Plus you're going to do a rest stop/lunch break every 4 hours anyway (250mi/70mph=3.5 hours). Why not stick the thing on a charger while you eat? 15 minutes is no big deal if you're inside.
Does anyone have the numbers on trucking in America? How many gallons do they use vs. passenger cars?
Why don't they just stick the waste in the middle of the ocean? Why do they have to bury it on land? Just cruise over the Mariana trench, drop the fuel rods one at a time into an undersea volcano, spaced out a few hundred feet a piece. Hell, build the plant out on an island in the middle of the ocean too. I understand there are some problems transmitting power long distances over salt water, but still... we can find a way.
Of course, then "terrorists" might blow it up. So put up a fortress.
I heard that the real problem with nuclear is the lack of available uranium reserves. We only have a 50-60 year supply of fuel at our current energy use rates (assuming we went to 100% nuclear). A lot of that is in Wyoming, I might add, where our good friend "Dick" Cheney was governor.
Except we can never produce enough ethanol to supply our needs. This is just a sham to bring "Big Ag" more money for their corn crop. People aren't drinking as much Coke, and they are becoming wary of the health effects of a corn-based food chain. So, keep growing your corn, and we'll burn it. Unfortunately, it costs a lot energywise to make ETOH so it's only barely economical even at today's oil prices. We are still nowhere near what prices were like in the late 70's; today's equivalent would probably be around $180/barrel, maybe more. If we got to that point again, it might be economical to use more ETOH. However, a jump in prices by that much would almost certainly be geo-politically related and therefore a temporary hit to the supply side. The ETOH producers would have to keep the war going for a while to make back the investment on the ETOH plants.............
Anyway, I know there's a lot of hype about these "E85" vehicles. Guess what, the car in your driveway right now can run on E85. ANY engine can run on alcohol. They've been using it in unmodified race cars and dragsters and mud racers and boats and everything for almost 100 years... The only thing different is they have QC'd the fuel system to make sure the alcohol doesn't degrade it and added some map points to the engine management system. If you're using a carburator, you mgiht have to rejet it, but with electronic fuel injectors the adjustments are all software. Alcohol also burns much cooler than gas so you don't need as big of a cooling system, but the catalyst needs some sort of preheater to be effective. Fuel in many areas is already 10% ethanol, 85% isn't that big of a diff.
America does have large reserves of oil. It's not surprising that GHW Bush (the father) was one of the founders of Pennzoil, there was a huge gold rush at the turn of the century, and they drilled up california, the gulf and texas. I'm sure those wells have filled back up in 50 years. I hear of smaller companies buying old dry wells and using a different (more expensive) drilling technique to get oil out of them. There are huge reserves in Eastern Russia that no one talks about, and Indonesia has more coal and timber than anywhere on earth. And these are areas that have mostly not been developed. I think oil companies prefer to deal with the relatively friendly Middle Eastern people, who love money and love selling their oil. Russia is doing it on it's own, and I think Indonesia will also.
What America really has that's valuable is LAND, and valuable farm land at that. Those wheat and corn fields feed the world. Agriculture is the most overlooked big business and gigantic companies such as ConAgra and Simplot have been quietly buying up small farms for decades. They only stand to make more and more money as the world population increases.
Yeah, I agree. I figure it'll be over at a friend's house playing, so at least I know when they are around they aren't playing. Thus balance. Home/Out balance also.
They probably got $10-20M in Microsoft stock. The benefit is there for some people. I would probably give them the software and then just quit as soon as I can, as in many cases in the 90's "mp3" revolution (Winamp, Sonique, etc.)
Why else would you want to work? To change the world? Haha. Ok, arguably, that's why they started making this software to begin with. The big question is what will they do with the money? Will they start some new site, some new projects? Or will they move to hawaii?
Yeah, I think blankMart and Toys'r'expensive fail to show the entire spectrum of "World" toys. In general, they are American designed, chinese made junk. There's a whole world of toys from Japan, Europe, Africa even, and some made in the USA that aren't battery and microprocessor controlled and actually require kids to play with them. I think they are just hard to find or something. Or maybe parents "give in" to their kids too easily. Kid throws a tantrum in the store, most parents are going to just stick the thing he wants in his face to shut him up. Saying no takes courage, but since when are we afraid of 3 year olds?? I remember the few times my parents said yes to some piece of crap and those were the toys that I got bored with quickly. I did get a chemistry set one time, which was awesome. Of course, you can't get those anymore.
