While it was 80 degrees in southern California, it was damn-well freezing in Nothern California
Sounds like you don't know the effects a body of water has on the climate. Seattle, for example, has milder winters than Mid-Western cities on the same latitude. Furthermore, alluding to your Texas comment, I have been in parts of Texas when it was snowing. While clearly Texas is still warmer than North Dakota, it is not as warm as equal latitude parts of Southern California.
Well I know a bunch of people who have left California because of its strict gun laws, and I personally won't consider moving there unless both the gun laws and state/local taxes were moderated
I agree, but, damn, the weather is so nice here. It was 78 degrees here on SuperBowl Sunday! Beats freezing your butt of in the Midwest.
Ok, if you make $200K, you indeed have security and comfort a lot of people don't have
Slight correction: If you make $200K you should have security and comfort. But if you make $200K a year and spend $200K each year, then you have no more security than the guy who makes $33K a year and spends $33K a year. Wealth is not about what you make, it's about the delta between what you make and what you spend.
Make $200k a year and you will make more money per anum than 99% of your fellow Americans. Personally, I consider that rich.
Of course, if you read The Millionaire Next Door you will see that the authors of that book define rich in a "better" way IMHO - they define it as the amount of time one could sustain one's style of living without any income source. So, if the dude who makes $200k a year blows $195 a year on stuff, then he is quite poor, actually.
I actually use Phoenix on my box, but IE runs faster for me, I guess YMMV.
What's nice about the Google toolbar, and I don't know/think Phoenix can do this, is when you view a page you can click those little search term buttons to be automatically taken to the first occurrence, then the next, etc. Use it all time time, much faster than doing Ctrl+F and typing in the word. (Also, the Google toolbar, as you probably know, allows you to highlight the search terms on the page with a click of the Highlight button, and the "Search Site" feature it very nice... can Phoenix do that?)
Therefore, the trick is to go after the perpretrators of the child porn, but since there would be no child porn were there no demand, simply make the demand illegal
I think they do both. Just like with an illegal substance like meth amphetamine - it is both illegal to own it and to produce/sell/distribute it, the latter being a more serious crime than the first.
support the use of calculators for complex operations as long as you know how to do it for smaller operations
I do too, but there are still far too many kids whose teachers let them get away with using calculators all the time. Back in high school I tutored some 4th and 5th graders in math, and they needed the calculator to do simple addition and subtraction! I, of course, made them do without, but there was much bellyaching and many mistakes that we had to work through...
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I am in my early 20s. Back when I was a wee lad we used to play with legos, Lincoln Logs, Constructs, and an erector set (which was oft dubbed an "erection set"). Also, my mom had got us this nifty marble mazz kind of thing, where it had pipes and bends and whatnot, all made of wood, and you could assemble these marbe mazes, dropping a marble at the top and watching its path down the maze.
I only wish they had Lego Mindstorms back when I was a kid.
The handwriting was on the wall when they adopted the subscription model. Most people aren't willing or even able to pay for content
Of course when a site develops a real sense of loyalty and community, simply asking for a donation can yield a healthy sum of money - kuro5hin.org, for example, raised over $37,000 in two days.
While such a model is obviously not going to cover Salon's $11 million annual expense, it is an intriguing idea. Granted, I doubt it would work for Salon, it seems like such a proposition would work only for tightly-knit community oriented sites.
Right, knowing just VB makes you a weaker programmer. I was just trying to say that even for a skilled programmer, VB has a time and place. What is irksome is the totally negative attitude many people express about the language, and I'd wager that the majority of those who follow the herd and say, "VB is an idiot's language," have never even tried VB.
Or how about the bug in your logic, which assumes that a language that is easy to use must be a bad one. VB has a time and a place, as does every language, IMHO.
But you weren't talking about owning luxury items - you were talking about how kids are so damned expensive to rear. Last time I checked a child did not require a plasma screen. The cost of raising children is tied directly to the local cost of living (cost for food, shelter, medical, clothes, etc.). In any case, once you have kids you'll then realize what true wealth is all about (at least that's what I've been told...).
