a proxy is a man in the middle. Without a privacy policy anywhere to be found on scroogle, how do we know it isn't just as evil?
whois turns up this:
Registrant:
Method Entertainment Group
811 Wellbrook Station Rd.
Cary, NC 27519
US
8663129772
Fax:8663129772
Domain Name: SCROOGLE.COM
Administrative Contact:
Chang, Yung editor@boobdex.com
811 Wellbrook Station Rd.
Cary, NC 27519
US
8663129772
Fax:8663129772
Of note, the same guy who own scroogle owns http://boobdex.com/ (NSF obviously). Porn sites are notoriously scammy. Anyway, I'm not convinced that scroogle is a good option based on who owns it.
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Monkeys vs. (Republicans and Democrats) --- seems totally on topic to me, at least from the sidelines where it looks like one infinite poo slinging fest. Isn't it time to send our current crop of major parties to the taxidermist, or at least a zoo?
Scroogle looks very interesting, but how do we know it is unevil? I've looked over the site moderately thoroughly and haven't found any terms of use or privacy policy. If it is there, it isn't in an obvious spot. And even if it is there, it is nothing but words.
Scroogle itself appears to be related to http://googlewatch.org/ but whois shows different registrants (googlewatch=Deng Youqian, scroogle=Daniel Brandt). I just don't really know how to evaluate a proxy such as scroogle, because my only means of finding out information is google or other search engines, not wikipedia though as the scroogle article is deleted. If I'm going to be paranoid about search, I would be naive to trust search results, proxies, or random comments on Slashdot. And since I am a bit paranoid about search (I played with the AOL data a few years back -- a real eyeopener), I feel quite lost at sea.
Why not just meet the ship in international waters, and hop off in international waters. We're only talking a few miles from port in either case. Then the ship doesn't have any issue with weapons because none are on except while it is in transit.
The small minority of mega-wealthy organizations obviously. It is a well known fact that people are too stupid and will think crazy thoughts like "cheaper and faster" is better than "slower and pricey". With enough lobbyists and indirect bribery, AT&T, Verizon, and its ilk are able to make sure we don't harm ourselves by getting better service for lower costs.
Hooray for the nanny-state arguments. Let's also work on french fries, Budweiser, skiing, mountain biking (it seems every serious mountain biker has a shattered shoulder), being too fat, being too thin, pot (oh, already do that), too much sitting in front of TV/computer/books, running (terrible for the knees), etc. etc.
The impending health care legislation will make everyone feel like they have a right to modify other people's behaviors, even the "healthy" ones which have injury risks.
First they came for the smokers, but I didn't smoke so I didn't say anything. Then they came for the fat people, but I wasn't fat.....
We're talking about entirely different things. The death penalty as applied in the US is flawed, obviously. I was talking about how to create a fundamental shift in culture to one that is more peaceful. The paradox is that it would require destruction of all the Alphas all at once -- but who but the Alphas would do such a thing? Essentially, we have war not because most people are evil -- we have them because most leaders are evil. All of them. Obama too -- he continues the wars in the middle east and is thus personally and directly responsible for death, peace prize be damned. Anyway, listen to the episode I linked to above. It's a very good science information show.
Death penalty would be rational in such a case. Listen to the second segment of the Radiolab episode new normal. Apparently, long standing peaceful cultural change in a baboon troop is possible when the alpha males die out suddenly. The third story about selective breeding in foxes to make them "nice" (only ten generations required) is also quite interesting. The clear implication is that the world could be changed to a much better place if all leaders/politicians/sociopaths etc were killed off right at once.
We're being sold out. Germany is the number one exporter in dollar value in the world -- and that with a first world standard of living. http://www.wisegeek.com/which-countries-export-the-most.htm Big business in bed with government is killing America.
Everyone forgets about shared calendaring. I mean, it took years for affordable shared calendaring to come to linux and that only because Apple's Darwin Calendar Server is an open source project, it has been only about a year since DCS has been in repositories. Even still, configing DCS on a linux box isn't as immediately accessible as setting it up with OS X Server. For examples, see my homepage. Anyway, hardware isn't the only consideration -- start you're comparison after setting up a system with MS server products.
We're talking about $1000 server here, not a desktop. How much does MS Small Business Server cost? At Amazon "Microsoft Small Business Server Standard 2003 R2 32-bit for System Builders" (whatever that means) costs $460 for a five user license. Additional users cost $50 or $60 each, or $150 in bundles of five. Now, I have no idea what this gets you as the marketing stuff is vague -- it doesn't expressly list shared calendaring (killer business app.). Throw in a crappy $540 computer which is noisy, bulky, and power hungry, and you almost have the equivalent of the Mini Server.
Of course, you could just put linux on that cheap computer, but if you want a decent shared calendaring system, you'll have to use Apple's open source Darwin Calendar Server which works great but comes without any of the easy methods for configuration -- you get to edit text files by hand (see my homepage link for examples). Which is fine if you've got plenty of experience with linux, but for the person without that, OS X Server on the mini looks like total bargain.
