I decided not to. Anyway, the rich righties are pissing me off with "this is class warfare!!!!" Wake up, people, class war is already being waged and we of median income are getting our asses kicked.
Can someone explain to me why Buffett's secretary pays a higher rate than him? What other country has a more regressive tax system?
Federal taxes are lower than any time in sixty years, and the deficit is bigger than any time in history. But the Koch brothers (who started the "Taxed enough" party) think their taxes are too high!
Some of today's rich people disgust me. Kudos to Buffett, one rich guy who isn't disgusting.
Yeah, but what if Solo didn't have both hands tied behind his back? Of course, it would be a boring fight, those guys are REALLY old.
A wookie would tear a Klingon's arms off if the wookie lost a chess game to him. That is, if you could find a chess-playing Klingon (Worf, maybe, but I doubt even Worf would have the patience for chess).
You'd be surprised how many non-nerds are Star Trek fans. However, you won't find them at the conventions or in Star Trek costumes. You'll find them at your corner bar or any construction site.
If it's so easy, why do people so often get it wrong?
Many reasons. Lack of programming skill, laziness, lack of proper testing, rushing products out of the door, etc. The same reasons that software always needs patching, while things like TVs, cars, etc seldom do.
After completing his doctorate, Asimov joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine, with which he remained associated thereafter.[20] From 1958, this was in a non-teaching capacity, as he turned to writing full-time (his writing income had already exceeded his academic salary). Being tenured meant that he retained the title of associate professor, and in 1979 the university honored his writing by promoting him to full professor of biochemistry. Asimov's personal papers from 1965 onward are archived at the university's Mugar Memorial Library, to which he donated them at the request of curator Howard Gottlieb. The collection fills 464 boxes, or seventy-one meters of shelf space.
The dust covers of several of his books say he did indeed do cancer research at Boston University, although Wikipedia omits this. I'd say regardless of professorship, doing research in one's scientific field does make one a scientist, although I agree that someone with a degree in physics that only teaches isn't a scientist. I've worked with folks holding PhDs in the social sciences who weren't doing research, and I wouldn't consider them scientists, either (and neither would they).
And conversely, binary is program-readable and text is not.
Of course it is. A computer can translate text to binary easily; the programming to do so is trivial. How do you think a chatbot works?
What are you doing to your poor computer? I only need to update after each patch Tuesday.
Running FreeAVG since the McAfee that came with it slowed it to a crawl. It's asked for reboots twice since I installed it last week. It should never need a reboot at all unless the kernel is updated.
Some scientists write science fiction when they're not researching. Isaac Asimov, for example, held a PhD in biochemistry and did cancer research at Boston University.
You're lucky -- this is the first time in two weeks I don't have mod points. Are you Ballmer's grandson or something? Do you even know what an "object" is? MS's poo-pooing of text is one of the worst things about MS and one reason so many of us stay away. Text is human-readable, binary is not. If you're passing "objects" as text and your code goes kerflooey you can examine what was passed and easily figure out what went wrong. Not so with binary blobs. Mind explaining why you think passing binary makes more sense and gives more options?
Have you ever used a single program that didn't come from Redmond? Your posts all make it sound like MS is the best thing since sliced bread, when most of us are fond of saying "the day MS makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they start making vaccuum cleaners" (Well, personally I think Excel is the best spreadsheet and MS mice weren't too bad, and I'd take an Xbox over a Sony any day).
BTW, freeAVG just told me to reboot (I haven't got Linux on this box yet). Ironically, I don't mind rebooting Linux because it comes back exactly like I left it, but I never have to reboot. If I reboot Windows I have to restart every open program, yet I have to reboot every few days because something needed updating. Tell your dad to fix this, OK? And tell him to get rid of that God damned registry!
MS is easy to use if you don't know what you're doing. Those of us who have been computing for decades find MS products maddeningly annoying -- the "Redmond way or no way" syndrome.
I don't like Gnome, but IMO KDE is a far superior interface than Windows.
Now I have to brush my teeth after biting that shilly troll. Ugh!
As long as someone's illness doesn't cause them to commit serious crimes or do physical harm, you have no right to tell them what medication to take.
Aspirin and Naproxin don't cure arthritis, either, but I take them. I agree with your statement, but most mentally ill people (at least in America) aren't refraining from taking the drugs by choice, they don't get the drugs because they either have no insurance or their insurance doesn't cover mental illness.
Sick people who want treatment should be able to get it. And the stigma against mental illness is itself insane.
Well, I wouldn't want to live in a leper colony, either. But then, it seemed you were a bit harsh on the crazies -- they can't help being crazy. And like I said, if you hurt and somebody's convinced you that EMF is bad, thinking the EMF is the cause is ignorance, not insanity. Most folks don't know anything at all about physics or biology.
I'd be willing to bet there are more nuts in New York than WVA. They're just a different kind of insane.
These people are certainly ill, and their maladies might be physical or mental, but no doubt they're not well. They could be hypochondriacs, or they could have real maladies that the doctors aren't diagnosing properly (think of that one nerve disease they have treatments for now that they used to say was all in the patients' heads).
