Not entirely true. You do get a choice of a small bottle of orange juice or a bickie ("cookie", for the American readers).

It's an idea which has been disproven. That makes clinging to it dumb.

Yeah, if your experiment was dumb enough. That's the problem with listening to EVERYONE. Some people you clearly don't listen to about anything. For example, if they think the earth is flat, you clearly don't need to listen to their theories on fluoridation. Even if fluoridation did turn out to be a commie plot, they wouldn't have been saying so for any logical reasons. They would have been accidentally right, and it still would have been dumb to listen to them. And god forbid ;) that you should get into the habit of listening to them because they were accidentally right, because then just imagine how far down the rabbit hole you could get!

It's a matter of correlation. If a system has the dependency that forms part of a platform's name, then it's far more likely than not that the system has, or that its administrator can practically install, common dependencies of other applications for the same platform. By this measure, perhaps GNU is most central to server applications and programming tools designed for Linux, and X Window System to desktop GUI apps. Hence the names "GNU/Linux" and "X11/Linux" to contrast with "Android/Linux".

Free Software Foundation acknowledges use of Linux apart from the GNU OS while intentionally declining to give a precise definition. This has led David Johnson to write an article titled "By Any Other Name" making the reduction to absurdity argument you may have been anticipating, largely by replacing GNU with an adaptation of the FreeBSD userland. But my personal definition, based on correlation with installable dependencies, is GNU Coreutils plus two other major components of GNU, such as Bash, GCC, glibc, and Emacs. This means that Cygwin, MinGW with MSYS, and Microsoft WSL are GNU/Windows, and a full installation of DJGPP is GNU/MS-DOS or GNU/FreeDOS.

Some applications are specialized to run on glibc, the implementation of the C language and POSIX standard library included with GNU. Others will run on any reasonable implementation of the C library that provides varying level of support for POSIX, such as Bionic. But many applications built for Bionic have a more central dependency they can cite, namely the Android userspace.

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Starring Frank Sinatra & Kim Novak

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...

Howard Zinn talks about a possible revolt of the guards: http://www.historyisaweapon.co...
"However, the unexpected victories-even temporary ones-of insurgents show the vulnerability of the supposedly powerful. In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, doctors, lawyers, nurses, transport and communications workers, garbage men and firemen. These people-the employed, the somewhat privileged-are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls."

And here is the inequitable financial reality of that system given wealth is control under capitalism:
"Wealth Inequality in America"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I wonder if the problem as seen by the ruling class may be that techies have their hands on the key infrastructure of modern society (including banking infrastructure)? If US techies were really well-off (e.g. all millionaires), techies might have some time and energy for creating alternatives. So, best to keep them down by making them insecure by importing cheap labor rather than train US Americans and provide them higher salaries, more benefits, and more equity. Techies may think they are doing well because they are doing better than the average US American -- but what they are paid in general does not reflect how key their contributions are these days to the digital infrastructure of control and surveillance.

I remember back in the 1990s when independent contractors got 2X to 3X what regular employees did. The H1Bs, even at prevailing wages for employees, also greatly undermined the earnings for contractors too. Many H1Bs don't really replace employees as much as they replace contractors.

I've known a few people who lost their license due to dementia. None were so far gone that they didn't understand and most got rid of their cars.
Here in BC, you start having to be retested at 70 or so depending when the license expires IIRC.

People have been drinking too much tap water all their lives. Their brain development may be hampered, but their teeth are shiny white.

http://www.fluoridation.com/c-... From the link:

That may sort of explains the political mess in the US then doesn't it. In most of western Europe, fluoride in water is banned; because they *do* actually read the research, such as the link that darkharlequin posted and don't just parrot others blindly.

I still think Trump's primary focus (and desperate hope) is to get Xi to lean on Kim. I read Trump as desperate to get something out of the June 12th meeting, but the most likely scenario is that Kim is teeing Trump up for a YUGE punt. Actually, Trump already defined a game of reverse chicken, by claiming he will "win" by walking out if he can't get what he wants. Under the terms of Trump's own game, I'm expecting Kim to walk out first and claim the win. China's next response to Trump will go along the lines of "Tut, tut, tut, Little Donald. Let's not do anything rash."

