Ok, you're trolling, but I'll bite anyway. He graduated college, that's more than Jobs and Zuckerberg did. Plus, he took an economy on the brink of a disaster that would have made the Great Depression look like a mild recession, after half the time it took Bush to trash the economy has it back on track and slowly gaining steam (did you see today's jobs report?). He ended the Iran war, succeeded in killing Bin Laden when Bush failed to in less than half the time Bush had to do it...
You missed a huge, glaring weak point in your plan: back in the ancient Greek days, there were few books, all hand-printed. The only place to learn was from a school.
Now, we have the internet. Anybody can learn anything (s)he has the grey matter to understand. Even when I was a kid, long before the internet existed, I had public libraries that taught me anything I wanted to know. Plus, we had an Encyclopedia Britannica (I read the whole thing when I was 12).
Learning is no longer hard. Keeping knowledge away from the ignorant is almost impossible.
He wasn't homeless, that was RMS, and he forgot his lunch money.
Seriously, though, some people are just stinking slobs. I had a neighbor I was sure was a homeless bum, until I found out he was my neighbor and had a decent job in construction (I journaled about hime a few years ago). I really doubt anybody with an iPhone is homeless, a homeless man would sell teh phone for food or (more likely) drugs.
BTW, your spell checker failed you -- it's "fare," not "fair" although some fares are fair and some fares are unfair. The busses going to the Illinois state fair's fare is unfair.
I think the key word is "suggest". I don't know how widespread glaucoma is, but if anyone I know has it I don't know that they do. The, I don't know how many people I know have high blood pressure, either.
I would think that anything that would increase blood pressure would be a risk for glaucoma. When they test occular pressure they tell you not to cross your legs, as that raises blood pressure and gives them a false, high reading.
If your blood pressure is high, you have a lot more dangerous things to worry about than glaucoma -- you'll probably die of a coronary long before you go blind.
However, this is a good excuse to smoke a joint while you're enjoying your coffee!
How would people with low income, who until now have relied on payphones for the occasional call away from home, meet such an unfunded mandate?
Pay phones are quaint relics and there aren't many left. Poor folks in the US can get cheap cell phones and minutes for "free," paid for by your tax money. The program is called "safelink".
All three of mine; my first was about the time/. started. I got tired of them and let the domains lapse, but they were fun until they started feeling like an unpaid job.
I can see why Taco left, same thing. Even if he was getting paid. I'm sick of my paid job, too, and am retiring as soon as I can.
I wish the list wasn't firewalled offf here, I've seen trailors for some that look like they might be great movies. Looper is one, it came out last month. Can't wait for the DVD (maybe I won't, there's always TPB).
This whole thread reminds me of a commercial years ago where people were having nervous breakdowns over things like whether or not they wanted cream in their coffee. Are people really that stupid? I can't imagine Obama or Jobs (especially Jobs) being less than at least twenty points above average intelligence.
I don't know if everyone is joking (well, the cartoonist who drew that linked cartoon isn't serious) or everyone misunderstands the concept that whoever does the Bob cartoons is poking fun at. It simply means "you don't know unless you test". The idea that a cat is both alive and dead is ludicrous.
The backslash is backwards. Everyone else uses a forward slash to denote directories. Of course, MS has its backslash from the obsolete CP/M. I find no fault in the way they did the long file names. As to backwards compatibility, though, every time I ever upgraded Windows, half my old programs would no longer work.
The very worst one was the upgrade from 98 to XP. After installing the OS and my apps, on reboot it informed me that the CD burning software that came with my burner made it unstable (even though I'd not had any stability problems with 98 running anything), and then refused to let me uninstall the damned thing! Worse, I got that message every time I booted. I finally just reinstalled Windows, which fixed the broken driver Microsoft replaced the perfectly good one with. That was actually the boot to the ass that got me starting to migrate to Linux.
Are you complaining that Windows is not Unix?
Yes. Unix is the standard. Apple didn't used to be Unix based, either, but they had the good sense to join the rest of the computing world. Again, though, I do understand their wish to be completely baclwards compatible, but they could easily have a "compatibility mode," kind of like Linux can run DOS programs.
As of IE10, IE is also very standards compliant at the JavaScript end.
About time, don't you think?
MS is in fact doing many right things at the moment.
W7 is certainly the best MS OS I've used, and I went from DOS 3.3 to W7. I do agree that they are getting better (although from what I've read, W8 may be a step backwards, I haven't tried it).
No, it doesn't. Really, it doesn't. Please read it again.
Hmmm.... I'll have to plug in that XP box and see if the notebook can read its files and vice-versa.
My favorite OS in many was was VAX VMS
I only had contact with that as a user, but it seemed a fine OS to me.
Most of this I did while you were still having your butt wiped by your mother.
That's doubtful, Grace Hopper wrote the first compiler the year I was born.
The middle of Illinois. Few young people are fat, but we have our share of fatasses. I guessed Mississippi because a recent study/survey showed that they had the highest obesity rate in the country.
It varies from person to person, of course. I'm still healthy at 60, but a whole lot of folks my age have artificial joints, are on medications for various alments, etc. I've known several people to die of heart attacks at 40; you can hardly fall apart more than dying.
