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Democratizing app building, empowering kids, women, and underrepresented groups
Why, right you are, good sir! Capital idea! Our womenfolk would swoon right over with the vapors should they be forced to learn how to program our electromagnetistic computational whatnots the traditional way! The these "underrepresented groups" you speak of (wink wink), why they suffer constant indignities of many and varied brain fevers when attempting even the simplest mechanical tasks long ago mastered by proper Men of this Enlightened Age. It is demanded by Charity, not to mention we must field everything we have against the Encroachment by Foreign Undesirables! Cheerio, pip pip and all that!
Great. Another "science will destroy us all" theme. Maybe Will Smith could show up as Robert Neville and attack the apes with the cancer-cure-gone-all-wrong from I Am Legion.
The "Bad Guys" are so unbelievably "Bad" that it makes you want to wince.
Nothing new there. Hollywood sucks at creating compelling villains. It's why the Green Lantern movie gave us Yet Another Evil Space Cloud.
Was he right for the right reasons or just lucky? There's a lot of "experts" out there who wrote some prediction, and then become a media darling for 15 minutes because they got one right by chance.
ARMs are fine if they are tied to an index. I got mine (about $200K like yours) in 1995 and it's tied to the 11th District Cost Of Funds. My monthly payment right now is $900. An in addition to being tied to an index independent from the bank, there a limit cap beyond which the rate cannot go, although that has hardly been an issue with rates plummeting like they did. House is currently worth 3x what I paid.
Supposedly someone who is an authority on mortgages, someone I'm paying to look out for my best interests.
That's the advantage of being a misanthrope: I never make happy assumptions like that, and am rarely surprised. Seriously, you need to forget about any other person looking out for your best interests. I know it sounds like a terrible philosophy, but it's the only realistic one. A local radio show did a series of shows where people who used to work in loan departments called in with their stories. It was tale after tale of managers not giving a ant's shit about how qualified the borrowers were, and just racking up loans to get bonuses. Some actually shrugged and said things like "it's not my money."
That's why all this blabbering here trying to blame Presidents for our current mess is so disheartening.
Folks, the corruption goes from the very top to the very bottom. If you are trying to blame a President or cheerleading a Party, you are part of the problem. The government is cheating. Corporations are cheating. Your neighbors are cheating. Your coworkers are cheating.
I knew a guy who was stealing DirecTV with a counterfeit card. Mostly joking, I asked what DirecTV ever did to him, and he said "the system screwed me, so I'm screwing the system." He was referring to his recent divorce. This is how the average person thinks. The world- the system- is just a big amorphous entity. It's like the human mind hasn't advanced one bit since the days of nomadic tribes.
Are there really people like that? I don't like the ideology over on the news channel so I won't watch Fringe on the entertainment channel? I'm not hooked up to a rating box, so who the hell knows or cares?
That just means the channel has much to atone for.:-) So let them have it, I say. I hope they get a good CGI team for the space stuff.
This is hilarious. We have a new Cosmos headed by a solid, scientific host, and people are tripping over their own precious little ideologies in apoplexy because of a channel.
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Nuke 'em for Jesus
Democratizing app building, empowering kids, women, and underrepresented groups
Why, right you are, good sir! Capital idea! Our womenfolk would swoon right over with the vapors should they be forced to learn how to program our electromagnetistic computational whatnots the traditional way! The these "underrepresented groups" you speak of (wink wink), why they suffer constant indignities of many and varied brain fevers when attempting even the simplest mechanical tasks long ago mastered by proper Men of this Enlightened Age. It is demanded by Charity, not to mention we must field everything we have against the Encroachment by Foreign Undesirables! Cheerio, pip pip and all that!
My limited experience has been that at least some of the answers will be surprising.
Charity: We'd prefer Plan 9 from Bell Labs, if that's not a bother.
Old Geek: o-O
The BeOS!
It was beautiful, man!
(Shakes fist)
And yes, the libertarian drivel spouted on /. is quite annoying.
o.O
Must be that special progressive brand of libertarianism.
Weren't some throwing bricks? Bricks were once a new technology. Jus' sayin'.
You rock.
Sure, why not.
Oh, I was planning to rent/stream it regardless.
So instead of Bumbling Science we have the refreshingly new Evil Corporation. Yay! ;-)
You tell The Man what for, Che! You go girl!
underground commando
Underground? So, like, dead?
Great. Another "science will destroy us all" theme. Maybe Will Smith could show up as Robert Neville and attack the apes with the cancer-cure-gone-all-wrong from I Am Legion.
The "Bad Guys" are so unbelievably "Bad" that it makes you want to wince.
Nothing new there. Hollywood sucks at creating compelling villains. It's why the Green Lantern movie gave us Yet Another Evil Space Cloud.
OK.
They're not my teabaggers.
But, yeah, it's all because of one group, and nothing to do with 50+ years of bullshit from everyone involved.
There just isn't a face or a palm big enough to react to the shit on Slashdot anymore when it comes to politics and economics.
Was he right for the right reasons or just lucky? There's a lot of "experts" out there who wrote some prediction, and then become a media darling for 15 minutes because they got one right by chance.
When all else fails, play the race card.
Almost feels like a Republican conspiracy.
No, that's the worms in your brain squirming around.
The US hasn't deserved its AAA rating for decades.
Q.E.D.
ARMs are fine if they are tied to an index. I got mine (about $200K like yours) in 1995 and it's tied to the 11th District Cost Of Funds. My monthly payment right now is $900. An in addition to being tied to an index independent from the bank, there a limit cap beyond which the rate cannot go, although that has hardly been an issue with rates plummeting like they did. House is currently worth 3x what I paid.
Supposedly someone who is an authority on mortgages, someone I'm paying to look out for my best interests.
That's the advantage of being a misanthrope: I never make happy assumptions like that, and am rarely surprised. Seriously, you need to forget about any other person looking out for your best interests. I know it sounds like a terrible philosophy, but it's the only realistic one. A local radio show did a series of shows where people who used to work in loan departments called in with their stories. It was tale after tale of managers not giving a ant's shit about how qualified the borrowers were, and just racking up loans to get bonuses. Some actually shrugged and said things like "it's not my money."
That's why all this blabbering here trying to blame Presidents for our current mess is so disheartening.
Folks, the corruption goes from the very top to the very bottom. If you are trying to blame a President or cheerleading a Party, you are part of the problem. The government is cheating. Corporations are cheating. Your neighbors are cheating. Your coworkers are cheating.
I knew a guy who was stealing DirecTV with a counterfeit card. Mostly joking, I asked what DirecTV ever did to him, and he said "the system screwed me, so I'm screwing the system." He was referring to his recent divorce. This is how the average person thinks. The world- the system- is just a big amorphous entity. It's like the human mind hasn't advanced one bit since the days of nomadic tribes.
Uh huh. Well, good luck with that little crusade there.
I agree. :)
I *liked* Cosmos, but even as a kid I cringed sometimes at some of the lines and music choices.
... Tyson stays far away from Sagan's hokey, maudlin approach.
Yeah, I said that. That happened. Deal.
Ideology is the mind killer. Ideology is the little-stupid that brings idiocy.
Logic fail: people can change the channel.
If you can't bring yourself to tune into Fox
Are there really people like that? I don't like the ideology over on the news channel so I won't watch Fringe on the entertainment channel? I'm not hooked up to a rating box, so who the hell knows or cares?
That just means the channel has much to atone for. :-) So let them have it, I say. I hope they get a good CGI team for the space stuff.
This is hilarious. We have a new Cosmos headed by a solid, scientific host, and people are tripping over their own precious little ideologies in apoplexy because of a channel.
This is why I avoid the stuff. Ideology, that is.