Oh you...Where are atheists lining up to protest nativity scenes at churches? No one gives a fart about Christianity being practiced, until it infringes on other rights. Nativity scenes? Nothing wrong with them as long as other religions can partake as well. Christians don't tend to like Satanist scenes though.
Christians in America are however attacking abortion rights. They also attack marriage rights, gay rights, transgender rights, help for the poor, human rights, and basically everything that Jesus was for. To claim that the majority of Americans are practicing anything Jesus stood for is quite frankly silly. No one has said kids can't pray in school, what's been said is that you can't force prayer in school unless it's a religious school,in which case religion rules.
This silly "Attack on Christianity" ginned up by Fox News and the religious right is absurd in a country where the vast majority of the country proclaims to be Christian.
I've lived in the US for my entire life, I've live in both the north and south. Traveled large portions of the country. I've also traveled internationally numerous times. To say that Atheists in the US are hated is putting it mildly. There have been research studies into it, and the results were Atheists were one of the most distrusted groups in America and rated lower than Muslims and actual rapists. You can look up the Pew study, The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Study, The University of Minnesota study and there's more. Every single one disproves your point. If you've been an Atheist in America and haven't seen this, then you're putting on blinders or live in a liberal city.
So let's see your search primarily shows two white nationalists, one of whom incites riots were removed based on your search. That's pretty much all your search shows with a couple people from Infowars who..wait for it...incite violence against others. I am not shocked that these people were removed.
You're heavily biased. Try bringing a leftist point of view on a right wing site, the Heritage foundation, or the American government. The current crop of conservatives brought loaded weapons to a presidential rally under Obama and President Trump is demanding personal loyalty pledges from civil servants. Breitbart, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh etc control the talk show airwaves, there's not a single strong liberal voice in any media that has the sway or clout of any of those that I mentioned.
Leftists have been getting fired from media for quite some time for not being conservative enough. I sincerely disbelieve that the right is being silenced. What is being silenced is death threats, hate speech, and extremist which doesn't belong in public discourse. The people leaving to form their own groups are generally people who support white nationalism. Reddit has groups that literally function as attack dogs silencing any group that speaks ill of the president through brigading and taking over the front page.
To suggest that there is "good evidence" that the left is censoring the right is plain silly. What's being censored is things that don't belong in a workplace, or don't belong on a site for civil discourse. Personally, I am glad that they still have a place to speak for themselves, but most people don't want to read conspiracy theories, hate speech, and abuse on a daily basis from either party and every single time some group is removed they claim censorship, usually because they follow the letter to break the spirit of any rules.
I'm someone who wants to find my niche as well and run a business, but I think that the reasoning is the same. When you see a problem and you build a solution, then you get to organize a group of people around that solution. Sure at first you're wearing a lot of hats, but if you can get talented people onboard for a mission that's worth getting up for every day, that's something special and I think that's what a lot of people really are working towards when managing a business. I can say this about a cultural issue. I work in a company where the culture can cause a lot of problems with motivation because I had two really poorly suited people above me that impacted large swaths of the company. Then we were purchased and for a while it was really worse. Since then I've been really lucky to have some of the most amazing management I could ask for. During the bad times I mostly protected the people I was responsible for as best I could.
What I can offer for those who aren't motivated are a few things.
1. It starts at the top. If you make yourself the top then it starts with you and you get to set the tone. A crappy boss can make a great job terrible. A great boss can make a crappy job manageable with some moments of happiness.
2. Find what drives them. Few people are okay with the status quo. This requires building trust with your people and regular communication. If you can find out what makes someone want to do more and grow you're golden.
3. If your job has growth and people just don't want it, find better people. Jobs like this typically have high attrition unless it's something like government, military, or some other rigidly structured role. If that's the case and you want more, look elsewhere. There's almost always someone willing to pay more for someone who multiplies their team's output.
Whatever your journey, I really do wish you a fulfilling and enjoyable life. A lot of times things, especially now, can seem fatalistic or just downright bad. A single candle in the dark can light the way for many others. :)
For me, I really enjoy helping people grow into their best selves. A lot of that means protecting them from politics and giving them the space to do their jobs effectively, make mistakes, learn and grow. It really isn't for everyone, because there's a lot less tangible rewards and the payoff can be pretty long tail, but when you can see potential in someone and then see them grow into that potential, it's a really fulfilling experience. Basically I saw that things could be better and I chose to be that better, I had a lot of amazing people that took a chance on me as well, so I owe it to them to pay it forward.
Used a linux laptop for the last 2 years for work. It was built as a linux laptop and had driver support from the vendor. Zero issues running Ubuntu. Forced to move to Windows because I changed roles and need to make more powerpoints and docs and use Skype (which really doesn't work well under linux) but I also lost a lot of really great programs. Mostly I use WSL for real work now if I need to.
China buys a lot of of their current military from other countries, however that is changing as they seek to establish themselves. In 10-15 years they will probably be close to parity in technology, however nowhere near close in capability.
To be fair to the U.S. every powerful country makes a lot of enemies and throughout history there has always been some country that spends a large portion of their money to protect their interests and expand their power base. Egypt, Rome, China, Spain, Britain, France, Germany, The Ottoman Empire, Persia, etc. There's always someone globally at the top who needs to spend a large portion to protect entrenched interests and they inevitably fall because those entrenched interests forget that a country only states at the top if it's willing to make new and more powerful interests.
