And the skill of getting things done is to have a singular focus until the task is complete.
Checks and balances a system specifically designed to ensure that leaders aren't able to get anything done. That's how you've solved the problem of corrupt leaders. And as a direct result, you can't effect change. Of any kind. At any time.
Think about it. If apples were suddenly poisonous, you wouldn't be able to outlaw apples. It would take you ten years and still the apple lobbyists and the apple industries, and the apple farmers and the apple black market, who all make money on apples, wouldn't let you make apples illegal.
Guns, drugs, cigarettes, grafitti, patent trolls, slavery, wars, poor education, wellfare, healthcare. There are countries that effectively have absolutely none of these problems. And do it without a significant military, and without even knowing the names of their leaders.
"Most guns will never hurt a single person..." but some guns will hurt many people. And I won't let you say that patent trollls hurt people. I won't let you use the word "hurt" to cross the line of physical safetly. There's an order of magnitude between money, liberty, luxury, benefit, and fun versus actually surviving the day. It's a very simple line. You can invalidate a patent ten years later. You can refund money. You can feed the hungry. You can't raised the dead.
I'm not against guns. I'm against systems that don't try to improve things when certain lines are crossed.
I don't care when one druggy shoots another. I don't care when a wife kills her husband. These issues don't threaten me.
Over the course of a year, a few random shootings of innocent people are upsetting, but to be expected from any large society. There's a number that is simply not able to be reduced.
26 people within an elementary school, being killed by someone outside of that elementary school, is across my line. I'm not asking for gun control. I'm not asking for security. I'm asking for anyone to try anything in an attempt to take one small step in any direction. It doesn't need to work, it just needs to be an attempt.
And so far, nothing's been done.
Since 1972 -- when an episode of "All in the Family" had precisely the same discussions. Those are 40 years of absolutely nothing being improved at all.
Hey look, you live in the right country for you, have the right president for you, and you have the right issues for you. Oh wait, I mean problems. You have the right problems for you. Glad you're happy with your problems.
However, as an outsider, I'll let you in on a little secret. With all of the wars, and all of the droughts, and all of the torture, December's shootings remain the most embarassing thing on the planet at this time.
You're losing what little respect the rest of the world has for you. And this after mortgage problems how long ago?
I'm looking at your last 13 years. I see terrorism, huge financial issues, loss of privacy, loss of civil rights, enormous expenses, loss of jobs, budget cuts to major exploration, mass shootings, recessions, pollution, miscounts, immigration issues, and mass corporate fraud. Oh yeah, and low-quality education. And also a lousy patent system.
I don't know what to tell you. I put the patent system at the end.
I guess that's it for the focus on gun problems. Patent problems must be more important than mass elementary school shootings. Congrats on, once again, not even making a single attempt to improve the situation. Good job.
Damn, I didn't see this thread. My Truly advice is below. Eh, I'll duplicate it here for easy reading. And yeah, it's not expensive if it lasts for ten years.
www.trulyergonomic.com
I bought one a year ago, a blank-keycap version actually. I use in dvorak mode, though I've modified the layout very slightly.
Regarding your pinky, there are three improvements.
The biggest is actually that the keys don't have a typewriter stagger. In the vertical axis this are columnar. In the horizontal access, they follow the wave that your finger tips follow. The result is that your fingers take a simpler path to farther keys, making your straight pinky more operational.
Second, many major keys are actually in the center. Including backspace and enter -- which I'm certain you've always had under that right pinky. It took one week. but man are they way better in the middle! bigger keys, bigger fingers, striking them in the middle of the keycap. All good.
Third, and you may find this the best part, the shift keys are higher up -- where enter and caps lock typically are. So your straight pinky would actually still easily grab the shift key on the home row.
Of course, proper cherry switches, heavy keyboard.
I bought one a year ago, a blank-keycap version actually. I use in dvorak mode, though I've modified the layout very slightly.
Regarding your pinky, there are three improvements.
