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Who is making it "volatile high stress" ??

That implies a conspiracy level manipulation, which I'd reject. What, is a better choice of interrogatories.

Regular Americans tired of people like BLM rioting,

And the BLM are rioting where now? Besides, it helps to recognize why there have been protests, and that riots are few and far between, and may well be blamed on outside forces, including excessive police action.

But the "Regular Americans" being "fed up" is nothing new, that's been true since it was Abolitionists and Indian lovers, Suffragettes and Prohibitionists.

cities like Chicago getting shot up daily without a peep from the "Black Leaders",

Except you've apparently never listened to Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan or Barrack Obama.

All of whom have tried to get a handle on it. But then you look at the recent DOJ report on the Chicago PD, and you ask how that happened.

cops getting shot in ambushes

Yeah, except the ambushers have so far been lone wolf actors, not part of any organized groups. That raises a lot of questions, such as how to respond to the problem.

or ... liberal idiots shouting "Hands up, don't shoot" (didn't happen), "pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon" (BLM) or some racist asshole targeting "Cracker" cops ?

And conservatives never shout or say anything offensive? Including some cops.

ALL you have against Trump and his supporters is stupid words.

Ahem, your last three concerns are entirely about words. Did you not notice?

IMHO actions speak much louder and you probably should be paying closer attention to how things are ACTUALLY proceeding, rather than listening to the idiot talking heads who know nothing.

Ok, so when are you going to start demonstrating that you've been paying attention? Have you looked at how very few cops have actually been shot, and how despite frantic claims that there is some widespread pattern of calling for violence against cops, it's really been a few scattered individuals, nothing near a concerted effort? Have you noticed how BLM have been demonized, attacked, and accused, yet not connect to any actual violence? Have you not noticed that cops have killed far more people than cops have been killed?

Then there's Trump himself. Have you noticed his tendency to embellish the truth? Have you noticed his pattern of conduct, say, in regards Trump University?

That's very true, but if Google only puts a brief quote from the article, enough to intrigue you, you'll click the link and head to the paper's web page.
Then they are now getting the revenue from all the ads they serve. Which with some papers I know (Centre Daily.Com (the worst) | Altoona Mirror) has got to be quite a bit of revenue!

It's funny that you bring up Arthur Andersen as the most devastating blow to the corporate world. Did you forget about all of the other scandals from Enron, Global Crossing, Adelphia, Worldcom, etc? The courts overturned its rulings against Arthur Andersen http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/busines s/15831130.htm in May of 2005. You probably never heard of it because the company had been reduced to a pittance by the time they were exonerated.

I feel the need to call fanboi on your entire response...

Sure there are die-hard, rabid, Playstation fanatics who would still buy one if the price was your first born. But if you look at the fact that Sony has always had lame launch titles, the PSP's consumer excitement around it's launch could be described as "apathetic" with the die hard fans camping out for a product that didn't even sell out....

Its true that the DS is handily beating the PSP in sales, especially since the DS Lite launched; but apathetic is alittle strong. The PSP is selling about half as well as the DS. That's still something like 200k units per month.

Considering that the DS or sales numbers were not even brought into the discussion, where the hell did this come from? The OP was describing the consumer exitement about the PSP and the less then spectacular launch titles for the system, which after the die hard $ony fans had gotten theirs, dropped to apathetic. I don't know anyone that was excited about the PSP mainly due to the lackluster titles at launch.

Root kit lost a lot of fans...

Rootkit fiasco lost a lot of nerd fans. Jo Q Public still has no clue. They don't even know what a rootkit is.

That's funny... I get asked all the time by people who know that I am into computers about it. It was featured on the network news, CNN, MSNBC, etc. etc.

... as did Sony's double talk arrogance and bad mouthing of their competition, and lets not forget the clear rip-offs of Nintendo's Wii-mote and Microsoft's Guide button,

Arrogance: check.

Wii rip-off: undecided. Its a natural progression, the tilt sensor they added, if you ask me. More likely this feature was bumped up in priority when Sony saw the impression the Wii remote made. I can see that one either way to be honest. This is sort of like saying that every single digital music player is ripping off the iPod.

MS 'guide' button: what are you talking about? I don't even know what this is. Hardly a feature that's touted as interesting, at any rate.

Natural progression? I think you hit the nail on the head, though. When $ony saw the impression that the Wii controller made, they made the feature a priority... it has nothing to do with saying digital music players are ripping off the i-pod. It's like another music player coming out with a click wheel.

and perhaps most importantly THE PRICE.

Price is bad, I agree. Way bad in comparison to the other consoles, specifically. Of course, we don't actually know the final price yet.

Ummm... where have you been? The price has been known for quite awhile now. $499 for the basic, $599 for upgraded system.

Heck the reason for the high price was because of the Blu-Ray drive, and reviews thus far have shown that HD-DVD is stomping all over Blu-Ray. Really! I'd like to see that. Cite a source?

Here
Here
and here

HD-DVD has 2 layer discs (15gig per layer/30gig total) and uses the awesome VC-1 codec.

