Last week I reran the Windows display/font tweaking tool at least a dozen times ... and the fonts still did not look very good.
I had two major updates late last week/over the weekend and I swear, all of a sudden my fonts are back to being gorgeously rendered on screen. There was no mention in the updates of anything having to do with font rendering. Am I crazy? I think I must be. But today my screen looks so good I just want to stare at it.
And there is an interesting thought: Font rendering on Windows differs from Mac OS X quite a bit, and people do seem to prefer one or the other. I wonder if that plays a role in computer selection? Windows tends toward sharp and crisp, Mac OS X tends toward warm and fuzzy (and often more accurate in regards to scaling). If you prefer Mac OS X style font rendering on Windows there is an open source project, gdipp, that does a decent job of bringing that style to Windows.
Personally I like both. I appreciate Windows Crispness, and Mac OS X's softness. I am currently more used to crisper fonts since I've been primarily a Windows user for several years now.
Enough for now! Have a nice day!
Monday, November 19, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The argument against the right
I think a prevailing argument against "the right" is that we try to legislate morality, and that religion does not belong in law and politics. They believe that it is WRONG for us to do that. They fail to see that they are doing the exact same thing, creating laws to make actions that others find reprehensible, legal. They hide under the idea that people should be able to do whatever they want if it doesn't harm anyone else and claim that government should not interfere, it's role is as a provider.
I think that some people even feel that what happened in that junior high/middle school in Maine is "O.K.... no harm no foul". (If you don't know what happened, a gay-rights group was allowed to talk to the student body about bullying and such, but at the end of their talk they began to tell the students how to have safe, gay sex, in DETAIL before the staff could stop them). The problem with that is a lot of people DON'T think that is "O.K.", yet in many states those people are now, by law, FORCED to allow something similar, if not as detailed, to happen. So while people tout how OUR (conservative) will should not be pushed onto them, they push THEIR (liberal) views on US. It's called hypocrisy, people. The funny thing is that (in this case) the gay community is a small percentage of the whole, but in some twisted idea that the needs of the very very few need to be protected and nurtured, they stomp on a very large part of the population. This is what is causing the conservative reaction and backlash. It's like 100 people voting, and letting the minority of 1 take all.
I honestly don't know what the solution is. 1/2 the people in our country believe in a more conservative socio-economic view, the other 1/2 believe in a more liberal socio-economic view. I don't think this can be resolved.
But let me remind you that laws are created to protect us, not restrict us, to prevent us from performing harmful or detrimental acts to us, and others.
Finally, for conservatives, we must never lose COMPASSION. We certainly are allowed to and should pursue the support of law, but we shouldn't do so in such a way that we lose track of the fact that we ARE talking about PEOPLE who have feelings, failings, wants and needs just as we do.
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my conservative views
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Abortion: I believe that once an egg is fertilized it is now a "potential" human being. No turning back. The DNA is complete, the cell is starting to build into a shape we will eventually recognize, someone who might someday change the world in a huge and wonderful way, or might become a crazed killer, who knows.
Gay Marriage: There is no longer any point to marriage, as it obviously isn't for having children and building a strong, healthy family unit. Family unit == male, female and offspring. Extended family can be anything and everyone else as far as I am concerned.
MINORITY: While our country is about freedom and equal rights, that can only carry so far. Homosexuality is a 1% minority in our country. (Maybe just over 1%). It's nice that some people are championing the cause of others, but again, freedom and equal rights need to be tempered with reason, justice, and sometimes restriction. Yes, I know this is not a democracy.
Freedom OF Religion, NOT freedom FROM religion: People seem to think that our MOSTLY CHRISTIAN founding fathers and original settlers (why did most of the people come here and settle this land? Freedom to worship God as they pleased) meant to exclude religion from anything public, and tout Jefferson's quote of "separation of church and state" as statement against religion. This is NOT TRUE. Jefferson said that because the STATE of Connecticut was trying to impose one, official religion and Thomas Jefferson (rightly) felt that was wrong to do. He did not mean to imply that religion and government should be completely separated in all ways, he meant that the government (as stated in the constitution) should NEVER enforce a given religion or interfere with ANY religion. THAT is what our constitution is about. It should not be illegal to have a Christmas tree on public property, or even a shrine to Buddha for that matter. We are supposed to embrace diversity not shun it. I think if people want to pray in schools, they should be allowed to, and given the opportunity to (yes, even Muslims).
Done for now.
I think that some people even feel that what happened in that junior high/middle school in Maine is "O.K.... no harm no foul". (If you don't know what happened, a gay-rights group was allowed to talk to the student body about bullying and such, but at the end of their talk they began to tell the students how to have safe, gay sex, in DETAIL before the staff could stop them). The problem with that is a lot of people DON'T think that is "O.K.", yet in many states those people are now, by law, FORCED to allow something similar, if not as detailed, to happen. So while people tout how OUR (conservative) will should not be pushed onto them, they push THEIR (liberal) views on US. It's called hypocrisy, people. The funny thing is that (in this case) the gay community is a small percentage of the whole, but in some twisted idea that the needs of the very very few need to be protected and nurtured, they stomp on a very large part of the population. This is what is causing the conservative reaction and backlash. It's like 100 people voting, and letting the minority of 1 take all.
I honestly don't know what the solution is. 1/2 the people in our country believe in a more conservative socio-economic view, the other 1/2 believe in a more liberal socio-economic view. I don't think this can be resolved.
But let me remind you that laws are created to protect us, not restrict us, to prevent us from performing harmful or detrimental acts to us, and others.
Finally, for conservatives, we must never lose COMPASSION. We certainly are allowed to and should pursue the support of law, but we shouldn't do so in such a way that we lose track of the fact that we ARE talking about PEOPLE who have feelings, failings, wants and needs just as we do.
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my conservative views
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Abortion: I believe that once an egg is fertilized it is now a "potential" human being. No turning back. The DNA is complete, the cell is starting to build into a shape we will eventually recognize, someone who might someday change the world in a huge and wonderful way, or might become a crazed killer, who knows.
Gay Marriage: There is no longer any point to marriage, as it obviously isn't for having children and building a strong, healthy family unit. Family unit == male, female and offspring. Extended family can be anything and everyone else as far as I am concerned.
MINORITY: While our country is about freedom and equal rights, that can only carry so far. Homosexuality is a 1% minority in our country. (Maybe just over 1%). It's nice that some people are championing the cause of others, but again, freedom and equal rights need to be tempered with reason, justice, and sometimes restriction. Yes, I know this is not a democracy.
Freedom OF Religion, NOT freedom FROM religion: People seem to think that our MOSTLY CHRISTIAN founding fathers and original settlers (why did most of the people come here and settle this land? Freedom to worship God as they pleased) meant to exclude religion from anything public, and tout Jefferson's quote of "separation of church and state" as statement against religion. This is NOT TRUE. Jefferson said that because the STATE of Connecticut was trying to impose one, official religion and Thomas Jefferson (rightly) felt that was wrong to do. He did not mean to imply that religion and government should be completely separated in all ways, he meant that the government (as stated in the constitution) should NEVER enforce a given religion or interfere with ANY religion. THAT is what our constitution is about. It should not be illegal to have a Christmas tree on public property, or even a shrine to Buddha for that matter. We are supposed to embrace diversity not shun it. I think if people want to pray in schools, they should be allowed to, and given the opportunity to (yes, even Muslims).
Done for now.
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