I agree that suicide is a personal decision, so I don't think a person should be criminalized for attempting it. But it's inconvenient for society, so others should be dissuaded from encouraging it. Even if you remove a humanitarian motive, and please don't but this is slashdot so there will be people who will get mad if one doesn't, there are good reasons why the legal system should act to reduce suicide.
Yeah this. Jet Set/Grind Radio looked amazing on the Dreamcast because it didn't render stuff it didn't have to when creating the cel shaded look. Therefore you could have big complex scenes that performed fluidly at all times. I thought that was the point of this game which I haven't played, get off my lawn etc etc.
There's several OSS FPSes built around this concept, but all of them that I've seen have been pretty lo-fi so it would make sense to me that it would take a commercial title to sell it. Finding out that they aren't doing it is not even funny, but just weird to me.
It has nothing to do with investment in trains or not but a tolerance for allowing people who cause trouble to use them. There are countries with far older rail infrastructure that I would use over American public transit. Those countries won't put up with some crackhead or meth addict terrorizing other patrons.
I see a glaring problem here. Do you know how much a ticket costs on a commuter train? Crackheads can't afford them.
You have never used the American railway system in your life, have you. Shut your fucking mouth.
And you don't actually think that having an authenticator on your phone gives your employer access to it, do you?
If you're using your phone for something that winds up being the subject of an investigation, then your phone can be subpoena'd. Even if everything is on the up and up, and everything on your device is ducky, you can still be inconveniently deprived of your device for a time. Therefore you should never use your device for work in any way other than calling in to it, which doesn't leave any traces on your device that it doesn't also leave on the network.
Availability of guns enabled the crime of course, but I don't think that being raised around lots of guns is the whole problem here. Grandma said they're all MAGAs. He was raised around a lot of violent rhetoric in combination with guns. Did he have to be wired wrong, or was being programmed from an early age enough?
You can easily add new bus stops near rail, it's not as easy to add rail near bus lines except by luck.
Safe and clean are going to require some upgrades to society. They would be cheaper than what we've been doing, but then some people would get things for free that other people are paying for, and then lots of people would be mad. And not without reason, but not usually for the reason they'd be mad for.
I have cable, it's expensive and they keep raising the prices while offering deals at now (given how much they've increased our bill) around a third of the price for new customers. I live in a small city so I'm not going to see it any time soon, but fiber is going in somewhat nearby and I'd sure like some of that here.
That's basically saying trains are an urban necessity, and I'm not disagreeing with that part. I just don't see trains as a good fit for suburbia, and usually when an article implies that we need more trains, they're also subtly hinting that low density development is a problem by extension.
I have never heard of an urban, but not suburban train. I know your only experience is the Disney monorail, but dude, this is a larger scale than a theme park. Trains go from the city, through the suburbs, and beyond. It's like the whole fucking point. Commuter trains connect the jobs in the city to the vast, rich expanse of exurbs beyond the reach of light rail.
You say it's not a problem, then you complain about the traffic. Then you complain about construction. Then the apartment buildings. It will happen because the growth will happen, like it or not. When you say low density development, what you actually mean is you want low density no development. Everyone wants the economy of the bigass city down the road, but the neighbor situation of Alaska. Then they act shocked and butthurt when more neighbors show up like nobody else is thinking the same thing.
Think how your vascular system is laid out. There's the big tubes, connected to littler tubes, to littler tubes, etc. If you don't want growth, move somewhere with little to no economic activity. You can be as spread out thinly as you want there, I can respect that. Otherwise your little town will turn into a big town some day, and you can do that with your head in the sand in a really stupid way, or you can do it in a smart way.
If it runs on Windows 10 it runs on Windows 11.
A doubtful premise given Microsoft history, as I've experienced all kinds of minor upgrades/updates breaking software on various forms of Windows over the decades. But even given that, it won't all run it equally well, and Windows 11 is festooned with more crap which has to be dodged. They've also dicked up the interface regarding snap and multiple monitors in a way that causes my mouse pointer to warp incredibly unpleasantly, but I don't try to do multimonitor on a system I also play games on any more so I'll be honest and admit that's not affecting me in that way.
At the end of which you will have achieved what? Windows 10 Pro, except with a dodgy non-legal license?
Your point about the legal status is granted. Otherwise, it has a longer support life than Windows 10 Pro. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft supports it when there's more improperly activated users than legit ones. I'm not depending on Windows for anything I can think of these days, but I assume I'll need it to run some configuration utility at some point.
If Linux was as much of a supported platform as Windows is, Linux's market share would be much closer in parity to Windows.
IME "support" is mostly notional anyway. In terms of what will run, it's true that a bunch of PvP games for Windows require Windows kernel DRM, and will not run on Linux. Or, you have a degraded experience where you cannot connect to most servers, and there may also be no anticheat functionality at all. So yes, if you want to play those games, you will still need Windows.
Otherwise, most games seem to work on Linux now, including a bunch of older games that don't work well on modern Windows. Market share is only a matter of time if Microsoft keeps alienating users.
Odd how someone can be "radicalized" enough to shoot someone, but participating in democracy the proper way is still too much of a hassle.
To vote for what for example?
Charlie Kirk was never on a ballot, and people keep saying his "politics", he was targeted because someone hated his "politics". Charlie Kirk's opinions on a lot of things were not "politics", and they were hateful. The shooter apparently had someone close to him (roommate) that was a member of a group Charlie Kirk openly hated, this is all based on what's been reported so far. All we have from the Utah governor is a vapid "leftist ideologies" and some theory of rapid radicalization. What is he calling leftist, because the shooter seems to be a stereotypical angry young white conservative/libertarian guy that was gay and didn't like Charlie's hate speech.
At trial it will be very interesting what evidence is brought to support the aggravated murder charge because everything points to very personal feelings, not politics. I certainly don't think Charlie saying we should do to someone what they did in the 1950s is politics, nor do I believe the shooter disagreed with him on universal health care, or small government.
The shooting was personal not political. Murder not assassination. Prove me wrong.
I think that after every 3rd wave of Missile Command (what a disgustingly irresponsible creation!!), the game should require that the player's parents check to make sure the player isn't getting depressed by the prospect of nuclear war.
And in Asteroids, after any ship destruction due to collision with an asteroid, the game should require parental attestation that the player isn't starting to develop symptoms of petraphobia.
In both cases, if the parents aren't available (e.g. dead because the player is in their 80s) I suppose a Notary Public or a AMA-certified doctor would be a good-enough replacement.
We have learned so much since the early days of computer games, and it's better to be safe than sorry. (But don't fuck with Joust! I want to be able to play without having to call my mom every time the Lava Troll touches my mount's legs inappropriately.)
I don't believe you that anyone bitched about the loss of the floppy drive.
Too young maybe? Releasing an iMac without a floppy drive had much the same impact as releasing an iPhone without a 3.5" headphone jack. A lot of the old articles have disappeared, and apparently the Slashdot comments, but e.g.
https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
There were a LOT of articles written about it. Tech journalist careers were made.
Sure. Lots of people use DB-9 serial ports and even some parallel ports too. There's apparently even some Firewire stuff still around.
Doesn't mean we need them on every laptop.
"I am willing to bet any of the Trump picks are better than you, both ethically and professionally."
A number of them were clearly picked, off of the Faux News rotation no less, specifically because they have no ethics and no professional qualifications for their jobs. So absofuckinglutely not.
"If it's not loud, it doesn't work!" -- Blank Reg, from "Max Headroom"
