Yes.. Like I said- I waited for it for about 3 years. It was missing in 1.04, I entered a ticket- got merged to another existing ticket, voted for it, got regular updates, and finally saw it go in.
I don't know man.. as of 2.4, I finally took my work over to OO.
And these are 200 page documents with many tables, lots of cross references, and many graphics.
After about a month, I started noticing things *missing* in word (like the crop picture feature in OO is intuitive while it is painful and "trial and error" in word) ( like the illogical formatting menus in word ) (and a few other things).
But hey, it's okay if you like Word. Some people like tomatoes, and some don't.
But with Word, you will pay the rest of your life.. and they keep trying to turn it unto a monthly subscription. I'll pass.
If there were rules for anyone to set up a football team and compete (so that there were 300 football teams in america) then the pay would not be so grand.
Right now you can see the subsets who breed fast and those who breed slow.
Those who breed fast will come to dominate the species.
One fast rising group- the promiscuous and irresponsible. I have had three stripper friends in my life. All had lots of sex and lots of kids (4 each). In each case they gave up 2-3 for adoption and then kept the rest.
Another fast rising group- the hispanics. Large families - strong support network- less materialism- more religious.
The islamics (currently on the way to outbreeding the europeans) and palestinians (who will out breed the jews for isreal).
And there are selection pressures on being good looking (pretty people get to breed more- up to 10% of children in some areas turn out to be parented by a handsome n'ere do well- not the husband). Easier DNA checking is probably going to reign that in.
Movie stars (a lot of movie stars have multiple families with multiple kids-- pretty and successful).
Being a successful athelete.
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Now-- who is not reproducing?
I only had one kid. Several of my friends have never even married. So geeky- D&D types, computer types, engineer types. However, I think in asia those types are still popular (give it a generation tho).
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And then there is the bad food, tainted food, substance abusing types that have kids. They make the species slightly more resistant to bad food, tainted food, and substance abuse.
And if that swimmer guy from the olympics gets married and has lots of kids- that would spread the weird mutant genes he has (non-tiring muscles).
Wrestlers who do not freak out on steroids and kill their families.
Frankly, having the government snap up a chunk of semi-stable investments which, in all likelihood, will render an eventual profit
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Unfortunately that's not true. That's the way the Swedes did it.
The way we were going to do it mean by adverse selection we would get all the stuff known for sure to be worthless.
And paulson would make sure GS was first in line-- hell, they were the only non-governmental people in the meeting where we decided to support AIG (and happened to be on the hook for 20 billion if AIG failed).
Changing the account rule from mark to market for performing assets costs nothing and creates hundreds of billions in liquidity.
But can't use mark to market for non-performing assets (or we get another S&L crisis).
This was a really nasty attempt to give one man unchecked, unaudited control over 700billion to 1 trillion dollars.
Okay-- these days they say "It would do more harm than good to even attempt to evacuate".
What happens when Cities have 50 million people in them in scores of highrise buildings and the power fails due to a storm or earthquake? They just sit there on the 40th floor and die?
Yes- there *IS* a blocking frakking limit.
At the current rate the number of people will equal the weight of the world in about 500 years.
That's clearly impossible.
So we can either artificially constrain the population (like china *wisely* did) at 4-5 billion people (lower tha n today's population because we are already over the earth's carrying capacity and causing fish population collapses, huge hundred mile areas of plastic in the oceans, and flushing 10,000 years of topsoil down into the sea.
But you folks don't get it. It's ALREADY TO LATE.
We are past the point of no return and are no better than deer. We'll breed til we die off due to a food interruption or a war over some scant resource or both.
My god you blind fools piss me off. Worse than the idiots who built all these stock market derivatives. At least they at least SAW the 1-2% chance of this result and conciously decided to take the risk instead of refusing to consider the risk in the first place.
This is how strongly people have their head in the sand.
you even *broach* the idea of population being a problem, you are ridiculously downmodded.
TOO MANY PEOPLE is the fundamental problem.
The larger our population- the worse it is when there is a disruption of services.
A hurricane or earthquake are causing more damage because we have more people. More people are dying before and after disasters because when you lose electricity and food delivery- there is no option but to die.
At the bloody *least* we could stop giving people $4000 to $8000 a kid to have more kids.
We could stop supporting conditions that lead to rapid population growth.
Or we can keep downmodding any discussion- saying everything is fine and fall off a cliff like the market did.
There was only a 1% chance that would happen too.
The downside of a huge population and ANY KIND OF DISRUPTION is horrific. And people won't even consider it and just pretend everything will work perfectly as we stack more and more people per square inch.
You know damn well that everything on that list has happened multiple times except the overtime law.
And you know equally well that the corruption of an unrelated bill to the purpose of outlawing overtime required a lot of corporate lobbying.
And as it has been reported multiple times, the laws are most often *written* by the corporations and just put into law by the legislatures without even changing a word. We can thank Microsoft Word, "Track Changes" for that (before they got wise to this gotcha).
In addition, the right to strike by workers has been cut to pieces by a series of laws. Unions are almost toothless any more.
