I never have understood the world's fetish with the US dollar. Every nation has a currency. The US economy is just as prone to stagnation, deficit, over, and under valuing as any other currency.

I'd like nothing better than to see the Rothschild's hold on international markets broken. If it takes China to do that, then all power to China in the endeavour.

Voice mail etiquette.

(speak slowly and distinctly here) Hi. This is (your name). My number is (your number).

(speak normally here) Now state the situation as clearly as you can. But be brief. This is a message. Not exposition.

End with repeating your name (slowly and clearly) and your phone number.

Thank you.

The easiest way to do this is to realize that you MIGHT run into voice mail before you pick up the phone. Go through the message in your head before dialing. This will cut down on the uh and um and huh and em and other noises.

You're right! That's, um, the, uh, problem.

"People north of 40 are schizophrenic about voice mail," says Michael Schrage.

Bullshit. I'm old and I hate voice mail. No one knows how to leave a message and they're just going to follow up with an email or come see you in person anyway.

If you're just going to leave a message that says "call me back" then send an email or a text or an IM. Or use the scheduling function in email to set up an appointment with me.

The worst offender was a manager I worked with some years ago. He would do the stream-of-consciousness thing whenever he got voicemail and you'd end up with 10 sentences covering 10 different topics. Which I would then turn into 10 different email messages and send back to him.

It's communication! It is NOT the same as talking. Just because you're talking does NOT mean you're communicating.

I guess I disagree that they are "acting like assholes" by regulating resources on their property to benefit their business.

Restaurants don't allow you to bring other restaurants food in, I can't pull into the Ford dealership and just use their stall to work on my car...

As I remember, the "happy ending" in Manna was only available to those whose ancestors had the foresight to invest in the libertarian Australia Project.....

We don't live in a Socialist State.

Perhaps this is "Corporate Assholes" trying to monetize their investment in their hotel property and make money as most businesses are created to do?

But on a practical engineering standpoint, the technology seems problematic.

It's my understanding - I heard this from a guy that had a roommate who worked in a Comcast call center - that once a week, they have a "motivational" meeting where fresh babies are sacrificed and eaten.

That was my thought. I want to know the location of his sea steading city so that if I'm forced to be a pirate, I know where to raid for supplies.

Systemd's scope is as large as it needs to be for what it is trying to achieve, complete system level management. It was never about simply replacing the init system. In many ways it hasn't done anything to init systems that hasn't been done before by many of the init replacements.

But the thing about nobody complaining is that it just plain isn't true. People don't magically create software where there isn't a gap to fill (fucking about user interfaces excepted of course). There are people who think the idea of unified system management able to handle all aspects of process control in one package is great. There are plenty of detractors (especially vocal on slashdot) who will say that this should be managed by a set of 40 different projects, but it appears enough people think otherwise that it has not only been created but it has also been adopted.

It *should* be fine. But I'm wondering what benefit it brings? NetworkManager was born from a need to simplify network management and automate handovers between networks. These aren't typical scenarios on a server which likely has a fixed network connection and a fixed network setup.

More than likely the plane will go down and no one will be able to identify the drone or the pilot much less care what controller it had and if it ran Linux or not.

There are several other open source projects out there for autopilot and flight control. Why should I care that this runs Linux? What benefits does Linux bring to the table?

From what I can tell from TFA the only feature this brings to the table is that it's slow enough to require an entire ARM based board instead of the dirt cheap AVRs that are from what I can tell equally capable on the software level and are used in other platforms.

Is this just Linux for Linux sake?

Except for the functionality which it provides. Something not interesting to neckbeards but critical to about every other year of Linux on desktop user.

Yes and then you just use the commandline to handle failover of network interfa.... eh no.
Well you can use the commandline to automate the connection to preferred wireles.... no?
What about moving between netwo...

Ahh fuck it I'm re-installing NetworkManager. A turd of a system service with a turd of a user interface is better than busting open the command line every time I do something as mind mindbogglingly complicated on my laptop as plugging in a network cable.

It may have its warts, but it does what it says on the box. It simplifies network management in a time where networks are not a single solid stable connection to the host. You wouldn't want it on a server, but you wouldn't want to be without it on pretty much any other use case.

I did. Aftermarket ink and an inkjet were the best price / quality point. Laser has quality problems, and opto/chemical processes are bankrupting for personal use.