Sorry, but Muslims don't have a monopoly on Batshit Crazy, plenty of that in the Christianity and other religions too.
Strange that I don't hear of many other religions blowing buildings up. For that matter, the only other "religious" group that I can think of that has done any terrorist act in recent memory was the Falun Gong group and they are more of a local cult.
In other words, you are wrong. Sure, you WANT to think that Christians, Jews Buddhist, or who ever are just as bad as Muslims in terms of terrorism, but the facts don't back up your wish-derived beliefs.
Uh, the overwhelming majority of the poorly-spelled (and very RACIST) signs that have enjoyed such hilarious prominence in the media are in fact signs from Tea Party rallies.
Strange that you would say that. There was nothing in the description that claimed that ANY of the signs were from a TEA rally. Sure, some of them were, but I didn't see any that were recognized as a TEA Party sign that were racist. And if you want to play this game, there are no shortage of anti-Semitic signage at any OWS rally. Can we assume that OWS people are Nazis? How about all the "truthers" there? There are also no shortage of communists, anarchists, bums and thugs.
Seriously, if you want to try to compare TEA Party people with OWS or any other liberal rally, you may want to reconsider. That's not the sort of thing that will end up favorable for your position.
Funny! I saw that "Get a brain Morans" sign and realized that I had seen it before. For that matter, I had seen long before any TEA Party rallies. This leads me to believe that some, possibly NONE of these signs actually come from a TEA Party rally.
As for the signs themselves, yes, some are down right agregious, but the majority of them are basically typos. For example, "No Pubic Option" would have been realized is someone took the time to proofread their signs. However, after looking at it, I realize that someone would have pointed it out and it would have been a simple matter to simply add a line to make "pubic" into "public". Yet, for some reason, the sign holder chose not to correct it. I wonder why that would be?
Just because someone calls poorly written signs "TEAbonics", does not mean these are from a TEA Party rally. For that matter, I find that using a word play off the word Ebonics to represent ignorance is racist and offensive. That kinda proves against the point that the original poster was making that all TEA Party people are racists. It appears that those against the TEA Party are racists and your video provides the proof the original AC was lacking.
The Republicans are insisting on tax Cuts. That's what making the Bush tax cuts permanent is, a tax cut.
And that's the problem. As long as you call them the "Bush tax cuts" or "Bush's tax cuts for the rich" and not simply "a reduction in the tax rate all tax payers pay", you are politicizing it. You can call it one of two things: 1) Eliminating the Bush Tax Cuts 2) Raising Taxes.
They are both the exact same thing. Which one you use depends on which side of the political aisle you sit on. Why not say, "Raise taxes by restoring the tax rates prior to 2001".
Maybe if both sides showed honesty instead of spinning everything with clever terms, we'd get somewhere. But as long as people like you do nothing beyond parroting talking points, the battle will continue.
I can see where the right-wingers think it's a trollish comment, but the message is sound. I've been to Tea Party rallies, there's nothing but racism to be found there. "Obama's a socialist" from the same guys carrying around pictures of him and his family with chimpanzee heads pasted on, guys with barely-concealed KKK tattoos, and don't forget the one with the "Werez da birf certifikit hez a muzlim nigger" sign.
If your point was sound, you wouldn't have to lie.
In the civilian world, yes. In the military world, he could stand before a general, or a tribunal, or a jury of his peers, which is to say, a bunch of active duty military guys who have been told over and over for the last year that this guy is evil.
-Rick
Juries under the UCMJ are almost always high raking officers and NCO's. It's not a jury of your peers. You may request enlisted, but you'll probably end up with Master SGT and above.
Note: I was on "Class-A Duty" right before my ETS, meaning I had to do all the details that required the green monkey suit. This included parade detail, charity poker night for the wives of generals, soldier of the month board (I won) and bailiff at court marshals. In the court marshal where I was a bailiff, the lowest ranking enlisted member of the jury was a SGT Major. The lowest ranking officer was a full bird colonel. Every one of those bastards stepped on my highly polished shoes on their way out of the jury box into the deliberation room as I was holding the door.
It is clear that this is not a "first" strike weapon. The summation is correct, it is simply a "surprise" strike weapon. Which is OK, because, hey, who does not like surprises!?
This weapon could be first strike, second strike, or any other strike. The US Military is hoping that this is a LAST Strike weapon.
Still, I say we should invest heavily into Rods from God.
Hell, Cheney's relationships with KBR and Haliburton alone stand as a high water mark in corruption.
The fact that you didn't know that KBR was a subsidiary of Halliburton when Cheney was VP or that Halliburton has two L's, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you really have no clue as to what you are talking about. For that matter, the very fact that you believe something is compelling evidence that the opposite is true.
But, yes, Cheney did have extensive ties with Halliburton. It's kinda hard not to when you are CEO of the company.
In the USA, you can't just protest everywhere. They have no real free speech. You only have real free speech in the "Free Speech Zones". Usually, the free speech zones are hidden in places where the sun doesn't shine a lot.
Really? Looks to me like they've made their point. Unfortunately, no one really knows what that point is. All I've gotten from them is "Wah! Rich people have more than we do!"
Really kinda sad considering that they are the 1% themselves when looked at from a worldly point of view. Simply being able to eat without working puts them there.
I'm actually fine with this idea of 'fake meat', as long as it's done well. If it tastes and behaves similarly to 'real meat', and is made from actual real animal cells... I'm just fine with the idea...
I don't see this tasting or feeling anything like real meat. Sure, it may be layers of mean protein stacked on top of each other, but meat is more than that. Meat comes with fat. That's the stuff that makes meat juicy. Sometimes, meat comes on a bone. That's like a handle. Meat can be light or dark depending on what part of the animal it comes from. It may be tough, meaning that it must be cooked for hours to tender it up. It may be tender, meaning that it should be flash cooked. And finally, meat has a texture, or "grain" that needs to be adhered to. You must cut meat AGAINST the grain or else it becomes stringy and tough. I don't care how well a piece of meat is cooked, if it's cut wrong, it's tough.
Anyway, my point is that petri-meat will have none of these qualities. The only thing I see this good for is ground meat where the texture doesn't matter, and even then, animal fat will have to be added from another petri dish from a biproduct of a real animal, which kinda defeats the purpose. That may not work either because I don't know if there is a flavor difference between fat grown on a cows back vs the fat that grows in the skin. Come to think of it, bacon fat tastes a whole to different than pork chop fat.
We will not have a synthetic steak that will fool anyone until we are capable of growing full organs as layers of muscle protein is not going to full anyone that has ever eaten meat before.
So why is Ubuntu more popular than Fedora? Is there some specific reason I don't see?
For me it was RPM Hell. Before YUM, installing software using RPM's was a nightmare. You first had to download the RPM you wanted. Then you tried to install it, only to find that you needed more RPM's to fulfill dependencies. You would search and find those RPMs, only to find out they had their own dependencies, and the number of RPM's needed increased exponentially as each level grew. Well, this sucked!
Then I tried Debian. I typed in apt-get install app-name, and it found all the dependencies needed and installed them. There was nothing more for me to do. I vowed never to go through RPM Hell again! The problem with Debian, of course, was that it was always dated. Deb Stable was years behind everything else.
Then came Ubuntu. It was up to date and came with apt-get. That was it! I was done! I vowed never to go back to anything that used RPM's again, even after yum came out.
I tried Mint a few years ago. It was buggy as hell for me. Whenever the machine rebooted, about 2/3 of the time, I received a BusyBox prompt that really allowed me to do nothing. While onsite, I could simply reboot until it came back up. This was not an option when I was connecting remotely. Ubuntu never had this problem, which really confused me because Mint was based on Ubuntu.
Right now, I'm running the latest Ubuntu with either XFCE4 or Trinity KDE. Unity sux IMHO. It's not so much that I can't configure it as much as it that I can't figure HOW to configure it. With the old Gnome, I would click System and it would pull down a menu that either allowed me to edit personal or system configurations. I have no idea how to do that in Unity and I really don't care to learn. Hell, it's almost easier to type "gedit/ect/configfile".
That's only true if you pretend AppleTV doesn't have channels like NHL, MLB or NetFlix, and that AirPlay lets just about any app stream from just about any iOS device. They may not support jailbreaking (although it's trivial to do, and then you can run Plex, XBMC, etc), but they certainly let you watch content not sourced from iTunes. I haven't spent $1 in the last year on movies or TV shows from iTunes, yet I have an AppleTV.
But I'm willing to bet that NetFlix, MLB, NHL and all the other services are paying Apple directly so you don't have to. I'm sure that most channels make the money through advertisers, but Netflix uses your money to pay them.
Yep. Seconded. Thanks to Microsoft's proprietary DirectX, almost no new game runs worth a damn in wine vs windows. If it wasn't for that, I'd have no reason to use windows.
The day I can run Starcraft2 natively in Linux as well as it runs in Win7, I'll reformat my NTFS partitions to ext4 and never run Windows again.
It doesn't matter if in two years we would be experiencing better graphics, just imagine playing a PS3 like graphics on something that barely consume 1W ( or dunno how much a mobile device should), and I would bet it wouldn't cost that much either.
I still believe that PS3 graphics will be severely dated in two years and is probably dated now. However, if this chip is truly low power and cool running, why not put 10+ of them on a single card?
No, what you really mean is, you will be dammed if ANY explanation will "do".
No, what I said was, "I've heard bad explanations from third parties, but never have I heard a good explanation directly from the White House" and that happens to be what I mean. I hear lame explanations like, "If Obama was living with a relative in CT at that time, it would be perfectly logical for his SSN to be from there." IF Obama was living with a relative? If? Well, was he? The guy is the friggin POTUS. Isn't where he lived public knowledge? Why hasn't the WH released an official explanation? It's not like we are accusing him of rape or something outrageous like that. We just want to know why his SSN does not reflect where he was residing at the time of its issuance. It's not that big of a deal. I don't want to see President Biden... EVER! But it raises questions, has a bad smell and would simply go away like the birth certificate issue if he would simply release a statement through his press office.
Newsflash: When you have the education and credentials of B.O., there are a LOT of higher-paying jobs you qualify for. Most successful attorneys make over $200k/yr. And if you trade that in for, say "TV talk show host", or "CEO" you can make MILLIONS per year.
OK, I'll grant the education part, but what business experience does Obama have? Did his previous job of "community organizer" offer the benefits that POTUS does?
POTUS isn't that high-paying of a job; that's why it's so hard to get good talent for it!;-)
I'll agree with that, but again, none of that was my point. I give every employer I've ever worked for my SSN and had to prove that I was legally authorized to work in the US, and no job I've ever had is worth 1/4th what the POTUS makes if you consider the lifelong benefit package that comes with it.
So that's an "I'm a racist piece of shit, because I'm not willing to do something that I've demanded someone else do. And despite that other person doing it several times, I'm still going to bitch and moan that it's not good enough for me, despite being exactly what was requested."
Yes, I called you a racist. The only people who could think any of the birther horseshit was even remotely credible are those that hate Obama because he's black.
LOL! I'm no birther, but I do find it odd that this information is being kept under wraps. Seriously, why would someone in Hawaii have a SSN from Connecticut or wherever it is supposed to be from? Damn peculiar. As an employer, I believe I had a right to know. I've heard bad explanations from third parties, but never have I heard a good explanation directly from the White House.
Still, that wasn't the point of my post. The original question is "So if I asked to see your SSN and Birth Certificate you'd be ok with it?" And my response was, in the affirmative, if you were asking for a job with the benefits as good as POTUS.
And as me being a racist, well, I would defer that question to my wife and kids. See, they are minorities, but I never really thought of it 'til you mentioned it. Guess I need to be more "sensitive" around the house. But as for Obama, I'm curious, which race would I be hatin' on? The white half or the black half? Should I only hate him half-way or is OK to go full retard even though he's only half of whatever group I'm racist against? Another thing, do I hate white people living here from South Africa? I mean, they are white, but they are African Americans. Am I still a racist if I support Cain or does supporting Cain absolve me from racism but make a bigot? Would those people that claimed that John McCain was ineligible to run the WH because he was born in Panama racists too? Sorry, for the questions. I'm new at this "racist" thing and want to make sure I'm doing it correctly. You seem to be an expert.
So if I asked to see your SSN and Birth Certificate you'd be ok with it?
For a $200,000/yr job with full benefits, including a mansion to live in with security, food, travel, health, cars, planes, helicopters, all thrown in AND a complete pension for life that includes health insurance, security and an unlimited budget to run an office to do anything you wish FOR LIFE...
Gone are the nested menus. Instead of "gnome-foot"/"start-button"/"K" -> System -> Whatever-You-Want-To-Run, you now have something like this:
Everything you wrote is spot-on, except the part here about the "K". KDE is the one heavyweight Linux DE that hasn't drunk the one-UI-for-every-device kool-aid. The "K" menu is still there in the latest 4.7 release, and it isn't going anywhere. Furthermore, there's actually multiple UIs you can select in KDE; the default one for desktop PCs is "plasma-desktop" (you can see it running with "ps"). But if you're running a netbook, there's a different one that's optimized for netbooks, called "plasma-netbook". There's more coming for other devices (namely tablets; I don't think we'll see KDE on any phones soon; the tablet one will be touch-oriented as you'd expect). Unlike the other morons, the KDE guys have a totally different philosophy: they believe that different devices should have different UIs, though they can use most of the same underlying libraries and other software services.
Say what you will about KDE and their 4.0 screw-up, nepomuk, etc., but in this area, they have exactly the right idea.
Spot on. I installed KDE on one of my Linux boxes and really liked it. I installed Trinity on another Linux box and may even like that more. We'll see how it stands up to more use.
So that you can tell Henry Ford that you want a faster horse?
Analogy fail.
How's this:
Henry Ford moved the steering mechanism to the floor board and all drivers must steer with their feet. The Ford Motor Co. says that it is better because it frees up your hands to hold and read the newspaper while drinking your cocktail. It doesn't matter that I like the old steering wheel and work better with it. For has refused to include them in any new models, even if the driver requests one because Henry Ford has done the research and determined that steering with the feet is better, end of story. Third party companies are offing modifications to the car to add a steering wheel like device to the car. XFCE Co has created handle bars that fit over where the old steering wheel used to be. FVWM offers a set of vice grips that will clamp on to rod that used to hold the steering wheel. Other companies have varying solutions to the wheel, but it is up to the driver to install and maintain whichever solution they go with.
no, silly! It's change for the sake of requiring the purchase of new hardware to run the new GUIs!
Close. The idea is to have the same interface on every device you buy.
Personally, I think that sux. See, I used to wish I could run Windows on my phone. Then, one day, I was able to vnc running on a phone... or ipad... or something small, I don't remember and was able to connect to my desktop. Again, I don't remember if it was Gnome, KDE or Windows, but I've tried them all and the results were the same. They all sucked! They sucked big time. It was impossible to bring up or pull down any menus. There was no right click, drag, or shift click. Scrolling using scroll bars or even accurate clicking was next to impossible. Well, let's just say it sucked. The problem is that the desktop OS was not made to run a four inch screen with a single touch or even multi-touch as an interface.
So, now, rather than making a desktop GUI fit on a phone, they are trying to fit the phone GUI fit on the desktop. The results are exactly what you would expect. Most of the right-click functionality is gone. In Unity or Gnome3, if you right click on the menu bar across the top, nothing happens. Gone is the right click and "Run As" dialog. Gone is the right click and "add to bar". Basically, the right click has been removed from much of the GUI functionality. Gone are the nested menus. Instead of "gnome-foot"/"start-button"/"K" -> System -> Whatever-You-Want-To-Run, you now have something like this:
Move the mouse to the left side of the screen and wait. Did anything happen? No? Move to the top left. OK, how about now? Do you see the program you want to run? I'm not sure what the icon looks like. Just mouse over everything and wait over each icon. It should tell what each app is. Is it there? No? OK, click on the top icon, click in the box, and start typing what you are looking for. Don't remember what it was called? It's like a CD Ripper but it's not called that? Hmmmm. I don't know what you'd type in. I know on the old system you would go to multimedia and look for it. Now-a-days... well, I guess you are just fucked. See, the developers that made your GUI didn't think that ABCDE was important enough to include on the main tool bar so you don't get to run it if you don't know what's it called.
Oh, but if you were on a phone, this would look awesome!
Or just use Gnome 3 - I've never heard so much irrational complaining over what is a pretty solid (and very customizable) desktop etc....
Can you put a system monitor on that bar that runs across the top to display processor usage per core, temperature per core, processor frequency per core and ram in use?
If you can, without adding some third party repo, let me know how. I'm running XFCE4 and Trinity, but neither seems as complete or polished as Gnome2.
Um... yeah! Because China is the right-wing "city on the hill" that all "teabaggers" wish to emulate.
When it comes to the regulatory environment concerning businesses, yes, it is.
The example you ares seeing in China is fine example of why less government is a good idea.
Nope. Considering they barely have any regulations to speak of, and any they do aren't really enforced, they're not going to be a example in your favor on this. If they actually had regulations, and enforced them, and this happened, then maybe you'd have a point.
Almost no regulations, and lack of enforcement of those regulations is what the Tea Partiers want. Coincidentally, that's what they have in China.
The problem with China is not regulations, it's enforcement of those regulations. Like another post said, since industry is effectively state owned, when it comes to regulations, you are asking an all powerful, very corrupt state to regulate itself. That's just not gonna happen.
China has already enacted a comprehensive set of environmental laws. The statutory scheme is not perfect, however. For instance, penalties for noncompliance with some of China's environmental laws are so low that it is often cheaper not to comply and pay fines than to undertake the actions necessary to meet the statutory mandates. In other instances, companies have disregarded statutory requirements because the PRC government has not yet issued implementing regulations. But China's lawmakers cannot be entirely blamed for the current state of the environment; China's law enforcers—and the lack of a compliance ethic among Chinese businesses—are the chief culprits.
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When playing a game one of the most useful features is haptic feedback which for a while has been the "rumble" of the controller.
I really liked the way the Wii controller had its own speaker. The "DING" let's whoever turn is up know that they need to get off their butt and bowl!
Sorry, but Muslims don't have a monopoly on Batshit Crazy, plenty of that in the Christianity and other religions too.
Strange that I don't hear of many other religions blowing buildings up. For that matter, the only other "religious" group that I can think of that has done any terrorist act in recent memory was the Falun Gong group and they are more of a local cult.
In other words, you are wrong. Sure, you WANT to think that Christians, Jews Buddhist, or who ever are just as bad as Muslims in terms of terrorism, but the facts don't back up your wish-derived beliefs.
Uh, the overwhelming majority of the poorly-spelled (and very RACIST) signs that have enjoyed such hilarious prominence in the media are in fact signs from Tea Party rallies.
Strange that you would say that. There was nothing in the description that claimed that ANY of the signs were from a TEA rally. Sure, some of them were, but I didn't see any that were recognized as a TEA Party sign that were racist. And if you want to play this game, there are no shortage of anti-Semitic signage at any OWS rally. Can we assume that OWS people are Nazis? How about all the "truthers" there? There are also no shortage of communists, anarchists, bums and thugs.
Seriously, if you want to try to compare TEA Party people with OWS or any other liberal rally, you may want to reconsider. That's not the sort of thing that will end up favorable for your position.
Feast your eyes on the spectacle that is TEABONICS!
Funny! I saw that "Get a brain Morans" sign and realized that I had seen it before. For that matter, I had seen long before any TEA Party rallies. This leads me to believe that some, possibly NONE of these signs actually come from a TEA Party rally.
As for the signs themselves, yes, some are down right agregious, but the majority of them are basically typos. For example, "No Pubic Option" would have been realized is someone took the time to proofread their signs. However, after looking at it, I realize that someone would have pointed it out and it would have been a simple matter to simply add a line to make "pubic" into "public". Yet, for some reason, the sign holder chose not to correct it. I wonder why that would be?
Just because someone calls poorly written signs "TEAbonics", does not mean these are from a TEA Party rally. For that matter, I find that using a word play off the word Ebonics to represent ignorance is racist and offensive. That kinda proves against the point that the original poster was making that all TEA Party people are racists. It appears that those against the TEA Party are racists and your video provides the proof the original AC was lacking.
The Republicans are insisting on tax Cuts. That's what making the Bush tax cuts permanent is, a tax cut.
And that's the problem. As long as you call them the "Bush tax cuts" or "Bush's tax cuts for the rich" and not simply "a reduction in the tax rate all tax payers pay", you are politicizing it. You can call it one of two things:
1) Eliminating the Bush Tax Cuts
2) Raising Taxes.
They are both the exact same thing. Which one you use depends on which side of the political aisle you sit on. Why not say, "Raise taxes by restoring the tax rates prior to 2001".
Maybe if both sides showed honesty instead of spinning everything with clever terms, we'd get somewhere. But as long as people like you do nothing beyond parroting talking points, the battle will continue.
TL:DR version: you're a deluded, inbred, racist fuckwit.
Assuming that all conservatives are "inbred, racist fuckwits" makes YOU the bigot, not them.
I can see where the right-wingers think it's a trollish comment, but the message is sound. I've been to Tea Party rallies, there's nothing but racism to be found there. "Obama's a socialist" from the same guys carrying around pictures of him and his family with chimpanzee heads pasted on, guys with barely-concealed KKK tattoos, and don't forget the one with the "Werez da birf certifikit hez a muzlim nigger" sign.
If your point was sound, you wouldn't have to lie.
In the civilian world, yes. In the military world, he could stand before a general, or a tribunal, or a jury of his peers, which is to say, a bunch of active duty military guys who have been told over and over for the last year that this guy is evil.
-Rick
Juries under the UCMJ are almost always high raking officers and NCO's. It's not a jury of your peers. You may request enlisted, but you'll probably end up with Master SGT and above.
Note: I was on "Class-A Duty" right before my ETS, meaning I had to do all the details that required the green monkey suit. This included parade detail, charity poker night for the wives of generals, soldier of the month board (I won) and bailiff at court marshals. In the court marshal where I was a bailiff, the lowest ranking enlisted member of the jury was a SGT Major. The lowest ranking officer was a full bird colonel. Every one of those bastards stepped on my highly polished shoes on their way out of the jury box into the deliberation room as I was holding the door.
It is clear that this is not a "first" strike weapon. The summation is correct, it is simply a "surprise" strike weapon. Which is OK, because, hey, who does not like surprises!?
This weapon could be first strike, second strike, or any other strike. The US Military is hoping that this is a LAST Strike weapon.
Still, I say we should invest heavily into Rods from God.
...when Democrats do it. Never mind a certain $3T war with lots of tasty no-bid contracts to the Vice President's company...
Oh, then that makes it OK.
Hell, Cheney's relationships with KBR and Haliburton alone stand as a high water mark in corruption.
The fact that you didn't know that KBR was a subsidiary of Halliburton when Cheney was VP or that Halliburton has two L's, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you really have no clue as to what you are talking about. For that matter, the very fact that you believe something is compelling evidence that the opposite is true.
But, yes, Cheney did have extensive ties with Halliburton. It's kinda hard not to when you are CEO of the company.
In the USA, you can't just protest everywhere. They have no real free speech. You only have real free speech in the "Free Speech Zones". Usually, the free speech zones are hidden in places where the sun doesn't shine a lot.
Wikipedia about free speech zones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
Really? Looks to me like they've made their point. Unfortunately, no one really knows what that point is. All I've gotten from them is "Wah! Rich people have more than we do!"
Really kinda sad considering that they are the 1% themselves when looked at from a worldly point of view. Simply being able to eat without working puts them there.
I'm actually fine with this idea of 'fake meat', as long as it's done well. If it tastes and behaves similarly to 'real meat', and is made from actual real animal cells... I'm just fine with the idea...
I don't see this tasting or feeling anything like real meat. Sure, it may be layers of mean protein stacked on top of each other, but meat is more than that. Meat comes with fat. That's the stuff that makes meat juicy. Sometimes, meat comes on a bone. That's like a handle. Meat can be light or dark depending on what part of the animal it comes from. It may be tough, meaning that it must be cooked for hours to tender it up. It may be tender, meaning that it should be flash cooked. And finally, meat has a texture, or "grain" that needs to be adhered to. You must cut meat AGAINST the grain or else it becomes stringy and tough. I don't care how well a piece of meat is cooked, if it's cut wrong, it's tough.
Anyway, my point is that petri-meat will have none of these qualities. The only thing I see this good for is ground meat where the texture doesn't matter, and even then, animal fat will have to be added from another petri dish from a biproduct of a real animal, which kinda defeats the purpose. That may not work either because I don't know if there is a flavor difference between fat grown on a cows back vs the fat that grows in the skin. Come to think of it, bacon fat tastes a whole to different than pork chop fat.
We will not have a synthetic steak that will fool anyone until we are capable of growing full organs as layers of muscle protein is not going to full anyone that has ever eaten meat before.
So why is Ubuntu more popular than Fedora? Is there some specific reason I don't see?
For me it was RPM Hell. Before YUM, installing software using RPM's was a nightmare. You first had to download the RPM you wanted. Then you tried to install it, only to find that you needed more RPM's to fulfill dependencies. You would search and find those RPMs, only to find out they had their own dependencies, and the number of RPM's needed increased exponentially as each level grew. Well, this sucked!
Then I tried Debian. I typed in apt-get install app-name, and it found all the dependencies needed and installed them. There was nothing more for me to do. I vowed never to go through RPM Hell again! The problem with Debian, of course, was that it was always dated. Deb Stable was years behind everything else.
Then came Ubuntu. It was up to date and came with apt-get. That was it! I was done! I vowed never to go back to anything that used RPM's again, even after yum came out.
I tried Mint a few years ago. It was buggy as hell for me. Whenever the machine rebooted, about 2/3 of the time, I received a BusyBox prompt that really allowed me to do nothing. While onsite, I could simply reboot until it came back up. This was not an option when I was connecting remotely. Ubuntu never had this problem, which really confused me because Mint was based on Ubuntu.
Right now, I'm running the latest Ubuntu with either XFCE4 or Trinity KDE. Unity sux IMHO. It's not so much that I can't configure it as much as it that I can't figure HOW to configure it. With the old Gnome, I would click System and it would pull down a menu that either allowed me to edit personal or system configurations. I have no idea how to do that in Unity and I really don't care to learn. Hell, it's almost easier to type "gedit /ect/configfile".
That's only true if you pretend AppleTV doesn't have channels like NHL, MLB or NetFlix, and that AirPlay lets just about any app stream from just about any iOS device. They may not support jailbreaking (although it's trivial to do, and then you can run Plex, XBMC, etc), but they certainly let you watch content not sourced from iTunes. I haven't spent $1 in the last year on movies or TV shows from iTunes, yet I have an AppleTV.
But I'm willing to bet that NetFlix, MLB, NHL and all the other services are paying Apple directly so you don't have to. I'm sure that most channels make the money through advertisers, but Netflix uses your money to pay them.
Yep. Seconded. Thanks to Microsoft's proprietary DirectX, almost no new game runs worth a damn in wine vs windows. If it wasn't for that, I'd have no reason to use windows.
The day I can run Starcraft2 natively in Linux as well as it runs in Win7, I'll reformat my NTFS partitions to ext4 and never run Windows again.
It doesn't matter if in two years we would be experiencing better graphics, just imagine playing a PS3 like graphics on something that barely consume 1W ( or dunno how much a mobile device should), and I would bet it wouldn't cost that much either.
I still believe that PS3 graphics will be severely dated in two years and is probably dated now. However, if this chip is truly low power and cool running, why not put 10+ of them on a single card?
No, what you really mean is, you will be dammed if ANY explanation will "do".
No, what I said was, "I've heard bad explanations from third parties, but never have I heard a good explanation directly from the White House" and that happens to be what I mean. I hear lame explanations like, "If Obama was living with a relative in CT at that time, it would be perfectly logical for his SSN to be from there." IF Obama was living with a relative? If? Well, was he? The guy is the friggin POTUS. Isn't where he lived public knowledge? Why hasn't the WH released an official explanation? It's not like we are accusing him of rape or something outrageous like that. We just want to know why his SSN does not reflect where he was residing at the time of its issuance. It's not that big of a deal. I don't want to see President Biden... EVER! But it raises questions, has a bad smell and would simply go away like the birth certificate issue if he would simply release a statement through his press office.
Newsflash: When you have the education and credentials of B.O., there are a LOT of higher-paying jobs you qualify for. Most successful attorneys make over $200k/yr. And if you trade that in for, say "TV talk show host", or "CEO" you can make MILLIONS per year.
OK, I'll grant the education part, but what business experience does Obama have? Did his previous job of "community organizer" offer the benefits that POTUS does?
POTUS isn't that high-paying of a job; that's why it's so hard to get good talent for it! ;-)
I'll agree with that, but again, none of that was my point. I give every employer I've ever worked for my SSN and had to prove that I was legally authorized to work in the US, and no job I've ever had is worth 1/4th what the POTUS makes if you consider the lifelong benefit package that comes with it.
So that's an "I'm a racist piece of shit, because I'm not willing to do something that I've demanded someone else do. And despite that other person doing it several times, I'm still going to bitch and moan that it's not good enough for me, despite being exactly what was requested."
Yes, I called you a racist. The only people who could think any of the birther horseshit was even remotely credible are those that hate Obama because he's black.
LOL! I'm no birther, but I do find it odd that this information is being kept under wraps. Seriously, why would someone in Hawaii have a SSN from Connecticut or wherever it is supposed to be from? Damn peculiar. As an employer, I believe I had a right to know. I've heard bad explanations from third parties, but never have I heard a good explanation directly from the White House.
Still, that wasn't the point of my post. The original question is "So if I asked to see your SSN and Birth Certificate you'd be ok with it?" And my response was, in the affirmative, if you were asking for a job with the benefits as good as POTUS.
And as me being a racist, well, I would defer that question to my wife and kids. See, they are minorities, but I never really thought of it 'til you mentioned it. Guess I need to be more "sensitive" around the house. But as for Obama, I'm curious, which race would I be hatin' on? The white half or the black half? Should I only hate him half-way or is OK to go full retard even though he's only half of whatever group I'm racist against? Another thing, do I hate white people living here from South Africa? I mean, they are white, but they are African Americans. Am I still a racist if I support Cain or does supporting Cain absolve me from racism but make a bigot? Would those people that claimed that John McCain was ineligible to run the WH because he was born in Panama racists too? Sorry, for the questions. I'm new at this "racist" thing and want to make sure I'm doing it correctly. You seem to be an expert.
So if I asked to see your SSN and Birth Certificate you'd be ok with it?
For a $200,000/yr job with full benefits, including a mansion to live in with security, food, travel, health, cars, planes, helicopters, all thrown in AND a complete pension for life that includes health insurance, security and an unlimited budget to run an office to do anything you wish FOR LIFE...
Yeah, I'd produce my SSN and Birth Certificate.
Gone are the nested menus. Instead of "gnome-foot"/"start-button"/"K" -> System -> Whatever-You-Want-To-Run, you now have something like this:
Everything you wrote is spot-on, except the part here about the "K". KDE is the one heavyweight Linux DE that hasn't drunk the one-UI-for-every-device kool-aid. The "K" menu is still there in the latest 4.7 release, and it isn't going anywhere. Furthermore, there's actually multiple UIs you can select in KDE; the default one for desktop PCs is "plasma-desktop" (you can see it running with "ps"). But if you're running a netbook, there's a different one that's optimized for netbooks, called "plasma-netbook". There's more coming for other devices (namely tablets; I don't think we'll see KDE on any phones soon; the tablet one will be touch-oriented as you'd expect). Unlike the other morons, the KDE guys have a totally different philosophy: they believe that different devices should have different UIs, though they can use most of the same underlying libraries and other software services.
Say what you will about KDE and their 4.0 screw-up, nepomuk, etc., but in this area, they have exactly the right idea.
