Fuck you. Who said anything about male? This is most of the family in this bind.

That's okay. Sympathy is a renewable resource.

How to get a job with no transportation? Move to the job, you say? How to get an apartment with no job? We're not talking city here, we are talking over a mile to your nearest neighbour.

Some, but not many, mostly because I haven't got the resources. Now, that said, I did just buy a truck for one of my nephews because I see a spark in him that shows some potential.

More to the point, however, the status quo has beat any ambition out of most of them.

Same here. I tried TurboTax one year and it didn't save me any money, didn't really save me any time, and had annoying DRM. You have to research what you can deduct on your own anyway in advance anyway so you can preserve documentation throughout the year, and that is the time consuming part. So paying money just to have software fill out and submit the form doesn't seem worth it for me.

Actually, a person doesn't inhert this debt. The debt is inherited by the estate. If the estate runs out of assets before the debt is settled, then the rest of the creditors are SOL, but the debt does not pass to the heirs. Mind you, nothing else does, either, but the heirs are not stuck with the debt.

But then there are the stars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

Kassahun Tsegie was born in 1970 in Ethiopia. His mother died in a tuberculosis epidemic when he was three years old. He and his elder sister, were subsequently adopted by Ann Marie and Lennart Samuelsson, a homemaker.

Hell, give me that on a ball of rice with some wasabi, let me dip it in soy, I'll eat it. Google knows that I've eaten worse and stranger, and paid good money for it.

Unfortunately, this is true of many art forms. TV has become so much "reality" TV because it is formulaic and easy and cheap to produce because it has no production value. Movies have become very uniform and bland, also, because the "spice" they use is special effects rather than writing a decent story, because it is cheaper and easier to do. Music is not "performed" an more, but "produced" by stringing together bits of this and pieces of that, then "normalizing" it by compressing the living shit out of the dynamics to the point where you can easily hear the whole sound go "squish" on every beat of the thing that used to be a kick drum. And so it goes.

The good news is that every now and then, some market niche will buck the trend . . . going to see a local band play live . . . buying bread that came from a bakery rather than a factory . . . seeing an independent film that was produced by an artist and not subject to the whims of a studio exec . . . but these niches are just that, and not enough to reverse the trend, at least, not yet.

Anyone working as a coal miner is so far past the "I'm willing to do jobs that suck" threshold that it has vanished over the horizon.

Yep, but so, sometimes is the "Jobs that are available, that I can get to" threshold. I know a lot of people who are stuck in this type of mess because:

• They were born in East Bumfuck, and
• They were born poor because they live in East Bumfuck, and
• They have no transportation because they are poor and
• They can't commute far because they have no transportation and
• The only job they can find that is within walking/biking/bumming a ride distance is the one they got.

Pay close attention to that bumming a ride distance. If you are dependent on another family member for a lift to work, and you are poor, you know that one car that works (not counting the ones parked on the lawn) will break because they're poor and can't maintain it well. You're not going to go anywhere that that family member doesn't deem, and so, there you sit, another generation festering in the rot that is East Bumfuck

I know it first hand because these folks are my in-laws. Some of them have escaped (very few, my wife being one), and some of them are going to, but mostly the opportunities just aren't there.

So, you won't approve if they dump Rice and get somebody from the Obama administration, right?

Obama was certainly in a position to undo the damage that Bush did, but he took it to the next level.

Mod this guy up because he actuall read all the words and demonstrated the ability to grok basic sentence structure.

Well, we will just have to agree to disagree. However, at least you are willing to look at evidence without resorting to ad hominem attacks. You know what you believe and are actually willing to discuss it logically. I appreciate that.

To put it bluntly, I respect you, although I disagree.

If you ever find yourself in the Colorado Springs area, shoot me an e-mail. I will buy you a beer. We have some truly great micro-breweries around here.

Best of luck to you!

Your understanding is reversed.

TDMA for WiFi is what we have now.

MU-MIMO is simultaneous comms with each device.