Death by disease largely afflicted the less intelligent, regardless of class. Rich stupid people died of disease far more often than smart poor people. This was the great leveler of society; after plagues, the elites would find themselves even more disproportionately outnumbered and the number of truly stupid in society would have died out to even greater extents.
The invention of antibiotics changed all that. It above most other things has seriously destroyed the main fitness test against human stupidity. Coupled with liberal checks against outright stupidity (the Nanny State), the stupid have been multiplying with abandon for over a century.
This is the root cause of most maladies we suffer societally.
Chrome shields the version number from me. It's not a big deal, and nothing has EVER broken or even become unusable using their stable releases, and I have no clue an update has even happened.
Plus, with Chrome, there seems to be at least one really big feature added to each major release, and I cannot say the same for Firefox. In fact, would someone mind replying with two or three big features Firefox has added since v10?
With firefox, all of that is not true, and most of the time, a great many of my plugins break. Yes, still to this day. And they're mainly the binary plugins that I've paid good money for that I require for my job that used to not have any Chrome equivalents. Know what happened? They almost all have Chrome equivalents now. Why? Because so many complained that Firefox broke them every upgrade that it has compelled so many corps to support Chrome just to keep users. That's how bad the situation is.
has gone up dramatically since the 1990s, and the Consumer Price Index has essentially been 'gamed' to hide all of this.
gasoline in particular went haywire about the same time that the commodities exchanges switched from open pits to electronic trading (see the book Asylum by McGrath-Goodman for more information)
food is linked to gasoline of course, but it still doesn't explain why flour is fluctuating up and down by 100% every few months.
housing of course went through the roof thanks to the subprime mortgage securities and their deriviatives (CDOs, Synthetic CDOs, etc), and the foreclosure robo-signing scandal has backlogged the system so much that prices still havent come down properly.
in other words, yes, things have changed.
"has gone up dramatically since the 1990s,"??? What went up??
Starting your conversation in the SUBJECT line is **very** rude, you know.
Losing everyone in Washington, DC, might actually be an improvement!
While I'm pretty scared of a military 100% loyal to Obama policing our streets in draconian martial law, I actually have *more* faith that, without a meddling President or myopic Congress or activist Judicial meddling in their ways, that the military would do a far finer job restoring the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and limited government (and our freedoms) than any hope this will change in the 2012 elections.
I cannot even fathom a U.S. politician being 1) a young female, 2) an attractive young female, or 3) an attractive young female who releases new web apps.
It’s phenomenal:O
I wish there were more women of this calibre to go around.
I honestly wouldn't pay taxes to support the military at all, if I could. What I mean is that I would deduct the 99% of the Defense funding's percentage in the Federal budget from my tax liabilities and conscientiously object.
However, paying taxes in full is enforced by that very regime, because I would have to conscientiously object to all Federal income taxes on Constitutional and sovereign grounds, if it wasn't for threat of imprisonment and/or asset seizure.
Hidden and compulsory EULAs are how The System works to keep us enslaved, man.
Just check out these two documents for all the proof you'll ever need:
George Mercer - Invisible Contracts [lays out (and proves) how stuff like opening a bank account, and/oror getting a drivers license, has you signing interlocking contracts that compels you to pay Federal Income tax] http://www.constitution.org/mercier/incon.htm
They Own It All, Including You: By Means of Toxic Currency How just using Federal Reserve Notes (aka USDs) or Euros is akin to agreeing to very intense EULAs on what you can do with anything you purchase (and how everythign really belongs to the state, anyway, via hypothecation). http://www.wisdomproject.cc/url/H
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Death by disease largely afflicted the less intelligent, regardless of class. Rich stupid people died of disease far more often than smart poor people. This was the great leveler of society; after plagues, the elites would find themselves even more disproportionately outnumbered and the number of truly stupid in society would have died out to even greater extents.
The invention of antibiotics changed all that. It above most other things has seriously destroyed the main fitness test against human stupidity. Coupled with liberal checks against outright stupidity (the Nanny State), the stupid have been multiplying with abandon for over a century.
This is the root cause of most maladies we suffer societally.
There's an entire documentary on this phenomenon and what to do about it:
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w
Skip to about 1 hr in to hear about your particular point.
I certainly hope they were smart and didn't include any FOSS at all, but stuck with truly free open source software w/o encumberance, instead.
It's amazing how difficult it is to read your entire comment, when half of it is in the subject.
It's the damn timeline forced migration in May. I haven't been a regular since. I can't STAND IT!!!