The biggest is actually that the keys don't have a typewriter stagger. In the vertical axis this are columnar. In the horizontal access, they follow the wave that your finger tips follow. The result is that your fingers take a simpler path to farther keys, making your straight pinky more operational.
Second, many major keys are actually in the center. Including backspace and enter -- which I'm certain you've always had under that right pinky. It took one week. but man are they way better in the middle! bigger keys, bigger fingers, striking them in the middle of the keycap. All good.
Third, and you may find this the best part, the shift keys are higher up -- where enter and caps lock typically are. So your straight pinky would actually still easily grab the shift key on the home row.
Of course, proper cherry switches, heavy keyboard.
I'm using two NEC MultiSync LCD 3090WQXi monitors. Absolutely gorgeous, but no where near the budget. But some of the features are amazing. Like dimming or changing or turning off the power light. Also sensor-based white levels et cetera. I bought one new 6 years ago, and the other used 4 years ago. Still perfect. Better, the newer model's easier to type: PA301W.
On the other side, I've also got some I-INC, 28" 1920x1200 screens that cost me $350 4 years ago. They are horrible in every legitimate way -- really slow to turn on, think 15 seconds, or to change resolutions, colour accuracy sucks, pixels are large, but great budget for the size especially 4 years ago.
Well, you beat me to this. But I can answer the question.
Because in kindergarten -- or elementary school if your school system sucks -- very young children are taught 5. They are taught 5 because they are very young, and teaching 20 would be difficult.
Unfortunately, you live in a world where adults forget that what was taught in school isn't anywhere near complete. So they think there are 5 senses, atoms are round, primary colours are red, yellow, blue, and tarrot cards mean something.
What we need to do is not to teach these adults. What we need to do is to inform their life coaches. Let the life coaches teach them.
"Processing Power", what, at S.T.P.? Spherical frog in the microwave anyone?
Under some forms of ideal conditions, perhaps. But think about what it'd take to get a stupid rubber case/cover for Curiosity?
Take your beloved iPhone, take it out of the case, use it for the same 253 days (I actually don't know anyone who's used a single iPhone for that long, by the way), and see how that processing power manages to endure on the 254th day. No protector; just your pocket, and the keys in your pocket. Don't lose it, don't drop it, don't crack the screen. Oh yeah, and there are no in-warranty returns either.
And, forget about the mission, it had to survive the stress tests of all of the other components for years.
And the hardware was selected and frozen years before the software was, dumbass.
Oh, and by-the-by, it's controlling a nuclear power plant.
The oven that I can control from across the world -- the worst idea ever. Can I also have a way to control my fire extinguisher from across the world? Or to change the amount of time it takes for chicken to cook if I get stuck in traffic mid-way through the cooking?
I'd love cabinets that wash the dishes, but I don't want to put dirty dishes into my clean cabinets.
I actually would like a knife that teaches me advanced knifing skills. But a book can do that much more easily.
I really have zero interest in adding anything to my kitchen outside of things that cook, clean, or prep.
This amounts to a very standard issue these days. In the last of giant corporations worth spending millions of dollars and minutes to hack into, a password is insufficient. Good for you. For the rest of the world, you know, like when I'm accessing my registration to a telecom conference in June, a password is plenty fine. If anyone really wants to hack that conference's web-site, then they can change the name that appears on my badge, and could even cancel my registration -- something that the conference organizers would happily fix for me on-site.
Has anyone else noticed that this issue seems to have grown (in Google's mind) as they offer more and more cross-integrated services through a single password? Perhaps, and this is just speculation, if they separated services into multiple accounts hosted independently, while it would be a little less convenient for users, it would be the same less convenient for hackers?
In any event, the idea of replacing something that can't be stolen, with something that can be stolen, is a plainly stupid idea. It's even more stupid than using biometrics -- something I can't control intently, and I leave everywhere I go. So stupid.
I know the TSA has been doing cavity searches for a long time. But exacuating passengers seems both extreme, and dirty. Shouldn't the world health organization have something to say about this?
