In that case, I'll declare myself to be an Amish, as they are specifically exempted from Obama Care. I would suggest that everyone opposed do the same.:-D
No, what these people are saying is that "obey the laws we agree with, disobey the laws we don't agree with". It happens all the time.
These same people are proposing that the vocal minority are wrong, then I wonder how they feel about Obama Care, which most (more than 50%) people don't want. You'll get a different opinion.
The tyrants and evil men of this world always start by dehumanizing someone. Can you explain to me why dehumanizing is okay if the results are for the good of all? The moment you do, just substitute "Jew" or "Christian" or "Black" or "Chinaman" for "Embryo" and you'll see how atrocities are committed in the name of "society".
Linux Desktop isn't hard to use. That hasn't been the case for years now. Linux Desktop (KDE or GNOME) are acceptable for most people. THE problem with Linux, even to this day, is the underlying system(I'm looking at you wireless drivers), and applications. Ubuntu makes this much easier, and once a system is fully setup and working it is very usable.
The second major problem is "Programs", on Gnome and KDE programs are often clumsy impersonations of Windows applications. Clumsy in as much as one might have to touch the underlying system to get them to run right. These applications are written by power users, for power users. If these same programs had a "grandma mode" that just worked, it would be awesome.
But once setup Linux is very usable by just about everyone. One of the things I like about Android, is that it is "Linux" and it is looking polished. It works very nicely and I was able to get things working on my co-workers phones fairly easily. THIS is the year of the Linux Desktop (ANDROID).
Why haven't the UNIONS started their OWN manufacturing facility to build cars better and cheaper, while giving employee's more per hour? They have enough cash in their pension funds to do it.
Which would be REAL socialism (Marx style) where the WORKERS own the production.
The reason is that the workers would have nobody else to blame when shit goes belly up.
And socialistic safety nets are all good and nice sounding, but they don't work. All they do is create a permanent underclass while eating away the middle, till there is none left.
What is most missed in the world today is self responsibility. There is almost none left. Why be responsible and do the right thing when government is there with the safety net?
Yes, Han did shoot first. But I do have a theory on why. Han has latent "force" capability. It would explain way too much his abilities and his running into people like Luke, Leia, and Chewbacca. And also the "I have a funny feeling" comments, that are a staple.
So Han KNEW Greedo was about to shoot, and shot first. Self preservation.
OMG, did I just post this to Slashdot?? god I'm pitiful.
Today: Type a letter on computer, print it to the laser/inkjet, go to the fax machine, dial a number send it to the far side.
Recipient gets the fax, walks over to the scanner or fax machine takes the image, and converts it to PDF, and forwards it by email to boss, who prints it out on the Laser/inkjet.
I hate you*. Thanks to you, I now have a new website that I'll spend hours wasting time on reading. THAT is some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a while.
Yes, I live in California. We spend 578 MILLION on high schools in districts with dropout rates approaching 50%, so we can drive fast. You do the math.
It isn't the government's responsibility at all. It is people like you that think that GOVERNMENT is the solution to most problems that drives me nuts. Especially if you're an American. Please read the first paragraph of the US Constitution. FYI, it starts out "We the People". We, the people, the citizens, are the government, it IS our responsibility.
Take responsibility for yourself damn it. Stop expecting the "Government" to do for you, what you're too lazy or stupid to do for yourself.
My exercise of my rights will NEVER affect you, let alone negatively. Rights are self-evident. Take "free speech" for instance. My right to speak freely doesn't allow me to make you listen. I'm free to speak, you're free to ignore.
In this case, putting your refuse out to be picked up is a SERVICE, not a right. You're paying for that service, and those providing that service can dictate how they perform that service.
Where this case gets sticky, is where the state institutes a penalty for not recycling. If there is no actual recycling going on, as some have suggested, and the whole thing is a smoke and mirrors feel good magic act, then I would have SERIOUS problems with that method of raising revenue.
Suffice it to say, this is not a RIGHTS issue, even if you value privacy. That's what shredders are for. If you value privacy that much, then shred your trash, all of it.
There's parental apathy, because the parents, short of removing kids to home school or private school, are slaves the the government educational system and have 0 Choice. Give PARENTS a choice, and see what happens to education of their children. Voucher systems improve education for everyone, but Teacher's Unions and Liberal Elites don't favor them because it is "unfair" for some reason or another, or fear of "religion" (private religious schools) getting "Government money", which is nothing more than a red herring.
If the kids are REALLY what matters, and it improves education for ALL kids, then keeping the current system is simply stupid, regardless of the reason. What those types are saying is that it is better to have a bad system that is "fair", everyone gets the same rotten service, or whatever than actually giving parents a choice.
As it currently is, we punish success and reward failure by giving MORE money to under performing schools and LESS money to schools that are better performing. These are our kids, and failure is NOT an option. It is just that when failure is rewarded, it becomes the choice, even if it is unconscious one.
