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Looks fine on the iPad. Not so great on the TI99 4A, and it’s a compete mess on the Timex Sinclair.
On the Left Side of the Road...On first blush everything looks like it ported smoothly. I know this was a ton of work for you. Thanks.
On the Left Side of the Road...03/09/2011 at 12:38 am in reply to: Thoughts on the budget repair bill and protests in Madison. #1943330@seldom|seen wrote:
We live in an oligarchical collectivist state where wealth is slowly and inexorably atrophying to the top tier through corporate manipulation of legislation and media.
Welfare State: Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages: http://www.cnbc.com/id/41969508.
“Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent of wages and salaries this year, up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960.”
It is unsustainable growth.
So…how do you propose we fix it?
“Tax the rich” even more?
To what end?
On the Left Side of the Road...03/08/2011 at 8:51 pm in reply to: Thoughts on the budget repair bill and protests in Madison. #1943326s|s, I agree with your post to a point–a key reason the Roman empire fell was a widening gap between the rich and the poor. But I had to roll my eyes at the “oligarchical” reference. That’s straight out of anti-Walker rhetoric. Google it and Walker shows up in the top 5 results. You can do better than that, man!
My take on the gap is quite a bit different, however. Yes, power corrupts, and politicans from both parties are not immune to this. But let’s look at the other end of the spectrum. We have created a dependent class based on an ever-increasing number of, and amount of, entitlement programs. There seems to be absolutely no end to these and any attempt to curtail their growth is met with a tremendous hue and cry.
Think the current budget battle in Madison is a big brouhaha? Just wait until we gotta tackle social security and other problems. Unfortunately, our solution is not to have a solution, but simply to pass problems off to the next generation, print more money, and hope for some magic–all the time being told by blowhards like Michael Moore that it’s all a made-up problem.
I see no way of fixing this problem. We are addicted to suckling off the public teat. It’s “free from the government,” right?
Well, right now, the top 5 percent of weatlhy pay 60% of the taxes in this country and the top 1 percent continue to pay a higher percentage of the total each year. Meanwhile, about half of the population pays no income taxes at all. That means we’re at a point where more people are getting from the goverment than give to it. Why would they want it to change? Of course it’s unsustainable, but only after the system collapses will we collectively and finally realize that fact.
On the Left Side of the Road...03/04/2011 at 4:12 am in reply to: Thoughts on the budget repair bill and protests in Madison. #1943297Watch it…if for no other reason than the last line…
On the Left Side of the Road...03/04/2011 at 2:27 am in reply to: Thoughts on the budget repair bill and protests in Madison. #1943295Edit: never mind…I am not going to debate this here…people have already made up their minds on this one way or the other.
On the Left Side of the Road...03/04/2011 at 2:08 am in reply to: Thoughts on the budget repair bill and protests in Madison. #1943292By the way, according to the Wisconsin State Journal (hardly a bastion of conservative journalism, lest you doubt the following), it will take 6 MILLION dollars to clean the interior of the capitol, and and another 1 million to clean the exterior.
On the Left Side of the Road...03/03/2011 at 2:14 am in reply to: Thoughts on the budget repair bill and protests in Madison. #1943285“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it.”
On the Left Side of the Road...So much of it is, as always, about individual people and their approach. However it’s pretty clear, even from reading the logs, that this type of series encourages bad behavior.
In other news, when did we get a new BOD president? Is there gonna be an announcement or did I miss it?
On the Left Side of the Road...I think this is a very prescient quote:
“Taking a low visibility, low impact sport and turning it into a high visibility, high impact one is not good for the future of geocaching.”
I haven’t been around from the beginning but I’ve seen the devolution of the game just in my five years from “interesting places I’d never have visited” to “filmstrip cans tossed on the ground every .1 mile.” Hopefully this is a sign that a corner has been turned and some level of common sense comes back to this game.
On the Left Side of the Road...The Minnesota event from what I can tell involves puzzle owners and respects their wishes, and it seems to have a LOT of buy in from puzzle owners based on the extensive list of puzzles included in it.
In contrast, in the 50-mile radius of these events here, we have had tremendous acrimony and several puzzle owners archiving their caches. So you can draw your own conclusions based on those facts.
On the Left Side of the Road...Two months, four days, and counting. 😥
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On the Left Side of the Road...Well, here’s my thought. As a user, I can go onto the geocaching.com site and do a search based on caches near my location. It pulls back pages and pages of info.
When I use c geo it provides my location then displays the results on a map or list. When I click the map or list, it pulls up the cache page in a regular browser window because that’s what I select as the default.
I continue to struggle to see how this violates the TOS. Supposedly it does but I don’t have an official word how. Because to me on the outside, it looks to be a simple integration service that takes the information that I can obtain via the phones web browser-a list of caches and coordinates-displays them in an easy to digest, map format, then lets me click through to a regular web page to see the actual cache.
I don’t see where the “scraping” is being done. Help me out here.
And even so, I am the end user, using information that I pay to use, and using it for only my own purposes, not to repurpose and sell.
On the Left Side of the Road...I’m not a programmer. Why can’t groundspeak block access by a particular app? I have read they know if you are using it. I don’t know if that’s true but if so why not just block?
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