There is all kinds of HR law out there just as there is law for accounting. Perhaps there should be law out there for HR that says "goes to jail" it knowingly complying with such practices.
Sure, this wouldn't stop such practices any more than accounting law stops accounting fraud. It would slow it down and give them reason to pause though. After all, getting fined is one thing... it's often a write-off or a cost of doing business. But when there is jail time involved? That's another matter now isn't it?
Microsoft has doubled the cost of Windows in one fell swoop with their dirty pricing tactics. Volume licensing was a pretty popular was for large companies to save money where they would buy all the licenses for Windows and have their PCs sent to them empty or with a preload image sent to the OEM by the company. But one year, Microsoft decided that every volume licensed version of Desktop Windows is "an upgrade" and so requires a retail version, OEM version or Mac OS X installed prior to installing the volume licensed version. So you have to pay for Windows twice to use it once. Their sales numbers went through the roof that year and lawyers out there didn't blink an eye.
There is no way they are "competing" with open source. The reality is they have acheived critical mass and have been milking and maintaining it ever since. But lately things have been eroding their critical mass as alternatives have grown increasingly more compatible and usable. It's a secret they would rather not have larger IT shops learn about. IT people are trying to keep their jobs and if they can save the company their cost in salary or more by moving to open source they will do it. They just have to know it's safe and "accepotable" to do so. And lots of things are enabling this to come true. Among these are the increase in web-based enterprise applications really helping this migration along.
I wish I had known this when my company was buying Documentum... and I wish I knew who the competitors were as well. We could have saved a lot of money.
The reason why I want an Android car stereo is because:
1. I know they exist 2. I know I will be able to run my apps on it including the one I use with my OBD2 reader 3. I know I will be able to have TomTom or other GPS mapping software installed 4. I know I will be able to play all my music and video 5. I know it will be hackable so I can do things it can't do out of the box
Any proprietary type system will not offer those advantages.
We all know that every time a nation or large company threatens to go open source, Microsoft sends its army of sales people with large expense budgets to offer 'better deals' to persuade them against moving away. These types of deals, of course mean better pricing and/or other terms along with lots of wining, dining, bonuses, gifts and kickbacks. It is quite likely their study includes these deep discounts which everyone would demand if this type of information was made available.
I know that in general, costs are available through open government legislation, but do we usually get to see the terms and numbers and types of licenses or how much is given for 'free'?
I'm sorry, but I think you over-estimate the power of Apple-cool. If that were the case, Apple-cool would have killed off the once clunky implementations of early versions of Android devices. Zune zucked because it zucked all by itself. Also, I don't think Microsoft quite understood what made iPod a success and what really makes money for Apple.
I never bought an iThing either though. I don't buy into cool things. I buy into useful things which work in my life.
So right now, I'm looking for a car stereo which is Android based. I find many on the internet but few where I can see them and most are still running Android 2.x with no plans for updated versions. (These vendors still think they are selling hardware.) Anyone know of a good one? I want bluetooth phone calling, GPS, WiFi (so I can tether it to my phone or access my wifi when I am at home), reverse camera... hell, for that matter, multuple cameras with DVR functionality and stuff like that with a good quality display. The stuff I see out there is very, very lacking and ALSO very very expensive. Where's the good stuff?
GTK is an application toolkit. It is not a "GNOME UI Toolkit."
Let's spell the situation out:
1. GiMP uses GTK. GTK is "GiMP Tool Kit" and that's great. It was a tool kit for GiMP. GTK is developed at its own pace for its own reasons. 2. GNOME uses GTK and by extension everything that uses GNOME uses GTK to some extent. The problem is that there are versions of GTK which are not compatible with other versions of GTK.
So when GNOME 2 is used to run GiMP 2.8.x, you can't because GiMP needs a newer version of GTK. And you can't upgrade the GTK of GNOME 2 (as appears in CentOS) without breaking everything else. If I were using KDE, this wouldn't be a problem because the Desktop environment doesn't rely on any particular version of GTK. If I were using Windows, this wouldn't be a problem because the Desktop environment doesn't rely on any particular version of GTK.
