Who the hell wants to live in Seattle? I don't even like working here... You get out to the suburbs and it's nice, but expensive. You have to go either waaay out (like past North Bend or Yelm or something), settle for a crowded apartment complex / condo / townhome, or live in a rat hole in Kent. I'm at 90 minutes average right now if I carpool. The bus is two hours, and I'm still around 90-105 minutes if I try to do the Sounder and transfer to local transit when I hit the city.
I can't tolerate being in that close of a space with that many people, so I'll stick with driving.
OK, I'll take your consumer point... I don't really agree about 95 sucking, once they got over the birth pangs, and I'd argue that 3.1 and 3.11 both didn't suck giving you four consumer "not sucks" in a row, but I see where you're coming from.
Exactly so. I think my favorite keyboard was on my T23. The T30 was weak, but the right layout at least. T40/T42/T43 were better. I still use my T60 daily. I've replaced the keyboard a few times, but that's just because of the quanitity of use I've put it through.
I could probably get over the chicklet (so-called island) style keys, but the crippled six-row layout is too much.
A tablet does not necessarily equal a pocketable computer.
I've tried using various laptops rotated 90 degrees for playing sheet music, but they don't exactly sit well on the stand. Admittedly, it's a special case, but there are lots of places where having a 1:1 replacement for a sheet of paper would come in handy.
I'd like to see a decent tablet with around a 14" screen. Something that would make reviewing documentation (or sheet music) intended for Letter/A4 sized printouts possible without shrinking it to fit a diminutive screen.
Don't forget a weapons locker in the back. The accuracy of the weapons doesn't matter - just spray and pray and watch as other vehicles flip over and explode.
PLEASE let it be like MacGyver was before it jumped the shark. I wanna see Mac kicking some terrorist / commie butt, not playing Captain Planet. Keep Al Gore away from the set.
For an alternative actor I'll echo calls for Fillion or Damon. Someone who looks clean cut and American (yes, I understand the irony with who I suggested to play the role).
What about the waiting lines for the NHS in the UK? How long do you have to wait to get a "non life-threatening" procedure done?
Who decides when a patient is terminal? Here in the US at least a patient can go to any doctor they want to, whip out the checkbook, and have them try anything they can think of to save the patient. Does that mean the rich would get better health care? Sure. Is it wrong? No.
(This said as a lower-middle class person with three dependents working two jobs just to keep a roof over our heads.)
So what motivation does any member of society have to become less "disadvantaged"? I'd say a free ride for life without work gives you an advantage. If I don't work, or under-work I get:
Guess what? By allowing people to freeload on the system they have ZERO motivation to make themselves better. They'll just continue to vote for people who will continue to feed them government cheese (the ones promoting more welfare and giving more of our money away).
Only by saying "if you don't work, you don't eat" will people make themselves better. When they get tired of shoveling dung for three squares and a roof over their heads they'll educate themselves to find better, more fulfilling jobs.
If someone is truly unable to work and has nobody to take care of them, that is one thing. Otherwise, get their lazy butts off the couch and have them fill potholes or build infrastructure for the benefit of the society you're so willing to rob to give them a free ride.
No - all opinions deserve consideration, but it specious to think that all opinions are equally valid: in particular, liberals find opinions that argue for a reduction of choice repugnant.
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I think you'll find that liberals are perfectly happy to reduce choice; they are just picky about what choices they reduce.
For example, the DeKalb shooting yesterday. Thanks to liberals that took place in a gun-free zone. They reduced the choices of manners of self-defense available to those who were there. Had someone been carrying their own firearm they could have taken out the shooter before eighteen people were hit. Because liberals believe in the goodness of all mankind or some such tripe (as someone pointed out above, a delusional thought when you look at history), they've run with the belief that criminals and nutjobs will obey "victim disarmament zones".
The other one is abortion. Liberals all want to say it's about a woman's choice with regard to when she should do with her own body. Never mind the personal responsibility the woman has to not get pregnant in the first place. Never mind the fact that by giving the woman the right to kill you're taking away the right of the baby to live.
