If you can figure a way to just hit them....let me know, and I'll reconsider my position. In a free country like this, I honestly can't think of a way to just target the extreme wealthy who are the ones who have the disproportionate amount of the wealth in the US.
You can tell who they are by looking at them. At least that seems to be the rhetoric. The "extreme wealthy" is this generation's boogeyman...they're the ones to blame but no one really seems to know who they are. Sometimes I think the peanut gallery just wants to take Forbes list of wealthiest Americans and send them a bill to pay off everything. The bigger problem boils down to everyone wants something for free, but wants other people to pay for it.
How the fuck is that memorable? Maybe after awhile you'd get the muscle memory to type it in, but initially that is a PITA that would succumb to something easier. "Average" folk aren't going to come up with a phrase, salt it, then pepper it with numbers in their head.
Hasn't this been around the whole time as "Wall to Wall"? I remember there used to be links where you could see a "Wall to Wall" conversation between yourself and your friends, and you could change the PID in the URL to other mutual friends and see conversations between them. I envisioned making an app to basically do the same with an interface....I thought it would help in searching for conversations. There currently is no good search tool for stuff on facebook as far as I know. For example, I'll remember having someone post a link to me, or mentioning something in a comment but I have no way of finding that. If I could view all of the history between them and myself, I could at least ctrl-f for it.
FDIC, NASA and DARPA, good. Medicare, nope, don't use it....justify its existence. Unemployment benefits? Sure, but with severe restrictions and limits. Safety nets are OK, but we need to get people back to self-reliance, not sucking at the teat of the government. Government's role should be pointing and encouraging society in a positive direction, not taking care of their asses.
So is the solution to tax Mr. Buffett at 30% as well as his secretary, or lower the secretary's taxable percentage accordingly? I don't want to pay more than I have to (even 30%!) whether I make eleventy billion dollars or I make $25k.
As my mom stated the other day, when confronted with social networks for the first time; "did someone change the definition of "friend" or am I missing something?"
"Acquaintance" just doesn't have the same ring to it, though.
In that context it doesn't really seem like you have true privacy but instead have too many people to keep track of what all of your contacts are doing. Essentially Facebook and its ilk bring that small town 'everybody knows what everyone else is doing' and scales it.
Same here. The big one my wife complains about is lack of ctrl-down (or pagedown maybe? I dunno) or whatever it is to paste a formula down a column or across a row. Apparently she used it a lot and was one of the first complaints she brought up when I switched her over to OpenOffice.
It's not uncommon in a lot of places anywhere. If you're out in the country you're not gonna pay out the ass for trash service. You burn it or bury it.
People want really low taxes, but this is the result: really poor services.
It depends on how you look at it. They got exactly what they paid for. If people don't want to pay taxes, and they're ok with the consequences, then what's the problem?
Hell, I wish the cable companies would let me pay extra to NOT see the political ads these days. Like $10 a month from now until November...they'd make a killing on it
This was the first thing I noticed. If they subscribe to the gimmick that is 3D in movies I'll have lost all respect for the crew that brought us LOTR.
So shouldn't their parents be involved and know what their children are buying rather than depending on the government to babysit and do the parenting for them?
I don't get it - why *should* searching occupy more time than socializing? I don't really understand the Google-Facebook comparison in general. Google Search, their bread and butter, is a tool. It's job is to as fast as possible get me on my way to some destination. Facebook on the other hand *is* the destination. It's a source of content, so naturally I'm going to spend time there. In what scenario would I ever spend an equivalent amount of time searching, or using some other tool? I don't spend time holding a hammer just for the sake of hammering. I use it to build something and then use what I built.
Honestly, the closest Google sites I can think of that are comparable to Facebook would be Reader and Youtube. But I don't typically browse Youtube...I go there from a link, or go there to directly search for something. My time in Reader is spent reading through content...but it's the content I'm using, the tool is just a means to an end. But on Facebook I tend to browse, jump from profile to profile, read through the day's events, etc.
In what world is the purpose of Google the same as the purpose of Facebook?
I love my Ubuntu install, and have used some minimal installs before on older machines...but can the stock 10.04 desktop with enhanced GUI effects that look like Win7 really *help* older machines? I guess if they won't even install Win7 then you've got a leg up, but it seems like the best Ubuntu experience requires similar specs that would give you the best Windows experience, too.
On another note, does this replicate the taskbar? I actually like that part of Win7, especially how everything seems to be draggy droppy rearrangeable. The stock GNOME install seems kinda cumbersome in that regard.
oblig. "I'm too cool for Facebook, and anyone who uses it is Teh Stoopid". post. In fact, I'm so indie I only use websites that don't exist yet that no one else uses, either. And I don't communicate with anyone or anything via the Internet, I only passively consume it. Yay!
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If you can figure a way to just hit them....let me know, and I'll reconsider my position. In a free country like this, I honestly can't think of a way to just target the extreme wealthy who are the ones who have the disproportionate amount of the wealth in the US.
You can tell who they are by looking at them. At least that seems to be the rhetoric. The "extreme wealthy" is this generation's boogeyman...they're the ones to blame but no one really seems to know who they are. Sometimes I think the peanut gallery just wants to take Forbes list of wealthiest Americans and send them a bill to pay off everything. The bigger problem boils down to everyone wants something for free, but wants other people to pay for it.