Don't forget shared calendaring. I'm currently running Apple's Darwin Calendar Server (DCS) on a Debian Lenny box for my office, but it probably uses 7x the electricity the mini does. It takes a bit of fiddling to work with the DCS which many people may not really have either the time or capacity to deal with, and OS X Server would make the backend configuration pretty painless. What is wild is that yesterday, OS X Server unlimited license was $999. Today it comes with a computer for the same price.
There's that and I have trouble seeing the uproar about windows that might require drivers to stop, step out of their car, and send that text message or make a call. Where's the downside to that?
No they don't. The max is $2500, and the deduction is income limited, i.e., over a certain threshold it is reduced with rising income until it hits zero.
It's luck of the draw. Right now rates are low so people who consolidate will get a good deal. When rates go high, those people will get a bad deal. It's totally random. Student loans should be eligible for refinancing at any time, multiple times.
You can make good on the loan by paying it off with the proceeds from another loan. In the housing world, anyone who doesn't refinance when interest rates fall sufficiently below the rate being paid on the original loan is absolutely batshit insane. It's standard advice to get a lower rate. Why can't student loans go through the same process? And why would that be unfair? The original lender gets their money back. The new lender gets a rate it is happy with offering? Where are the cheaters or losers?
Sane, sustainable societies treat education as an end in itself
All your highfalutin ideas about education being the point of education is just fine as long as you don't have to worry that much about shelter and food. At the rate tuition is increasing though, a higher education will become the sole domain of the wealthy which means that countries with a system like that in Australia (mentioned above) are going to kick our plumbing asses one of these days.
In a sane sustainable society, education is seen to be valuable in and of itself, but is also affordable so that many minds can benefit (and return the benefit back to society). Such a society is structured so that graduates can eat, live, and be productive members. An insane, unsustainable society fails to value education and in so doing, saddles anyone who attempts it with crushing debt load.
Mostly it depends on when you went to school -- I consolidated my graduate loans in 2000. So my rate is 7.75%. Which does suck. I don't understand why I can't "re-finance" my loans every time rates go low.
I always went with a particular stake, usually $100. If I lost that, I quit. If I made $50, I quit. The hard part is when I was at +40, but had been playing a long time. On my smart days, I'd walk -- on my not so smart days, I'd try to meet my goal. But the longer you play, the more chances the house has to beat you.
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How is this a troll? "Insightful" is appropriate -- if you have mod points, please fix.
Of note, the same guy who own scroogle owns http://boobdex.com/ (NSF obviously). Porn sites are notoriously scammy. Anyway, I'm not convinced that scroogle is a good option based on who owns it.
Monkeys vs. (Republicans and Democrats) --- seems totally on topic to me, at least from the sidelines where it looks like one infinite poo slinging fest. Isn't it time to send our current crop of major parties to the taxidermist, or at least a zoo?
Scroogle looks very interesting, but how do we know it is unevil? I've looked over the site moderately thoroughly and haven't found any terms of use or privacy policy. If it is there, it isn't in an obvious spot. And even if it is there, it is nothing but words.
Scroogle itself appears to be related to http://googlewatch.org/ but whois shows different registrants (googlewatch=Deng Youqian, scroogle=Daniel Brandt). I just don't really know how to evaluate a proxy such as scroogle, because my only means of finding out information is google or other search engines, not wikipedia though as the scroogle article is deleted. If I'm going to be paranoid about search, I would be naive to trust search results, proxies, or random comments on Slashdot. And since I am a bit paranoid about search (I played with the AOL data a few years back -- a real eyeopener), I feel quite lost at sea.
Why not just meet the ship in international waters, and hop off in international waters. We're only talking a few miles from port in either case. Then the ship doesn't have any issue with weapons because none are on except while it is in transit.
I don't have mod points, so I'll just admire your eloquence publicly.
The small minority of mega-wealthy organizations obviously. It is a well known fact that people are too stupid and will think crazy thoughts like "cheaper and faster" is better than "slower and pricey". With enough lobbyists and indirect bribery, AT&T, Verizon, and its ilk are able to make sure we don't harm ourselves by getting better service for lower costs.
Hooray for the nanny-state arguments. Let's also work on french fries, Budweiser, skiing, mountain biking (it seems every serious mountain biker has a shattered shoulder), being too fat, being too thin, pot (oh, already do that), too much sitting in front of TV/computer/books, running (terrible for the knees), etc. etc.
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The impending health care legislation will make everyone feel like they have a right to modify other people's behaviors, even the "healthy" ones which have injury risks.
First they came for the smokers, but I didn't smoke so I didn't say anything. Then they came for the fat people, but I wasn't fat.
