Your marriage will work, so long as both of you remember this one, simple fact:
Your spouse's happiness is more important than your own.
If you both work hard to make the other happy, then both of you will have a wonderful marriage. Seriously--it is that simple. It doesn't matter if you are a jock, or not; or if she is a submissive cheerleader, or not. What matters is that you are happy. Period.
Good luck in the future with your marriage!
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GEORDI, not "Jordi".
You may leave now, and turn in your geek card at the door.
It was at the forefront of video editing technology for many years. I used it in school in the mid-late nineties because it was still the best option around for small-scale stuff.
XHTML has the additional advantage that it is text, and even if 50 years from now, nobody remembers how to render XHTML, they can get the content by reading the file in a text editor.
Also, don't forget that ODF is really little more than XML files zipped together in a single container. Try unzipping an ODF or ODS file—you will find several XML files for formatting, content, etc in there. Personally, I would prefer XHTML or XML files to PDF, simply because I can use vi to read them, if I had to.
I use eeebuntu as well on my EEE 1000. I'm normally not a big *buntu fan, but this has exceeded all of my expectations. It took a little bit of fiddling to get my hotkeys to work, but that would be true of any laptop on any distro.
Works a darnsight better than that crap Xandros bastardization they OEM'ed it with!
The reason they probably didn't go with Red Flag Linux is that it has various kernel and software patches to make it play nicer with Asian characters. Since the Russian language uses the Cyrillic alphabet, Asian characters probably weren't top on their priority list.
that beats azian cars! Problem is: they do not exist...
Shouldn't that be Japanese cars? Honda, Toyota, Lexus, Mazda, Mitsubishi are all Japanese. And German cars come pretty close. BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Mercedes all make petty reliable cars.
You forgot Isuzu.
Asian (Non-Japanese) cars, like Kia, Fuqi, Hyundai, Nanjing, Deely, and DengFeng are, for the most part, fairly unreliable.
I stand corrected...I was under the impression that VoteSmart only listed candidates that had been approved for all 50 states (hence why the various Socialist party candidates were not listed). My apologies for any confusion!
Actually, there are four "Ross Perot" (read: 3rd party) candidates in this election:
Bob Barr / Wayne Root: Libertarian Party Charles Baldwin / Darrell Castle: / Alaskan Independance Party, Reform Party Cynthia McKinney / Rosa Clemente: Independent, Green Party Ralph Nader / Matt Gonzalez: No Party Affiliation
That's all fine and good for personal use, but very few businesses can be 100% *nix. Anti-virus software exists for Linux and Mac because they are often networked with Windows machines.
Anything networked to a Windows machine can send a virus to that machine, regardless of the operating system.
You are absolutely right. However, I was not trying to solve anything. I just wanted to make sure that all the blame that is flying around hits the correct people, that's all.
Unfortunately, by doing so I have fallen in the trap that the American media and many politicians (on both sides of the aisle) have fallen into--assigning blame instead of finding/debating solutions. I would apologize for that, but I am a programmer, not an economist. If someone gives me an example of a solution, I would only agree or disagree based on my gut reaction, no education.
OK, at the risk of sounding reasonable (and losing karma) I think we need to put the blame where blame is due.
As a conservative, I generally vote Republican. However, I am mature enough to recognize that many of the elected officials in the Republican party have directly or indirectly caused the current economic situation. I am also knowledgeable enough to recognize that the elected officials in the Democratic party are equally to blame.
The blame lies with Republicans, Democrats, the Legislative branch, and the Executive branch. (I don't have enough information to blame the Judicial branch for anything.) ALL are equally guilty, and BOTH parties make equally valid statements about the other's responsibility.
Yes, Clinton's fiscal decisions (Glass-Steagall act repealed, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, others) had their hand in creating this downturn. Yes, Republican legislation (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) and partisanship also had their hand in creating this downturn.
Skip the partisanship. Give the blame where it is due--not with the party that differs with your own viewpoint (whichever party that may be), but the elected officials sitting in the Senate, the House, and Pennsylvania Avenue.
My parents had a similar answer, "Save your money."
They didn't care what I purchased (so long as it was safe, legal, etc) as long as I saved my own money to get it. Really taught me fiscal responsibility at a pretty early age.
Are you proposing that we should be at war against Iran right now instead? Just what is it that Iran is doing that you think they wouldn't be doing if we weren't in Iraq?
I suppose you think we'd be loved and respected by the rest of the world, if ONLY we hadn't invaded Iraq! Iran would be our friend. Europeans-on-the-street would be saying they wish they could be just like us.
Think again. We're unpopular, we're often complained about, BECAUSE WE ARE PREEMINENT. No other reason is necessary.
