when Frosty Piss posted his correction, he added nothing new to the conversation other than a correction.
Blocking error prevents conversations from drifting into wrongness.
That's no big deal when it's kids yammering about who's ricer has the baddest flames painted on the side of his Honda, but important when talking about the law.
It might be old, it might be rusty, but it makes PILES UPON PILES OF CASH every single day.
You may or may not be a holy University student who is beyond the mundane, but those of us who live in the real world are mightily impressed and more than a bit envious. (Even if we've used Linux for 10 years.)
In the 7ish years I've been using the nvidia binary driver, I've *never* knowingly been roadblocked by some program saying, "Sorry, this won't work because xrandr doesn't exist."
Yes, that's only one man's anecdote, but it's good enough for me.
PPAs are your friend. After trying 11.04 Natty and discovering that after 6 months Canonical still hasn't solved a jerky window problem between Compiz and the nvidia driver, I "upgraded" to 10.10 Maverick.
Add in a bunch of PPAs and I've got up-to-date versions of all the software that I really care about,
Ok, then your mentioning of her having a middle-class job was a NOP, sorry for assuming that you had a point.
Unless there was some serious gender wage discrimination happening (I wouldn't be surprised if there were), "bank vice president" is not and never will be a middle class job.
That she chose to live a middle class existence is her choice.
As for him now being part of the 1% - so what? I'm a member of the 1% myself, but that hasn't stopped me from realizing that the status quo is unhealthy for us all.
A lot of things about this society are fscked up: excessive wage disparity, shipping jobs to an environmental cesspool, transferring money from from people who work to people who haven't had a job in 4 generations (my mother the retired rural postwoman saw it with her own eyes for 25 years), the War On Drugs, million dollar lawsuits over absurdities, lawsuit-defensive medicine, Reality TV, Creationism, Roe v Wade, etc, etc.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Bomb Iran Let's take a stand Bomb Iran Our country's got a feelin' Really hit the ceilin', bomb Iran Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Went to a mosque, gonna throw some rocks Tell the Ayatollah, "Gonna put you in a box!" Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb, Bomb Iran Our country's got a feelin' Really hit the ceilin', bomb Iran Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
I naively thought that John "Iran-Contra" Poindexter was just going to fade away
But the Hero Of The Progressive Left is President. How could this be happening??????
Except that he is part of the 1% (his mother was a banker, he earned $1.7M in 2010 and $5.5M in 2009 and approved/Fast And Furious/ to send automatic weapons to Mexico) and is just duping you Hope And Change saps.
This would be a Federal tax, though, replacing FICA, the Income Tax, and the Capital Gains tax.
To simplify it even more and eliminate the need for deductions at all, don't tax food (no matter how bad for you or expensive) and utilities. But that's a slippery slope of lobbied-for exceptions.
FICA has always irked me. A completely regressive tax that "progressives" keep increasing.
capital gains taxes
When you go down the slippery slope of having a tax for this and a tax for that, then the current situation is what you wind up with.
Some sort of consumption tax would be the fairest, since everyone would pay the same percentage on purchases, whether it's low and middle class people buying store brand stuff at Wal-Mart or progressives buying Organic Gluten-Free Vinaigrette at Whole Paycheck and Triple Venti Soy Mocha at Starbucks.
If you aren't a Tea Partier or a Libertarian your a communist.
I used to think that there was a middle ground, but I've come to realize that the end result of social democracy is strong government control and that equates to either Communism or Corporatist Fascism.
Remember two important maxims:
"The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions" and
"The normal condition of mankind is tyranny and misery."
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fast, light tool kit?
If that's not suitable, try XForms.
when Frosty Piss posted his correction, he added nothing new to the conversation other than a correction.
Blocking error prevents conversations from drifting into wrongness.
That's no big deal when it's kids yammering about who's ricer has the baddest flames painted on the side of his Honda, but important when talking about the law.
it was the wrong word but the sentiment remains true. ... Just absorb the relevant information and move on.
It's this attitude which fosters the spread of idiocy.
Now if only one did, and they were the leader in the field, then yes plausible.
Or they might have used this method to reduce the number of platters, thereby reducing costs (though not necessarily prices).
AMD was created because IBM demanded a second source for 8088 chips.
Except that AMD was formed 10 years before the 8088 existed (1979), and didn't start second-sourcing the 8088 until 1982 or 1983.
the rusty old microsoft juggernaut.
It might be old, it might be rusty, but it makes PILES UPON PILES OF CASH every single day.
You may or may not be a holy University student who is beyond the mundane, but those of us who live in the real world are mightily impressed and more than a bit envious. (Even if we've used Linux for 10 years.)
In the 7ish years I've been using the nvidia binary driver, I've *never* knowingly been roadblocked by some program saying, "Sorry, this won't work because xrandr doesn't exist."
Yes, that's only one man's anecdote, but it's good enough for me.
But that doesn't matter, since radeon is all under the MIT license.
(or even just click "ubuntu classic" in the menu at login) in Ubuntu?
You'd *think* (because it's so reasonably logical) that "ubuntu classic" is plain jane GNOME 2.32. Sadly, it's not.
When I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04, I found that Unity was unusable.
As was gnome classic. So I fell back to 10.10. Works like a champ...
at that point you might as well install Debian or Linux Mint.
Or stay on 10.10 with added PPAs.
It sucked in 11.04 and I have no doubt that it will suck even more in 11.10.
The problem is that you can go too stable.
PPAs are your friend. After trying 11.04 Natty and discovering that after 6 months Canonical still hasn't solved a jerky window problem between Compiz and the nvidia driver, I "upgraded" to 10.10 Maverick.
Add in a bunch of PPAs and I've got up-to-date versions of all the software that I really care about,
DON'T DATE ROBOTS! (Brought to you by the Space Pope.)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4510/futurama-anti-robot-propaganda
Ok, then your mentioning of her having a middle-class job was a NOP, sorry for assuming that you had a point.
Unless there was some serious gender wage discrimination happening (I wouldn't be surprised if there were), "bank vice president" is not and never will be a middle class job.
That she chose to live a middle class existence is her choice.
As for him now being part of the 1% - so what? I'm a member of the 1% myself, but that hasn't stopped me from realizing that the status quo is unhealthy for us all.
A lot of things about this society are fscked up: excessive wage disparity, shipping jobs to an environmental cesspool, transferring money from from people who work to people who haven't had a job in 4 generations (my mother the retired rural postwoman saw it with her own eyes for 25 years), the War On Drugs, million dollar lawsuits over absurdities, lawsuit-defensive medicine, Reality TV, Creationism, Roe v Wade, etc, etc.
grandmother
Thanks for the correction.
Obama's private schooling was mostly paid for by scholarships because she didn't have the income for it.
Because the grandmother instead (quite reasonably) financed her daughter's PhD in a non-science?
"banker" in the way most people understand the term - i.e. an investment banker.
Don't presume what others understand as "banker".
Sung to "Barbara Ann":
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb,
Bomb Iran
Let's take a stand
Bomb Iran
Our country's got a feelin'
Really hit the ceilin', bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Went to a mosque, gonna throw some rocks
Tell the Ayatollah, "Gonna put you in a box!"
Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb,
Bomb Iran
Our country's got a feelin'
Really hit the ceilin', bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Social scientists
Don't make me laugh.
YOu have fallen for the 'everything is "Obama's fault, especially stuff that isn't" hook line and sinker
No I haven't, since I'm not so clueless as to think that the country was peaches and cream before January 2009.
that's how you kill a know-it-all computer....
Unless it has paradox-absorbing crumple zones.
And prevent poor people from purchasing low-cost food? That's fscking compassionate!
I naively thought that John "Iran-Contra" Poindexter was just going to fade away
But the Hero Of The Progressive Left is President. How could this be happening??????
Except that he is part of the 1% (his mother was a banker, he earned $1.7M in 2010 and $5.5M in 2009 and approved /Fast And Furious/ to send automatic weapons to Mexico) and is just duping you Hope And Change saps.
This would be a Federal tax, though, replacing FICA, the Income Tax, and the Capital Gains tax.
To simplify it even more and eliminate the need for deductions at all, don't tax food (no matter how bad for you or expensive) and utilities. But that's a slippery slope of lobbied-for exceptions.
payroll taxes
FICA has always irked me. A completely regressive tax that "progressives" keep increasing.
capital gains taxes
When you go down the slippery slope of having a tax for this and a tax for that, then the current situation is what you wind up with.
Some sort of consumption tax would be the fairest, since everyone would pay the same percentage on purchases, whether it's low and middle class people buying store brand stuff at Wal-Mart or progressives buying Organic Gluten-Free Vinaigrette at Whole Paycheck and Triple Venti Soy Mocha at Starbucks.
If you aren't a Tea Partier or a Libertarian your a communist.
I used to think that there was a middle ground, but I've come to realize that the end result of social democracy is strong government control and that equates to either Communism or Corporatist Fascism.
Remember two important maxims: