It never ceases to surprise me just how OK Americans are with rape, so long as the person being raped isn't a woman. Perhaps before we start lecturing other nations about human rights abuses, we might want to remember that there is a prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, and only the most narrow minded of people would consider prison conditions to not be a part of the punishment.
A lot of people forget about that. What's worse is that for somebody in their 40s, you've got it easy, a lot of people can't get insurance at all no matter how much money they have. I would have been in that position were it not for my state having a pool for anybody that can pay, regardless of health condition. It's much more expensive than the other options, but at least it's there for those that can afford it.
In many states, those folks wouldn't have any insurance at all.
Makes me wonder how ignorant a person would have to be to believe that repeal and replace is a wise move over just fixing the problems in the current reform package. The one which requires at least 80% of individual and small group policies to be spent on things that are actually related to healthcare and 85% of policies for larger groups. Even without anything else, that's enough to justify not doing a full repeal.
The term is "mission creep" and it's a bad thing. I see no logical reason why Firefox would need its own OS when it presently runs on more than just one OS. And for that matter more than one free OS.
I was curious about that as well. Beyond the superficial both are created by programmers angle, I'm not sure what the two have in common that would lend itself well to people going from OS design to browser design or vice versa.
Seems a bit like going to the people at Oster and asking them to make the power grid, because they do so damned well with kitchen appliances.
Firefox was, but it turns out that people actually want a complete web browser. If you don't believe me just look at Chrome, it was faster and now it's bloating up with features the way that Firefox did.
OTOH, Opera was fast and still is fast, but AFAIK they never did bloat up with features and they're being buried by Firefox, Chrome and IE at the present time.
Bullshit. First off whether or not he's doing his homework on time is hardly a reasonable excuse, school and work might conflict in which case you've got to make a decision. That's hardly the fault of BestBuy provided they aren't mandating overtime on a regular basis.
Some shops provide a free estimate and some don't, it's hardly the sort of injustice you're trying to suggest it is. Shops that have a policy like that disclose it up front, and if the prospective client doesn't like it, they do have other shops.
OTOH, perhaps they should be thankful that people are forgetting about them. I used to buy things from them in the past. But I stopped about the time they stopped posting full spec lists. I had to return several things in a row because they didn't get the spec list right, and much of what they were selling was unbadged or obscure.
I ended up not bothering to return the last one because after I paid for shipping all they were willing to give me was store credit that I wouldn't use because I had bought that item with store credit.
A decade ago, they were actually fairly good, but last time I did business with them the experience was pretty bad, I think this is the first time I've been to their site in quite a while.
Geek Squad was from what I understand actually fairly helpful prior to being taken over by BestBuy. These days though, they're more known for stealing porn from consumers and general ineptitude. 9 Confessions Of A Former Geek Squad Geek
As long as people take that view we won't get real, meaningful change. Voting for the GOP promises to cut the size of the government is a large part of the problem. No matter how extreme they get, and considering the death threats at some of their Presidential rallies in 2008, people keep voting for them because teh gubbmint is always evil.
If you vote for people who take the view that government is never the solution to anything, what on Earth makes you think that they're not sabotaging the government to get reelected?
If you look at the site, they've had to retract some of the dox. That doesn't necessarily mean that the ones they've allegedly forwarded to the FBI aren't good, but it does make one somewhat suspicious as to whether or not they really have the goods.
If they release it somebody is going to be interested enough in it to analyze it. Whether it's a forensic accountant as a hobby or a competitor that's willling to pay for the analysis so that they can hurt their competition. But trust me, if there's information like that out there somebody will analyze it. There's always journalists looking to do an expose.
The problem is that as soon as people are allowed to post things which aren't true without being challenged, over time the falsehoods come to take on an aura of truth which is then difficult to deal with. Just like how now people still believe refer to healthcare reform as "obamacare" despite the conclusive evidence and references that most of the controversial stuff was lifted from conservative candidates.
It's not a bad excuse, the sort of positions that book readers adopt to read for long periods of time are amongst the worst ones for your neck and back. Anytime you've got force being applied transverse to your spinal column you're doing something really bad for your neck.
As far as me being a wuss, you wouldn't be saying that to my face. I eat weaklings like you for breakfast.
The problem is that books are not designed to be read for long periods of time. Paperbacks are light, but they are tough to keep open properly, and require constant holding in order to keep them open. Hardcovers don't necessarily have that problem, but they're heavy, and if you want to hold them for long period of time, your arms tend to lose blood flow.
Now, if you set them down, you end up in a position which is about as tough on your neck as possible, and curling up isn't so hot for your spine either.
In short, of the things one is likely to do in normal every day life, reading books is probably one of the more harmful things one does to the spinal column. And just in general humans are not meant to be sitting for long periods of time, doesn't matter whether it's to read, use the computer or what not, it's not good for the body.
I graduated back in 2003, and pretty much everything I learned has been obsolete for years at this point. There is a way of thinking about things which was valuable, but really, most of that could be learned by reading a copious amount of philosophy books and really examining the world around you.
There is something to that last quote, but by the same tolkien, reading itself is a pale imitation of what can be had by just sitting there and watching as things happen. You'd be amazed at all the stories that go by and unfold while most folks are not paying attention. Since most books historically have had significant bits of plagiarism, you might as well just make up your own stories about the world, and save a lot of time.
To be honest, we don't really care what people as fucking stupid as you think about things. I don't represent Mozilla, but it's not helpful to pretend like your situation is typical without actually providing any evidence. You're not going to fix a problem caused by extensions by mucking around in the browser code, sure when add ons get their own processes, it will be a lot easier to know who is responsible for what.
But, at the moment, only a fucking moron would claim that it's Firefox' fault that other people can't code properly.
As for MS, it's there fault that their architecture was so incompetently designed for so long. Remermber this is the same outfit that felt that it was OK to ignore the specs for ACPI and put work arounds for known buggy implementations into their code. They long ago gave up any credibility in that regards. Not to mention the fact that when Windows crashed nobody, not even their support people, had any idea what was causing it based upon the error messages. They've gotten better, but that's the way it's been.
And yes, I do care who's at fault, if it's MS' fault, then that's one thing, if it's the hardware vendor, I'm not going to solve that problem by ditching Windows.
They don't last forever, but they do last a long time. I suppose if you really want them to last, you should bang them out of sheets of aluminum. Or lead, if you use materials like that, they'll easily last a couple millenia, assuming nothing squashes them. Even then they'd have to be pretty smashed in order to be completely illegible. The bigger issue would be finding somebody to actually read them.
There is, it's called the Creative Commons, and there's a bunch of works that are available there. It's rather more complicated than free software as one book isn't necessarily fungible for another, especially outside the realm of text books and other works of non-fiction.
I don't think so. Book worms and book snobs greatly overestimate the influence that physical books have on our lives. Most people aren't so attached to the format. For most people, the thing that's going to hold them back is not wanting to rebuy books that the already own just so that they've got an electronic copy.
There are few things I've done which are as uncomfortable as trying to read a book for a prolonged period of time. It's just absolutely miserable. And the good books tend to be thick and heavy, which makes it that much more awkward to make use of.
We're getting there, you can get a new eReader for $139 easily, and I'm sure there are times when you can get them for a lot less. The real problem right now is DRM and the insistence of most publishers that books should cost the same whether they're electronic or dead tree editions. Plunking down $100+ for an ebook reader isn't so bad, but it's overpriced if the only selling point is convenience.
It has more to do with the fact that books tend to be out of date by the time they're published. Science and technology books in general are barely up to date the moment that they're published. If you're wanting to read to learn, you're probably better off reading scholarly journals.
On top of that, you can learn so much more by hanging out on a forum dedicated to your interest era then you ever could by reading.
