I read someplace that after college 40% (or maybe it was 60%) said they were never going to read a book again.
I had to take care of my late father and he lived with me for two months after he got out of the hospital. Since I didn't have cable TV, he complained that he had nothing to do. I pointed to the 400+ books on my shelves. He told me, "I'm bored but I'm not that bored."
You're suggesting that people run businesses with "apps"? Really?
The company I worked for literally runs on third-party apps. A half-dozen staff members manned the NYC office for meeting clients and maintaining business records. About 100 employees works from home or at the client site.
Most people stop learning after graduating from school since learning is a requirement only for school. Learning is a lifelong pursuit. A requirement for a long career in the technical fields.
They're a real company, with real patents, and sued someone in their industry who is infringing. Why is that a troll? How is that not just proper use of the patent system?
Real companies have real products. Patent trolls have a portfolio of patents and little else.
Because I was born overweight, looked like the poster child for mongolism, and had a undiagnosed hearing lost in one ear, the school system classified me as being mentally retarded. Every year for eight years, I had annual evaluations of my mental abilities and consistently scored on the genius side of the scale. The evaluators were consistently surprised by the results but always called it as a "statistical fluke". I graduated the eighth grade with a college-level reading comprehension level and fifth grade skills in everything else. I skipped high school, went to community college, and took four years to get my A.A. degree in General Education with a 3.54GPA. A decade later I went back to school to get an A.S. degree in Computer Programming with a 4.00GPA while taking two classes per semester, working 60 hours per week and teaching Sunday school.
Today I'm 46YO, 5'-10" and 350 pounds. If my brain looks ten years older, I blame the public school system for making learning so difficult.
Correction, you guys started talking about partisan crap when I was talking about current administration, which is whatever party it happens to be, and changes as the years go by.
You stuck nose into someone's thread and you thought it was relevant to your own thread. You must be new around here.
[,,,] but maybe you were arguing against yourself as an AC.
I stand behind my own comments. The good, the bad, the ugly. Less confusing that way.
I've done enough for 'democracy' without someone forcing me to vote against my will.
Voting is a civic obligation. Serving in the military doesn't cancel that obligation. If anything, serving in the military should have reinforced your obligation to vote.
wtf? I haven't mentioned conservatives or liberals. What are you talking about?
YOU WROTE: "The biggest difference between D's and R's is what color tie they wear."
Democrats are considered the liberal party and wear blue ties. Republicans are considered the conservative party and wear red ties. However, Republican Romney wore a blue tie and Democrat Obama wore a red tie at a debate in 2012.
By your COLOR-CODED LOGIC, Romney is the liberal and Obama is a conservative.
Under CA law, you need ID to actually register to vote.
That's under existing law. When I first registered to vote nearly 30 years ago, I had to prove my current address by presenting a piece of mail with my name. That was a different time. Americans were only under the threat of nuclear annihilation. We didn't have time to nitpick each other over voting.
Kind of hard to argue against presenting ID at the voting center if you're legally registered, eh?
Kind of hard to argue against my comment when you took my comment out of context, eh? OP wrote that getting an ID card in ANY STATE was ZERO dollars. Not true in CA.
Freedom requires that people have the right to not vote, while also having the right to vote.
Freedom has a price. Voting is a small price to pay for your freedom. If you don't want to vote, there are many dictatorships in the world that will take you in as a non-voter.
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I read someplace that after college 40% (or maybe it was 60%) said they were never going to read a book again.
I had to take care of my late father and he lived with me for two months after he got out of the hospital. Since I didn't have cable TV, he complained that he had nothing to do. I pointed to the 400+ books on my shelves. He told me, "I'm bored but I'm not that bored."
Wow. Never heard of such a thing. How do they keep books?
QuickBooks Enterprise with cloud hosting.
http://enterprisesuite.intuit.com/products/enterprise-solutions/hosting/
You're suggesting that people run businesses with "apps"? Really?
The company I worked for literally runs on third-party apps. A half-dozen staff members manned the NYC office for meeting clients and maintaining business records. About 100 employees works from home or at the client site.
Most people stop learning after graduating from school since learning is a requirement only for school. Learning is a lifelong pursuit. A requirement for a long career in the technical fields.
Blue's News back in the day. I haven't read it in years. Still around.
https://www.bluesnews.com/
Lose some weight or you won't make it to 50.
That's funny. I've been told I wouldn't live until I was 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-years-old.
Here's the secrets of longevity: don't believe the critics and take care of your body.
Might binary view of the world you have.
There are only 10 types of people in the world.
They're a real company, with real patents, and sued someone in their industry who is infringing. Why is that a troll? How is that not just proper use of the patent system?
Real companies have real products. Patent trolls have a portfolio of patents and little else.
The iconic Blackberry has now become a patent troll. Sad.
You must have a skinny brain. If you had a point, you could have expressed it in fewer words.
You should have worked that out by now with the slooooow rate of change.
Eight years of Republican obstruction helped in slowing things down.
Because I was born overweight, looked like the poster child for mongolism, and had a undiagnosed hearing lost in one ear, the school system classified me as being mentally retarded. Every year for eight years, I had annual evaluations of my mental abilities and consistently scored on the genius side of the scale. The evaluators were consistently surprised by the results but always called it as a "statistical fluke". I graduated the eighth grade with a college-level reading comprehension level and fifth grade skills in everything else. I skipped high school, went to community college, and took four years to get my A.A. degree in General Education with a 3.54GPA. A decade later I went back to school to get an A.S. degree in Computer Programming with a 4.00GPA while taking two classes per semester, working 60 hours per week and teaching Sunday school.
Today I'm 46YO, 5'-10" and 350 pounds. If my brain looks ten years older, I blame the public school system for making learning so difficult.
Correction, you guys started talking about partisan crap when I was talking about current administration, which is whatever party it happens to be, and changes as the years go by.
You stuck nose into someone's thread and you thought it was relevant to your own thread. You must be new around here.
[,,,] but maybe you were arguing against yourself as an AC.
I stand behind my own comments. The good, the bad, the ugly. Less confusing that way.
I've done enough for 'democracy' without someone forcing me to vote against my will.
Voting is a civic obligation. Serving in the military doesn't cancel that obligation. If anything, serving in the military should have reinforced your obligation to vote.
No I did not. Liar.
My comment was directed to the AC. You replied to my comment as if you were the AC disputing my comment. Perhaps you forgot to post anonymously?
wtf? I haven't mentioned conservatives or liberals. What are you talking about?
YOU WROTE: "The biggest difference between D's and R's is what color tie they wear."
Democrats are considered the liberal party and wear blue ties. Republicans are considered the conservative party and wear red ties. However, Republican Romney wore a blue tie and Democrat Obama wore a red tie at a debate in 2012.
By your COLOR-CODED LOGIC, Romney is the liberal and Obama is a conservative.
Like the US?
Trump isn't president yet.
You can make people check a box but you can't force them to educate themselves about the issues and find out where the candidates stand on them.
If people have skin in the game, they will take voting seriously.
Under CA law, you need ID to actually register to vote.
That's under existing law. When I first registered to vote nearly 30 years ago, I had to prove my current address by presenting a piece of mail with my name. That was a different time. Americans were only under the threat of nuclear annihilation. We didn't have time to nitpick each other over voting.
Kind of hard to argue against presenting ID at the voting center if you're legally registered, eh?
Kind of hard to argue against my comment when you took my comment out of context, eh? OP wrote that getting an ID card in ANY STATE was ZERO dollars. Not true in CA.
Freedom requires that people have the right to not vote, while also having the right to vote.
Freedom has a price. Voting is a small price to pay for your freedom. If you don't want to vote, there are many dictatorships in the world that will take you in as a non-voter.
Which, of course, is exactly the problem.
Not every government job can be a desk job.
Check out this link. Romney is wearing a blue tie and Obama is wearing a red tie. By your logic, Obama is a conservative.
http://www.tie-a-tie.net/obamas-winning-necktie/
Perhaps you've heard of tbe TSA.
The last time I took an airplane trip, all the TSA agents were standing up and doing their jobs.
It costs a whole ZERO dollars to go get a State ID in any state [...]
Under CA law, a state ID card cost $29. If you're on public assistance, it costs $8. Seniors can get a state ID card for free.
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/dl/fees/idCard_fees
Which is good. I mean for fucks sake, what kind of third world country is the US when it doesn't even know who's voting and if they're even citizens?
Some third world countries have tighter voting regulations and higher voter turnout that put the US electoral system to shame.