Before I get modded to oblivion, just hear me out. The telecos get their way and they start strangling normal traffic in order to "force" everyone to higher tiers. This makes people angry (sort of like how people don't like having their cable messed with). Angry people call up their congress critters and say, "We don't like getting screwed by our ISPs!". Congress critters begin to realize that if they don't do something to bring this back in line, they will be ejected for someone who will.
If only that's how things actually worked in this country. Americans are too passive (unless it comes to frivolous issues such as gay marriage). They will simply grumble and 'take it.' Some opposition will arise, but it will not be enough to break the power held by the telco lobbyists.
Well, if the democratic process in a state leads to the adoption of "intelligent design" into the curriculum, then that's the way it should be.
No, the people who decide the scientific curriculum should be scientists and science teachers. They, not popular opinion, define what is the truth in science. "Intelligent design" is nothing more than trying to shoehorn in a religious curriculum into an institution that is not allowed to give a religious curriculum.
You let the teacher's union write the state budget in California? Wait, no you don't. You can blame the state for wasting money, you can even blame the school system and the teachers, but blaming the teacher's union is idiotic. The teacher's union isn't spending too much money in schools.
The teacher's union in California is absurdly powerful. They basically get what they want. The only person who has actually stood up to them in the past several years is the governor (oh, I wish he would have chosen a better approach), and they're ensuring that this is his last term. Now they use all that teachers' union money to fund attack ads against him (when they aren't running ads for non-educational issues).
I couldn't agree more. My parents, both members of the NEA and NJEA (New Jersey) are basically extorted into paying fees to an agency that hardly ever help in any way, and seem to spend more time lobbying on issues that have nothing to do with education (or the views of my parents.)
I lost my sympathy for the monetary issues of the California Teachers' Union when they started buying commercials asking Californians to support the Safeway union workers' strike. Union workers at a grocery store. Yes, that's where education money goes -- lobbying for non-educational causes that are aligned with the political philosophies of the union. After that travesty I became a little deafer to their "we need more money for education! Raise taxes again" cries.
Remember, patents aren't about what people's fair return is they're about encouraging innovation.
Not anymore! Certainly not today. Now it's all about "intellectual property" and how much money can be leveraged from it, but whatever means increases the profit.
Rich people hoard all their people and they're labelled greedy.
A man works all his life, and finally, nearing retirement gives away almost all his fortunes and he is also looked down upon.
You just can't win in this world...
Sounds very Green Party-ist, where rich people are evil solely by virtue of being rich, because you can only gain a lot of wealth through evil means.
Or maybe that was just Ralph Nader's personal take on affluence and why taxes on income should approach 100% for incomes above $50k. I lost any interest I'd had in the Green Party after reading those little gems in their election pamphlet.
You know, I'm not particularly sympathetic to the people who call me up during dinner to try to sell me things even when my number is on the "do not call" registery. Nor am I sympathetic to people who send misleading email spam or folks who try to throw as many roadblocks as possible to someone wishing to cancel an account. Having "being an ass" be a part of a job is not an excuse for being an ass, nor does it shield them from the negative reactions people are going to have for that.
Romulans - intelligent, devious, amoral, harsh semi-collectivist government, yellow skin, slanty features, related to 'emotionless' creatures. Condensed version of every stereotype about Asians.
You're probably right about the Klingnons and maaaaybe the Ferengi, but I disagree with your trying to add Romulans to the racist stereotype list. Intelligent, devious, amoral? Sure, all those were true. Harsh semi-collectivist government? I don't remember the Romulan government, other than it was harsh, but I'll go along with that assessment. Yellow skin? Erm, no, the Romulan skin pigment was the same as that of their white-bread cousins, the Vulcans. Slanty features? Certainly not in the facial features and eyes. The closest you might come is they all have bowl haircuts and long, straight eyebrows. Hell, all the Federation needed to do was give Deanna Troi a bowl cut and long eyebrows and she fit in in appearance with the Romulan society. So no, I don't think the Romulans fit into many asian stereotypes.
I know a number of people at work who would buy it who didn't buy the special edition DVDs. For awhile it was popular to pass around homemade DVDs created from the Laserdisc version.
Unfortunately, there are some beautiful effects shots that I'll miss from the special editions that I do think added a nice amount of atmosphere.. the cloud city wide shots, a few of the Millenium Falcon shots from Episode 4, the X-Wing squadron from the same episode. Unfortunately, many redone effects shots also stand out a little too much from the rest of the movie in quality so as a whole they detract, even if they individually look very nice. And some shots seemed pretty pointless, designed only to draw attention to themselves (the reptiles on Tattoine).
