Holy shit, the first time I saw this was, like, 20 years ago.
Talk about a blast from the past.
Holy shit, the first time I saw this was, like, 20 years ago.
Talk about a blast from the past.
Infinite growth in a finite system.
Plus, they need plenty of low-wage, grindingly poor, economically desperate workers to maximize their own obscene profits. Which is why so many of them have gone all alt-right, because that’s who is taking away reproductive rights in a desperate attempt to goose birth rates.
there are about 3 billion too many of us.
Even with modern agriculture at scale, the minimal-negative-impact, full-carrying-capacity population for a 100% vegan population would be 2B. With vegetarianism, 1,5B. With typical omnivory, on-par with American diets, 700M.
We are so f**king far past overshoot that it’s not even funny. And the strain on the ecology is absolutely obvious for those with the eyes to see.
For such an invasive piece of code (it seems to drop into my system with every major Windows Update), this would be a hilarious message to see.
“This is my life-bill” - sounds exactly like a literal translation out of Mandarin…
I have an apostrophe
Scottish/Irish?
some companies see it as a SQL injection hack and sanitize it.
Which kind of apostrophe?
A straight apostrophe, fine - that can and does get used in valid SQL injection attacks. I would be disgusted at any input form that didn’t sanitize that.
But a curly apostrophe? Nothing should be filtering a curly apostrophe, as it has no function or use within SQL. So if you learn how to bring that up in alt codes (Windows, specifically), Key combos (Mac) or dead keys (Linux), as well as direct Unicode codes for most any Win/Mac/*Nix platform, you should be golden.
Unless the developer of that input form was a complete moron and made extra-tight validation.
Plus, knowing the inputs for a lot of extended UTF-8 characters not found on a normal keyboard is also a wee bit of a typing superpower.
Not seeing the problem, here.
…And? We need a little chlorine in our gene pool. If the dumbest and most ignorant segment of America wants to kill themselves, it’s an adult making an adult’s decision. It can only improve society if they do.
My only objection kicks in when kids end up in the cross hairs of that stupidity and ignorance.