number of people that would like to see the South go. They take in more federal dollars than they give while electing Representatives that campaign against receiving those dollars. They're largely the reason the rest of the Country can't have socialized medicine.
Personally I can't see abandoning them, but then again I think the point of civilization isn't to protect property but to improve the lives of everyone. That's a fundamental philosophy that a lot disagree with.
Uh, dude, she's not stupid, she's mentally ill. See, in America we do all we can to ignore mental illness and blame it on a. upbringing or b. ignorance. The best part about real mental illness is it's often acute. e.g. sudden shifts in brain chemistry can turn a regular person into on of you're 'stupid people' overnight. Plus it's chemical, and the imbalances are often hereditary. Where did you think the phrase "runs in the family" comes from?
isn't the 'boss class' to blame? Seriously, Western Civilization really does seem to revel in self flagellation. Like a rape victim blaming themselves, which is weirdly appropriate (ironic? I can't remember the actual meaning of that word though... )
I've maintained a goofy little firefox plugin for a few years now and put together a few simple Android apps. It helps me keep my programing skills up while I'm working in IT, and the plugin's big enough I do a little project management on it:). Besides, I get bored playing video games all day long:).
Microsoft set the bar, and set it low. When there were several very usable desktop environments that ran on the 386 (which was a ridiculously powerful computer) theirs (Windows 2.0) was junk. It was also cheap, and OEMs packaged it up so they could say they had a desktop environment w/o paying for one...
Don't get me started on Beos. I don't care so much that they killed the OS, but they buried the technology too. Beos had a multimedia filesystem with working meta data that was fully searchable in near real time in 1999 for God's sake, and it did that on a 400 Mhz AMD. Microsoft STILL can't get that working.
Microsoft has set back software development and usability at least 20 years. I keep hearing how amazing their engineers are, but I don't see much evidence of that. What I see a series of Alphas (Vista), turned into Betas (Win7) and then back again (Win8). Forget my flying car, why the hell can't I move a window on a screen without ghosting in 2013? I have 2 gig of ram on my VIDEO CARD...:(
This is the whole point of the article. Robotics are taking over from humans, most of us are becoming redundant, and we're blind to the very real social changes because they don't look like Twiki from Buck Rodgers.
but I can't think of a solution that isn't socialism and wealth redistribution (since robots basically do away with 90% of the work ppl were doing), and everytime you suggest that you get shouted down with "Marxist!"....:(
Magsafe plugs last longer. The #1 cause of dead laptops is dead laptop jacks. Dead laptops end up in landfills paid for by you and me. Europe doesn't tolerate subsidizing corporate waste, I'd like to see the US stop.
I'd argue that freedom is economic security. When you've got food, housing and healthcare then your free. When you're fighting to keep those things (like 76% of Americans) that's when you become a slave.
the CPU along is $329 bucks on Newegg:(. The you need a Motherboard (and if you buy a cheapo you'll take a big performance hit. Then there's RAM, a hard drive, case and power supply, and finally the 'Microsoft tax'
I love the idea of high performance integrated graphics to replace my console, but the trouble Valve is gonna have is the same problem 3DO did. I hadn't noticed it for years, but since Valve isn't making the hardware they're not _subsidizing_ the hardware. Even the PS4/XBone are barely profitable. The cost of decent Intel hardware would have to plummet (or the Tegra 5 would have to be dirt cheap) for this to really work long term...
Classic Game Room moved there, and has their own site (www.classicgameroom.com). The trouble I have is I miss seeing him in my youtube subscription feed:(
The world needs ditch diggers too you know. Increasingly I'm seeing a sink or swim mentality brought on by businesses (and the local Republican run "Chamber of Commerce", which to my surprise is actually just a lobby group for the GOP).
but you're losing sight of the problem code.org is trying to solve: highly paid software engineers. Whoops, there I go again with that 'Critical Thinkin''.:)
companies are great at thinking long term. Look at gerrymandering in the United States. It took 20 years for the Republican party to completely take control of the State Legislatures and use that control to redraw the districts. Look at Hostess Bakery, that spent 10 years dismantling their Union.
