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> Some would see that as an admirable example of a small government not overstepping its bounds.

some would see it as a government in paralysis through bloat and bureaucracy with accountability not being clearly assigned to anyone. This is more likely the case now.

Re:The Curse of Monkey Island on Friday April 19, 2024 @11:52PM (#40094659)
which groups do you see as beneath you, therefor punched down upon?
Re:3D printing on OpenBSD? Yes, that’s a thing on Thursday September 14, 2023 @12:25PM (#37511047)
what crazy things are going on in Linux?
Re:New research: Dark Energy might not exist after all on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:20AM (#21664179)
Sorry, You have to go back.
Re:Is Inequality Inevitable? on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:17PM (#21470350)
inequality is the natural state of things.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. – Aristotle

Re:Is Canada Broken? on Sunday October 27, 2019 @11:46PM (#21374079)
> it's clear to anyone that's being honest that there's some maximum rate you can bring new people in at before they dilute the host country's culture too much for it to be able to continue in any cohesive fashion. That is, if you consider culture to be more than mass media and chain restaurants.

The notion that this country can have its own culture is i think a concept that no longer exists, for at least half the country. After decades of all of our leaders of all stripes and media waving the flag of multiculturalism, we're all immigrants. Even the current prime minister is insistent that we're the first post national state - whatever that means, with core identity. As a result the perception for probably the majority of the population is that there is nothing to dilute, only to enrich. I hope Canadians learn sooner rather than later that the values that we believe are universal and take for granted as we are surrounded by them everyday, are a lot less universal than we think.

Because being anti patriarchy is in vogue
Re:Being Bored Is Good on Monday July 08, 2019 @09:27PM (#20388250)
When we constantly consumed with stimulus from social media or non stop feed of news and discussion there is no room for boredom. Boredom is important to the creative process.
Re:Ubuntu Systemd Vulnerability on Thursday June 29, 2017 @09:50AM (#14663272)
maybe if they had package dependencies sorted out. they didnt last time i checked.
Re:Ubuntu Systemd Vulnerability on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @02:29PM (#14656919)
yes, i'm aware of bsd init, sysvinit, upstart, systemd et al.

systemd & upstartd all aim to replace pid 1/init. Which as far as i'm concerned anything beyond bsd init is over complicating things, and these are the results.

Re:Ubuntu Systemd Vulnerability on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @02:08PM (#14656655)
i believe there's a debian fork around that doesnt have systemd... https://devuan.org/
Re:Ubuntu Systemd Vulnerability on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @02:07PM (#14656636)
I bet init is also unaffected.