That's predicated on the theory that China basically likes things as they are now. I think China sees a strong and unified Korea as a probable nuisance and possible threat. Unless China sees some substantial advantage in an actual peace treaty, they might as well leave things as they are. Meanwhile Bolton keeps braying about the "Libya model" and Kim knows exactly how that one worked out. No sane dictator would give up his nukes to follow Qaddafi's lead.

My reasoning certainly could be flawed. I actually expected China to make a move before this. I figured the Chinese would offer Trump a deal of North Korea for Taiwan. I still think China is confident that they can integrate Taiwan with little problem and enormous profit, while South Korea would be kept busy for decades trying to heal and integrate North Korea. The lack of official peace in Korea has been mostly harmless, but the establishment of an independent Taiwan would really piss them off.

However the troll did raise an interesting point regarding the insider trading, though I certainly can't take it on his say so. So how else could smart insiders profit from their phone calls with Trump if they don't want to be so obvious as playing with ZTE? Future contracts? Gambles on related companies, both suppliers and customers?

Zipf's law says nothing about the length of a word. It only relates the frequency of use of a word with its rank.

(Also, anyone who quotes Zipf's Law has never read any of his books.)

It was never Christian land in the first place. The first crusade was to aid the Byzantines who had lost lands to the Turks. Christian Franks recaptured the land and didn't return it, went on to conquer Jerusalem, set up some puppet states and left. After that they got messier. The more things change ...

If you want to look at a cleaner example of pure faith-on-faith killing with the Christians as the prosecutors, try the Albigensian crusade from which we (supposedly) get the wonderful "Kill them all. God will know his own."

The problem is that while the average soldier may be faithful and sold on the idea of god, that's often cynically manipulated by leaders more bent on land and money. With the perspective of history that becomes more obvious. The same Muslims you claim kill for a difference of opinion will, seen through the same lens of time, turn out to be no different from the soldiers of the crusades - pawns whose faith was used to drive them to a war for land and money.

War. War never changes.

Indicating a possibility.

Most entries in most dictionaries of most languages have more than one definitions. One word means many things. This much is irrefutable in the world of adult communication.

So a word " can " mean X it could mean Y.

If you avoid vague labels, you'd have to opt out of talking in human languages - they are made of nothing but vague labels.

Linux+GNU

Neckbeards use actual Unix. Hell, many of them wrote actual Unix.

Yes of course, it's just the government responding to militants. That's why the populace is so understanding of the plight of the civilians caught in the crossfire, right?

Hint, they're not. For example, here's a bit about the Buddhist monks who are stoking prejudice and ethnic tensions: https://www.economist.com/news...

a more equitable tax system

Those large companies with IP portfolios to move don't want a more equitable tax system. They want the option to pay zero or close to zero taxes.

The entire point of "per 100,000 drivers" is to normalize the data so you're not comparing the raw numbers but the rate of fatal accidents in each population....

That's true. The thing is, it was once true that a typical Linux-based install had more FSF code in it than anything else. Today, a typical desktop/workstation install has more lines of code from Mozilla than the FSF.

There's no such thing as voting against Hillary and not for Trump. Your attempt to wash your hands clean of your actions is symptomatic of you and your ilk's unwillingness to take responsibility for any of your actions.

That's understandable. What's not understandable is putting even scummier scum into the presidency because of your petulance.

http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

"Beijing has made resolving the situation with ZTE, which employs about 80,000 people, one of its demands for striking a broader trade agreement with with US."

Trump has no choice, other than to burn the whole deal. We know he doesn't like to lose.

Even if you didn't like what Obama was doing, at least it made sense. This stuff just does not make sense.

I mean, Trump was trying to start a trade war with China, just busted out of the Iran nuclear deal, and now he is talking about how bad it is that ZTE's troubles as a consequence of such sanctions is causing too many Chinese jobs to be lost? Might as well start talking about Chewbacca.

My Japense father in law had tunnel vision and still got his license renewed. And we literaly see Japanse elderly people have caused accidents every month. Usually they just hit a wall by putting the car mistakenly in reverse. The Japanese government should make it compulsory for elderly people to have car with driving assistance like anti-collision prevention. Those features are currently available for any small car at almost no extra charge.

I'm afraid you're keeping some people in suspense... Why not surprise them?

