I have no problem with people who don't believe in God, and I have no religious beliefs of my own, but (some) atheists creep me out in the same way that many born again Christians do. Especially atheists coming from strong religious backgrounds. They act like they have to prove the absense of God, in order to justify their lack of faith. If faith helps certain people, then that's good for them, and I have no desire to attack that.
But personally, I've never understood how people on either side could be so certain about the unknowable. If you can't know, who cares? I'll find out when I die and I have infinity on my hands to ponder it (or not).
Since the many pollsters who call me, don't let me pick a 3rd party candidate, they all just mark me down as independent. Once they have the election results, that will change, but then they'll know which way they need to shift to get my vote. A true independent offers no such clue.
I get one or two volunteers calling me from the Romney campaign each day. I tell them I'm voting 3rd party, yet instead of hanging up the phone, they spend at least five or so minutes trying to debate me out of it (which is a huge amount of time for a phone banker). Really not feeling like I don't exist right now.
Democrats and Republicans can reliably count on their party line votes, regardless of how they flip flop. That's why they focus more on the "independent" vote, come election time. The only way to influence the major parties anymore, is to show a significant uptick in the third party you most support. At the very least, you can affect the talking points of the next election.
By northeast, I guess I'm limited that to the tri-state area. But it's in how they sell beer there. If you want a decent beer, you have to drive 30+ minutes to a specialty beverage store as opposed to a quick 5 minute trip to any liquor store. I've just come to accept that when I visit NY, my choice is pretty much limited to Sam Adams.
I'm guessing you live in the north east, or somewhere else with limited selection. America has the best tasting and widest variety of beer in the world. I'd say that no small part of the reason why it's cheaper here. Endless comptetion.
This is a pattern repeated at just about every company nowadays. A top-down approach to process makes about as much sense as piping all of your computer operations through a single mainframe. In both cases, you're left with a single point of catastrophic failure. Every process failure is countered with a more rigid process, and you eventually reach the point where nothing gets done and the focus of your job shifts to gaming the system.
I'm a long time user who finally threw in the towel a few months ago. I like KDE as a window manager, but the "desktop" internals drive me crazy. Especially knotify4. That app has locked up more of my linux systems than any other piece of software out there. Finally got tired of flipping the power switch and now (after an adjustment period) I'm much happier with openbox/tint2. Not missing that semantic/nepomuk garbage either.
This was so obvious from the moment they fully embraced streaming as their future. It's not like anyone else was beating them to the punch so I couldn't understand why they'd go that route.
Court battles have already ensured that the studios can't charge a rental store more for a copy of a movie, than an ordinary consuming. And that guaranteed predictability in Netflix's business model. Once streaming comes into the picture, they're obviously at the mercy of the studios, who are notorious for having no mercy. WTF were they thinking?
It's a shame, I still like Netflix, but they get the Darwin Award on this one, for reasons that go beyond Qwikster.
It's not just student aid, it's also the artificially low interest rates and guaranteed loans. In our race to make college more affordable, all we've done is make it more expensive. Colleges, like any other business, will charge as much as they can, just short of scaring off the customers. We did the same thing with houses too, providing NINJA loans to anyone with a pulse, driving up the costs well above the rate of inflation, leading to the inevitable bust that the entire world is forced to deal with now. Prepared to see a lot of layed off college administrators once the sentiment starts to shift to "college just ain't worth it anymore."
I read this shortly after reading Neuromancer, and it paled by comparison for me. Never understood the hype either and I had to force myself to finish it. It just felt kind fo goofy. Not to knock anyone who enjoyed it.
Ok, I recall that now. But I'm pretty sure that at one point, it became a required flag. It may not be anymore, and it may only be a gentoo requirement, but that's the only reason I ever re-enabled it.
You can't uninstall semantic desktop, it's integrated AFAIK. I do turn off the file indexing, but you have to remember to do that on each account you make, and I have even had it pop back on from time to time. It's mind boggling to me that this is still on by default, given that it brings every machine out there to its kness. As for knotify, that's tied to everything and seems to be the biggest culprit in thrashing the CPU.
