Seriously. The only Windows computer I ever owned was a Netbook, and I used the Windows partition exclusively to create Linux bootable USB sticks. I never even opened a program other than Explorer to download Firefox, then Firefox to download UNetbootin, then UNetbootin maybe ten times. It made me feel dirty even doing that.
Maybe someday there will be a non-Unix OS that isn't shit, but I am not holding my breath.
Yeah my company just replaced my 8GB MacBook Pro with a 16GM version. I do Java dev work and the 8GB limit was okay for writing code and building, but when running tests (actually running the actual software, plus all the test framework and whatnot) I'd started getting out-of-memory exceptions.
And my home desktop machine I just upped to the max of 16GB, too. That's plenty because it's Ubuntu, but I still had second thoughts about my selection of a motherboard that supports a max of 16GB RAM. Next time I'll go WAY higher.
"Sagehorn filed the lawsuit seeking damages and an expungement of the disciplinary actions."
Expungement? No way! You publicly accused a school employee of a felony! Of course you have to leave school and you should tuck in your tail and be glad if you don't see the inside of a courtroom yourself.
I don't understand how the link supports what you say in your post. Whats absurd about saying that the new widespread availability of technology which can conclusively demonstrate tall tales, paired with the lack of such demonstrations, strongly implies that the tall tales were bullshit all along? That's the same reason we decided that Planet X doesn't exist, among countless other examples.
If you have health insurance you get a $600 tax break. If you don't, you pay a $600 tax.
Similarly, if you adopt a child, you pay lower taxes than if you don't. Has anyone ever said that people are "being forced to adopt (buy) children"? No, and if they did, that would be preposterous and they would be laughed out of the country.
No, but people who claim to have the cure for AIDS are asshats. If there were anything close to a cure for AIDS when we'd know because we would have been slowly closing in on it over 20 years, there would be hundreds of peer-reviewed papers, several trials, a few case studies, and front-page headlines for years and years. Not some asshat on a backwater website making stupid claims that are plainly pulled out of his butt.
Hi. What we would gain is 100% satisfaction of the complaint about "illegal immigration". I'm not actually personally in favor of open borders, I prefer a suite of reform measures but not exactly open borders. But I object strongly to the "illegal" rhetoric, which I think is essentially xenophobic, so I use the open-border concept as a way to neuter that rhetoric and force people to actually say what they actually mean.
And what do people actually mean? It's really diverse! A lot of those folks fall back to xenophobia, so that's not a surprise. Still others are just dumbfounded and speechless, which I find amusing. And others have more mature and subtle suggestions -- such as you! You said "Personally, I think we should go back to the model of allowing massive legal immigration of the best and brightest" and that is a reasonable, thoughtful suggestion!
I disagree. Practically nobody knows exactly what American immigration laws are, certainly not the vast majority of people carping about 'illegal immigration'. They say "I just want people to follow the law" and I claim that is a meaningless phrase because those people have no idea what the law even is. Given that, it is reasonable to say that we can address the illegality through legalization.
On the other hand, most people have an approximately accurate understanding of what kind of homicide counts and murder, and what doesn't. Thus to say "I am against illegal homicide (murder)" is basically meaningful.
Congratulations on successful drug use. I prefer softer stuff but my wife has taken opium for her gut so I am aware that that class of drugs has those effects. My favorite elicit self medication is to smoke weed to combat a runny nose. "Dry mouth" also implies "dry nose" most of the time.
To the extent that you want to do less drugs, I wish you success.
Thank you for responding. Why don't we reduce the burden on your wife and completely end illegal immigration -- both things that you state you don't like -- by opening borders?
Open borders means zero illegal immigration which completely satisfies your rhetoric. Only if you are lying, or haven't really considered what you are saying, would you have a problem with open borders.
"You could also use your argument for murder. If we made murder legal, then we wouldn't have a murder problem anymore."
Yes, exactly. And if you are only against illegal murder* then that would make sense. Only if you are against all murder would you want it to be illegal.
* Note that the definition of murder stipulates that it is illegal, so bend the definition to make this sensible.
"If GP says he doesn't like illegal immigration, then he doesn't like illegal immigration. He may not care at all about legal immigration."
If you (and he) don't mind legal immigration, then I suppose you won't mind if we just have open borders. Let me know if suddenly you have a problem with legal immigration and we can talk about it.
