What exactly were you doing at your last job in which you were busting your hump for 27k a year?
My guess would be that whatever it was, if you were doing it (or something comparable) a 100 years ago, your standard of living would've been a lot worse than it is now.
People tend to forget that malnourishment -- not having enough food to eat -- was constant threat for the majority of world's population for, pretty much the entirety of the existence of the human race, right up to the second half of 20th century. People tend to forget fast (or if young, never bother to read history) and their definition of standard of living changes fast (I don't have a iPad G4 with unlimited data plan so I'm poor!).
People think Mexico is a dirt-poor country in which everyone lives in miserable poverty, where the only hope of a better life is to swim across the river and make it to the U.S. But did you know that obesity is a huge problem in Mexico? The rate of obesity is higher in Mexico than even the USA. That's right, most of the people in this dirt-poor nation EAT TOO MUCH FOOD.
all of this has already been anticipated. The Harvard people are closing in on a substance called boosterspice. It stops people from aging. Next will come what will be known as birthright lottery. It will control the population number while at the same time breeding lucky people.
The only downside will be that you will not be allowed to breed unless you are super smart or super athletic or artistic. However this will not be a problem for most slashdotters since we weren't gonna breed anyways.
Besides, where in your country's constitution is it written that all citizens are guarenteed the right to breed?
that 19 inch helium ballon doesn't have much of a payload, so you can't stick a big model rocket in there.
You *could* possibly stick a small model rocket, and have the iPhone fire it when they reach high enough an altitude. A small rocket with 5 seconds of thrust maybe.
You could even modify the shape of the exhaust nozzle for optimum vacuum performance since there's almost air there.
while that would be cool, it's still nowhere near enough to actually get it in space....
It sucked because they didn't have an decent story to tell. The story was just bad. Did some computer geeks write the script? It sure seems like it.
The animation was ok, it aint exactly Pixar but serviceable. The visuals wasn't what made this film bad, it was the lame story.
As a demo of what this open-source CGI software can do, i guess it works. As a film to be watched for its own merits, I'm sorry but it phails miserably. I've seen episodes of Gumby more entertaining than this.
what's up with doing things their own way, instead of the standard way? On every other apache distribution I've seen httpd.conf is the main config file, but not on Ubuntu... it's apache2.conf. I had to look that up. Ubuntu is full of things like this.
Mind you, their way works, and Ubuntu has great support and lively community and so on... but why do they insist on being different?
Oil is too precious a resource to waste on an idiot's whim. The smart man's mantra is Nuke baby Nuke.
[America saves its precious oil for the future, by making electricity and running cars on other things besides oil]
Years from now when the oil is gone [from the rest of the world], and the rest of the world is lumbering around steamboats, we Americans could be flying in style in our supersonic 797's.
your population density citation actually works *against* your argument. Large landmass + sparsely populated areas = big time power transmission problems.... e.g. try sending power from windmills in Kansas to New York
Best practice would be to utilize whatever resources is abundant locally, and for places that don't have any resources (like the East Coast), build nuclear plants.
Drill Baby Drill is a loser's mantra. Oil is too precious a resource to waste on an idiot's whim. The smart man's mantra is Nuke baby Nuke.
Oil is truly a gift from the Gods (or the dinosaurs if you aren't religious) to waste on making electricity and running cars... these can be done with other things. Years from now when the oil is gone, and the rest of the world is lumbering around steamboats, we Americans could be flying in style in our supersonic 797's.
Just burn a CD and give it to them. Blank CDs cost like 10 cents each if you buy a spindle, and you don't have to worry about them losing your USB drive or infecting it.
Another finding of note is the shrinking female IT workforce
If you're female there is no reason to go into IT... nursing pays better, comes with better benefits, better hours, way less stress, no bullying from male coworkers, no worries about your job going offshore to Inida, more respect from the general community, just a better future period.
In fact males should also go into nursing, but constantly being made fun of (such as being called Gaylord Focker) might be too much to take for most men. However, it is undeniable that healthcare is the wave of the future in the United States; aging population and an entitlement mentality ("I deserve free healthcare as a Gaea-given right") means the demand for healthcare will grow and grow and never stop growing until the nation is bankrupt. So men should suck it up, go back to school and get a medical degree, and leave the codemonkeying to the Indians.
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What exactly were you doing at your last job in which you were busting your hump for 27k a year?
My guess would be that whatever it was, if you were doing it (or something comparable) a 100 years ago, your standard of living would've been a lot worse than it is now.
People tend to forget that malnourishment -- not having enough food to eat -- was constant threat for the majority of world's population for, pretty much the entirety of the existence of the human race, right up to the second half of 20th century. People tend to forget fast (or if young, never bother to read history) and their definition of standard of living changes fast (I don't have a iPad G4 with unlimited data plan so I'm poor!).
