If you love your PVR, the cable industry is not your friend.
I don't have a PVR, but I can't recall a time when the cable industry has ever been my friend. $45 for exteneded basic cable services, and what do you get? 70 channels of ads. I can't stand watching TV! Slowly but surely commercial length is increasing while show time is decreasing. 1/3 of a 30 minute segment is commercials. Sure the PVR would fix that but even before this article everyone knew that someone was going to cry foul. The cable industry is just like the rest of the content industries, as soon as the content control is in our hands they bring in the lawsuits because they don't want to change.
Screw it! I'm about to move and I've already decided that I'm not going to pay the money every month to have junk piped to my home./rant
Do any similar 'non-commercial' radio station designations exist in the USA?
Yes they do. They can have 'sponsors' basically the DJ will thank a company for donating money and repeat their slogan. So they aren't actual ads. Its pretty nice.
Unfortunatly Non-Commercial stations are somewhat few. NPR (national public radio) is non-commercial of course. There are a couple of local ones here where I live but I haven't found too many in other locations.
you might be able to get IDSL, a former company that I worked for got it to me (free too isn't that grand) over a bridged line. Only 192 k/B but better than dialup by far.
Of course if you have to pay for it, its pretty expensive, I think mine normally ran $110 a month.
What? I don't believe the article has anything to do with religion. I find it truely sad that someone can't offer an opposing scientific theory because it doesn't meet with other people's preconceptions.
Isn't that why the creationists are so annoying??? Because they can't make evolution fit with their preconceptions so its a lie?
We aren't a democracy we are a constitutional republic. Which is why we don't go and vote on the laws ourselves, rather we elect people to go vote on the laws for us.
I'll probably get flamed for saying this but the group think on Slashdot is not a majority of people. The majority of people in this country don't care about file sharing, they don't care about their computers coming with software, most likely the masses don't want it to come without it because then they have to go through the pain of learning how to install something to even make it usable, its not a tax, its a convienence. Its not that people are stupid its that not everyone is interested in computers (I know that comes a huge shock).
Not all people, in fact most people are not uneducated unwashed masses, they are very educated and very opinionated about the things that matter to them. I have a lot more faith in our system after the past election, for example in Texas the challenger for governer out-spent the incumbent by nearly 3x and he still lost. Several other governer's races and senate races were the same way. It doesn't always matter how much money the corporations spend on a candidate, they still do not get to vote.
That doesn't mean that we don't need to reform our campaigns, and we don't need to get rid of the soft money contributions, but we can't just sit waiting for congress to do something about it. We have to vote. Vote against the people that the corps are lobbying for. If enough people do that then they will lose.
Finally it is wrong to say that we are as bad off as China. Its an insult to the people there who are killed for their religious beliefs, the people who have to watch what they say for fear of being tortured or imprisoned, the people that don't have access to adequete health facilities for AIDs, or for mental health issues, not for lack of funds, but because the government turns a blind eye and says there isn't a problem. If someone in China dared to say something about their government along the lines of what you are saying about ours they could be killed.
No matter what things the RIAA or Microsoft has done it just doesn't compare with that, MS officials aren't trying to kill me for using Linux. I'm also not forced to buy their OS if I order my computer from a mom-and-pop shop or if I build it myself (some of the major vendors will let you order with just DOS installed for no charge). And as for music, I buy CDs that I like. I don't think the RIAA is right in trying to access my computer to find illegal material but last I checked no law has been passed that says they can, besides I have a firewall and I don't share music over P2P.
You have free speech and freedom of press and freedom to visit red-lobster's website. If you don't like a law then tell people about it, educate a group that will vote and vote for people of like mind, or run for office yourself.
Frankly I think that more people are worried about the economy and terrorists to pay much attention to computer bable right now.
Unfortunatly it doesn't always happen in print either. I'm still waiting for someone to sue CapitalOne over the dead tree mailouts they send that try to look like a bill or some other important information.
