The problem is I only wake up wanting to work some days. There are days when I can't wait for the alarm to ring so I have a chance to go into work. There are days when I want to get back outside to whatever project I have going. There are days when I can't wait to get home from work so I can finish that book.
I love to program. I enjoy pointer arithmetic. Not everday though. Somedays I want to do something else.
I have a job where I can do what I love. They want me to love to do it 70 hours a week, I want to do it 40 hours a week, but only once a month. I compromise on 40 hours a week, every week except vacations.
Bankruptcy is not about getting yourself out of debts. It is about forcing your creditors are realize you cannot pay, so they need to agree to less.
There are various forms of bankruptcy. Some amount to the same thing as getting out of paying your debts, because it becomes clear that there is no way you could pay them. Some just give you really easy terms to pay them back.
Everything else I have to say varies somewhat from state to state. Check your local laws if this is important to you.
You always have to pay something to file bankruptcy. The court will collect their fees first. Then your lawyer gets paid. Then the court decides what to do about the rest. Each dept is ranked, any court judgment must be paid, then your house is paid for, then the car, then non-essentials. The court will allow creditors to take back some stuff, but there are limits - a house cannot be taken away. (Though if you have a manson the court might take it away, only allowing you a more modest house - the judge generally gets to decide, but only if someone brings it up). Education fits in there somewhere, but I'm not sure how - the laws a tricky because they want to prevent a new graduate with nothing from getting our of that cost before getting a job. (Work an extra 6 months at McDonald's for minimum wage after you graduate is a good idea if you could in that time take several years worth of income off your debt card) US law now doesn't allow credit card debt to be discharged either - if you are stupid enough to run this up it is your own stupid fault and you can live with it.
Debt for a $2million dollar diamond will be thrown out, they can take the diamond if they want it (Diamonds have no used value, it is all marketing by evil people that give them value on the new market). Debt for your utilities you will most likely pay.
Remember, the above is a guideline. Some areas have different rules that may apply. The judge will look at each case separately.
ICBMs are not nuclear bombs. An ICBM is a bomb (normally nuclear) attached to a rocket so it can hit a target half way around the world. Many countries work working on nuclear bombs, which is worrying. Less countries are working on delivery rockets.
China might have an ICBM now, I haven't seen any announcement that they have built one (but such things are often kept secret). Their rocket technology is up to the task of building them if they want. (And some would suggest the primary purpose of their space program is it is a way to test the ICBM delivery without getting everyone worried about the test)
Iran is on the edge of nuclear bombs, but they have no space program. Therefore it is unlikely they have an ICBM to deliver them. Or if they do it is not a visible program that everyone knows about.
I'm not sure about England. They have the ability to create them, and I know they have nukes. Generally they ride on the tails of the US though - they are too far north, and have too little land to make launches easy. (Too easy for a first strike to take out the retaliation ability)
That might work for non-geeks, but geeks tend to be suspicious of anything marketing, and won't fall for it.
Now if you called it a satchel and have Ford Prefect endorse it, geeks might fall for it.
Actually geeks will fall for it based on usefulness first unless something gets in the way. Many old geeks who are ticked that it is no longer acceptable to wear a pocket protector in public, as they were so useful. Most geeks have a laptop case of some sort they carry around now though, so I'm not sure anything will catch on.
True, but there is little point in battle field jamming of GPS. Anyone with a set of eyes (last I checked military refuse the blind) can navigate to any ground target with just a map, which cannot be jammed. (A compass helps, as do stars and the sun, all of which are hard to jam. Still dead reckoning just by knowing your original direction is often to get there) Targets are visible from miles away. A city doesn't move, and can often be seen 30 miles away or more. Targets that do move need those eyes anyway because the GPS can at best take you to where it was.
The purpose of jamming GPS is for missiles. If the Soviet Union launched a ICBM at a US city, using GPS, jamming the signal is enough to make the missile most likely to hit farmland outside the city. Bad for the farmer, but much less deaths than hitting the city (or whatever the target is). Of course the Soviet Union is long gone, and nobody else has ICBMs, so there is no point in jamming GPS anymore - at least not for anyone with the ability to pull it off. In fact the US wants the bad guys to think GPS is not jammable (and it is hard to do), in hopes that they will cheat and use GPS for misstel guidance - then after the launch they turn on selective ability, and the misstel lands in a relatively harmless area.
