I collected paperback and hard cover books for almost 5 decades. I had storage bins in the attic and garage full of them. They all went to a "friends of the library" benefit sale. About two thousand books gone freeing up space and now I have more than that amount on a hard drive and about 200 on my phone. No more dead tree books and magazines for me. I can pull up something to read any time and any place. Technology is fabulous.
I know I'm never going to like everything about any candidate. I remember when President Obama got elected I was kind of like "well at least we'll get rid of that stinking Patriot Act bullcrap." Nope! He continued the worst of the Bush policies and brought his own craziness to boot.
The funny thing is that out of the Democrats the one I respect the most is Bernie Sanders. He has integrity and he's sincere. I disagree with much of his politics but he seems a good person and I think if he was elected it wouldn't be the worst thing to happen. Hillary is just plain corrupt. Out of the Republicans I kind of like Ted Cruz on some levels. I like to watch Trump raise hell but I just can't see him as president. A lot of the crazy things he touts are in my opinion just him going for shock value. I like Carson as a person and he's a hell of a surgeon but that's what he needs to keep doing. Jeb Bush is the Republican version of Hillary. The corrupt money behind the party loves him. I really hate that Ron Paul got too old. I voted for him many times. I'm sort of a libertarian. I think there are many things the Feds should be doing but if we actually limited them to those things then at least half of the Federal government could go away.
In your ignorance you ignore the obvious. The Feds control the money. Don't follow the Feds program? You don't get any money! It's so simple yet you missed it.
As for Rush copying the daily show, just like everything else your facts are bogus. Rush's show ran from 92-96 and the Daily Show started in 96. Wonder who copied who?
You were doing okay for a minute. Now your brain farted. What the fuck does Rush Limbaugh, who I haven't heard in over 10 years or so anywhere (didn't he die or something?) have to do with anything. The Department of Education has for the last 4 decades, I know because I lived through them, systematically destroyed education in this country. Instead of bringing the students up to high standards they decided to lower the standards so that people who had a hard time passing, mostly poor people, could pass easily. I noticed that my children's books in the eighties and nineties were much less challenging than those I had when I attended school and generally their work was to a lesser standard. All this occurred during a period of time when the US department of education was mostly under the control of a liberal and "modern" leadership that decided the old ways of learning were inefficient and didn't properly serve the people of today. It's not entirely a Democrat thing though as Jeb Bush has sipped from the Koolaid as well. Of course Bush isn't really a conservative. As to Rushbo who you hold in such disdain, I never really cared for Rush's radio show, it was 3 hours of non-stop demagoguery that got boring quickly. He did have a really fabulous TV show for a while that was a scream. It was almost entirely 30 minutes of video gleaned from various sources of Democrats saying the nuttiest things while he ridiculed them. He being a staunch Republican it was of course entirely one sided. Classic material though.
The real problem began when it became all about graduating people. We can no longer allow people to fail so we must dumb down the system so that the lowest common denominator can pass. The reason children fail, for the most part, is that their parents don't parent. A sizeable chunk of children in the US basically raise themselves. I had a sister in law who was a speech pathologist in the local school system that had children under her care who could not stay awake in school because they went to bed at 1 or 2 in the morning many days. They often fell asleep in front of the TV or on their Playstation. Many of them have single mothers as parents who are barely able to care for themselves let alone their children. If you think the current generation has problems then just wait. You haven't seen anything yet.
I don't know if they intend to decimate the education system or not. I know the Democrats have all but destroyed it nationally in the last few decades and I don't see the Republicans improving it but I fail to see how they'll make it much worse. I thought maybe Jeb Bush would get elected and that might actually worsen it but it seems now that he will thankfully fade away so I suppose it will most likely just stagger on at it's current pathetic level for a while.
I'm pretty sure it was that Democrats are idiots. I mean, he all but said it. I'm not a genius yet somehow I picked right up on it. I'd bet you're a Democrat too.
Every community has these kooks. I've had the sad misfortune to be on a jury with one. It took all my willpower not to choke the ignorant bitch. We had a case where a car put on their turn indicator and stopped to let traffic go by before turning. The car behind them stopped and so did 3 others but one girl, very cute and sweet looking, plowed into the back of an elderly couple's car. She stated that she felt it wasn't the girl's fault because she probably wasn't looking. She said that shit completely sincere. It went on like that all day.
2GB is almost nothing. I don't think I've seen a thumb drive smaller than 4GB for sale in a long time and those come in a three pack now for like $5. I wont say it's useless but really I don't see how it's worth paying for. I imagine the personal information they sift for is worth more than the storage to them.
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Come on man, don't you recognize sarcasm?
The people in NK think the poor in the US are billionaires.
It's actually the Democrats....they don't want you to have a car because cars cause global warming. It's all about saving the world dude!
Maybe we could have a Patriot Act OS version for the US. It will keep us safe from the terrorists.
I collected paperback and hard cover books for almost 5 decades. I had storage bins in the attic and garage full of them. They all went to a "friends of the library" benefit sale. About two thousand books gone freeing up space and now I have more than that amount on a hard drive and about 200 on my phone. No more dead tree books and magazines for me. I can pull up something to read any time and any place. Technology is fabulous.