Where in the DMCA does it say that emulators are illegal?
As far as I know WINE does not break encryption on anything and as I understand that is the core of the DMCA. It would also be difficult to argue that Windows is an encryption device as Windows is an operating system and would be trivial to prove that its purpose is to interface with a user. Of course with enough money it seems its possible to make the DMCA say anything...
The characters were always fake but the difference is that most of the gadgets that Bond used were believeable. Plus Bond didn't have to use gadgetry unless he was in a really bad situation, heck most of time he didn't even use a gun, just beat people up with his hands and used his brain. If Bond had an invisible car back then he wouldn't have used it. I haven't seen the new movie but from what I've heard of it I'm not sure I want to.
This isn't true. I didn't check the links but a quick search of Google shows that AOL does have at least some international access.
The people they are shutting out are the real Internet users who wouldn't use AOL if they were paid to. This is a horrible idea, I'm glad I don't own their stock... if I did I'd be selling it now.
Mozilla, fast, standard complient, per site image blocking, pop-up blocker, per site cookie blocker, tabbed browsing, what more could you want? (oh yeah its themeable too, make it look like IE even).
offtopic but who cares I have karma to burn. Let me qualify this statement by saying that I do know and use PHP, its a part of my job. I'll also say that I know Perl and I think Perl is better so it probably makes me somewhat biased.
Name space, name space, name space. That's what's wrong with it. I get really tired of writing function names that_seem_to_go_on_forever(). I mean come on. What is the point of array_push() why can't it just be called 'push()'? I know it works on an array!
Interpolation. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't its sort of half done. I can't count how many times my PHP program has crashed because I dared to put a variable inside double quotes. The behavior appears to be almost random.
Everything feels hacked, this goes back to the namespace issue. There is no logical way to extend PHP so new functions are just thrown into the core language. Many times they act differently than other similar functions (sorry I can't think of an example off the top of my head). Its like some people decided they wanted 'x' function and just threw it in without regard to its implementation. Things don't seem to be reused just new things thrown in. Like why can't we have a standard set of database functions where the database type you are using is declared? Nope, instead we have a whole set of mysql_* functions for MySql and another whole set of pg_* functions for Postgre.
And finally everytime there is a new release there is some change to the core of the language. So they have to maintain cruft to be compatable and things don't break. If they would improve what they have instead of constantly adding new things this problem would go away.
Other annoyances (mostly my opinion): Three ways to read variables from a form but still hard to make a program that can accept GET or POST method with the same variable names.
(item1,item2,item3) is not treated as a list or an array. I can't do ($fieldname,$fieldname2) = mysql_fetch_row()... nope I have to put them into a temporary array and set them one by one:(.
Regexes use functions... this is extremely annoying and there are at least two (three?) different regex sets, plus functions that duplicate what regexes can do!
Global variables, again my opinion but I would rather declare my varibles local rather than having to declare them global. It wouldn't be so bad if I could declare my global variables once at the top of the program but no.. i have to redeclare them global in each function I'm going to use them in.
CPAN -- for all of Perl's faults it got CPAN right. PHP needs a standard way of adding modules to its installation (so they can be used system wide) and a good place to store them. You don't know how difficult it is to write a MIME complient message in PHP.
Finally I think PHP backwards... PHP is a language designed so that the data defines the program. Easy to slap together but difficult to maintain and very difficult to reuse code (I have to make tons of changes to the HTML page). I prefer to program so that my code defines my data. And I can give it new data to achieve new things or looks for a page or whatever... PHP can do that its just not a simple to do as it is in other languages.
Oh that would be great. We complain on/. that companies sue over deep linking but now you want to sue Slashdot because they linked to someone who has a page on the public internet. The parent post is a troll, if they don't want to have people coming to their website then they should block access to it.
PHP? Good grief! When did PHP suddenly become the end all be all language for writing everything? PHP is designed to make dynamic webpages and IMHO it isn't exactly the greatest at doing that. (Not a troll, good reasons for believeing that, reply if you want to know why).
