If the government hands you a massive check, you're going to spend it. Reminds me of my state's subway to nowhere. They never performed any studies to see if the train would be used..... they just had some spare cash, so the spent it. It's a nice train. Just empty. In the "real world" a company that wasted money frivolously would die out, and so that tempers exuberance. In the monopoly that is government/schools, they have no such fear.
Pencil. Paper. Calculator. The keyboard gets in the way of doing anything useful, especially if you're trying to do things involving symbols (like math).
>>>The mark of a real racist is one who doesn't even do it on purpose, I guess... congrats.
Thanks for the insult. My post was entirely AGAINST racism & in favor of equality (everyone should be treated identical when it comes to college entry). I am amazed that you would defend a system that would force white people to score 133% higher than others. I guess you're trying to keep white students out. I guess a "real racist is one who doesn't even do it on purpose".
The real reason if you RTFA is "I'm doing this project in my spare-time and usually have spend around one evening per week on Dolphin. Especially during the last 2 years this time has increased." -- So basically this guy has a life. He was willing to volunteer one day per week, but nothing beyond that, so he's decided to stop participating.
Also: "As user I always had the impression that I can do my regular tasks..... in a more efficient and comfortable way than on the other desktop-environments. But at least for my regular tasks as user this has changed during the last couple of years." -- I suspect it's because both Apple and Microsoft have improved their user friendliness over the last half-decade (well except for "where's the damn command?" Ribbon interface). Maybe he should try LXDE (lubuntu) which is not only lightweight on memory, but also nice and friendly.
>>>Why don't we raise the quota of Mexican 100x? I bet we'd have very few illegals then, but that's not what you want is it?
Why not just raise the quota to "6 billion" such that EVERYONE who wanted to come here, could. Do you think the U.S. government could feed and provide energy for 6 billion people? Or even 1 billion? Quotas are not in place because of meanness; they are in place because society would collapse if too many people came-in. Not enough food or water or oil (which will run-out eventually).
>>>I speak from experience as a US citizen who had to get a visa for his wife.
Me too. It was no big deal. I don't know why you claim it was difficult. It was as easy as getting an official copy of my birth certificate. Maybe you're just bad at waiting & have lack of patience.
>>>You're really just trying to keep the poor people out.
And? It's our home. We have just as much right to keep people out, as we do to shoot someone who tries to break into our living rooms. (Of course it you think illegal entrance is a-okay, maybe I'll come put a tent in your living room later tonight. I need a place to sleep. Oh and some free food. Thanks.)
>>>Andrew Jackson may have been a [slave-owning] democrat, but the party has radically shifted over the ensuing centuries
I can't change history. It's a matter of record that the Supreme Court ruled the Cherokee, Seminaw, etcetera had the legal right to stay in their ancestral lands of Carolina and Tennessee, but President Jackson responded, "The Court has ruled..... now let's see them enforce it," and sent the Indians on a mass migration known as the Trail of Tears in direct violation of the law. History does not change just because we don't like it.
And has the Democrat Party changed that much? Not really. They were the party of slavery for almost 100 years, then the party of segregation for another 100 years, and opposed Eisenhower's Civil Rights Law (by filibustering it until it died) in the 1950s. Even in the 1960s there were many Democrats who filibustered LBJ's civil rights laws (Malcom X called them traitors). More recently the Democrats held a celebration for a man who was a Grand Marshall of the KKK (Senator Byrd). They should have vilified him instead.
Here's an article written by blacks about how the Democrat Party is still the anti-black party: "Republicans and Democrats Did Not Switch Sides On Racism" http://blackrepublican.blogspot.com/2012/06/republicans-and-democrats-did-not.html (Of course you'll somehow argue that black people are too dumb to write articles, and refuse to read it.)
>>>to show the total level of depravity..... Why don't you tell us how much better it was for your grand pappies slaves
Wow. Such level of immaturity I have not seen since high school. Thanks for insulting me and my grandparents. FACT: 99.5% of currently-alive white or hispanic or asian Americans' ancestors never owned slaves. (And certainly not mine, since my ancestors lived in a northern state where slavery had been outlawed 3 centuries ago.) Not everyone who is white is your enemy..... you would know that if you were less niggardly in your education and spent more time LEARNING history and understanding other people (as MLK Jr preached).