And the spread of nuclear tech is hardly a Bush legacy- when I read heavily on the subject (up to the point got my BA in PoliSci in 1995) it was all but universally seen as inevitable. The debate was over how to handle it.
Bush is not my favorite guy. I didn't vote for him either time(although I certainly didn't vote for that ridiculous parody of a political candidate John Kerry- sat that one out). But you're giving aid and comfort to Bush and his set by demonizing him- just like the GOP gave aid and comfort to Clinton with their rabid hyperbole in the 90's.
Thank you. If I had mod points, this would be +1 Insightful.
However, since it is not rabidly criticizing Bush/Republicans/the United States, my little +1 wouldn't have made much difference in all of the -1's you would have gotten.
Government has no business legislating what is moral. It's everyone's job as individuals to do what they can to keep their kids away from unwanted content.
The government has no business legislating what is moral? What about theft? Murder? Rape? Child abuse? These are all considered immoral acts by the vast majority--Christian, Jewish, Muslim, atheist, agnostic, pastafarian, whatever. Criminal Law is State-sponsored morality.
Even so-called "secular nations," like the former Soviet Union, had its own form of morality-based law: if it is against the State, or against the Party, or against the General Secretary, etc, it is illegal. Morality is not the sole domain of the religious.
What you are describing is Anarchism, the belief that self-rule is the best method of controlling a nation. If that is your belief, that's fine--just so you understand that the current American government (as well as the governments of the rest of the world, to the best of my knowledge) use some form of morality to base their legal code.
Not necessarily. Both Eugenics and Transhumanism are by definition artificial--both refer to society's desire to use genetics (Eugenics) or science/technology (Transhumanism) to achieve the same goal; i.e. the improvement of our species.
Evolution could certainly be God's will--but if we do it ourselves we end up playing God. He tends to have a problem with that.
Actually, that is just the English translation of the original Hebrew. In Genesis, when it says that God did such-and-such on this day, the Hebrew is yom. Yom has many English translations, only one of which is day-24 hours. It can also mean day-length of time, as in "In the day of my father".
Actually, the concept of "Separation of Church and State" is nowhere in the Constitution. Many people try to use the first amendment to prove this, but in reality, it says nothing of the sort.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Note it says that the state (Congress) cannot respect or prohibit any religion. All that means is that an official state religion is unconstitutional. The separation of church and state bit comes from a speech that Thomas Jefferson wrote concerning his fears that the new United States (at the time, still under the Articles of Confederation) would become an Anglican country. If you know your history, you would know that Jefferson considered himself a Christian.
As a Christian, what I don't understand is why God couldn't have used evolution as a tool for creation--Creation and Evolution needn't be mutually exclusive. If science says that evolution is accurate, then so be it. Nowhere in the Bible does it say how God created man, just that he did from the "dust of the earth." Personally, I consider myself a "Creational Evolutionist." It is the best of both worlds.
I'd also note that when knowleadgeable people do usability testing, they normally feign ignorance -- they test as if they were a user with limited knowledge.
Since my degree (Technical Communications) concerns interface design and usability testing, what Red Flayer says is 100% accurate. Any usability tester worth their salt will force themselves to think like their target audience--in this case, a typical "email and word processor" computer user.
As much as it may be against the status quo here, I have to give credit where credit is due. If the email is really from Bill Gates (after reading it, I am not sure...), he seems to know what he is doing in regards to usability testing.
We can hate Microsoft but as a libertarian, I find this development scary. Getting the federal government involved in the design and manufacture of a product is unwarranted and is akin to precrime. The US Government should leave Microsoft's development of Windows 7 alone. If it turns out to have anti-competitive effects, then the government can punish Microsoft for it. Everyone may say that would be too little, too late, but preemptive strikes are un-American. (And besides, we can always break MS up if it keeps pushing out monopolistic products.)
As much as I would love to see a version of Windows that actually follows applicable laws before legal action is taken against it, I shudder to think of the precedent that this sets. If the government doesn't like/doesn't get enough kickbacks from a company, then all of a sudden their entire design and manufacturing process is subject to unwarranted government intervention.
As a republican, I find this sort of increased government intervention frightening.
darkmeridian has a great point, too--we can always break Microsoft up if the monopolistic policies do not stop. It would likely even be easier to separate than Ma Bell was in the 80s--Microsoft peripherals, Microsoft software, Microsoft gaming, etc etc.
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Your marriage will work, so long as both of you remember this one, simple fact:
Your spouse's happiness is more important than your own.
If you both work hard to make the other happy, then both of you will have a wonderful marriage. Seriously--it is that simple. It doesn't matter if you are a jock, or not; or if she is a submissive cheerleader, or not. What matters is that you are happy. Period.