Maybe KDE is simply not a good fit for Gentoo, but I've seen these problems for years now on quite a few completely different machines. KDE can be good for 6-8 months at a time, but eventually the kitchen sink they threw into it eventually starts to back up, requiring a hard reset and all that entails.
I would love KDE if it would just stick to being a window manager. But everything related to that semantic desktop nonsense is perpetually buggy and knotify refuses to live with anything less than 100% of the CPU. These problems come and go with different releases, but they never entirely go away.
I have used KDE for many years on many computers, but I finally had to give up on it this year. Like so many open source projects, the bloat drove me away.
That seems like a pretty dumb way of deciding these things.
In my experience, it's the most reliable way. The purpose of FUD is deception. Why would you trust people who engage in deception? This is why there are so many skeptics out there. It's not that they are unwilling to believe in science, it's that all the FUD has resulted in a boy-crying-wolf effect.
Because he didn't make any of that money based on Government-subsidized infrastructure, did he? Like, for example, the protocols and research necessary to create the Internet?
So then, by that logic, does the US government have the right to tax anyone in the world would writes a webapp, even if they've never stepped foot in the US?
I finally got a Bluray player last November and although I have the money to easily afford any movie I want, and would prefer to have the highest bitrate, I gave up after several movies in a row took about 5-10 minutes to start up. I even had one rental that went on for over 20 minutes. Hell, the studio identifications alone take 5 minutes. I may be willing to give the studios my money, but I can't afford to give them my time. I will not pay $40 to be annoyed when I can have the annoyless versions for free.
This puts the final nail in the Bluray coffin for me. I was on the fence and now, I will simply never buy another. Congratulations movie studios! You really know how to sell a product there.
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I have no problem with people who don't believe in God, and I have no religious beliefs of my own, but (some) atheists creep me out in the same way that many born again Christians do. Especially atheists coming from strong religious backgrounds. They act like they have to prove the absense of God, in order to justify their lack of faith. If faith helps certain people, then that's good for them, and I have no desire to attack that.
But personally, I've never understood how people on either side could be so certain about the unknowable. If you can't know, who cares? I'll find out when I die and I have infinity on my hands to ponder it (or not).
Since the many pollsters who call me, don't let me pick a 3rd party candidate, they all just mark me down as independent. Once they have the election results, that will change, but then they'll know which way they need to shift to get my vote. A true independent offers no such clue.
I get one or two volunteers calling me from the Romney campaign each day. I tell them I'm voting 3rd party, yet instead of hanging up the phone, they spend at least five or so minutes trying to debate me out of it (which is a huge amount of time for a phone banker). Really not feeling like I don't exist right now.
Democrats and Republicans can reliably count on their party line votes, regardless of how they flip flop. That's why they focus more on the "independent" vote, come election time. The only way to influence the major parties anymore, is to show a significant uptick in the third party you most support. At the very least, you can affect the talking points of the next election.
...the Earth's mantle will be coming to us in two months.
By northeast, I guess I'm limited that to the tri-state area. But it's in how they sell beer there. If you want a decent beer, you have to drive 30+ minutes to a specialty beverage store as opposed to a quick 5 minute trip to any liquor store. I've just come to accept that when I visit NY, my choice is pretty much limited to Sam Adams.
I'm guessing you live in the north east, or somewhere else with limited selection. America has the best tasting and widest variety of beer in the world. I'd say that no small part of the reason why it's cheaper here. Endless comptetion.
No, for the last time, it's Matheus with an 'e'!
Let's panic.
I'd say python, or any untyped language, is a pretty lousy choice to teach programming.
This is a pattern repeated at just about every company nowadays. A top-down approach to process makes about as much sense as piping all of your computer operations through a single mainframe. In both cases, you're left with a single point of catastrophic failure. Every process failure is countered with a more rigid process, and you eventually reach the point where nothing gets done and the focus of your job shifts to gaming the system.