So? Blu-ray has a max storage of 200 gigs, over six layers. The codec is irrelevant; you can write a Blu-ray disc with MPEG-2, or the awesome VC-1 codec, OR the 'even awesomer' AVC codec. HD-DVD can only use MS-approved codecs and by the way, that has DRM built-in to the wrapper. (H.264/AVC does not necessarily have this stipulation (weak praise I know), but ALL MS codecs will have to deal with this.)

A six layer blu-ray disk has not been produced outside of the lab, and may be years (if ever) before it is able to be mass produced. Where do you come up with that hd-dvd can only use MS approved codecs? You are just spouting FUD now, as blue-ra

http://www.projectorcentral.com/blu-ray_2.htm
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/busines s/14950018.htm

Basically Blu Ray is only single layer, loaded with advertisement (less room for movie content) and using the MPEG2 codec while HD-DVD is dual layer and using the VC-1 codec. walk into your local Best Buy and you should see some displays side by side, the differences are astounding... particularly because we waited longer for Blu Ray, it costs more and HD-DVD is still better quality.

I apologize for not citing sources for the HD-DVD over Blu-Ray debate. I figured it was common knowledge at this point, what with the AV forums buzzing about it.

The whole thing about Cell yields isn't that they're low (of course we expect them to be low when starting production) it's that its look like they'reFAR LOWER THEN EXPECTED.

And since you asked, I don't have a link but IIRC the last cost estimated the Cell and RSX chips cost Sony ~$110 a piece. No idea about how the RSX yeilds are. I'd almost be more conserned about RAM yeilds though.

The Anthrax attacks of 2002 are still only reported as "unexplained deaths of 5 people from anthrax poisoning. http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/op inion/13288512.htm" The "shoe bomb" never went off. And I just did a Google search using the terms "shooting November 20th" and looked at everything from Nov. 20th to today and there was no mention of an attack on mall shoppers. Now, locally here in the Seattle area there was a 19 year-old kid who was depressed and went into the Tacoma Mall and began shooting random shoppers. If that's what you're talking about, well you'd be hard-pressed to convince anyone he was a terrorist. Hell, he even apologized while he was holding hostages, though I doubt that will help much in the eyes of those he shot. But, it shows he's no terrorist. http://www.sequimgazette.com/article.php?sid=1435

Next...

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message is to every musician speaking out against file sharing:
get your facts straight, and stop regurgitating everything the major label tells you.
Anyone still clinging to the cage-format for music is either a middleman or lazy. Squidnecks

You major label suckers make me laugh
Do you really think your label would come out and say, "Hey we cut your paycheck in half because you've got to help pay for the 250 billion copies we give away. Have they mentioned when they cut new releases by 25% sales dropped 4.1% and they blamed it on P2P? Have they mentioned that they responded to that drop by raising the cost of your CD $1 every year? Does that seem like a good business move to you? Or does that smell like fear?
Ask yourself what kind of business would cut research and development first? I'll tell you: the business that's about to make it's bed up in a mother fuckin hearse.
While Hilary Rosen and the RIAA are trying to convince you that free listeners are a bad thing, those same five labels that pay them are charging you $500,000 to buy you spins
While you're negotiating whether or not the latest Napster pays you 1/3 of a cent per download, Comcast and AOL are turning the information highway into a toll road.
you know the end is near when Britney Spears is calling it a moral issue
they've positioned you right between their wallets and your fans
they can't really expect to turn the tide with a few pathetic lawsuits
So you gotta ask yourself how does one stop a flood? You build a damn.
IT'S THE ISPs, IT'S THE ISPs!
Comcast will have every last consumer on their knees
starting with 5.3 million subscribers to cable access high speed
they own the wires, so they can discriminate with bandwidth and queuing fees
guaranteed monopoly by the FCC so

We're standing on the verge of an artistic cleansing of biblical proportions I say bring it
when the wickedness of big business is great in the earth
and it will even try to sell the waters that it's drowning in
marching two rappers
two rockers
two composers
two programmers
onto a pirate ship
in a free-market flood
until businessmen are businessmen
and art is art again. Rock

this is not an issue of children not recognizing value in art
this is an issue of children recognizing value-less art
getting artists paid doesn't even play a part
The truth is
for the first time since it's creat

Democrats were only accused of doing this by the Republicans and only laptops (the easiest and most valuable hardware to steal) were taken, quickly from an office where they were plainly visible from the street.

Engaging in vandalism against Bush offices by teenagers is not quite as bad as tearing up valid registrations.

Criminally negligent op-ed pieces do not facts make.

Accusing a group of committing illegal activities with no evidence is a typical Republican tactic.

Press releases aimed at creating a non-existant scandal and failing are pretty weak as a source.

Finally, defrauding a company by making up fake voter registrations to earn more money in a $9 per hour job is not making people think they are registered when they are not.

Yeah, it's not like the Democrats ever engage in criminal activities aimed at defrauding and intimidating their way into office.

