Comment Re:I'm considering switching more (Score 1) 86
Ubuntu, however, is awful.
There are literally hundreds of Linux distros out there.
Ubuntu, however, is awful.
There are literally hundreds of Linux distros out there.
Also, a movie about a war veteran getting mistreated, and critical of the anti-war movement.
And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me, huh? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about!
definition of "socialism", which is: worker ownership of the means of production
Bzz, false. The dictionary definition of the term is:
a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies
See? No "worker ownership" — government ownership. Schools don't need to be owned by the teachers for public education to be socialist, they need to be owned by the government. And they are!
Same goes for retirement financing, and medicine for retires — with millions clamoring to expand it ("Medicare for all!!") — what GP enumerated. The "single-payer healthcare" — another euphemism — would be exactly that too.
Workers can own shares of their employers — indeed, Anthrophic employees do (and anticipate to profit handsomely). That's not socialism at all — not by the dictionary definition.
I blame the libertarians for making the definitions unclear
I blame you for pulling the definition from under your tail — and the morons upvoting you.
"anything the government does that benefits the people instead of corporations."
That's spelled "KKKorporation$". Make a note of it. Benefits the people, eh? The per-pupil spending nationwide went up (inflation-adjusted) from $9083 in 1989 to $13790 last year. And what did this expense buy us — the barely literate population unable to even define such terms as "socialism" correctly...
And they've adopted the word "democratic socialism"
The term (not "word"!!!) was adopted by "former" Communists, who've proudly elected a Senator some Congresswomen and, most recently, New York mayor. Who immediately proceeded to establish a government-owned supermarket.
some wondering if they were being picked on by President Trump
Seriously? "Some wondering" — and it is on front page... What a contrast to Trump's supporters accusations, his electoral win was stolen in 2020 — no, any time someone mentioned those, a bunch people would jump up to add: "unproven" and "without evidence".
Not for you, but for them to track your kids.
It's absolute insanity that folks throw away $1k+ phones because we can't easily swap out a $25 battery.
Indeed, because even if it's not user-repleaceable, any phone repair shop can do it. (It's also crazy to buy a $1k+ phone in the first place, goddamn, there are fine options for much much less.)
It's absolute insanity they removed the headphone jack to force us to buy / replace battery powered headphones or an adapter.
It's annoying, but adapters are cheap. I'm not going to lose sleep over $5.
It's absolute insanity I have different chargers and cables for at least five generations of this crap laying about. Pick a damn standard already.
They did, the whole industry uses USB-C now.
AKA: mass layoffs.
AKA: people doing stuff, that does not need doing, having to find something else to do.
it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones
Bot-sitting does not require as much attention as doing it myself requires. While the AI is handling the tedium, I can do something fun — both work-related and otherwise...
A co-worker next to me is doing cross-word puzzles, for example...
Apparently a *lot* of people on Slashdot are completely fooled by the CCP propaganda.
And some of them are CCP propaganda, using multiple "sockpuppets" to both post and moderate.
Decades earlier — during Vietnam war — USSR was financing all of "peace" movements in the West in particular, while attacking the "Capitalist way of life" in general. It'd be quite foolish for China to not be doing the same now. Even more foolish would be for us to not realize, that they do.
You mean like all those US voters that elected Trump in large part because of his "no wars" promises?
I don't know, what voters you're talking about. I voted for exactly the kind of aggressive stance Trump is showing, thank you very much. If anything, I'd like him to be still more aggressive — long years of appeasing foreign assholes have made them too confident, America's "red lines" can be ignored with impunity.
Looks like they lost control pretty quickly.
Do you seriously think, Chinese citizens have better control of their foreign policy? Or are you going to claim, America is "the same" or "just as bad"?..
How many American companies have ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex?
US military is controlled by American voters, such as myself. The rest of the world, make a choice already!
And there was "Project Star Trek": back in '92 they got System 7 running on a 486. It was shelved as Michael Spindler pushed for the PowerPC instead, but it existed.
a full-blown remake of the original 1996 Tomb Raider game
But Tomb Raider: Anniversary is already that, and still looks perfectly good. And if you want it more strictly faithful to the original, there's the recent remaster. So this is absolutely unnecessary.
10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0.