* *niggardly means "miserly" and comes from the Vikings. It has nothing to do with the other Spanish N-word.
You should take a look at the Affirmative Action Bake Sale. Like universities it makes it easier for immigrants to "enter" the market by making them only score half as much as whites. Just as they only need to score 750 on SATs to get into college (while whites must score 1000), they only have to pay $1.50 to get a muffin (while whitey must pay $2). Seems fair to me...... after all whites have an "unfair advantage" according to a new campaign run my the Democrats.
And any time I parse something like (MS)NBC, I immediately lump it into the left wing propaganda bin. Actually now that I think about it, I barely watch Cable News at all... it's all just corporate-owned propaganda. I listen mostly to RT or DemocracyNow or Infowars ("We are in the middle of an infowar." - Hillary Clinton.)
90% of the Indians were killed-off by a bacteria and viruses. The Europeans experienced the Plagues of the 400s and 700s and also the Black Death in the 1400s. The native americans did not have exposure to any of these diseases, until the 1600s and 1700s, and it wiped most of them out.
>>>throw the survivors in reservations
The Supreme Court TRIED to stop that practice by issuing decisions that the Indians did not need to move, but the slave-owning Democrats who were in charge (like Andrew Jackson) decided the Supreme Court can shutup, and moves the Indians anyway.
>>>strip-mine all the resources?
Running-out of resources sounds like a good reason to limit population growth to me (by closing the borders & only allowing legal immigrants). Else come the 2030s we won't be able to feed ourselves or heat our homes, due to scarcity.
Your post is the true source of hate; you don't like someone's argument so you revert to grade school name calling ("haters!"). In an era of ever-increasing oil prices & food prices, it makes logical sense for the U.S. (or EU or China or any country) to try and stabilize the population at a sustainable level to make the coming crisis less painful. Hell even the UN is currently holding meetings about how to stop population growth - does that make them haters?
Because we're not stupid. A robot in Asimov's stories uses a positronic brain, copied after an animal's neuronic brain with millions of connections between thousands of cells, and therefore the robot has its own intelligence & decision-making ability. The Three Laws were the functional equivalent of "instinct".
In contrast a modern phone is nothing more than a bunch of switches: Either on (1) or off (0). It has no intelligence, but merely executes statements in whatever order listed on its hard drive or flash drive. A modern phone is stupid. Beyond stupid. It doesn't even know what "law" is.
The guy named Alex Jones has been targeted a lot recently with "false positives". Several of his older shows have been yanked because a record company (Warner Bros?) is claiming ownership of all interviews by a man they just signed to a contract. Apparently they believe they have ownership not just to present products, but also previous products 4-5 years old. So the interviews get labeled "copyright infringement". Under this 3-strike law Mr. Jones would now be up for legal troubles.
This 3-strike deal is just the latest in a series of dumb decisions by OfCom. They are also planning to turn-off the FM radio band.
No firm date has been set, but they proposed 2018 in their meeting minutes, after which listeners will be dependent upon the barely-functional MP2 DAB (digital audio broadcast). The switchoff of analog television was also handled poorly by these bureaucrats with many citizens unable to receive the new digital channels.
You don't have a right to break the laws when you're driving down the road, and if you do it too often, you lose the right to drive. I fail to see how the internet is any different..... in fact I'd say the net is LESS important than a car.
Wow way to twist a reasonable law into a MSNBC-style rant by Ed Schultz.
All the law says is that homes will not be eligible for government-paid flood insurance if they are not in the zones that previously recorded flooding (since 1900). Why? Because North Carolina can't afford to provide free insurance to nearly the whole state. MOST people comprehend that the money supply has limits..... others like George "duh" Bush drive-up 10 trillion dollar debts.
