How do you figure? I checked your article and it says the same thing. I realize that this is going to be tough for some folks to reconcile and that they'll work to ignore it or deny it but you could at least make a site that supports your claim that the number was made up just to insult Islam. I mean, yeah, it takes a few minutes to fake a site. Why link to a site that says the same thing that this summary is saying? (You know damned well that I didn't read the article but I did click and check out your link.) Where you hoping that nobody would read your link and assume that what you were saying is true? Did I miss something in your linked article? What gives?
I think the general idea is that the Christians really aren't, on a large scale, killing people today. Just because someone's done something in the past makes it okay to do it today? I'm not sure I follow that logic. What were you getting from there and how did you use rational thinking to come up with that reply?
I see you knocked the snot out of a strawman, that's pretty good. I am not sure what made you assume they were Christians. I know a few folks who still claim to be Christians and they're pretty nice people. Then again, so aren't the Muslims that I've met.
So, yes... What was your reply's point? I fail to comprehend how wrong behavior in the past justifies wrong behavior today. To quote your own post, "...give me a break."
I have consumed enough narcotics, including myriad hallucinogens, and probably have done enough to make Keith Richards blush - or at least take notice and nod in approval. Not one single time, not once, have I managed to get a divine message. I've tripped hard enough to where I lived in a cartoon world, peyote is a wonderful drug - don't do it, and nope, not one message from a divine creature.
I have received telepathic thoughts from a cat, however. No, those weren't real either but, for the time, we had own form of communication. Cats don't really like humans much, but I digress.
All these drugs, all that time being "open" to such, and not one single text message from a deity. I've probably consumed enough POUNDS of mushrooms, yes pounds, over the many years to where I should have seen or heard something. I spent almost three weeks talking like Kermit the Frog in a post-trip mental state and still, no Jesus.
I have, finally, managed to stop doing all those drugs. I used to trip while working at times. I've eaten whole sheets of acid over the years. I've had vials of liquid LSD. I've tried all sorts of research chemicals. I've vomited what appeared to have a neon blue aura while on peyote outside of Taos, NM. I've eaten mescaline and DRIVEN around Colorado (a journey that began in Arizona) while happily insisting that the number in the odometer's tens place was my warp speed while my passengers suffered giggle fits. I've had to stop driving because I was laughing so hard that I cried and pulled off because I could no longer see the road. (Don't trip and drive, kids.)
I've done the mystic thing and tried to be one with the universe. I've tried to function, and actually did just fine, among normal people while tripping and waiting for the weekends so that I could consume even more drugs. I've tried all these things, from meditation to trance and done them all while hallucinating my proverbial nuts off. Lo and behold, no deity spoke to me.
I guess my point is, while I do not do drugs any more, if these prophets were taking hallucinogenic drugs that enabled them to communicate with a deity (or believe they were) then, to be honest, I'd like to try those drugs. I mean, yeah, I've done my best to try every single last drug out there that will mess with your head or make you feel good. I've tried more than I should have and somehow remained alive. I've done my part...
Nope... No deity for David. Not even a whisper from an angel. If one spoke then I didn't hear it and it's not for lack of trying.
And before someone pipes up that I was spoken to by managing to survive all of that? Yeah... About that... Lemme just say that gravity is a bitch. If there was a deity protecting me then they blinked a few times. Though, sometimes I tend to think that gravity is not a benevolent force. It's straight up evil. So, if someone has found some of the mushrooms that will enable you to speak with God then, yes, I'll buy as many as you can supply.
As an aside, I like to tell people, when asked, that, "I tried tripping once, for about twenty years. I didn't like it so I stopped." It's kind of interesting how you can manage to become so acclimated to it that you can fit in with the NPCs and function just fine. Once you get past the stage where your head is a bowl of oatmeal it's pretty easy but you can do it while peaking though it is more difficult.
I expect they will just opt to not believe it. It's easier than tearing a whole religion down because science has shown it to be faulty. I mean, one of the main points of Islam is that Muhammad wrote the Koran and that it was done in a very specific order. I don't think they'll accept this. It will be seen as Western propaganda and a fatwa or three issued because of it. Sad, too, the Arabic peoples have a very rich scientific heritage.
I've met Christians who are hell bent on insisting that carbon dating is wrong. I expect this to be the same. Religion makes some people willing to deny evidence and believe all sorts of strange things. I'm a Buddhist, also an atheist, and have wanted to believe all sorts of things that just don't have any evidence to support them. I can understand.