Hmmm I agree with a previous poster that you're a wee bit paranoid, but hey what do we all come to slashdot for?
You know there is this great little place on/. that you can post that article without getting modded 'offtopic', its called your journal and it can come in real handy for articles such as this. Click the link I gave you, put your article there and link it in your sig.
By that logic if I come and beat you, or shoot you, or kill your family, then you can't be angry about that because morals don't matter and its okay for me to do whatever I want.
, how can Mr. Chernin have time to be the CEO of Fox AND the COO of News Corp.??? He is doing an injustice to both of those organizations since there is NO WAY he can give his all to either of those organizations will doing (and probably not doing it well) the duties of both of those positions.
Probably because Fox is owned by News corporation, for most intents and purposes Fox is News corporation. Its just a title, its really the same job.
For some reason sprint just doesn't work in West Texas. I live in Abilene and have Sprint, it works fine here and all along I-20 going east but if I go any other direction more than a few miles out of the city its gone.
Its fine in Lubbock but then drops until you get close to New Mexico (I was in New Mexico a few weeks ago)
The problem with TWC is that its too easy to cheat. People offer insentives if you vote for them (vote for us and get a T-shirt, that sort of thing). I have a TWC link on my site (see the sig) but I will switch it out this gets popular and eleminates that practice once and for all.
On a somewhat related note this really cool site (okay so I'm a bit biased) is trying to promote other good web-comics and its own new community with a web comic contest
You're welcome to sign up yourself if you like. We get a decent amount of traffic so you could get some exposure (as well as some other things, check it out:) )
It depends on the artist. A friend of mine and I do a webcomic he draws in black and white because he has a rough unfinished like kind of style and the comic is supposed to resemble an low budget movie. (thus things don't look 'real').
On the weekends I draw the directors of 'the movie' and they are in color as they are in the 'real world'.
Plus black and white does usually produce a smaller image size for those of us who pay for our bandwidth and hosting services but I digress.
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I'm conservative. I come from a little church family. I went to college on Stafford Loans (amoung others) and I was on unemployment for awhile.
I'm still conservative. I think we need some gov programs to help people stay on their feet but we do not need to fund poverty. I got my college education, now I'm paying it back. Should we not punish people who try to not pay back that debt or should we just say "Don't worry the rich conservative people will pay for it".
I was on unemployment for about 6 weeks all totaled. During that time I worked my butt off to find a job in order to repay what the government provided for me. I found a better and significantly higher paying job than the one that layed me off. The government will get its money back. Which is the point of unemployment, people get new jobs so they can continue to pay taxes and help the economy.
What it comes down to is individual choice. I couldn't chosen to sit on my butt and do nothing and get a free year of benefits. Sure they are supposed to check but they don't really look that hard, it wouldn't be difficult to look like you are trying to find work. What if I had chosen not to take stafford loans and get a good education. I would contribute back as much in tax money because I wouldn't have a high paying job.
My beef with many government programs is that we are too eager to hand out free passes to peoples bad choices. Want to have children and not be finacially stable? No problem welfare is there. Don't want to get a good education and get a good job. That's fine, the government can suppliment your income. Getting income from the government? Sure buy more cigarettes and alcohol instead of food for your family. There's more money where that came from.
I've been around extremely poor people. I volunteered in a homeless center for a while and one of my best friends came from a poor family. What happens when you just give them money? They run down to the convience store and buy more beer, cigarettes and lottery tickets while their children need better homes, clothing and education, still.
What happens when you give them food or a place to sleep (if they don't have a home). They come back for more food and more places to sleep. The problem is there are very few programs that do little more than throw money at the problem. Education and job training are whats needed. And if they refuse that and just want a hand-out then I don't want my tax dollars to support that.
