Call me deprived, but I did not have the good fortune to grow up in Glorious Free Progressive Estonia. Instead, I grew up in a place where one commonly saw signs reading, "Coloured Only" and "White Only", and where the word "nigger" carried (and continues to carry to this day) the connotation of "second-class" (at best), or even "property".
The signs are long gone (thank goodness), but you just try going to the US and calling the first black person you see "nigger". I guarantee a most interesting result. (Protip: Make sure your health insurance is up date first. You might need it.)
You ever look at all of their mixed, contradictory promises of future events that never unfold and think, "wow, what a bunch of fucking niggers, guess I better buy an iPad or some other competitor that's not Google"? (and for the love of God, get over the word, it is a word like other words, your hypersensitivity does not make it special, it really doesn't have much to do with skin color but with content of character, just for once stop knee-jerking and realize it)
It has everything to do with skin colour. It means "black", your protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.
So no, we're not hypersensitive. Rather, you're a foul-mouthed git who thinks he's Humpty-Dumpty.
The purpose is easy. Extract money from the citizens. That's the only purpose for which the EU exists.
Please spare us the "TAXES R T3H 3V1L" crap. I pay lots more tax here than I would in the US; however, unlike the case in the US, I find that at least some of the taxes get spent on things that tend to make life better for all.
It's sad that Europeans have to read this news on US sites.
Did you actually see where the links in TFS point to?
Maybe that explains why so many Europeans feel the EU is an evil institute. But I bet nobody outside the EU ever hears about tat.
Anon and luzsec and hell even wikileaks don't get this kind of condemnation as this instance of organized hacking has received in the media and on the forums. What's going on guys? Liberal can hack, but conservatives can't?
If you're referring to the phone-hacking scandal...
Anonymous and Lulzsec don't pretend to be news organisations. WikiLeaks doesn't do any hacking.
It is news for people for whom "technology" might mean something a bit more than "gadgets".
If you really dislike the site that much, WTF are you doing here? There's the door. Try not to trip too badly over your own smug anti-intellectualism as you exit.
(Protip: You seem to think that mocking others to compensate for your own wilful ignorance makes you look clever. It does not.)
TFS and TFA make it clear that this is a service being offered to customers as an opt-in system for now. What the heck is wrong with offering customers that choice, especially given that they can presumably change their mind at some point in the future (when their kids are old enough to view porn), altough we don't actually know that this will be the case.
Customers will be asked to make a choice over whether they want filtering on their connection or not. Adult content blocks will not be implemented by default for the time being.
In a small community where everybody knew everybody else a storekeeper could already see who was coming into their store, who bought what and who walked past and when.
And if you didn't want him gossiping with your neighbours about your shopping habits, you could always go to the next town. Now the shopkeeper in the next town (who's never even met you) knows all about your preferences for honey, blue stockings, ribbed condoms, and 12-year-old Scotch before you get there.
As an American citizen, if I go live and work in Ireland, or anywhere else, without ANY ties to the US at all, I still am required to pay US Federal income tax on the money I earn(in addition to that countries taxes.)
Not necessarily. In many cases, if you reside abroad, are employed there, pay taxes there, and spend less than 35 days per year in the US, you may not have to. Currently in such cases, you do not have to pay taxes on the first US$91,500, and you may be able to increase that amount based on how much tax you've paid in your country of residence. (Even so, you're still required file a return.)
This depends on the country where you reside and other factors. Consult a tax accountant, attorney, or other qualified professional for particulars.
Perhaps it's the Digital Equipment Corporation curse. DEC floundered and it's carcass was purchased by Compaq in 1998. It gave Compaq indigestion and they were swallowed by hp in 2002. Now hp is circling the drain.
So, basically, the intellectual underpinnings of this "creative" profession are not sufficiently differentiated from what is easily available to the layman to create a high enough barrier-to-entry to the field to sustain its professional status. When someone says "the dream of a laptop-powered 'knowledge class' is dead," he wants that knowledge to be sufficiently hard-to-learn that it provides a basis for class distinction: it's his "dream" to create a separate class (and separate salary rate) based on possession of this knowledge.
Bing-O. It's the sour grapes of some someone who thought 10 years ago, "I'm gonna be so very leet because I'm gonna get rich because people will pay me ridiculous amounts of money to do cool stuff on my laptop while I hang out at Starbuck's." And it looks like he still believes this is how it ought to be.
BTW, I say this as someone who's done pretty much what the article's author apparently set out to accomplish: I make a pretty fair living, working more or less whenever and wherever on my laptop. (Although you're much more likely to find me and my laptop at the local hole-in-the-wall Oriental takeaway shop than at $oh_so_trendy_cafe[$week[$current]].) The difference between him and me is that, sometime around 1999 or so, I took off the rose-tinted glasses and woke up to the fact that merely having a computer and little or no specialised knowledge and/or skills with it was not likely to get me where I wanted to go. (IOW I saw that "...on the Internet!" was only going to work for so long before reality started setting in.) It required some years of study, work, and not a little luck to do so. And a very large portion of that luck manifested in the form of
Other people... [who] dreamed of making this knowledge available to everyone, so that there wouldn't be a class distinction, but rather an overall improvement in the knowledge-base and abilities of people in general.