Well, I've been using it for six months and I hate it. And no, you have neither my money nor my ass, it's my employer's money. And I'm glad I'm a geezer and can retire in a year and a half, just to get away from Microsoft's poorly designed, user-hostile, buggy crap.
There's a photo on NASA's site from a probe on the other side of Saturn (and slightly above), with Earth transiting. I'd be surprised if none of the double transits in our own solar system have been photographed by one of our probes.
I haven't bought anything from them in fifteen years, when did they stop sucking? I'm surprised they're still in business. back when I was buying from them (only a few times before I wrote them off) the hardware was shit, the customer service was nearly nonexistant.
If they'e improved (they must have since they're still in business) it's too late, they won't get my business again.
Yeah, that's called "aging" and it's pretty common.
Common, yes, but not universal. In six decades you've experienced a hell of a lot more pain (and joy) than someone a third of your age. Most people start falling apart when they hit 40 (I was lucky, I've been in pain since I was a teenager, I hurt a lot worse then). When you're old you have a lot more to bitch about and a lot less to be glad of. Plus you have these dumbass kids who you used to be who think they know everything like you used to think you did.
But in Taco's case, he's not nearly old enough to be telling kids to get off his lawn or to be bitter and bitching. I'm actually a bit surprised. WTF does he have to be bitter about?
Well, yeah, but being a camera with no baffling or shrouds, and a first surface designed as much for scratch resistance as for optical quality, it's going to have big ugly lens flares if the light source isn't diffuse.
Odd, I never had that problem with my cheap Motorola, which takes better pictures than the average Kodak or Polaroid did. Nobody expects the pictures to look as good as a Nikon or Hassleblad, but I would expect at least as good picture quality as a 1955 Kodak Brownie.
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Ok, you're trolling, but I'll bite anyway. He graduated college, that's more than Jobs and Zuckerberg did. Plus, he took an economy on the brink of a disaster that would have made the Great Depression look like a mild recession, after half the time it took Bush to trash the economy has it back on track and slowly gaining steam (did you see today's jobs report?). He ended the Iran war, succeeded in killing Bin Laden when Bush failed to in less than half the time Bush had to do it...
Any more questions, Mr. Koch?
Asimov grew his sideburns because he realized he could save much more time just shaving his chin.
I really doubt that. In the '70s when he grew those 'burns, bushy sideburns were seen as "cool".
Slashdot strikes again! Mwahahaha!
No, I've seen rocket or jet powered, formerly front engine cars. You don't even have to remove the original engine, you mount the rocket in the trunk.
The chances of an alien race not understanding integers is infinitesimally small.
True, but that doesn't mean they'll use the same number system, nor does it mean they'll be able to decipher the notation.
q1q2w
q1w2e
q1e2r
q1t2qw
What does that mean? The arithmetic is 1st grade simple, deciphering it without knowing what number system it's in or what the symbols mean is hard.
You missed a huge, glaring weak point in your plan: back in the ancient Greek days, there were few books, all hand-printed. The only place to learn was from a school.
Now, we have the internet. Anybody can learn anything (s)he has the grey matter to understand. Even when I was a kid, long before the internet existed, I had public libraries that taught me anything I wanted to know. Plus, we had an Encyclopedia Britannica (I read the whole thing when I was 12).
Learning is no longer hard. Keeping knowledge away from the ignorant is almost impossible.
He wasn't homeless, that was RMS, and he forgot his lunch money.
Seriously, though, some people are just stinking slobs. I had a neighbor I was sure was a homeless bum, until I found out he was my neighbor and had a decent job in construction (I journaled about hime a few years ago). I really doubt anybody with an iPhone is homeless, a homeless man would sell teh phone for food or (more likely) drugs.
BTW, your spell checker failed you -- it's "fare," not "fair" although some fares are fair and some fares are unfair. The busses going to the Illinois state fair's fare is unfair.
Nothing is actually made in the US any more.
Except Construction equipment, tractors, cars, trains, roads, houses, commercial buildings, food, copper piping and tubing, drugs and other chemicals (ever hear of Monsanto?), concrete... No, we make nothing here.
Gees, guys, wtf?
I think the key word is "suggest". I don't know how widespread glaucoma is, but if anyone I know has it I don't know that they do. The, I don't know how many people I know have high blood pressure, either.
I would think that anything that would increase blood pressure would be a risk for glaucoma. When they test occular pressure they tell you not to cross your legs, as that raises blood pressure and gives them a false, high reading.
If your blood pressure is high, you have a lot more dangerous things to worry about than glaucoma -- you'll probably die of a coronary long before you go blind.
However, this is a good excuse to smoke a joint while you're enjoying your coffee!
How would people with low income, who until now have relied on payphones for the occasional call away from home, meet such an unfunded mandate?
Pay phones are quaint relics and there aren't many left. Poor folks in the US can get cheap cell phones and minutes for "free," paid for by your tax money. The program is called "safelink".
All three of mine; my first was about the time /. started. I got tired of them and let the domains lapse, but they were fun until they started feeling like an unpaid job.
