Why the hell would anyone upmod a post a person peacefully running as a candidate for elected office to a terrorist solely based on the similarity of their name? Partisan hackery aside, that is.
Well, that's because Hillary really is a conservative, so they're okay with how she votes on certain issues. Make no mistake though, if she were the Democratic nominee for President or VP, she'd be declared the next coming of Karl Marx.
Much like all those Republicans who declared McCain a traitor to his party for the past 10 years, but now fall in line behind him (though they're right to do so; since McCain is now toeing the party line rather than holding "mavericky" positions.)
Well, selecting a VP from state X as an attempt to win the state is almost never going to work- the election would have to be extremely close in that state for it to matter, there's just not enough people who will vote for the local guy as VP. (Remember, Gore didn't even win his own state in 2000 and he was running for President!)
However, a VP selection can and does impact the outcome of the election by way of the campaign being able to launch attacks without the Presidential candidate being seen as the "attacker". This is quite important if the other side goes negative, as is the case here.
I will say though, a VP nod can hurt a lot more than it can help. See: Clinton, Hillary.
(Lesson to the Republicans: going negative every election gets really old, really fast; and doing it when your candidate is absurdly rich will burn you the instant you make a mistake.)
Because Hillary has extremely high negatives. Rush, Savage, Hannity, Malkin, O'Reilly, etc. would have a field day tearing her apart. Obama would look extremely bad for picking her- we're talking about losing a large number of moderates and nearly all the Republicans who would otherwise be willing to vote for Obama.
Biden wasn't nominated the VP because of his tech voting record. Just look at what the Democrats are talking about- Iraq, the economy, healthcare, the housing crisis, etc. Net Neutrality is barely on the radar, and you can be assured that NN isn't going to get a vote in the next two years (unless someone piles it in an omnibus) even with a Democratic majority.
Biden is a tactical choice to try to win the election; not a choice of "who would actually make the best VP once we win". All you have to do to realize that is watch Biden's acceptance speech, where he smacked the hell out of McCain. Regardless of which side of the aisle you're on politically; that "seven kitchen tables" line was gold. That's what Biden is there for- to attack McCain (and McCain's VP choice) while Obama is above the fray.
VPs are chosen as an attempt to win elections, not as an attempt to pick the best man for the job.
Watching that match between the top players was utterly ridiculous. If the game is that fast, there just seems like no way I could get into it. I prefer more strategy-oriented FPSes to ones that are utter twitch gaming like that was.
Fark's problem is they ban people who post things that used to be commonly accepted on Fark *coughboobiescough* but are disallowed now because of the advertisers; but they don't ban the trolls. Threads, especially political threads, just get shat upon left and right by the trolls.
The last straw for me was when "danlpoon" was caught responding to a post for the troll "McCainDemocrat" not once, but twice- and he still didn't get banned after threadjacking the next half-dozen threads on the politics tab.
At that point, I left Fark and didn't come back. The hypocrisy doesn't help. Just look at the list of a half-dozen things or so that Drew (rightly) calls the mass media out on in his book's sample chapter- seasonal news, equal time for nutjobs, etc; then go look at his site. It's bad enough that he has those stories, but what's worse is the structure of Fark gives several thousand hits to the sites that run the stories in the first place.
The charge may or may not be correct; but it's obvious based on the article that the author simply couldn't resist the chance to turn what appears to be unbiased political commentary into a hit piece.
You know, I haven't played much on the larger maps (outside of the Earth map) mainly because I find it utterly tedious to play- even if you get ahead of the AI in techs, it's an outright hassle to try to do anything other than space/culture victory. Conquest/Domination is so painfully tedious it's ridiculous.
Furthermore, the article is ridiculously biased.
At the end, the author closes with the line "If anything, the changes simply reflect that Obama is just another politician"- one of the most popular right-wing attacks on Obama.
Take a look at the picture, again: http://blog.wired.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/15/mccain_obama_versionaista.jpg
That's not some sort of scrub or replacing a sentence that made him look bad or backing down from a strong position. It's an outright replacement of an older quote with a newer one. If anything, it makes Obama's Iraq policy even clearer.
At the bottom, it also shows there are two links that have been added as well.
