@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: But if the penis is mightier than the pen and the pen is mightier than the sword, then by logical induction, my penis is impervious to knives.
With the increase in display also comes an increase in keyboard size. They will either have to make the keys bigger or find some other shit to put around the keyboard.
@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: No we call them desktops that act like laptops, so they can fry your.......sexual parts.....ending with no way to reproduce, giving computer the ultimate power ending ALL humans. :P
It IS ridiculous, overall. However, if you just use it as a desktop replacement, you get all of the display real estate in a thing that can close up into one solid unit, and can be hidden away from drunk ass St. Patty's Day visitors.
@omgwtflolbbqbye: Yeah, I've never been so drunk as to think pissing randomly in my room is a good idea. Even when I've blacked out for hours I was still a courteous house guest. I even cleaned up my own vomit.
Socialism didnt work, so I think the redistribution of wealth is a BS reason for lazy people to not work. I also think trickle down economics is a joke, it didnt work either. What will work? I dont know. Myself, I work for EVERYTHING that I have, nothing was given to me, and it was all from my own itiative and hard work. I have had no help from anyone at any time, certainly not the government. Each adult person should be responsible for their own care, and ideally, care enough about their world to try not to gain for themselves from the loss of others. I realize that is idealism, but thats how I live and hope others attain that level of personal and social responsibility.
I'd rather gut an aircraft carrier and use that. Sure, the innards are a lot of drab gray and piping everywhere, but imagine the kickass BBQ's you can have on the flight deck!
I dont begrudge this (or any) luxury from anyone who can afford it, as it certainly contributes jobs to the economy to make it. I do, however, feel sorry for them (not really) when they lose all their money and need to offload this white elephant. Who else is going to buy it? EBay anyone?
@Curves: Well, it depends on what your views are on equality. People generally believe that income should be redistributed downwards to a certain extent. That's why the US has a progressive tax system. In many other countries, the wealth disparity is far more dramatic. In the same country in which somebody owns this jumbo jet, there are scores of migrant workers who are basically slaves. It's the opposite of capitalism; rather than providing free economic opportunities, there are structures in place that maintain the economic status quo.
Of course you are right to not blame the people who have the opportunity to live in luxury - if I could own a plane, I would. However, it is reasonable to question if this is the best way for a society to be structured. While making luxury planes provides laborers with job opportunities, the same economic system has necessitated that they be laborers in the first place. At the same time, restricting social mobility creates far more inefficiencies in the economy.
@Hello Mister Walrus: "While making luxury planes provides laborers with job opportunities, the same economic system has necessitated that they be laborers in the first place."
Not everyone can be doctors, lawyers, IT pro's, etc. We need labourers/tradespeople/garbagemen etc to get things done.
@Grahmo: @William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire: In America, anyone can be a doctor, lawyer, etc. as long as they work hard enough and are talented enough. The school system is not spectacular, but it is generations ahead of that of many other countries (in my elementary school in country XXX did not have enough chairs, so kids had to sit on the floor). Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford gives you a free ride if your family makes less than $100k a year, and almost every college makes an effort to recruit kids who are minorities or come from poor school districts. That's what the difference is between the US and many other countries - the potential for social mobility.
In many other parts of the world, if your parents are laborers, it's game over for you. While it is important to have people to do menial jobs, everyone should have the opportunity for advancement.
"but it's generation's ahead of that of many other countries"
You've got to be joking right. U.S education is falling farther and farther behind and its infrastructure is crumbling. Within accomplishment, it doesn't even make it into the top 25 in world ranking for maths, reading and science so while it is still ahead of third world countries it's so far away from where it should be and where it once was.
@Lee Millar: That has more to do with culture than with the amount of resources available for education. "Macao-China" is on all three of the lists in your article. Do you really think that Macao has more $$$ to spend on education than America? Of course not. What they do have is a population of academically-driven people. In contrast, lots of people in America are lazy asses. They don't need to do well in school - they're not going to starve working at 7-Eleven. That's why they don't do well in school, not because of the lack of infrastructure.
I know Taiwanese people who came to the US for high school because the schools here are better for people who take advantage of them. They finish in the top 2% of their classes and go to Ivy League schools. Americans need to get it into their heads that some things, like low academic achievement in America's schools are due to students putting American Idol before homework. Whining about how bad it is here seems to be the only thing that people put effort into.
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Hmm... hold on - I need to try something.
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OOhhh.. was I too late?
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THe penis is mighter than the pen, the pen is mightier than the sword, and the sword is mightier than the penis.
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Hence the term, nutbooks...
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To top it off, he also was totally naked.
Then I had another friend who got wasted during a weekend with his gf and pissed in her suitcase full of clothes one other time.
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Ah fucking hell, not another person calling it 'St Patty's Day'
It is St. Patrick's Day or Paddy's day, way to go there, thanks for bastizing the name of our patron saint.
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I'd rather gut an aircraft carrier and use that. Sure, the innards are a lot of drab gray and piping everywhere, but imagine the kickass BBQ's you can have on the flight deck!
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Of course you are right to not blame the people who have the opportunity to live in luxury - if I could own a plane, I would. However, it is reasonable to question if this is the best way for a society to be structured. While making luxury planes provides laborers with job opportunities, the same economic system has necessitated that they be laborers in the first place. At the same time, restricting social mobility creates far more inefficiencies in the economy.
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Not everyone can be doctors, lawyers, IT pro's, etc. We need labourers/tradespeople/garbagemen etc to get things done.
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In many other parts of the world, if your parents are laborers, it's game over for you. While it is important to have people to do menial jobs, everyone should have the opportunity for advancement.
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"but it's generation's ahead of that of many other countries"
You've got to be joking right. U.S education is falling farther and farther behind and its infrastructure is crumbling. Within accomplishment, it doesn't even make it into the top 25 in world ranking for maths, reading and science so while it is still ahead of third world countries it's so far away from where it should be and where it once was.
[www.telegraph.co.uk]
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I know Taiwanese people who came to the US for high school because the schools here are better for people who take advantage of them. They finish in the top 2% of their classes and go to Ivy League schools. Americans need to get it into their heads that some things, like low academic achievement in America's schools are due to students putting American Idol before homework. Whining about how bad it is here seems to be the only thing that people put effort into.
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