Not yet, give it another few decades. Of course after all the nukes go off everything should cool down nicely.
Just think of all the new sea shore frontage. Atlanta, Georgia will be an ocean port. Too bad about Savannah.
I know I'm never going to like everything about any candidate. I remember when President Obama got elected I was kind of like "well at least we'll get rid of that stinking Patriot Act bullcrap." Nope! He continued the worst of the Bush policies and brought his own craziness to boot.
The funny thing is that out of the Democrats the one I respect the most is Bernie Sanders. He has integrity and he's sincere. I disagree with much of his politics but he seems a good person and I think if he was elected it wouldn't be the worst thing to happen. Hillary is just plain corrupt. Out of the Republicans I kind of like Ted Cruz on some levels. I like to watch Trump raise hell but I just can't see him as president. A lot of the crazy things he touts are in my opinion just him going for shock value. I like Carson as a person and he's a hell of a surgeon but that's what he needs to keep doing. Jeb Bush is the Republican version of Hillary. The corrupt money behind the party loves him. I really hate that Ron Paul got too old. I voted for him many times. I'm sort of a libertarian. I think there are many things the Feds should be doing but if we actually limited them to those things then at least half of the Federal government could go away.
In your ignorance you ignore the obvious. The Feds control the money. Don't follow the Feds program? You don't get any money! It's so simple yet you missed it.
As for Rush copying the daily show, just like everything else your facts are bogus. Rush's show ran from 92-96 and the Daily Show started in 96. Wonder who copied who?
What do I consider Bush? An idiot.
You were doing okay for a minute. Now your brain farted. What the fuck does Rush Limbaugh, who I haven't heard in over 10 years or so anywhere (didn't he die or something?) have to do with anything. The Department of Education has for the last 4 decades, I know because I lived through them, systematically destroyed education in this country. Instead of bringing the students up to high standards they decided to lower the standards so that people who had a hard time passing, mostly poor people, could pass easily. I noticed that my children's books in the eighties and nineties were much less challenging than those I had when I attended school and generally their work was to a lesser standard. All this occurred during a period of time when the US department of education was mostly under the control of a liberal and "modern" leadership that decided the old ways of learning were inefficient and didn't properly serve the people of today. It's not entirely a Democrat thing though as Jeb Bush has sipped from the Koolaid as well. Of course Bush isn't really a conservative. As to Rushbo who you hold in such disdain, I never really cared for Rush's radio show, it was 3 hours of non-stop demagoguery that got boring quickly. He did have a really fabulous TV show for a while that was a scream. It was almost entirely 30 minutes of video gleaned from various sources of Democrats saying the nuttiest things while he ridiculed them. He being a staunch Republican it was of course entirely one sided. Classic material though.
The real problem began when it became all about graduating people. We can no longer allow people to fail so we must dumb down the system so that the lowest common denominator can pass. The reason children fail, for the most part, is that their parents don't parent. A sizeable chunk of children in the US basically raise themselves. I had a sister in law who was a speech pathologist in the local school system that had children under her care who could not stay awake in school because they went to bed at 1 or 2 in the morning many days. They often fell asleep in front of the TV or on their Playstation. Many of them have single mothers as parents who are barely able to care for themselves let alone their children. If you think the current generation has problems then just wait. You haven't seen anything yet.
I guess not.
Jeff Foxworthy one-liner.
If you've been on TV more than 5 times describing what a tornado sounded like.....you might be a redneck.
I don't know if they intend to decimate the education system or not. I know the Democrats have all but destroyed it nationally in the last few decades and I don't see the Republicans improving it but I fail to see how they'll make it much worse. I thought maybe Jeb Bush would get elected and that might actually worsen it but it seems now that he will thankfully fade away so I suppose it will most likely just stagger on at it's current pathetic level for a while.
I'm pretty sure it was that Democrats are idiots. I mean, he all but said it. I'm not a genius yet somehow I picked right up on it. I'd bet you're a Democrat too.
Sounds about right. Given what they pay teachers I'm shocked when they're actually competent.
Every community has these kooks. I've had the sad misfortune to be on a jury with one. It took all my willpower not to choke the ignorant bitch. We had a case where a car put on their turn indicator and stopped to let traffic go by before turning. The car behind them stopped and so did 3 others but one girl, very cute and sweet looking, plowed into the back of an elderly couple's car. She stated that she felt it wasn't the girl's fault because she probably wasn't looking. She said that shit completely sincere. It went on like that all day.
You can find ignorant people anywhere. Some places, like slashdot, just have more than their fair share.
I don't know about that. It just seems that a one third increase is pretty shocking.
Everything is relative. For something the size of Microsoft........
Looking at NYC statistics it seems murder has dropped a good bit but forcible rape has skyrocketed.
2GB is almost nothing. I don't think I've seen a thumb drive smaller than 4GB for sale in a long time and those come in a three pack now for like $5. I wont say it's useless but really I don't see how it's worth paying for. I imagine the personal information they sift for is worth more than the storage to them.
I have 12 Terabytes of storage on my desk. The smallest thumb drive I have is 32 GB. 15 GB of storage isn't a blip.
That is why companies hire foreign workers and have their US workers train them before they fire the US workers.