Seriously; why is it whenever a PS3 or Sony story comes up on/. there's a horde of people bitching about that rootkit but no one ever gets up in arms with the fact that Microsoft has rooted billions of computers around the world with some of the most useless, inefficient and insecure software on earth?
Maybe because they don't fee like drawing that particular false equivalence?
I've said it once, and I'll say it again: MONEY CAN'T BUY YOU HAPPINESS. You just need someone to love.
Ahh, youthful idealism. Let's see how that attitude works out when you're in love and living in a cardboard box on the street, scrounging for food in the local trashcan.
Let me give you an example. My girlfriend's parents are very well-off. Her father is a dentist who owns his own practice, which employs about 30 other people. It's taken him years of hard work to accomplish this. He didn't start off well-off, he worked his ass off, took risks, and today does very well, and provides a decent living and health insurance for many employees. If you took the money he worked so hard to make to give it to others who did not earn it, he wouldn't be able to help those he helps with a competitive practice and good stable jobs.
Clearly you have absolutely no idea how businesses and taxation work. Here, let me educate you a little:
See, your girlfriend's dad should be (and probably is) incorporated as a business. Then, all that income the business earns would be counted toward the business, and then the business would pay the salaries of the employees. This would include your girlfriend's dad, who would be an employee of the company, and would take a salary accordingly. And, of course, the business income would be taxed at business tax rates, which are much lower than personal tax rates.
So sure, if your girlfriend's dad was a greedy bastard and decided to pay himself a massive salary, he'd get nailed with massive income taxes. OTOH, if he paid himself a reasonable salary, and then left the remaining money in the business to actually, you know, grow the business (hiring more people, purchasing new equipment, etc), he'd see less money lost to taxes, and the economy would see a flourishing business, instead of a fatcat simply enriching himself.
10-15% into a retirement account? If you've got money to burn, sure. But I've never even heard my 401k company suggest it's reasonable to put that much into retirement.
Then your 401k company is giving you really bad advice. Any decent financial planner will tell you 10% savings every month is considered a good target to try and hit. 'course, that should be split between retirement and an emergency fund, but that doesn't change the OPs numbers.
The key is to make enough money that you don't have to worry about money. Cost of living and family size definitely plays into that.
Don't forget the ability to budget.
On the same income, I went from worrying about money to not, simply by being smarter about how I use that income. 'course, given consumer credit card debt levels, it's painfully clear most lack those skills, and are unable or unwilling to acquire them.
Anyone who's heard of "networking" understands this. Why should top echelon CEOs be any different than Joe programmer getting a job through a friend of his?
Yeah, very good point, I forgot to mention that effect, as well. The Hubble is a Cassegrain-style reflector, whereby, much like in a Newtonian reflector, the primary mirror reflects light back to a secondary mirror (in a Cassegrain-style scope, the light path is folded back on itself, whereas in a Newtonian scope, the secondary reflects the light at a right angle). But this means the secondary mirror must be supported by something, and in the case of the Hubble, that's a system of trusses, thus resulting in the horizontal and vertical diffraction patterns you see in bright objects imaged by the HST.
It's a point. What you're seeing is lens flare and glare in the optics. The only star whose surface has been resolved into a disk is Betelgeuse, a red giant star located in Orion.
In fact that's the only thing the hack allows, so drop the homebrew bullshit.
So, what, somehow this hack allows one to run pirated content, but it *doesn't* allow one to run homebrew? I suppose you have evidence for this idiotic claim?
if you're going to go somewhere and you're going to carry a bag with you (I suspect you don't have 7-to-10 inch pockets), why not carry a computer with a decent-sized keyboard?
Because I don't *want that*. I want a thin, light-weight device with a large screen I can pull out and pop up google maps to quickly look something up, or to browse my email or the web, or to watch a movie or read a book. Fundamentally, it comes down to the display: yeah, I could squint at a tiny little device, but if I can get a tablet, why the hell wouldn't I?
It's funny, really: you gloss over the "smaller screen and a smaller keyboard". and the fact that "it ain't lightning fast", but... that's the *entire fucking point*.
Copyrights and patents must be abolished, they are part of the death of economies, just like governments regulations, taxes, subsidies, wars, corporate involvement, corruption, stimulus borrowing/printing/spending and bailouts.
