As I said, it depends on the diversity of the neighborhood. If the neighborhood in question is 90% black, it's racial. But if it's 35% white and 35% Hispanic and 30% black and 100% poor, it isn't.
Then the party is over and America is a 3rd world nation or just a poor one like Greece.
How many natural resources does Greece have? Oil? Timber? Copper? Gold? Other metals? We have literally megatons of the stuff buried here, and it's all worth money. Take oil, last year we exported more than we imported.
Greece, OTOH, has what, Aristotle and classic literature? OK, they have some natural gas, we have tons of the stuff. Plus a whole lot of excellent farmland.
From what I've read, it came from an African tribe that considered monkey brain to be a delacacy. AIDS is not really an STD, it's a blood-bourne virus. It's a lot easier to get AIDS in a knife fight than it is from sex. If you're butchering a monkey and you have a cut on your hand, guess what? You got AIDS!
capital gains is probably the stupidest thing we can do
Bullshit. Capital gains taxes only hit when you sell your assets (stocks, bonds, businesses). When Reagan slashed them, workers suffered -- including me. It promoted an orgy of hostile takeovers by guys like Romney who were buying out businesses and selling the assets. I worked for Disney at the time, and our hours (and pay) were cut 25% to fend off the parasites who wanted to carve up Disney and sell all its assets.
And we don't have to work for less - we have to stop expecting the government to give us free shit (free cell phones to the homeless in California).
I agree that the free cell phones for the poor (not just California) is a poor use of tax money, but I'd far rather have my taxes to go to some poor starving person who works for McDonalds than multimillion dollar grants to multinational corporations who take all their profits to offshore tax havens.
Jesus, dude, you swallowed the 1%'s bullshit hook, line, and sinker... or you ARE the one percent and are trying to feed your lying bullshit to us plebes.
If we were a rational society we would have raised the age of retirement from 65 - 67 in the 1970s and we would now be talking about when to raise it to 70.
Yep, you're either young and stupid or have never worked a day in your overpriveleged life. I'm 60, have been paying SS all my life, and guess what? I ain't as useful as I used to be. Young folks run circles around me. I really pity my friends who do construction, that heavy labor is killing those poor geezers. I also pity older programmers, try getting a programming job at my age! And I'm retiring in 2014 when I'm 62 (NOT 65, you need to be 65 for full benefits).
You're wither a fool or a sociopath. Or both. You make me sick.
Until Americans are willing to work for less like their asia counterparts and be a creditor nation rather than a debtor nation the slide will continue.
You sound like a trio of economists that taught an undergrad class I started to take in the late seventies who tried to say that by 1990 we would be earning no more than those in a third world country. I'd just gotten out of the Air Force and had spent a year in Thailand. At the time, Thailand was a third world country, dirt roads, no gas or electric infrastructure.
I could take a cab anywhere in the entire country for a dollar, a bus for a nickle, a tailored shirt for five bucks (including having it taken in/out when I gained/lost weight), dinner for four in a nice restaraunt for a buck. My bungalow was #30 per month, and it came with a woman. I pointed out price disparities, and their answer was "live under a bridge and eat peanut butter."
I walked out of the class to drop it after trying to explain it to these idiots, and half the class followed me out. I guess it must have been required for the other half's majors.
We are a rich nation, and I don't mean dollars, I mean natural resources, including renewables. There are few things that there aren't megatons of under the ground, including oil, copper, other metals.
The problem is the disparity in pay between the rich and the rest of us. We can thank stupid anti-union workers for that (see the linked article).
We have plenty, it's just that it is VERY poorly distributed.
Less dependency on foreign oil means we are not dependent on them.
You missed it -- we are now a net exporter of energy, exporting more than we import. By 2020 we will have surpassed Saudia Arabia and will be the world's biggest oil exporter.
There are two known ways of doing this. One is China's way, which has resulted in its own problems, and the other is to raise the standard of living. If your second child dies in infacy from cholera, you're likely to wind up with a dozen. But if you're in North America or Europe or any other advanced place, birthrate drops naturally.