The point is that it works this way for anything. If you get the huge bonus, or a nice new job, whatever. The point is our happiness has some biologically determined set point - the environment can affect this set point in the short term, but in the long term our happiness returns to our predetermined set point. Ever wonder why some people, even the real fortunate ones, always seem miserable, while there are those who have had their share of shit, yet always seem generally happy?
Having grown up in a rich suburb of Chicago and then in rural Missouri, I have seen that the cost of living is all relative. In Chicago my dad was a VP for a big company, my mom taught preschoolers. In Missouri my dad ran a small company (two employees) and my mom teaches 5th grade. While they make about half of what they made in Chicago, our standard of living is about the same, maybe even a bit higher in Missouri.
I also moved from Missouri to SoCal, and live in a beach community. I bought a condo about a year ago, which is about 1/3 of the size of my parent's home in Missouri and cost about 3 times as much.
I guess I am trying to say if you want a low cost of living, move to a different place. You may think that there aren't as many tech-savvy jobs there. However, there are plenty of such jobs in the cities in the Midwest (don't go to Texas or Chicago, too expensive). But places like Memphis, Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield IL, etc. all have tech jobs and low costs of living. Not nearly as exciting as NYC, but definitely more affordable.
I think it is affordable to have kids. I have not started a family yet, but I can't see why it would be cost prohibitive if you grow them up modestly (i.e., if Jimmy wants a new car, he's gotta buy it himself; if Susy wants the designer outfit, she's gotta pay for it herself; etc.).
There's the same happy : unhappy ratio of rich and poor people. Yet I swear, no matter how many times it hasn't happened, if I had a little more cash, life would be a lot better
Shit, dude, it doesn't matter how much you have, you'll always be wanting a little more. Psychological studies have shown that people's happiness levels is relatively set, and while major events may elevate or depress their overall happiness (such as winning the lottery for happiness or death of a loved one for misery), before too long people are back to their previous happiness levels. So, even if you think you'd be damned happy and things would be great if you won the lottery and became a millionaire, that happiness would be relatively short-lived, I'm afraid. Essentially, you'd find other shit to bitch about.
I'm certain millions of other/. readers are having the same reaction I am: I was planning on watching the award show, but now, because of this gaffe, I'll have to find some other form of entertainment tonight. Shucks, and I was so anticipating the suspense of seeing who would win these coveted awards. Maybe next year!
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Sounds like you don't know the effects a body of water has on the climate. Seattle, for example, has milder winters than Mid-Western cities on the same latitude. Furthermore, alluding to your Texas comment, I have been in parts of Texas when it was snowing. While clearly Texas is still warmer than North Dakota, it is not as warm as equal latitude parts of Southern California.
So there.
I agree, but, damn, the weather is so nice here. It was 78 degrees here on SuperBowl Sunday! Beats freezing your butt of in the Midwest.
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Slight correction: If you make $200K you should have security and comfort. But if you make $200K a year and spend $200K each year, then you have no more security than the guy who makes $33K a year and spends $33K a year. Wealth is not about what you make, it's about the delta between what you make and what you spend.
Of course, if you read The Millionaire Next Door you will see that the authors of that book define rich in a "better" way IMHO - they define it as the amount of time one could sustain one's style of living without any income source. So, if the dude who makes $200k a year blows $195 a year on stuff, then he is quite poor, actually.
Or do those guys in the GameSpot video have issues with making eye contact? I think they all stared at the surface of the table when talking.
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What's nice about the Google toolbar, and I don't know/think Phoenix can do this, is when you view a page you can click those little search term buttons to be automatically taken to the first occurrence, then the next, etc. Use it all time time, much faster than doing Ctrl+F and typing in the word. (Also, the Google toolbar, as you probably know, allows you to highlight the search terms on the page with a click of the Highlight button, and the "Search Site" feature it very nice... can Phoenix do that?)
there's no way I'll stop using IE until there exists the equivalent of the Google toolbar for Mozilla. I don't know if I could function without it.
