My best friend and my brother have both had severe depression problems. It is quite possible to be out and functioning at moderate levels of depression - talking, smiling, looking like you're enjoying yourself. I think one described it something like this:
Dude, you know what. I have depression. There's not an hour where I wake up where I'm NOT thinking about killing myself or everyone else and I just bit my damned upper lip, say life sucks, and move on. I enjoy the fleeting moments of happiness like a fine glass of whiskey and move on, and frankly, getting out and doing something, and having a job, and working, even if you screw it up, is the best thing you can do.
This sounds like a case where the lady is committing fraud. If she can function at a bar, she can function at a desk. All too often people rationalize their maladies, and find doctors willing to agree, such that they really can find a way to not work. Health insurance disability is a huge racket.
I know some photographers that used to earn a good living taking pictures of people with "bad backs" lifting cases of beer out of their cars or working on additions to their homes. The thing is, some states, notably Pennsylvannia, are so crooked that they pretty much accept any fraud that's out there. They are socialists and they just let people loot the system because they really don't care about the whole outcome. So you've got a guy collecting disabillity getting videotaped playing American style football, and the PA commisioners say, get this, that, just because he can play football doesn't mean that he can work.
Unfortunately, saying that we can really clamp down on fraud for disability is not going to work. Disability has become the social services backstop for combat vets and in America, there are a lot of them. The VA is just hopelessly overwhelmed - science has no answers really, so, gaming the disability system a bit to just try and put a roof over your head is ok in my book for vets. I know a guy that showed up at the VA looking for some bucks because his hearing got blown out during Vietnam war - 40 years ago. The thing is, he's pretty much had a rough life because of his war experiences and so yeah, I don't have a problem with my.08 cents a check for my share of his disability payment.
Yet another reason why private healthcare must be stopped. Curing people doesn't come into it - it's about keeping them sick enough to stay profitable.
Yet another reason socialized healthcare must be stopped. Curing people doesn't come into it - it's about keeping them slaves of the government to stay in power.
My best friend and my brother have both had severe depression problems. It is quite possible to be out and functioning at moderate levels of depression - talking, smiling, looking like you're enjoying yourself. I think one described it something like this:
If you can be out and functioning, then you can function at your goddamned desk and stop trying to rob those people who do show up to work despite their depression.
I think we have a foolish view of obsolescence, where, something new comes along that is completely better and replaces the thing that was before it. Technological advance is really a sort of a specialization, where the new thing improves on some fraction of tasks the old thing did. While one computer might make the old one completely obsolete, hardware wise, in software, there really hasn't been so much in sweeping replacement. UTF-8 might be more international than ASCII, but ASCII is still cheaper to work with if you are an American only firm, so, there's a niche for ASCII.
Its silly to say that cell phones will replace hand game consoles. As cell phones evolve, so too will game consoles, and, a joystick is an entirely different thing than what most cells have. There's money involved. Even if it could theoretically be done, the moment somebody puts 3d graphics in a cell phone, somebody else's cell phone will get that much cheaper and so even 3d graphics won't be quite so universal or maybe there will be another trade-off - simpler graphics for longer battery life. And, handheld consoles will have bigger screens.
Cell phone cameras have some hard physical limits to get up against. You need to have decent lenses...
Reading a book on a cell phone screen seems to be a terrible screen. I'd think I'd rather have a larger screen that I might not carry around as often but can still move around the house or in the car without too much hastle, kinda like a kindle
Even if you accepted the inflated figures of second hand smoke, some smoke exposure is a pretty fricking low cause of death. AS it is, the number 1 killer in the USA, or at least near to it, is the fricking flu. If Apple cared about their workers, their hourly people would get paid sick time.
There don't seem to be too many standard conservatives (those who talk about small government while at the same time making it bigger in order to fight wars and stop people taking drugs)
There were 9 years ago, but we learned from our mistakes.
Agreed, 100%.. part of their education should be in conservative values about ownership and civic responsibility. It is very likely that you need to teach people to be conservatives to get them to be able to build things, but then, if you so choose, give them liberal spices after the fact.
The answer is to have more money, not less. If you wanted to ensure that there were humanitarian practices in the use of these materials, the west should tax these materials on import, and the money to actually help the families that live there through the construction of infrastructure.