If there's anything I've learned, it's that highly educated people are simply better than double-digit IQs.
I've known an awful lot of PhDs, and usually that is indeed the case. But there were two I knew, one a woman and one a man, who were dumb as doorknobs. I still don't have a clue how they ever graduated high school, let alone got PhDs (cheated? How did they get past the thesis?). Both of them seemed completely incapable of learning anything.
I noticed that none of the other PhDs I'd known put "PhD" after their name, nor had folks address them as "doctor". I knew quite a few for years before I knew they were so educated; one fellow I thought probably had a Masters had two PhDs and three Masters.
They are also the best at getting rid of other carriers of disease, like mosquitos. Bats eat many times their weight in insects every single night. Get rid of bats and you have a whole lot of people dying from all the diseases that mosquitos carry.
I'll take bats over mosquitos any day. The only disease a bat carries that can affect humans is rabies (a bat with this new virus won't infect anyone), and how many rabid bats have been found this year? Now, how many people have died from mosquito-bourne illnesses?
Back in the 90s there was a race to keep making TVs bigger and bigger (and smaller and smaller) which has led to the elimination of the normal sized TV
You're not very old, are you? There is no such thing as a "normal sized" TV and never was. TVs have always been as big as it was economical to make them. When I was a kid in the '50s, a "normal" TV was a nineteen inch black and white. Later it was twenty five inch color. Then thirty. Then thirty five. Then forty. TVs have always been getting bigger and bigger.
As to aspect ratio, old movies were 4:3 but went to widescreen some time when I was young. Partly it was because you couldn't make a widescreen CRT; in fact, the earliest color set I saw had a tube that was almost round (the rich neighbor's). Mostly it was because the movie industry thought TV would kill the industry, and made the aspect ratio incompatible.
Now that CRTs are quaint things there's no reason for TVs to be 4:3 any more.
However, cinimascope for a TV is retarded. There are so many aspect ratios in movies that no matter what your TV's aspect ratio, you're going to have black bars either at the top and bottom, or the sides. I can picture this thing in my living room, and it looks really, really stupid there.
Still, if that was a malicious QR code, my phone could have been compromised.
More likely (and more easily) your Windows PC when you transferred the files to it. Smartphones are a fractured market, while Windows PCs are a monoculture. Plus, Windows PCs are a lot less secure than any phone. Considering how locked down phones are, they mey even be safer than Macs and Linux.
But I'm sure a suitable replacement will be found.
It's inevitable. The end of the world is always near, and someone always knows the date. This year it was the Mayan calendar, a few ears ago it was some nutball preacher who claimed to have figured it out from the bible despite the fact that the bible says Jesus doesn't even know. A coupld of years earlier it was the same nutball, who said he must have made a math error when the world didn't end. Then there was Y2K and the people who thought aliens would take them if they cut their balls off. In 1966 folks thought that the end of the world was June 6th of that year. The Green Mile (book, not movie) set in 1932 spoke of an apocalyptic date. Look it up in wikipedia and it seems that "the world ends this year" comes quite often.
The thing is, all of these predictions are right. On December 21 it will be the end of the world -- for somebody. A lot of somebodies. But not for most of us.
i'm sure there are plenty of sources that say you are right about the misuse of an apostrophe in a possessive pronoun, but there are also probably as many sources that claim you're full of shit
Well, first, there's American English and British English. America spells it "check," Britain spells it "cheque." But the thing is, the rules matter to one who reads a lot. Written language is far more precise than spoken language, and poets have used this fact for centuries (let's all get up and dance to a song. That was a hippie four. Your mother was bourne, though she was born a long long time ago. Your mother should, no?)
Some misspellings completely change the meaning of a sentence. Loosing your mind is a good thing, losing it is not.
Those of us who read regularly don't sound our words out like a first grader, we don't even see the words; we only see what the words are saying. We don't see the words "God, but I love the smell of napalm in the morning," we hear the words spoken, see the man saying them, and smell the napalm. The written word isn't even there if teh writer is any good.
