Yes, so long as "what I will like" = "what I like now".
Personally, while there may be some relationship between the two, I'll happily use my own brain, listen to stuff and DECIDE if I like it. It's actually pretty effortless.
"When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity"
Seems like he's divined why nobody liked him in Junior High in the first 23 words. I didn't do a single social-map of my lunchroom, and didn't feel particularly alienated. One might suspect a causal link, although the direction arrow would be debateable.
Personally, I spent most of this time talking to girls, trying to convince them that 'spin the bottle' was as much fun as they'd heard.
(in the shower): "At Last-- You can flush away excess Pounds and Inches BEFORE they attach to your body! Lose up to 22.5lbs in the next 3 weeks!"
(as you walk out to the garage): "Save 40% on insurance! Compare insurance quotes from some of the most trusted names in insurance. A fast and easy way to shop for individual or family quotes. The original online Insurance Service. Ten years Online! GUARANTEED!"
(as your wife leaves to go shopping): "Is she really going where she says? Brand-New VERSION 8.2 Just Released: Astounding New Software Lets You Find Out Almost ANYTHING about ANYONE..."
(and, after she finds out you've been snooping, and filed with MSDivorce version 1.0): "Hello, I started a new website for women like me - Married & Lonely. We're looking for guys like you ! PUSH THIS NOW TO SEE US !"
(and finally, ALONE in the bedroom) "Bob, #1 DOCTOR RECOMMENDED PENIS ENLARGEMENT FORMULA. In just a few short weeks, you'll watch with amazement as your penis grows into the biggest, thickest, hardest tool imaginable - the one you've always fantasized about having! No penis enlargement system is faster, easier to use, or more effective than MAG-RX+.
That's all I want. LifeSpam.
[sampled quotes not meant to advocate any product, just a tiny snippet of the email CRAP that I get that Outlook's junkmail 'filter' leaves untouched in my inbox.]
Attendees of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, January, 2003: Mimesis Project has amended the focus of their paper submission. It is now : The Integration of Full-Body Tactile and Sensory Interfaces in Mimesis Interactive and Narrative Environments, with Special Emphasis on Simulative Neural Feedback of Base-Level Physical Stimuli.
(aka the 'Natalie Portman in a Dacha' interactive adventure)
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It's not just the upfront, it's the continual competition with people's home systems and consoles.
We have a local fighter-pilot place that has the big fake cockpits you can fly in - they started up a number of years ago, but I stopped in just the summer before last and it was really pathetic, a bunch of tired P300's with VooDoo2 cards. The Mall of America has it too. There is a digital speedway shop with motion controlled stock cars, rather cool - except that their tech is definitely showing signs of age, since Vice City looks about 1000x better.
I mean, there are so many astronometric techniques that involve measuring things by inference using gravitational influence.
But now, according to this nothing is orbiting the center of mass of a system, it's orbitting where that center of mass WAS (time) ago. And the center of mass of a system isn't between to gravitational points, it's between where they were (time).
What impact does this have on the age of the universe calculations or the rate of cosmic expansion, since the distant quasars etc that we're detecting at the far limit of our instruments are trailing their gravitational effects like a wake?
So what happens if two gravitational sources are travelling at significant fractions of the speed of light, in parallel? Does D=.5AT^2 then become a sliding scale, dependent on the (absolute/relative) velocities of their gravitational centers?
I guess it makes logical sense to say that gravity has speed, but I see that it would complicate a lot of things not to simply assume it was instantaneous.
Personally every time I catch myself zoning in front of the tube I wonder: what's the difference between a show that you really want to watch, and a (psychological) drug addiction? I mean, instead of shooting a chemical into your bloodstream, in this case the delivery vehicle is your optic nerve. Since the part of the body being affected is intellectual and not chemical, the delivery has to be necessarily more subtle; to get an high TV typically focuses on emotional responses - like a 'command-line' drug that turns on/off adrenalin, endorphins, and all the other wierd crap in our heads. It's kind of the 'ultimate' drug delivery - why sell an illegal, dangerous chemical on the street, when you can (through the presentation of phosphor images and sounds in the appropriate combinations) induce the addict's body to create not only the need but the drugs themselves?
Anyway, thinking like this kind of helps me veer away from spending my hours in front of the tube.
I mean, five minutes before they finally translate the data coded into these junk DNA, the Vogons are going to destroy Earth to make way for a Hyperspace Bypass.