Well, once again the Democrats shoot the American economy in the foot.
We may not buy the stuff, but the Chinese will, or some other country, so there will be another set of expertise that we will lose, and they will gain.
To save a region, they destroyed their own country.
I've been on the fence about listening to China, but no more. I conclude that the American idea of freedom, the American revolution, is an ongoing experiment and must apply everywhere in the world. We Americans by nature are assholes, so we may as well do something productive with it. We are obligated to participate, to be subversive to tyranny or even tendencies towards it, everywhere we go and we must be that way at home.
American companies operate because they are granted license to by the people of the united states as a whole.
At home, nor abroad, can we tolerate any government that violates any fundamental liberty. Even if we cannot agree on what fundamental liberties all, we must be dedicated to the idea that the more liberties that we uphold, the more we have. We forget that freedom is so sacred as of late, and we listen too much to those who would say that we have freedom too much.
I say that we say that for right now today is Freedom Day. Take a second to glance at the Constitution and understand that the government is allowed to do only what is on that little piece of paper and you are allowed to do everything else. Write whatever you want, go to a gun store, read something subversive, stop by a church, hang with some protestors, revel in the fact that you are free and can do things. Even as we bum out about how the west has gotten the short of the stick in manufacturing, we should be extremely cognizant that we can do so many things our counterparts in China and other parts Asia cannot, I can take my made in Chinese flag and I can burn it.
Today is Freedom Day, and so is every day. Remind yourself that you are free.
If the song Love Me Do is not even worth a dollar, then what the fuck you could possibly do that even suggests you deserve even a dollar? If you won't even buy a song when you steal it, why should you get paid anything for whatever slop you supposedly contribute? Did you write me Love Me Do? Revolution?
The way I look at it is this. I don't care how old the song, is, is it well, worth a dollar? Is Sgt Peppers worth $20? I'd say, geez, I'm going to play the CD until it breaks, and listen to it an easy 100 times, so yeah, its worth a buck. In fact, its pretty hard to find a better deal for entertainment than a song. You can take it with you. You can have it on while you are doing something else. It makes whatever you are doing better, and its only $20. Don't get tripped up that John is dead now, or whatever. It's what is the song worth. That millions of people agree with that assessment means somebody is going to get rich, but what does it matter. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds made me happy. It's worth a buck, and I'll pay it.
American cities are dead weight, anyway, really only propped up laws that favor banking, health and ip industries. Look at the top 20 businesses in Pennsylvannia. It's all hospitals and banks. They don't do anything actually useful. The red states, which have all the food, engineering, and manufacturing know this.
The northeast needs to bail on free trade, and put all its poor people to work on manufacturing. Otherwise, its dead meat.
Bite me content you're a parasite and you are stealing from me directly
How is content stealing from you? It's not taking anything away from you. It's never been easier to get your own content out there, and that is what is actually happening. The idea of deriving corporate power from copyright is going to be silly because, yeah, the Alien movie with guys in a spaceship fighting an alien may never be public domain, but who fricking cares because there's 100 movies and video games out there aliens in spaceships and every day that passes, they are going to get cheaper and cheaper and cheaper to make. You are all caught up having the Nostromo? So what? Make up your own ship, the Slashdoto, and have it get infested with fricking monster. Big deal.
You know, its funny, but if the NSA ever got its hooks into a repository, it could do all sorts of fun stuff that way in Linux. We only "trust" Linux because Linux is a huge trust circle. WE trust it because its open, and assume that someone else must have looked at it. But I have about as much idea of what's going on inside of my Ubuntu as I did my Windows, from a backdoor perspective.
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My best friend and my brother have both had severe depression problems. It is quite possible to be out and functioning at moderate levels of depression - talking, smiling, looking like you're enjoying yourself. I think one described it something like this:
Dude, you know what. I have depression. There's not an hour where I wake up where I'm NOT thinking about killing myself or everyone else and I just bit my damned upper lip, say life sucks, and move on. I enjoy the fleeting moments of happiness like a fine glass of whiskey and move on, and frankly, getting out and doing something, and having a job, and working, even if you screw it up, is the best thing you can do.
When you go through hell, keep going.
