Posts by asdf

Re: Good.

> US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor,

Nice try but everyone knows those don't exist in the US government. The State Dept exists to pretend like we will ever solve any of the world's problems (instead of the Dept. of Defense making more). The Labor department exists to issue some pro labor ruling about once a decade that only gets overturned and gets more Republicans elected in an off POTUS election year.

Re: What law?

And yet they celebrate their beloved home state gun maker John Browning like he was a saint. Guns are holy and boobies are the devil's work.

Re: Make bananas, not bombs

I think the poster's point was more get rid of NATO have his beloved Russia annex everything and there would be no war only the love of dear leader Putin.

Re: Flatpack sandboxing

It also why I simply use x11 forwarding through ssh from my host to the full guest vm (which is for browsing). A little heavier solution and arguably a bit less secure but you get cut and paste and it basically behaves like any other X app on your desktop (and by using same gtk theme in vm app even looks native) so no futzing with Unity View etc.

Re: Great. Can I get a PS3 and run Linux on it yet? (no)

Yeah they only did it in the first place to get that lower EU tariff on PCs vs game consoles. Funny how quick they lost interest once it became clear that wasn't going to happen. Oh well Linux capability or not mine now serves pretty much exclusively as in my 5yo words for Minecraft on the TV.

Re: Using social media to learn?

>. But don't sell me this tired shit about social media having any redeeming value

Unless you got the right social media company stock pre IPO.

Re: it is the volcano that will kill you

And just like the real killer locally with a volcano, hot and or poisonous gas and ash particulate it is also globally with massive climate change on these mega events. When people say see it was once a lot worse naturally the obvious response is yes and if we would have been around then we would probably be extinct as well.

Re: Diversion

Syria, Russia, South China Sea buildup etc.

Re: completely irrelevent but love that movie

Yes I know bad timing what with all the gun violence controversy (when isn't there?) but goddamn it I still get to enjoy that movie.

Re: mips still going strong

>Who's still buying these?

Anybody that has HP-UX production environments. Real shame it (Itanium not so much) along with its real UNIX brothers is dying. Meanwhile Red Hat's new POSIX standard well lets just say I'm not a big fan.

Three body problem

From what I understand we think the machine was incredibly well, well machined and intricate but remember hearing something like the machine operation is more accurate than the math underlining it, with the net effect the device is often inaccurate but not due to mechanical reasons or tolerances. A case of the theoretical not keeping up with the experimental. I guess not a surprise as there would be no Mr. Newton for another millennium and a half plus.

Re: This is why we cant have nice things

Yes in this case its basically legal masturbation between two mega corps but anything time I can take a shot at the shit patent law (and lawyers writing shitty laws) we have in the US I do.

ksh forever

They can trash FreeBSD all they want but I better not upgrade my OpenBSD someday and find powershell is the new default shell.

Re: Good luck with that

Did he? In this era of a possible President Trump it's not longer safe to assume.

Re: what's in a word

Going to get some downvotes but honest since when do UK law enforcement believe in correctly appropriating blame? Their history on such matters leave a little to be desired. Yes the US isn't a lot better but at least they didn't victim blame when that illegal roadhouse caught fire and killed 90 some people a bit over a decade ago unlike Hillsborough.

Re: F-Droid only if you can

So far at least the answer is yes. How much of that is its not worth hacking a much smaller IT nerd centric repository where its tougher to hide shenanigans versus the much juicier Play store target its hard to say.