I thought a report was just published that the ocean levels are rising because of humans sucking water out of underground reservoirs and dumping in into the ocean,
>>>as if the United States is the greatest villain, not realizing that there actually is real tyranny
Yeah we're only # 15 on the list. C'mon Congress! If you try harder you can be in the top 5! (Maybe suck the money from education so the masses don't realize what "tyranny" means. Or "constitution".)
Facebook is demonstrating free market principles. As they continue to abuse their customers, the customers will leave for other destinations and facebook will lose its monopoly* over social media. No monopoly last forever.
The question doesn't matter. The new bill *requires* the ISPs and websites like google turn-over customer data and web history to the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity (you feel insecure because you never know when they will harass you). Even if google wanted to turn down a request, they cannot.
ANOTHER annoying thing is facebook keeps redirecting my Tablet to their mobile site. If I type www.facebook.com then THAT'S where I want to go, not m.facebook.
Facebook's actions are equivalent to when I tell a taxi driver "I want to see Baltimore," and he takes me to smalltown Annapolis instead. The taxi driver should Never take his customer someplace different than what was requested, and neither should a webpage programmer. (But given they are changing our emails from name@yahoo to name@facebook, I guess facebook doesn't care about netiquette.)
I'm starting to agree on the "leaving" part (or at least stop using). Sure it's fun to reconnect with old classmates, but changing my default address from yahoo.com or gmail.com to facebook's service totally blows.
What ALSO blows is making me identify pictures when I log-in from non-home computers. How on earth am I supposed to identify which of my 1000 friends is tagged on a Calvin&Hobbes cartoon? For that matter, some of my friends have grown old and changed appearance. I barely recognize them anymore. Basically: I can't login because I keep guessing wrong on the photos. Bullshit facebook. (My username and password should be enough to let me in.)
I've seen studies (published on/.) that Mac and iPhone users are often the least affluent citizens. I suspect that's because they are not very money-conscious and just spend their cash w/o regards to the cost. It might explain why they spend more money on hotels than the rest of us.
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If the government hands you a massive check, you're going to spend it. Reminds me of my state's subway to nowhere. They never performed any studies to see if the train would be used..... they just had some spare cash, so the spent it. It's a nice train. Just empty. In the "real world" a company that wasted money frivolously would die out, and so that tempers exuberance. In the monopoly that is government/schools, they have no such fear.
Pencil. Paper. Calculator. The keyboard gets in the way of doing anything useful, especially if you're trying to do things involving symbols (like math).
>>>The mark of a real racist is one who doesn't even do it on purpose, I guess... congrats.
Thanks for the insult. My post was entirely AGAINST racism & in favor of equality (everyone should be treated identical when it comes to college entry). I am amazed that you would defend a system that would force white people to score 133% higher than others. I guess you're trying to keep white students out. I guess a "real racist is one who doesn't even do it on purpose".
+1 A teachable moment.
The real reason if you RTFA is "I'm doing this project in my spare-time and usually have spend around one evening per week on Dolphin. Especially during the last 2 years this time has increased." -- So basically this guy has a life. He was willing to volunteer one day per week, but nothing beyond that, so he's decided to stop participating.
Also: "As user I always had the impression that I can do my regular tasks..... in a more efficient and comfortable way than on the other desktop-environments. But at least for my regular tasks as user this has changed during the last couple of years." -- I suspect it's because both Apple and Microsoft have improved their user friendliness over the last half-decade (well except for "where's the damn command?" Ribbon interface). Maybe he should try LXDE (lubuntu) which is not only lightweight on memory, but also nice and friendly.
>>>Why don't we raise the quota of Mexican 100x? I bet we'd have very few illegals then, but that's not what you want is it?
Why not just raise the quota to "6 billion" such that EVERYONE who wanted to come here, could. Do you think the U.S. government could feed and provide energy for 6 billion people? Or even 1 billion? Quotas are not in place because of meanness; they are in place because society would collapse if too many people came-in. Not enough food or water or oil (which will run-out eventually).
>>>I speak from experience as a US citizen who had to get a visa for his wife.
Me too.
It was no big deal. I don't know why you claim it was difficult. It was as easy as getting an official copy of my birth certificate. Maybe you're just bad at waiting & have lack of patience.
>>>You're really just trying to keep the poor people out.
And?
It's our home. We have just as much right to keep people out, as we do to shoot someone who tries to break into our living rooms. (Of course it you think illegal entrance is a-okay, maybe I'll come put a tent in your living room later tonight. I need a place to sleep. Oh and some free food. Thanks.)
>>>Andrew Jackson may have been a [slave-owning] democrat, but the party has radically shifted over the ensuing centuries
I can't change history. It's a matter of record that the Supreme Court ruled the Cherokee, Seminaw, etcetera had the legal right to stay in their ancestral lands of Carolina and Tennessee, but President Jackson responded, "The Court has ruled..... now let's see them enforce it," and sent the Indians on a mass migration known as the Trail of Tears in direct violation of the law. History does not change just because we don't like it.
And has the Democrat Party changed that much? Not really. They were the party of slavery for almost 100 years, then the party of segregation for another 100 years, and opposed Eisenhower's Civil Rights Law (by filibustering it until it died) in the 1950s. Even in the 1960s there were many Democrats who filibustered LBJ's civil rights laws (Malcom X called them traitors). More recently the Democrats held a celebration for a man who was a Grand Marshall of the KKK (Senator Byrd). They should have vilified him instead.
Here's an article written by blacks about how the Democrat Party is still the anti-black party:
"Republicans and Democrats Did Not Switch Sides On Racism"
http://blackrepublican.blogspot.com/2012/06/republicans-and-democrats-did-not.html
(Of course you'll somehow argue that black people are too dumb to write articles, and refuse to read it.)
>>>to show the total level of depravity..... Why don't you tell us how much better it was for your grand pappies slaves
Wow. Such level of immaturity I have not seen since high school. Thanks for insulting me and my grandparents. FACT: 99.5% of currently-alive white or hispanic or asian Americans' ancestors never owned slaves. (And certainly not mine, since my ancestors lived in a northern state where slavery had been outlawed 3 centuries ago.) Not everyone who is white is your enemy..... you would know that if you were less niggardly in your education and spent more time LEARNING history and understanding other people (as MLK Jr preached).
*
*niggardly means "miserly" and comes from the Vikings. It has nothing to do with the other Spanish N-word.
You should take a look at the Affirmative Action Bake Sale. Like universities it makes it easier for immigrants to "enter" the market by making them only score half as much as whites. Just as they only need to score 750 on SATs to get into college (while whites must score 1000), they only have to pay $1.50 to get a muffin (while whitey must pay $2). Seems fair to me...... after all whites have an "unfair advantage" according to a new campaign run my the Democrats.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-09-25/news/30231563_1_bake-sale-student-newspaper-republican-group
And any time I parse something like (MS)NBC, I immediately lump it into the left wing propaganda bin. Actually now that I think about it, I barely watch Cable News at all... it's all just corporate-owned propaganda. I listen mostly to RT or DemocracyNow or Infowars ("We are in the middle of an infowar." - Hillary Clinton.)
>>>Kill everyone who's already living here
90% of the Indians were killed-off by a bacteria and viruses. The Europeans experienced the Plagues of the 400s and 700s and also the Black Death in the 1400s. The native americans did not have exposure to any of these diseases, until the 1600s and 1700s, and it wiped most of them out.
>>>throw the survivors in reservations
The Supreme Court TRIED to stop that practice by issuing decisions that the Indians did not need to move, but the slave-owning Democrats who were in charge (like Andrew Jackson) decided the Supreme Court can shutup, and moves the Indians anyway.
>>>strip-mine all the resources?
Running-out of resources sounds like a good reason to limit population growth to me (by closing the borders & only allowing legal immigrants). Else come the 2030s we won't be able to feed ourselves or heat our homes, due to scarcity.
Your post is the true source of hate; you don't like someone's argument so you revert to grade school name calling ("haters!"). In an era of ever-increasing oil prices & food prices, it makes logical sense for the U.S. (or EU or China or any country) to try and stabilize the population at a sustainable level to make the coming crisis less painful. Hell even the UN is currently holding meetings about how to stop population growth - does that make them haters?
