The Stole 90% of their software? Wow, at least they didn't steal my copy it's still sitting right here. I wonder who the poor people that got their copies stolen where? Seems like a bunch of people would be complaining if all of a sudden their computer wouldn't boot because someone stole their software.
I don't know, I wouldn't really consider the Democrates "Obviously more evial" than the republicans, I mean they are very close and both cross the line back and forth on pretty much equal evilness.
I don't remember the details but there was something about the magic number, something about planks lenght that anything smaller than that has no ability to be detected or observed because just by observing it everything at that level would change. so at a planks lenght of time, which is the amount of time it takes light to travel a planks length, during the begining fo the universe there is no way to figure out what is happening and everything would be considered 100% pure random chance at that point. Leaving the option for a deity or philosophical explination.
Disclamer: I am pulling this from a few books that I read but also from memory. I'm sure the details are probably wrong but the overall idea is right. To get the details a little better check books A short History of Nearly Everything and A Breif History of Time
Actually Einstein even says that anything before the big bang is completely up to Religion and philosophy to speculate about, and that Science may never be able to predict anything prior than 1x10^-72 seconds after the Big bang.
This is further illustrated in Einsteins quote "God doesn't play dice" Saying that A god can and very possibly does exist and created the universe but he doesn't intervene.
I believe this was known as deist or deism. To lazy to look it up right now, but it also says that all current religions that believe in divine intervention are false.
I still consider my self mostly agnostic sort of fluctuating between non-vocal atheist and what I described above as deist. (By non-vocal atheist, I mean that I don't try to convince anyone there is no god, past an opinion piece like this.) his.)
your list is a good start but we really need to work on getting rid of all Republicans and Democrats. They have booth evolved into a two headed power grabbing group that with each new election you lose your rights. Look for a candidate that is advocating less government intrusion and has policy to back it and vote for that one.
I'll give you a hint the two primary ones are not where you want to look and Nader is worse than both put together.
I have made this suggestion other places but I have always wondered why don't applications make UI profiles or modes that scale the options as what would be needed for a particular task.
With a word processor as an example you could fit in the same application 3 main profiles:
basic pure text notepad like interface basic formating wordpad like interface advanced formating word/openoffice writer like interface page layout advanced desktop publishing like interface.
In each mode you would have only the options available that make sense for that mode. You would always be able to switch between modes and promote/demote to/from other modes as is possible.
The gimp could be a little different. Instead of a graduated level of features you could have UI profiles for different types of tasks:
1. Digital photo cleanup, just has basic features to eliminate red eye, clean up blur/sharpen resize brighten darken, crop etc... easy to get to on the tool bar.
2. Digital manipulation, similar to above but put the photo based features in the back ground and have script-fu stuff in the tool bars and easy to get to.
3. Media creation, similar to what the gimp has now.
4. Others that people can come up with.
Gnome has gone on a spree of getting rid of un-needed features in the UI but I think they should have a tiered approach to the UI.
Can you Imagen giving a kid TRS-DOS and a BASIC Interpreter? how about even just MS-DOS? I learned a lot when I was 10-12 working on these same environments. What makes GIMP so much more difficult. For the most part the GIMP is a fairly simple application that I learned to use in less than an hour. Previous experience was watching someone use Paint shop pro for a few minutes to edit a picture with some cool effects.
And yes even in the books startin with Heir to the Empire Leia was developing her Jedi skills, and even the twins she was carrying of Han Solo's were detectibly strong in the force. Luke and leia start the new Jedi Order and the new twins are in it.
The two holes I see in your idea, one Tatooine was at the fringe of Empire control more controlled by the Hutts who only barely tolerated the empire and would rather they stayed out of their hair/slime/whatever. So Vader being pretty much heir to the Empire probably didn't have much time to look there for anybody.
And two, you assume he was even looking? Perhaps he was presumed dead or he just plain didn't care. With the fall of the Jedi there were no training camps, the force was still strong in many people some recruited by the Empire such as those that make up the Royal guard. Just because the force may be strong in you doesn't make you a Jedi, the training and discipline is what makes you a Jedi.
Taste and weather or not a song sucks can be two different things. I don't care much to listen to country but I know when a good country song is made compared to a shitty one, same for pop music.
You can look at a painting of a turd and say that it is a perfect rendition of a turd without liking pictures of turds. (I used turd way to much in that sentence:)
It could also be that the low supply of CS and IT jobs made for less people wanting to get CS and IT degrees lowering the supply of professionals in these areas, thus raising the pay and benefits.
