not true if you want to switch between english keyboards and spanish language keyboards. and it would be nice to see where what keys are when you switch languages.
maybe i just need to learn how to use the spanish language keyboard. but it messes with me so i just switch the layout with setxkbmap everytime i need to write something with ~'s and crap.
when you accept money in payment for your effort, you do it because you are exchanging the result of your hard work for the result of the hard work of others. money has value because of the work people do. that value is made possible only by people who produce. value is never created by people who take it by force or by moochers. money is one of the purest and best symbols of virtue.
"an honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.."
i've always thought animal farm is a more important, more insightful, and a more powerful work than either brave new world or 1984.
brave new world and 1984 get too involved in the details of what a future society might look like. its interesting, but i think animal farm is more universal in its observations about power and much more powerful by staying concise and simple.
There are a few sporting reasons to use guns -- but as far as I can tell, these are exceptions...not the rule.
really? more people murder people than do target practice or go hunting?
personally i don't see anything wrong with someone who collects rocket propelled grenades or paper or anything else as long as it doesn't step on the rights of their neighbors. (nukes might be problematic that way because of radiation). if you don't shoot your neighbor or threaten them with paper cuts, whats the big deal? murder and threatening people is already illegal, so what use is make guns illegal? how does that make things safer or better?
zoning makes it inconvenient to live in a city and adds to their decay. neighborhood storefronts and corner stores, as well as places to live in traditional office districts, are necessary to make a city lively and attractive. Eliminating zoning altogether and relying on covenants and other private solutions, as does Houston, means land would be better allocated to its highest valued use and both the city and builder would be better off. in addition, open, competitive sale of land is preferable to widespread corruption and bribery which zoning naturally invites.
but when i own a car but i have to wear a seat belt, install air bags, etc.
those are examples of crappy laws in the same spirit as this crappy ruling. they all erode the foundation of civilization: private property.
burning things in the backyard arguably affects your neighbors. and a nuclear warhead affects your neighborhood (radiation). so i won't count those as crappy i guess.
anyway the point is, just because there are other crappy laws out there, doesn't justify a new crappy law.
i rarely want my news fair or balanced. i want to hear an opinion. it makes me think. i find blogs or columns or editorials by people who i respect and then i read their opinions daily. whats wrong with that? news is never fair or balanced anyway.
and who wants to respond to fair and balanced. discussions are generated when someone promotes an opinion and someone else disagrees.
actually thats not quite true either according to virginia tech:
About one-third of the United States-731 million acres-is covered with trees. That's about two-thirds of the forestland that existed when Columbus discovered America. In fact, we have more trees today than we had 70 years ago. Scientists estimate that America's forestlands contain some 230 billion trees-around 1,000 for each person. And some 4 million more trees are being planted each day. On the nation's commercial forests, net annual growth exceeds harvests and losses to insects and disease by an impressive 27 percent each year.
http://www.sharplogger.vt.edu/virginiasfi/faq.ht ml
Globalisation, when described by a right-wing apologist, sounds like it might even work. But it has failed in every single host country it's been tried in, unless you ask the local corrupt governments, or the companies taking all the profits back to the US.
really, it has failed? japan? germany? the united states? china? india? peru? hong kong? all countries that have opened their markets the global economy in the last 100 years and are richer because of it. these are all economies that have seriously boomed since they opened their economies to global markets. take a look a per capita incomes in those countries now versus before globalization. the populations are orders of magnitude richer now. did you know that 17% of americans in 1970 didn't have a refrigerator? now.1% of americans are without a refrigerator. and its not just americans. china suddenly has a huge demand for cars. why do you think hong kong is so wealthy compared to china? its not because they subsidized their farmers and steel workers. its not because they have such big gold mines or large oil deposits. its because they competed. they worked hard. they produced goods that people wanted to buy. they exported! they started at zero and became wealthy.
I have read of many cases where a company will set up a sweat shop in one city, attracting labour from far and wide. Many people leave their farms and families because of severe drought and hardship, and flock to the city for a new chance.
why do you think people are willing to leave their farms and families? because they can actually make some money. maybe you'd prefer they all remain poor and destitute on their farms?