Bah, this is the agitprop pumped by teachers' unions since day one. SPEND MORE MONEY AND WE PROMISE TO GET BETTER RESULTS. Oh wait, they don't promise anything...since they'll be back the next budget, begging for more cash.
In Minnesota, state funding varies WIDELY by district, from some that get less than $6000 per student to some (mainly inner-city, big schools) over $11,000 per student.
Let's take the lower side of average of this: $8000 per student.
Classroom: 25 students (better than most) = $200,000 per year from the state. Let's take a highly skilled general ed teacher, who can cover basics in the sciences, english, social studies, history, etc. Pay him/her a GOOD salary - $75,000 per year. $125,000 left. Classroom - 30 x 30 office space, renting in the Minneapolis area at $8.50 per sqft = 7650 per year. Let's triple this to cover visits to swimming pools, gym time, etc for this class of 30. Round it to $25,000 per year. $100,000 left. Lets say also that you are serially raped on textbook prices (as usual - why doesn't the justice dept investigate THAT???) and drop $500 per student on books (general books, remember). $85,000 left. You have to get the kids to class - $15,000 ($500 per student, as an example of 'astonishingly high' busing costs in Maryland, pulled from the web). $70,000 remains in the kitty. (And you're feeding the kids breakfast AND lunch, since according to a USDA study by OANE of FNS food programs states "The combined Federal subsidy for free lunches and breakfast covers the cost of producing these meals.")
For what does this remaining money get spent? By and large its lost in FRICTION and WASTE in the school systems, who then toddle out to their communities crying for bonding bills to pay their budgets or 'football will get cut'.
And schools (teachers, unions, adminstrators...) wonder why the public views it all as a big shill game?
"A gun license should be as hard to get as a driver's license"
While I entirely agree with the premise, it kind of opens up a slippery slope (that it might not be bad if we went down). Shouldn't bringing a new baby human into this world require at LEAST as much licensing / education / certification as catching a fish?
http://www.cloudmark.com/ makes a really quite good spam filtering system for Outlook.
Even sets up it's own 'spam' folder so you can review what's been filtered before it's trashed (you do have the option of sending them straight to the delete file)
I haven't reached the 95% success rate that's bandied about, but I've only been running it 2 weeks. I suspect that after a couple of months of learning, it will come close. Very unobtrusive, and best yet I haven't seen it filter OUT something that's NOT spam.
Proposition: the US elective system is the worst possible alternative.
It can't be because we've managed to maintain a stable democratic system with only 1 civil war in 225 years.
It cannot be because there is no credible threat that there will be a military junta, or an overthrow of civilian government.
It certainly can't be that the US Constitution is one of the most admired documents of governmental philosophy the world over.
It can't be that the United States is not only the world's remaining superpower, but has the highest standard of living* of any country on the face of the earth. * (not measured by some theoretical rating of quality of life, but measured by the number of people in the world who are risking their lives every day just to come here- I don't see shiploads of Chinese immigrants paying $30,000 each to get to Sweden or Denmark.)
Obviously France's system is CLEARLY better - wait, how many governments have they had?
Naturally, Italy's system is clearly better - wait, how many governments have they had?
Wait, Germany's must be better, right? Yeah, their political experiments have gone just spiffy.
You can philosophize all you want in your Ivory Tower, for me, I'll be hard pressed to support changing something THAT OBVIOUSLY WORKS BETTER THAN ANY ALTERNATIVES EXTANT.
Let Djibouti try some goofy election system. When they become a world class power, then we should think of switching. Until then, your theories are like the Amway version of politics: you preach good results, but I haven't seen anything aside from YOUR word proving that it's actually so great.
The longer I live, the more I respect the Founding Fathers' wisdom in what they did, why they did it, and why they protected it from change. There's always some goofball selling something, somewhere.
"...the "right" is stereotypically more disciplined than the "left"...if there is a small rightist party (e.g. a bunch of neo-nazis by anything but name) in a situation similar to the one in Florida during the last presidential election, their adherents will be more likely to follow the "orders" of the party leadership... This means in turn that the results of the plurality vote in the US is not only the two-party system that we observe, but also a slight shift to the right."
That has to be the most farcical interpretation of the current system (and what happened in Florida) that I've ever heard. Jackbooted Republicans marched in lockstep to the polls and voted like automatons, while the truly free, enlightened individuals voted their consciences and therefore lost because their vote was less concentrated?
