This theoretical child analogy breaks down because economics("capitalism") is based on infinite grows potential. So at 8 if this child is 1.2m tall(I don't normally use metric but it makes the math easier) and weights ~25kg and grows at a rate of 2.5% per year, then at 20 he or she would be ~1.61m tall and weigh, 33kg, which IIRC is sort of short but quite skinny. This is all well and good but there is no maturity in this economic model. So the same person at 30 would be 2.07m and 43.04kg, . At 40 years old try on 2.64m 55.10kg. and at 55(retirement, Social Security age anyway)3.83m 79.80kg. So now this person is enormously large and yet only has the mass to support a frame of someone who is 2 meters tall. This sort of grow now and hope for more money in the future is an untenable ideal. We keep stretching and expecting people to somehow pick up the slack. Like a child who grows without limit and hopes that the actual body mass will catch up someday.

Come on old man! Rockin is not that obscure of a phrase. Even I know what people mean when they say they are rockin something. Look at the third definition, it is most apt.

Maybe you get that feeling because your superiority complex would give you that feeling anyway? Maybe you are truly an idiot savant who doesn't realize his knowledge of computers makes him a one percenter? I think the real question is, do you realize that your elitism and unwelcoming behavior does more to hurt the open source community in the consumer space than anything Microsoft or any other major manufacturer could ever do(wether you are trolling or not)?

OOOoooh, gotcha. Carry on then. Though, I'm afraid our friend is in need of some other uniformed men that s/he will likely also dislike.

Don't speak for me. I can make up my own mind about who to like or dislike or even hate.

Slashdot has always run stories from other sources, I think the book reviews where the first original content that was posted here. Go back and look at old stories, they are third/fourth-hand knowledge almost every time.

"No. No, it's not."

Not subjective? Okay try this one on. Assume it is a bad thing to lie. Now assume you are Oskar Schindler and smuggling a hundred Jews out of Germany on a boat during WWII. Nazis board you boat and ask if you have any Jews on board. Are you saying that there is no subjective room to wiggle in a gigantic lie at this point?

Yes, I am well aware of Godwin's Law.

What are you four? Learn to read the caller ID or here's a thought, don't answer your phone when you don't want to talk. I take youth comment back, old people are the same way, they think just because a phone rings in earshot it must be answered. Anyway, keep your hair on grandpa, and learn how to silence a phone when you don't want to be bothered.

This is not some mundane detail Michael!

Wiki sez, 'The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is a cartel of twelve developing countries made up of Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela."

So run the numbers again, in your list Nigeria, SA, and Venezuela are listed, combined they make up. . . 3.108 Million barrels a day, which is a fair site more than Canada and since OPEC sets its price collectively and have 79% of reserves so, sure, SA doesn't provide the majority of oil to the US but its two pals in the top five certainly provide more than Canada in a day. So, while you are right that SA doesn't set the price of oil per se, if OPEC embargoed the USA, 60% of the top five producers would be shunning the USA all of the sudden and I would imagine that your Canadian whipping boys couldn't make up the difference on short or even long notice.

Yeah, because the graffiti interface to an old Palm was sooo simple not to mention intuitive.

I am way late to this party but a rebuttal is in order.

>>Who gives a shit what others where doing?

>Many do. When the people in charge of upholding the law routinely and blatantly break it themselves it shows that the system is broken and corrupt.

Here I was actually refering to who using his log of others actions as a defense for his own. Because others do wrong things does not entitle one to do wrong things.

>>Where you speeding or not?

>He said he was stopped in traffic. Draw your own conclusions.

It was a rhetorical question, not meant to be answered out loud.

>>If yes, you are guilty of speeding, if no, then why the hell do you care what other people are doing?

>Because their actions directly affect him in particular and society in general. You'd care if someone raped your sister, he cares when somebody rapes his rights.

Once again, others actions do no excuse our own we are talking about the proper response to a speeding ticket, not society here, stay on subject.

>>Grow a pair and pay the ticket.

>Seems to me that he actually has a pair as he was doing something to at least bring awareness to the situation, as opposed to some that consider "growing a pair" synonymous with "bending over".

Seems to me this guy is whining about the world being unfair. We all knew that already, start the previously mentioned blog already. Once again stay on topic, you know, the speeding ticket and defending against it.

>>You are still entitled to being an ass.

>Where are you from? The US? If so, keep in mind that your country wouldn't exist if not for people "being asses" to his majesty's gang.

I am from the US and that is exactly why I said he was allowed to complain all day long. It is just that he shouldn't feel that his logical fallacies are going to get him(or her) out of a speeding ticket.

Who gives a shit what others where doing? Where you speeding or not? If yes, you are guilty of speeding, if no, then why the hell do you care what other people are doing? A ticket doesn't say you where the only one breaking the law, it says you where caught. Grow a pair and pay the ticket. If you still have that chip on your shoulder, then by all means, call in the police who break the law. You are still entitled to being an ass. Just don't blame others for the you own actions.

Also, Tu quoque. I linked it so you could get an edumacation. This is why the judge would laugh at your log book as a defense.

So your examples of crap are knitting(making) seat covers and turning(making) a nerf gun look steampunk? So two examples of making something means that a magazine called Make is crap? I would hate to hear how you evaluate brooms. "It swept up my dust but it didn't show me full HD video so I think it is a crap broom."

LOL, wut? SA

Some withdrawal is normal, when humans abuse(as in,'habitually use,' not, 'strike') something that started as good but is now needed to maintain a 'normal' life, it is generally considered a problem, no matter the domain.