Stay the fuck away from my NumLock key. Does it serve a purpose? YES. Many terminals (thus terminal emulation software) behave differently if you press 0-9 on the numpad (NumLock=on) than if you press 0-9 across the top row. Yes, they are different scan codes. Additionally, some software distinguishes the difference between 2/4/6/8 numpad arrow keys (when NumLock=off) and the actual arrow keys on a PC keyboard.
I know they are different scan codes but hasn't it been 25 years or so since the IBM Enhanced keyboards came out? Software can be updated and if you really are using hardware that can't then there's no reason not to have a special purpose keyboard.
both of those keys are absolutely essential to people in the data entry business.
Why do you ever need to turn off Num Lock? Ever since the 101 key keyboard was invented back in the last century all the Num Lock-off functions got their own seperate keys.
If you're going to measure Obama's performance by adherence to campaign speeches, of course you're going to be disappointed. Sad as I am to say so, I, too, am disappointed in Obama (healthcare, Gitmo, Don't Ask/Don't Tell, etc.).
So you are basically saying that anything that a politician should be expected to be a pretty lie for the unwashed masses so there's no reason for us lowly peasants to demand more? Fuck that.
But the real problem is expecting him to change things by himself
Bullshit. The president of the United States needs neither permission nor cooperation from anyone to direct the FBI and Department of Justice to arrest, charge and ultimately incarcerate the criminals who have looted this country. The fact that he hasn't chosen to do so simply means that he is complicit with the criminals, just like the presidents who came before him.
Governing requires honest cooperation of BOTH parties. And, to date, I think you'd have to agree that the GOP has only been obstructionist. They are seeing to it that nothing gets done. That way, they can say the Dems did nothing.
Please. The democratic party has enough votes to do whatever they want no matter what the republicans try. Their failure to get anything done is entirely their own fault.
You are absolutely right about how the Bush administration allowed the country to be looted.
What you are missing is that Obama hasn't done one damn thing to stop it.
Face the facts - the banksters own both parties. If Obama wasn't their lapdog then we would have seen this speech already, but we haven't.
My Fellow Americans.
The last three decades have been marked by outrageous scams and frauds throughout our financial system. This is not a partisan political issue and has consumed both Democrat and Republican administrations and Congresses alike.
As of today, that era has ended.
To those who believe that blowing bubbles, making homes unaffordable for the common man in this country or driving stock prices to ridiculous levels based on hype and false claims is a means to become wealthy, your days of being able to strip the wealth of the common American have come to an end.
Those federally-chartered institutions that promote a "bubble economy" based on unreasonable and unsustainable levels of debt will find that this administration will do everything in our power to revoke those charters. This includes but is not limited to The Federal Reserve.
To those who have ripped people off, including those who marketed and sold worthless securities, those who claimed to have "protection" against market events when they knew the person they bought from had no money to pay, or who worked together to make loans and sales to people through the use of various lies, such as falsely overstating incomes, you will soon be facing a jury of your peers.
I am today directing the FBI and Department of Justice to open and begin investigations, starting at the top. Each and every one of the large financial institutions in this country, including the banks, GSEs and their officials that operate under a federal charter or banking license will face a forensic audit. We will identify and bring to justice all of those who have robbed this economy of its vitality and stolen your futures. Where possible we will claw back every penny of these individuals and firms' wealth so as to provide you with whatever compensation we can recover. Those firms who have committed wrongdoing will be broken up and their officials barred from serving in the banking or securities industries in the future.
Our own administration and the people in it will be subject to this investigation, as will all members of Congress, the lobbying firms and interests that interact with our government. There will be no sacred cows and no rocks that will be left unturned.
We will investigate homebuilders, realtors, appraisers and mortgage brokers. We will look into the FHA, Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and determine exactly how all of these loss-producing loans came to be made. Where we can identify persons or corporate procedures that led investors, firms or people to be misled, we will bring charges.
The days of theft and fraud from the American public, followed by demands to be bailed out when these scams and schemes reach the end of their rope, are over. Civil and criminal penalties have and do exist for these offenses, and they will be enforced to the fullest extent of the law.
