Oh for sure. There are people that want particular things, and care about those tools. I'm one of them. Yeah, my complaint is that one of the barriers to adoption is a mental perception of complexity.
Well... not just "mental". Mostly mental, though. When it comes to day to day use, most people simply wouldn't need to know anything about SystemD. The idea that they might have to is destructive to the cause.
No consumer should ever have to give one second's thought to Wayland or SystemD. Nor to KDE, Gnome, X11... all this technical blather is straight up in the way and stupid. If I want to run a DAW, I shouldn't be concerned with ALSA/JACK. Having to know anything about any of this is a barrier to entry.
Until that shit fades into the background, desktop linux is doomed to single digits. And rightly so.
I understand that jewelry has deep, deep roots in culture. I certainly don't object to it. But diamonds have always been at the top of my list of the greatest illogical marketing successes of all time. The dollars-to-impact ratio of diamonds is so skewed that it's simply bizarre. Those marketers are kickass. They planted and nurtured a multi-faceted (see what I did there?) attack of expectations. They tied romance into it, the suggestion that being a good provider entailed paying large amounts for this rock of "ownership", they glossed over atrocities, and managed to hold on to that for a very long time.
Even aesthetically, I think diamonds are just boring. Coloured diamonds less so... but white ones? Meh.
If we can disconnect the bridal expectation, we can let the decorative side of this industry slide into history.
Now (yes that is also Mr T!)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/2...
What comes across overwhelmingly to me here is a sense of panic. There doesn't seem to be any confidence that they can build something unique. He's totally focused execution - on catching up with whatever somebody else released last month.
OMG! And the Democrats are letting all of them vote! Plus they are paying them pennies per hour to stuff mail in voting ballots! There will be over 1 billion Democrat votes registered in every state come Election Day, you just wait!
Do you know that it is the R's who are doing the intentional transport? Like DeSantis and the governor of Texas?
Don't read too much into my point... that's not what I intended. I accept disruption during protest.
However... if protection is granted over disrupting business from within the company by those employed in it on the grounds of moral objections, the list of companies affected is very, very long.
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Tobacco / marijuana producers and distributors
- Homeopathic businesses / holistic services
- Religious organizations
- Anything touching military supply chains
- Chocolate companies
- Diamond mining and distribution
- Palm oil producers
- Fast food chains
- Corn oil producers
- Renewable energy companies
- Non-renewable energy companies
I'm not saying protesting isn't right and reasonable. Even if it is disruptive, I get it, and I support it.
My point is very narrow. Make a choice. But it's ridiculous to be surprised or offended when you are fired for taking the fight right into your cubicle.
No, the issue is that it's a propaganda and intelligence harvesting tool for the Chinese, who don't happen to be our friends.
Chips can have unused pathways that are only activated upon some type of signal pattern or whatever. That's what.
One human pyromaniac with a bic lighter can probably do more damage.
I'm planning on replacing one of my cars with one.
I'm picturing a robot powered dog sled.
At least I think we can all see the monorail does have decent ridership, and the extra-wide sidewalks of the strip are relatively crowded, much moreso than typical in the US other than exceptional places like NYC.
"who the fuck is the UN to tell ANY sovereign power what to do, much less occupy any country?"
Good point. They should not have founded the nation of Israel in the partition of Palestine in the first place.
So you're saying the British shouldn't have given that territory up, after all we fought to take it from the Ottoman empire (mostly using Arabian or commonwealth soldiers).
But now that they have, there is a moral obligation to address the problem of Israel perpetrating a holocaust against Palestine.
You are happy with a status quo which involves the torture and murder of Muslims, so you don't want anything done. Just admit that so we can move on without you.
If you're happy parroting terrorist propaganda. That means you support the rape and murder of pretty much everyone who HAMAS holds as an enemy and I hate to break it to you, that means your (and my) western arses as well.
If you're done with HAMAS' talking points, the UN isn't a world government, so it can't tell individual states what to do. This goes the same for Tuvalu as it does for China and the US. They get to make recommendations but beyond that, the UN needs to do what it's meant to... Be a platform for negotiation. One thing a lot of people never get about something like the UN is that it isn't a mono cultural beast with a single overriding will. It's a huge bureaucracy and has a lot of different departments with different purposes, goals, ideas and conflicts. People think of it as a thousand hands guided by a single head where it's really the other way around, a thousand heads trying to guide a hand.
Everybody seems to think we want to have virtual meetings with these things when half of the folks don't even bother putting an avatar photo into their Teams profile, let alone turn the camera on or desire better camera interfaces.
The greatest benefit of remote meetings is not having to look at one another. The only people that want to ruin that are people that live to have meetings, and don't really see them as a function of the job.
I thought the greatest benefit of remote meetings was the ability to put yourself on mute and then get on with some actual work/play on your phone/zone out whilst Gerard from presales drones on about something that has zero relevance.
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android