The best scenario out of this? For GNOME to fork GTK if only to rename the bloody thing so that other applications can work. But that wouldn't be the whole story either because I did get GiMP 2.8.0 to run on CentOS 6.3 eventually. I had to recompile half of GNOME (GTK and all those things) into a separate directory. The problem? Well, I can't write in foreign languages while in GiMP because of this. Turns out the desktop environment controls things like that... theming too. So while in GiMP, I can't turn on Japanese language support to get snazzy Japanese characters because I had to divorce the application from running within the desktop environment in order to get it to work.
It's not as simple as you want to make it out to be.
Many things depend on a desktop environment. And when a desktop environment needs to depend on a specific application library that is not backward or forward compatible so that applications needing other versions can still run with, then there's a problem.
So let me ask you:
I need to run CentOS. I need to run GiMP 2.8.x. The two do not work together because of the way GNOME uses GTK and GiMP needs another version of GTK to run. How would you resolve the problem?
So far, NO ONE has been able to resolve the problem.
Just to follow up a little. My memory was foggy about some of the UI details.
So the warning signs (I still hold to be inappropriate) make more sense now that I look at them. But still, I deicded I wanted to rework the partition layout instead of going with defaults. HOLY CRAP! I had to go to "reclaim space"? Sounds like I'm about to wipe the drive! I didn't want to do that.
What they should have done was write or include a disk/partition management utility for "advanced configurations" just like other OSes do.
And I also just noticed that games aren't available as an install option when I go to install MATE. Nice way to slight people who just want what they want. Bunch of jerks.
There is a lot of jerkiness in the Linux community. It's really getting frustrating. Around the F14 days, I was really loving life. Little did I realize what was going on beneath the surface was about to explode into a world of "you can't do this if you use that."
GNOME is a desktop environment. It requires the use of libraries it does not maintain outside of the standard accepted ones. Worse, it uses application libraries. GNOME is not an application. It's an environment. It's okay for an application to use an environment library. But not the other way around.
Yes it is a separate project. HOWEVER, GNOME uses the GTK project. An application project. Which means any application which also uses it is limited to using only that if you wish to have in properly integrated into the user environment.
Use CentOS/RHEL? Fine. But you can't use a newer GiMP properly. Why? Because GNOME in RHEL/CentOS requires the use of an older GTK set.
The problem is that GNOME uses an applicaiton library that it doesn't develop or maintain. Lots of applications use GTK. TRUE. But when the UI uses GTK, it breaks an important rule. Just as a change in the kernel should not break userland apps, the UI should ALSO not break userland apps. It breaks this rule.
The GiMP devs also develop GTK. They were once the same.
No. I have a hard time with that idea. This whole UI scrambling seems to be born of fear. Fear of what exactly, I don't know. But they appear to be running away from something rather than moving to something.
There is a lot of this "change for the sake of change" going on these days. They seem to fear maturity as if it also means death or the end of the project. It's a little tought to work out what they are thinking and they sure as hell aren't open enough to explain what they are thinking and why they are doing it.
So how about it RedHat developers?! Just tell us all straight up what you think is wrong with the way things were and what you hope to achieve by changing it? (I know I will not get an answer. To have an answer means they would open a dialogue... a discussion, a debate! They would never allow that.)
It matters less to me for the moment... I will have MATE running and I can run the newer programs I want too. What I won't have, right away, will be Compiz. Gonna miss that with the wobbling windows and the cube switching but I saw somewhere it was being worked on so maybe I won't have to wait too long.
Back when GNOME turned into this abomination which targetted tablet computing, I ended up moving to CentOS only to find that it is wrought with limitaitons giving me a whole new perspective on the relationship between kernel and OS as well as between the OS and the application. Recently, Linus blasted a kernel maintainer for breaking application compatibility. Similarly, I blast GNOME for integrating an application library into their UI. (In this case GTK/GTK+) That choice prevents me from effectively running GIMP versions newer than 2.6.x on CentOS. Anyway, that's not what I'm here to comment about.
I tried F18 in a VM. I wanted to see if I could get MATE going. Well, I was quite successful. It didn't take long to learn I needed to use the net installer to make it happen. But there were a few confusing things in the installer. For one, there were these warning road signs on the many buttons. Eventually some of them cleared. But it was impossible to learn what those warning sign icons meant. I may have to run through the process again to see if I can determine exactly what they intended to mean, but it wasn't readily apparent. I tried hovering over them to see if more information appeared, but no. I did note that at least one cleared itself as I tweaked on other things.