Yeah, seriously, that guy had the cure for AIDS and couldn't find the money to put it through trials. Sure he did. As if there hasn't been history's greatest medical effort to find such a drug.
I totally understand and accept the criticism about delayed drug approval but anyone who uses that to dismiss approval altogether is an asshat.
That's an interesting take on the story, I like it, very informative thank you. I never thought of it as a parable about equal wages -- quite the opposite, the men are paid unequally. I always thought of it in the simplest way, as a story about taking a fair payment for work you agreed to do, and not carping about others getting a different deal. But I can see the allegory for salvation too, even though that interpretation wouldn't have much meaning in my personal life.
"No. They would have noticed they had flipper babies, and then their doctors would have noticed that all their flipper baby patient's mothers had taken thalidomide."
Mmm hmm. And instead of that, we live in a country without flipper babies at all.
And we all get to vote on what kind of policy we prefer, the one where flipper babies have a tiny chance of eventually getting a small payout after enormous legal effort, or one with healthy people with normal arms and legs.
That's a political question. You can vote for flipper babies if you want. Maybe you can take some thalidomide when you're pregnant.
Neither does my browser, but it does support the 'ironic' tag. I like to use double 'ironic' tags just so people can't tell if I'm emphasizing irony or doing ironic irony.
"Just save yourself the trouble and read a summary."
I'm fairly sure I knew the summary before I even picked up the tome: "some lady thinks that success is entirely a measure of purely individual effort, qualifying her as a loon".
(The loony parts are the 'entirely' and 'purely' and 'individual'.)
No I never tried the Fountainhead. I'm not inclined to her politics so I imagine I wouldn't enjoy the effort. Thanks for the tip though, there's a small chance I'll take your advice.
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Mars One isn't a hoax, it's a lie. The guy is doing it for money and fame, not for giggles.
Personally I use more RAM at home (playing Cities: Skyscapes) than at work (compiling Java in Eclipse). But both machines have 16GB anyway.
Not a lot, but at least one of these and case of these is a good start.
Seriously. The only Windows computer I ever owned was a Netbook, and I used the Windows partition exclusively to create Linux bootable USB sticks. I never even opened a program other than Explorer to download Firefox, then Firefox to download UNetbootin, then UNetbootin maybe ten times. It made me feel dirty even doing that.
Maybe someday there will be a non-Unix OS that isn't shit, but I am not holding my breath.
Yeah my company just replaced my 8GB MacBook Pro with a 16GM version. I do Java dev work and the 8GB limit was okay for writing code and building, but when running tests (actually running the actual software, plus all the test framework and whatnot) I'd started getting out-of-memory exceptions.
And my home desktop machine I just upped to the max of 16GB, too. That's plenty because it's Ubuntu, but I still had second thoughts about my selection of a motherboard that supports a max of 16GB RAM. Next time I'll go WAY higher.
No thanks. I don't believe you about the cavities or the HIV.
"Sagehorn filed the lawsuit seeking damages and an expungement of the disciplinary actions."
Expungement? No way! You publicly accused a school employee of a felony! Of course you have to leave school and you should tuck in your tail and be glad if you don't see the inside of a courtroom yourself.
I don't understand how the link supports what you say in your post. Whats absurd about saying that the new widespread availability of technology which can conclusively demonstrate tall tales, paired with the lack of such demonstrations, strongly implies that the tall tales were bullshit all along? That's the same reason we decided that Planet X doesn't exist, among countless other examples.
Who's forcing anyone to buy anything?
If you have health insurance you get a $600 tax break. If you don't, you pay a $600 tax.
Similarly, if you adopt a child, you pay lower taxes than if you don't. Has anyone ever said that people are "being forced to adopt (buy) children"? No, and if they did, that would be preposterous and they would be laughed out of the country.
No, but people who claim to have the cure for AIDS are asshats. If there were anything close to a cure for AIDS when we'd know because we would have been slowly closing in on it over 20 years, there would be hundreds of peer-reviewed papers, several trials, a few case studies, and front-page headlines for years and years. Not some asshat on a backwater website making stupid claims that are plainly pulled out of his butt.
"What do we gain by completely open borders? "
Hi. What we would gain is 100% satisfaction of the complaint about "illegal immigration". I'm not actually personally in favor of open borders, I prefer a suite of reform measures but not exactly open borders. But I object strongly to the "illegal" rhetoric, which I think is essentially xenophobic, so I use the open-border concept as a way to neuter that rhetoric and force people to actually say what they actually mean.
