NATO should have stuck to agreements not to expand East after reuniting Germany and Russia shouldn't have done an invasion right now.

But if China were trying to put troops and missiles in Mexico, I'd expect the US to roll tanks down to Mexico City to make it stop if we had to just as if Mexico tried to take back Texas and the Southwest I'd be dumping 62gr 5.56x45 into invaders.

Ultimately, I'm not willing to pay $4/gal for gas because of shit going down in a country I have no ties to after politicians I didn't vote for wanted to fuck with a country I dont particularly care for but which has long since ceased to be an actual threat.

You know, it's possible for both sides of an argument to be wrong. Doubly so in a war.

Mussolini, originator of fascism, started out as a Marxist. His father was a well known Communist. Fascism and Socialism/Communism are collectivist ideologies that put the race/class/state/party ahead of the individual. All their crimes are similar because at their heart while the rhetoric may sound different the actions are always pretty much the same.

It depends.

A lot of people talk about "cyber" as a new deterrent-level weapon. However, the problem with deterrents is they only work if people know you have them. Nuclear weapons tests, for instance, provide both the real telemetry data necessary to validate a design and implementation, but also are noticeable events that let those who can sense nuclear explosions know you have nuclear weapons.

Cyber tests aren't visible from space. Thus, if you want the cyber capabilities to act like a deterrent then you need to let people know that you have them. Politicians also like to be able to say "see, we didn't just do nothing!" when situations like this occur. Iran blew up Saudi oil production facilities. The US didn't launch missiles. The administration needs to show they didn't do nothing, thus they can point to having done cyber. Discussing the operation therefor fills an immediate political need while hopefully signalling to adversaries that we have a capability and providing the deterrent effect.

I canâ(TM)t believe they havenâ(TM)t had to scrap the logo entirely and change the name because âoemetooâ or something. But seriously, Iâ(TM)ve looked at that logo since the Red Hat 4.x (way before the RHEL days) and immediately thought âoewho but a pimp would wear a red fedora?â

But then, I roll with an OS that uses the devil as a mascot, so yeah.

Given all the Chinese they hire, its probably for the best anyway to keep them from working on Us govt things. Google (and silly com valley) doesnâ(TM)t have a monopoly on smart people, but does seem to have an out-sized share of weirdos and people who think more highly of their themselves and their abilities than they can necessarily back up.

That they would rather spend their precious time on earth working at an ad agency that has tricked people into believing it is a tech company is interesting, but so long ad theyâ(TM)re over there doing that, i can be where I am not having to interact with them. Consider it a indirect side-benefit of Federalism, I suppose.

eh, the whole of the US will be an Amazon company town soon enough. I don't think it's much hyperbole to suggest that if people could pay mortgage/rent in Amazon gift cards, many people wouldn't need the normal financial system at all. Work at Amazon, get paid in gift cards. Shop only at Whole Foods (just stick to the 360-brand), live in Amazon Apartments that are heated in the winter with the excess heat pumped out of AWS data centers. I mean, why not, right?

It used to be about every six months I get hit up on LinkedIn for security roles at AWS. It was like a ritual sending the 'not interested' canned response at that point (since moving away from the Balt/Wash area, that's stopped though). I don't think there's any place I'm less interested in working than Amazon, although that doesn't stop me from shopping there (go ahead, call me a hypocrite).

There are many towns/villages in Alaska that are dry. I hear some of them are seasonally so due to the increased risk of suicide during the winter as a result of lack of sunlight and the bitter cold, among other associated problems. I heard this from a friend who lived up there for a while ~10+ years ago, working on the system and administers the project in TFA. Last time I was in Alaska, I was 14 so liquor wasn't any of my concern (and it was the summer anyway).

That fund is basically dividends paid to the citizens of Alaska with money raised from the extraction of minerals. Think of it as profit sharing you get for living in a place its dark half the year and you canâ(TM)t buy liquor in the winter. It isnâ(TM)t meant to âoereplaceâ income, but is meant as a âoethank you for living here so we can claim its a stateâ

Boring, difficult tasks are where they bill most of their hours. Why would anyone who is paid $300/hr want to finish in 26 seconds? The lawyer who took 156 minutes just made $900.

FreeBSD has a lot of its own drama, yes. It also has some technical shortcomings that prevent me from using it at work. Some of of the attempts to fix those shortcomings have resulted in drama. The problem with literally everything is people, which sucks and can't be gotten away from. The further problem with open source is for some people it's a hobby, and for some people its work. And if it's your hobby, no one wants to be told your baby is ugly. If its work, you don't really want to deal with people insulting each other's babies. You just want to get your product done, with as few defects as possible.

But once you have a job, a family, and property and other stuff that needs attention and protection, interacting with the community becomes less of priority. And once it is, none of the shouting and jabbing and pushing around is worth it. I'm in the camp of "ignore the politics and just use the software" at this point, but in today's 24/7 live-streamed outrage culture, it is impossible to ignore the politics. The people with an agenda won't let themselves be ignored as long as you're plugged in.

So, computers for work only. Not really interested in spending hobby time on it anymore. I haven't been on IRC in months. I quit twitter because I couldn't spend more than 45 seconds on it without hating the whole world. Facebook is a time sink that isn't worth it. Frankly, Slashdot jumped the shark like 10 years ago but I still keep coming here anyway for reasons unknown. I should probably review that...

Meanwhile, what was removed:

-The Linux kernel development effort is a very personal process compared
-to "traditional" ways of developing software. Your code and ideas
-behind it will be carefully reviewed, often resulting in critique and
-criticism. The review will almost always require improvements to the
-code before it can be included in the kernel. Know that this happens
-because everyone involved wants to see the best possible solution for
-the overall success of Linux. This development process has been proven
-to create the most robust operating system kernel ever, and we do not
-want to do anything to cause the quality of submission and eventual
-result to ever decrease.
-
-If however, anyone feels personally abused, threatened, or otherwise
-uncomfortable due to this process, that is not acceptable. If so,
-please contact the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board at
-, or the individual members, and they
-will work to resolve the issue to the best of their ability.

So, the language that states "best possible solution" has been replaced language related to the "good of the community." Personally, I don't interact with Linux as a community (if my name isn't enough of a tip-off). I consume it as a product, and I want the best product I can get in order to go do something else, because work. If they think they can still get the best product while airing all this drama in public and trying to build sticks to hit each other with, whatever. Good on them. What I fear will happen is more "my ignorance is just as valid as your expertise, and if you don't think so i'm going to beat you with the CoC until you stop hurting my feelings." That's not going to result in a better product.

But, not my community, not my responsibility. But now that most of the world runs on this stack, I just want to see a consistently high level of quality. Lack of quality makes it my problem, regardless of whether or not it is my responsibility.

Iâ(TM)ve gotten two great jobs and one crappy one that nevertheless bumped my pay up 30k a year for taking it and sucking it up for 20 months. In 2016, I turned away over 100 legitimate recruiter contacts.

Iâ(TM)ve quit twitter, Facebook, etc. LinkedIn is valuable to me. It is getting infested with chain email level b.s., but they have good filter settings.

I have no data, but suspect that there is a large overlap in people who support:
a) gun control
b) self-driving cars

If, after they publish you, they ask you to buy copies... like those pay-to-be-published "literary journals" that publish whatever crap poem someone who buys 5 copies submits. -- I'd definitely say that's a fake journal.