I get that the new installer wants to be more of a control panel interface than a "wizard" and I can appreciate the approach. The wizard approach was initially annoying to me and to many others when it first arrived so long ago. Linear and limiting. But then again, it is somewhat appropriate for an installer to behave like this.
Anyway, the new installer did not prevent me from getting what I wanted. But then again, what I wanted was to see MATE installed. I did not do any more than that. Perhaps I need to give it another look, but I am prepared to go to F18 if only to escape the CentOS limits as I find myself exasperated by what I learned of how GNOME breaks user applications and their lack of concern for what it means to do so.
I'm guessing you didn't read what I was outlining.
1. The market and the behavior of its participants are too short-sighted and self-absorbed to see/admit what they are doing. They want to control their markets but cannot. Apple is a great example of market/consumer control. They have the consumers controlled far better than the market. Android is walking away with the smartphone/tablet market right now. 2. The consumers are a bunch of sheeple, but even their whims are able to effect changes in the markets. The marketers attempt to control through product and feature limitation, but the Chinese (new market participants) for example, are always there willing to do what others are not. Meanwhile the markets for local services are racing to the bottom to compensate for perceived losses due to excessive competition. 3. Think more for yourself and be more independent. The more you rely on the industrials who got us where we are, the more we feed the problem.
That all says the market is largely persisted on what sells the most and with the highest gain. By understanding the environment, we live in, opportunities for change exist. It's not enough to say "vote with your dollars" because people don't understand what that means exactly. I have attempted to, in this limited space, explain what that means and why it would work if people actually did that.
Every major industrial force on the planet will continue as they are so long as their quartlerly reports show 'growth.' It's a system we can't change or undo. The major industrial forces will not allow it to change. They can't see or don't believe in a future that exists beyond the next year. When was the last time you heard "5 year plan"? And they are playing chicken with the future of humanity whether they realize it or not. Whoever hesitates or turns back will 'lose' as market forces will crush anyone into insignificance who isn't pushing forward.
They don't "lead" the markets let alone control them. With such short vision, how can they? The market is still in the hands of the consumer... sheeple consumers mostly. If anyone has been paying attention to the increase in guns and ammo and especially the market effect the government's billions in ammunition purchases, then it should be pretty clear. This gun control talk and scarcity of supply isn't only causing a rise in prices, it's causing a rise in interest. People who had no interest in buying guns and ammo are now interested.
Consumers can shape the next quarter. And the quarters to follow. Keep buying green. Keep buying things that do as little harm as possible. *I* don't make a difference. *You* don't make a difference. But *we* do. Talk to people, but don't argue or preach. Short, simple statements and move on. They won't think you're a crazy person if you don't come off that way.
If you're thinking about moving, I would consider moving away from major weather areas... you know, like the coasts, or places where mountains have significant impact. That's what all this climate change is about anyway--the weather, the redistribution of water, the content of the air and what it does with the sun's energy. Take up a hobby like gardening. It could be useful. (Just don't grow things indoors too much... UV lamps attact cops.)
*THAT* is the biggest injustice we have in this country. Our justice system should NEVER be privately owned or controlled. It's simply immoral and the stuff of bad science fiction. When we see contractors in charge of delivering policy, punishment, pressure or power on behalf of the government, it should be 100% accountable to that same government. Contractor soldiers? NO! Contractor prison guards and management? NO!!! Mail? Hell no. TSA? Well, as much as we dislike it, I would rather not see airport security controlled by any non-government entities.
I just don't get it. How are we not animals? How do we not recognize the extreme similarities between us and our animal cousins? The theory of evolution isn't "a fact" but it is a general truth which is evolving and growing as our understanding grows. And frankly, some things are just obvious... painfully obvious. Ever see those growing fetus diagrams where you can't tell if it's human or something else because we ALL start off looking the same?
Sorry, but just no.
And when people work so hard to deny, hide and destroy information which is contrary to their beliefs surely don't understand the nature of learning, understanding or of thought. I guarantee you that even if by some bizarre reality, all information about our animal nature and the notion of evolution vanished from the earth in a flash, people would STILL arrive at this obvious conclusion just exactly as people all over the world at different times came to realize that "air" has mass.
