And last time I checked, families like to argue on what to watch.
Families argue over what to watch together, and the very idea of sitting on the sofa with the wife and watching two different programs is socially creepy.
It is true astrangment, whereas simply going to seperate rooms is merely personal solitude.
So the only way to be successful in KFG-world is to be at the top?
In KFG world your usage of the word "top" has no meaning. My post was addressing the attitude of the OP.
Lonely place, that KFG world.
Actually, KFG world is the only place where one can afford the "luxury" of true companionship, it being a place where there are no dominance/submission roles and "success" is entirely defined by the achieving of one's own set goals, no matter what those are or what others might think of them.
But yes, it is true that there are few available for such companionship, most people prefering subservient roles to gain "success," because they labor under the misapprehension that this brings them security.
And bitch loudly when that illusion is broken.
Such people will never understand that a guy contentedly living in a van down by the river is the one at the "top."
You did not understand a single word of my post; and achieving "success" by placing oneself in the thrall of someone about power and manipulationg people (i.e., taking a "good job") is the act of the insecure.
The secure simply go about making their own way in the world and do not even understand the meaning of the word "top" as you use it.
But then, if you have a job, no doubt it was your insecurity speaking for you.
In a sense I suppose you are right though. Not having a job is about having power and manipulating one's self, the ultimate "success."
It's called "freedom," the antithesis of security and the "good job" that provides the entirely false image of it, thus your servitude provides you with nothing but false comfort.
Those with the power to manipulate gain it by its being granted to them by the controled. In what way does making such a grant constitute "success" in the meaning of the original poster, at which concept my OP was aimed?
On the most part education does guarantee a well paying job and success in life.
Indeed, because for a buck fifty in library late charges "freaks" like Jobs get to hire people with degrees and student loans to make his living for him.
Enjoy the "success," now get me that TPS report and beg me for dental. Good boy. Have a biscuit.
Ah well, if you aren't lucky you learn something new every day.
I'll make two notes though, Twain was a public speaker, and just because this particular witticism can't be found in his writtings is not actually an indication that he didn't say, and even orginate, the quote, it simply means it can be proven from the written record. There is such a thing as oral history. Many things I have orginated and said are not recorded in print, despite my post count, and the printed version of not a few things has been lost even to myself.
The second note though is my observation (and I believe that of others before me) that sooner or later every American will attribute every witticism to Twain, especially as he often used the witticisms of others, often without direct attribution since the people of his time were well aware of their actual origin.
I too run both Mac and Linux systems, not to mention Windows, but I am not the sort of person to try to generate argument by interpreting the word "usually" as a claim of unversality.
Well here's the thing. Linux is innately a platform in continuous and open development. No matter what its current state of development all the warts of its development models are exposed to the public.
This is not at all the same thing as saying that Linux has those warts, anymore than saying that because Longhorn is still just in development XP shares Longhorn's warts.
Jamie was not using one of the polished, stable versions of the Linux OS. He was using a more "hardcore" version whose very raison d'etre is to be a development platform. It is not really intended to be a stable, end user desktop system at all, but to do as you say, fix Linux.
Thus it is always going to contain some broken stuff and work the way the people who fix the broken stuff, the developers, like stuff to work while they're fixing it.
There are Linux distributions where if your soundcard doesn't work properly you have every right to bitch; and bitch loudly.
But there are Linux distributions where if your soundcard doesn't work the appropriate response really is, "Look, either submit a bug report or submit a fix."
Or even "We know. It's that way on purpose right now because that's the way that makes it easier for us, as developers, to work on it."
If you wish to have a polished, end user experience, use one of the distirbutions that promises to deliver that.
Then go ahead and bitch your head off if it doesn't.
Well, it could be important if the "story" linked to were a good and original critical analysis of the critical weaknesses that lead to the preferences.
Instead there was nothing to see. I mean nothing. There wasn't even the usual page or two of meaningless blather. At least Jamie won't have to worry much about his bandwidth use skyrocketing over this.
The whole story is the headline, and the headline is uninteresting.
KFG
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"I infer from things they say around me that some of this stuff they already do," he says.
Crap.
But of course. It is the nature of the monitoring beast and the very reason such monitoring is offensive to freedom.
First you monitor. Then you monitor for the people avoiding the monitoring. Then you monitor for the people avoiding the . ..
Monitoring, if it is to work at all, is an all or nothing sort of deal. Once started it innately progresses toward the end of a secret cop in every pocket. If you know they are monitoring, you know they are heading toward this point, if not already there.
But that's ok, you have nothing to hide, do you. ..comrade?
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And last time I checked, families like to argue on what to watch.
Families argue over what to watch together, and the very idea of sitting on the sofa with the wife and watching two different programs is socially creepy.
It is true astrangment, whereas simply going to seperate rooms is merely personal solitude.
KFG
So the only way to be successful in KFG-world is to be at the top?
In KFG world your usage of the word "top" has no meaning. My post was addressing the attitude of the OP.
Lonely place, that KFG world.
Actually, KFG world is the only place where one can afford the "luxury" of true companionship, it being a place where there are no dominance/submission roles and "success" is entirely defined by the achieving of one's own set goals, no matter what those are or what others might think of them.
But yes, it is true that there are few available for such companionship, most people prefering subservient roles to gain "success," because they labor under the misapprehension that this brings them security.
