Although I'm sure that kids these days aren't consciously rationalizing it as such, they must, on some level, be recognizing that a good education isn't as straight a path to success as it once was. The real problem is the growing deficit in quality jobs. After observing so many well educated adults work so hard just to cover the basics, is it any wonder that kids need to be bribed to give a shit?
In any case, it's more about who you know, than what you know. For right or wrong, bullshitting and networking are the skills to have. And kids don't need much motivating to work on those skills. They'll work on them for free. And they have more tools than we ever did to help them out there.
Those politicians, who claim to be on the right, do indeed use fear to take away our freedoms, but then so does the left. It's just a different set of fears and freedoms. You can't call yourself free unless you have BOTH economic and civil liberty freedom. If you lack one, you can't truly have the other (or it's just a matter of time before you lose it). Whether it's terrorism, global warming, swine flu, etc, both sides are happy to exploit any fear out there to consolidate their power. True conservatives are for the decentralization of power and therefore don't fit into our current models of governing. In the US, there's very little difference between Republicans and Democrats. They're both for big government. The conservative label has been co-opted by a bunch of fascists, but that doesn't mean they practice conservative philosophy (which in truth is classical liberalism).
I live in one of the most conservative, pro-military towns in the US (Colorado Springs). The people I hang out with are considered extremely right wing by the local Republican party. Gun nuts, bible thumpers, veterans, active duty military, conservative of all strips. And not a single one of them is for this "war on terror." In fact, I come across more war on terror supporters back in NY (where I grew up) than I do out here.
That's precisely why I'm so upset about this movie. It's not so much about how incredibly stupid the script was, it's about how so many people can be manipulated into liking it through a media blitz. And of course, no fan of this movie could possibly entertain such a notion. After all, brainwashing is what happens to other people. But then, no fan has yet pointed anything good about the script to me. It's indefensibly stupid. They just liked the feel of it, the action, the actors, the effects, etc. Nobody seems to care about decent, plausible story telling any more.
Everyone has different definitions, I suppose. But I define right/conservative to be for small government and left/liberal to be for big government. I never understand why people associate war with the right. In America anyway, Wilson brought us WWI, FDR brought us WWII, Truman brought us the Korean War, Kennedy and Johnson brought us Vietnam, Nixon ended Vietnam, Clinton brought us Kosovo and bombed numerous other countries. So that leaves the Bushes, who are neocons. And since the founders of the neocon movement were originally self-proclaimed Trotskyites, and Bush Jr. hired a former General of the KGB and a former head of the Stasi to work in his homeland/motherland/fatherland security department, I think people have become confused what it means to be on the right. From my perspective, any established political party in any country is on the left because they established themselves by increasing government power (i.e. their power). The true right wing of any country mostly stays out of government because they are so disgusted by it. The true left wing gets confused when big government doesn't work out the way their ideals would dictate (it NEVER does) and so they just blame it on the "conservatives" in their government.
It's could just a fluke, but I got one of those cheapo NexStar docks (the single bay, not the double) and I got a lot of write errors. I'm guessing it's because the drive is real wobbly, standing up like that and it couldn't handle the vibrations. I would suggest either getting a different brand (something that locks the drive in place better) or just get a standard enclosure. It's a shame, I really like the concept.
What's the point of putting the country into deeper debt, to create an inefficient new industry, that will only put more downward pressure on the airline industry (which will inevitably result in more bailouts to keep them afloat)? He's creating two new problems in order to provide a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Not to mention that there's no way this is economically viable due to geography and eminent domain issues. If the government should be investing in anything right now, it should be in industries that sell products abroad and help restore our balance of trade. This does exactly the opposite. If I were China, I'd be cutting off our credit right about now, until we produce a viable business plan on how to run a country.
Games are the only reason to use XP. But luckily, all my favorite games play just fine under wine. It's come a long way in the last year or so. It depends on what you like to play. Right now, I'm playing Supreme Commander and Sins of a Solar Empire (with the recently released expansion) pretty much flawlessly in wine (a little slower perhaps). And I can replay certain older games like Rome: Total War and Rise of Nations endlessly. It's too bad UT had to fuck up the franchise, I use to play UT 2k4 natively on linux in 64 bit.
As for apps like MS Money, that's what emulation is for. It'll run just fine. Just download vmplayer go to easyvmx.com to make yourself an XP image.
I bought Sins of a Solar Empire because Stardock seemed to be above the whole DRM game, at the time. And whereas Sins runs well under Wine, Impulse does not, because of some stupid IE7 requirement. Still, I was able to play their recent Entrenchment expansion by installing it under Windows and copying it over (along with the registry keys), so I guess all is not lost.
If I where a scientist I would be very upset that the credibility of my profession was being undermined by people with political agendas.