Personally?:) I would entertain the notion. I've got an open mind with regards to those kinds of things. The way I see it, the whole practice of sexuality is all masturbation. One person cannot feel what another person feels. The best two (or more) people can do is do it at the same time with each other. It's like sharing a meal -- when another person eats, I don't get full.
As for other relationship needs, once again, we are really only feeling ourselves. The feeling of being loved or needed is something we, as individuals feel and those things are subject to interpretation. So over all it all comes down to how we understand ourselves.
This would seem to suggest that relationships don't actually exist. Not true. They serve practical purposes. What purposes they serve are up to the people to determine. Some people feel it is wrong to do things with people unless there is a formal relationship involved. Some people need to share resources and/or skills to keep costs down. Some people feel security in limiting contact with others. These should all be pretty obvious.
But at the end of the day, the more illusions we maintain about love, affection, attraction and need of one another, the crazier some things become.
RE: Voice equality. From my perspective, my voice is louder and more valid than hers. From her perspective, her voice is louder and more valid than mine. We each make our own decisions while weighing in the needs and interests of the other. But due to human factors such as language, individuality, reflection and projection, it is nearly impossible to be objective in all things and to maintain the illusion that the relationship is its own entity any more than a corporation is a person.
The course you describe does much to blame "the world" for the problems which only affect the two in a relationship. It's impractical and unrealistic. If both are dedicated to each other, no amount of interference would matter. Further, it can't happen without a member of a couple breaking the agreement. That should be the extent of the harmed party's concern. Anything beyond that leads to... well, as Yoda would put it, "...to the dark side."
Does every women whose man cheats blame him or "all those other women on the planet?" Most often, it is him. It's reasonable. Why is it not reasonable when the roles are reversed?
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There is all kinds of HR law out there just as there is law for accounting. Perhaps there should be law out there for HR that says "goes to jail" it knowingly complying with such practices.
Sure, this wouldn't stop such practices any more than accounting law stops accounting fraud. It would slow it down and give them reason to pause though. After all, getting fined is one thing... it's often a write-off or a cost of doing business. But when there is jail time involved? That's another matter now isn't it?
If he knew the right people, the case would have gotten nowhere.
I think they are desperate to prosecute these cyber-terrorists that they are willing and prepared to go after the lowest hanging fruit.
How else can you expect to keep your slaves in order?
Microsoft has doubled the cost of Windows in one fell swoop with their dirty pricing tactics. Volume licensing was a pretty popular was for large companies to save money where they would buy all the licenses for Windows and have their PCs sent to them empty or with a preload image sent to the OEM by the company. But one year, Microsoft decided that every volume licensed version of Desktop Windows is "an upgrade" and so requires a retail version, OEM version or Mac OS X installed prior to installing the volume licensed version. So you have to pay for Windows twice to use it once. Their sales numbers went through the roof that year and lawyers out there didn't blink an eye.
There is no way they are "competing" with open source. The reality is they have acheived critical mass and have been milking and maintaining it ever since. But lately things have been eroding their critical mass as alternatives have grown increasingly more compatible and usable. It's a secret they would rather not have larger IT shops learn about. IT people are trying to keep their jobs and if they can save the company their cost in salary or more by moving to open source they will do it. They just have to know it's safe and "accepotable" to do so. And lots of things are enabling this to come true. Among these are the increase in web-based enterprise applications really helping this migration along.
I wish I had known this when my company was buying Documentum... and I wish I knew who the competitors were as well. We could have saved a lot of money.
The reason why I want an Android car stereo is because:
1. I know they exist
2. I know I will be able to run my apps on it including the one I use with my OBD2 reader
3. I know I will be able to have TomTom or other GPS mapping software installed
4. I know I will be able to play all my music and video
5. I know it will be hackable so I can do things it can't do out of the box
Any proprietary type system will not offer those advantages.
We all know that every time a nation or large company threatens to go open source, Microsoft sends its army of sales people with large expense budgets to offer 'better deals' to persuade them against moving away. These types of deals, of course mean better pricing and/or other terms along with lots of wining, dining, bonuses, gifts and kickbacks. It is quite likely their study includes these deep discounts which everyone would demand if this type of information was made available.
