Hurry up, get old, collect Social Security and die. That's your only escape.
If you think this mortgage meltdown is bad, you ain't seen nothin'. Want to know what the world will look like after the $35 trillion Social Security / Medicare shortfall kicks in? Probably more like the 1st half of the 20th Century than the 2nd half.
Trivia question: On what day was Felix Unger asked to leave his apartment? (The request came from his wife.)
If you know the answer, you're ready to observe National Felix Unger day. You're supposed to walk around aimlessly in a trench coat carrying a suitcase and a frying pan.
Much more pointless and stupid than talking like a pirate.
Oh, so it's not good enough that in the past 5-10 years people are having their lives ruined by spontaneous (and stupid) acts captured by cell phone cameras and put up on the web. Now, we have to go back in time and ruin the the lives of people who thought they were home free.
Compared to the summer of '69, this is a slow news year. Yes, I'm old enough to remember all that stuff. I don't remember it happening all in the same day, but it sure is interesting.
You may think it's deprecated but Adobe doesn't. True, they seem to have forsaken it for a time but I think they realize now that the installed base is too vast. I can say anecdotally, that about 70% of tech-knuckle writers use FrameMaker. It's pretty pathetic when you think about it. A software product that is only half-heartedly maintained is still the industry standard.
"Since the government granted monopolies for the delivery of wired broadband services?"
Well apparently, no such monopoly exists on Cape Cod or the OP's parents would have some access to broadband. I don't understand why Cape Cod is not lucrative enough for a broadband buildout, but that's a separate issue.
"I also suggested they talk with their senators and local political reps."
So, you'd like a remedy that's marginal, expensive and materializes sometime after your parents are dead.
How is this something in which government should get involved? And what makes you think their "proposed" remedy would ever be effective. It just baffles me how people have come to believe that governments and politicians can solve problems for which they have repeatedly demonstrated failure.
We have several taxes like this. They fall into two categories. It's either a "where's-the-money-and-how-do-we-get-some" tax or simply the all-inclusive "we're-the-government-and-we-can-do-whatever-the-fuck-we-want" tax. This would be the former.
I read TFA. But it's still a mystery to me why things like this are so difficult. Same shit with voting machines. Why can't anyone develop a computerized voting system that exceeds every attribute of all other voting systems (inexpensive, simple, open, secure, reliable, maintainable, anonymous, auditable, etc.)?
"Many will discredit this standard (even with the ISO stamp on it) because of the history of corruption that lead to its approval."
Works out perfectly since nobody in their right mind will bother to attempt to implement it, nobody in their right mind will consciously adopt it, so now, Microsoft can just embraceextendandextinguish it.
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Hurry up, get old, collect Social Security and die. That's your only escape.
If you think this mortgage meltdown is bad, you ain't seen nothin'. Want to know what the world will look like after the $35 trillion Social Security / Medicare shortfall kicks in? Probably more like the 1st half of the 20th Century than the 2nd half.
Trivia question: On what day was Felix Unger asked to leave his apartment? (The request came from his wife.)
If you know the answer, you're ready to observe National Felix Unger day. You're supposed to walk around aimlessly in a trench coat carrying a suitcase and a frying pan.
Much more pointless and stupid than talking like a pirate.
A: November 13
Oh, so it's not good enough that in the past 5-10 years people are having their lives ruined by spontaneous (and stupid) acts captured by cell phone cameras and put up on the web. Now, we have to go back in time and ruin the the lives of people who thought they were home free.
I agree. Fuck 'em.
Compared to the summer of '69, this is a slow news year . Yes, I'm old enough to remember all that stuff. I don't remember it happening all in the same day, but it sure is interesting.
Fine.
Great.
Now show us your tits.
Thank you. I have a good sense of humor, I just don't have a good *sense* ... of humor.
As long as there's still a source of light around in 25 years, someone will be able to view it.
Is that the science that predicts half of Manhattan underwater? ...
It doesn't matter. The science is settled. The cutoff point for new knowledge has passed.
"Almost a decade after the Internet bubble collapsed, ..."
The bubble burst in 2001. Internet "decades" are much shorter.
You may think it's deprecated but Adobe doesn't. True, they seem to have forsaken it for a time but I think they realize now that the installed base is too vast. I can say anecdotally, that about 70% of tech-knuckle writers use FrameMaker. It's pretty pathetic when you think about it. A software product that is only half-heartedly maintained is still the industry standard.
Just add a keyboard with a touchpad (hinged to the display) and I'm there.
Problem solved. I'm glad we got through that one. Whew. That was close.
Oh, I know there's a law against it. But before you claim "millions", find me ... oh, ... I dunno, 200,000.
'... and spied on millions of ordinary Americans'
I read it on the internet.
The educational equivalent of socialism.
Imagine if Bush had to put *that* in his pipe and smoke it.
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OK, somebody pucker up and tell me why BNL is not a particle physics laboratory. How many others are there really?
... it will only display the letter "I", sans serif.
"Since the government granted monopolies for the delivery of wired broadband services?"
Well apparently, no such monopoly exists on Cape Cod or the OP's parents would have some access to broadband. I don't understand why Cape Cod is not lucrative enough for a broadband buildout, but that's a separate issue.
"I also suggested they talk with their senators and local political reps."
So, you'd like a remedy that's marginal, expensive and materializes sometime after your parents are dead.
How is this something in which government should get involved? And what makes you think their "proposed" remedy would ever be effective. It just baffles me how people have come to believe that governments and politicians can solve problems for which they have repeatedly demonstrated failure.
DON'T TASE ME, BRO'!!
Wait a sec ... is that a Glock?!!
DON'T SHOOT ME, BRO'!! TASE ME, TASE ME, BRO'!!
Until now we did not know how to construct a passive device which would provide a function relating charge and flux.
Uh, in 1985, the flux capacitor was perfected by Dr. Emmett Brown. It requires a mere 1.21 jiggawatts to bias.
... that is, Protozoa for the Ethical Treatment of Amoebae. Humans don't have the right to enslave bacteria.
We have several taxes like this. They fall into two categories. It's either a "where's-the-money-and-how-do-we-get-some" tax or simply the all-inclusive "we're-the-government-and-we-can-do-whatever-the-fuck-we-want" tax. This would be the former.
I read TFA. But it's still a mystery to me why things like this are so difficult. Same shit with voting machines. Why can't anyone develop a computerized voting system that exceeds every attribute of all other voting systems (inexpensive, simple, open, secure, reliable, maintainable, anonymous, auditable, etc.)?
"Many will discredit this standard (even with the ISO stamp on it) because of the history of corruption that lead to its approval."
Works out perfectly since nobody in their right mind will bother to attempt to implement it, nobody in their right mind will consciously adopt it, so now, Microsoft can just embraceextendandextinguish it.