You just made the case for "FREE MARKETS". And no, free markets isn't the current version of socialistic corporate capitalism that we currently have. Freedom isn't easy, but it is right. It is much easier to have a few elitists making rules for everyone, down to whether or not you can take your kids to McDonalds for a Happy Meal.
We don't have free markets any more, and it is reflected in the current state of the economy where MILLIONS can be out of work while we try to save the BIG CORPS who are "too big to fail" (to save a couple hundred thousand special interest jobs).
Where's my bailout? I don't have debt, I don't live beyond my means and I don't do stupid stuff and get myself in trouble, and yet I'm supposed to bail out people who repeatedly do those things.
Why are we rewarding failure and punishing success??? IS that "fair"
the 640K limit wasn't the problem. The actual problem was that the 640K were on the lower bounds of addressable memory (1024k), and not the upper bounds. The reserved 384k that was the upper bound memory was for bios, video, and hardware addressing. Since it was reserved, it was off limits to application/OS memory without doing tricks (QEMM etc). HAD the designers put the 640k on the upper bounds, and the reserved on the lower bounds, and a couple other "minor" design choices, there would have been no limits or need for any reserve, even if they couldn't program full functionality into the 8086 to start.
THE reason they put the 640k on the lower bounds was it was simpler to start counting addresses from 0 than say 384. Additionally, it wasn't MS' design problem it was IBM's PC division (almost rogue unit), as it was setup on Hardware, not in the OS itself. The OS was limited by design of the HW specs.
Grown ups swear all the time. Doesn't make it grown up behavior. I've seen grown ups pee their pants, doesn't make it grown up behavior though, does it?
The guy could have made his point without the "colorful language". That makes the profanity superfluous and... juvenile.
The phrase "The pot calling the kettle black" is an idiom used to accuse a person or thing of being marked with or guilty of the very thing they are pointing out
I was just pointing out the irony of telling people to "Grow up" while acting like a child themselves. If that is a high horse, so be it.
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In that case, I'll declare myself to be an Amish, as they are specifically exempted from Obama Care. I would suggest that everyone opposed do the same. :-D
Yeah, thats what I meant to say. Sorry. You made it so much clearer. /sarcasm
ETHICS are indeed outside of biology. Are you suggesting that ETHICS has no basis deciding how we experiment in biology at all?
So the ends justify the means? To what end and by what means are you willing to gain knowledge?
No, what these people are saying is that "obey the laws we agree with, disobey the laws we don't agree with". It happens all the time.
These same people are proposing that the vocal minority are wrong, then I wonder how they feel about Obama Care, which most (more than 50%) people don't want. You'll get a different opinion.
The tyrants and evil men of this world always start by dehumanizing someone. Can you explain to me why dehumanizing is okay if the results are for the good of all? The moment you do, just substitute "Jew" or "Christian" or "Black" or "Chinaman" for "Embryo" and you'll see how atrocities are committed in the name of "society".
Clearly, it was a veiled reference to the FSM, and not the cuisine of Italy that takes HIS form. Sheesh
Linux Desktop isn't hard to use. That hasn't been the case for years now. Linux Desktop (KDE or GNOME) are acceptable for most people. THE problem with Linux, even to this day, is the underlying system(I'm looking at you wireless drivers), and applications. Ubuntu makes this much easier, and once a system is fully setup and working it is very usable.
The second major problem is "Programs", on Gnome and KDE programs are often clumsy impersonations of Windows applications. Clumsy in as much as one might have to touch the underlying system to get them to run right. These applications are written by power users, for power users. If these same programs had a "grandma mode" that just worked, it would be awesome.
But once setup Linux is very usable by just about everyone. One of the things I like about Android, is that it is "Linux" and it is looking polished. It works very nicely and I was able to get things working on my co-workers phones fairly easily. THIS is the year of the Linux Desktop (ANDROID).
Almost as funny as my mac, running virtualPC running Windows with a Mac Theme pack installed. Good times
A little late:
Why haven't the UNIONS started their OWN manufacturing facility to build cars better and cheaper, while giving employee's more per hour? They have enough cash in their pension funds to do it.
Which would be REAL socialism (Marx style) where the WORKERS own the production.
The reason is that the workers would have nobody else to blame when shit goes belly up.
And socialistic safety nets are all good and nice sounding, but they don't work. All they do is create a permanent underclass while eating away the middle, till there is none left.
What is most missed in the world today is self responsibility. There is almost none left. Why be responsible and do the right thing when government is there with the safety net?
Yes, Han did shoot first. But I do have a theory on why. Han has latent "force" capability. It would explain way too much his abilities and his running into people like Luke, Leia, and Chewbacca. And also the "I have a funny feeling" comments, that are a staple.
So Han KNEW Greedo was about to shoot, and shot first. Self preservation.
OMG, did I just post this to Slashdot?? god I'm pitiful.