Actually the Mother Earth News types of 25 years ago where exactly the same as they were now: hypocrites who didn't realize that their actions where hypocritical. They were always in favor of pollution restrictions on everything, and being self sufficient on your own wood heat. Both at once.
I remember (Just before the original mother went out of business) their shock when they realized that their efforts to prevent pollution had reached the point where their beloved woodstove was no illegal to make.
In otherwords they were like everyone else. I want to make the world a better place, so long as it doesn't effect me in any way. (Think greenpeace bumpersticker on a SUV)
In southern California paybacks on solar installations of 4 years have been achieved (This includes government subsidies). That is after 4 years the system makes you money. 8 is more common, but 4 has been achieved. Assuming you own your own house and plan to live there for a few years, then you should start doing site surveys and otherwise checking the math to see if it really can work out for you.
Of course there are many variables that I don't know. It is possible that your home in California actually would have a longer payback than mine in Minnesota. (For instance if you live in a valley surrounded by mountains) If you don't plan on living there for much longer you won't get the cost of your system paid back when you sell. If you are unwilling to do any basic maintenance the system could break down before you get it working. (Just a small list of reasons why this might not be a good idea, but you should check it out.)
That is what they would provide if they switched to OpenThis and OpenThat everywhere (fully switched, no extentions of changes, just the standard). Until/unless they do that, their stuff does not just work, because their customers cannot interchange documents with me. I'm too cheap to buy Microsoft's products, particularly when I think the KDE is better n all points anyway. (though I'm an expert at configuring my environment on FreeBSD to work as I want it)
Back when I was your age sonny, I had this problem with disks filling up. My dad did not let me have many disks, and never got me a double density drive. For years I worked hard to keep all my data on my collection of floppies. Over time things grew to over 100 disks, but never as fast as I needed them.
As technology marched on, dad eventually bought a computer with a large 80 megabyte harddrive (Back when 40 was standard), which when combined with dr-dos's disk compression lasted a few months before I filled it. Then it was more more more, but it never happened.
When I got my own job I bought a 1.6gig harddrive (put in the same machine as the 80 meg harddrive), which I promptly filled.
After college I built a computer with a 4 gig drive, and then added a 9 gig drive latter. I never felt the need for more though, but cause not long after I bought that 9 gig drive I grew up and discovered that computers were not the only thing in life (though I still have not figured out how to get the girls).
So my answer to you is just have patience sonny, some day you will grow up, and then you will discover that you don't need more drive space.
Your method works, and it is unlikely shrink anything. It is also unlikely to actually get your clothes clean - though you may never realize the difference.
To get the best cleaning you need to wash everything in the hottest water (liquid) you can get. Because some cloths shrink, and dye is just a stain that doesn't come out easily you cannot wash most cloths like that, so you have to modify your washing scheme to get the hottest temperatures you can without causing the unwanted side effects of hot water.
Whites can generally be washed in the hottest water you can get, and come out the better for it. Colors need a cooler temperature, but warm is good enough. Dress clothes (suits) should be washed in cold water, if at all - many are dry-clean only.
I'd say read the tag, but the tag may be wrong. I've seen things listed as dry-clean only that would be destroyed by dry cleaning chemicals. (dry cleaners know about this and will clean things right most of the time) I wash my dry-clean (not mislabeled) only stuff in cold water without problem, and put air-dry only stuff in the dryer. However I understand why things are labeled that way, and the downside of not doing it right, and consider it worth the risks.
The law doesn't allow things for something quite that simple. Though almost, the full context requires more then the son not finish dinner. The son must not only not finish dinner, but the parents need to discipline the son many times, and nothing changes. Then too, in those times a parent would like a son who doesn't eat much - that is less they have to grow.
(from the new bible) Deuteronomy 21:18 If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,37 21:19 his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city. 21:20 They must declare to the elders38 of his city, "Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say-he is a glutton and drunkard."