I know that in general, costs are available through open government legislation, but do we usually get to see the terms and numbers and types of licenses or how much is given for 'free'?
I'm sorry, but I think you over-estimate the power of Apple-cool. If that were the case, Apple-cool would have killed off the once clunky implementations of early versions of Android devices. Zune zucked because it zucked all by itself. Also, I don't think Microsoft quite understood what made iPod a success and what really makes money for Apple.
I never bought an iThing either though. I don't buy into cool things. I buy into useful things which work in my life.
So right now, I'm looking for a car stereo which is Android based. I find many on the internet but few where I can see them and most are still running Android 2.x with no plans for updated versions. (These vendors still think they are selling hardware.) Anyone know of a good one? I want bluetooth phone calling, GPS, WiFi (so I can tether it to my phone or access my wifi when I am at home), reverse camera... hell, for that matter, multuple cameras with DVR functionality and stuff like that with a good quality display. The stuff I see out there is very, very lacking and ALSO very very expensive. Where's the good stuff?
GTK is an application toolkit. It is not a "GNOME UI Toolkit."
Let's spell the situation out:
1. GiMP uses GTK. GTK is "GiMP Tool Kit" and that's great. It was a tool kit for GiMP. GTK is developed at its own pace for its own reasons.
2. GNOME uses GTK and by extension everything that uses GNOME uses GTK to some extent. The problem is that there are versions of GTK which are not compatible with other versions of GTK.
So when GNOME 2 is used to run GiMP 2.8.x, you can't because GiMP needs a newer version of GTK. And you can't upgrade the GTK of GNOME 2 (as appears in CentOS) without breaking everything else. If I were using KDE, this wouldn't be a problem because the Desktop environment doesn't rely on any particular version of GTK. If I were using Windows, this wouldn't be a problem because the Desktop environment doesn't rely on any particular version of GTK.
The best scenario out of this? For GNOME to fork GTK if only to rename the bloody thing so that other applications can work. But that wouldn't be the whole story either because I did get GiMP 2.8.0 to run on CentOS 6.3 eventually. I had to recompile half of GNOME (GTK and all those things) into a separate directory. The problem? Well, I can't write in foreign languages while in GiMP because of this. Turns out the desktop environment controls things like that... theming too. So while in GiMP, I can't turn on Japanese language support to get snazzy Japanese characters because I had to divorce the application from running within the desktop environment in order to get it to work.
It's not as simple as you want to make it out to be.
Many things depend on a desktop environment. And when a desktop environment needs to depend on a specific application library that is not backward or forward compatible so that applications needing other versions can still run with, then there's a problem.
So let me ask you:
I need to run CentOS. I need to run GiMP 2.8.x. The two do not work together because of the way GNOME uses GTK and GiMP needs another version of GTK to run. How would you resolve the problem?
So far, NO ONE has been able to resolve the problem.
Just to follow up a little. My memory was foggy about some of the UI details.
So the warning signs (I still hold to be inappropriate) make more sense now that I look at them. But still, I deicded I wanted to rework the partition layout instead of going with defaults. HOLY CRAP! I had to go to "reclaim space"? Sounds like I'm about to wipe the drive! I didn't want to do that.
What they should have done was write or include a disk/partition management utility for "advanced configurations" just like other OSes do.
And I also just noticed that games aren't available as an install option when I go to install MATE. Nice way to slight people who just want what they want. Bunch of jerks.
There is a lot of jerkiness in the Linux community. It's really getting frustrating. Around the F14 days, I was really loving life. Little did I realize what was going on beneath the surface was about to explode into a world of "you can't do this if you use that."
GNOME is a desktop environment. It requires the use of libraries it does not maintain outside of the standard accepted ones. Worse, it uses application libraries. GNOME is not an application. It's an environment. It's okay for an application to use an environment library. But not the other way around.
Yes it is a separate project. HOWEVER, GNOME uses the GTK project. An application project. Which means any application which also uses it is limited to using only that if you wish to have in properly integrated into the user environment.
Use CentOS/RHEL? Fine. But you can't use a newer GiMP properly. Why? Because GNOME in RHEL/CentOS requires the use of an older GTK set.