Spot on. I installed KDE on one of my Linux boxes and really liked it. I installed Trinity on another Linux box and may even like that more. We'll see how it stands up to more use.
Ask me before you make the changes.
So that you can tell Henry Ford that you want a faster horse?
Analogy fail.
How's this:
Henry Ford moved the steering mechanism to the floor board and all drivers must steer with their feet. The Ford Motor Co. says that it is better because it frees up your hands to hold and read the newspaper while drinking your cocktail. It doesn't matter that I like the old steering wheel and work better with it. For has refused to include them in any new models, even if the driver requests one because Henry Ford has done the research and determined that steering with the feet is better, end of story.
Third party companies are offing modifications to the car to add a steering wheel like device to the car. XFCE Co has created handle bars that fit over where the old steering wheel used to be. FVWM offers a set of vice grips that will clamp on to rod that used to hold the steering wheel. Other companies have varying solutions to the wheel, but it is up to the driver to install and maintain whichever solution they go with.
Or, they can buy a Chevy.
Guess which one I chose.
no, silly! It's change for the sake of requiring the purchase of new hardware to run the new GUIs!
Close. The idea is to have the same interface on every device you buy.
Personally, I think that sux. See, I used to wish I could run Windows on my phone. Then, one day, I was able to vnc running on a phone... or ipad... or something small, I don't remember and was able to connect to my desktop. Again, I don't remember if it was Gnome, KDE or Windows, but I've tried them all and the results were the same. They all sucked! They sucked big time. It was impossible to bring up or pull down any menus. There was no right click, drag, or shift click. Scrolling using scroll bars or even accurate clicking was next to impossible. Well, let's just say it sucked. The problem is that the desktop OS was not made to run a four inch screen with a single touch or even multi-touch as an interface.
So, now, rather than making a desktop GUI fit on a phone, they are trying to fit the phone GUI fit on the desktop. The results are exactly what you would expect. Most of the right-click functionality is gone. In Unity or Gnome3, if you right click on the menu bar across the top, nothing happens. Gone is the right click and "Run As" dialog. Gone is the right click and "add to bar". Basically, the right click has been removed from much of the GUI functionality. Gone are the nested menus. Instead of "gnome-foot"/"start-button"/"K" -> System -> Whatever-You-Want-To-Run, you now have something like this:
Move the mouse to the left side of the screen and wait. Did anything happen? No? Move to the top left. OK, how about now? Do you see the program you want to run? I'm not sure what the icon looks like. Just mouse over everything and wait over each icon. It should tell what each app is. Is it there? No? OK, click on the top icon, click in the box, and start typing what you are looking for. Don't remember what it was called? It's like a CD Ripper but it's not called that? Hmmmm. I don't know what you'd type in. I know on the old system you would go to multimedia and look for it. Now-a-days... well, I guess you are just fucked. See, the developers that made your GUI didn't think that ABCDE was important enough to include on the main tool bar so you don't get to run it if you don't know what's it called.
Oh, but if you were on a phone, this would look awesome!
Or just use Gnome 3 - I've never heard so much irrational complaining over what is a pretty solid (and very customizable) desktop
etc....
Can you put a system monitor on that bar that runs across the top to display processor usage per core, temperature per core, processor frequency per core and ram in use?
If you can, without adding some third party repo, let me know how. I'm running XFCE4 and Trinity, but neither seems as complete or polished as Gnome2.
Um... yeah! Because China is the right-wing "city on the hill" that all "teabaggers" wish to emulate.
When it comes to the regulatory environment concerning businesses, yes, it is.
The example you ares seeing in China is fine example of why less government is a good idea.
Nope. Considering they barely have any regulations to speak of, and any they do aren't really enforced, they're not going to be a example in your favor on this. If they actually had regulations, and enforced them, and this happened, then maybe you'd have a point.
Almost no regulations, and lack of enforcement of those regulations is what the Tea Partiers want. Coincidentally, that's what they have in China.
The problem with China is not regulations, it's enforcement of those regulations. Like another post said, since industry is effectively state owned, when it comes to regulations, you are asking an all powerful, very corrupt state to regulate itself. That's just not gonna happen.
As for China's regulations:
China has already enacted a comprehensive set of environmental laws. The statutory scheme is not perfect, however. For instance, penalties for noncompliance with some of China's environmental laws are so low that it is often cheaper not to comply and pay fines than to undertake the actions necessary to meet the statutory mandates. In other instances, companies have disregarded statutory requirements because the PRC government has not yet issued implementing regulations. But China's lawmakers cannot be entirely blamed for the current state of the environment; China's law enforcers—and the lack of a compliance ethic among Chinese businesses—are the chief culprits.