This sounds like a case where the lady is committing fraud. If she can function at a bar, she can function at a desk. All too often people rationalize their maladies, and find doctors willing to agree, such that they really can find a way to not work. Health insurance disability is a huge racket.
I know some photographers that used to earn a good living taking pictures of people with "bad backs" lifting cases of beer out of their cars or working on additions to their homes. The thing is, some states, notably Pennsylvannia, are so crooked that they pretty much accept any fraud that's out there. They are socialists and they just let people loot the system because they really don't care about the whole outcome. So you've got a guy collecting disabillity getting videotaped playing American style football, and the PA commisioners say, get this, that, just because he can play football doesn't mean that he can work.
Unfortunately, saying that we can really clamp down on fraud for disability is not going to work. Disability has become the social services backstop for combat vets and in America, there are a lot of them. The VA is just hopelessly overwhelmed - science has no answers really, so, gaming the disability system a bit to just try and put a roof over your head is ok in my book for vets. I know a guy that showed up at the VA looking for some bucks because his hearing got blown out during Vietnam war - 40 years ago. The thing is, he's pretty much had a rough life because of his war experiences and so yeah, I don't have a problem with my .08 cents a check for my share of his disability payment.
Yet another reason why private healthcare must be stopped. Curing people doesn't come into it - it's about keeping them sick enough to stay profitable.
Yet another reason socialized healthcare must be stopped. Curing people doesn't come into it - it's about keeping them slaves of the government to stay in power.
Fixed that for you.
My best friend and my brother have both had severe depression problems. It is quite possible to be out and functioning at moderate levels of depression - talking, smiling, looking like you're enjoying yourself. I think one described it something like this:
If you can be out and functioning, then you can function at your goddamned desk and stop trying to rob those people who do show up to work despite their depression.
I think we have a foolish view of obsolescence, where, something new comes along that is completely better and replaces the thing that was before it. Technological advance is really a sort of a specialization, where the new thing improves on some fraction of tasks the old thing did. While one computer might make the old one completely obsolete, hardware wise, in software, there really hasn't been so much in sweeping replacement. UTF-8 might be more international than ASCII, but ASCII is still cheaper to work with if you are an American only firm, so, there's a niche for ASCII.
Its silly to say that cell phones will replace hand game consoles. As cell phones evolve, so too will game consoles, and, a joystick is an entirely different thing than what most cells have. There's money involved. Even if it could theoretically be done, the moment somebody puts 3d graphics in a cell phone, somebody else's cell phone will get that much cheaper and so even 3d graphics won't be quite so universal or maybe there will be another trade-off - simpler graphics for longer battery life. And, handheld consoles will have bigger screens.
Cell phone cameras have some hard physical limits to get up against. You need to have decent lenses...
Reading a book on a cell phone screen seems to be a terrible screen. I'd think I'd rather have a larger screen that I might not carry around as often but can still move around the house or in the car without too much hastle, kinda like a kindle
* OMG the planet's going to be under water - but we reserve the right to buy the biggest most energy inefficient TVs and cars money can buy
I need my fucking giant ass car to haul my giant ass TV so I can watch your shitty island sink in high definition.
Picture...
Hey, that's Uncle Sam standing in this picture:
http://www.popularpages.net/pics/free-blow-job_4_2222_si.jpg
Even if you accepted the inflated figures of second hand smoke, some smoke exposure is a pretty fricking low cause of death. AS it is, the number 1 killer in the USA, or at least near to it, is the fricking flu. If Apple cared about their workers, their hourly people would get paid sick time.
Oh man up. I've repaired worse. That kind of damage can happen to any computer near the front door of your house.
There don't seem to be too many standard conservatives (those who talk about small government while at the same time making it bigger in order to fight wars and stop people taking drugs)
There were 9 years ago, but we learned from our mistakes.
Well every political side has its own activists. Let's face it, conservatives and liberals have their fair share of alinsky radicals in both sides.
Agreed, 100%.. part of their education should be in conservative values about ownership and civic responsibility. It is very likely that you need to teach people to be conservatives to get them to be able to build things, but then, if you so choose, give them liberal spices after the fact.
The answer is to have more money, not less. If you wanted to ensure that there were humanitarian practices in the use of these materials, the west should tax these materials on import, and the money to actually help the families that live there through the construction of infrastructure.