I doubt EMF has anything but coincidence to do with it; there's no known physical link.
But even if they are mentally ill, where's your compassion? Do you sneer at cancer patients and heart attack victims? Do you laugh and sneer at your mom when she gets the flu? Mental illness us usually debilitating and often fatal. They can't help being mentally ill any more than Stephen Hawking can help being sick. Do you sneer at him for his disability?
Religion doesn't cause war, but is used by people who aren't religious but pretend to be. All wars are for power and wealth, started and waged by sociopaths.
Let's hope so. I bought the first episode of Kung Fu on DVD, knowing it was originally shot in 35mm. It hadn't been shot in widescreen, so they cropped it to make it widescreen.
I took it back to the store for a refund; I already had it on tape, and rather than being better, the DVD was worse.
Not me. I have almost all of it on tape, much of it from rabbit ears with static and ghosting. I've been digitizing those old analog tapes and putting them on DVD. I'll probably buy the last season of Voyager, since it wasn't broadcast here.
I've been digitizing my old LPs and cassettes, too. There is too much content I want and don't have to go re-buying what I already have. I'm a nerd, but I'm not Bill Gates.
I constantly find myself passing someone who's zoomed past me when the light ahead is red as it turns green and they're just sitting there. Racing to a red light will NOT get you there faster.
I believe you're referring to speeding to catch a green light, that will not only get you there faster but will also save gas.
You're still saving gas. When you're sitting still you're getting 0 mpg. If everyone drove lake that you and I could save even more gas, because we wouldn't have to stop for a green light because everybody else is in such a hurry to race to the red light. People don't seem to realize that in the city, being in a hurry won't get you there any faster. The real speed limit isn't what the sign says, but what the lights are timed at.
Legalize victimless activities and the mafia has no revenue. If the standards for conviction are so high, then why were half the men on Illiniois death row found to be innocent?
Can you cite an instance of a kiddie porn ring being broken by spies? If Bayer sold crack over the counter my house probably wouldn't have been broken into. Terrorists? You're afraid of terrorists? I'm not. I'm far more afraid of idiot drivers, cancer, and heart disease (and burglars and tornados) than I am of terrorists.
No, I refuse to give up privacy and freedom for the illusion of safety. There is no such thing as safety.
Who are the gun runners' victims? Gangs get their income from drugs, prostitution, and gambling. Extortion and protection rackets have victims to testify. You don't need spies to solve violent crimes.
Slashdot Mirror
I decided not to. Anyway, the rich righties are pissing me off with "this is class warfare!!!!" Wake up, people, class war is already being waged and we of median income are getting our asses kicked.
Can someone explain to me why Buffett's secretary pays a higher rate than him? What other country has a more regressive tax system?
Federal taxes are lower than any time in sixty years, and the deficit is bigger than any time in history. But the Koch brothers (who started the "Taxed enough" party) think their taxes are too high!
Some of today's rich people disgust me. Kudos to Buffett, one rich guy who isn't disgusting.
Yeah, but what if Solo didn't have both hands tied behind his back? Of course, it would be a boring fight, those guys are REALLY old.
A wookie would tear a Klingon's arms off if the wookie lost a chess game to him. That is, if you could find a chess-playing Klingon (Worf, maybe, but I doubt even Worf would have the patience for chess).
Spock vs Obi Wan would be an interesting matchup.
You'd be surprised how many non-nerds are Star Trek fans. However, you won't find them at the conventions or in Star Trek costumes. You'll find them at your corner bar or any construction site.
If it's so easy, why do people so often get it wrong?
Many reasons. Lack of programming skill, laziness, lack of proper testing, rushing products out of the door, etc. The same reasons that software always needs patching, while things like TVs, cars, etc seldom do.
From wikipedia:
The dust covers of several of his books say he did indeed do cancer research at Boston University, although Wikipedia omits this. I'd say regardless of professorship, doing research in one's scientific field does make one a scientist, although I agree that someone with a degree in physics that only teaches isn't a scientist. I've worked with folks holding PhDs in the social sciences who weren't doing research, and I wouldn't consider them scientists, either (and neither would they).
And conversely, binary is program-readable and text is not.
Of course it is. A computer can translate text to binary easily; the programming to do so is trivial. How do you think a chatbot works?
What are you doing to your poor computer? I only need to update after each patch Tuesday.
Running FreeAVG since the McAfee that came with it slowed it to a crawl. It's asked for reboots twice since I installed it last week. It should never need a reboot at all unless the kernel is updated.
Some scientists write science fiction when they're not researching. Isaac Asimov, for example, held a PhD in biochemistry and did cancer research at Boston University.
You're lucky -- this is the first time in two weeks I don't have mod points. Are you Ballmer's grandson or something? Do you even know what an "object" is? MS's poo-pooing of text is one of the worst things about MS and one reason so many of us stay away. Text is human-readable, binary is not. If you're passing "objects" as text and your code goes kerflooey you can examine what was passed and easily figure out what went wrong. Not so with binary blobs. Mind explaining why you think passing binary makes more sense and gives more options?
