One huge difference, even if the tax returns were stolen by the DNC, is that the goal of the Watergate robbery was to cover up information, and the tax returns were stolen in order to give the American public more information (or to make a million bit coin bucks, but you'd have to be pretty dumb to think you would be able to get away with that).
I agree with the parent that well known figures receive much more than their share of protection by the law. It makes some sense for political figures, as they can make some pretty powerful enemies in the course of their work, but it makes me sick when millions are spent chasing down a kid email hacker when murder cases are closed because no one really gives a damn.
I don't know what they're talking about, MySpace was already long dead when News Corp bought them (where dead is defined as no longer the place where everyone and their mother's cousin creates an account). I was laughing at them the day they bought it, no need for hindsight on this one!
It still has menus and a docking panel at least. Most of the new features are additions to the OS rather than replacements. Integrating the desktop OS with mobile users is different than treating those desktop users as if they WERE mobile users.
I've started making my coffee in a single serving cone filter. It tastes pretty good, and takes less effort than a french press. Stick in a filter, dump in some coffee grounds (I grind about once a week) and add hot water from my teapot. Sure, it doesn't compare to the flavor of a perfect cup, but it's pretty good for the amount of effort it takes me.
sorry, that should have read: if poor people were barred from an education.
I tend to agree with you that there should be greater standards, but I disagree that someone who has trouble with higher math (or any other single topic, especially if it has little to do with their chosen field) should be denied federal aid. Perhaps students could pay for remedial classes out of their own pocket?
Personally, I feel like I've wasted more money on classes I didn't need because of my BA/BS degree than on a couple extra math classes.
I just finished my first year at the local community college, and there are huge numbers of people there who are just plain not very smart. So, I can see your point, but you fail to look at a broader picture... There are also a large group of people returning to college after decades of employment elsewhere, they need a refresher course in the subjects they haven't touched since high school, and maybe won't use in their future degree either, but since we are stuck on liberal education in the USA, they have to re-learn it. Then, there are the people (like me) who aren't great at math, but are exceptional at other subjects. I got an A in my math class last term, but yeah, I had to study. If people were barred from an education simply because they weren't skilled in a subject that they didn't use and won't use in the future, that's pretty impractical and hardly fair.
yeah, but what if they're a trekker that just doesn't know it yet? What did *you* start with?
Personally, I started with First Contact, and yeah, I didn't get the references, didn't know about the Borg, etc. But, the acting was good, Patrick Stewart is hot and that led in to watching TNG, then TOS... probably DS9 after I finish that.
It really depends on what other types of shows your friends like to watch... just because your girl friend is a girl doesn't mean that she automatically likes touchy-feely drama. Not saying she doesn't, but hopefully you know what she likes better than we do.:-)
I have a slightly different reason, but the same question. I'm in the middle of breaking up with my husband (6.5 years) and he knows some of my passwords... I've decided to go through and change all of them, just to be on the safe side. My current passwords are a huge conglomeration from game level passwords to words to random strings. Some of them I haven't changed since the 1990s:-(
I'm not a fan of password managers, having seen it fail many times (granted those were mostly older people using it). How do you all pick good passwords that you can remember, as well as which sites they are for?
The problem comes when a couple has a child, but both of them work. It is a societal and biological expectation that the woman will step into the role of caregiver, especially for the first year. A man can have a family as well as a career, and neither will suffer to a large degree. A woman is forced to choose between the two in most cases. Either take time off of work to care for the little human, or... don't have kids, or work until delivery, use her two week vacation to give birth and recover, and then hand the child off to, theoretically, her husband to take care of, effectively short-circuiting her biological functions.
Taking care of a kid is a full time job, and I really like what Ursula Le Guin had to say on the topic: 'One person can’t do two jobs, but two people can do three.' In other words, both partners can pursue a career AND raise kids, but only if they share the household chores equally.
"the ones who think that a man who holds a door for a woman is a misogynist, rather than just being polite."
I know you addressed this at the end of your post... but! The only men I find to be misogynist when they hold the door open for me are the ones who REFUSE to let me hold the door open for them if I get there first.