And when we run across something thst just doesn't make sense, like "the shadow's are on the wall" it breaks. When we see "shadow's" we expect the sentence to be about something belonging to the shadow, not more than one shadow. It breaks concentration, frustrates us, and annoys the hell out of us.
Perhaps if we get rid of aliterates there will be more room on this planet who read enough not to need grammar nazis!
(BTW, that is no more serious than your post; I know at least two people who are not only aliterate, but illiterate Few people read books, even when they have the ability).
they watched some science fiction? I cannot believe any of this.
Well, most of TFA seemed to be bullshit, but the cyborg part is right. I'm a cyborg, and many people I know are cyborgs, as well. Most cyborgs are geezers like me, and you couldn't tell them from any other geezer.
Hell, the previous Vice President of the US was a cyborg.
As to the rest of your comment, are you trolling or just on crack?
...'bath salts' manages to make my short list of stuff to make/keep illegal.
The trouble with that is that you can't just outlaw "bath salts"; there are too many different types, and making a new type is damned easy for a decent chemist. Bath salts only came along so crackheads can get a similar high from a "legal" drug. Like you say, "it needs to be a medical, not a criminal, issue. In my experience any 'successes' in the 'war on drugs' tend to simply have the users switch to something worse." Meth production is way down in Illinois because of making it hard to get cold medicine, and the cops said on the news this morning that the methheads are switching to heroin, which is almost the exact opposite of meth in its effects, yet heroin ODs can kill you.
Legalize cocaine and only those who are already crazy (like McAffee) will do bath salts. Who knows, legalize pot and you may well reduce cocaine use -- I've known potsmoker who switched to crack when they were subject to drug tests, since the tests catch pot for a month but cocaine only for a few days. These poor saps, obviously not believing crack was as harmful as they say because they knew firsthand the government lied through their teeth about pot, wound up addicted and homeless.
I wish the above AC would get an account, because "the right to free speech is the right to not have your speech curtailed by the government." was insightful, but nobody will see it.
The right to free speech isn't the right to stand in front of my house with a bullhorn. The right to swing your fist stops before my nose begins. I have every right to use spam filters. This sleazy lawsuit is just another indication that some people have absolutely ZERO ethics, let alone morals.
According to reports by the FBI, 21-year-old Bangladeshi citizen Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis came to the U.S. in January 2012 on a student visa with the explicit goal of carrying out a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Upon arriving in the U.S., Nafis actively sought out al-Qaeda contacts within the U.S. to assist him in carrying out an attack. Unbeknownst to Nafis, one of the individuals he sought to recruit for his terrorist cell turned out to be an FBI informant.
The FBI is so desperate to locate any, that they manipulate informants and patsies into hopeless and ineffectual plotting.
Yes, almost all of them. But this guy came here with the intention of attacking.
However, I agree with you -- Resources would be better spent on other things, like guard rails on a lot of highways. Ten times as many people die on the highways here every single year than died on 9-11.
hassle of going through about ten different menus, exiting application, entering system menu, enabling USB, confirming that I want to enable USB, confirming that I accept my applications being affected by not being able to write to the SD CARD, pulling out and pushing in the USB charger cable again, confirming that I am ready, then disabling USB.
Why not use Bluetooth? A bluetooth dongle for your PC costs $20 at WalMart, and if a smart phone didn't have it I wouldn't buy the phone -- hell, I've had dumb phones with Bluetooth.
But since you are using USB, why does it need to be disabled at all? USB is a cord, not a radio signal. If someone can hack your phone with USB they already have it in their posession, and USB being disabled will be no barrier.
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As I said, it depends on the diversity of the neighborhood. If the neighborhood in question is 90% black, it's racial. But if it's 35% white and 35% Hispanic and 30% black and 100% poor, it isn't.
Then the party is over and America is a 3rd world nation or just a poor one like Greece.
How many natural resources does Greece have? Oil? Timber? Copper? Gold? Other metals? We have literally megatons of the stuff buried here, and it's all worth money. Take oil, last year we exported more than we imported.
Greece, OTOH, has what, Aristotle and classic literature? OK, they have some natural gas, we have tons of the stuff. Plus a whole lot of excellent farmland.
Don't count us out just yet.
If the "industry standard" is to a thing's price, that's the very definition of price fixing.
Or do I get a woosh?
From what I've read, it came from an African tribe that considered monkey brain to be a delacacy. AIDS is not really an STD, it's a blood-bourne virus. It's a lot easier to get AIDS in a knife fight than it is from sex. If you're butchering a monkey and you have a cut on your hand, guess what? You got AIDS!
capital gains is probably the stupidest thing we can do
Bullshit. Capital gains taxes only hit when you sell your assets (stocks, bonds, businesses). When Reagan slashed them, workers suffered -- including me. It promoted an orgy of hostile takeovers by guys like Romney who were buying out businesses and selling the assets. I worked for Disney at the time, and our hours (and pay) were cut 25% to fend off the parasites who wanted to carve up Disney and sell all its assets.
And we don't have to work for less - we have to stop expecting the government to give us free shit (free cell phones to the homeless in California).
I agree that the free cell phones for the poor (not just California) is a poor use of tax money, but I'd far rather have my taxes to go to some poor starving person who works for McDonalds than multimillion dollar grants to multinational corporations who take all their profits to offshore tax havens.
Jesus, dude, you swallowed the 1%'s bullshit hook, line, and sinker... or you ARE the one percent and are trying to feed your lying bullshit to us plebes.
If we were a rational society we would have raised the age of retirement from 65 - 67 in the 1970s and we would now be talking about when to raise it to 70.
Yep, you're either young and stupid or have never worked a day in your overpriveleged life. I'm 60, have been paying SS all my life, and guess what? I ain't as useful as I used to be. Young folks run circles around me. I really pity my friends who do construction, that heavy labor is killing those poor geezers. I also pity older programmers, try getting a programming job at my age! And I'm retiring in 2014 when I'm 62 (NOT 65, you need to be 65 for full benefits).
You're wither a fool or a sociopath. Or both. You make me sick.
That looks funny... let me see if I can figure out what you were saying.
+1 for India, and there! Working Thorium reactor!
Capitalization and punctuation matter. Don't mind the homophones or spelling, they don't matter at all.
Until Americans are willing to work for less like their asia counterparts and be a creditor nation rather than a debtor nation the slide will continue.
You sound like a trio of economists that taught an undergrad class I started to take in the late seventies who tried to say that by 1990 we would be earning no more than those in a third world country. I'd just gotten out of the Air Force and had spent a year in Thailand. At the time, Thailand was a third world country, dirt roads, no gas or electric infrastructure.
I could take a cab anywhere in the entire country for a dollar, a bus for a nickle, a tailored shirt for five bucks (including having it taken in/out when I gained/lost weight), dinner for four in a nice restaraunt for a buck. My bungalow was #30 per month, and it came with a woman. I pointed out price disparities, and their answer was "live under a bridge and eat peanut butter."
I walked out of the class to drop it after trying to explain it to these idiots, and half the class followed me out. I guess it must have been required for the other half's majors.
We are a rich nation, and I don't mean dollars, I mean natural resources, including renewables. There are few things that there aren't megatons of under the ground, including oil, copper, other metals.
The problem is the disparity in pay between the rich and the rest of us. We can thank stupid anti-union workers for that (see the linked article).
We have plenty, it's just that it is VERY poorly distributed.
Less dependency on foreign oil means we are not dependent on them.
You missed it -- we are now a net exporter of energy, exporting more than we import. By 2020 we will have surpassed Saudia Arabia and will be the world's biggest oil exporter.
Stop people having so many damn kids.
There are two known ways of doing this. One is China's way, which has resulted in its own problems, and the other is to raise the standard of living. If your second child dies in infacy from cholera, you're likely to wind up with a dozen. But if you're in North America or Europe or any other advanced place, birthrate drops naturally.