Some people can't help themselves and we should help them. Some people who can help themselves refuse to, and they don't need my money. Fund them enough to get them pointed in the right direction and then let them go. To me that's a more caring attitude because then they aren't co-dependant anymore. Co-dependancy on government programs perpetuates poverty.
Also the parent isn't berating your use of language rather your hypocritical attitude and your use of broad generaliaztions of what you think people you disagree with are like.
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Umm which party was it that has had senators step down and presidents questioned over illegal campaign contributions? Yes that would be the Democrats I believe.
I don't think it matters what side of the aisle you are on there are illegal corporate goings ons within the parties.
I'm tired of that same huge wide brush that gets painted over and over again, Republicans are for the rich, the corporations and right wing that want to remove abortion! (nevermind the conservative justices on the supreme court have upheld it) and the Dems are for the little guy, the average joe and the environment, think of the children! vote for the Dems! Funny how top ranking Dems *cough*Al Gore*cough* and interestingly enough the Entertainment industry use that brush the most. Hmmm they don't have an agenda at all do they? Just out for the little guy... sure.
Then when the citizens of this country (however dumb you may think they are) voted the Republicans into power, all the Dems got their panties in a tizy and Al Gore came on TV and cried how unfair it was. (Not that I'm saying the Republican's wouldn't have done the same).
The problem with politics in this country is that somewhere along the way the politians started putting Party before Country and People. Washington wonders why there is such division in the country. I say its because all the people who vote have a vested interest in one party or the other and no one else cares. If they want to see the apathy go away then both parties need to put the people back in power. Senators and Representatives need to stop listening to the special interest groups and educate themselves on the issues
Finally the Party system should go away. I don't believe the original framers wanted political parties. They wanted individuals chosen by the people. We need to get rid of this Dem/Republican crap once and for all./soapbox
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If you love your PVR, the cable industry is not your friend.
/rant
I don't have a PVR, but I can't recall a time when the cable industry has ever been my friend. $45 for exteneded basic cable services, and what do you get? 70 channels of ads. I can't stand watching TV! Slowly but surely commercial length is increasing while show time is decreasing. 1/3 of a 30 minute segment is commercials. Sure the PVR would fix that but even before this article everyone knew that someone was going to cry foul. The cable industry is just like the rest of the content industries, as soon as the content control is in our hands they bring in the lawsuits because they don't want to change.
Screw it! I'm about to move and I've already decided that I'm not going to pay the money every month to have junk piped to my home.
Do any similar 'non-commercial' radio station designations exist in the USA?
Yes they do. They can have 'sponsors' basically the DJ will thank a company for donating money and repeat their slogan. So they aren't actual ads. Its pretty nice.
Unfortunatly Non-Commercial stations are somewhat few. NPR (national public radio) is non-commercial of course. There are a couple of local ones here where I live but I haven't found too many in other locations.
you might be able to get IDSL, a former company that I worked for got it to me (free too isn't that grand) over a bridged line. Only 192 k/B but better than dialup by far.
Of course if you have to pay for it, its pretty expensive, I think mine normally ran $110 a month.
What? I don't believe the article has anything to do with religion. I find it truely sad that someone can't offer an opposing scientific theory because it doesn't meet with other people's preconceptions.
Isn't that why the creationists are so annoying??? Because they can't make evolution fit with their preconceptions so its a lie?
We aren't a democracy we are a constitutional republic. Which is why we don't go and vote on the laws ourselves, rather we elect people to go vote on the laws for us.
I'll probably get flamed for saying this but the group think on Slashdot is not a majority of people. The majority of people in this country don't care about file sharing, they don't care about their computers coming with software, most likely the masses don't want it to come without it because then they have to go through the pain of learning how to install something to even make it usable, its not a tax, its a convienence. Its not that people are stupid its that not everyone is interested in computers (I know that comes a huge shock).
