The whole Global Warming/Cooling garbage has been going on for over 100 years. The only difference is that now, we are dumb enough to believe these crack pots and either give them our money for their "solution" that doesn't fix ANYTHING or are tricked into voting these loosers into political office.
If these people are so convinced that pollution (and I agree that polution is bad) is causing this MYTHICAL Global Warming/Cooling then they should go to China and stop those billion people from polluting first.
It is hard to follow the recommendations from a hypocrite. If Al Gore really wanted us to live a "green" lifestyle, then why is he flying in private jets and using gas guzzeling limos? The only reason Al Gore is "green" is because he bought those stupid carbon credits and thinks that makes up for his lifestyle.
Myth's inability to use cable cards is not really Myth's fault. It's the cable industry's fault for wanting to DRM their garbage and only being willing to work with M$. Add to it that I only know of one company (ATI) making pc tuners that can take cable cards I can see why nobody on the Myth side is trying to crack cable card DRM.
As for HDMI becoming standard, I hope that it never does. That is just another layer of DRM to add to the mess. Allowing HDMI to happen will only allow the hardware companies to "accidentally" lock out your media equipment unless you happen to buy it all from one company.
Get the parents more involved. For kids, school should be akin to their 9-5 job. In order to excel they need to put the time in at home, and the only people that can help instill that discipline are the parents.
That is a good start. But also we need to make schools and teachers accountable for what they do and do not teach. Also, students should not be allowed to drop out until they get their high school diploma.
I believe that at the end of every school year the students should have to take an adaptive test. The students are then placed into classes the next year by what the tests say they are weak at. Students will should be forced to stay in school until they complete their high school education and pass the final adaptive test. I should not matter if they are 18 or 43, until they get the education they are stuck in school.
And teachers will be required to have 90% of their class pass their course on the adaptive test or loose their job. After all, if the teacher can't teach 90% of their class the subject then they are not doing their job.
First of all, if Comcast couldn't afford the bandwidth they offered all their users, then they shouldn't of been selling it at the price they were.
All this decision did was stop Comcast from doing what it was heading for. Sure they will let you have 10Mbps speed at $15/month, but if you want to use email, instant messaging, ftp, etc. then you'll have to pay more per service.
I find it odd that if an individual did what Comcast was doing they would be in jail, no questions asked. A large company like Comcast does a man-in-the-middle attack and we sit on Slashdot debating if they were in their legal rights to do it.
What truly is the difference between a hacker killing all HTTP traffic on Joe's network and Comcast killing all BitTorrent traffic on Joe's network. Absolutely nothing! Joe is still paying for bandwidth that he can not use how he wants because some hacker or Comcast doesn't like Joe's traffic.
Would there even be a debate on this subject if it was email, instant messaging, or even HTTP traffic that Comcast was throttling?
I don't know where you got your information from, but I've seen articles saying that we can get gas from drilling in about 2 years. And yes it will make gas prices drop because we won't be paying the Saudi 500% price markup.
I find it HIGHLY unlikely that we will eliminate our use of oil. Where do you think plastic comes from? There are medicines made from oil. There is no way you can get the World, let alone the US, off of oil unless you can find something that can replace EVERYTHING oil does.
I'm all for other solutions for energy, but so far the best anyone can come up with is solar and wind. The only way wind will be a replacement is if they discover a way that the turbine can generate a at least a kilowatt on a day with no wind. The only way that solar will be a replacement is if a solar panel can generate power and a city doesn't have to double its size just to power itself off of solar.
The problems with the "we need to drill more domestically" solution are:
1) Most people in favor of more offshore drilling are typically the ones who are looking for a solution that requires the least amount of effort on their part. Just imagine how things would be different if people actually conserved energy instead of buying the biggest SUV they could find simply because gasoline was cheap.
So instead, everybody now has to squeeze into a tiny little car because a very small group of the population (environmentalists) have made it so that we can't afford the gas for our roomy SUV.
I'm all for saving energy and going green, but when the solutions are things that cost too much (solar panels and wind generators) or is a haz-mat hazard (compact fluorescents) one must ask if this tech is really ready.
2) Developing countries (eg China) have a growing demand for gasoline, which is driving up the speculative price of fuel. Why should this matter? While some in congress would like to restrict the use of domestic oil to the domestic market, a large number of congressmen do not generally support such restrictions which means we would be bidding against China even for domestic oil (I'll leave the assigning of party affiliations to you). So exactly how will this effect the cost of gasoline?
There is nothing wrong with selling them our oil. We'll just be like the Saudis and inflate the price by 500% for everything sold abroad while we have it cheap at home.
3) It will take 10 years for these new sources of oil to come to market and even begin to affect price of fuel.
I'm not sure where you get the 10 years from other than from tree-hugging propaganda, but I've seen articles that said as early as 2 years.
4) Most people who support domestic drilling don't live near the affected areas. Meanwhile the people who live on the gulf coast will have to suffer with eyesores and pollution (even more than we have from the current level of offshore drilling).
I may not live near the gulf coast, but there are oil wells and a refinery around where I live. They don't look anymore of an eyesore than any other industrial building. In fact, they are a less of an eye sore than some people's houses and yards.
5) The same people who don't mind drilling in areas far away from where they live, will fight tooth-and-nail against any refineries being built near them. Despite the fact that It is the lack of refineries that is the biggest influence on the price of gas and not the price of crude oil.
They can build the refineries around where I live, I won't mind. Cheap gas plus more jobs is a good thing.
6) The oil companies have yet to drill all the areas for which they currently have drilling rights. Why? Well because they want to show a large amount of reserves on hand for their financial reports, AND they would rather drill closer to land where the cost of drilling is cheaper than deep water drilling. The point being, there will be more eyesores and the potential for pollution for the area being drilled.
Maybe that is because the oil isn't there. If there was oil everywhere someone has drilling rights, then I would drill my back yard and so would many other people. But I don't because there is no oil there. It'll be a waste of time and money to drill where there is nothing in the ground.
7) Weather. Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico have negative affects on production and safety of the off-shore platforms...
If that is a valid argument, then everyone that lives near the gulf coast has to move inland. Hurricanes destroying cities and turning houses and other buildings into debris, releasing the various chemicals and toxins held inside (cleaning solutions, mercury from compact fluorescents) cause far more pollution than a few oil wells in the gulf.
We can get off Middle East oil IF the environmental wackos would let the US actually drill its own oil. Just because we can come up with other things to power our cars, it doesn't mean we don't need oil. Oil is used in just about everything in our lives, from the Tupperware container you store leftovers in to the triple antibiotic you use on cuts and scrapes.
So the US is suppose to pull out all support we have in Israel? The US has been involved with that country since it was formed after World War 2. The only thing that is keeping the other Middle East countries from doing a gang bang on Israel is the fact they are afraid of US retaliation.
Maybe the problem was that your mom's kidney drivers was packaged as DEB files. She should of just brought the source code so that the tech could compile the driver.
A few months ago I had to reload Windows because the usb driver got corrupted and I got a BSOD every time I press any key on my usb keyboard. No BSOD using my PS/2 keyboard. So the list by your standards should be:
1. When one tries to run an application on a computer which does not have the capacity to run said application;
And you are incredibly uneducated to not know history. Or would you rather have Nazi flags flying over every government building and Hitler's birthday a national holiday?
Wrong is wrong. And if either of these jokers truely want to be president then they should be DEFENDING the Constitution and voting nay. Instead we get McDork abstaining and O'DumbDumb voting yea. This just shows that the next 4 years will be more of a president using the Constitution as toilet paper.
I liked bnetd because I could play huge tournament maps in Starcraft in my lan parties. I don't like battlenet because I had 2 copies of Starcraft locked out from it because Blizzard claims I was cheating on it when some top rank punks complained that I beat them and I had to be cheating.
Professional game reviews are bought and paid for by game companies. Review sites that let users submit des not give me any clear idea if I would like the game because the are all other people's opinions. You might have the opinion that review sites are great buying guides while others might have the opinion that review sites are only places where sheep repeat what the first sheep said.
There is a difference in GPL and EULAs in games. The GPL terms are easy to look up before downloading, most EULAs are either printed on paper in the game box or displayed on screen when you install. Either way, you end up spending money only to find that you might not agree with the EULA and end up with software you can't return.
I'm sure that you can't distribute it. That is violating copyright and has nothing to do with EULA. But I do agree with you on that we should be able to take it back and get a full refund. Otherwise, they have to print the full EULA on the box so that you can read it before purchasing.
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Of course, Windows 1.0 and Windows Vista share almost nothing in common.
It share new font install dialog
They have more in common than that. They both crash the same amount of times.
I vote for "Unintelligent Lies."
You could always go for "The Earth Does Stuff, But Would Do Other Stuff If Humans Did Mess It Up." Kinda catchy.
