My Mother used to slap me for saying this but somehow it just seems appropriate here.
Supposedly, it only took three nails to hang the last 'perfect' person on a cross!
Everyone of us reading and responding to this article owes at least a small amount of gratitude to Bill Gates and the OS we love to hate.
Don't see the Chaney, Bush, Petroleum folks being benevolent now, do we? Or how about the greedy pharmaceuticals......
Mr.& Mrs. Gates and Mr. Buffet have both my admiration and have ever so slightly renewed my faith that there are "NOT EVIL" companies out there. Lets, hope that some day in the future more will follow in their example.
Sorry! Don't think much of their methods. Did they take in to consideration that since the 2nd world war the national population have physically moved from 'the country 'towns' where your 'friends' came from generations old neighbors and relatives. Once Americans began moving to where the post war economy and commerce was, strangers were their neighbors and their relatives might be half a continent away. As those populations of strangers grew in closer and closer proximity to each other and further and further away from their past relationships, IMHO most people found experience drove the trust factor of neighbors down and frankly without the INFAMOUS INTERNET INFLUENCE, long distance communication with old friends, neighbors and relatives became less and less rewarding or efficient.
I sincerely believe that the Internet has added access and accessibility to more and more meaningful relationships. After all in small town America, you kind of had to stay friendly with most since you were probably distantly related and 'you can't choose your relatives'. You can, and DO choose your Internet relationships based on shared interests.
Plus, now all your old family, small town friends and relatives have almost instant access to one another via computer. Kind of looks to me like they got it totally backwards.
I really don't care to become personally familiar with ANY product whose last sentance contains the last three words:side effects may include... AND OR DEATH!
Does anybody remember (think it was BBC) Comedy show used to run on Canadian T.V. "This Hour Contains 22 1/2 Minutes". IIRC
Content from Ad Agencies? I don't know. We can't get CONTENT from the mass news media...repetition, propaganda. and plenty of bull, but meaningful content is in serious short supply anywhere.
"Where are these "activist judges" of which you speak? I haven't seen many; but the knee-jerk stupidity of Congress seems pretty much limitless."
If these activist judges actually existed, I might understand our judicial system but as it stands, it looks like "High Finance" to me.
Pork for polititians states lead to friendly golf partners of Law Firms, become judges, who become polititians whoese sons & daughters become more lawyers, big business mogols and require more schools, roads, etc. To pay for all the necessary infrastructure (Lord knows big business IE DR.'s, Lawyers, Big Business doesn't want to pay for it) so we create more IGNORANT little laws to tack on to the imortant ones we Won't get if we Don't... Break the law, hire a lawyer, pay a judge's salaries, law enforcement, build more prisons, hire more guards and last but not least.....Imprision more citizens then any 3rd world country while we shout at the top of our collective voices.....Follow our example! We are offering the world Democracy!
Sound like another Rant? Guess it is! I just don'y get it anymore!
You all INVENTED this 'nasty little step-child' and if more of you were not profiting from same, You would think that those same inventive minds, would UN-Invent it's ability to overpower a simple User Kill Switch. yes, I know I'm not a programmer but if you were smart enough to find all the keys to get your crap into my in-box, you surely can find a way to keep it out. ONLY, it appears to me, when doing so, is more profitable then NOT doing so. When the choice comes down to personally justifying spam or eating spam...there is this thing called perspective.
You know those 'unemployment' figures you quote as valid data...Well guess what? Those figures do NOT count those people whose Unemployment ran out during the last period in between 'counts'! And those 'Employment' figures DO count those who are working but for less then the necessary monthly hours to qualify them for ANY benefits other then showing up to collect their minimum wage paycheck. Many of these people come out of the previously mentioned "Unemployment" has run out group who now may be working multiple jobs, sending wives back to work part time, just to keep the wolf from the door.
Then of course, employment today requires certain contributions from a prospective employee that my nearly 50 year old son does not find demeening, insulting or an invasion of Constitutional rights. Quote Son "Jeesh Mom!, you are such a radical old hippy"!
After raising two generations of children, never having been arrested for commiting mass murder or mayhem, I REFUSE to submit a Credit Application, pee in a bottle or give a prospective employer a thumb print! AND certainly NOT FOR CHUMP CHANGE!
