"OTOH, I doubt that no one in the tech industry (save for maybe Microsoft) would ever hire him for anything."....except to repeat his SCO adventures with another expendable company.
"You can always become a teacher in the inner city or work 2 years for Peace Corps or any of the other methods the government has setup for most or all of your loan to be FORGIVEN."
Screw that, I can't count on fire support in the inner city.
Do one enlistment and get a full four-year college ride with ~1K/month (BAH rate varies by locale) stipend. Sure, military life sometimes involves stress and sacrifice, but after retiring and re-visiting how fucked up civilian organizations can be I'm glad I stayed in the Air Force. Now I'm debt-free at 50.:)
"but with the rising number of old people compared to the young, the government is trying to cut cost, meaning, delaying institurionalizing as much as possible."
It could be worse. If it weren't for my parents thorough planning and fair amount of money to supplement government care, they and I would have been fucked and not in a good way. Be glad you have that Evil Socialized Medical Care so feared by the right wing in the US.
I am grateful to hospice staff. I don't know how this is handled in Europe, but in the US they provide a wonderful service caring for the dying (as opposed to mindless dedication to preserve life and prolong suffering).
"I have a feeling that my life has come to an end. Next month I am going to be 48, but it often feels like I am 20 years older."
My parents both had Alzheimers.
At some point, you should consider institutionalizing your wife. Both my wife and myself are Air Force vets, capable people, and that didn't mean shit because Alz patients are exhausting to care for even when they are mostly docile.
She will require care 24 hours a day, and there is no way one or even two people (my wife and I cared for my dying father) can do that. We were able, after he could not live alone, place him in a very good nursing home. We later moved him to a small house on our property, and were able to get in-home caregivers and later, hospice caregivers so my father could die with us. That was in the last year or so of his life. My mother preferred a nursing home near her older extended family.
Alzheimers is brutal (if I'm diagnosed with it, I will organize my affairs and prepare to suicide. May anyone who has moral/religious problems with this come down with Alzheimers!), there is nothing to be done about it, there is no hope, and that must be faced and dealt with straight off.
Look into assisted home care options with a view to moving her into permanent custodial care. Take your time looking at caregivers (good nursing homes literally "smell right" and the staff are genuinely concerned) and learn about your options.
Above all, find social outlets and deliberately prepare yourself for another life. You are middle-aged, you can't accomplish anything at all (this is the hardest part) by staying with your doomed partner, and you have a right to live. Take care, and make a future for yourself.
That depends on what one wants to happen to our prison population which I regard as hardcore, repeat offenders who are beyond redemption. I not only find the thought of them doing to each other what they are in prison for doing to the rest of us amusing, I'd cheerfully euthanize the lot.
The US has a high prison population precisely because it so cherishes "diversity" that no one has a social obligation to anyone else.
All that is left is law, and large segments of the population are so degenerate they require (and are getting) a police state. Given the choice between vermin and Big Brother with zero other options because our public is fractured, ignorant, and getting worse, I support a police state that will at least make some effort to lock up the CHUDs. I don't care what it does to them or they do to each other.
The Chinese method for dealing with political corruption is better, final, and satisfies the public right to vengeance against those who betray them.
Put the financial crooks who are wrecking this country in a stadium and shoot them while the whole world including their families can watch and get the hint. I'll volunteer for the firing squad.
When gentle, "civilized" effeminate practices fail to stop criminals, then use methods that eliminate them. Had Bernard Madoff been publicly killed instead of going to Club Fed, those wanting to be like him might reconsider.
"This is so unbelievably redneck, I'm at a loss for words. That attitude is something out of the 50's or earlier."
You are expressing that this attitude is incompatible with your emotional preference, not that it is illogical or unsupported by actual results.
"And, btw, I was never in a fight in high school. Never had a cause and it wasn't because I was intimidating physically. I just had a knack for getting along with people; i.e. I tried to respect everyone."
That's just adorable, but it doesn't work for many people who become victims. People, like other animals, establish a pecking order and often do so by force. The "redneck" attitude evolved because it "works", while submission does not. Your LUCK and social skills avoided you having to choose between "fight" or "flight". There are plenty of stories from the Hellmouth from people who were not so fortunate, and didn't have an effective "fight" option.
"Thank god I'm already old and not born in to this shit."
I'm old, there is no god, and I would be fine with "being born into this shit" because "shit" now is MUCH more interesting than it was in 1959 when I was born. (Note to self, "avoid lawn")
Youngsters, don't believe the lies. The only things about the "good old days" that were worth a damn were that good drugs were cheap and HIV hadn't arrived yet.
"I'm just waiting them to take off our eyes while in movie theatre."
I don't bother with theaters. With modern home entertainment systems available, why pay to drive where my truck will get dinged or broken into in order to sit with a mob of loud retards who will ruin the movie experience?
I can't pause the movie in the theater when I take a shit, can't re-run segments with fun violence and/or pert bewbies, and am limited to expensive theater junk food.
