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Quite frankly, I don't want to see little 70 year old men and women starving to death.
The retired segment of the US is the wealthiest. They don't have to work, they have their homes paid off, they get a stipend from the government, and they get to drive slow.
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I don't know about elsewhere, but in Canada, the baby boomers got $1 in services for every 70 cents in tax, whereas people now get about 70 cents in services for every dollar in tax (approximate #'s, can't remember exactly).
I read a similar thing (source: a long-lost mystery to me). The current retirees are the ones that are getting the most compared to what they put in. It only gets worse for us from here on out.
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Maybe we are whiners, but that doesn't mean that our parents our justified in to blowing their savings on globe-trotting and hippie weekend camps - while we bust our asses just to avoid living in a box for our retirement. Don't even get me started on the implications of Enron, WorldCom et. al. They've screwed us royally.
Just don't turn to the State for the "solution" to your problems, you are only going to be screwing the next generation.
Ah, the sympathy for other people I'm seeing here is so heart warming.
The article said:
"Although Steve worked to help pay for college, five years after graduation he has $40,000 of undergraduate debt to pay off; Jessica, an art therapist and professional harpist, has $50,000 in student loans."
Where can you go to school and rack up debts like _that_?
I do have to admit I even find myself using "TiVo" as a verb because then people will instantly understand what I mean.
If "TiVo" is a registered trademark (help me here), then using it like that is a trademark violation. Just like saying "I Xeroxed a paper" when you used a non-Xerox copier, or "I need a Kleenex" when you need a tissue. Obviously, they wouldn't come after you to stop, but they need to make the effort to maintain their trademark. "Aspirin" used to be a trademark of Bayer, but they never challenged its entry into common usage, and now everyone makes "apsirin".
Your comparison to the Ford Motor company only serves to show how upstarts can take over a market someone else pioneered. When Ford started selling cars there were plenty of cars on the market. Ford was not a pioneer, but came later and improved the methods (noteably the assembly line) of the pioneers.
I'm sure that Ford has a much bigger market than Daimler (Daimler-Benz being THE pioneer), but Daimler is doing very well.
There's always a small team that really understands the code that does most of the work. The core tends to be about half of the team on small projects. Everybody else performs ancillary functions or just goofs off.
Is reading/. an ancillary function or goofing off?
But it's good to hear it reaffirmed from an outside source what many of us know to begin with -- OpenSource development is more successful because the people involved love what they're doing.
I _love_ reporting bugs! Wait, I don't, so I don't....
The US is the most powerful country in the world. We can bully almost anyone...:-(
The ones we can't bully: the ones with nukes. Israel. Pakistan. India. Etc. Which is the real reason for all the anti-Iraq Hysteria, IMO. If Hussein gets nukes, we have to go find someone else to kick around as our Middle Eastern Devil.
I know Theo de Raadt does, which is why I stick with OpenBSD. He's hard-nosed (some say obnoxious), but principled like RMS. So even recently he called for a fork of OpenSSL, since they accepted Sun code which has some strings attached. See here.
It would be good if they would encourage open debate on such subjects before they became la though, but I suppose any law which is bought in the interests of big business is at best one-sided.
Isn't that what the Congress is supposed to be doing? I guess we need a "shadow Congress" to debate laws, then pass on the modified correct laws to the real Congress to vote on.
However, the USA commited a crime themselves in trying to get these criminals. A country MUST follow the rules they want others to obbey if they want to be taken serieus.
Governments are founded on the principle of coercion, and it goes downhill from there.
With the quality of modern computer systems, and the rate at which they're being updated - do you honestly forsee yourself running any of your current machines a decade from now?
At the rate of DRM/Palladium/Whaever being pushed, yeah, maybe!
My brother had it done. He does not regret it, but he did say that the experience can be phychologically very uncomfortable. If you are the least bit squeamish about people playing with your eyeballs with scary tools and having your head and eyes locked into one position for a duration, then forget it.
Last time I had my eyes checked (I'm 20/20), I almost fainted at the thought of the guy adding drops to dilate my pupils, so he could check for pressure in the eye (something to do with glaucoma checking). I am such a wimp, but my imagination went wild. I hate needles, too, but that's because they stick me repeatedly, because they can't find veins.
I'm not a lefty either. But war is always horrible. I think this concentration on terrorism is too much emphasis on tactics and not enough on causes. We'd get a lot farther with a war on aggresion and oppresion.
What we need is the Mother of all Wars: the War on War. I'm sure the jingoes and peaceniks can get together on that one.
I heard a while back that Levar Burton was so used to technobabble that he would generally just ignore whatever's in the script and ad lib something, and his ad libs usually sounded better. Which makes sense -- he'd been spouting technobabble every working day for years.
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The retired segment of the US is the wealthiest. They don't have to work, they have their homes paid off, they get a stipend from the government, and they get to drive slow.
I read a similar thing (source: a long-lost mystery to me). The current retirees are the ones that are getting the most compared to what they put in. It only gets worse for us from here on out.
Just don't turn to the State for the "solution" to your problems, you are only going to be screwing the next generation.
The article said:
"Although Steve worked to help pay for college, five years after graduation he has $40,000 of undergraduate debt to pay off; Jessica, an art therapist and professional harpist, has $50,000 in student loans."
Where can you go to school and rack up debts like _that_?
RIAA,baby.
Did you mean hobbits, or hobbyists?
That's the business plan. Look like you're short-term, so people keep paying the monthly fee forever. Very clever of them!
If "TiVo" is a registered trademark (help me here), then using it like that is a trademark violation. Just like saying "I Xeroxed a paper" when you used a non-Xerox copier, or "I need a Kleenex" when you need a tissue. Obviously, they wouldn't come after you to stop, but they need to make the effort to maintain their trademark. "Aspirin" used to be a trademark of Bayer, but they never challenged its entry into common usage, and now everyone makes "apsirin".
I'm sure that Ford has a much bigger market than Daimler (Daimler-Benz being THE pioneer), but Daimler is doing very well.
Think "revenue stream." Or "value-added proposition." Apologies to all who have just eaten.
Is reading /. an ancillary function or goofing off?
And to be fair, with some products, that's a good thing.
This is probably the most profound statement about OSS I've seen in this discussion.
Huh? Microsoft has a _huge_ install base to act as their testers.
I _love_ reporting bugs! Wait, I don't, so I don't....
The ones we can't bully: the ones with nukes. Israel. Pakistan. India. Etc. Which is the real reason for all the anti-Iraq Hysteria, IMO. If Hussein gets nukes, we have to go find someone else to kick around as our Middle Eastern Devil.
I know Theo de Raadt does, which is why I stick with OpenBSD. He's hard-nosed (some say obnoxious), but principled like RMS. So even recently he called for a fork of OpenSSL, since they accepted Sun code which has some strings attached. See here.
Isn't that what the Congress is supposed to be doing? I guess we need a "shadow Congress" to debate laws, then pass on the modified correct laws to the real Congress to vote on.
Governments are founded on the principle of coercion, and it goes downhill from there.
At the rate of DRM/Palladium/Whaever being pushed, yeah, maybe!
As Will Shakespeare once wrote, "first, kill all the lawyers."
Yeah, and then our govenment subsidizes tobacco growers.
I feel reassured. Thank you.
Last time I had my eyes checked (I'm 20/20), I almost fainted at the thought of the guy adding drops to dilate my pupils, so he could check for pressure in the eye (something to do with glaucoma checking). I am such a wimp, but my imagination went wild. I hate needles, too, but that's because they stick me repeatedly, because they can't find veins.
What we need is the Mother of all Wars: the War on War. I'm sure the jingoes and peaceniks can get together on that one.
Does Burton have a degree in Marketing?