Not all people, in fact most people are not uneducated unwashed masses, they are very educated and very opinionated about the things that matter to them. I have a lot more faith in our system after the past election, for example in Texas the challenger for governer out-spent the incumbent by nearly 3x and he still lost. Several other governer's races and senate races were the same way. It doesn't always matter how much money the corporations spend on a candidate, they still do not get to vote.
That doesn't mean that we don't need to reform our campaigns, and we don't need to get rid of the soft money contributions, but we can't just sit waiting for congress to do something about it. We have to vote. Vote against the people that the corps are lobbying for. If enough people do that then they will lose.
Finally it is wrong to say that we are as bad off as China. Its an insult to the people there who are killed for their religious beliefs, the people who have to watch what they say for fear of being tortured or imprisoned, the people that don't have access to adequete health facilities for AIDs, or for mental health issues, not for lack of funds, but because the government turns a blind eye and says there isn't a problem. If someone in China dared to say something about their government along the lines of what you are saying about ours they could be killed.
No matter what things the RIAA or Microsoft has done it just doesn't compare with that, MS officials aren't trying to kill me for using Linux. I'm also not forced to buy their OS if I order my computer from a mom-and-pop shop or if I build it myself (some of the major vendors will let you order with just DOS installed for no charge). And as for music, I buy CDs that I like. I don't think the RIAA is right in trying to access my computer to find illegal material but last I checked no law has been passed that says they can, besides I have a firewall and I don't share music over P2P.
You have free speech and freedom of press and freedom to visit red-lobster's website. If you don't like a law then tell people about it, educate a group that will vote and vote for people of like mind, or run for office yourself.
Frankly I think that more people are worried about the economy and terrorists to pay much attention to computer bable right now.
Unfortunatly it doesn't always happen in print either. I'm still waiting for someone to sue CapitalOne over the dead tree mailouts they send that try to look like a bill or some other important information.
Forgive me for feeding the trolls.
Where in the DMCA does it say that emulators are illegal?
As far as I know WINE does not break encryption on anything and as I understand that is the core of the DMCA. It would also be difficult to argue that Windows is an encryption device as Windows is an operating system and would be trivial to prove that its purpose is to interface with a user. Of course with enough money it seems its possible to make the DMCA say anything...
The characters were always fake but the difference is that most of the gadgets that Bond used were believeable. Plus Bond didn't have to use gadgetry unless he was in a really bad situation, heck most of time he didn't even use a gun, just beat people up with his hands and used his brain. If Bond had an invisible car back then he wouldn't have used it. I haven't seen the new movie but from what I've heard of it I'm not sure I want to.
An AOL user? ... setup a PROXY? ... *laughing hystarically*
(I tried to put the actual laughing but the lame lameness filter couldn't figure that out.)
This isn't true. I didn't check the links but a quick search of Google shows that AOL does have at least some international access.
The people they are shutting out are the real Internet users who wouldn't use AOL if they were paid to. This is a horrible idea, I'm glad I don't own their stock... if I did I'd be selling it now.
Mozilla, fast, standard complient, per site image blocking, pop-up blocker, per site cookie blocker, tabbed browsing, what more could you want? (oh yeah its themeable too, make it look like IE even).
Thanks for the note. Now I'll just put it under a personal annoyance that I have to call a function to do that (I still think that's braindead) :)
offtopic but who cares I have karma to burn. Let me qualify this statement by saying that I do know and use PHP, its a part of my job. I'll also say that I know Perl and I think Perl is better so it probably makes me somewhat biased.
... nope I have to put them into a temporary array and set them one by one :(.
... this is extremely annoying and there are at least two (three?) different regex sets, plus functions that duplicate what regexes can do!
.. i have to redeclare them global in each function I'm going to use them in.
... PHP can do that its just not a simple to do as it is in other languages.
:)
Name space, name space, name space. That's what's wrong with it. I get really tired of writing function names that_seem_to_go_on_forever(). I mean come on. What is the point of array_push() why can't it just be called 'push()'? I know it works on an array!
