^ I'll admit, I don't know that much about the financial markets. I do understand what you're saying about the fears the wealthy have investing in it and I don't blame them. From a simplistic view, why wouldn't they invest in companies that they see that have a good future? The companies grow, the investors make money, people have jobs, etc. Am I being too simplistic? I dunno. Prolly. As far as the banks go, they can suck my ass. All the talking nobheads, back when I used to watch the news, were saying "the govt is giving the banks trillions of dollars to help small businesses get going". Five banks later I realized it was all bullshit. They had the money, but were only loaning to established businesses. Fortunately, we found a private investor who believed in us, and was even interested in my fucking business plan that none of the banks even bothered to read.
It aint that the rich aint taxed enough, it is that they are hording all the wealth. they are not reinvesting the money into their own employees, improving working conditions, increasing wages, doing philanthropy work. they just reinvest it to their own greedy selfish means instead of using the money to improve the situation.
This. There was a time when owners of big companies did act like that, and they were still very successful. In this area it was George F Johnson (EJ Shoe Factory) and later on, Thomas Watson (IBM). Unfortunately, when they were gone, their successors decided the money in their pockets was more important than the communities that helped build them up and now these companies are gone. It's not something that can be enforced, and it shouldn't be. However, setting a good example can go a long way, and that's what I hope to accomplish someday with my company by following in their footsteps.
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Cyril wrote:
i think that people are on the wrong track.
It aint that the rich aint taxed enough, it is that they are hording all the wealth. they are not reinvesting the money into their own employees, improving working conditions, increasing wages, doing philanthropy work. they just reinvest it to their own greedy selfish means instead of using the money to improve the situation.
It's none of your business what they do with their wealth.
How about less time gorping at how rich they are and start working on your own scheme to get up the ladder?
I think you're wrong there. It is your business when it affects the community you live in. It's less about "gorping" about the rich, and more about seeing how things could be better.
The reason that capital punishment survives in America but has perished in Europe is not that America is less civilized than Europe, but that it is more democratic than Europe. There is quite a lot of evidence for this on other political topics. Maybe, therefore, the State Department should instruct U.S. ambassadors in Europe to mount an annual protest about the erosion of democracy throughout the EU. It can’t do any harm.
Yep. Pretty much a crock o shit. We have a decent sized muslim community here. They own small business, work for big companies, generally interact with the rest of the community w/o any probs just like anyone else. The mosque is also a part of the local council of churches that help run the food pantries, prison ministries, hospital ministries, etc. All alongside the local christian churches, and jewish synagogues. No beheadings and car-bombings by anyone.
$16?!?!?!?! Damn! I couldn't even find a bomber of it here. All they had were the 6 packs for $18. I only paid $5 for the 22 oz. of the regular Bastard.
The first metal band I remember hearing was Iron Maiden back in the early 80s. Still love em today. I eventually got into metallica, anthrax, testament, and a lot of the more thrash bands, and tho I still really enjoy listening to the "old" metal, I don't ignore the new stuff that comes out. tbh, if it wasn't for you guys I wouldn't have heard about alot of these "new" metal bands. So thanks for that.
Also, I don't know if anybody's seen it, but VH1 Classics channel had/has a series on the history of metal that was nicely done. Watch it. Now!
I knew this would happen eventually. The search is filled with the inane blather of comments and I'm too fucking lazy to go thru 1016 pages to find out if I reposted something.
^ yeah, the grocery stores around here have something like that. A few years ago, before they changed the rules, I would save up enough to get $2 off/ gal of gas. lol.
Hmm... maybe first and foremost, have you been running your updates (not just the ones in the automatic update center).
Also, what version of Mint are you using (11, 12, lmde), what what desktop environment are you using (Gnome-shell, Mate, Cinnamon)?
