I wish I could find the document I printed out. It was a year ago when I was researching this, a declaration to run for partisan office for the state of Nevada not as a member of a major party ended up being just over $1,800. I feel like a bit of a tool for not being able to find the PDF and/or relocating the data online. It could have been the peyote as well.
The problem is that the average senatorial campaign costs around 7 million USD (I can dig up the citation if needed). Most people are living paycheck to paycheck, I consider myself luckier than most and I couldn't even drop the $1800 needed to start the paperwork. At some point somebody will try to crowdsource an election, that's about the only hope I have.
Hell, my next vacation is going to be in Cuba... because it's affordable, and incredibly safe, the people are friendly and the weather is awesome.
Added bonus #1. It pisses off Americans because they can't go there.
Added bonus #2. No Americans.
Excuse me while I call my travel agent.
As an American who has been to Cuba I can tell you that bonus #1 isn't necessarily true. As for bonus #2, the United States hardly has a monopoly on obnoxious tourists. Last time I was in Cairo a series of Greek tourists were being kicked out for using the museum as their personal climbing wall, and outside a group of Japanese tourists asked to take my picture confusing me (and my olive complexion) as an Egyptian.
I was quite surprised how capable the Nook Color is. I wasn't expecting much, but I picked one up for my mom for her birthday and tabletified it. It certainly isn't an iPad and nobody would mistake it for one. But, for casual web browsing and Netflix it more than does the job.
I'm reasonably sure that within a few weeks there will be a version of Cyanogen that will run on it just fine. For the technically savvy it will be a cinch to install and get a vanilla Android device. Whether or not it's against the TOS is another question, but personally, I've never cared about those anyway.
And...in all fairness, most people that I know that are on unemployment can scratch and save for a few months to be able to afford one. If they can afford iPhones and cable television an extra $200 isn't much.
Time is all that's needed. My grandmother called my mom her "little anchor baby" (in Spanish of course). My mother speaks decent English despite the fact that her mom only wanted to teach her Spanish. There wasn't a way around learning English when you're surrounded by it daily. The long and short of it is this: I'm a second generation American, speak abysmal Spanish, and despite my olive skin am as much of a Star Wars loving George Lucas hatin' gringo as the rest of you. Just give it a few generations and we'll be complaining about those damned Englishmen who take all of the jobs and refuse to learn English.
Some would call it slavery, others would call it an economic based caste system. As education and social mobility become more expensive you start to see poverty become a generational tradition. But hey, you have your pool and your wave runners, it's okay to fuck the poor for that. Logic like yours is what is so disturbing about unchecked Capitalism. Always remember, money begets money.
Every major city will have its issues. I lived in Reno for a year before moving to Carson City. Compared to my last home in Texas, the property rates here seemed high. My Los Angeles area relatives were shocked that I could buy a 3/2 house 1500 sqft for 74K. They also thought it a waste since it's just me and my girlfriend. At any rate, I've noticed more and more companies moving here from California. If I ever decided to give up my cushy government job, I'd have my pick of the companies coming here. So I applaud California, keep driving business out, I guarantee somebody else will want it.
Linux upgrade: A few clicks in the Update Manager (or "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade") and wait.
Oh god no.... last time I did that was a nightmare in Ubuntu, upgrading from 10.10 to 11.03. Nothing would work right so eventually I gave up and am still on 10.10. Hell the last time I let Ubuntu download updates it broke my video card driver so I could only boot in low graphics mode, and my wireless card won't connect to any networks after returning from sleep, so I have to restart.
You should have waited for 11.04, much more stable.
Amen to that. I'm Hispanic and used to do a fair amount of archaeological work in the Middle East. I was perfectly alright with the enhanced screening wherever I went, especially coming back into the country from Egypt or Israel. The simple fact of the matter is that after 9/11 the rules of the game changed. Before if your plane got hijacked you sat still, waited for your government to negotiate your release and wrote a nice book about your experience. Now that cockpit doors are locked and travelers know that they had better damned well resist I doubt we'll ever see another event like 9/11. The risk reward for terrorists just isn't high enough, blowing up a plane will kill a few hundred people and maybe a few on the ground. Setting off a high-yield explosive at a sporting event will kill more people and strike fear into the population in a way that a random plane blowing up would not.