Instead, for example, I choose to believe that my atoms will return and be the substance known as stars eventually. I don't imagine those atoms will have any memory of me. Karma? Well, sure... We call it human nature and awareness. It's obviously not going to follow me into a new life, I don't see how a star can be subjected to karma anyhow.
Ah well... Let's hope these people doing this work are not subjected to too many death threats or terrorist attacks because of their findings. Some folks work really hard to keep other people in line and some folks are willing to die for their religious beliefs. Hopefully that does not happen here.
I haven't noticed LILO in years. GRUB is mostly the default these days - from what I've seen. If it has been in a distro then it is in so deep that I did not notice. Add to that things like boot-repair and I've not even had to play with GRUB manually either. I don't actually remember the last time I saw LILO? I've not tried them all but I've not seen a distro with it in ages - at least not one that I noticed.
It might have been his name but it made me think of an agent who is acting covertly and wanting to follow exact directions without being obviously following a GPS device. I could see it being something that can be updated remotely so that they can direct someone and check to see if they have been followed. Then, if followed, they can direct them to another site entirely and go from there. I can think of a few generic military applications, if I really stretch, as well.
I am not sure which form these devices should take but I can see some potential value in the idea. I have to work to find that value but...
Yeah, my current plan is to hold them until mid-2016 and see how well the company is doing then. I am not one who tends to move money around a whole lot and I buy long-term simply because I invest in a company and not just to make a profit. They've grown a great deal since I purchased them and I'd probably be tempted to sell if I needed the money. However, if I needed the money I'd have not bought stock with it.
Somehow my stock purchasing learning has been strangely successful. I really don't have an expertise or anything. I just read a lot of comments at sites full of smart people. Yes, I was drunk when I decided on this plan. I've since stopped drinking but the plan has gone pretty good. It does help that I was also buying like a drunken sailor when the market was crashed in the late 2000s.
Lots of people said they wanted a Tesla. So, yeah... Tesla stock it is. It's been a lot of fun learning. I like companies with novel ideas that look like they may be trendy. I've tried to explain it in the past but I'm not that articulate. Sometimes I stoop to mashing up news feeds (even a word cloud helps) and see what bubbles to the top. I've not had much luck figuring out anything from comments so I read those. It's not like I was doing anything more productive and I was going to read them anyhow.
I bought 2000 shares when they were at about $24. I still have them. I've been pondering moving away from Tesla but I kind of want to wait until the middle of next year to see where it goes. I'm pretty sure that the value will not drop to the point where I would be selling at a loss and I expect to see a decent growth between now and the middle of next year.
In a comment below you mention how you'd to not just kill but to gruesomely kill people. So I scrolled back up. In this comment you sound about as intellectually honest as the average racist. I am thinking jealousy and entitlement are your issues but I'm sure you've all sorts of confirmation for your beliefs much as those who'd judge black people by reading the court logs in their newspaper.
In other words, it's nice that you have an opinion and all but I'm not sure you should be seen as someone with a respectable opinion or even someone who's qualified to opine in the first place.
I don't do the whole raising animals thing but I do grow, hunt, and fish much of my own food. Even then, I still buy a half a cow, pigs, and fowl from local farmers. I've learned a number of cuts and can butcher my own food. I've learned to preserve foods by drying, canning, pickling, and smoking. I don't think you need to be "productive" to be content but it does help to have obligations and things to keep you busy.
Also, striving for happiness is a fools errand. Instead, I seek to be content. Of course, being content makes me happy which is a bit circular. However, hopefully you get the idea..
I average 13% or so with my "play" account and I really don't have any history with it and I have no financial degrees or anything. I simply look for trends in various news aggregation sites and read the comments as well as talk to people. It does require that I pay attention but it works pretty well. The 13% also factors in bonds. I typically only play with bonds and stocks and, with the latter, I've found a great way to tell what is going to do well is by keeping up on the comments more than keeping up with various press releases or the likes.
If I could cut the first few years of my learning curve off then my number would be much higher than 13%. I've not crunched the numbers but I suspect it would be closer to 18% but that is very heavily weighted by investments in Tesla. My "play" portfolio has significantly less than 50M in it. However. I don't personally manage my own investment, savings, and protection portfolio though that has a lower growth percentage than what I manage to do but that is by design. I'd rather that be handled by someone who actually knows what they're doing.
