You can't fix it. Life doesn't have a reset switch. You have to correct and watch, correct again, watch. There is no scenario that leads to a magic bullet, problem solved, sit back, put your feet on the desk and have a cigar.
Sounds like your solution is to throw up your hands, say we're fucked and let the train come off the rails in time.
As a former resident who grew up in WI and has voted for Feingold in the past, I seriously have no clue WTF was going on there.
He has given back millions in tax payer money given to him to run his office and thousands in salary he didn't need/want. He was the ONLY Senator to vote against the PATRIOT Act and tried a few times to introduce legislation that neutered it (since there's no way it will really go away). He visited every county in the State of Wisconsin each year to hear what people had to say. He refused to run attack ads even though the (R) challenger Ron Johnson, a high school dropout (granted he is a college grad), CEO with rich buddies and millions he got from his rich wife. The guy even admitted he didn't think he was smart enough to run.
Feingold was incorruptible. I once heard him decline an offer to buy him a beer. He didn't want people to think they could buy him off. HE TURNED DOWN BEER TO REMAIN IMPARTIAL. I could never... (/s for the nitwits.).
It truly shows that the masses of this country are brain dead.
This is one thing I don't get. You'd think business and government would be about saying "Hey little guy, here is a helping hand." and get them on a better playing field where they can support themselves and also put into the economy by oh you know buying useless shit.
You'd think it would be in Wal*Mart's, Sony's, Exxon's, Apple's, Microsoft's best interests to make sure as many people as possible can buy their crap.
There is a bit of a problem in that I don't have thousands/millions/billions of dollars to throw at my candidates to help them stay in office. When someone does such a thing for you, you're more inclined to honor that persons opinions/requests at the expense of others.
GTA4 was the first one I played where I kept playing BECAUSE of the story. Before that all I did was run around beating hookers and jumping cars off stuff. Did not play them long. GTA4 finally hooked me.
"Games" are getting easier and the only examples he offers are 3 recent FPS games. FPS games have never offered much in the way of what I'd consider to be difficult, engaging gameplay.
Nope. More that they're trying to create their own path and they disagree with the way Gnome is going. Ars has a better article than the one in the summary.
If people are using only 10% of the features, why not make those features easier to get at? Why keep them nested away in multiple layers. Their job isn't to sit and fuck with menus all day looking for buried features. It's to produce something for the company.
If they're getting their job done faster, wouldn't that be seen as a good thing? What features in that 90% no one uses do they need?
This is like a Tim Allen situation. If a hammer will get the job done, only an idiot would use just a hammer. No, we need a fuckin' POWERED HAMMER.
Off topic, but I something just hit me. You ever go from driving a manual to automatic? Every time I get in a car with an automatic I feel disconnected from what I'm doing.
I'd be curious to see how many accidents are caused by drivers in cars with automatic transmissions and those with manual. I feel far more in control and pay better attention when I have to focus on shifting. I really have to stay in touch to what I'm doing. I am far less inclined to reach for a wireless phone and all that while driving a manual transmission.
I thought Apple had said in court filings rather recently that the agreement exists and people complaining about being locked to AT&T should have considered that before signing on the dotted line. To me that sounds like they're still honoring the agreement.
Oh wow, one example. What an amazing amount of research you've done. Thank you for enlightening me to the fact that one company props up the entire economy.
Except the rich aren't really spending. Businesses have been swimming in profits, but not hiring or undertaking other projects that would create jobs indirectly (expansion projects, etc). They're sitting on the cash, using up resources, and trying to get out of paying taxes.
I seem to remember at one point Hulu Desktop not working because it couldn't find my Flash plugin. Once I made a simlink it was fine. That was a while ago though. Maybe it's packaged in now?
Hm. Yeah, not really seeing it. I've been using the same apps on my EVO 4G that co-workers and friends are using on their Droid, Droid Eris, Droid 2, Galaxy S series phones, Hero, Cliq, etc. Oops wait a sec, my turn on Wordfeud with a friend on a Droid X.
Just so you're aware, since I'm not sure you realize how the Internet works: Anyone can potentially snoop on you online. It's a risk you've been willing to accept from day one when you called up your first web site.
Suddenly saying "OH NO! I trusted Google with everything online! And now this!" doesn't erase the fact that you've been ignorant about your own security. At some point, at these companies, someone somewhere has access, from your ISP to your mailman. Hey guess what, it is like that offline too; Someone at your credit card company can see what you've been buying too. That's the way it works, yo. Better think twice about that Real Doll.
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They just re-elected Michele Bachmann.
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You can't fix it. Life doesn't have a reset switch. You have to correct and watch, correct again, watch. There is no scenario that leads to a magic bullet, problem solved, sit back, put your feet on the desk and have a cigar.
Sounds like your solution is to throw up your hands, say we're fucked and let the train come off the rails in time.
As a former resident who grew up in WI and has voted for Feingold in the past, I seriously have no clue WTF was going on there.
