Both can be true. But the bigger issue is much harder to solve. If a lot of people want to live in an area, and there isn’t enough space for all of them to live there, then prices will go up. You can build more housing units in the area, and that buys you time, but eventually you are left with the same problem.

The real solution is the area has to be able to expand. You need not just to build more housing, but to expand the residential area into the surrounding countryside. And do that in any sort of useful manner requires good public transportation. It requires building a walkable Urban core. Most cities don’t bother to do that.

Exactly. Stopping Donald Trump might resonate with a few but it’s not an agenda.

Obama won twice because he had a vision, even if it was more emotion than substance (hope, change, yes we can). Hillary’s message was ‘I’ll use noise machines to ensure only my big donors hear the real vision’ and Kamala didn’t have much to say that stuck out.

Meanwhile the party is tied up in a bunch of issues that matter to their base but don’t resonate with America as a whole, like trans issues and gun control. And they’re almost as far in the pocket of big business as the Republicans.

If they got over themselves, drop gun control (which only alienates the rural moderate voters they need to win the elections) and focus on a handful of policies like clean up Washington and reform healthcare that every American should be able to get behind, they would mop up.

… And if the GOP would jettison the religious Evangelical agenda, give up the anti-gay anti-trans stuff and focus on small efficient government, THEY would mop up. But they also have to get rid of Trump.

Quite true. Iran has been both an embarrassment and a thorn in the side of the West since we created the current regime. And after all who cares about a few more dead brown people there’s plenty more where they came from right?

Would absolutely love that. Just split the two. Unknown Worlds cut loose, existing publishing agreements severed, they walk away with a developed game and their IP. Free to contract with Krafton or anyone else to distribute the game, or they could just self-publish pretty easily.

Sadly I doubt that will happen but we can always hope.

I hop back and forth.

For temperature, Fahrenheit just makes more sense because a human useful range is basically 0 to 100 instead of 0 to ~30.

For measurements I use a mix. Feet and inches are useful for medium size things, but below a quarter inch I use millimeters because fractions of an inch is just a fucking mess.

Quite true there is absolutely a place for both in all situations. And it’s why I hate absolutists who think gui’s are some sort of disease. GUIs are discoverable and intuitive, You can lay out all the options for the user so they know what they can choose and make the right choice. CLIs are powerful and scriptable, easy to automate.
Neither is bad.

He’s 100% right.

Today in modern society we talk about war and policy as abstract things. This policy caused 10,000 poor people to lose food stamps, that policy caused 20,000 people to lose their homes, there was a war and 30,000 innocent people died. It’s data points on a graph, that we debate academically. We say this makes us ‘civilized’, that we give ‘dignity’ to those who suffered and died.

It’s crap. The people who got blown up are dead, they don’t give a fuck anymore.

We SHOULD be showing the 12 year old who got half his leg blown off screaming as medics carry his dead parents out of a bombed building. We SHOULD be showing blood, gore, dead bodies. These are the result of the policies we enact, we are hypocritical liars to shield ourselves from the effects of what we do.

Because the fact is the majority of Western people live in a bubble of ignorance. We can say academically that we know violence exists, but many of us live our lives sometimes without ever encountering it, so it’s not real.
The result of that is a lot of bullshit that people think is right. Like if a kid fights back against a bully he gets suspended due to ‘zero tolerance’ for violence (nevermind that he reported the bully 15 times and the teacher did nothing). Or the huge number of people who think that prohibiting gun ownership will work any better than prohibiting drug ownership.

Quite true.
It’s an argument I often have with the CLI only people, and have been having for years. Like ‘with this Cisco router I can do all kinds of shit with this super powerful CLI’. Yeah okay how do I forward a port? Well that takes 5 different commands…

Or I just want to understand what options are available- a GUI does that far better than a CLI.

Can this please be the final straw at last?

Very unlikely. The rest of the world has bigger fish to fry than a few more brown people getting killed. Americans have a president who seems like he wants world war 3, Europe is dealing with energy problems and the fact that a potential enemy, Russia, holds the only current solution, Asia is either China or worried about China, Africa and South America are dealing with their own shit and generally can’t be bothered.

Not to mention Israel is one of the few if only Western culture nations in the area, making them a strategic military ally for most of the western world. And the rest of the developed world has significant trade and technology connections to Israel.

Point is, Israel is useful, and if the cost of doing business is not getting involved when IDF shoots a few families, then so be it.

If this gets any sort of publicity, I am sure it will be blamed on some kind of misunderstanding or bad intel or tragic accident. The appropriate public relations words will be said and that will be the end of it.

Yup.
The problem is, how do you guarantee access control that works offline?

DVD DRM was based on a pretty simple system that was easy to crack.
HD-DVD (former blu-ray competitor) DRM was more advanced. Someone hacked a software player and extracted its decode key, which this was.
The DRM was designed to be updateable so any discs manufactured after this leak would use different keys (and anyone using the software app that’d been hacked would need an update). That didn’t stop this key from working on every disc in existence at the time.

That’s the problem with making software decoding available. It had to work offline, so you could have an authorized player software, and feed it any valid disk, and it’d Just Work. So even if you put a crypto enclave in the drive controller, the player software still needs its own way to authenticate itself to the drive.