Open terminal and run "sudo apt-get update" then "sudo apt-get upgrade". Log out and then log back in. If things are still wonky, log out and try logging in with a different desktop environment (Mint 12 comes with both Gnome-shell and Mate by default, so just switch to whichever one you aren't using and try again)
Been running just the auto updates (lower right hand corner of desktop). Using Mint 11 w/, I believe, the gnome shell. Booted it back up this morning and desktop still freezes with video card installed (geforce 7300 gs). after work I'll try it again inna onboard vid and try to run the updates you & bigs suggested.
Until last week I've been using Linux Mint regularly and liking it a lot. Except for gaming. Then I use my xp. Transmission is the default that came with the install and it seems to work great. Tho I haven't done it yet, a proxy is a really good idea. I would imagine using a proxy server would mean you wouldn't have to worry about using something like moblock or peer guardian. I say "until last week" because I tried installing nvidia drivers from the control panel and now it don't work right. So I've been using my xp for pretty much everything until i can figure it out.
What do you mean you triend installing the nvidia drivers from control panel? Are you meaning the restricted drivers application that automatically pops up? That is what you should probably be using and, if it is, often there are 2 or 3 options for nvidia restricted drivers. Make sure you only install one (installing all three can create conflicts), and if one didn't work, uninstall it and try a different one.
As to Transmission, what you're describing isn't really meant for proxying, but more for restricting who might be leaching off you (useful if you have one using trying to take 10 different torrents from you at once and are hogging all your upload bandwidth). Proxies can be useful, but less so if you're downloading torrents, and a lot of proxies put restrictions on that kind of usage anyhow.
had to go back and look. It was Control Center on the main menu. Then I think it was Additional Drivers listed under Hardware. I think that's what I clicked and it did some searching and said there were nvidia drivers to install. Ithought that was maybe why I wasn't able to play quake live or the few fps for linux that I had downloaded. So I had it install them and now when I boot her up, the desktop "stalls" when it starts. Almost everything comes up except the menu button isn't there and the "ethernet is connected" pop-up stays on the screen and I cannot click on anything. The mouse seems to work, as I get a pointer that I can move around the screen, but the desktop is frozen. Hope that made sense. Also- I can get it to work if I unplug the video card and plug into onboard video. But screen is reeeeaaaallly shaky and epileptic. edit- sorry this got off topic hawks.
Pretty much everything I needed came with the distro. LibreOffice (open office), a decent video player, Banshee for my tunes. Generally, if there is kinda app or such i think I need I google the type of linux software I'm looking for to see if it exists and then software manager gets it and installs it for me. Still a bit of a noob w/ it, but I'm loving the linux so far except for the afore mentioned vid prob. I seem to recall someone on here (maybe tuoni?) saying linux was safer for doing shit. That's primarily why I installed it.
Until last week I've been using Linux Mint regularly and liking it a lot. Except for gaming. Then I use my xp. Transmission is the default that came with the install and it seems to work great. Tho I haven't done it yet, a proxy is a really good idea. I would imagine using a proxy server would mean you wouldn't have to worry about using something like moblock or peer guardian. I say "until last week" because I tried installing nvidia drivers from the control panel and now it don't work right. So I've been using my xp for pretty much everything until i can figure it out.
looks good. agree w/ dark about the nav bar. doesn't quite match with the TAN title bars. and maybe either tone down the gradient in the middle or spread it out further.
After a long argument, the Iraqis drew straws. The loser wrapped a wet T-shirt around his head, held a flaming torch in the air, and, crouching low, crept toward the chimney, which was hissing with invisible, flammable gases. When he got close enough, the air burst into a giant fireball and the man ran screaming back to his cohort, who doused him with water and laughed at his singed body hair. Soon after, the Western oilman introduced a slightly more modern ignition device: a flare gun, which could be fired from a safer distance.
Wow. Paying with cash is suspicious? Almost every one of them insist on providing proper ID to make a transaction. Tattoos? Rly? Coming soon to a checkpoint near you!
win 
yeah, I was wondering about that.