I grew up with less training than some about the supposed differences between men and women. I had three brothers, and I'm very competitive by nature. I made my older brother cry by beating him at RTS games. When I got older, and started paying attention to people's reactions, I remember being shocked when I realized that it made most men uncomfortable when I offered to shake their hand. I ran a computer repair shop for a while, and some men would refuse to believe that *I* was the tech, and not a receptionist. I contribute most of my attitude to my parent's lack of 'training' me about what makes me a girl vs a boy (besides the obvious.. I'm not one of those people who didn't know what gender I was, but I just wasn't informed of my limitations because of my gender... and I'm a nerd, so my focus was on my legos, computers and books rather than what other people were doing)
The FCC did that study last year, and determined that 'rural citizens do not want fast internet'... So, forget the FCC forcing the ISPs to bring high speed internet out to the rural areas any time soon.
Personally, I think that the FCC study was a crock, and if they really wanted to know what the population without internet access wants they should have done more than put up an online survey. It's like asking people if they want access to phone service by making random phone calls.
yes, that is EXACTLY what is wrong with the global menu idea. I guess that since the Windows people hid their menus that everyone else feels like they have to do the same. It was stupid when windows did it, and it's still stupid. Menus are there for a reason. The only way you can get around it is by replacing it with something else - like the Chrome menu. They realized that you only really have enough options to fit in one menu anyway, so why stick with the file, edit, view, tools, help paradigm? Where this falls apart is when you have options that are ONLY avaliable in a menu that you can only access by pressing alt first.
People might not usually shit on their neighbor's lawns, but they sure as hell let their dogs do it, which amounts to the same thing.
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My Colorado PERA account (very similar to a 401k) was dissolved because they ran out of money when the markets crashed and I hadn't worked enough years for them (even though I was forced to pay in, and they only told me that my account was worthless after the new law went into effect). Yeah, I'd call it a satan sandwich.
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It automatically detects your OS depending on which you're using when you donate.
@ jo_ham - I believe they posted a detailed analysis of the donation breakdown per OS right after the first bundle.
really, that;s nothing new. iTunes has always been about selling you things.
Honestly though, it's never made sense to me why they would try to sell me copies of songs/albums that I already own.
It's because my computer isn't hooked up to my television where I can game from the couch
One huge difference, even if the tax returns were stolen by the DNC, is that the goal of the Watergate robbery was to cover up information, and the tax returns were stolen in order to give the American public more information (or to make a million bit coin bucks, but you'd have to be pretty dumb to think you would be able to get away with that).
I agree with the parent that well known figures receive much more than their share of protection by the law. It makes some sense for political figures, as they can make some pretty powerful enemies in the course of their work, but it makes me sick when millions are spent chasing down a kid email hacker when murder cases are closed because no one really gives a damn.
I don't know what they're talking about, MySpace was already long dead when News Corp bought them (where dead is defined as no longer the place where everyone and their mother's cousin creates an account). I was laughing at them the day they bought it, no need for hindsight on this one!
It still has menus and a docking panel at least. Most of the new features are additions to the OS rather than replacements. Integrating the desktop OS with mobile users is different than treating those desktop users as if they WERE mobile users.
I should HOPE they're planning on using Hurd, the GNU people have been working on it for decades ...
Yeah, but Apple is smart enough not to put iOS on their desktop computers. Something Windows and GNOME/Ubuntu could learn from.
I've started making my coffee in a single serving cone filter. It tastes pretty good, and takes less effort than a french press. Stick in a filter, dump in some coffee grounds (I grind about once a week) and add hot water from my teapot. Sure, it doesn't compare to the flavor of a perfect cup, but it's pretty good for the amount of effort it takes me.
sorry, that should have read: if poor people were barred from an education.
I tend to agree with you that there should be greater standards, but I disagree that someone who has trouble with higher math (or any other single topic, especially if it has little to do with their chosen field) should be denied federal aid. Perhaps students could pay for remedial classes out of their own pocket?
Personally, I feel like I've wasted more money on classes I didn't need because of my BA/BS degree than on a couple extra math classes.
I just finished my first year at the local community college, and there are huge numbers of people there who are just plain not very smart. So, I can see your point, but you fail to look at a broader picture... There are also a large group of people returning to college after decades of employment elsewhere, they need a refresher course in the subjects they haven't touched since high school, and maybe won't use in their future degree either, but since we are stuck on liberal education in the USA, they have to re-learn it. Then, there are the people (like me) who aren't great at math, but are exceptional at other subjects. I got an A in my math class last term, but yeah, I had to study. If people were barred from an education simply because they weren't skilled in a subject that they didn't use and won't use in the future, that's pretty impractical and hardly fair.
yeah, but what if they're a trekker that just doesn't know it yet? What did *you* start with?