I'm not saying that global warming is not a real crisis, I simply don't know because I'm not in a position to judge the facts. But in my gut, I don't believe in it, precisely because of the political agendas you mention and the cult like feel of the whole movement. I just feel like I'm being bullshitted on this one. If man-made global warming is a real problem, then I think that any attempt to solve the problem is being undermined by the messengers. If they focused merely on alternative energy then I would be on board since energy depletion is a real issue, and we'd get something out of it on way or another. But when they focus on taxes and carbon credits, then I smell a scam that will only undermine the economy to the point where we won't be able to effectively deal with the effects of drought and rising sea levels. Once the global warming crowd stops treating doubters like holocaust deniers, then I might start listening.
So, as a programmer, I was required to take a course about how it was illegal to bribe foreign officials (despite not being in a position to do so), but the people who are actually involved with foreign officials aren't required to follow it? I really don't understand the purpose of "law" anymore.
I would have thought that with the stress of the holidays and people traveling all over, that there'd be a peak around Christmas/New Years. But it actually seems to dip in that period. I wonder what to make of that.
My friends and I use to line up pagers on the table, page them and bet on which one would vibrate off the table first. It sounds boring, but it works when you're drunk.
Ahhh, that's why I come to slashdot. Where else would people not only remember that die.die.die group, but actually mod it up as funny? It's the kind of nostalgia lost on most.
...but./ wouldn't let me post it cause it had to many "junk" characters. I guess one man's junk is another mans regex, but it didn't seem more complicated than anyone else's expressions.
Why am I always asked to make sacrifices on behalf of rich people? I don't take anything from the government/banks yet they just keep taking more and more from me and then, after they fuck up, they expect even more to bail them out even when I didn't vote them in to begin with. I'm tired of being "sacrificed" for other people's agendas.
As for the military, I'm not asking for them to "sacrifice." I don't want to pay for it and I don't want to bomb people in foreign countries who are no threat to me. American's are well-armed enough to defend against any invasion without the need for a standing military, especially given the lack of any true enemies. If anything, we've all sacrificed to give them a career and benefits.
Given the messiah-like, up-on-a-pedestal worship you're seeing right now, how could you expect that there wouldn't be a let down? The world is in bad shape and everyone has decided to pin all their hopes on one unknown man. Even if Obama were the second coming, I'd be unnerved by the cult of personality thing he's got going on.
Isn't Ron Paul that kook who was talking about a collapse of the economy last year? Oh wait... Ahh, who needs money when you have hope and change that you can believe in?
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If it's even worth linking too, people can just convert the stories to images. Let the workaround games begin!
...surely you've got the cash to just buy the tunes.
No RTS since has done formations quite so well.
Although I'm sure that kids these days aren't consciously rationalizing it as such, they must, on some level, be recognizing that a good education isn't as straight a path to success as it once was. The real problem is the growing deficit in quality jobs. After observing so many well educated adults work so hard just to cover the basics, is it any wonder that kids need to be bribed to give a shit?
In any case, it's more about who you know, than what you know. For right or wrong, bullshitting and networking are the skills to have. And kids don't need much motivating to work on those skills. They'll work on them for free. And they have more tools than we ever did to help them out there.
Those politicians, who claim to be on the right, do indeed use fear to take away our freedoms, but then so does the left. It's just a different set of fears and freedoms. You can't call yourself free unless you have BOTH economic and civil liberty freedom. If you lack one, you can't truly have the other (or it's just a matter of time before you lose it). Whether it's terrorism, global warming, swine flu, etc, both sides are happy to exploit any fear out there to consolidate their power. True conservatives are for the decentralization of power and therefore don't fit into our current models of governing. In the US, there's very little difference between Republicans and Democrats. They're both for big government. The conservative label has been co-opted by a bunch of fascists, but that doesn't mean they practice conservative philosophy (which in truth is classical liberalism).
I live in one of the most conservative, pro-military towns in the US (Colorado Springs). The people I hang out with are considered extremely right wing by the local Republican party. Gun nuts, bible thumpers, veterans, active duty military, conservative of all strips. And not a single one of them is for this "war on terror." In fact, I come across more war on terror supporters back in NY (where I grew up) than I do out here.
That's precisely why I'm so upset about this movie. It's not so much about how incredibly stupid the script was, it's about how so many people can be manipulated into liking it through a media blitz. And of course, no fan of this movie could possibly entertain such a notion. After all, brainwashing is what happens to other people. But then, no fan has yet pointed anything good about the script to me. It's indefensibly stupid. They just liked the feel of it, the action, the actors, the effects, etc. Nobody seems to care about decent, plausible story telling any more.
Everyone has different definitions, I suppose. But I define right/conservative to be for small government and left/liberal to be for big government. I never understand why people associate war with the right. In America anyway, Wilson brought us WWI, FDR brought us WWII, Truman brought us the Korean War, Kennedy and Johnson brought us Vietnam, Nixon ended Vietnam, Clinton brought us Kosovo and bombed numerous other countries. So that leaves the Bushes, who are neocons. And since the founders of the neocon movement were originally self-proclaimed Trotskyites, and Bush Jr. hired a former General of the KGB and a former head of the Stasi to work in his homeland/motherland/fatherland security department, I think people have become confused what it means to be on the right. From my perspective, any established political party in any country is on the left because they established themselves by increasing government power (i.e. their power). The true right wing of any country mostly stays out of government because they are so disgusted by it. The true left wing gets confused when big government doesn't work out the way their ideals would dictate (it NEVER does) and so they just blame it on the "conservatives" in their government.
It's could just a fluke, but I got one of those cheapo NexStar docks (the single bay, not the double) and I got a lot of write errors. I'm guessing it's because the drive is real wobbly, standing up like that and it couldn't handle the vibrations. I would suggest either getting a different brand (something that locks the drive in place better) or just get a standard enclosure. It's a shame, I really like the concept.
Haha, sucker, I just hacked in to 192.168.1.42 and I'm about to crash your entire network.
What's the point of putting the country into deeper debt, to create an inefficient new industry, that will only put more downward pressure on the airline industry (which will inevitably result in more bailouts to keep them afloat)? He's creating two new problems in order to provide a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Not to mention that there's no way this is economically viable due to geography and eminent domain issues. If the government should be investing in anything right now, it should be in industries that sell products abroad and help restore our balance of trade. This does exactly the opposite. If I were China, I'd be cutting off our credit right about now, until we produce a viable business plan on how to run a country.
SP3 has been a bit crash prone for me on several computers. It's flat out unusable on my laptop. I'd really like to see Mozilla reconsider this one.
So Sylar gives old Spock that haircut with his finger and then stole his powers of logic. Makes sense to me.
Games are the only reason to use XP. But luckily, all my favorite games play just fine under wine. It's come a long way in the last year or so. It depends on what you like to play. Right now, I'm playing Supreme Commander and Sins of a Solar Empire (with the recently released expansion) pretty much flawlessly in wine (a little slower perhaps). And I can replay certain older games like Rome: Total War and Rise of Nations endlessly. It's too bad UT had to fuck up the franchise, I use to play UT 2k4 natively on linux in 64 bit.
As for apps like MS Money, that's what emulation is for. It'll run just fine. Just download vmplayer go to easyvmx.com to make yourself an XP image.
I bought Sins of a Solar Empire because Stardock seemed to be above the whole DRM game, at the time. And whereas Sins runs well under Wine, Impulse does not, because of some stupid IE7 requirement. Still, I was able to play their recent Entrenchment expansion by installing it under Windows and copying it over (along with the registry keys), so I guess all is not lost.
If I where a scientist I would be very upset that the credibility of my profession was being undermined by people with political agendas.
I'm not saying that global warming is not a real crisis, I simply don't know because I'm not in a position to judge the facts. But in my gut, I don't believe in it, precisely because of the political agendas you mention and the cult like feel of the whole movement. I just feel like I'm being bullshitted on this one. If man-made global warming is a real problem, then I think that any attempt to solve the problem is being undermined by the messengers. If they focused merely on alternative energy then I would be on board since energy depletion is a real issue, and we'd get something out of it on way or another. But when they focus on taxes and carbon credits, then I smell a scam that will only undermine the economy to the point where we won't be able to effectively deal with the effects of drought and rising sea levels. Once the global warming crowd stops treating doubters like holocaust deniers, then I might start listening.
Agreed. I stick with SeaSonic. Good combination of quiet and reliable.
So, as a programmer, I was required to take a course about how it was illegal to bribe foreign officials (despite not being in a position to do so), but the people who are actually involved with foreign officials aren't required to follow it? I really don't understand the purpose of "law" anymore.
I would have thought that with the stress of the holidays and people traveling all over, that there'd be a peak around Christmas/New Years. But it actually seems to dip in that period. I wonder what to make of that.
My friends and I use to line up pagers on the table, page them and bet on which one would vibrate off the table first. It sounds boring, but it works when you're drunk.
Ahhh, that's why I come to slashdot. Where else would people not only remember that die.die.die group, but actually mod it up as funny? It's the kind of nostalgia lost on most.
...but ./ wouldn't let me post it cause it had to many "junk" characters. I guess one man's junk is another mans regex, but it didn't seem more complicated than anyone else's expressions.
The first thing I do on any new account is set the tab size to a reasonable 4 character width:
echo "set tabstop=4" >> ~/.vimrc
Why am I always asked to make sacrifices on behalf of rich people? I don't take anything from the government/banks yet they just keep taking more and more from me and then, after they fuck up, they expect even more to bail them out even when I didn't vote them in to begin with. I'm tired of being "sacrificed" for other people's agendas.
As for the military, I'm not asking for them to "sacrifice." I don't want to pay for it and I don't want to bomb people in foreign countries who are no threat to me. American's are well-armed enough to defend against any invasion without the need for a standing military, especially given the lack of any true enemies. If anything, we've all sacrificed to give them a career and benefits.
I hope he doesn't let us down.
Given the messiah-like, up-on-a-pedestal worship you're seeing right now, how could you expect that there wouldn't be a let down? The world is in bad shape and everyone has decided to pin all their hopes on one unknown man. Even if Obama were the second coming, I'd be unnerved by the cult of personality thing he's got going on.
Isn't Ron Paul that kook who was talking about a collapse of the economy last year? Oh wait... Ahh, who needs money when you have hope and change that you can believe in?