If there's anything I've learned, it's that highly educated people are simply better than double-digit IQs.
I've known an awful lot of PhDs, and usually that is indeed the case. But there were two I knew, one a woman and one a man, who were dumb as doorknobs. I still don't have a clue how they ever graduated high school, let alone got PhDs (cheated? How did they get past the thesis?). Both of them seemed completely incapable of learning anything.
I noticed that none of the other PhDs I'd known put "PhD" after their name, nor had folks address them as "doctor". I knew quite a few for years before I knew they were so educated; one fellow I thought probably had a Masters had two PhDs and three Masters.
Bats are one of the best carriers of disease
They are also the best at getting rid of other carriers of disease, like mosquitos. Bats eat many times their weight in insects every single night. Get rid of bats and you have a whole lot of people dying from all the diseases that mosquitos carry.
I'll take bats over mosquitos any day. The only disease a bat carries that can affect humans is rabies (a bat with this new virus won't infect anyone), and how many rabid bats have been found this year? Now, how many people have died from mosquito-bourne illnesses?
Back in the 90s there was a race to keep making TVs bigger and bigger (and smaller and smaller) which has led to the elimination of the normal sized TV
You're not very old, are you? There is no such thing as a "normal sized" TV and never was. TVs have always been as big as it was economical to make them. When I was a kid in the '50s, a "normal" TV was a nineteen inch black and white. Later it was twenty five inch color. Then thirty. Then thirty five. Then forty. TVs have always been getting bigger and bigger.
As to aspect ratio, old movies were 4:3 but went to widescreen some time when I was young. Partly it was because you couldn't make a widescreen CRT; in fact, the earliest color set I saw had a tube that was almost round (the rich neighbor's). Mostly it was because the movie industry thought TV would kill the industry, and made the aspect ratio incompatible.
Now that CRTs are quaint things there's no reason for TVs to be 4:3 any more.
However, cinimascope for a TV is retarded. There are so many aspect ratios in movies that no matter what your TV's aspect ratio, you're going to have black bars either at the top and bottom, or the sides. I can picture this thing in my living room, and it looks really, really stupid there.
Still, if that was a malicious QR code, my phone could have been compromised.
More likely (and more easily) your Windows PC when you transferred the files to it. Smartphones are a fractured market, while Windows PCs are a monoculture. Plus, Windows PCs are a lot less secure than any phone. Considering how locked down phones are, they mey even be safer than Macs and Linux.
I'm pretty sure he was joking, as evidenced by the misuse of "their". JC is more literate than that!
But I'm sure a suitable replacement will be found.
It's inevitable. The end of the world is always near, and someone always knows the date. This year it was the Mayan calendar, a few ears ago it was some nutball preacher who claimed to have figured it out from the bible despite the fact that the bible says Jesus doesn't even know. A coupld of years earlier it was the same nutball, who said he must have made a math error when the world didn't end. Then there was Y2K and the people who thought aliens would take them if they cut their balls off. In 1966 folks thought that the end of the world was June 6th of that year. The Green Mile (book, not movie) set in 1932 spoke of an apocalyptic date. Look it up in wikipedia and it seems that "the world ends this year" comes quite often.
The thing is, all of these predictions are right. On December 21 it will be the end of the world -- for somebody. A lot of somebodies. But not for most of us.
On the other hand, some attorneys will become wealthy from the fact that this sort of income profiling is inherently racist.
You are under the mistaken impression that poor=black/Hispanic. The fact is that poor whites outnumber both poor blacks and Hispanics together.
Now, profiling by neighborhood can be racist, depending on the diversity or lack of same in said neighborhood. But not income.
i'm sure there are plenty of sources that say you are right about the misuse of an apostrophe in a possessive pronoun, but there are also probably as many sources that claim you're full of shit
Well, first, there's American English and British English. America spells it "check," Britain spells it "cheque." But the thing is, the rules matter to one who reads a lot. Written language is far more precise than spoken language, and poets have used this fact for centuries (let's all get up and dance to a song. That was a hippie four. Your mother was bourne, though she was born a long long time ago. Your mother should, no?)
