I stand with:
ifconfig
netstat
And a dozen other “deprecated” tools.Don’t break things just because they were invented in the 1970s Linux.
RT if you agree.
— phorkus (@phorkus) March 22, 2018
Agreed. The new tools are worse. They are hard to use, more opaque in their output, no easier to script, and designed by those who had no concept at all of usability.
I don’t despise them because they are new; my disdain is just from the fact that they are objectively terrible.
I am SICK, SICK, SICK of hearing TV pundits say Dems have limited ability to do anything re: Kavanaugh.
They are A one seat minority.
GOP did way more to block, obstruct, shamelessly, with smaller minority.
Don’t be sucked in by this.
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) September 4, 2018
When the Dems had a majority in both houses of Congress, we were told that they could do nothing about anything, even in the depths of the Great Financial Crisis, because of the Republicans blocking it all. The Republicans which, by the way, were (definitionally) a minority party at that time.
Now that the Dems are themselves a minority party, but only by a small amount in the Senate, we are again told that the Democrats are still utterly powerless.
Wake up and realize that the Democrats just don’t want to do the right thing. It has nothing to do with whether they are the majority or minority party. They have been equally useless in either case. What matters is they have absolutely no interest in upsetting or altering the status quo.
People who aren’t for space exploration just boggle my mind. Like, where did you come from?
I think their largest issue is that they subscribe to a version of folk economics called the zero sum fallacy — the mistaken belief that there’s a fixed pot of money somewhere, and if a few percent is devoted to space exploration then that magically takes it away from somewhere else.
But that’s not how it works at the governmental level or anywhere else outside of your checking account. Just look at the military budget to ascertain the truth of this statement.
In the end, most people in places and times were and would have been and are against exploration of any sort. It’s hard and often unrewarding, and deadly dangerous.
One of my favorite quotes is from the JFK’s Rice Stadium Moon speech. It is: “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
To many people, trying is just not cool. But hard things are worth doing — sometimes just because they are hard.