And yet while every single time someone does something interesting there's a snivelling asshole like you there to poo-pooh how "easy it would be to just...", we never, ever hear of your much cheaper yet equally effective copies of the thing in question for some reason which I just can't figure out.
Instead of being bitter and resentful towards those who actually create new things, why don't you go and invent some yourself?
Oh wait, that's like... real work and effort and thinking and shit. Back to the TeeVee it is!
At the start of WWII, the alliance system that caused The Great War and the monstrous and pointless slaughter that went on during it were still very much fresh on everyone's mind. That was why Neville Chamberlain let Hitler get away with as much as he did in the 1930s (That and that Britain couldn't afford another war either). That was why the US retreated into an isolationist/protectionist shell. America is an impregnable fortress - we have two entire oceans between us and any plausible invader - why should we send our boys to die in a European fight? Not sending them into fights that aren't ours is rather the popular meme these days as I understand it.
I'm also curious how you conclude that the US only showed up after the Soviets had won the war. Seeing as the US declared war on all the Axis powers in early December of 1941, at which time Soviet forces were in full retreat, and the decisive turning point in the Eastern front - the Battle of Stalingrad - didn't even begin until late summer 1942.
I also question how you conclude that Japan could barely challenge the US, when the Pacific Theater (which, if I might remind you, the US that contributed "very little to the defeat of the Axis" fought essentially its own while simultaneously fighting and/or arming two others in North Africa and Europe) began with the US Pacific Fleet getting sucker-punched and suffering defeat after defeat for over a year. Yes, for many reasons it's certainly true that for Imperial Japan to start a war with the US was a suicidal proposition in the long term, but you dishonor the memory of all the men who died fighting towards the home islands to say they were barely challenged.
And the war was most certainly not practically won - The Imperial Japanese Army's own internal documents say they were ready to send every person in their entire nation to die fighting, and not until the US demonstrated unequivocally that we could now grant that suicidal wish and not lose a single man doing it did they surrender (unconditionally surrender - Japanese has about a dozen ways to yes and no without actually saying yes and no). Our own generals were forecasting literally millions of dead (to say nothing of casualties) if we finished the island hopping strategy and invaded the Home Islands conventionally.
Was the Axis doomed much sooner by Hitler's strategic incompetence? I'll let Operation Barbarossa speak to that, along with several other potentially critical decision points that shouldn't have gone in Allied favor (like the decision not to release Panzers at Normandy because the Fuhrer was asleep and not to be disturbed). Was America's industrial and manpower committment to the war a footnote? Not on your life.
The Standard Model doesn't "put" the Higgs anywhere because the Higgs mass is an input parameter to the theory. And all the theorists I talk to about this sort of thing would love to know how you've concluded that SUSY is confirmed, since they're lamenting the absence of anything that would fit or require supersymmetry, at the same time current results rule out a larger and larger fraction of possible theories/parameters for Susy models.
In conclusion I'm, going to venture that you may possibly not know what you're talking about.
If they're saying to just trust them, why did I sit through a two hour conference talk last night where leaders from two different experiments explained exactly what their procedures for running, calibrating and analyzing data from the LHC in half a dozen channels each were, including multiple tests against other known values/constants?
The council of concern trolls seem to be really, very, seriously, awfully concerned about the Higgs discovery...
There is no "Nobel Prize," mind you, there are a litany of Prizes in various fields of endeavor. The peace prize is obviously associated with political intrigue and making statements (such as Obama's, which was basically Europe very publicly giving Bush one last middle finger).
Now, had Al been awarded a Chemistry or Physics prize, I'd start believing that the whole process is bullshit.
What the hell computer configured as a _home router_ uses a hundred watts? When I got tired of a clunking old P4 using 75W, I bought a new set of parts from minibox and now have a gateway router that uses a whole 20W, for under $250.
And dependence on other nations for oil is not a concern as long as access to supply is certain, he said.
Of course not, it's not as if it's your boys who are going to get sent off to get killed, maimed for life, and left with memories that will haunt them forever, you goddamn plutocrat fuck. It's not as if nearly all of our current national security headaches (and nearly all the people killed by terrorism in the world for the last 20 years) can be traced to our meddling in the middle east AT YOUR BEHEST AND ON YOUR BEHALF. Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick, don't you people pay handlers to prevent us from seeing just what massive assholes you are?