Daughters are rarely mentioned at all in the old testament. In fact when you read between the lines you often get the idea that many men had more (legitimate) children than are recorded.
I prefer to believe that because Eve was created from Adam, and God created Adam (I'd say from scratch, but that would outrule the idea that God didn't re-work an ape to be better, which is not a limit I wish to place) with no harmful recessive genes. So the male children of Adam and Eve could safely marry their sisters. It is only after years that mutations came into play, and enough were around that it became a bad idea to do that. (Mutation is of course a good thing - my genes are no longer optimized for the climate of Africa where mankind started out)
Seem the "on linux" qualifier was omitted. Most linux users are using open office.org. There is a significant koffice crowd (much better IMHO), and abiword and LaTeX both have their fans. Might even be a word perfect user or two left, not to mention those who have bought crossover to run Microsoft Word. For most Linux users though OOo is the office suite.
The family and friends of most of those linux users is also using Open office.org. I know that I install it for all the home users I know stuck on Microsoft Windows. Sure they could buy something else, but OOo is free, and good enough for their needs.
The Massachusetts decision will help things along.
Of course Open office is not number one. It may never be (did I mention that I think koffice is better?), but it is popular enough that you cannot ignore it.
I'm not upset about AA because I'm racist, I'm upset because it has negatively affected me. When an incompetent black women cannot be fired and I have to cover for her, I get upset. (The company eventually did fire her, but first they had to find an excuse to transfer her into a department run by a competent women)
I have no problem work with competent people on any race. AA is too often used to give the less competent person a job. This is wrong, not only does it take away the job from someone who could do it, but it also takes money from a company to pay that person, so prices have to go up to pay for the guy covering, and last that person doesn't learn that they are required to work hard.
I'll admit that slavery was bad. However slavery ended over 100 years ago. Raceism was (is?) bad in the south for many years. Where I live slavery was never allowed, and the people at the time objected enough to bring the Dread Scott case to court. (Not to mention help on the underground railroad) My people did what they could about the issue, it isn't fair to punish us.
Sure slavery (which was not limited to blacks, slaves where of all races, but there was an easy source from Africa so most slaves where black - nearly all in the last 100 years of it) was wrong. However you cannot right that wrong anymore - all the slaves are dead. Efforts like AA backfire for those who are not racists - they force someone who otherwise would not consider race to consider it.
Some wrongs just cannot be righted. You need to stop committing them and let time heal the wounds.
being that CUPS is what is behind OS X's printing subsystem, I don't see where it _should_ be any big deal printing to another CUPS enabled box as a print spooler.
That is what I thought too, until a mac user in my house was unable to print. I've got cups running on a desktop, and my laptop (both running FreeBSD/KDE) can print to it just fine. I hit print, and my one printer shows up on either machine. After an hour of trying we still couldn't get it to work.
This should have been trivial, CUPS was already working, and telling the local network about printers. OSX should just work, but it doesn't.
There are plenty of icon themes in KDE that you can choose from if eye candy is your only issue. Though if eye candy is your only issue, then Gnome is just as good as KDE, though in different ways.
IF you want to get into a Gnome/KDE flamewar you need something more than icon themes to argue about.
I'm not sure how many programers there are in the world, but I think you have a few extra 9s in your estimate.
Even that is a moot point. The user who can't program himself can hire someone else to do it. I use knoqueror myself, and yes I have read some of the source code. However I'm not limited to that.
If you pay my my normal daily wages I will make firefox work the way you want. I will review the code for potential exploits if you wish. I will add whatever feature you want. (Not quite, I'm too ethical to try to sneak a backdoor in, but you can hire someone else to try)
In theory I could do open heart surgery. In practice I hire someone else to do it, because I, like 99.99% (I don't know the exact number) of the population do not know how to do it. If you really hate all doctors you can hire someone (You will have to go to a third world country as this is illegal in most civialized countries) you trust to read the books, and then do it on you. All this information to do open heart surgery is there for anyone who really want to know to learn. In fact many people who are going in for this surgery read those books, enough to understand them (only the parts that apply to their condition) so they know what is happening.
That ability doesn't exist for internet explorer. You cannot have someone you trust make you a custom version of IE.
At least you have that option. With Internet explorer I do not have that ability. If I want to patch IE, first I have to get Microsoft to hire me (possible, they are hiring all the time, though I don't know if they would hire me personally), then I need to get access to the IE code (I don't know about Microsoft, but most big companies do not give all employees all their source code, you only get access to the parts you will work on), next I need to make my changes, last I need to convince the powers that be that my changes are a good thing, if I should be allowed to keep my job (Even if I'm the only one that uses them this is an issue if I wasn't supposed to read this source).
Nobody ever said that making open source work the way you want it was easy. We just said that you have that option, which is a very large difference from the closed source world. Learning your way around firefox code (if you are a programmer) is much easier than navigating all the issues of getting access to Internet explorer source code.
For short runs trains are better than planes. For long runs they are not. Sure they are more efficient, but not when you count the value of your time. A fully loaded plane uses as much fuel as each person in their own car if the car gets 30-40mpg (most do worse), but the plane runs at 500mph! I'm not sure how the train compares - I'm sure it is better, but the train is less than 150mph.
The airlines transports many more passangers than Amtrak, so you have to compare subsidies based on passangers before you can get any picture on how they compare. I don't care to do this, because I don't care to subsidize anything.
Have you seen how much the US bails out Amtrak? Last I checked it wasn't that much more to fly, and to popular destinations less. Flying was also much faster. Unless you make minimum wage, you are money ahead after figuring in your time as well.
Airplanes are big, but when fully loaded they are fuel efficient. Airplanes don't have to worry about terrain when planing their route, they they can save distance in many cases.
Though I would agree with anyone who suggests that we stop bailing out both Amtrak and the airlines.
Trains are a much more complex issue than your quick "soundbite" True a lot of tracks are disappearing. Back in the last 1800s the US built far more train tracks than needed, to places that could never justify having train tracks. Now that the car is universal, those tracks are being torn up.
However the tracks built where it makes sense to have train tracks are not only doing fine, they are expanding. The rail roads are building more tracks in places because they are needed. It just isn't 1990's "anything with a web site gets funding" anymore. (Except for the railroads anything with tracks gets funding was the 1880s)
Per ton mile shipped, the railroads in the US, ship the most freight of any country as a percent of total freight. However since freight is boring you don't see this.
Other countries send people by train. However people are time sensitive, so they upgrade tracks. The US just flies people around, doesn't cost much more, and for the distances it is faster than a fast train. Other countries give people the priority on their tracks, but that screws up freight traffic (which doesn't need the speed, but has to pay for it because the rails are high speed), so those countries send less freight by train.
Of course the facts don't allow for doom and gloom, so nobody notices them.
Do not bury the bags! Human waste is not only bio-degradable, but also good fertilizer. Harmful if you put it right into your water supply, (and it isn't a good idea to put in on your food, though many cultures do just that without problem - normally it isn't harmful) but otherwise useful plant food. Put it in your flower garden. Minnesota state law requires septic systems and wells be at least 40 feet apart (10-15 meters), so I would use that as your rule - unless your government[1] or science comes up with something better. Put the waste 40 feet from anything you will ingest in the next 2 years. (After that it is degraded enough that you don't have to worry) Though I would note that most government are made up of city people who are more afraid of poop than required. Treat it with respect, but it isn't instand death either.
Only if the music is under copyright by someone who isn't there. I know plenty of great tunes that have been out of copyright for over 100 years. I can write my own (once in a while they are even good enough to play a second time). A good band can improvise a tune on the spot - that is what real jazz is all about. (You won't hear much real jazz on the radio though, just soft jazz which has little do to with the real thing)
Its called a bucket. Dump the results in a hole. Keep it outside when not in use. Throw the bucket away when the emergency is done. No need for expensive and harmful chemicals.
Men can often just find a tree. I'm told women can learn to do the same but I don't know about that.
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The problem is I only wake up wanting to work some days. There are days when I can't wait for the alarm to ring so I have a chance to go into work. There are days when I want to get back outside to whatever project I have going. There are days when I can't wait to get home from work so I can finish that book.
I love to program. I enjoy pointer arithmetic. Not everday though. Somedays I want to do something else.
I have a job where I can do what I love. They want me to love to do it 70 hours a week, I want to do it 40 hours a week, but only once a month. I compromise on 40 hours a week, every week except vacations.
Bankruptcy is not about getting yourself out of debts. It is about forcing your creditors are realize you cannot pay, so they need to agree to less.
There are various forms of bankruptcy. Some amount to the same thing as getting out of paying your debts, because it becomes clear that there is no way you could pay them. Some just give you really easy terms to pay them back.
Everything else I have to say varies somewhat from state to state. Check your local laws if this is important to you.
You always have to pay something to file bankruptcy. The court will collect their fees first. Then your lawyer gets paid. Then the court decides what to do about the rest. Each dept is ranked, any court judgment must be paid, then your house is paid for, then the car, then non-essentials. The court will allow creditors to take back some stuff, but there are limits - a house cannot be taken away. (Though if you have a manson the court might take it away, only allowing you a more modest house - the judge generally gets to decide, but only if someone brings it up). Education fits in there somewhere, but I'm not sure how - the laws a tricky because they want to prevent a new graduate with nothing from getting our of that cost before getting a job. (Work an extra 6 months at McDonald's for minimum wage after you graduate is a good idea if you could in that time take several years worth of income off your debt card) US law now doesn't allow credit card debt to be discharged either - if you are stupid enough to run this up it is your own stupid fault and you can live with it.
Debt for a $2million dollar diamond will be thrown out, they can take the diamond if they want it (Diamonds have no used value, it is all marketing by evil people that give them value on the new market). Debt for your utilities you will most likely pay.
Remember, the above is a guideline. Some areas have different rules that may apply. The judge will look at each case separately.
ICBMs are not nuclear bombs. An ICBM is a bomb (normally nuclear) attached to a rocket so it can hit a target half way around the world. Many countries work working on nuclear bombs, which is worrying. Less countries are working on delivery rockets.
China might have an ICBM now, I haven't seen any announcement that they have built one (but such things are often kept secret). Their rocket technology is up to the task of building them if they want. (And some would suggest the primary purpose of their space program is it is a way to test the ICBM delivery without getting everyone worried about the test)
Iran is on the edge of nuclear bombs, but they have no space program. Therefore it is unlikely they have an ICBM to deliver them. Or if they do it is not a visible program that everyone knows about.
I'm not sure about England. They have the ability to create them, and I know they have nukes. Generally they ride on the tails of the US though - they are too far north, and have too little land to make launches easy. (Too easy for a first strike to take out the retaliation ability)
That might work for non-geeks, but geeks tend to be suspicious of anything marketing, and won't fall for it.
Now if you called it a satchel and have Ford Prefect endorse it, geeks might fall for it.
Actually geeks will fall for it based on usefulness first unless something gets in the way. Many old geeks who are ticked that it is no longer acceptable to wear a pocket protector in public, as they were so useful. Most geeks have a laptop case of some sort they carry around now though, so I'm not sure anything will catch on.
True, but there is little point in battle field jamming of GPS. Anyone with a set of eyes (last I checked military refuse the blind) can navigate to any ground target with just a map, which cannot be jammed. (A compass helps, as do stars and the sun, all of which are hard to jam. Still dead reckoning just by knowing your original direction is often to get there) Targets are visible from miles away. A city doesn't move, and can often be seen 30 miles away or more. Targets that do move need those eyes anyway because the GPS can at best take you to where it was.
The purpose of jamming GPS is for missiles. If the Soviet Union launched a ICBM at a US city, using GPS, jamming the signal is enough to make the missile most likely to hit farmland outside the city. Bad for the farmer, but much less deaths than hitting the city (or whatever the target is). Of course the Soviet Union is long gone, and nobody else has ICBMs, so there is no point in jamming GPS anymore - at least not for anyone with the ability to pull it off. In fact the US wants the bad guys to think GPS is not jammable (and it is hard to do), in hopes that they will cheat and use GPS for misstel guidance - then after the launch they turn on selective ability, and the misstel lands in a relatively harmless area.
