But in 2010, I had several employees in R&D mode, my net income was nearly zero, I fell below the poverty line. I actually qualified for some government handouts.
So, did you take advantage and take the govt handouts?
Seems a pretty interesting way to claw back some of your hard earned tax money!!
LOL...and hey, a funny picture too...driving up to the store in your BMW, and then whipping out the food stamps at the checkout counter.
Hell, I'd do it just for the laugh alone on that one....
I differ with you here...I *do* like to have my whole music collection with me, especially when traveling.
I never know what I'll be in the mood for, and I like to have anything I have at my fingertips, for music at least.
Hell, I like to often put it on shuffle and be surprised by songs I maybe forgot I had....
Hence, I'm still a fan of the old HD based iPod classics...sure I have subset of music on iphone and ipod nano (strictly for gym usage)....but when in the car, traveling or at the office desk, I prefer to have my 160gb iPod with me...so, I can have access to most of the music I own...
I have a NC, and am still running it from the CM7 installed on the microSD card....but was planning soon to do the full root of it.
I had some apprehensions, as that often I find my NC going into the 'death sleep mode'....where you have to completely reboot it to get it going again (seems on mine to be related to staying on wireless mode when it goes to sleep).
Anyway, I'll look into CM 7.2....and maybe do the full root of it.....just gotta find some free time at home now.
Personally, paying 25% more for the product isn't worth extra storage space that I would never use. I think Google did a good job at offering these 2 options to try and satisfy us both. Although I DO agree that an SD slot would have actually been the ideal solution.
Yeah...but $50 isn't anything at all...hell, I often have bar tabs that high.....
For pocket change, why not just get the maxed out one?
Well, I don't usually watch movies or video content on a tablet unless I'm traveling (I have nice, high end HD tvs at home for that)....so, when traveling, you want to load up with enough content to keep you entertained while on the road.
That's where you need the extra memory.
I'm surprised these things don't have SD slots in them? Seems a major missing option....just keep your media on the SD, and you can swap it out as needed, much like I do with my hacked nook color.....
A car that performs like a Porsche will cost like one.
Well, they quit making the Tesla Roadster...not interested in the 'family car' they're now putting out.
I'd like something that looks like a Vette...for a vette price.
Until they can get a 'green' car in that category, I'm just not interested. In fact, I'm starting to go the opposite way, and try to get a good 70's muscle car, maybe with a 455 engine, bore it out, update the steering and suspension in a resto-mod fashion...and enjoy 10mpg fun lighting up the tires at stop lights.
We are not going to walk around wearing masks, nor are we going to wear high intensity IR LEDs on our foreheads.
Hmm....I wonder if you could get one to work easily as an earring tho? Lots of people wear one or two of those.
I'd at least like to put a ring of them around my license plate to try to see if it would, in fact, blind out the traffic cameras, while still being perfectly human readable.
Do it on something fun. Make a sports car, something with high performance along with mileage, and for once, do a 'green' car that has some eye appeal and isn't downright fugly.
Make something that looks like and has the same numbers as a Vette or Porsche....but with hybrid-diesel tech.....
I mean, even in cultures where it is tolerated, doesn't mean it is accepted. I mean, hell....many people don't mind what two people do in the privacy of their own homes, but they also don't think homosexuality is really a good thing, normal or correct.
They don't wanna prosecute or discriminate against gays, but they also don't generally want to be associated with it or hang around in proximity to those that practice it.
This isn't exactly uncommon....at least in the US.
...but until we have full public funding of elections (with free airtime for candidates) and zero contributions to candidates or parties (all monies for elections managed, disbursed and audited by an impartial NGO), we will continue to see this race to the bottom.
Obvious troll, but many may think it fact. You're wrong on desktops and servers, by a large margin.
On desktops...MS still rules.
But, from my anecdotal experience...with BIG systems, many of them even on the Federal level...in the server rooms, these days it is largely RHEL.
The general consensus I get from any existing or new project is..."Windows does not belong in the server room". Most of what I'm seeing lately is VMWare and RHEL and Oracle in the server rooms.
Or.. put another way... I think Obama will help to strengthen the middle class (i.e. restore the wealth of the middle 30% or so of the populace) and thus give us the means to power to reclaim the rest.
And exactly what has he done so far to promote the middle class? Hmm....I see he's wanting to cut the Bush tax cuts for those over $250K....but that isn't going to boost the middle class (in fact, if said couple is running a small business, and it is set up to have business income, etc fall through on personal taxes...it will likely hit them worse).
So far, I've not seen numbers that show Obamacare will help the middle class any...if anything in a few years it might hit them again.
