Are you referring to me, or ColdFjord? Any time people bring up the crimes committed by Occupy, they need to be reminded that Occupy happened because a much more powerful group committed much more serious and harmful crimes. There is nothing off topic or flamebait about pointing out who the real dangerous criminals in this country are.
I sold gas for $.99/gallon during the summer of 2001 in central Michigan. Not that the price of gas has anything to do with overpopulation or global warming. We're still going to run out.
Actually, higher population generally results in higher population density in cities. We don't go plow a forest to built more suburban houses, we stop building houses, and start building condos, high-rise apartments, etc., etc.
We still have to feed those people. The amount of land needed for farming increases linearly with the population. We do bulldoze forest and grassland to build farms.
And in the US, at least, the population is steadily moving southwest every year... The point being, we're generally destroying shrub desert, which previously had thin populations of plants and animals, which contributed almost nothing to renewing "our air and water."
That's going to work out great as a warming atmosphere makes the south west even more arid than it has been.
If you care about the rule of law, you should be complaining about the crimes of bankers. Whatever laws the Occupy movement has broken pale in comparision to the crimes of Citibank, Countrywide, Goldman Sacks, MF Global, etc. If they can break the law and get away with it, why should we respect the law?
Given the range of criminal behavior that the banking industry has been involved in, you should be very concerned about the rule of law in this country when protesters are arrested and bankers aren't.
They are smart enough not to go into such a boring field where the managers or HR treat you like low-level employees to be shoved into basement offices & worked 50 hours w/o overtime pay.
True, but it's worth pointing out that this effect is larger in conservatives. The more a conservative learns about a topic the stronger his preconcieved beliefs are.
The result was stunning and alarming. The standard view that knowing more science, or being better at mathematical reasoning, ought to make you more accepting of mainstream climate science simply crashed and burned.
Instead, here was the result. If you were already part of a cultural group predisposed to distrust climate scienceâ"e.g., a political conservative or âoehierarchical-individualistââ"then more science knowledge and more skill in mathematical reasoning tended to make you even more dismissive.
Contrast liberals, where learning more about a topic is more likely to change his belief.
Nuclear power is a classic test case for liberal biasesâ"kind of the flip side of the global warming issueâ"for the following reason. Itâ(TM)s well known that liberals tend to start out distrustful of nuclear energy: Thereâ(TM)s a long history of this on the left. But this impulse puts them at odds with the views of the scientific community on the matter (scientists tend to think nuclear power risks are overblown, especially in light of the dangers of other energy sources, like coal).
So are liberals âoesmart idiotsâ on nukes? Not in Kahanâ(TM)s study. As members of the âoeegalitarian communitarianâ group in the studyâ"people with more liberal valuesâ"knew more science and math, they did not become more worried, overall, about the risks of nuclear power. Rather, they moved in the opposite direction from where these initial impulses would have taken them. They become less worriedâ"and, I might add, closer to the opinion of the scientific community on the matter.
I think what is infuriating to many is people start with "I don't understand" then proceed to "therefor it doesn't matter".
If you can't explain why it matters in rational terms, then it doesn't.
If you get to arbitrarily declare things offensive without any rational basis, then I get to do the same. I hereby declare your argument that "big boobs" is offensive to be as offensive to me as "big boobs" is to you. Now by your very own argument I can censor your complaint, just as you want to censor me.
Oh, you don't understand why it's such a big deal to me when you complain about my language? Fine. Then don't tell me how to feel.
If there's something wrong with the logic in this post, please point it out to me.
I'm a male, but to me, it's just a matter of respect for other people.
I find that people who truly respect others the most don't mind when they engage in a little harmless fun. Prudery is caused by respect for the rules, not respect for people, and is ultimately selfish. "If I can't laugh about it, nobody should."
I'm a big believer in "solve every problem with the least government
I am too. The problem is most conservatives see drugs as a problem by definition, and want to solve it with the least government possible. Since the drug "problem" is not solvable, that translates into maximal government whenever drugs are concerned.
