Nope, just much of modern currency. A "Federal Reserve Note" is not really a dollar.
Kennedy was killed precisely because he didn't want to use fake money that could be manipulated by a global banking cartel. So they got rid of him and put Nixon in place instead, who established the fiat money system and started selling off the country to China.
The average American uses enough water each year to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool
That really doesn't seem that much for a whole year. A person can't live more than 4 or 5 days without water, and health professionals recommend people drink 2-3 liters of water per day. And that's just drinking water - people also need to bath and use water for cooking.
global agriculture consumes a whopping 92% of all fresh water used annually.
Something seems wrong for that figure. It sounds like they're saying 92% of water is diverted for irrigation, but to get that figure you would at least have to be counting all the rain that falls on all vegetation that is eventually harvested in some way.
as 'virtual water'
Wha..? Yea, I don't need to RTFA - this is obvious bullshit pushing some agenda to put all the water resources under the control of a few unelected tyrants. Screw that.
Not for me it doesn't, so where does that leave us?
A UI designed for people that design UIs?
Switching windows, the mouse way. G2: try to decipher the right one in the tasklist, carefully aim for it, click. G3: fling the mouse into the left corner, decipher the right one in the window grid, carefully aim for it, click.
At least with the taskbar, I know they are there - they got added when I opened them. I can roll over them to make sure. I don't have to minimize the current window I'm working with, or put it on the same level with all the other windows before I can bring up an existing one. I can also glance down there to see if I have the task I want already open - even if it's on a different workspace.
on the upside I don't have to have another panel to keep the tasklist somewhat readable.
I happen to like panels - they help me organize. They keep all my frequent tasks organized and easy to access. I can move them around or hide them out of the way if I want to. Bonus: They are EASY to customize. Customizing the "Dash" is a big kludgy fucking pain in the ass. I keep several shortcuts for RDesktop connections to various servers that I work on frequently. Every UI in the world is about 10 TIMES faster creating those shortcuts than Gnome 3. In fact, it's not even worth it - it's easier just to create scripts and start them from the command line.
there's alt-esc or an extension [gnome.org] if that's more your cup of tea
Not really, but it's 404'd anyway. I'm assuming the developer got disgusted and is coding for some other DE now.
The fact that there are more easily installable extensions for the Shell then the respective portions of Gnome 2 got over it's entire live span is just icing.
That's not "icing" - it's a symptom that the DE is so unusable for many users that people are spending all their time on "fixes" that they can plug in as "extensions".
but that doesn't mean it's bad which is an important distinction to make
Nope, don't misconstrue my opinions as saying Gnome 3 is necessarily bad. Just not right for people that multitask, switch between tasks frequently, or use a desktop computer most of the time because a tablet isn't functional enough.
I know a lot of people get the idea that republicans are for small government, but they are almost as bad as the Democrats when it comes to being all encompassing every bit of your private life. Just because they are the lesser of 2 evils doesn't make them not evil. Vote for a 3rd party.
And for many things Gnome 2 didn't have an option. So?
So, no matter what, with weeks of working with it and reading docs and tweaking what I can it STILL requires more mouse movements, clicks, and/or keystrokes to accomplish the same tasks (compared to Gnome 2, XFCE, and even Windows). Yea, sure, it's "pretty". Not willing to sacrifice productivity for "pretty", I guess it's just not for me.
Yes, politically expedient, especially for those corporations eager to cut costs and dump the the toxic byproducts of their manufacture and use on to a scientifically illiterate yet incredibly vulnerable populace.
You obviously have NOT been paying attention. The EPA is completely in the pocket of those corporations. Monsanto owns and runs the entire agency, and do all the toxic dumping they want. It's people putting fill dirt on their 1/2 acre lots that the EPA goes after (see Sackett v. EPA).
There are lots of other examples of stuff any reasonable man would view as "excessive property rights violations" - no hyperbole required. Yet you want to vilify your political enemies with the specious claim that they want to increase the amount of mercury and heavy metal pollution, and THAT isn't just hyperbole, it's just false.
I suggest you educate yourself a bit on what the EPA is really doing rather than trusting some partisan that can do nothing but claim the GOP is "against clean air and water".
If John Kerry had run against any of these clowns, he would be called President Kerry.
Sorry, but there is not one of them (with the possible exception of Newt) that is hated more than George W. Bush was in 2004, and Kerry didn't come close to beating Bush. So your assertion is not the least bit credible.