Interpolation. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't its sort of half done. I can't count how many times my PHP program has crashed because I dared to put a variable inside double quotes. The behavior appears to be almost random.
Everything feels hacked, this goes back to the namespace issue. There is no logical way to extend PHP so new functions are just thrown into the core language. Many times they act differently than other similar functions (sorry I can't think of an example off the top of my head). Its like some people decided they wanted 'x' function and just threw it in without regard to its implementation. Things don't seem to be reused just new things thrown in. Like why can't we have a standard set of database functions where the database type you are using is declared? Nope, instead we have a whole set of mysql_* functions for MySql and another whole set of pg_* functions for Postgre.
And finally everytime there is a new release there is some change to the core of the language. So they have to maintain cruft to be compatable and things don't break. If they would improve what they have instead of constantly adding new things this problem would go away.
Other annoyances (mostly my opinion): Three ways to read variables from a form but still hard to make a program that can accept GET or POST method with the same variable names.
(item1,item2,item3) is not treated as a list or an array. I can't do ($fieldname,$fieldname2) = mysql_fetch_row()
Regexes use functions
Global variables, again my opinion but I would rather declare my varibles local rather than having to declare them global. It wouldn't be so bad if I could declare my global variables once at the top of the program but no
CPAN -- for all of Perl's faults it got CPAN right. PHP needs a standard way of adding modules to its installation (so they can be used system wide) and a good place to store them. You don't know how difficult it is to write a MIME complient message in PHP.
Finally I think PHP backwards... PHP is a language designed so that the data defines the program. Easy to slap together but difficult to maintain and very difficult to reuse code (I have to make tons of changes to the HTML page). I prefer to program so that my code defines my data. And I can give it new data to achieve new things or looks for a page or whatever
My two cents
Oh that would be great. We complain on /. that companies sue over deep linking but now you want to sue Slashdot because they linked to someone who has a page on the public internet. The parent post is a troll, if they don't want to have people coming to their website then they should block access to it.
PHP? Good grief! When did PHP suddenly become the end all be all language for writing everything? PHP is designed to make dynamic webpages and IMHO it isn't exactly the greatest at doing that. (Not a troll, good reasons for believeing that, reply if you want to know why).
Hmmm I agree with a previous poster that you're a wee bit paranoid, but hey what do we all come to slashdot for?
/. that you can post that article without getting modded 'offtopic', its called your journal and it can come in real handy for articles such as this. Click the link I gave you, put your article there and link it in your sig.
You know there is this great little place on
This is a great idea. Something that Open Source software in general has needed for a long time. Put me in $10 when you get the corporate sponser :)
By that logic if I come and beat you, or shoot you, or kill your family, then you can't be angry about that because morals don't matter and its okay for me to do whatever I want.
, how can Mr. Chernin have time to be the CEO of Fox AND the COO of News Corp.??? He is doing an injustice to both of those organizations since there is NO WAY he can give his all to either of those organizations will doing (and probably not doing it well) the duties of both of those positions.
Probably because Fox is owned by News corporation, for most intents and purposes Fox is News corporation. Its just a title, its really the same job.
For some reason sprint just doesn't work in West Texas. I live in Abilene and have Sprint, it works fine here and all along I-20 going east but if I go any other direction more than a few miles out of the city its gone.
Its fine in Lubbock but then drops until you get close to New Mexico (I was in New Mexico a few weeks ago)
The problem with TWC is that its too easy to cheat. People offer insentives if you vote for them (vote for us and get a T-shirt, that sort of thing). I have a TWC link on my site (see the sig) but I will switch it out this gets popular and eleminates that practice once and for all.
On a somewhat related note this really cool site (okay so I'm a bit biased) is trying to promote other good web-comics and its own new community with a web comic contest
:) )
You're welcome to sign up yourself if you like. We get a decent amount of traffic so you could get some exposure (as well as some other things, check it out
It depends on the artist. A friend of mine and I do a webcomic he draws in black and white because he has a rough unfinished like kind of style and the comic is supposed to resemble an low budget movie. (thus things don't look 'real').
