Selfishness, by definition, is pursuing your own happiness to ends which are a detriment of others. There is nothing wrong with altruistic acts to make yourself happy.
Insightful? No, you could not be further from the truth, my friend. There's nothing wrong with looking to be satisfied through ways which help others. Ever heard the verse, "Jesus, for the joy set before him, endured the cross"? I'm not sure who started it, but somewhere down the line we believed the lie that if we in some way get satisfaction out of helping others (volunteering at the homeless shelter or something) that this, in some way or manner, decreases the value of the kind act we did. Not true.
Where is the woman who made the kid? Why aren't they together, both working? What is he doing with a kid in the first place on $12/hour? You act like he had no choice in these circumstances. Sounds to me like he's being irresponsible. And that's not nitpicking, this is basic stuff. Nitpicking would be "Why are you driving a $3000 car when you could be driving a $1000 car."
Nine times out of 10, being poor is a lifestyle. Sure you may have gotten unlucky, but if they were making the right decisions all along they would be in the position to take advantage of the lucky opportunities that have come their way.
Sorry, it's not anybody's job to pick up after someone's bad decisions. The "overpaid management" problem can be solved with simple economics-- people will keep becoming managers until there are too many, which in turn will drive the cost of hiring a manager down until they are not overpaid. But wait, whose job is it to decide who is overpaid and who isn't. Yours? What are you credentials? All I see when people make this argument is envy. Bitter envy. You let a government start making laws (and we're seeing it now...entitlements anyone?) to deal with self-control issues in the populace (didn't save enough and live within their means when the harvest was good, so now we should give them social security? The US was the sole supplier to the world after WW2, for about 20 years. Have you looked at what the DJI has done from '60 to 2000? I'm never going to have a chance like that in my lifetime.) and to pander to people with bitter envy and the society dies. It happened with the Soviet Union. Sucked the wealth and lifeblood right out of Prague. It will happen to America if we start legislating "fairness" because the majority thinks the other guy who works harder is "overpaid".
I'll probably be grandfathered in, but, effin' a, how are we supposed to get to the community service location in the first place? Public transit alone would add on at least 2 hours. That's 4 hours/week of mandatory unpaid labor. Lets just say it's entirely local-- picking up trash, painting fences, something within 5 minutes walking distance. That's 2 hours I could be spending hanging out with friends, reading a book, studying for my tests, finishing labs, WORKING FOR PAY, or pretty much anything else.
Jeez would you people stop giving half the picture already? Why were the banks able to resell the loans? Because there was a buyer. Who was that buyer? FM&FM, privileged lenders. Where did FM&FM come from? The government. You interfere with the free market, force banks to make loans to people who clearly can't afford it just so they can meet some loans-to-minorities quota, and this is what you get.
Buffet and others (WSJ wrote articles about this) saw this coming way way back in 2001 and 2002 when interest rates were at a historic low. The cost of owning a home was breaking away from the cost of renting, a sure sign of a bubble.
The government already protected the people who were "gamed" into accepting these "predatory" (read: stupid if you take them) loans way back when they taught them Algebra through the state-funded public education. Surprise! Math is important! These are real life lessons in compound interest, and people were too stupid to see there was no way they could afford a $200K mortgage on a 10th of that/year. Others knew the risk of flipping, took it anyways. The economy cannot function without a risk/reward balance.
This is why your type make me sick. No personal responsibility. Never an advocate of accountability. You do the human race a disservice to say people are too stupid to be able to apply high school (not rocket science!) algebra to everyday life. "No, they were taken advantage of! Lied to!" This is the world. You've grown up now. Life is rough and unfair. Tough. Realize there will always be people seeking to take advantage of you, or suffer. But wait, why would you do that if you can just cry when things turn sour and get mommy-government to come make it all better?
This is the economy, society you get when people can't think for themselves, can't be bothered to learn, to live within their means, to take responsibility for their own lives. Government is the problem. The people are the problem. Government is run by problem-plagued people. Adding more government to the problem will just add more problems. If there are never any consequences, people will never learn. It's why you discipline children. So we don't end up like Lord of the Flies.
Some people didn't discipline their children. Didn't make them pay attention in school, so they could learn their compound interest formulas and learn how to calculate a monthly payment. This is what happens when you do not discipline your children. Spare the rod, spoil the child. Now reality, the a-moral parent, has reached for the paddle. But you want to protect them from the consequences, again. Don't! Otherwise the children will never learn, and people will just repeat this same mistake-- thinking they don't have to think, the government will rescue them if they screw up. They're right, if people like you have their way.
