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Comment Re:so? (Score 1) 209

The people representing "Minorities' don't really understand, the smallest minority is the minority of one. There are 7.7 billion minority groups on the planet. They know they can't represent the individual, so they start representing the group. Without realizing it, they are siding with the tyranny against the individual, and are in a cause against that which they claim to represent, those groups that are oppressed by larger groups.

Again, I agree with your logic/reasoning. Not to sound like an apologist for the people representing "minorities", but do you have an alternative?

Comment Re:so? (Score 1) 209

There's 7.7 billion people on this planet and only ~1.8 billion seconds in a 90-year lifespan.
Even if you tried to care about every single person, 1 second for 1 person, your life would run out by the time you hit 1.8 billion if you are lucky to hit 90.
Kind of a pointless venture.
That's why i find these groups who represent an entire gender or race moronic. You don't even have the basic math education to realize you don't have the lifespan to represent them all for 1 second each, yet you are pulling this shit? Get the fuck outta here.

Agree, with your logic but i don't believe that's their angle, maybe it means that they are FIGURATIVELY representing an entire race or gender?

Comment Re:In Favor (Score 1, Insightful) 660

On other note, we do need more competition and the need to continue to strengthen free alternatives like GNU/Linux, LibreOffice, NextCloud, GIMP, VLC, etc. So please send a small penny to your favorite free software each year if you can. It will keep your commercial proprietary software in check if possible, and save you more money in the long run.

Gonna sound like a troll (if I was I'd post AC) but come back to me when LibreOffice has the same if not more functionality than Microsoft Excel. Sure MS have changed the layout several times and have even broken macro spreadsheets with some iterations of Excel but they aren't the only ones guilty of doing this (not to sound like an apologist).

Say what you want about excel but its pretty handy for a lot of things (but the vast majority of credit goes to Dan Bricklin who invented VisiCalc).

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 133

Why is overpopulation a laudable thing?

The Japanese home islands are already highly populated -- no need to increase the population. Stabilizing at early-1900s levels would be much more sustainable.

Over population isn't their biggest problem; the population pyramid no longer looks like a pyramid when compared to 1950:

https://www.google.fi/search?q...

If it continues to go in this direction, Japan could be facing serious problems (if they aren't already), unless they implement something like planned immigration, for example. Germany has a similar problem with their population pyramid, but the difference is Germany's rate of net migration per head of the population is over 5.5 times that of Japan's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And Japan's population is almost 60% larger than Germany's; It's not looking good for them at all.

Comment Re:AlphaBeta (Score 1) 64

What do you mean by the "free ones"? You mean free software or free beer?

Is there any specific features in Outlook that are so unique ?

Who the hell is getting 1500 mail a day? Is that real job? Does this guy do anything but read mails during the day?

I havent seen Outlook being used since a while but, in any case, I have no recollection of it being such a smart and superior software.

Your message, sir, look like a cheap advertisement.

If you are working some sort of technical support and depending on the scope of your team/role/the inbox 1500 a day is definitely believable, but based on my experience a significant portion of these will be automated alerts.

Comment VPN is nice to have... (Score 0) 87

I normally don't work from home but I have VPN access for those rare days when I do have to work from home. Every 90 days I must carry my luggable laptop (Dell Precesion M4800) home, remote into VPN to reset the 90 day clock, and carry my luggable laptop back. Which was what I did this past Labor Day weekend. If I don't, the VPN account gets deleted and the paperwork to get it back again is a PITA. I only work from home two or three times a year.

Comment Re:But that's not the issue (Score 0) 139

In reality, you're full of shit, reminiscing about a time that never existed.

You're citing the national average. A lot people in Silicon Valley had a lot of TVs in the 1970's. My family had six TVs. One neighbor ran a TV repair shop out of his garage and had several hundred older TVs available for sale.

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