I did use the computer a lot, but in the summer time my parents threw me outdoors to go fight with the neighbors kids or build forts or ride bikes, dig holes, etc. Which built some great relationships I still have today.
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Specialty toy stores (such as the place in my sig) have all kinds of good stuff that works. The problem is that your Mattel stuff is for the "big box" retailer market (Walmart, etc) and is designed for the masses. It's pretty much made to be disposible, just like everything else in the store. If you go to a quality local purveyor or on the internet, you can find high quality toys that cost a little more but last longer, offer more fun value, etc.
My favorite items now are the 300(100,60)in one electronic kits and the slot cars. They still sell model trains and all kinds of cool steam engines and stuff out there. Just look. If you're only going as far as your local walmart, Toys'r'a'multibillion'dollar'business, or KB, you are only getting to see the crap made in china for pennies and not the quality stuff from europe, etc.
Of course, I am a toy fanatic. The kids have to go outside, no console for them EVER.
For timing things that take a lot less time than a second. Such as the interactions of elementary particles and stuff. Also, to triangulate across long distances with big angles (GPS). 400 million is a stupid way to explain it but what do you expect from the mainstream media.. Reallly, it's about higher precision. A "year" isn't really a definite unit of time anyway, because it is largely a human construct to explain the rotation of the earth. Unfortunately, the earth does not rotate at a constant velocity, so the definition of a "year" in terms of cesium or mercury is constantly changing. It's a misnomer. Rather than talking about "losing" seconds, they should talk about the "consistency" of the "ticks". What they are doing is creating a high frequency square wave and using a high speed counter to count the high values. When they say the ticks are consistent, they mean there is less than 1 part in 1.26E16 of "drift" per "second" of waves (multiply by frequency to get the drift of the individual ticks, showing the momentary drift).
The OS uses it to store summary and author information. The content indexer would use it to store a thumbnail image. It's a little weird because if you don't know about it, you always assumed that one file was "one file".
Fortunately, the ADS stream can only be non-critical data because transferring to a single stream filesystem (such as FAT32) would drop the additional stream. I'm not sure if ZIP stores them or not (built in ZIP in XP), but that would be interesting.
Think of it as a named section of a file that can be treated as it's own independent file. It's only scary because Explorer, DIR, etc. do not show the named stream content of a file and therefore there's no way to see them without third-party tools. Not real smart of MS, but most people would get confused they think. They should give me a text box to click, like the box that let's me see extensions and "protected operating system files."
That's not all though, if you want a real trip, go into $WINROOT and try to delete notepad.exe. Just click it and hit delete. Notepad.exe will magically reappear! ADS I can deal with. Of course, there are ways, so now I have the wonderful Notepad2 as my notepad.exe
In Soviet Russia Vista Rootkits ship before Vista
Uh, scratch that, reverse it. [HUMOR CAPTION]Because see, it's funny because in Soviet Russia everything is backwards. See.[/HUMOR CAPTION]
"In Soviet Russia, Vista ships before the Vista Rootkits" HA!
I think what they are trying to do is show all the lurker users who don't comment that there's a lively and sort of, uh, intellectual discussion going on. I wonder what the percentage of regular slashdot users who don't comment is. When I first started reading slashdot, in like 1997 or something, I didn't comment much and I think a lot of people are like that. They just read the summary and the article and move on. Then I started at a really boring job and I didn't have anything to do. So I started reading the comments. Then, because there were so many interesting points, I had to put in my 2 broad coppers. Then I started Karma-Whoring. Now I'm a moderator.
I think this is a bad job for someone like me. I have a hard time remembering the names of ex-girlfriends I run into on the street.
Seriously though, go to istockphoto.com and look at how they categorize images. It's called keywords, and it's amazing. People sort the images by looking at them, and then type words to describe the image.
Interesting research though, but this sounds more like UI land rather than new kind of processing land.
I was like, "I do this every day", so what? I see from the Wiki that it's like RSS, and they are trying to standardize the formats. Thanks. Everything is getting closer to being truely useful every day.
This is just tagging in text; it's exactly what you do for CSS: You're saying this text is of a certain class. And you contain it in a box. All this is doing is using the same stuff and storing a little variable name and using it later. One might argue you are already doing that with CSS, it's just formatting stuff you're attaching to the variable rather than, ah, data structure..
I do like the idea of being able to move XML around without having to parse to view the basic file in a formatted fashion. So, you're mixing HTML with a tag. Again, SO WHAT? But what about the encapsulated text, what's the point? If you're going to use a viewer eventually (because you have the encapsulated text), use a viewer. This would only help in reading the actual data, but not in bug fixing, because the XML is that much more unreadable.
On the other hand, this is kindof like the PDF format, with text as text. The PDF client renders it as a font bitmap but it's rendered from TEXT in the PDF, therefore you can do things like cut/paste/etc. This takes it a step further by adding a data structure around it which allows you to import rows of things. Pretty sweet, I might use this somewhere. I can see it being useful in mobile stuff, so you don't have to muck with a client parser.
Look at the article for Sept. 11th. In the Britannica, there would be a factual story based on "official" commentary, "official" statements, etc. In Wikipedia, you get the little additional fact at the bottom: Some groups believe in a non-official conclusion that the planes were not piloted by Muslim/Arab terrorists.
Now, in Britannica, they couldn't say that, largely because a lot of their funding comes from Governments (public school libraries, etc.) so they can't go against the official stance of the government. Wikipedia isn't SAYING anything, just stating a neutral fact that some people don't believe the official stance, which is in this case "closer to the truth" of the world than not mentioning it.
You see, just because you don't like something and turn your back to it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There ARE hundreds of thousands of people who DON'T BELIEVE. Whether they are right or not, well, that's in doubt. But the mere mention is not saying one way or the other, merely acknowledging the debate (no matter how crazy).
A BAD Wikipedia entry would be one which states that anything is a fact about 9/11, one way or the other, and not allow any debate. Once everything is settled (and it never will, because all evidence was trucked away in a few weeks after, melted down, etc.), people will stop changing the page and it'll be "truth" more or less.
So, really, Wikipedia is probably closer to the real truth of the world (ie: a picture of the actual world in words) than anything else (on average). At any given moment, you could be reading total shit. But the beauty is that if it IS total shit, and you KNOW it, you can edit the page and fix it!
Now, what gets my goat is the alleged tampering with historical fact that sometimes happens. For instance, congressional staffers "editing" their congressperson's page to erase factual, but possibly negative information. I think people who do that should be fired. It does go to show how far campaigns work to cover up the truth. "Campaign financing" is really just cover-up money used to erase a politician's bad past deeds. But, I digress.
Of course, now the can "take care of them" more easily. Since they have been shaking up the economic system and gotten a lot of money fast, I'm sure there's plenty of people who would like to see them out of commission.
INT. GOOGLE "EXECUTIVE SUITE"
S: HEY! Let's get all the executives and senior management on the party plane and fly to Rio! L: That's a great idea, sweetie!
EXT. GOOGLE 727
A missle flashes up and hits the 727, blowing it to smithereens.
INT. COURT ROOM, San Francisco, CA
A judge raps his gavel.
JUDGE: Case closed! Mr. Gates, you are cleared to purchase Google, Inc.
Savers are losers--it's been proven. You're better off spending all of your money now than saving it and letting the market take it. Or inflation. Or die before you get to enjoy it and then your kids spend it on hookers, blow and ski trips.
I prefer the opposite, a nice heavy load of debt. I may not be ahead of you in $ when I die, but I'll definitely be ahead in living.
The thing that is nuts, is that I want a revolution in this country, but just to put back the original constitution and the ways that this country was originally set up. It kills me that the people that set up our government 200+ years ago did it mostly right, but since WWII the federal government here has gotten completely (and unconstitutionally) out of hand.
A social revolution? Hah, they tried that in the 60's. An armed revolution? You'd be "detained" on terrorism charges before you have a chance to get off the phone with your Army.
No sir, it's too late. Maybe another country? Sorry, global economy, it's all the same everywhere.
Suicide? What about everyone else?
Crap.
I have an idea, become poor. Give away your flat screen TV and your Escalade with TVs and the TV in your bathroom and your house, your job, everything. When you're shitting on a street corner, the last thing you'll be thinking about is your privacy. That's how we win. We turn our backs. Don't fight, just don't care.
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Plus you're going to do a rest stop/lunch break every 4 hours anyway (250mi/70mph=3.5 hours). Why not stick the thing on a charger while you eat? 15 minutes is no big deal if you're inside.
Does anyone have the numbers on trucking in America? How many gallons do they use vs. passenger cars?