The difference between conservatives and liberals isn't big government versus small government. Both sides are more than willing to use big government to get what they want. It's how responsive they are to facts that contradict their ideas.
It's currently enjoying a place of honor between my SE/30 and Amiga 500. Outfitted it with a CFFA 3000 which emulates Disk II floppies and smart port hard drives, and I added a 4mb RAM card. All it needs now is an accelerator. Really sweet little system, I don't think I could part with it unless I had to.
I do have an Apple IIe I'm looking to get rid of. Two Disk II drives, Apple Monitor III, Super Serial Card, and System Saver. I can provide a full ADT Pro setup with it. No boxes on this one though.
That's why I don't have one. It's really tempting, considering iOS is the only platform Jeff Minter writes for these days. But I'll have to be satisfied with my C64 copy of Gridrunner, unless he ports his stuff to Android.
Parent post said "what progress have they made in the office application field", not "what features have they added to office".
And still, pivot tables were invented by Lotus in the early 90s. One click charting is about as innovative as one click ordering. And the size of your spreadsheet should never have been limited by anything except your available RAM in the first place.
Gloves are nothing but hygiene theatre. Human hands, regularly washed are cleaner than gloves that haven't been changed. You're less likely to feel contamination on your gloves than on your hands, so you're likely to change gloves less often than you'd wash hands.
We're talking about the Olympics. These athletes take it way too seriously, and a lot of them wreck their bodies in the process. Fun and health benefits aren't why anyone goes to the Olympics. It's all about pride.
People keep all sorts of packaging. I collect vintage computers. A lot of them still come with their original boxes. Some people really like that, and it boosts the price people can get for the computer. Personally, I can't program or play games on a box, so I'm happier paying less for a computer.
But sometimes I get a cheap computer that still has its box. What do you do with a box you dont' want? After all these years, it seems a shame to trash it. So I've been hanging on to them. I might one day want to sell my Apple IIgs, and the original boxes will probably add 50% to the price I can get for it. So a stack of empty boxes occupies the corner of my basement.
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If he did, he'd be condemning prosecutors for not having their priorities straight.
Are you referring to me, or ColdFjord? Any time people bring up the crimes committed by Occupy, they need to be reminded that Occupy happened because a much more powerful group committed much more serious and harmful crimes. There is nothing off topic or flamebait about pointing out who the real dangerous criminals in this country are.
Remember $1/gallon gasoline? Me neither.
I sold gas for $.99/gallon during the summer of 2001 in central Michigan. Not that the price of gas has anything to do with overpopulation or global warming. We're still going to run out.
Actually, higher population generally results in higher population density in cities. We don't go plow a forest to built more suburban houses, we stop building houses, and start building condos, high-rise apartments, etc., etc.
We still have to feed those people. The amount of land needed for farming increases linearly with the population. We do bulldoze forest and grassland to build farms.
And in the US, at least, the population is steadily moving southwest every year... The point being, we're generally destroying shrub desert, which previously had thin populations of plants and animals, which contributed almost nothing to renewing "our air and water."
That's going to work out great as a warming atmosphere makes the south west even more arid than it has been.
Dumping 300 million years of sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere in a little over a century is a "natural cyclical phenomena"[sic]?
Dissent is the most severe of all offenses.
If you care about the rule of law, you should be complaining about the crimes of bankers. Whatever laws the Occupy movement has broken pale in comparision to the crimes of Citibank, Countrywide, Goldman Sacks, MF Global, etc. If they can break the law and get away with it, why should we respect the law?
Given the range of criminal behavior that the banking industry has been involved in, you should be very concerned about the rule of law in this country when protesters are arrested and bankers aren't.
They are smart enough not to go into such a boring field where the managers or HR treat you like low-level employees to be shoved into basement offices & worked 50 hours w/o overtime pay.
So they go into nursing or teaching instead.
I wish I lived in Oregon. Any Oregon folk want to organize a naked day at the TSA?
