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Come on scientific evidence means nothing (that was sarcasm). Issues here in the US are you have one political team saying it doesn't happen and you have another telling people the world will end in 12 years. You have a ton of news outlets click-bating whatever gets them their Benjamin's, and you have the average (and some above average) people who will not understand most scientific papers. And everyone else working their angle.

So who do you believe? You are at the mercy of the "unbiased" opinions of news.

It seems like it should be a black and white issue, but it is not. Especially to the people by whom changing their lifestyles to help stop emissions would consume money they don't have.

One would imagine that even a person not believing would come to the conclusion that there is research that indicates global warming and even if they believe mankind was not causing it, stopping our emissions would still be a good idea.

I dislike CaMelcAse as well, but to each his own, I have stuff backed up from my windows machine on my BSD machine that has spaces and uppercase i leave it in case i need to restore. It does not mean you cannot take it seriously.

MacOS is one of the few registered UNIX systems out there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#macO...).

I actually do not own a Mac, but it is a decent OS and performs well and tries to be windows friendly (hence camelcase and spaces) and tries to be stable and secure.

I am confused, they are angry what the American government has done to them.

What were they supposed to do. Canada will not let them reenter, they had been denied entry to the US so it is not like they were going to just release them to run around the US after illegally entering, and the UK is being slow about the deportation. The family is still together and they didn't remove the child. Were they supposed to be put in a 5 star hotel?

People complain about the condition when they illegally cross into the US (I am from southern Texas and have a lot of exposure to this), but just image the conditions if you got caught illegally crossing into say Russia, or China, or Iran.

Back in '96 or '97 i found a pager dropped on the ground (they were pretty expensive back then), it was at night so i took it and called the lost and found number on the back. I was on the phone for about an hour and finally got to someone who gave me an address to mail it back to. I was in college and literally eating ramen noodles, i told them i was not getting a box and paying to mail it back. The person on the phone was rude and agreed to send a prepaid box to mail it back in.

That was over an hour of my life wasted and the company didn't seem to be grateful, hopefully the owner was...I will return things if found, just a bit more jaded about it.

I have this issue as well. People will show up at my desk to get something done. Yes it should be in some sort of ticket, but then they are in a queue and might get another admin, so if they just show up they will probably get their stuff done so they will leave me alone and i can get onto other work (it is not that i don't want to see people, but i have lots of work usually).

I would guess in some positions, like those requiring clearances, that it is more important to have cleared employees there when needed than micromanaging if they are working 40 hours per week.

You wont keep most employees around for part time work, but you want to make sure if your production systems go down or customer orders need to be expedited, or an emergency patch, etc... that you have a team that knows how to do the work, can get it done fast enough and is cleared to do the work (if applicable).

In some cases it might be cheaper to have employees that might be idle a bit than to lose money on downtime. Just a guess though.

A huge problem with ticketing systems is then management uses it to track all productivity.

We had a ticketing system and one guy in our group had between 60% and 80% more tickets than the rest of us. So it would seem we were all slackers, however he took the tickets that took like 2 minutes to do (password resets, account unlocks, etc...), meanwhile i would get stuck troubleshooting a production performance issue that would consume hours. Management didn't care what the ticket was, they liked to see pretty numbers of tickets completed.

I might be the only one who had this experience, and i am not saying ticketing systems are bad, they are extremely useful, as long as everyone knows how they work.

Your right I used to have a Nexus tablet, it was great and well supported, until it kept running out of space. I require something with a microsd card slot, i travel to a lot of places with zero internet access and any information or media or whatever i need needs to be on my phone (i carry a work laptop, i am not going to carry 2 laptops). When i looked none of the google phones provided that, maybe they do now.

Also 2 years ago i paid $700 for the phone. There is nothing wrong with the hardware, so i should pitch it to get another expensive phone? There is android 9 on the XDA forums for my phone.

Off topic, but i find it commical that my 17 and 18 years old kids yell at me because my 14 year old car gets about 27 miles to the gallon and pollutes so much, but every year they beg me to buy them a new phone so they can junk their old ones......

Looks groovy, but my 2 year old LG is stuck at Android 8 with Security updates stopped in January.

I wish android hardware was better supported for the long haul. I would even go as far as saying i would pay yearly for android maintenance than to pitch my phone for a OS update. My phone has plenty of power....at least we have XDA forums.

We need more support for nuclear, especially research for Thorium-based reactors. I am all for green energy, but until that can become a reality worldwide we need something that can generate a lot of electicity with as little waste as possible.

I have been using FreeBSD since 1999, a great OS and i love it, at work i am a Linux system administrator.

One of the huge reasons people use FreeBSD is simply licensing. If you dont want to release any source code simply build your custom app on FreeBSD and only include BSD licensed software. Makes being proprietary simple.

Note, this does not mean any companies that do this do not give back to the project, they do in the way of code commits and sometimes donations.

I am probably misinformed, but i thought the amazon buring was allegedly due to making more farmland?

Awesome. Always ask for a call back number. My dad was in his late 70s and fell for stuff like this. I beat the notion into his head, if in doubt ask for a call back number. If they they refuse to give it, it is a scam....period.

7 years was not enough for ruining peoples lives.

Even at 22k, that is a lot for most people. Online it says the LEAF can go 150 miles for around $4.80. Your payment would be around $375ish a month with at least $100 for insurance (probably more).

Why would most people do that when they can get a used car cheaper or keep driving what they have. It is just expensive (i am not saying i would not like a Nissian LEAF, that would be sweet).

I guess i see people buying EV's and ask why the rest of the world is not (i know you are not asking this, but a lot of comments i read are) when we cannot afford them.

