But even I can see a con job and a grab for oil for what it is.
I assume you're talking about Iraq...
If that was a grab for oil, why are we paying record high prices for gas?
Hypothetically, supposing that we were getting cheap oil as a result of occupying Iraq, how would flooding the market with "stolen" (free) Arab oil help Bush's "Texas oil buddies"?
If the war in Iraq was a grab for oil, why did Bill Clinton and John Kerry support an invasion?
If a grab for oil is so important, why haven't we "invaded" Alaska? There's easy oil for the grabbing.
I agree wholeheartedly with the overall message of your post. But...
... in order to prevent a revolution (censorship, a la China, North Korea, Fox News)...
Uhhh, excuse me. What revolution is FOX News covering up or preventing?
Whatever the revolution in America is or could be, FOX News would not be capable of concealing it. Not in this age of paparazzi, Drudge, and 4500 news sources, most of them based in the U.S.
You said it yourself: Censorship is an activity of a government or ruling regime. Regardless of what you think of FOX News, it is not run by the U.S. government. It selects stories to cover and not to cover, just like every other media organization. Even Al-Jazeera, while highly biased, could not be said to practice censorship. It's called journalistic judgment and editing.
Grow up. This is not censorship. Confusing the two makes you look stupid, your arguments weak, and provides ammunition to those whom you may have a legitimate gripe with regarding news coverage while reducing the travesty of true censorship to something akin to you not being able to watch some TV.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12/U.S. Newswire/ -- Contrary to popular myth the Earth is not warming significantly, according to new research published last month in Geophysical Research Letters by scientists with the universities of Rochester and Virginia.
The reports note two important findings that run counter to the view that human activity is causing catastrophic global warming.
"It's been known for some time that satellites and surface thermometers give different temperature trends," said one of the reports' co-authors Prof. S. Fred Singer, president of the Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP). "We now have independent confirmation that the satellite results are correct and that the climate is not warming." Prof. Singer, an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is also a former director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service.
Proponents of global warming theory have long pointed to thermometer measurements at the Earth's surface as proof that the Earth is warming. Other scientists have pointed to balloon and satellite readings of temperatures in the Earth's lower atmosphere that show no significant warming. The scientists from the universities of Rochester and Virginia employed a new, independent way of determining the temperature, using historic meteorological climate data to construct temperature values for each grid cell of the Earth at an equivalent height of two meters. This analysis agreed with the satellite and balloon measurements, establishing that the disparity is close to the surface and mainly in the tropics.
In another report, the Rochester/Virginia scientists found that the computer climate models used to assert that the introduction of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide (CO2), into the atmosphere is causing the Earth to warm, and that the effect increases with altitude becoming twice as strong at about three miles up, are in stark contrast to the actual data of the past quarter-century. Comparing the results from the three commonly cited climate models with four independent observational data sets, the scientists found that the models all showed temperatures increasing with altitude, while the actual observations showed the opposite occurred.
"If the global climate is not warming, why all the fuss?" asked Singer. "The whole issue of controlling CO2 emissions is moot."
There are two options in the LAN connection properties. The first one says to show the icon when there is a connection. The second one says to show the icon where is not a connection. Both of them are unchecked, but the icon stays there all the time.
Works well for me, but there a couple of annoyances.
How do you make the LAN icon in the tasktray disappear? I have a NIC for my DSL connection. The DSL connection has its own icon. I don't need another icon. What's especially annoying is that it's animated. It says "Acquiring network address." I unchecked "Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity" to no avail.
I worked around the second "annoyance," which, I must confess, is a good defense against viruses. I use a Notepad replacement because I don't like the official one. It actually replaces notepad.exe in the System32 directory. But SP2 overwrote the replacement and put the official Notepad.exe back. I tried to install the alternative notepad, but it wouldn't work. Windows would let the new notepad.exe stay for a few seconds, and then automagically it would rename the new notepad.exe to OLDxx.tmp and make the old notepad come back to life. I couldn't understand this because I was logged in as Administrator. I finally figured out that I had to disable the "Cryptographic Services" service before I could overwrite Notepad. Then, I could turn the service back on, and the new notepad.exe would remain.
While that is true, a more important truth is that...
Life imitates art.
You say that art imitates life, but, in this case, as in so many others, it imitates only a small, extreme subsection of life in a few American urban areas where there is an unordinary level violence, crime, and hatred displayed on the streets. It flashes these realities into millions of suburban and rural homes around the world and can make them actually fun to think about. That's what so bad about these games.
Art amplifies certain values and lifestyles, and, in our increasingly monoculturized, globalized world, the Big Media spreads that art from coast to coast and around the world. Art can spread negative ways of living to communities where that kind of living has not existed. Artists and game makers should be aware of the extreme lifestyle and culture that they choose to highlight. It may come back to bite them on the street one day.
Hmmm, it's amazing how Jesus could be the source of something in the OLD TESTAMENT which was written thousands of years before his (alleged) birth
John 8:56-58:
"Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see My day, and he saw it and was glad."
Then the Judeans replied, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have You seen Abraham?"
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I AM!"
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the doctrine of the Trinity.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made." -- John 1:1-3
As a Christian, I encourage other Christians out there to browse around the Skeptic's Annotated Bible. I bookmarked it about a year ago. Occasionally, I go through a section, pretending that the questioner is standing next to me, to see how fast I can give a succinct explanation. My median time is about ten seconds per question - basically, the time it takes to say it. Rarely do I have to look up something in any resources. Unfortunately, it's not a good test for the real world, because the issues it raises are so disingenious or absurdly obvious, I can't help but roll my eyes and moan. [Edit after previewing: On second thought, the fact that the issues it raises are disingenious or absurdly obvious does make it a good test for the real world.]
The author's lack of Biblical knowledge would be amusing if he didn't take his work so seriously. It's a huge project and there's talk about putting it in book form. But it's fatuous. I would've thought it was a parody of an atheist site (as landoverbaptist.org is a fake church site) if it wasn't so thorough and well-planned and touted by non-Christians.
This annotated Bible presents no challenge to Biblical inerrancy or Christian doctrine.
there is fear that these measures will have a negative impact on basic human rights.
Human rights? Oh, spare me. Talk about invasion of privacy if you want, but don't diminish important phrases for the sake of sniping at the people who are working so hard to prevent a terrorist attack.
Have we already forgotten the terrorist attacks at the Munich Olympics of 1972? The explosion at the Atlanta Olympics of 1996? Anybody remember 9/11? 3/11? (Spain) Anybody seen the news lately? No, the one-sided hype on yro.slashdot.org doesn't count.
You find the possibility of quintillions of bacteria living for billions of years happening onto something that is improbable to be less plausible than the existence all-knowing all-seeing imaginary friend who has never revealed his presence in any way?
2) I'm very disheartened that someone could make this kind of trip, especially a Jew, and still not believe that God has revealed His presence in any way. Mind-boggling. Were you paying attention when they talked about the Six Day War? That alone ought to convert any skeptic.
Man, that's tough. I'm in a tight situation myself, but I have only myself to support. My best money-saving tip is to buy groceries at a Super Wal-Mart. I used to shop at Bi-Lo, but Wal-Mart's product prices are usually lower than Bi-Lo's even with the Bi-Lo "bonus card" discounts. When I shop, I look straight for the little red cents/ounce stickers. And buy large quantities; you get more food for your money.
On a side note, jbash, I think you could've precluded some of the harsh replies you're getting if you hadn't included that little anti-GOP diatribe at the end. There were people in your situation during the administrations of Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter, and there will be people in your situation during the next administration, whoseever it is. If you want a Nanny State to guarantee you a job, you can vote Communist, but this is not yet Soviet Russia.
How many cubic light years do you need?
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Outer space is a province of all mankind. There is not, and should not be, any privatization of outer space.
It is very common that Indians doing tech support are hard to understand. Not 100%, but it's very common. As for other experiences, most of the Indian TAs I had in CS labs in college were hard to understand. I haven't had much contact with Africans (besides South Africans who grew up speaking English), but it seems to me that most Asians who are new to English speak English in such a way that it's hard to understand.
