You do what you can in your context and circumstances.
There are people for which waking up every morning and managing to lead an almost normal life is an achievment that easily overshadows anything Lucas has ever done, but that naturally is not highligted since achieving this does not touch as many people as a film maker.
So stop the patronizing, we may be doing more things that you are obviously denying people credit for.
In rich countries people normally don't starve to death, don't die of preventable diseases, live longer than in most other places and only have bad old years because they are too lazy to go out and do some exercise, stop smoking and eat sensibly.
Unless you are posting from Sudan or a jail cell in China I just think you have no idea what a human standard of living really is.
People in rich countries, even poor people in relative terms, are well fed (heck obesity is frequently associated with poverty in rich countries) and adequatelly clothed, so frankly cut the bullshit man.
If you have the skills and are willing to cut in your expenses (most family don't need two cars, and they could get rid of the SUV, save energy bi better insulation, stopping eating so much rubish which is more expensive) you will have a job.
And if you don't then do something else. Life has always been like that, I don't understand why some people in/. talk like old USSR aparatchiks.
You don't need a 10 ton vehicle that travels one mile per gallon to drop your children at the school 200m down the road.
OK, I am exagerating, but certainly there are decisions to be made that would not alter greatly our level of life (get a damned compact car that is efficent).
Each species is so rare that is in practice invaluable.
What you are suggesting is to dilapidate our natural heritage because we are too lousy to organize ourselves to protect it properly and take advantage of it.
What a lame proposition, to dilapidate because we ignore how much we have.
The problem is that politics is radicalizing towards the right after the collapse of the soviet union.
It is frankly rich to call the BBC pro-arab when the only think they do is to show the situation of human despair that is the brutal occupation of Palestine.
Just as a token, the BBC is showing tonight a programm called "Jewish Law" that presents the problems and tribulations that the Jewish community faces in Britain when trying to adhere to their religious beliefs. Educational, touching, informative and unbiased.
It is not the fault of the BBC that Israel is lead by a bunch of murderous paranoids, they have to report the facts as they happen in the ground and surely Israel can't come in any way well out of objective journalism relating their occupation.
THat includes hits like "Walking with dinosaurs", "The Blue Planet", the Athens 2004 Olympics broadcast and webcast, critical journalists that keep politicians in check, a classical music only radio station.
.... and unknown software in your systems may cause unintended consequences.
I have seen it myself, things like top in Linux or some "browsers" (that use IE's engine with nice skins) in Windows can do real damage to s network, because, lets be honest, not all prgogrammers are as good as we would like to believe.
... some around here are pretty dumb when it comes to their suppositions.
I have seen alegedly "innocous" software bring services to their knees (DNS, NIS+ DHCP) by doing stupid things.
It is not up to an employee to decide of his own accord what software is innocous or not, that is the responsibility of the people puting in place IT policies, who restrict employees' freedom to do certain things because it is in the best interests of the company.
The problem is that the people that grew the goverment more than ever were both Republicans: Reagan and GB Jr, the branch of goverment they grew great gusto was the military.
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You do what you can in your context and circumstances.
There are people for which waking up every morning and managing to lead an almost normal life is an achievment that easily overshadows anything Lucas has ever done, but that naturally is not highligted since achieving this does not touch as many people as a film maker.
So stop the patronizing, we may be doing more things that you are obviously denying people credit for.
Years and years of producing films, not movies, and you want him judged for the last one that by all accounts was an honourable failure?
In rich countries people normally don't starve to death, don't die of preventable diseases, live longer than in most other places and only have bad old years because they are too lazy to go out and do some exercise, stop smoking and eat sensibly.
Unless you are posting from Sudan or a jail cell in China I just think you have no idea what a human standard of living really is.
People in rich countries, even poor people in relative terms, are well fed (heck obesity is frequently associated with poverty in rich countries) and adequatelly clothed, so frankly cut the bullshit man.
Honestly, what is so bad about it?
/. talk like old USSR aparatchiks.
If you have the skills and are willing to cut in your expenses (most family don't need two cars, and they could get rid of the SUV, save energy bi better insulation, stopping eating so much rubish which is more expensive) you will have a job.
