Obviously, a good grasp of the English language doesn't fall into "news for nerds, stuff that matters."
I'll bet as far as some people here are concerned, they'd be perfectly fine conversing in byte code, though perhaps they might have trouble agreeing upon the architecture.
It's ridiculous to imply that left-leaning individuals are not responsible, hard-working individuals.
It's more like, people who favor the left tend to be in the "I work hard for the sake of the people around me" category, while the people who favor the right tend to be in the "I work hard for my own sake" category.
And this isn't even about small government vs. big government. It's true that people who favor small governments tend to favor the right, because it reduces government intrusion into a person's hard-earned wealth and well-being. However, when the government gets too big, even the people who once advocate for a more intrusive government would speak out against it.
The key to everything is balance. A government that is competent and able enough to do the big things need to be done to ensure everybody is provided for, but weak and feeble enough to not interfere with the private lives of the individual.
Not everyone earns as much as you. So your take-home income after taxes is over $100K. Of course you can pay for healthcare.
What about the people whose take-home income after taxes is $20K? $15K? Then they have to pay rent and food, and sometimes have to provide for a child or more than one child. And yes, I'm talking about single parents. What about gas to get to work? Most people will only be able to save perhaps $5K, at most $10K a year, even if they are d on nothing more than necessary expenses, and even then, pay only for the cheapest. I know quite a few such people. They might hope to save up $250K in a lifetime, a lifetime not 2.5 years like you.
Without medical insurance, which most of these same people don't have, those savings will be wiped out with one hospital trip, if not outright put these people into the red.
Just because you've made it and are being paid $175K+ a year doesn't mean the rest of the country is getting paid that much. That you would use yourself as an example of how people can afford health care if they tried shows just how out of touch with reality you and people like you are.
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I keep telling it to not eat as much fatty foods, but nooo.....
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Basically, if you equate grand theft with copyright infringement, the meaning of grand theft becomes diluted, its impact marginalized, and the entire system no longer is credible. At which point, justice no longer exists, and nobody cares anymore.
Windows ME actually removed the underlying DOS and replaced it with an emulator. Unfortunately, a lot of things still expected actual DOS, and so broke under ME. Back then, when things crashed, it took the whole system down with it.
A friend of mine put the DOS binaries back into ME, and it ran quite well afterwards.
Off topic, but coasting past a light that just turned green is more dangerous than most people expect. People who run red lights tend to do so right after their light turns red, and yours turns green.
If you're at a full stop at the light, the time it takes for you to accelerate into the intersection is typically enough to avoid the other car that's running the light, or at least respond to it. However, if you're coasting past the light, and especialyl if you're accelerating from the second the light turns green, not only do you lose that half-second delay to catch the car running the light, but you also have your foot on the gas pedal and are already moving.
Yes, the other guy might be at fault for running the light. But that's little more than a pyrrhic victory if you really think about it. The goal of driving is to get to point B from point A. If you end up in an accident, you might never reach point B.
You can always point them there. I know it's not as effective to send something to your representatives via e-mail, but it's still a worthwhile endeavour if even one or two members of your local/national legislature read it.
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See, here's the thing. Stuff like this takes time. Things don't just collapse like Lehman or AIG. Actually, not even Lehman or AIG fell overnight, despite all appearances. They've been in trouble for at least a year now.
The timeframe for social change is typically on the order of 10 years, about a half-generation or a decade. Outright revolutions take even longer, about 20 years or twice as long. The American Revolution began in the 1760's and ended in the 1780's. The unrest that brought about the American Civil War began in the 1840's and finally ended in the 1860's.
The RIAA doesn't just represent a bunch of companies, it's an industry, a business model. TThe fall of the RIAA began with Napster, but only because the genie had been let out of the bottle. Things didn't really start rolling until they began suing normal people, because people don't much care about what goes on around them until it hits their pocketbooks, or threatens to.
Then, it was just bad PR for musicians to be associated with companies that sued their fans, and it was all a matter of time. But even then, it takes time for artists and fans alike to realize that they can cut out the middleman and do better. They're not going to necessarily be superstars, but how many artists get to become superstars, and at the expense of how many others?