The problem is that GNOME uses an applicaiton library that it doesn't develop or maintain. Lots of applications use GTK. TRUE. But when the UI uses GTK, it breaks an important rule. Just as a change in the kernel should not break userland apps, the UI should ALSO not break userland apps. It breaks this rule.
The GiMP devs also develop GTK. They were once the same.
No. I have a hard time with that idea. This whole UI scrambling seems to be born of fear. Fear of what exactly, I don't know. But they appear to be running away from something rather than moving to something.
There is a lot of this "change for the sake of change" going on these days. They seem to fear maturity as if it also means death or the end of the project. It's a little tought to work out what they are thinking and they sure as hell aren't open enough to explain what they are thinking and why they are doing it.
So how about it RedHat developers?! Just tell us all straight up what you think is wrong with the way things were and what you hope to achieve by changing it? (I know I will not get an answer. To have an answer means they would open a dialogue ... a discussion, a debate! They would never allow that.)
It matters less to me for the moment... I will have MATE running and I can run the newer programs I want too. What I won't have, right away, will be Compiz. Gonna miss that with the wobbling windows and the cube switching but I saw somewhere it was being worked on so maybe I won't have to wait too long.
Back when GNOME turned into this abomination which targetted tablet computing, I ended up moving to CentOS only to find that it is wrought with limitaitons giving me a whole new perspective on the relationship between kernel and OS as well as between the OS and the application. Recently, Linus blasted a kernel maintainer for breaking application compatibility. Similarly, I blast GNOME for integrating an application library into their UI. (In this case GTK/GTK+) That choice prevents me from effectively running GIMP versions newer than 2.6.x on CentOS. Anyway, that's not what I'm here to comment about.
I tried F18 in a VM. I wanted to see if I could get MATE going. Well, I was quite successful. It didn't take long to learn I needed to use the net installer to make it happen. But there were a few confusing things in the installer. For one, there were these warning road signs on the many buttons. Eventually some of them cleared. But it was impossible to learn what those warning sign icons meant. I may have to run through the process again to see if I can determine exactly what they intended to mean, but it wasn't readily apparent. I tried hovering over them to see if more information appeared, but no. I did note that at least one cleared itself as I tweaked on other things.
I get that the new installer wants to be more of a control panel interface than a "wizard" and I can appreciate the approach. The wizard approach was initially annoying to me and to many others when it first arrived so long ago. Linear and limiting. But then again, it is somewhat appropriate for an installer to behave like this.
Anyway, the new installer did not prevent me from getting what I wanted. But then again, what I wanted was to see MATE installed. I did not do any more than that. Perhaps I need to give it another look, but I am prepared to go to F18 if only to escape the CentOS limits as I find myself exasperated by what I learned of how GNOME breaks user applications and their lack of concern for what it means to do so.
I'm guessing you didn't read what I was outlining.
1. The market and the behavior of its participants are too short-sighted and self-absorbed to see/admit what they are doing. They want to control their markets but cannot. Apple is a great example of market/consumer control. They have the consumers controlled far better than the market. Android is walking away with the smartphone/tablet market right now.
2. The consumers are a bunch of sheeple, but even their whims are able to effect changes in the markets. The marketers attempt to control through product and feature limitation, but the Chinese (new market participants) for example, are always there willing to do what others are not. Meanwhile the markets for local services are racing to the bottom to compensate for perceived losses due to excessive competition.
3. Think more for yourself and be more independent. The more you rely on the industrials who got us where we are, the more we feed the problem.
That all says the market is largely persisted on what sells the most and with the highest gain. By understanding the environment, we live in, opportunities for change exist. It's not enough to say "vote with your dollars" because people don't understand what that means exactly. I have attempted to, in this limited space, explain what that means and why it would work if people actually did that.
Every major industrial force on the planet will continue as they are so long as their quartlerly reports show 'growth.' It's a system we can't change or undo. The major industrial forces will not allow it to change. They can't see or don't believe in a future that exists beyond the next year. When was the last time you heard "5 year plan"? And they are playing chicken with the future of humanity whether they realize it or not. Whoever hesitates or turns back will 'lose' as market forces will crush anyone into insignificance who isn't pushing forward.
