Some people don't give a shit about life and so they don't give a shit about school. But some of those people fucking off in class already know the material and are just there because the class is mandatory, it costs just as much to challenge the course as it does to take it, and if you fail at challenging it then you have to pay twice. Also, many people don't even know there is a process for testing out of a class.

When you make attendance mandatory, you get people fucking off in class.

So Microsoft is saying that if they were better at writing software, my attention span would be better? Because I blame all the workflows interrupted by a blue screen... Shit, just saw one yesterday. Apparently running Firefox, Chrome, and a DX11 game at the same time is a bit hard on the nvidia driver. It doesn't crash immediately, just randomly.

I can handle walking and eating, no problem. But if I try to talk at the same time I tend to bite something besides my food. Guess from now on it's make -j2 for me.

Some jobs are easier to task-switch than others. It depends on how much context they have, and how realtime they are. Sometimes, tiny amounts of latency have massive effects, sometimes they're fairly irrelevant.

Transparent ad-blocking SQUID proxy. I've done this before to handle annoying devices. They don't even know it's happening. As a side-benefit you can add in some caching, if you like, although in rare cases that sort of thing causes problems (when people dick up the pragmas.)

I bet it doesn't. I bet what happens is that you want an upgrade, and don't get one.

Barring a standard port like a cablecard slot that lets me plug an embedded computer into my TV, I certainly don't want a smart TV, because updates.

You can build a SFF PC for under $100 that will play 1080p video just fine. Why would you ever buy a smart TV? It's just going to be an idiot in short order.

Yes, yes they do. They only don't apply to military jobs. Ironically, actual enlisted military don't have the same rights as you and I. They are slaves. They have to give up the right even to know what drugs they're being injected with, let alone to quit their jobs.

No.

Look, even black people will talk shit about how black someone blacker than them is. Worldwide, light skin is part of racial privilege. This goes back at least to the ancient greeks.

It's racist to willfully ignore the effects of race, and racism.

Someone who is really sure that they did it all without help and is a goddamn Heinleinian superman feels like I pissed in their Cheerios. You didn't build that bowl of cereal, either.

Really? The government was no part of that?

You look a little ridiculous suggesting that anyone not living as a hermit in a cave or on a mountaintop (etc.) has received nothing from society.

Except at least Japan and China that I know of both do have ethnicity-based discrimination. I'd imagine Korea does too, but I don't know enough about them.

Pop quiz: Where in the world is light skin, at least by comparison to one's neighbors, not still part of the recipe for maximum success? And how long has it been that way on this planet?

The very point is that the two are impossible to tease apart. How much of their own making is of this nation's making? How much does this nation owe to their labor? It should be possible to calculate, but only if we're honest.

Only if you're staggeringly stupid. My point was that it would have taken only the barest vestiges of courage to log in and risk that someone might know who the shit-talker is, and they haven't even got that.

People who talk shit and throw insults as ACs are the most cowardly of the cowards.