Notice how we never, ever hear this kind of despicable statement from people like Joe Biden, or the English royals, both of of whom have family serving? You will find no record of President Eisenhower blithely insulting the difficult job the men in Korea faced (I wonder why!). Yet there is a word that specifically refers to the kind of twunts who don't serve, then loudly cheer to have others sent to die (especially if they use privilege to avoid serving after being called to): chickenhawks. They are despicable and should be loudly shamed at every opportunity.
Lol, it was meant to be exactly "master control program" and I only discovered afterwards that usernames are truncated to 20 characters.
Because of course, letting all the usernames registered to date take a total of a few extra MB of disk space by letting it be 30 or 40 max would've brought/. to its knees...
Like the herd of wandering drunken sailor-cats we call "open source developers" could agree on anything more meaningful than that the analog clock app should have a hundred dozen different skins so you can always find one you like.
Everyone critisizes the horrors of proprietary software development where some dumbshit schizophrenic customer jerks your chain around constantly and you can't actually write good code as a result. Or your idiot boss gives you half the time you would've needed to do it right at the start, then changes course halfway through and shaves several weeks off the due date along the way. Unfortunately the Linux desktop environments have gone the exact opposite way and it's just as bad - now with no one to make difficult decisions, we get horrible interfaces that stay horrible forever because there's no one to tell the developers (who of course don't see what's wrong with it, they fucking wrote it) "this piece of shit interface needs to be completely rewritten" and no one to make them actually do it, no matter how badly it needs to be done.
So you get these little groups, disconnected from reality, floating along in their own virtual stasis (try playing bzflag and suggest after a while that tanks should have hitpoints. Just try) having no idea that no one outside their little in-group who isn't a masochist can possibly use their programs. And just wait, I promise you I'll get a "Well you should be thankful for whatever they give you" response from the same group who complains so loudly that people don't use FOSS... Well which is it:: Do you want to do your own thing or do you want to write software people will use?
/Rant over. ps, love you xfce, you saved me from the horror of kde4
Until an elected conservative gets caught doing something wrong, then it's the fault of someone else... Most likely Liberals, or possibly the infamous Overzealous Staffer.
limited government,
Unless you're a woman, or gay, or an atheist.
free markets,
Even if they've demonstrably failed or the premises for a workable free market don't even exist, like in healthcare.
individual liberty, traditional American values, the plain-language meaning of the Constitution,
I like buzzwords too. I also recognize that some "traditional American values" - like virulent racism directed, at varying times and places, against almost every group on earth including nigh every ethnicity in Europe - are repulsive.
and a strong national defense.
So the government you claim will enslave us all if it goes and says Exxon can't dump oil anywhere it pleases, you'll willingly support having more firepower than the rest of the world combined? And why is big government spending now suddenly OK?
We believe as the founders did that the role of government should be to provide people the freedom necessary to pursue their own goals. Conservative policies generally emphasize empowerment of the individual to solve problems rather than expanding the size, scope, and power of government to solve them.
Have you ever actually read the words of the founding fathers? Like those of Ben Franklin, saying quite forcibly that anything more than the bare essentials of life are owned by Society as a whole, because it is Society's laws that made them possible.
And we finally get to where didnt-think-your-cunning-plan-through.jpg would go if slashdot allowed image embedding: how, precisely, do you propose that the people of the gulf coast acquire remittance from BP for destroying it? Who was it that finally had to step in once corporate dumping polluted the Cyuahoga River to the point it literally caught fire? How precisely can I be "empowered" to solve the problem of investment banker insanity crashing the world economy, other than by shooting one? And I'm sure this despicable behavior is the fault of the government too somehow. The bottom line is, we tried your ideas back when America and Europe first industrialized: The horrifying results of unregulated capitalism are exactly what made Karl Marx predict that the workers would revolt.
Enterprise started off with a ton of promise, and for the 1st season actually did fairly well.
Then they decided to go all "9/11 In Space" and start the whole awful Xindi/Temporal Cold War shit. During the next two seasons of shit, there was lots of shit, a handful of episodes that were standalone diamonds, and basically things kept getting worse until culminating in the ultimate shit, Time Travelling Nazi Space Aliens. During this period more and more people gave up hope for improvement and stopped watching.
Then, like passing through a singularity, it shot out the other side and suddenly Enterprise's season 4 was... OK? No, it was more than ok, it was outright good, this is what they should've been doing the whole time! This is back to being actual Star Trek! And then it was canned, because by the time season 4 rolled around it was too late to avoid crashing into the mountainside.