I think we should fork Patreon and make Patriarch that the "SJWs" (I hate that word) can use to acquire funding - it would just be an amusing site and likely attract all sorts of interesting emails. Unfortunately, I suspect that it would be filled with MRWs (I hate that word too) who do little but antagonize their enemy.
I touched on this in a post on a different site just a day or so ago. I sold my business for a decent sum of money, certainly nothing akin to this guy's earnings but I am financially set to the point where I can be pretty stupid (if I want) and not actually have to worry about it. The problem is that, once people know you've accumulated some wealth, their whole attitude changes. You can no longer trust their motives.
I have a feeling that this is going to be a novella. You have been warned. I am not the greatest at articulating but, I suppose, I'm pretty decent at verbosity.
For example, I am no longer married and have not been for a quite a while. I will never be able to wed again. It is difficult to even have an intimate relationship. I have, indeed, been "burned" already due to my unfamiliarity with the situation. I'd rather not get into details but, suffice it to say, I'm an idiot. I can no longer really trust anyone because I don't know their motives.
I'm far from greedy and pay every single tax that I am obligated to pay. I help my nearest village, usually aiming towards helping the impoverished and increasing education in tech, and I donate a great deal because I feel that is my end of the social contract - not because I am obligated to by any law. All of my income is from capital gains and feel that my tax burden is lower than it should be - which is one of the reasons I enjoy donating. I feel that donating is akin to a form of taxation (willful) with representation.
Then, at the same time, I'm viewed as some sort of unethical monster by others. They assume I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth - not that I didn't spend eight years in the military to pay for my education. They hate my children because they have trust funds that enable them to not work - though they still do. They don't realize that those trust funds are actually funds in the market that may well be keeping their employer afloat or allowing their employer to expand.
Though I not have a board seat at my credit union they think I am somehow stacking the deck - even though I am no longer "playing the game." Yet, in the past two weeks we've allowed a nearly insolvent company to stay in business for another year and allowed a single proprietorship agricultural business to expand as well as opted to be lenient with several businesses who were having financial difficulties.
I've given away more money than many will make in their lifetimes. I had relatives and friends "crawling out of the woodwork." Everyone has wanted something. No matter what I do, it will not be enough. Yes, I have been lucky and don't ever have a risk of being financially needy ever again and no, I am not anywhere near 'wealthy' comparatively speaking. I did not do anything immoral or unethical to get here. I worked my ass off and got lucky and was in a position to capitalize on luck by taking chances. I attribute it not to my skill or work but to my good fortune - I was lucky and did not work harder than many other people who were not lucky, I actually worked less hard than they did.
And, if it matters, my two children are both productive members of society. Well... In the Boy Child's regards let's at least settle for saying that he is not harmful. He's, ostensibly, still in school but that's changed. He lives frugally, which is good. They do have trusts and have full control. They could be stupid and try to manage it themselves or spend it all at once as opposed to living off the interest and dividends. They could get away with not being productive but they're hardly lucrative lives. I did not want to enable them to be vile nor did I want to give them cause to be socially harmful.
Both of them have a "trivial" income of about $3000 USD per month and can do absolutely nothing - should they desire. My daughter is now in the medical field doing her rounds in an emergency room. My son, claiming to study biology, went to Peru at the start of this year and, from all accounts, is not actually studying the fauna so very well... He's th
With everything going towards the cloud, I would say we have a trend. We have everything from Office to Photoshop in the cloud now. To my mind that is reminiscent of the days of yore when we had dumb terminals and rented time on the mainframe and I don't see this trend ending any time soon. I actually envision more and more Software as a Service and more and more cloud applications.
Heck, I am forever using VNC to connect to a PC of my own and working from there. I see that as so very similar to the days gone by that I can't help but notice the similarities. It's also "trendy" these days so I think we'll see more and more of this for the time being. As someone mentioned above, the pendulum will keep swinging. How long before we have gone to entirely dumb terminals where even our OS is grabbed across a network and we work from there? At the same time, there will also be a viable OS on the chip itself which, I imagine, will be the pendulum swinging back in some regards. I'd expect some sort of melding.
Hmm... Come to think of it... I know lots of people who neither know how to configure or use an email client - even on their phones. They simply access the web and, to them, email is a web service and a web service alone.