Sounds like a self-destruct sequence for the USS (Starship) Checkov NCC-1941
But that is just me.
Yeah, because TEACHERS never have anything to do with BOOKS.
Yeah, Faxes. Not like they were 20 years ago.
Today: Type a letter on computer, print it to the laser/inkjet, go to the fax machine, dial a number send it to the far side.
Recipient gets the fax, walks over to the scanner or fax machine takes the image, and converts it to PDF, and forwards it by email to boss, who prints it out on the Laser/inkjet.
A fax, how quaint.
I hate you*. Thanks to you, I now have a new website that I'll spend hours wasting time on reading. THAT is some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a while.
*not really, but you know what I mean
Re your sig:
Yes, I live in California. We spend 578 MILLION on high schools in districts with dropout rates approaching 50%, so we can drive fast. You do the math.
It isn't the government's responsibility at all. It is people like you that think that GOVERNMENT is the solution to most problems that drives me nuts. Especially if you're an American. Please read the first paragraph of the US Constitution. FYI, it starts out "We the People". We, the people, the citizens, are the government, it IS our responsibility.
Take responsibility for yourself damn it. Stop expecting the "Government" to do for you, what you're too lazy or stupid to do for yourself.
My exercise of my rights will NEVER affect you, let alone negatively. Rights are self-evident. Take "free speech" for instance. My right to speak freely doesn't allow me to make you listen. I'm free to speak, you're free to ignore.
In this case, putting your refuse out to be picked up is a SERVICE, not a right. You're paying for that service, and those providing that service can dictate how they perform that service.
Where this case gets sticky, is where the state institutes a penalty for not recycling. If there is no actual recycling going on, as some have suggested, and the whole thing is a smoke and mirrors feel good magic act, then I would have SERIOUS problems with that method of raising revenue.
Suffice it to say, this is not a RIGHTS issue, even if you value privacy. That's what shredders are for. If you value privacy that much, then shred your trash, all of it.
There's parental apathy, because the parents, short of removing kids to home school or private school, are slaves the the government educational system and have 0 Choice. Give PARENTS a choice, and see what happens to education of their children. Voucher systems improve education for everyone, but Teacher's Unions and Liberal Elites don't favor them because it is "unfair" for some reason or another, or fear of "religion" (private religious schools) getting "Government money", which is nothing more than a red herring.
If the kids are REALLY what matters, and it improves education for ALL kids, then keeping the current system is simply stupid, regardless of the reason. What those types are saying is that it is better to have a bad system that is "fair", everyone gets the same rotten service, or whatever than actually giving parents a choice.
As it currently is, we punish success and reward failure by giving MORE money to under performing schools and LESS money to schools that are better performing. These are our kids, and failure is NOT an option. It is just that when failure is rewarded, it becomes the choice, even if it is unconscious one.
No problem, I'll just crank it up to 11!!!
Sorry, but the reason wasn't because you stole it, it was because you wanted to watch it in the first place!
You just made the case for "FREE MARKETS". And no, free markets isn't the current version of socialistic corporate capitalism that we currently have. Freedom isn't easy, but it is right. It is much easier to have a few elitists making rules for everyone, down to whether or not you can take your kids to McDonalds for a Happy Meal.
We don't have free markets any more, and it is reflected in the current state of the economy where MILLIONS can be out of work while we try to save the BIG CORPS who are "too big to fail" (to save a couple hundred thousand special interest jobs).
Where's my bailout? I don't have debt, I don't live beyond my means and I don't do stupid stuff and get myself in trouble, and yet I'm supposed to bail out people who repeatedly do those things.
Why are we rewarding failure and punishing success??? IS that "fair"
I saw that, and instantly had "Badger Badger Badger" going off in my head. AGGHHHH DAMN YOU!!!
the 640K limit wasn't the problem. The actual problem was that the 640K were on the lower bounds of addressable memory (1024k), and not the upper bounds. The reserved 384k that was the upper bound memory was for bios, video, and hardware addressing. Since it was reserved, it was off limits to application/OS memory without doing tricks (QEMM etc). HAD the designers put the 640k on the upper bounds, and the reserved on the lower bounds, and a couple other "minor" design choices, there would have been no limits or need for any reserve, even if they couldn't program full functionality into the 8086 to start.
THE reason they put the 640k on the lower bounds was it was simpler to start counting addresses from 0 than say 384. Additionally, it wasn't MS' design problem it was IBM's PC division (almost rogue unit), as it was setup on Hardware, not in the OS itself. The OS was limited by design of the HW specs.
Grown ups swear all the time. Doesn't make it grown up behavior. I've seen grown ups pee their pants, doesn't make it grown up behavior though, does it?
The guy could have made his point without the "colorful language". That makes the profanity superfluous and ... juvenile.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_calling_the_kettle_black
I was just pointing out the irony of telling people to "Grow up" while acting like a child themselves. If that is a high horse, so be it.