And what do people actually mean? It's really diverse! A lot of those folks fall back to xenophobia, so that's not a surprise. Still others are just dumbfounded and speechless, which I find amusing. And others have more mature and subtle suggestions -- such as you! You said "Personally, I think we should go back to the model of allowing massive legal immigration of the best and brightest" and that is a reasonable, thoughtful suggestion!
I disagree. Practically nobody knows exactly what American immigration laws are, certainly not the vast majority of people carping about 'illegal immigration'. They say "I just want people to follow the law" and I claim that is a meaningless phrase because those people have no idea what the law even is. Given that, it is reasonable to say that we can address the illegality through legalization.
On the other hand, most people have an approximately accurate understanding of what kind of homicide counts and murder, and what doesn't. Thus to say "I am against illegal homicide (murder)" is basically meaningful.
Congratulations on successful drug use. I prefer softer stuff but my wife has taken opium for her gut so I am aware that that class of drugs has those effects. My favorite elicit self medication is to smoke weed to combat a runny nose. "Dry mouth" also implies "dry nose" most of the time.
To the extent that you want to do less drugs, I wish you success.
Thank you for responding. Why don't we reduce the burden on your wife and completely end illegal immigration -- both things that you state you don't like -- by opening borders?
Open borders means zero illegal immigration which completely satisfies your rhetoric. Only if you are lying, or haven't really considered what you are saying, would you have a problem with open borders.
"You could also use your argument for murder. If we made murder legal, then we wouldn't have a murder problem anymore."
Yes, exactly. And if you are only against illegal murder* then that would make sense. Only if you are against all murder would you want it to be illegal.
* Note that the definition of murder stipulates that it is illegal, so bend the definition to make this sensible.
"If GP says he doesn't like illegal immigration, then he doesn't like illegal immigration. He may not care at all about legal immigration."
If you (and he) don't mind legal immigration, then I suppose you won't mind if we just have open borders. Let me know if suddenly you have a problem with legal immigration and we can talk about it.
Yeah, seriously, that guy had the cure for AIDS and couldn't find the money to put it through trials. Sure he did. As if there hasn't been history's greatest medical effort to find such a drug.
I totally understand and accept the criticism about delayed drug approval but anyone who uses that to dismiss approval altogether is an asshat.
That's an interesting take on the story, I like it, very informative thank you. I never thought of it as a parable about equal wages -- quite the opposite, the men are paid unequally. I always thought of it in the simplest way, as a story about taking a fair payment for work you agreed to do, and not carping about others getting a different deal. But I can see the allegory for salvation too, even though that interpretation wouldn't have much meaning in my personal life.
"Remember, if big powerful corporations are evil just because they are big and powerful"
Cough cough coustrawmangh coubullshitgh. Oh, sorry, I had a bad argument stuck in my craw.
Yeah but to be fair when I shoot up with heroin I stop worrying about my cough. That's science, dude.
"No. They would have noticed they had flipper babies, and then their doctors would have noticed that all their flipper baby patient's mothers had taken thalidomide."
Mmm hmm. And instead of that, we live in a country without flipper babies at all.
And we all get to vote on what kind of policy we prefer, the one where flipper babies have a tiny chance of eventually getting a small payout after enormous legal effort, or one with healthy people with normal arms and legs.
That's a political question. You can vote for flipper babies if you want. Maybe you can take some thalidomide when you're pregnant.
Neither does my browser, but it does support the 'ironic' tag. I like to use double 'ironic' tags just so people can't tell if I'm emphasizing irony or doing ironic irony.
If illegal immigration is really what you're worried about then you can 100% fix it by having open borders.
If you don't support open borders, then illegal immigration must not be what you are worried about. It must be immigration.
That's fine and dandy, but don't hide your xenophobia behind the law.
"Just save yourself the trouble and read a summary."
I'm fairly sure I knew the summary before I even picked up the tome: "some lady thinks that success is entirely a measure of purely individual effort, qualifying her as a loon".
(The loony parts are the 'entirely' and 'purely' and 'individual'.)
WTF I got a +5 for that? Slashdot is crazy.
But, it's true, I did think the first 100 pages of that book sucked.
No I never tried the Fountainhead. I'm not inclined to her politics so I imagine I wouldn't enjoy the effort. Thanks for the tip though, there's a small chance I'll take your advice.