If you've really proven so irresponsible that they won't trust you with so much as a teenager's "My First $300 Limit Credit Card" card, I'm worried about you being online without responsible adult supervision...
The first sign that you've gotten involved in a cult is that they tell you that everyone else is lying - which is exactly what Fox does.
Case in point: You seem to think the media is in some way supportive of Obama, when last year not 10% of news stories they ran about him were positive (this year the percentage is in the teens so far, whooo!). Romney has had more positive coverage since last July. The republic-ending catastrophe called "citizens united" is only going to make it worse.
Step back and see the reality: The corporate media (all of it, including Fox) is biased in favor of controversy and things that fit in the ADD-addled attention span of their viewers.
First of all, one's opinion of one of FDR's social programs has nothing to do with the fact that FDR was unquestionably far further left than Obama (As were Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower), thereby putting to sleep the notion that Obama is some sort of extreme leftist out of nowhere.
Second of all, Social Security is not a ponzi scheme because it does not rely on new investors to pay old ones - Your social security payout is based on how much you invested in it during your working years. The current questions (of solvency decades in the future) arise from three issues. First, that at the time it was created the average lifespan was 5 years in excess of the retirement age, not 20. Second, the max for social security witholding ($100K) hasn't been raised in 20 years. Third and most importantly, Social Security was created at a time when the workers shared in the wealth they created, which has not happened for nearly 30 years now.
The first problem can be resolved by very slowly raising the retirement age in recognition of the fact that we are living longer, and this is already (slowly) underway. It will also require that money in the Social Security trust fund be locked to being spent on Social Security (put in some form of lockbox, if you will) rather than being stolen blind to cover the general fund. This will also need to be combined with efforts to improve health in general (If you work out regularly, the years added to your life will be approximately taken by time spent working out - but the latter third of your life will also be good enough to be worth living. You will get old, you don't have to get decrepit). The second can be trivially resolved by raising SocSec witholding in recognition of the dollar's value deflating over time. The third will require a readjustment of tax rates back in line with previous rates (compared to the current values which are historically low - ludicrously low on higher incomes, to the point of being the lowest in living memory - and low compared to other developed nations). It will also require, ultimately, that the baby boomers - who are collectively nothing so much as the I've Got Mine, Fuck You generation - cease being a political/economic force, which can be achieved by simply waiting another 20 or so years.
But this requires thought, and planning for the future, and possibly even delaying gratification now so we can have it later. It'll probably also require that the next war we start come with a war tax to pay for it (like every other war in US history, except for Bush's wars). You may now return to your scheduled trip through the Faux News fever swamps.
Obama, the most lefty liberal progressive ever to rise to the office of President? Only in the fever swamps Fox "News."
You claim that Obama is further left than Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "I have some doubts as to [Jesus'] divinity." Further left than Teddy Roosevelt (known, basically, for siding with the progressives instead of the industrialists and ending the Guilded Age as a result - at a time when the Pinkertons were murdering people who led labor movements)? Further left than Franklin Roosevelt (who said that the rich and moneyed are "United in their hatred of me, and I welcome their hatred!" during his 1936 campaign)? Further to the left than this raving moonbat:
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
a Republican named Dwight Eisenhower, originator of the Interstate Highway System that took 500 billion public dollars and almost half a century to complete)?
Look up what the Overton window is, because you've been snowed. Thoroughly.
What's the fascination with doing anything other than foraging for food, escaping predators, and having sex? What do you hope to prove? What is the benefit? Who cares?
Which is why every time I migrate from my 2560x1600 home desktop to my 1920x1080 work desktop I get mildly claustrophobic, and I'm practically unable to do anything on my shitty netbook's 1024x600 because there's no space to put anything, because they're all just as good.
Some of us actually need space to have multiple applications open because we actually use them to create things. I find it very useful than I can have 2-4 files open for editing on my desktop, along with a web browser and a terminal to test things in without having to constantly flip from one to the other.
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Fixed that to reflect anti-nuke zealotry.
And yet while every single time someone does something interesting there's a snivelling asshole like you there to poo-pooh how "easy it would be to just...", we never, ever hear of your much cheaper yet equally effective copies of the thing in question for some reason which I just can't figure out.
Instead of being bitter and resentful towards those who actually create new things, why don't you go and invent some yourself?
Oh wait, that's like... real work and effort and thinking and shit. Back to the TeeVee it is!
