Sir Humphrey: Yes, Minister.
That was cleverly disguised as a comedy, but actually a documentary.
328 posts • joined 12 Jun 2012
When I finally get my thumb out and create the One True Desktop Environment To Master Them All (and usher in the year of Linux on the desktop), it will obviously have to be named... Is there such a word as "Duity"?
I mean, there is "duality", but that seems to mean the opposite of the other two: While "unity" means the wholeness of the one, or everyone / everything coming together as one, and "trinity" means something like the one-ness (or unity) of three (cf the Holy one), "duality" emphasizes how the one is split into two.
Is there any word that emphasizes the same as the other ones, that two come together as one?
Naah, it's Dilbert who's wrong there. Price is determined by supply and demand, and the crude oli market is a commodity market; the price is pretty much exactly the same for all transactions. Dilbert's demand is shifted to some other provider, but replaced by the same amount of demand from someone else who previously would have bought from the provider Dilbert shifted away from. He's just shuffling deck chairs.
> > [ ... ] your "we" should not have released it as "open".
> I don't quite follow the logic here.
Probably because you, oh-so-conveniently for your crooked argumentation, left out the first half of the sentence. (That couldn't by any means have been intentional, now could it?) Here, to remind you:
> > If your "we" want to claim "ownership" then your "we" should not have released it as "open".
And here, the crux, the central point you seem to be yammering about:
> "Open" doesn't mean it's yours, or that you invented it.
So f--king what?!? Is anyone claiming it's "theirs", or that they "invented it"? (Besides you, that is, who by virtue of being American are apparently an avatar of mr D. Patterson.)
No, nobody (else) is claiming that. So stop fucking gibbering about something that isn't happening.
Yeah, that's probably why Samsung calls their ARM processors "Exynos" for trading, etc, etc.
Forthcoming RISC-V implementations will probably also be sold under varios more or less imaginative trade names.
So, let's get back to you when this argument becomes relevant. Pro tip: Don't hold your breath waiting.
> Where does this notion of collective right to appropriating someone else's accomplishments come from?
Oh, I dunno... That's just how the world works? That's why patents, and even copyright (so far, knock on wood...) still do expire sooner or later.
Otherwise, you know, you wouldn't be allowed to express yourself here, in writing: The art of writing was invented by the Sumerians or the Egyptians or somebody, so Americans aren't allowed to do it. Or the wheel, also Sumerians or Chinese or whatever; so close all those car and truck factories, scrap or export all the cars and trucks, and go back to doing your land transport the American way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travois
> Individual accomplishments are never democratized.
Oh, good. So then that accomplishment was Mr Patterson's, not "America's", to begin with, and since you claim that means it still is and always will be, you've just admitted that you haven't got a leg to stand on "as an American".
Sheesh. Can't you even see how stupid you're being? No? Well, that just confirms it.
systemd
That's one of the resons Devuan exists: no systemd.
Yes, and the commenter you replied to included that in their list of primary reasons for using it. Like, you know, like one does in a discussion of a new release of an OS distro: The article says "It has this and that and those other features...", and reaaders chime in with "I don't care about that feature" or "This feature is why I use this distro" and so on.
D'oh! yourself, Sherlock.
The governor is obviously still a moron. But the prosecutor is just being diplomatic: Sure, "an argument can be made" that it's criminal -- the governor is making it, after all! -- but then so can "an argument be made" that the moon is made out of green cheese. Doesn't have to be a good argument, after all, and that's kind of what the prosecutor means.
What he's saying is: "We have determined by non-legal means -- i.e. by asking people who know what the heck they're talking about, and finding out there was absolutely nothing to see here, so 'technical means' -- not to prosecute. But I want to cover my behind and not explicitly call my boss an idiot, so I'm going with the old 'an argument could be made' pablum for his idiocy."
But he said “so what if she was too young, she knew what she was doing”.
No he didn't; that's so wrong it's not even in the same ballpark. What he said was (paraphrasing): "Minsky may well have had no idea that she was underage or coerced, because Epstein would very likely have ordered her not to tell him that."
Hey long time for you to come up with that reply.
I'm sorry if this comes as a shock to you, but I'm not constantly monitoring your posts. (Nor even my own.)