You know... I have no idea where the ocean ends and it becomes a sea. That and well, as I said, I've never been to Malaysia. I've been, kind of, in that area but not to Malaysia. Maybe I should try that Google thing and learn where those borders are? I'll probably just forget.:/
I had to pay ComTel to run DSL to my house and pay for a CO. It was less than I had expected though they've since sold to Fairpoint but I actually get decent service.
The problem is, who is going to go first? I'd like to think that I'd be that guy but I've never been on a hijacked airplane before - and I hope I never am.
Isn't that considered the South Pacific? I think it's near the south of Vietnam? I'm not the greatest at geography (obviously). That's not the Pacific still?
To be fair, quite expressly, you do NOT have a right to broadcast or express your beliefs IF they block it from viewers only in Germany. You do not have that right. You currently have that freedom but it is not a right. You, in your country, probably have the right to say it. You do not even have a right to use Facebook - you have permission. We could say that you don't even have the right in the first place - Facebook has every right to delete any comment they want to delete.
Personally, I think they should delete them all because we're ending up with tech geared towards the lowest common denominator but that's a different subject entirely.
But no... You can't really say that you have a right to post anything, of any type, in another country - you have the right to post it to the internet, or at least permission, but not the right to not have it blocked by someone else. They're well within their rights to block your speech, if they want, at either the Facebook or country level.
Have you ever been intellectually honest? You live in America (or claimed to). Your very existence is because of hate speech, propaganda, traitors, and terrorism. Your laws are in place because people broke the law, with speech, and spoke out against the king.
A country has the right to control its people, certainly. It has no right to control other people. Unless FB is serving up content from German soil then, no, they do not have control over them. They can block Facebook all they want. They can make using Facebook illegal for all I care. They can make Facebook remove any servers from their country if they want.
Man, I can't believe I'm forced to defend Facebook. Twice, in one day, I've had to say something in defense of really bad people. I think this is probably because there are just too many people who are unwilling to be honest.
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That 568 date is made up just to insult Islam. Nice work on the fact checking, slashdice.
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2015/07/quran-manuscript-22-07-15.aspx
How do you figure? I checked your article and it says the same thing. I realize that this is going to be tough for some folks to reconcile and that they'll work to ignore it or deny it but you could at least make a site that supports your claim that the number was made up just to insult Islam. I mean, yeah, it takes a few minutes to fake a site. Why link to a site that says the same thing that this summary is saying? (You know damned well that I didn't read the article but I did click and check out your link.) Where you hoping that nobody would read your link and assume that what you were saying is true? Did I miss something in your linked article? What gives?
I think the general idea is that the Christians really aren't, on a large scale, killing people today. Just because someone's done something in the past makes it okay to do it today? I'm not sure I follow that logic. What were you getting from there and how did you use rational thinking to come up with that reply?
I see you knocked the snot out of a strawman, that's pretty good. I am not sure what made you assume they were Christians. I know a few folks who still claim to be Christians and they're pretty nice people. Then again, so aren't the Muslims that I've met.
So, yes... What was your reply's point? I fail to comprehend how wrong behavior in the past justifies wrong behavior today. To quote your own post, "...give me a break."
I have consumed enough narcotics, including myriad hallucinogens, and probably have done enough to make Keith Richards blush - or at least take notice and nod in approval. Not one single time, not once, have I managed to get a divine message. I've tripped hard enough to where I lived in a cartoon world, peyote is a wonderful drug - don't do it, and nope, not one message from a divine creature.
I have received telepathic thoughts from a cat, however. No, those weren't real either but, for the time, we had own form of communication. Cats don't really like humans much, but I digress.
All these drugs, all that time being "open" to such, and not one single text message from a deity. I've probably consumed enough POUNDS of mushrooms, yes pounds, over the many years to where I should have seen or heard something. I spent almost three weeks talking like Kermit the Frog in a post-trip mental state and still, no Jesus.
I have, finally, managed to stop doing all those drugs. I used to trip while working at times. I've eaten whole sheets of acid over the years. I've had vials of liquid LSD. I've tried all sorts of research chemicals. I've vomited what appeared to have a neon blue aura while on peyote outside of Taos, NM. I've eaten mescaline and DRIVEN around Colorado (a journey that began in Arizona) while happily insisting that the number in the odometer's tens place was my warp speed while my passengers suffered giggle fits. I've had to stop driving because I was laughing so hard that I cried and pulled off because I could no longer see the road. (Don't trip and drive, kids.)
I've done the mystic thing and tried to be one with the universe. I've tried to function, and actually did just fine, among normal people while tripping and waiting for the weekends so that I could consume even more drugs. I've tried all these things, from meditation to trance and done them all while hallucinating my proverbial nuts off. Lo and behold, no deity spoke to me.
I guess my point is, while I do not do drugs any more, if these prophets were taking hallucinogenic drugs that enabled them to communicate with a deity (or believe they were) then, to be honest, I'd like to try those drugs. I mean, yeah, I've done my best to try every single last drug out there that will mess with your head or make you feel good. I've tried more than I should have and somehow remained alive. I've done my part...
Nope... No deity for David. Not even a whisper from an angel. If one spoke then I didn't hear it and it's not for lack of trying.
And before someone pipes up that I was spoken to by managing to survive all of that? Yeah... About that... Lemme just say that gravity is a bitch. If there was a deity protecting me then they blinked a few times. Though, sometimes I tend to think that gravity is not a benevolent force. It's straight up evil. So, if someone has found some of the mushrooms that will enable you to speak with God then, yes, I'll buy as many as you can supply.
As an aside, I like to tell people, when asked, that, "I tried tripping once, for about twenty years. I didn't like it so I stopped." It's kind of interesting how you can manage to become so acclimated to it that you can fit in with the NPCs and function just fine. Once you get past the stage where your head is a bowl of oatmeal it's pretty easy but you can do it while peaking though it is more difficult.
I expect they will just opt to not believe it. It's easier than tearing a whole religion down because science has shown it to be faulty. I mean, one of the main points of Islam is that Muhammad wrote the Koran and that it was done in a very specific order. I don't think they'll accept this. It will be seen as Western propaganda and a fatwa or three issued because of it. Sad, too, the Arabic peoples have a very rich scientific heritage.
I've met Christians who are hell bent on insisting that carbon dating is wrong. I expect this to be the same. Religion makes some people willing to deny evidence and believe all sorts of strange things. I'm a Buddhist, also an atheist, and have wanted to believe all sorts of things that just don't have any evidence to support them. I can understand.
Instead, for example, I choose to believe that my atoms will return and be the substance known as stars eventually. I don't imagine those atoms will have any memory of me. Karma? Well, sure... We call it human nature and awareness. It's obviously not going to follow me into a new life, I don't see how a star can be subjected to karma anyhow.
Ah well... Let's hope these people doing this work are not subjected to too many death threats or terrorist attacks because of their findings. Some folks work really hard to keep other people in line and some folks are willing to die for their religious beliefs. Hopefully that does not happen here.
I haven't noticed LILO in years. GRUB is mostly the default these days - from what I've seen. If it has been in a distro then it is in so deep that I did not notice. Add to that things like boot-repair and I've not even had to play with GRUB manually either. I don't actually remember the last time I saw LILO? I've not tried them all but I've not seen a distro with it in ages - at least not one that I noticed.
It might have been his name but it made me think of an agent who is acting covertly and wanting to follow exact directions without being obviously following a GPS device. I could see it being something that can be updated remotely so that they can direct someone and check to see if they have been followed. Then, if followed, they can direct them to another site entirely and go from there. I can think of a few generic military applications, if I really stretch, as well.
I am not sure which form these devices should take but I can see some potential value in the idea. I have to work to find that value but...
Yeah, my current plan is to hold them until mid-2016 and see how well the company is doing then. I am not one who tends to move money around a whole lot and I buy long-term simply because I invest in a company and not just to make a profit. They've grown a great deal since I purchased them and I'd probably be tempted to sell if I needed the money. However, if I needed the money I'd have not bought stock with it.
Somehow my stock purchasing learning has been strangely successful. I really don't have an expertise or anything. I just read a lot of comments at sites full of smart people. Yes, I was drunk when I decided on this plan. I've since stopped drinking but the plan has gone pretty good. It does help that I was also buying like a drunken sailor when the market was crashed in the late 2000s.
Lots of people said they wanted a Tesla. So, yeah... Tesla stock it is. It's been a lot of fun learning. I like companies with novel ideas that look like they may be trendy. I've tried to explain it in the past but I'm not that articulate. Sometimes I stoop to mashing up news feeds (even a word cloud helps) and see what bubbles to the top. I've not had much luck figuring out anything from comments so I read those. It's not like I was doing anything more productive and I was going to read them anyhow.
