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Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels?
An anonymous reader writes "Switching from 1600x1200 to wide 1680x1050 to HD 1600x900, we are losing more and more vertical space, thus it is becoming less and less simple to read a full A4 page or a web page or a function call. What's the solution for retaining the screen height we need to be productive?"
Probably all of them. Were you thinking it should only apply to specific ones?
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
Land ownership is a right, but you are not entitled to have someone give you land.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
(I swear I'm not baiting at you with these questions, but just expanding on what I think is a popular and weird conception about rights.)
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
No, but if you have some land, are you entitled to have someone pay a cop to keep people from trespassing on it?
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
No problem. I understand that one of the formal definition of an entitlement is something that is provided by law. However, when used as a "sense of entitlement" is where I have a problem with it.
We have rights as humans to do things. Laws protect those rights, but some read those laws as grants to provide those rights... I thought of the sig when all the health care debate was rampant. I'm not a fan of the whole debate on the use of rights being an excuse to pass such laws. I personally think there are other solutions, but I don't want to debate that here. ( I can already feel the mad mod ready to hit troll. )
I apply that concept to all rights. I do not run around and shout: "I have a right to bear arms, buy me one."
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Personal belief? No. I am not entitled to that protection. I can however pay my taxes and receive it.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Land ownership is a bogus concept for the individual, at least. Don't believe me? Try not paying your taxes and see how long you keep 'your' land. The government owns it.
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse. -- L. Long
That's a very good example and clarification of your sig, and considering its length, I'd suggest that you make it your new sig.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
That's a whole other debate I'd rather not get into, but... There are some things we live with to maintain a civil society and I'd hate if someone could rob a bank and go out and buy vast chunks of land that could not be repossessed to pay their debt.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Your inability to follow a simple thread amazes me.
I see you're on your 20th account or so. Trolling not working out for ya, huh?
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
follow a simple thread?
Yes, like realizing I'm not the guy who's "complaining that you bought a monitor that broke your interface and then crying foul"
That's the other guy. Trolls are sad, but trolls who can't even troll the right person are pathetic. You'd think you'd have picked up some helpful techniques by this point.
i have well over 20 accounts. you simply can't count.
My bad. I obviously underestimated your propensity for failure, I guess.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
But the government was never entitled to claim the land to distribute to the people either.
There was a day, not all that long ago, where you could go to an unclaimed area, and say "this is mine, thanks." It is our right as humans to be able to live and thrive. In the United States, there isn't an inch of unclaimed land in the contiguous 48 states. We had a right to go somewhere and live.
If you are in the US, where ever you are, you are on someone's property. In turn, if that someone doesn't pay their taxes to the government, the government will put their own claim on the land and anything which may remain on it. So, regardless if you're in a private home, driving on the street, or sitting in a lake in the middle of nowhere, you are on US Government property. You do not have the right to be there, you pay for the privilege of renting that land temporarily. Huh?
Your property taxes are rent for your home.
Your vehicle taxes and registration fees are rent for the right to put your vehicle on the government's roads, or even on your own property (yes, vehicles without valid registrations on your property can result in a fine).
Your taxes say that you may have purchased limited rights to be in various places. Don't be too hopeful on those being anything resembling the rights you think you have.
Here's a little exercise for you. It's a lot harder than it sounds. I've known several people who have tried it with limited success. With the economic downturn, many found themselves without the ability to pay their rent, mortgages, or taxes. If they were only renting an apartment or home, they were removed rather quickly. If they had a mortgage, this took longer, but the end result was the same. For those who couldn't find residences with friends or family, they turned to the only possession that they may have still had, their vehicle.
Living in a passenger vehicle is possible. I've only done it for days at a time on road trips. Where can you put that vehicle? Parking lots are private property, and it's likely you will be removed. Empty driveways of abandon homes are private property, and you will be removed. Even stopping on the side of the road or on "public" government land, will find you being removed. Hopefully in that "removed", it doesn't involve arrested and impounding of your vehicle. You may find very quickly that ownership of that is actually just rent also, as more than 90 days in jail can find your vehicle being seized by the state and auctioned off, and you won't receive anything from that.