Yea, eventually, if I can figure out how, which Gnome doesn't help do at all. I also can't tell it "when I do this, please do that" - so it's going to do things the way it wants and it won't accommodate the way I work.
postulating that Gnome 3 should work just like Gnome 2 is not a valid resolution.
It doesn't have anything to do with "like Gnome 2" - it's "like I want". But for many things that's not an option, for others it means more clicks or keystrokes or in some cases just "I can't do that, Dave".
I don't know where you live, but police and other officials are "public organs"
LOL! Too easy.
so none of the privacy protection laws/rights apply.
Well I don't know where "around here" is, maybe Europe it's better. Here in Gitmo Nation West, people are routinely arrested for filming police. There have been many egregious cases. Unless there are specific exemptions in the policy, I have no doubt that police and public officials will use this to keep their dealing secret. It will be especially easy for public officials, since their nefarious activities are usually "out-of-the-office" or "after-hours" (so arguably not "acting officially"), even when it will affect the public.
I feel your pain. But, there is a way to enable the minimize/maximize buttons using the gconf_editor (look for "button_layout"). You're supposed to use "the Dash" instead of your desktop now (something I don't like myself, but there it is).
Frankly, I've tried to deal with Gnome 3 because I've used Gnome for so long, but it looks like I'm going to end up switching to XFCE instead. I just can't be as productive with the new UI, and I've really made an effort to work with it.
What are you talking about? GNOME 3 supports display of multiple non-maximised windows. Have you even used it?
Sort of. But it doesn't really seem to like that. Go to the Dash or Application menu to open a new terminal window, and instead Gnome says - "oh - Terminal! Here's your terminal window right HERE", and just maximizes the one already open. So I have to get Terminal to open a new one for me. Every application works like that. "You don't want ANOTHER application window - use THIS OPEN ONE INSTEAD!"
So Gnome does what it wants, not what I want it to do. And it takes me more mouse click and keystrokes to do anything than it did in Gnome 2. Why?!?
Free speech is not about re-posting pictures of someone else
Sure it is. If it doesn't cover that, imagine what police and politicians and corporate bad actors could get away with if their "right to be forgotten" is allowed to trump your free speech to tell people about what they did.
Too bad the Republican party isn't going to run anyone remotely interesting as a candidate. I'd happily vote against Obama if something credible were offered from the other side.
Yea, more likely they'll put up the Republican version of John Kerry. I'm still hoping enough of them will get enough of a clue to nominate Ron Paul. I'd love to see the two of them debate the merits of borrowing money from China to kill brown people in the Middle East.
Hyperbole is, by definition, "anti-intellectual", but of course you have to defend the practice in this case because it fits your ideology.
You're also wrong about "the rest of the post", which is all hyperbole. Cutting funding to the EPA is simply the most expedient way to reign in the incredibly excessive property rights violations the agency routinely uses to further its pro-NWO agenda and the trashing of the environment by the Big Ag corporations that they work for. It's funny that the left so vociferously defends the actions of an agency just because they have so much power over private property, when they do so much to support the ruinous destruction of healthy agricultural practices perpetrated ADM and Monsanto.
Pretty sure we're beyond that point already, certainly if you count unfunded liabilities. The current "fiscally conservative" budget proposals still add about a trillion dollars of real every year for the next 10 years, which will likely put the US over 100% of GDP.
This is why the US is doomed. $15 trillion in debt and and $117 trillion in unfunded liabilities, and the/. crowd is so opposed to cutting any spending that just mentioning the idea gets you unfairly moderated into oblivion.
Come on, man, how can you be against research funding? It doesn't matter how much debt it generates - it's an investment. We can patent the resulting technology then hand it over to the Chinese to build it for us. Be sure to send your grandchildren to law school so they can become IP lawyers and sue the Chinese companies for infringement, that way they might make enough money to pay off all the debt.
It may be well-written, but it's full of hyperbole, and even outright deception claiming that the platform claims "all scientists in the world are part of one big conspiracy". Well-written flamebait got the response it deserved.
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ALL money is "pretend" as you put it.
Nope, just much of modern currency. A "Federal Reserve Note" is not really a dollar.
Kennedy was killed precisely because he didn't want to use fake money that could be manipulated by a global banking cartel. So they got rid of him and put Nixon in place instead, who established the fiat money system and started selling off the country to China.
The average American uses enough water each year to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool
That really doesn't seem that much for a whole year. A person can't live more than 4 or 5 days without water, and health professionals recommend people drink 2-3 liters of water per day. And that's just drinking water - people also need to bath and use water for cooking.
global agriculture consumes a whopping 92% of all fresh water used annually.