Then the company makes a deal with some other 3rd world country for even cheaper labour, and splits, leaving these tens of thousands of people to rot.
you mean in the same way that the steel industry left america and americans rotted? you mean the same way the cotton industry left america and americans rotted? take a look at history. industries die out all the time. do you really wish we had subsidized and protected the cotton gin producers so we could still have those jobs around?
the world is changing and i can't imagine why you want it to stay in one place. companies can't ever move? industries can never die out? you want all wages to go up regardless of demand for that particular job? thats not a market. thats the Soviet Union.
after our high school physics teacher said animals weighing less than a cat will survive a drop from any height because their terminal velocity is so low, the rumor was that some guys bought a hamster and dropped it off the local water tower. it lived but was reportedly pissed off. and then they returned it to the pet store.
i can't see making microsoft liable for a piece of free software.
what solution would you propose anyway? i don't want to have to take my computer into the shop everytime there is a security patch. and i don't want microsoft logging into my machine to do it either. all network software has bugs and requires updates. just like cars need an oil change every once in a while. if you don't know how to safely operate the product you are using, there are going to be problems.
and i think it has everything to do with personal responsibility. if you are going to use a product, you should read the reviews. people don't just go out and buy cars and expect them to work perfectly forever. they read up who makes the best cars for the best price and then make a decision based on what features are important to them. why are computers any different? software exploits and the general security level of internet explorer are widely available -- the information is out there.
i think they should have a house rule that says votes only get 15 minutes. not sure i can blame the republicans for playing the system though. blame the game not the player.
limiting campaign contributions and shortening the campaign cycle are violations of freedom of speech. people should be able to say whats on their mind whenever they want to.
so... you don't think people are capable of figuring out what they want to buy?
maybe you are right. maybe someone should decide for us. that way when we go to walmart we can find just one brand for each product. that way no one will ever have to make any decisions. why not just centrally plan the whole economy? it worked so well for the soviet union.
now that its out of the way, let me take this further..
no matter what the bbc, npr, and micheal moore tells you, Saddam Hussein was actually a bad guy who killed hundreds of thousands of people and was a threat to the security middle east and the world. are you fucking insane or just clueless, like half of europe?
why is it america's responsibility to save the world? since when has any other country acted without self interest. and why is it evil when the US wants to protect its freedom and our economy from people who want to destroy those things? why we should let people bomb us and kill us and destroy our economy without responding?
at least the US is doing something about sudan. unlike the rest of the world. unlike the french who once again doesn't want their sudanese oil interests threatened so they are again blocking action in the security council at the UN.
europe (especially france) is the reason african economies are decimated and people are starving. they are responsible for the huge farm subsidies around the world. and then bleeding hearts around the world send food aid that puts the few african farmers who do manage to produce a crop out of buisness and back into poverty. that crushing poverty has created the instability that has reigned in africa. how can you justify their tears, kids with out limbs, with out parents, without shelter and food. can you justify this travesty when a great threat looms in Sudan threatening to wipe out a country, snuff out a million lives in less than an year??? Where are all the liberal bleeding hearts amidst all this? Or does they only listen to their hearts when the response meets their needs?? Why proclaim the fact that you care about the children when you turn a blind eye to Africa?
if you want to help, help build a real economy so people can help themsevles. no one wants a handout, just the opportunity for fair competition.
so dont you fucking say that america hasn't helped anyone..not when people like you are part of the problem.
oh you mean thats different than how the world court in the netherlands thinks they have jurisdiction over the entire freaking world?
oh you mean thats different than how the french think they are the major power in europe and are so much better, more cultured, and have a better language than the rest of the world?
so... auto makers are illegally taking advantage of users becuase their users have to change their own oil?
if consumers can't differentiate between a good product and a bad product thats their own fault.
good grief, how about a little personal responsibility for your own decisions. people are too helpless and disadvantaged to research a product on their own? maybe we shouldn't even sell products. people can't handle that level of responsibility. yeah lets just have the smart people like you tell us what we should buy. lets scrap the whole economy and just give people what they need. yeah, i mean a planned economy worked so well for the soviet union.
thats crap. users should educate themselves. why on earth is it microsoft's job to educate users, just because users are "too busy" to educate themselves?
if consumers can't differentiate between a good product and a bad product thats their own fault.
good grief, how about a little personal responsibility for your own decisions. people are too helpless and disadvantaged to research a product on their own? maybe we shouldn't even sell products. people can't handle that level of responsibility. yeah lets just have the smart people like you tell us what we should buy. lets scrap the whole economy and just give people what they need. yeah, i mean a planned economy worked so well for the soviet union.
thats crap. users should educate themselves. why on earth is it microsoft's job to educate users, just becuase users are "too busy" to educate themselves?
if consumers can't differentiate between a good product and a bad product thats their own fault.
good grief, how about a little personal responsibility for your own decisions. people are too helpless and disadvantaged to research a product on their own? maybe we shouldn't even sell products. people can't handle that level of responsibility. yeah lets just have the smart people like you tell us what we should buy. lets scrap the whole economy and just give people what they need. yeah, i mean a planned economy worked so well for the soviet union.
