It varies by country, but you still might be able to collect your Social Security when you retire to Europe. Seriously, look into it. I want to move to Mexico, and I'll be able to collect it.
I just checked the SSA.gov site, and if you're planning on moving to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or Russia, you're out of luck.
The other thing to consider is keeping your US bank account, and just having your SS funds direct deposited. Direct deposit is also available to banks outside the US.
I'm a conservative. More specifically, I am a fiscal conservsative, but socially liberal. I believe in the power of capitalism, but I think that the extremes of capitalism must be moderated by the state, i.e., child labor laws are a good thing, etc.
I am also a registered Republican, although I am quite out of touch with my party. Or rather I should say that my party has become quite out of touch with the values it once held dear. It talks the talk, but it no longer walks the walk.
I also have been following the growth of the Religious Right in my party. What started as a marriage of political convenience, as a coalition, has turned into a theocracy. No longer are the members of my party governed by enlightened self-interest, but by blind ideological and theological faith in George Bush.
You speak of compromise. Would you compromise with the terrorists? Would you negotiate with Bin Laden? Can you really trust anyone for whom the ends always justifies the means? So, how should we compromise with our own domestic homegrown fundamentalists? What liberties should we give away to appease them? How much corporate welfare is acceptable? Which lies are acceptable to justify war? By compromise, you mean we should allow Bush to dismantle Social Security just a little bit?
Compromise and negotiation are possible with a reasonable person on the other side of the table. When you realize how insane the Bush agenda really is, you realize that there is no compromise.
I do hope that/. in 2006 doesn't have a new flame topic:
HURD v Linux
Let me be the first to post the Kottke/HURD troll.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you HURD fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. Then it hit me. This doesn't even have a files system yet. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running Gentoo, which by all standards should be a lot slower than HURD, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, FireFox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even VIM is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on HURD, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a HURD that has run faster than its Linux counterpart, despite the HURD's' micro kernel architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 3.5 Ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that L4 is a superior kernel.
HURD addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use HURD over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Bush's plan for NASA was to cancel funding for the good science NASA's been doing, and redirect funding into an empty promise of a mission to Mars, for the sole purpose of National Penis Length Extension. Unfortunately, it's going to make us look rather "short" when the Mars mission doesn't materialize. In the meantime, NASA's good science gets sabotaged.
Also, in the meantime, the NASA budget gets funneled to Bush's favorite charities^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Horporations.
The plan for the dismantling of NASA bears some resemblance to the plan to dismantle Social Security. The very rich will get richer, but when SS falls apart due to Bush's harebrained scheme, everyone else will suffer.
As much as I would like to see Hubble repaired and maintained, we can't afford it right now. Nor can we afford to "fix" the fake Social Security crisis, nor keep funneling money to Haliburton and it's subsidiaries in their Iraqi venture. We need to get out of Iraq in a year, two years tops, and return to fiscal responsibility. We've got a Republican president and Republican control of both houses of Congress. Why are they not acting with fiscal responsibility? Did the entire Republican Party get fooled by a bunch of neo-liberals* with fake name tags?
Senator Rostenkowski (a Democrat) eventually pointed out that it was a scam and was being sold to the public with a figure that was less than 1/3 than the cost Hillary knew it would entail.
So you're saying that Hillary is almost as bad as Bush? =)
I think your criticism of the Post Office is unfair. For simple letters and packages, they can't be beat.
What is the deal with HUD? It doesn't seem to matter what administration is in power, HUD always seems to be a hot bed of corruption and the poster child of bad bureaucracy.
I may be totally out in left field on this one (or in Norway), but I have no idea what you just said?
Wait, Norway schools are like Swedish insane asylums? Oh god, I'm not sleeping tonight. I need to get this.
You got it. It was a joke I heard in Sweden. I heard a similar joke in Norway, but in that joke, it was a Norwegian insane asylum and the guy was discovered teaching in Sweden. I suppose one could modify this joke to fit any regional rivalry.
. Should I mention that I have a teaching degree (that always draws out the grammar psychos)?
