My friend, the FRY COOK, observed that the woman had done a VERY stupid thing and was now bleeding profusely everywhere and was in no shape to threaten anyone. What would your average cop have done, if a large black woman had slugged HIM across the chin? Would he have allowed her to fall to the ground and bleed and cry in peace? Or would he first teach her a lesson? At the very least, I'd say, she would walk away with a few extra nasty brusies. If the cop was in a bad mood, probably a broken bone or a concussion.
So do you prefer a world without repurcussions for exceedingly stupid actions? Where unnecessary violience goes unpunished? A world without justice?
I'd rather see the woman pummeled with night sticks... but that's just me.
You pitch a product as being in-line with the ideological tenets of two dictatorships and you think you have a victory?
My thoughts exactly. I mean, just how hard could it be to get communist countries to switch from the American, proprietary, capitalist operating system to the public, owned by nobody, people's effort operating system??
In the last year, I've installed and played with a few distros (SuSe and Mandrake, each for all of an hour or so), and it looks like linux has come a loooong way in usability in the last decade. At the current rate, I think linux might actually make a significant breakthrough onto John Q Public's desktop in the coming decade.
Of course, Vista's success will be a big factor. If MS actually puts out something stable and hardware steps up to the plate appropriately... well, we'll just see about that, won't we?
Recruit the astronauts from among the slashdot readers. They won't have a problem going a couple of years without sex. You can't miss what you don't know!
I believe some Magic the Gathering Championship was on one of the ESPN channels last year. I can't imagine that being particularly interesting to many people (then again, I'm not a fan of the game). If Magic can make its way on TV, then certainly some heated matches of Starcraft or Counter-Strike could...
I wish they had it on real TV more often. It's fascinating to watch the pros play. They do so many things you wouldn't even think of and come up with many interesting decks you wouldn't have believed competitive...
Frankly, I don't know. I don't know squat about bombs, and I've never seen that show either. It's easy to laugh about it in retrospect, but what would YOU do if you saw something very strange and unidentifiable (to you)?
Well, allow me to educate you. Gallium arsenide is not an explosive!
Seriously, though. What do you know about bombs? Anything... at all? If you had to GUESS how a bomb is made or how it works, what would be your guess?
To each his own, I guess. I would much prefer not working. To the extent that I moved out of California (used to live in Mountain View) and have barely worked in the last 4 years.
Unless you have opportunities to make extraordinary amounts of money in SF, I don't know that I'd pick SF in particular as a place to live (SF is nice... but at what cost?). Why not someplace like Monterey or Santa Cruz? You know, nice, but lacking the completely insane high cost of living.
"Supported by Social Security? The maximum monthly payment from Social Security is $2116. I don't know about you, but that's a lot less than I'm making monthly right now. If my investments don't pay off well, I'm going to be coding at 75 just to keep afloat. The whole concept of retirement is going to have to be rethought as we move past the era where the number of younger workers greatly exceeds the number of retirees and as life expectancy after retirement age increases."
Are you saying that you can't survive off of $2116 a month?
"As for the live CDs Puppy and DSL are simply amazing."
I tried the DSL Live CD. It didn't recongize my display very well (1280x768) or my pointing device (I don't have a touchpad), so I just moved along to something else.
I think that's the trouble you're going to run into advocating linux. Windows has a boatload of problems, but when it comes to hardware, well... here's my summarized limited history:
1998 - DEC Alphastation 4/233: Windows NT works great [A] (stable, fast & no hardware problems), Red Hat works but is incredibly sluggish [D] 2000 - Mish-mash K62-450: Windows 95 OSR 2 requires a hack, runs lightning quick, but stability blows goats [C]. Debian wouldn't startx [F]. Settled on semi-slow Win2k [C+]. 2004 - Fujitsu P2120: XP sluggish [C]. Win2k works [B+]. Tried Beatrix, DSL, Feather and Morphix. All were cludgy (UI) and/or didn't automatically pick up my pointing stick, etc [F]. I last tried Auditor [D] circa 2006 and have it sitting on a partition since I at least didn't have to bother with the pointing stick. But the UI seems awkward and the few packages I tried had dependancy problems.
Hem and haw all you like about how lazy I am (and how old my anecdotes are), but the point is... whatever you suggest ought to:
1. Have great hardware support: Nobody wants to bother with device drivers in an OS they unfamiliar with. 2. Have a fast/crisp UI: ALL of my home installs had problems here. Until sitting down with SuSe more recently, I was beginning to think linux and sloppy/slow UI were synonymous. 3. No dependancy problems: Windows users are used to going to websites, downloading executables, running them and presto... software installed. Anything less is a relative pain in the ass.
Yes... windows crashes. This makes linux attractive, but when you consider the amount of time bothering with driver problems, a sluggish UI or installation woes, for anyone lazy, windows doesn't seem so bad afterall.
My dad is a staunch republican and his primary argument is China. He argues that fueling green agendas puts us at an economic disadvantage for what amounts to pissing in the wind, given that the U.S. puts out a pittance of pollution compared to China (and India).
In other words, make it a global policy and he's for it... otherwise he sees the efforts as futile.
Maybe they are just talking about the source (not to say that their claims aren't totally bogus... they probably are).
It would be like someone saying that China is responsible for 50% of all hammers. Then you come in and say, "No way, I see hammers being bought and sold in droves in country X."
I find personally offensive that anyone would be so opposed to what the parent poster had to say and that anyone would defend the disgusting lifestyle that was being criticized.
The federation takes a heavy hit from the borg ala 911 (maybe DS9, for a tie in?). Anyway, a mission is hatched for sending a ship to the machine planet (on intelligence that, yes, it is the source of the borg) with the help of Wesley Crusher. Picard is picked for the mission, given his background, and Seven of Nine's help is enlisted. They travel to some other quadrant and find the machine planet. Insert plot fillers. Have it turn out to be a trap of sorts (self-fulfilling prophecy type deal) where they end up creating the borg/machine planet... via Seven of Nine and time travel. I know... time travel is soooooo played out, but hey, it sounds more interesting than the plot for Nemesis, no?
The poor (making $20.00 an hour or less) cant afford to build a home or buy a old home in lower crime areas... you just cant afford a $350,000.00+ mortgage when you make a paltry $20.00 a hour. So you are stuck buying a crapshack in the $200,000 range in a questionable neighborhood that you hope is not too bad. Here is the problem. your little 1200 Sq foot crapshack was built in 1955 and has no insulation. so heating it costs you over $200.00 a month during winter months. While the rich guy in his 4800 sq foot home get's away with $180.00 a month keeping it at 72 degrees because he has low E glass, south facing windows, thermal mass, decent insulation etc....
First off, $20/hr is poor? Put down the crack pipe!
Second, I have a solution for your scenario numbers: MOVE OUT OF CALIFORNIA!
It really works. I moved to Spokane and bought an 1120 sq ft home for $38,000 (in full, cash). Property taxes... about $750/yr.
Oh and, yeah... I bought all new windows (about $75-$150 per) and had insulation blown in ($1000). Using electric blankets and wearing sweaters goes a long way, too.
The depressing fact is that I see my 15 year old and know that she probably will never be a homeowner unless she does somethign stupid and get's one of those unrealistic mortgages, marries a rich guy, or becomes a doctor.
The depressing fact is that you can't even imagine your daughter being a homeowner...EVER? I mean, I bought my house at age 27 and most of my work years averaged well below $20/hr. (Enlisted military, check a military paychart and see). And on top of that, I have over $100k+ in investments. See? Not so hard, is it?
I can't imagine spending more than $1500 a month on living expenses, no matter where. Even in Mountain View, CA, I spent $750 on rent + maybe another $500 on food, gas, insurance, etc, etc, etc. I made $47k a year (well, only one year) and came out with about $30k which is currently invested for retirement.
I don't see how $40k is not enough for a single person.
Wowee-Zowee - a whopping $1400 worth of nicities, along with maybe a $5000 car you're making payments on.
Are these nicities things that the average person didn't have 50 years ago? Sure. So what! Today they don't amount to squat - a mere $6400 worth of cheap trinkets.
Mere $6400? Maybe you wouldn't mind giving me an even lesser $640 so I can get the TV and dishwasher that I'm missing.
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My friend, the FRY COOK, observed that the woman had done a VERY stupid thing and was now bleeding profusely everywhere and was in no shape to threaten anyone. What would your average cop have done, if a large black woman had slugged HIM across the chin? Would he have allowed her to fall to the ground and bleed and cry in peace? Or would he first teach her a lesson? At the very least, I'd say, she would walk away with a few extra nasty brusies. If the cop was in a bad mood, probably a broken bone or a concussion.
So do you prefer a world without repurcussions for exceedingly stupid actions? Where unnecessary violience goes unpunished? A world without justice?
I'd rather see the woman pummeled with night sticks... but that's just me.
You pitch a product as being in-line with the ideological tenets of two dictatorships and you think you have a victory?
