Yeah, Obama did it all. Bush didn't get us into two wars without funding and let wall street destroy the housing and banking systems. That Obama guy wrecked EVERYTHING!
Are the problems with MS Sync something that doesn't show up when you're test driving the car?
From what I have read, Sync sucks big time and not in any hidden way. If that is the case, why are people buying cars with such a crappy system? Would you buy the car if the windows didn't go up and down or if the engine didn't work properly?
Then again, I have wondered why people buy American cars at all- a few minutes with the consumer reports guide tells you which cars are reliable and which are not, and American cars have been low on the lists for years. That's why the commercials tout surveys of initial customer satisfaction, not satisfaction two or three years down the road.
Not really related to the subject, but a similarly strange/amusing story from Naked Lunch: Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down you dig farting out the words. It was unlike anything I had ever heard. This asshole talk had sort of a gut frequency. It hit you right down there like you gotta go. You know when the old colon gives you the elbow and it feels sorta cold inside, and you know all you have to do is turn loose? Well this talking hit you right down there, a bubbly, thick stagnant sound, a sound you could smell. This man worked for a carnival you dig, and to start with it was like a novelty ventriliquist act. Real funny, too, at first. He had a number he called The Better Ole that was a scream, I tell you. I forget most of it but it was clever. Like, "Oh I say, are you still down there, old thing?" "Nah I had to go relieve myself." After a while the asshole started talking on its own. He would go in without anything prepared and his asshole would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time. Then it developed sort of teeth-like little raspy in-curving hooks and start eating. He thought this was cute at first and built an act around it, but the asshole would eat its way through his pants and start talking on the street, shouting out it wanted equal rights. It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags nobody loved it and it wanted to be kissed same as any other mouth. Finally it talked all the time day and night, you could hear him for blocks screaming at it to shut up, and beating it with his fist, and sticking candles up it, but nothing did any good and the asshole said to him, "It is you who will shut up in the end. Not me. Because we dont need you around here any more. I can talk and eat AND shit." After that he began waking up in the morning with a transparent jelly like a tadpoles tail all over his mouth. This jelly was what the scientists call un-D.T., Undifferentiated Tissue, which can grow into any kind of flesh on the human body. He would tear it off his mouth and the pieces would stick to his hands like burning gasoline jelly and grow there, grow anywhere on him a glob of it fell. So finally his mouth sealed over, and the whole head would have have amputated spontaneous - except for the EYES you dig. Thats one thing the asshole COULDN'T do was see. It needed the eyes. But nerve connections were blocked and infiltrated and atrophied so the brain couldnt give orders any more. It was trapped in the skull, sealed off. For a while you could see the silent, helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes, then finally the brain must have died, because the eyes WENT OUT, and there was no more feeling in them than a crabs eyes on the end of a stalk.
I used to use a male voice on the GPS in my car because the female voices reminded me too much of my wife telling me where to go. That was when I was using an aftermarket Garmin unit. My current vehicle has built in GPS and unfortunately has only one female voice. Fortunately, it is a relatively pleasant voice, not exactly pillow-talky, but acceptable, and it never gets upset because I missed a turn.
applied to debunking so-called "Intelligent Design". There are a few high profile proponents who claim that the probability of an organism as complex as humans evolving from single celled ancestors is so small as to be impossible, therefore we must have been "designed" by "someone" (a variation on the God of the gaps principle used by others for the same purpose). They like to point out eyes as organs that are so complex they could not have evolved, even though we have numerous living organisms that have organisms with photosensitive sensitive organs that aren't quite eyes, perhaps on their way to becoming eyes, many generations/mutations down the road.
In a single field of view under a microscope I can see tens of thousands of bacteria swimming around in a drop of water. Multiple that by all the drops of water in the world and you quickly realize that the number of living organisms is a HUGE number. With all that genetic replication (with errors that sometimes result) and gene swapping going on, and all the DNA floating around freely in the waters of the world, it seems inevitable that there will be enough mutations taking place to produce the variety of life we see on earth.