At the start of WWII, the alliance system that caused The Great War and the monstrous and pointless slaughter that went on during it were still very much fresh on everyone's mind. That was why Neville Chamberlain let Hitler get away with as much as he did in the 1930s (That and that Britain couldn't afford another war either). That was why the US retreated into an isolationist/protectionist shell. America is an impregnable fortress - we have two entire oceans between us and any plausible invader - why should we send our boys to die in a European fight? Not sending them into fights that aren't ours is rather the popular meme these days as I understand it.
I'm also curious how you conclude that the US only showed up after the Soviets had won the war. Seeing as the US declared war on all the Axis powers in early December of 1941, at which time Soviet forces were in full retreat, and the decisive turning point in the Eastern front - the Battle of Stalingrad - didn't even begin until late summer 1942.
I also question how you conclude that Japan could barely challenge the US, when the Pacific Theater (which, if I might remind you, the US that contributed "very little to the defeat of the Axis" fought essentially its own while simultaneously fighting and/or arming two others in North Africa and Europe) began with the US Pacific Fleet getting sucker-punched and suffering defeat after defeat for over a year. Yes, for many reasons it's certainly true that for Imperial Japan to start a war with the US was a suicidal proposition in the long term, but you dishonor the memory of all the men who died fighting towards the home islands to say they were barely challenged.
And the war was most certainly not practically won - The Imperial Japanese Army's own internal documents say they were ready to send every person in their entire nation to die fighting, and not until the US demonstrated unequivocally that we could now grant that suicidal wish and not lose a single man doing it did they surrender (unconditionally surrender - Japanese has about a dozen ways to yes and no without actually saying yes and no). Our own generals were forecasting literally millions of dead (to say nothing of casualties) if we finished the island hopping strategy and invaded the Home Islands conventionally.
Was the Axis doomed much sooner by Hitler's strategic incompetence? I'll let Operation Barbarossa speak to that, along with several other potentially critical decision points that shouldn't have gone in Allied favor (like the decision not to release Panzers at Normandy because the Fuhrer was asleep and not to be disturbed). Was America's industrial and manpower committment to the war a footnote? Not on your life.
Keep dreaming.
The computation/observation needed for the demon to do his thing exceeds the energy made available by doing so.
Do they also block access to all other DNS servers?
In any sane world this would be sarcasm, but you never know these days.
The Standard Model doesn't "put" the Higgs anywhere because the Higgs mass is an input parameter to the theory. And all the theorists I talk to about this sort of thing would love to know how you've concluded that SUSY is confirmed, since they're lamenting the absence of anything that would fit or require supersymmetry, at the same time current results rule out a larger and larger fraction of possible theories/parameters for Susy models.
In conclusion I'm, going to venture that you may possibly not know what you're talking about.
If they're saying to just trust them, why did I sit through a two hour conference talk last night where leaders from two different experiments explained exactly what their procedures for running, calibrating and analyzing data from the LHC in half a dozen channels each were, including multiple tests against other known values/constants?
The council of concern trolls seem to be really, very, seriously, awfully concerned about the Higgs discovery...
There is no "Nobel Prize," mind you, there are a litany of Prizes in various fields of endeavor. The peace prize is obviously associated with political intrigue and making statements (such as Obama's, which was basically Europe very publicly giving Bush one last middle finger).
Now, had Al been awarded a Chemistry or Physics prize, I'd start believing that the whole process is bullshit.
What the hell computer configured as a _home router_ uses a hundred watts? When I got tired of a clunking old P4 using 75W, I bought a new set of parts from minibox and now have a gateway router that uses a whole 20W, for under $250.
All you need for that is a 3d model describing the shape of your body and some variational calculus...
And dependence on other nations for oil is not a concern as long as access to supply is certain, he said.
Of course not, it's not as if it's your boys who are going to get sent off to get killed, maimed for life, and left with memories that will haunt them forever, you goddamn plutocrat fuck. It's not as if nearly all of our current national security headaches (and nearly all the people killed by terrorism in the world for the last 20 years) can be traced to our meddling in the middle east AT YOUR BEHEST AND ON YOUR BEHALF. Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick, don't you people pay handlers to prevent us from seeing just what massive assholes you are?
Notice how we never, ever hear this kind of despicable statement from people like Joe Biden, or the English royals, both of of whom have family serving? You will find no record of President Eisenhower blithely insulting the difficult job the men in Korea faced (I wonder why!). Yet there is a word that specifically refers to the kind of twunts who don't serve, then loudly cheer to have others sent to die (especially if they use privilege to avoid serving after being called to): chickenhawks. They are despicable and should be loudly shamed at every opportunity.