That's not saying much. Any president during the 90s would have been able to claim the same. In the 90s computers + wordprocessors and Excel were replacing typewriters all throughout the office, and as a result, productivity->GDP->tax revenue exploded. Debt would have continued to increase at the same rate if the GDP hadn't exploded.
The Open Source world could give this a jump start by encouraging more people to use Bittorrent:
1). Bittorrent in Firefox (like in Opera). Good configurable interface so I can limit my upload speed, and the upload speed of individual torrents. Make it office friendly of course, so that it prefers clients on the same subnet (so someone doesn't unknowingly kill the company's upload. The tech guys should be managing that anyways). 2). Timed releases. Release OpenOffice 3 for direct download several days after releasing it for Bittorrent. This would encourage people to go figure out how this bittorrent thing works (or they'd just use their Firefox built in bittorrent).
For the past 5 years I've been running my cars on open-source engine management hardware, firmware and software.
www.megasquirt.info
Given the potential benefits, financial, technological, and environmental, I'm surprised more people aren't interested in it. The project is actually pushing as close to the edge as some of the high end EMS from big car manufacturers.
While I appreciate the offer, I think I will wait until I am not on a work computer to I visit that link of yours. No err, hard feelings.
I've heard statistics from some sources as high as 97% of black voters will be voting for Obama, just google for some of it it's out there. Even if they're off and lets say it's only 85%, still.
If 85% of white people voted for McCain, it would be considered racist.
Furthermore, I don't quite see why this is that terribly hard to handle properly. All the searches (yes ALL of them) should be videotaped and the videos held for a duration significantly long enough to permit any traveler to file a claim against any loss.
That won't stop them, you'd have to hold the videos for at least a year. The way it works in the United Kingdom with police abuse of authority, you can file that claim, but for some odd reason, oops it took X+1 days to get to the review office from the day the incident occurred. (Archives are not kept longer than X days...30 IIRC.)
Yep you can lock it. With TSA approved locks. This way, the locks won't be cut off. They'll just be put back on, after the agent has "confiscated" for "your safety" what he pleases.
They have a keyhole in the bottom that unlocks for keys which they *only give to TSA agents*, because you see, the government can be trusted.
So what that means, is my harddrive does more seeking for data on my linux partition than my ntfs partition? I don't buy it. I've been told by a coworker, whose opinion on software is quite informed, that Linux does need defragging just like Windows. I haven't looked into it myself yet. Can anyone post more about this?
How do you complain to google? I have a phone number I can call if the electricity goes out. I want a phone number, or a chat service at least, that ensures me they know of the problem and are working on it.
No. Replace "trespassers" with "entering my house". I don't know any libertarians which shoot before determining the actions are malicious. You do them a disservice to say they're too stupid to think about their actions. Even the guy in Texas waited at least 5 minutes before being absolutely sure they were robbing his neighbors house.
The liberal, will not be able to shoot because the "common sense gun control" laws (what a doublespeak term that is, ha) he voted for have removed his right to own a gun for self defense (only for shooting animals!).
Considering the US are paying with IOU's at the moment, I dont think China would mind collecting. If China and the EU both decided to cut off the US at the moment and collect on their debts
Heh, that's not how Treasury securities work. You can't just walk up and demand your money from the government. You have to find a buyer.
Problem with them was they were a mindless grind. I think this would mesh with an FPS much better. Instant action, always action, and the pro people can differentiate themselves with crazy looking gear.
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That's exactly what they're trying to prevent, with things like the 250GB cap. They'll let you get all the internets you want, but when it infringes on their space (content), they don't want any of that kind of competition.
Otherwise people could just download all the HD movies and shows they want through a subscription service like Netflix (or hopefully through a cheaper, bittorrent backed solution), and get rid of the cable TV.
Personally, I never used the screen, anyways. The Mac UI is so wonderful, I just think what I want to open, and it practically opens it for me. Frankly, I don't understand why anyone would use a screen.
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Selfishness, by definition, is pursuing your own happiness to ends which are a detriment of others. There is nothing wrong with altruistic acts to make yourself happy.
Insightful? No, you could not be further from the truth, my friend. There's nothing wrong with looking to be satisfied through ways which help others. Ever heard the verse, "Jesus, for the joy set before him, endured the cross"? I'm not sure who started it, but somewhere down the line we believed the lie that if we in some way get satisfaction out of helping others (volunteering at the homeless shelter or something) that this, in some way or manner, decreases the value of the kind act we did. Not true.
