@allquixotic so wait... lemme get this straight. You're wife is a Smartphone/Laptop and she makes you watch chick flicks? Thus your need for caffeinated popcorn? Maybe I'm missing something, but something seems a bit.... off...
@KronoS and yeah, things are a bit off, that's the nature of the beast
one of these days, I'mma stride out into that nasty world out there, n' grab me a REAL bread winner, so I can be happy and fulfilled for life rather than hanging out with all these toys who get old and boring after a year or so
my laptop? when it shuts down, the Linux kernel says "System halted." and the CPU turns "off", but the motherboard and fans and display stay running, and continue to run until I remove the power or hold down the button :D
nope, didn't need anything, just a herro :3 have a goodnight :)
@allquixotic hmm... I had something like that a while ago... wrong power level support set in BIOS... the cpu off is the old style "Now safe to turn off your machine"
see if you have the option to change the reported levels... apart from that... still learning Linux... and the machines I am learning on need 24x7 uptime, not really learning how to turn them off!
@allquixotic lol... I find it funny! TBH, I am just interested in news... we only get very brief US news on the standard channels (well, a lot more around election time)... just nice to see American stuff for Americans rather than dumbed down things for an international audience... if that makes any sense
I think, last election, a lot of people outside the US were really hoping Obama got elected
his opponent was basically proposing to go to war with the rest of the world except for a few privileged countries, that was the main thing
his logic went something like: if they have nukes and they're far away, go to war with them. if they're close and have nukes, they're our best friends. if they don't have nukes and they live anywhere else on the planet, go to war with them.
I'm just... I don't know... I almost don't want the election be over with? It doesn't matter who wins I'm cringing either way. It's like if I don't know what I'm in for these next four years, it doesn't hurt yet. >_>
@r.tanner.f yeah well it's basically going to be the same either way, except if it goes with Mitt I'll probably lose my job due to budget cuts, and if it goes with Obama I'll probably keep my job for at least the next couple of years
aside from that they aren't all that different despite them attempting to make it sound like one of them is the devil and the other is an angel
it's all rhetoric but it's really just a one-party system
@r.tanner.f Mitt is anti-government almost to the point of being libertarian, and his running mate wants to abolish almost all civilian entitlements programs
any of that kind of activity would more or less wipe my job off the face of the earth, as well as all of my colleagues
most private industry that isn't directly tied to the public sector would do "better" in the sense of having lower taxes under Mitt; but at the expense of the people... also, the probability of your corporate leaders passing on your reduced taxes to the employees is, judging from historical figures, approximately 0%
basically, the Republican ticket's sole goal is to pad the wallets of the top 0.00001% richest people in the country, and screw over everybody else, and do so convincingly so that they accrue popular votes by successfully padding their eyes in wool
to make someone think that doing something that's not in their best interest, is in fact in their best interest, and then get them to do something for you... that takes quite a lot of persuasive power
there's very little difference between democrats and republicans as it is, because the main point of contention right now is whether to favor the public sector or the private sector in policymaking and funds allocation (Republican = private, Democrat = public), otherwise they agree 99.9% on the rest of the issues
so essentially it's a 1-party system because nobody even hears about the other parties, and even if they sympathize with another party, they feel like their vote is wasted if they don't vote for one of the big two
both presidential candidates for D and R are anti-environment, have no long-term energy policy, and most certainly do not have the everyday citizen's best interests at heart; furthermore, they are both war hawks and feel the US should police the world
@allquixotic Well, economically speaking yes. Then there's the whole host of hot-button moral issues that generally make people blindly follow one party or another.
@Luke I have yet to find a governmental system that both (a) provides a fair chance for everyday, mostly-uneducated or mildly-educated citizens to make a living wage, AND (b) doesn't provide so much "free" social support that people can just sit at home, mooch, and not do anything
But I've found that the people on welfare most often are the ladies (get pregnant, take 3 years paid time off to "raise the kid", then pop out another), and the natives
I would love to get rid of the Welfare system, and only have EI... You put money in, you get money out if you deserve it
Problem is, no one can see JUST black and white, so rules start getting lenient and get bent
Can't please everyone 100% of the time
@r.tanner.f Are you from the states or Mexico? I thought you were American
getting rid of the welfare system would be a mistake, though. failing to recognize that there are cases where there is legitimate need coupled with legitimate inability, such as disabilities, old age, etc
so they can be totally healthy, have no disabilities, be within prime age group, have no ailing family or disabled family, have no wife and just say "give me money because I'm too lazy to work"?
@Luke I can see how you would be against entitlements after living with a system like that, but there are valid cases for entitlements that I think even you would support... we have them here... I'm not sure just how far our system goes, but it doesn't go that far
I'm 26, no disability, no kids, no nada -- if I weren't working and didn't have support from my parents, I'd be on the street and just have $0
I'd have temporary unemployment but then I'd be back to having $0
I agree that there are good uses, but I've had agents from the government tell me they know people abusing the system, but they know how to get through the loop holes, so they can't do anything about it
We have: The NDP, the Liberals, the Conservatives, the Bloq-Quebec, the Green party... And probably one or two more. Stephen Harper (Conservative) won with only 30%... Meaning 70% didn't want him
@Luke the closest I've seen to abusing the system is a guy who gets social security for his disability (legally blind and it takes him 30 minutes of very careful movement to traverse a flight of stairs) who for some reason let his sister and her husband live in his house and basically squat and eat food off of his money (with absolutely no benefit to the guy receiving the check, other than the occasional help with stuff around the house)
I kept telling him to get rid of those leeches, and eventually he did :) now he's got his whole check to himself
but from what he tells me, the husband dude of his sister QUIT HIS JOB the moment he learned he could squat there and mooch
so yes, we have scum, but their existence doesn't bleed more money out of the govt, it just makes my disabled friend poorer
Will the People app in Windows 8 have functionality like the Message Center in OS X, allowing you to send/receive your SMS messages from a Windows 8 machine?
And if not, is there a 3rd party solution to accomplish this?
Will the People app in Windows 8 have functionality like the Message Center in OS X, allowing you to send/receive your SMS messages from a Windows 8 machine?
And if not, is there a 3rd party solution to accomplish this?