They don't "lead" the markets let alone control them. With such short vision, how can they? The market is still in the hands of the consumer... sheeple consumers mostly. If anyone has been paying attention to the increase in guns and ammo and especially the market effect the government's billions in ammunition purchases, then it should be pretty clear. This gun control talk and scarcity of supply isn't only causing a rise in prices, it's causing a rise in interest. People who had no interest in buying guns and ammo are now interested.
Consumers can shape the next quarter. And the quarters to follow. Keep buying green. Keep buying things that do as little harm as possible. *I* don't make a difference. *You* don't make a difference. But *we* do. Talk to people, but don't argue or preach. Short, simple statements and move on. They won't think you're a crazy person if you don't come off that way.
If you're thinking about moving, I would consider moving away from major weather areas... you know, like the coasts, or places where mountains have significant impact. That's what all this climate change is about anyway--the weather, the redistribution of water, the content of the air and what it does with the sun's energy. Take up a hobby like gardening. It could be useful. (Just don't grow things indoors too much... UV lamps attact cops.)
*THAT* is the biggest injustice we have in this country. Our justice system should NEVER be privately owned or controlled. It's simply immoral and the stuff of bad science fiction. When we see contractors in charge of delivering policy, punishment, pressure or power on behalf of the government, it should be 100% accountable to that same government. Contractor soldiers? NO! Contractor prison guards and management? NO!!! Mail? Hell no. TSA? Well, as much as we dislike it, I would rather not see airport security controlled by any non-government entities.
"I don't want to live on this planet any more."
I just don't get it. How are we not animals? How do we not recognize the extreme similarities between us and our animal cousins? The theory of evolution isn't "a fact" but it is a general truth which is evolving and growing as our understanding grows. And frankly, some things are just obvious... painfully obvious. Ever see those growing fetus diagrams where you can't tell if it's human or something else because we ALL start off looking the same?
Sorry, but just no.
And when people work so hard to deny, hide and destroy information which is contrary to their beliefs surely don't understand the nature of learning, understanding or of thought. I guarantee you that even if by some bizarre reality, all information about our animal nature and the notion of evolution vanished from the earth in a flash, people would STILL arrive at this obvious conclusion just exactly as people all over the world at different times came to realize that "air" has mass.
Of course, there are gray areas there, but generally speaking, if what you do costs the target money? You're probably committing a crime.
... these updates and stuff are not fun.
It's better than I expected. They didn't import a bunch of frogs.
Personally? :) I would entertain the notion. I've got an open mind with regards to those kinds of things. The way I see it, the whole practice of sexuality is all masturbation. One person cannot feel what another person feels. The best two (or more) people can do is do it at the same time with each other. It's like sharing a meal -- when another person eats, I don't get full.
As for other relationship needs, once again, we are really only feeling ourselves. The feeling of being loved or needed is something we, as individuals feel and those things are subject to interpretation. So over all it all comes down to how we understand ourselves.
This would seem to suggest that relationships don't actually exist. Not true. They serve practical purposes. What purposes they serve are up to the people to determine. Some people feel it is wrong to do things with people unless there is a formal relationship involved. Some people need to share resources and/or skills to keep costs down. Some people feel security in limiting contact with others. These should all be pretty obvious.
But at the end of the day, the more illusions we maintain about love, affection, attraction and need of one another, the crazier some things become.
RE: Voice equality. From my perspective, my voice is louder and more valid than hers. From her perspective, her voice is louder and more valid than mine. We each make our own decisions while weighing in the needs and interests of the other. But due to human factors such as language, individuality, reflection and projection, it is nearly impossible to be objective in all things and to maintain the illusion that the relationship is its own entity any more than a corporation is a person.
We need:
1. Better batteries
2. Cleaner sources of power
Ideally, I'd like to see power units in cars and homes that uses decaying radioactive material to charge batteries.
The course you describe does much to blame "the world" for the problems which only affect the two in a relationship. It's impractical and unrealistic. If both are dedicated to each other, no amount of interference would matter. Further, it can't happen without a member of a couple breaking the agreement. That should be the extent of the harmed party's concern. Anything beyond that leads to... well, as Yoda would put it, "...to the dark side."
Does every women whose man cheats blame him or "all those other women on the planet?" Most often, it is him. It's reasonable. Why is it not reasonable when the roles are reversed?
Not sure what you are talking about exactly... ... so ToGTFO and Pics or it didn't happen.