On the weekends I draw the directors of 'the movie' and they are in color as they are in the 'real world'.
Plus black and white does usually produce a smaller image size for those of us who pay for our bandwidth and hosting services but I digress.
I'm conservative. I come from a little church family. I went to college on Stafford Loans (amoung others) and I was on unemployment for awhile.
I'm still conservative. I think we need some gov programs to help people stay on their feet but we do not need to fund poverty. I got my college education, now I'm paying it back. Should we not punish people who try to not pay back that debt or should we just say "Don't worry the rich conservative people will pay for it".
I was on unemployment for about 6 weeks all totaled. During that time I worked my butt off to find a job in order to repay what the government provided for me. I found a better and significantly higher paying job than the one that layed me off. The government will get its money back. Which is the point of unemployment, people get new jobs so they can continue to pay taxes and help the economy.
What it comes down to is individual choice. I couldn't chosen to sit on my butt and do nothing and get a free year of benefits. Sure they are supposed to check but they don't really look that hard, it wouldn't be difficult to look like you are trying to find work. What if I had chosen not to take stafford loans and get a good education. I would contribute back as much in tax money because I wouldn't have a high paying job.
My beef with many government programs is that we are too eager to hand out free passes to peoples bad choices. Want to have children and not be finacially stable? No problem welfare is there. Don't want to get a good education and get a good job. That's fine, the government can suppliment your income. Getting income from the government? Sure buy more cigarettes and alcohol instead of food for your family. There's more money where that came from.
I've been around extremely poor people. I volunteered in a homeless center for a while and one of my best friends came from a poor family. What happens when you just give them money? They run down to the convience store and buy more beer, cigarettes and lottery tickets while their children need better homes, clothing and education, still.
What happens when you give them food or a place to sleep (if they don't have a home). They come back for more food and more places to sleep.
The problem is there are very few programs that do little more than throw money at the problem. Education and job training are whats needed. And if they refuse that and just want a hand-out then I don't want my tax dollars to support that.
Some people can't help themselves and we should help them. Some people who can help themselves refuse to, and they don't need my money. Fund them enough to get them pointed in the right direction and then let them go. To me that's a more caring attitude because then they aren't co-dependant anymore. Co-dependancy on government programs perpetuates poverty.
Also the parent isn't berating your use of language rather your hypocritical attitude and your use of broad generaliaztions of what you think people you disagree with are like.
Umm which party was it that has had senators step down and presidents questioned over illegal campaign contributions? Yes that would be the Democrats I believe.
... sure.
/soapbox
I don't think it matters what side of the aisle you are on there are illegal corporate goings ons within the parties.
I'm tired of that same huge wide brush that gets painted over and over again, Republicans are for the rich, the corporations and right wing that want to remove abortion! (nevermind the conservative justices on the supreme court have upheld it) and the Dems are for the little guy, the average joe and the environment, think of the children! vote for the Dems! Funny how top ranking Dems *cough*Al Gore*cough* and interestingly enough the Entertainment industry use that brush the most. Hmmm they don't have an agenda at all do they? Just out for the little guy
Then when the citizens of this country (however dumb you may think they are) voted the Republicans into power, all the Dems got their panties in a tizy and Al Gore came on TV and cried how unfair it was. (Not that I'm saying the Republican's wouldn't have done the same).
The problem with politics in this country is that somewhere along the way the politians started putting Party before Country and People. Washington wonders why there is such division in the country. I say its because all the people who vote have a vested interest in one party or the other and no one else cares. If they want to see the apathy go away then both parties need to put the people back in power. Senators and Representatives need to stop listening to the special interest groups and educate themselves on the issues
Finally the Party system should go away. I don't believe the original framers wanted political parties. They wanted individuals chosen by the people. We need to get rid of this Dem/Republican crap once and for all.