As long as this country continues to cave in with no protests of meaningful or substantial consequences, continue to wave goodby to your rights and your jobs!
The 40's Rocked for me too! #1 the kids were grown and had flown the nest #2. I discovered that "empty nest syndrome" is but an ugly rumor started by unemployed teenagers. It was time for 'grown-up toys' and grown-up trips,(end destinations which did not cater to cotton candy booths),Para-sailing in Mexico, flying stunt kites in Canada, U.S. and Mexico, and learning to snow ski.
By the 50's, falling down on one of these escapades wasn't all that bad, but the 'Getting up' was becoming a B#tch.
Unfortunately 60's SUCK! Spare parts are not readily available and Full body transplants have a huge back-order list.
However, 'Old' beats the only available alternative, I guess!
/. has always been a bit self centered re: open source but you have to have at least a tad of empathy for those of us who CAN'T write code. A recently diagnosed major medical issue left me with a right hand which no longer works, vision which is deteriorating rapidly, and an over-whelming need to research the poor medical advice which led to the mis-diagnosos that could have saved me 4 years of un-necessary pain and treatment which complicated the issue.
I have bad-mouthed XP since it's inception but have, Now, come to appreciate MS's handicap accessibility options which are allowing me to utilize GOOGLE to do the research necessary to find REAL answers. Even going so far as to have MS read the page to me when I simply can't do it myself
After a bout of this years upper respiratory virus lasting for 3 weeks, left me sicker and with many additional symptoms of things having gone awry, I landed in a hospital ER with a massive hypertensive event (thought by admitting physicians to suggest I was stroking out), and four more days of treatment which I would NOT countenance for my cats, I was informed by a Dr. whom I had never met, let alone been treated by, that the GOOD NEWS was that I had a four centimeter brain tumor. When I had the temerity to ask if I dared inquire what the bad news was, he simply continued his scripted next thoughts which were the itemization of the drugs he was prescribing, while edging toward the door and disappearing down the hall to his next victim...oops! I meant patient.
Exit stage left (the patient)! Upon arrival home, I had several good boo hoo, poor pity me episodes and then HIT GOOGLE and the INTERNET! Had I not been educated by 25 years of exposure to the birth of the Internet and Information Technology by some pretty bright and frankly ornery and testosterone driven young hackers, crackers, coders, developers, early adaptors etc., I would probably still be sniveling and making arrangements with the local mortuary for my immediate demise. As it stands to date, I obviously will be meeting up with said folks sooner or later but it won't be from being scared to death over this event and I may not know all the answers necessary to deal with this issue yet but sure know a hell of a lot more about it then the fools who informed me of the condition. Furthermore, I know a hell of a lot more of how to get the accurate information, which does not rely on being educated by Drug Company Reps IE SALESMEN, unlike the damn fool Doctors I have had to deal with the last few years.
End Rant! Begin apology: For using my/. Journal(this is an excerpt from an entry I've been to embarrassd too post cuz..well I DO GO On... like a teenie bopper diary. But what the hay! This is where I've hung out nearly every day for pushing 10 years now and the worst you all can do is think I'm a crazy old woman, which I've already coped to. So... What the hell? I have an excuse! I have a brain Tumor! Laff! It's my version of a joke.
One more time! Thanks to all you unknowing teachers out there in cyberspace and Thank you/. For keeping me informed thru articles, links, who's who, what's up and where to find what I need, when I need it!
Vote for ideals not for the party. In my state Primary, our Registration choices are N.P (non-partisan)= any one who is running, Independent= (the state party's' candidate), or the National "Dumb and Dumber" party's.
Ya'all here, in the states need to remember that Democracy is NOT 'majority rule' but the result of an active, committed minority.
You are sooooo much more educated, talented and capable then those of us who said "NO MORE" in the 60's and 70's.
You have already changed the whole world, as we knew it in the early 70's. I was there! BB's/ Usenet/ Irc/, and the sifting of multiple real time information and communication is the source of such power...not only here but also world wide!
It's YOUR turn! Greedy Fat Cats should be afraid...be Very Afraid!
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Which is precisely what his bill WILL do!
Ummm...which sellers, in which countries, to which buyers working what hours/shifts or even on which side of the international dateline?
Too complicated for this math challanged old hippie!
My Mother used to slap me for saying this but somehow it just seems appropriate here.
