I have wrestled this very point and come up with my solution..and that is to change the perspective of happiness from more money is happiness to basically less money is happiness. Yes, you have to have a minimal amount to pay bills and such..but the actual amount of money you really **need** is less than $1000 a month. If you buy a piece of land and pay it off, it comes down to around $600 a month. The keys are to get small, dump debt, and learn to find joy in the world around you, not in the next mass-media toy shoveled in your face.
As you de-leverage your debt and need for money, you opt out of inflated taxes, you lessen your slavery to job markets and you free yourself to find happiness in the real world. Money is one of the few non-aggressive ways that we can be enslaved voluntarily. I have come to understand that money above basic needs is a bad thing. I know its a difficult paradigm to grasp and I should probably put on my flame suit.. but.. I am doing this right now and the freedom is intoxicating.
Agreed. I was thinking more along the lines of non-traditional materials being easier to distribute and use rather than just having each kid line up at the book store for pillaging.
Here are a couple names at the latest who's who meeting.. (Bilderberg 2011)
It was a few months later that G+ was released.
Alexander, Keith B., Commander, USCYBERCOM; Director, National Security Agency
Bezos, Jeff, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com
Hoffman, Reid, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
Hughes, Chris R., Co-founder, Facebook
Mundie, Craig J., Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Schmidt, Eric, Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
Steinberg, James B., Deputy Secretary of State
The wife and I went on a trip a while back.. I bought us both some new luggage.. for her a nifty pink polka dot set and for me a green camo covered set.. I was "randomly" selected and my luggage dumped at every checkpoint.
With the minimization of GUIs and the loss of the main menu in a lot of applications I find that alt-f is a good thing to know.. it usually bring back (temporarily) the regular menu where you can select the thing you want and for bonus points most of the time there is usually a helper text there for the key-combo for that item.
I was about to post the same logical problem.. it would seem the system is self-defeating by nature. I think the only thing you could accurately predict is there would be less crime where you place the cops. As Carlos Mencia would say.. deeetdeedeee...
Well.. I bought this 4-door car (its all they sell) but only the front 2 doors open. I can buy the upgrade package which they will send via OnStar which will unlock the back two doors, but its another $5k. If I change/modify the motor the back doors wont work any more.
We moved from the gulf coast of Texas (thats enuf hurricanes) to the Hill Country (central) trying to do homesteading and..dont laugh..rainwater collection... 2 years ago. We had grand ideas about farming and becoming self sufficient. In two years here we have had maybe 5-6 inches of rain total and been under burn bans for all but a few months because of the drought. Local cities are under stage 4 restrictions and it is so bad that wild deer are dying on the hoof from nothing to eat and all the vegetation being dead.
We still have the grand ideas, but at the beginning of next month we are moving the plan to Missouri..where it actually rains.
Many countries are also abandoning purchases of US debt. China and Russia are systematically reducing their holdings. We can not afford even a small increase in interest, it would in fact be devastating, but that appears where this train is heading.
In the dead of the night, tonight, Sunday, behind closed doors, the 11th hour deal will be struck to raise the debt limit, to maintain the rich tax breaks, and continue deficit spending.
Our politicians both left and right are merely pawns of the bigger global interests of the Federal Reserve and of the ever widening group of "too big to fail' corporations who have bought our government.
I predict tonight (Sunday) after 9pm pacific time when everyone has gone to bed and it is too late to publicize, that Monday morning will show that "they did the best they could".
They will trumpet a "hard" negotiation which will not even pay for the interest that WE paid this year and will pat themselves on the back and go back to their constituents to blame the other side for not budging.
We are on the edge of total financial collapse and are being milked of every dollar they can get before we riot in the streets because of unemployment and inflation.
We should all be ashamed of the beast we have created which serves neither liberal nor conservative but merely serves to transfer wealth to their masters and pass laws which boggle the mind until you realize who they truly benefit.
Instead of sweeping reform, once again, we have received sweeping "the same".