LOLFR, if I didn't know about your posting history, I would've assumed you were just trolling for libertarians. I can only assume your brain has been addled by the lead in your toys and the chemicals in your toothpaste that proper government regulation and inspection would have prevented.
Government corruption is so rampant that pretty trying to organize pretty much anything on a large scale will fail.
Correct. Which is why you need a fair market in which communities and individuals can actually participate, such that wealth can be injected at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, rather than relying on handouts that are funneled through corrupt regimes.
Things will only improve when they've got some free time left over after the daily subsistence tasks for other stuff. Free time equals education and building.
Yup, absolutely. But these people *can't* do anything but subsistence farm because the world markets are so heavily tilted in favour of the western world. How the hell can you expect them to get free time if they can't even earn a fair dollar for their work?
Actually, what they really need is the west to stop subsidizing farm production, thus depressing world market prices. They need the west to stop dumping free food into their economies, thus depressing local market prices. They need a level playing field where they can finally fucking compete. Maybe then they'll be able to invest in improved infrastructure and other necessities.
I dunno, unstable is pretty good most of the time. Yes, because it's "unstable", it gets things like major Xorg updates, etc, which can break things for a while, but if you're willing to scan the changelogs before doing a distro update (yes, you actually have to do a bit of diligence), its actually pretty solid.
They're there to help the artisan vintners, cheesemakers and other food manufacturers. It's to prevent the giant companies spotting a product is becoming popular and make their own version for half the price (and a quarter the quality) and giving it the same name
Uhh... protect them from *what*, exactly? If the "artisan" product is better, people will buy it. If its inferior, they won't. That's called competition. Suck it the fuck up and quit looking for the government to protect you (BTW, I'm as left as they come, but in this case, government regulation is nothing more than abject protectionism, and its shameful at best).
You know, you're a classic example of a partisan hack who doesn't understand the difference between "fact" and "prejudice". I mean, don't get me wrong, it's interesting to observe in practice, but you clearly don't see how truth and truthiness are not, in fact, the same thing.
I mean, look at you. You take two pieces of "evidence", then somehow extrapolate that into an entire worldview in which you judge millions and millions of people. It's really *quite* pathetic, and something you should be deeply ashamed of, rather than trying to defend it.
Plenty of people simply wish he were doing something in some way positive, especially with the economy. Since he (and his team) clearly have no idea how the economy actually works, people are understandably eager for a sane alternative.
Funny you should pick that example, the economy is *precisely* a case where Obama is clearly running straight down the political middle. The left has been calling for stimulus. The right has been calling for deficit reduction and tax cuts. And what do you get? A watered down version of both.
Obama isn't doing the 'right' things for the economy because he's not doing what *either* side wants.
Oh, and for the record, go read Krugman's latest article on the economy. The anti-Keyensians have completely failed to predict what happened post-stimulus. They predicted rising interest rates and ballooning inflation, and the precise opposite has happened. Meanwhile, as the stimulus wound down, the economy wound down with it. But, alas, Obama will compromise with the deficit hawks and the anti-stimulus folks, and once again won't do enough to jumpstart the US economy, and the result will be prolonged agony. All because the man is too busy trying to please everyone, thus succeeding in pleasing no one, and getting nothing done in the process.
Thanks, I've been trying to identify and foe the bigoted, partisan hacks around here, so I can filter out their idiotic BS. ArcherB made the list long ago, but I'm proud to say you've made it, too! Congrats!
BTW, I phrase #3 poorly. It should say "They would like to eliminate automatic citizenship for children born in the US to parents who aren't, themselves, citizens".
You're absolutely right, the OP never said anything like that. And I never said he did. Many Tea Partiers (no, not all), OTOH, seem very happy with that idea. Here are three specific examples:
1. They would like to force Muslims to register with the government (small government? Who needs that). 2. They would like to prevent Muslims from building places of worship on private property (apparently property rights only extend as far as they want them to). 3. They would like to eliminate citizenship for children born in the US (I guess the constitution isn't as infallible as they thought).
Where "they" == a vocal portion of the tea party movement (I can't speak for how popular these ideas are, but they're voiced by many of the most ardent tea party mouthpieces).
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Seriously; why is it whenever a PS3 or Sony story comes up on /. there's a horde of people bitching about that rootkit but no one ever gets up in arms with the fact that Microsoft has rooted billions of computers around the world with some of the most useless, inefficient and insecure software on earth?
Maybe because they don't fee like drawing that particular false equivalence?
