If you go by the correct and classical definition of liberal they nominated a very liberal candidate in 1988. Most libertarians who are active and vocal in the movement are even more liberal than he was.
If you go by the current definition where liberal == fascist state level socialism then you are correct, the 1988 candidate was nowhere near liberal.
All Libertarians need to test their ideology is to be left alone - we don't need anything else from anyone else. Just space and to be left alone, we're not isolationist, we'll be happy to trade with people that aren't us, but your regulations tend to have incredible strings attached that try to nail us to your service, there is great punishment involved with trading with statist.
When we fail at being sufficient without the rest of you, you may laugh.
If we try it and you still try to make us comply with your regulations, fail or not it wasn't a fair experiment.
Nice high speed ramble.I couldn't even follow all of it - I think you called libertarinism a false idealogical religion not based on reality, but I'm not 100% sure. It really read as though my beliefs offended your own and you had to respond with an attack to defend your own.
That's okay. We're used to it, and you can go back to embracing your own reality because that's where you feel most comfortable. That's the thing about us Libertarians, we're okay with other people doing their own thing, we respect people having their own beliefs even if they don't respect our beliefs.
Reason #1 - Even though it's the opposite side of the globe from me it spreads the ideology and that makes me happy.
Reason #2 - This most likely happened due to Australia mandatory voting policy - which as a Libertarian mandatory anything annoys me - so it sort of proves our point.
I was told how much my documentation sucks because the information they needed to operate the device wasn't in the manual. I challenged the person complaining to tell me something that was left out. I turned to the page in the manual and pointed to every answer that was left out.
Eventually the person complaining finally said "It's a bad manual because you have to read it to use it."
That's exactly the answer I was looking for.
My current place of employment does not want educational manuals. They want step by step instructions. I haven't written another manual for these people since. At my previous places of employment they raved about how good my educational documentation was. As a matter of fact the support manuals I wrote of an ISP in early 2000 that included modem and email troubleshooting leaked to other ISP's and outsourced call centers who began to implement the pirated copies into their own resources. I finally put a documentation GPL on it and released it all to the public (I've had people criticize me for not using Creative Commons, but this was a couple of years before that hit).
The lesson I learned - technicians want to learn. Monkeys only want "monkey push button".
It's like a blend of 1984 and Brave New World. Just like 1984 they will be monitoring you through your real life telescreen but like Brave New World it won't actually be forbidden not to have one, but the people will no longer have the motivation to think or act outside what they were indoctrinated to do.
I would love to have a Kindle DX - the only big screen ereader that comes to mind.
I've got lots of PDF documents, mostly manuals for work but some other things also. My 7" Nook and Kindle are great for reading flowing text, but for PDF's that bigger screen makes a difference.
And yeah, color eInk would be great even if it was crappy 16 color. I've got V for Vendetta and Watchmen as ebooks and wouldn't mind even 16 color for those, 256 would be better of course.
I have both a G3 Kindle (Kindle Keyboard) and a Nook Simple Touch.
My Nook Simple Touch is more versatile right off the bat since it does ePub and can support Adobe's DRM. First thing I did to the thing was root it. It was great rooted, I could access my entire Kindle library save for the one audio book, and I was even able to make the page turn buttons work for it. With the limitation that the buttons worked for Kindle or Nook books but not both at the same time (grumble grumble). I was also able to get it to access my entire Google Book library with an old pre-"play" version of the app without resorting to the Adobe stuff.
After playing with the Nook, the Kindle, Calibre, and the Adobe management stuff in my Windows virtual machine I was able to get all my books save for the Kindle DRMed ones on the Nook anyway without the root. I went ahead and unrooted it. The Nooks battery doesn't seem to last as long as the Kindle's, but it's physically smaller. All in all I would say it was the cheaper, supperior device. I don't really care for touch screen, but it does make the whole device more compact since it doesn't need external controls, they just shaved that area off the bottom in comparison to the Kindle, even the modern 4th Gen Kindle.
Now I get my books from multiple sources, I still use Amazon, I pick up good deals on Google, I'm a Humble Bundle junkie having bought both of their ebook offerings, and I even pick up one from Barnes and Noble occasionally. They do seem to be the least deal and price concious of the bunch, but they have the occasional exclusive.
I mostly use mine where most people would use tablets, only I have a keyboard. It fits in my small bike bag. I use it to do social networking, reply to emails, listen to music, watch movies, and even resond on Slashdot while I'm not at home. I don't play many games on it, though I can a few, it runs ZSNES with a paired up PS3 control just fine. It's my screw around machine that leaves my phone available for other things, and I've even done serious work with spreadsheets that's made me money. Fine, a 10" screen isn't exactly the best for real work, but that's not usually what I need it for.
You and I are on the same page here I think. What most of these folks seem to miss is that without XP as someone mentioned, or other Windows to worry about, the form factor is available again. (Mine came with Windows 7 BTW - not that it mattered to me)
I love my Acer netbook, and I know they quit making them due to pressure from Microsoft. If they start making normal Netbooks again I'll be a happy camper.
You look like a coward to me. At least I own my comments - pussy.
I don't really shop at Wal-Mart either. Something about having people stand in clumps that you can't get around without just plowing, Ikea quality products, six year old kids in shitty diapers screaming in the basket at 3:00 am, and the fact I have watched them put known tainted food back on the shelf.
If I want shitty furniture and kitchen supplies I'll go to Big Lots or something similar.
I deflected stupid back on the caller BTW, now I'm deflecting asshole back to you.
I've never bought their shit - my assessment comes from the reviews of others.
Considering there's a big "EXIT THIS WAY" sign anything smaller should be considered ancillary, not "the real version".
Honesty appears to be the issue here. If it helps - it's been eight years since I've been in the Houston one. Maybe things have changed? Wouldn't know. Not going to find out.
On the autism note - I always thought a good way to punish Ikea for their horrible store design would be to take a van full of autistics, drop them off at the beginning of the maze and tell them there's pizza and ice cream by the register, they just have to follow the signs to the exit, and better hurry, the foods going to leave soon.
Maps? They didn't have those in Houston, I looked for them.
My first trip through Ikea I didn't already know that it was an intentional maze or I would have looked for the "wormhole" shortcuts you mention. These shortcuts in Houston are intentionally hidden in easily missed corners and behind displays.
I have trouble thinking in levels of dishonesty of that magnitude - putting up big signs that say "exit" and not having a fucking exit is called lying.
Considering you're actually defending Ikea, makers of sub-par products with missing parts, shitty directions, and rat-maze stores I'm beginning to wonder which of us is the "stupid" one you're referring to.
Ikea is famous not letting you leave, I would hate if the app kept running after you told it you wanted to leave, and kept taking over the phone again.
Do you have to spend 45 minutes hitting the back out of program button only to be shown another back out of program button before it lets you exit the program?
(I refuse to give Ikea any money at all after having been in one of there stores and wanting to leave)
I was ordering from there where it was CompGeeks.com
They always had the coolest sell outs and unique, unexpected, weird items. Just whatever they stumbled across. I bought an IBM CRT monitor back in the day with unpowered Bose speakers in it, of course there was a proprietary IBM connector. They actually had a how-to on their website to wire your own standard connector up (and would do it for a fee). Found an amplified sound card, awesome sound.
Cheap monitors for the Japanese market, they sold LCD's for a fraction of what other people did when few people had LCD's due to some inventory error somewhere.
I think I paid $2 for a briefcase bag I used for a long time.
I can't remember everything I bought from there, but they always had awesome service.
A nice friendly just acting on a tip search where "nothing really happened" or a full on uncalled for swat raid.
For the affected family directly, sure the nice friendly one is better, but more attention is drawn by the swat raid and the public reacts more. This shit can't be tolerated without something really solid, and researching on the subjects of recent news items isn't anywhere near solid.
I know they used practical effects, and yes Star Wars was awesome for its time, but I still don't think it topped 2001, Kubrick was just way too dedicated to his visual art.
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If you go by the correct and classical definition of liberal they nominated a very liberal candidate in 1988. Most libertarians who are active and vocal in the movement are even more liberal than he was.
If you go by the current definition where liberal == fascist state level socialism then you are correct, the 1988 candidate was nowhere near liberal.
