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Comment: Re:I should probably upgrade my netbook (Score 1) 455

by scotch (#37710216) Attached to: Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released

I have a dual-screen setup with my main monitor on the right, so the left-handed, fixed menu really is a pain: either I make it collapse, and then have to target a very slim pixel-wide bar to un-collapse it, or I have to leave it there and waste screen space. They could at least allow us to switch left and right, and if make it as flexible as (gasp !) Windows, that lets us put the start bar on any border.

You can switch monitor is considered the primary with xrandr or nvidia settings and maybe others and the dash will follow that hint and move over to the left monitor. Just googled this today.

Comment: Re:Tax planning and rich people (Score 1) 2115

by scotch (#37452812) Attached to: White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax"
You can't get rid of social security without getting rid of the social security tax. Or put another way, it's unfair to compare social security expenditures with defense expenditures for absolute dollars in the budget. In fact, I'm taking great offense at your words "wasted by Social Security" as that system, however flawed is paying out money to people who already paid into the system. Really, I just want to tell you, Perry, Bachman, and all the other short-sighted tea party idiots to quit fucking up the GOP for sane people.

Comment: Re:Easy answer (Score 1) 2288

by scotch (#35926180) Attached to: Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements?

I know a fair amount of people who went to, or go to, "certificate mills", schools for basic nursing, vetrinary sciences, various medical "tech" positions. They generally spent a large amount of time complaining about learning metric. This always confuses me, if anything, metric is about as simple as something can get once you get a frame of reference down (1ml is about such and such). Some of my less academic friends still rant about how much the metric system sucks based on some basic training in at non-university training programs. Welcome to human psychology, where metric (the new thing) is strange, counterintuitive, and invasive because it isn't what we're trained from youth to understand. This is probably the largest bar to adoption.

Thank you for adding evidence to my argument.

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