Sell it to a porn site? Why on earth would a porn site want pictures from FaceBook, the vast majority of which are of fully clothed individuals?
There are actually websites out there that pay you for those types of photos. They have some banner that says "We found these sluts on MySpace!" and show you some of the pictures that girls like to take in the mirror wearing a bathing suit, drunk at a party making out with another girl, or just a hot girl who is fully clothed. The idea is that people will see those photos and think "Oh if I buy a membership I can see THAT GIRL naked! When all they have is a couple photos that look like they came from MySpace mixed in with a bunch of topless or sexual photos of other girls that were submitted to the site and not taken from a social networking site.
I feel like if they really wanted to, Wikipedia could host a celebrity fund raiser. The celebrities would come in, have their photos taken, then Wikipedia would auction off large autographed prints of the photos. The proceeds from each photo would go to whatever cause the celebrity wants to support, and Wikipedia could just find a good volunteer photographer willing to release photos under whatever license Wikipedia wants (and I know plenty of good photographers, myself included, that would do this.) That way the celebrities can get some free publicity while helping a good cause, and Wikipedia could get some free high quality photographs under whatever license works best for them.
Not if you're from NYC. Most NYC residents see "upstate" New York as practically being Connecticut.
And most upstate residents see "NYC" as being "New York." Tell someone in Albany you're driving down to "New York" for the weekend and they fully understand you mean New York City. Plus I've noticed people outside of the state don't even realize there's anything outside of the city. They assume New York is just one giant city not realizing how large the state actually is compared to the size of NYC.
I'm very impressed by the graphics of a game that was never meant to be commercial. I haven't spent much time looking for open source games lately but from the screenshots this looks a lot better than free civ.
Why? What's the advantage of a trackpoint over a touchpad?
I've found the little rubber nipples to be quite annoying, you don't have the same control over the speed and precision of it since you're just operating a joystick. With the touchpad, the cursor is going to move relative to the speed you're moving your finger. If you want to draw something it's quite a bit easier, just move your finger where you want the cursor to go. With the trackpoint there's no actual movement it's just applying pressure in one direction or another, there's not much in the way of feedback to let you know how fast the cursor is going to move.
Though it could just be that I'm much more used to a touchpad (which I doubt since my first laptop had only a trackpoint and it wasn't until many years later that I got a laptop with a touchpad.)
Wow, I get to see this in my lifetime. The building blocks of a conspiracy theory.
If they ever do manage to land on Mars the conspiracy theorists will now point to this and say "see they SAY they built it as a simulator but REALLY that's where they faked the entire Mars landing! Why else would they need to build such a simulator!" Very much like the lunar surface simulator they built out in the desert, or the landing simulator MIT built for the moon landings. Oh well...
I'm actually really excited about the idea of a Google backed Linux distro (which is what it seems like they're making). They've got the money to hire a team to make a wonderful looking desktop manager while also having the programming know how to make the thing beautifully slim and fast. Plus with Google's backing perhaps there's a chance more software will be ported to/made to run on Linux and perhaps more people will be enticed to try the new "Google laptop" which would just be a netbook running Google's flavor of Linux. I don't see how Google opening up Linux to a larger user base could be a bad thing.
This is knows as the Hottie-Frigid paradox. The most scorching hot women are nearly certain to be lousy in bed.
Spoken like someone who has given up all hope of having sex with an extremely attractive woman. Unless she's bored, or really new to sex, it's highly unlikely that she'll be any worse at it than any other girl.
I think that depends on whether or not the person truly feels a girls inner beauty adds to her attractiveness. Since a persons attractiveness is based on the observer then it's very well possible that someone could find a girl attractive based on personality, in which case the speed would depend on "inner beauty."
I really don't think this is going to work, I've been through boot camp (USMC), and once I went back to civilian life (I had a shoulder injury that prevented me from finishing the last week of training and then going on to serve.) I was pretty much the same person. The only difference is when I came out I had military training, I feel more calm in stressful situations than I did before, and I'm more confident in my fighting and survival abilities. I still play video games and browse the internet as much as I did before I joined the Marines.
So if you go into boot camp as an internet addicted teenager you're going to come out as an internet addicted teenager, with military training. Unless they're sending them into the army right after they're not going to keep in that mindset, they're going to go back to the internet and their video games. Perhaps sending them to a summer camp where they have many activities to choose from would be a better idea. Hikes through the woods, swimming, sports, and being encourage to speak to other people and socialize would be good for these people. The boot camp seems like it would be too much like work for these kids and they would just resent it rather than enjoy it.