I can't see going after the market for fitness buffs because there just aren't enough of them who care about heart rates, etc. Everyone who goes to the gym isn't training for a triathlon.
I CAN see going after the chronically ill. That is a huge piece of the US/world population. If you could monitor things like blood sugar, heart rate/rhythm, blood pressure, blood oxygen/CO2 levels,etc., and detect anomalies and sound alarms this thing could be huge. I suppose all the fitness stuff would be a subset of this capability, so you'd get the fitness nuts and the ill with one device.
Knowing Apple, it will probably only work with iTunes, the worst POS software since Windows...
fundamentalist christian idiocy makes me laugh and cry at the same time. I think our only hope for the future is for intelligent people to start making a lot of babies or we will be forever outnumbered by dopes. Democracy only works well if the people who vote have more than 1/2 a brain.
Whatever happened to the Republican party's movement to "stop being the party of stupid"?
then flunk them. When they find they are unable to gain entrance to colleges and universities, and to then get and hold good jobs after that, maybe they'll wake up. This experiment should only take a few generations of wasted minds to correct itself.
Or simply throw in the towel and give up. Someone has to greet shoppers at Walmart and keep those burgers flipping.
The real cost of windows is not in the purchase price but all the untold hours of messing with it to keep it working in all but the simplest systems/configurations. My time is far too valuable to spend it messing with windows if I don't have to. Unfortunately, right now I have to to keep just a few applications running for which there are no known Linux equivalents.
he got an immediate bonus for saving so much (?) money by coming up with the idea of delaying employee 401k matching funds. That must be why CEOs get paid so much to play golf with their buddies from other companies... like IBM.
Actually, it's a great idea, especially if layoffs are in your bonus generating toolkit for the coming year. Those employees who get laid off won't get the 401k matching because they won't make it to the end of the year, thus saving even more money and generating an even bigger bonus for the CEO.
And no doubt the shareholders will see these brilliant moves as reflecting the can-do mind-set of the CEO and will bid up the share price accordingly.
The pundits on CNBC will be pounding the table about it because that's the sort of leadership that America needs at the top of her largest corporations. Hey, if he is too dumb to take care of himself, you sure don't want him running the company! Gee, maybe that goes for Washington, too...
"For far too long, the EPA has approved regulations that have placed a crippling financial burden on economic growth in this country with no public evidence to justify their actions."
Gee, it sounds like they are doing a lot of this sort of thing. Can you name some specific instances where this has occurred?
"Provisions in the bill are consistent with the White House's scientific integrity policy, the President's Executive Order 13563, data access provisions of major scientific journals, the Bipartisan Policy Center and the recommendations of the Obama administration's top science advisors."
Are ALL or just a few of the provisions consistent with the policy? Which provisions aren't consistent with the policy?
"prohibit the EPA from proposing new regulations based on science that is not transparent or not reproducible"
So you mean that since they don't have a second planet earth to experiment on, they can't issue any rules that would relate to things like, oh, I don't know, anthropomorphic climate change?
Gee thanks, Mr. Republican, for looking out for my interests.
information is to prevent bad things from happening. So what happens when a bad thing happens and the police fail to prevent it, even though they have information that clearly indicates something bad is about to happen? I wonder if civil lawsuits against the police (and awards to plaintiffs) will increase.
explain why our government is as non functional as it is. Politicians and their wealthy backers have been at the forefront of elevating stupidity and ignorance to virtues because stupid, ignorant people are easy to manipulate. Stupid, ignorant people focus on minor things that occur mainly in the short term (I am hungry- I eat, etc.) and on single issues for which politicians and the preachers who support them can use emotional appeals to to turn out the vote.
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Yeah, Obama did it all. Bush didn't get us into two wars without funding and let wall street destroy the housing and banking systems. That Obama guy wrecked EVERYTHING!
At least you didn't say "your a dickhead".
There, I said something nice about you.
Are the problems with MS Sync something that doesn't show up when you're test driving the car?
From what I have read, Sync sucks big time and not in any hidden way. If that is the case, why are people buying cars with such a crappy system? Would you buy the car if the windows didn't go up and down or if the engine didn't work properly?
Then again, I have wondered why people buy American cars at all- a few minutes with the consumer reports guide tells you which cars are reliable and which are not, and American cars have been low on the lists for years. That's why the commercials tout surveys of initial customer satisfaction, not satisfaction two or three years down the road.
Be careful, MS doesn't like its asstroturfers to use foul language when promoting its products. You might not get your check!
And why does the Windows machine have to reboot after every update? My linux machines rarely need reboots after updates.
After rebooting it takes forever to get to where the Windows machine is usable again.
No, no FUD, and you're obviously an MS asstroturfer.
The real cost of a Microsoft OS is the hours you'll spend waiting for reboots due to "updates" and just trying to keep it running.
My time is worth more than that.
Not really related to the subject, but a similarly strange/amusing story from Naked Lunch:
Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down you dig farting out the words. It was unlike anything I had ever heard. This asshole talk had sort of a gut frequency. It hit you right down there like you gotta go. You know when the old colon gives you the elbow and it feels sorta cold inside, and you know all you have to do is turn loose? Well this talking hit you right down there, a bubbly, thick stagnant sound, a sound you could smell. This man worked for a carnival you dig, and to start with it was like a novelty ventriliquist act. Real funny, too, at first. He had a number he called The Better Ole that was a scream, I tell you. I forget most of it but it was clever. Like, "Oh I say, are you still down there, old thing?" "Nah I had to go relieve myself." After a while the asshole started talking on its own. He would go in without anything prepared and his asshole would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time. Then it developed sort of teeth-like little raspy in-curving hooks and start eating. He thought this was cute at first and built an act around it, but the asshole would eat its way through his pants and start talking on the street, shouting out it wanted equal rights. It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags nobody loved it and it wanted to be kissed same as any other mouth. Finally it talked all the time day and night, you could hear him for blocks screaming at it to shut up, and beating it with his fist, and sticking candles up it, but nothing did any good and the asshole said to him, "It is you who will shut up in the end. Not me. Because we dont need you around here any more. I can talk and eat AND shit." After that he began waking up in the morning with a transparent jelly like a tadpoles tail all over his mouth. This jelly was what the scientists call un-D.T., Undifferentiated Tissue, which can grow into any kind of flesh on the human body. He would tear it off his mouth and the pieces would stick to his hands like burning gasoline jelly and grow there, grow anywhere on him a glob of it fell. So finally his mouth sealed over, and the whole head would have have amputated spontaneous - except for the EYES you dig. Thats one thing the asshole COULDN'T do was see. It needed the eyes. But nerve connections were blocked and infiltrated and atrophied so the brain couldnt give orders any more. It was trapped in the skull, sealed off. For a while you could see the silent, helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes, then finally the brain must have died, because the eyes WENT OUT, and there was no more feeling in them than a crabs eyes on the end of a stalk.
I used to use a male voice on the GPS in my car because the female voices reminded me too much of my wife telling me where to go. That was when I was using an aftermarket Garmin unit. My current vehicle has built in GPS and unfortunately has only one female voice. Fortunately, it is a relatively pleasant voice, not exactly pillow-talky, but acceptable, and it never gets upset because I missed a turn.
It's da healin' of da nation for sure man!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
applied to debunking so-called "Intelligent Design". There are a few high profile proponents who claim that the probability of an organism as complex as humans evolving from single celled ancestors is so small as to be impossible, therefore we must have been "designed" by "someone" (a variation on the God of the gaps principle used by others for the same purpose). They like to point out eyes as organs that are so complex they could not have evolved, even though we have numerous living organisms that have organisms with photosensitive sensitive organs that aren't quite eyes, perhaps on their way to becoming eyes, many generations/mutations down the road.
In a single field of view under a microscope I can see tens of thousands of bacteria swimming around in a drop of water. Multiple that by all the drops of water in the world and you quickly realize that the number of living organisms is a HUGE number. With all that genetic replication (with errors that sometimes result) and gene swapping going on, and all the DNA floating around freely in the waters of the world, it seems inevitable that there will be enough mutations taking place to produce the variety of life we see on earth.
I can't see going after the market for fitness buffs because there just aren't enough of them who care about heart rates, etc. Everyone who goes to the gym isn't training for a triathlon.
I CAN see going after the chronically ill. That is a huge piece of the US/world population. If you could monitor things like blood sugar, heart rate/rhythm, blood pressure, blood oxygen/CO2 levels,etc., and detect anomalies and sound alarms this thing could be huge. I suppose all the fitness stuff would be a subset of this capability, so you'd get the fitness nuts and the ill with one device.
Knowing Apple, it will probably only work with iTunes, the worst POS software since Windows...
fundamentalist christian idiocy makes me laugh and cry at the same time. I think our only hope for the future is for intelligent people to start making a lot of babies or we will be forever outnumbered by dopes. Democracy only works well if the people who vote have more than 1/2 a brain.
Whatever happened to the Republican party's movement to "stop being the party of stupid"?
then flunk them. When they find they are unable to gain entrance to colleges and universities, and to then get and hold good jobs after that, maybe they'll wake up. This experiment should only take a few generations of wasted minds to correct itself.
Or simply throw in the towel and give up. Someone has to greet shoppers at Walmart and keep those burgers flipping.
'The oil companies have, in effect, profited off polluting.'
Doh!
How does bank control over money supply translate into me being a slave? Can you elaborate?
Bitcoin with other people's money and not mine!
For a moment I thought we were talking about MONEY!
The real cost of windows is not in the purchase price but all the untold hours of messing with it to keep it working in all but the simplest systems/configurations. My time is far too valuable to spend it messing with windows if I don't have to. Unfortunately, right now I have to to keep just a few applications running for which there are no known Linux equivalents.
he got an immediate bonus for saving so much (?) money by coming up with the idea of delaying employee 401k matching funds. That must be why CEOs get paid so much to play golf with their buddies from other companies... like IBM.
Actually, it's a great idea, especially if layoffs are in your bonus generating toolkit for the coming year. Those employees who get laid off won't get the 401k matching because they won't make it to the end of the year, thus saving even more money and generating an even bigger bonus for the CEO.
And no doubt the shareholders will see these brilliant moves as reflecting the can-do mind-set of the CEO and will bid up the share price accordingly.
The pundits on CNBC will be pounding the table about it because that's the sort of leadership that America needs at the top of her largest corporations. Hey, if he is too dumb to take care of himself, you sure don't want him running the company! Gee, maybe that goes for Washington, too...
Eat the rich!
"For far too long, the EPA has approved regulations that have placed a crippling financial burden on economic growth in this country with no public evidence to justify their actions."
Gee, it sounds like they are doing a lot of this sort of thing. Can you name some specific instances where this has occurred?
"Provisions in the bill are consistent with the White House's scientific integrity policy, the President's Executive Order 13563, data access provisions of major scientific journals, the Bipartisan Policy Center and the recommendations of the Obama administration's top science advisors."
Are ALL or just a few of the provisions consistent with the policy? Which provisions aren't consistent with the policy?
"prohibit the EPA from proposing new regulations based on science that is not transparent or not reproducible"
So you mean that since they don't have a second planet earth to experiment on, they can't issue any rules that would relate to things like, oh, I don't know, anthropomorphic climate change?
Gee thanks, Mr. Republican, for looking out for my interests.
tried to convert them to real money at the same time. Yeah, that would make it drop and would shut down the exchanges.
Keep mining those bitcoins!
information is to prevent bad things from happening. So what happens when a bad thing happens and the police fail to prevent it, even though they have information that clearly indicates something bad is about to happen? I wonder if civil lawsuits against the police (and awards to plaintiffs) will increase.
And don't forget your truck!
explain why our government is as non functional as it is. Politicians and their wealthy backers have been at the forefront of elevating stupidity and ignorance to virtues because stupid, ignorant people are easy to manipulate. Stupid, ignorant people focus on minor things that occur mainly in the short term (I am hungry- I eat, etc.) and on single issues for which politicians and the preachers who support them can use emotional appeals to to turn out the vote.