All Americans deserve to be able to invest with confidence and rely on the statements and publications put forward to them. Americans deserve to be told the truth. When Americans are ripped off, they deserve justice. Beginning today, every American will receive exactly that.
The days of the "Wild West" on Wall Street and K Street alike are over.
The inability to feel pain, which at first blush seems like a gift, is, in fact, a devastating disability. Every childhood milestone has become a new danger instead of a joy. That's because Gabby can't tell when she's hurting herself.
"She started cutting teeth and she had bit down through the skin. She would have bit down to the bone had I let her. It was just chewed up," Trish Gingras said.
"We decided to pull her teeth because she was mutilating her fingers," Steve Gingras said.
Learning to walk just made Gabby more vulnerable. By the time she was 2½, she had been injured and hospitalized multiple times. At age 2, Gabby broke her jaw and didn't know it until infection caused a fever. To treat the infection, she had to be on an IV medication for six weeks.
Her eyes were especially at risk.
"You'd look away for one second, you'd look back and she'd have her fingers in her eye," Steve Gingras said. "You're watching your child go blind right in front of you."
Her desperate parents tried restraints and then goggles. But by the time Gabby was 4, she needed to have her left eye removed. Her right eye was also damaged, and she wears a lens over it to help her see better. Although Gabby is legally blind with 20/200 eyesight, she can still see shapes.
What I posted is not what I want to happen but rather what will happen sooner or later if a population continually gets abused. They'll take it and take it until all of a sudden they don't any more.
It's much better to have a fair and equitable court system so that it never gets to that point but if the government ever loses legitimacy in the eyes of the citizens then it's just a matter of time.
ONE CANNOT ERADICATE STUPIDITY THROUGH EDUCATION OR KNOWLEDGE! ATTEMPTS TO DO SO WILL ONLY CREATE MORE ADVANCED STUPIDITY, NOT LESS STUPIDITY.
One eridicates stuipdity through pain. That's why pain exists.
The reason that you don't touch hot stoves is not because of anything your parents told you when you were a child - it's because you did it once and it hurt.
Shielding people from the consequences of bad decisions is what breeds stupidity.
That way anyone that feels that they have been wronged by Monsanto can just form a nice lynch mob and start hanging senior executives.
If too many citizens feel that the government is protecting criminals rather than prosecuting them then eventually it will come to this, but I suspect that bankers may be first in line.
How would the unencumbered "free market" handle a problem like this? Especially since none of us who eat corn are actually direct customers of Monsanto's GM corn?
People would stop eating corn products.
Those who were damaged by the defective product would seek damages in a civil court.
If the courts declined to provide relief then the injured parties would all get together, storm the Monsanto headquarters and lynch all the executives.
Under eight years of a Republican President nothing was done that might get in the way of businesses making money, and it probably started a lot sooner than that.
So... one year under a Democratic president with a Democratic congress exactly how many corporate abuses have been curtailed?
If you believe that any substantial difference exists between the two parties you are nothing more than a useful idiot.
The kind of "duh" think that I'm thinking about here is that, if this corn produces these insecticide-like chemicals, one should have to show that it is non-toxic in humans...
That's the key: the problem is not the fact that this plant was genetically modified, but rather the specific proteins that it was engineered to produce.
This distinction will be lost on millions of reactionaries.
It's not actually made worse by population growth, which is trivially demonstrable: if it were true, then we would all be unemployed right now, because at the time of the 13 colonies there were way fewer people than now. Where did all the new jobs come from?
It's trivially demonstrable by counting the number of people working that our population has 25 million more people not working now than in the year 2000.
Clearly something changed in the last 10 years compared to the previous 200.
The problem with the sun is that the energy is too diffuse to collect efficiently and that at the moment we can not mass produce solar cells that are energy positive over their entire life cycle.
Those guesses assume the same type of reactors we are using now (that only consume 3%-5% of the fuel) and that we don't extract any from the ocean or other sources like coal.
If we are allowed to build other types of reactors that breed non-fissionable elements such as thorium into fuel then we are looking at thousands of years.
Those breeder reactors enrich the burned uranium into a high burn rate nuclear fuel (plutonium) that can be used to construct nuclear bombs.