It's IBM. I'm not sure what's keeping this shell of a company functioning, but they are not a company I'd want to work at, if you could find a non-outsourced job, with regular layoffs and insane demands on their people. None of the people I know who've worked there have spoken well of it.
So make a supported hardware list,docker container, etc. The hardware is interesting, but the types of people who would buy this either already have racks in their houses and just want someone else to manage their stuff, or want to manage their own hardware because they want to make sure they have their own hardware components locked down. It's a neat project to be sure, and it's not terribly expensive for the hardware, but the real money maker is the ongoing support and security for the service, which is functionally really similar to a cloud service without a lot of the benefits.
Met him at a metro station in Boston as I was going for a job interview. The company used Gnu/linux but the devs didn't even know who Stallman or Linus were. I didn't get the job because I wasn't "technical" enough. I was not asked any technical questions. Probably dodged a bullet there.
Because it's the least that can be done for people willing to take substandard pay for risking their lives in literal battle zones. You can only really use it when you're traveling on orders, meaning being transferred to somewhere away from your family or when you're in full uniform. Most service members I know only use it when being deployed.
Waiting at the carousel has never been 15 minutes for me. You must travel to tiny airports. I literally never seen an airport that's taken less than half an hour to deliver my bags.
I usually travel with a single carry-on bag when I travel. It's a tiny hard sided suitcase that fits in the carry-on space and includes enough clothes for a week. I don't technically need a free checked bag nor would I typically use one as I want to avoid the insane wait at the luggage claim. So this I disagree with. I don't mind charging for checked bags, but then I don't mind paying more for air travel for certain things, so I don't think that this particular example fits.
I wholeheartedly agree that tipping should go away. It's literally a remnant of the post slavery age in America and has a nasty habit of lowering workers wages. Another problem is taking dine and dash bills out of the waiters wages. The waiter shouldn't be paying for deadbeats.
So I agree with your general point, just not on the airline baggage example.
Seems like this would be a pretty simple fix wouldn't it? Choose your state when you jump onto a shopping site to see the price with taxes and shipping included. Instead they wait to bait and switch at the register.
The difference between Republicans and conservatives used to be minimal. I'd say that conservatism swung so far right that most long term Republicans didn't even realize it. The vast majority of people who vote Republican or Democrat do so nearly without any understanding of a particular candidate's positions apart from the general party platforms and only votes on one or two issues that are personally important to themselves. With how gerrymandered the country is, especially in many Republican controlled states, the middle ground for centrists Republican and Democratic candidates is gone.
This was started by a concerted effort in the 1980s to turn the country more conservative, which was very successful and backlash to the liberal culture expansion of the 1960s through the 1970s. I don't however believe that the architects of that plan foresaw the damage that would come from polarization.
America has a large reckoning coming as we must learn and define what we want our national image to be. It's certainly no longer the shining city on the rock. We're far closer to the loud, obnoxious uncle at the dinner table talking about what we did in the past. Unless we can find common ground as a country, we're destined to fade in global power far quicker than we should have.
I know building systems that still run on Windows 98 because the upgraded software license costs too much. When the computer isn't able to boot for whatever reason, the building loses all heat or cooling control. They've lost days of work for hundreds of people (who they don't pay for that lost time) because they refuse to upgrade the software to the current version.
It's not perception. It's a byproduct of a few different things. Close interaction between people of different social classes, lack of faith in governmental institutions, massive changes in labor markets, and in the U.S. in particular massive disenfranchisement through gerrymandering and archaic voting and representation laws.
I agree with your position after reading the findings. Basically Kamala Harris was, acting on behalf of the state, attempting to set a precedent for physical violence being present before a client's case could be dismissed regardless of other prosecutorial misconduct.
Prime may be "2-Day Shipping" but they state in their TOS processing time may make an item take longer than 2 days to get to you. I've have "2-Day" shipping items take a week to get to me and they just point to the TOS.
As others have already mentioned, spaceflight has useful applications at creating a long term stable population center outside of Earth. There's also the commercial application of being able to gather vast resources relatively cheaply from the asteroid belts once there's a platform to routinely and cheaply transfer cargo up to space, down is relatively easy. We're going to run out of raw resources at some point and this will be the least costly application. Deep well drilling could access large amounts of trapped resources however the cost is prohibitive for the return.
I had the same experience with Mikrotik routers. Same generation devices. Also suffered from random drops of the network. Very good transmission distance when it worked.
Join Google for Work and it disables most of this. You'll still get things like location data and time to leave, but email features such as Inbox, etc were not scanned at all while I was using them.
I think you're spot on, but I think that parents of Millenials saw these changes as well and made sure to try to set up their children for a working life regardless of gender. There's still a stigma against stay at home dads though, so while traditionally male gender roles have become more open to women, traditionally female gender roles accepting of men have lagged a bit. It's definitely not a case where equality of opportunity has been reached, however there has been progress and we are still moving forward.
You could start by going vegetarian instead by choosing to eat a cheese pizza instead of a hamburger. There's a wide world between carnivore and Jainist vegan. There's also a ton of much better vegan/vegetarian meat replacements available than just a few years ago.
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Never had a problem with my Thinkpad or my System76 laptop. If something has Windows support directly it's not surprising that it it would run better than something done in the spare time of developers. I've never had terrible luck with any linux on laptops though, aside from the Macbook. What kinds of problems did you run into and on what types of laptops?