That's like what, the Woody Harrelson interpretation of the elections?
Maybe it was because the democrats, the party of bread and circuses to the masses, routinely rely on tidal waves of ignorant poor to carry them into office, and this time the busloads trucked in were just too STUPID to follow the simple voting directions?
Oh yeah, I can't figure out working a PUNCHCARD. But I'm *ENTITLED* to vote because what, I breathe?
Tell you what, let's make a moderate test of current events - something an 8th grader could pass. If you pass the test, you can vote. If you can't pass the test, what supposed *right* do you have to vote? If you don't know ANY current issues, the positions of the candidates, or cannot read - how can you be an INFORMED voter (something which a democracy presupposes)?
Ohmigosh, you mean I'm suggestiong the ignorant, the inattentive, the illiterate, and the non-english-speaking immigrants don't get to vote? What a facist!
Well, yes, that's precisely what I'm suggesting. I bet you'd see election campaigns stop being such an appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Interestingly, the model they show close up in the hangar is completely missing this vertical stabilizer, or any mounting point for it. See the video, at about 00:38-40. It's a very closeup view of the under-tail.
Ironically, this is one of the few articles I've read that don't lump GenX into "everyone under 40". In that sense, it's accurate - but that's where it stops. "Most productive earning years behind them"? What? I was born in 1967, I'm 35. I'm certainly HOPING that my best earning years are ahead of me. Generally, I find the tenor of most of the/. comments for this pretty funny because they reinforce what I'm saying. In my experience GenX'ers tend to be more characterized by a "leave me alone to live my life" philosophy (mischaracterized by older and younger generations as apathy). Living in the the demographic slump after the baby-boom has, for most of us, meant that we are not catered to in any way - by the media, by advertisers, by the markets, etc. Never have been, don't really want to be. Douglas Coupland nailed the ethos of the generation. (That and The Breakfast Club.) We were too young to be hippes or protesters in the late 60's and early 70's - we've merely been saddled with the rubble therefrom (drug abuse, AIDS, etc.). We grew up post-Watergate, so government has NEVER been something trustworthy. We matured under the shadow of Reagan and Brezhnev/Andropov/Chernyenko/Gorbachev. When I walked into senior high the day of the Challenger disaster, I was RELIEVED to find out it was "only" that the shuttle blew up. The pale faces and utter silence of the commons made me fear the balloon had gone up (remember that quaint phrase?). In the 80's, we watched all of our older borthers, sisters, and cousins who had railed against "The Man" and "Corporate America" put on their suits to go rape the economy in corporate takeovers. So all these 'paragons' of idealism are as totally corruptible as anyone else. Now in the 90's, we saw all these tainted idealists who made a giant pile of money in the 90's, settle down in their cozy 5000 sqft homes, have their one child name Zoe, drive gigantic vehicles in some pursuit of safety-through-egotism and become the "family" that they also said was hopeless back in the 60's. Finally, now that they are staring old age in the face, now they're all joining churches like mad. HA HA HA. Still looking for God that you couldn't find in drugs/sex/money/domesticity? As Generation X'ers, THAT'S what we've witnessed, that's what's formed our views of the world. Every decade since we were tots the generation ahead of us has said "we know the true way to happiness!" and been wrong EVERY TIME. We're not "Generation Wrecked". But we're forced to step over their wreckage to live our lives.
Well, obviously if they were selling MS Office in Malaysia for 7 ringgit, it would soon be selling for that here in the states.
So in effect you're saying that a software company that has completely covered it's development costs with original retail sales of some software, and now makes the current versions for $0.47 should be selling that software for only a 1000% profit instead of 1 million%?
What are smoking? That's crazy talk! How are they supposed to feed their children??!?!?
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So, is this like a trick question or what?
Yes, so long as "what I will like" = "what I like now".
Personally, while there may be some relationship between the two, I'll happily use my own brain, listen to stuff and DECIDE if I like it. It's actually pretty effortless.
"When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity"
Seems like he's divined why nobody liked him in Junior High in the first 23 words. I didn't do a single social-map of my lunchroom, and didn't feel particularly alienated. One might suspect a causal link, although the direction arrow would be debateable.
Personally, I spent most of this time talking to girls, trying to convince them that 'spin the bottle' was as much fun as they'd heard.
Not to mention being bombarded with:
(in the shower): "At Last-- You can flush away excess Pounds and Inches BEFORE they attach to your body! Lose up to 22.5lbs in the next 3 weeks!"