Had the RIAA not started suing people, it might've taken longer for them to be rendered antiquated, perhaps another 10 years. But that was an eventuality. The world changes, regardless of anybody's desires. It is an inevitability. The RIAA decided to put their resources into fighting the change rather than working with it. For that reason alone, they are destined to fall. It's like swimming against the current. Eventually, they will tire, and when they do, they will drown.
I'm of the opinion that a road test should be mandatory for renewing a driver's license. And using programs capable of simulating driving, it would be even cheaper and easier to administer than real road tests (which would still be required for actually getting the license in the first place).
Obviously, the simulator should simulate real world conditions (aggressive drivers, clueless drivers, rain and snow, etc.) and not ideal conditions. And if the driver cannot react to the real world conditions correctly with all that "experience," then that license gets taken away until the person can pass. It wouldn't be a bad idea to allow people to practice with the simulator at home either.
But I'm generally of the opinion that road tests and even written tests are too easy, and that there should be more stringent qualifications for driving than there already exists.
Different games require different mental "modes" to perform well in them. For example, both FPS's and driving games promote fast reflexes. But for FPS's, your view is forward, and hence intense concentration of "forward" gets promoted, a tunnel vision of sorts. For racing games, and especially something like Mario Kart, you need a greater awareness of the situation around you. The same concepts apply to turn-based and realtime strategy games.
So I'll bet if someone runs out onto the road in front of your son while he's driving, he'll respond very quickly. Now, whether that's hitting the brake hard or hitting the gas hard is a separate matter...
If it shows naked celeb-titties while ripping DVDs are you actually going to use that computer for anything other than ripping mass quantities of DVDs?
That depends on whether there's an auto-update feature that occasionally downloads new material to view while ripping DVD's.
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Obviously, a good grasp of the English language doesn't fall into "news for nerds, stuff that matters."
I'll bet as far as some people here are concerned, they'd be perfectly fine conversing in byte code, though perhaps they might have trouble agreeing upon the architecture.
It's ridiculous to imply that left-leaning individuals are not responsible, hard-working individuals.
It's more like, people who favor the left tend to be in the "I work hard for the sake of the people around me" category, while the people who favor the right tend to be in the "I work hard for my own sake" category.
And this isn't even about small government vs. big government. It's true that people who favor small governments tend to favor the right, because it reduces government intrusion into a person's hard-earned wealth and well-being. However, when the government gets too big, even the people who once advocate for a more intrusive government would speak out against it.
The key to everything is balance. A government that is competent and able enough to do the big things need to be done to ensure everybody is provided for, but weak and feeble enough to not interfere with the private lives of the individual.
So your solution to this is to force everyone use easy-to-remember passwords or it's go straight to jail.
That's thoughtcrime.
The probably just blame Windows.
I have saved 1/2 a million in just five years
That says it all right there.
Not everyone earns as much as you. So your take-home income after taxes is over $100K. Of course you can pay for healthcare.
What about the people whose take-home income after taxes is $20K? $15K? Then they have to pay rent and food, and sometimes have to provide for a child or more than one child. And yes, I'm talking about single parents. What about gas to get to work? Most people will only be able to save perhaps $5K, at most $10K a year, even if they are d on nothing more than necessary expenses, and even then, pay only for the cheapest. I know quite a few such people. They might hope to save up $250K in a lifetime, a lifetime not 2.5 years like you.
Without medical insurance, which most of these same people don't have, those savings will be wiped out with one hospital trip, if not outright put these people into the red.
Just because you've made it and are being paid $175K+ a year doesn't mean the rest of the country is getting paid that much. That you would use yourself as an example of how people can afford health care if they tried shows just how out of touch with reality you and people like you are.
I keep telling it to not eat as much fatty foods, but nooo.....
This is what happens when you tempt fate.
Time to stock up on ammunition.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Basically, if you equate grand theft with copyright infringement, the meaning of grand theft becomes diluted, its impact marginalized, and the entire system no longer is credible. At which point, justice no longer exists, and nobody cares anymore.
Windows ME actually removed the underlying DOS and replaced it with an emulator. Unfortunately, a lot of things still expected actual DOS, and so broke under ME. Back then, when things crashed, it took the whole system down with it.
A friend of mine put the DOS binaries back into ME, and it ran quite well afterwards.
Off topic, but coasting past a light that just turned green is more dangerous than most people expect. People who run red lights tend to do so right after their light turns red, and yours turns green.
