I've used Pale Moon on linux on my main home computer for about six months with zero issues. NoScript and Adblock Latitude are supported. Haven't found any web sites that do not render. Only minor complaint is that on text boxes like this one the default (but changeable) language is German vice English. Haven't really tried to fix it yet.
Oil (and consequently, refined petroleum products) has gotten more expensive because of speculation.
To the contrary, speculation does not increase or decrease the price of anything. Speculators bet that a price is either too high or too low. Note that they speculate in both directions. If the underlying supply and demand in that market changes over time, the speculators either make or lose money depending on if they bet the way reality turned out.
The only ways to increase the price of a commodity over its market price is either by government interference (in the US we pay more in taxes/permits/fees to goverments than the oil companies profit) or by cartel-like organizations (OPEC and unions).
Suggest you look up "inelasticity" in the context of economic theory. Energy has quite inelastic demand. Most people in the US cannot in the short term change how they get to work just because the price of a gallon of gas goes up. People will continue to heat their house in winter even if the cost of heating it goes up. Etc.
On your list the only items specifically mentioned in the U.S. Constitution are defense and paying the debt. Contrary to you, those are the only items on that list that I support paying. And my wife collects Social Security, so we do have skin in the game. Watch the percent spent on interest on the debt skyrocket when global interest rates rise back to historical norms.
Sorry that direct measurements of sea levels disagree with an "upswing" in the last 100 years. http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html has sea levels at various measuring stations around the world. Some go back more than 100 years. New York's Battery for example goes back to 1856. It's sea level change is quite linear at 2.77 mm/year or 0.91 feet per 100 years.
Best advice yet. Try several live distros. If your machine allows USB boot, that's the way to go. If your hard drive(s) is/are big enough, you can install multiple distros and just boot whatever one you want to play with.
My add to this thread is to partition your hard drive so that
"Republicans don't believe in negative externalities, because it would force them to change their lifestyles."
Don't pick on just the Republicans. Do you really think Soros, Gore, Pelosi, the Kennedy clan, Kerry, Clooney and all the rest of the 1% Dems take a train or ship for travel because trains and ships contribute the least CO2 per weight-distance moved of any other transporation mode?
Data point: Mean sea level at various harbors has been tracked since the mid 1800s. Sea level rise at New York since 1856 has been quite linear at +2.66 mm/yr (0.91 feet per hundred years).
Link:
http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8518750%20The%20Battery,%20NY
If your mutual fund bought Facebook shares (or any IPO), then change mutual funds. Every mutual fund publishes its investment guidance. You can't even buy into a mutual fund without them sending you this information. It's called a Prospectus. Don't read it at your peril.
GP said: "fiduciary responsibility to their share holders to save money and maximize return on their investments".
It's not clear why for some reason you changed this to: "fiduciary responsibility to maximize tax avoidance".
"...duty to society at large" is what laws (tax and criminal) are for. If you disagree with the law, change it. Employees DO have a fiduciary responsibility to their employer (the shareholders).
Way to not address a snarky, opinionated rant receiving a 3. But you're correct that I agree with the AC.
No fishing attempted, by the way.
Wow, a rant about the assumed need for regulating "destructive" corporations with a snarky flourish calling the gp a simpleton gets modded 3. The gp quite accurately described the accountability of government, businesses and unions but was modded 0. We need more mods that have some seasoning in the real world.
Well, I'm a non-computer industry Grandpa and have been using linux at home for almost 15 years. And no, none of my grandchildren have ever set up any of my computers.
It is misleading to imply that "America", actually the English colonies and the USA, was the only economy in the world based on slavery. Elsewhere it had a different names: serf, indentured servant, seigneurial privileges, and others.
Some of my German ancestors were indentured to the Catholic Church, required to work the church's vinyards, had to get the priest's permission to marry, and could not move away without permission. And this was an inherited situation up to the early 1800s.
Suggest reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom as a starting point.
Mod parent higher. "How Beer Saved the World" is excellent.
"The eleventh commandment was `Thou Shalt Compute' or `Thou Shalt Not Compute' -- I forget which." -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
