), they had 2 dress rehearsals and the target did not possess satellites or a significant ally who could intervene.
China would need to get 1,000,000 men across the straights of Taiwan and supply them. Taiwan and the US would be able to watch the build up in real time and would know exactly where the landings were going to be. Imagine China's casualty rate.
China could destroy Taiwan of course, they possess nukes. That's going to cripple their own economy, so they won't do that either.
Canonical and Debian don't make decisions about default anything without thinking it through, and Debian definitely listens to technical people before implementing a thing as important as a display manager.
I'm yet to see a really coherent criticism of systemd. It has certainly made my life much easier.
I once worked at a company that had a former PM on the board. (Not Australia obvs)
I didn't have much time for her, as she seemed to me to be rude and selfish but I was repeatedly assured that she "did a huge amount for the company" and "worked really hard".
Anyway, a few years later when the business went titsup, she was quoted in the media (as chair of said board by that time) as saying "I had no idea what was going on".
Really.
If Oracle had bought Apple they would have killed it stone dead.
I'm basing that on the assumption that you're talking about that mid-1990's period when Apple lurched from disaster to disaster and was something of a joke. (Speaking as someone who sat in front of an Apple Quadra all day swearing).
We all assumed Apple was on its last legs and we'd be "upgrading" to Windows machines at some point.
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