People think Mexico is a dirt-poor country in which everyone lives in miserable poverty, where the only hope of a better life is to swim across the river and make it to the U.S. But did you know that obesity is a huge problem in Mexico? The rate of obesity is higher in Mexico than even the USA. That's right, most of the people in this dirt-poor nation EAT TOO MUCH FOOD.
then why did the hockey stick people keep massaging the data?
indefinitely...
all of this has already been anticipated. The Harvard people are closing in on a substance called boosterspice. It stops people from aging. Next will come what will be known as birthright lottery. It will control the population number while at the same time breeding lucky people.
The only downside will be that you will not be allowed to breed unless you are super smart or super athletic or artistic. However this will not be a problem for most slashdotters since we weren't gonna breed anyways.
Besides, where in your country's constitution is it written that all citizens are guarenteed the right to breed?
shouldn't it be called Firefox?
Oh wait...
simply not using social networks?
I keep all the info of my life in txt files.
It helps that I can type really fast.
will do little to nothing for space exploration until we gain the ability to lift stuff into orbit on a massive scale.
This is the kind of shit we need
that 19 inch helium ballon doesn't have much of a payload, so you can't stick a big model rocket in there.
.
You *could* possibly stick a small model rocket, and have the iPhone fire it when they reach high enough an altitude. A small rocket with 5 seconds of thrust maybe.
You could even modify the shape of the exhaust nozzle for optimum vacuum performance since there's almost air there
while that would be cool, it's still nowhere near enough to actually get it in space....
It sucked because they didn't have an decent story to tell. The story was just bad. Did some computer geeks write the script? It sure seems like it.
The animation was ok, it aint exactly Pixar but serviceable. The visuals wasn't what made this film bad, it was the lame story.
As a demo of what this open-source CGI software can do, i guess it works. As a film to be watched for its own merits, I'm sorry but it phails miserably. I've seen episodes of Gumby more entertaining than this.
what's up with doing things their own way, instead of the standard way? On every other apache distribution I've seen httpd.conf is the main config file, but not on Ubuntu... it's apache2.conf. I had to look that up. Ubuntu is full of things like this.
Mind you, their way works, and Ubuntu has great support and lively community and so on... but why do they insist on being different?
No one is responsible for providing you with free entertainment.
But someone is responsible for providing you with free healthcare?
Apple... [blah blah] dual-core iPhone
so what's the other core gonna doing...?
really? Google DNS can be hijacked?
I have my DNS server set at 8.8.8.8, my ISP can hijack it?? Is that even legal?
besides, nobody even calls F-16s "Falcons" except the media. To the people that matter (the drivers), the planes have always been "Viper".
"Mozilla's Chris Blizzard talks about...."
Do these guys get paid a salary? Or do they work for free?
Oil is too precious a resource to waste on an idiot's whim. The smart man's mantra is Nuke baby Nuke.
[America saves its precious oil for the future, by making electricity and running cars on other things besides oil]
Years from now when the oil is gone [from the rest of the world], and the rest of the world is lumbering around steamboats, we Americans could be flying in style in our supersonic 797's.
your population density citation actually works *against* your argument. Large landmass + sparsely populated areas = big time power transmission problems.... e.g. try sending power from windmills in Kansas to New York
Best practice would be to utilize whatever resources is abundant locally, and for places that don't have any resources (like the East Coast), build nuclear plants.
Drill Baby Drill is a loser's mantra. Oil is too precious a resource to waste on an idiot's whim. The smart man's mantra is Nuke baby Nuke.
Oil is truly a gift from the Gods (or the dinosaurs if you aren't religious) to waste on making electricity and running cars... these can be done with other things. Years from now when the oil is gone, and the rest of the world is lumbering around steamboats, we Americans could be flying in style in our supersonic 797's.
for cheap.
Some tubes may be filled with frozen lava
Otherwise known as rock
why Facebook needs to die...
Just burn a CD and give it to them. Blank CDs cost like 10 cents each if you buy a spindle, and you don't have to worry about them losing your USB drive or infecting it.
I owned several Choose your own adventure books when my age was single digit... were "Gamebooks" Similar to those? They were pretty cool :thumb:
Another finding of note is the shrinking female IT workforce
If you're female there is no reason to go into IT... nursing pays better, comes with better benefits, better hours, way less stress, no bullying from male coworkers, no worries about your job going offshore to Inida, more respect from the general community, just a better future period.
In fact males should also go into nursing, but constantly being made fun of (such as being called Gaylord Focker) might be too much to take for most men. However, it is undeniable that healthcare is the wave of the future in the United States; aging population and an entitlement mentality ("I deserve free healthcare as a Gaea-given right") means the demand for healthcare will grow and grow and never stop growing until the nation is bankrupt. So men should suck it up, go back to school and get a medical degree, and leave the codemonkeying to the Indians.
wtf who modded this redundant?! There was no whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag on this when I wrote this.
Obviously someone saw my post, realised the insightfullness of it, and added the tag afterwards. _|_