Well, then perhaps your generation should have done a better job of teaching us manners. Or generally not cut back on funding education, worker's rights, and generally making things shitty for us, because you got yours, the hell to anybody that comes after.
We're going to be spending a shit ton of money and effort clearing up the messes that the elderly caused.
Respect does go both ways, but you guys should demonstrate it first, because all we know is the douchebaggery that you've shown us.
The point of MBAs is to get things going as well as possible in the short term so the executives can get their golden parachute just before the business goes under, and it becomes somebody else's problem.
Which is the same reason why they require people to have all the experience they'll need for an entry level position and don't want to pay people who know what they're doing to stay.
Sigh, it's interesting to me how this process has been going on for literally thousands of years without any hint that it will change. Seems to me, that if it were possible for the language to devolve in that fashion, we'd already be there by now. More likely, that stick up your ass will cause society to devolve much more quickly.
Personally, I'm in favor of teaching people like you some manners and respect for the coming generation, as we're the ones you're going to be counting on in old age, not to just dump you in the middle of the woods to fend for yourself.
That's an idiomatic use of the double negative. Double negatives in English typically mean the same as a positive, but can also serve to emphasize the point, in some dialects of English it's considered grammatically acceptable to use double negatives in that idiomatic fashion.
But, it's not a feature of English, it's a feature of some dialects of English.
Or, to put it another way, how long do you think you'd be able to keep a job writing business memos or reports if you were using double negatives for emphasis? I'm guessing you'd very quickly be made to either change the language, or change your job.
Perhaps in the past, but I'm not counting on getting to retire that early. Between the wages being stagnant, the complete lack of defined benefits pensions and Social Security being in a state where the politicians are more interested in pandering to the people on it now, than concerning themselves with what happens when those paying in now get old enough to learn that they're getting less than they paid into it by design.
I've noticed that. They skip necessary, but boring, features to add something more interesting.
For instance, Google Tasks still doesn't have any method for adding recurring tasks, they expect you to add an event for that, but the problem is that these aren't events, I might have it on my to do list for a week sometimes, and want it there until it's been finished. And, it doesn't require me to do it at a specific time either, just sometime during the day.
And then there's the features on my Nexus One that are in the phone physically, but that they never felt like enabling in software. Or at least they hadn't as of the time when I switched to CyanogenMod. Did they ever choose to enable the colored scroll ball for user customization or enable the FM tuner?
Excuse me? He gave himself the power to classify American citizens as enemy combatants and remove them from the justice system completely. He gave himself more or less completely unchecked power by crying about national security when people wanted to ensure that there were reasonable checks and balances to his authority.
How on Earth did you come up with the idea that he wasn't power hungry? He was one of the most power hungry Presidents in US history. He even went so far as to take the 2000 election by convincing the SCrOTUmS that counting the ballots thoroughly infringed upon the rights of other Americans in areas that weren't quite as evenly divided.
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You're ignoring the other costs of buying books.
Yes, they should be cheaper than regular books by about half, but they're still a good deal even at the same price as regular books. The main problem is that there's tons of book stores out there, and there's relatively few stores for ebooks. And if you're foolish enough to buy a Kindle, that leaves you mainly with Amazon, versus pretty much everybody else using epubs.
Anyways, there's storage considerations for the books you buy, the gas to get to the store, the shipping if you don't go to the shop, if it's a book you use frequently it wears out. And when you're going on vacation, it can be costly to bring a collection of books with you.
Personally, I only get rid of books due to space limitations, and with ebooks, I've never felt deprived by not having the ability to sell it.
That was my thought, I don't buy any books from Amazon because they don't offer them in a format that's readable on my Nook. They're the main party that's trying to push their.MOBI crap on people.
This is natural, the price of a book was always largely arbitrary. The book store itself would get to double the price that they paid for the book, and there were some tangible costs, but most of it was arbitrary based upon how much money they needed to make back their investment and earn some profit.
The only thing there that's changing is that one party is having such a disproportionate impact on the pricing and selling.
That's why I'm a progressive. The America that the conservatives want never existed. But, the America that the progressives want at least is theoretically possible to some degree.
Bullshit, until relatively recently everybody had that kind of privacy that wasn't a celebrity or other famous individual.
