Comment Re:Dupe (Score 1) 840
Okay, you could fix a toaster or a radio, but could you deliver a calf or clean a rifle? Every generation has things it can fix, and things it no longer can.
clean rifle yes deliver calf never tried but have observed
Okay, you could fix a toaster or a radio, but could you deliver a calf or clean a rifle? Every generation has things it can fix, and things it no longer can.
clean rifle yes deliver calf never tried but have observed
My "actual data" would of course entail my relatives and friends, who indeed can "fix shit", while the current generation is mostly useless in that regard. Can't solder, can't crimp, can't change an oil filter or even headlight bulb, can't measure nor cut nor fasten lumber, etc. etc.
And for every millennial who can't change an oil filter or fasten lumber there is a 50 year old who can't program their digital clock or reconfigure their new cellphone without waiting for their kids to come home for the holidays. Different generations have different skills, and they usually align with the skills that were useful to them in their early life.
I think it depends on what people in that generation they look at, for example even though I am a member the described generation I can and have soldered electronics back to working order and spliced electrical cables, I can do minor car maintenance/repair and do complete teardowns of small engines (lawn mower, chainsaws etc) and fix them, I can build cabinetry and have roofed a building including making new trusses from scratch. I also know a number of survival/primitive skills, (rope making, fishing, trapping, fire building (sans matches and lighter) edible pants, etc. But then again I had parent that made me go into a scouts like groups and insisted that I take some practical classes in high school like small engines and made me learn to replace all of the fluids, spark plugs distributer and such before I could learn to drive. Then I have friends that look at everything as a magic black box that does things for the; then they take them to repair shoppes or buy new one when it stops. The big problem I see is people that have aren't taught the skills not because they are incompetent or uninterested but because then never were put it a situation to learn how and the up front cost to learn now it much higher because classes aren't free after high school and all there time is taken up working when classes are available.
And I think I'll learn an ancient language, pottery-making and juggling, play some golf and ride a bicycle.
That was one of the best episode of SG1 beside the 100 and 200 episode where they made fun of themselves.
I wish Microsoft would bite the bullet and just drop telnet and fork Openssh for use on windows, at this point there is no good reason for them not to.
Oh I thought it was a Ycombinator Hacker News post first. Besides each site has different communities with different values and cultures it is intresting to see the different conclusions they will come to.
Depends sometimes I just use it as a proxy using proxychains and, or i will mount the filesystem and use local copies of programs to work on the remote files in both cases I don't have to use the remote app the forwarding X is not a issue. If I do use app remotely its on my server where I just use a no frills low eye-candy desktop environment and enable compression on my ssh session besides nano, elinks and emacs don require X.
Remote work is great for competent people. That last part is what's missing.
Why would anyone in their right mind go into STEM when an MBA gets you twice the money for less work?
Because they would rather not sell their soul and work in HR and don't want to have the prerequisite lobotomy for management and sales requires you to be a reptilian?
Even with current technology we could theoretically make a 16 ly journey in somewhere around 1,000 years.
No, we couldn't. We don't have the technology right now to build a multi-generational ship. We don't even have the technology right now to send an unmanned probe that would still be powered by the time it got there. We don't even have the technology right now to build an unmanned probe that would shut itself down and bring itself back up after 1000 years. Hell, it's hard to find a motherboard from the 80's that doesn't need capacitors replaced before it can be booted up again.
Who knows what kind of technology we'll have in 300,000 years, though. And the closest the destination, the more likely something can actually get there.
We probably could but it might take devoting the entire worlds GDP for a decade or so and there is noway that would happen. We need the technological advances so that it would approach affordability.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
No if it were not for petitions we would not had the initiative put on the ballot where it succeeded, therefor it is not "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" as you say but simple cause and effect.
QED bitches -xkcd
It will be as successful as the "legalize marijuana" petition.
Well it seems to have worked out just fine where I live here in Washington state and in Colorado also.
There is a reason the Constitution guanantees that no search can be made without a warrant.
You do realize this article is about England not the US? They don't have to fallow our Constitution.
No self respecting old timer would admit to using Joe as their editor. How the hell do you plan on getting the VI vs. EMACS flames fanned with such a claim you insensitive clod?
Ed is the standard text editor.
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
"loose"?
yes committed the unpardonable sin of a submitting typo. **cough cough, grammer nazi cough**
Actually if they were to run a torrent site they would loose any right to sue as they would be distributing said files and it would no longer be illegal.
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds
