With headlines that actually say things like "Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is seeking a vote this year on legislation that would increase the income tax rates on some Americans who earn as little as $104,425 per year" (emphasis mine) I would sure hope so. I'd like to believe that nobody, no matter what their position on progressive taxation, would actually claim that anyone making over $100,00 a year isn't making a great deal of money... but apparently in their world that's not very much at all.
Oh, yeah, and the GP is an idiot I wouldn't take him too seriously.
The first computer I remember was top of the line laptop in '93. I think it had something like 8 mb of RAM, a ridiculous amount far more than anyone would ever need (although I was 8 at the time, so my recollection might be wildly off... I know for a fact that I remember nothing from about 4 months of '92). It ran Pirates! like a champ, although due to a glitch with the numlock key you couldn't name yourself anything that required letters from both sides of the keyboard. Then I got a Genesis that made everything it did look like total crap.
I feel that I should point out the "conspiracy" crimes... it is illegal to plan a bank robbery, murder, arson, kidnapping, etc. and if such a plan is uncovered prior to the actual event police can and will intervene.
The objective is really to prevent crimes from happening, punishing them after the fact is largely a means to that end. It doesn't actually make sense for the community to wait for the crime to happen before stepping in, especially with those crimes which are highly destructive of life and property.
I'm not sure how things are going down under, but at least here in the US pure speech has been pretty consistently defended no matter how hateful it is (note that in our system, a law has to be passed, enforced, and then challenged in a court before it can be overturned... so all sorts of wacky things frequently ARE passed only to be tossed out later).
"BTW the difference in RAM usage between GNOME and Fluxbox is minimal (between 20 and 30 Mb)."
You realize that it wasn't so long ago that a computer only *had* 20 or 30 mb of RAM, right?
Like another poster above... f$%# me, I feel old.
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Do you really hate them? You feel that all practitioners of any organized religion should be beaten, tortured, raped or killed? You believe that organized religion makes a person less than human, unworthy of any protections granted them by society? Does the the thought of organized religion fill you not just with anger, but with sincere disgust akin to physical sickness? Really? Hate is not a disliking, or disapproval, or disagreement, or even resentment, and I'd strongly suggest you rethink your use of the word "hate" to make sure you really mean it.
So... we make wealth by building and selling things to others?
Wow, you sure refuted him.
Before you repeat yourself... adding additional steps and third parties doesn't change that basic mechanic, merely obfuscates it. If I pay you $10 for a book, of which you pay $x to 3rd parties a, b and c for having provided you with a physical book to sell me, it doesn't change the fact that wealth was generated by the creation and sale of goods; all that changes is how that wealth is distributed.
International trade is merely the extension of this mechanic across borders, a trivial development from the original concept.
You are able to do all sorts of wacky things with moderation effects. Just make all moderation other than off-topic have no effect on rating, and browse at 0. Presto chango, "-1, off-topic" goes away and everything else gets to stay.
"Boston itself is tiny and Cambridge certainly outclasses it for tech. This should really be the region bounded by I-495."
In popular usage, the region you describe is called "Boston". Cambridge may technically be a separate city, but most people think of it more as a large and culturally important neighborhood, and no small number are completely oblivious to the fact that it is different from Boston proper at all.
Am completely shocked. Really. I just can't believe that APPLINSIDER would publish an article claiming Dell isn't able to make a consumer savvy, portable well-designed smartphone able to compete with other leading competitors. Man, it's like they are openly advocating for another company with an entry in that market which touts itself as the ultimate consumer savvy designer portable device manufacturer or something. That's just brutal.
"It's confusing, I know. Well, it isn't, you're just being contradictory. Or cheap."
It's much harder to unravel a confusing lie than a straightforward one. Maybe a coincidence, maybe not.
I wonder though, if you completely format your Mac's HDD: wipe it, write random bits over it 6 or seven times, then reformat it again... can you still install OSX from a brand new boxed copy of the latest version regardless of what version was installed (if any) immediately prior to nuking it? If you can, then I'd venture to guess it's not an "upgrade" version by an normal definition of the word.
Oh, but it's really a licensing issue right? So it's totally cool for me to just install the latest version of OSX on top of my current one using my friend from Sweden's install disc, right? I mean, clearly I already have a license, so it's just an upgrade to the latest version of the software I'm already licensed to use by virtue of owning a Mac... right?
Oh, so no, I guess the license for the latest version completely replaces whatever license you had before... funny then, that the license I had before has any bearing whatever on this new license. Nothing else is even allowed to work that way, so that's kind of weird.
Historically, Democratic election fraud takes the form of ballot stuffing, voter fraud and otherwise directly tampering with the election system. They certainly don't have a lock on it, and there are definitely known cases of Republicans using such tactics (Palm Beach in 2000), but it is the traditional domain of Democrats. In effect, any time you see vote tampering or over-voting, there's probably a Democrat behind it.
Republicans, on the other hand, have generally done a better job of voter intimidation and lock-out. Again, Democrats have been known to send out the police to harass and scare opposition voters the day before an election, or break voter registration procedures such that it takes a lot of work for a ballot to be cast and it is likely to be discredited after the fact anyway, but this is more traditionally associated with Republicans. In effect, any time you see voter intimidation or under-voting, there's probably a Republican behind it.
Of course, down the thread it looks like this was a 50/50 job, so I guess we're both wrong... but mostly you.
Intellectual laziness != work laziness... a geek must understand the things they do, but they need not give a flying fuck actually finishing a solid implementation if doing so interferes with their lazy bliss.
I know it's vogue to lump all Christians with the right wing extreme of that religion, but it really isn't very helpful. A lot of Christians, whatever you may think of their belief in an omnipotent God who blah blah blah, are actually decent people who are very accepting of people who live their lives differently. I know Christians who are gay, polyamorous, anti-creationism and actually willing to take a stand for what they believe in: one Episcopalian church around here actually suspended all wedding services in protest, at personal cost to the ministers, because they were forbidden to perform same-sex ceremonies (such weddings are legal here) by their hierarchy.
If it takes an irrational belief in an invisible person to make you act like a human being, then so be it, so long as you actually do something.
I've got one, and she's great for picking up beer bottles, turning on light switches and typing... plus she has an almost identical twin who she's totally down with letting me be with. It's awesome, really.
My EnV2, for all that it annoys me with its wonky interface (I sure wish Verizon weren't such douchebags about charging for every stupid little thing I do that costs them nothing, then I could fix it), has cut-n-paste. And it doesn't even have a damned touch screen or track ball!
The iPhone is a crappy device with a brilliant marketing strategy and an enormous price tag. just goes to show how smart people really are that it's also one of the most popular phones out there.
Question... if the earth has been clearly and decisively 6000 years old for about 50 years now... isn't it really 6050 years old?
It always fascinates me that people who are willing to ascertain such a lowball estimate are true can't get closer than the most significant digit. If the Bible is so clear and complete on geologic history, shouldn't we be able to at least get the hundreds place pinned down too?
Look at it less as government regulated monopolies, and more as monopoly regulated governments, and I promise that you'll start to see a pretty clear pattern with these things.
You say "reasoned discussion", I say "psychotic ranting".
Seriously though... I assert that your political ranting is no more valid than anyone else's, and in response you ascribe a detailed political background to me, claim that I am "brainwashed" and then claim that you're being oppressed and unfairly judged. How can you possibly fail to see the irony here?
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With headlines that actually say things like "Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is seeking a vote this year on legislation that would increase the income tax rates on some Americans who earn as little as $104,425 per year" (emphasis mine) I would sure hope so. I'd like to believe that nobody, no matter what their position on progressive taxation, would actually claim that anyone making over $100,00 a year isn't making a great deal of money... but apparently in their world that's not very much at all.
Oh, yeah, and the GP is an idiot I wouldn't take him too seriously.
The first computer I remember was top of the line laptop in '93. I think it had something like 8 mb of RAM, a ridiculous amount far more than anyone would ever need (although I was 8 at the time, so my recollection might be wildly off... I know for a fact that I remember nothing from about 4 months of '92). It ran Pirates! like a champ, although due to a glitch with the numlock key you couldn't name yourself anything that required letters from both sides of the keyboard. Then I got a Genesis that made everything it did look like total crap.
I feel that I should point out the "conspiracy" crimes... it is illegal to plan a bank robbery, murder, arson, kidnapping, etc. and if such a plan is uncovered prior to the actual event police can and will intervene.
The objective is really to prevent crimes from happening, punishing them after the fact is largely a means to that end. It doesn't actually make sense for the community to wait for the crime to happen before stepping in, especially with those crimes which are highly destructive of life and property.
I'm not sure how things are going down under, but at least here in the US pure speech has been pretty consistently defended no matter how hateful it is (note that in our system, a law has to be passed, enforced, and then challenged in a court before it can be overturned... so all sorts of wacky things frequently ARE passed only to be tossed out later).
"BTW the difference in RAM usage between GNOME and Fluxbox is minimal (between 20 and 30 Mb)."
You realize that it wasn't so long ago that a computer only *had* 20 or 30 mb of RAM, right?
Like another poster above... f$%# me, I feel old.
Do you really hate them? You feel that all practitioners of any organized religion should be beaten, tortured, raped or killed? You believe that organized religion makes a person less than human, unworthy of any protections granted them by society? Does the the thought of organized religion fill you not just with anger, but with sincere disgust akin to physical sickness? Really? Hate is not a disliking, or disapproval, or disagreement, or even resentment, and I'd strongly suggest you rethink your use of the word "hate" to make sure you really mean it.
So... we make wealth by building and selling things to others?
Wow, you sure refuted him.
Before you repeat yourself... adding additional steps and third parties doesn't change that basic mechanic, merely obfuscates it. If I pay you $10 for a book, of which you pay $x to 3rd parties a, b and c for having provided you with a physical book to sell me, it doesn't change the fact that wealth was generated by the creation and sale of goods; all that changes is how that wealth is distributed.
International trade is merely the extension of this mechanic across borders, a trivial development from the original concept.
There was a time, in times of antiquity, that MAC addresses were hardwired into a NIC and could only very rarely or with great difficulty be changed.
Those were dark times indeed.
In other news, Smidge just smoked a huge bag of crack laced with PCP. Good for him.
Not to troll, but I couldn't help myself...
I'll bet you're happiest when you've got a thick piece of meat in your mouth, homo.
You are able to do all sorts of wacky things with moderation effects. Just make all moderation other than off-topic have no effect on rating, and browse at 0. Presto chango, "-1, off-topic" goes away and everything else gets to stay.
"Boston itself is tiny and Cambridge certainly outclasses it for tech. This should really be the region bounded by I-495."
In popular usage, the region you describe is called "Boston". Cambridge may technically be a separate city, but most people think of it more as a large and culturally important neighborhood, and no small number are completely oblivious to the fact that it is different from Boston proper at all.
Am completely shocked. Really. I just can't believe that APPLINSIDER would publish an article claiming Dell isn't able to make a consumer savvy, portable well-designed smartphone able to compete with other leading competitors. Man, it's like they are openly advocating for another company with an entry in that market which touts itself as the ultimate consumer savvy designer portable device manufacturer or something. That's just brutal.
"It's confusing, I know. Well, it isn't, you're just being contradictory. Or cheap."
It's much harder to unravel a confusing lie than a straightforward one. Maybe a coincidence, maybe not.
I wonder though, if you completely format your Mac's HDD: wipe it, write random bits over it 6 or seven times, then reformat it again... can you still install OSX from a brand new boxed copy of the latest version regardless of what version was installed (if any) immediately prior to nuking it? If you can, then I'd venture to guess it's not an "upgrade" version by an normal definition of the word.