I always wondered:
Why don't they just stick the waste in the middle of the ocean? Why do they have to bury it on land? Just cruise over the Mariana trench, drop the fuel rods one at a time into an undersea volcano, spaced out a few hundred feet a piece. Hell, build the plant out on an island in the middle of the ocean too. I understand there are some problems transmitting power long distances over salt water, but still... we can find a way.
Of course, then "terrorists" might blow it up. So put up a fortress.
I heard that the real problem with nuclear is the lack of available uranium reserves. We only have a 50-60 year supply of fuel at our current energy use rates (assuming we went to 100% nuclear). A lot of that is in Wyoming, I might add, where our good friend "Dick" Cheney was governor.
Whoever comes up with a significant advance in battery technology will die a very rich person.
Oh, they'll definitely die. Plane crash, "suicide". Big Oil is Watching.
Except we can never produce enough ethanol to supply our needs. This is just a sham to bring "Big Ag" more money for their corn crop. People aren't drinking as much Coke, and they are becoming wary of the health effects of a corn-based food chain. So, keep growing your corn, and we'll burn it. Unfortunately, it costs a lot energywise to make ETOH so it's only barely economical even at today's oil prices. We are still nowhere near what prices were like in the late 70's; today's equivalent would probably be around $180/barrel, maybe more. If we got to that point again, it might be economical to use more ETOH. However, a jump in prices by that much would almost certainly be geo-politically related and therefore a temporary hit to the supply side. The ETOH producers would have to keep the war going for a while to make back the investment on the ETOH plants.............
Anyway, I know there's a lot of hype about these "E85" vehicles. Guess what, the car in your driveway right now can run on E85. ANY engine can run on alcohol. They've been using it in unmodified race cars and dragsters and mud racers and boats and everything for almost 100 years... The only thing different is they have QC'd the fuel system to make sure the alcohol doesn't degrade it and added some map points to the engine management system. If you're using a carburator, you mgiht have to rejet it, but with electronic fuel injectors the adjustments are all software. Alcohol also burns much cooler than gas so you don't need as big of a cooling system, but the catalyst needs some sort of preheater to be effective. Fuel in many areas is already 10% ethanol, 85% isn't that big of a diff.
America does have large reserves of oil. It's not surprising that GHW Bush (the father) was one of the founders of Pennzoil, there was a huge gold rush at the turn of the century, and they drilled up california, the gulf and texas. I'm sure those wells have filled back up in 50 years. I hear of smaller companies buying old dry wells and using a different (more expensive) drilling technique to get oil out of them. There are huge reserves in Eastern Russia that no one talks about, and Indonesia has more coal and timber than anywhere on earth. And these are areas that have mostly not been developed. I think oil companies prefer to deal with the relatively friendly Middle Eastern people, who love money and love selling their oil. Russia is doing it on it's own, and I think Indonesia will also.
What America really has that's valuable is LAND, and valuable farm land at that. Those wheat and corn fields feed the world. Agriculture is the most overlooked big business and gigantic companies such as ConAgra and Simplot have been quietly buying up small farms for decades. They only stand to make more and more money as the world population increases.
Oh, it's called "VeriChip" now.
There's also the "Digital Angel", which actually has FDA approval for implanting into humans.
Not to mention that Berners-Lee is a bona-fide KNIGHT--therefore he would win the joust. BYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
Yeah, I agree. I figure it'll be over at a friend's house playing, so at least I know when they are around they aren't playing. Thus balance. Home/Out balance also.
They probably got $10-20M in Microsoft stock. The benefit is there for some people. I would probably give them the software and then just quit as soon as I can, as in many cases in the 90's "mp3" revolution (Winamp, Sonique, etc.)
Why else would you want to work? To change the world? Haha. Ok, arguably, that's why they started making this software to begin with. The big question is what will they do with the money? Will they start some new site, some new projects? Or will they move to hawaii?
Yeah, I think blankMart and Toys'r'expensive fail to show the entire spectrum of "World" toys. In general, they are American designed, chinese made junk. There's a whole world of toys from Japan, Europe, Africa even, and some made in the USA that aren't battery and microprocessor controlled and actually require kids to play with them. I think they are just hard to find or something. Or maybe parents "give in" to their kids too easily. Kid throws a tantrum in the store, most parents are going to just stick the thing he wants in his face to shut him up. Saying no takes courage, but since when are we afraid of 3 year olds?? I remember the few times my parents said yes to some piece of crap and those were the toys that I got bored with quickly. I did get a chemistry set one time, which was awesome. Of course, you can't get those anymore.
