Boo hoo hoo you snivelling whiner. OWS is the most interesting thing that's happened in the USA for a long time. Unless you are one of the top richest 30,000 people in the US, you should be very interested and very concerned.
Face it, you're just afraid. It's inevitable that OWS will continue and get stronger after all the TV-bound Americans were shown the victories of the people in the Arab Spring this year. Winter's gonna put a damper on a lot of it, but as the country returns to warmth next spring, I expect it to reawaken and intensify.
I haven't been involved, but it's been fascinating watching the normal citizenry begin to awaken finally. I thought it'd never happen.
But when the real numbers of unemployed are around 20% and growing (Look at all the high-profile factories, banks, investment houses, local government, etc. that have failed just in the last four weeks!), the middle class is going to be finally showing up in large number. It's to the point where the so-called "average" family (Two parents, two kids, a dog/cat, high school and/or some college.) who has been living frugally already and just trying to live an honest life, are getting to the point where they are not going to be able to keep a roof over their heads or feed their children pretty soon. (Sorry Timmy, but we just had to cook Lassie.)
Once the higher-than-ever heating bills kick in this winter, that's going to kill a lot of people's final savings. They are going to be hungry in belly and hungry in spirit come spring. Anything could happen. The 'leaders' who have thought far too little about keeping an economy going for the long term. No knowledge of symbiotic systems, no long-picture societal wisdom. Lying to themselves that the only purpose in life is making a short-term profit without any consideration for the long-term game.
It's in their hands, they can fix this and help people, or the normal people will be faced with the scary truth that they are going to have to fix it themselves, and soon, or be reduced (They and their children) to nothing more than cattle in the next few years. No pensions, no healthcare, no 401Ks, getting older by the day, knowing that when that day comes, if something doesn't change now, they will be to old and weak to change it then...
My girlfriend lives about 1.5 blocks from Warren Buffet, so if you take the per capita for the two blocks between Warren and her, she's a billionaire!:)
Unfortunately, she's having a hard time coming up with the money for a transmission for her Kio Rio. So statistics suck and are very misleading...
FTR, I am running it on a laptop with a 1920x1200 screen. I'm not hurting for screen space. I simply appreciate the more efficient use of space, even if it is just a minicule improvement. Scrollbars have been essentially the same since before Windows 3.1, so hadn't even considered seeing an improvement in them.
It's nice, I like it.
Now the rest of Unity... Kind of tiring to use. I switched to Mint Linux this weekend to get away from it. Plan to stay on LM11 for a while until they figure out what they are doing with LM12.
Like Microsoft took over the design? Interesting, I thought the opposite - looked to me like Apple took over the design. Everything dumbed-down and pre-determined, no choice, no freedom.
I hated the new scrollbars horribly when I first encountered them, thinking it was some kind of touch-swipe interface only. I didn't realize that the scroll handle appears when you float over them and had resorted to scrolling by clicking in a window and using the arrow keys.
But once I figured out the pop-up handle thingy, I've got to say that I really really like it. Less wasted screen space.
Fuck man, it's all fucked up and if they want America to stay as the creator entity, they need to make it so the "little guy" can still make it off a good idea. As it is now, I've got ideas that I don't want to speak of (Let alone patent) as I expect to just get fucked around if I do try to release it.
I've REALLY got some original ideas, for some impressive shit, but until the patent system gets back in line with reality, I'm just keeping them in my head.
Tally up all the deaths between the Christians and Muslims over the last few centuries, and the number is far higher.
Not even sure who the "National Socialists" are, too lazy to look it up as it seems red-herringish.
Are you talking about people within those countries killing dissenters or some wars with other countries?
I'm talking about large numbers of people killing themselves over minor discrepancies in what they 'beleive' for centuries. This is why religion should be abolished, it's too dangerous. Religion has killed several orders of magnitude more people than marijuana, yet which is illegal? Does it make sense?
Your argument is weak. They do own or control most of the funding for those peer reviewers.
Let's try arguing Thomas Gold's theories. Why was he the only one to predict oil underneath Siberian rock? What make you so sure he wasn't given something 10 years before to cause heart disease because he was getting too close to popping the big lie?
Same with the Israelis doing the same to the Palestinians, what's your point?
At this point we just need to abolish religion for the failed experiment that it is. More people are killed each year by arguments over their invisble sky wizards than any other cause of death. It's sickening that the sheep keep falling for the same BS. We are all human, and we all live on the same round rock.
Those peer reviewers are all owned by big oil/big coal/big nuclear, who already know that the theory behind cold fusion is solid, just the correct implementation is unknown.
Soon as someone figures out the cold fusion puzzle, it's game over for the big energy guys, and they know it, so they do their best to confuse and ridicule in the meantime to protect their cash cows.
Just a good thing that this guy hasn't ended up like Thomas Gold, who correctly pointed out that we are not in danger of running out of oil, nor is it made out of fossilized dinosaurs, but a natural byrpoduct of chemical reactions in the Earth's core. They killed him.
Good, maybe this will be the end of the Unix standard. I hate it when building a new Linux box, setting up the time info, and having to pick which major city is in my time zone (America/Chicago, even though I'm closer to America/Denver) instead of just picking (Central Time Zone). It's stupid. I hate the presumption of stupidity on Unix time zones - Even my grandma knows what time zone she lives in.
With all the talk about how the US needs to out-innovate other countries, they throw a wrench like this in the works. With first to file in place, that cool hack you just came up with and put on your web site, without patenting it first, can now be 'discovered' by a patent troll, who then files a patent based on your work, and then can turn around and sue you for using something that you invented.
Most creative people dont have the time or money to mess around with patenting their new ideas. This whole thing is just a bonanza for megacorps to steal all kinds of IP from the little guys who do most of the inventing.
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Boo hoo hoo you snivelling whiner. OWS is the most interesting thing that's happened in the USA for a long time. Unless you are one of the top richest 30,000 people in the US, you should be very interested and very concerned.
Face it, you're just afraid. It's inevitable that OWS will continue and get stronger after all the TV-bound Americans were shown the victories of the people in the Arab Spring this year. Winter's gonna put a damper on a lot of it, but as the country returns to warmth next spring, I expect it to reawaken and intensify.
I haven't been involved, but it's been fascinating watching the normal citizenry begin to awaken finally. I thought it'd never happen.
But when the real numbers of unemployed are around 20% and growing (Look at all the high-profile factories, banks, investment houses, local government, etc. that have failed just in the last four weeks!), the middle class is going to be finally showing up in large number. It's to the point where the so-called "average" family (Two parents, two kids, a dog/cat, high school and/or some college.) who has been living frugally already and just trying to live an honest life, are getting to the point where they are not going to be able to keep a roof over their heads or feed their children pretty soon. (Sorry Timmy, but we just had to cook Lassie.)
Once the higher-than-ever heating bills kick in this winter, that's going to kill a lot of people's final savings. They are going to be hungry in belly and hungry in spirit come spring. Anything could happen. The 'leaders' who have thought far too little about keeping an economy going for the long term. No knowledge of symbiotic systems, no long-picture societal wisdom. Lying to themselves that the only purpose in life is making a short-term profit without any consideration for the long-term game.
It's in their hands, they can fix this and help people, or the normal people will be faced with the scary truth that they are going to have to fix it themselves, and soon, or be reduced (They and their children) to nothing more than cattle in the next few years. No pensions, no healthcare, no 401Ks, getting older by the day, knowing that when that day comes, if something doesn't change now, they will be to old and weak to change it then...
My girlfriend lives about 1.5 blocks from Warren Buffet, so if you take the per capita for the two blocks between Warren and her, she's a billionaire! :)
Unfortunately, she's having a hard time coming up with the money for a transmission for her Kio Rio. So statistics suck and are very misleading...
I clicked on the link and only saw a 4004 ;)
Wow, people are sure harsh today...
FTR, I am running it on a laptop with a 1920x1200 screen. I'm not hurting for screen space. I simply appreciate the more efficient use of space, even if it is just a minicule improvement. Scrollbars have been essentially the same since before Windows 3.1, so hadn't even considered seeing an improvement in them.
It's nice, I like it.
Now the rest of Unity... Kind of tiring to use. I switched to Mint Linux this weekend to get away from it. Plan to stay on LM11 for a while until they figure out what they are doing with LM12.
Wait, what? They did? More info please!
(And not saying that in a snarky [citation needed] way, I really want to know more.)
Like Microsoft took over the design? Interesting, I thought the opposite - looked to me like Apple took over the design. Everything dumbed-down and pre-determined, no choice, no freedom.
