Just yesterday I met a woman at the Converse Street Bar who held a masters in engineering. She hsan't been able to find an engineering job in four years! I would have thought that engineers would be in big demand. She agreed, and said that's why she chose engineering.
My ex-wife got my copy in the divorce. No matter, I'm running Linux almost exclusively anyway (haven't installed it on the notebook yet). But it was a damned good word processor. We have Word at work, and I hate it. I especially hate not having a "reveal codes" feature.
Or those winmodem drivers that could make a Linux users day a living hell way back then.
God, such horrible memories! One outfit I got mail order parts form added one gratis to an order. My web site had just been hacked, and a fellow webmaster at another site wrote and said he was jealous, that nobody bothered even trying to hack his. So we started a "Hack Dopey Smurf" contest... whoever broke into Smurf's server first won the "Modem From Hell".
Nobody bit. You could only give those things away using subtrefuge!
The above paragraph, if true, would make the universe a very explode-y place.
I'd say it is an "explodey" place. Hell, there's a hydrogen bomb only eight light seconds away, and it's been exploding for over four billion years. Almost every twinkle in the night sky is a incredibly huge fusion explosion.
On the contrary, the Supreme Court ruled that it's a woman's right to remove a blastocyct from her body. If she has the right to remove a fetus, why doesn't she have the right to inject heroin? It isn't anyone's business but hers. If she steals to support her habit, arrest her for stealing.
People routinely blame the DEA and the prohibition on the war in Mexico
And they're right, just as alcohol prohibition was responsible for the wars in Chicago and other cities. The only reason there wasn't violence in Canada was because alcohol was legal in Canada.
You know, if we repealed all drug laws (except perhaps antibiotics) and regulated, licenced, and taxed the production, importation, and sale, you could disband the DEA and remove the national debt. As it is, billions upon billions of dollars are going straight to Columbia making some very evil people incredibly wealthy, with not a single penny of it benefiting the American economy.
It's madness. Take crack cocaine, for example. If the stuff was legal it would probably cost like five bucks a gram, and the crackheads wouldn't have to break into my house and steal to support their filthy habits. The drug laws haven't stopped a single person from becoming a junkie. In fact, twice as many people drank after prohibition than before its passage, meaning that the law not only didn't stop people from drinking, somehow it encouraged drinking.
I probably would have become a chemist if I hadn't almost blown the beasement up. My dad took away all my chemicals after that. So my next hobby was electronics.
They're probably still trying to figure out who burned a hole in the concrete cinderblocks the grade school's incinerator was made of.
Ether is fucking NASTY shit. It is in no way enjoyable. It was used as an anesthetic back before the stone age when I was a kid. They used it on me when I was 5 for a tonsellectomy and when I was seven and broke both my arms.
If you don't believe me, automotive starting fluid is ether. Get a can of it and huff some. I gurantee you'll never do it again.
Why should the government do entitlements in the first place?
Because if I've paid for something I'm entitled to it. I've been paying SS and medicare taxes for over forty years, and by God you damned well better not try to take it away or ther'lll be one hell of a fight. It had better be there when I retire in two years.
Sure, we should provide a safety net for the poorest of the elderly, but shouldn't we seek the minimum government footprint in doing so?
Why should we? I want what I paid for.
Sure we should provide charity for the most needy, but shouldn't we seek the minimum government footprint in doing so?
Already done. Johnson's "war on poverty", AFDC, and generational welfare ended in 1996 with the PWORA act that replaced AFDC with TANF.
Sure, we should provide medical insurance for the poorest, but shouldn't we seek the minimum government footprint in doing so?
No. We should adopt government-funded health care for everyone, like every other industrialized nation on earth. We pay more per capita on health care than any other country in the world, but we are far from the healthiest by any metric. We need to get rid of medical insurane, period. The medical insurance industry is a parasite on the economy.
Unless you see a powerful government as an end in itself
No. But it needs to be effective.