Some misspellings completely change the meaning of a sentence. Loosing your mind is a good thing, losing it is not.
Those of us who read regularly don't sound our words out like a first grader, we don't even see the words; we only see what the words are saying. We don't see the words "God, but I love the smell of napalm in the morning," we hear the words spoken, see the man saying them, and smell the napalm. The written word isn't even there if teh writer is any good.
And when we run across something thst just doesn't make sense, like "the shadow's are on the wall" it breaks. When we see "shadow's" we expect the sentence to be about something belonging to the shadow, not more than one shadow. It breaks concentration, frustrates us, and annoys the hell out of us.
We pity those who don't read.
Perhaps if we get rid of aliterates there will be more room on this planet who read enough not to need grammar nazis!
(BTW, that is no more serious than your post; I know at least two people who are not only aliterate, but illiterate Few people read books, even when they have the ability).
they watched some science fiction? I cannot believe any of this.
Well, most of TFA seemed to be bullshit, but the cyborg part is right. I'm a cyborg, and many people I know are cyborgs, as well. Most cyborgs are geezers like me, and you couldn't tell them from any other geezer.
Hell, the previous Vice President of the US was a cyborg.
As to the rest of your comment, are you trolling or just on crack?
...'bath salts' manages to make my short list of stuff to make/keep illegal.
The trouble with that is that you can't just outlaw "bath salts"; there are too many different types, and making a new type is damned easy for a decent chemist. Bath salts only came along so crackheads can get a similar high from a "legal" drug. Like you say, "it needs to be a medical, not a criminal, issue. In my experience any 'successes' in the 'war on drugs' tend to simply have the users switch to something worse." Meth production is way down in Illinois because of making it hard to get cold medicine, and the cops said on the news this morning that the methheads are switching to heroin, which is almost the exact opposite of meth in its effects, yet heroin ODs can kill you.
Legalize cocaine and only those who are already crazy (like McAffee) will do bath salts. Who knows, legalize pot and you may well reduce cocaine use -- I've known potsmoker who switched to crack when they were subject to drug tests, since the tests catch pot for a month but cocaine only for a few days. These poor saps, obviously not believing crack was as harmful as they say because they knew firsthand the government lied through their teeth about pot, wound up addicted and homeless.
I wish the above AC would get an account, because "the right to free speech is the right to not have your speech curtailed by the government." was insightful, but nobody will see it.
The right to free speech isn't the right to stand in front of my house with a bullhorn. The right to swing your fist stops before my nose begins. I have every right to use spam filters. This sleazy lawsuit is just another indication that some people have absolutely ZERO ethics, let alone morals.
What's the value of a throw-away email address?
McDouble: $1.08
Starbucks Coffee: $7
BP: $1.30/gal
Throw-away email address: priceless
When? Where?
New York in October.
The FBI is so desperate to locate any, that they manipulate informants and patsies into hopeless and ineffectual plotting.
Yes, almost all of them. But this guy came here with the intention of attacking.
However, I agree with you -- Resources would be better spent on other things, like guard rails on a lot of highways. Ten times as many people die on the highways here every single year than died on 9-11.
Insightful? Christ, people, we've had fusion bombs for sixty years; that's what a "hydrogen bomb" is. The comment is crackheaded, not insightful.
hassle of going through about ten different menus, exiting application, entering system menu, enabling USB, confirming that I want to enable USB, confirming that I accept my applications being affected by not being able to write to the SD CARD, pulling out and pushing in the USB charger cable again, confirming that I am ready, then disabling USB.
Why not use Bluetooth? A bluetooth dongle for your PC costs $20 at WalMart, and if a smart phone didn't have it I wouldn't buy the phone -- hell, I've had dumb phones with Bluetooth.
But since you are using USB, why does it need to be disabled at all? USB is a cord, not a radio signal. If someone can hack your phone with USB they already have it in their posession, and USB being disabled will be no barrier.