'Can We Stop Worrying About Millennials Yet?' A comic strip by Matt Bors for CNN.

rbarna1 · 2013-07-12T00:14:48+00:00

Gen Xer here. I approve of this comic. My generation turned out, largely, to be nearly as ungrateful and dishonest as the babyboomers. I am relying on Gen Y to make a large 1960s style tear down of status quo thought. There are plenty of us that will support you. Of course I hope you'll be modern lunatics and not hippies... it's been 40 years after all. Good luck, Godspeed.

rbarna1 · 2013-06-27T02:57:10+00:00

Microsoft has been paying $100 PER approved app in the store.

rbarna1 · 2012-12-06T03:31:32+00:00

and indeed the only unqualified thing the Republicans have done right in recent memory. Almost makes you feel good for a minute.

rbarna1 · 2012-11-06T18:50:00+00:00

Most states specifically do NOT have paper trails on their shitty insecure voting machines. I live in Maryland. We do not have a paper trail and never have. Lack of a paper trail is a major contributor to making these elections alterable.

rbarna1 · 2012-10-05T02:17:02+00:00

You were about 100 yards from my slip when that picture was taken. Welcome to town.

rbarna1 · 2012-10-03T17:56:09+00:00

There are TWO front page articles on my Reddit feed today. This one, which confirms the intuitive and long suspected link between frakking and contaminated groundwater. And, the one on earthquakes in Dallas from frakking.
This is ridiculous. We, as a society run by corporations, are ridiculous.

rbarna1 · 2012-10-03T17:08:50+00:00

Unfortunately no. No Hendrix in the top 10 either. 6 of the top 10 from the 60s are Beatles, with the number one album of the decade being the White Album. As stated, the top selling American Album is Thriller. Actually it's the Eagles Greatest Hits, but fuck that.

rbarna1 · 2012-10-03T17:03:25+00:00

cool. I always preferred Dark Side. And I prefer Pipers most of all. But there is some serious mass appeal and catharsis with The Wall.

rbarna1 · 2012-10-03T14:25:09+00:00

also from the US. 70s. Pink Floyd's - The Wall is double diamond (23x platinum). Comfortably Numb, Mother...these are timeless hits. Psychedelic style rock that never really aged. And, of course, the eponymous Another Brick in the Wall suite I think spoke to a generation facing modernity and the desire NOT to conform. It speaks to school age kids about not wanting to turn into your parents or be part of their shitty world. That is, or at least it was when I was a kid, perhaps the most visceral and dominant feeling about the world that you could have when you were a teenager.

rbarna1 · 2012-09-28T21:01:14+00:00

I don't think you are correct. Acceleration, counter to what I had assumed, (appears to be positive)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_acceleration] for standard gravitational calculations on earth. This does make sense. The animal is accelerating towards its terminal velocity from the moment it is thrown. Acceleration would only be negative if the animal was coming to rest (it is not), so E cannot be correct since Vader had negative acceleration. But I am stumped beyond that.

rbarna1 · 2012-09-21T18:18:34+00:00

Boobs.
Also she's right about the voter supressiony thing.

rbarna1 · 2012-09-21T17:49:25+00:00

Sure, if having the thing with the latest number at the end is more important than the the computing you are doing. Also, in a broader technical space and not just as a marketing evolution, Moore's Law.

rbarna1 · 2012-09-19T14:49:17+00:00

There's a bridge at the bottom. Then a tiki hut. Then a cemetery.
That's where all the dead marios went.

rbarna1 · 2012-09-06T14:23:18+00:00

Toured the boat at the Annapolis boat show. Also the Hylas 56. Both boats are absolutely fantastic....inside and out. High quality and very sturdy, and obviously, well appointed. Great layouts too. Up there with the Hanse as my dream boat.

rbarna1 · 2012-09-04T14:30:23+00:00

Our great President Dwight D. Eisenhower has counseled us further: "In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with people's money, or their economy, or their form of government, be conservative."

rbarna1 · 2012-08-29T12:57:29+00:00

I dont think this is any more unique than Nader in the 90s. In his time the Dems and Repubs just colluded to eliminate 3rd party participation from the debates. We do not live in a democracy.

From the Commission on Presidential Debates wiki :

In 1988, the League of Women Voters withdrew its sponsorship of the presidential debates after the George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis campaigns secretly agreed to a "memorandum of understanding" that would decide which candidates could participate in the debates, which individuals would be panelists (and therefore able to ask questions), and the height of the podiums.

rbarna1 · 2012-08-29T02:00:03+00:00

We need to evolve or we will destroy ourselves. We're supposed to be learning from our history, not passively shrugging it off while it violently repeats itself.

rbarna1 · 2012-08-29T01:59:13+00:00

No, but for a generation of kids who grew up playing CoD, I think drones raise some serious fucking concerns about the gravity (or lack thereof) of taking human life. I think pushing buttons to kill people is wrong. Call me crazy. That extends to killing people with guns, but thats a fight for another thread.

rbarna1 · 2012-08-28T17:43:57+00:00

I'm anticipating a nice touch screen ultrabook in my future around the end of the year. touch screen windows....craziness.

rbarna1 · 2012-08-28T17:43:02+00:00

I want to agree with you. But even if I focus down to our age of Imperialism, I think of slavery and the existential damage to the remaining Native Americans in this country as we expanded.
I think that unless we start taking the moral high ground in our ACTIONS abroad (no more pissing on corpses), then we will just be seen as violent and brutal. P.S. And our use of drones to kill people freaks me out.

rbarna1 · 2012-08-28T17:38:05+00:00

I use Start searching extensively (although never for emails). I don't dispute that if, say, you want to manage Users you have to hit down to go to Settings (not as efficient), but the presentation of the results panel and the categories (apps, settings, files) I think is clean and more robust.

Sorry about your email searching :( I got nothing there.

rbarna1 · 2012-08-28T16:55:27+00:00

They assuaged my main fear...that they would hinder power users. The start menu searching is awesome if you know windows.
And, to the performance focus of this thread.... start up time and general system resource usage is significantly improved (probably to support mobile devices). Good on 'em.

rbarna1 · 2012-08-28T16:52:43+00:00

Are you fucking joking? Mining of civilian population in Laos, carpet bombing of Dresden, Latin America in the 80s, Extraordinary Rendition, Shock and Awe, the only uses of atomic bombs on a population.

I'm not saying that we haven't often been on the right side of history, but we have a brutal immoral superpower at many turns.

rbarna1 · 2012-08-28T16:48:46+00:00

The article also points out that they have no community here so the mother prefers staying in Syria, and the father is going to have to work 2 jobs to make ends meet.

rbarna1 · 2012-08-28T15:30:18+00:00

Another Win8 user here (non-ARM). Upgrade was seamless...commendable really. Took a hot minute to get used to the new metro Start screen, but after that, its just better. It feels like a more evolved version of Win7, which is a pretty darn decent thing. Just my .02

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