My thoughts exactly. I mean, just how hard could it be to get communist countries to switch from the American, proprietary, capitalist operating system to the public, owned by nobody, people's effort operating system??
Ditto. I'd buy it in a heartbeat if it had a Lifebook P2120 form factor. (Down with touchpads!!)
No kidding. That was the first thing that popped in my head after reading the summary.
What recourse do we as the public have against these people who twist the intention of the law into a worse crime?
I don't know about the public. But if I were wronged in such a manner, I would exact revenge on the perpetrators.
I think Linux on the desktop is nearly there.
I concur.
In the last year, I've installed and played with a few distros (SuSe and Mandrake, each for all of an hour or so), and it looks like linux has come a loooong way in usability in the last decade. At the current rate, I think linux might actually make a significant breakthrough onto John Q Public's desktop in the coming decade.
Of course, Vista's success will be a big factor. If MS actually puts out something stable and hardware steps up to the plate appropriately... well, we'll just see about that, won't we?
Recruit the astronauts from among the slashdot readers. They won't have a problem going a couple of years without sex. You can't miss what you don't know!
A couple? I'm working on a full decade!
I believe some Magic the Gathering Championship was on one of the ESPN channels last year. I can't imagine that being particularly interesting to many people (then again, I'm not a fan of the game). If Magic can make its way on TV, then certainly some heated matches of Starcraft or Counter-Strike could ...
I wish they had it on real TV more often. It's fascinating to watch the pros play. They do so many things you wouldn't even think of and come up with many interesting decks you wouldn't have believed competitive...
Frankly, I don't know. I don't know squat about bombs, and I've never seen that show either. It's easy to laugh about it in retrospect, but what would YOU do if you saw something very strange and unidentifiable (to you)?
Well, allow me to educate you. Gallium arsenide is not an explosive!
Seriously, though. What do you know about bombs? Anything... at all? If you had to GUESS how a bomb is made or how it works, what would be your guess?
To each his own, I guess. I would much prefer not working. To the extent that I moved out of California (used to live in Mountain View) and have barely worked in the last 4 years.
Unless you have opportunities to make extraordinary amounts of money in SF, I don't know that I'd pick SF in particular as a place to live (SF is nice... but at what cost?). Why not someplace like Monterey or Santa Cruz? You know, nice, but lacking the completely insane high cost of living.
"Supported by Social Security? The maximum monthly payment from Social Security is $2116. I don't know about you, but that's a lot less than I'm making monthly right now. If my investments don't pay off well, I'm going to be coding at 75 just to keep afloat. The whole concept of retirement is going to have to be rethought as we move past the era where the number of younger workers greatly exceeds the number of retirees and as life expectancy after retirement age increases."
Are you saying that you can't survive off of $2116 a month?
"As for the live CDs Puppy and DSL are simply amazing."
I tried the DSL Live CD. It didn't recongize my display very well (1280x768) or my pointing device (I don't have a touchpad), so I just moved along to something else.
I think that's the trouble you're going to run into advocating linux. Windows has a boatload of problems, but when it comes to hardware, well... here's my summarized limited history:
1998 - DEC Alphastation 4/233: Windows NT works great [A] (stable, fast & no hardware problems), Red Hat works but is incredibly sluggish [D]
2000 - Mish-mash K62-450: Windows 95 OSR 2 requires a hack, runs lightning quick, but stability blows goats [C]. Debian wouldn't startx [F]. Settled on semi-slow Win2k [C+].
2004 - Fujitsu P2120: XP sluggish [C]. Win2k works [B+]. Tried Beatrix, DSL, Feather and Morphix. All were cludgy (UI) and/or didn't automatically pick up my pointing stick, etc [F]. I last tried Auditor [D] circa 2006 and have it sitting on a partition since I at least didn't have to bother with the pointing stick. But the UI seems awkward and the few packages I tried had dependancy problems.
Hem and haw all you like about how lazy I am (and how old my anecdotes are), but the point is... whatever you suggest ought to:
1. Have great hardware support: Nobody wants to bother with device drivers in an OS they unfamiliar with.
2. Have a fast/crisp UI: ALL of my home installs had problems here. Until sitting down with SuSe more recently, I was beginning to think linux and sloppy/slow UI were synonymous.
3. No dependancy problems: Windows users are used to going to websites, downloading executables, running them and presto... software installed. Anything less is a relative pain in the ass.
Yes... windows crashes. This makes linux attractive, but when you consider the amount of time bothering with driver problems, a sluggish UI or installation woes, for anyone lazy, windows doesn't seem so bad afterall.