Because we're not stupid. A robot in Asimov's stories uses a positronic brain, copied after an animal's neuronic brain with millions of connections between thousands of cells, and therefore the robot has its own intelligence & decision-making ability. The Three Laws were the functional equivalent of "instinct".
In contrast a modern phone is nothing more than a bunch of switches: Either on (1) or off (0). It has no intelligence, but merely executes statements in whatever order listed on its hard drive or flash drive. A modern phone is stupid. Beyond stupid. It doesn't even know what "law" is.
The guy named Alex Jones has been targeted a lot recently with "false positives". Several of his older shows have been yanked because a record company (Warner Bros?) is claiming ownership of all interviews by a man they just signed to a contract. Apparently they believe they have ownership not just to present products, but also previous products 4-5 years old. So the interviews get labeled "copyright infringement". Under this 3-strike law Mr. Jones would now be up for legal troubles.
This 3-strike deal is just the latest in a series of dumb decisions by OfCom. They are also planning to turn-off the FM radio band.
No firm date has been set, but they proposed 2018 in their meeting minutes, after which listeners will be dependent upon the barely-functional MP2 DAB (digital audio broadcast). The switchoff of analog television was also handled poorly by these bureaucrats with many citizens unable to receive the new digital channels.
You don't have a right to break the laws when you're driving down the road, and if you do it too often, you lose the right to drive. I fail to see how the internet is any different..... in fact I'd say the net is LESS important than a car.
Wow way to twist a reasonable law into a MSNBC-style rant by Ed Schultz.
All the law says is that homes will not be eligible for government-paid flood insurance if they are not in the zones that previously recorded flooding (since 1900). Why? Because North Carolina can't afford to provide free insurance to nearly the whole state. MOST people comprehend that the money supply has limits..... others like George "duh" Bush drive-up 10 trillion dollar debts.
I thought a report was just published that the ocean levels are rising because of humans sucking water out of underground reservoirs and dumping in into the ocean,
>>>as if the United States is the greatest villain, not realizing that there actually is real tyranny
Yeah we're only # 15 on the list. C'mon Congress! If you try harder you can be in the top 5! (Maybe suck the money from education so the masses don't realize what "tyranny" means. Or "constitution".)
And another thought:
Facebook is demonstrating free market principles. As they continue to abuse their customers, the customers will leave for other destinations and facebook will lose its monopoly* over social media. No monopoly last forever.
*
*as defined by the Sherman Antitrust Act
The question doesn't matter. The new bill *requires* the ISPs and websites like google turn-over customer data and web history to the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity (you feel insecure because you never know when they will harass you). Even if google wanted to turn down a request, they cannot.
ANOTHER annoying thing is facebook keeps redirecting my Tablet to their mobile site. If I type www.facebook.com then THAT'S where I want to go, not m.facebook.
Facebook's actions are equivalent to when I tell a taxi driver "I want to see Baltimore," and he takes me to smalltown Annapolis instead. The taxi driver should Never take his customer someplace different than what was requested, and neither should a webpage programmer. (But given they are changing our emails from name@yahoo to name@facebook, I guess facebook doesn't care about netiquette.)
I'm starting to agree on the "leaving" part (or at least stop using). Sure it's fun to reconnect with old classmates, but changing my default address from yahoo.com or gmail.com to facebook's service totally blows.
What ALSO blows is making me identify pictures when I log-in from non-home computers. How on earth am I supposed to identify which of my 1000 friends is tagged on a Calvin&Hobbes cartoon? For that matter, some of my friends have grown old and changed appearance. I barely recognize them anymore. Basically: I can't login because I keep guessing wrong on the photos. Bullshit facebook. (My username and password should be enough to let me in.)
I've seen studies (published on /.) that Mac and iPhone users are often the least affluent citizens. I suspect that's because they are not very money-conscious and just spend their cash w/o regards to the cost. It might explain why they spend more money on hotels than the rest of us.