anybody done this before?

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Originally Posted by jon

charities are for people with an agenda who need to put on that they have a soft touch for appearances

and the recipients of charitable benefits lose their will to earn for themselves, which they're forbidden from doing legally by other means, such as the minimum wage

consequently the latter have little self-respect which makes it all the more difficult to break the cycle and all the easier for them to be manipulated by the former

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with that kind of cynicism and ignorant generalization about charity donors, I wonder if you've volunteered for anything in your life (without expecting something back) did your parents even make you do shit around the house as a kid?

i've never even put on a resume i volunteered at a food bank the 2 years i was unemployed. i did it primarily because there was nothing to do except help people for free, or otherwise just go impress posters on ytmnd forums. i supose i also did it to network for job opps but that led to shit

some people just give a fuck about people they'll never meet.

ask anyone one question: If you could choose to wake up tomorrow with $20 under your pillow, or otherwise, only get $10 under your pillow but everyone else in your area gets $10 too, what do you choose?
That question can separate humans from savages like a fuckin knife blade

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Originally Posted by jon

there's no magic by which a subsidy works for private foundations and doesn't work for government; it just never works, period

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farm subsidies used to be great for controlling food prices, until over 90% of our meat started coming from meat factories/CAFOs, and giant conglomerates monopolized everything from water rights to seed-grain availability to the ever-shrinking amount of family farms

those subsidies are still there it's just that almost all of it goes to Monsanto, ConAgra, Cargill, et al instead of families now

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Originally Posted by blumpkin blownuts

which was in turn "based on" xerox alto, except that the alto's mouse had 3x as many buttons as an apple mouse does

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I'm aware of that, xerox may have invented the gui but it was apple that thought to make one for consumers. If it wasn't for the mac the idea of a graphical desktop would still be nothing but a footnote.

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Originally Posted by blumpkin blownuts

I have my own complaints.
I should be able to right-click on an Apple PC.
I should also have a command-line interface, even if it's just reduced to a shell-within-a-gui-shell.
Context "keyboards" should produce the same letter I touch, not the letter two "keys" to the right.
And all of their "smart" dumbterminals, ipad ipod ibook wtf/e that people now use for telephones are purposefully designed to not be rugged in the least - no clamshell designs, no thought at all put towards protecting the screen.
It's hell for the consumer, but it's just everyday business sense. If your product doesn't wear out or go out-of-fashion after too long, then you won't be able to make much money from repeat customw@ers, particularly when the vast majority of a population is forced towards frugality by a shit economy.

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Osx has a right click and has for as long as I've been using it. It also has a shell, in fact its bash the same thing you'd get in any other bsd or linux distro. It includes all the gnu shell utilities you'd expect, including ssh which for me is incredibly convenient beecause I use ssh for bloody everything.

no, let's keep deregulating, let's setup an undeniable oligarchy, an elephant so large it barely even fits in the room, and blame on Obama! It all happened on his watch with not a polarized congress, nor a polarzied supreme court, nor teabaggers and "birthers" nor anyone else could stop his card house he started after ensuring Glass-Steagall was killed off!

you dumb mother fuckers

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Originally Posted by blumpkin blownuts

with that kind of cynicism and ignorant generalization about charity donors, I wonder if you've volunteered for anything in your life (without expecting something back) did your parents even make you do shit around the house as a kid?

i've never even put on a resume i volunteered at a food bank the 2 years i was unemployed. i did it primarily because there was nothing to do except help people for free, or otherwise just go impress posters on ytmnd forums. i supose i also did it to network for job opps but that led to shit

some people just give a fuck about people they'll never meet.

ask anyone one question: If you could choose to wake up tomorrow with $20 under your pillow, or otherwise, only get $10 under your pillow but everyone else in your area gets $10 too, what do you choose?
That question can separate humans from savages like a fuckin knife blade

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I think a more potent question would be "would you rather have a million dollars or have ten thousand and give ten thousand dollars to 100 other people"

10 bucks is nothing to sweat over

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Originally Posted by blumpkin blownuts

farm subsidies used to be great for controlling food prices, until over 90% of our meat started coming from meat factories/CAFOs, and giant conglomerates monopolized everything from water rights to seed-grain availability to the ever-shrinking amount of family farms

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did u just watch Food Inc? my mom keeps trying to get me to watch it

dont really care about the farm industry but its important stuff I guess

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Originally Posted by jon

that aside, charity is for faggots, steve jobs did virtually everything right once he got back to apple, and bill gates is a fucking socialist prick

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a poor guy angry at a rich guy who wants to willingly give away his money to the poor guys like him

even if you disagree on an economic basis, i dont understand how you can look at him in such disgust

mac is nothing more than an amiga ripoff japanese invented nintendo in 1990 and have been leading the graphical interface market for genreations

anyway looks like jon and marks are p much right, i was thinking more of assemblers explicitly rather than compilers or OS (and boot modules, interrupt controller, MMU's and other small exceptions)

at today's tool sizes and speeds pretty much any HLL will cross-compile for any modern-day instruction set (with few notable exceptions), but i'm still holding out that your compilers are only as capable as your assembler, and your assembler is only as capable as the machinery it operates on

cant lie that im unimpressed about your bluefin work though. I hadnt even heard of it until now, but it looks like it has more native memory-mappings than my desktop CPU, NB and SB do combined

pretty fucking humbling to learn 10yrs after graduating your curriculum was already 10yrs out of date
then again, it's not the first Life Lesson i've learned by posting here.

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Originally Posted by Camoron

did u just watch Food Inc? my mom keeps trying to get me to watch it

dont really care about the farm industry but its important stuff I guess

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farming? it's only the literal bread & butter of this country's output capacity since colonial times
Then, early & aggressive (compared to other countries) adaptation of mechanized farming ensured nobody in this country (and many others as well) would ever die of starvation.
Then, the advent of industrialized farming undid that last century's worth of agricultural progress. Todays "farmers" are usually in suits in high-rise offices several states away from their "farms", and none of our meat or produce is fit for consumption until it's been sanitized by strong chemicals, drugs & radiation, and suddenly we're all the way back to the 19th century with rampant & widespread, food-borne illnesses. (Then again, such outbreaks were much more localized back then & so weren't as harmful as the ones we face today)

watched food inc a couple years ago. dug a little deeper since, and now I have some kind of fucking food-anxiety disorder. so if you enjoy eating meals then i recommend you make a point to learn as little about the food industry as you possibly can

and yespeople get sick more often from something they got at the Farmers' Market than they get from FeedCorp, Inc, but that's because it's pretty damn difficult to issue recalls on your tomato patch. FeedCorp can afford such recalls and compliance penalties easily - in some states, (IOWA) fines paid by food factory operators can make-or-break budgets for the fiscal year.