My dad is a staunch republican and his primary argument is China. He argues that fueling green agendas puts us at an economic disadvantage for what amounts to pissing in the wind, given that the U.S. puts out a pittance of pollution compared to China (and India).
In other words, make it a global policy and he's for it... otherwise he sees the efforts as futile.
Maybe they are just talking about the source (not to say that their claims aren't totally bogus... they probably are).
It would be like someone saying that China is responsible for 50% of all hammers. Then you come in and say, "No way, I see hammers being bought and sold in droves in country X."
On a completely unrelated note, I'm running for president of the United States in 2028. You can view a draft of my platform here.
That's the first platform I've ever read that I agree with almost fully. Too bad you're not a billionaire...
I find personally offensive that anyone would be so opposed to what the parent poster had to say and that anyone would defend the disgusting lifestyle that was being criticized.
Here's MY half-baked trek movie idea:
The federation takes a heavy hit from the borg ala 911 (maybe DS9, for a tie in?). Anyway, a mission is hatched for sending a ship to the machine planet (on intelligence that, yes, it is the source of the borg) with the help of Wesley Crusher. Picard is picked for the mission, given his background, and Seven of Nine's help is enlisted. They travel to some other quadrant and find the machine planet. Insert plot fillers. Have it turn out to be a trap of sorts (self-fulfilling prophecy type deal) where they end up creating the borg/machine planet... via Seven of Nine and time travel. I know... time travel is soooooo played out, but hey, it sounds more interesting than the plot for Nemesis, no?
As someone who lived through a tax-evading, deadbeat dad
dodgy so-called parents
People I had no control over cost me my opportunity
I am tired of hearing people blame the poor
So... are you not blaming your dad... who, was poor?
The poor (making $20.00 an hour or less) cant afford to build a home or buy a old home in lower crime areas... you just cant afford a $350,000.00+ mortgage when you make a paltry $20.00 a hour. So you are stuck buying a crapshack in the $200,000 range in a questionable neighborhood that you hope is not too bad. Here is the problem. your little 1200 Sq foot crapshack was built in 1955 and has no insulation. so heating it costs you over $200.00 a month during winter months. While the rich guy in his 4800 sq foot home get's away with $180.00 a month keeping it at 72 degrees because he has low E glass, south facing windows, thermal mass, decent insulation etc....
First off, $20/hr is poor? Put down the crack pipe!
Second, I have a solution for your scenario numbers: MOVE OUT OF CALIFORNIA!
It really works. I moved to Spokane and bought an 1120 sq ft home for $38,000 (in full, cash). Property taxes... about $750/yr.
Oh and, yeah... I bought all new windows (about $75-$150 per) and had insulation blown in ($1000). Using electric blankets and wearing sweaters goes a long way, too.
The depressing fact is that I see my 15 year old and know that she probably will never be a homeowner unless she does somethign stupid and get's one of those unrealistic mortgages, marries a rich guy, or becomes a doctor.
The depressing fact is that you can't even imagine your daughter being a homeowner...EVER? I mean, I bought my house at age 27 and most of my work years averaged well below $20/hr. (Enlisted military, check a military paychart and see). And on top of that, I have over $100k+ in investments. See? Not so hard, is it?
So, in short, Oprah is annoyed because these kids want to be Oprah.
Why plant a tree in the desert if you could just as easily plant it in fertile ground?
Where do you live?
I can't imagine spending more than $1500 a month on living expenses, no matter where. Even in Mountain View, CA, I spent $750 on rent + maybe another $500 on food, gas, insurance, etc, etc, etc. I made $47k a year (well, only one year) and came out with about $30k which is currently invested for retirement.
I don't see how $40k is not enough for a single person.
Wowee-Zowee - a whopping $1400 worth of nicities, along with maybe a $5000 car you're making payments on.
Are these nicities things that the average person didn't have 50 years ago? Sure. So what! Today they don't amount to squat - a mere $6400 worth of cheap trinkets.
Mere $6400? Maybe you wouldn't mind giving me an even lesser $640 so I can get the TV and dishwasher that I'm missing.
I removed norton internet security of course, as it is a festering pile of flaming dragon shit, and everything has been pretty much fine since.
Truer words were never spoken.
Because I didn't realize there was a difference.
They are real. There wouldn't be lots of point honoring a non-existent person for something they hadn't done.
2003 Darwin Awards
2004 Darwin Awards
2005 Darwin Awards
Snopes sounds convincing to me.
Why do people make things up? To see how many people they can fool, perhaps?