Lol, it was meant to be exactly "master control program" and I only discovered afterwards that usernames are truncated to 20 characters.
/. to its knees...
Because of course, letting all the usernames registered to date take a total of a few extra MB of disk space by letting it be 30 or 40 max would've brought
Like the herd of wandering drunken sailor-cats we call "open source developers" could agree on anything more meaningful than that the analog clock app should have a hundred dozen different skins so you can always find one you like.
/Rant over. ps, love you xfce, you saved me from the horror of kde4
Everyone critisizes the horrors of proprietary software development where some dumbshit schizophrenic customer jerks your chain around constantly and you can't actually write good code as a result. Or your idiot boss gives you half the time you would've needed to do it right at the start, then changes course halfway through and shaves several weeks off the due date along the way. Unfortunately the Linux desktop environments have gone the exact opposite way and it's just as bad - now with no one to make difficult decisions, we get horrible interfaces that stay horrible forever because there's no one to tell the developers (who of course don't see what's wrong with it, they fucking wrote it) "this piece of shit interface needs to be completely rewritten" and no one to make them actually do it, no matter how badly it needs to be done.
So you get these little groups, disconnected from reality, floating along in their own virtual stasis (try playing bzflag and suggest after a while that tanks should have hitpoints. Just try) having no idea that no one outside their little in-group who isn't a masochist can possibly use their programs. And just wait, I promise you I'll get a "Well you should be thankful for whatever they give you" response from the same group who complains so loudly that people don't use FOSS... Well which is it:: Do you want to do your own thing or do you want to write software people will use?
Conservatives believe in personal responsibility,
Until an elected conservative gets caught doing something wrong, then it's the fault of someone else... Most likely Liberals, or possibly the infamous Overzealous Staffer.
limited government,
Unless you're a woman, or gay, or an atheist.
free markets,
Even if they've demonstrably failed or the premises for a workable free market don't even exist, like in healthcare.
individual liberty, traditional American values, the plain-language meaning of the Constitution,
I like buzzwords too. I also recognize that some "traditional American values" - like virulent racism directed, at varying times and places, against almost every group on earth including nigh every ethnicity in Europe - are repulsive.
and a strong national defense.
So the government you claim will enslave us all if it goes and says Exxon can't dump oil anywhere it pleases, you'll willingly support having more firepower than the rest of the world combined? And why is big government spending now suddenly OK?
We believe as the founders did that the role of government should be to provide people the freedom necessary to pursue their own goals. Conservative policies generally emphasize empowerment of the individual to solve problems rather than expanding the size, scope, and power of government to solve them.
Have you ever actually read the words of the founding fathers? Like those of Ben Franklin, saying quite forcibly that anything more than the bare essentials of life are owned by Society as a whole, because it is Society's laws that made them possible.
And we finally get to where didnt-think-your-cunning-plan-through.jpg would go if slashdot allowed image embedding: how, precisely, do you propose that the people of the gulf coast acquire remittance from BP for destroying it? Who was it that finally had to step in once corporate dumping polluted the Cyuahoga River to the point it literally caught fire? How precisely can I be "empowered" to solve the problem of investment banker insanity crashing the world economy, other than by shooting one? And I'm sure this despicable behavior is the fault of the government too somehow. The bottom line is, we tried your ideas back when America and Europe first industrialized: The horrifying results of unregulated capitalism are exactly what made Karl Marx predict that the workers would revolt.
FDR, any closing remarks? But, they are guilty of more than deceit: When they imply that the reserves thus created against both these qualities will be stolen, they attack the integrity and the honor of American government itself! Those that suggest that are already aliens to the spirit of American democracy.
Right, the only possible alternative to letting idiots and sociopathic corporations "self-regulate" is Stalinism.
I'd like to visit your world sometime... reality has far too many shades of grey that require thinking to interpert and understand.
What oh ever do you mean? Thank you, Fox News, for keeping us infromed!
Enterprise started off with a ton of promise, and for the 1st season actually did fairly well.
Then they decided to go all "9/11 In Space" and start the whole awful Xindi/Temporal Cold War shit. During the next two seasons of shit, there was lots of shit, a handful of episodes that were standalone diamonds, and basically things kept getting worse until culminating in the ultimate shit, Time Travelling Nazi Space Aliens. During this period more and more people gave up hope for improvement and stopped watching.