Where is the woman who made the kid? Why aren't they together, both working? What is he doing with a kid in the first place on $12/hour? You act like he had no choice in these circumstances. Sounds to me like he's being irresponsible. And that's not nitpicking, this is basic stuff. Nitpicking would be "Why are you driving a $3000 car when you could be driving a $1000 car."
Nine times out of 10, being poor is a lifestyle. Sure you may have gotten unlucky, but if they were making the right decisions all along they would be in the position to take advantage of the lucky opportunities that have come their way.
Sorry, it's not anybody's job to pick up after someone's bad decisions.
The "overpaid management" problem can be solved with simple economics-- people will keep becoming managers until there are too many, which in turn will drive the cost of hiring a manager down until they are not overpaid. But wait, whose job is it to decide who is overpaid and who isn't. Yours? What are you credentials? All I see when people make this argument is envy. Bitter envy. You let a government start making laws (and we're seeing it now...entitlements anyone?) to deal with self-control issues in the populace (didn't save enough and live within their means when the harvest was good, so now we should give them social security? The US was the sole supplier to the world after WW2, for about 20 years. Have you looked at what the DJI has done from '60 to 2000? I'm never going to have a chance like that in my lifetime.) and to pander to people with bitter envy and the society dies. It happened with the Soviet Union. Sucked the wealth and lifeblood right out of Prague. It will happen to America if we start legislating "fairness" because the majority thinks the other guy who works harder is "overpaid".
For the love of bandwidth, was that a distinction really worth making... Won't you think of the poor keyboards?! Yeesh.
But then again I'm racist for thinking any of this, right?
No sir, no you are not.
I'll probably be grandfathered in, but, effin' a, how are we supposed to get to the community service location in the first place? Public transit alone would add on at least 2 hours. That's 4 hours/week of mandatory unpaid labor. Lets just say it's entirely local-- picking up trash, painting fences, something within 5 minutes walking distance. That's 2 hours I could be spending hanging out with friends, reading a book, studying for my tests, finishing labs, WORKING FOR PAY, or pretty much anything else.
Jeez would you people stop giving half the picture already? Why were the banks able to resell the loans? Because there was a buyer. Who was that buyer? FM&FM, privileged lenders. Where did FM&FM come from? The government. You interfere with the free market, force banks to make loans to people who clearly can't afford it just so they can meet some loans-to-minorities quota, and this is what you get.
Buffet and others (WSJ wrote articles about this) saw this coming way way back in 2001 and 2002 when interest rates were at a historic low. The cost of owning a home was breaking away from the cost of renting, a sure sign of a bubble.
The government already protected the people who were "gamed" into accepting these "predatory" (read: stupid if you take them) loans way back when they taught them Algebra through the state-funded public education. Surprise! Math is important! These are real life lessons in compound interest, and people were too stupid to see there was no way they could afford a $200K mortgage on a 10th of that/year. Others knew the risk of flipping, took it anyways. The economy cannot function without a risk/reward balance.
This is why your type make me sick. No personal responsibility. Never an advocate of accountability. You do the human race a disservice to say people are too stupid to be able to apply high school (not rocket science!) algebra to everyday life. "No, they were taken advantage of! Lied to!" This is the world. You've grown up now. Life is rough and unfair. Tough. Realize there will always be people seeking to take advantage of you, or suffer. But wait, why would you do that if you can just cry when things turn sour and get mommy-government to come make it all better?
This is the economy, society you get when people can't think for themselves, can't be bothered to learn, to live within their means, to take responsibility for their own lives. Government is the problem. The people are the problem. Government is run by problem-plagued people. Adding more government to the problem will just add more problems. If there are never any consequences, people will never learn. It's why you discipline children. So we don't end up like Lord of the Flies.
Some people didn't discipline their children. Didn't make them pay attention in school, so they could learn their compound interest formulas and learn how to calculate a monthly payment. This is what happens when you do not discipline your children. Spare the rod, spoil the child. Now reality, the a-moral parent, has reached for the paddle. But you want to protect them from the consequences, again. Don't! Otherwise the children will never learn, and people will just repeat this same mistake-- thinking they don't have to think, the government will rescue them if they screw up. They're right, if people like you have their way.
industry dominated by arbitrary 1st party rules.