And if you don't then do something else. Life has always been like that, I don't understand why some people in
Bush is going to steal votes from Kerry.
And Kerry is going to steal votes from Bush.
Oviously Saddam Hussein got it right, since nobody could steal votes from him.
I have only one further comment. Duh.
Get a Windows emulator/VM machine for Linux, buy an old W98 CD from Ebay.
Share your directories using Samba from your Linux machine to your Windows Virtual machine.
Unless the Google thing is too picky it should use the network dirves created like this.
Judging by the length of the comment thread that is only the poster.....
Just insulate properly your house.
You don't need a 10 ton vehicle that travels one mile per gallon to drop your children at the school 200m down the road.
OK, I am exagerating, but certainly there are decisions to be made that would not alter greatly our level of life (get a damned compact car that is efficent).
"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption."
-President Bush, Sept. 23, 2002, Trenton, New Jersey, speech
Cocroaches are vey resilient.
And so are bacteria.
That would be a tep backwards of 1 billion years I think.
No big deal I suppose buddy.
Blah.
You are going to die eventually.
I guess that makes it perfectly ok and moral to get rid of you.
And if that is on my best interst, I should just go ahead and do it. Like with those pesky trees.
Great philosophy that of yours buddy.
And you are going to die eventually, so I guess that means that pushing you into harms way (lets say an stampede of 2000 lemmings) is not immoral.
Each species is so rare that is in practice invaluable.
What you are suggesting is to dilapidate our natural heritage because we are too lousy to organize ourselves to protect it properly and take advantage of it.
What a lame proposition, to dilapidate because we ignore how much we have.
What did you expect when asking such nonsense?
300 different opinions of course.
Well here it goes 301: it makes very little difference what you buy, a bag of any kind is just that: a bag.
.... but that did not change physics and mathematics, so in hitoric terms this is only a curiosity.
The problem is that politics is radicalizing towards the right after the collapse of the soviet union.
It is frankly rich to call the BBC pro-arab when the only think they do is to show the situation of human despair that is the brutal occupation of Palestine.
Just as a token, the BBC is showing tonight a programm called "Jewish Law" that presents the problems and tribulations that the Jewish community faces in Britain when trying to adhere to their religious beliefs. Educational, touching, informative and unbiased.
It is not the fault of the BBC that Israel is lead by a bunch of murderous paranoids, they have to report the facts as they happen in the ground and surely Israel can't come in any way well out of objective journalism relating their occupation.
We get first class TV for £10 a month.
THat includes hits like "Walking with dinosaurs", "The Blue Planet", the Athens 2004 Olympics broadcast and webcast, critical journalists that keep politicians in check, a classical music only radio station.
All this and more for a meagre £10 a month.
No, it does not bother me.
The entity owner of the systems is he employer. Which in this case it happens to be the State that does not change that simple fact.
Thinks that are paid with tax payer's money do not become public property.
.... and unknown software in your systems may cause unintended consequences.
I have seen it myself, things like top in Linux or some "browsers" (that use IE's engine with nice skins) in Windows can do real damage to s network, because, lets be honest, not all prgogrammers are as good as we would like to believe.
... some around here are pretty dumb when it comes to their suppositions.
I have seen alegedly "innocous" software bring services to their knees (DNS, NIS+ DHCP) by doing stupid things.
It is not up to an employee to decide of his own accord what software is innocous or not, that is the responsibility of the people puting in place IT policies, who restrict employees' freedom to do certain things because it is in the best interests of the company.
... expose your firm.
It is akin to leaven the door of the office open when you are the last one to leave the office.
That is a rubisah rethorical question.
Asking employees not to treat their employer's computers as if they were their own is perfectly reasonbale.
.... "if my grandma was a bike ...."
i.e. why waste time in stupid speculation?
Name members of local congresses, or even better, governors, senators or representatives of these or any other parties.
THey are doing thing the wrong way.
A presidential candidacy should be the result of enough grass root support, not the other way around.
The problem is that the people that grew the goverment more than ever were both Republicans: Reagan and GB Jr, the branch of goverment they grew great gusto was the military.