Not that I'm a fan of unions--powerful unions are as bad as powerful executives for abuse. Unions are basically responsible for the death of the U.S. automobile industry. They and the executives plundered the industry for personal gain. The executives were smarter and took their money up front while the unions took promises of later compensation which wasn't realistic.
Corporations regularly agree to settle in an area in exchange for paying no local taxes. They chew up the roads, plow over the land, and then leave the second the tax immunity expires leaving a wasteland for others to deal with.
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In psychology, cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling or stress caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously.
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And yes, some people regularly hold contradictory ideas simultaneously without feeling cognitive dissonance. They just use whichever belief works best in the current situation.
Sometime apparently contradictory ideas are really just a matter of an insufficiently specified belief system.
"Be kind to strangers" (unless they are coming at you with an ax).
DRM only because DRM == $29 disk for basically the same product as the $16 DvD disk sitting next to it.
I've seen them selling "dumb" Bluray titles for $12. The market is clearly phenomenal on titles they think are popular.
Folks are struggling- 10,000 people in new york that made over $100k a year plus bonuses just got laid off (there goes 10,000 genuine customers).
Regular folks tend to prefer 43" screens after they get a 55" and it is *too big* for ordinary workin type's living rooms (who needs a 60" screen when you are 12' from the screen). It's this huge black eye when it is turned off. Blu ray on 43" screen is not that much better than DVD. Esp. with upconverting player.
Mainframes, AS/400 - pricey but high reliability with 2-3 decades of baseline. PC's / Windows - cheap, "good enough" for home use and light business use, new as hell and subject to unknown problems- and with a known history of issues too.
I use a pc daily... but there is no way I would put any 99% uptime application on it where huge amounts of money or lives were at stake. It's fine as a client.
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Yes.. Like I said- I waited for it for about 3 years. It was missing in 1.04, I entered a ticket- got merged to another existing ticket, voted for it, got regular updates, and finally saw it go in.
I waited for rectangular cut and paste for about 3 years.
Version 3.2 isn't far away.
It will happen.
I don't know man.. as of 2.4, I finally took my work over to OO.
And these are 200 page documents with many tables, lots of cross references, and many graphics.
After about a month, I started noticing things *missing* in word (like the crop picture feature in OO is intuitive while it is painful and "trial and error" in word) ( like the illogical formatting menus in word ) (and a few other things).
But hey, it's okay if you like Word. Some people like tomatoes, and some don't.
But with Word, you will pay the rest of your life.. and they keep trying to turn it unto a monthly subscription. I'll pass.
No.. it's because they have a legal cartel.
If there were rules for anyone to set up a football team and compete (so that there were 300 football teams in america) then the pay would not be so grand.
Evolution will continue.
Right now you can see the subsets who breed fast and those who breed slow.
Those who breed fast will come to dominate the species.
One fast rising group- the promiscuous and irresponsible. I have had three stripper friends in my life. All had lots of sex and lots of kids (4 each). In each case they gave up 2-3 for adoption and then kept the rest.
Another fast rising group- the hispanics. Large families - strong support network- less materialism- more religious.
The islamics (currently on the way to outbreeding the europeans) and palestinians (who will out breed the jews for isreal).
And there are selection pressures on being good looking (pretty people get to breed more- up to 10% of children in some areas turn out to be parented by a handsome n'ere do well- not the husband). Easier DNA checking is probably going to reign that in.
Movie stars (a lot of movie stars have multiple families with multiple kids-- pretty and successful).
Being a successful athelete.
---
Now-- who is not reproducing?
I only had one kid.
Several of my friends have never even married. So geeky- D&D types, computer types, engineer types. However, I think in asia those types are still popular (give it a generation tho).
---
And then there is the bad food, tainted food, substance abusing types that have kids. They make the species slightly more resistant to bad food, tainted food, and substance abuse.
And if that swimmer guy from the olympics gets married and has lots of kids- that would spread the weird mutant genes he has (non-tiring muscles).
Wrestlers who do not freak out on steroids and kill their families.
And so on.
By being so different from the masses?
Amazingly on topic...
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2008/10/1&name=Pearls_Before_Swine
i think they would easily drive it through the 73 bushel.. er interstate commerce exception.
You say...
Frankly, having the government snap up a chunk of semi-stable investments which, in all likelihood, will render an eventual profit
---
Unfortunately that's not true. That's the way the Swedes did it.
The way we were going to do it mean by adverse selection we would get all the stuff known for sure to be worthless.
And paulson would make sure GS was first in line-- hell, they were the only non-governmental people in the meeting where we decided to support AIG (and happened to be on the hook for 20 billion if AIG failed).
Changing the account rule from mark to market for performing assets costs nothing and creates hundreds of billions in liquidity.
But can't use mark to market for non-performing assets (or we get another S&L crisis).
This was a really nasty attempt to give one man unchecked, unaudited control over 700billion to 1 trillion dollars.
he's right... this is yet another attempt to get us into a subscription service.
Sigh...
Okay-- these days they say "It would do more harm than good to even attempt to evacuate".
What happens when Cities have 50 million people in them in scores of highrise buildings and the power fails due to a storm or earthquake? They just sit there on the 40th floor and die?
