> I suspect they just want to know how many customers they have, not specifically who they are.
Nonsense.
I am sure that Netflix is more than willing to BRAG about how many Canadian customers it has, or how many customers it has in ANY country.
Way different kettle of fish than actual subscriber info.
...and both of those look like they need to be broken out into a number of distinct questions. Every comma and "or" muddles the resulting data.
Although I've been part of the phone survey racket. So I know all about how these things can be distorted to suit the agenda of the company paying for the study.
No. It's a recurring problem in these discussions because radical feminists will redefine terms. So it's hard to know at any one time whose definition you are dealing with. Are you dealing with something sane or are you dealing with something that's been "trumped up" in order to push an agenda?
You can't trust any random study to be free from such biases.
Then you end up with the basic magnitude problems that occur when dire claims fail to meet basic sanity with respect to numeracy.
If you're actually numerate, some of these claims are just incredible on their face.
I don't think most of the people pushing them fully understand the implications.
Yes. That was Dawkins that rightfully noted that you lot are complaining about 1st world non-problems.
You will take a situation that's not the least bit sinister and distort it until seems to be something entirely else.
That's why no one can trust any stories like these.
Radical feminists have hijacked the debate and the language.
Women are more likely to be the subject of a sexual advance because men are expected to initiate courtship. Differing social expectations and indoctrination will dictate that women find any advances more objectionable then would men regardless of the level of genuine menace the represent.
There was some feminazi that went on a tear because some guy had the audacity to hit on her. Then she whined when the corresponding community luminaries pointed out that she was being a hysterical idiot. The whole situation was portrayed as proof that "X community is mysoginistic".
It was all a load of mindless victimology.
There can be a wide gap between how a bunch of extremist crusaders define a term and how the rest of us define it.
These DRM laden video formats aren't any less crapulent on Windows. Unfortunately they aren't just used for video but also for basic site navigation. So you get a pervasive level of crapulence even with Windows.
It's not just a Linux problem.
Windows users perhaps just suffer from a certain level of "muggle numbness".
You only have to rip something once. You don't even have to do the ripping yourself. Someone else can do it for you.
DRM on a BluRay is only slightly more of a nuissance than the DRM on a DVD. Both are well cracked formats with lots of suitable tools that are readily available.
That particular battle was lost a long time ago.
Now this new format will remain intact only so long as no one cares about it. As soon as it becomes relevant, it will get cracked. Admittedly, obscurity is one thing Apple may have going for them here.
Yes. SSH has it's difficulties in this use case but it's the best of a bad lot. ALL of the other options simply require FAR too many resources. SSH is the only feasible remote support option here.
>> The Scottish people, like people everywhere, have the right to self-governance. Right now they don't have that, and even if they destroy their country in the process of gaining independence, they'll at least be free to choose their own destiny.
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> Please, stop trying to make it look like the Scots are somehow shackled and oppressed by the English.
Your remarks are entirely irrelevant to the original point.
No. The Sobieski room in the Vatican Museum is the real fuel that drives interventions. There is a long history here that people are ignorant of or refuse to acknowledge.
No. It's the liberal bleeding hearts that really trivialize the non-white races. They frame them as nothing but passive victims because that's what liberals do. They defame all manner of foreign nations and cultures.
I suspect the leadership of ISIS ironically enough understands the relevant history here better than you do.
> You mean.... gasp!
In terms of the larger systems that it is integrated with, that is EXACTLY what it is. It is a highly specialized application that does one thing well and leaves the scope creep for other programs that consume it's services.
It may even be broken down into a lot of highly specialized background processes like Oracle.
> The main one is parallel startup of daemons.
This leads to a Windows style boot process where things might not even be ready when they are needed. I see this with one of my more complex Ubuntu boxes. It HALTS the boot process. Now I have to find a way to manually repair that so that box can boot on it's own without human intervention.
So you have this mindless following of the Windows mentality where it doesn't matter so much if the machine is useful. It just needs to appear to be useful for marketing purposes.
"Booting fast" is a pretty low priority item to trash a core system process over.
It doesn't even need to be "crashing". It could simply be "user error" incurred because the system is more complex, more difficult to deal with, and new and interesting "user driven" failure cases have been added.
Upstart is a real peach in that regard. I've blown my toe of with it already. If SystemD is anything like that, no thanks..
I may shock the Lemmings and Fanboys, but we don't hold up people like Linus as if they are infallible. If we think our "leaders" are full of shit, we will happily say so.
We don't treat our community leaders like Kings or Popes.
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