I agree completely.

I also am a small-l libertarian; I believe in the principles behind the party.

But I think the actual members of the party - the big-L Libertarians - are largely kooks, the sort of people who claim that income tax is optional, or who turn their skin blue.

So business as usual, right?

You think I jest? Maybe I should refresh your memory as to the kinds of people we have. For instance, we have someone who accepted a $200 bill with Bushs face on it as payment.

It's funny how popular it's to champion free trade, yet pull a hundred and eighty when it goes in somebody elses favour.

Considering that the average American watches four hours of television per day, I'm not sure the average person has much time left for socializing. Anything that reduces the amount of TV watched, including using the Internet, is likely to improve how social that person is.

Actually no. My definition is from a psychologist, whose field was the first that studied "intelligence". Because "intelligence" was such a controversial thing to define, they choose a minimal, inarguable definition so that research results could be unambiguously compared.

The Turing test is not used by many (any?) scientists yet, not even CS or AI types. And it's not intended to measure intelligence either... all it could really present is a boolean guess.

A real intelligence test is conducted by a dedicated psychologist, and has a greater range of values the scan-o-matic forms you may be used to. It's capable of measuring, supposedly, low intelligences like a dog (15 IQ) or venus flytrap (1 IQ). (And yes, there are some humans who score that low) As part of the process, the examiner will converse with the subject, thus subsuming the activities of a Turing test.

"Ashcroft is actually now teaching local law enforcement how to misapply anti-terror legislation to petty crime"

can you link me to some articles concerning this revelation?

A little Google never hurt anyone.

Not only is Ashcroft spending thousands on drapes to cover lady Justice, but he has printed glossy brochures inviting people to lectures on how to extend the PATRIOT Act! And he's been going on tour on our dollars!

Here are some more choice selections for you. Remember the missing WMD in Iraq? Maybe it was Crystal Meth!

Nice try. Actually, they began using HCFC-141b with STS-86. Here's some relevant info on Columbia's damage after STS-87 in 1997.

True, but the foam shedding problems have been going on long before STS-86. See this article, for example:

"The first NASA-reported loss of bipod closeout foam was on the June 1983 launch of Challenger. That was followed by a similar foam loss on the January 1990 flight of Columbia. No records are available from those flights about the size of the foam chunk or damage to the shuttles.

A little more than two years later, the Columbia again suffered bipod foam loss, that time from both closeouts, during a June 1992 launch. A 6-inch divot was missing from the right closeout, and the left closeout popped loose, taking with it a chunk of intertank foam. That piece measured 20 inches by 10 inches by several inches deep, according to a debris and ice assessment prepared after the mission." (quote is about half way down the page)

So it can't simply be the switch to the new foam that caused the shedding problems, now can it?

Right....
I don't suppose anyone's heard of the events this week surrounding Texas Democrats and the Department of Homeland Security, eh?

Long story short: all 51 Democrats from the Texas State Legislature ran to Oklahoma for 4 days to prevent the State from addressing some redistricting issue (there wouldn't be a quorum of legislators, and thus nothing could be voted on). Anyway, pretty much all the Republican legislators shit a brick, and somehow it seems the Department of Homeland Security got dragged into the search for the missing Democrats (yes, the same federal agency supposed purpose is to protect the entire U.S.A. from terrorists). Oh, and if that isn't enough, it seems that all Texas Department of Public Safety documents regarding the Department of Homeland Security's involvement in this fiasco were ordered destroyed.

So, forgive me if I take a wee bit of convincing on this whole "TIA will only be used on foreigners" thing...


P.S.: Seriously, folks, it scares the shit out of me that the big news organizations aren't picking this story up and running with it.

Now, nearly five years after this event with almost no major incidents, the city council approved sticking cameras all over this area. There will be no cameras near residential areas for locals, just cameras for students. The police chief has designated the areas as a problem section and now he will have the legal right to monitor the place with a bunch of cameras.

Using the same mentality other cities could monitor their problem areas and keep a close eye on what the minority population is up to. Personally, I would like to rent a house next to the police chief and stick up 10 AXIS cams covering every inch of his house.

No - maybe not. However, certain incidents and other accidents, such as the wedding party bombing, have certainly caused some people to lose confidence with the US Military forces - and that's not mentioning the crimes and human rights violations by the US Military which took place in Vietnam.

No, it's not flamebait: it's the simple truth.

You're right. They could have paid a dollar (It's been a few years, so maybe more) to place sweatshirts in a locker and retrieve them later when it got colder. Also, they could have starved since it's against the rules to bring in food/drink from outside the park.

I think the problem is that Disney is a corporate empire that takes advantage of the public. The execs that drive this greed will all burn in Hell. Coca Cola and Oreo commercials are the same way! Until the average Joe stops watching TV, he/she will continue to be the target of shameless marketing that does anything it can get away with. A good example for is alcohol advertisements. 25 percent of the alcohol advertisements on TV were more likely to be viewed by minors than adults.

-Lucas