Modern 'education' is teaching girls that pregnancy is not really their problem. All she has to do is petition the state to bilk it out of 16yo daddy, whether he's got it or not. It's about time that 'her body, her right, her choice', also became her responsibility. Watch how fast these girls will line up for abortions and become more careful once that mealticket is gone.
You bet it does.. it takes power away from the owner/driver, and places it in the hands of a corporation and/or the state. Considering the paranoid delusional behavior already shown by our dear leaders, fuck that.
Except that when the 'software' fails, it's the user's fault. Fuck that. It's not reasonable to expect people to follow rules they apparently can't even parse without outside counsel.
Considering that lawyers like yourself have moved the law out beyond the understanding of most people, maybe it's time that lawyers burned every time some joe gets burned like this.
In a truly free market, customers roped in this way would be free to simply not pay, tell the vendor to go to hell, and take his property (the domains) elsewhere.
Search does not replace a proper interface.. Say it with me, again, until you get it: "Search does not replace a proper interface." There are so many people suggesting search as a solution to crappy interfaces, it's mind boggling. Who wants to play guess what it's called with a text box when the GUI at least shows you the available candidates?
Switching from mouse to keyboard and back is tiresome if your task is mouse oriented. Left handed hotkeys work out alright, but having to type everything to get around is annoying. It negates the point of a GUI in the first place. Search is a crutch, not a solution. If I wanted a command prompt, I'd load up cmd or powershell.
Really? This has to be explained to you? Some of us use more than one application simultaneously, often spreading out over multiple displays. In this case, starting new programs should not be a full screen focus grab. Using the mouse to ponderously scroll through piles of huge tiles on a huge display is tedious compared with a little menu in the corner. Now if you don't like clicking through folders, I understand, but that is more the fault of vendors who insist on adding extra layers so as to get you to see their brand name regularly. However, it can be fixed easily by the user. A nicely laid out start menu is far superior to any other convolution anyone has come up with. The big tiles thing is fine for constrained touch only devices, but not workstations where people require open ended workflows and no fingerprints on their monitors.
The new task manager is nice? Are you kidding? There have to be close to 50 processes running on the machine, so why does it show a blank window in its default view? Terrible. In its more functional views, it wastes desktop real estate with that tons-of-white-space-and-large-font trend that's infecting everything.
Why ask an open ended question that's designed to torpedo the rapport between yourself and the potential employee? Stick to relevant topics instead of trying to make people squirm.
Whoever's training HR people nowadays needs a checkup from the neck up.
So, basically, the USA was never a first world country because it did not subscribe to european values?
1. working conditions? I suppose working in a coal mine isn't pleasant, but that's more due to the nature of the job than where it's located. It's no worse here than in europe. Office jobs here aren't much different either, though the hours do tend to run longer. There's also all that nice passive aggressive politics added by 'diversity' laws.
2. living conditions? A big reason we have ghettos is due to run away welfare that does not discriminate on how the money is spent. something is wrong when crack baby mothers are buying flatscreen tvs with welfare. Something is also wrong when feminism has created a huge population boom for single mothers who do terrible jobs raising their children (especially boys). The number one indicator for future criminal behavior is a lack of a decent father in the home. The fathers, meanwhile, are excised by family court over the tiniest (or completely made up) accusations, and separated from their wallets. If this is what 'social cohesion's all about, I want nothing to do with it.
3. of course you don't see many positive aspects of american culture. You've been taught to detest what americans do value, either by your own media's propaganda, or by your own convictions. It's funny how people from other countries will complain about 'amero-centrism' on the part of americans before going right into some tirade that shows the centrism they have about their own country and culture.
4. racial laws? well the european union countries have the opposite problem.. they silence their own native cultures in the name of 'multiculturalism' and 'community cohesion' (I believe those are the new speak terms used over there). This is just as bigoted and short sighted.
5. social services? we have plenty of those. They don't work very well, but that's government for you. From what I hear, the services aren't much better over there, where wait times for critical operations can be months depending on what caste you are (government official or common prole).
6. Income gap? Well, hey, doctors should be paid more than factory workers. Their skillsets are harder to come by, take lots of effort to master, and are extremely valuable (saving lives). Compared to someone paid $8/hr to put nuts on bolts.
7. Hostile political environment. I'm not sure what you mean by this. On paper, our system is one of the more open ones in the world. Like I said in my post, there's a culture in washington that needs to be stripped away. Most european countries lack a bill of rights, which most americans consider a requirement for a free society. Freedom of speech, freedom to defend yourself and your property, freedom from oppressive abuse by the state in criminal trials are all requirements that most european states do not meet. The USA has slipped from these quite a bit (and I did mention this).
8. Death penalty. Not every state in the union has a death penalty. For heinous crimes, it can benefit the victims, however, I am not a fan of it. For the most part, the only people on death row are mass murderers.
9. police state? Your governments regularly censor the media, you have no bill of rights.. While the US has made strides in the last few years, it doesn't come close to the mentalities across the pond. Not to mention that most european states have no problem with the bilateral agreements they have with US NSA/CIA etc for surveillance. You have your own secret police too.