What's more, even for the famous, if something happened a year ago, chances are good that you'd have to go digging for it in the news paper archives if you wanted information about it. Now, you can do a web search and find information from the last decade easily, and usually within minutes.
What's more, prior to the last couple years, you wouldn't have pictures being tagged automatically based upon a small number of samples.
When all is said and done, up until the 20th century if you could find your way a hundred miles from home, chances are you'd be able to run away from pretty much anything. At this point, there's basically nowhere you can go where that stuff isn't going to follow you.
It's not just how you behave in public, it's knowing how an innocuous action is going to be construed by an out of context photo or recording. Even just drinking soda out of a red plastic cup is sufficient to end a persons career in teaching if they weren't 21 at the time the photo was taken.
It began before that, it appears he had access to things which weren't related to his job. Meaning that the things he was working with couldn't be secured from him, but the rest of it is the result of incompetence on the part of the people securing the data.
The real news here is that this happened today and we're reading about it today. I would have expected to have to wait at least a fortnight for the initial report to show up here. Followed by a week of dupes.
Bottom line here is that if you gun nuts would actually admit that we don't have a violence problem in the US, we have a gun problem, we might actually make some progress towards solving things. But, when you can't address the weapon used in 2/3 of all homocides and a similar proportion of suicides without RWNJ throwing tantrums, it makes it really challenging to do anything about it.
Yes, but that isn't secure. We have enough trouble with people getting their accounts broken into because of things like those stupid security questions and general lax security. And you're seriously suggesting that self-signing is a good idea?
What's more, that doesn't really handle the problems associated with key exchange, which are vital as the NSA already gets in on the server side anyways, having people send traffic through a monitored pipeline isn't really worthwhile if you want privacy.
To be fair, if the NSA had competent security measures in place, this wouldn't have happened. It was a pretty substantial breakdown in policy that let him get to Hongkong with the data.
The more people that encrypted trivial bullshit, the more they need to store and the longer it'll take them to crack it at any point in the future. And the less likely it is that they'll be able to pay attention to everybody.
Remember, the time it takes them to crack thousands of LOL cat videos is time they don't have to crack things we actually care about.
I'm assuming that you're either trolling or live in the middle of nowhere.
Because this is a very serious thing indeed. Somebody breaking into your house? 911 is what you would call to get a police officer on the scene. Neighbor having a stroke? Call 911 and they should get medics on the scene ASAP.
People who feel safe in the absence of a 911 system are usually delusional, as those things, or analogous things, can happen to anybody at any age.
The backup system is what wasn't being tested, apparently, which makes sense seeing as that wasn't working when they needed to switch to it. And there seems to be little doubt about that as Motorola's spokesperson acknowledged it.
That's totally true, but it does make the process of learning to touch type easier as you can better correct yourself as you go. It's the process I went through when learning to type Pinyin with my QWERTY keyboard.
I'm pretty sure that Dvorak is more comfortable, IIRC, the lay out was based upon the frequency with which letters are used in words sequentially so as to spread the letters across both hands and limit the number of simultaneous keystrokes for different letters by the same finger.
But, in terms of ultimate comfort, unless you're typing a crapload of letters, I just don't see there being anything inherently wrong with QWERTY that would be cured with Dvorak. You still do need to use proper form to reduce the risk of repetitive use injuries.
Because most people don't type enough to benefit from the Dvorak keyboard, and there's a shit ton of QWERTY keyboards that are already in use in countries where the Dvorak would be of use. Changing things like this can take a huge amount of effort and unless there's a definite advantage in the short term sufficient to justify it, things won't change.
The main point of the Dvorak keyboard is that it eliminates long stretches of keys pushed by the same hand and/or finger, so that you can type for longer, but if you don't type long enough for strain to be an issue, then it's not really much of an advantage.
Plus, I can personally type fast enough that I'm having to pause to make sure that I'm typing what I want to type rather than random words that pop into my head as I type.
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Well, then perhaps your generation should have done a better job of teaching us manners. Or generally not cut back on funding education, worker's rights, and generally making things shitty for us, because you got yours, the hell to anybody that comes after.
We're going to be spending a shit ton of money and effort clearing up the messes that the elderly caused.
