" Everyone expected even greater things from my generation. We totally let them down...."
Yes, you did. The baby boomer generation is the most selfish generation in American history. You have left the country in worse shape than you found it.

The most recent two presidents are from your generation, and they are arguably the worst in American history.

But we see no apologies. Instead, we finally see attempt at marijuana legalization, to lessen the pain as you head to your graves.

Fun to compare someone who hasn't been found guilty of a crime to War Criminal Albert Speer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer

Speer served 20 years and was given more freedom in his confinement then Gottfrid, who has not been found guilty by Sweden.

From wiki: "With the draft memoir complete and clandestinely transmitted, Speer sought a new project. He found one while taking his daily exercise, walking in circles around the prison yard. Measuring the path's distance carefully, Speer set out to walk the distance from Berlin to Heidelberg. He then expanded his idea into a worldwide journey, visualizing the places he was "traveling" through while walking the path around the prison yard. Speer ordered guidebooks and other materials about the nations through which he imagined he was passing, so as to envisage as accurate a picture as possible.[117] Meticulously calculating every meter traveled, and mapping distances to the real-world geography, he began in northern Germany, passed through Asia by a southern route before entering Siberia, then crossed the Bering Strait and continued southwards, finally ending his sentence 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Guadalajara, Mexico."

Hmm, following up to my own post. Running as admin under XP, I now get the message "Could not find any compatible Direct3D devices."

Guess it is back to FreeCiv...

OK, I'm a little disappointed. I'm running XP, and run by default in non-admin mode. The install MSI package required admin rights to install, and now, after waiting about 2 hours for the 4 gig download, it appears the game by default also requires admin access?????

Come on, in the 21st century games running on Microsoft operating systems should *not* require admin privileges. Please fix.

Given the recent revelations including NIST weaknesses, does OpenBSD withstand the likely attacks?

The Forbes article states "Under current regulations, electricity generated by renewable energy resources are given priority access to the grid. As a result, electricity generated by coal and gas-fired plants is only used “to make up for any shortfalls,” according to the AFP."

Does this mean that the nuclear stations have to divert their power when the wind picks up or the sun comes out? I'm certainly no expert, but I thought in the US it is the opposite, so that the wind stations have to go on bypass and the dams/nuclear stations have priority. Or is the Forbes article simply incorrect?

Replying to under erroneous moderation

"What's the advantage of having getters and setters vs. just accessing the variable directly?"

A few replies listing the usual reason, but as a c# programmer w/ the current automated get/set in Visual Studio, I have to ask the parent's question. Currently Visual Studio will create auto get/set if you do something like int foo {get; set; } that creates "anonymous" get/set functions. The problem, though, is you can't get at them!!! So, if you wanted to modify the just the setter you can't do int foo {get; } and write your own set function.

So, I guess I'm in the same boat - if you've got a get/set that can't be easily modified, why not just allow access to the variable directly?

Correct link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko

WIth food inflation, the producers have been downsizing for quite some time in attempt to mask inflation. For example, coffee, chocolate and ice cream used to be sold by the pound. No longer - now it is something like 12 oz. Same with many cereals.

My modest proposal: switch all food to metric. The consumer confusion will mask the gigantic rip-off. But, we'll finally be on metric!

Sorry, accidentally hit redundant instead of insightful -- undoing moderation -- I wish there was some confirmation before hitting a negative moderation!

Don't know how this got moderated to 5.. As the original posted observed, admin access *is* required to install Java updates.

I run XP as a non-admin myself, but in order to run certain programs (DVD burning software is the primary one) I have to run the program as administrator.

Most here are probably familiar with his SF, but his fiction (like Wasp) is also quite good.

I found The Steep Approach To Garbadale to be sort of a non-SF version of Use of Weapons, with the inter-familial squabbles.

I've done this. Set your parent up in XP with a non-admin account. Ensure you can have her sign in as admin when necessary. Worst case, she signs in as admin and there's a big icon on the desktop (make the background color red or something to make ti really obvious) for running joinme session, and nothing else. On her default desktop, all the usual icons (as well as joinme). I also set up FIrefox w/ adblock, and the PC has been virtually problem free. Only had to walk through setting up a new printer.

Maybe I'm behind the times, but I was unimpressed to learn about Mozilla Firefox handing off geographic tracking to Google. Uninstall instructions here.

about:config
In the Filter box, type geo.enabled
Double click on the geo.enabled preference
Location-Aware Browsing is now disabled.