The Waltons outsource everything to China anyway. So why does Arkansas need programmers.

That's what SHE said.

The service is bad because most of their IT support is offshored. So much for saving American jobs.

I see you haven't learned to think for yourself.

Generally I agree. But to be argumentative (NO, not on Slashdot!), I disagree.

Showing horrible stuff allows us to call bullshit on politicians (I am thinking tea party) and their propaganda wing (I am thinking Fox News) who want to claim everything is an act of terrorism. People and groups who would tell you that pressure cookers are 'weapons of mass destruction', and countries that fund real terrorists and flog prisoners in medieval fashion are our friends (I am thinking Saudi Arabia); thereby minimizing what real terrorism and weapons of mass destruction are. This is often so they can surreptitiously push their own agenda.

Being able to see unfiltered events allows us to look critically and say, sure there is an argument that the Boston marathon bombing was terrorism (or attempt at it), but a pressure cooker is NOT a weapon of mass destruction. When we see pictures of dozens and dozens of people killed in chemical weapons attacks by Assad in Syria, we see what WMDs really are so that we take politicians to task for exaggerating things to try to help their own ends.

Or when we see that dipshit on Parliament Hill in Ottawa who killed the cenotaph guard and was killed in the parliament buildings. In his mind he was a terrorist maybe, but Canadians could see him as a radicalized idiot not a terrorist. Panic averted.

Without context, as harsh as it is sometimes to gain, proper judgement cannot be made. We cannot trust the politicians and spin doctors to tell us what something is. We need to do that ourselves and require the information to do so.

I admit there is a danger that people can get desensitized to it, which can also impair judgement. Then we get absolutely fucking ridiculous comparisons trying to demonize people particular interest groups disagree with. For example, people who try to compare Hillary Clinton to Hitler (full disclosure, I lean on the Democrat side, but don't really like Clinton... former director and corporate lawyer for Wallmart, and good friend of the Waltons... not really that different from a Republican except when trying to get elected). What a bunch of fucking nonsense. It completely minimizes the horror that was Hitler's Germany. Any comparison like that is quite plainly, mentally retarded. Being desensitized to the murder of 12 million people and the death of tens of millions in battle and collateral damage from bombings (granted this is partly due to the distance in time) lends itself to unrealistic comparisons. But I think it can be extrapolated to desensitization from over-exposure of items in the news.

To paraphrase Ansel Adams, it's possible to make a good print from a bad negative, but you can't make a great print from a bad negative. Same thing applies with 'phone cameras' and '(D)SLRs', respectively. You can lump range finder cameras, medium and large format cameras in with SLRs in this regard. In fact, I think the larger the format the better, especially with film.

I switched to low carb (not no carb) and higher fat (not all fat) diet. It makes me feel full longer. The fat and protein make me feel satiated and I don't feel hungry. Consequently I eat less. So far I've dropped 35 lbs and am continuing to lose weight. I also resumed swimming regularly. Yes you have to eat less than you burn. But what you eat can significantly affect how hard that is. If you are always feeling hungry, you'll never keep at it. And occasionally I do have a carb binge. Go to the movies and eat a large bag of popcorn, or have some pie. Then I put that behind me and do good for a couple more weeks. Eating low carbs has the added benefit of lessening the feeling to eat chips and pies and popcorn, etc. But every now and then is nice and I don't have the urge again for a long while. From this I have come to believe that our institutionalized consumption of carbs, including pastas, breads, and sugar has made us addicts of them, and that they aren't needed. At least not needed in the kinds of quantities we have traditionally eaten them.

You MIGHT die of cancer, but you WILL die of old age. My question is will it reverse aging? Can you rejuvenate?

The issue is, per this post on Cyanogenmod Forums:

CM devs are consumers first. What this means is that they do not divide up devices among other developers, or assign devices like one would at a job. Developers work in their spare time without monetary compensation. Because of this, the developers are free to work on any device they choose to purchase.

Now, what does this mean to you? First off, requesting anywhere in the CM forum, the CM Blog, or the Facebook/Google+/Twitter accounts for device XX to be supported is probably a waste of your time and anybody who reads said request. CyanogenMod does not work on device requests as there is no guaranteeing that a current CM maintainer is even interested in the device. Additionally, its not as simple as 'porting' code, the device trees must be coded from scratch and made to work with the AOSP sourced code and CM enhancements. This takes a large amount of time and effort, especially when the device's OEM fails to release the latest version of Android for it. Second, in hoping a worthy developer sees the post and decides to take up the project... well, that is probably just wishful thinking. Many developers do not like interacting with end users (too much finger pointing between both devs and users or anger directed at the devs for something working other than how the user expects - it happens far too often); because of that, many developers don't frequent the forum (or if they do, they only view the forums for the devices they maintain). The best way to get a device official support is not requesting it from the CM team, but learning how to do it yourself or encouraging a maintainer of an unofficial build to submit their code for review.

So, Cyanogenmod devs will support what strikes their fancy. And if they are no longer interested in a device, it won't be supported any longer. Now if they get financing, maybe this will change as most consumers want some stability and continued support. It is one of the things that could differentiate itself from the phone makers... if they care to. If not, in this regard they won't be any different. And it would be a shame since it is nice to get rid of bloatware.

The vast majority of people will not port their own devices. They either don't have the time or the technical know-how or nether. I will use the stock OS if it isn't available as a stable CM. In fact I do with my P600 Samsung Note. But even if they did, after reading that sticky from the forum, I am less willing to adopt CM and choose to just root the device instead.

And China will execute people for corruption and bribery.

And IIRC Amigas were used on at least one of the Terminator movies. I think the second one where the reconstituting terminator appeared.

Someone please explain to me why this would be flamebait? I am just pointing out facts that people here on Slashdot get modded up for all the time.

I had the same first reaction but after thinking, there is some merit to this idea. China has a fairly stable set of policies. North America and Europe often change policies based on election cycles and what the latest 'lobbyist' put in his political puppet's pocket. No judgement on what the best system is, but the point does have some merit. Both of course have even more back room deals.

This idea has been used in several scifi and fantasy stories/books for how to transport people. In a few they expand a bit on the possible moral conundrums this can cause. This is just an applied science version of the same thing. Would you blast a post about a scifi story that this kind of discussion? Scifi is near and dear to most slashdot readers.

Since most of their operations are in China (even if de facto), they are essentially a Chinese company. They have to agree.