I know you are going to say something next about GWOT and permanent warfare... but I think The American Civil War probably qualifies as a real war by most people's definition.
I've been quietly prompting my workplace to start thinking about replacing the XP fleet with linux mint. As our software becomes increasingly web-based, really we could run anything. Very little would have to be replicated in gtk or something like that... or nothing at all.
But somehow, something seems to steer us back to windows lockin. Some must-use active X control, some financial institution's / government entity's / b2b middleman's IE only requirement... it's always something.
The deck is stacked for windows because of the 3rd party stuff. If all those people used some open or common standard, there would be NO reason NOT to ditch windows.
For fucks sake, we can't swing a dead cat without hitting two more companies who have decided to reinvent PDF in an even shittier form... just because, you know... they didn't want to use PDF. And of course the "plugin" is usually an IE-only thing.
The democrats look out for the little guy like the chicken farmer looks out for the chicken. He just keeps throwing out the feed so the suckers come running when it's axe time.
Pfft. Really. I mean, sure they are pushing the technological and engineering boundaries of aviation, photovoltaics, and batteries but come on! Where in the heck are you going to put THAT many sammiches to feed the pilot for that long!
I was talking to the guy who doesn't want his oil money going to certain countries.
Using your logic then, it doesn't matter if he doesn't buy ANY oil because those certain countries will still be selling oil to someone.
Which is true.
It doesn't matter if the US or Europe goes oil-free tomorrow. That oil will still be burned by someone else. Because it is a commodity. In fact, a massive drop in demand will likely lead to lower prices and increase demand elsewhere.
So, thanks to the inevitable "prices as a commodity" statement (the Godwin of the fossil fuel argument world), it doesn't really matter how clean the US tries to be. Saudis will still be driving Audis and the world will still get polluted.
They were the Enlightenment ideas. Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke, Thomas Jefferson. The United States of America was the first nation in history to be founded on ideas. Every other country that ever existed was based on ethnicity. Even today we see people trying to break away to form ethnic homelands.
What Idea? The idea that the people allow a government, rather than the government allowing the people. The idea that a government was a social contract among free people in a state of nature. Personal sovereignty. Enumerated powers assigned to the government to secure life, liberty, and property.
Every other form of governance starts with some all-powerful people bequeathing to the subjects their privileges. Fucking Guevara wasn't a "revolutionary". There's nothing revolutionary about a government telling you what you can have, what you can do with what you have, or what you can get. It pretty much sums up most of the world's lives before the enlightenment.
The melting pot idea was introduced by people who had something to gain. It is perpetuated today by people who have something to gain. Companies who want cheap labor and politicians looking for a dependent population come to mind. Of course schools teach hooray-for-the-melting-pot. You are talking about the democrat party and unions. They teach constitution-as-a-living-document for the same reason: the document that constitutes what the government is can be molded to advance their leftist proclivities.
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"... in time of peace ..."
I know you are going to say something next about GWOT and permanent warfare... but I think The American Civil War probably qualifies as a real war by most people's definition.
I'd call it a human tendancy. But thanks just the same. (:
I had a counter-argument???
That's because you are racist.
A nutjob with a knife in a Japanese school, it turns out, is hard to stop.
Especially in a gun-free society.
When guns are outlawed, only democrats will have guns.
I've been quietly prompting my workplace to start thinking about replacing the XP fleet with linux mint. As our software becomes increasingly web-based, really we could run anything. Very little would have to be replicated in gtk or something like that... or nothing at all.
But somehow, something seems to steer us back to windows lockin. Some must-use active X control, some financial institution's / government entity's / b2b middleman's IE only requirement... it's always something.
The deck is stacked for windows because of the 3rd party stuff. If all those people used some open or common standard, there would be NO reason NOT to ditch windows.
For fucks sake, we can't swing a dead cat without hitting two more companies who have decided to reinvent PDF in an even shittier form... just because, you know... they didn't want to use PDF. And of course the "plugin" is usually an IE-only thing.
The democrats look out for the little guy like the chicken farmer looks out for the chicken.
He just keeps throwing out the feed so the suckers come running when it's axe time.
potty breaks.
Pfft. Really.
I mean, sure they are pushing the technological and engineering boundaries of aviation, photovoltaics, and batteries but come on!
Where in the heck are you going to put THAT many sammiches to feed the pilot for that long!
I heard the NSA shot it down.
...or just see who has voiced an un-popular opinion.
seems like some enterprising person or (party-backed business) could make some lemonade.
It shows that our return (math and science competency) on our investment (the highest doller-per-kid expenditure of the sample group) is pretty bad.
It's not that we don't throw enough money at the problem, it's that the system is inneficient.
Labor Unions are the kings (or mob bosses as it were) of inneficiency.
I was joking.
Not about the pictures though!
Yes. We can't have a single discussion without someone mentioning the NSA.
I almost miss the days of "ipad" name dropping.
Hey! Unions are what made the US education system so effective!
http://usc-mat.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/us-schools-vs-international3.jpg
I was just sending the USPS a photo of my penis pump. While it is in use!
I have nothing to hide! Do you?
Rotate ("pivot") a 16:9 and you get something that is to narrow to be useful.
Pivotable monitors in 16:9 at around 23 inches is like working in a mine shaft.
The "wide screen", when sideways is too narrow for document production work. But when horrizontal, too short for document production work.
4:3 above 19" is expensive and illusive.
This widescreen bullshit has really skewed everything away from usefulness.
I was talking to the guy who doesn't want his oil money going to certain countries.
Using your logic then, it doesn't matter if he doesn't buy ANY oil because those certain countries will still be selling oil to someone.
Which is true.
It doesn't matter if the US or Europe goes oil-free tomorrow. That oil will still be burned by someone else. Because it is a commodity.
In fact, a massive drop in demand will likely lead to lower prices and increase demand elsewhere.
So, thanks to the inevitable "prices as a commodity" statement (the Godwin of the fossil fuel argument world), it doesn't really matter how clean the US tries to be. Saudis will still be driving Audis and the world will still get polluted.
Ok, sorry. Not majority. Plurality.
Canada is the single largest importer of oil to the US.
Most of the US oil imports come from Canada.
They were the Enlightenment ideas. Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke, Thomas Jefferson.
The United States of America was the first nation in history to be founded on ideas.
Every other country that ever existed was based on ethnicity. Even today we see people trying to break away to form ethnic homelands.
What Idea? The idea that the people allow a government, rather than the government allowing the people. The idea that a government was a social contract among free people in a state of nature. Personal sovereignty. Enumerated powers assigned to the government to secure life, liberty, and property.
Every other form of governance starts with some all-powerful people bequeathing to the subjects their privileges. Fucking Guevara wasn't a "revolutionary". There's nothing revolutionary about a government telling you what you can have, what you can do with what you have, or what you can get. It pretty much sums up most of the world's lives before the enlightenment.
The melting pot idea was introduced by people who had something to gain. It is perpetuated today by people who have something to gain. Companies who want cheap labor and politicians looking for a dependent population come to mind. Of course schools teach hooray-for-the-melting-pot. You are talking about the democrat party and unions. They teach constitution-as-a-living-document for the same reason: the document that constitutes what the government is can be molded to advance their leftist proclivities.
you really think you can ride the razors edge of kinda-freedom / kinda-safety for ever?