I have an MX Revolution as well and I was about to post the same comment. I love the free scrolling mode when I'm searching for something in my code. Just give it a spin and stop when I see what I'm looking for. Plus when I'm not at the computer I just put the mouse back in the charging dock, the batteries haven't died on me once in the entire time I've owned the mouse (bought it when it was first released.) Plus it's the best mouse I've ever used for graphic work, it has a nice weight to it to give me precise control over my movements, it's very accurate and doesn't jam up like a ball mouse, and there's no wire hindering my movements (getting stuck on things, pushing against the mouse, going over the mousepad and blocking my hand, etc.)
I'm all for automatic tracking of speeding -- IF we get 100% enforcement, no exceptions. If you're not an emergency vehicle WITH LIGHTS ON, you (personally) get a fine.
May I ask, WHY? Perhaps you live somewhere very residential where the speed limits make sense and the only people speeding are doing it dangerously (swerving in and out of traffic with no signal, following way too closely, etc.) but when I was living in NYC there were roads where the speed limit varied from 35-45 and very few people did under 50. Even on the FDR drive, I think the speed limit is 45, while most traffic is moving at 60. Some speed limits are just not high enough for the road their on, and as long as everyone is speeding together it's quite safe.
The biggest problem is when one person is moving at a drastically different speed than everyone else, or when people don't stay back far enough from the person in front of them. If everyone on a highway is doing 60, and one person is trying to be "good" by following the speed limit of 45, that person is creating a hazard. Same thing if everyone is doing 60 and one person is doing 75.
Plus there is no way to really determine what speed every car and driver can safely do on a road. Some roads might be perfectly safe for 65MPH on a clear summers day while in the winter the road might be iced over and dangerous at speeds over 35MPH (like some roads I know in NYC.) Some people might be able to drive safely at a higher speed than others, only speeding in good conditions when there are little to no other drivers on the road, while others can't even drive safely on a road at the posted speed limit.
So, again, I must ask WHY? Why do you think an automatic ticketing system for speeding would be good?
Oh, and just so you know, police cars driving at high speeds with their lights on through small windy roads cause all sorts of accidents. Which are ALWAYS determined to be the fault of the person who was hit because the emergency vehicle had it's lights on. Even if they were doing 65 around a blind corner in a residential neighborhood and hit your car that was stopped at a traffic light because they didn't have enough time to slow down or maneuver around you, and you couldn't see their lights to move because they were coming around a corner on a bright sunny day with no siren on.
I had fiber (FiOS) at my home three years ago, port 80 was the only port blocked to my house and I had 40/10Mbps. When I switched to business (since I actually was attempting to run a hosting business out of my home and needed the 5 static IP addresses) it was only an extra $80 a month plus I increased my speed to 50/20Mbps. It was reliable, very fast, and cheap for the bandwidth provided compared to the other options (cable was something like 5/0.5Mbps for the same price as 40/10Mbps FiOS and DSL was even worse.)
140mph is just a tad over my _cruising_ speed, mate. Stop thinking in terms of your idiotic US highway system. There are plenty of stretches in Europe where you can go this fast for quite a while.
I've cruised a highway at over 140MPH, in the US. We've got really long straight, very well paved roads in the US when you're traveling out west. The longest stretch that I've driven on was by the salt flats, took me a long time to get across that ~40 mile long section of I-80. I could have kept my speed at 140 but I was burning through gas rather quickly and the next gas station was at the other end of the valley, and I wasn't sure at the time how far that was. What helped a lot is that I hit a rather large downhill section before the straight away so my car had an easier time accelerating.
There is no "positive". There is an "active" and a "neutral".
Yes, but to avoid mistakes (getting electrocuted) when I worked with an electrician, we only called it hot or live (never heard active before) when it was in fact, hot or live. When the circuit was dead we just called it positive because we knew what that mean to us.
Also colours of wires become interesting. Black wire is usually neutral and the red (in AU, white in the US) is active, green is ground (sometimes bare wire in US).
The white wire in the US is neutral, black and red are hot, but once you've got that hooked up there isn't much more you can be confused by. The ground wire is easy to pick out as there's usually a green screw, it's usually a much smaller gauge, and if the wire is bare it should be obvious that it doesn't go to either one of the shielded wires. If all else fails there's always instructions.