You will be considered on par with creationism and dinosaur fossils placed by god to mess with us.I'm guessing one of us is American. And since I know it's not me, I'm not too worried I'll be the one suspected of creationism. Especially in this case, since that's the belief that stuff only "gets created" once and never changes, so if there's something called "Man", it must have been created exactly as it is now on some Thursday afternoon 6008 B.C. and never changed or evolved from something that existed before.
So the belief that if there's something called "The EU", it must have been created exactly as it is now in 1993 A.D. and never changed or evolved from something that existed before... That's creationism. Maybe you should try and catch up to the Enlightenment?
The EEC was formed in 1957 and, with the CSC and Euratom, incorporated into the "European Union" in 1993. Since the EEC was by far the most prominent part of these previously overlapping-but-separate entities, 1993 wasn't when anything "new" was created, but when the EEC changed its name to the EU. You might be too young to remember, but that was how the world saw it at the time, and is still (and will forever be) the truest description of what happened.
So a conservative estimate of the EU's age is "born in 1957". But, sure, if you want to be generous, the CSC goes back to 1951.
Now stop being such a doofus.
So the 'hate' content will fade away into the dark web, still accessible to those individuals who want to find it.
At least you'll have to want to find it.
That's still quite a bit better than the status quo, where "algorithms" can start nudging you ever closer just because you saw something vaguely similar, and followed up a step or two further from that.
> to counter the arguments of religious lunatics, anti-vaxers and right-wing racists.
...is a hopeless task -- a Gish gallop.
I am using and have been using for amany years Windows Server as much because it has the WIndows GUI through which you can do pretty much everything without having to learn a whole load of cryptic commandsIf you'd been using those "cryptic commands" for even a few years, they wouldn't be "cryptic" at all.If I really wanted to have to learn lots of cryptic commands to do virtually anything, I'd be using bloody Linux and not Windows.
they could easily have some devs read the source, which was freely available, and get ideas that way.Not quite, not just like that; that's not how that works. Having those same devs then implement the same thing would be copyright infringement.
They'd have to have a second team of devs to create their own implementation, and the first team -- who had read the original source code of AppGet -- could only transfer the ideas, but none of the actual code, behind the app to the other team that implemented their own (WinGet?) version -- and they'd have to make sure they'd be able to prove that this was how it went down. (This is called a "Chinese Wall".) That's not all that easy to do.
And if you want help, there's a "?" icon that you can click on (if there's a keystroke for it, I don't know what it is)Tried the CUA "Help" keystroke -- [F1]?
Dunno if it's the same thing as that "?" icon -- I couldn't find it to test! -- but it thros up a familiar-looking little window with light-blue links, so I think it is.
Less than two years ago, an AC wrote:
> Sigh, here come the haters of Perl.
In response to a post saying: "I made quite a bit of dosh using 5.x and then waited decades for the 6.-1 releases."
> Please try a few dozen [new computer languages]
In response to a post saying: "In the mean time, I learned to love assembler, jovial, pascal, java, scala, even python."
The above comment (and the AC who posted it) must be the most idiotic I've seen on the Reg.
I have an old armchair on the balcony, that I literally found outdoors Idunno, ten years ago or so. Monitor on one of those high kitchen "bar" stools in front of it, laptop leaning against the legs of the stool, mouse on another lower stool beside me, and wireless keyboard in my lap.
Alas, come autumn I'll have to move my workplace in to the dinner table again.
Right there in the question / answer / comment you're replying to, without any need to go to some profile page to investigate whether the user has any idiosyncratic wishes for how they wish to be addressed. (Quite possibly the site will even paste the user name into your reply for you, as part of a quote of what you're replying to if nothing else.)
The difference between "thee" and "thou" has fuck-all to do with respect, and if that dialectal adage is something older people actually believe around where you come from, they just don't get how English works (i.e. used to work).
"Thou" corresponds to "he"; "thee" to "him": He is an asshole, I'll punch him in the nose = Thou art an arse-hole, I shall thwack thee on the snout.
> I just pointed out that just because a day is arbitrarily important to some people doesn't make it important to everybody. Get over yourselves.
Which was a fucking unnecessary statement to begin with, because NOBODY EVER SAID it was supposed to be "important to everybody".
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