Have you ever used a single program that didn't come from Redmond? Your posts all make it sound like MS is the best thing since sliced bread, when most of us are fond of saying "the day MS makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they start making vaccuum cleaners" (Well, personally I think Excel is the best spreadsheet and MS mice weren't too bad, and I'd take an Xbox over a Sony any day).
BTW, freeAVG just told me to reboot (I haven't got Linux on this box yet). Ironically, I don't mind rebooting Linux because it comes back exactly like I left it, but I never have to reboot. If I reboot Windows I have to restart every open program, yet I have to reboot every few days because something needed updating. Tell your dad to fix this, OK? And tell him to get rid of that God damned registry!
MS is easy to use if you don't know what you're doing. Those of us who have been computing for decades find MS products maddeningly annoying -- the "Redmond way or no way" syndrome.
I don't like Gnome, but IMO KDE is a far superior interface than Windows.
Now I have to brush my teeth after biting that shilly troll. Ugh!
Agreed.
As long as someone's illness doesn't cause them to commit serious crimes or do physical harm, you have no right to tell them what medication to take.
Aspirin and Naproxin don't cure arthritis, either, but I take them. I agree with your statement, but most mentally ill people (at least in America) aren't refraining from taking the drugs by choice, they don't get the drugs because they either have no insurance or their insurance doesn't cover mental illness.
Sick people who want treatment should be able to get it. And the stigma against mental illness is itself insane.
Well, I wouldn't want to live in a leper colony, either. But then, it seemed you were a bit harsh on the crazies -- they can't help being crazy. And like I said, if you hurt and somebody's convinced you that EMF is bad, thinking the EMF is the cause is ignorance, not insanity. Most folks don't know anything at all about physics or biology.
I'd be willing to bet there are more nuts in New York than WVA. They're just a different kind of insane.
These people are certainly ill, and their maladies might be physical or mental, but no doubt they're not well. They could be hypochondriacs, or they could have real maladies that the doctors aren't diagnosing properly (think of that one nerve disease they have treatments for now that they used to say was all in the patients' heads).
I doubt EMF has anything but coincidence to do with it; there's no known physical link.
But even if they are mentally ill, where's your compassion? Do you sneer at cancer patients and heart attack victims? Do you laugh and sneer at your mom when she gets the flu? Mental illness us usually debilitating and often fatal. They can't help being mentally ill any more than Stephen Hawking can help being sick. Do you sneer at him for his disability?
Yes, I am. The popes of the period were after money and power; if they hadn't been there would be no protestants today.
Religion doesn't cause war, but is used by people who aren't religious but pretend to be. All wars are for power and wealth, started and waged by sociopaths.
I had an FPS site then. My journal today is a rerun of what I posted on that day.
Let's hope so. I bought the first episode of Kung Fu on DVD, knowing it was originally shot in 35mm. It hadn't been shot in widescreen, so they cropped it to make it widescreen.
I took it back to the store for a refund; I already had it on tape, and rather than being better, the DVD was worse.
Not me. I have almost all of it on tape, much of it from rabbit ears with static and ghosting. I've been digitizing those old analog tapes and putting them on DVD. I'll probably buy the last season of Voyager, since it wasn't broadcast here.
I've been digitizing my old LPs and cassettes, too. There is too much content I want and don't have to go re-buying what I already have. I'm a nerd, but I'm not Bill Gates.
Welcome back! You've missed a few journals, I've been writing sci-fi stories and posting them here. When I get enough of them it'll be a book.
I constantly find myself passing someone who's zoomed past me when the light ahead is red as it turns green and they're just sitting there. Racing to a red light will NOT get you there faster.
I believe you're referring to speeding to catch a green light, that will not only get you there faster but will also save gas.
You're still saving gas. When you're sitting still you're getting 0 mpg. If everyone drove lake that you and I could save even more gas, because we wouldn't have to stop for a green light because everybody else is in such a hurry to race to the red light. People don't seem to realize that in the city, being in a hurry won't get you there any faster. The real speed limit isn't what the sign says, but what the lights are timed at.
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/20-marijuana-arrests-set-new-record/
Legalize victimless activities and the mafia has no revenue. If the standards for conviction are so high, then why were half the men on Illiniois death row found to be innocent?
As to drug dealers, half of all drug arrests arefor marijuana, and nine out of ten pot busts are for possession.
Can you cite an instance of a kiddie porn ring being broken by spies? If Bayer sold crack over the counter my house probably wouldn't have been broken into. Terrorists? You're afraid of terrorists? I'm not. I'm far more afraid of idiot drivers, cancer, and heart disease (and burglars and tornados) than I am of terrorists.
No, I refuse to give up privacy and freedom for the illusion of safety. There is no such thing as safety.
Who are the gun runners' victims? Gangs get their income from drugs, prostitution, and gambling. Extortion and protection rackets have victims to testify. You don't need spies to solve violent crimes.
The mafia (and "gangsa" gangs) make their money from drugs, prostitution, and gambling. You don't need the secret police to solve a robbery or murder.