Comment Re: Fake news? (Score 1) 498
Woosh!
Woosh!
Name some EU bureaucracy and how it has affected you, please.
This. All of this.
After the influx, problems of lack of housing, funding for schools and hospitals were blamed on immigrants, despite the fact they paid more tax than they took from the system, and more tax than the locals.
The government did nothing to disabuse the public of this notion - because the blame for the problems lady squarely at their doors, not immigrants.
This has more comments that any story on slashdot recently. Nerds clearly care and are arguing about nonsense. It's brilliant. But it doesn't matter.
Call yourself a nerd, 6 digit? Hand in your card and shave your neck.
Financial incentive is not the only incentive, for a start.
But moreover, what he's saying (I assume) is that everyone who inherits a fortune, makes a fortune through a lucky break or exploits the hard work of thousands of others ought to be prepared to give a bit back.
Nobody 'earns' a billion dollars. The hardest working people earn the least.
Look at world around you without a 90% tax rate. Does it look fair to you? Are resources fairly distributed?
You can, but USB 3 doesn't (use signal differentiation to get gigabit speeds down USB 1/2 cables).
Learn how to speak English, nerd
No, once they refuse your cash, you have no food.
You are free to walk out, hungry.
Yes, you can walk out. But you won't get any food in the process. You have to pay first- no debt.
No pay, no get food, no debt. Keep up.
Haha, very good.
This is not an academic paper of course, just my opinion. But since you asked.... Yes, do. Just a couple of links I found pretty easily while in the train:
The thing with academic studies is that they are repeatable.
They strive to eliminate basis by there very nature.
That's something you learn at university.
GP didn't say less smart. You did, because of your inability to think critically.
No one is saying you need a university education to be roofer.
The augment is that designing, implementing and analysing studies (particularly those which investigate the veracity of political news, and credibility of various sources) in a way which can be peer reviewed and have their methodology and sources clearly embedded in them - which enables repeatability and denies accusations of bias - is the domain of academics.
The roofer may well have more real world intelligence, and definitely has like domain specific knowledge. But they are not trained and experienced in critical thinking, which forms the basis of academic life. That doesn't make them dumb - and the GP didn't say it did, you mentioned that first.
Facts are not subjective. Fake news is generally very simple to identify, objectively.
See anything Trump says about TV ratings, for example.
> Nobody will pay for Office when open source office suites are free.
That just hasn't happened though has it?
The deal here is that if they 'need' to keep 4000 windows PCs around, they are as easy to manage as 20000 PCs. The license cost is negligible next to the setup, the admins and the tin.
So the don't 'need' the Linux PCs at all. If we could get rid of the last 4000 windows boxes, things would be different - that's where the problem lies, in the long tail, not the bulk.
He who has but four and spends five has no need for a wallet.