3 phase is even more interesting... Red, Blue and Yellow are the usual "active" colours in Oz.
It's so rare to ever see 3 phase service in a home in the US that it's not even worth mentioning. Perhaps it's more common in Australia to see it in a residential building, but you could work 30 years in the US as an electrician and never see residential 3 phase service.
You may have been capable of wiring a light fixture but did you know how load affected the temperature of the wire and how to the length of the wire may require different types of wire?
No, but I never needed to know that when installing a light fixture because any light fixture you buy in the store comes with all the wiring ready to hook up to the box. I'm not talking about running the wires from the switch to the box here, just removing an old fixture and installing a new one.
Anyway, think about it this way, you can cause a lot more damage improperly installing the brakes on your own car, but you don't need a license to legally change your own brakes (or maybe in Australia you do, in which case you've ruined my Crocodile Dundee "that's not a knife!" vision of Australia.) If you really can't figure out installing a light fixture with all of the resources available out there then maybe you should call an electrician, but you shouldn't be legally required to do so.
I know this (even did a short course at TAFE wiring up power points), my father also knew this and still managed to mix them up installing an exhaust fan and got a fairly bad 240V kick from that.
I have to ask, HOW? How did you manage to get the wiring wrong in a way that an electrician wouldn't make the same mistake?
The fact that urban America has transitioned from single-earner households to dual-earner households makes it much more difficult to live in urban areas. Families with only a single income find that they cannot afford the house they need. Sure, I could move to a less expensive rural area - that is, if I could find a job there.
That's not it at all, it's the fact that a dual income family will think "Oh hey we've got all this money coming in since we're both working, why buy that $150,000 house when we can "easily" afford that $300,000 house in the nicer part of town."
Then one person loses their income, then the family can't make the house payments, then they're forced to sell. It's all due to people wanting nice things, and not budgeting for future problems.
Does the rising tide lift all boats? Sure, to some degree. I can afford gadgets that would have amazed my parents' generation. But yet, for all my education - for changing careers from programming to engineering to get a better salary; in spite of doubling my net worth in the last decade - I am still struggling to afford the basic necessities of life. It means little to be able to buy that killer laptop when I can't afford to put a roof over my head. This isn't an education problem; it isn't a problem of productivity. It is a problem of economics and of corporate greed.
Not too long ago I was in the market for buying a house, I was making around 25K a year, which is quite low for a full time job (it was a startup company), and most of the houses I looked at were two family houses that I could have easily afforded on my salary even without the rental income, even if I lost my job for a year. The reason was that I had money saved up for the purchase of a house. I could have made a large down payment, while still having money left over to cover the mortgage for a year. Plus, if I was renting the other unit, then I wouldn't need to use any of my salary towards the house as the rental unit would have easily covered themortgage and taxes.
It's about living within your means, people today think "Well I'm making all this money I might as well use it for something I'll enjoy right now" rather than "I'm making all this money, I should save it up for something I may need in the future", or "I'm making all this money, why should I buy that cheap boring house when I can afford this really expensive luxurious home."
Since it's so easy to mix up active and neutral I don't think it is quite so sad.
The black wire (positive) goes to the black wire, the white wire (neutral) goes to the white wire, and it's quite obvious that the ground goes to neither. If you have three wire in your house then by the process of elimination you can determine that the red wire (switched positive if it's hooked up right) goes to the black wire.
I was fully capable of wiring a light fixture around the age of 10, electrical outlets are much more tricky (since it's not obvious that the black wire goes to copper screw, and the white wire goes to the silver screw.) Switches are really easy too, the only reason I can see it being illegal to do any of this in Australia is lobbying by an electricians union.
I never understood how these scams work, they hang up on you once you ask anything, but don't you need to know where to send your money? If you just give them credit card info won't they need an address for their merchant account or whatever credit card processing system they have? Why does it take so long to catch these people, isn't it possible to just follow the money to the scammers?
That story is idiotic, someone wrote the word "paedo" on her door.
That's it.
THE HORROR! They don't know WHY the word was on the door, there is no evidence at all of it being a vigilante act other than a hunch because she's a pediatrician and believes someone got her confused for a pedophile. Well who exactly would know that she's a pediatrician without actually knowing what a pediatrician is? Does she have a sign on her lawn? Did they read her name tag and figure she's really proud of being a pedophile?
