When I started they'd just finished digesting Sun. They were already turning into a pretty shitty place to work. They were starting to do the H1B offshoring thing like my other old employer: IBM. However, Oracle really got it going in the mid 2000's. They ginned up tons of white-guy layoffs so brown-guys could be subbed in. It was super obvious they were literally "sending all the jobs overseas" (well, to India, not some vague destination in the EU or something). They certainly were not hiding the fact internally. They started making everyone's job just a little harder and just a little more shitty in some ways. For example, people working the weekends were forced to come in during the week just to fuck them a bit and get them mad so they'd quit and make room for more Indians.

I'm amazed anyone but Indians and fucking MBA frat boys are left at Oracle. They SUCK now. They laid off just about everyone from Sun. They laid off all the American engineers that knew anything. It's just a strip mall corporation now that tries to buy low in India and overcharge Americans for their shitty RDBMS that's gone down the toilet. Oracle ASM and RAC are GARBAGEWARE that run like shit and have fucked up the operating environment to the point it's almost un-runnable. Oracle 8 was really the last/best version of Oracle RDBMS. That's why they have to bundle up Exadata systems as "custom racks" because nobody could make that pile of horse shit run without it being pre-built by Oracle and nobody would be dumb enough to use raw storage / ASM (dumbasses at Oracle forgot DirectIO was around by 2003 pretty much in every filesystem, so cache control is not a valid excuse). Well, okay DBAs that were never sysadmins might be dumb enough and I've heard a few tout ASM && RAC back when they first came out. Now, the DBAs I know all are miserable and wish like hell for the days before those shitty Oracle components were pushed as the default.

You're acting like all you and your high-minded green pals ever do is forever-use a bit of blow molded plastic every now and then. That's unlikely. Are you in a heated building? Did you consume any food delivered or grown using diesel recently? Do you ever fly anywhere or use any products delivered by boat (they all burn bunker oil) ? You aren't dodging any responsibility, here.

Your "logic" seems to be that if someone else makes more, it's okay to steal from them if you believe you're underprivileged. Since most people are too weak and/or scared to steal, they get someone else to do it for them. Trouble is, it's still immoral to get someone else to steal for you, even if you believe you're somehow entitled to someone else's stuff.

About as dumb as giving drug companies immunity from lawsuits and liability during CV1984, I'd say.

Actually, he's completely and provably quite correct. Your response didn't even make any sense beyond this first, completely ridiculous denial. Whatever point you were trying to make about alternative fuels is lost in your lack of writing ability and poor communication skills. Fossil fuels are factually 96% of what powers transportation globally. Aviation and shipping are close to 100%. Even with cheap nuclear power, creating synfuels has major problems and still would result in more expensive fuels. The technology isn't there yet to make synfuels viable cost-wise, the are not, as you say, commercially viable. If they were they'd already be widespread and popular. Given that right now any synfuel production is likely the result of a government funded study or subsidy, you might want to get your facts straight.

One way to do this would be to make vouchers for underachieving students worth more than ones for high achievers. I suspect that'd have unwanted side effects, as well. However, anything is better than paying a bunch of non-working teachers under the guise of "education" when it's really "retirement". The current system punishes kids and rewards retired teachers and despite tapdancing around the topic, converting the system to vouchers seems would provide immediate relief and improved opportunities and learning for the kids.

The bill in question is Senate Bill 26-051 (SB26-051). It's sponsored by four Democrats and one known-RINO who was under official censure in 2023 by other Republicans. So, you're wrong about that.

Having said that, I can see Democrats supporting this because they are going to gizz themselves anytime the government is grown or given more power to fuck over and interfere with more individual rights and freedoms. I can see Republicans doing it because "By God we need to know what the hell is going on with these damn open source commies. They might be a threat to security! Terrorists!" That kind of shit.

If you are a person who just wants the government to stay small and completely fuck off and get out of your business, then you are a political refugee with no party and nobody to vote for. That's me. Neither of these partisans are worth defending, but the Left, at the moment, seems to be more dead set on becoming Communists (extreme Left) than the Right is dead set at becoming Fascists (extreme Right). That maybe being true by the smallest smidge of a margin. It's not even clear anymore.

I live in Colorado. Nobody here wanted this fucking law. It was just foisted on us by hyperventillating and clueless far-left assholes who pretty much all came from California and now run this state, too. They fucked up their own state now they want to come here and nanny-state Colorado, too.