I've said it once, and I'll say it again: MONEY CAN'T BUY YOU HAPPINESS. You just need someone to love.
Ahh, youthful idealism. Let's see how that attitude works out when you're in love and living in a cardboard box on the street, scrounging for food in the local trashcan.
Let me give you an example. My girlfriend's parents are very well-off. Her father is a dentist who owns his own practice, which employs about 30 other people. It's taken him years of hard work to accomplish this. He didn't start off well-off, he worked his ass off, took risks, and today does very well, and provides a decent living and health insurance for many employees. If you took the money he worked so hard to make to give it to others who did not earn it, he wouldn't be able to help those he helps with a competitive practice and good stable jobs.
Clearly you have absolutely no idea how businesses and taxation work. Here, let me educate you a little:
See, your girlfriend's dad should be (and probably is) incorporated as a business. Then, all that income the business earns would be counted toward the business, and then the business would pay the salaries of the employees. This would include your girlfriend's dad, who would be an employee of the company, and would take a salary accordingly. And, of course, the business income would be taxed at business tax rates, which are much lower than personal tax rates.
So sure, if your girlfriend's dad was a greedy bastard and decided to pay himself a massive salary, he'd get nailed with massive income taxes. OTOH, if he paid himself a reasonable salary, and then left the remaining money in the business to actually, you know, grow the business (hiring more people, purchasing new equipment, etc), he'd see less money lost to taxes, and the economy would see a flourishing business, instead of a fatcat simply enriching himself.
10-15% into a retirement account? If you've got money to burn, sure. But I've never even heard my 401k company suggest it's reasonable to put that much into retirement.
Then your 401k company is giving you really bad advice. Any decent financial planner will tell you 10% savings every month is considered a good target to try and hit. 'course, that should be split between retirement and an emergency fund, but that doesn't change the OPs numbers.
The key is to make enough money that you don't have to worry about money. Cost of living and family size definitely plays into that.
Don't forget the ability to budget.
On the same income, I went from worrying about money to not, simply by being smarter about how I use that income. 'course, given consumer credit card debt levels, it's painfully clear most lack those skills, and are unable or unwilling to acquire them.
Anyone who's heard of "networking" understands this. Why should top echelon CEOs be any different than Joe programmer getting a job through a friend of his?
Yeah, very good point, I forgot to mention that effect, as well. The Hubble is a Cassegrain-style reflector, whereby, much like in a Newtonian reflector, the primary mirror reflects light back to a secondary mirror (in a Cassegrain-style scope, the light path is folded back on itself, whereas in a Newtonian scope, the secondary reflects the light at a right angle). But this means the secondary mirror must be supported by something, and in the case of the Hubble, that's a system of trusses, thus resulting in the horizontal and vertical diffraction patterns you see in bright objects imaged by the HST.
Massive difference in overall brightness, probably due to the brighter one being much closer (relatively speaking).
It's a point. What you're seeing is lens flare and glare in the optics. The only star whose surface has been resolved into a disk is Betelgeuse, a red giant star located in Orion.
In fact that's the only thing the hack allows, so drop the homebrew bullshit.
So, what, somehow this hack allows one to run pirated content, but it *doesn't* allow one to run homebrew? I suppose you have evidence for this idiotic claim?
if you're going to go somewhere and you're going to carry a bag with you (I suspect you don't have 7-to-10 inch pockets), why not carry a computer with a decent-sized keyboard?
Because I don't *want that*. I want a thin, light-weight device with a large screen I can pull out and pop up google maps to quickly look something up, or to browse my email or the web, or to watch a movie or read a book. Fundamentally, it comes down to the display: yeah, I could squint at a tiny little device, but if I can get a tablet, why the hell wouldn't I?
It's funny, really: you gloss over the "smaller screen and a smaller keyboard". and the fact that "it ain't lightning fast", but... that's the *entire fucking point*.
Copyrights and patents must be abolished, they are part of the death of economies, just like governments regulations, taxes, subsidies, wars, corporate involvement, corruption, stimulus borrowing/printing/spending and bailouts.
LOLFR, if I didn't know about your posting history, I would've assumed you were just trolling for libertarians. I can only assume your brain has been addled by the lead in your toys and the chemicals in your toothpaste that proper government regulation and inspection would have prevented.
Government corruption is so rampant that pretty trying to organize pretty much anything on a large scale will fail.
