Comment Re:Lives be damned (Score 1) 328
Profits above all else.
From the Better Off Ted episode Racial Sensitivity
Veronica: "Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.
Profits above all else.
From the Better Off Ted episode Racial Sensitivity
Veronica: "Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.
You know software as a service and all that?
It was only good for 365 days - right there in the name...
Native? As in the ones who were here first or showed up later? The older folks who actually created the systems and infrastructure everyone uses and now takes for granted, or the youngsters who just use those systems and infrastructure, but have little/no idea how anything actually works? I'm not sure who to thank most, the people who created Ethernet or Angry Birds.
Did you try to set fire to your schools property because of a bad grade?
According to TFS he set fire to the computer because he was , "mad and frustrated because he could not hack into the system." I'm not condoning his actions, but who amongst us hasn't, at least, entertained the idea of destroying a computer after simply trying to *use* it? I have bad thoughts about my Windows 7 desktop at work all... the... time. And to quote the movie "Office Space," "PC LOAD LETTER!!? What the fuck does that mean?" - didn't work out so well for that printer, did it?
"have you tried turning it off and then back on?"
True story: Back in the early 1980s, I actually had a long-distance phone call with someone in which I was the "tech support" part of the above conversation.
Honestly though, if HP released web cameras which couldn't see black folks, I find this strangely unsurprising.
Apparently people who build these things assume everyone is the same shade of pasty white.
The show Better Off Ted addressed something like this in their episode Racial Sensitivity when Veridian Dynamics installs new security sensors in the building, which detect employees based on the light reflecting off their skin and they can't detect black people. Veronica assures Ted that the company cares about the issue:
Ted: The system doesn't see black people?
Veronica: I know. Weird, huh?
Ted: That's more than weird, Veronica. That's basically, well... racist.
Veronica: The company's position is that it's actually the opposite of racist, because it's not targeting black people. It's just ignoring them. They insist the worst people can call it is "indifferent."
Ted: Well, they know it has to be fixed, right? Please... at least say they know that.
Veronica: Of course they do, and they're working on it. In the meantime they'd like everyone to celebrate the fact that it sees Hispanics, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Jews.
Though, as true for most corporations, only cares just so much...
Veronica: "Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.
So if I drive a Ford and it catches on fire when someone rear-ends me at low speed and I narrowly escape burning alive, all because of a faulty design, it's "childish" for me to continue holding a grudge against Ford?
(Note: I haven't had any such problems with Ubuntu (nor have I ever used mainline Ubuntu, only derivatives), so note I'm just making a point here, not bashing Ubuntu for any reliability problems.)
But I'm guessing no one has yet rear-ended your Linux system, so you don't actually know if it will catch on fire and you'll narrowly escape burning alive. Or did I misread things?
This is what happens when the users have NO WAY to influence direction, you get [stuff] like Pulse and Systemd rammed down your throats.
I've been pondering the creation of a corollary to Godwin's Law that'is specially formulated for Slashdot. Just substitute "systemd" for "Hitler."
(Oops, looks like I just invoked both Godwin's Law and its new corollary - all in a single sentence!)
I think the actual issue/problem goes beyond the words "systemd" and "pulseaudio" back to the word "Poettering". You know, root causes and all that...
eFlight books were switched to to save millions of dollars in fuel costs every year. They're that heavy.
They're 16kg (35lb) (from TFS) - hardly "that heavy". One drink cart weighs more than that - empty.
Why bother with classes? Just give everybody a passing grade.
Isn't that all the entitled youngsters care about anyway - good grades, not actually learning anything?
Verizon entered this contract with ESPN to be able to sell ESPN content
Typically, these contracts are of the sort where Disney says if Verizon wants to carry the Disney channel, they must also carry all the ESPN channels @ a certain rate etc
I also don't see your analogy as being the same. Customers pay Verizon for the bandwidth and Verizon is a customer paying Disney for Disney, ABC, ABC Family and ESPN* but with the added bonus of being required to buy them all to get the ones Verizon and its customers actually want.
You're correct in that it's a contract dispute between Verizon and Disney, but w/o actually seeing the contract we don't actually know who's in the right. My guess is that Verizon found a loophole and Disney isn't happy about it.
"We simply ask that Verizon abide by the terms of our contracts."
Translation: And force people to pay for stuff they don't want.
Personally, I've *never* (ever) watched any of the ESPN channels and am annoyed at having to pay for them. Sure, I understand that a-la-carte programming *may* be expensive - at the moment - but I imagine business models and revenue streams will adapt as time goes on. In the mean time, Disney can kiss my shiny metal ass.
All good points, though Aspartame has a pretty distinctive taste, especially in contrast to sugar. Perhaps I shouldn't have lead with the phrase "idiot" as I didn't mean it in the intellectual sense. I have known a few people to exaggerate or get a little too hyperbolic about a (sometimes supposed) food allergy or sensitivity. Like a woman I know who says she's allergic to chocolate (which is actually *super* rare) when I know she's in fact not, but just wants to avoid eating it because it's her "crack" - which is fine, but it would be better if she'd just own up to her chocolate addiction than claiming a medical condition.
You might be interested in this video lecture Sugar: The Bitter Truth by Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology.
When he ordered a drink, he specifically said "NOT diet, I can't have phenylalanine". They brought him Diet Coke. He drank enough that some time (maybe twenty minutes) later,
Not to throw soda on your story or that person, but, if true, he's obviously an idiot. I don't know *anyone* that cannot tell the difference between regular and diet soda with one sip. In addition, according to the Wikipedia page you referenced, people with that affliction, at least if severe enough to cause the kind of reaction that guy mentioned, would be on a severely restricted diet and restaurant dining would be problematic:
The diet requires severely restricting or eliminating foods high in Phe, such as meat, chicken, fish, eggs, nuts, legumes, cheese, milk and other dairy products. Starchy foods, such as potatoes and corn are generally acceptable in controlled amounts,
Lastly, there's nothing to indicate that a trip to the hospital would be warranted, especially for such a small amount ingested:
PKU is not a food allergy or a digestive problem. Eating "forbidden" foods does not cause an immediate reaction. The phenylalanine from that food remains in the person's system, however, and as Phe accumulates over time they may experience concentration and mood problems, as well as eczema and other symptoms
I'm not saying your story or his reaction is BS, but I'm a little dubious.
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