Bring back the walls, please!
Chrome shields the version number from me. It's not a big deal, and nothing has EVER broken or even become unusable using their stable releases, and I have no clue an update has even happened.
Plus, with Chrome, there seems to be at least one really big feature added to each major release, and I cannot say the same for Firefox. In fact, would someone mind replying with two or three big features Firefox has added since v10?
With firefox, all of that is not true, and most of the time, a great many of my plugins break. Yes, still to this day. And they're mainly the binary plugins that I've paid good money for that I require for my job that used to not have any Chrome equivalents. Know what happened? They almost all have Chrome equivalents now. Why? Because so many complained that Firefox broke them every upgrade that it has compelled so many corps to support Chrome just to keep users. That's how bad the situation is.
It's called The End of Eternity and it is about so much more (like how humanity survives The Big Crunch). It's truly epic and worth reading.
has gone up dramatically since the 1990s, and the Consumer Price Index has essentially been 'gamed' to hide all of this.
gasoline in particular went haywire about the same time that the commodities exchanges switched from open pits to electronic trading (see the book Asylum by McGrath-Goodman for more information)
food is linked to gasoline of course, but it still doesn't explain why flour is fluctuating up and down by 100% every few months.
housing of course went through the roof thanks to the subprime mortgage securities and their deriviatives (CDOs, Synthetic CDOs, etc), and the foreclosure robo-signing scandal has backlogged the system so much that prices still havent come down properly.
in other words, yes, things have changed.
"has gone up dramatically since the 1990s,"??? What went up??
Starting your conversation in the SUBJECT line is **very** rude, you know.
Losing everyone in Washington, DC, might actually be an improvement!
While I'm pretty scared of a military 100% loyal to Obama policing our streets in draconian martial law, I actually have *more* faith that, without a meddling President or myopic Congress or activist Judicial meddling in their ways, that the military would do a far finer job restoring the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and limited government (and our freedoms) than any hope this will change in the 2012 elections.
I'll mentor you for free. Just skype me at (php.pro).
I cannot even fathom a U.S. politician being 1) a young female, 2) an attractive young female, or 3) an attractive young female who releases new web apps.
It’s phenomenal :O
I wish there were more women of this calibre to go around.
Gosh, you must be old! I wasn't even born when that act was passed (in 1976).
And absolutely zero return visitors when you have to change ISPs or even servers w/ a different IP address!
Are you sure you didn't mean the Google SkyNet Protection Policy [in the Mafia sense of "protection"]?
Looks like you missed being first by a few seconds, haus.
Let me guess... ON here on a visa, amiright?
I honestly wouldn't pay taxes to support the military at all, if I could. What I mean is that I would deduct the 99% of the Defense funding's percentage in the Federal budget from my tax liabilities and conscientiously object.
However, paying taxes in full is enforced by that very regime, because I would have to conscientiously object to all Federal income taxes on Constitutional and sovereign grounds, if it wasn't for threat of imprisonment and/or asset seizure.
What's the bloody alternative? The Desktop???
I don't see why someone can't be a _serious_ GPL advocate and a pirater at the same time..
After all, they believe all digital content should be freely accessible, so to them, it's morally the same.
To me, it looks like you (VON-MAN), anonymous, and a few others are engaging in an trollfest against TinyLittleMend.
I don't see why someone can't be a GPL advocate and a pirater at the same time?
After all, they believe all digital content should be freely accessible, so to them, it's morally the same.
Between all the ad hominems and non sequitars in this article's comments, I'm shocked at the lack of logical thinking the FSF proponents are using!
Non sequitar much?
Why don't you pop a Xanax and calm the fuck down?
Hidden and compulsory EULAs are how The System works to keep us enslaved, man.
Just check out these two documents for all the proof you'll ever need:
George Mercer - Invisible Contracts [lays out (and proves) how stuff like opening a bank account, and/oror getting a drivers license, has you signing interlocking contracts that compels you to pay Federal Income tax]
http://www.constitution.org/mercier/incon.htm
They Own It All, Including You: By Means of Toxic Currency
How just using Federal Reserve Notes (aka USDs) or Euros is akin to agreeing to very intense EULAs on what you can do with anything you purchase (and how everythign really belongs to the state, anyway, via hypothecation).
http://www.wisdomproject.cc/url/H
I'm sure the argument that you just happened to luck out is not a strong one.
All it takes is ONE hostile fork to TOTALLY ruin your day when the GPL is used. Just check this out:
http://www.xmule.ws/phpnuke/modules5125.html