Maybe next time there's an emergency landing, they should consider evacuating the plane, instead of the passengers. Besides, if it's a rough landing, some of the passengers are likely to self-evacuate.
Congrats, you've consulted a source that lists common usage, and it's told you that common people don't know the difference.
Now use an etymological source, and discover what the words truly mean.
Here's a hint. They have the same root -- which means that they'll be similar -- and yet they have TOTALLY DIFFERENT AFFIXES -- which means they'll be as different as phosphor and phosphate, confer and conference, confer and prefer. So similar. Not the same.
Funny thing. English doesn't actually have many synonyms. They wind up being as distinct as beef and cow -- even though beef simply means cow.
Lookup dictionary in a lexicon, and you'll discover that "use it in a sentence" proves only that you know how others use it in a sentence, not what it actually means at all. Stop corrupting my language through incorrect usage. I don't care how many people make the mistake, it's still a mistake.
Proven vs. Proved. There's five apples. yellow is a primary colour. sign language. Alright.
...commandeer a vehicle. Makes sense, as long is it's obvious and understandable. I'd happily back away from some work if a big message popped up saying that they needed my machine for a while. And since they don't have a warrant to search my machine, anything they find is inadmissable I imagine? That works for me. And if it's obvious, especially if I can't use my machine concurrently, then bot-nets aren't an issue.
Still, answer the question. What's your number? Being able to own the guns that you can currently own in the way that you can currently own them is obviously worth a lot more to you than the right to own explosives -- because you don't currently have that right at all. And we're not talking about the right to own knives.
Knives, guns, explosives, these are all nodes along the same spectrum. You've drawn the line somewhere between guns and explosives. So I'm asking you, what's the number of people who need to die, or the rate at which those people need to die, before you consider moving your line, just a little?
I've always said that if you can't define a line, then you're living by an irrational principle and therefore your ideals have zero meaning, and no one needs to respect them.
So, pick a number, just that I know what it'll take. Others have. It's still your turn.
I'm impressed that you don't differentiate between 26 innocent people and children in a protected environment like a school, versus drug lords being gunned down by rival gangs. But answer the bloody question. What's your number? How many people are worth not even considering altering these particular existing rights? I'm not even talking about removing rights, just talking about changing them. And as fundamental as these farticular rights seem to be, they aren't required in most places on this planet.
Wow, dude, I want your name. I need to be your friend. That's probably the most profound (and gutsy) answer that I've heard yet. It's about now that I wish I weren't an atheist.
a) 20 children and 6 adults were killed in a school and it wasn't drug, gang, or domestic. That's why. And it was the fourth mass shooting in a few months?
b) because 3.2%, when it translates into ten million people, is a big deal if they leave, stop paying taxes, lose their jobs, encourage crime, aren't nice, or are geographically proximal. because 3.2% can effect negative change very easily. Because 3.2% is greater than one fiftieth, which means that 3.2% can be an entire state of the union. You would ignore all of vermont? Oh, and all of wyoming, north dakota, alasta, south dakota, delaware, montana, and rhode island all combined? Or you'd ignore any of georgia, michigan, north carolina, new jersey, virginia, washington, massachusetts, arizona, or alabama? Basically any state but california, texas, new york, florida, illinois, pennsylvania, and ohio, Hope you live in one of those because any other state can just be totally ignored. Great union. Very democratic. Just tell them to get lost.
And because 3.2%, aside from having some right to live the way they want to live (you know, in a somewhat free society), can be correct about something that the remaining 96.9% (rounding error) don't understand. And not only have you said that the 96.9% won't follow them, you've said that the 3.2% aren't even allowed to lead! No wonder nothing changes. It's not all or nothing, it's majority or nothing. Well good luck to you.
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That's precisely correct.
And the skill of getting things done is to have a singular focus until the task is complete.
Checks and balances a system specifically designed to ensure that leaders aren't able to get anything done. That's how you've solved the problem of corrupt leaders. And as a direct result, you can't effect change. Of any kind. At any time.