If anything, companies are great at screwing us in the long term. Now, doing _good_ in the long term. You're right, that just doesn't happen.
is how to keep somebody from tricking the electorate into privatizing it with the promise if big, big savings from the more efficient 'Free Market' approach, and then cutting corners and/or not retiring plants when it's time. It was pretty well documented that the Fukushima plant had outlived it's safe operational time. My favorite argument was that these kind of disasters happen once a century, when the last record of such a disaster was about 100 years ago...
Basically, Nuclear power can be safe, but it's ever so much more profitable when it's not. And I don't know how to keep people from trading tax cuts for their safety:(...
where they still fund some basic research. Here in America, where we're all taxed to the max and the "Job Creators" are just too underpaid to make more jobs ($4400/hr? How could anyone live off that?) we've pretty much stopped funding basic research. I know several doctors that moved to Europe not to escape over regulation (ha!) but because nobody here would pay for their research. With the Universities becoming a paid racket ($40,000 for in state tuition? not enough, it goes up ever year) we're not even getting that anymore (can't have those evil tenured professors runnin' round spreadin' lies anyway)...
Basically, American is the wealthiest country on the planet and we're hoarding it:(.
which I think fits into this model. It was neat, but kind of a mess. As soon as I wanted to do something the creators of OL didn't think of I ended up writing a lot of JavaScript and stuffing it in weird places.
I like the HTML/Android approach: Use Declarations for the UI layout and let old fashion code control the logic.
the current Supreme Court doesn't have a good track record of siding with the 'Little Guy' (*cough*Cittzen's United *cough* Voters Rights Act*). Maybe it's just the libtard in me but I don't have high hopes were going to see an entire class of 'property' invalidated...:(
Laptops? While I'd love to see a nice, low cost CPU/GPU combo that can hang with my (rather meager) Athlon X2 6000+ and GT 240, I'm still running pretty low end gear. If this is targeted at enthusiasts they're just going to replace it with a card...
the majority of their money touring? Last I heard unless you made it through your first few record deals with your popularity intact and could re-negotiate you weren't making anything on record sales. Heck, at times you were paying the studio to sell your records in the form of loan interest.
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it's a mature enough product that a kickstarter could probably raise the funding needed to get the work done :).
number of people that would like to see the South go. They take in more federal dollars than they give while electing Representatives that campaign against receiving those dollars. They're largely the reason the rest of the Country can't have socialized medicine.
Personally I can't see abandoning them, but then again I think the point of civilization isn't to protect property but to improve the lives of everyone. That's a fundamental philosophy that a lot disagree with.
Uh, dude, she's not stupid, she's mentally ill. See, in America we do all we can to ignore mental illness and blame it on a. upbringing or b. ignorance. The best part about real mental illness is it's often acute. e.g. sudden shifts in brain chemistry can turn a regular person into on of you're 'stupid people' overnight. Plus it's chemical, and the imbalances are often hereditary. Where did you think the phrase "runs in the family" comes from?
isn't the 'boss class' to blame? Seriously, Western Civilization really does seem to revel in self flagellation. Like a rape victim blaming themselves, which is weirdly appropriate (ironic? I can't remember the actual meaning of that word though... )
Here you go. Now, good luck staying in business...
I've maintained a goofy little firefox plugin for a few years now and put together a few simple Android apps. It helps me keep my programing skills up while I'm working in IT, and the plugin's big enough I do a little project management on it :). Besides, I get bored playing video games all day long :).
Microsoft set the bar, and set it low. When there were several very usable desktop environments that ran on the 386 (which was a ridiculously powerful computer) theirs (Windows 2.0) was junk. It was also cheap, and OEMs packaged it up so they could say they had a desktop environment w/o paying for one...
:(
Don't get me started on Beos. I don't care so much that they killed the OS, but they buried the technology too. Beos had a multimedia filesystem with working meta data that was fully searchable in near real time in 1999 for God's sake, and it did that on a 400 Mhz AMD. Microsoft STILL can't get that working.
Microsoft has set back software development and usability at least 20 years. I keep hearing how amazing their engineers are, but I don't see much evidence of that. What I see a series of Alphas (Vista), turned into Betas (Win7) and then back again (Win8). Forget my flying car, why the hell can't I move a window on a screen without ghosting in 2013? I have 2 gig of ram on my VIDEO CARD...