This is why I don't fly anymore. Molest me, fine, it'll piss me off and I'll want to talk to a manager. Molest my kid, and I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you.
There may not be a codified class structure, but if you're making the assertion that the United States is a lovely fairly-land filled with elves and unicorns that live without any class whatsoever then you are woefully incorrect. There is a massive differential in income between the haves and the have-nots with the bottom 50% controlling 2% of the wealth. We may not have the same rigid caste rules that India used to (for example only) but class mobility is becoming more and more difficult and wealth is becoming more of a legacy passed from generation to generation (new technology notwithstanding).
You are exactly right. I started with T-Mobile when I was in grad school in Texas and it was at least on par with the other providers. Now that I live in Northern Nevada I notice a large number of blank spots where I don't get reception or where my data flips continually from "4G" to Edge. That being said, I will stick with them until they are finally swallowed for two reasons, first they have the best customer service of any of the big four, and second, they give me a price break for owning my own phone. I fear the days of both of those benefits are numbered...
I'm running Cyanogen on my G2 and have a pair of DD-WRT modded routers at home. I can honestly say that the routers were the more difficult to get working (10 minutes as opposed to the 5 it took on my phone). And you are absolutely right, one of the routers actually advertised compatibility with OpenWRT and DD-WRT. Even my non-techie friends have been asking me about Cyanogen lately, advertising compatibility with mods could be a boon to sales.
What more evidence than an IP address is possible, given the architecture of the Internet at this point?
Serious? If you don't know the answer to that question then you have absolutely zero business posting on a tech site like this one. Just another pro-jackboot shill willing to sell civil liberties for the illusion of security.
Makes me kinda wish I had gone with MakerBot rather than my Prusa Mendel (expecting the last bit of parts in early next week). For me, price was the selling point but an investment like this could easily push MakerBot in front in terms of the community.
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I thought it was funny, don't listen to the iFans.
I wish I could find the document I printed out. It was a year ago when I was researching this, a declaration to run for partisan office for the state of Nevada not as a member of a major party ended up being just over $1,800. I feel like a bit of a tool for not being able to find the PDF and/or relocating the data online. It could have been the peyote as well.
The problem is that the average senatorial campaign costs around 7 million USD (I can dig up the citation if needed). Most people are living paycheck to paycheck, I consider myself luckier than most and I couldn't even drop the $1800 needed to start the paperwork. At some point somebody will try to crowdsource an election, that's about the only hope I have.
Added bonus #1. It pisses off Americans because they can't go there. Added bonus #2. No Americans. Excuse me while I call my travel agent.
As an American who has been to Cuba I can tell you that bonus #1 isn't necessarily true. As for bonus #2, the United States hardly has a monopoly on obnoxious tourists. Last time I was in Cairo a series of Greek tourists were being kicked out for using the museum as their personal climbing wall, and outside a group of Japanese tourists asked to take my picture confusing me (and my olive complexion) as an Egyptian.
Oooh, ooh! I'll take the latter for $1000, Alex!
I was quite surprised how capable the Nook Color is. I wasn't expecting much, but I picked one up for my mom for her birthday and tabletified it. It certainly isn't an iPad and nobody would mistake it for one. But, for casual web browsing and Netflix it more than does the job.
I'm reasonably sure that within a few weeks there will be a version of Cyanogen that will run on it just fine. For the technically savvy it will be a cinch to install and get a vanilla Android device. Whether or not it's against the TOS is another question, but personally, I've never cared about those anyway.
And...in all fairness, most people that I know that are on unemployment can scratch and save for a few months to be able to afford one. If they can afford iPhones and cable television an extra $200 isn't much.
(CEOs could totally be replaced by machines. Oh yes.)
I was under the impression that most CEOs were already poorly programmed machines. And you can't tell me that Steve Jobs isn't at least part robot.
Time is all that's needed. My grandmother called my mom her "little anchor baby" (in Spanish of course). My mother speaks decent English despite the fact that her mom only wanted to teach her Spanish. There wasn't a way around learning English when you're surrounded by it daily. The long and short of it is this: I'm a second generation American, speak abysmal Spanish, and despite my olive skin am as much of a Star Wars loving George Lucas hatin' gringo as the rest of you. Just give it a few generations and we'll be complaining about those damned Englishmen who take all of the jobs and refuse to learn English.