The whole Global Warming/Cooling garbage has been going on for over 100 years. The only difference is that now, we are dumb enough to believe these crack pots and either give them our money for their "solution" that doesn't fix ANYTHING or are tricked into voting these loosers into political office.
If these people are so convinced that pollution (and I agree that polution is bad) is causing this MYTHICAL Global Warming/Cooling then they should go to China and stop those billion people from polluting first.
It is hard to follow the recommendations from a hypocrite. If Al Gore really wanted us to live a "green" lifestyle, then why is he flying in private jets and using gas guzzeling limos? The only reason Al Gore is "green" is because he bought those stupid carbon credits and thinks that makes up for his lifestyle.
Myth's inability to use cable cards is not really Myth's fault. It's the cable industry's fault for wanting to DRM their garbage and only being willing to work with M$. Add to it that I only know of one company (ATI) making pc tuners that can take cable cards I can see why nobody on the Myth side is trying to crack cable card DRM.
As for HDMI becoming standard, I hope that it never does. That is just another layer of DRM to add to the mess. Allowing HDMI to happen will only allow the hardware companies to "accidentally" lock out your media equipment unless you happen to buy it all from one company.
Get the parents more involved. For kids, school should be akin to their 9-5 job. In order to excel they need to put the time in at home, and the only people that can help instill that discipline are the parents.
That is a good start. But also we need to make schools and teachers accountable for what they do and do not teach. Also, students should not be allowed to drop out until they get their high school diploma.
I believe that at the end of every school year the students should have to take an adaptive test. The students are then placed into classes the next year by what the tests say they are weak at. Students will should be forced to stay in school until they complete their high school education and pass the final adaptive test. I should not matter if they are 18 or 43, until they get the education they are stuck in school.
And teachers will be required to have 90% of their class pass their course on the adaptive test or loose their job. After all, if the teacher can't teach 90% of their class the subject then they are not doing their job.
First of all, if Comcast couldn't afford the bandwidth they offered all their users, then they shouldn't of been selling it at the price they were.
All this decision did was stop Comcast from doing what it was heading for. Sure they will let you have 10Mbps speed at $15/month, but if you want to use email, instant messaging, ftp, etc. then you'll have to pay more per service.
I find it odd that if an individual did what Comcast was doing they would be in jail, no questions asked. A large company like Comcast does a man-in-the-middle attack and we sit on Slashdot debating if they were in their legal rights to do it.
What truly is the difference between a hacker killing all HTTP traffic on Joe's network and Comcast killing all BitTorrent traffic on Joe's network. Absolutely nothing! Joe is still paying for bandwidth that he can not use how he wants because some hacker or Comcast doesn't like Joe's traffic.
Would there even be a debate on this subject if it was email, instant messaging, or even HTTP traffic that Comcast was throttling?
I don't know where you got your information from, but I've seen articles saying that we can get gas from drilling in about 2 years. And yes it will make gas prices drop because we won't be paying the Saudi 500% price markup. I find it HIGHLY unlikely that we will eliminate our use of oil. Where do you think plastic comes from? There are medicines made from oil. There is no way you can get the World, let alone the US, off of oil unless you can find something that can replace EVERYTHING oil does. I'm all for other solutions for energy, but so far the best anyone can come up with is solar and wind. The only way wind will be a replacement is if they discover a way that the turbine can generate a at least a kilowatt on a day with no wind. The only way that solar will be a replacement is if a solar panel can generate power and a city doesn't have to double its size just to power itself off of solar.
The problems with the "we need to drill more domestically" solution are:
1) Most people in favor of more offshore drilling are typically the ones who are looking for a solution that requires the least amount of effort on their part. Just imagine how things would be different if people actually conserved energy instead of buying the biggest SUV they could find simply because gasoline was cheap.
So instead, everybody now has to squeeze into a tiny little car because a very small group of the population (environmentalists) have made it so that we can't afford the gas for our roomy SUV.
I'm all for saving energy and going green, but when the solutions are things that cost too much (solar panels and wind generators) or is a haz-mat hazard (compact fluorescents) one must ask if this tech is really ready.
2) Developing countries (eg China) have a growing demand for gasoline, which is driving up the speculative price of fuel. Why should this matter? While some in congress would like to restrict the use of domestic oil to the domestic market, a large number of congressmen do not generally support such restrictions which means we would be bidding against China even for domestic oil (I'll leave the assigning of party affiliations to you). So exactly how will this effect the cost of gasoline?
There is nothing wrong with selling them our oil. We'll just be like the Saudis and inflate the price by 500% for everything sold abroad while we have it cheap at home.