This is the whole point of the article. Robotics are taking over from humans, most of us are becoming redundant, and we're blind to the very real social changes because they don't look like Twiki from Buck Rodgers.
but I can't think of a solution that isn't socialism and wealth redistribution (since robots basically do away with 90% of the work ppl were doing), and everytime you suggest that you get shouted down with "Marxist!".... :(
Magsafe plugs last longer. The #1 cause of dead laptops is dead laptop jacks. Dead laptops end up in landfills paid for by you and me. Europe doesn't tolerate subsidizing corporate waste, I'd like to see the US stop.
Having stepped on a 3-prong British plug it's damn near impossible to make something resistant to the buggers. Worse than Legos, I swear.
I'd argue that freedom is economic security. When you've got food, housing and healthcare then your free. When you're fighting to keep those things (like 76% of Americans) that's when you become a slave.
the CPU along is $329 bucks on Newegg :(. The you need a Motherboard (and if you buy a cheapo you'll take a big performance hit. Then there's RAM, a hard drive, case and power supply, and finally the 'Microsoft tax'
I love the idea of high performance integrated graphics to replace my console, but the trouble Valve is gonna have is the same problem 3DO did. I hadn't noticed it for years, but since Valve isn't making the hardware they're not _subsidizing_ the hardware. Even the PS4/XBone are barely profitable. The cost of decent Intel hardware would have to plummet (or the Tegra 5 would have to be dirt cheap) for this to really work long term...
Classic Game Room moved there, and has their own site (www.classicgameroom.com). The trouble I have is I miss seeing him in my youtube subscription feed :(
Right here.
what matters is if you're a voting block. Secularists aren't. It's hard to form a voting block around not believing something....
The world needs ditch diggers too you know. Increasingly I'm seeing a sink or swim mentality brought on by businesses (and the local Republican run "Chamber of Commerce", which to my surprise is actually just a lobby group for the GOP).
but you're losing sight of the problem code.org is trying to solve: highly paid software engineers. Whoops, there I go again with that 'Critical Thinkin''. :)
companies are great at thinking long term. Look at gerrymandering in the United States. It took 20 years for the Republican party to completely take control of the State Legislatures and use that control to redraw the districts. Look at Hostess Bakery, that spent 10 years dismantling their Union.
If anything, companies are great at screwing us in the long term. Now, doing _good_ in the long term. You're right, that just doesn't happen.
is how to keep somebody from tricking the electorate into privatizing it with the promise if big, big savings from the more efficient 'Free Market' approach, and then cutting corners and/or not retiring plants when it's time. It was pretty well documented that the Fukushima plant had outlived it's safe operational time. My favorite argument was that these kind of disasters happen once a century, when the last record of such a disaster was about 100 years ago...
:(...
Basically, Nuclear power can be safe, but it's ever so much more profitable when it's not. And I don't know how to keep people from trading tax cuts for their safety
where they still fund some basic research. Here in America, where we're all taxed to the max and the "Job Creators" are just too underpaid to make more jobs ($4400/hr? How could anyone live off that?) we've pretty much stopped funding basic research. I know several doctors that moved to Europe not to escape over regulation (ha!) but because nobody here would pay for their research. With the Universities becoming a paid racket ($40,000 for in state tuition? not enough, it goes up ever year) we're not even getting that anymore (can't have those evil tenured professors runnin' round spreadin' lies anyway)...
:(.
Basically, American is the wealthiest country on the planet and we're hoarding it
which I think fits into this model. It was neat, but kind of a mess. As soon as I wanted to do something the creators of OL didn't think of I ended up writing a lot of JavaScript and stuffing it in weird places.
I like the HTML/Android approach: Use Declarations for the UI layout and let old fashion code control the logic.
the current Supreme Court doesn't have a good track record of siding with the 'Little Guy' (*cough*Cittzen's United *cough* Voters Rights Act*). Maybe it's just the libtard in me but I don't have high hopes were going to see an entire class of 'property' invalidated... :(
Laptops? While I'd love to see a nice, low cost CPU/GPU combo that can hang with my (rather meager) Athlon X2 6000+ and GT 240, I'm still running pretty low end gear. If this is targeted at enthusiasts they're just going to replace it with a card...
the majority of their money touring? Last I heard unless you made it through your first few record deals with your popularity intact and could re-negotiate you weren't making anything on record sales. Heck, at times you were paying the studio to sell your records in the form of loan interest.