You don't need to be an overzealous apologist for the third world. What I'm saying is not xenophobic or elitist. This kind of problem would exist just as much as if the linguistic roles were reversed. It's just plain reality that a lot of people aren't sufficiently educated or experienced in a foreign language to conduct communication-heavy jobs in that language. The ones who suffer are paying customers who have to suffer under these strained services.
Seriously, if the labour is as skilled, what's the justification for keeping the labour in the 1st world?
They don't have the most important call center skill: Speaking English in a comprehensible accent
Who are the real victims of offshoring to third world countries?
My poor mom called me yesterday with a weary voice almost crying. She had been on the phone with EarthLink's tech support for hours over two days. "I can't understand these Indians!" She didn't know what they were telling her, and to make matters more frustrating, the techs were bound to their stupid, written routines, repeating the same rigamaroll over and over as she got shuffled around through the phone maze. I think she fudged the connection profile I had created for her while trying to follow their instructions. It's a wonder she didn't end up doing worse to her computer.
Oh, I didn't catch that src was a generic attribute. It still seems strange. Is src used to insert only images? If so, it would be better to name the attribute img. Src means image file to us only because it has been used within the context of the img element. "Src" by itself could mean anything.
I certainly understand the desire for formatted alt text, but it seems wrong to use the p element in this way. It is not a generic element like div. P means paragraph, and an image is not a paragraph. If they're willing to add a src attribute to p to make it insert images, why don't they just change img to better support text?
<img src="tux-doll.jpg"> A <span class="smalltxt">little</span> stuffed Tux is sitting on <strong>my</strong> computer monitor. </img>
That would've been a more intutuitive modification. The tag's name should reflect the tag's purpose (img for image), not its fallback feature.
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I assume you're talking about Iraq...
If that was a grab for oil, why are we paying record high prices for gas?
Hypothetically, supposing that we were getting cheap oil as a result of occupying Iraq, how would flooding the market with "stolen" (free) Arab oil help Bush's "Texas oil buddies"?
If the war in Iraq was a grab for oil, why did Bill Clinton and John Kerry support an invasion?
If a grab for oil is so important, why haven't we "invaded" Alaska? There's easy oil for the grabbing.
Not exactly
100,000,000 murdered souls would disagree.
Note: I don't think OSS is a bad thing.
They did. It ships in only three language versions, which, if what I've read is correct, represents 6% of the world population:
- Thai
- Bahasa Malaysia (Malay)
- Bahasa Indonesia
The difference between the latter two is analagous to English English and American English.Uhhh, excuse me. What revolution is FOX News covering up or preventing?
Whatever the revolution in America is or could be, FOX News would not be capable of concealing it. Not in this age of paparazzi, Drudge, and 4500 news sources, most of them based in the U.S.
You said it yourself: Censorship is an activity of a government or ruling regime. Regardless of what you think of FOX News, it is not run by the U.S. government. It selects stories to cover and not to cover, just like every other media organization. Even Al-Jazeera, while highly biased, could not be said to practice censorship. It's called journalistic judgment and editing.
Grow up. This is not censorship. Confusing the two makes you look stupid, your arguments weak, and provides ammunition to those whom you may have a legitimate gripe with regarding news coverage while reducing the travesty of true censorship to something akin to you not being able to watch some TV.
"Fascist" is a term that Socialists and Communists throw at capitalists.
Right. So it's up to the Atheists to slaughter or convert all the religious infidels because of their belief.
Then, there will be a pure, godless society of tolerance and peace.
Studies Also Show Climate Models Break from Reality Says NCPA Scholar
There are two options in the LAN connection properties. The first one says to show the icon when there is a connection. The second one says to show the icon where is not a connection. Both of them are unchecked, but the icon stays there all the time.
How do you make the LAN icon in the tasktray disappear? I have a NIC for my DSL connection. The DSL connection has its own icon. I don't need another icon. What's especially annoying is that it's animated. It says "Acquiring network address." I unchecked "Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity" to no avail.