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It never ceases to surprise me just how OK Americans are with rape, so long as the person being raped isn't a woman. Perhaps before we start lecturing other nations about human rights abuses, we might want to remember that there is a prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, and only the most narrow minded of people would consider prison conditions to not be a part of the punishment.
A lot of people forget about that. What's worse is that for somebody in their 40s, you've got it easy, a lot of people can't get insurance at all no matter how much money they have. I would have been in that position were it not for my state having a pool for anybody that can pay, regardless of health condition. It's much more expensive than the other options, but at least it's there for those that can afford it.
In many states, those folks wouldn't have any insurance at all.
Makes me wonder how ignorant a person would have to be to believe that repeal and replace is a wise move over just fixing the problems in the current reform package. The one which requires at least 80% of individual and small group policies to be spent on things that are actually related to healthcare and 85% of policies for larger groups. Even without anything else, that's enough to justify not doing a full repeal.
The news here is that they were foolish enough to accept them in the first place. I had no idea that their judgment was that bad.
The term is "mission creep" and it's a bad thing. I see no logical reason why Firefox would need its own OS when it presently runs on more than just one OS. And for that matter more than one free OS.
I was curious about that as well. Beyond the superficial both are created by programmers angle, I'm not sure what the two have in common that would lend itself well to people going from OS design to browser design or vice versa.
Seems a bit like going to the people at Oster and asking them to make the power grid, because they do so damned well with kitchen appliances.
Firefox was, but it turns out that people actually want a complete web browser. If you don't believe me just look at Chrome, it was faster and now it's bloating up with features the way that Firefox did.
OTOH, Opera was fast and still is fast, but AFAIK they never did bloat up with features and they're being buried by Firefox, Chrome and IE at the present time.
Bullshit. First off whether or not he's doing his homework on time is hardly a reasonable excuse, school and work might conflict in which case you've got to make a decision. That's hardly the fault of BestBuy provided they aren't mandating overtime on a regular basis.
Some shops provide a free estimate and some don't, it's hardly the sort of injustice you're trying to suggest it is. Shops that have a policy like that disclose it up front, and if the prospective client doesn't like it, they do have other shops.
OTOH, perhaps they should be thankful that people are forgetting about them. I used to buy things from them in the past. But I stopped about the time they stopped posting full spec lists. I had to return several things in a row because they didn't get the spec list right, and much of what they were selling was unbadged or obscure.
I ended up not bothering to return the last one because after I paid for shipping all they were willing to give me was store credit that I wouldn't use because I had bought that item with store credit.
A decade ago, they were actually fairly good, but last time I did business with them the experience was pretty bad, I think this is the first time I've been to their site in quite a while.
Geek Squad was from what I understand actually fairly helpful prior to being taken over by BestBuy. These days though, they're more known for stealing porn from consumers and general ineptitude. 9 Confessions Of A Former Geek Squad Geek
As long as people take that view we won't get real, meaningful change. Voting for the GOP promises to cut the size of the government is a large part of the problem. No matter how extreme they get, and considering the death threats at some of their Presidential rallies in 2008, people keep voting for them because teh gubbmint is always evil.
If you vote for people who take the view that government is never the solution to anything, what on Earth makes you think that they're not sabotaging the government to get reelected?
If you look at the site, they've had to retract some of the dox. That doesn't necessarily mean that the ones they've allegedly forwarded to the FBI aren't good, but it does make one somewhat suspicious as to whether or not they really have the goods.
If they release it somebody is going to be interested enough in it to analyze it. Whether it's a forensic accountant as a hobby or a competitor that's willling to pay for the analysis so that they can hurt their competition. But trust me, if there's information like that out there somebody will analyze it. There's always journalists looking to do an expose.
The problem is that as soon as people are allowed to post things which aren't true without being challenged, over time the falsehoods come to take on an aura of truth which is then difficult to deal with. Just like how now people still believe refer to healthcare reform as "obamacare" despite the conclusive evidence and references that most of the controversial stuff was lifted from conservative candidates.