Supposedly, it only took three nails to hang the last 'perfect' person on a cross!
Everyone of us reading and responding to this article owes at least a small amount of gratitude to Bill Gates and the OS we love to hate.
Don't see the Chaney, Bush, Petroleum folks being benevolent now, do we? Or how about the greedy pharmaceuticals......
Mr.& Mrs. Gates and Mr. Buffet have both my admiration and have ever so slightly renewed my faith that there are "NOT EVIL" companies out there. Lets, hope that some day in the future more will follow in their example.
Sorry! Don't think much of their methods. Did they take in to consideration that since the 2nd world war the national population have physically moved from 'the country 'towns' where your 'friends' came from generations old neighbors and relatives. Once Americans began moving to where the post war economy and commerce was, strangers were their neighbors and their relatives might be half a continent away. As those populations of strangers grew in closer and closer proximity to each other and further and further away from their past relationships, IMHO most people found experience drove the trust factor of neighbors down and frankly without the INFAMOUS INTERNET INFLUENCE, long distance communication with old friends, neighbors and relatives became less and less rewarding or efficient.
I sincerely believe that the Internet has added access and accessibility to more and more meaningful relationships. After all in small town America, you kind of had to stay friendly with most since you were probably distantly related and 'you can't choose your relatives'. You can, and DO choose your Internet relationships based on shared interests.
Plus, now all your old family, small town friends and relatives have almost instant access to one another via computer. Kind of looks to me like they got it totally backwards.
I really don't care to become personally familiar with ANY product whose last sentance contains the last three words
Does anybody remember (think it was BBC) Comedy show used to run on Canadian T.V. "This Hour Contains 22 1/2 Minutes". IIRC
Content from Ad Agencies? I don't know. We can't get CONTENT from the mass news media...repetition, propaganda. and plenty of bull, but meaningful content is in serious short supply anywhere.
nobody said they were blind! Just dishonost and dumb!
"Where are these "activist judges" of which you speak? I haven't seen many; but the knee-jerk stupidity of Congress seems pretty much limitless."
If these activist judges actually existed, I might understand our judicial system but as it stands, it looks like "High Finance" to me.
Pork for polititians states lead to friendly golf partners of Law Firms, become judges, who become polititians whoese sons & daughters become more lawyers, big business mogols and require more schools, roads, etc. To pay for all the necessary infrastructure (Lord knows big business IE DR.'s, Lawyers, Big Business doesn't want to pay for it) so we create more IGNORANT little laws to tack on to the imortant ones we Won't get if we Don't... Break the law, hire a lawyer, pay a judge's salaries, law enforcement, build more prisons, hire more guards and last but not least.....Imprision more citizens then any 3rd world country while we shout at the top of our collective voices.....Follow our example! We are offering the world Democracy!
Sound like another Rant? Guess it is! I just don'y get it anymore!
If the U.S. Govt. should be famous for ANYTHING anymore and frankly appears to be...it is LYING!
The International Community has lost respect for us.
I love my country but "I" have lost respect for us!
What happened to our Bill of Rights, The Constitution, Honesty and Integrity?
From the White-house to our local courts, he who can afford the finest LIARS {oh, excuse me. I meant}Lawyers, wins.
You all INVENTED this 'nasty little step-child' and if more of you were not profiting from same, You would think that those same inventive minds, would UN-Invent it's ability to overpower a simple User Kill Switch. yes, I know I'm not a programmer but if you were smart enough to find all the keys to get your crap into my in-box, you surely can find a way to keep it out. ONLY, it appears to me, when doing so, is more profitable then NOT doing so. When the choice comes down to personally justifying spam or eating spam...there is this thing called perspective.
You know those 'unemployment' figures you quote as valid data...Well guess what? Those figures do NOT count those people whose
Unemployment ran out during the last period in between 'counts'! And those 'Employment' figures DO count those who are working but for less then the necessary monthly hours to
qualify them for ANY benefits other then showing up to collect their minimum wage paycheck. Many of these people come out of the previously mentioned "Unemployment" has run out group who now may be working multiple jobs, sending wives back to work part time, just to keep the wolf from the door.
Then of course, employment today requires certain contributions from a prospective employee that my nearly 50 year old son does not find demeening, insulting or an invasion of Constitutional rights. Quote Son "Jeesh Mom!, you are such a radical old hippy"!