Exactly what rights do you think you have? You don't have the right of land ownership, forging for food, or even free travel. You have the right to pay for the privilege of having any rights.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Not the mad mod of which you speak, but I'm not sure I understand: are you saying people don't have a right to have access to adequate and effective health care regardless of income or employment level?
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My bad. I obviously underestimated your propensity for failure, I guess.
LAMO! *giant grins*
You mean, there's a paper somewhere that makes such claims, and therefore, society sometimes, with various levels of enthusiasm, supports those ideas.
The fact is, you have no innate rights at all. These things are just social constructs; ephemeral, arbitrary, and often silly. Counting on them can bring very nasty surprises, especially in the USA.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
That's exactly what I was saying. Well, without the obvious and direct threat of government action against you.
An individual rarely gets the attention of the federal government when trying to enforce their rights on a piece of land, unless it's in a cartoon (ref: Family Guy s02e18 "E. Peterbus Unum"). What's more likely is that the local police will come in and arrest you. Failure to do that may get the next level up (local SWAT, county, or state police), who won't have any problems reminding you who owns it.
Well, that is unless you happen to start a cult in a place called Wacko. Then you're fair game to everything but a nuclear strike.
(Why would anyone think starting a cult in a town called Wacko, in Texas, was a good idea?. I still don't get it.)
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Rights are things that you are free to do without interference.
Entitlements are things which must be provided to you by someone else.
All "rights" have limits, none are absolute.
Remember, You are unique...just like everyone else.
Adequate and effective health care based on what standards? In short, no.
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I lived in a small hatch back for over a year. If your vehicle it is mobile, Walmart parking lots typically allow for over night parking, this is why you see so many campers parked in them. I was in Texas at the time and it is completely legal to park and sleep on the side of any interstate or Texas highway in Texas. In my case, I slept in the parking lot of Tarrant County Community College's south campus for half of the time. The first night I was there I flagged down a security officer and explained the situation. They routinely checked up on me but never after 9pm or before 6am
In regard to "rights" I refer the reader to a quote from RAH:
"Ah, yes, the 'unalienable rights.' Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What 'right' to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken to his cries. What 'right' to life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so as a matter of 'right'? If two men are starving and cannibalism is the only alternative to death, which man's right is 'unalienable'? And is it 'right'?
As to liberty, the heroes who signed that great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is always unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it is always vanquished. Of all the so-called 'natural human rights' that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
Of course, the Marxian definition of value is ridiculous. All the work one cares to add willl not turn a mud pie into an apple tart; it remains a mud pie, value zero. By corollary, unskillful work can easily subtract value; an untalented cook can turn wholesome dough and fresh green apples, valuable already, into an inedible mess, value zero. Conversely, a great chef can fashion of those same materials a confection of greater value than a commonplace apple tart, with no more effort than an ordinary cook uses to prepare an ordinary sweet. These kitchen illustrations demolish the Marxian theory of value - the fallacy from which the entire magnificent fraud of communism derives - and to illustrate the truth of the common-sense defintion as measured in terms of use.
I told you that juvenile delinquent is a contradiction in terms. Delinquent means failing in duty. But duty is an adult virtue - indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be, a juvenile delinquent.
- Colonel Dubois"
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There was a day, not all that long ago, where you could go to an unclaimed area, and say "this is mine, thanks."
Where 'unclaimed' often meant 'inhabited by people who were perfectly happy being there, thanks, and would rather you went politely back where you came from, but since you had firearms and they didn't, they ended up bleeding in a ghetto and stitching together explosive suicide vests in order to make a philosophical point about the transgressive intersubjectivity of the multutude versus the hegemonic oppression of the proletariat'.
You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC