I'm writing this on a Dell Latitude E6500 I picked up for $50. 64 bit 2.8ghz core2duo processor, 4GB of ram and 500GB hard drive and a dedicated Nvidia GPU with it's own ram. Big, heavy but built like a brick with a bright screen. It's awesome and I don't mind lugging 10 pounds around since the keyboard is a delight to type on. The only thing my Macbook pro has better is the trackpad. Running Peppermint 7 OS on it and I find myself using it more than the Mac for internet stuff even though the Mac has an i5 cpu. When it's time to trannscode video though there really is no substitute for CPU speed.
Hell, it even runs Windows 10 great. I bought one off ebay and played with Windows 10 for a while before I had enough and wiped it. Ubuntu runs like a scalded dog on it. Nice hardware.
This is true. I can not vote for someone who supports abortion. If anyone wants the votes of Christian Fundementalists they must agree to this in order to insure a big block of votes. I can compromise on almost anything else. I consider the abortion of a human life to be murder. Holding that belief how could I possibly vote for someone who supports abortion? Homosexuality and Transgender issues I can compromise on, even gay marriage but murder of the innocent is a line I can not cross.
I'm not sure of your point. You mean you think children raising themselves with parents that have next to no involvement in their training and education is a good thing? Or did you simply read the last sentence and fail to get the context from the rest of what I wrote?
Without immigration the US population would be experiencing negative growth. Most European countries are the same. It seems the poorest countries do all the breeding. Imagine a program where you pay women in those poor countries to be sterilized. Give them enough money they can live in comfort the rest of their lives and you have a cold, inhuman solution to over population. In the rich countries people are too busy having fun to have children. I live and work in a middle class environment and hardly anyone has more than one or two children anymore.
I don't know about all of the US but in my neck of the woods funding is not a problem with public schools. Spending per student is far above what it was decades ago even adjusted for inflation. I remember going to school to discuss problems with my daughter when she was in the 5th grade. After the meeting my daughter's teacher thanked me profusely for coming. It kind of surprised me and I asked her why in the world wouldn't I have come. She told me she had 7 meetings scheduled that week and I was the only parent to show up. It had never occurred to me that anyone wouldn't be interested in their child's education but as I started looking around I noticed more and more over the years that students that did well had parents that were involved and a lot of parents were not involved at all. A friend of mine's wife is a teacher and he has told me many horror stories about children who basically are raising themselves. This is not in the ghetto but a generally working class environment. In my almost 6 decades I've seen a lot of changes, some for the better but the breakdown of the US family structure is not a positive thing and it's accelerating.
The reason Republicans are obstructionist is that their constituents want them to obstruct. If you remember, Obama had a Democratic Congress when elected. He immediately used the control of Congress to ram a particularly bad healthcare bill through. The backlash was to lose the House on the next election cycle and the Senate on the one after that. We had a Democrat in my district who was one of the very last moderate Democrats left in the House. He voted for the health care bill and despite the fact he had had a long and popular career he was done. People didn't send him up there to support Obama but to support his district. He failed and they removed him in the very next election.
Idiot that can't read. Nowhere did I advocate mass genocide. Nowhere. I did mention I was fine with the Malthusians that advocated the genocide being offed but even that was meant tongue in cheek as it were. I was pointing out what it would take to stop it. The point being it's not going to stop so we'll just have to deal with it as best we can. Of course, if the people running around screaming the sky is falling were to get their worst case scenario where we have global famine then that war I spoke of is inevitable. Starving people are vicious in the extreme.
This thing is like a hobby for Musk. I think he spends all his spare time planning the colonization of Mars. I wish all these billionaires would work this hard at moving the human race forward.
Fine points. Someone needs to come up with a plan for reasonable goals and try to mitigate damage and plan for changes in sea level. The problem is there is so much money involved and a lot of people plan to profit big time on the situation. Cap and Trade which is a favorite of these people is set up to profit from it. As with all things the working poor stand to take it up the ass. The funny thing is, while these people largely lack education and sophistication they aren't stupid. They know when someone pisses on their leg it's not raining.
I'm willing to start with them. Yes the world is getting hotter. Yes man is contributing and most likely is the driving force behind it. No there's no stopping it without unbelievably drastic measures that will not be accepted by almost anybody. The best chance for stopping it is a world war where 97 percent of the population is destroyed. A nuclear winter would do wonders for global warming. The climate guys would get all those glaciers back with a vengeance.
hmmmm....typo explains it. Should have left out the "not" before applications. What happens when I'm tired and posting. At least my dyslexia is mostly under contorl.
