Yes, it's definitely innate ability. I am the type of person like you describe, who can automatically visualize and orient stuff. I can read sentences, numbers, etc at any angle, upside down, sideways, etc almost as easily as right side up. I can look at a line, a picture hanging on the wall say, and instantly tell if it's crooked. I can pretty much visualize any object, or machine in my mind and visualize it functioning and working, rotating to different angles, etc just like it was sitting in front of me. I am really good at finding my way in the outdoors and rarely ever get lost.
On the other hand....I had a friend who was always getting left and right confused. When working on cars it was especially problematic because half the time he'd accidently tighten instead of loosen, etc. Trying to give him directions to find some place or drive somewhere was worthless, even in a town he lived in his whole life; you had to show him where to go, and he'd get lost in the dumbest ways. When riding in the car don't say left or right.....you have to point, to avoid confusion.
So yeah....there is a ton of differences in innate ability here.
No, this is where you are wrong. I don't owe you shit. Tax me? Fuck you, I'll contact the manufacturer directly and get a "cash only" price.
For Christ's God damned sake, we teach our kids in school about our ancestors revolting and killing mother fuckers over taxation. Why don't people listen, learn, and apply those facts to the situation at hand to understand why this is so infuriating, wrong, and not to be accepted by a (struggling) economy which has grown accustomed to NOT paying sales tax across the Internet?
Un fucking believeable that the government, let alone "free thinking" individuals, would be so stupid as to think this is a good idea.
Should property taxes be modified so that people that maintain their houses pay less while those that don't pay more? It's hard to say
No, it's easy to say: absolutely not, because this becomes just another tool of oppression. Who defines "maintain"? It's none of your goddamn business whether I maintain my property or not...so long as it's mine.
Now, if I fail to pay basic tribute to the community in the form of property taxes, then sure, take it away and sell it to someone who will put it to good use.
any person or group stronger than you would take it or destroy it
So instead of risking a hostile group somehow arising up and challenging me and all my neighbors, we just hand known tyrants the keys to the kingdom in the form of a badge and a gun. Nice tradeoff.
I feel exactly the opposite. Property taxes are one of the few morally justifiable taxes, because there is only so much property. Why should somebody be able to just buy up a property in the middle of a populated area and sit on it for 50 years, without at least contributing some basic amount of tribute to the people who live and work in that area in the form of taxes?
Whereas why the hell should my basic right to travel be abridged, in the form of the government withholding my driver's license for no good reason? What oversight is there over the licensing, ticketing, and incarceration systems which ensures that the laws and punishments are fair and just? Don't tell me voters--they're misled and misinformed, which you are a prime example of.
Uh - a substantial fraction of Linux distros out there are derived from Slackware
Any of them that I (or anyone else) has heard of?
Slackware simply doesn't provide the basic features most distros call for these days, such as a package management paradigm. No, the "old UNIX way of doing things" isn't sufficient in today's world for widespread deployment across multiple systems and configurations.
Simply put, slackware fills a niche, which seems to be shrinking ever-smaller as the years pass.
It was great as an introduction to UNIX back in the Windows 98 days when I first tried it. Its floppy-disk sized images were helpful for a person like who me still had dialup. The experience I gained installing it and playing around was valuable, and it led me on to purchase a RedHat starter kit in the mall gaming store.
So yeah, Slackware has value as a basic bare-bones UNIX intro system.....but this is 2012....who needs that these days? Why install that with great pain and anguish when you can just install a complete, modern operating system with pretty desktop and everything, then get at the UNIX stuff little by little as needed or preferred?
There's a world of difference between working and practical.
Is there? The Farnsworth fusor (a type of fusion device based on inertial electrostatic confinement) is working, and nowhere near "break even", so therefore useless as a power source. Yet it is a quite practical source of neutrons, for various purposes.
Why do you apply rational thinking towards the actions of people you like (Ron Paul) and not those you hate (Barack Obama)? Can you even really call it rational thinking, if you selectively apply it like that?
I don't know. Since you're the expert on hypocrisy, why don't you tell us if the message should be judged by the man, or by its own merit?
Wow, the media assholes are trolling slashdot too? Do us all a favor--sign in and drop the pretentious non-sequiturs. Ron Paul IS winning.....and those in the know are laughing, because we know days are numbered for rats like you:)
He's winning the majority of delegates in many, many states right now.:]
Also......when "Romney's" delegates are unbound after the first round fails to give him a majority vote.....he will quickly find that many of those delegates were never "his" to begin with, and are in fact Paul supporters in disguise.
It's going to be a bloodbath in Tampa....words can't describe the level of lulz being about to be reaped by those "in the know" and watching this circus....
And don't give me that crap about "look it up yourself". You wouldn't tell your college professor to just "look it up yourself" if they started questioning where you came up with some outlandish claims in a research paper.
If I had spent hours upon hours and hours studying the matter, and having personal experience in the matter, and thus coming to an "outlandish" conclusion....and a professor choose to ignore my findings and argue til he's blue in the face out of his own inability to understand.....then yes, I would probably just shrug my shoulders, turn around, and walk off.
There comes a point in every human being's life when you have to start working for your own benefit, and the benefit of those who also "get it" and are going in the same direction, and quit burning every calorie of energy you possess in trying to convince morons who can't, won't, and never will get it, and will go to their dying days in old age never getting it and yelling at kids on the lawn who do.
Just like he said he would veto NDAA....right before he turned around and signed it into law anyway--AFTER adding a provision which made it 10x worse--just like a bitch on New Years Day, when everyone's attention was distracted elsewhere.
You seriously are naive enough to still believe a word that comes out of that lying sack of shit's mouth?
No. You must not know about the wisdom and power of crowds. My message above reached thousands of viewers, influencing them (though it pales in comparison to the effect of Ron Paul's voice.) Yours did too, except it contained misinformation which supports people's false preconceptions, explaining why it got modded up.
So we have an instance here where one person helped freedom, and the other worked against it. It's as simple as that.
When are you going to start working for liberty, with positive words of support, instead of working against it with negativity and false views?
Go kiss ass all you want. At some point, when Congress has a 9% approval rating after people have tried and failed for years to convince and sweet talk and charm them into doing the right thing, finally you just have to talk to the pieces of shit like the pieces of shit they are. If enough angry people flood into their inboxes explaining what pieces of shit they are, eventually, something will change. It might take putting the mother fucker up against a wall and blowing his brains out, but one way or another, the government will listen and freedom will reign in this country again.
Actually, I suspect that's why it works so well. The emitted light is being reabsorbed by the panel, increasing overall efficiency. Kinda calls to mind how a reflux still works.
A major volcanic eruption in Mexico City would be quite unfortunate, for more than just the obvious reasons. It could throw Mexico into turmoil and set the stage for an attempted coup. Mexico City is presently one of the few safe places left in the country from the criminal gangs (drug lords and their organizations) who are vying for power.
Agreed. With a large enough containment field we could discharge the magma flow safely and carefully. Unfortunately, the technology to do this won't be invented for another 47 years.
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Yes, it's definitely innate ability. I am the type of person like you describe, who can automatically visualize and orient stuff. I can read sentences, numbers, etc at any angle, upside down, sideways, etc almost as easily as right side up. I can look at a line, a picture hanging on the wall say, and instantly tell if it's crooked. I can pretty much visualize any object, or machine in my mind and visualize it functioning and working, rotating to different angles, etc just like it was sitting in front of me. I am really good at finding my way in the outdoors and rarely ever get lost.
On the other hand....I had a friend who was always getting left and right confused. When working on cars it was especially problematic because half the time he'd accidently tighten instead of loosen, etc. Trying to give him directions to find some place or drive somewhere was worthless, even in a town he lived in his whole life; you had to show him where to go, and he'd get lost in the dumbest ways. When riding in the car don't say left or right.....you have to point, to avoid confusion.
So yeah....there is a ton of differences in innate ability here.
It's an article about a 70 year old fighter aircraft. What kind of bias do you expect, idiot?
This tax is ALREADY owed by the citizens
No, this is where you are wrong. I don't owe you shit. Tax me? Fuck you, I'll contact the manufacturer directly and get a "cash only" price.
For Christ's God damned sake, we teach our kids in school about our ancestors revolting and killing mother fuckers over taxation. Why don't people listen, learn, and apply those facts to the situation at hand to understand why this is so infuriating, wrong, and not to be accepted by a (struggling) economy which has grown accustomed to NOT paying sales tax across the Internet?
Un fucking believeable that the government, let alone "free thinking" individuals, would be so stupid as to think this is a good idea.
Fuck Amazon for capitulating to these tyrants.
Should property taxes be modified so that people that maintain their houses pay less while those that don't pay more? It's hard to say
No, it's easy to say: absolutely not, because this becomes just another tool of oppression. Who defines "maintain"? It's none of your goddamn business whether I maintain my property or not...so long as it's mine.
Now, if I fail to pay basic tribute to the community in the form of property taxes, then sure, take it away and sell it to someone who will put it to good use.
any person or group stronger than you would take it or destroy it
So instead of risking a hostile group somehow arising up and challenging me and all my neighbors, we just hand known tyrants the keys to the kingdom in the form of a badge and a gun. Nice tradeoff.
I feel exactly the opposite. Property taxes are one of the few morally justifiable taxes, because there is only so much property. Why should somebody be able to just buy up a property in the middle of a populated area and sit on it for 50 years, without at least contributing some basic amount of tribute to the people who live and work in that area in the form of taxes?
Whereas why the hell should my basic right to travel be abridged, in the form of the government withholding my driver's license for no good reason? What oversight is there over the licensing, ticketing, and incarceration systems which ensures that the laws and punishments are fair and just? Don't tell me voters--they're misled and misinformed, which you are a prime example of.
You really need to get over your Ron Paul man crush.
Why are you so afraid of Ron Paul?
If you're not, why do you (and the millions of clones of you out there) feel the need to attack this man every time he's mentioned?