I'm not trying to get into a massive argument here, because I know that nobody is going to change their mind. I merely wanted to point out that liberals are perfectly willing to reduce choice for anyone that doesn't fit their mold.
There is some truth here. If Hillary (or Obama) gets in, the republicans could get their stuff together and retake congress like they did after Clinton the First got in in '94.
I'm another one of those who happens to think Ron Paul is our best hope. If he doesn't make it this time, I'm not sure if he'll be able to re-run in four or eight years due to his age. I have no idea who could pick up his standard and carry on.
I eventually tired of being available anytime someone wants me. I no longer use IM unless I'm planning to talk to someone specific. I rarely check my email (every other day or so), unless I'm expecting something. I run one very unpopular blog under a pseudonym, and that's it. I can't understand why people would waste so much of their lives exposing themselves to people who generally don't know them...
The business pays IT to make the technology decisions for them, because the business doesn't want to know about it. When the rest of the business makes IT's life too difficult, it results in _more_ costs for the business.
Let IT do their job. Tell us what you want to do and we'll tell you how to do it at different cost levels. Don't tell us the solution and ask us to implement it at any cost; tell us the problem and let us give you the best value for your money.
PDF Creator is great for making your own PDFs. It's not terribly large (installs as a Windows printer) and is a ton cheaper than Acrobat Standard or Pro.
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Nobody forced an Uber driver to start driving for Uber.
It occurs to me that /. could answer that question themselves by looking at the hits on their rss urls.
Who the hell wants to live in Seattle? I don't even like working here... You get out to the suburbs and it's nice, but expensive. You have to go either waaay out (like past North Bend or Yelm or something), settle for a crowded apartment complex / condo / townhome, or live in a rat hole in Kent. I'm at 90 minutes average right now if I carpool. The bus is two hours, and I'm still around 90-105 minutes if I try to do the Sounder and transfer to local transit when I hit the city.
I can't tolerate being in that close of a space with that many people, so I'll stick with driving.
Why reboot ST when there's a huge canon of Heinlein to pull from. How about Farnham's Freehold? Time travel is hot right now...
PowerShell? You mean that scripting language that can't even run unsigned scripts by defaults? .CMDs.
No thanks, I will stick to
Because "Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted" is too hard to type?
OK, I'll take your consumer point... I don't really agree about 95 sucking, once they got over the birth pangs, and I'd argue that 3.1 and 3.11 both didn't suck giving you four consumer "not sucks" in a row, but I see where you're coming from.
You can't compare XP to ME like that. The fair comparison of NT Kernel based OSes breaks the every-other-OS-sucks pattern.
NT (Good) -> 2000 (Good) -> XP (Good) -> Vista (Sucks) -> Win7 (Good) -> Win8 (Sucks).
Exactly so. I think my favorite keyboard was on my T23. The T30 was weak, but the right layout at least. T40/T42/T43 were better. I still use my T60 daily. I've replaced the keyboard a few times, but that's just because of the quanitity of use I've put it through.
I could probably get over the chicklet (so-called island) style keys, but the crippled six-row layout is too much.
Of course, I'm still pining for 4:3 displays...
Or they wouldn't have articles like this: http://blog.lenovo.com/products/why-you-should-give-in-to-the-new-thinkpad-keyboard#disqus_thread
Got to agree with you there.
A tablet does not necessarily equal a pocketable computer.
I've tried using various laptops rotated 90 degrees for playing sheet music, but they don't exactly sit well on the stand. Admittedly, it's a special case, but there are lots of places where having a 1:1 replacement for a sheet of paper would come in handy.
I'd like to see a decent tablet with around a 14" screen. Something that would make reviewing documentation (or sheet music) intended for Letter/A4 sized printouts possible without shrinking it to fit a diminutive screen.
I believe he was in at least two of the "Santa Clause" movies.
Don't forget a weapons locker in the back. The accuracy of the weapons doesn't matter - just spray and pray and watch as other vehicles flip over and explode.
PLEASE let it be like MacGyver was before it jumped the shark. I wanna see Mac kicking some terrorist / commie butt, not playing Captain Planet. Keep Al Gore away from the set.