Wait. I think I heard this one. You're the guy who escaped from the Swedish insane asylum, only to be discovered years later, teaching school in Norway. =)
Do I need to reword it?
You might, if you're trying to communicate something. =)
You know the deal with Mr. Pibb and Dr. Pepper, right? They were half brothers. They both went to med school, but Mr. Pibb dropped out and became a back alley abortionist. Pibb was constantly in financial or legal trouble (or a combination of the two) and many times Dr. Pepper helped him out with either loans or using his influence as an important member of the community.
Dr. Pepper concocted a health tonic that became very successful, to the point where he was fabulously wealthy. Enraged by jealousy, Mr. Pibb broke into Dr. Pepper's house one night and stole the secret formula.
So now you know the background between the rivalry between Dr. Pepper and his half brother (some say he was a bastard, as well) Mr. Pibb.
Yeah, but what about the one button mouse? Most other Scifi programs, hell, most TV programs use a mouse with more buttons. Of course Enterprise was going to fail when the producers insisted that viewers use a one button mouse.
Sure, it was humorous. But it's because it reflects actual attitudes that makes it funny. So what's wrong with debating the issues that a joke brings up?
A joke can do two things when dealing with serious issues. It can be used to smooth over the issue and allows us to dismiss the issue. Or it can highlight the issue, and open it up for debate.
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Sculley understood soft drinks - a mature industry. He had no idea what to do with a compuer company.
And ultimate responsibility for bringing Sculley on board rests with The Leader. Not that he didn't pay for that decision personally, but if you're going to blame Sculley, you've got to also blame Jobs for picking him and then convincing him to come on board.
The Leader is such a fascinating character. His ego is as legendary as his Reality Distortion Field (RFD). Yet one has to wonder what led him to select Sculley to run the company. Was he pressured by the board and the shareholders? Did he have insecurities about his abilities to lead Apple? Or was it both, an internal and external crisis of confidence that caused the RFD to malfunction, rendering the board temporarily immune to The Leader's charisma?
Another possibility is that Jobs thought he could rule Apple as if he were a prince with a personal fiefdom, and he thought he was appointing Sculley as Chamberlain to do the day to day drudgery of operating a company. The Leader mistakenly thought that he could concentrate on the "fun stuff", the "passion" to make insanely great products, without getting bogged down with the overall responsibilities. How crushing that must have been, to find that he didn't hold the keys to the kingdom, to be exiled from his paradise.
I think that moment of exile marks the beginning of The Leader's adulthood. But that is a story for NeXT time.
Being right handed doesn't mean you've completely lost the use of your left hand. Unless. . ..hey, you're one of those software pirates, aren't you! I should have realized by the eyepatch and the parrot, but the hook and peg leg seal it.
I agree, that was a huge marketing blunder. They probably could have made a fortune if they had focused attention on the divination aspects of the cracks, maybe bundled an iDivination app with iLife. Sales to the ancient Chinese and ancient Roman market segment would have been through the roof.
That's the funniest and fairly apt set of comparisons I've seen, especially wrt us Mac Zealots.
I would like to point out that there are certain Windows users that could be compared to lifers. (Both in the sense of being careerists and to the life sentence).
Also, there is a subset of Linux (excuse me, I mean GNU/Linux) users that are perhaps even more wild eyed and extreme than your worst Mac Zealot. If we were comparing OSes to religions, they'd be jihadists for certain. (I'm sure some Mac Zealots could qualify for this as well.)
now all i have to do is come up with $2400...anybody willing to help a poor college kid live the dream of OSX?
Well, I'll do my part to help you out. You can knock of about $20, if you buy a 3rd party spare battery. Slightly greater capacity on the Al batteries. More dramatic increases on the Ti and iBook batteries.
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It varies by country, but you still might be able to collect your Social Security when you retire to Europe. Seriously, look into it. I want to move to Mexico, and I'll be able to collect it.
I just checked the SSA.gov site, and if you're planning on moving to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or Russia, you're out of luck.