And if we got to see Michigan State trounce Ohio State on the gridiron this year we wouldn't be seeing those punk ass Badgers in the Rose Bowl!
The NCAA might be interested in your witnessed accounts of athletes breaking rules and even laws, ya know...
How the fuck is that memorable? Maybe after awhile you'd get the muscle memory to type it in, but initially that is a PITA that would succumb to something easier. "Average" folk aren't going to come up with a phrase, salt it, then pepper it with numbers in their head.
I've never seen it, but just from the summary....if it has a community that dislikes it and no viewership, why are we crying over its disappearance?
How have you not already blocked notifications from those apps? They solved the problem of those things flooding your newsfeed a long time ago.
Unless you *sell* the sour grapes....oooo an idea!
1. Find sour grapes
2. ???
3. Profit!
Hasn't this been around the whole time as "Wall to Wall"? I remember there used to be links where you could see a "Wall to Wall" conversation between yourself and your friends, and you could change the PID in the URL to other mutual friends and see conversations between them. I envisioned making an app to basically do the same with an interface....I thought it would help in searching for conversations. There currently is no good search tool for stuff on facebook as far as I know. For example, I'll remember having someone post a link to me, or mentioning something in a comment but I have no way of finding that. If I could view all of the history between them and myself, I could at least ctrl-f for it.
Good to see Facebook making this easier!
Can we do that for corporate America, too?
FDIC, NASA and DARPA, good. Medicare, nope, don't use it....justify its existence. Unemployment benefits? Sure, but with severe restrictions and limits. Safety nets are OK, but we need to get people back to self-reliance, not sucking at the teat of the government. Government's role should be pointing and encouraging society in a positive direction, not taking care of their asses.
Roads, intrastructure, and education I can get behind. What about all the other shit they waste money on?
So is the solution to tax Mr. Buffett at 30% as well as his secretary, or lower the secretary's taxable percentage accordingly? I don't want to pay more than I have to (even 30%!) whether I make eleventy billion dollars or I make $25k.
As my mom stated the other day, when confronted with social networks for the first time; "did someone change the definition of "friend" or am I missing something?"
"Acquaintance" just doesn't have the same ring to it, though.
In that context it doesn't really seem like you have true privacy but instead have too many people to keep track of what all of your contacts are doing. Essentially Facebook and its ilk bring that small town 'everybody knows what everyone else is doing' and scales it.
Same here. The big one my wife complains about is lack of ctrl-down (or pagedown maybe? I dunno) or whatever it is to paste a formula down a column or across a row. Apparently she used it a lot and was one of the first complaints she brought up when I switched her over to OpenOffice.
It's not uncommon in a lot of places anywhere. If you're out in the country you're not gonna pay out the ass for trash service. You burn it or bury it.
People want really low taxes, but this is the result: really poor services.
It depends on how you look at it. They got exactly what they paid for. If people don't want to pay taxes, and they're ok with the consequences, then what's the problem?
Hell, I wish the cable companies would let me pay extra to NOT see the political ads these days. Like $10 a month from now until November...they'd make a killing on it
This was the first thing I noticed. If they subscribe to the gimmick that is 3D in movies I'll have lost all respect for the crew that brought us LOTR.
So shouldn't their parents be involved and know what their children are buying rather than depending on the government to babysit and do the parenting for them?
I don't get it - why *should* searching occupy more time than socializing? I don't really understand the Google-Facebook comparison in general. Google Search, their bread and butter, is a tool. It's job is to as fast as possible get me on my way to some destination. Facebook on the other hand *is* the destination. It's a source of content, so naturally I'm going to spend time there. In what scenario would I ever spend an equivalent amount of time searching, or using some other tool? I don't spend time holding a hammer just for the sake of hammering. I use it to build something and then use what I built.
Honestly, the closest Google sites I can think of that are comparable to Facebook would be Reader and Youtube. But I don't typically browse Youtube...I go there from a link, or go there to directly search for something. My time in Reader is spent reading through content...but it's the content I'm using, the tool is just a means to an end. But on Facebook I tend to browse, jump from profile to profile, read through the day's events, etc.
In what world is the purpose of Google the same as the purpose of Facebook?
I love my Ubuntu install, and have used some minimal installs before on older machines...but can the stock 10.04 desktop with enhanced GUI effects that look like Win7 really *help* older machines? I guess if they won't even install Win7 then you've got a leg up, but it seems like the best Ubuntu experience requires similar specs that would give you the best Windows experience, too.
On another note, does this replicate the taskbar? I actually like that part of Win7, especially how everything seems to be draggy droppy rearrangeable. The stock GNOME install seems kinda cumbersome in that regard.
I couldn't of said it better!
Whaa? How do the millions of other fat people in the world manage to use cell phones?
oblig. "I'm too cool for Facebook, and anyone who uses it is Teh Stoopid". post. In fact, I'm so indie I only use websites that don't exist yet that no one else uses, either. And I don't communicate with anyone or anything via the Internet, I only passively consume it. Yay!