Good luck in the future with your marriage!
GEORDI, not "Jordi".
You may leave now, and turn in your geek card at the door.
NewTek's VideoToaster.
It was at the forefront of video editing technology for many years. I used it in school in the mid-late nineties because it was still the best option around for small-scale stuff.
XHTML has the additional advantage that it is text, and even if 50 years from now, nobody remembers how to render XHTML, they can get the content by reading the file in a text editor.
Also, don't forget that ODF is really little more than XML files zipped together in a single container. Try unzipping an ODF or ODS file—you will find several XML files for formatting, content, etc in there. Personally, I would prefer XHTML or XML files to PDF, simply because I can use vi to read them, if I had to.
I use eeebuntu as well on my EEE 1000. I'm normally not a big *buntu fan, but this has exceeded all of my expectations. It took a little bit of fiddling to get my hotkeys to work, but that would be true of any laptop on any distro.
Works a darnsight better than that crap Xandros bastardization they OEM'ed it with!
The reason they probably didn't go with Red Flag Linux is that it has various kernel and software patches to make it play nicer with Asian characters. Since the Russian language uses the Cyrillic alphabet, Asian characters probably weren't top on their priority list.
Turn in your geek card and spell it correctly!
And your mother has a smooth forehead!
Or, has the rise of MMORPGs like WoW and the like led to the rise of teenage witchcraft and mythical, fell creatures?
Seems like similar logic to me.
that beats azian cars! Problem is: they do not exist...
Shouldn't that be Japanese cars? Honda, Toyota, Lexus, Mazda, Mitsubishi are all Japanese. And German cars come pretty close. BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Mercedes all make petty reliable cars.
You forgot Isuzu.
Asian (Non-Japanese) cars, like Kia, Fuqi, Hyundai, Nanjing, Deely, and DengFeng are, for the most part, fairly unreliable.
Japanese cars != Asian cars.
I stand corrected...I was under the impression that VoteSmart only listed candidates that had been approved for all 50 states (hence why the various Socialist party candidates were not listed). My apologies for any confusion!
Actually, there are four "Ross Perot" (read: 3rd party) candidates in this election:
Bob Barr / Wayne Root: Libertarian Party
Charles Baldwin / Darrell Castle: / Alaskan Independance Party, Reform Party
Cynthia McKinney / Rosa Clemente: Independent, Green Party
Ralph Nader / Matt Gonzalez: No Party Affiliation
You can check the facts yourself at VoteSmart.org
That's all fine and good for personal use, but very few businesses can be 100% *nix. Anti-virus software exists for Linux and Mac because they are often networked with Windows machines.
Anything networked to a Windows machine can send a virus to that machine, regardless of the operating system.
You are absolutely right. However, I was not trying to solve anything. I just wanted to make sure that all the blame that is flying around hits the correct people, that's all.
Unfortunately, by doing so I have fallen in the trap that the American media and many politicians (on both sides of the aisle) have fallen into--assigning blame instead of finding/debating solutions. I would apologize for that, but I am a programmer, not an economist. If someone gives me an example of a solution, I would only agree or disagree based on my gut reaction, no education.
OK, at the risk of sounding reasonable (and losing karma) I think we need to put the blame where blame is due.
As a conservative, I generally vote Republican. However, I am mature enough to recognize that many of the elected officials in the Republican party have directly or indirectly caused the current economic situation. I am also knowledgeable enough to recognize that the elected officials in the Democratic party are equally to blame.
The blame lies with Republicans, Democrats, the Legislative branch, and the Executive branch. (I don't have enough information to blame the Judicial branch for anything.) ALL are equally guilty, and BOTH parties make equally valid statements about the other's responsibility.
Yes, Clinton's fiscal decisions (Glass-Steagall act repealed, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, others) had their hand in creating this downturn. Yes, Republican legislation (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) and partisanship also had their hand in creating this downturn.
Skip the partisanship. Give the blame where it is due--not with the party that differs with your own viewpoint (whichever party that may be), but the elected officials sitting in the Senate, the House, and Pennsylvania Avenue.
Let's be a little more reasonable here, OK?
My parents had a similar answer, "Save your money." They didn't care what I purchased (so long as it was safe, legal, etc) as long as I saved my own money to get it. Really taught me fiscal responsibility at a pretty early age.
Personally, I'm surprised no one has said
LUDICROUS SPEED!
Like Mishra100 said, this being slashdot, it should have been a given.
Are you proposing that we should be at war against Iran right now instead? Just what is it that Iran is doing that you think they wouldn't be doing if we weren't in Iraq?
I suppose you think we'd be loved and respected by the rest of the world, if ONLY we hadn't invaded Iraq! Iran would be our friend. Europeans-on-the-street would be saying they wish they could be just like us.
Think again. We're unpopular, we're often complained about, BECAUSE WE ARE PREEMINENT. No other reason is necessary.
And the spread of nuclear tech is hardly a Bush legacy- when I read heavily on the subject (up to the point got my BA in PoliSci in 1995) it was all but universally seen as inevitable. The debate was over how to handle it.
Bush is not my favorite guy. I didn't vote for him either time(although I certainly didn't vote for that ridiculous parody of a political candidate John Kerry- sat that one out). But you're giving aid and comfort to Bush and his set by demonizing him- just like the GOP gave aid and comfort to Clinton with their rabid hyperbole in the 90's.
Thank you. If I had mod points, this would be +1 Insightful.
However, since it is not rabidly criticizing Bush/Republicans/the United States, my little +1 wouldn't have made much difference in all of the -1's you would have gotten.
I have given up hope on DNF for so long now that when I read the article, the first thing in my mind was "John Wayne's back? What?"
I guess I need to turn in my geek card now...
Government has no business legislating what is moral. It's everyone's job as individuals to do what they can to keep their kids away from unwanted content.
The government has no business legislating what is moral? What about theft? Murder? Rape? Child abuse? These are all considered immoral acts by the vast majority--Christian, Jewish, Muslim, atheist, agnostic, pastafarian, whatever. Criminal Law is State-sponsored morality.
Even so-called "secular nations," like the former Soviet Union, had its own form of morality-based law: if it is against the State, or against the Party, or against the General Secretary, etc, it is illegal. Morality is not the sole domain of the religious.
What you are describing is Anarchism, the belief that self-rule is the best method of controlling a nation. If that is your belief, that's fine--just so you understand that the current American government (as well as the governments of the rest of the world, to the best of my knowledge) use some form of morality to base their legal code.
Not necessarily. Both Eugenics and Transhumanism are by definition artificial--both refer to society's desire to use genetics (Eugenics) or science/technology (Transhumanism) to achieve the same goal; i.e. the improvement of our species.
Evolution could certainly be God's will--but if we do it ourselves we end up playing God. He tends to have a problem with that.
Actually, that is just the English translation of the original Hebrew. In Genesis, when it says that God did such-and-such on this day, the Hebrew is yom. Yom has many English translations, only one of which is day-24 hours. It can also mean day-length of time, as in "In the day of my father".
This being said, there is no paradox.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Note it says that the state (Congress) cannot respect or prohibit any religion. All that means is that an official state religion is unconstitutional. The separation of church and state bit comes from a speech that Thomas Jefferson wrote concerning his fears that the new United States (at the time, still under the Articles of Confederation) would become an Anglican country. If you know your history, you would know that Jefferson considered himself a Christian.
As a Christian, what I don't understand is why God couldn't have used evolution as a tool for creation--Creation and Evolution needn't be mutually exclusive. If science says that evolution is accurate, then so be it. Nowhere in the Bible does it say how God created man, just that he did from the "dust of the earth." Personally, I consider myself a "Creational Evolutionist." It is the best of both worlds.
Since my degree (Technical Communications) concerns interface design and usability testing, what Red Flayer says is 100% accurate. Any usability tester worth their salt will force themselves to think like their target audience--in this case, a typical "email and word processor" computer user.
As much as it may be against the status quo here, I have to give credit where credit is due. If the email is really from Bill Gates (after reading it, I am not sure...), he seems to know what he is doing in regards to usability testing.
The man is not stupid, just unethical.
We can hate Microsoft but as a libertarian, I find this development scary. Getting the federal government involved in the design and manufacture of a product is unwarranted and is akin to precrime. The US Government should leave Microsoft's development of Windows 7 alone. If it turns out to have anti-competitive effects, then the government can punish Microsoft for it. Everyone may say that would be too little, too late, but preemptive strikes are un-American. (And besides, we can always break MS up if it keeps pushing out monopolistic products.)
As much as I would love to see a version of Windows that actually follows applicable laws before legal action is taken against it, I shudder to think of the precedent that this sets. If the government doesn't like/doesn't get enough kickbacks from a company, then all of a sudden their entire design and manufacturing process is subject to unwarranted government intervention.As a republican, I find this sort of increased government intervention frightening.
darkmeridian has a great point, too--we can always break Microsoft up if the monopolistic policies do not stop. It would likely even be easier to separate than Ma Bell was in the 80s--Microsoft peripherals, Microsoft software, Microsoft gaming, etc etc.
Just my $0.02.
Could someone explain to me why this was modded "Troll"?
I want one too.