While I agree vigilante acts are dangerous and it would be simple to go after the wrong person, there isn't enough information on this one particular story to say 100% that it was a misdirected vigilante attack. On top of that the penalty wasn't nearly as severe as the punishment dealt to the people in the article.
That's exactly what I would do at my old job. I had one hard drive that I used for data recovery, I would dd using the bad drive as the input and the data recovery drive as the output, then you can do all the data recovery you want on the good drive. Sometimes I didn't even need to do anything else, and the recovery drive would have all of the files I needed in a readable form.
Looking at your post history, it seems as if you're just trying to troll but I feel like this point needs to be addressed
A key one is, "Why must the Bible mention dinosaurs?". The oldest book in my home is a '73 VW Chilton's manual, but why should I expect *IT* to detail every step of evolution, DNA, and the singularity?
You shouldn't expect that information in a Chilton's manual. Though, if the book didn't even hint at the existence of your engine, vaguely described the workings of the other components of the car, contradicted itself frequently, and was blatantly incorrect on major points, you might question the knowledge of the books authors.
let me guess, you work full time as a musician right?
no, i didnt think so. People who take other peoples hard wrk for free, are often keen to lecture the people they take from that "its in your best interests". Even muggers and burglars don't try to lecture their victims after the event.
Let me guess, you're upset that the pirate bay has a few of the games you've created?
I'm a photographer, if someone goes online and downloads one of my images to print it themselves, rather than buying a print directly from me, I'm thrilled. Why? Because at least it means the work was good enough for someone to waste the effort to download and print it themselves. Plus there's the chance that someone they show the print to (who wouldn't have seen it otherwise) will be curious where they got it, and buy an original print from me.
If they try to sell their print of my work, I would be upset. Much like the people who burn CDs and sell them. I have no problem with prosecuting those people because they're making money off of someone else's work.
And unlike a mugging or burglary there's no loss at all. If someone breaks into my house and steals my TV, I'm out one TV. If someone finds plans for building my TV and builds one of their own, then there's no loss to anyone. Sony didn't get to sell one more unit, but there's no theft there.
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Sell it to a porn site? Why on earth would a porn site want pictures from FaceBook, the vast majority of which are of fully clothed individuals?
There are actually websites out there that pay you for those types of photos. They have some banner that says "We found these sluts on MySpace!" and show you some of the pictures that girls like to take in the mirror wearing a bathing suit, drunk at a party making out with another girl, or just a hot girl who is fully clothed. The idea is that people will see those photos and think "Oh if I buy a membership I can see THAT GIRL naked! When all they have is a couple photos that look like they came from MySpace mixed in with a bunch of topless or sexual photos of other girls that were submitted to the site and not taken from a social networking site.
I feel like if they really wanted to, Wikipedia could host a celebrity fund raiser. The celebrities would come in, have their photos taken, then Wikipedia would auction off large autographed prints of the photos. The proceeds from each photo would go to whatever cause the celebrity wants to support, and Wikipedia could just find a good volunteer photographer willing to release photos under whatever license Wikipedia wants (and I know plenty of good photographers, myself included, that would do this.) That way the celebrities can get some free publicity while helping a good cause, and Wikipedia could get some free high quality photographs under whatever license works best for them.
Not if you're from NYC. Most NYC residents see "upstate" New York as practically being Connecticut.
And most upstate residents see "NYC" as being "New York." Tell someone in Albany you're driving down to "New York" for the weekend and they fully understand you mean New York City. Plus I've noticed people outside of the state don't even realize there's anything outside of the city. They assume New York is just one giant city not realizing how large the state actually is compared to the size of NYC.
I'm very impressed by the graphics of a game that was never meant to be commercial. I haven't spent much time looking for open source games lately but from the screenshots this looks a lot better than free civ.
Why? What's the advantage of a trackpoint over a touchpad?
I've found the little rubber nipples to be quite annoying, you don't have the same control over the speed and precision of it since you're just operating a joystick. With the touchpad, the cursor is going to move relative to the speed you're moving your finger. If you want to draw something it's quite a bit easier, just move your finger where you want the cursor to go. With the trackpoint there's no actual movement it's just applying pressure in one direction or another, there's not much in the way of feedback to let you know how fast the cursor is going to move.