After raising two generations of children, never having been arrested for commiting mass murder or mayhem, I REFUSE to submit a Credit Application, pee in a bottle or give a prospective employer a thumb print! AND certainly NOT FOR CHUMP CHANGE!
As long as this country continues to cave in with no protests of meaningful or substantial consequences, continue to wave goodby to your rights and your jobs!
The 40's Rocked for me too! #1 the kids were grown and had flown the nest #2. I discovered that "empty nest syndrome" is but an ugly rumor started by unemployed teenagers. It was time for 'grown-up toys' and grown-up trips,(end destinations which did not cater to cotton candy booths),Para-sailing in Mexico, flying stunt kites in Canada, U.S. and Mexico, and learning to snow ski.
By the 50's, falling down on one of these escapades wasn't all that bad, but the 'Getting up' was becoming a B#tch.
Unfortunately 60's SUCK! Spare parts are not readily available and Full body transplants have a huge back-order list.
However, 'Old' beats the only available alternative, I guess!
/. has always been a bit self centered re: open source but you have to have at least a tad of empathy for those of us who CAN'T write code. A recently diagnosed major medical issue left me with a right hand which no longer works, vision which is deteriorating rapidly, and an over-whelming need to research the poor medical advice which led to the mis-diagnosos that could have saved me 4 years of un-necessary pain
and treatment which complicated the issue.
I have bad-mouthed XP since it's inception but have, Now, come to appreciate MS's handicap accessibility options which are allowing me to utilize GOOGLE to do the research necessary to find REAL answers. Even going so far as to have MS read the page to me when I simply can't do it myself
After a bout of this years upper respiratory virus lasting for 3 weeks, left me sicker and with many additional symptoms of things having gone awry, I landed in a hospital ER with a massive hypertensive event (thought by admitting physicians to suggest I was stroking out), and four more days of treatment which I would NOT countenance for my cats, I was informed by a Dr. whom I had never met, let alone been treated by, that the GOOD NEWS was that I had a four centimeter brain tumor. When I had the temerity to ask if I dared inquire what the bad news was, he simply continued his scripted next thoughts which were the itemization of the drugs he was prescribing, while edging toward the door and disappearing down the hall to his next victim...oops! I meant patient.
/. Journal(this is an excerpt from an entry I've been to embarrassd too post cuz ..well I DO GO On... like a teenie bopper diary. But what the hay! This is where I've hung out nearly every day for pushing 10 years now and the worst you all can do is think I'm a crazy old woman, which I've already coped to. So... What the hell? I have an excuse! I have a brain Tumor! Laff! It's my version of a joke.
/. For keeping me informed thru articles, links, who's who, what's up and where to find what I need, when I need it!
Exit stage left (the patient)! Upon arrival home, I had several good boo hoo, poor pity me episodes and then HIT GOOGLE and the INTERNET! Had I not been educated by 25 years of exposure to the birth of the Internet and Information Technology by some pretty bright and frankly ornery and testosterone driven young hackers, crackers, coders, developers, early adaptors etc., I would probably still be sniveling and making arrangements with the local mortuary for my immediate demise. As it stands to date, I obviously will be meeting up with said folks sooner or later but it won't be from being scared to death over this event and I may not know all the answers necessary to deal with this issue yet but sure know a hell of a lot more about it then the fools who informed me of the condition. Furthermore, I know a hell of a lot more of how to get the accurate information, which does not rely on being educated by Drug Company Reps IE SALESMEN, unlike the damn fool Doctors I have had to deal with the last few years.
End Rant! Begin apology: For using my
One more time! Thanks to all you unknowing teachers out there in cyberspace and Thank you
Vote for ideals not for the party. In my state Primary, our Registration choices are N.P (non-partisan)= any one who is running, Independent= (the state party's' candidate), or the National "Dumb and Dumber" party's.
Ya'all here, in the states need to remember that Democracy is NOT 'majority rule' but the result of an active, committed minority.
You are sooooo much more educated, talented and capable then those of us who said "NO MORE" in the 60's and 70's.
You have already changed the whole world, as we knew it in the early 70's. I was there! BB's/ Usenet/ Irc/, and the sifting of multiple real time information and communication is the source of such power...not only here but also world wide!
It's YOUR turn! Greedy Fat Cats should be afraid...be Very Afraid!