Kind of like how the dot com bubble burst the completely incompetent people out of CS and IT the recession should help to weed out some of the just incompetent people and return it to the ones that are doing it for the love of tech rather than the high pay check. I guess both love and pay are a good reason as well, but there is nothing that bums me more than talking about a new technology to a fellow IT person and they just don't seem very interested.
Go ahead and prop up the failing system for as long as you can. Longer it is held up the faster it will fall. When it does, who is going to take over? If we are lucky it we may be able to pull a democracy out of the ruins of what we are building up to but I kinda doubt it. Just keep voteing for your two headed dictator.
Yes deregulation, deregulation, deregulation, but to an extent. You need to set the market free, but with freedom comes responsibility. If you check Badnarik's response he wants to hold investors and partners responsible for a companies actions. This would make people more cautious about who they invest in and help to self regulate the Market.
If you can be sued for more than your initial investment in a company are you going to be looking at investing in a company that may very well be doing illegal activities and be fined for it?
I also think this would start to reduce the large scale international mega conglomerates. If people can't see and understand the basics of what a company is doing they will not as likely invest.
Recheck the party's policy. Government intervention only when required. They are the party of small government. You're thinking of Anarchists and the anarchy party, which is more of an extreme version of Libertarian kinda like socialism is the extreme of Democrats, and Fascism is the extreme of Republicans. Most members of the Republican and Democrat parties dont want to be associated with their extremes (although some do) the same as Libertarians don't usually want to be associated with its extreame.
The downside of your plan is that the result may be four years of Kerry. Another four years of increased government, decreased civil liberties and sounds like more wars as well?
I think we are better off with Bush atleast if he fucks things up enought people will start looking for an alternative that will begin to "fix" things. The current switch back and forth between crap and crap just isn't going to cut it.
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The Stole 90% of their software? Wow, at least they didn't steal my copy it's still sitting right here. I wonder who the poor people that got their copies stolen where? Seems like a bunch of people would be complaining if all of a sudden their computer wouldn't boot because someone stole their software.
I don't know, I wouldn't really consider the Democrates "Obviously more evial" than the republicans, I mean they are very close and both cross the line back and forth on pretty much equal evilness.
I don't remember the details but there was something about the magic number, something about planks lenght that anything smaller than that has no ability to be detected or observed because just by observing it everything at that level would change. so at a planks lenght of time, which is the amount of time it takes light to travel a planks length, during the begining fo the universe there is no way to figure out what is happening and everything would be considered 100% pure random chance at that point. Leaving the option for a deity or philosophical explination.
Disclamer: I am pulling this from a few books that I read but also from memory. I'm sure the details are probably wrong but the overall idea is right. To get the details a little better check books A short History of Nearly Everything and A Breif History of Time
Actually Einstein even says that anything before the big bang is completely up to Religion and philosophy to speculate about, and that Science may never be able to predict anything prior than 1x10^-72 seconds after the Big bang.
This is further illustrated in Einsteins quote "God doesn't play dice" Saying that A god can and very possibly does exist and created the universe but he doesn't intervene.
I believe this was known as deist or deism. To lazy to look it up right now, but it also says that all current religions that believe in divine intervention are false.
I still consider my self mostly agnostic sort of fluctuating between non-vocal atheist and what I described above as deist. (By non-vocal atheist, I mean that I don't try to convince anyone there is no god, past an opinion piece like this.)
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Read? fuck the article.
RFTA. Typical acronym for the Slashdotters.
I get it now. Ever notice that the more satellites that are launched the less smokers there are?
Hmmm, coincidences or conspiracy?
your list is a good start but we really need to work on getting rid of all Republicans and Democrats. They have booth evolved into a two headed power grabbing group that with each new election you lose your rights. Look for a candidate that is advocating less government intrusion and has policy to back it and vote for that one.
I'll give you a hint the two primary ones are not where you want to look and Nader is worse than both put together.
Political parties summed up in one sentence:
Democrats - What ever the problem the solution is more government.
Republicans - What ever the problem the solution is more government, but less than Democrats.
Libertarian - What ever the problem the solution is less government.
I have made this suggestion other places but I have always wondered why don't applications make UI profiles or modes that scale the options as what would be needed for a particular task.
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With a word processor as an example you could fit in the same application 3 main profiles:
basic pure text notepad like interface
basic formating wordpad like interface
advanced formating word/openoffice writer like interface
page layout advanced desktop publishing like interface.
In each mode you would have only the options available that make sense for that mode. You would always be able to switch between modes and promote/demote to/from other modes as is possible.