Tell you what - lets do an experiment.
All Libertarians need to test their ideology is to be left alone - we don't need anything else from anyone else. Just space and to be left alone, we're not isolationist, we'll be happy to trade with people that aren't us, but your regulations tend to have incredible strings attached that try to nail us to your service, there is great punishment involved with trading with statist.
When we fail at being sufficient without the rest of you, you may laugh.
If we try it and you still try to make us comply with your regulations, fail or not it wasn't a fair experiment.
Nice high speed ramble.I couldn't even follow all of it - I think you called libertarinism a false idealogical religion not based on reality, but I'm not 100% sure. It really read as though my beliefs offended your own and you had to respond with an attack to defend your own.
That's okay. We're used to it, and you can go back to embracing your own reality because that's where you feel most comfortable. That's the thing about us Libertarians, we're okay with other people doing their own thing, we respect people having their own beliefs even if they don't respect our beliefs.
In other words
it doesn't support my political position in which global warming is an important factor, therefore this data is irrelevant"
Reason #1 - Even though it's the opposite side of the globe from me it spreads the ideology and that makes me happy.
Reason #2 - This most likely happened due to Australia mandatory voting policy - which as a Libertarian mandatory anything annoys me - so it sort of proves our point.
job.
I was told how much my documentation sucks because the information they needed to operate the device wasn't in the manual. I challenged the person complaining to tell me something that was left out. I turned to the page in the manual and pointed to every answer that was left out.
Eventually the person complaining finally said "It's a bad manual because you have to read it to use it."
That's exactly the answer I was looking for.
My current place of employment does not want educational manuals. They want step by step instructions. I haven't written another manual for these people since. At my previous places of employment they raved about how good my educational documentation was. As a matter of fact the support manuals I wrote of an ISP in early 2000 that included modem and email troubleshooting leaked to other ISP's and outsourced call centers who began to implement the pirated copies into their own resources. I finally put a documentation GPL on it and released it all to the public (I've had people criticize me for not using Creative Commons, but this was a couple of years before that hit).
The lesson I learned - technicians want to learn. Monkeys only want "monkey push button".
It's like a blend of 1984 and Brave New World. Just like 1984 they will be monitoring you through your real life telescreen but like Brave New World it won't actually be forbidden not to have one, but the people will no longer have the motivation to think or act outside what they were indoctrinated to do.
Not caring doesn't invalidate my statement.
Are you pretending Android phones, Chromebooks, Tivo, Tom Tom and Kindle don't run Linux?
I would love to have a Kindle DX - the only big screen ereader that comes to mind.
I've got lots of PDF documents, mostly manuals for work but some other things also. My 7" Nook and Kindle are great for reading flowing text, but for PDF's that bigger screen makes a difference.
And yeah, color eInk would be great even if it was crappy 16 color. I've got V for Vendetta and Watchmen as ebooks and wouldn't mind even 16 color for those, 256 would be better of course.
I have both a G3 Kindle (Kindle Keyboard) and a Nook Simple Touch.
My Nook Simple Touch is more versatile right off the bat since it does ePub and can support Adobe's DRM. First thing I did to the thing was root it. It was great rooted, I could access my entire Kindle library save for the one audio book, and I was even able to make the page turn buttons work for it. With the limitation that the buttons worked for Kindle or Nook books but not both at the same time (grumble grumble). I was also able to get it to access my entire Google Book library with an old pre-"play" version of the app without resorting to the Adobe stuff.
After playing with the Nook, the Kindle, Calibre, and the Adobe management stuff in my Windows virtual machine I was able to get all my books save for the Kindle DRMed ones on the Nook anyway without the root. I went ahead and unrooted it. The Nooks battery doesn't seem to last as long as the Kindle's, but it's physically smaller. All in all I would say it was the cheaper, supperior device. I don't really care for touch screen, but it does make the whole device more compact since it doesn't need external controls, they just shaved that area off the bottom in comparison to the Kindle, even the modern 4th Gen Kindle.
Now I get my books from multiple sources, I still use Amazon, I pick up good deals on Google, I'm a Humble Bundle junkie having bought both of their ebook offerings, and I even pick up one from Barnes and Noble occasionally. They do seem to be the least deal and price concious of the bunch, but they have the occasional exclusive.
Questioning hims the quickest way to not only get called a racist, but to get a -1 as well. SEE you racist?
I mostly use mine where most people would use tablets, only I have a keyboard. It fits in my small bike bag. I use it to do social networking, reply to emails, listen to music, watch movies, and even resond on Slashdot while I'm not at home. I don't play many games on it, though I can a few, it runs ZSNES with a paired up PS3 control just fine. It's my screw around machine that leaves my phone available for other things, and I've even done serious work with spreadsheets that's made me money. Fine, a 10" screen isn't exactly the best for real work, but that's not usually what I need it for.
You and I are on the same page here I think. What most of these folks seem to miss is that without XP as someone mentioned, or other Windows to worry about, the form factor is available again. (Mine came with Windows 7 BTW - not that it mattered to me)
I love my Acer netbook, and I know they quit making them due to pressure from Microsoft. If they start making normal Netbooks again I'll be a happy camper.
You look like a coward to me. At least I own my comments - pussy.
I don't really shop at Wal-Mart either. Something about having people stand in clumps that you can't get around without just plowing, Ikea quality products, six year old kids in shitty diapers screaming in the basket at 3:00 am, and the fact I have watched them put known tainted food back on the shelf.
If I want shitty furniture and kitchen supplies I'll go to Big Lots or something similar.
I deflected stupid back on the caller BTW, now I'm deflecting asshole back to you.
I've never bought their shit - my assessment comes from the reviews of others.
Considering there's a big "EXIT THIS WAY" sign anything smaller should be considered ancillary, not "the real version".
Honesty appears to be the issue here. If it helps - it's been eight years since I've been in the Houston one. Maybe things have changed? Wouldn't know. Not going to find out.
On the autism note - I always thought a good way to punish Ikea for their horrible store design would be to take a van full of autistics, drop them off at the beginning of the maze and tell them there's pizza and ice cream by the register, they just have to follow the signs to the exit, and better hurry, the foods going to leave soon.
Maps? They didn't have those in Houston, I looked for them.
My first trip through Ikea I didn't already know that it was an intentional maze or I would have looked for the "wormhole" shortcuts you mention. These shortcuts in Houston are intentionally hidden in easily missed corners and behind displays.
I have trouble thinking in levels of dishonesty of that magnitude - putting up big signs that say "exit" and not having a fucking exit is called lying.
Considering you're actually defending Ikea, makers of sub-par products with missing parts, shitty directions, and rat-maze stores I'm beginning to wonder which of us is the "stupid" one you're referring to.
Ikea is famous not letting you leave, I would hate if the app kept running after you told it you wanted to leave, and kept taking over the phone again.
How in the hell is talking about Ikea off topic?
Do you have to spend 45 minutes hitting the back out of program button only to be shown another back out of program button before it lets you exit the program?
(I refuse to give Ikea any money at all after having been in one of there stores and wanting to leave)
I'm pretty sure they advertised on Slashdot in the past.....
I was ordering from there where it was CompGeeks.com
They always had the coolest sell outs and unique, unexpected, weird items. Just whatever they stumbled across. I bought an IBM CRT monitor back in the day with unpowered Bose speakers in it, of course there was a proprietary IBM connector. They actually had a how-to on their website to wire your own standard connector up (and would do it for a fee). Found an amplified sound card, awesome sound.
Cheap monitors for the Japanese market, they sold LCD's for a fraction of what other people did when few people had LCD's due to some inventory error somewhere.
I think I paid $2 for a briefcase bag I used for a long time.
I can't remember everything I bought from there, but they always had awesome service.
A nice friendly just acting on a tip search where "nothing really happened" or a full on uncalled for swat raid.
For the affected family directly, sure the nice friendly one is better, but more attention is drawn by the swat raid and the public reacts more. This shit can't be tolerated without something really solid, and researching on the subjects of recent news items isn't anywhere near solid.
I know they used practical effects, and yes Star Wars was awesome for its time, but I still don't think it topped 2001, Kubrick was just way too dedicated to his visual art.
and I might actually finish. As far as OCD dissections are concerned - I salute the author.