(as you walk out to the garage): "Save 40% on insurance! Compare insurance quotes from some of the most trusted names in insurance. A fast and easy way to shop for individual or family quotes.
The original online Insurance Service. Ten years Online! GUARANTEED!"
(as your wife leaves to go shopping): "Is she really going where she says? Brand-New VERSION 8.2 Just Released: Astounding New Software Lets You Find Out Almost ANYTHING about ANYONE..."
(and, after she finds out you've been snooping, and filed with MSDivorce version 1.0): "Hello, I started a new website for women like me - Married & Lonely. We're looking for guys like you ! PUSH THIS NOW TO SEE US !"
(and finally, ALONE in the bedroom) "Bob, #1 DOCTOR RECOMMENDED PENIS ENLARGEMENT FORMULA. In just a few short weeks, you'll watch with amazement as your penis grows into the biggest, thickest, hardest tool imaginable - the one you've always fantasized about having! No penis enlargement system is faster, easier to use, or more effective than MAG-RX+.
That's all I want. LifeSpam.
[sampled quotes not meant to advocate any product, just a tiny snippet of the email CRAP that I get that Outlook's junkmail 'filter' leaves untouched in my inbox.]
(...after reading Slashdot)
Attendees of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, January, 2003: Mimesis Project has amended the focus of their paper submission. It is now : The Integration of Full-Body Tactile and Sensory Interfaces in Mimesis Interactive and Narrative Environments, with Special Emphasis on Simulative Neural Feedback of Base-Level Physical Stimuli.
(aka the 'Natalie Portman in a Dacha' interactive adventure)
It's not just the upfront, it's the continual competition with people's home systems and consoles.
We have a local fighter-pilot place that has the big fake cockpits you can fly in - they started up a number of years ago, but I stopped in just the summer before last and it was really pathetic, a bunch of tired P300's with VooDoo2 cards.
The Mall of America has it too. There is a digital speedway shop with motion controlled stock cars, rather cool - except that their tech is definitely showing signs of age, since Vice City looks about 1000x better.
Why pay $X an hour if I can
I mean, there are so many astronometric techniques that involve measuring things by inference using gravitational influence.
But now, according to this nothing is orbiting the center of mass of a system, it's orbitting where that center of mass WAS (time) ago. And the center of mass of a system isn't between to gravitational points, it's between where they were (time).
What impact does this have on the age of the universe calculations or the rate of cosmic expansion, since the distant quasars etc that we're detecting at the far limit of our instruments are trailing their gravitational effects like a wake?
So what happens if two gravitational sources are travelling at significant fractions of the speed of light, in parallel? Does D=.5AT^2 then become a sliding scale, dependent on the (absolute/relative) velocities of their gravitational centers?
I guess it makes logical sense to say that gravity has speed, but I see that it would complicate a lot of things not to simply assume it was instantaneous.
Personally every time I catch myself zoning in front of the tube I wonder: what's the difference between a show that you really want to watch, and a (psychological) drug addiction?
I mean, instead of shooting a chemical into your bloodstream, in this case the delivery vehicle is your optic nerve. Since the part of the body being affected is intellectual and not chemical, the delivery has to be necessarily more subtle; to get an high TV typically focuses on emotional responses - like a 'command-line' drug that turns on/off adrenalin, endorphins, and all the other wierd crap in our heads.
It's kind of the 'ultimate' drug delivery - why sell an illegal, dangerous chemical on the street, when you can (through the presentation of phosphor images and sounds in the appropriate combinations) induce the addict's body to create not only the need but the drugs themselves?
Anyway, thinking like this kind of helps me veer away from spending my hours in front of the tube.
Isn't anyone else worried by this?
I mean, five minutes before they finally translate the data coded into these junk DNA, the Vogons are going to destroy Earth to make way for a Hyperspace Bypass.
Well, at least Arthur will survive.
Bah, this is the agitprop pumped by teachers' unions since day one. SPEND MORE MONEY AND WE PROMISE TO GET BETTER RESULTS. Oh wait, they don't promise anything...since they'll be back the next budget, begging for more cash.
In Minnesota, state funding varies WIDELY by district, from some that get less than $6000 per student to some (mainly inner-city, big schools) over $11,000 per student.
Let's take the lower side of average of this: $8000 per student.
Classroom: 25 students (better than most) = $200,000 per year from the state.