The trick is to milk the people and keep them where they'll never get ahead but they don't starve and they have a few comforts. Once people actually have no hope they become dangerous. Eventually the fuckers in charge get so arrogant and greedy that they take it all. That's when it comes apart like with the French Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
I've run into numerous bugs on Linux. I've been using it since 1999 since I finally gave up on Amiga hardware developments and moved on. During that time it has improved by leaps and bounds and has always been very stable but did suffer a lot from lack of driver support by hardware makers. It has been years since I had to hard boot a linux box though even when programs crashed. I've had to use Xkill a few times or open a terminal and kill a choked program by hand. These are generally bugs not in applications and not in Linux itself but you can see by the Kernel change log that developers are constantly chasing bugs.
I can't remember the last time I had to hard boot a computer that I own either Mac or Linux. At work they've got Win 7 Pro on all our stuff and it's generally stable enough as I think it's been about 2 years since I had to hard boot one. When we had Vista about 50 percent of them where down at any one time. Win 7 was the best thing ever to happen to our IT guys.
Given that the game has 1 hour of actual playing time and maybe 7 or 8 seconds of action per play and about 2 plays per minute that doesn't add up to much action in a game that drones on about 3 and a half hours. I've taken to DVR recording the games now and I start watching them after half time has ended. I fast forward through all the timeouts and commercials and generally I catch up to real time about the last few minutes of the game. I'm an Atlanta Falcons fan and generally all their games come down to the last 2 minutes anyway and I watch that live.
The funny thing is what's going to happen when she gets elected. Socially she's very liberal, economically she belongs to the Banks and Megacorps. She's gonna fuck everyone, not just the conservatives. I expect the worst of her crap to get full support from the Republican Elites in the Senate since the big banks own them too. I say when because I'd be shocked if she doesn't win given how much money all the big banks and corporations have dumped in her coffers. Usually they donate to both sides but since there is only one insider running she's picking up 100 percent of that money.
The interesting thing in the American Colonies is that it was mostly wealthy land holders that rebelled. Those guys that signed the Declaration of Independence actually had a lot to lose besides their heads.
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I'm writing this on a Dell Latitude E6500 I picked up for $50. 64 bit 2.8ghz core2duo processor, 4GB of ram and 500GB hard drive and a dedicated Nvidia GPU with it's own ram. Big, heavy but built like a brick with a bright screen. It's awesome and I don't mind lugging 10 pounds around since the keyboard is a delight to type on. The only thing my Macbook pro has better is the trackpad. Running Peppermint 7 OS on it and I find myself using it more than the Mac for internet stuff even though the Mac has an i5 cpu. When it's time to trannscode video though there really is no substitute for CPU speed.
Hell, it even runs Windows 10 great. I bought one off ebay and played with Windows 10 for a while before I had enough and wiped it. Ubuntu runs like a scalded dog on it. Nice hardware.
No, you're just deliberately obtuse.
True, but then everyone has to live with the choices they've made. No one has to raise a child, they can always give it up.
This is true. I can not vote for someone who supports abortion. If anyone wants the votes of Christian Fundementalists they must agree to this in order to insure a big block of votes. I can compromise on almost anything else. I consider the abortion of a human life to be murder. Holding that belief how could I possibly vote for someone who supports abortion? Homosexuality and Transgender issues I can compromise on, even gay marriage but murder of the innocent is a line I can not cross.
I'm not sure of your point. You mean you think children raising themselves with parents that have next to no involvement in their training and education is a good thing? Or did you simply read the last sentence and fail to get the context from the rest of what I wrote?
Without immigration the US population would be experiencing negative growth. Most European countries are the same. It seems the poorest countries do all the breeding. Imagine a program where you pay women in those poor countries to be sterilized. Give them enough money they can live in comfort the rest of their lives and you have a cold, inhuman solution to over population. In the rich countries people are too busy having fun to have children. I live and work in a middle class environment and hardly anyone has more than one or two children anymore.
I don't know about all of the US but in my neck of the woods funding is not a problem with public schools. Spending per student is far above what it was decades ago even adjusted for inflation. I remember going to school to discuss problems with my daughter when she was in the 5th grade. After the meeting my daughter's teacher thanked me profusely for coming. It kind of surprised me and I asked her why in the world wouldn't I have come. She told me she had 7 meetings scheduled that week and I was the only parent to show up. It had never occurred to me that anyone wouldn't be interested in their child's education but as I started looking around I noticed more and more over the years that students that did well had parents that were involved and a lot of parents were not involved at all. A friend of mine's wife is a teacher and he has told me many horror stories about children who basically are raising themselves. This is not in the ghetto but a generally working class environment. In my almost 6 decades I've seen a lot of changes, some for the better but the breakdown of the US family structure is not a positive thing and it's accelerating.
Rich = Bad
Poor = Good
This is how you justify a Robin Hood mentality.
The reason Republicans are obstructionist is that their constituents want them to obstruct. If you remember, Obama had a Democratic Congress when elected. He immediately used the control of Congress to ram a particularly bad healthcare bill through. The backlash was to lose the House on the next election cycle and the Senate on the one after that. We had a Democrat in my district who was one of the very last moderate Democrats left in the House. He voted for the health care bill and despite the fact he had had a long and popular career he was done. People didn't send him up there to support Obama but to support his district. He failed and they removed him in the very next election.
6 of one, half dozen of the other.
Idiot that can't read. Nowhere did I advocate mass genocide. Nowhere. I did mention I was fine with the Malthusians that advocated the genocide being offed but even that was meant tongue in cheek as it were. I was pointing out what it would take to stop it. The point being it's not going to stop so we'll just have to deal with it as best we can. Of course, if the people running around screaming the sky is falling were to get their worst case scenario where we have global famine then that war I spoke of is inevitable. Starving people are vicious in the extreme.
This thing is like a hobby for Musk. I think he spends all his spare time planning the colonization of Mars. I wish all these billionaires would work this hard at moving the human race forward.
"Both parties are populated by people who believe the other party is entirely populated by insane people."
They're both right.
It's nothing about 850 strategic nuclear warheads can't solve.
Fine points. Someone needs to come up with a plan for reasonable goals and try to mitigate damage and plan for changes in sea level. The problem is there is so much money involved and a lot of people plan to profit big time on the situation. Cap and Trade which is a favorite of these people is set up to profit from it. As with all things the working poor stand to take it up the ass. The funny thing is, while these people largely lack education and sophistication they aren't stupid. They know when someone pisses on their leg it's not raining.
I'm willing to start with them. Yes the world is getting hotter. Yes man is contributing and most likely is the driving force behind it. No there's no stopping it without unbelievably drastic measures that will not be accepted by almost anybody. The best chance for stopping it is a world war where 97 percent of the population is destroyed. A nuclear winter would do wonders for global warming. The climate guys would get all those glaciers back with a vengeance.
hmmmm....typo explains it. Should have left out the "not" before applications. What happens when I'm tired and posting. At least my dyslexia is mostly under contorl.
The trick is to milk the people and keep them where they'll never get ahead but they don't starve and they have a few comforts. Once people actually have no hope they become dangerous. Eventually the fuckers in charge get so arrogant and greedy that they take it all. That's when it comes apart like with the French Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
I've run into numerous bugs on Linux. I've been using it since 1999 since I finally gave up on Amiga hardware developments and moved on. During that time it has improved by leaps and bounds and has always been very stable but did suffer a lot from lack of driver support by hardware makers. It has been years since I had to hard boot a linux box though even when programs crashed. I've had to use Xkill a few times or open a terminal and kill a choked program by hand. These are generally bugs not in applications and not in Linux itself but you can see by the Kernel change log that developers are constantly chasing bugs.
I can't remember the last time I had to hard boot a computer that I own either Mac or Linux. At work they've got Win 7 Pro on all our stuff and it's generally stable enough as I think it's been about 2 years since I had to hard boot one. When we had Vista about 50 percent of them where down at any one time. Win 7 was the best thing ever to happen to our IT guys.
Given that the game has 1 hour of actual playing time and maybe 7 or 8 seconds of action per play and about 2 plays per minute that doesn't add up to much action in a game that drones on about 3 and a half hours. I've taken to DVR recording the games now and I start watching them after half time has ended. I fast forward through all the timeouts and commercials and generally I catch up to real time about the last few minutes of the game. I'm an Atlanta Falcons fan and generally all their games come down to the last 2 minutes anyway and I watch that live.
The funny thing is what's going to happen when she gets elected. Socially she's very liberal, economically she belongs to the Banks and Megacorps. She's gonna fuck everyone, not just the conservatives. I expect the worst of her crap to get full support from the Republican Elites in the Senate since the big banks own them too. I say when because I'd be shocked if she doesn't win given how much money all the big banks and corporations have dumped in her coffers. Usually they donate to both sides but since there is only one insider running she's picking up 100 percent of that money.
The interesting thing in the American Colonies is that it was mostly wealthy land holders that rebelled. Those guys that signed the Declaration of Independence actually had a lot to lose besides their heads.