>> The tax burden of the average American is THREE TIMES the tax burden that served as one of the triggers for the American Revolutionary War. If George Washington were alive today he'd be burning D.C. to the ground. So I agree, taxes are outrageous.
Anyways, speaking of hospitals, as we have... I often hear, or see on tv, how some of America's hospitals turn away people who need help... is this true?
I'm a bit biased on this one, if it wasn't for what's left of Canada's once decent health care system... I'd probably be dead. And if ours hadn't deteriorated over the decades as it has, I wouldn't have gotten nearly as bad as I did (Couldn't get an MRI for 3 months). Anyways, while I had good savings and everything... my bosses were too cheap to pay my medical, so when I got sick, I blew through everything I had saved, all my EI (UI for you) which I had been paying into for years (thanx... for like 10 years worth of paying into it... I got like 6 months worth of pay... and because I claimed medical reasons, they made it much harder then if I'd just been laid off/quit.) I'm not whining here, I'm on my way to recovery, after a year of hell.
Times have changed... and our countries with it... Hell people kill each other for almost anything these days, I believe if we didn't support the lowest common demoniator, anarchy might just happen. Maybe worse... maybe it'll start going that way, and then the government could crack down harder on the people, with much worse things then the patriot act.
Tried Audacity, while it has it's promises, I prefer wavelab to all the rest of those type of programs (at least as far as I use it). Ardour I will look into, but from what I've seen... they have nothing like reason/rebirth/fruity loops. Except for "Reborn", which was quickly stopped due to copyright issues. (I do have Reborn, I just can't get it to work in any of the newer distributions I have tried)
So basically what you're saying is... I'm right and you're wrong:P''
I mean you may not agree on all my points (and it's like 2:20am here so I'm not going to try to get you to), but you admit there that the taxes are needed.
I'm not trying to be your enemy here Max, I agree there are some things that need sweeping reform, and damn if it doesn't piss me off how much I'm taxed (I'm canadian... our 50% tax bracket starts at like 48,000. Add on to that 14.5% sales tax/goods and services tax. I don't even want to start on alcohol or gasoline).
What's even shittier is for a lot of things we have to cater to the lowest common denominator. For instance, social assistance. Do whole bunch of people who cannot support themselves (or won't, but laziness isn't always the case) running around? Hell we'd probably spend 4x the ammount on more police.
Anyways, I promised I wouldn't do this, as I agree with you on a lot of what you said.
These people might as well be writing about what boy they think likes them in their My Little Pony diary.
Why did we need to replace the word "journal" anyways?... I can't even be bothered to look up how the word blog came to be.. hell I would have preferred dotplan.
It's like reality shows for me... didn't like them when they came first appeared, but just watched something else... but now that half the content is in that format, I want to kill the fucker who came up with the idea.
Requires flash (yuck), and you have to navigate to either "watch video" or "download video", but it's some of the coolest looking traditional animation I have seen.
So... it's ok for you to make an assumption about him, and where he works based on a simple comment, but it's not ok for him to say anything based on his experiences?
I think it might just be if you try to repair system files off a system folder, or anything else in use where it needs a reboot... but I could be wrong... be a long time since I did a repair. (also, unsure about surface scanning).
Come to think of it... maybe I remember having to reboot doing one... I don't know..
Yes, I agree with you., saving a universal system state is a great idea. There's tonnes of things Windows doesn't need to do after booting... in Linux you could change your init scripts to reflect the current state, but in windows, we're S.O.L.
For now, however, hibernation works for me, I got the power button to do hibernate, so it's almost as good... with the added benefit of my usual apps are loaded in the state they were in upon boot.
If you'll put some thought into what you're typing you'd realize that no matter what you think of them (or I, bloody hate the government) they are a necessary evil.
We need police, hospitals, laws, courts, social assistance (no matter how it's abused), employment Insurance, old age benefits (more then just pension), schools, roads, etc etc etc.
These services help you, whether you care to admit it or not.
Well if you didn't put up your "I disagree so I won't think about it" walls, you'd see he was using "hunt" to symbolize the pursuit of a paycheque to pay the bills, and "gather" as in take core of the home.
Now while these positions don't hold true these days in the literal sense, they did for thousands of years. Do you not think this could possibly change the way we think and behave? I bet you think male and female emotions are the same too, huh? This may change with time, but whether it offends you or not, people are different... and gender plays a big role in this.
Just because we are different in no means makes one better or worse, but to think we are the same is pure folly.
The original poster too also did not mean anything in a condescending way, but I see some of the responses took it that way.
I saw in another response something about "when has it ever been wrong to express views in american society"
Well for one, I guess it needs to be said again, we're not all americans here. Gee, you must be very egotistical to say such a thing
For two, it is wrong... you're ostracized for believing what is unpopular... racism, sexism, strong christian beliefs, and the republican/democratic bullshit that goes on. I'm not saying these views are right, I'm simply saying they can have some major consequences if you express them. Be they mental, physical, financial, whatever.
I don't think anywhere really has a true "free speach" society. Possibly humanity won't allow it.
Windows doesn't need to reboot to check/repair disks.
Linux doesn't need to reboot to add/remove software/drivers.
Now I know you have to umount disks to fsck them in linux, but if you chrooted maybe there's a way to do that without rebooting... I dunno, I've actually never tried that....what's wrong with just using hibernation? Desktop PCs can used it as well as laptops (look in start -> settings -> control panel -> power options -> hibernation).
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Whatever you do, don't bother telling us non-FF users what greasemonkey does!
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It's discrimination I tell you... you've been after us Opera users from the start!
>> I thought he killed himself after Daikatana?
That project is currently behind schedule. Please check back later.
One of your statements gets at a good point..
>> The tax burden of the average American is THREE TIMES the tax burden that served as one of the triggers for the American Revolutionary War. If George Washington were alive today he'd be burning D.C. to the ground. So I agree, taxes are outrageous.
Anyways, speaking of hospitals, as we have... I often hear, or see on tv, how some of America's hospitals turn away people who need help... is this true?
I'm a bit biased on this one, if it wasn't for what's left of Canada's once decent health care system... I'd probably be dead. And if ours hadn't deteriorated over the decades as it has, I wouldn't have gotten nearly as bad as I did (Couldn't get an MRI for 3 months). Anyways, while I had good savings and everything... my bosses were too cheap to pay my medical, so when I got sick, I blew through everything I had saved, all my EI (UI for you) which I had been paying into for years (thanx... for like 10 years worth of paying into it... I got like 6 months worth of pay... and because I claimed medical reasons, they made it much harder then if I'd just been laid off/quit.) I'm not whining here, I'm on my way to recovery, after a year of hell.
Times have changed... and our countries with it... Hell people kill each other for almost anything these days, I believe if we didn't support the lowest common demoniator, anarchy might just happen. Maybe worse... maybe it'll start going that way, and then the government could crack down harder on the people, with much worse things then the patriot act.
You a practioner of Asatru?
Tried Audacity, while it has it's promises, I prefer wavelab to all the rest of those type of programs (at least as far as I use it). Ardour I will look into, but from what I've seen... they have nothing like reason/rebirth/fruity loops. Except for "Reborn", which was quickly stopped due to copyright issues. (I do have Reborn, I just can't get it to work in any of the newer distributions I have tried)
So basically what you're saying is... I'm right and you're wrong :P''
I mean you may not agree on all my points (and it's like 2:20am here so I'm not going to try to get you to), but you admit there that the taxes are needed.
I'm not trying to be your enemy here Max, I agree there are some things that need sweeping reform, and damn if it doesn't piss me off how much I'm taxed (I'm canadian... our 50% tax bracket starts at like 48,000. Add on to that 14.5% sales tax/goods and services tax. I don't even want to start on alcohol or gasoline).
What's even shittier is for a lot of things we have to cater to the lowest common denominator. For instance, social assistance. Do whole bunch of people who cannot support themselves (or won't, but laziness isn't always the case) running around? Hell we'd probably spend 4x the ammount on more police.
Anyways, I promised I wouldn't do this, as I agree with you on a lot of what you said.
These people might as well be writing about what boy they think likes them in their My Little Pony diary.
Why did we need to replace the word "journal" anyways?... I can't even be bothered to look up how the word blog came to be.. hell I would have preferred dotplan.
