Are you kidding? Those claims were all over the place when Obama was seeking re-election in 2012. Every right-wing figure you could find was claiming the 7.8% official unemployment rate was 'phony' and citing the 14.7% U-6 unemployment rate as the 'real' number. A claim they could've made a genuine argument for if they'd kept using the U-6 numbers when Trump was president. Surprise surprise, they haven't done that.

Feels to me like It's FOSS baited people by calling this "Canonical's New AI Tool" when Canonical's announcement doesn't use the term 'AI' anywhere in it. They call it "Speech To Text", which is what it is. It probably uses advances in programming from the AI industry to try and improve the speech recognition but why should that be a problem? It's free software and operates entirely locally. If this counts as AI then this is the type of AI I can live with.

Do you really believe that? Seriously? Given the intelligence of the average voter? I actually live in Stoke-on-Trent, the famed Brexit capital of Britain, and trust me there are plenty of people who genuinely think the EU is bluffing and we can just bully them into making an exception for us. After all, we're special! They'll do it for us! It's the same mentality that got us in to that game of chicken I mentioned. We Brits have a very unhealthy and unrealistic attitude towards the rest of Europe and I think rejoining is a pipe dream until that changes which will not happen any time soon.

Yes the British public may now be in favour of rejoining but it's only because they're still deluding themselves into thinking the European Union will let them rejoin on the same terms they left on, i.e. with exemptions from giving up the Pound and adopting the Euro or joining the passport-free Schengen Area. That's not on the table and it never will be. The United Kingdom had the best possible deal with the EU but wanted more. They played a game of chicken with the referendum but screwed themselves when it went 52/48 in favour of leaving when everyone expected to be the other way around.

Then of course there's the issue of democracy. Any time any further referendum on this is proposed you're told "we already voted on this" and "you're just trying to thwart democracy". The powerful forces who wanted the UK out of the EU got the result they wanted by promising the left behind communities a bevy of treasures if they just voted leave and now they have not only will they not get those treasures but they will never be consulted again. We had democracy once and that's enough.

Wouldn't it be possible to verify the kill switch is doing what it claims to?

But that for my money seems be the 'marketing' problem with the Future Circular Collider. CERN built the Large Hadron Collider to find the Higgs boson. Now we've found it. Then since the LHC is already there and building it was the expensive part we keep it going to do further research. Okay. But now CERN wants to build the FCC and it's going to cost an absolute fortune. Why? What are they building it for? It doesn't seem like CERN can give us a simple answer and yet they want us to give them a lot of money. We need a better reason than some nebulous "do more research".

Make sure he's conscious? I'm genuinely unsure at this point.

Show of hands? Anyone?

Fuck off. Third party verification is the only way you ever know if stuff like this really works! Of course Tesla and Musk will tell you it works, they want you to buy it! And of course Tesla buyers will tell you it works, they paid good money for it and the sunk cost fallacy exists. So if they're the only people you can find telling me it works then I'm assuming it's bullshit.

That's nice and all but this plan calls for a "self-sustaining city in about 20 years". The whole needing to wear space suits because we're in a near-vacuum atmosphere doesn't sound very self-sustainable.

Can we not? Please? Can we just... not?

I'm constantly amazed that so many people on Slashdot want to put the GNOME Foundations problems down to 'outreach programs' and 'SJWs' rather than the fact that GNOME is piece of shit and nobody wants to use it, hence nobody wants to support the foundation behind it.

Don't believe me? KDE has its own outreach program for women, yet you don't hear about them having the same problems. Why? Because KDE fucking works, it's perfectly usable (for now at least), so not even the most anti-SJW types give a shit because good software is good software!

This actually increasingly angers me because it pretends that if GNOME just killed their outreach program, all would be fine, when it obviously wouldn't. So if you just want to talk about the software itself, nobody's stopping you. But if your first criticism of GNOME is a bloody outreach program, then I'd say you're at least as bad as any SJW you criticise.

I don't see why this is considered a problem. Pass the bill anyway, make him veto it, get Trump to put himself on the wrong side of yet another issue. You either force him to do something he'd rather not or he sits back and lets it pass. What's the harm in trying?

I don't understand why this is modded down.

Because he's using the decline of the GNOME Project as an excuse to indulge his hate-boner for feminism. Seriously, what is the 2006 outreach to women post doing on that list? Can anyone give any good reason why that event lead to the next event and everything else on that list? Because I certainly can't think of any.

Gnash. It's perfectly happy to load locally-stored SWF files and if they're old enough to work on Flash Player 7 (which was released in 2003) then they'll probably work on Gnash.