Uh - a substantial fraction of Linux distros out there are derived from Slackware
Any of them that I (or anyone else) has heard of?
Slackware simply doesn't provide the basic features most distros call for these days, such as a package management paradigm. No, the "old UNIX way of doing things" isn't sufficient in today's world for widespread deployment across multiple systems and configurations.
Simply put, slackware fills a niche, which seems to be shrinking ever-smaller as the years pass.
It was great as an introduction to UNIX back in the Windows 98 days when I first tried it. Its floppy-disk sized images were helpful for a person like who me still had dialup. The experience I gained installing it and playing around was valuable, and it led me on to purchase a RedHat starter kit in the mall gaming store.
So yeah, Slackware has value as a basic bare-bones UNIX intro system.....but this is 2012....who needs that these days? Why install that with great pain and anguish when you can just install a complete, modern operating system with pretty desktop and everything, then get at the UNIX stuff little by little as needed or preferred?
That knock at the door was the asshole police. They have a warrant for someone fitting your description.
There's a world of difference between working and practical.
Is there? The Farnsworth fusor (a type of fusion device based on inertial electrostatic confinement) is working, and nowhere near "break even", so therefore useless as a power source. Yet it is a quite practical source of neutrons, for various purposes.
Why do you apply rational thinking towards the actions of people you like (Ron Paul) and not those you hate (Barack Obama)? Can you even really call it rational thinking, if you selectively apply it like that?
I don't know. Since you're the expert on hypocrisy, why don't you tell us if the message should be judged by the man, or by its own merit?
Wow, the media assholes are trolling slashdot too? Do us all a favor--sign in and drop the pretentious non-sequiturs. Ron Paul IS winning.....and those in the know are laughing, because we know days are numbered for rats like you :)
I dunno....why did you post as Anon? Shame?
The fact of the matter is that nearly-all those caucus states are going to Paul, so he will have hundreds of votes added to his tally.
FTFY
Rachel Maddow -- "I think Ron Paul Just won Iowa!"
He's winning the majority of delegates in many, many states right now. :]
Also......when "Romney's" delegates are unbound after the first round fails to give him a majority vote.....he will quickly find that many of those delegates were never "his" to begin with, and are in fact Paul supporters in disguise.
It's going to be a bloodbath in Tampa....words can't describe the level of lulz being about to be reaped by those "in the know" and watching this circus....
And don't give me that crap about "look it up yourself". You wouldn't tell your college professor to just "look it up yourself" if they started questioning where you came up with some outlandish claims in a research paper.
If I had spent hours upon hours and hours studying the matter, and having personal experience in the matter, and thus coming to an "outlandish" conclusion....and a professor choose to ignore my findings and argue til he's blue in the face out of his own inability to understand.....then yes, I would probably just shrug my shoulders, turn around, and walk off.
There comes a point in every human being's life when you have to start working for your own benefit, and the benefit of those who also "get it" and are going in the same direction, and quit burning every calorie of energy you possess in trying to convince morons who can't, won't, and never will get it, and will go to their dying days in old age never getting it and yelling at kids on the lawn who do.
Stop getting your "knowledge" from the mainstream media. TV really is warping your mind.
Just like he said he would veto NDAA....right before he turned around and signed it into law anyway--AFTER adding a provision which made it 10x worse--just like a bitch on New Years Day, when everyone's attention was distracted elsewhere.
You seriously are naive enough to still believe a word that comes out of that lying sack of shit's mouth?
No. You must not know about the wisdom and power of crowds. My message above reached thousands of viewers, influencing them (though it pales in comparison to the effect of Ron Paul's voice.) Yours did too, except it contained misinformation which supports people's false preconceptions, explaining why it got modded up.
So we have an instance here where one person helped freedom, and the other worked against it. It's as simple as that.
When are you going to start working for liberty, with positive words of support, instead of working against it with negativity and false views?
[Paul] was among the 15 who did not cast a vote. Thanks, Ron.
You know, he did put out a lengthy statement Monday slamming this Act and calling a lot of negative attention to it.
What the fuck did you do for the cause of liberty today?
Go kiss ass all you want. At some point, when Congress has a 9% approval rating after people have tried and failed for years to convince and sweet talk and charm them into doing the right thing, finally you just have to talk to the pieces of shit like the pieces of shit they are. If enough angry people flood into their inboxes explaining what pieces of shit they are, eventually, something will change. It might take putting the mother fucker up against a wall and blowing his brains out, but one way or another, the government will listen and freedom will reign in this country again.
Actually, I suspect that's why it works so well. The emitted light is being reabsorbed by the panel, increasing overall efficiency. Kinda calls to mind how a reflux still works.
+1 I know, right...
A major volcanic eruption in Mexico City would be quite unfortunate, for more than just the obvious reasons. It could throw Mexico into turmoil and set the stage for an attempted coup. Mexico City is presently one of the few safe places left in the country from the criminal gangs (drug lords and their organizations) who are vying for power.
Agreed. With a large enough containment field we could discharge the magma flow safely and carefully. Unfortunately, the technology to do this won't be invented for another 47 years.
Even easier.
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