Some would call it slavery, others would call it an economic based caste system. As education and social mobility become more expensive you start to see poverty become a generational tradition. But hey, you have your pool and your wave runners, it's okay to fuck the poor for that. Logic like yours is what is so disturbing about unchecked Capitalism. Always remember, money begets money.
And yet those 50% that pay nothing in taxes control 2% of the wealth. Fair huh?
Every major city will have its issues. I lived in Reno for a year before moving to Carson City. Compared to my last home in Texas, the property rates here seemed high. My Los Angeles area relatives were shocked that I could buy a 3/2 house 1500 sqft for 74K. They also thought it a waste since it's just me and my girlfriend. At any rate, I've noticed more and more companies moving here from California. If I ever decided to give up my cushy government job, I'd have my pick of the companies coming here. So I applaud California, keep driving business out, I guarantee somebody else will want it.
Watson hitting a seg fault?
I can't believe this entire line was precipitated by a fairly innocuous comment.
If society followed that logic we'd still all be speaking Proto Indo European. Languages change, accept it.
Linux upgrade: A few clicks in the Update Manager (or "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade") and wait.
Oh god no.... last time I did that was a nightmare in Ubuntu, upgrading from 10.10 to 11.03. Nothing would work right so eventually I gave up and am still on 10.10. Hell the last time I let Ubuntu download updates it broke my video card driver so I could only boot in low graphics mode, and my wireless card won't connect to any networks after returning from sleep, so I have to restart.
You should have waited for 11.04, much more stable.
Amen to that. I'm Hispanic and used to do a fair amount of archaeological work in the Middle East. I was perfectly alright with the enhanced screening wherever I went, especially coming back into the country from Egypt or Israel. The simple fact of the matter is that after 9/11 the rules of the game changed. Before if your plane got hijacked you sat still, waited for your government to negotiate your release and wrote a nice book about your experience. Now that cockpit doors are locked and travelers know that they had better damned well resist I doubt we'll ever see another event like 9/11. The risk reward for terrorists just isn't high enough, blowing up a plane will kill a few hundred people and maybe a few on the ground. Setting off a high-yield explosive at a sporting event will kill more people and strike fear into the population in a way that a random plane blowing up would not.
This is why I don't fly anymore. Molest me, fine, it'll piss me off and I'll want to talk to a manager. Molest my kid, and I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you.
Agree wholeheartedly, but epic win for the quote!
There is no class structure in America
There may not be a codified class structure, but if you're making the assertion that the United States is a lovely fairly-land filled with elves and unicorns that live without any class whatsoever then you are woefully incorrect. There is a massive differential in income between the haves and the have-nots with the bottom 50% controlling 2% of the wealth. We may not have the same rigid caste rules that India used to (for example only) but class mobility is becoming more and more difficult and wealth is becoming more of a legacy passed from generation to generation (new technology notwithstanding).
Minister of Finance: Here is the Treasury Department's report, sir. I hope you'll find it clear.
Rufus T. Firefly: Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child could understand this report.
Rufus T. Firefly: Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.
You are exactly right. I started with T-Mobile when I was in grad school in Texas and it was at least on par with the other providers. Now that I live in Northern Nevada I notice a large number of blank spots where I don't get reception or where my data flips continually from "4G" to Edge. That being said, I will stick with them until they are finally swallowed for two reasons, first they have the best customer service of any of the big four, and second, they give me a price break for owning my own phone. I fear the days of both of those benefits are numbered...
I'm running Cyanogen on my G2 and have a pair of DD-WRT modded routers at home. I can honestly say that the routers were the more difficult to get working (10 minutes as opposed to the 5 it took on my phone). And you are absolutely right, one of the routers actually advertised compatibility with OpenWRT and DD-WRT. Even my non-techie friends have been asking me about Cyanogen lately, advertising compatibility with mods could be a boon to sales.
What more evidence than an IP address is possible, given the architecture of the Internet at this point?
Serious? If you don't know the answer to that question then you have absolutely zero business posting on a tech site like this one. Just another pro-jackboot shill willing to sell civil liberties for the illusion of security.
Makes me kinda wish I had gone with MakerBot rather than my Prusa Mendel (expecting the last bit of parts in early next week). For me, price was the selling point but an investment like this could easily push MakerBot in front in terms of the community.