Actually the Mother Earth News types of 25 years ago where exactly the same as they were now: hypocrites who didn't realize that their actions where hypocritical. They were always in favor of pollution restrictions on everything, and being self sufficient on your own wood heat. Both at once.
I remember (Just before the original mother went out of business) their shock when they realized that their efforts to prevent pollution had reached the point where their beloved woodstove was no illegal to make.
In otherwords they were like everyone else. I want to make the world a better place, so long as it doesn't effect me in any way. (Think greenpeace bumpersticker on a SUV)
In southern California paybacks on solar installations of 4 years have been achieved (This includes government subsidies). That is after 4 years the system makes you money. 8 is more common, but 4 has been achieved. Assuming you own your own house and plan to live there for a few years, then you should start doing site surveys and otherwise checking the math to see if it really can work out for you.
Of course there are many variables that I don't know. It is possible that your home in California actually would have a longer payback than mine in Minnesota. (For instance if you live in a valley surrounded by mountains) If you don't plan on living there for much longer you won't get the cost of your system paid back when you sell. If you are unwilling to do any basic maintenance the system could break down before you get it working. (Just a small list of reasons why this might not be a good idea, but you should check it out.)
That is what they would provide if they switched to OpenThis and OpenThat everywhere (fully switched, no extentions of changes, just the standard). Until/unless they do that, their stuff does not just work, because their customers cannot interchange documents with me. I'm too cheap to buy Microsoft's products, particularly when I think the KDE is better n all points anyway. (though I'm an expert at configuring my environment on FreeBSD to work as I want it)
Back when I was your age sonny, I had this problem with disks filling up. My dad did not let me have many disks, and never got me a double density drive. For years I worked hard to keep all my data on my collection of floppies. Over time things grew to over 100 disks, but never as fast as I needed them.
As technology marched on, dad eventually bought a computer with a large 80 megabyte harddrive (Back when 40 was standard), which when combined with dr-dos's disk compression lasted a few months before I filled it. Then it was more more more, but it never happened.
When I got my own job I bought a 1.6gig harddrive (put in the same machine as the 80 meg harddrive), which I promptly filled.
After college I built a computer with a 4 gig drive, and then added a 9 gig drive latter. I never felt the need for more though, but cause not long after I bought that 9 gig drive I grew up and discovered that computers were not the only thing in life (though I still have not figured out how to get the girls).
So my answer to you is just have patience sonny, some day you will grow up, and then you will discover that you don't need more drive space.
Cow pox was the first vaccine. Others were developed latter on. It took years to turn cow-pox into a vaccine.
Your method works, and it is unlikely shrink anything. It is also unlikely to actually get your clothes clean - though you may never realize the difference.
To get the best cleaning you need to wash everything in the hottest water (liquid) you can get. Because some cloths shrink, and dye is just a stain that doesn't come out easily you cannot wash most cloths like that, so you have to modify your washing scheme to get the hottest temperatures you can without causing the unwanted side effects of hot water.
Whites can generally be washed in the hottest water you can get, and come out the better for it. Colors need a cooler temperature, but warm is good enough. Dress clothes (suits) should be washed in cold water, if at all - many are dry-clean only.
I'd say read the tag, but the tag may be wrong. I've seen things listed as dry-clean only that would be destroyed by dry cleaning chemicals. (dry cleaners know about this and will clean things right most of the time) I wash my dry-clean (not mislabeled) only stuff in cold water without problem, and put air-dry only stuff in the dryer. However I understand why things are labeled that way, and the downside of not doing it right, and consider it worth the risks.
The law doesn't allow things for something quite that simple. Though almost, the full context requires more then the son not finish dinner. The son must not only not finish dinner, but the parents need to discipline the son many times, and nothing changes. Then too, in those times a parent would like a son who doesn't eat much - that is less they have to grow.