For an alternative actor I'll echo calls for Fillion or Damon. Someone who looks clean cut and American (yes, I understand the irony with who I suggested to play the role).
What about the waiting lines for the NHS in the UK? How long do you have to wait to get a "non life-threatening" procedure done?
Who decides when a patient is terminal? Here in the US at least a patient can go to any doctor they want to, whip out the checkbook, and have them try anything they can think of to save the patient. Does that mean the rich would get better health care? Sure. Is it wrong? No.
(This said as a lower-middle class person with three dependents working two jobs just to keep a roof over our heads.)
So what motivation does any member of society have to become less "disadvantaged"? I'd say a free ride for life without work gives you an advantage. If I don't work, or under-work I get:
Subsidized housing - http://www.seattlehousing.org/Housing/programs/section8/hcvpten.html
Free food - http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/
Free healthcare (via UHC when it passes or just going to the ER for every sniffle)
Free entertainment - http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
Guess what? By allowing people to freeload on the system they have ZERO motivation to make themselves better. They'll just continue to vote for people who will continue to feed them government cheese (the ones promoting more welfare and giving more of our money away).
Only by saying "if you don't work, you don't eat" will people make themselves better. When they get tired of shoveling dung for three squares and a roof over their heads they'll educate themselves to find better, more fulfilling jobs.
If someone is truly unable to work and has nobody to take care of them, that is one thing. Otherwise, get their lazy butts off the couch and have them fill potholes or build infrastructure for the benefit of the society you're so willing to rob to give them a free ride.
No - all opinions deserve consideration, but it specious to think that all opinions are equally valid: in particular, liberals find opinions that argue for a reduction of choice repugnant.
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I think you'll find that liberals are perfectly happy to reduce choice; they are just picky about what choices they reduce.
For example, the DeKalb shooting yesterday. Thanks to liberals that took place in a gun-free zone. They reduced the choices of manners of self-defense available to those who were there. Had someone been carrying their own firearm they could have taken out the shooter before eighteen people were hit. Because liberals believe in the goodness of all mankind or some such tripe (as someone pointed out above, a delusional thought when you look at history), they've run with the belief that criminals and nutjobs will obey "victim disarmament zones".
The other one is abortion. Liberals all want to say it's about a woman's choice with regard to when she should do with her own body. Never mind the personal responsibility the woman has to not get pregnant in the first place. Never mind the fact that by giving the woman the right to kill you're taking away the right of the baby to live.
I'm not trying to get into a massive argument here, because I know that nobody is going to change their mind. I merely wanted to point out that liberals are perfectly willing to reduce choice for anyone that doesn't fit their mold.
Brain fart... of course I know Clinton got in in '92. I was thinking about the passage of the AWB in '94 when I posted that.
There is some truth here. If Hillary (or Obama) gets in, the republicans could get their stuff together and retake congress like they did after Clinton the First got in in '94.
I'm another one of those who happens to think Ron Paul is our best hope. If he doesn't make it this time, I'm not sure if he'll be able to re-run in four or eight years due to his age. I have no idea who could pick up his standard and carry on.
Reminds me of GLaD...
I eventually tired of being available anytime someone wants me. I no longer use IM unless I'm planning to talk to someone specific. I rarely check my email (every other day or so), unless I'm expecting something. I run one very unpopular blog under a pseudonym, and that's it. I can't understand why people would waste so much of their lives exposing themselves to people who generally don't know them...
You try explaining that to a two year old in a Cinderella dress with big puppy-dog eyes.
Spoken like an MBA...
The business pays IT to make the technology decisions for them, because the business doesn't want to know about it. When the rest of the business makes IT's life too difficult, it results in _more_ costs for the business.
Let IT do their job. Tell us what you want to do and we'll tell you how to do it at different cost levels. Don't tell us the solution and ask us to implement it at any cost; tell us the problem and let us give you the best value for your money.
PDF Creator is great for making your own PDFs. It's not terribly large (installs as a Windows printer) and is a ton cheaper than Acrobat Standard or Pro.