If there is some sort of "just another politician" type of coverup of an older policy going on at Obama's site, it's certainly not in the picture given in the article; and this makes me think that this is just whining: "He updated his page instead of leaving it static from January to November? HOW DARE HE?!"
Then let's cut taxes to zero and have INFINITE MONEY.
Damn, I hate this idiotic meme. Tax revenue goes up over time due to inflation. Stop trying to give credit to tax cuts. Try taking that logic with your own finances before you try shoving it on the rest of the country. "Hey honey, I'm going to ask my boss to give me a pay cut so we have more money!"
Civ4 takes me about 3 hours to play a single game to space race/diplo/cultural victory, are you sure the issue isn't with your strategy? Standard civ4 without mods doesn't really take all that long between turns, though things like Rhye's and Fall or that WWII mod that come with BTS have truly massive between-turn lengths (and the latter has turns that take ages due to the sheer number of units involved).
The point is that Viacom can find out that "the same person that viewed video X that infringes our copyright also viewed fifteen other videos that infringe our copyright; and he only looked at two that do not". (Or at least, that's what Viacom is hoping to find- that users view piles of Viacom-copyrighted videos and very little in the way of original content.)
If the question is something asinine like "coke vs pepsi" I'll gladly sign a $75 NDA not to tell anyone what question they asked me. It's not like it's an NDA about a substantive aspect of my life, which is what people tend to complain about- not being able to talk about the majority of their waking hours.
Valve has something like this. They asked me to fill out a survey on my system specs at some point, though I can't remember which event exactly out of the whole Orange Box install/Steam signup triggered it.
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Why the hell would anyone upmod a post a person peacefully running as a candidate for elected office to a terrorist solely based on the similarity of their name? Partisan hackery aside, that is.
Elevate the dialogue, dammit.
Kerry was never thinking of making McCain the VP; that was a suggestion Biden made, and even Biden said he doubted Kerry would do it.
Furthermore, McCain has significantly changed position on nearly every issue he was a "maverick" on in the past couple of years.
By the way, as an indication of just how badly McCain and the GOP is running their campaign strategy...
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/23/new-mccain-ad-gets-more-personal/
And guess who's speaking at the Democratic convention? Horrible, horrible move. If she chooses, she could tear McCain a new one for that ad.
Well, that's because Hillary really is a conservative, so they're okay with how she votes on certain issues. Make no mistake though, if she were the Democratic nominee for President or VP, she'd be declared the next coming of Karl Marx.
Much like all those Republicans who declared McCain a traitor to his party for the past 10 years, but now fall in line behind him (though they're right to do so; since McCain is now toeing the party line rather than holding "mavericky" positions.)
Well, selecting a VP from state X as an attempt to win the state is almost never going to work- the election would have to be extremely close in that state for it to matter, there's just not enough people who will vote for the local guy as VP. (Remember, Gore didn't even win his own state in 2000 and he was running for President!) However, a VP selection can and does impact the outcome of the election by way of the campaign being able to launch attacks without the Presidential candidate being seen as the "attacker". This is quite important if the other side goes negative, as is the case here. I will say though, a VP nod can hurt a lot more than it can help. See: Clinton, Hillary. (Lesson to the Republicans: going negative every election gets really old, really fast; and doing it when your candidate is absurdly rich will burn you the instant you make a mistake.)
Because Hillary has extremely high negatives. Rush, Savage, Hannity, Malkin, O'Reilly, etc. would have a field day tearing her apart. Obama would look extremely bad for picking her- we're talking about losing a large number of moderates and nearly all the Republicans who would otherwise be willing to vote for Obama.
Biden wasn't nominated the VP because of his tech voting record. Just look at what the Democrats are talking about- Iraq, the economy, healthcare, the housing crisis, etc. Net Neutrality is barely on the radar, and you can be assured that NN isn't going to get a vote in the next two years (unless someone piles it in an omnibus) even with a Democratic majority.
Biden is a tactical choice to try to win the election; not a choice of "who would actually make the best VP once we win". All you have to do to realize that is watch Biden's acceptance speech, where he smacked the hell out of McCain. Regardless of which side of the aisle you're on politically; that "seven kitchen tables" line was gold. That's what Biden is there for- to attack McCain (and McCain's VP choice) while Obama is above the fray.
