I am not "the rich". Just a plain ol' middle class lifestyle. But that doesn't cause me to begrudge the rich.
I see my middle class neighbors buying houses and cars they can barely afford, if they can afford them at all. Why is this important? Because they are consuming instead of putting their resources to work to improve their situation. That is what the majority of the rich do, which makes them richer.
But you keep on whining. I'm sure that even if you were the #2 richest person in the world that you would bemoan that the #1 richest guy is beating you down. You are entitled to nothing. I certainly don't owe you anything, and neither do "the rich".
I disagree. If the rich weren't so greedy we would each have enough for us, and the rest of the world would still be progressing at their current pace.
What are you smoking? The majority of the much-lamented "rich" got that way by being greedy, and working their asses off to get ahead. It isn't a zero sum game -- one can get rich without making someone else poor, and you sit-on-your-ass-and-whine-about-it types will never be satisfied redistributing the pie because those "rich" folks you detest so much are still working to grow the pie.
Work as much as you whine and you might wind up being rich yourself.
Have you ever observed those who, although not all may be poor all likely have better uses for their funds than smartphones and data plans, using their phones. The vast majority are not accessing sources of knowledge to better themselves.
The ability to update one's Facebook status at any time during the day does not lead to financial well being.
The government shutting down is the best thing that could happen to citizens and taxpayers. Let's hope that we not only see a shutdown, but that it lasts for a decade or two. There will be one or two useful things the government does that will be missed, but hundreds of stupid things that will be welcome to live without.
I am 6'2" and weigh 245 lbs. I have a few extra pounds, but not much. According to the BMI, I am obese. Yet I work out five days a week, and am in better shape than many younger and more BMI-approved people I work out with.
I am reducing my weight now to be closer to 225. At that weight I will have no fat to lose, yet the BMI will still categorize me in the top end of the overweight scale.
To get to the BMI-stated normal weight range, I will have to get below 195. The only way to do that will be to cut off a limb or drastically reduce muscle mass, neither of which would improve my health.
Relying on measures such as the BMI to rate health is dangerous, because it has no provision for body type.
News flash, it's the same on the other side of the isle.
I must assume you are a liberal by the way you inserted what you wanted to read into what I said. "The only thing different about Obama" and "He is a career politician" clearly did not differentiate him from any other politician, regardless of party affiliation. Don't project your bias into what I say.
If you're willing to do what it takes to get elected, you're probably not worth voting for.
The only thing different about Obama is that his worshipers bought his load of BS hook, line, and sinker. He is a career politician who will say or do whatever it takes to further himself. Those that believed his "hope and change" story probably send money to Nigerian princes too.
Carriers already detect Internet traffic that isn't really an SMS and bills it as an SMS, such as various instant messengers.
I use Google Voice on my iPhone and pay no additional fee. Same with TextFree, which was my free text alternative while waiting for Google Voice to make it through Apple's approval process. You can text until your thumbs bleed with no SMS charge.
The only issue I have is that, while Google Voice and/or TextFree work fine most of the time, there is randomly a delay where the messages do not come through in a timely manner.
I hope Facebook is successful at this. Not because I have any intent to use Facebook messaging, but I would like to see the carriers forced to drop their text charges.
We need to stop letting everybody start legal proceedings in Texas just because it's a favorable venue. Way too many of these stories by patent trolls seem to be out of that jurisdiction.
Oh no! Somewhere that laws are not uniform and/or uniformly enforced? Why do you think so many companies incorporate in Delaware?
so who won't get guns? the kind of guy who shoots up a disco because a chick looked at him funny or the guy who shot the congresswoman in arizona. these people aren't fine thinking specimens: they get guns simply because they are easy to get. so make guns less easy to get, and insane people and casual hotheads won't get guns. that's it
The problems with your idea on gun control:
1. How do you tell who is a "casual hothead" or a potential "casual hothead"?
2. Who decides the "casual hotheads" from the "OK" people?
3. How do you prevent the "hotheads" from getting a gun?
4. What if the "casual hothead" has access to a knife, car, container of gasoline and match, barrel of ammonia fertilizer and jug of diesel fuel, claw hammer, baseball bat, large rock, or any of the hundreds or thousands of items that have been used as weapons in the past, many with far more devistating effects than any handgun could ever conceivably cause?