I did use the computer a lot, but in the summer time my parents threw me outdoors to go fight with the neighbors kids or build forts or ride bikes, dig holes, etc. Which built some great relationships I still have today.
Specialty toy stores (such as the place in my sig) have all kinds of good stuff that works. The problem is that your Mattel stuff is for the "big box" retailer market (Walmart, etc) and is designed for the masses. It's pretty much made to be disposible, just like everything else in the store. If you go to a quality local purveyor or on the internet, you can find high quality toys that cost a little more but last longer, offer more fun value, etc.
My favorite items now are the 300(100,60)in one electronic kits and the slot cars. They still sell model trains and all kinds of cool steam engines and stuff out there. Just look. If you're only going as far as your local walmart, Toys'r'a'multibillion'dollar'business, or KB, you are only getting to see the crap made in china for pennies and not the quality stuff from europe, etc.
Of course, I am a toy fanatic. The kids have to go outside, no console for them EVER.
For timing things that take a lot less time than a second. Such as the interactions of elementary particles and stuff. Also, to triangulate across long distances with big angles (GPS). 400 million is a stupid way to explain it but what do you expect from the mainstream media.. Reallly, it's about higher precision. A "year" isn't really a definite unit of time anyway, because it is largely a human construct to explain the rotation of the earth. Unfortunately, the earth does not rotate at a constant velocity, so the definition of a "year" in terms of cesium or mercury is constantly changing. It's a misnomer. Rather than talking about "losing" seconds, they should talk about the "consistency" of the "ticks". What they are doing is creating a high frequency square wave and using a high speed counter to count the high values. When they say the ticks are consistent, they mean there is less than 1 part in 1.26E16 of "drift" per "second" of waves (multiply by frequency to get the drift of the individual ticks, showing the momentary drift).
Because there was a 200% payraise for them hidden in Setion 89.2.4.1.34.x
Or a diversion of money to the CIA or NSA.
Or a new wiretapping authorization.
The OS uses it to store summary and author information. The content indexer would use it to store a thumbnail image. It's a little weird because if you don't know about it, you always assumed that one file was "one file".
Fortunately, the ADS stream can only be non-critical data because transferring to a single stream filesystem (such as FAT32) would drop the additional stream. I'm not sure if ZIP stores them or not (built in ZIP in XP), but that would be interesting.
Think of it as a named section of a file that can be treated as it's own independent file. It's only scary because Explorer, DIR, etc. do not show the named stream content of a file and therefore there's no way to see them without third-party tools. Not real smart of MS, but most people would get confused they think. They should give me a text box to click, like the box that let's me see extensions and "protected operating system files."
That's not all though, if you want a real trip, go into $WINROOT and try to delete notepad.exe. Just click it and hit delete. Notepad.exe will magically reappear! ADS I can deal with. Of course, there are ways, so now I have the wonderful Notepad2 as my notepad.exe
In Soviet Russia Vista Rootkits ship before Vista Uh, scratch that, reverse it. [HUMOR CAPTION]Because see, it's funny because in Soviet Russia everything is backwards. See.[/HUMOR CAPTION] "In Soviet Russia, Vista ships before the Vista Rootkits" HA!
I think what they are trying to do is show all the lurker users who don't comment that there's a lively and sort of, uh, intellectual discussion going on. I wonder what the percentage of regular slashdot users who don't comment is. When I first started reading slashdot, in like 1997 or something, I didn't comment much and I think a lot of people are like that. They just read the summary and the article and move on. Then I started at a really boring job and I didn't have anything to do. So I started reading the comments. Then, because there were so many interesting points, I had to put in my 2 broad coppers. Then I started Karma-Whoring. Now I'm a moderator.
I think this is a bad job for someone like me. I have a hard time remembering the names of ex-girlfriends I run into on the street.
Seriously though, go to istockphoto.com and look at how they categorize images. It's called keywords, and it's amazing. People sort the images by looking at them, and then type words to describe the image.
Interesting research though, but this sounds more like UI land rather than new kind of processing land.
In Soviet Russia, space launches Russians into your girlfriend.
Da.
I was like, "I do this every day", so what? I see from the Wiki that it's like RSS, and they are trying to standardize the formats. Thanks. Everything is getting closer to being truely useful every day.