Something seems wrong for that figure. It sounds like they're saying 92% of water is diverted for irrigation, but to get that figure you would at least have to be counting all the rain that falls on all vegetation that is eventually harvested in some way.
as 'virtual water'
Wha..? Yea, I don't need to RTFA - this is obvious bullshit pushing some agenda to put all the water resources under the control of a few unelected tyrants. Screw that.
Not for me it doesn't, so where does that leave us?
A UI designed for people that design UIs?
Switching windows, the mouse way. G2: try to decipher the right one in the tasklist, carefully aim for it, click. G3: fling the mouse into the left corner, decipher the right one in the window grid, carefully aim for it, click.
At least with the taskbar, I know they are there - they got added when I opened them. I can roll over them to make sure. I don't have to minimize the current window I'm working with, or put it on the same level with all the other windows before I can bring up an existing one. I can also glance down there to see if I have the task I want already open - even if it's on a different workspace.
on the upside I don't have to have another panel to keep the tasklist somewhat readable.
I happen to like panels - they help me organize. They keep all my frequent tasks organized and easy to access. I can move them around or hide them out of the way if I want to. Bonus: They are EASY to customize. Customizing the "Dash" is a big kludgy fucking pain in the ass. I keep several shortcuts for RDesktop connections to various servers that I work on frequently. Every UI in the world is about 10 TIMES faster creating those shortcuts than Gnome 3. In fact, it's not even worth it - it's easier just to create scripts and start them from the command line.
there's alt-esc or an extension [gnome.org] if that's more your cup of tea
Not really, but it's 404'd anyway. I'm assuming the developer got disgusted and is coding for some other DE now.
The fact that there are more easily installable extensions for the Shell then the respective portions of Gnome 2 got over it's entire live span is just icing.
That's not "icing" - it's a symptom that the DE is so unusable for many users that people are spending all their time on "fixes" that they can plug in as "extensions".
but that doesn't mean it's bad which is an important distinction to make
Nope, don't misconstrue my opinions as saying Gnome 3 is necessarily bad. Just not right for people that multitask, switch between tasks frequently, or use a desktop computer most of the time because a tablet isn't functional enough.
I know a lot of people get the idea that republicans are for small government, but they are almost as bad as the Democrats when it comes to being all encompassing every bit of your private life. Just because they are the lesser of 2 evils doesn't make them not evil. Vote for a 3rd party.
Vote for Ron Paul and you won't have to.
Dear mods:
The parent post is not a "Troll".
This post, however, could be considered "offtopic". Now try using your points according to the rules, not your ideology.
"Politician uses inflammatory rhetoric to vilify policy opposition!"
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And for many things Gnome 2 didn't have an option. So?
So, no matter what, with weeks of working with it and reading docs and tweaking what I can it STILL requires more mouse movements, clicks, and/or keystrokes to accomplish the same tasks (compared to Gnome 2, XFCE, and even Windows). Yea, sure, it's "pretty". Not willing to sacrifice productivity for "pretty", I guess it's just not for me.
Yes, politically expedient, especially for those corporations eager to cut costs and dump the the toxic byproducts of their manufacture and use on to a scientifically illiterate yet incredibly vulnerable populace.
You obviously have NOT been paying attention. The EPA is completely in the pocket of those corporations. Monsanto owns and runs the entire agency, and do all the toxic dumping they want. It's people putting fill dirt on their 1/2 acre lots that the EPA goes after (see Sackett v. EPA).
There are lots of other examples of stuff any reasonable man would view as "excessive property rights violations" - no hyperbole required. Yet you want to vilify your political enemies with the specious claim that they want to increase the amount of mercury and heavy metal pollution, and THAT isn't just hyperbole, it's just false.
I suggest you educate yourself a bit on what the EPA is really doing rather than trusting some partisan that can do nothing but claim the GOP is "against clean air and water".
If John Kerry had run against any of these clowns, he would be called President Kerry.
Sorry, but there is not one of them (with the possible exception of Newt) that is hated more than George W. Bush was in 2004, and Kerry didn't come close to beating Bush. So your assertion is not the least bit credible.
If you tell Gnome to open a new window it will.
Yea, eventually, if I can figure out how, which Gnome doesn't help do at all. I also can't tell it "when I do this, please do that" - so it's going to do things the way it wants and it won't accommodate the way I work.
postulating that Gnome 3 should work just like Gnome 2 is not a valid resolution.