The gimp could be a little different. Instead of a graduated level of features you could have UI profiles for different types of tasks:
1. Digital photo cleanup, just has basic features to eliminate red eye, clean up blur/sharpen resize brighten darken, crop etc... easy to get to on the tool bar.
2. Digital manipulation, similar to above but put the photo based features in the back ground and have script-fu stuff in the tool bars and easy to get to.
3. Media creation, similar to what the gimp has now.
4. Others that people can come up with.
Gnome has gone on a spree of getting rid of un-needed features in the UI but I think they should have a tiered approach to the UI.
Just my idea. go and whip it up real quick
Can you Imagen giving a kid TRS-DOS and a BASIC Interpreter? how about even just MS-DOS? I learned a lot when I was 10-12 working on these same environments. What makes GIMP so much more difficult. For the most part the GIMP is a fairly simple application that I learned to use in less than an hour. Previous experience was watching someone use Paint shop pro for a few minutes to edit a picture with some cool effects.
Wish I could take this dump it though some kind of program that guesses hights and puts walls on buildings and then run GTA through it.
They are still looking for a beliveable pro Bush story. May take them a while.
Ok, lets call it the pricewatch price based computer levels then.
Yea when they took the poll this is what it looked like to them:
If you were a US citizin who would you vote for?
[] George w. Bush.
[] Efdgnaq J. Kwosqla.
Let's all pick the not Bush one.
a $500 computer will have a mid range processor and memory
a $700 computer will be better
a $1500 computer will be better still
It even scales correctly as technologie comes out.
...can't help but do a better job
Don't challenge him.
And yes even in the books startin with Heir to the Empire Leia was developing her Jedi skills, and even the twins she was carrying of Han Solo's were detectibly strong in the force. Luke and leia start the new Jedi Order and the new twins are in it.
The two holes I see in your idea, one Tatooine was at the fringe of Empire control more controlled by the Hutts who only barely tolerated the empire and would rather they stayed out of their hair/slime/whatever. So Vader being pretty much heir to the Empire probably didn't have much time to look there for anybody.
And two, you assume he was even looking? Perhaps he was presumed dead or he just plain didn't care. With the fall of the Jedi there were no training camps, the force was still strong in many people some recruited by the Empire such as those that make up the Royal guard. Just because the force may be strong in you doesn't make you a Jedi, the training and discipline is what makes you a Jedi.
OK, I'm too geeky for this.
Fool me once, shame on you fool me twice, fool.....Can't get fooled again.
Taste and weather or not a song sucks can be two different things. I don't care much to listen to country but I know when a good country song is made compared to a shitty one, same for pop music.
You can look at a painting of a turd and say that it is a perfect rendition of a turd without liking pictures of turds. (I used turd way to much in that sentence:)
It could also be that the low supply of CS and IT jobs made for less people wanting to get CS and IT degrees lowering the supply of professionals in these areas, thus raising the pay and benefits.
Kind of like how the dot com bubble burst the completely incompetent people out of CS and IT the recession should help to weed out some of the just incompetent people and return it to the ones that are doing it for the love of tech rather than the high pay check. I guess both love and pay are a good reason as well, but there is nothing that bums me more than talking about a new technology to a fellow IT person and they just don't seem very interested.
Go ahead and prop up the failing system for as long as you can. Longer it is held up the faster it will fall. When it does, who is going to take over? If we are lucky it we may be able to pull a democracy out of the ruins of what we are building up to but I kinda doubt it. Just keep voteing for your two headed dictator.
Yes deregulation, deregulation, deregulation, but to an extent. You need to set the market free, but with freedom comes responsibility. If you check Badnarik's response he wants to hold investors and partners responsible for a companies actions. This would make people more cautious about who they invest in and help to self regulate the Market.
If you can be sued for more than your initial investment in a company are you going to be looking at investing in a company that may very well be doing illegal activities and be fined for it?
I also think this would start to reduce the large scale international mega conglomerates. If people can't see and understand the basics of what a company is doing they will not as likely invest.
Recheck the party's policy. Government intervention only when required. They are the party of small government. You're thinking of Anarchists and the anarchy party, which is more of an extreme version of Libertarian kinda like socialism is the extreme of Democrats, and Fascism is the extreme of Republicans. Most members of the Republican and Democrat parties dont want to be associated with their extremes (although some do) the same as Libertarians don't usually want to be associated with its extreame.
The downside of your plan is that the result may be four years of Kerry. Another four years of increased government, decreased civil liberties and sounds like more wars as well?
I think we are better off with Bush atleast if he fucks things up enought people will start looking for an alternative that will begin to "fix" things. The current switch back and forth between crap and crap just isn't going to cut it.