Think about it. If apples were suddenly poisonous, you wouldn't be able to outlaw apples. It would take you ten years and still the apple lobbyists and the apple industries, and the apple farmers and the apple black market, who all make money on apples, wouldn't let you make apples illegal.
Guns, drugs, cigarettes, grafitti, patent trolls, slavery, wars, poor education, wellfare, healthcare. There are countries that effectively have absolutely none of these problems. And do it without a significant military, and without even knowing the names of their leaders.
"Most guns will never hurt a single person..." but some guns will hurt many people. And I won't let you say that patent trollls hurt people. I won't let you use the word "hurt" to cross the line of physical safetly. There's an order of magnitude between money, liberty, luxury, benefit, and fun versus actually surviving the day. It's a very simple line. You can invalidate a patent ten years later. You can refund money. You can feed the hungry. You can't raised the dead.
I'm not against guns. I'm against systems that don't try to improve things when certain lines are crossed.
I don't care when one druggy shoots another. I don't care when a wife kills her husband. These issues don't threaten me.
Over the course of a year, a few random shootings of innocent people are upsetting, but to be expected from any large society. There's a number that is simply not able to be reduced.
26 people within an elementary school, being killed by someone outside of that elementary school, is across my line. I'm not asking for gun control. I'm not asking for security. I'm asking for anyone to try anything in an attempt to take one small step in any direction. It doesn't need to work, it just needs to be an attempt.
And so far, nothing's been done.
Since 1972 -- when an episode of "All in the Family" had precisely the same discussions. Those are 40 years of absolutely nothing being improved at all.
Congrats.
Hey look, you live in the right country for you, have the right president for you, and you have the right issues for you. Oh wait, I mean problems. You have the right problems for you. Glad you're happy with your problems.
However, as an outsider, I'll let you in on a little secret. With all of the wars, and all of the droughts, and all of the torture, December's shootings remain the most embarassing thing on the planet at this time.
You're losing what little respect the rest of the world has for you. And this after mortgage problems how long ago?
I'm looking at your last 13 years. I see terrorism, huge financial issues, loss of privacy, loss of civil rights, enormous expenses, loss of jobs, budget cuts to major exploration, mass shootings, recessions, pollution, miscounts, immigration issues, and mass corporate fraud. Oh yeah, and low-quality education. And also a lousy patent system.
I don't know what to tell you. I put the patent system at the end.
I guess that's it for the focus on gun problems. Patent problems must be more important than mass elementary school shootings. Congrats on, once again, not even making a single attempt to improve the situation. Good job.
Damn, I didn't see this thread. My Truly advice is below. Eh, I'll duplicate it here for easy reading. And yeah, it's not expensive if it lasts for ten years.
www.trulyergonomic.com
I bought one a year ago, a blank-keycap version actually. I use in dvorak mode, though I've modified the layout very slightly.
Regarding your pinky, there are three improvements.
The biggest is actually that the keys don't have a typewriter stagger. In the vertical axis this are columnar. In the horizontal access, they follow the wave that your finger tips follow. The result is that your fingers take a simpler path to farther keys, making your straight pinky more operational.
Second, many major keys are actually in the center. Including backspace and enter -- which I'm certain you've always had under that right pinky. It took one week. but man are they way better in the middle! bigger keys, bigger fingers, striking them in the middle of the keycap. All good.
Third, and you may find this the best part, the shift keys are higher up -- where enter and caps lock typically are. So your straight pinky would actually still easily grab the shift key on the home row.
Of course, proper cherry switches, heavy keyboard.
www.trulyergonomic.com
I bought one a year ago, a blank-keycap version actually. I use in dvorak mode, though I've modified the layout very slightly.
Regarding your pinky, there are three improvements.
The biggest is actually that the keys don't have a typewriter stagger. In the vertical axis this are columnar. In the horizontal access, they follow the wave that your finger tips follow. The result is that your fingers take a simpler path to farther keys, making your straight pinky more operational.