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not true if you want to switch between english keyboards and spanish language keyboards. and it would be nice to see where what keys are when you switch languages.
maybe i just need to learn how to use the spanish language keyboard. but it messes with me so i just switch the layout with setxkbmap everytime i need to write something with ~'s and crap.
why is it evil to make money?
when you accept money in payment for your effort, you do it because you are exchanging the result of your hard work for the result of the hard work of others. money has value because of the work people do. that value is made possible only by people who produce. value is never created by people who take it by force or by moochers. money is one of the purest and best symbols of virtue.
"an honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.."
(ayn rand)
doing this would save more lives as well. markets allocate resources more efficiently than any centralized organization. more lives would be saved.
of course more of them would have money, and we know that anyone with money is obviously evil.
i've always thought animal farm is a more important, more insightful, and a more powerful work than either brave new world or 1984.
brave new world and 1984 get too involved in the details of what a future society might look like. its interesting, but i think animal farm is more universal in its observations about power and much more powerful by staying concise and simple.
There are a few sporting reasons to use guns -- but as far as I can tell, these are exceptions...not the rule.
really? more people murder people than do target practice or go hunting?
personally i don't see anything wrong with someone who collects rocket propelled grenades or paper or anything else as long as it doesn't step on the rights of their neighbors. (nukes might be problematic that way because of radiation). if you don't shoot your neighbor or threaten them with paper cuts, whats the big deal? murder and threatening people is already illegal, so what use is make guns illegal? how does that make things safer or better?
this post is entirely spurious. they due intend to make money.
+1 super duper insightful.
ha. thanks. that was funny.
well i don't like it.
zoning makes it inconvenient to live in a city and adds to their decay. neighborhood storefronts and corner stores, as well as places to live in traditional office districts, are necessary to make a city lively and attractive. Eliminating zoning altogether and relying on covenants and other private solutions, as does Houston, means land would be better allocated to its highest valued use and both the city and builder would be better off. in addition, open, competitive sale of land is preferable to widespread corruption and bribery which zoning naturally invites.
but when i own a car but i have to wear a seat belt, install air bags, etc.
those are examples of crappy laws in the same spirit as this crappy ruling. they all erode the foundation of civilization: private property.
burning things in the backyard arguably affects your neighbors. and a nuclear warhead affects your neighborhood (radiation). so i won't count those as crappy i guess.
anyway the point is, just because there are other crappy laws out there, doesn't justify a new crappy law.
i rarely want my news fair or balanced. i want to hear an opinion. it makes me think. i find blogs or columns or editorials by people who i respect and then i read their opinions daily. whats wrong with that? news is never fair or balanced anyway.
and who wants to respond to fair and balanced. discussions are generated when someone promotes an opinion and someone else disagrees.
actually thats not quite true either according to virginia tech:
t ml
About one-third of the United States-731 million acres-is covered with trees. That's about two-thirds of the forestland that existed when Columbus discovered America. In fact, we have more trees today than we had 70 years ago. Scientists estimate that America's forestlands contain some 230 billion trees-around 1,000 for each person. And some 4 million more trees are being planted each day. On the nation's commercial forests, net annual growth exceeds harvests and losses to insects and disease by an impressive 27 percent each year.
http://www.sharplogger.vt.edu/virginiasfi/faq.h
really, it has failed? japan? germany? the united states? china? india? peru? hong kong? all countries that have opened their markets the global economy in the last 100 years and are richer because of it. these are all economies that have seriously boomed since they opened their economies to global markets. take a look a per capita incomes in those countries now versus before globalization. the populations are orders of magnitude richer now. did you know that 17% of americans in 1970 didn't have a refrigerator? now
I have read of many cases where a company will set up a sweat shop in one city, attracting labour from far and wide. Many people leave their farms and families because of severe drought and hardship, and flock to the city for a new chance.
why do you think people are willing to leave their farms and families? because they can actually make some money. maybe you'd prefer they all remain poor and destitute on their farms?
Then the company makes a deal with some other 3rd world country for even cheaper labour, and splits, leaving these tens of thousands of people to rot.
you mean in the same way that the steel industry left america and americans rotted? you mean the same way the cotton industry left america and americans rotted? take a look at history. industries die out all the time. do you really wish we had subsidized and protected the cotton gin producers so we could still have those jobs around?
the world is changing and i can't imagine why you want it to stay in one place. companies can't ever move? industries can never die out? you want all wages to go up regardless of demand for that particular job? thats not a market. thats the Soviet Union.
after our high school physics teacher said animals weighing less than a cat will survive a drop from any height because their terminal velocity is so low, the rumor was that some guys bought a hamster and dropped it off the local water tower. it lived but was reportedly pissed off. and then they returned it to the pet store.
i agree with that.