Because they're rich and he's not. Waahh! You might also point out to him that people who work for companies often invest in their own and other companies. F'n 401k's! How do they work?
So my views are motivated by the same greed (or rationalisation for same) that yours are? I think not.
I've enjoyed modest success in my career. I now make about 2.5 times the average income for the area I live in. I own my own home (a fairly nice and spacious flat). I can afford to travel a bit. I don't own a car; I could easily afford one, but my place is about 5 minutes walk to the subway, so why bother. If I feel liking eating at a fancy restaurant from time to time, I can go and enjoy the meal without worrying very much about the cost. I have good health, a wonderful partner, a beautiful child, and the respect of my family and friends. (That last item especially took me quite a long time to achieve, or *deserve*, and is worth more to me than any damned money.)
The short version: Yes, I've got mine.
Here's where the difference lies twixt thee and me: (a) I don't begrudge anyone else their fair share; (b) Since I have plenty, I believe that I should share with those less fortunate or who could use a leg up to advance in their lives (and I do, regularly).
Owning a flat that's about twice the size that I really need is one thing. Yes, that's an indulgence, but it's a fairly minor extravagance in the greater scheme of things.
Owning a personal yacht that costs 1000 times (or more) what I pay one of my workers in a year just so I can wave my dick around. That's greed (IOW *ego*), raised to the level of the obscene.
P.S. They don't have 401k's in Sweden. Here, you get a real pension.
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Call me deprived, but I did not have the good fortune to grow up in Glorious Free Progressive Estonia. Instead, I grew up in a place where one commonly saw signs reading, "Coloured Only" and "White Only", and where the word "nigger" carried (and continues to carry to this day) the connotation of "second-class" (at best), or even "property".
The signs are long gone (thank goodness), but you just try going to the US and calling the first black person you see "nigger". I guarantee a most interesting result. (Protip: Make sure your health insurance is up date first. You might need it.)
There's your "context", moron.
Maybe that explains why so many Europeans feel the EU is an evil institute. But I bet nobody outside the EU ever hears about tat.
"So many" = "a few right-wing nut jobs".
To be fair that sentiment is shared by a few left wing nut jobs.
True, true. But not this one. :)
Dear me, I've been caught out as an Eebul Kollektivista.
BTW, you might also like to know that I stole that nonsense about "promoting the general wefare" from The Communist Manifesto.
You ever look at all of their mixed, contradictory promises of future events that never unfold and think, "wow, what a bunch of fucking niggers, guess I better buy an iPad or some other competitor that's not Google"? (and for the love of God, get over the word, it is a word like other words, your hypersensitivity does not make it special, it really doesn't have much to do with skin color but with content of character, just for once stop knee-jerking and realize it)
It has everything to do with skin colour. It means "black", your protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.
So no, we're not hypersensitive. Rather, you're a foul-mouthed git who thinks he's Humpty-Dumpty.
The purpose is easy. Extract money from the citizens. That's the only purpose for which the EU exists.
Please spare us the "TAXES R T3H 3V1L" crap. I pay lots more tax here than I would in the US; however, unlike the case in the US, I find that at least some of the taxes get spent on things that tend to make life better for all.
It's sad that Europeans have to read this news on US sites.
Did you actually see where the links in TFS point to?
Maybe that explains why so many Europeans feel the EU is an evil institute. But I bet nobody outside the EU ever hears about tat.
"So many" = "a few right-wing nutjobs".
Nice attempt at trolling. Better luck next time.
Anon and luzsec and hell even wikileaks don't get this kind of condemnation as this instance of organized hacking has received in the media and on the forums. What's going on guys? Liberal can hack, but conservatives can't?
If you're referring to the phone-hacking scandal...
Anonymous and Lulzsec don't pretend to be news organisations. WikiLeaks doesn't do any hacking.
It is news for people for whom "technology" might mean something a bit more than "gadgets".
If you really dislike the site that much, WTF are you doing here? There's the door. Try not to trip too badly over your own smug anti-intellectualism as you exit.
(Protip: You seem to think that mocking others to compensate for your own wilful ignorance makes you look clever. It does not.)
TFS and TFA make it clear that this is a service being offered to customers as an opt-in system for now. What the heck is wrong with offering customers that choice, especially given that they can presumably change their mind at some point in the future (when their kids are old enough to view porn), altough we don't actually know that this will be the case.
Customers will be asked to make a choice over whether they want filtering on their connection or not. Adult content blocks will not be implemented by default for the time being.
There. Fixed those for ya.
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Sincerely,
Joe User.
I can see you must be a really big hit at parties.
And any posts by roman_mir on ./.
TFTFY.
To further improve your writing, remove excess words.
To improve your writing further, stop splitting infinitives.
Since when is making money off a product greed?
The objections being raised are not to profit in or per se. What is being objected to is
1. Profit *to the exclusion of all other considerations*.
2. *Ever-increasing* profit in proportion to actual producer costs.