True, but it's worth pointing out that this effect is larger in conservatives. The more a conservative learns about a topic the stronger his preconcieved beliefs are.
Contrast liberals, where learning more about a topic is more likely to change his belief.
I think what is infuriating to many is people start with "I don't understand" then proceed to "therefor it doesn't matter".
If you can't explain why it matters in rational terms, then it doesn't.
If you get to arbitrarily declare things offensive without any rational basis, then I get to do the same. I hereby declare your argument that "big boobs" is offensive to be as offensive to me as "big boobs" is to you. Now by your very own argument I can censor your complaint, just as you want to censor me.
Oh, you don't understand why it's such a big deal to me when you complain about my language? Fine. Then don't tell me how to feel.
If there's something wrong with the logic in this post, please point it out to me.
I'm a male, but to me, it's just a matter of respect for other people.
I find that people who truly respect others the most don't mind when they engage in a little harmless fun. Prudery is caused by respect for the rules, not respect for people, and is ultimately selfish. "If I can't laugh about it, nobody should."
And? Even if that's true, nothing about that changes any of the reasons that pre-crime is a horrible idea.
The petitions on whitehouse.gov have absolutely no value
I disagree. They are excellent examples of just how impoverished our democracy is.
I'm a big believer in "solve every problem with the least government
I am too. The problem is most conservatives see drugs as a problem by definition, and want to solve it with the least government possible. Since the drug "problem" is not solvable, that translates into maximal government whenever drugs are concerned.
The difference between conservatives and liberals isn't big government versus small government. Both sides are more than willing to use big government to get what they want. It's how responsive they are to facts that contradict their ideas.
True, but we don't have to make it easy for them. If we can't win, at least we can shame them at every opportunity.
It's currently enjoying a place of honor between my SE/30 and Amiga 500. Outfitted it with a CFFA 3000 which emulates Disk II floppies and smart port hard drives, and I added a 4mb RAM card. All it needs now is an accelerator. Really sweet little system, I don't think I could part with it unless I had to.
I do have an Apple IIe I'm looking to get rid of. Two Disk II drives, Apple Monitor III, Super Serial Card, and System Saver. I can provide a full ADT Pro setup with it. No boxes on this one though.
That's why I don't have one. It's really tempting, considering iOS is the only platform Jeff Minter writes for these days. But I'll have to be satisfied with my C64 copy of Gridrunner, unless he ports his stuff to Android.
Parent post said "what progress have they made in the office application field", not "what features have they added to office".
And still, pivot tables were invented by Lotus in the early 90s. One click charting is about as innovative as one click ordering. And the size of your spreadsheet should never have been limited by anything except your available RAM in the first place.
LaTeX is about the most user UNFRIENDLY software that has ever been designed
LaTeX is plenty user friendly. It's just picky about who its friends are.
Make LaTeX as user friendly as MS Office and then no problem but as it is?
By requiring people to upgrade their RAM and GPU just to edit documents? That's not really very friendly, is it?
A good 99% of the population will never bother, they have better things to do than spend hours learning that mess
Spend hours up front to save days or weeks in the long run.
if Excel is not a "quality tool" what is?
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Gloves are nothing but hygiene theatre. Human hands, regularly washed are cleaner than gloves that haven't been changed. You're less likely to feel contamination on your gloves than on your hands, so you're likely to change gloves less often than you'd wash hands.
We're talking about the Olympics. These athletes take it way too seriously, and a lot of them wreck their bodies in the process. Fun and health benefits aren't why anyone goes to the Olympics. It's all about pride.
People keep all sorts of packaging. I collect vintage computers. A lot of them still come with their original boxes. Some people really like that, and it boosts the price people can get for the computer. Personally, I can't program or play games on a box, so I'm happier paying less for a computer.
But sometimes I get a cheap computer that still has its box. What do you do with a box you dont' want? After all these years, it seems a shame to trash it. So I've been hanging on to them. I might one day want to sell my Apple IIgs, and the original boxes will probably add 50% to the price I can get for it. So a stack of empty boxes occupies the corner of my basement.