I noticed for example that NetBSD is trying to raise $50k this year and their up to a whopping $600 so far. The OpenBSD guys are in a similar state so far this year. They maintain OpenSSH and a few other critical projects, too. It's rare they get enough help or money from the corporate interests who use their code (Oracle, Cisco, Juniper, Intel, Broadcom, etc....).

These kind of "Thou shalt" laws make writing an OS harder. It's precisely the kind of thing Stallman (can I talk about Stallman still, or is he "canceled") would have freaked out over in the 1990's. It simply takes more control from the little guy and hands it to corporations and government and it sucks donkey balls and should be resisted and rejected completely. I've always said that someday they (the lawyers and worthless political people) are gonna come for FOSS software. Looks like this is the start of it.

Pictures I still have are from June 2021 and are of mulch, not sand. Also, they don't need to fill them completely to make them unskatable. They just put enough in the bottom as to fuck up someone's line. The messages (which I do not have anymore since they were in Signal) did mention that they (volunteers / skaters) had the park cleaned up in under one day.

So, pictures (especially from censor-happy Facebook which would have taken down anything related to covid skeptics or refuseniks) don't really mean shit a month before or a month after.

Liar. They did it in Moss, Norway in 2021. I have pictures from skaters I know personally there who cleaned it up. We exchanged those pictures because they did the same thing here. Perhaps your favorite far-left media outlet didn't get the story, but I actually know 10+ people who live there and three of them are skaters (two inliners, one skateboarder).

I notice you had nothing to say about the concrete examples. You just glossed over those and ignored what you could not rebut.

Guess you haven't been to the USA. Guns, drugs, prostitution: are all allowed in various degrees. Some areas are more restricted and Norwegian-like than others (ie.. Commiefornia). However, if you even try to spark a jay in Norway, you're going to jail quick there Mr. Freedom. Hell if you even have bud you're a criminal in Norway. Great "liberalism" on display there, pal.

Where are they more permissive exactly ? Ah, is this the "Freedom to censor your neighbor", "Freedom to control other people's movement", or "Freedom to fuck up your neighbors kids education?" which one is it that you are referring to? Not that they didn't do that exact shit right here in the USA, too, but you just said "real freedom" and made it a contrast; so prove it!

No, you apparently would want to send them to a liberal political retreat on Utøya island to get shot and blown up by native son Anders Brevik, who walked through your gun restrictions like they were made outta snow, then you'd have your authorities run around like Keystone Cops unable to even find guns to fight back for 65 minutes while they cowered and sank overloaded boats (thought you guys liked boats and understood them) trying to get to the island. All this in the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in peacetime. Looks like all those restrictions failed and you don't exactly have the moral high ground for SHIT.

I made statements you could either try to refute or agree with. Instead you're gonna whine like a bitch and check out because someone used a phrase you don't like? Oh, you poor thing! That sounds a lot like the kind of snooty butthurt censorship we saw during CV19. If you tell me you're Norwegian from Oslo, I'm going to believe you wholeheartedly.

Actually, I'd say just submissive in general. Most Norwegian men are very quiet and submissive in general, just waiting for some woman to tell them what's allowed. In my experience (mostly in Southern Norway around Moss) it's just a cultural norm. Norwegian men have to jump through flaming hoops just to buy a hunting rifle, asking permission from a horde of beurocrats. Sounds pretty submissive to me. That's one of a thousand reasons why foreigners in Norway call it "NO way". Whatever it is: drugs, guns, prostitution, cars, smoking anywhere but your home closet, doing business on Sunday, etc... You just can't because some official woman or man-bitch decided you can't.

I guess that totally depends on how someone randomly defines "rational liberalism". Since you fail to do so, it seems you can make whatever claims that you want. Let me ask you, was it "rational liberalism" that caused the Norwegian government to ban overnight stays in cabins "because covid" ? If so, let's hear how "rational" that explanation sounds right now. Was it smart and rational to shut down all the schools even though kids barely suffer much less and have much lower risk of complications from CV19? Does the fact that Norway's own Corona Commission report highlights these poor decisions directly cause you any cognitive dissonance?

No, but the ire and irrational head-explosions from people like you are quite satisfying. Cry harder.

Yeah, they were dumping sand in skate parks just like the rest of the idiot-conformist-authoritarians were. Great "science" that forced kids out of the UV light and fresh air and into basements playing video games together. Tell me was the censorship "scientific" and based on germ-theory too, genius ?

Lol, your wife is calling. Straighten your blue wig, get back to changing those diapers, and finish the rest of your soymilk, bruh. Oh, and don't forget to wax mama's EV minivan before soccer practice and the PTA meeting tonight, tough guy.