Let's take a highly skilled general ed teacher, who can cover basics in the sciences, english, social studies, history, etc. Pay him/her a GOOD salary - $75,000 per year. $125,000 left.
Classroom - 30 x 30 office space, renting in the Minneapolis area at $8.50 per sqft = 7650 per year. Let's triple this to cover visits to swimming pools, gym time, etc for this class of 30. Round it to $25,000 per year. $100,000 left.
Lets say also that you are serially raped on textbook prices (as usual - why doesn't the justice dept investigate THAT???) and drop $500 per student on books (general books, remember).
$85,000 left. You have to get the kids to class - $15,000 ($500 per student, as an example of 'astonishingly high' busing costs in Maryland, pulled from the web).
$70,000 remains in the kitty. (And you're feeding the kids breakfast AND lunch, since according to a USDA study by OANE of FNS food programs states "The combined Federal subsidy for free lunches and breakfast covers the cost of producing these meals.")
For what does this remaining money get spent? By and large its lost in FRICTION and WASTE in the school systems, who then toddle out to their communities crying for bonding bills to pay their budgets or 'football will get cut'.
And schools (teachers, unions, adminstrators...) wonder why the public views it all as a big shill game?
"A gun license should be as hard to get as a driver's license"
While I entirely agree with the premise, it kind of opens up a slippery slope (that it might not be bad if we went down). Shouldn't bringing a new baby human into this world require at LEAST as much licensing / education / certification as catching a fish?
Let's see, life that never sees the sun, never takes a shower, exists without any contact with the surface world...
/.
I'll bet you 2:1 that it's probably already maxed out it's karma on
(Probably has more accepted posts than me, too.)
Because with big companies whose apps are mission-critical it's about loss-minimization, not gain-maximization.
http://www.cloudmark.com/ makes a really quite good spam filtering system for Outlook.
Even sets up it's own 'spam' folder so you can review what's been filtered before it's trashed (you do have the option of sending them straight to the delete file)
I haven't reached the 95% success rate that's bandied about, but I've only been running it 2 weeks. I suspect that after a couple of months of learning, it will come close. Very unobtrusive, and best yet I haven't seen it filter OUT something that's NOT spam.
I'm pretty impressed, and it's a free D/L.
a Jon Katz byline?
I love these jokes, they're such throwaway lines.
/. when you should be working. Where does that leave YOU on the scale of intelligence?
But think about it: He's president of a country of 280 million, making what, $400k, and probably the most powerful single human in the whole world.
You're some shlub posting on
Adaptive Mirrors to make high resolution pics of the sun available, made available by Adaptive Mirrors.
Isn't this one of thos I was able, era I saw Elba thingys?
It's kinda mirrory all by itself!
Proposition: the US elective system is the worst possible alternative.
It can't be because we've managed to maintain a stable democratic system with only 1 civil war in 225 years.
It cannot be because there is no credible threat that there will be a military junta, or an overthrow of civilian government.
It certainly can't be that the US Constitution is one of the most admired documents of governmental philosophy the world over.
It can't be that the United States is not only the world's remaining superpower, but has the highest standard of living* of any country on the face of the earth.
* (not measured by some theoretical rating of quality of life, but measured by the number of people in the world who are risking their lives every day just to come here- I don't see shiploads of Chinese immigrants paying $30,000 each to get to Sweden or Denmark.)
Obviously France's system is CLEARLY better - wait, how many governments have they had?
Naturally, Italy's system is clearly better - wait, how many governments have they had?
Wait, Germany's must be better, right? Yeah, their political experiments have gone just spiffy.
You can philosophize all you want in your Ivory Tower, for me, I'll be hard pressed to support changing something THAT OBVIOUSLY WORKS BETTER THAN ANY ALTERNATIVES EXTANT.
Let Djibouti try some goofy election system. When they become a world class power, then we should think of switching. Until then, your theories are like the Amway version of politics: you preach good results, but I haven't seen anything aside from YOUR word proving that it's actually so great.
The longer I live, the more I respect the Founding Fathers' wisdom in what they did, why they did it, and why they protected it from change. There's always some goofball selling something, somewhere.
"...the "right" is stereotypically more disciplined than the "left"...if there is a small rightist party (e.g. a bunch of neo-nazis by anything but name) in a situation similar to the one in Florida during the last presidential election, their adherents will be more likely to follow the "orders" of the party leadership...