I worked around the second "annoyance," which, I must confess, is a good defense against viruses. I use a Notepad replacement because I don't like the official one. It actually replaces notepad.exe in the System32 directory. But SP2 overwrote the replacement and put the official Notepad.exe back. I tried to install the alternative notepad, but it wouldn't work. Windows would let the new notepad.exe stay for a few seconds, and then automagically it would rename the new notepad.exe to OLDxx.tmp and make the old notepad come back to life. I couldn't understand this because I was logged in as Administrator. I finally figured out that I had to disable the "Cryptographic Services" service before I could overwrite Notepad. Then, I could turn the service back on, and the new notepad.exe would remain.
Life imitates art.
You say that art imitates life, but, in this case, as in so many others, it imitates only a small, extreme subsection of life in a few American urban areas where there is an unordinary level violence, crime, and hatred displayed on the streets. It flashes these realities into millions of suburban and rural homes around the world and can make them actually fun to think about. That's what so bad about these games.
Art amplifies certain values and lifestyles, and, in our increasingly monoculturized, globalized world, the Big Media spreads that art from coast to coast and around the world. Art can spread negative ways of living to communities where that kind of living has not existed. Artists and game makers should be aware of the extreme lifestyle and culture that they choose to highlight. It may come back to bite them on the street one day.
John 8:56-58:
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the doctrine of the Trinity."In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made." -- John 1:1-3
The author's lack of Biblical knowledge would be amusing if he didn't take his work so seriously. It's a huge project and there's talk about putting it in book form. But it's fatuous. I would've thought it was a parody of an atheist site (as landoverbaptist.org is a fake church site) if it wasn't so thorough and well-planned and touted by non-Christians.
This annotated Bible presents no challenge to Biblical inerrancy or Christian doctrine.
Human rights? Oh, spare me. Talk about invasion of privacy if you want, but don't diminish important phrases for the sake of sniping at the people who are working so hard to prevent a terrorist attack.
Have we already forgotten the terrorist attacks at the Munich Olympics of 1972? The explosion at the Atlanta Olympics of 1996? Anybody remember 9/11? 3/11? (Spain) Anybody seen the news lately? No, the one-sided hype on yro.slashdot.org doesn't count.
FYI, Hixie is one of the main Mozilla developers.
1) Mu. (I don't accept the premises.)
2) I'm very disheartened that someone could make this kind of trip, especially a Jew, and still not believe that God has revealed His presence in any way. Mind-boggling. Were you paying attention when they talked about the Six Day War? That alone ought to convert any skeptic.
On a side note, jbash, I think you could've precluded some of the harsh replies you're getting if you hadn't included that little anti-GOP diatribe at the end. There were people in your situation during the administrations of Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter, and there will be people in your situation during the next administration, whoseever it is. If you want a Nanny State to guarantee you a job, you can vote Communist, but this is not yet Soviet Russia.
Excuse me, but isn't there enough for everybody?
(All of this is pie in the sky anyway until we have better space transportation.)
You don't need to be an overzealous apologist for the third world. What I'm saying is not xenophobic or elitist. This kind of problem would exist just as much as if the linguistic roles were reversed. It's just plain reality that a lot of people aren't sufficiently educated or experienced in a foreign language to conduct communication-heavy jobs in that language. The ones who suffer are paying customers who have to suffer under these strained services.
They don't have the most important call center skill: Speaking English in a comprehensible accent
Who are the real victims of offshoring to third world countries?
My poor mom called me yesterday with a weary voice almost crying. She had been on the phone with EarthLink's tech support for hours over two days. "I can't understand these Indians!" She didn't know what they were telling her, and to make matters more frustrating, the techs were bound to their stupid, written routines, repeating the same rigamaroll over and over as she got shuffled around through the phone maze. I think she fudged the connection profile I had created for her while trying to follow their instructions. It's a wonder she didn't end up doing worse to her computer.
Text of H.R.3162
Oh, I didn't catch that src was a generic attribute. It still seems strange. Is src used to insert only images? If so, it would be better to name the attribute img. Src means image file to us only because it has been used within the context of the img element. "Src" by itself could mean anything.
How does it make sense to use a paragraph element to insert an image? A paragraph, by definition, is comprised of text.