I always thought that was a KDE thing, because I never have those problems in Windows or OSX, but when I use Firefox and Thunderbird on SuSE 10.x running KDE 3.5.x, I have the problem in spades. I thought maybe it was a problem with the minimum time and distance values for a click to be considered a drag. Maybe this is completely wrong, but it makes sense.
Well, if they really lied to you in, say, a contract, then you can sue them. If it was an informal agreement in which they lied, well, that's business. I don't condone it and would never do it, and think it's horrible, but that's the world we live in.
I feel sorry for you, but to bring things around on topic, I can't imagine things would be any better in a union. There's no one holding _their_ feet to the fire to tell the truth any more than your employee. If they do, then the only recourse you have is what I described above, which isn't much.
I think the horrendous spelling is caused by the fact that people around here don't read any more. Or to be more accurate, they don't seem to read anything but misspelled words by other posters.
I don't know where this confusion between "loose" and "lose" started, but it can only be perpetuated by not being exposed to examples of proper spelling and grammar. I'm amazed at how many people spell any half-large word fo-net-tik-lee. I realize there are a lot of people who aren't native English speakers or writers, but the worst spelling problems seem to occur with people who are obviously fluent in colloquial English.
If places like/. or, ugh, Digg, are exemplary of the typical writing ability of the college-aged American then this country will collapse long before the corrupt politicians can ruin it. If you can't spell, it much more likely that you can't do other things correctly, and even if you can, you won't be able to communicate well.
Are we destined to become a society of idiots-savant who are experts in our particular little fields, but woefully ignorant about everything else, including the basics? Some might argue we already are...
Not entirely true... I believe there's evidence of frozen DHMO at the poles of the Moon. I think maybe it Clementine that helped find that. WRT Mars, it might be buried underground, after all something made those riverbeds, and it was probably laced with lots of DHMO.
Mercury, however, is almost certainly uncontaminated.
Doctors and scientists tell us that DHMO is so pervasive in our environment that it can be found in every factory, every business, even every house, in our food and in our bodies! Tests confirm that all softdrinks and bottled water contain large amounts of DHMO. You can even find it in baby formula!
The average adult has something like 5x10^16 picograms of this stuff in his or her body, which is a much higher concetration than the EPA safe levels for lead, asbestos or most industrial solvents.
"Arsenol" sounds like a hydroxyl compound containing arsenic. I wouldn't want to solve problems with that either.
I know it's obnoxious to be a spelling Nazi, but when being constantly pounded with spelling that would have embarrassed a fourth grader just a couple generations ago, sometimes I have to be obnoxious.
It's rediculous enough to make me loose my temper alot of the time... if you know what I mean.
You're right, I was not describing it well. The Geneva Conventions regarding _POWs_ does not apply.
Nevertheless, I do not and cannot defend some of the things the U.S. is doing to these prisoners, although it pales in comparison to what many countries will do (not that that's an excuse - the same can be said about the Spanish Inquisition, that it was mild compared to secular governments at the time, but that doesn't make everything they did OK). By the same token, the sensitivity we have shown towards Muslim prisoners is actually being exploited against us. All this crap about us flushing the Koran just chafes by butt. First, does anyone use a toilet? How do you flush a book! Second, this kind of stuff happens regularly to Bibles, and while Christians are willing to acknowledge the difference between the Word and what the Word is printed on, no one seems to worry about it. After all, someone drawing a cartoon mocking Mohammed and half of Europe is in flames (OK, I'm exaggerating), but blasphemous picture of Jesus are not only common, but are considered protected speech, probably because Christians don't riot every time someone offends them. (I'm not saying Christians are perfect, there are plenty of bad Christians too).
The U.S. made a big mistake by taking the moral high ground and not comporting itself in a flawless way. Of course, by taking the moral high ground, we can be 100 times better than our enemies regarding human rights (which is probably about accurate on the whole), but we will still get crap about it. Although in this case, some of the "crap" is justified.
OK, so racial profiling unfairly targets the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs who aren't terrorists. But this begs the question: How many planes have been hijacked by non-Muslims?
Yeah, I know, they are recruiting women and non-Arabs, but the fact of the matter is that targetting young, male Muslims is more effective than not. You're inconvenienced because your Muslim? Well guess what, I was inconvenienced for many years because I am male. I had to pay significantly higher insurance rates despite having a near perfect driving record and having never been in an accident. How comes people aren't protesting that kind of profiling?
Sorry, but paying thousands of dollars is a little more inconveniencing than being wanded a few times by some grouchy Federal transportation safety inspector.
p.s. It never occurred to me, but I bet the halal meals are probably better than the regular stuff... and I'm Catholic.