We moved to a rural area with pocket change left in our bank..it was a very tough time for us and we had no internet for quite a few months. To compound the issue, our only income was a web development company we run with only a few clients. Our first month or so we "sniped" access by driving around the motel district of the closest large city. we could always find a few bars of open wireless and did what we had to do to keep the small flame of our business going. We then found that the library in our little rural town had free internet and started going by there to make our connections and fanned the biz flames a little more. from there we tried dial up and looked into cell/3g with poor results and eventually ended up with satellite..which sucks..but not as bad as sneaking around town. Local libraries are the fall back when you dont have it in the house imho.
First.. yes, they have a mega-ton of data but really... theres not *that* much to their nifty little web app..re-writing it from scratch with 100% hind sight would probably be not omfg difficult and second.. its a pretty good time to start a makeover since the wife just got in google+ and they will be loosing people by droves pretty soon..
In most rural Texas cities (where Im from) and many other rural towns these "roundabouts" have been here for 100 years plus. Most often they are found at the city center where city hall, maybe the court house, and a lot of the old mainstreet shops are located. They are called town squares in many places and function in the same way. Yes, they are sometime confusing, but a few trips around the thing and you can usually figure it out.
How do we even GET to the 4th amendment when in order to even place a device on your car someone has to at minimum infringe on your property rights and often trespass to do so. The argument shouldnt be is this a legal search..it should be who the hell are you to put your device on MY property and often in MY driveway.
I guess Im old and jaded.. Ive worked in a few corpratocracies as both coder and manager, among other things.. and from what Ive seen, there is a hall of programmers who eventually get ridden into the ground with a manager that takes all the glory and makes sure to point out the individual errors. The manager climbs the ladder on the backs of the programmers and in the void a programmer moves up to repeat the cycle. Maybe its just my experience, but at 28, this guy has a lot to learn about the real world..and I walked away to do it for myself.
I think the board will find that monetizing a great product in an environment of free mediocre and/or good equivalent products is still a failing business model.
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Im gonna say the punch line is: Disclose Govt Corruption and/or Ineptitude: Mob Law Enforcement.
I dont intend to.. all I do is pass along my observations, try to lead by example and live a happy life.
I have wrestled this very point and come up with my solution..and that is to change the perspective of happiness from more money is happiness to basically less money is happiness. Yes, you have to have a minimal amount to pay bills and such..but the actual amount of money you really **need** is less than $1000 a month. If you buy a piece of land and pay it off, it comes down to around $600 a month. The keys are to get small, dump debt, and learn to find joy in the world around you, not in the next mass-media toy shoveled in your face. As you de-leverage your debt and need for money, you opt out of inflated taxes, you lessen your slavery to job markets and you free yourself to find happiness in the real world. Money is one of the few non-aggressive ways that we can be enslaved voluntarily. I have come to understand that money above basic needs is a bad thing. I know its a difficult paradigm to grasp and I should probably put on my flame suit.. but.. I am doing this right now and the freedom is intoxicating.
Agreed. I was thinking more along the lines of non-traditional materials being easier to distribute and use rather than just having each kid line up at the book store for pillaging.
If all they do is decrease the insane cost of books then its a win.
Evil and OpenDNS Work On Global Internet Speedup.
I think from now on simply replacing the word Google with Evil should be an auto-correct feature.
Here are a couple names at the latest who's who meeting.. (Bilderberg 2011)
It was a few months later that G+ was released.
Alexander, Keith B., Commander, USCYBERCOM; Director, National Security Agency
Bezos, Jeff, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com
Hoffman, Reid, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
Hughes, Chris R., Co-founder, Facebook
Mundie, Craig J., Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Schmidt, Eric, Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
Steinberg, James B., Deputy Secretary of State
The wife and I went on a trip a while back.. I bought us both some new luggage.. for her a nifty pink polka dot set and for me a green camo covered set.. I was "randomly" selected and my luggage dumped at every checkpoint.
With the minimization of GUIs and the loss of the main menu in a lot of applications I find that alt-f is a good thing to know.. it usually bring back (temporarily) the regular menu where you can select the thing you want and for bonus points most of the time there is usually a helper text there for the key-combo for that item.
I was about to post the same logical problem.. it would seem the system is self-defeating by nature. I think the only thing you could accurately predict is there would be less crime where you place the cops. As Carlos Mencia would say.. deeetdeedeee...