He has given back millions in tax payer money given to him to run his office and thousands in salary he didn't need/want. He was the ONLY Senator to vote against the PATRIOT Act and tried a few times to introduce legislation that neutered it (since there's no way it will really go away). He visited every county in the State of Wisconsin each year to hear what people had to say. He refused to run attack ads even though the (R) challenger Ron Johnson, a high school dropout (granted he is a college grad), CEO with rich buddies and millions he got from his rich wife. The guy even admitted he didn't think he was smart enough to run.
Feingold was incorruptible. I once heard him decline an offer to buy him a beer. He didn't want people to think they could buy him off. HE TURNED DOWN BEER TO REMAIN IMPARTIAL. I could never... (/s for the nitwits.).
It truly shows that the masses of this country are brain dead.
This is one thing I don't get. You'd think business and government would be about saying "Hey little guy, here is a helping hand." and get them on a better playing field where they can support themselves and also put into the economy by oh you know buying useless shit.
You'd think it would be in Wal*Mart's, Sony's, Exxon's, Apple's, Microsoft's best interests to make sure as many people as possible can buy their crap.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/31/charles-henry-bennett-tsa_n_443707.html
They get off on violating children
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dyrr8/help_i_believe_the_tsa_violated_my_son/
False Hope!
What Change?
There is a bit of a problem in that I don't have thousands/millions/billions of dollars to throw at my candidates to help them stay in office. When someone does such a thing for you, you're more inclined to honor that persons opinions/requests at the expense of others.
GTA4 was the first one I played where I kept playing BECAUSE of the story. Before that all I did was run around beating hookers and jumping cars off stuff. Did not play them long. GTA4 finally hooked me.
"Games" are getting easier and the only examples he offers are 3 recent FPS games. FPS games have never offered much in the way of what I'd consider to be difficult, engaging gameplay.
Gnome Globalmenu is a package that enables the universal File, Edit, View, Etc bar for apps. Like in Mac OS X
Example
Nope. More that they're trying to create their own path and they disagree with the way Gnome is going. Ars has a better article than the one in the summary.
Incomprehensible is fine. If it were readable, then politicians might have to actually do just that.
There is something we can do about this.
If people are using only 10% of the features, why not make those features easier to get at? Why keep them nested away in multiple layers. Their job isn't to sit and fuck with menus all day looking for buried features. It's to produce something for the company.
If they're getting their job done faster, wouldn't that be seen as a good thing? What features in that 90% no one uses do they need?
This is like a Tim Allen situation. If a hammer will get the job done, only an idiot would use just a hammer. No, we need a fuckin' POWERED HAMMER.
Off topic, but I something just hit me. You ever go from driving a manual to automatic? Every time I get in a car with an automatic I feel disconnected from what I'm doing.
I'd be curious to see how many accidents are caused by drivers in cars with automatic transmissions and those with manual. I feel far more in control and pay better attention when I have to focus on shifting. I really have to stay in touch to what I'm doing. I am far less inclined to reach for a wireless phone and all that while driving a manual transmission.
I thought Apple had said in court filings rather recently that the agreement exists and people complaining about being locked to AT&T should have considered that before signing on the dotted line. To me that sounds like they're still honoring the agreement.
And are replacing it with a much more robust option in 2010.
So what's your point?
You know what the real problem is... Oh wait, gotta go, my program is on!
Never start with the head. It just makes the persons memory all fuzzy.
Oh wow, one example. What an amazing amount of research you've done. Thank you for enlightening me to the fact that one company props up the entire economy.
Except the rich aren't really spending. Businesses have been swimming in profits, but not hiring or undertaking other projects that would create jobs indirectly (expansion projects, etc). They're sitting on the cash, using up resources, and trying to get out of paying taxes.
The DMCA allows for reverse-engineering for interoperability. So, eat a dick Intel.
It has 512MB of RAM (compared to iPad's 256MB)
Hm..
I seem to remember at one point Hulu Desktop not working because it couldn't find my Flash plugin. Once I made a simlink it was fine. That was a while ago though. Maybe it's packaged in now?
Hm. Yeah, not really seeing it. I've been using the same apps on my EVO 4G that co-workers and friends are using on their Droid, Droid Eris, Droid 2, Galaxy S series phones, Hero, Cliq, etc. Oops wait a sec, my turn on Wordfeud with a friend on a Droid X.
Just so you're aware, since I'm not sure you realize how the Internet works: Anyone can potentially snoop on you online. It's a risk you've been willing to accept from day one when you called up your first web site.
Suddenly saying "OH NO! I trusted Google with everything online! And now this!" doesn't erase the fact that you've been ignorant about your own security. At some point, at these companies, someone somewhere has access, from your ISP to your mailman. Hey guess what, it is like that offline too; Someone at your credit card company can see what you've been buying too. That's the way it works, yo. Better think twice about that Real Doll.