10. Social cohesion. I'm not even sure what this is supposed to mean, but what happened to diversity? A diverse population cannot be 'cohesive' by definition. Sometimes I wonder how the left has any sort of cohesion whatsoever. They make the neo conservative right, here, look intelligent, and that is scary.
11. I am never sure what to think when someone says some group is not educated. I used to think it simply meant 'no primary schooling." Now it appears to mean "Not thoroughly indoctrinated." There are a lot of dumbasses in the US. There are plenty in other places too. This is part of the human condition.
Yeah, it wasn't well written, sorry. The stipulation made by the person I replied to was that university is supposed to be about 'learning', and 'job training' is separate. Well the typical EE program is 4-5 years, plus he wants another X amount of years for 'job training' (he doesn't specify)? So that's what? 18 mos? 3 years? 5? So much of university is already a load of useless classes and required 'electives' mandated by governmental and industry committees for political reasons. Don't even get me started about highschool curriculum.
It's taking longer and longer for people to be considered 'prepared' for life. It's a waste of time for everyone and actually works to stunt maturity and independence. Sometimes I wonder if that's intentional.
You could start with a system that values liberties and rights over twisted reinterpretations, fallacies like 'precedent', and passive aggressive political correctness. Then you could replace those currently in office with those who consider their roles to uphold the constitution as duties rather than careers, ie not people from the ivy league law school track. If the laws are made so complex that they require a law degree to 'interpret,' how can we expect the common man to do so in order to obey? It's a minefield for the majority. Finally, such a system would hold its own enforcers to the same laws and punishments as the rest of us, with no special deals for corporations either.
There are several implied changes that would come from this, most of which would be good.
Flash ads that play sound really loudly and/or move across the screen don't annoy you? How about the current trend of pop over javascript windows that wait 10 seconds or so for you to start reading, and then fade the page as they pop up, forcing you to click them closed? Those are fucking aggravating, and a lot of sites do that now. The passive 'just don't visit that site' tactic doesn't actually solve the problem. There has to be a way to push back. ad blockers allow this.
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Modern 'education' is teaching girls that pregnancy is not really their problem. All she has to do is petition the state to bilk it out of 16yo daddy, whether he's got it or not. It's about time that 'her body, her right, her choice', also became her responsibility. Watch how fast these girls will line up for abortions and become more careful once that mealticket is gone.
I'm sure he does do RTC, pdfs, video playback, and screensharing, with appropriate client applications.. doing them in a browser is what's stupid.
You bet it does.. it takes power away from the owner/driver, and places it in the hands of a corporation and/or the state. Considering the paranoid delusional behavior already shown by our dear leaders, fuck that.
Not wanting to live in a cesspool of feral idiots is not classism or racism..
Except that when the 'software' fails, it's the user's fault. Fuck that. It's not reasonable to expect people to follow rules they apparently can't even parse without outside counsel.
Considering that lawyers like yourself have moved the law out beyond the understanding of most people, maybe it's time that lawyers burned every time some joe gets burned like this.
In a truly free market, customers roped in this way would be free to simply not pay, tell the vendor to go to hell, and take his property (the domains) elsewhere.
Search does not replace a proper interface.. Say it with me, again, until you get it: "Search does not replace a proper interface." There are so many people suggesting search as a solution to crappy interfaces, it's mind boggling. Who wants to play guess what it's called with a text box when the GUI at least shows you the available candidates?
Switching from mouse to keyboard and back is tiresome if your task is mouse oriented. Left handed hotkeys work out alright, but having to type everything to get around is annoying. It negates the point of a GUI in the first place. Search is a crutch, not a solution. If I wanted a command prompt, I'd load up cmd or powershell.
Yeah, if you just use it as a facebook terminal, it's fine, but then anything would be for that.
Well, duh, if you want people to switch to a new interface, it has to be BETTER than the previous one for the given task. metro fails here.
Really? This has to be explained to you? Some of us use more than one application simultaneously, often spreading out over multiple displays. In this case, starting new programs should not be a full screen focus grab. Using the mouse to ponderously scroll through piles of huge tiles on a huge display is tedious compared with a little menu in the corner. Now if you don't like clicking through folders, I understand, but that is more the fault of vendors who insist on adding extra layers so as to get you to see their brand name regularly. However, it can be fixed easily by the user. A nicely laid out start menu is far superior to any other convolution anyone has come up with. The big tiles thing is fine for constrained touch only devices, but not workstations where people require open ended workflows and no fingerprints on their monitors.
Because we shouldn't reenforce such blatant stupidity.
The new task manager is nice? Are you kidding? There have to be close to 50 processes running on the machine, so why does it show a blank window in its default view? Terrible. In its more functional views, it wastes desktop real estate with that tons-of-white-space-and-large-font trend that's infecting everything.
You would need to port the python interpreter to whatever VM instruction set is used. Good luck with that.
Yes, obsolete software is eventually abandoned. If you don't like it, use a long term support kernel.
Also, don't forget about the inverse negative.. Better qualified men being held back so that women can take their slots because...well they're women!
What happened to simply using relevant attributes? That's how to attain equal opportunity.