This means in turn that the results of the plurality vote in the US is not only the two-party system that we observe, but also a slight shift to the right."
That has to be the most farcical interpretation of the current system (and what happened in Florida) that I've ever heard. Jackbooted Republicans marched in lockstep to the polls and voted like automatons, while the truly free, enlightened individuals voted their consciences and therefore lost because their vote was less concentrated?
That's like what, the Woody Harrelson interpretation of the elections?
Maybe it was because the democrats, the party of bread and circuses to the masses, routinely rely on tidal waves of ignorant poor to carry them into office, and this time the busloads trucked in were just too STUPID to follow the simple voting directions?
Oh yeah, I can't figure out working a PUNCHCARD. But I'm *ENTITLED* to vote because what, I breathe?
Tell you what, let's make a moderate test of current events - something an 8th grader could pass. If you pass the test, you can vote. If you can't pass the test, what supposed *right* do you have to vote? If you don't know ANY current issues, the positions of the candidates, or cannot read - how can you be an INFORMED voter (something which a democracy presupposes)?
Ohmigosh, you mean I'm suggestiong the ignorant, the inattentive, the illiterate, and the non-english-speaking immigrants don't get to vote? What a facist!
Well, yes, that's precisely what I'm suggesting. I bet you'd see election campaigns stop being such an appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Zonealarm:
Broadjump Client Foundation: access internet: never.
Done.
Interestingly, the model they show close up in the hangar is completely missing this vertical stabilizer, or any mounting point for it.
See the video, at about 00:38-40. It's a very closeup view of the under-tail.
heh heh heh, well, that was cheaper than $300 an hour to rant to a psychiatrist. :)
Ironically, this is one of the few articles I've read that don't lump GenX into "everyone under 40". In that sense, it's accurate - but that's where it stops. "Most productive earning years behind them"? What? I was born in 1967, I'm 35. I'm certainly HOPING that my best earning years are ahead of me. /. comments for this pretty funny because they reinforce what I'm saying. In my experience GenX'ers tend to be more characterized by a "leave me alone to live my life" philosophy (mischaracterized by older and younger generations as apathy).
Generally, I find the tenor of most of the
Living in the the demographic slump after the baby-boom has, for most of us, meant that we are not catered to in any way - by the media, by advertisers, by the markets, etc. Never have been, don't really want to be. Douglas Coupland nailed the ethos of the generation. (That and The Breakfast Club.)
We were too young to be hippes or protesters in the late 60's and early 70's - we've merely been saddled with the rubble therefrom (drug abuse, AIDS, etc.).
We grew up post-Watergate, so government has NEVER been something trustworthy. We matured under the shadow of Reagan and Brezhnev/Andropov/Chernyenko/Gorbachev. When I walked into senior high the day of the Challenger disaster, I was RELIEVED to find out it was "only" that the shuttle blew up. The pale faces and utter silence of the commons made me fear the balloon had gone up (remember that quaint phrase?).
In the 80's, we watched all of our older borthers, sisters, and cousins who had railed against "The Man" and "Corporate America" put on their suits to go rape the economy in corporate takeovers. So all these 'paragons' of idealism are as totally corruptible as anyone else.
Now in the 90's, we saw all these tainted idealists who made a giant pile of money in the 90's, settle down in their cozy 5000 sqft homes, have their one child name Zoe, drive gigantic vehicles in some pursuit of safety-through-egotism and become the "family" that they also said was hopeless back in the 60's.
Finally, now that they are staring old age in the face, now they're all joining churches like mad. HA HA HA. Still looking for God that you couldn't find in drugs/sex/money/domesticity?
As Generation X'ers, THAT'S what we've witnessed, that's what's formed our views of the world. Every decade since we were tots the generation ahead of us has said "we know the true way to happiness!" and been wrong EVERY TIME. We're not "Generation Wrecked". But we're forced to step over their wreckage to live our lives.
Well, obviously if they were selling MS Office in Malaysia for 7 ringgit, it would soon be selling for that here in the states.
So in effect you're saying that a software company that has completely covered it's development costs with original retail sales of some software, and now makes the current versions for $0.47 should be selling that software for only a 1000% profit instead of 1 million%?
What are smoking? That's crazy talk! How are they supposed to feed their children??!?!?
But I did see their "Self-Esteem for Dummies".
That could only be published by complete dummies.
Eventually, the damn thing just gets so circular I can't think about it anymore.