VPs are chosen as an attempt to win elections, not as an attempt to pick the best man for the job.
Watching that match between the top players was utterly ridiculous. If the game is that fast, there just seems like no way I could get into it. I prefer more strategy-oriented FPSes to ones that are utter twitch gaming like that was.
You say that like graffiti isn't commonplace in America. I mean, really.
Fark's problem is they ban people who post things that used to be commonly accepted on Fark *coughboobiescough* but are disallowed now because of the advertisers; but they don't ban the trolls. Threads, especially political threads, just get shat upon left and right by the trolls.
The last straw for me was when "danlpoon" was caught responding to a post for the troll "McCainDemocrat" not once, but twice- and he still didn't get banned after threadjacking the next half-dozen threads on the politics tab.
At that point, I left Fark and didn't come back. The hypocrisy doesn't help. Just look at the list of a half-dozen things or so that Drew (rightly) calls the mass media out on in his book's sample chapter- seasonal news, equal time for nutjobs, etc; then go look at his site. It's bad enough that he has those stories, but what's worse is the structure of Fark gives several thousand hits to the sites that run the stories in the first place.
You can find "Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble" elsewhere? High school doesn't count.
I've never claimed that. It's rather clear that the media has a corporatist bias- I've said as much here on /. in the past.
The charge may or may not be correct; but it's obvious based on the article that the author simply couldn't resist the chance to turn what appears to be unbiased political commentary into a hit piece.
You know, I haven't played much on the larger maps (outside of the Earth map) mainly because I find it utterly tedious to play- even if you get ahead of the AI in techs, it's an outright hassle to try to do anything other than space/culture victory. Conquest/Domination is so painfully tedious it's ridiculous.
Furthermore, the article is ridiculously biased.
At the end, the author closes with the line "If anything, the changes simply reflect that Obama is just another politician"- one of the most popular right-wing attacks on Obama.
Take a look at the picture, again: http://blog.wired.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/15/mccain_obama_versionaista.jpg
That's not some sort of scrub or replacing a sentence that made him look bad or backing down from a strong position. It's an outright replacement of an older quote with a newer one. If anything, it makes Obama's Iraq policy even clearer.
At the bottom, it also shows there are two links that have been added as well.
If there is some sort of "just another politician" type of coverup of an older policy going on at Obama's site, it's certainly not in the picture given in the article; and this makes me think that this is just whining: "He updated his page instead of leaving it static from January to November? HOW DARE HE?!"
Then let's cut taxes to zero and have INFINITE MONEY.
Damn, I hate this idiotic meme. Tax revenue goes up over time due to inflation. Stop trying to give credit to tax cuts. Try taking that logic with your own finances before you try shoving it on the rest of the country. "Hey honey, I'm going to ask my boss to give me a pay cut so we have more money!"
Civ4 takes me about 3 hours to play a single game to space race/diplo/cultural victory, are you sure the issue isn't with your strategy? Standard civ4 without mods doesn't really take all that long between turns, though things like Rhye's and Fall or that WWII mod that come with BTS have truly massive between-turn lengths (and the latter has turns that take ages due to the sheer number of units involved).
The point is that Viacom can find out that "the same person that viewed video X that infringes our copyright also viewed fifteen other videos that infringe our copyright; and he only looked at two that do not". (Or at least, that's what Viacom is hoping to find- that users view piles of Viacom-copyrighted videos and very little in the way of original content.)
If the question is something asinine like "coke vs pepsi" I'll gladly sign a $75 NDA not to tell anyone what question they asked me. It's not like it's an NDA about a substantive aspect of my life, which is what people tend to complain about- not being able to talk about the majority of their waking hours.
Valve has something like this. They asked me to fill out a survey on my system specs at some point, though I can't remember which event exactly out of the whole Orange Box install/Steam signup triggered it.
You're right, unsigned long would have been a better choice.
int *buffer; /*Pointer to exabyte-sized buffer*/
while(1){
*buffer=1;
buffer++;
}
/*Where's my medal?*/
Zelda was 1986 on the Family Computer. You're 12 years off.
What do you think about this particular set of twitter posts?
Actually, the Democratic Party as a whole has quit. It was announced fairly recently: http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/06/democratic_part_10.php