Second, many major keys are actually in the center. Including backspace and enter -- which I'm certain you've always had under that right pinky. It took one week. but man are they way better in the middle! bigger keys, bigger fingers, striking them in the middle of the keycap. All good.
Third, and you may find this the best part, the shift keys are higher up -- where enter and caps lock typically are. So your straight pinky would actually still easily grab the shift key on the home row.
Of course, proper cherry switches, heavy keyboard.
I'm using two NEC MultiSync LCD 3090WQXi monitors. Absolutely gorgeous, but no where near the budget. But some of the features are amazing. Like dimming or changing or turning off the power light. Also sensor-based white levels et cetera. I bought one new 6 years ago, and the other used 4 years ago. Still perfect. Better, the newer model's easier to type: PA301W.
On the other side, I've also got some I-INC, 28" 1920x1200 screens that cost me $350 4 years ago. They are horrible in every legitimate way -- really slow to turn on, think 15 seconds, or to change resolutions, colour accuracy sucks, pixels are large, but great budget for the size especially 4 years ago.
Well, you beat me to this. But I can answer the question.
Because in kindergarten -- or elementary school if your school system sucks -- very young children are taught 5. They are taught 5 because they are very young, and teaching 20 would be difficult.
Unfortunately, you live in a world where adults forget that what was taught in school isn't anywhere near complete. So they think there are 5 senses, atoms are round, primary colours are red, yellow, blue, and tarrot cards mean something.
What we need to do is not to teach these adults. What we need to do is to inform their life coaches. Let the life coaches teach them.
"Processing Power", what, at S.T.P.? Spherical frog in the microwave anyone?
Under some forms of ideal conditions, perhaps. But think about what it'd take to get a stupid rubber case/cover for Curiosity?
Take your beloved iPhone, take it out of the case, use it for the same 253 days (I actually don't know anyone who's used a single iPhone for that long, by the way), and see how that processing power manages to endure on the 254th day. No protector; just your pocket, and the keys in your pocket. Don't lose it, don't drop it, don't crack the screen. Oh yeah, and there are no in-warranty returns either.
And, forget about the mission, it had to survive the stress tests of all of the other components for years.
And the hardware was selected and frozen years before the software was, dumbass.
Oh, and by-the-by, it's controlling a nuclear power plant.
The oven that I can control from across the world -- the worst idea ever. Can I also have a way to control my fire extinguisher from across the world? Or to change the amount of time it takes for chicken to cook if I get stuck in traffic mid-way through the cooking?
I'd love cabinets that wash the dishes, but I don't want to put dirty dishes into my clean cabinets.
I actually would like a knife that teaches me advanced knifing skills. But a book can do that much more easily.
I really have zero interest in adding anything to my kitchen outside of things that cook, clean, or prep.
This amounts to a very standard issue these days. In the last of giant corporations worth spending millions of dollars and minutes to hack into, a password is insufficient. Good for you. For the rest of the world, you know, like when I'm accessing my registration to a telecom conference in June, a password is plenty fine. If anyone really wants to hack that conference's web-site, then they can change the name that appears on my badge, and could even cancel my registration -- something that the conference organizers would happily fix for me on-site.
Has anyone else noticed that this issue seems to have grown (in Google's mind) as they offer more and more cross-integrated services through a single password? Perhaps, and this is just speculation, if they separated services into multiple accounts hosted independently, while it would be a little less convenient for users, it would be the same less convenient for hackers?
In any event, the idea of replacing something that can't be stolen, with something that can be stolen, is a plainly stupid idea. It's even more stupid than using biometrics -- something I can't control intently, and I leave everywhere I go. So stupid.
I know the TSA has been doing cavity searches for a long time. But exacuating passengers seems both extreme, and dirty. Shouldn't the world health organization have something to say about this?
Maybe next time there's an emergency landing, they should consider evacuating the plane, instead of the passengers. Besides, if it's a rough landing, some of the passengers are likely to self-evacuate.
Just to be clear, you're saying that "obligation" is a word that doesn't come from "obligate".