Well.. I bought this 4-door car (its all they sell) but only the front 2 doors open. I can buy the upgrade package which they will send via OnStar which will unlock the back two doors, but its another $5k. If I change/modify the motor the back doors wont work any more.
We moved from the gulf coast of Texas (thats enuf hurricanes) to the Hill Country (central) trying to do homesteading and..dont laugh..rainwater collection... 2 years ago. We had grand ideas about farming and becoming self sufficient. In two years here we have had maybe 5-6 inches of rain total and been under burn bans for all but a few months because of the drought. Local cities are under stage 4 restrictions and it is so bad that wild deer are dying on the hoof from nothing to eat and all the vegetation being dead.
We still have the grand ideas, but at the beginning of next month we are moving the plan to Missouri..where it actually rains.
I need a rush on this patent to change things back from portrait to landscape once they have rotated the screen back..also the other way. ..taps toe...
Many countries are also abandoning purchases of US debt. China and Russia are systematically reducing their holdings. We can not afford even a small increase in interest, it would in fact be devastating, but that appears where this train is heading.
In the dead of the night, tonight, Sunday, behind closed doors, the 11th hour deal will be struck to raise the debt limit, to maintain the rich tax breaks, and continue deficit spending.
Our politicians both left and right are merely pawns of the bigger global interests of the Federal Reserve and of the ever widening group of "too big to fail' corporations who have bought our government.
I predict tonight (Sunday) after 9pm pacific time when everyone has gone to bed and it is too late to publicize, that Monday morning will show that "they did the best they could".
They will trumpet a "hard" negotiation which will not even pay for the interest that WE paid this year and will pat themselves on the back and go back to their constituents to blame the other side for not budging.
We are on the edge of total financial collapse and are being milked of every dollar they can get before we riot in the streets because of unemployment and inflation.
We should all be ashamed of the beast we have created which serves neither liberal nor conservative but merely serves to transfer wealth to their masters and pass laws which boggle the mind until you realize who they truly benefit.
Instead of sweeping reform, once again, we have received sweeping "the same".
We moved to a rural area with pocket change left in our bank..it was a very tough time for us and we had no internet for quite a few months. To compound the issue, our only income was a web development company we run with only a few clients. Our first month or so we "sniped" access by driving around the motel district of the closest large city. we could always find a few bars of open wireless and did what we had to do to keep the small flame of our business going. We then found that the library in our little rural town had free internet and started going by there to make our connections and fanned the biz flames a little more. from there we tried dial up and looked into cell/3g with poor results and eventually ended up with satellite..which sucks..but not as bad as sneaking around town. Local libraries are the fall back when you dont have it in the house imho.
This smells particularly familiar..
First.. yes, they have a mega-ton of data but really... theres not *that* much to their nifty little web app..re-writing it from scratch with 100% hind sight would probably be not omfg difficult and second.. its a pretty good time to start a makeover since the wife just got in google+ and they will be loosing people by droves pretty soon..
In most rural Texas cities (where Im from) and many other rural towns these "roundabouts" have been here for 100 years plus. Most often they are found at the city center where city hall, maybe the court house, and a lot of the old mainstreet shops are located. They are called town squares in many places and function in the same way. Yes, they are sometime confusing, but a few trips around the thing and you can usually figure it out.
Now to go thru the hell of domain transfers with private domain name servers. faaaaakkkkkkk Ive got over 20 of them.
This is the scary part. I unfortunately agree my friend.
How do we even GET to the 4th amendment when in order to even place a device on your car someone has to at minimum infringe on your property rights and often trespass to do so. The argument shouldnt be is this a legal search..it should be who the hell are you to put your device on MY property and often in MY driveway.
I guess Im old and jaded.. Ive worked in a few corpratocracies as both coder and manager, among other things.. and from what Ive seen, there is a hall of programmers who eventually get ridden into the ground with a manager that takes all the glory and makes sure to point out the individual errors. The manager climbs the ladder on the backs of the programmers and in the void a programmer moves up to repeat the cycle. Maybe its just my experience, but at 28, this guy has a lot to learn about the real world..and I walked away to do it for myself.
Seems like a step backwards in the food chain... Most coders would love to get to any manager status.
I think the board will find that monetizing a great product in an environment of free mediocre and/or good equivalent products is still a failing business model.