I hear Obama extolling the virtues of raising the middle class...but I see very little action and no specific ideas being put forth. Please enlighten me on all the things he has done and has specifically laid out that will raise the middle class.
These days...I keep thinking he confuses the middle class with the poverty/welfare class....
Bush DID grab the power to spy on all communications in the U.S., without a warrant - remember that whole "Warrantless wiretapping" thing and "carnivore" that sorted through your e-mails and text messages.
You'd think people would have longer memories.
And our current rush in before election and changed his vote to support this action, in spite of his earlier speeches against said communication intrusions by the feds....Obama still supports and is behind these acts.
I agree...you'd think people had LONGER memories...and broader ones too that reach beyond party lines to see that this president is as bad as the previous one in every form and fashion.
You are arguing now that mccain and sarah palin would have run the USA better. That is what you are arguing, just so we are clear.
Well, the way I see it...Biden cancels out Palin. Both are blathering idiots....
I'm just as worried about Biden being one step away from the Presidency as I would have been about Palin.
That being equal....while I can't stand what McCain became on that run (I did like him somewhat against Bush)...no, I cannot see him doing any worse, and likely we'd not be in the messes and have the power grabs we're currently seeing from the current administration.
2x levels of bad really....I don't like either one of them, but at this point, Obama is a PROVEN bad, where McCain presidency is only a hypothetical level of bad. With those two....yeah, I'd take McCain.
Frankly...looking back to that elections...likely the person to do the best would have been Hillary...out of all the serious contenders. We'd have her...and Bill in the shadows advising, and while I disagreed with MANY of Bill's beliefs and policies...he was for the most part a decent president and made some good decisions, and I think is MUCH sharper thinking than anyone we've been talking about here....
as bad as O is, it would be worse with republicans in charge.
I dunno. I mean, we're seeing time, and time again how Obama is pushing for more Federal (and presidential) power concentration, and erosion of citizens'/states' rights and privacy.
He swapped his vote/position on the Telecommunications act awhile back...has shown nothing but support for Patriot act renewals, and now this.
Again, it bear saying: The definition of "Insanity" is doing the same thing over and over and over again...and expecting a different outcome.
I'm not a huge Romney fan....but while he is pretty much an unknown when it comes to these issues....we downright positively know how Obama and his administration treats and supports these issues.
I don't really see them repealing or even easing up on these types of issues and legislation on a 2nd term unrestricted by the need for re-election...do you?
"Although there is no Constitutional provision or statute that explicitly permits executive orders, there is a vague grant of "executive power" given in Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and furthered by the declaration "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" made in Article II, Section 3, Clause 4."
What do we need to do to clarify and severely limit Executive Orders? Constitutional amendment, or could congress pass a bill that would define this presidential power to specific limits?
No president should be using this to, in essence, "create legislation"....
So....how's that "Hope and Change" working out for you?
Geez...and people were seriously worried about Bush Jr. trying to 'go imperial', grab power and stay president past his term.
Even he didn't go for a power grab THIS broad.
Seriously...the govt can take over private sector machines? What constitutes an emergency to trigger this takeover....emp? China cyber attack? Bad election returns?
You left out speaking English that most everyone working can understand without bad, thick accents.
This isn't trying to be mean...but I've run into this SO many times, like with Oracle support..where I had to tell the person trying to help me on a call, to please just email or update the SR. as that I just could NOT understand and follow them when speaking to them on the phone, the accents and enunciation were that bad.
And speaking of... Have you EVER talked to a private health care insurance company? Have you ever even used health care since you were a kid? Efficient it is... For the profits of the people who run them.
And why in the hell should the life of a person depend on the profit of someone who is not a doctor or scientist?
As a matter of fact I have...I've incorporated and have worked indie contracting. I set up a HSA to sock back money pre-tax for my routine care, and I got high deductible EMERGENCY insurance...which was not very expensive monthly payments. That is to be used only for catastrophic needs.
Yes, I have pre-existing conditions...high triglycerides, I smoke....but I got insurance. BCBS I think is what I ended up with.
I saved, and even with one year having a MRI....which I paid for myself, I didn't use nearly all of my HSA funds for that year alone....I was socking about $3K annually....and when I went to Drs and told them I was paying myself, they gave me a cut rate. Even the MRI was given a 15% discount for me.
I'd much rather have my money for my decisions...I went to whatever Dr. I researched or had recommended to me...both based on price and quality.
Yes, I know the DMV is state run, but is a perfectly good example of ANY govt. run service. I've dealt with the Feds too...and it isn't any more efficient.