It's like reality shows for me... didn't like them when they came first appeared, but just watched something else... but now that half the content is in that format, I want to kill the fucker who came up with the idea.
offtopic here, and maybe every knows about it but..
have you seen this video? http://www.jcbsong.co.uk/
Requires flash (yuck), and you have to navigate to either "watch video" or "download video", but it's some of the coolest looking traditional animation I have seen.
Cute little tune too.
So... it's ok for you to make an assumption about him, and where he works based on a simple comment, but it's not ok for him to say anything based on his experiences?
How is that world you're living in, anyways?
I think it might just be if you try to repair system files off a system folder, or anything else in use where it needs a reboot... but I could be wrong... be a long time since I did a repair. (also, unsure about surface scanning).
Come to think of it... maybe I remember having to reboot doing one... I don't know..
Yes, I agree with you., saving a universal system state is a great idea. There's tonnes of things Windows doesn't need to do after booting... in Linux you could change your init scripts to reflect the current state, but in windows, we're S.O.L.
For now, however, hibernation works for me, I got the power button to do hibernate, so it's almost as good... with the added benefit of my usual apps are loaded in the state they were in upon boot.
If you'll put some thought into what you're typing you'd realize that no matter what you think of them (or I, bloody hate the government) they are a necessary evil.
We need police, hospitals, laws, courts, social assistance (no matter how it's abused), employment Insurance, old age benefits (more then just pension), schools, roads, etc etc etc.
These services help you, whether you care to admit it or not.
Go circle an "A" on your jacket.
Can I smell your hair too?
Can I smell your hair?
I'm uhh.. not exactly sure where you were going there... but kudos for making me giggle anyways :)
oh yeah, and please guys, don't forget to freak out on me for my typo of care (core).
Well if you didn't put up your "I disagree so I won't think about it" walls, you'd see he was using "hunt" to symbolize the pursuit of a paycheque to pay the bills, and "gather" as in take core of the home.
Now while these positions don't hold true these days in the literal sense, they did for thousands of years. Do you not think this could possibly change the way we think and behave? I bet you think male and female emotions are the same too, huh? This may change with time, but whether it offends you or not, people are different... and gender plays a big role in this.
Just because we are different in no means makes one better or worse, but to think we are the same is pure folly.
The original poster too also did not mean anything in a condescending way, but I see some of the responses took it that way.
I saw in another response something about "when has it ever been wrong to express views in american society"
Well for one, I guess it needs to be said again, we're not all americans here. Gee, you must be very egotistical to say such a thing
For two, it is wrong... you're ostracized for believing what is unpopular... racism, sexism, strong christian beliefs, and the republican/democratic bullshit that goes on. I'm not saying these views are right, I'm simply saying they can have some major consequences if you express them. Be they mental, physical, financial, whatever.
I don't think anywhere really has a true "free speach" society. Possibly humanity won't allow it.
>> I've used my eyetv to record a good many commercials ...
For some reason I thought that said eyetoy..
was trying to figure out wtf?
>> I'd think men want anything that has sex in them,,,
I resent that.
I want violence too.
now I'm letting people die? I thought I was just watching.
so by your definition then... I should let more people die?
and I'm pretty broke these days, since I've had a year long illness that just about killed me, thanks for asking!
What's a bottle opener?
It would be called AOL Google.
aye, BeOS was and still IS a great operating system, kept alive by the Haiku Project, Zeta, and a bunch of other developers.
However... I no longer run it because the apps aren't there (don't get me started on games).
I support you buddy!
now let's kick back with a beer and watch some poor people die.
Ok... lemme see...
...what's wrong with just using hibernation? Desktop PCs can used it as well as laptops (look in start -> settings -> control panel -> power options -> hibernation).
Windows doesn't need to reboot to check/repair disks.
Linux doesn't need to reboot to add/remove software/drivers.
Now I know you have to umount disks to fsck them in linux, but if you chrooted maybe there's a way to do that without rebooting... I dunno, I've actually never tried that.
hey do you know if crossover office support things like Reason, Rebirth, Sound Forge, Wavelab, Fruity Loops, etc etc?
basically... does it have good (and fast/low latent) sound support?
I looked into it awhile ago and it seemed like it wasn't there.
Ah, the "I'll read into it what I want" myth.