(from the new bible) Deuteronomy 21:18 If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,37 21:19 his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city. 21:20 They must declare to the elders38 of his city, "Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say-he is a glutton and drunkard."
Daughters are rarely mentioned at all in the old testament. In fact when you read between the lines you often get the idea that many men had more (legitimate) children than are recorded.
I prefer to believe that because Eve was created from Adam, and God created Adam (I'd say from scratch, but that would outrule the idea that God didn't re-work an ape to be better, which is not a limit I wish to place) with no harmful recessive genes. So the male children of Adam and Eve could safely marry their sisters. It is only after years that mutations came into play, and enough were around that it became a bad idea to do that. (Mutation is of course a good thing - my genes are no longer optimized for the climate of Africa where mankind started out)
Seem the "on linux" qualifier was omitted. Most linux users are using open office.org. There is a significant koffice crowd (much better IMHO), and abiword and LaTeX both have their fans. Might even be a word perfect user or two left, not to mention those who have bought crossover to run Microsoft Word. For most Linux users though OOo is the office suite.
The family and friends of most of those linux users is also using Open office.org. I know that I install it for all the home users I know stuck on Microsoft Windows. Sure they could buy something else, but OOo is free, and good enough for their needs.
The Massachusetts decision will help things along.
Of course Open office is not number one. It may never be (did I mention that I think koffice is better?), but it is popular enough that you cannot ignore it.
I'm not upset about AA because I'm racist, I'm upset because it has negatively affected me. When an incompetent black women cannot be fired and I have to cover for her, I get upset. (The company eventually did fire her, but first they had to find an excuse to transfer her into a department run by a competent women)
I have no problem work with competent people on any race. AA is too often used to give the less competent person a job. This is wrong, not only does it take away the job from someone who could do it, but it also takes money from a company to pay that person, so prices have to go up to pay for the guy covering, and last that person doesn't learn that they are required to work hard.
I'll admit that slavery was bad. However slavery ended over 100 years ago. Raceism was (is?) bad in the south for many years. Where I live slavery was never allowed, and the people at the time objected enough to bring the Dread Scott case to court. (Not to mention help on the underground railroad) My people did what they could about the issue, it isn't fair to punish us.
Sure slavery (which was not limited to blacks, slaves where of all races, but there was an easy source from Africa so most slaves where black - nearly all in the last 100 years of it) was wrong. However you cannot right that wrong anymore - all the slaves are dead. Efforts like AA backfire for those who are not racists - they force someone who otherwise would not consider race to consider it.
Some wrongs just cannot be righted. You need to stop committing them and let time heal the wounds.
being that CUPS is what is behind OS X's printing subsystem, I don't see where it _should_ be any big deal printing to another CUPS enabled box as a print spooler.
That is what I thought too, until a mac user in my house was unable to print. I've got cups running on a desktop, and my laptop (both running FreeBSD/KDE) can print to it just fine. I hit print, and my one printer shows up on either machine. After an hour of trying we still couldn't get it to work.
This should have been trivial, CUPS was already working, and telling the local network about printers. OSX should just work, but it doesn't.
There are plenty of icon themes in KDE that you can choose from if eye candy is your only issue. Though if eye candy is your only issue, then Gnome is just as good as KDE, though in different ways.
IF you want to get into a Gnome/KDE flamewar you need something more than icon themes to argue about.
I'm not sure how many programers there are in the world, but I think you have a few extra 9s in your estimate.
Even that is a moot point. The user who can't program himself can hire someone else to do it. I use knoqueror myself, and yes I have read some of the source code. However I'm not limited to that.
If you pay my my normal daily wages I will make firefox work the way you want. I will review the code for potential exploits if you wish. I will add whatever feature you want. (Not quite, I'm too ethical to try to sneak a backdoor in, but you can hire someone else to try)
In theory I could do open heart surgery. In practice I hire someone else to do it, because I, like 99.99% (I don't know the exact number) of the population do not know how to do it. If you really hate all doctors you can hire someone (You will have to go to a third world country as this is illegal in most civialized countries) you trust to read the books, and then do it on you. All this information to do open heart surgery is there for anyone who really want to know to learn. In fact many people who are going in for this surgery read those books, enough to understand them (only the parts that apply to their condition) so they know what is happening.