The other thing to consider is keeping your US bank account, and just having your SS funds direct deposited. Direct deposit is also available to banks outside the US.
More info here.
So, how about that? Your retirement just got slightly more comfortable.
So, you're saying that even religious nuts like you think Bush is kookibiscuits?
I'm a conservative. More specifically, I am a fiscal conservsative, but socially liberal. I believe in the power of capitalism, but I think that the extremes of capitalism must be moderated by the state, i.e., child labor laws are a good thing, etc.
I am also a registered Republican, although I am quite out of touch with my party. Or rather I should say that my party has become quite out of touch with the values it once held dear. It talks the talk, but it no longer walks the walk.
I also have been following the growth of the Religious Right in my party. What started as a marriage of political convenience, as a coalition, has turned into a theocracy. No longer are the members of my party governed by enlightened self-interest, but by blind ideological and theological faith in George Bush.
You speak of compromise. Would you compromise with the terrorists? Would you negotiate with Bin Laden? Can you really trust anyone for whom the ends always justifies the means? So, how should we compromise with our own domestic homegrown fundamentalists? What liberties should we give away to appease them? How much corporate welfare is acceptable? Which lies are acceptable to justify war? By compromise, you mean we should allow Bush to dismantle Social Security just a little bit?
Compromise and negotiation are possible with a reasonable person on the other side of the table. When you realize how insane the Bush agenda really is, you realize that there is no compromise.
HURD v Linux
Let me be the first to post the Kottke/HURD troll.
Bush's plan for NASA was to cancel funding for the good science NASA's been doing, and redirect funding into an empty promise of a mission to Mars, for the sole purpose of National Penis Length Extension. Unfortunately, it's going to make us look rather "short" when the Mars mission doesn't materialize. In the meantime, NASA's good science gets sabotaged.
Also, in the meantime, the NASA budget gets funneled to Bush's favorite charities^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Horporations.
The plan for the dismantling of NASA bears some resemblance to the plan to dismantle Social Security. The very rich will get richer, but when SS falls apart due to Bush's harebrained scheme, everyone else will suffer.
Excellent point!
As much as I would like to see Hubble repaired and maintained, we can't afford it right now. Nor can we afford to "fix" the fake Social Security crisis, nor keep funneling money to Haliburton and it's subsidiaries in their Iraqi venture. We need to get out of Iraq in a year, two years tops, and return to fiscal responsibility. We've got a Republican president and Republican control of both houses of Congress. Why are they not acting with fiscal responsibility? Did the entire Republican Party get fooled by a bunch of neo-liberals* with fake name tags?
*neo-fascists
Shouldn't being raped by a goat be one of the options? I mean, we are discussing issues of world security and peace here.
I thought that one bit of evidence that Sadam had WMD is that Cheney still had his copy of the receipts.
Wait. Belgrade is not the capital of Iraq? Dammit! I blame the schools.
Senator Rostenkowski (a Democrat) eventually pointed out that it was a scam and was being sold to the public with a figure that was less than 1/3 than the cost Hillary knew it would entail.
So you're saying that Hillary is almost as bad as Bush? =)
I think your criticism of the Post Office is unfair. For simple letters and packages, they can't be beat.
What is the deal with HUD? It doesn't seem to matter what administration is in power, HUD always seems to be a hot bed of corruption and the poster child of bad bureaucracy.
I may be totally out in left field on this one (or in Norway), but I have no idea what you just said?
Wait, Norway schools are like Swedish insane asylums? Oh god, I'm not sleeping tonight. I need to get this.
You got it. It was a joke I heard in Sweden. I heard a similar joke in Norway, but in that joke, it was a Norwegian insane asylum and the guy was discovered teaching in Sweden. I suppose one could modify this joke to fit any regional rivalry.
I am not sure you are totally stable!
Someone mod this up as insightful! =)
. Should I mention that I have a teaching degree (that always draws out the grammar psychos)?
Wait. I think I heard this one. You're the guy who escaped from the Swedish insane asylum, only to be discovered years later, teaching school in Norway. =)
Do I need to reword it?