Not all breeder reactors produce plutonium, and the ones that do don't necessarily need to be designed to allow it to accumulate in a form useful for bomb making. The last batch of breeder reactors that we built did only because making bombs was the reason that we built them.
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I guess they didn't consider btrfs ready enough for benchmarking yet.
I do the same thing. I think it is because light text on a dark background is easier to read.
I know they are different scan codes but hasn't it been 25 years or so since the IBM Enhanced keyboards came out? Software can be updated and if you really are using hardware that can't then there's no reason not to have a special purpose keyboard.
Why do you ever need to turn off Num Lock? Ever since the 101 key keyboard was invented back in the last century all the Num Lock-off functions got their own seperate keys.
Caps Lock
Num Lock
Both of these keys should die a firey death before you get rid of the SysRq key, which is very useful for Linux users.
So you are basically saying that anything that a politician should be expected to be a pretty lie for the unwashed masses so there's no reason for us lowly peasants to demand more? Fuck that.
Bullshit. The president of the United States needs neither permission nor cooperation from anyone to direct the FBI and Department of Justice to arrest, charge and ultimately incarcerate the criminals who have looted this country. The fact that he hasn't chosen to do so simply means that he is complicit with the criminals, just like the presidents who came before him.
Please. The democratic party has enough votes to do whatever they want no matter what the republicans try. Their failure to get anything done is entirely their own fault.
You are absolutely right about how the Bush administration allowed the country to be looted.
What you are missing is that Obama hasn't done one damn thing to stop it.
Face the facts - the banksters own both parties. If Obama wasn't their lapdog then we would have seen this speech already, but we haven't.
London is a city in Connecticut, right?
It's a theoretical discussion anyway since the article doesn't actually demonstrate organ damage, contrary to the headline.
Funny how if you ignore the speeches and focus on their actions the current president is practicaly a clone of the previous president on these issues.
That shift will happen, or it won't, depending on how much the indviduals value their health.
This headline made me think of D&D before anything else.
More or less
It sound better until all the regulators are captured or outright bribed. Then you're back to square one.
What I posted is not what I want to happen but rather what will happen sooner or later if a population continually gets abused. They'll take it and take it until all of a sudden they don't any more.
It's much better to have a fair and equitable court system so that it never gets to that point but if the government ever loses legitimacy in the eyes of the citizens then it's just a matter of time.
One eridicates stuipdity through pain. That's why pain exists.
The reason that you don't touch hot stoves is not because of anything your parents told you when you were a child - it's because you did it once and it hurt.
Shielding people from the consequences of bad decisions is what breeds stupidity.
No, but it might make other executives think twice about selling defective food.
If too many citizens feel that the government is protecting criminals rather than prosecuting them then eventually it will come to this, but I suspect that bankers may be first in line.
People would stop eating corn products.
Those who were damaged by the defective product would seek damages in a civil court.
If the courts declined to provide relief then the injured parties would all get together, storm the Monsanto headquarters and lynch all the executives.
So... one year under a Democratic president with a Democratic congress exactly how many corporate abuses have been curtailed?
If you believe that any substantial difference exists between the two parties you are nothing more than a useful idiot.
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That's the key: the problem is not the fact that this plant was genetically modified, but rather the specific proteins that it was engineered to produce.
This distinction will be lost on millions of reactionaries.
It's trivially demonstrable by counting the number of people working that our population has 25 million more people not working now than in the year 2000.
Clearly something changed in the last 10 years compared to the previous 200.
The problem with the sun is that the energy is too diffuse to collect efficiently and that at the moment we can not mass produce solar cells that are energy positive over their entire life cycle.
Those guesses assume the same type of reactors we are using now (that only consume 3%-5% of the fuel) and that we don't extract any from the ocean or other sources like coal.
If we are allowed to build other types of reactors that breed non-fissionable elements such as thorium into fuel then we are looking at thousands of years.
Not all breeder reactors produce plutonium, and the ones that do don't necessarily need to be designed to allow it to accumulate in a form useful for bomb making. The last batch of breeder reactors that we built did only because making bombs was the reason that we built them.