I can see why Taco left, same thing. Even if he was getting paid. I'm sick of my paid job, too, and am retiring as soon as I can.
Look how much they changed HHGTH for the movie.
I wish the list wasn't firewalled offf here, I've seen trailors for some that look like they might be great movies. Looper is one, it came out last month. Can't wait for the DVD (maybe I won't, there's always TPB).
This whole thread reminds me of a commercial years ago where people were having nervous breakdowns over things like whether or not they wanted cream in their coffee. Are people really that stupid? I can't imagine Obama or Jobs (especially Jobs) being less than at least twenty points above average intelligence.
Sounds more like OCD to me.
I prefer Schrödinger's Fridge.
I don't know if everyone is joking (well, the cartoonist who drew that linked cartoon isn't serious) or everyone misunderstands the concept that whoever does the Bob cartoons is poking fun at. It simply means "you don't know unless you test". The idea that a cat is both alive and dead is ludicrous.
Seriously? That's an argument?
The backslash is backwards. Everyone else uses a forward slash to denote directories. Of course, MS has its backslash from the obsolete CP/M. I find no fault in the way they did the long file names. As to backwards compatibility, though, every time I ever upgraded Windows, half my old programs would no longer work.
The very worst one was the upgrade from 98 to XP. After installing the OS and my apps, on reboot it informed me that the CD burning software that came with my burner made it unstable (even though I'd not had any stability problems with 98 running anything), and then refused to let me uninstall the damned thing! Worse, I got that message every time I booted. I finally just reinstalled Windows, which fixed the broken driver Microsoft replaced the perfectly good one with. That was actually the boot to the ass that got me starting to migrate to Linux.
Are you complaining that Windows is not Unix?
Yes. Unix is the standard. Apple didn't used to be Unix based, either, but they had the good sense to join the rest of the computing world. Again, though, I do understand their wish to be completely baclwards compatible, but they could easily have a "compatibility mode," kind of like Linux can run DOS programs.
As of IE10, IE is also very standards compliant at the JavaScript end.
About time, don't you think?
MS is in fact doing many right things at the moment.
W7 is certainly the best MS OS I've used, and I went from DOS 3.3 to W7. I do agree that they are getting better (although from what I've read, W8 may be a step backwards, I haven't tried it).
No, it doesn't. Really, it doesn't. Please read it again.
Hmmm.... I'll have to plug in that XP box and see if the notebook can read its files and vice-versa.
My favorite OS in many was was VAX VMS
I only had contact with that as a user, but it seemed a fine OS to me.
Most of this I did while you were still having your butt wiped by your mother.
That's doubtful, Grace Hopper wrote the first compiler the year I was born.
Good luck!
I've not actually gotten my ass kicked yet for not liking baseball
Well, that will only get you a shrug and a dirty look. Wear a cubs hat at a Cardinals game and it might get a bit iffy.
I just don't think you can distill all people into three categories like that.
No, you can't.
The middle of Illinois. Few young people are fat, but we have our share of fatasses. I guessed Mississippi because a recent study/survey showed that they had the highest obesity rate in the country.
It varies from person to person, of course. I'm still healthy at 60, but a whole lot of folks my age have artificial joints, are on medications for various alments, etc. I've known several people to die of heart attacks at 40; you can hardly fall apart more than dying.
Actually it isn't far from the truth. Obama does have Irish anscestry on his mother's side, and I would be surprised if Romney wasn't part Irish.
Well, I've been using it for six months and I hate it. And no, you have neither my money nor my ass, it's my employer's money. And I'm glad I'm a geezer and can retire in a year and a half, just to get away from Microsoft's poorly designed, user-hostile, buggy crap.
There's a photo on NASA's site from a probe on the other side of Saturn (and slightly above), with Earth transiting. I'd be surprised if none of the double transits in our own solar system have been photographed by one of our probes.
Go to Tigerdirect
I haven't bought anything from them in fifteen years, when did they stop sucking? I'm surprised they're still in business. back when I was buying from them (only a few times before I wrote them off) the hardware was shit, the customer service was nearly nonexistant.
If they'e improved (they must have since they're still in business) it's too late, they won't get my business again.
Yeah, that's called "aging" and it's pretty common.
Common, yes, but not universal. In six decades you've experienced a hell of a lot more pain (and joy) than someone a third of your age. Most people start falling apart when they hit 40 (I was lucky, I've been in pain since I was a teenager, I hurt a lot worse then). When you're old you have a lot more to bitch about and a lot less to be glad of. Plus you have these dumbass kids who you used to be who think they know everything like you used to think you did.
But in Taco's case, he's not nearly old enough to be telling kids to get off his lawn or to be bitter and bitching. I'm actually a bit surprised. WTF does he have to be bitter about?
Well, yeah, but being a camera with no baffling or shrouds, and a first surface designed as much for scratch resistance as for optical quality, it's going to have big ugly lens flares if the light source isn't diffuse.
Odd, I never had that problem with my cheap Motorola, which takes better pictures than the average Kodak or Polaroid did. Nobody expects the pictures to look as good as a Nikon or Hassleblad, but I would expect at least as good picture quality as a 1955 Kodak Brownie.