I hated the new scrollbars horribly when I first encountered them, thinking it was some kind of touch-swipe interface only. I didn't realize that the scroll handle appears when you float over them and had resorted to scrolling by clicking in a window and using the arrow keys.
But once I figured out the pop-up handle thingy, I've got to say that I really really like it. Less wasted screen space.
Now missing the same thing on Windows at work.
It is all bullshit, don't ya know?
Fuck man, it's all fucked up and if they want America to stay as the creator entity, they need to make it so the "little guy" can still make it off a good idea. As it is now, I've got ideas that I don't want to speak of (Let alone patent) as I expect to just get fucked around if I do try to release it.
I've REALLY got some original ideas, for some impressive shit, but until the patent system gets back in line with reality, I'm just keeping them in my head.
Hey, look how stupid Pax681 is!
Tally up all the deaths between the Christians and Muslims over the last few centuries, and the number is far higher.
Not even sure who the "National Socialists" are, too lazy to look it up as it seems red-herringish.
Are you talking about people within those countries killing dissenters or some wars with other countries?
I'm talking about large numbers of people killing themselves over minor discrepancies in what they 'beleive' for centuries. This is why religion should be abolished, it's too dangerous. Religion has killed several orders of magnitude more people than marijuana, yet which is illegal? Does it make sense?
I can prove a negative: (1 - 2) == -1
No, he's not an atheist, he's an agnostic.
An atheist says, definitively, that there is no god, yet not stating any evidence either way to back up that claim.
An agnostic says, inconclusively, that there may or may not be a god, saying that there is not any evidence either way to make a logical decision on.
Big difference, don't play word games with people, it's self-defeating.
*snork*
Good troll, dude. Many ways to induce heart disease, nothing to do with french fries.
Big Aluminum Foil - that's pretty funny. :)
Socialism? That's the most unexpected answer I could have thought of, talk about vile, idiotic bullshit.
[Citation Needed]
Your argument is weak. They do own or control most of the funding for those peer reviewers.
Let's try arguing Thomas Gold's theories. Why was he the only one to predict oil underneath Siberian rock? What make you so sure he wasn't given something 10 years before to cause heart disease because he was getting too close to popping the big lie?
You sound like a shill for big oil.
So, are they Semites, or Jews, or Israelis, or Zionists, or what are they calling themselves this month?
I'm not anti-Semitic, but I am sure anti- towards Israel government acting like a "spoiled child" and just starting shit for no moral reason.
Same with the Israelis doing the same to the Palestinians, what's your point?
At this point we just need to abolish religion for the failed experiment that it is. More people are killed each year by arguments over their invisble sky wizards than any other cause of death. It's sickening that the sheep keep falling for the same BS. We are all human, and we all live on the same round rock.
Those peer reviewers are all owned by big oil/big coal/big nuclear, who already know that the theory behind cold fusion is solid, just the correct implementation is unknown.
Soon as someone figures out the cold fusion puzzle, it's game over for the big energy guys, and they know it, so they do their best to confuse and ridicule in the meantime to protect their cash cows.
Just a good thing that this guy hasn't ended up like Thomas Gold, who correctly pointed out that we are not in danger of running out of oil, nor is it made out of fossilized dinosaurs, but a natural byrpoduct of chemical reactions in the Earth's core. They killed him.
Is that with, or without, the hover conversion?
Standards are just crutches for inferior programmers. Too many of the less gifted cling to them as if they were some holy grail. They aren't.
Good, maybe this will be the end of the Unix standard. I hate it when building a new Linux box, setting up the time info, and having to pick which major city is in my time zone (America/Chicago, even though I'm closer to America/Denver) instead of just picking (Central Time Zone). It's stupid. I hate the presumption of stupidity on Unix time zones - Even my grandma knows what time zone she lives in.
So vote republican!??
With all the talk about how the US needs to out-innovate other countries, they throw a wrench like this in the works. With first to file in place, that cool hack you just came up with and put on your web site, without patenting it first, can now be 'discovered' by a patent troll, who then files a patent based on your work, and then can turn around and sue you for using something that you invented.
Most creative people dont have the time or money to mess around with patenting their new ideas. This whole thing is just a bonanza for megacorps to steal all kinds of IP from the little guys who do most of the inventing.
Complete crap
But then again, look at this salary survey - Space Cadet jobs have increased 671%, while Farmer jobs have decreased 84%. Something seems wrong.