3) It will take 10 years for these new sources of oil to come to market and even begin to affect price of fuel.
I'm not sure where you get the 10 years from other than from tree-hugging propaganda, but I've seen articles that said as early as 2 years.
4) Most people who support domestic drilling don't live near the affected areas. Meanwhile the people who live on the gulf coast will have to suffer with eyesores and pollution (even more than we have from the current level of offshore drilling).
I may not live near the gulf coast, but there are oil wells and a refinery around where I live. They don't look anymore of an eyesore than any other industrial building. In fact, they are a less of an eye sore than some people's houses and yards.
5) The same people who don't mind drilling in areas far away from where they live, will fight tooth-and-nail against any refineries being built near them. Despite the fact that It is the lack of refineries that is the biggest influence on the price of gas and not the price of crude oil.
They can build the refineries around where I live, I won't mind. Cheap gas plus more jobs is a good thing.
6) The oil companies have yet to drill all the areas for which they currently have drilling rights. Why? Well because they want to show a large amount of reserves on hand for their financial reports, AND they would rather drill closer to land where the cost of drilling is cheaper than deep water drilling. The point being, there will be more eyesores and the potential for pollution for the area being drilled.
Maybe that is because the oil isn't there. If there was oil everywhere someone has drilling rights, then I would drill my back yard and so would many other people. But I don't because there is no oil there. It'll be a waste of time and money to drill where there is nothing in the ground.
7) Weather. Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico have negative affects on production and safety of the off-shore platforms...
If that is a valid argument, then everyone that lives near the gulf coast has to move inland. Hurricanes destroying cities and turning houses and other buildings into debris, releasing the various chemicals and toxins held inside (cleaning solutions, mercury from compact fluorescents) cause far more pollution than a few oil wells in the gulf.
The driver works fine for months, then one day the usb keyboard died. No driver or software install involved. So this is not covered under point 2.
We can get off Middle East oil IF the environmental wackos would let the US actually drill its own oil. Just because we can come up with other things to power our cars, it doesn't mean we don't need oil. Oil is used in just about everything in our lives, from the Tupperware container you store leftovers in to the triple antibiotic you use on cuts and scrapes.
So the US is suppose to pull out all support we have in Israel? The US has been involved with that country since it was formed after World War 2. The only thing that is keeping the other Middle East countries from doing a gang bang on Israel is the fact they are afraid of US retaliation.
Maybe the problem was that your mom's kidney drivers was packaged as DEB files. She should of just brought the source code so that the tech could compile the driver.
Error: MRI.DLL has performed an illegal operation. Press ALT+CTRL+DEL to restart.
A few months ago I had to reload Windows because the usb driver got corrupted and I got a BSOD every time I press any key on my usb keyboard. No BSOD using my PS/2 keyboard. So the list by your standards should be:
1. When one tries to run an application on a computer which does not have the capacity to run said application;
2. When one messes up driver installations.; and
3. When you use a usb keyboard.
And you are incredibly uneducated to not know history. Or would you rather have Nazi flags flying over every government building and Hitler's birthday a national holiday?
Wrong is wrong. And if either of these jokers truely want to be president then they should be DEFENDING the Constitution and voting nay. Instead we get McDork abstaining and O'DumbDumb voting yea. This just shows that the next 4 years will be more of a president using the Constitution as toilet paper.
There are legit reasons for bnetd. I use to use it to run Starcraft tournaments in lan parties. Everyone there had a legit copy of Starcraft.
I liked bnetd because I could play huge tournament maps in Starcraft in my lan parties. I don't like battlenet because I had 2 copies of Starcraft locked out from it because Blizzard claims I was cheating on it when some top rank punks complained that I beat them and I had to be cheating.
Professional game reviews are bought and paid for by game companies. Review sites that let users submit des not give me any clear idea if I would like the game because the are all other people's opinions. You might have the opinion that review sites are great buying guides while others might have the opinion that review sites are only places where sheep repeat what the first sheep said.
Depends where you live. In the US, the company will probably cry DMCA and have the feds knocking down your door.
There is a difference in GPL and EULAs in games. The GPL terms are easy to look up before downloading, most EULAs are either printed on paper in the game box or displayed on screen when you install. Either way, you end up spending money only to find that you might not agree with the EULA and end up with software you can't return.
I'm sure that you can't distribute it. That is violating copyright and has nothing to do with EULA. But I do agree with you on that we should be able to take it back and get a full refund. Otherwise, they have to print the full EULA on the box so that you can read it before purchasing.