Sorry to scratch the lens of your rose colored glasses, but degrading the rights of all due fear of actions for of the few has never successfully accomplished anything but degrading the rights of all. The few you are afraid of will not abide by your rules, and although you may slightly alter their course you are very unlikely to stop them.
To all those bashing Facebook saying it has no value: stop it.
Facebook is immensely valuable. No sociological study could be funded on such a scale to determine just how much crap people will put up with from a free service before they stop using the service.
But then the joke will be on those of us that value our privacy. I know too many people that would think it was fantastic having their picture used to promote Starbucks and would sell their soul to stay on Facebook.
Heat removal isn't the biggest problem in space. Radiation is a problem. All those little particles that the atmosphere filters for us does nasty things to ICs in space.
With the status quo, I look at you when we are boarding and presume you are an idiot.
When phones are allowed on planes, after a two hour flight with you chatting away with any moron in your phone book that will listen to you I will know beyond a shadow of a doubt you are an idiot, and be able to list a few dozen reasons why.
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I am not "the rich". Just a plain ol' middle class lifestyle. But that doesn't cause me to begrudge the rich.
I see my middle class neighbors buying houses and cars they can barely afford, if they can afford them at all. Why is this important? Because they are consuming instead of putting their resources to work to improve their situation. That is what the majority of the rich do, which makes them richer.
But you keep on whining. I'm sure that even if you were the #2 richest person in the world that you would bemoan that the #1 richest guy is beating you down. You are entitled to nothing. I certainly don't owe you anything, and neither do "the rich".
I disagree. If the rich weren't so greedy we would each have enough for us, and the rest of the world would still be progressing at their current pace.
What are you smoking? The majority of the much-lamented "rich" got that way by being greedy, and working their asses off to get ahead. It isn't a zero sum game -- one can get rich without making someone else poor, and you sit-on-your-ass-and-whine-about-it types will never be satisfied redistributing the pie because those "rich" folks you detest so much are still working to grow the pie.
Work as much as you whine and you might wind up being rich yourself.
Al Gore invented the internet.
Have you ever observed those who, although not all may be poor all likely have better uses for their funds than smartphones and data plans, using their phones. The vast majority are not accessing sources of knowledge to better themselves.
The ability to update one's Facebook status at any time during the day does not lead to financial well being.
You don't even have to read TFA - the summary mentions "crowd control grenades".
I work with some guys that eat crazy hot stuff just to say they ate crazy hot stuff. I don't think they can even taste anything anymore.
The government shutting down is the best thing that could happen to citizens and taxpayers. Let's hope that we not only see a shutdown, but that it lasts for a decade or two. There will be one or two useful things the government does that will be missed, but hundreds of stupid things that will be welcome to live without.
Yeah, the BMI is a joke.
I am 6'2" and weigh 245 lbs. I have a few extra pounds, but not much. According to the BMI, I am obese. Yet I work out five days a week, and am in better shape than many younger and more BMI-approved people I work out with.
I am reducing my weight now to be closer to 225. At that weight I will have no fat to lose, yet the BMI will still categorize me in the top end of the overweight scale.
To get to the BMI-stated normal weight range, I will have to get below 195. The only way to do that will be to cut off a limb or drastically reduce muscle mass, neither of which would improve my health.
Relying on measures such as the BMI to rate health is dangerous, because it has no provision for body type.
I wasn't apathetic until I got my ballot and saw my choices.
Your logic and reason have no business in public policy.
You have just been placed on a special agitator's list. Enjoy your next flight - there will be a special encounter with the TSA waiting for you.
It is about time we see the government tackle some of the tough issues.
Government running on continuing resolutions with no budget in sight. Let's sit on our thumb.
Government racking up astronomical deficits. Let's sit on our thumbs.
The serf class streaming content that may be infringing on copyrights? All hands on deck - we have to do something, now!
Our government is useless.
News flash, it's the same on the other side of the isle.
I must assume you are a liberal by the way you inserted what you wanted to read into what I said. "The only thing different about Obama" and "He is a career politician" clearly did not differentiate him from any other politician, regardless of party affiliation. Don't project your bias into what I say.
If you're willing to do what it takes to get elected, you're probably not worth voting for.
That is something we agree on.
Otherwise there would have been people buying the dolls, just to kill them anyway.
The only thing sadder than this story being on Slashdot is that I commented on it.
The only thing different about Obama is that his worshipers bought his load of BS hook, line, and sinker. He is a career politician who will say or do whatever it takes to further himself. Those that believed his "hope and change" story probably send money to Nigerian princes too.
Fuck everything - we're doing five blades. http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/
Carriers already detect Internet traffic that isn't really an SMS and bills it as an SMS, such as various instant messengers.
I use Google Voice on my iPhone and pay no additional fee. Same with TextFree, which was my free text alternative while waiting for Google Voice to make it through Apple's approval process. You can text until your thumbs bleed with no SMS charge.
The only issue I have is that, while Google Voice and/or TextFree work fine most of the time, there is randomly a delay where the messages do not come through in a timely manner.
I hope Facebook is successful at this. Not because I have any intent to use Facebook messaging, but I would like to see the carriers forced to drop their text charges.
We need to stop letting everybody start legal proceedings in Texas just because it's a favorable venue. Way too many of these stories by patent trolls seem to be out of that jurisdiction.
Oh no! Somewhere that laws are not uniform and/or uniformly enforced? Why do you think so many companies incorporate in Delaware?
I decided to read this story after returning from the restroom. I'm sure I wouldn't have read this otherwise.
Or you could send a few books instead. Those things have infinite battery life, although that is also with the wireless off.
so who won't get guns? the kind of guy who shoots up a disco because a chick looked at him funny or the guy who shot the congresswoman in arizona. these people aren't fine thinking specimens: they get guns simply because they are easy to get. so make guns less easy to get, and insane people and casual hotheads won't get guns. that's it
The problems with your idea on gun control:
1. How do you tell who is a "casual hothead" or a potential "casual hothead"?
2. Who decides the "casual hotheads" from the "OK" people?
3. How do you prevent the "hotheads" from getting a gun?
4. What if the "casual hothead" has access to a knife, car, container of gasoline and match, barrel of ammonia fertilizer and jug of diesel fuel, claw hammer, baseball bat, large rock, or any of the hundreds or thousands of items that have been used as weapons in the past, many with far more devistating effects than any handgun could ever conceivably cause?
Sorry to scratch the lens of your rose colored glasses, but degrading the rights of all due fear of actions for of the few has never successfully accomplished anything but degrading the rights of all. The few you are afraid of will not abide by your rules, and although you may slightly alter their course you are very unlikely to stop them.
There for a minute I read the headline as "FBI Executes 40 Search Warrants For 'Anonymous Coward'", which is why I logged in to make this post.
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The Emoticon Keyboard is the only keyboard I need.
To all those bashing Facebook saying it has no value: stop it.
Facebook is immensely valuable. No sociological study could be funded on such a scale to determine just how much crap people will put up with from a free service before they stop using the service.
But then the joke will be on those of us that value our privacy. I know too many people that would think it was fantastic having their picture used to promote Starbucks and would sell their soul to stay on Facebook.
Heat removal isn't the biggest problem in space. Radiation is a problem. All those little particles that the atmosphere filters for us does nasty things to ICs in space.
No phones on planes, please.
With the status quo, I look at you when we are boarding and presume you are an idiot.
When phones are allowed on planes, after a two hour flight with you chatting away with any moron in your phone book that will listen to you I will know beyond a shadow of a doubt you are an idiot, and be able to list a few dozen reasons why.
Let's keep the mystery going.
+5 Insightful.
If I had mod points, that is.