Well, at least in Canada they aren't keeping the oil. http://www.rttnews.com/Content/QuickFacts.aspx?Node=B1&Id=1100896%20&Category=Quick%20Facts
We're talking about entirely different things. The death penalty as applied in the US is flawed, obviously. I was talking about how to create a fundamental shift in culture to one that is more peaceful. The paradox is that it would require destruction of all the Alphas all at once -- but who but the Alphas would do such a thing? Essentially, we have war not because most people are evil -- we have them because most leaders are evil. All of them. Obama too -- he continues the wars in the middle east and is thus personally and directly responsible for death, peace prize be damned. Anyway, listen to the episode I linked to above. It's a very good science information show.
Death penalty would be rational in such a case. Listen to the second segment of the Radiolab episode new normal. Apparently, long standing peaceful cultural change in a baboon troop is possible when the alpha males die out suddenly. The third story about selective breeding in foxes to make them "nice" (only ten generations required) is also quite interesting. The clear implication is that the world could be changed to a much better place if all leaders/politicians/sociopaths etc were killed off right at once.
We're being sold out. Germany is the number one exporter in dollar value in the world -- and that with a first world standard of living. http://www.wisegeek.com/which-countries-export-the-most.htm Big business in bed with government is killing America.
Everyone forgets about shared calendaring. I mean, it took years for affordable shared calendaring to come to linux and that only because Apple's Darwin Calendar Server is an open source project, it has been only about a year since DCS has been in repositories. Even still, configing DCS on a linux box isn't as immediately accessible as setting it up with OS X Server. For examples, see my homepage. Anyway, hardware isn't the only consideration -- start you're comparison after setting up a system with MS server products.
We're talking about $1000 server here, not a desktop. How much does MS Small Business Server cost? At Amazon "Microsoft Small Business Server Standard 2003 R2 32-bit for System Builders" (whatever that means) costs $460 for a five user license. Additional users cost $50 or $60 each, or $150 in bundles of five. Now, I have no idea what this gets you as the marketing stuff is vague -- it doesn't expressly list shared calendaring (killer business app.). Throw in a crappy $540 computer which is noisy, bulky, and power hungry, and you almost have the equivalent of the Mini Server.
Of course, you could just put linux on that cheap computer, but if you want a decent shared calendaring system, you'll have to use Apple's open source Darwin Calendar Server which works great but comes without any of the easy methods for configuration -- you get to edit text files by hand (see my homepage link for examples). Which is fine if you've got plenty of experience with linux, but for the person without that, OS X Server on the mini looks like total bargain.
I'd be interested to see how MS SBS stacks up: http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/
Don't forget shared calendaring. I'm currently running Apple's Darwin Calendar Server (DCS) on a Debian Lenny box for my office, but it probably uses 7x the electricity the mini does. It takes a bit of fiddling to work with the DCS which many people may not really have either the time or capacity to deal with, and OS X Server would make the backend configuration pretty painless. What is wild is that yesterday, OS X Server unlimited license was $999. Today it comes with a computer for the same price.
There's that and I have trouble seeing the uproar about windows that might require drivers to stop, step out of their car, and send that text message or make a call. Where's the downside to that?
Wow -- with that rate you should never pay more than the monthly minimum. 10 years from now, inflation will make your payments seem like a joke.
No they don't. The max is $2500, and the deduction is income limited, i.e., over a certain threshold it is reduced with rising income until it hits zero.
I presumed it was 30k/year. 4*30=120>56
It's luck of the draw. Right now rates are low so people who consolidate will get a good deal. When rates go high, those people will get a bad deal. It's totally random. Student loans should be eligible for refinancing at any time, multiple times.
Up to $2500. Whoop-de-fuckin-do.
You can make good on the loan by paying it off with the proceeds from another loan. In the housing world, anyone who doesn't refinance when interest rates fall sufficiently below the rate being paid on the original loan is absolutely batshit insane. It's standard advice to get a lower rate. Why can't student loans go through the same process? And why would that be unfair? The original lender gets their money back. The new lender gets a rate it is happy with offering? Where are the cheaters or losers?
All your highfalutin ideas about education being the point of education is just fine as long as you don't have to worry that much about shelter and food. At the rate tuition is increasing though, a higher education will become the sole domain of the wealthy which means that countries with a system like that in Australia (mentioned above) are going to kick our plumbing asses one of these days.
In a sane sustainable society, education is seen to be valuable in and of itself, but is also affordable so that many minds can benefit (and return the benefit back to society). Such a society is structured so that graduates can eat, live, and be productive members. An insane, unsustainable society fails to value education and in so doing, saddles anyone who attempts it with crushing debt load.
Mostly it depends on when you went to school -- I consolidated my graduate loans in 2000. So my rate is 7.75%. Which does suck. I don't understand why I can't "re-finance" my loans every time rates go low.
I always went with a particular stake, usually $100. If I lost that, I quit. If I made $50, I quit. The hard part is when I was at +40, but had been playing a long time. On my smart days, I'd walk -- on my not so smart days, I'd try to meet my goal. But the longer you play, the more chances the house has to beat you.