That ability doesn't exist for internet explorer. You cannot have someone you trust make you a custom version of IE.
At least you have that option. With Internet explorer I do not have that ability. If I want to patch IE, first I have to get Microsoft to hire me (possible, they are hiring all the time, though I don't know if they would hire me personally), then I need to get access to the IE code (I don't know about Microsoft, but most big companies do not give all employees all their source code, you only get access to the parts you will work on), next I need to make my changes, last I need to convince the powers that be that my changes are a good thing, if I should be allowed to keep my job (Even if I'm the only one that uses them this is an issue if I wasn't supposed to read this source).
Nobody ever said that making open source work the way you want it was easy. We just said that you have that option, which is a very large difference from the closed source world. Learning your way around firefox code (if you are a programmer) is much easier than navigating all the issues of getting access to Internet explorer source code.
For short runs trains are better than planes. For long runs they are not. Sure they are more efficient, but not when you count the value of your time. A fully loaded plane uses as much fuel as each person in their own car if the car gets 30-40mpg (most do worse), but the plane runs at 500mph! I'm not sure how the train compares - I'm sure it is better, but the train is less than 150mph.
The airlines transports many more passangers than Amtrak, so you have to compare subsidies based on passangers before you can get any picture on how they compare. I don't care to do this, because I don't care to subsidize anything.
Have you seen how much the US bails out Amtrak? Last I checked it wasn't that much more to fly, and to popular destinations less. Flying was also much faster. Unless you make minimum wage, you are money ahead after figuring in your time as well.
Airplanes are big, but when fully loaded they are fuel efficient. Airplanes don't have to worry about terrain when planing their route, they they can save distance in many cases.
Though I would agree with anyone who suggests that we stop bailing out both Amtrak and the airlines.
Trains are a much more complex issue than your quick "soundbite" True a lot of tracks are disappearing. Back in the last 1800s the US built far more train tracks than needed, to places that could never justify having train tracks. Now that the car is universal, those tracks are being torn up.
However the tracks built where it makes sense to have train tracks are not only doing fine, they are expanding. The rail roads are building more tracks in places because they are needed. It just isn't 1990's "anything with a web site gets funding" anymore. (Except for the railroads anything with tracks gets funding was the 1880s)
Per ton mile shipped, the railroads in the US, ship the most freight of any country as a percent of total freight. However since freight is boring you don't see this.
Other countries send people by train. However people are time sensitive, so they upgrade tracks. The US just flies people around, doesn't cost much more, and for the distances it is faster than a fast train. Other countries give people the priority on their tracks, but that screws up freight traffic (which doesn't need the speed, but has to pay for it because the rails are high speed), so those countries send less freight by train.
Of course the facts don't allow for doom and gloom, so nobody notices them.
Do not bury the bags! Human waste is not only bio-degradable, but also good fertilizer. Harmful if you put it right into your water supply, (and it isn't a good idea to put in on your food, though many cultures do just that without problem - normally it isn't harmful) but otherwise useful plant food. Put it in your flower garden. Minnesota state law requires septic systems and wells be at least 40 feet apart (10-15 meters), so I would use that as your rule - unless your government[1] or science comes up with something better. Put the waste 40 feet from anything you will ingest in the next 2 years. (After that it is degraded enough that you don't have to worry) Though I would note that most government are made up of city people who are more afraid of poop than required. Treat it with respect, but it isn't instand death either.
Only if the music is under copyright by someone who isn't there. I know plenty of great tunes that have been out of copyright for over 100 years. I can write my own (once in a while they are even good enough to play a second time). A good band can improvise a tune on the spot - that is what real jazz is all about. (You won't hear much real jazz on the radio though, just soft jazz which has little do to with the real thing)
Its called a bucket. Dump the results in a hole. Keep it outside when not in use. Throw the bucket away when the emergency is done. No need for expensive and harmful chemicals.
Men can often just find a tree. I'm told women can learn to do the same but I don't know about that.