Why should a person/family not save their money budgeted out for health expenditures just as they do for utilities, gas and car note?
Healthcare shouldn't be attached to employment...HSA's and emergency insurance (it used to be called Major Medical for a reason you know), is a perfect set up.
If you're too poor to afford that...well, we DO have medicaid for those folks.
With the scenario I described, there is no 'pre approval'...you're talking about the failed HMO bullshit system we're currently stuck with.
There was no such problem before HMO's were around....maybe you're too young to remember that?
Hey, you can 'call' it what you want..but the only thing the govt should be having anything to do with it...is the legally contractually binding parts of said unions.
From a govt prospect...call them all civil unions.
What you and your partner call it is 100% up to you....
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So, did you take advantage and take the govt handouts?
Seems a pretty interesting way to claw back some of your hard earned tax money!!
LOL...and hey, a funny picture too...driving up to the store in your BMW, and then whipping out the food stamps at the checkout counter.
Hell, I'd do it just for the laugh alone on that one....
I differ with you here...I *do* like to have my whole music collection with me, especially when traveling.
I never know what I'll be in the mood for, and I like to have anything I have at my fingertips, for music at least.
Hell, I like to often put it on shuffle and be surprised by songs I maybe forgot I had....
Hence, I'm still a fan of the old HD based iPod classics...sure I have subset of music on iphone and ipod nano (strictly for gym usage)....but when in the car, traveling or at the office desk, I prefer to have my 160gb iPod with me...so, I can have access to most of the music I own...
I have a NC, and am still running it from the CM7 installed on the microSD card....but was planning soon to do the full root of it.
I had some apprehensions, as that often I find my NC going into the 'death sleep mode'....where you have to completely reboot it to get it going again (seems on mine to be related to staying on wireless mode when it goes to sleep).
Anyway, I'll look into CM 7.2....and maybe do the full root of it.....just gotta find some free time at home now.
Yeah...but $50 isn't anything at all...hell, I often have bar tabs that high.....
For pocket change, why not just get the maxed out one?
That's where you need the extra memory.
I'm surprised these things don't have SD slots in them? Seems a major missing option....just keep your media on the SD, and you can swap it out as needed, much like I do with my hacked nook color.....
I don't know that I've ever SEEN a dwi checkpoint. Good thing too...
Used to be?
Most people I know still don't think twice about having some drinks and hitting the road....maybe what you describe is more regional in the US...?
A modern vette is definitely a contender for supercars, especially if you jump up into the ZR-1...but then again, you're in the $100K club....
Well, they quit making the Tesla Roadster...not interested in the 'family car' they're now putting out.
I'd like something that looks like a Vette...for a vette price.
Until they can get a 'green' car in that category, I'm just not interested. In fact, I'm starting to go the opposite way, and try to get a good 70's muscle car, maybe with a 455 engine, bore it out, update the steering and suspension in a resto-mod fashion...and enjoy 10mpg fun lighting up the tires at stop lights.
Hmm....I wonder if you could get one to work easily as an earring tho? Lots of people wear one or two of those.
I'd at least like to put a ring of them around my license plate to try to see if it would, in fact, blind out the traffic cameras, while still being perfectly human readable.
Do it on something fun. Make a sports car, something with high performance along with mileage, and for once, do a 'green' car that has some eye appeal and isn't downright fugly.
Make something that looks like and has the same numbers as a Vette or Porsche....but with hybrid-diesel tech.....
You lost me at this one man....
I mean, even in cultures where it is tolerated, doesn't mean it is accepted. I mean, hell....many people don't mind what two people do in the privacy of their own homes, but they also don't think homosexuality is really a good thing, normal or correct.
They don't wanna prosecute or discriminate against gays, but they also don't generally want to be associated with it or hang around in proximity to those that practice it.
This isn't exactly uncommon....at least in the US.
People still watch baseball?
I mean...ok, I guess if you're at the park and can drink beer, and all....it can be fun, but on TV? Geez, I'd just as soon watch paint peel...
I'll be up for adjusting all tax rates, if we quit giving so many people a free ride.
I don't care if it is only $1....everyone should have some skin in the game here.....
I heartly agree!!!!
On desktops...MS still rules.
But, from my anecdotal experience...with BIG systems, many of them even on the Federal level...in the server rooms, these days it is largely RHEL.
The general consensus I get from any existing or new project is..."Windows does not belong in the server room". Most of what I'm seeing lately is VMWare and RHEL and Oracle in the server rooms.
And exactly what has he done so far to promote the middle class? Hmm....I see he's wanting to cut the Bush tax cuts for those over $250K....but that isn't going to boost the middle class (in fact, if said couple is running a small business, and it is set up to have business income, etc fall through on personal taxes...it will likely hit them worse).
So far, I've not seen numbers that show Obamacare will help the middle class any...if anything in a few years it might hit them again.
I hear Obama extolling the virtues of raising the middle class...but I see very little action and no specific ideas being put forth. Please enlighten me on all the things he has done and has specifically laid out that will raise the middle class.
These days...I keep thinking he confuses the middle class with the poverty/welfare class....
And our current rush in before election and changed his vote to support this action, in spite of his earlier speeches against said communication intrusions by the feds....Obama still supports and is behind these acts.
I agree...you'd think people had LONGER memories...and broader ones too that reach beyond party lines to see that this president is as bad as the previous one in every form and fashion.
Well, the way I see it...Biden cancels out Palin. Both are blathering idiots....
I'm just as worried about Biden being one step away from the Presidency as I would have been about Palin.
That being equal....while I can't stand what McCain became on that run (I did like him somewhat against Bush)...no, I cannot see him doing any worse, and likely we'd not be in the messes and have the power grabs we're currently seeing from the current administration.
2x levels of bad really....I don't like either one of them, but at this point, Obama is a PROVEN bad, where McCain presidency is only a hypothetical level of bad. With those two....yeah, I'd take McCain.
Frankly...looking back to that elections...likely the person to do the best would have been Hillary...out of all the serious contenders. We'd have her...and Bill in the shadows advising, and while I disagreed with MANY of Bill's beliefs and policies...he was for the most part a decent president and made some good decisions, and I think is MUCH sharper thinking than anyone we've been talking about here....
I dunno. I mean, we're seeing time, and time again how Obama is pushing for more Federal (and presidential) power concentration, and erosion of citizens'/states' rights and privacy.
He swapped his vote/position on the Telecommunications act awhile back...has shown nothing but support for Patriot act renewals, and now this.
Again, it bear saying: The definition of "Insanity" is doing the same thing over and over and over again...and expecting a different outcome.
I'm not a huge Romney fan....but while he is pretty much an unknown when it comes to these issues....we downright positively know how Obama and his administration treats and supports these issues.
I don't really see them repealing or even easing up on these types of issues and legislation on a 2nd term unrestricted by the need for re-election...do you?
"Although there is no Constitutional provision or statute that explicitly permits executive orders, there is a vague grant of "executive power" given in Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and furthered by the declaration "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" made in Article II, Section 3, Clause 4."
What do we need to do to clarify and severely limit Executive Orders? Constitutional amendment, or could congress pass a bill that would define this presidential power to specific limits?
No president should be using this to, in essence, "create legislation"....
Geez...and people were seriously worried about Bush Jr. trying to 'go imperial', grab power and stay president past his term.
Even he didn't go for a power grab THIS broad.
Seriously...the govt can take over private sector machines? What constitutes an emergency to trigger this takeover....emp? China cyber attack? Bad election returns?
This isn't trying to be mean...but I've run into this SO many times, like with Oracle support..where I had to tell the person trying to help me on a call, to please just email or update the SR. as that I just could NOT understand and follow them when speaking to them on the phone, the accents and enunciation were that bad.
As a matter of fact I have...I've incorporated and have worked indie contracting. I set up a HSA to sock back money pre-tax for my routine care, and I got high deductible EMERGENCY insurance...which was not very expensive monthly payments. That is to be used only for catastrophic needs.
Yes, I have pre-existing conditions...high triglycerides, I smoke....but I got insurance. BCBS I think is what I ended up with.
I saved, and even with one year having a MRI....which I paid for myself, I didn't use nearly all of my HSA funds for that year alone....I was socking about $3K annually....and when I went to Drs and told them I was paying myself, they gave me a cut rate. Even the MRI was given a 15% discount for me.
I'd much rather have my money for my decisions...I went to whatever Dr. I researched or had recommended to me...both based on price and quality.
Yes, I know the DMV is state run, but is a perfectly good example of ANY govt. run service. I've dealt with the Feds too...and it isn't any more efficient.
Why should a person/family not save their money budgeted out for health expenditures just as they do for utilities, gas and car note?
Healthcare shouldn't be attached to employment...HSA's and emergency insurance (it used to be called Major Medical for a reason you know), is a perfect set up.
If you're too poor to afford that...well, we DO have medicaid for those folks.
With the scenario I described, there is no 'pre approval'...you're talking about the failed HMO bullshit system we're currently stuck with.
There was no such problem before HMO's were around....maybe you're too young to remember that?
From a govt prospect...call them all civil unions.
What you and your partner call it is 100% up to you....