Yes- there *IS* a blocking frakking limit.
At the current rate the number of people will equal the weight of the world in about 500 years.
That's clearly impossible.
So we can either artificially constrain the population (like china *wisely* did) at 4-5 billion people (lower tha n today's population because we are already over the earth's carrying capacity and causing fish population collapses, huge hundred mile areas of plastic in the oceans, and flushing 10,000 years of topsoil down into the sea.
But you folks don't get it. It's ALREADY TO LATE.
We are past the point of no return and are no better than deer. We'll breed til we die off due to a food interruption or a war over some scant resource or both.
My god you blind fools piss me off. Worse than the idiots who built all these stock market derivatives. At least they at least SAW the 1-2% chance of this result and conciously decided to take the risk instead of refusing to consider the risk in the first place.
This is how strongly people have their head in the sand.
you even *broach* the idea of population being a problem, you are ridiculously downmodded.
TOO MANY PEOPLE is the fundamental problem.
The larger our population- the worse it is when there is a disruption of services.
A hurricane or earthquake are causing more damage because we have more people. More people are dying before and after disasters because when you lose electricity and food delivery- there is no option but to die.
At the bloody *least* we could stop giving people $4000 to $8000 a kid to have more kids.
We could stop supporting conditions that lead to rapid population growth.
Or we can keep downmodding any discussion- saying everything is fine and fall off a cliff like the market did.
There was only a 1% chance that would happen too.
The downside of a huge population and ANY KIND OF DISRUPTION is horrific. And people won't even consider it and just pretend everything will work perfectly as we stack more and more people per square inch.
And your statement is only true if we stop breeding to the edge of our capacity.
When our population is at the limit- any minor problem can cause the entire thing to collapse.
There was over a 99% chance that the stock markets would be fine apparently...
but a 1% chance that it would melt down...
So.. IF this does blow up-- how bad is a 700k litre nova explosion?
A few miles? A few hundred miles? Half the planet?
You know damn well that everything on that list has happened multiple times except the overtime law.
And you know equally well that the corruption of an unrelated bill to the purpose of outlawing overtime required a lot of corporate lobbying.
And as it has been reported multiple times, the laws are most often *written* by the corporations and just put into law by the legislatures without even changing a word. We can thank Microsoft Word, "Track Changes" for that (before they got wise to this gotcha).
In addition, the right to strike by workers has been cut to pieces by a series of laws. Unions are almost toothless any more.
Not that I'm a fan of unions--powerful unions are as bad as powerful executives for abuse. Unions are basically responsible for the death of the U.S. automobile industry. They and the executives plundered the industry for personal gain. The executives were smarter and took their money up front while the unions took promises of later compensation which wasn't realistic.
Corporations regularly agree to settle in an area in exchange for paying no local taxes. They chew up the roads, plow over the land, and then leave the second the tax immunity expires leaving a wasteland for others to deal with.
The times it doesn't hold true are when there are non-capitalist distortions to the system.
Such as when executives get exclusive control of their own pay.
Such as when corporations have the government passing laws to forbid overtime.
Such as when corporations pay no taxes, use local services, and get all the work done remotely by overseas workers.
The system is broken now.
Lack of overtime pay will fix itself because no one will enter such a field unless it pays well.
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and get them for attorney's fees and mental anguish.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means-- Inigo Montoya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
In psychology, cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling or stress caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously.
---
And yes, some people regularly hold contradictory ideas simultaneously without feeling cognitive dissonance. They just use whichever belief works best in the current situation.
Sometime apparently contradictory ideas are really just a matter of an insufficiently specified belief system.
"Be kind to strangers" (unless they are coming at you with an ax).
People emphasize facts they like.
People discount facts they dislike.
If you can convince them emotionally, they will fit the facts to their emotional desire most of the time.
Not at all man... we believe they have salaries AND overhead.
And I'd love to get paid a few hundred thousand a year too.
The record companies are trying to keep the old models while selling to audiences of billions. .10 * a billion songs == 100,000,000 dollars.
I'm certain they made more than 100k then- I was talking about investment bank employees.
DRM only because DRM == $29 disk for basically the same product as the $16 DvD disk sitting next to it.
I've seen them selling "dumb" Bluray titles for $12. The market is clearly phenomenal on titles they think are popular.
Folks are struggling- 10,000 people in new york that made over $100k a year plus bonuses just got laid off (there goes 10,000 genuine customers).
Regular folks tend to prefer 43" screens after they get a 55" and it is *too big* for ordinary workin type's living rooms (who needs a 60" screen when you are 12' from the screen). It's this huge black eye when it is turned off. Blu ray on 43" screen is not that much better than DVD. Esp. with upconverting player.
I wonder how much a few dozen million 7 hour transactions brings up your 3 millisecond "average" transaction time.
B)
Mainframes, AS/400 - pricey but high reliability with 2-3 decades of baseline.
PC's / Windows - cheap, "good enough" for home use and light business use, new as hell and subject to unknown problems- and with a known history of issues too.
I use a pc daily... but there is no way I would put any 99% uptime application on it where huge amounts of money or lives were at stake. It's fine as a client.