Why ask an open ended question that's designed to torpedo the rapport between yourself and the potential employee? Stick to relevant topics instead of trying to make people squirm.
Whoever's training HR people nowadays needs a checkup from the neck up.
What site do the breeders use then? espn.com?
So, basically, the USA was never a first world country because it did not subscribe to european values?
1. working conditions? I suppose working in a coal mine isn't pleasant, but that's more due to the nature of the job than where it's located. It's no worse here than in europe. Office jobs here aren't much different either, though the hours do tend to run longer. There's also all that nice passive aggressive politics added by 'diversity' laws.
2. living conditions? A big reason we have ghettos is due to run away welfare that does not discriminate on how the money is spent. something is wrong when crack baby mothers are buying flatscreen tvs with welfare. Something is also wrong when feminism has created a huge population boom for single mothers who do terrible jobs raising their children (especially boys). The number one indicator for future criminal behavior is a lack of a decent father in the home. The fathers, meanwhile, are excised by family court over the tiniest (or completely made up) accusations, and separated from their wallets. If this is what 'social cohesion's all about, I want nothing to do with it.
3. of course you don't see many positive aspects of american culture. You've been taught to detest what americans do value, either by your own media's propaganda, or by your own convictions. It's funny how people from other countries will complain about 'amero-centrism' on the part of americans before going right into some tirade that shows the centrism they have about their own country and culture.
4. racial laws? well the european union countries have the opposite problem.. they silence their own native cultures in the name of 'multiculturalism' and 'community cohesion' (I believe those are the new speak terms used over there). This is just as bigoted and short sighted.
5. social services? we have plenty of those. They don't work very well, but that's government for you. From what I hear, the services aren't much better over there, where wait times for critical operations can be months depending on what caste you are (government official or common prole).
6. Income gap? Well, hey, doctors should be paid more than factory workers. Their skillsets are harder to come by, take lots of effort to master, and are extremely valuable (saving lives). Compared to someone paid $8/hr to put nuts on bolts.
7. Hostile political environment. I'm not sure what you mean by this. On paper, our system is one of the more open ones in the world. Like I said in my post, there's a culture in washington that needs to be stripped away. Most european countries lack a bill of rights, which most americans consider a requirement for a free society. Freedom of speech, freedom to defend yourself and your property, freedom from oppressive abuse by the state in criminal trials are all requirements that most european states do not meet. The USA has slipped from these quite a bit (and I did mention this).
8. Death penalty. Not every state in the union has a death penalty. For heinous crimes, it can benefit the victims, however, I am not a fan of it. For the most part, the only people on death row are mass murderers.
9. police state? Your governments regularly censor the media, you have no bill of rights.. While the US has made strides in the last few years, it doesn't come close to the mentalities across the pond. Not to mention that most european states have no problem with the bilateral agreements they have with US NSA/CIA etc for surveillance. You have your own secret police too.
10. Social cohesion. I'm not even sure what this is supposed to mean, but what happened to diversity? A diverse population cannot be 'cohesive' by definition. Sometimes I wonder how the left has any sort of cohesion whatsoever. They make the neo conservative right, here, look intelligent, and that is scary.
11. I am never sure what to think when someone says some group is not educated. I used to think it simply meant 'no primary schooling." Now it appears to mean "Not thoroughly indoctrinated." There are a lot of dumbasses in the US. There are plenty in other places too. This is part of the human condition.
How's the display and/or input latency? framerate?
Play as in 'aim-like-a-drunken-duck-with-a-controller', or play as in 'cpm-god'? With quake, those are two very different definitions.
Wow, what a deal, fuck that. That's basically a non-choice for most people, since most need a car to get to work.
Yeah, it wasn't well written, sorry. The stipulation made by the person I replied to was that university is supposed to be about 'learning', and 'job training' is separate. Well the typical EE program is 4-5 years, plus he wants another X amount of years for 'job training' (he doesn't specify)? So that's what? 18 mos? 3 years? 5? So much of university is already a load of useless classes and required 'electives' mandated by governmental and industry committees for political reasons. Don't even get me started about highschool curriculum.
It's taking longer and longer for people to be considered 'prepared' for life. It's a waste of time for everyone and actually works to stunt maturity and independence. Sometimes I wonder if that's intentional.
You could start with a system that values liberties and rights over twisted reinterpretations, fallacies like 'precedent', and passive aggressive political correctness. Then you could replace those currently in office with those who consider their roles to uphold the constitution as duties rather than careers, ie not people from the ivy league law school track. If the laws are made so complex that they require a law degree to 'interpret,' how can we expect the common man to do so in order to obey? It's a minefield for the majority. Finally, such a system would hold its own enforcers to the same laws and punishments as the rest of us, with no special deals for corporations either.
There are several implied changes that would come from this, most of which would be good.
Flash ads that play sound really loudly and/or move across the screen don't annoy you? How about the current trend of pop over javascript windows that wait 10 seconds or so for you to start reading, and then fade the page as they pop up, forcing you to click them closed? Those are fucking aggravating, and a lot of sites do that now. The passive 'just don't visit that site' tactic doesn't actually solve the problem. There has to be a way to push back. ad blockers allow this.