Remember, the average Mitchell can consume his own body weight in beer every 24 hours.
Keep in mind that this requires up to 600 lbs of beer be available since approximately half will get spilled on Linda Evans.
A fact that's not widely known is that a slightly different species, the Geronimo (pronounced "Yeronimo") has a similar attraction to milk.
If suitable comestibles are not readily available, the subject can be momentarily distracted from wandering off if presented with an orange and a knife for peeling.
Why? There are billions of possible immigrants willing to work and pay taxes waiting to get in. Instead the "globalization" idiots would have them working at $1 a day overseas. Why?
Because it's cheaper for the corporations who have too much influence in Congress. I say let 'em in, legally. Build a fence, enforce the law and increase legal immigration. I've been saying that as long as I can remember.
If idiotic policies hell-bent on reducing the population of productive workers by exporting their industries and not letting any immigrants in persist, then sure, you are breaking all the assumptions of the Social Security and it (along with the whole economy of the nation) will fail. Is that the plan?
Apparently it is. You see, you're preaching to choir on that issue.
Only because someone has decided to artificially restrict the influx of funds! That way anything can be a "pyramid" scheme. Put money in the bank and then have crooks steal it and sure enough you lost it! The whole premise was based on growth of economy and if you allow "free market globalization" idiots, combined with xenophobic bigots to run the show, the results are predictable. Both the Social Security and the nation's economy will collapse.
True. But the fact of the matter is that Social Security benefits should be linked to life expectancy measurements. That's the point no one wants to admit. When SS started, the payout started _after_ the average life expectancy. Now it's 10-15 years _before_ the average life expectancy. People are living up to 20 years longer now, but we still have the same expectation of retiring at a certain age. That will break Social Security faster than any immigration or labor policy. But no one wants to admit it.
And what is wrong with that? Do you plan on making sure that the Government is no good for it? Overspend it on wars? Or perhaps to eliminate taxes or reduce economy to nothing?
I don't understand why you are personalizing this. I'm not doing any of those things, nor do I support them. The problem is that we are just shy of 9 trillion in debt, much of it to foreign entities like China. Eventually people are going to start calling in these debts.
We got our "Poseidon Adventure" remake, but what about a new "Towering Inferno?"
To be fair, when 9/11 brought us the "Towering Inferno" for real, I'm guess that kinda took the winds out of the sails of that particular remake.
Imagine the box office draw if OJ were to reprise his role.
Not as much as if he reprised his role in the Naked Gun movies.
would be complete without a remake of "Jaws."
Yeah, but they'd probably put frickin' lasers on their heads.
Maybe there are still veins to mine in the 70's (I wanna see "Mitchell Returns"), the 80's are due to make a comeback. I think the world is ready for "Breakin' 3" and "Howard the Duck 2".
a rapid decrease in the number of taxpayers vs the recipients or rapid decline of tax revenue. The first, given the population growth and immigration dynamics is exceedingly unlikely
You clearly don't know the first thing about the demographics of the situation. When SS was fist set up there were about 15 contributors for every retiree (and the age of eligibility was _above_ the average life span).
Now there are 3 contributors for every retiree and the eligibility age is about 15 years lower than the average life span. With increasing life expectancy and declining birth rates, the problem is getting worse not better, and that will only accelerate. It won't be long until there are only two workers supporting each retiree, who is likely to collect for 20 years or more.
Social Security is undoubtedly an intergenerational Ponzi scheme and the fat part of the pyramid is looking for their cut! And this doesn't even take into account that the alleged Trust Fund is really just a big IOU from Congress.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Mafia couldn't pull off a scheme this brazenly unfair.
I know this is petty, but the guy talks like he's got Downes' Syndrome. I could never believe he runs anything bigger than a fever if I didn't know better.
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I always thought that was a KDE thing, because I never have those problems in Windows or OSX, but when I use Firefox and Thunderbird on SuSE 10.x running KDE 3.5.x, I have the problem in spades. I thought maybe it was a problem with the minimum time and distance values for a click to be considered a drag. Maybe this is completely wrong, but it makes sense.
And wore powdered wigs. And didn't pluralize words with apostrophes. Oh, wait. That's a good thing.
It's just a Big City name for "reversifying glass".
Well, if they really lied to you in, say, a contract, then you can sue them. If it was an informal agreement in which they lied, well, that's business. I don't condone it and would never do it, and think it's horrible, but that's the world we live in.