In a small community where everybody knew everybody else a storekeeper could already see who was coming into their store, who bought what and who walked past and when.
And if you didn't want him gossiping with your neighbours about your shopping habits, you could always go to the next town. Now the shopkeeper in the next town (who's never even met you) knows all about your preferences for honey, blue stockings, ribbed condoms, and 12-year-old Scotch before you get there.
So, no, it's not at all "coming back".
What other people do is not Spamhaus's responsibility.
So it's okay for me to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theatre, since I'm not responsible for others' reactions to what I say? Thanks!
As an American citizen, if I go live and work in Ireland, or anywhere else, without ANY ties to the US at all, I still am required to pay US Federal income tax on the money I earn(in addition to that countries taxes.)
Not necessarily. In many cases, if you reside abroad, are employed there, pay taxes there, and spend less than 35 days per year in the US, you may not have to. Currently in such cases, you do not have to pay taxes on the first US$91,500, and you may be able to increase that amount based on how much tax you've paid in your country of residence. (Even so, you're still required file a return.)
This depends on the country where you reside and other factors. Consult a tax accountant, attorney, or other qualified professional for particulars.
Perhaps it's the Digital Equipment Corporation curse. DEC floundered and it's carcass was purchased by Compaq in 1998. It gave Compaq indigestion and they were swallowed by hp in 2002. Now hp is circling the drain.
Maybe they'll get bought by Oracle?
I'm sorry, that doesn't parse.
Did you mean, "He may have been killed..."?
/me flicks screen of his Samsung Galaxy phone and watches very long page zip past, all the way to the end, in a... dare I say it? blur.
The linked lkml thread has disappeared.
It has done nothing of the sort. I've just loaded the linked page and am reading it right now.
(Dunno how that happened...)
I run Win7 and Linux VMs side by side in VBox all the time. 2 cores, 2 GB each on an 8-core/8GB Linux host. No problems here.
I run Win7 and Linux Vms
Telenor doesn't appear to block Skype on phones, either; not sure what their actual policy is, though.
So, basically, the intellectual underpinnings of this "creative" profession are not sufficiently differentiated from what is easily available to the layman to create a high enough barrier-to-entry to the field to sustain its professional status. When someone says "the dream of a laptop-powered 'knowledge class' is dead," he wants that knowledge to be sufficiently hard-to-learn that it provides a basis for class distinction: it's his "dream" to create a separate class (and separate salary rate) based on possession of this knowledge.
Bing-O. It's the sour grapes of some someone who thought 10 years ago, "I'm gonna be so very leet because I'm gonna get rich because people will pay me ridiculous amounts of money to do cool stuff on my laptop while I hang out at Starbuck's." And it looks like he still believes this is how it ought to be.
BTW, I say this as someone who's done pretty much what the article's author apparently set out to accomplish: I make a pretty fair living, working more or less whenever and wherever on my laptop. (Although you're much more likely to find me and my laptop at the local hole-in-the-wall Oriental takeaway shop than at $oh_so_trendy_cafe[$week[$current]].) The difference between him and me is that, sometime around 1999 or so, I took off the rose-tinted glasses and woke up to the fact that merely having a computer and little or no specialised knowledge and/or skills with it was not likely to get me where I wanted to go. (IOW I saw that "...on the Internet!" was only going to work for so long before reality started setting in.) It required some years of study, work, and not a little luck to do so. And a very large portion of that luck manifested in the form of
Other people... [who] dreamed of making this knowledge available to everyone, so that there wouldn't be a class distinction, but rather an overall improvement in the knowledge-base and abilities of people in general.
Too bad you posted as AC.
Because they're rich and he's not. Waahh! You might also point out to him that people who work for companies often invest in their own and other companies. F'n 401k's! How do they work?
So my views are motivated by the same greed (or rationalisation for same) that yours are? I think not.
I've enjoyed modest success in my career. I now make about 2.5 times the average income for the area I live in. I own my own home (a fairly nice and spacious flat). I can afford to travel a bit. I don't own a car; I could easily afford one, but my place is about 5 minutes walk to the subway, so why bother. If I feel liking eating at a fancy restaurant from time to time, I can go and enjoy the meal without worrying very much about the cost. I have good health, a wonderful partner, a beautiful child, and the respect of my family and friends. (That last item especially took me quite a long time to achieve, or *deserve*, and is worth more to me than any damned money.)
The short version: Yes, I've got mine.
Here's where the difference lies twixt thee and me: (a) I don't begrudge anyone else their fair share; (b) Since I have plenty, I believe that I should share with those less fortunate or who could use a leg up to advance in their lives (and I do, regularly).
Owning a flat that's about twice the size that I really need is one thing. Yes, that's an indulgence, but it's a fairly minor extravagance in the greater scheme of things.
Owning a personal yacht that costs 1000 times (or more) what I pay one of my workers in a year just so I can wave my dick around. That's greed (IOW *ego*), raised to the level of the obscene.
P.S. They don't have 401k's in Sweden. Here, you get a real pension.