Respect does go both ways, but you guys should demonstrate it first, because all we know is the douchebaggery that you've shown us.
You said it yourself "long run."
The point of MBAs is to get things going as well as possible in the short term so the executives can get their golden parachute just before the business goes under, and it becomes somebody else's problem.
Which is the same reason why they require people to have all the experience they'll need for an entry level position and don't want to pay people who know what they're doing to stay.
Sigh, it's interesting to me how this process has been going on for literally thousands of years without any hint that it will change. Seems to me, that if it were possible for the language to devolve in that fashion, we'd already be there by now. More likely, that stick up your ass will cause society to devolve much more quickly.
Personally, I'm in favor of teaching people like you some manners and respect for the coming generation, as we're the ones you're going to be counting on in old age, not to just dump you in the middle of the woods to fend for yourself.
That's an idiomatic use of the double negative. Double negatives in English typically mean the same as a positive, but can also serve to emphasize the point, in some dialects of English it's considered grammatically acceptable to use double negatives in that idiomatic fashion.
But, it's not a feature of English, it's a feature of some dialects of English.
Or, to put it another way, how long do you think you'd be able to keep a job writing business memos or reports if you were using double negatives for emphasis? I'm guessing you'd very quickly be made to either change the language, or change your job.
Perhaps in the past, but I'm not counting on getting to retire that early. Between the wages being stagnant, the complete lack of defined benefits pensions and Social Security being in a state where the politicians are more interested in pandering to the people on it now, than concerning themselves with what happens when those paying in now get old enough to learn that they're getting less than they paid into it by design.
I've noticed that. They skip necessary, but boring, features to add something more interesting.
For instance, Google Tasks still doesn't have any method for adding recurring tasks, they expect you to add an event for that, but the problem is that these aren't events, I might have it on my to do list for a week sometimes, and want it there until it's been finished. And, it doesn't require me to do it at a specific time either, just sometime during the day.
And then there's the features on my Nexus One that are in the phone physically, but that they never felt like enabling in software. Or at least they hadn't as of the time when I switched to CyanogenMod. Did they ever choose to enable the colored scroll ball for user customization or enable the FM tuner?
And, if my being upset bothers you, perhaps I should send you a brown hanky to match your shirt.
Excuse me? He gave himself the power to classify American citizens as enemy combatants and remove them from the justice system completely. He gave himself more or less completely unchecked power by crying about national security when people wanted to ensure that there were reasonable checks and balances to his authority.
How on Earth did you come up with the idea that he wasn't power hungry? He was one of the most power hungry Presidents in US history. He even went so far as to take the 2000 election by convincing the SCrOTUmS that counting the ballots thoroughly infringed upon the rights of other Americans in areas that weren't quite as evenly divided.
You're ignoring the other costs of buying books.
Yes, they should be cheaper than regular books by about half, but they're still a good deal even at the same price as regular books. The main problem is that there's tons of book stores out there, and there's relatively few stores for ebooks. And if you're foolish enough to buy a Kindle, that leaves you mainly with Amazon, versus pretty much everybody else using epubs.
Anyways, there's storage considerations for the books you buy, the gas to get to the store, the shipping if you don't go to the shop, if it's a book you use frequently it wears out. And when you're going on vacation, it can be costly to bring a collection of books with you.
Personally, I only get rid of books due to space limitations, and with ebooks, I've never felt deprived by not having the ability to sell it.
That was my thought, I don't buy any books from Amazon because they don't offer them in a format that's readable on my Nook. They're the main party that's trying to push their .MOBI crap on people.
This is natural, the price of a book was always largely arbitrary. The book store itself would get to double the price that they paid for the book, and there were some tangible costs, but most of it was arbitrary based upon how much money they needed to make back their investment and earn some profit.
The only thing there that's changing is that one party is having such a disproportionate impact on the pricing and selling.
Or possibly GWB.
That's why I'm a progressive. The America that the conservatives want never existed. But, the America that the progressives want at least is theoretically possible to some degree.
Bullshit, until relatively recently everybody had that kind of privacy that wasn't a celebrity or other famous individual.