These current entitlement programs are a naked power grab by government - when your livelyhood depends on that government check, the government has total power over you.
When my livlihood depends on my paycheck, the corporation has total power over me (and almost everyone is dependant on a paycheck). My only recourse against an employer is a resignation, no different than simply refusing the government check. With government, I at least have a vote. Not so with a corporation.
On a more practical note, the unfunded medicare liability now exceeds the total value of all assets in America
It wouldn't if government hadn't "borrowed" from Medicare over the last several decades to fund wars and other nonsense. And I simply don't believe that "unfunded medicare liability now exceeds the total value of all assets in America". America has far more wealth than money. We have an abundance of all sorts of natural resources, both renewable and non-renewable.
The current "crisis" is artificial. It's a result of Congress, the President, and the big corporations not doing their jobs.
Wow we had some idiots moderating yesterday. Offtopic? Educating folks about the difference between viruses, trojans, and worms is offtopic in a discussion about viruses?
At least there was one to mod to mod it intelligently.
I wish they'd bring the old metamoderation system back. Some people should never get mod points.
The Democrats have been elected for decades with pledges to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid at all costs - it's their party's signature program for the last 75 years or so, so they really can't cut any of those.
The Republicans are incredibly stupid for even suggesting that they be cut. Geezers have been paying two special taxes for decades to pay for them, and anybody who tries to take away what the geezers have been paying for for fifty years is going to be drummed out of office faster than you can say "What the fuck happened to my nice cushy position?" Geezers vote in droves. Pissing off old people is political suicide, and trying to pay for two god damned wars with ss and medicare money is relly going to piss a LOT of people off.
Republicans claim they want nobody's taxes raised, but they don't want to let the temporary Bush cuts expire (the cuts that were supposed to grow the economy with the fairy tale "trickle down" bullshit) but they're more than willing to let the payroll tax cuts expire.
IMO anybody in the middle class who votes Republican is brain dead. Anybody who smokes pot who votes for either major party is even dumber. In my over 40 years of working, every time the Republicans cut taxes, my taxes go up.
Considering that the Democrats want to raise taxes on the rich, and the Republicans want to raise taxes on the poor and middle class, that's a very good analogy. It also tells you which party is for which class.
Who is going to hire an American for $20/h to work a factory line when someone in China will do it for $5?
The trouble is, in the US you can't survive on $5 per hour, in China you probably can. I'm twice as rich as someone living 200 miles away in Chicago who earns the same wage as me, since his prices are twice as high as mine. The guy in China earning $5 is as rich as the guy in Tennessee earning $20 (and the guy in New York City earning $75).
BTW, cowboys were an American fixture. You'll get mixed views of whether their demise is a good thing or not. "Cowboy" is a slur or a compliment, depending on the situation.
"Cowboy" was a slur. The proper term was "drover".
I've never heard of anyone getting into a wreck because of cruise control, and can't imagine how a cruise control could cause a crash. Do you have a link?
Americans have their head in the sand about driving deaths for years.
Blame the media, they're the ones who terrify people about airplanes and terrorism, while nobody is afraid to ride in a car. people talk about how dangerous a cop's job is (it isn't, not even in the top ten), but a cop is far more likely to die in his squad car than from a bullet.
You can't come to rational conclusions without accurate data, and you get little accurate data from corporate media. Their job is to enrich stockholders, not inform the public.
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Just yesterday I met a woman at the Converse Street Bar who held a masters in engineering. She hsan't been able to find an engineering job in four years! I would have thought that engineers would be in big demand. She agreed, and said that's why she chose engineering.
So what field IS the "right education?"
Save them as text files, import them into Word or ODF, then reformat the docs.
My ex-wife got my copy in the divorce. No matter, I'm running Linux almost exclusively anyway (haven't installed it on the notebook yet). But it was a damned good word processor. We have Word at work, and I hate it. I especially hate not having a "reveal codes" feature.