A live CD image can easily be booted to ram from a USB stick, and unless the user specifies a persistent home directory or saves data to a separate partition, is secure as a live CD.
"Just you wait, many purchases will scrub both Android & Windows 7 and install their favourite distro be it Debian, Fedora, SUSE, or the dreaded *buntu (only joking, xbuntu is pretty good)"
Eliminating any reason for the makers to care about putting anything other than Windows on their machines. User = own tech support.
"Did you read the article? This was done to increase Playboy's sagging sales."
Everybody old enough to care about Playboy is either dead or doddering. It was a tremendous boost to the sexual revolution (which is also ancient history), but it's time is done. Nothing they could possibly apply to paper beats (pun intended) online imagery.
That's why it isn't worth following the technologies unless you, personally, are actually working with them. Hearing they might work in some distant and ever-receding future isn't useful information.
"And I thought after we got rid of george w bush, all the "al quaeda this" and "axis of evil that" and "osama this" and "emmanuel goldstein that", "give me all your money and all your rights or they'll kill you" would finally stop..."
Being paranoid over Al Qaeda doesn't meant they aren't a viable threat, though paranoia doesn't make for well thought-out policy decisions.
It may be better for "peace" to throw Tibet under the bus.
Tibet has merely sentimental value unless one is Tibetan. China is of vast importance and will soon be the Asian superpower. Just as Nixon wisely initiated detente with Mao (despite Mao being a dedicated enemy of the West), Obama and every future US President needs good relations with the rulers of China.
"Peace" isn't more than simply preserving the power of trivial countries. Peace requires order and stability. Han Chinese domination of China (including extinguishing Muslim Uigher culture) is a force for stability and progress, like it or not.
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"OTOH, I doubt that no one in the tech industry (save for maybe Microsoft) would ever hire him for anything." ....except to repeat his SCO adventures with another expendable company.
"You can always become a teacher in the inner city or work 2 years for Peace Corps or any of the other methods the government has setup for most or all of your loan to be FORGIVEN."
Screw that, I can't count on fire support in the inner city.
Do one enlistment and get a full four-year college ride with ~1K/month (BAH rate varies by locale) stipend. Sure, military life sometimes involves stress and sacrifice, but after retiring and re-visiting how fucked up civilian organizations can be I'm glad I stayed in the Air Force. Now I'm debt-free at 50. :)
"but with the rising number of old people compared to the young, the government is trying to cut cost, meaning, delaying institurionalizing as much as possible."
It could be worse. If it weren't for my parents thorough planning and fair amount of money to supplement government care, they and I would have been fucked and not in a good way. Be glad you have that Evil Socialized Medical Care so feared by the right wing in the US.
I am grateful to hospice staff. I don't know how this is handled in Europe, but in the US they provide a wonderful service caring for the dying (as opposed to mindless dedication to preserve life and prolong suffering).
"I have a feeling that my life has come to an end. Next month I am going to be 48, but it often feels like I am 20 years older."
My parents both had Alzheimers.
At some point, you should consider institutionalizing your wife. Both my wife and myself are Air Force vets, capable people, and that didn't mean shit because Alz patients are exhausting to care for even when they are mostly docile.
She will require care 24 hours a day, and there is no way one or even two people (my wife and I cared for my dying father) can do that. We were able, after he could not live alone, place him in a very good nursing home. We later moved him to a small house on our property, and were able to get in-home caregivers and later, hospice caregivers so my father could die with us. That was in the last year or so of his life. My mother preferred a nursing home near her older extended family.
Alzheimers is brutal (if I'm diagnosed with it, I will organize my affairs and prepare to suicide. May anyone who has moral/religious problems with this come down with Alzheimers!), there is nothing to be done about it, there is no hope, and that must be faced and dealt with straight off.
Look into assisted home care options with a view to moving her into permanent custodial care. Take your time looking at caregivers (good nursing homes literally "smell right" and the staff are genuinely concerned) and learn about your options.
Above all, find social outlets and deliberately prepare yourself for another life. You are middle-aged, you can't accomplish anything at all (this is the hardest part) by staying with your doomed partner, and you have a right to live. Take care, and make a future for yourself.
"Prison rape isn't funny."
That depends on what one wants to happen to our prison population which I regard as hardcore, repeat offenders who are beyond redemption. I not only find the thought of them doing to each other what they are in prison for doing to the rest of us amusing, I'd cheerfully euthanize the lot.
The US has a high prison population precisely because it so cherishes "diversity" that no one has a social obligation to anyone else.
All that is left is law, and large segments of the population are so degenerate they require (and are getting) a police state. Given the choice between vermin and Big Brother with zero other options because our public is fractured, ignorant, and getting worse, I support a police state that will at least make some effort to lock up the CHUDs. I don't care what it does to them or they do to each other.
Drug crimes are often victimless, financial crimes not so.