Correct. Which is why you need a fair market in which communities and individuals can actually participate, such that wealth can be injected at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, rather than relying on handouts that are funneled through corrupt regimes.
Things will only improve when they've got some free time left over after the daily subsistence tasks for other stuff. Free time equals education and building.
Yup, absolutely. But these people *can't* do anything but subsistence farm because the world markets are so heavily tilted in favour of the western world. How the hell can you expect them to get free time if they can't even earn a fair dollar for their work?
Actually, what they really need is the west to stop subsidizing farm production, thus depressing world market prices. They need the west to stop dumping free food into their economies, thus depressing local market prices. They need a level playing field where they can finally fucking compete. Maybe then they'll be able to invest in improved infrastructure and other necessities.
If grandma is outputting video to a TV, and doing so over S-Video, I think she can do a google search and find and implement this little incantation.
I dunno, unstable is pretty good most of the time. Yes, because it's "unstable", it gets things like major Xorg updates, etc, which can break things for a while, but if you're willing to scan the changelogs before doing a distro update (yes, you actually have to do a bit of diligence), its actually pretty solid.
They're there to help the artisan vintners, cheesemakers and other food manufacturers. It's to prevent the giant companies spotting a product is becoming popular and make their own version for half the price (and a quarter the quality) and giving it the same name
Uhh... protect them from *what*, exactly? If the "artisan" product is better, people will buy it. If its inferior, they won't. That's called competition. Suck it the fuck up and quit looking for the government to protect you (BTW, I'm as left as they come, but in this case, government regulation is nothing more than abject protectionism, and its shameful at best).
Dude, Attila made a statement based on fact
You know, you're a classic example of a partisan hack who doesn't understand the difference between "fact" and "prejudice". I mean, don't get me wrong, it's interesting to observe in practice, but you clearly don't see how truth and truthiness are not, in fact, the same thing.
I mean, look at you. You take two pieces of "evidence", then somehow extrapolate that into an entire worldview in which you judge millions and millions of people. It's really *quite* pathetic, and something you should be deeply ashamed of, rather than trying to defend it.
Plenty of people simply wish he were doing something in some way positive, especially with the economy. Since he (and his team) clearly have no idea how the economy actually works, people are understandably eager for a sane alternative.
Funny you should pick that example, the economy is *precisely* a case where Obama is clearly running straight down the political middle. The left has been calling for stimulus. The right has been calling for deficit reduction and tax cuts. And what do you get? A watered down version of both.
Obama isn't doing the 'right' things for the economy because he's not doing what *either* side wants.
Oh, and for the record, go read Krugman's latest article on the economy. The anti-Keyensians have completely failed to predict what happened post-stimulus. They predicted rising interest rates and ballooning inflation, and the precise opposite has happened. Meanwhile, as the stimulus wound down, the economy wound down with it. But, alas, Obama will compromise with the deficit hawks and the anti-stimulus folks, and once again won't do enough to jumpstart the US economy, and the result will be prolonged agony. All because the man is too busy trying to please everyone, thus succeeding in pleasing no one, and getting nothing done in the process.
You mean the real one? That I had to sing in school? Yeah, I got that, I've just never heard that lyric replacement before.
W00t! *high-fives*
There is a reason why legal immigrants integrate into america
They do? So, what, you don't have Chinatowns? Little Italy's? Isolated Muslim, African, Cuban, or "legal" Latino communities? Really??
Let me guess... you live in white suburbia, don't you?
Thanks, I've been trying to identify and foe the bigoted, partisan hacks around here, so I can filter out their idiotic BS. ArcherB made the list long ago, but I'm proud to say you've made it, too! Congrats!
BTW, I phrase #3 poorly. It should say "They would like to eliminate automatic citizenship for children born in the US to parents who aren't, themselves, citizens".
You're absolutely right, the OP never said anything like that. And I never said he did. Many Tea Partiers (no, not all), OTOH, seem very happy with that idea. Here are three specific examples:
1. They would like to force Muslims to register with the government (small government? Who needs that).
2. They would like to prevent Muslims from building places of worship on private property (apparently property rights only extend as far as they want them to).
3. They would like to eliminate citizenship for children born in the US (I guess the constitution isn't as infallible as they thought).
Where "they" == a vocal portion of the tea party movement (I can't speak for how popular these ideas are, but they're voiced by many of the most ardent tea party mouthpieces).