Though it could just be that I'm much more used to a touchpad (which I doubt since my first laptop had only a trackpoint and it wasn't until many years later that I got a laptop with a touchpad.)
Unless of course the astronauts don't like video games...
Wow, I get to see this in my lifetime. The building blocks of a conspiracy theory.
If they ever do manage to land on Mars the conspiracy theorists will now point to this and say "see they SAY they built it as a simulator but REALLY that's where they faked the entire Mars landing! Why else would they need to build such a simulator!" Very much like the lunar surface simulator they built out in the desert, or the landing simulator MIT built for the moon landings. Oh well...
I'm actually really excited about the idea of a Google backed Linux distro (which is what it seems like they're making). They've got the money to hire a team to make a wonderful looking desktop manager while also having the programming know how to make the thing beautifully slim and fast. Plus with Google's backing perhaps there's a chance more software will be ported to/made to run on Linux and perhaps more people will be enticed to try the new "Google laptop" which would just be a netbook running Google's flavor of Linux. I don't see how Google opening up Linux to a larger user base could be a bad thing.
This is knows as the Hottie-Frigid paradox. The most scorching hot women are nearly certain to be lousy in bed.
Spoken like someone who has given up all hope of having sex with an extremely attractive woman. Unless she's bored, or really new to sex, it's highly unlikely that she'll be any worse at it than any other girl.
I think that depends on whether or not the person truly feels a girls inner beauty adds to her attractiveness. Since a persons attractiveness is based on the observer then it's very well possible that someone could find a girl attractive based on personality, in which case the speed would depend on "inner beauty."
I really don't think this is going to work, I've been through boot camp (USMC), and once I went back to civilian life (I had a shoulder injury that prevented me from finishing the last week of training and then going on to serve.) I was pretty much the same person. The only difference is when I came out I had military training, I feel more calm in stressful situations than I did before, and I'm more confident in my fighting and survival abilities. I still play video games and browse the internet as much as I did before I joined the Marines. So if you go into boot camp as an internet addicted teenager you're going to come out as an internet addicted teenager, with military training. Unless they're sending them into the army right after they're not going to keep in that mindset, they're going to go back to the internet and their video games. Perhaps sending them to a summer camp where they have many activities to choose from would be a better idea. Hikes through the woods, swimming, sports, and being encourage to speak to other people and socialize would be good for these people. The boot camp seems like it would be too much like work for these kids and they would just resent it rather than enjoy it.
I have an MX Revolution as well and I was about to post the same comment. I love the free scrolling mode when I'm searching for something in my code. Just give it a spin and stop when I see what I'm looking for. Plus when I'm not at the computer I just put the mouse back in the charging dock, the batteries haven't died on me once in the entire time I've owned the mouse (bought it when it was first released.) Plus it's the best mouse I've ever used for graphic work, it has a nice weight to it to give me precise control over my movements, it's very accurate and doesn't jam up like a ball mouse, and there's no wire hindering my movements (getting stuck on things, pushing against the mouse, going over the mousepad and blocking my hand, etc.)
I'm all for automatic tracking of speeding -- IF we get 100% enforcement, no exceptions. If you're not an emergency vehicle WITH LIGHTS ON, you (personally) get a fine.
May I ask, WHY? Perhaps you live somewhere very residential where the speed limits make sense and the only people speeding are doing it dangerously (swerving in and out of traffic with no signal, following way too closely, etc.) but when I was living in NYC there were roads where the speed limit varied from 35-45 and very few people did under 50. Even on the FDR drive, I think the speed limit is 45, while most traffic is moving at 60. Some speed limits are just not high enough for the road their on, and as long as everyone is speeding together it's quite safe.
The biggest problem is when one person is moving at a drastically different speed than everyone else, or when people don't stay back far enough from the person in front of them. If everyone on a highway is doing 60, and one person is trying to be "good" by following the speed limit of 45, that person is creating a hazard. Same thing if everyone is doing 60 and one person is doing 75.
Plus there is no way to really determine what speed every car and driver can safely do on a road. Some roads might be perfectly safe for 65MPH on a clear summers day while in the winter the road might be iced over and dangerous at speeds over 35MPH (like some roads I know in NYC.) Some people might be able to drive safely at a higher speed than others, only speeding in good conditions when there are little to no other drivers on the road, while others can't even drive safely on a road at the posted speed limit.
So, again, I must ask WHY? Why do you think an automatic ticketing system for speeding would be good?
Oh, and just so you know, police cars driving at high speeds with their lights on through small windy roads cause all sorts of accidents. Which are ALWAYS determined to be the fault of the person who was hit because the emergency vehicle had it's lights on. Even if they were doing 65 around a blind corner in a residential neighborhood and hit your car that was stopped at a traffic light because they didn't have enough time to slow down or maneuver around you, and you couldn't see their lights to move because they were coming around a corner on a bright sunny day with no siren on.
I had fiber (FiOS) at my home three years ago, port 80 was the only port blocked to my house and I had 40/10Mbps. When I switched to business (since I actually was attempting to run a hosting business out of my home and needed the 5 static IP addresses) it was only an extra $80 a month plus I increased my speed to 50/20Mbps. It was reliable, very fast, and cheap for the bandwidth provided compared to the other options (cable was something like 5/0.5Mbps for the same price as 40/10Mbps FiOS and DSL was even worse.)
140mph is just a tad over my _cruising_ speed, mate. Stop thinking in terms of your idiotic US highway system. There are plenty of stretches in Europe where you can go this fast for quite a while.
I've cruised a highway at over 140MPH, in the US. We've got really long straight, very well paved roads in the US when you're traveling out west. The longest stretch that I've driven on was by the salt flats, took me a long time to get across that ~40 mile long section of I-80. I could have kept my speed at 140 but I was burning through gas rather quickly and the next gas station was at the other end of the valley, and I wasn't sure at the time how far that was. What helped a lot is that I hit a rather large downhill section before the straight away so my car had an easier time accelerating.
Just because they burp less doesn't necessarily mean they produce less methane... "We made a cow that burps less. However, it farts more."
If you read the article it states that it's not that they just "burp less" it's that they actually produce less methane.
There is no "positive". There is an "active" and a "neutral".
Yes, but to avoid mistakes (getting electrocuted) when I worked with an electrician, we only called it hot or live (never heard active before) when it was in fact, hot or live. When the circuit was dead we just called it positive because we knew what that mean to us.
Also colours of wires become interesting.
Black wire is usually neutral and the red (in AU, white in the US) is active, green is ground (sometimes bare wire in US).
The white wire in the US is neutral, black and red are hot, but once you've got that hooked up there isn't much more you can be confused by. The ground wire is easy to pick out as there's usually a green screw, it's usually a much smaller gauge, and if the wire is bare it should be obvious that it doesn't go to either one of the shielded wires. If all else fails there's always instructions.
3 phase is even more interesting... Red, Blue and Yellow are the usual "active" colours in Oz.
It's so rare to ever see 3 phase service in a home in the US that it's not even worth mentioning. Perhaps it's more common in Australia to see it in a residential building, but you could work 30 years in the US as an electrician and never see residential 3 phase service.
You may have been capable of wiring a light fixture but did you know how load affected the temperature of the wire and how to the length of the wire may require different types of wire?
No, but I never needed to know that when installing a light fixture because any light fixture you buy in the store comes with all the wiring ready to hook up to the box. I'm not talking about running the wires from the switch to the box here, just removing an old fixture and installing a new one.
Anyway, think about it this way, you can cause a lot more damage improperly installing the brakes on your own car, but you don't need a license to legally change your own brakes (or maybe in Australia you do, in which case you've ruined my Crocodile Dundee "that's not a knife!" vision of Australia.) If you really can't figure out installing a light fixture with all of the resources available out there then maybe you should call an electrician, but you shouldn't be legally required to do so.
I know this (even did a short course at TAFE wiring up power points), my father also knew this and still managed to mix them up installing an exhaust fan and got a fairly bad 240V kick from that.
I have to ask, HOW? How did you manage to get the wiring wrong in a way that an electrician wouldn't make the same mistake?
That's not it at all, it's the fact that a dual income family will think "Oh hey we've got all this money coming in since we're both working, why buy that $150,000 house when we can "easily" afford that $300,000 house in the nicer part of town."
Then one person loses their income, then the family can't make the house payments, then they're forced to sell. It's all due to people wanting nice things, and not budgeting for future problems.