What's more, even for the famous, if something happened a year ago, chances are good that you'd have to go digging for it in the news paper archives if you wanted information about it. Now, you can do a web search and find information from the last decade easily, and usually within minutes.
What's more, prior to the last couple years, you wouldn't have pictures being tagged automatically based upon a small number of samples.
When all is said and done, up until the 20th century if you could find your way a hundred miles from home, chances are you'd be able to run away from pretty much anything. At this point, there's basically nowhere you can go where that stuff isn't going to follow you.
It's not just how you behave in public, it's knowing how an innocuous action is going to be construed by an out of context photo or recording. Even just drinking soda out of a red plastic cup is sufficient to end a persons career in teaching if they weren't 21 at the time the photo was taken.
It began before that, it appears he had access to things which weren't related to his job. Meaning that the things he was working with couldn't be secured from him, but the rest of it is the result of incompetence on the part of the people securing the data.
The real news here is that this happened today and we're reading about it today. I would have expected to have to wait at least a fortnight for the initial report to show up here. Followed by a week of dupes.
That's not one study, the CDC has reliable data that firearms are more often used for suicide than for the purposes of self defense. http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_Violence_Related_Injury_Deaths_2010-a.pdf
Bottom line here is that if you gun nuts would actually admit that we don't have a violence problem in the US, we have a gun problem, we might actually make some progress towards solving things. But, when you can't address the weapon used in 2/3 of all homocides and a similar proportion of suicides without RWNJ throwing tantrums, it makes it really challenging to do anything about it.
Yes, but that isn't secure. We have enough trouble with people getting their accounts broken into because of things like those stupid security questions and general lax security. And you're seriously suggesting that self-signing is a good idea?
What's more, that doesn't really handle the problems associated with key exchange, which are vital as the NSA already gets in on the server side anyways, having people send traffic through a monitored pipeline isn't really worthwhile if you want privacy.
To be fair, if the NSA had competent security measures in place, this wouldn't have happened. It was a pretty substantial breakdown in policy that let him get to Hongkong with the data.
The more people that encrypted trivial bullshit, the more they need to store and the longer it'll take them to crack it at any point in the future. And the less likely it is that they'll be able to pay attention to everybody.
Remember, the time it takes them to crack thousands of LOL cat videos is time they don't have to crack things we actually care about.
The problem with encrypted email is that you can only send it to people who agree that security is important.
And the people causing the loss of my privacy are numb nuts that post pictures of me to FB and various other places without my permission.
I'm assuming that you're either trolling or live in the middle of nowhere.
Because this is a very serious thing indeed. Somebody breaking into your house? 911 is what you would call to get a police officer on the scene. Neighbor having a stroke? Call 911 and they should get medics on the scene ASAP.
People who feel safe in the absence of a 911 system are usually delusional, as those things, or analogous things, can happen to anybody at any age.
The backup system is what wasn't being tested, apparently, which makes sense seeing as that wasn't working when they needed to switch to it. And there seems to be little doubt about that as Motorola's spokesperson acknowledged it.
That's totally true, but it does make the process of learning to touch type easier as you can better correct yourself as you go. It's the process I went through when learning to type Pinyin with my QWERTY keyboard.
I'm pretty sure that Dvorak is more comfortable, IIRC, the lay out was based upon the frequency with which letters are used in words sequentially so as to spread the letters across both hands and limit the number of simultaneous keystrokes for different letters by the same finger.
But, in terms of ultimate comfort, unless you're typing a crapload of letters, I just don't see there being anything inherently wrong with QWERTY that would be cured with Dvorak. You still do need to use proper form to reduce the risk of repetitive use injuries.
Because most people don't type enough to benefit from the Dvorak keyboard, and there's a shit ton of QWERTY keyboards that are already in use in countries where the Dvorak would be of use. Changing things like this can take a huge amount of effort and unless there's a definite advantage in the short term sufficient to justify it, things won't change.
The main point of the Dvorak keyboard is that it eliminates long stretches of keys pushed by the same hand and/or finger, so that you can type for longer, but if you don't type long enough for strain to be an issue, then it's not really much of an advantage.
Plus, I can personally type fast enough that I'm having to pause to make sure that I'm typing what I want to type rather than random words that pop into my head as I type.