Then, like passing through a singularity, it shot out the other side and suddenly Enterprise's season 4 was... OK? No, it was more than ok, it was outright good, this is what they should've been doing the whole time! This is back to being actual Star Trek! And then it was canned, because by the time season 4 rolled around it was too late to avoid crashing into the mountainside.
Download their drivers, chunk back to text mode, run, restart graphics, done.
What's the problem? The only problems I've ever had involve installing a new kernel and forgetting to rebuild the graphics blob.
If you've really proven so irresponsible that they won't trust you with so much as a teenager's "My First $300 Limit Credit Card" card, I'm worried about you being online without responsible adult supervision...
I believe you mean 43.
<joke>This is AC's "57 states" moment!</joke>
The first sign that you've gotten involved in a cult is that they tell you that everyone else is lying - which is exactly what Fox does.
Case in point: You seem to think the media is in some way supportive of Obama, when last year not 10% of news stories they ran about him were positive (this year the percentage is in the teens so far, whooo!). Romney has had more positive coverage since last July. The republic-ending catastrophe called "citizens united" is only going to make it worse.
Step back and see the reality: The corporate media (all of it, including Fox) is biased in favor of controversy and things that fit in the ADD-addled attention span of their viewers.
First of all, one's opinion of one of FDR's social programs has nothing to do with the fact that FDR was unquestionably far further left than Obama (As were Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower), thereby putting to sleep the notion that Obama is some sort of extreme leftist out of nowhere.
Second of all, Social Security is not a ponzi scheme because it does not rely on new investors to pay old ones - Your social security payout is based on how much you invested in it during your working years. The current questions (of solvency decades in the future) arise from three issues. First, that at the time it was created the average lifespan was 5 years in excess of the retirement age, not 20. Second, the max for social security witholding ($100K) hasn't been raised in 20 years. Third and most importantly, Social Security was created at a time when the workers shared in the wealth they created, which has not happened for nearly 30 years now.
The first problem can be resolved by very slowly raising the retirement age in recognition of the fact that we are living longer, and this is already (slowly) underway. It will also require that money in the Social Security trust fund be locked to being spent on Social Security (put in some form of lockbox, if you will) rather than being stolen blind to cover the general fund. This will also need to be combined with efforts to improve health in general (If you work out regularly, the years added to your life will be approximately taken by time spent working out - but the latter third of your life will also be good enough to be worth living. You will get old, you don't have to get decrepit). The second can be trivially resolved by raising SocSec witholding in recognition of the dollar's value deflating over time. The third will require a readjustment of tax rates back in line with previous rates (compared to the current values which are historically low - ludicrously low on higher incomes, to the point of being the lowest in living memory - and low compared to other developed nations). It will also require, ultimately, that the baby boomers - who are collectively nothing so much as the I've Got Mine, Fuck You generation - cease being a political/economic force, which can be achieved by simply waiting another 20 or so years.
But this requires thought, and planning for the future, and possibly even delaying gratification now so we can have it later. It'll probably also require that the next war we start come with a war tax to pay for it (like every other war in US history, except for Bush's wars). You may now return to your scheduled trip through the Faux News fever swamps.
You claim that Obama is further left than Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "I have some doubts as to [Jesus'] divinity." Further left than Teddy Roosevelt (known, basically, for siding with the progressives instead of the industrialists and ending the Guilded Age as a result - at a time when the Pinkertons were murdering people who led labor movements)? Further left than Franklin Roosevelt (who said that the rich and moneyed are "United in their hatred of me, and I welcome their hatred!" during his 1936 campaign)? Further to the left than this raving moonbat:
a Republican named Dwight Eisenhower, originator of the Interstate Highway System that took 500 billion public dollars and almost half a century to complete)?
Look up what the Overton window is, because you've been snowed. Thoroughly.
What's the fascination with doing anything other than foraging for food, escaping predators, and having sex? What do you hope to prove? What is the benefit? Who cares?
Which is why every time I migrate from my 2560x1600 home desktop to my 1920x1080 work desktop I get mildly claustrophobic, and I'm practically unable to do anything on my shitty netbook's 1024x600 because there's no space to put anything, because they're all just as good.
Some of us actually need space to have multiple applications open because we actually use them to create things. I find it very useful than I can have 2-4 files open for editing on my desktop, along with a web browser and a terminal to test things in without having to constantly flip from one to the other.