I work IT and have the same issues, coworkers dont want to learn new tools. This is a huge issue, if your employer wants you to learn a new peice of software, that is your job.

It annoys me here at work, i go home and watch videos, download demos and put the effort in (and it is noticed at work) and some of my coworkers dont and then get annoyed when they dont understand how the new software works. it is just frustrating, glad it is not just where i work.

in 15 years when everything is online, mazagines will become a retro item and will be in again, like records and cassettes.......for a short while.

It would be nice to see the long term expected prices of EV's vs gasoline powered vehicles. Currently you can buy a cheap gasoline vehicle and years of gas for the cost of an equvilent EV.

Also i read all this gloom and doom about lithum reserves and how long they will last and how sustainable it is to the point i dont know what to believe. So are the batteries going to get more expensive as countries with lithium reserves realize what they have and start charging more?

I wish i could afford an EV or a hybrid, but they are out of my price range.

If i am going to pay to read an article, then there better be no tracking cookies, no sharing with 3rd parties and no ads on the page of the article i am reading. If not i might as well read the same content on another site.

So is it a 'deployless' software model, in a 'serverless' environment¿

sorry i could not resist.

I have been part of 12 data breaches, that i have been informed about, in the last 5ish years. I read about it and then move on at this point. I have a sick feeling credit monitoring with insurance is going to become the norm, just like house and car insurance. I am not sure why progressive and state farm dont have it yet on your policy (maybe they do).

I wonder if these companies are like one of the places i work at and have checkbox cybersecurity as opposed to real cybersecurity.......if you have ever had to ask your cybersecurity department "you really want me to loosen the permissions on those files so it will pass the scan¿", then you know what checkbox security is.......

I wonder what the percentage difference is of people getting copyright strikes vs. copyright ID claims. I do hear far less about strikes themselves, i would assume (big assumption on my part so i might be wrong) if a video had a lot of views one would want to make a copyright ID claim and monetize on the popularity, that would also give the creator a chance to dispute it.

Also if you make all your living just being on youtube and no other platforms, in my opinion you are setting yourself up for failure. Youtube is a business with shareholders. They do have a responcibility for creators bringing in the money, but just like facebook, when you are a creator on youtube your ARE the product. One does not have to like someone calling them a product, but it is still the truth.

I agree we should have more nuclear power in the US for the current time. It is just expensive to get a power palnt with all the regulations, but they are needed to help prevent disaters. And with the research into Thorium-based nuclear power it could become a little safer.

The US does not stop countries from have Nulcear Weapons. But you know if you signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and then make nuclear weapons you are in violation of the treaty. Pull out of the treaty and no one can do anything.

We dont stop North Korea, yeah we try to convince them not to because they are slightly unstable, we dont invade and destroy their nukes. Iran did sign the treaty though.

Yes, we do get desensitized to climate change. At least here in the US. On one side we have Trump saying it does not exist and a huge base following it and on the other we have AOC saying the world will end in 12 years and a huge base following it.

So you get us in the middle who just ignore it all because after hearing both extremes for so long you again get desensitized to it all.

I liked what Arnold Schwarzenegger said "I don't give a if we agree about climate change.". We should just work to reduce our emmisions anyway and make everything cleaner.

I do know people tend to be more receptive to slow change. You take their SUV's away in 5 years, there will be issues. You start slowly phasing them out, it will probably work better. Also efficeint cars seem to expensive. You can buy a used car that will last 5 years for $3000 that gets crappy gas milage, or a new hybrid car for $20,000. one can argue about saving movey on gas, but you will never save $10k worth of money and for people with little money that is what they need to get by.

"the culture and way of life will be passed on to the next generation."

In certain states, fathers take their sons to KKK rally's to pass on their "culture and way of life", does not make it right.......

We had the entire power to our building knocked out by a squirrel, one of the admins got a picture of it fried on the ground after it fell. Took the power company about 4 hours get power back to the building, one would think it would be a little more difficult to knock out power.

totally off topic, but we have a pear tree in the back yard by a fence and the squirrels will take bites out of the pears before they are ripe and knock them on the ground. In over a decade we have not gotten a single pear off the tree. My wife hates them and will yell at them, she has delcared war on them (but she is losing). So they are efficient at being pests.

Do you think this could happen in the U.S. with all the regulations? Do you think either Ukraine or Russia could put that much manpower together to handle an event like that today¿

If you are running a business then always have a good disaster recovery strategy. Split services between cloud providers and make sure your backups are good and offsite. You can do this all with opensource software if you dont want to pay for anything too (and if you have the staff that can do it).

If your business can be "killed" by your provider losing your data you have set yourself up to fail. I am not saying the provider is not to blame, but the burden should also be on the customer for not protecting themselves, what if DO burnt down?

We have yearly DR exercises, we have to bring up about 40 of our 120 production instances, it is a difficult task, but we know we can do it.

Never depend on your provider to save you, always make sure you have planed this out.

Some open source clones are great, "Bust A Move" on the SNES is fun, but the open source clone "Frozen Bubble", come one who has not spent hours with that game......

Wonder how many stones the Hayabusa spacecraft weighs? Perhaps i will have the answer within a fortnight.

Put it back in context:

It's unsustainable. Trump's broader trade policy is protectionist.

The US has become overly reliant on China, add on their Belt and Road Initiative, and we should be taking a more aggressive stance. Trade wont last forever with us and we will not have any industrial infrastructure left. this is trying to protect ourselves.

I find it funny half the US wants higher minimum wages and better standards of living here, but complain when prices go up for cheap stuff from China being made by near slave labor in oppressed conditions. I guess out of sight, out of mind.