i agree. more other OS peripherals, service centers, and sofware titles would also be available if there were greater consumer demand for them.
i can't see making microsoft liable for a piece of free software.
what solution would you propose anyway? i don't want to have to take my computer into the shop everytime there is a security patch. and i don't want microsoft logging into my machine to do it either. all network software has bugs and requires updates. just like cars need an oil change every once in a while. if you don't know how to safely operate the product you are using, there are going to be problems.
and i think it has everything to do with personal responsibility. if you are going to use a product, you should read the reviews. people don't just go out and buy cars and expect them to work perfectly forever. they read up who makes the best cars for the best price and then make a decision based on what features are important to them. why are computers any different? software exploits and the general security level of internet explorer are widely available -- the information is out there.
i think they should have a house rule that says votes only get 15 minutes. not sure i can blame the republicans for playing the system though. blame the game not the player.
limiting campaign contributions and shortening the campaign cycle are violations of freedom of speech. people should be able to say whats on their mind whenever they want to.
so... you don't think people are capable of figuring out what they want to buy?
maybe you are right. maybe someone should decide for us. that way when we go to walmart we can find just one brand for each product. that way no one will ever have to make any decisions. why not just centrally plan the whole economy? it worked so well for the soviet union.
you're a moron.
now that its out of the way, let me take this further..
no matter what the bbc, npr, and micheal moore tells you, Saddam Hussein was actually a bad guy who killed hundreds of thousands of people and was a threat to the security middle east and the world. are you fucking insane or just clueless, like half of europe?
why is it america's responsibility to save the world? since when has any other country acted without self interest. and why is it evil when the US wants to protect its freedom and our economy from people who want to destroy those things? why we should let people bomb us and kill us and destroy our economy without responding?
at least the US is doing something about sudan. unlike the rest of the world. unlike the french who once again doesn't want their sudanese oil interests threatened so they are again blocking action in the security council at the UN.
europe (especially france) is the reason african economies are decimated and people are starving. they are responsible for the huge farm subsidies around the world. and then bleeding hearts around the world send food aid that puts the few african farmers who do manage to produce a crop out of buisness and back into poverty. that crushing poverty has created the instability that has reigned in africa. how can you justify their tears, kids with out limbs, with out parents, without shelter and food. can you justify this travesty when a great threat looms in Sudan threatening to wipe out a country, snuff out a million lives in less than an year??? Where are all the liberal bleeding hearts amidst all this? Or does they only listen to their hearts when the response meets their needs?? Why proclaim the fact that you care about the children when you turn a blind eye to Africa?
if you want to help, help build a real economy so people can help themsevles. no one wants a handout, just the opportunity for fair competition.
so dont you fucking say that america hasn't helped anyone..not when people like you are part of the problem.
right and if the democrats had done it, you would say they weren't bribing and threatening, they were persuading.
thats a well constructed "argument". just make some random proclamations without any putting any reasons behind anything.
how does end user education have anything to do with microsoft as a monopoly?
oh you mean thats different than how the world court in the netherlands thinks they have jurisdiction over the entire freaking world?
oh you mean thats different than how the french think they are the major power in europe and are so much better, more cultured, and have a better language than the rest of the world?
so... auto makers are illegally taking advantage of users becuase their users have to change their own oil?
if consumers can't differentiate between a good product and a bad product thats their own fault.
good grief, how about a little personal responsibility for your own decisions. people are too helpless and disadvantaged to research a product on their own? maybe we shouldn't even sell products. people can't handle that level of responsibility. yeah lets just have the smart people like you tell us what we should buy. lets scrap the whole economy and just give people what they need. yeah, i mean a planned economy worked so well for the soviet union.
thats crap. users should educate themselves. why on earth is it microsoft's job to educate users, just because users are "too busy" to educate themselves?
if consumers can't differentiate between a good product and a bad product thats their own fault.
good grief, how about a little personal responsibility for your own decisions. people are too helpless and disadvantaged to research a product on their own? maybe we shouldn't even sell products. people can't handle that level of responsibility. yeah lets just have the smart people like you tell us what we should buy. lets scrap the whole economy and just give people what they need. yeah, i mean a planned economy worked so well for the soviet union.
thats crap. users should educate themselves. why on earth is it microsoft's job to educate users, just becuase users are "too busy" to educate themselves?
if consumers can't differentiate between a good product and a bad product thats their own fault.
good grief, how about a little personal responsibility for your own decisions. people are too helpless and disadvantaged to research a product on their own? maybe we shouldn't even sell products. people can't handle that level of responsibility. yeah lets just have the smart people like you tell us what we should buy. lets scrap the whole economy and just give people what they need. yeah, i mean a planned economy worked so well for the soviet union.