Personally, I started with First Contact, and yeah, I didn't get the references, didn't know about the Borg, etc. But, the acting was good, Patrick Stewart is hot and that led in to watching TNG, then TOS ... probably DS9 after I finish that.
It really depends on what other types of shows your friends like to watch ... just because your girl friend is a girl doesn't mean that she automatically likes touchy-feely drama. Not saying she doesn't, but hopefully you know what she likes better than we do. :-)
awesome!
I have a slightly different reason, but the same question. I'm in the middle of breaking up with my husband (6.5 years) and he knows some of my passwords ... I've decided to go through and change all of them, just to be on the safe side. My current passwords are a huge conglomeration from game level passwords to words to random strings. Some of them I haven't changed since the 1990s :-(
I'm not a fan of password managers, having seen it fail many times (granted those were mostly older people using it). How do you all pick good passwords that you can remember, as well as which sites they are for?
school girl, catholic school girl .. it's still the same problem.
*looks up pictures of kilts to point you to* ... wow, there's kilt porn. I guess I should have expected it.
just image search hot ladies kilt
The problem comes when a couple has a child, but both of them work. It is a societal and biological expectation that the woman will step into the role of caregiver, especially for the first year. A man can have a family as well as a career, and neither will suffer to a large degree. A woman is forced to choose between the two in most cases. Either take time off of work to care for the little human, or ... don't have kids, or work until delivery, use her two week vacation to give birth and recover, and then hand the child off to, theoretically, her husband to take care of, effectively short-circuiting her biological functions.
Taking care of a kid is a full time job, and I really like what Ursula Le Guin had to say on the topic: 'One person can’t do two jobs, but two people can do three.' In other words, both partners can pursue a career AND raise kids, but only if they share the household chores equally.
great post :-)
"the ones who think that a man who holds a door for a woman is a misogynist, rather than just being polite."
I know you addressed this at the end of your post ... but! The only men I find to be misogynist when they hold the door open for me are the ones who REFUSE to let me hold the door open for them if I get there first.
I grew up with less training than some about the supposed differences between men and women. I had three brothers, and I'm very competitive by nature. I made my older brother cry by beating him at RTS games. When I got older, and started paying attention to people's reactions, I remember being shocked when I realized that it made most men uncomfortable when I offered to shake their hand. I ran a computer repair shop for a while, and some men would refuse to believe that *I* was the tech, and not a receptionist. I contribute most of my attitude to my parent's lack of 'training' me about what makes me a girl vs a boy (besides the obvious .. I'm not one of those people who didn't know what gender I was, but I just wasn't informed of my limitations because of my gender ... and I'm a nerd, so my focus was on my legos, computers and books rather than what other people were doing)
I want a kilt, but I'm a girl, and it will just come off as "catholic school girl" rather than ... like a kilt
Words are like clothes, you mix and match and there isn't any right answer.
Yup, but, just as with clothes, there are certainly WRONG answers
The FCC did that study last year, and determined that 'rural citizens do not want fast internet' ... So, forget the FCC forcing the ISPs to bring high speed internet out to the rural areas any time soon.
Personally, I think that the FCC study was a crock, and if they really wanted to know what the population without internet access wants they should have done more than put up an online survey. It's like asking people if they want access to phone service by making random phone calls.
yes, that is EXACTLY what is wrong with the global menu idea. I guess that since the Windows people hid their menus that everyone else feels like they have to do the same. It was stupid when windows did it, and it's still stupid. Menus are there for a reason. The only way you can get around it is by replacing it with something else - like the Chrome menu. They realized that you only really have enough options to fit in one menu anyway, so why stick with the file, edit, view, tools, help paradigm? Where this falls apart is when you have options that are ONLY avaliable in a menu that you can only access by pressing alt first.
you've obviously never seen my neighbor's dogs turds which get left all up and down the sidewalk every morning.
People might not usually shit on their neighbor's lawns, but they sure as hell let their dogs do it, which amounts to the same thing.
My Colorado PERA account (very similar to a 401k) was dissolved because they ran out of money when the markets crashed and I hadn't worked enough years for them (even though I was forced to pay in, and they only told me that my account was worthless after the new law went into effect). Yeah, I'd call it a satan sandwich.