You might, if you're trying to communicate something. =)
You know the deal with Mr. Pibb and Dr. Pepper, right? They were half brothers. They both went to med school, but Mr. Pibb dropped out and became a back alley abortionist. Pibb was constantly in financial or legal trouble (or a combination of the two) and many times Dr. Pepper helped him out with either loans or using his influence as an important member of the community.
Dr. Pepper concocted a health tonic that became very successful, to the point where he was fabulously wealthy. Enraged by jealousy, Mr. Pibb broke into Dr. Pepper's house one night and stole the secret formula.
So now you know the background between the rivalry between Dr. Pepper and his half brother (some say he was a bastard, as well) Mr. Pibb.
Yeah, but what about the one button mouse? Most other Scifi programs, hell, most TV programs use a mouse with more buttons. Of course Enterprise was going to fail when the producers insisted that viewers use a one button mouse.
So you're saying you want a Linux Standard Distribution.
Are you hallucinating?
Sure, it was humorous. But it's because it reflects actual attitudes that makes it funny. So what's wrong with debating the issues that a joke brings up?
A joke can do two things when dealing with serious issues. It can be used to smooth over the issue and allows us to dismiss the issue. Or it can highlight the issue, and open it up for debate.
Sculley understood soft drinks - a mature industry. He had no idea what to do with a compuer company.
And ultimate responsibility for bringing Sculley on board rests with The Leader. Not that he didn't pay for that decision personally, but if you're going to blame Sculley, you've got to also blame Jobs for picking him and then convincing him to come on board.
The Leader is such a fascinating character. His ego is as legendary as his Reality Distortion Field (RFD). Yet one has to wonder what led him to select Sculley to run the company. Was he pressured by the board and the shareholders? Did he have insecurities about his abilities to lead Apple? Or was it both, an internal and external crisis of confidence that caused the RFD to malfunction, rendering the board temporarily immune to The Leader's charisma?
Another possibility is that Jobs thought he could rule Apple as if he were a prince with a personal fiefdom, and he thought he was appointing Sculley as Chamberlain to do the day to day drudgery of operating a company. The Leader mistakenly thought that he could concentrate on the "fun stuff", the "passion" to make insanely great products, without getting bogged down with the overall responsibilities. How crushing that must have been, to find that he didn't hold the keys to the kingdom, to be exiled from his paradise.
I think that moment of exile marks the beginning of The Leader's adulthood. But that is a story for NeXT time.
Being right handed doesn't mean you've completely lost the use of your left hand. Unless. . . .hey, you're one of those software pirates, aren't you! I should have realized by the eyepatch and the parrot, but the hook and peg leg seal it.
Hey, you're a slashdotter. It's completely understandable that you'd be confused/put-off/fearful of anything resembling a bar of soap. =)
I agree, that was a huge marketing blunder. They probably could have made a fortune if they had focused attention on the divination aspects of the cracks, maybe bundled an iDivination app with iLife. Sales to the ancient Chinese and ancient Roman market segment would have been through the roof.
We appreciate the moral support, infidel dog.
That's the funniest and fairly apt set of comparisons I've seen, especially wrt us Mac Zealots.
I would like to point out that there are certain Windows users that could be compared to lifers. (Both in the sense of being careerists and to the life sentence).
Also, there is a subset of Linux (excuse me, I mean GNU/Linux) users that are perhaps even more wild eyed and extreme than your worst Mac Zealot. If we were comparing OSes to religions, they'd be jihadists for certain. (I'm sure some Mac Zealots could qualify for this as well.)
Anyway, thanks for cracking me up.
now all i have to do is come up with $2400...anybody willing to help a poor college kid live the dream of OSX?
Well, I'll do my part to help you out. You can knock of about $20, if you buy a 3rd party spare battery. Slightly greater capacity on the Al batteries. More dramatic increases on the Ti and iBook batteries.
You still made an excellent point, and I agree with you whole heartedly. I would prefer the smaller PB, but I don't like the tradeoffs.
I'll believe it when Apple Insider is served. =)