Or those winmodem drivers that could make a Linux users day a living hell way back then.
God, such horrible memories! One outfit I got mail order parts form added one gratis to an order. My web site had just been hacked, and a fellow webmaster at another site wrote and said he was jealous, that nobody bothered even trying to hack his. So we started a "Hack Dopey Smurf" contest... whoever broke into Smurf's server first won the "Modem From Hell".
Nobody bit. You could only give those things away using subtrefuge!
I got a kernel panic from kubuntu 1.1. Of course, I was trying to install it on an old PC with only 64 MB of memory...
The above paragraph, if true, would make the universe a very explode-y place.
I'd say it is an "explodey" place. Hell, there's a hydrogen bomb only eight light seconds away, and it's been exploding for over four billion years. Almost every twinkle in the night sky is a incredibly huge fusion explosion.
No reason to, there are none in our galaxy, although I understand that the aliens in a far distant time in a galaxy far, far away have plenty.
Also, since users would know what they were getting and what strength it is, there would be far fewer overdose deaths.
Well, dihydrogen monoxide is the most deadly and addictive of substances! I ingest it daily, the addiction is so bad that withdrawal is always fatal.
This isn't a human rights issue
On the contrary, the Supreme Court ruled that it's a woman's right to remove a blastocyct from her body. If she has the right to remove a fetus, why doesn't she have the right to inject heroin? It isn't anyone's business but hers. If she steals to support her habit, arrest her for stealing.
People routinely blame the DEA and the prohibition on the war in Mexico
And they're right, just as alcohol prohibition was responsible for the wars in Chicago and other cities. The only reason there wasn't violence in Canada was because alcohol was legal in Canada.
You know, if we repealed all drug laws (except perhaps antibiotics) and regulated, licenced, and taxed the production, importation, and sale, you could disband the DEA and remove the national debt. As it is, billions upon billions of dollars are going straight to Columbia making some very evil people incredibly wealthy, with not a single penny of it benefiting the American economy.
It's madness. Take crack cocaine, for example. If the stuff was legal it would probably cost like five bucks a gram, and the crackheads wouldn't have to break into my house and steal to support their filthy habits. The drug laws haven't stopped a single person from becoming a junkie. In fact, twice as many people drank after prohibition than before its passage, meaning that the law not only didn't stop people from drinking, somehow it encouraged drinking.
The forbidden fruit is always more tempting.
I probably would have become a chemist if I hadn't almost blown the beasement up. My dad took away all my chemicals after that. So my next hobby was electronics.
They're probably still trying to figure out who burned a hole in the concrete cinderblocks the grade school's incinerator was made of.
You'll have to keep them from learning to read, especially the curious ones.
I've never heard of explosive flowers before. Do you perhaps mean flour?
Mix a little saltpeter or other oxidant in your flour or toner for a REALLY big explosion.
Ether is fucking NASTY shit. It is in no way enjoyable. It was used as an anesthetic back before the stone age when I was a kid. They used it on me when I was 5 for a tonsellectomy and when I was seven and broke both my arms.
If you don't believe me, automotive starting fluid is ether. Get a can of it and huff some. I gurantee you'll never do it again.
Why should the government do entitlements in the first place?
Because if I've paid for something I'm entitled to it. I've been paying SS and medicare taxes for over forty years, and by God you damned well better not try to take it away or ther'lll be one hell of a fight. It had better be there when I retire in two years.
Sure, we should provide a safety net for the poorest of the elderly, but shouldn't we seek the minimum government footprint in doing so?
Why should we? I want what I paid for.
Sure we should provide charity for the most needy, but shouldn't we seek the minimum government footprint in doing so?
Already done. Johnson's "war on poverty", AFDC, and generational welfare ended in 1996 with the PWORA act that replaced AFDC with TANF.
Sure, we should provide medical insurance for the poorest, but shouldn't we seek the minimum government footprint in doing so?
