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What we have to do is to put all our money into stocks, so that when our jobs are outsourced to other countries, we can live of the dividends. These will be very high, as the multi-national corporations will be making record profits.
By then there will be no tax on investment income and we'll be sitting pretty.
</sarcasm>
You are closer to the truth than you realize. It won't be long before working class people can no longer afford to live in the USA (unless they want to live as homeless people). If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Either become a member of the investor class, or be lost.
I really do feel for people that can't let go of their problems once they leave the job. Might want to try something different to get out of that rut. No one wants to die thinking about how much they hate their job.
Sounds like you've never had a job you've really hated. It used to be I couldn't sleep, because I would lay awake all night dreading the next day at work. I can't "just forget about it" when I know that tomorrow I will spend another 8 hours having my soul drained from my body.
COLSA is too similar to Cozzano from Interface by Stephen Bury aka Neil Stephenson for my liking. This is a great time to re-read that book.
No. That is a terrible book. Don't bother. The Cobweb is better, and I think, also written under the pen name Stephen Bury. It's still not that great, but readable.
Gotta expand expand expand! Gotta do something good with that investor money! They've got shareholders to answer to now. Flash ads and javascript popups are not far behind.
My family has been working as teachers and staffers in my town's
Small Town, USA. Hicksville. You are right. Parents are to blame, much more so than teachers. Why do peoples' semi-retarded moronic kids act like little hoodlums when they get into a school? Because their parents raised them that way. Public schools doesn't exist to educate. They exist to contain kids while parents are at work. They also exist to entertain parents and children (sports). Education isn't a priority.
If you care about your kids' education, do some basic research, and send them to a good private school, rather than dropping them off at the government-provided school just because it's there.
http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html (Why nerds are unpopular)
Why bother debunking something so stupid? Just gives the conspiracy theorists more to talk about.
Also, anyone capable of rational thought would not believe such garbage in the first place. Anyone stupid enough to believe something that stupid isn't worth correcting.
Wow. You mean a Microsoft ad campaign is saying that Windows is better than Linux? I'm shocked. Shocked and appalled.
Re:The same physics still applies
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Let's examine your bulldozer/anthill analogy a little closer:
Woooooooooosshhhhhh!
That wasn't a Swedish jet. That was the sound of the original post zooming over your head at Mach 17.
He was referring to the Doug Adams novel. The point is NOT that Earth would be destroyed because the aliens are physically larger than us. The point is that Earth would be destroyed (and was destroyed in the novel) because of our insignificance in terms of intelligence (and also in the novel, "galatic awareness").
So please tell me how I send user friendly emails to my Mom with clickable references, embedded pictures and formatted for easy reading to accomodate aging eyes.
Instead of sending her a web page, send her an address of a web page. On the web. Where web pages are supposed to be.
Most MUAs will turn something that looks like "http://" into a clickable link, even in plain text viewing mode. Mozilla, for example.
It's ok. Tech support has moved off-shore. All of it. Almost completely. The people that will be handling these types of calls are not the same people who handled calls in the pre-outsourcing "generation".
I found a nice case on axiontech (Also made by VIA.)
Only 1 problem with the case for me: It was designed for 1 harddrive and 1 cdrom. Getting the second harddrive in there involved... the use of duct tape.
I just put together a nice 1GHz VIA C3 mini-itx system. I looked around at pre-assembled systems, but the price was crazy compared to how much cheaper it is to buy the parts and put them together yourself. Even more so than regular PC hardware, probably because this mini/micro stuff is newer.
The most noise comes from the two hard drives I put in the thing, since I didn't get any special quiet drives. Just a couple of 7200rpm IDE drives.
I am sure he was as disappointed as me that the installation didn't follow the./configure && make && make install standard procedure, and that it defaulted to/usr instead of/usr/local as installation directory.
su -
perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Mail::SpamAssassin
Nice easy way to install and keep up to date with the latest version of SA. This might be why the./configure method was neglected, although I agree it's disappointing.
And if I remember correctly, the CPAN method does install the programs to/usr/local/.
In truth medical technology lowers the birth rate.
No, education lowers the birth rate. Nobody has kids on purpose, when they know better. What would you rather do: Work in a factory for your entire life so you can afford to feed your 18 kids, or would you rather be free and enjoy your life? Nobody has kids on purpose.
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<sarcasm> What we have to do is to put all our money into stocks, so that when our jobs are outsourced to other countries, we can live of the dividends. These will be very high, as the multi-national corporations will be making record profits.
By then there will be no tax on investment income and we'll be sitting pretty. </sarcasm>
You are closer to the truth than you realize. It won't be long before working class people can no longer afford to live in the USA (unless they want to live as homeless people). If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Either become a member of the investor class, or be lost.
I really do feel for people that can't let go of their problems once they leave the job. Might want to try something different to get out of that rut. No one wants to die thinking about how much they hate their job.
Sounds like you've never had a job you've really hated. It used to be I couldn't sleep, because I would lay awake all night dreading the next day at work. I can't "just forget about it" when I know that tomorrow I will spend another 8 hours having my soul drained from my body.
COLSA is too similar to Cozzano from Interface by Stephen Bury aka Neil Stephenson for my liking. This is a great time to re-read that book.