Well this doesn't seem too flimsy:
First working 3D-printed firearm built
I'm a long time user who finally threw in the towel a few months ago. I like KDE as a window manager, but the "desktop" internals drive me crazy. Especially knotify4. That app has locked up more of my linux systems than any other piece of software out there. Finally got tired of flipping the power switch and now (after an adjustment period) I'm much happier with openbox/tint2. Not missing that semantic/nepomuk garbage either.
This was so obvious from the moment they fully embraced streaming as their future. It's not like anyone else was beating them to the punch so I couldn't understand why they'd go that route.
Court battles have already ensured that the studios can't charge a rental store more for a copy of a movie, than an ordinary consuming. And that guaranteed predictability in Netflix's business model. Once streaming comes into the picture, they're obviously at the mercy of the studios, who are notorious for having no mercy. WTF were they thinking?
It's a shame, I still like Netflix, but they get the Darwin Award on this one, for reasons that go beyond Qwikster.
Snowcrash is downright goofy compared to Neuromancer. But Stephensons other books are better than Gibsons other books.
It's not just student aid, it's also the artificially low interest rates and guaranteed loans. In our race to make college more affordable, all we've done is make it more expensive. Colleges, like any other business, will charge as much as they can, just short of scaring off the customers. We did the same thing with houses too, providing NINJA loans to anyone with a pulse, driving up the costs well above the rate of inflation, leading to the inevitable bust that the entire world is forced to deal with now. Prepared to see a lot of layed off college administrators once the sentiment starts to shift to "college just ain't worth it anymore."
I read this shortly after reading Neuromancer, and it paled by comparison for me. Never understood the hype either and I had to force myself to finish it. It just felt kind fo goofy. Not to knock anyone who enjoyed it.
Ok, I recall that now. But I'm pretty sure that at one point, it became a required flag. It may not be anymore, and it may only be a gentoo requirement, but that's the only reason I ever re-enabled it.
You can't uninstall semantic desktop, it's integrated AFAIK. I do turn off the file indexing, but you have to remember to do that on each account you make, and I have even had it pop back on from time to time. It's mind boggling to me that this is still on by default, given that it brings every machine out there to its kness. As for knotify, that's tied to everything and seems to be the biggest culprit in thrashing the CPU.
Maybe KDE is simply not a good fit for Gentoo, but I've seen these problems for years now on quite a few completely different machines. KDE can be good for 6-8 months at a time, but eventually the kitchen sink they threw into it eventually starts to back up, requiring a hard reset and all that entails.
I would love KDE if it would just stick to being a window manager. But everything related to that semantic desktop nonsense is perpetually buggy and knotify refuses to live with anything less than 100% of the CPU. These problems come and go with different releases, but they never entirely go away.
I have used KDE for many years on many computers, but I finally had to give up on it this year. Like so many open source projects, the bloat drove me away.
That seems like a pretty dumb way of deciding these things.
In my experience, it's the most reliable way. The purpose of FUD is deception. Why would you trust people who engage in deception? This is why there are so many skeptics out there. It's not that they are unwilling to believe in science, it's that all the FUD has resulted in a boy-crying-wolf effect.
People do not vote for things, they vote for people.
In my experience, they mostly vote against people.
Because he didn't make any of that money based on Government-subsidized infrastructure, did he? Like, for example, the protocols and research necessary to create the Internet?
So then, by that logic, does the US government have the right to tax anyone in the world would writes a webapp, even if they've never stepped foot in the US?
And if they drive users away in the process, how will that be fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility?
I finally got a Bluray player last November and although I have the money to easily afford any movie I want, and would prefer to have the highest bitrate, I gave up after several movies in a row took about 5-10 minutes to start up. I even had one rental that went on for over 20 minutes. Hell, the studio identifications alone take 5 minutes. I may be willing to give the studios my money, but I can't afford to give them my time. I will not pay $40 to be annoyed when I can have the annoyless versions for free.
This puts the final nail in the Bluray coffin for me. I was on the fence and now, I will simply never buy another. Congratulations movie studios! You really know how to sell a product there.
But no country stays trustworthy forever. There is no example of one that has.