Stable genius at work.
Stable genius at work.
Honestly, we have a similar problem in the US. Republicans are very good at convincing the rural and poor folk to vote against their own best interests. They scare up some bullshit, culture war, religious nonsense and blame the Democrats for making things shitty. When in reality, they just lie, and do the opposite of what they say once they are elected.
At least it looks like conservatism is no different anywhere in the world.
Enter the Void (2009). Super trippy and one of those movies that leaves you wondering about everything each time you watch it.
Yea I am aware. My point is that an analog system doesn’t have network outages unless the physical copper wires are all down.
Digital systems are much more fragile.
The whole point of having a landline was that it worked when the power was out.
Ahh, the American Dream.
“It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain
There is a significant amount of particulate air pollution that comes from tires. Heavier electric cars make that somewhat worse.
Step in the right direction, but really we need to ban cars.
Looks good man. I played with the same stuff trying to get windows to be more Linux like and not suck so much.
I remember being really proud of finding and configuring some desktop application that showed all the CPU usage, memory statistics, etc.
That, and like just adding functionality that you would think would be part of an OS like being able to control your music from someplace or customizable shortcuts.
Quicksilver changed how I use the Mac when I transition over from a PC. Quicksilver made everything make sense. I think my favorite thing at the time was the customizable global shortcuts, and being able to just start typing the name of some thing and launch it. Instead of having 1 million icons in shortcuts on the on the dock just the few that I always used.
On PC in the early 2000s I started customizing the windows xp shell because it was so basic. I used something few people have probably used: Geoshell.
It was a skinnable replacement for the windows UI with various plug-ins to customize functionality. I guess it was similar to what was available in Linux at the time as far as the window manager. It was also more stable since explorer wasn’t also handling all of the UI tasks.
I think my record for uptime was like 47 days on Windows XP without having to reboot. Granted, things got kind of funky and it wasn’t perfect.
I even learned how to make my own skins, which at the time was pretty difficult to do in windows xp.
Quicksilver.
Reminds me of the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness:
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
-Terry Practchett, Discworld
You mean like an idiot who paid billions of dollars for a company only to ruin it in less than a year?
There was an article a while back about pseudoephedrine manufacturing and the pharmaceutical industry. Almost all of the pseudoephedrine was made by a german company and the US pharmaceutical companies lobbied and got it made illegal and switched to producing phenephelprine in China.
Lab grown diamonds/gems are also pure as fuck. Who wouldn’t want that?
No I want my impurities and child labor with my diamonds!
Also, diamonds are worth nothing in a pawn store. The only valuable part of your engagement ring is the gold, which is often not the highest quality anyway.
No one needs Alabama anyway.
Don’t forget George W. Bush. Not a celebrity bit certainly an idiot.