It's not a bad excuse, the sort of positions that book readers adopt to read for long periods of time are amongst the worst ones for your neck and back. Anytime you've got force being applied transverse to your spinal column you're doing something really bad for your neck.
As far as me being a wuss, you wouldn't be saying that to my face. I eat weaklings like you for breakfast.
The problem is that books are not designed to be read for long periods of time. Paperbacks are light, but they are tough to keep open properly, and require constant holding in order to keep them open. Hardcovers don't necessarily have that problem, but they're heavy, and if you want to hold them for long period of time, your arms tend to lose blood flow.
Now, if you set them down, you end up in a position which is about as tough on your neck as possible, and curling up isn't so hot for your spine either.
In short, of the things one is likely to do in normal every day life, reading books is probably one of the more harmful things one does to the spinal column. And just in general humans are not meant to be sitting for long periods of time, doesn't matter whether it's to read, use the computer or what not, it's not good for the body.
TSR? The same one that I wasted many hours having to find my way around, just so that I could play my computer games?
Well, at least I'm not designing it. There'd be at least one grue involved.
I graduated back in 2003, and pretty much everything I learned has been obsolete for years at this point. There is a way of thinking about things which was valuable, but really, most of that could be learned by reading a copious amount of philosophy books and really examining the world around you.
There is something to that last quote, but by the same tolkien, reading itself is a pale imitation of what can be had by just sitting there and watching as things happen. You'd be amazed at all the stories that go by and unfold while most folks are not paying attention. Since most books historically have had significant bits of plagiarism, you might as well just make up your own stories about the world, and save a lot of time.
To be honest, we don't really care what people as fucking stupid as you think about things. I don't represent Mozilla, but it's not helpful to pretend like your situation is typical without actually providing any evidence. You're not going to fix a problem caused by extensions by mucking around in the browser code, sure when add ons get their own processes, it will be a lot easier to know who is responsible for what.
But, at the moment, only a fucking moron would claim that it's Firefox' fault that other people can't code properly.
As for MS, it's there fault that their architecture was so incompetently designed for so long. Remermber this is the same outfit that felt that it was OK to ignore the specs for ACPI and put work arounds for known buggy implementations into their code. They long ago gave up any credibility in that regards. Not to mention the fact that when Windows crashed nobody, not even their support people, had any idea what was causing it based upon the error messages. They've gotten better, but that's the way it's been.
And yes, I do care who's at fault, if it's MS' fault, then that's one thing, if it's the hardware vendor, I'm not going to solve that problem by ditching Windows.
They don't last forever, but they do last a long time. I suppose if you really want them to last, you should bang them out of sheets of aluminum. Or lead, if you use materials like that, they'll easily last a couple millenia, assuming nothing squashes them. Even then they'd have to be pretty smashed in order to be completely illegible. The bigger issue would be finding somebody to actually read them.
There is, it's called the Creative Commons, and there's a bunch of works that are available there. It's rather more complicated than free software as one book isn't necessarily fungible for another, especially outside the realm of text books and other works of non-fiction.
I don't think so. Book worms and book snobs greatly overestimate the influence that physical books have on our lives. Most people aren't so attached to the format. For most people, the thing that's going to hold them back is not wanting to rebuy books that the already own just so that they've got an electronic copy.
There are few things I've done which are as uncomfortable as trying to read a book for a prolonged period of time. It's just absolutely miserable. And the good books tend to be thick and heavy, which makes it that much more awkward to make use of.
We're getting there, you can get a new eReader for $139 easily, and I'm sure there are times when you can get them for a lot less. The real problem right now is DRM and the insistence of most publishers that books should cost the same whether they're electronic or dead tree editions. Plunking down $100+ for an ebook reader isn't so bad, but it's overpriced if the only selling point is convenience.
It has more to do with the fact that books tend to be out of date by the time they're published. Science and technology books in general are barely up to date the moment that they're published. If you're wanting to read to learn, you're probably better off reading scholarly journals.
On top of that, you can learn so much more by hanging out on a forum dedicated to your interest era then you ever could by reading.