If you're at a full stop at the light, the time it takes for you to accelerate into the intersection is typically enough to avoid the other car that's running the light, or at least respond to it. However, if you're coasting past the light, and especialyl if you're accelerating from the second the light turns green, not only do you lose that half-second delay to catch the car running the light, but you also have your foot on the gas pedal and are already moving.
Yes, the other guy might be at fault for running the light. But that's little more than a pyrrhic victory if you really think about it. The goal of driving is to get to point B from point A. If you end up in an accident, you might never reach point B.
"I'm feeling lucky..."
What the hell does the American Automobile Association have to do with this?
You can always point them there. I know it's not as effective to send something to your representatives via e-mail, but it's still a worthwhile endeavour if even one or two members of your local/national legislature read it.
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I know of two particular rodents, not actually hamsters, but every night, they do try to take over the world!
It's not fat, it's just big boned!
First they came for the communists...
Talk to the many muslim leaders in the US whom have been arrested for preaching hatred towards western civilization.
BTW, the bloggers are mentioned in the 5th stanza.
See, here's the thing. Stuff like this takes time. Things don't just collapse like Lehman or AIG. Actually, not even Lehman or AIG fell overnight, despite all appearances. They've been in trouble for at least a year now.
The timeframe for social change is typically on the order of 10 years, about a half-generation or a decade. Outright revolutions take even longer, about 20 years or twice as long. The American Revolution began in the 1760's and ended in the 1780's. The unrest that brought about the American Civil War began in the 1840's and finally ended in the 1860's.
The RIAA doesn't just represent a bunch of companies, it's an industry, a business model. TThe fall of the RIAA began with Napster, but only because the genie had been let out of the bottle. Things didn't really start rolling until they began suing normal people, because people don't much care about what goes on around them until it hits their pocketbooks, or threatens to.
Then, it was just bad PR for musicians to be associated with companies that sued their fans, and it was all a matter of time. But even then, it takes time for artists and fans alike to realize that they can cut out the middleman and do better. They're not going to necessarily be superstars, but how many artists get to become superstars, and at the expense of how many others?
Had the RIAA not started suing people, it might've taken longer for them to be rendered antiquated, perhaps another 10 years. But that was an eventuality. The world changes, regardless of anybody's desires. It is an inevitability. The RIAA decided to put their resources into fighting the change rather than working with it. For that reason alone, they are destined to fall. It's like swimming against the current. Eventually, they will tire, and when they do, they will drown.
You are absolutely right.
I'm of the opinion that a road test should be mandatory for renewing a driver's license. And using programs capable of simulating driving, it would be even cheaper and easier to administer than real road tests (which would still be required for actually getting the license in the first place).
Obviously, the simulator should simulate real world conditions (aggressive drivers, clueless drivers, rain and snow, etc.) and not ideal conditions. And if the driver cannot react to the real world conditions correctly with all that "experience," then that license gets taken away until the person can pass. It wouldn't be a bad idea to allow people to practice with the simulator at home either.
But I'm generally of the opinion that road tests and even written tests are too easy, and that there should be more stringent qualifications for driving than there already exists.
Different games require different mental "modes" to perform well in them. For example, both FPS's and driving games promote fast reflexes. But for FPS's, your view is forward, and hence intense concentration of "forward" gets promoted, a tunnel vision of sorts. For racing games, and especially something like Mario Kart, you need a greater awareness of the situation around you. The same concepts apply to turn-based and realtime strategy games.
So I'll bet if someone runs out onto the road in front of your son while he's driving, he'll respond very quickly. Now, whether that's hitting the brake hard or hitting the gas hard is a separate matter...
Gimp developers don't care what you think.
I guess they don't really care if their product gets used either.
If it shows naked celeb-titties while ripping DVDs are you actually going to use that computer for anything other than ripping mass quantities of DVDs?
That depends on whether there's an auto-update feature that occasionally downloads new material to view while ripping DVD's.
40,000 innocent souls
So that's where suicide bombers are getting their virgins from...
But things like "the brain" is not a mathematical object and thus has no place in the formulation of a mathematical question.
Let's see how quickly you can formulate a mathematical question after having your brain eaten by a zombie.
But those capacitors on your mobo might make for excellent shells though.