I think they do both. Just like with an illegal substance like meth amphetamine - it is both illegal to own it and to produce/sell/distribute it, the latter being a more serious crime than the first.
I do too, but there are still far too many kids whose teachers let them get away with using calculators all the time. Back in high school I tutored some 4th and 5th graders in math, and they needed the calculator to do simple addition and subtraction! I, of course, made them do without, but there was much bellyaching and many mistakes that we had to work through...
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I only wish they had Lego Mindstorms back when I was a kid.
Care to share some of these bad habits that VB teaches developers?
Of course when a site develops a real sense of loyalty and community, simply asking for a donation can yield a healthy sum of money - kuro5hin.org, for example, raised over $37,000 in two days.
While such a model is obviously not going to cover Salon's $11 million annual expense, it is an intriguing idea. Granted, I doubt it would work for Salon, it seems like such a proposition would work only for tightly-knit community oriented sites.
Right, knowing just VB makes you a weaker programmer. I was just trying to say that even for a skilled programmer, VB has a time and place. What is irksome is the totally negative attitude many people express about the language, and I'd wager that the majority of those who follow the herd and say, "VB is an idiot's language," have never even tried VB.
Or how about the bug in your logic, which assumes that a language that is easy to use must be a bad one. VB has a time and a place, as does every language, IMHO.
Where can I see what one of these robots looks like? I went to the Magna Center Web site, but could not find any pics.
But you weren't talking about owning luxury items - you were talking about how kids are so damned expensive to rear. Last time I checked a child did not require a plasma screen. The cost of raising children is tied directly to the local cost of living (cost for food, shelter, medical, clothes, etc.). In any case, once you have kids you'll then realize what true wealth is all about (at least that's what I've been told...).
The point is that it works this way for anything. If you get the huge bonus, or a nice new job, whatever. The point is our happiness has some biologically determined set point - the environment can affect this set point in the short term, but in the long term our happiness returns to our predetermined set point. Ever wonder why some people, even the real fortunate ones, always seem miserable, while there are those who have had their share of shit, yet always seem generally happy?
Having grown up in a rich suburb of Chicago and then in rural Missouri, I have seen that the cost of living is all relative. In Chicago my dad was a VP for a big company, my mom taught preschoolers. In Missouri my dad ran a small company (two employees) and my mom teaches 5th grade. While they make about half of what they made in Chicago, our standard of living is about the same, maybe even a bit higher in Missouri.
I also moved from Missouri to SoCal, and live in a beach community. I bought a condo about a year ago, which is about 1/3 of the size of my parent's home in Missouri and cost about 3 times as much.
I guess I am trying to say if you want a low cost of living, move to a different place. You may think that there aren't as many tech-savvy jobs there. However, there are plenty of such jobs in the cities in the Midwest (don't go to Texas or Chicago, too expensive). But places like Memphis, Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield IL, etc. all have tech jobs and low costs of living. Not nearly as exciting as NYC, but definitely more affordable.
I think it is affordable to have kids. I have not started a family yet, but I can't see why it would be cost prohibitive if you grow them up modestly (i.e., if Jimmy wants a new car, he's gotta buy it himself; if Susy wants the designer outfit, she's gotta pay for it herself; etc.).
Shit, dude, it doesn't matter how much you have, you'll always be wanting a little more. Psychological studies have shown that people's happiness levels is relatively set, and while major events may elevate or depress their overall happiness (such as winning the lottery for happiness or death of a loved one for misery), before too long people are back to their previous happiness levels. So, even if you think you'd be damned happy and things would be great if you won the lottery and became a millionaire, that happiness would be relatively short-lived, I'm afraid. Essentially, you'd find other shit to bitch about.
At least you don't feel apprehension of your suspense over your anticipation. That would be almost unbearable.
I'm certain millions of other /. readers are having the same reaction I am: I was planning on watching the award show, but now, because of this gaffe, I'll have to find some other form of entertainment tonight. Shucks, and I was so anticipating the suspense of seeing who would win these coveted awards. Maybe next year!