Oh, but it's really a licensing issue right? So it's totally cool for me to just install the latest version of OSX on top of my current one using my friend from Sweden's install disc, right? I mean, clearly I already have a license, so it's just an upgrade to the latest version of the software I'm already licensed to use by virtue of owning a Mac... right?
Oh, so no, I guess the license for the latest version completely replaces whatever license you had before... funny then, that the license I had before has any bearing whatever on this new license. Nothing else is even allowed to work that way, so that's kind of weird.
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Do it. Do it! DO IT!
Or they use, you know, real turntables with real vinyls. They still press those things just because the sound on them is so damned good.
Which I would have expected just from the tactic.
Historically, Democratic election fraud takes the form of ballot stuffing, voter fraud and otherwise directly tampering with the election system. They certainly don't have a lock on it, and there are definitely known cases of Republicans using such tactics (Palm Beach in 2000), but it is the traditional domain of Democrats. In effect, any time you see vote tampering or over-voting, there's probably a Democrat behind it.
Republicans, on the other hand, have generally done a better job of voter intimidation and lock-out. Again, Democrats have been known to send out the police to harass and scare opposition voters the day before an election, or break voter registration procedures such that it takes a lot of work for a ballot to be cast and it is likely to be discredited after the fact anyway, but this is more traditionally associated with Republicans. In effect, any time you see voter intimidation or under-voting, there's probably a Republican behind it.
Of course, down the thread it looks like this was a 50/50 job, so I guess we're both wrong... but mostly you.
Intellectual laziness != work laziness... a geek must understand the things they do, but they need not give a flying fuck actually finishing a solid implementation if doing so interferes with their lazy bliss.
I know it's vogue to lump all Christians with the right wing extreme of that religion, but it really isn't very helpful. A lot of Christians, whatever you may think of their belief in an omnipotent God who blah blah blah, are actually decent people who are very accepting of people who live their lives differently. I know Christians who are gay, polyamorous, anti-creationism and actually willing to take a stand for what they believe in: one Episcopalian church around here actually suspended all wedding services in protest, at personal cost to the ministers, because they were forbidden to perform same-sex ceremonies (such weddings are legal here) by their hierarchy.
If it takes an irrational belief in an invisible person to make you act like a human being, then so be it, so long as you actually do something.
I've got one, and she's great for picking up beer bottles, turning on light switches and typing... plus she has an almost identical twin who she's totally down with letting me be with. It's awesome, really.
My EnV2, for all that it annoys me with its wonky interface (I sure wish Verizon weren't such douchebags about charging for every stupid little thing I do that costs them nothing, then I could fix it), has cut-n-paste. And it doesn't even have a damned touch screen or track ball!
The iPhone is a crappy device with a brilliant marketing strategy and an enormous price tag. just goes to show how smart people really are that it's also one of the most popular phones out there.
Question... if the earth has been clearly and decisively 6000 years old for about 50 years now... isn't it really 6050 years old?
It always fascinates me that people who are willing to ascertain such a lowball estimate are true can't get closer than the most significant digit. If the Bible is so clear and complete on geologic history, shouldn't we be able to at least get the hundreds place pinned down too?
Look at it less as government regulated monopolies, and more as monopoly regulated governments, and I promise that you'll start to see a pretty clear pattern with these things.
Hey, stop, that's Philip's head!
You say "reasoned discussion", I say "psychotic ranting".
Seriously though... I assert that your political ranting is no more valid than anyone else's, and in response you ascribe a detailed political background to me, claim that I am "brainwashed" and then claim that you're being oppressed and unfairly judged. How can you possibly fail to see the irony here?
It bears mentioning that a statement is not necessarily false simply because it was presented as the conclusion of faulty logic.
For example:
I like strawberry ice cream
Strawberry ice cream is tasty
Anime sucks