Actually I'm with Slashdot on this one, Unicode itself is so broken that it's either bad but functional rendering, or the users can completely break the layout and pull all kinds of shinnanigans.

There are some good quotes in the article, explaining the viewpoints of the people involved. This one:

So to some of these people, it doesn't matter so much whether the earth is flat or round. They are there more to have a community of people they can relax with and feel good with. The science is secondary (or in this case, non-existent).

I know it's not officially called this any more, but "Windows NT" comes very close, since it's Windows on top of NTOS. Most users interact entirely with Windows, not with the kernel. And many developers can get through an entire career without ever interacting with Ke or Ob.

Chilis.....

I want my data back data back data back...
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"In retrospect, most conservatives see George W. Bush as a big mistake."
That would be a fact smelling distinctly of 'pulled from your ass'. But nice effort.

Who - precisely has he 'screwed over' that 'doesn't kowtow'? I haven't seen a single person actually kowtowing. Or is this just more hyperbolic "facts I wish were true because it would validate my worldview"?

How's he going to be remembered?
Probably as the president that 50% of the public, 100% of the intelligentsia, and the media all hated despite:
- the US economy is roaring
- minority unemployment is at all time historic lows
- withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement - a ridiculous wealth-redistribution scheme based primarily on white guilt
- fulfilled his campaign promises
- recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital - something every president for the last 50 years has promised, and has been the defacto truth for at least a generation
- brought DPRK to the negotiating table for the first time in 20+ years (too early to say there's any substantive agreement; Clinton thought he had made a great deal too but was getting ass-fucked)
- got NATO allies to actually start (approaching) their agreed-upon share of defense spending, lol
- admitted he was wrong on Afghanistan and stopped disastrous withdrawal.

And people will wonder why the intransigent 51% were so irreconcilable.

Taco bell has some relatively hot sauces, although you have to ask for them. One of them is even a pretty good copy of Tapatio.

That would be a good guess. That is pretty much how it always goes. The leaders on the stage strut around and bluster, while quiet diplomacy happens in the background. The strutting roosters step in and take the credit.

But what makes TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome is every one affected by it wants to blame everything on Trump. For instance there is a thread about flat earth convention some where. And some one just had to bring up a comprising with Trump. Trump has nothing to do with flat earth or any of that nonsense but people with TDS just can't help but bring it up.

Some people have TDS so bad they simply can not acknowledge the positive things that Trump has done. Nor can they acknowledge what is perfectly plain to every one else, even Trump critics not suffering from TDS, Trump is doing a good job as president and we are doing just fine.

Evidence is for suckers that believe the system's here to help them. I know I'm right, why? Because I say so. If I was wrong I wouldn't be saying this.

Don't believe those smarty-pants "scientists" with all of their "evidence" and "trials" -- they just want to experiment on you and get you to buy their product to help fund the system. So order from me now -- only $19.99 with free shipping!

It helps America because China made it a condition of the new trade deal. That deal will benefit America.

You don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about.

Children of Rhesus negative mothers and Rhesus positive fathers will be Rhesus positive and at risk of their mother developing antibodies to their blood (as as second child after the mother has been sensitised by the first child, or as the result of the mother being exposed to the child's blood). High risk of still birth or major problems for the child.

If this is prevented, they aren't affected. They go on to be Rhesus positive. Like the majority of the population. In as much as Rhesus negative is as low as 10% in some populations, by increasing the number of surviving Rhesus positive children you are _reducing_ the risk in the general population over time.

We've always been at war with Eurasia.

I also find it remarkable how stable the level of support is in face of this madness. The administration has told us that 2+2=5 so many times that the opposition can't believe anything it says anymore, and so when you get reversals like this on ZTE's violation of the Iran sanctions the conclusion jumps straight to corruption, because even if there is a reasonable justification for playing nice with the Chinese there is absolutely no apparent coherence to what Trump is doing.

And on the other side, his supporters seem to love him shouting at us that 2+2=5 because that triggers snowflakes, and nothing seems to matter anymore. Rather depressing since sometimes reality likes to assert itself in extremely unpleasant ways, whether it be after a trade war with China starts blowing up businesses both here and there, or worse if it leads to shooting war with someone like Iran.

How it used to be: http://web.archive.org/web/199... Not much political articles there.

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