And bitch loudly when that illusion is broken.
Such people will never understand that a guy contentedly living in a van down by the river is the one at the "top."
KFG
You did not understand a single word of my post; and achieving "success" by placing oneself in the thrall of someone about power and manipulationg people (i.e., taking a "good job") is the act of the insecure.
The secure simply go about making their own way in the world and do not even understand the meaning of the word "top" as you use it.
But then, if you have a job, no doubt it was your insecurity speaking for you.
In a sense I suppose you are right though. Not having a job is about having power and manipulating one's self, the ultimate "success."
It's called "freedom," the antithesis of security and the "good job" that provides the entirely false image of it, thus your servitude provides you with nothing but false comfort.
Those with the power to manipulate gain it by its being granted to them by the controled. In what way does making such a grant constitute "success" in the meaning of the original poster, at which concept my OP was aimed?
KFG
On the most part education does guarantee a well paying job and success in life.
Indeed, because for a buck fifty in library late charges "freaks" like Jobs get to hire people with degrees and student loans to make his living for him.
Enjoy the "success," now get me that TPS report and beg me for dental. Good boy. Have a biscuit.
KFG
"I'm not dead yet. . .I'm getting better." -- Mark Twain
KFG
San Francisco, Paris, whatever. :)
Ah well, if you aren't lucky you learn something new every day.
I'll make two notes though, Twain was a public speaker, and just because this particular witticism can't be found in his writtings is not actually an indication that he didn't say, and even orginate, the quote, it simply means it can be proven from the written record. There is such a thing as oral history. Many things I have orginated and said are not recorded in print, despite my post count, and the printed version of not a few things has been lost even to myself.
The second note though is my observation (and I believe that of others before me) that sooner or later every American will attribute every witticism to Twain, especially as he often used the witticisms of others, often without direct attribution since the people of his time were well aware of their actual origin.
KFG
Mark Twain once famously noted that the worst winter he ever spent was his summer in San Francisco.
KFG
. . .he knew he was taking advantage of stupid investors.
It's a living.
KFG
Let's see, I used to know what a rubric was.
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Well, don't you worry about that, get some software, analyze it. .
KFG
Unless you can monitor the monitors.
That would be a secret cop in every pocket, no?
KFG
My pronoun refered to the platform for which you had expressed a preference. That would be OSX.
KFG
I too run both Mac and Linux systems, not to mention Windows, but I am not the sort of person to try to generate argument by interpreting the word "usually" as a claim of unversality.
KFG
". . .you have managed. . . on one."
KFG
Nonetheless your own post indicates that have managed to settle one one.
KFG
That is because flat panels are like Intel motherboards.
KFG
Saying "water," rather than "seawater," was an explicit choice of language on my part.
KFG
What platform should I have used exactly?
One you like.
KFG
Linux will be hurt by Apple moving to Intel like fish will be hurt by someone adding a bucket of water to the ocean.
KFG
Well here's the thing. Linux is innately a platform in continuous and open development. No matter what its current state of development all the warts of its development models are exposed to the public.
This is not at all the same thing as saying that Linux has those warts, anymore than saying that because Longhorn is still just in development XP shares Longhorn's warts.
Jamie was not using one of the polished, stable versions of the Linux OS. He was using a more "hardcore" version whose very raison d'etre is to be a development platform. It is not really intended to be a stable, end user desktop system at all, but to do as you say, fix Linux.
Thus it is always going to contain some broken stuff and work the way the people who fix the broken stuff, the developers, like stuff to work while they're fixing it.
There are Linux distributions where if your soundcard doesn't work properly you have every right to bitch; and bitch loudly.
But there are Linux distributions where if your soundcard doesn't work the appropriate response really is, "Look, either submit a bug report or submit a fix."
Or even "We know. It's that way on purpose right now because that's the way that makes it easier for us, as developers, to work on it."
If you wish to have a polished, end user experience, use one of the distirbutions that promises to deliver that.
Then go ahead and bitch your head off if it doesn't.
KFG
Okay, he has a preference. Why is this important?
Well, it could be important if the "story" linked to were a good and original critical analysis of the critical weaknesses that lead to the preferences.
Instead there was nothing to see. I mean nothing. There wasn't even the usual page or two of meaningless blather. At least Jamie won't have to worry much about his bandwidth use skyrocketing over this.
The whole story is the headline, and the headline is uninteresting.
KFG
"I infer from things they say around me that some of this stuff they already do," he says.
.
.comrade?
Crap.
But of course. It is the nature of the monitoring beast and the very reason such monitoring is offensive to freedom.
First you monitor. Then you monitor for the people avoiding the monitoring. Then you monitor for the people avoiding the . .
Monitoring, if it is to work at all, is an all or nothing sort of deal. Once started it innately progresses toward the end of a secret cop in every pocket. If you know they are monitoring, you know they are heading toward this point, if not already there.
But that's ok, you have nothing to hide, do you. .
KFG
Obviously I didn't get my minimum requirement for being patronized by my inferiors when I was young.
KFG
. . . he has allergy to the chalk dust...
"Wet" liquid chalk markers.
KFG
. . .the students are using 10 year old computers and walking under leaky roofs.
Hey, all the comforts of home.
KFG
The only problem being in that this one was one of the actual funny ones. Well played.
KFG