Well, once again the Democrats shoot the American economy in the foot.
We may not buy the stuff, but the Chinese will, or some other country, so there will be another set of expertise that we will lose, and they will gain.
To save a region, they destroyed their own country.
I've been on the fence about listening to China, but no more. I conclude that the American idea of freedom, the American revolution, is an ongoing experiment and must apply everywhere in the world. We Americans by nature are assholes, so we may as well do something productive with it. We are obligated to participate, to be subversive to tyranny or even tendencies towards it, everywhere we go and we must be that way at home.
American companies operate because they are granted license to by the people of the united states as a whole.
At home, nor abroad, can we tolerate any government that violates any fundamental liberty. Even if we cannot agree on what fundamental liberties all, we must be dedicated to the idea that the more liberties that we uphold, the more we have. We forget that freedom is so sacred as of late, and we listen too much to those who would say that we have freedom too much.
I say that we say that for right now today is Freedom Day. Take a second to glance at the Constitution and understand that the government is allowed to do only what is on that little piece of paper and you are allowed to do everything else. Write whatever you want, go to a gun store, read something subversive, stop by a church, hang with some protestors, revel in the fact that you are free and can do things. Even as we bum out about how the west has gotten the short of the stick in manufacturing, we should be extremely cognizant that we can do so many things our counterparts in China and other parts Asia cannot, I can take my made in Chinese flag and I can burn it.
Today is Freedom Day, and so is every day. Remind yourself that you are free.
so why do they deserve your money more than me?
If the song Love Me Do is not even worth a dollar, then what the fuck you could possibly do that even suggests you deserve even a dollar? If you won't even buy a song when you steal it, why should you get paid anything for whatever slop you supposedly contribute? Did you write me Love Me Do? Revolution?
part of our common culture
That argument is ridiculous. You just are looking to steal something you did nothing to earn.
As if the masses have the slightest idea of the store's restrictions.
Of course they do. Apple's whole sales pitch is that they are proprietary, which in the consumer's mind means they are managing the whole production.
What the developers do not get is that apple's approval process drives the store. Exclusivity adds value, and makes customers like the store more.
The way I look at it is this. I don't care how old the song, is, is it well, worth a dollar? Is Sgt Peppers worth $20? I'd say, geez, I'm going to play the CD until it breaks, and listen to it an easy 100 times, so yeah, its worth a buck. In fact, its pretty hard to find a better deal for entertainment than a song. You can take it with you. You can have it on while you are doing something else. It makes whatever you are doing better, and its only $20. Don't get tripped up that John is dead now, or whatever. It's what is the song worth. That millions of people agree with that assessment means somebody is going to get rich, but what does it matter. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds made me happy. It's worth a buck, and I'll pay it.
extrapolate to the political future
Civil war?
American cities are dead weight, anyway, really only propped up laws that favor banking, health and ip industries. Look at the top 20 businesses in Pennsylvannia. It's all hospitals and banks. They don't do anything actually useful. The red states, which have all the food, engineering, and manufacturing know this.
The northeast needs to bail on free trade, and put all its poor people to work on manufacturing. Otherwise, its dead meat.
difficulty factor: the majority of the usa is now and is increasingly urban
Split the country in half.
Bite me content you're a parasite and you are stealing from me directly
How is content stealing from you? It's not taking anything away from you. It's never been easier to get your own content out there, and that is what is actually happening. The idea of deriving corporate power from copyright is going to be silly because, yeah, the Alien movie with guys in a spaceship fighting an alien may never be public domain, but who fricking cares because there's 100 movies and video games out there aliens in spaceships and every day that passes, they are going to get cheaper and cheaper and cheaper to make. You are all caught up having the Nostromo? So what? Make up your own ship, the Slashdoto, and have it get infested with fricking monster. Big deal.
I think this exact comment has been posted a dozen times in slashdot so far.
You know, its funny, but if the NSA ever got its hooks into a repository, it could do all sorts of fun stuff that way in Linux. We only "trust" Linux because Linux is a huge trust circle. WE trust it because its open, and assume that someone else must have looked at it. But I have about as much idea of what's going on inside of my Ubuntu as I did my Windows, from a backdoor perspective.
wonder how many addressing modes there are...