It doesn't have anything to do with "like Gnome 2" - it's "like I want". But for many things that's not an option, for others it means more clicks or keystrokes or in some cases just "I can't do that, Dave".
I don't know where you live, but police and other officials are "public organs"
LOL! Too easy.
so none of the privacy protection laws/rights apply.
Well I don't know where "around here" is, maybe Europe it's better. Here in Gitmo Nation West, people are routinely arrested for filming police. There have been many egregious cases. Unless there are specific exemptions in the policy, I have no doubt that police and public officials will use this to keep their dealing secret. It will be especially easy for public officials, since their nefarious activities are usually "out-of-the-office" or "after-hours" (so arguably not "acting officially"), even when it will affect the public.
I feel your pain. But, there is a way to enable the minimize/maximize buttons using the gconf_editor (look for "button_layout"). You're supposed to use "the Dash" instead of your desktop now (something I don't like myself, but there it is).
Frankly, I've tried to deal with Gnome 3 because I've used Gnome for so long, but it looks like I'm going to end up switching to XFCE instead. I just can't be as productive with the new UI, and I've really made an effort to work with it.
What are you talking about? GNOME 3 supports display of multiple non-maximised windows. Have you even used it?
Sort of. But it doesn't really seem to like that. Go to the Dash or Application menu to open a new terminal window, and instead Gnome says - "oh - Terminal! Here's your terminal window right HERE", and just maximizes the one already open. So I have to get Terminal to open a new one for me. Every application works like that. "You don't want ANOTHER application window - use THIS OPEN ONE INSTEAD!"
So Gnome does what it wants, not what I want it to do. And it takes me more mouse click and keystrokes to do anything than it did in Gnome 2. Why?!?
Free speech is not about re-posting pictures of someone else
Sure it is. If it doesn't cover that, imagine what police and politicians and corporate bad actors could get away with if their "right to be forgotten" is allowed to trump your free speech to tell people about what they did.
Too bad the Republican party isn't going to run anyone remotely interesting as a candidate. I'd happily vote against Obama if something credible were offered from the other side.
Yea, more likely they'll put up the Republican version of John Kerry. I'm still hoping enough of them will get enough of a clue to nominate Ron Paul. I'd love to see the two of them debate the merits of borrowing money from China to kill brown people in the Middle East.
Hyperbole is, by definition, "anti-intellectual", but of course you have to defend the practice in this case because it fits your ideology.
You're also wrong about "the rest of the post", which is all hyperbole. Cutting funding to the EPA is simply the most expedient way to reign in the incredibly excessive property rights violations the agency routinely uses to further its pro-NWO agenda and the trashing of the environment by the Big Ag corporations that they work for. It's funny that the left so vociferously defends the actions of an agency just because they have so much power over private property, when they do so much to support the ruinous destruction of healthy agricultural practices perpetrated ADM and Monsanto.
I've never seen a Catholic wearing a tinfoil hat. Can you provide evidence for this claim?
Whoa! Really? Never seen the pope? Why do you think that friggin' hat is so big, anyway? Yep, totally lined with tin-foil.
Pretty sure we're beyond that point already, certainly if you count unfunded liabilities. The current "fiscally conservative" budget proposals still add about a trillion dollars of real every year for the next 10 years, which will likely put the US over 100% of GDP.
Hmmm... either my hints were too subtle, or you switch off you sarcasm detector before reading my post.
But Bernanke keeps telling me there IS no inflation. WTF?
Keynesian Economists will tell you that a balance budget when you are trying to grow the economy is a bad idea.
FTFY
This is why the US is doomed. $15 trillion in debt and and $117 trillion in unfunded liabilities, and the /. crowd is so opposed to cutting any spending that just mentioning the idea gets you unfairly moderated into oblivion.
I guess I need to learn Mandarin or Hindi.
Come on, man, how can you be against research funding? It doesn't matter how much debt it generates - it's an investment. We can patent the resulting technology then hand it over to the Chinese to build it for us. Be sure to send your grandchildren to law school so they can become IP lawyers and sue the Chinese companies for infringement, that way they might make enough money to pay off all the debt.
That's not just some Republicans with that as a priority - there are plenty of independents and, yes, even Democrats that feel the same way.
It may be well-written, but it's full of hyperbole, and even outright deception claiming that the platform claims "all scientists in the world are part of one big conspiracy". Well-written flamebait got the response it deserved.