I bought 2000 shares when they were at about $24. I still have them. I've been pondering moving away from Tesla but I kind of want to wait until the middle of next year to see where it goes. I'm pretty sure that the value will not drop to the point where I would be selling at a loss and I expect to see a decent growth between now and the middle of next year.
In a comment below you mention how you'd to not just kill but to gruesomely kill people. So I scrolled back up. In this comment you sound about as intellectually honest as the average racist. I am thinking jealousy and entitlement are your issues but I'm sure you've all sorts of confirmation for your beliefs much as those who'd judge black people by reading the court logs in their newspaper.
In other words, it's nice that you have an opinion and all but I'm not sure you should be seen as someone with a respectable opinion or even someone who's qualified to opine in the first place.
I don't do the whole raising animals thing but I do grow, hunt, and fish much of my own food. Even then, I still buy a half a cow, pigs, and fowl from local farmers. I've learned a number of cuts and can butcher my own food. I've learned to preserve foods by drying, canning, pickling, and smoking. I don't think you need to be "productive" to be content but it does help to have obligations and things to keep you busy.
Also, striving for happiness is a fools errand. Instead, I seek to be content. Of course, being content makes me happy which is a bit circular. However, hopefully you get the idea..
I average 13% or so with my "play" account and I really don't have any history with it and I have no financial degrees or anything. I simply look for trends in various news aggregation sites and read the comments as well as talk to people. It does require that I pay attention but it works pretty well. The 13% also factors in bonds. I typically only play with bonds and stocks and, with the latter, I've found a great way to tell what is going to do well is by keeping up on the comments more than keeping up with various press releases or the likes.
If I could cut the first few years of my learning curve off then my number would be much higher than 13%. I've not crunched the numbers but I suspect it would be closer to 18% but that is very heavily weighted by investments in Tesla. My "play" portfolio has significantly less than 50M in it. However. I don't personally manage my own investment, savings, and protection portfolio though that has a lower growth percentage than what I manage to do but that is by design. I'd rather that be handled by someone who actually knows what they're doing.
I think we should fork Patreon and make Patriarch that the "SJWs" (I hate that word) can use to acquire funding - it would just be an amusing site and likely attract all sorts of interesting emails. Unfortunately, I suspect that it would be filled with MRWs (I hate that word too) who do little but antagonize their enemy.
Feeding our tapeworm... I am not sure if you were going for the KitH reference but, if you were, I remember that episode. I loved that show.
I touched on this in a post on a different site just a day or so ago. I sold my business for a decent sum of money, certainly nothing akin to this guy's earnings but I am financially set to the point where I can be pretty stupid (if I want) and not actually have to worry about it. The problem is that, once people know you've accumulated some wealth, their whole attitude changes. You can no longer trust their motives.
I have a feeling that this is going to be a novella. You have been warned. I am not the greatest at articulating but, I suppose, I'm pretty decent at verbosity.
For example, I am no longer married and have not been for a quite a while. I will never be able to wed again. It is difficult to even have an intimate relationship. I have, indeed, been "burned" already due to my unfamiliarity with the situation. I'd rather not get into details but, suffice it to say, I'm an idiot. I can no longer really trust anyone because I don't know their motives.
I'm far from greedy and pay every single tax that I am obligated to pay. I help my nearest village, usually aiming towards helping the impoverished and increasing education in tech, and I donate a great deal because I feel that is my end of the social contract - not because I am obligated to by any law. All of my income is from capital gains and feel that my tax burden is lower than it should be - which is one of the reasons I enjoy donating. I feel that donating is akin to a form of taxation (willful) with representation.
Then, at the same time, I'm viewed as some sort of unethical monster by others. They assume I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth - not that I didn't spend eight years in the military to pay for my education. They hate my children because they have trust funds that enable them to not work - though they still do. They don't realize that those trust funds are actually funds in the market that may well be keeping their employer afloat or allowing their employer to expand.
Though I not have a board seat at my credit union they think I am somehow stacking the deck - even though I am no longer "playing the game." Yet, in the past two weeks we've allowed a nearly insolvent company to stay in business for another year and allowed a single proprietorship agricultural business to expand as well as opted to be lenient with several businesses who were having financial difficulties.
