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Comment Re:Won't happen. (Score 2) 113

Nobody in the UK thinks they're going to get the sweetheart deal.

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.

Comment Won't happen. (Score 2) 113

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.

Comment Re:Trade off (Score 2) 59

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".

Comment Re:Accuracy of early announcements.. (Score 1) 210

Ignore Musk. There are hundreds of full videos of it (12.5+), it's full self driving at this point, regardless of a third party verification.

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.

Comment Re:Part of a Norm (Score 1) 1235

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.

Comment Re:Tests don't fix the problems of identity politi (Score -1, Troll) 111

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.

Comment Re:Someone could start a new one. (Score 5, Informative) 169

I'd add that a quick look at the fansubs sites I follow shows a fair bit of fragmentation at the moment. AniDex and minglong seem the most popular choices right now, with (new) Nyaa a distant third and Nyaa Pantsu nobody's first choice so far. Anything could change, but that's what I'm seeing so far.

Comment Relative late-comer myself... (Score 1) 857

My first home computer was a 486 DX2/66 with 4MB RAM, a (surprisingly capable) Cirrus Logic SVGA graphics chip with 1MB VRAM, a Sound Blaster 16, a 503MB HDD, double-speed CD-ROM drive, high density 3.5 inch floppy disk drive, and a 14 inch CRT monitor with built-in speakers. Being that it was 1996 by the time I got it, this was not the most capable machine money could buy, but it did teach me a lot about computers and I enjoyed a fair bit of classic DOS gaming on it. I upgraded the RAM to 16MB later on before donating it to a school in 1999 and getting a brand-new Pentium III 450 with 128MB RAM and an Nvidia Riva TNT. I've since gone through an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ with ATI Radeon 8500LE, Core 2 Duo E6750 with Nvidia GeForce 8800GT, and I'm currently using a Core i7-6850K with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060. I've also gone from MS-DOS 6.2 to Windows 95 to Windows 98 to Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux to Debian GNU/Linux. It's been a journey.

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