The Chinese method for dealing with political corruption is better, final, and satisfies the public right to vengeance against those who betray them.
Put the financial crooks who are wrecking this country in a stadium and shoot them while the whole world including their families can watch and get the hint. I'll volunteer for the firing squad.
When gentle, "civilized" effeminate practices fail to stop criminals, then use methods that eliminate them. Had Bernard Madoff been publicly killed instead of going to Club Fed, those wanting to be like him might reconsider.
"This is so unbelievably redneck, I'm at a loss for words. That attitude is something out of the 50's or earlier."
You are expressing that this attitude is incompatible with your emotional preference, not that it is illogical or unsupported by actual results.
"And, btw, I was never in a fight in high school. Never had a cause and it wasn't because I was intimidating physically. I just had a knack for getting along with people; i.e. I tried to respect everyone."
That's just adorable, but it doesn't work for many people who become victims. People, like other animals, establish a pecking order and often do so by force. The "redneck" attitude evolved because it "works", while submission does not. Your LUCK and social skills avoided you having to choose between "fight" or "flight".
There are plenty of stories from the Hellmouth from people who were not so fortunate, and didn't have an effective "fight" option.
"Thank god I'm already old and not born in to this shit."
I'm old, there is no god, and I would be fine with "being born into this shit" because "shit" now is MUCH more interesting than it was in 1959 when I was born. (Note to self, "avoid lawn")
Youngsters, don't believe the lies. The only things about the "good old days" that were worth a damn were that good drugs were cheap and HIV hadn't arrived yet.
"I can't put my finger on it, but loving my PC seems narcissistic somehow."
Not to mention sticky.
"I'm just waiting them to take off our eyes while in movie theatre."
I don't bother with theaters. With modern home entertainment systems available, why pay to drive where my truck will get dinged or broken into in order to sit with a mob of loud retards who will ruin the movie experience?
I can't pause the movie in the theater when I take a shit, can't re-run segments with fun violence and/or pert bewbies, and am limited to expensive theater junk food.
A live CD image can easily be booted to ram from a USB stick, and unless the user specifies a persistent home directory or saves data to a separate partition, is secure as a live CD.
"Just you wait, many purchases will scrub both Android & Windows 7 and install their favourite distro be it Debian, Fedora, SUSE, or the dreaded *buntu (only joking, xbuntu is pretty good)"
Eliminating any reason for the makers to care about putting anything other than Windows on their machines. User = own tech support.
"Keyloggers could still capture the input from the Host OS."
Good reason to use a virtual keyboard in the VM.
"The crazy high upfront costs are the only thing keeping me from installing solar panels myself."
The crazy high upfront costs of living in New Jersey easily offset any incentives towards solar power.
"Gambling is about screwing money out of stupid, statistically illiterate and not entirely mentally stable people."
So is marketing.
"Welcome to the Internet, where no stereotype is not mocked."
That's horrid. I'm going to 4chan where people are treated with respect!
"Did you read the article? This was done to increase Playboy's sagging sales."
Everybody old enough to care about Playboy is either dead or doddering. It was a tremendous boost to the sexual revolution (which is also ancient history), but it's time is done. Nothing they could possibly apply to paper beats (pun intended) online imagery.
"Sometimes, there are things in this world that you just do not want to see, curiosity be damned."
If you want distraction from that mental image, Hustler once printed some early nudes of Roseanne Barr in all her hirsute glory. :)
"Several years away..."
That's why it isn't worth following the technologies unless you, personally, are actually working with them.
Hearing they might work in some distant and ever-receding future isn't useful information.
"In my day, we didn't have electron microscopes at school! We had to squint! And we were grateful!"
That's nothing. In MY day, we didn't have eyes!
"And I thought after we got rid of george w bush, all the "al quaeda this" and "axis of evil that" and "osama this" and "emmanuel goldstein that", "give me all your money and all your rights or they'll kill you" would finally stop..."
Being paranoid over Al Qaeda doesn't meant they aren't a viable threat, though paranoia doesn't make for well thought-out policy decisions.
It may be better for "peace" to throw Tibet under the bus.
Tibet has merely sentimental value unless one is Tibetan. China is of vast importance and will soon be the Asian superpower. Just as Nixon wisely initiated detente with Mao (despite Mao being a dedicated enemy of the West), Obama and every future US President needs good relations with the rulers of China.
"Peace" isn't more than simply preserving the power of trivial countries. Peace requires order and stability. Han Chinese domination of China (including extinguishing Muslim Uigher culture) is a force for stability and progress, like it or not.
"I guess that giving billions of your own money to help the poor and establish peace does not count with the Nobel Committee."
Icky white guy vs. Tan Jesus = "no contest".
The Communists weren't some "shapeless threat". They fought, worldwide, to expand their influence and did a fair job of it.
"Pragmatically speaking the cold war in America wasn't about any countries but the US and Russia."
You forgot a small Asian country called China. They won their bit of Cold War, and fought the US to a draw in the Korean War.