Does the rising tide lift all boats? Sure, to some degree. I can afford gadgets that would have amazed my parents' generation. But yet, for all my education - for changing careers from programming to engineering to get a better salary; in spite of doubling my net worth in the last decade - I am still struggling to afford the basic necessities of life. It means little to be able to buy that killer laptop when I can't afford to put a roof over my head. This isn't an education problem; it isn't a problem of productivity. It is a problem of economics and of corporate greed.
Not too long ago I was in the market for buying a house, I was making around 25K a year, which is quite low for a full time job (it was a startup company), and most of the houses I looked at were two family houses that I could have easily afforded on my salary even without the rental income, even if I lost my job for a year. The reason was that I had money saved up for the purchase of a house. I could have made a large down payment, while still having money left over to cover the mortgage for a year. Plus, if I was renting the other unit, then I wouldn't need to use any of my salary towards the house as the rental unit would have easily covered themortgage and taxes.
It's about living within your means, people today think "Well I'm making all this money I might as well use it for something I'll enjoy right now" rather than "I'm making all this money, I should save it up for something I may need in the future", or "I'm making all this money, why should I buy that cheap boring house when I can afford this really expensive luxurious home."
Since it's so easy to mix up active and neutral I don't think it is quite so sad.
The black wire (positive) goes to the black wire, the white wire (neutral) goes to the white wire, and it's quite obvious that the ground goes to neither. If you have three wire in your house then by the process of elimination you can determine that the red wire (switched positive if it's hooked up right) goes to the black wire.
I was fully capable of wiring a light fixture around the age of 10, electrical outlets are much more tricky (since it's not obvious that the black wire goes to copper screw, and the white wire goes to the silver screw.) Switches are really easy too, the only reason I can see it being illegal to do any of this in Australia is lobbying by an electricians union.
I never understood how these scams work, they hang up on you once you ask anything, but don't you need to know where to send your money? If you just give them credit card info won't they need an address for their merchant account or whatever credit card processing system they have? Why does it take so long to catch these people, isn't it possible to just follow the money to the scammers?
That story is idiotic, someone wrote the word "paedo" on her door.
That's it.
THE HORROR! They don't know WHY the word was on the door, there is no evidence at all of it being a vigilante act other than a hunch because she's a pediatrician and believes someone got her confused for a pedophile. Well who exactly would know that she's a pediatrician without actually knowing what a pediatrician is? Does she have a sign on her lawn? Did they read her name tag and figure she's really proud of being a pedophile?
While I agree vigilante acts are dangerous and it would be simple to go after the wrong person, there isn't enough information on this one particular story to say 100% that it was a misdirected vigilante attack. On top of that the penalty wasn't nearly as severe as the punishment dealt to the people in the article.
That's exactly what I would do at my old job. I had one hard drive that I used for data recovery, I would dd using the bad drive as the input and the data recovery drive as the output, then you can do all the data recovery you want on the good drive. Sometimes I didn't even need to do anything else, and the recovery drive would have all of the files I needed in a readable form.
Looking at your post history, it seems as if you're just trying to troll but I feel like this point needs to be addressed
A key one is, "Why must the Bible mention dinosaurs?". The oldest book in my home is a '73 VW Chilton's manual, but why should I expect *IT* to detail every step of evolution, DNA, and the singularity?
You shouldn't expect that information in a Chilton's manual. Though, if the book didn't even hint at the existence of your engine, vaguely described the workings of the other components of the car, contradicted itself frequently, and was blatantly incorrect on major points, you might question the knowledge of the books authors.
let me guess, you work full time as a musician right?
no, i didnt think so. People who take other peoples hard wrk for free, are often keen to lecture the people they take from that "its in your best interests".
Even muggers and burglars don't try to lecture their victims after the event.
Let me guess, you're upset that the pirate bay has a few of the games you've created?
I'm a photographer, if someone goes online and downloads one of my images to print it themselves, rather than buying a print directly from me, I'm thrilled. Why? Because at least it means the work was good enough for someone to waste the effort to download and print it themselves. Plus there's the chance that someone they show the print to (who wouldn't have seen it otherwise) will be curious where they got it, and buy an original print from me.
If they try to sell their print of my work, I would be upset. Much like the people who burn CDs and sell them. I have no problem with prosecuting those people because they're making money off of someone else's work.
And unlike a mugging or burglary there's no loss at all. If someone breaks into my house and steals my TV, I'm out one TV. If someone finds plans for building my TV and builds one of their own, then there's no loss to anyone. Sony didn't get to sell one more unit, but there's no theft there.