They were put in place to ensure we don't have another Atari failure that brings down the entire game market.
That's not saying much. Any president during the 90s would have been able to claim the same. In the 90s computers + wordprocessors and Excel were replacing typewriters all throughout the office, and as a result, productivity->GDP->tax revenue exploded. Debt would have continued to increase at the same rate if the GDP hadn't exploded.
The Open Source world could give this a jump start by encouraging more people to use Bittorrent:
1). Bittorrent in Firefox (like in Opera). Good configurable interface so I can limit my upload speed, and the upload speed of individual torrents. Make it office friendly of course, so that it prefers clients on the same subnet (so someone doesn't unknowingly kill the company's upload. The tech guys should be managing that anyways).
2). Timed releases. Release OpenOffice 3 for direct download several days after releasing it for Bittorrent. This would encourage people to go figure out how this bittorrent thing works (or they'd just use their Firefox built in bittorrent).
For the past 5 years I've been running my cars on open-source engine management hardware, firmware and software.
www.megasquirt.info
Given the potential benefits, financial, technological, and environmental, I'm surprised more people aren't interested in it. The project is actually pushing as close to the edge as some of the high end EMS from big car manufacturers.
While I appreciate the offer, I think I will wait until I am not on a work computer to I visit that link of yours. No err, hard feelings.
I've heard statistics from some sources as high as 97% of black voters will be voting for Obama, just google for some of it it's out there. Even if they're off and lets say it's only 85%, still.
If 85% of white people voted for McCain, it would be considered racist.
Just saying.
Furthermore, I don't quite see why this is that terribly hard to handle properly. All the searches (yes ALL of them) should be videotaped and the videos held for a duration significantly long enough to permit any traveler to file a claim against any loss.
That won't stop them, you'd have to hold the videos for at least a year. The way it works in the United Kingdom with police abuse of authority, you can file that claim, but for some odd reason, oops it took X+1 days to get to the review office from the day the incident occurred. (Archives are not kept longer than X days...30 IIRC.)
Yep you can lock it. With TSA approved locks. This way, the locks won't be cut off. They'll just be put back on, after the agent has "confiscated" for "your safety" what he pleases.
They have a keyhole in the bottom that unlocks for keys which they *only give to TSA agents*, because you see, the government can be trusted.
So what that means, is my harddrive does more seeking for data on my linux partition than my ntfs partition? I don't buy it.
I've been told by a coworker, whose opinion on software is quite informed, that Linux does need defragging just like Windows. I haven't looked into it myself yet. Can anyone post more about this?
How do you complain to google? I have a phone number I can call if the electricity goes out. I want a phone number, or a chat service at least, that ensures me they know of the problem and are working on it.
No. Replace "trespassers" with "entering my house". I don't know any libertarians which shoot before determining the actions are malicious. You do them a disservice to say they're too stupid to think about their actions. Even the guy in Texas waited at least 5 minutes before being absolutely sure they were robbing his neighbors house.
The liberal, will not be able to shoot because the "common sense gun control" laws (what a doublespeak term that is, ha) he voted for have removed his right to own a gun for self defense (only for shooting animals!).
We could have a 1920x1200 resolution mod for Starcraft 1. What I've always wanted, all along.
(just out of curiosity)
Uh huh. They only need 1999 more now.
European countries you say? Well you could go to Italy, they are arrogant, elitist, condescending pricks. Also, their debt is 130% of their GDP.
Considering the US are paying with IOU's at the moment, I dont think China would mind collecting. If China and the EU both decided to cut off the US at the moment and collect on their debts
Heh, that's not how Treasury securities work. You can't just walk up and demand your money from the government. You have to find a buyer.
Wonder if it's a ploy to save on bandwidth costs.
Actually, from what I understand, the preferred term now days _is_ "black".
Problem with them was they were a mindless grind. I think this would mesh with an FPS much better. Instant action, always action, and the pro people can differentiate themselves with crazy looking gear.
That's exactly what they're trying to prevent, with things like the 250GB cap. They'll let you get all the internets you want, but when it infringes on their space (content), they don't want any of that kind of competition.
Otherwise people could just download all the HD movies and shows they want through a subscription service like Netflix (or hopefully through a cheaper, bittorrent backed solution), and get rid of the cable TV.
Personally, I never used the screen, anyways. The Mac UI is so wonderful, I just think what I want to open, and it practically opens it for me. Frankly, I don't understand why anyone would use a screen.