I feel sorry for you, but to bring things around on topic, I can't imagine things would be any better in a union. There's no one holding _their_ feet to the fire to tell the truth any more than your employee. If they do, then the only recourse you have is what I described above, which isn't much.
That's life in a corporatocracy.
I think the horrendous spelling is caused by the fact that people around here don't read any more. Or to be more accurate, they don't seem to read anything but misspelled words by other posters.
/. or, ugh, Digg, are exemplary of the typical writing ability of the college-aged American then this country will collapse long before the corrupt politicians can ruin it. If you can't spell, it much more likely that you can't do other things correctly, and even if you can, you won't be able to communicate well.
I don't know where this confusion between "loose" and "lose" started, but it can only be perpetuated by not being exposed to examples of proper spelling and grammar. I'm amazed at how many people spell any half-large word fo-net-tik-lee. I realize there are a lot of people who aren't native English speakers or writers, but the worst spelling problems seem to occur with people who are obviously fluent in colloquial English.
If places like
Are we destined to become a society of idiots-savant who are experts in our particular little fields, but woefully ignorant about everything else, including the basics? Some might argue we already are...
Not entirely true... I believe there's evidence of frozen DHMO at the poles of the Moon. I think maybe it Clementine that helped find that. WRT Mars, it might be buried underground, after all something made those riverbeds, and it was probably laced with lots of DHMO.
Mercury, however, is almost certainly uncontaminated.
Doctors and scientists tell us that DHMO is so pervasive in our environment that it can be found in every factory, every business, even every house, in our food and in our bodies! Tests confirm that all softdrinks and bottled water contain large amounts of DHMO. You can even find it in baby formula!
The average adult has something like 5x10^16 picograms of this stuff in his or her body, which is a much higher concetration than the EPA safe levels for lead, asbestos or most industrial solvents.
Won't someone please think of the children?!
Actually, I put some arsenol under the house. Now all the rats are drunk. And dead.
What's wrong with the grammar?
Maybe the commas aren't placed properly, but I don't see anything wrong with that sentence.
"Arsenol" sounds like a hydroxyl compound containing arsenic. I wouldn't want to solve problems with that either.
I know it's obnoxious to be a spelling Nazi, but when being constantly pounded with spelling that would have embarrassed a fourth grader just a couple generations ago, sometimes I have to be obnoxious.
It's rediculous enough to make me loose my temper alot of the time... if you know what I mean.
They should have made it green and slimy with suckers running down the bottom.
But instead, it looks like the robot is squirting out an industrial-sized amount of Aquafresh toothpaste.
There's a third motherboard now?
You're right, I was not describing it well. The Geneva Conventions regarding _POWs_ does not apply.
Nevertheless, I do not and cannot defend some of the things the U.S. is doing to these prisoners, although it pales in comparison to what many countries will do (not that that's an excuse - the same can be said about the Spanish Inquisition, that it was mild compared to secular governments at the time, but that doesn't make everything they did OK). By the same token, the sensitivity we have shown towards Muslim prisoners is actually being exploited against us. All this crap about us flushing the Koran just chafes by butt. First, does anyone use a toilet? How do you flush a book! Second, this kind of stuff happens regularly to Bibles, and while Christians are willing to acknowledge the difference between the Word and what the Word is printed on, no one seems to worry about it. After all, someone drawing a cartoon mocking Mohammed and half of Europe is in flames (OK, I'm exaggerating), but blasphemous picture of Jesus are not only common, but are considered protected speech, probably because Christians don't riot every time someone offends them. (I'm not saying Christians are perfect, there are plenty of bad Christians too).
The U.S. made a big mistake by taking the moral high ground and not comporting itself in a flawless way. Of course, by taking the moral high ground, we can be 100 times better than our enemies regarding human rights (which is probably about accurate on the whole), but we will still get crap about it. Although in this case, some of the "crap" is justified.
Not to defend everything the military has done, because I agree that some of it is plain wrong, but the Geneva Conventions definitely do not apply.
OK, so racial profiling unfairly targets the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs who aren't terrorists. But this begs the question: How many planes have been hijacked by non-Muslims?
Yeah, I know, they are recruiting women and non-Arabs, but the fact of the matter is that targetting young, male Muslims is more effective than not. You're inconvenienced because your Muslim? Well guess what, I was inconvenienced for many years because I am male. I had to pay significantly higher insurance rates despite having a near perfect driving record and having never been in an accident. How comes people aren't protesting that kind of profiling?
Sorry, but paying thousands of dollars is a little more inconveniencing than being wanded a few times by some grouchy Federal transportation safety inspector.
p.s. It never occurred to me, but I bet the halal meals are probably better than the regular stuff... and I'm Catholic.