This is just tagging in text; it's exactly what you do for CSS: You're saying this text is of a certain class. And you contain it in a box. All this is doing is using the same stuff and storing a little variable name and using it later. One might argue you are already doing that with CSS, it's just formatting stuff you're attaching to the variable rather than, ah, data structure..
I do like the idea of being able to move XML around without having to parse to view the basic file in a formatted fashion. So, you're mixing HTML with a tag. Again, SO WHAT? But what about the encapsulated text, what's the point? If you're going to use a viewer eventually (because you have the encapsulated text), use a viewer. This would only help in reading the actual data, but not in bug fixing, because the XML is that much more unreadable.
On the other hand, this is kindof like the PDF format, with text as text. The PDF client renders it as a font bitmap but it's rendered from TEXT in the PDF, therefore you can do things like cut/paste/etc. This takes it a step further by adding a data structure around it which allows you to import rows of things. Pretty sweet, I might use this somewhere. I can see it being useful in mobile stuff, so you don't have to muck with a client parser.
and it means a 100% chance that it will suck.
What is truth anyway?
Look at the article for Sept. 11th. In the Britannica, there would be a factual story based on "official" commentary, "official" statements, etc. In Wikipedia, you get the little additional fact at the bottom: Some groups believe in a non-official conclusion that the planes were not piloted by Muslim/Arab terrorists.
Now, in Britannica, they couldn't say that, largely because a lot of their funding comes from Governments (public school libraries, etc.) so they can't go against the official stance of the government. Wikipedia isn't SAYING anything, just stating a neutral fact that some people don't believe the official stance, which is in this case "closer to the truth" of the world than not mentioning it.
You see, just because you don't like something and turn your back to it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There ARE hundreds of thousands of people who DON'T BELIEVE. Whether they are right or not, well, that's in doubt. But the mere mention is not saying one way or the other, merely acknowledging the debate (no matter how crazy).
A BAD Wikipedia entry would be one which states that anything is a fact about 9/11, one way or the other, and not allow any debate. Once everything is settled (and it never will, because all evidence was trucked away in a few weeks after, melted down, etc.), people will stop changing the page and it'll be "truth" more or less.
So, really, Wikipedia is probably closer to the real truth of the world (ie: a picture of the actual world in words) than anything else (on average). At any given moment, you could be reading total shit. But the beauty is that if it IS total shit, and you KNOW it, you can edit the page and fix it!
Now, what gets my goat is the alleged tampering with historical fact that sometimes happens. For instance, congressional staffers "editing" their congressperson's page to erase factual, but possibly negative information. I think people who do that should be fired. It does go to show how far campaigns work to cover up the truth. "Campaign financing" is really just cover-up money used to erase a politician's bad past deeds. But, I digress.
Of course, now the can "take care of them" more easily. Since they have been shaking up the economic system and gotten a lot of money fast, I'm sure there's plenty of people who would like to see them out of commission.
INT. GOOGLE "EXECUTIVE SUITE"
S: HEY! Let's get all the executives and senior management on the party plane and fly to Rio!
L: That's a great idea, sweetie!
EXT. GOOGLE 727
A missle flashes up and hits the 727, blowing it to smithereens.
INT. COURT ROOM, San Francisco, CA
A judge raps his gavel.
JUDGE: Case closed! Mr. Gates, you are cleared to purchase Google, Inc.
GATES: Oh, good!
Savers are losers--it's been proven. You're better off spending all of your money now than saving it and letting the market take it. Or inflation. Or die before you get to enjoy it and then your kids spend it on hookers, blow and ski trips.
I prefer the opposite, a nice heavy load of debt. I may not be ahead of you in $ when I die, but I'll definitely be ahead in living.
The thing that is nuts, is that I want a revolution in this country, but just to put back the original constitution and the ways that this country was originally set up. It kills me that the people that set up our government 200+ years ago did it mostly right, but since WWII the federal government here has gotten completely (and unconstitutionally) out of hand.
A social revolution? Hah, they tried that in the 60's. An armed revolution? You'd be "detained" on terrorism charges before you have a chance to get off the phone with your Army.
No sir, it's too late. Maybe another country? Sorry, global economy, it's all the same everywhere.
Suicide? What about everyone else?
Crap.
I have an idea, become poor. Give away your flat screen TV and your Escalade with TVs and the TV in your bathroom and your house, your job, everything. When you're shitting on a street corner, the last thing you'll be thinking about is your privacy. That's how we win. We turn our backs. Don't fight, just don't care.