No. That is a terrible book. Don't bother. The Cobweb is better, and I think, also written under the pen name Stephen Bury. It's still not that great, but readable.
My Motorola Surfboard's orange "Activity" light (this model doesn't have separate LEDs for TX/RX) is almost always solid
Look on the back. If I remember correctly, there are separate LEDs on the back for TX/RX.
IPO
Gotta expand expand expand! Gotta do something good with that investor money! They've got shareholders to answer to now. Flash ads and javascript popups are not far behind.
My family has been working as teachers and staffers in my town's
Small Town, USA. Hicksville. You are right. Parents are to blame, much more so than teachers. Why do peoples' semi-retarded moronic kids act like little hoodlums when they get into a school? Because their parents raised them that way. Public schools doesn't exist to educate. They exist to contain kids while parents are at work. They also exist to entertain parents and children (sports). Education isn't a priority.
If you care about your kids' education, do some basic research, and send them to a good private school, rather than dropping them off at the government-provided school just because it's there.
http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html (Why nerds are unpopular)
Hmmmm...
After a Debian install is up and running, the first thing I apt-get is "less".
And as for reinstalling? How about never? Installed my Debian system at home about 3 years ago, and I just keep dist-upgrading.
Why bother debunking something so stupid? Just gives the conspiracy theorists more to talk about.
Also, anyone capable of rational thought would not believe such garbage in the first place. Anyone stupid enough to believe something that stupid isn't worth correcting.
"I taught myself to program in all the languages: C, C++, Basic, Java, HTML, PHP, CGI..."
And for those of you who don't actually know this: CGI is a protocol, not a language. Ugh. See parent. These kids are not hackers.
"I taught myself to program in all the languages: C, C++, Basic, Java, HTML, PHP, CGI..."
So that's it, huh? Makes me wonder about the validity of their claim to be "hackers".
Linux is for bitches and stupid ones at that :
Your carefully worded and well thought-out reply has forced me to reconsider my position.
This is BSD advocacy, poorly disguised. A demon in sheep's clothing.
Thank you slashdot for posting a story that links to the addresses the Treasury Dept. has posted :-)
Seriously, though, that's probably not helping. Unless someone on slashdot actually takes action against them, but that seems unlikely.
Wow. You mean a Microsoft ad campaign is saying that Windows is better than Linux? I'm shocked. Shocked and appalled.
Let's examine your bulldozer/anthill analogy a little closer:
Woooooooooosshhhhhh!
That wasn't a Swedish jet. That was the sound of the original post zooming over your head at Mach 17.
He was referring to the Doug Adams novel. The point is NOT that Earth would be destroyed because the aliens are physically larger than us. The point is that Earth would be destroyed (and was destroyed in the novel) because of our insignificance in terms of intelligence (and also in the novel, "galatic awareness").
So please tell me how I send user friendly emails to my Mom with clickable references, embedded pictures and formatted for easy reading to accomodate aging eyes.
Instead of sending her a web page, send her an address of a web page. On the web. Where web pages are supposed to be.
Most MUAs will turn something that looks like "http://" into a clickable link, even in plain text viewing mode. Mozilla, for example.
It's ok. Tech support has moved off-shore. All of it. Almost completely. The people that will be handling these types of calls are not the same people who handled calls in the pre-outsourcing "generation".
Yeah, I'm running Linux 2.4.22 at the moment, and the 2 ethernet devices are supported by the "VIA Rhine" driver.
Ugh. And I see now that that particular case has been discontinued, according to axion.
Might as well give the run-down
- VIA EPIA CL motherboard. Has dual ethernet builtin. This is my router/NAT/Linux server box.
- VIA C3 1GHz
- 512M DDR
- I found a nice case on axiontech (Also made by VIA.)
Only 1 problem with the case for me: It was designed for 1 harddrive and 1 cdrom. Getting the second harddrive in there involved... the use of duct tape.I just put together a nice 1GHz VIA C3 mini-itx system. I looked around at pre-assembled systems, but the price was crazy compared to how much cheaper it is to buy the parts and put them together yourself. Even more so than regular PC hardware, probably because this mini/micro stuff is newer.
The most noise comes from the two hard drives I put in the thing, since I didn't get any special quiet drives. Just a couple of 7200rpm IDE drives.
I am sure he was as disappointed as me that the installation didn't follow the ./configure && make && make install standard procedure, and that it defaulted to /usr instead of /usr/local as installation directory.
- su -
- perl -MCPAN -e shell
- cpan> install Mail::SpamAssassin
Nice easy way to install and keep up to date with the latest version of SA. This might be why theAnd if I remember correctly, the CPAN method does install the programs to /usr/local/.
One big pile. Time to move on.
I love my wife more than anything else. My friend Em loves his wife, AFAIK more than anything else. How do you tell which one of us has "more" love?
Depends. Could you post pictures of the respective wives?
In truth medical technology lowers the birth rate.
No, education lowers the birth rate. Nobody has kids on purpose, when they know better. What would you rather do: Work in a factory for your entire life so you can afford to feed your 18 kids, or would you rather be free and enjoy your life? Nobody has kids on purpose.