I've given away more money than many will make in their lifetimes. I had relatives and friends "crawling out of the woodwork." Everyone has wanted something. No matter what I do, it will not be enough. Yes, I have been lucky and don't ever have a risk of being financially needy ever again and no, I am not anywhere near 'wealthy' comparatively speaking. I did not do anything immoral or unethical to get here. I worked my ass off and got lucky and was in a position to capitalize on luck by taking chances. I attribute it not to my skill or work but to my good fortune - I was lucky and did not work harder than many other people who were not lucky, I actually worked less hard than they did.
And, if it matters, my two children are both productive members of society. Well... In the Boy Child's regards let's at least settle for saying that he is not harmful. He's, ostensibly, still in school but that's changed. He lives frugally, which is good. They do have trusts and have full control. They could be stupid and try to manage it themselves or spend it all at once as opposed to living off the interest and dividends. They could get away with not being productive but they're hardly lucrative lives. I did not want to enable them to be vile nor did I want to give them cause to be socially harmful.
Both of them have a "trivial" income of about $3000 USD per month and can do absolutely nothing - should they desire. My daughter is now in the medical field doing her rounds in an emergency room. My son, claiming to study biology, went to Peru at the start of this year and, from all accounts, is not actually studying the fauna so very well... He's th
With everything going towards the cloud, I would say we have a trend. We have everything from Office to Photoshop in the cloud now. To my mind that is reminiscent of the days of yore when we had dumb terminals and rented time on the mainframe and I don't see this trend ending any time soon. I actually envision more and more Software as a Service and more and more cloud applications.
Heck, I am forever using VNC to connect to a PC of my own and working from there. I see that as so very similar to the days gone by that I can't help but notice the similarities. It's also "trendy" these days so I think we'll see more and more of this for the time being. As someone mentioned above, the pendulum will keep swinging. How long before we have gone to entirely dumb terminals where even our OS is grabbed across a network and we work from there? At the same time, there will also be a viable OS on the chip itself which, I imagine, will be the pendulum swinging back in some regards. I'd expect some sort of melding.
Hmm... Come to think of it... I know lots of people who neither know how to configure or use an email client - even on their phones. They simply access the web and, to them, email is a web service and a web service alone.
You know... I have no idea where the ocean ends and it becomes a sea. That and well, as I said, I've never been to Malaysia. I've been, kind of, in that area but not to Malaysia. Maybe I should try that Google thing and learn where those borders are? I'll probably just forget. :/
I had to pay ComTel to run DSL to my house and pay for a CO. It was less than I had expected though they've since sold to Fairpoint but I actually get decent service.
The problem is, who is going to go first? I'd like to think that I'd be that guy but I've never been on a hijacked airplane before - and I hope I never am.
Isn't that considered the South Pacific? I think it's near the south of Vietnam? I'm not the greatest at geography (obviously). That's not the Pacific still?
You're high. If an American company sends money to a business in Sweden we don't get to freedom the hell out of them because business.
http://nyuzi.org/
Maybe they've disallowed ACs to link unless they do the whole markup?
I was kind of assuming they were going with the African part but your way works too.
To be fair, quite expressly, you do NOT have a right to broadcast or express your beliefs IF they block it from viewers only in Germany. You do not have that right. You currently have that freedom but it is not a right. You, in your country, probably have the right to say it. You do not even have a right to use Facebook - you have permission. We could say that you don't even have the right in the first place - Facebook has every right to delete any comment they want to delete.
Personally, I think they should delete them all because we're ending up with tech geared towards the lowest common denominator but that's a different subject entirely.
But no... You can't really say that you have a right to post anything, of any type, in another country - you have the right to post it to the internet, or at least permission, but not the right to not have it blocked by someone else. They're well within their rights to block your speech, if they want, at either the Facebook or country level.
Your rights end at the end of your nose.
Have you ever been intellectually honest? You live in America (or claimed to). Your very existence is because of hate speech, propaganda, traitors, and terrorism. Your laws are in place because people broke the law, with speech, and spoke out against the king.
A country has the right to control its people, certainly. It has no right to control other people. Unless FB is serving up content from German soil then, no, they do not have control over them. They can block Facebook all they want. They can make using Facebook illegal for all I care. They can make Facebook remove any servers from their country if they want.
Man, I can't believe I'm forced to defend Facebook. Twice, in one day, I've had to say something in defense of really bad people. I think this is probably because there are just too many people who are unwilling to be honest.
Your point?