No. We should adopt government-funded health care for everyone, like every other industrialized nation on earth. We pay more per capita on health care than any other country in the world, but we are far from the healthiest by any metric. We need to get rid of medical insurane, period. The medical insurance industry is a parasite on the economy.
Unless you see a powerful government as an end in itself
No. But it needs to be effective.
These current entitlement programs are a naked power grab by government - when your livelyhood depends on that government check, the government has total power over you.
When my livlihood depends on my paycheck, the corporation has total power over me (and almost everyone is dependant on a paycheck). My only recourse against an employer is a resignation, no different than simply refusing the government check. With government, I at least have a vote. Not so with a corporation.
On a more practical note, the unfunded medicare liability now exceeds the total value of all assets in America
It wouldn't if government hadn't "borrowed" from Medicare over the last several decades to fund wars and other nonsense. And I simply don't believe that "unfunded medicare liability now exceeds the total value of all assets in America". America has far more wealth than money. We have an abundance of all sorts of natural resources, both renewable and non-renewable.
The current "crisis" is artificial. It's a result of Congress, the President, and the big corporations not doing their jobs.
Wow we had some idiots moderating yesterday. Offtopic? Educating folks about the difference between viruses, trojans, and worms is offtopic in a discussion about viruses?
At least there was one to mod to mod it intelligently.
I wish they'd bring the old metamoderation system back. Some people should never get mod points.
The Democrats have been elected for decades with pledges to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid at all costs - it's their party's signature program for the last 75 years or so, so they really can't cut any of those.
The Republicans are incredibly stupid for even suggesting that they be cut. Geezers have been paying two special taxes for decades to pay for them, and anybody who tries to take away what the geezers have been paying for for fifty years is going to be drummed out of office faster than you can say "What the fuck happened to my nice cushy position?" Geezers vote in droves. Pissing off old people is political suicide, and trying to pay for two god damned wars with ss and medicare money is relly going to piss a LOT of people off.
Republicans claim they want nobody's taxes raised, but they don't want to let the temporary Bush cuts expire (the cuts that were supposed to grow the economy with the fairy tale "trickle down" bullshit) but they're more than willing to let the payroll tax cuts expire.
IMO anybody in the middle class who votes Republican is brain dead. Anybody who smokes pot who votes for either major party is even dumber. In my over 40 years of working, every time the Republicans cut taxes, my taxes go up.
Google, how quaint. Use a dictionary.
Er, you might want to look up the word "quaint". Google's only a little over ten years old, dictionaries are quaint.
Considering that the Democrats want to raise taxes on the rich, and the Republicans want to raise taxes on the poor and middle class, that's a very good analogy. It also tells you which party is for which class.
The first "race cars" would only do about 5 mph.
Who is going to hire an American for $20/h to work a factory line when someone in China will do it for $5?
The trouble is, in the US you can't survive on $5 per hour, in China you probably can. I'm twice as rich as someone living 200 miles away in Chicago who earns the same wage as me, since his prices are twice as high as mine. The guy in China earning $5 is as rich as the guy in Tennessee earning $20 (and the guy in New York City earning $75).
BTW, cowboys were an American fixture. You'll get mixed views of whether their demise is a good thing or not. "Cowboy" is a slur or a compliment, depending on the situation.
"Cowboy" was a slur. The proper term was "drover".
I've never heard of anyone getting into a wreck because of cruise control, and can't imagine how a cruise control could cause a crash. Do you have a link?
Americans have their head in the sand about driving deaths for years.
Blame the media, they're the ones who terrify people about airplanes and terrorism, while nobody is afraid to ride in a car. people talk about how dangerous a cop's job is (it isn't, not even in the top ten), but a cop is far more likely to die in his squad car than from a bullet.
You can't come to rational conclusions without accurate data, and you get little accurate data from corporate media. Their job is to enrich stockholders, not inform the public.