Worse, if you are seeing a BSOD because of software then you are probably using Windows9x.
I have to think that they are not running this thing at full power for particularly long periods.
Or maybe they are.
Nevertheless, I'm waiting for the consumer model...
Hey, it happened to the Hummer, why not?
Remember, the average Mitchell can consume his own body weight in beer every 24 hours.
Keep in mind that this requires up to 600 lbs of beer be available since approximately half will get spilled on Linda Evans.
A fact that's not widely known is that a slightly different species, the Geronimo (pronounced "Yeronimo") has a similar attraction to milk.
If suitable comestibles are not readily available, the subject can be momentarily distracted from wandering off if presented with an orange and a knife for peeling.
see also: Texas, Malta, Indigestion, and "Goosio"
I hear the best bait for Mitchell is food whose name ends in "ami", like pastrami, salami.
Others suggest food whose name ends in "ork chops" and "eer".
I'll try to take your points one at a time:
Why? There are billions of possible immigrants willing to work and pay taxes waiting to get in. Instead the "globalization" idiots would have them working at $1 a day overseas. Why?
Because it's cheaper for the corporations who have too much influence in Congress. I say let 'em in, legally. Build a fence, enforce the law and increase legal immigration. I've been saying that as long as I can remember.
If idiotic policies hell-bent on reducing the population of productive workers by exporting their industries and not letting any immigrants in persist, then sure, you are breaking all the assumptions of the Social Security and it (along with the whole economy of the nation) will fail. Is that the plan?
Apparently it is. You see, you're preaching to choir on that issue.
Only because someone has decided to artificially restrict the influx of funds! That way anything can be a "pyramid" scheme. Put money in the bank and then have crooks steal it and sure enough you lost it! The whole premise was based on growth of economy and if you allow "free market globalization" idiots, combined with xenophobic bigots to run the show, the results are predictable. Both the Social Security and the nation's economy will collapse.
True. But the fact of the matter is that Social Security benefits should be linked to life expectancy measurements. That's the point no one wants to admit. When SS started, the payout started _after_ the average life expectancy. Now it's 10-15 years _before_ the average life expectancy. People are living up to 20 years longer now, but we still have the same expectation of retiring at a certain age. That will break Social Security faster than any immigration or labor policy. But no one wants to admit it.
And what is wrong with that? Do you plan on making sure that the Government is no good for it? Overspend it on wars? Or perhaps to eliminate taxes or reduce economy to nothing?
I don't understand why you are personalizing this. I'm not doing any of those things, nor do I support them. The problem is that we are just shy of 9 trillion in debt, much of it to foreign entities like China. Eventually people are going to start calling in these debts.
We got our "Poseidon Adventure" remake, but what about a new "Towering Inferno?"
To be fair, when 9/11 brought us the "Towering Inferno" for real, I'm guess that kinda took the winds out of the sails of that particular remake.
Imagine the box office draw if OJ were to reprise his role.
Not as much as if he reprised his role in the Naked Gun movies.
would be complete without a remake of "Jaws."
Yeah, but they'd probably put frickin' lasers on their heads.
Maybe there are still veins to mine in the 70's (I wanna see "Mitchell Returns"), the 80's are due to make a comeback. I think the world is ready for "Breakin' 3" and "Howard the Duck 2".
a rapid decrease in the number of taxpayers vs the recipients or rapid decline of tax revenue. The first, given the population growth and immigration dynamics is exceedingly unlikely
You clearly don't know the first thing about the demographics of the situation. When SS was fist set up there were about 15 contributors for every retiree (and the age of eligibility was _above_ the average life span).
Now there are 3 contributors for every retiree and the eligibility age is about 15 years lower than the average life span. With increasing life expectancy and declining birth rates, the problem is getting worse not better, and that will only accelerate. It won't be long until there are only two workers supporting each retiree, who is likely to collect for 20 years or more.
Social Security is undoubtedly an intergenerational Ponzi scheme and the fat part of the pyramid is looking for their cut! And this doesn't even take into account that the alleged Trust Fund is really just a big IOU from Congress.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Mafia couldn't pull off a scheme this brazenly unfair.
Now you can use your ''real job'' income to finance your gaming machine, wiiiiiii!
So you want a Nintendo?
I know this is petty, but the guy talks like he's got Downes' Syndrome. I could never believe he runs anything bigger than a fever if I didn't know better.
I had a d30, but the only thing it seemed useful for was rolling a random day of the month.