Congrats, you've consulted a source that lists common usage, and it's told you that common people don't know the difference.
Now use an etymological source, and discover what the words truly mean.
Here's a hint. They have the same root -- which means that they'll be similar -- and yet they have TOTALLY DIFFERENT AFFIXES -- which means they'll be as different as phosphor and phosphate, confer and conference, confer and prefer. So similar. Not the same.
Funny thing. English doesn't actually have many synonyms. They wind up being as distinct as beef and cow -- even though beef simply means cow.
Lookup dictionary in a lexicon, and you'll discover that "use it in a sentence" proves only that you know how others use it in a sentence, not what it actually means at all. Stop corrupting my language through incorrect usage. I don't care how many people make the mistake, it's still a mistake.
Proven vs. Proved. There's five apples. yellow is a primary colour. sign language. Alright.
I was pointing more to the obliged vs obligated word choice. But yes, the posessive apostrophe is one of the dumbest things in the language.
Still more likely "Any company that is not obliged to act for its customers will eventually be obligated to close its doors."
I hardly think that Apple was obliged to change anything. Probably obligated, but not obliged.
...commandeer a vehicle. Makes sense, as long is it's obvious and understandable. I'd happily back away from some work if a big message popped up saying that they needed my machine for a while. And since they don't have a warrant to search my machine, anything they find is inadmissable I imagine? That works for me. And if it's obvious, especially if I can't use my machine concurrently, then bot-nets aren't an issue.
You're the one being dramatic. Decide your number, then get back to us.
Still, answer the question. What's your number? Being able to own the guns that you can currently own in the way that you can currently own them is obviously worth a lot more to you than the right to own explosives -- because you don't currently have that right at all. And we're not talking about the right to own knives.
Knives, guns, explosives, these are all nodes along the same spectrum. You've drawn the line somewhere between guns and explosives. So I'm asking you, what's the number of people who need to die, or the rate at which those people need to die, before you consider moving your line, just a little?
I've always said that if you can't define a line, then you're living by an irrational principle and therefore your ideals have zero meaning, and no one needs to respect them.
So, pick a number, just that I know what it'll take. Others have. It's still your turn.
I'm impressed that you don't differentiate between 26 innocent people and children in a protected environment like a school, versus drug lords being gunned down by rival gangs. But answer the bloody question. What's your number? How many people are worth not even considering altering these particular existing rights? I'm not even talking about removing rights, just talking about changing them. And as fundamental as these farticular rights seem to be, they aren't required in most places on this planet.
So again, simple question, what's your number?
Guess your number's higher than 26, and higher than 80. So answer the question then. What's your number? What's more than a blip to you?
Wow, dude, I want your name. I need to be your friend. That's probably the most profound (and gutsy) answer that I've heard yet. It's about now that I wish I weren't an atheist.
a) 20 children and 6 adults were killed in a school and it wasn't drug, gang, or domestic. That's why. And it was the fourth mass shooting in a few months?
b) because 3.2%, when it translates into ten million people, is a big deal if they leave, stop paying taxes, lose their jobs, encourage crime, aren't nice, or are geographically proximal. because 3.2% can effect negative change very easily. Because 3.2% is greater than one fiftieth, which means that 3.2% can be an entire state of the union. You would ignore all of vermont? Oh, and all of wyoming, north dakota, alasta, south dakota, delaware, montana, and rhode island all combined? Or you'd ignore any of georgia, michigan, north carolina, new jersey, virginia, washington, massachusetts, arizona, or alabama? Basically any state but california, texas, new york, florida, illinois, pennsylvania, and ohio, Hope you live in one of those because any other state can just be totally ignored. Great union. Very democratic. Just tell them to get lost.
And because 3.2%, aside from having some right to live the way they want to live (you know, in a somewhat free society), can be correct about something that the remaining 96.9% (rounding error) don't understand. And not only have you said that the 96.9% won't follow them, you've said that the 3.2% aren't even allowed to lead! No wonder nothing changes. It's not all or nothing, it's majority or nothing. Well good luck to you.