When the Special Edition for Star Trek: The Motion Picture was being created, effects shots were touched up and added because the original movie was never really finished. Bob Wise made a smart decision when he said he wanted all the new effects shots for the movie to look like they could have been created in 1979.. there were some CG Enterprise shots, but they looked like they fit in with the rest of the movie effects. Those shots did not call attention to themselves.
What I'm happiest about: the original Return of the Jedi ending! I have a strong dislike for the 'new' end celebration theme (not that the original was great by any means).
Remember: there is no "very special episode" where Uncle Jesse reveals that he can't read, or the Dukes learn a special lesson about teenage pregnancy. A "very special episode" of Dukes Of Hazzard is one that features the Oak Ridge Boys.
Honestly this is probably one of the Dukes of Hazzard's few strengths. Those "very special episodes" almost always fall flat in most dramatic shows, and especially fall flat in comedies. They're generally worthless, don't make you feel empathy for the characters, and too often involve blatant heartstrings-manipulation.
There are hundreds of Linux distributions (http://distrowatch.com/) ,
I used to think this is one of Linux's greatest strengths. Over the last 12 years I've come to realize it is simulaniously one of Linux's greatest weaknesses as well.
if joe_155 uses one that doesn't play Quicktime it's his problem.
Unfortunately the interface for the mplayer plugin is god-awful, and one of the very few reasons I'll ever use the quicktime plugin.
Watching a clip from beginning to end? Oh sure, the mplayer plugin is perfectly adequate. What if you want to pause? Go back a few seconds? See the progress of the clip loading from the external site? These are all tasks that yes, even your average user wants to do, yet can't with most of the plugins that merely run external programs. The Quicktime plugin has a "real" interface, which is why it's still in demand, even on Linux.
.... or at least, that's one theory of how it could go. There are others, including, say, the Regime that takes power makes it illegal, immoral, or fattening to belong to another party, or socially unnacceptable not to belong to the ruling party. The Suppression of Dissent is the basis for most of what the current Regime has done, and they show no signs of slacking off on it. There will be no "third parties" in 2008 - assuming we even have an election - it would be trivial for the Dubya Regime to advance their terrorist agenda suffiently over the next 2 years that they will be able to openly admit the fact that they are suspending the democratic process - after all, they've already done it - admitting it will just require another couple major "terrorist strikes". Think they wouldn't?
Yes, I'm pretty sure they won't. It's fine to criticize the current party for their power grabs; I do it all the time. Don't careen off into the land of tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories though. The Republican Party believes in elections (that it can win). They'll be quite happy with another 2004 situation where they have a regular election but the damage is done before election day through the tearing apart of the other candidate, whether through honest or dishonest means.
A case in point: The Nader/LaDuke/Green ticket got a percentage of the vote in 2000 (e.g. 3% in Iowa); in 2004, conditions for third parties were so much worse there was no noticeable Green presence *anywhere*. Looked like (to me) that the uptick in 3rd party voters in 2000 scared the Republicrats sufficiently that they took steps to make sure it didn't happen again.
Ummm, no. The Democratic party is FAR more threatened by the Greens than the Republican party is. Republican compaigns have been known to aid Green party campaigns in races where the Democratic and Republican candidates are neck and neck because when someone leaves one of the two major parties to vote for a Green Party candidate, it's almost never a Republican. Someone switching to Green is a loss for the Democrats and a gain for the Republicans. The Democrats feel the same way about the Libertarian Party, but I've not known them to stoop to helping that group. The Republicans have nothing to fear from aiding the Green Party, as it's not like that party has any honest chance of gaining -real- support. They have agendas that are a little too left-wing for the average American to agree with. So no, the Republicans aren't against the Green Party, just the opposite. What sort of party would it take for both the Republicans and Democrats to turn against it? A party that isn't left of the Democrats or right of the Republicans. Some sort of centrist party is a nightmare they both share.
Do you want to know why there was no green party support in 2004? It's because the election of 2000 was so close that left-leaning Democrafts turned on the people voting for Greens and shouted "The election was almost ours! It's -your- fault that we lost and Bush is in power now!" So much frustration was taken out on the greens by people who said they threw their votes away and edge Bush the tiny edge he needed. Unfortunately, Bush turned out to be such an extremely polarizing figure that no one to the left of center wanted a repeat of the 2000 situation. Even though I didn't really like John Kerry much and aren't a Democrat, I voted for him in 2004 since I felt Bush was such a disaster. In my life, it's probably the vote I'm least proud of. In 2000, the Green Party had Ralph Nader, a man who (at the time) was well-liked and well-thought of for his consumer safety activism in earlier years. They had no charismatic candidate for the 2004.
I's day that that was the majority really. The only people who are hoping that it become mainstream desktop are businesses that sell linux and people who want free replacements for photoshop and autocad.
No, there are quite a few non-business folks in the linux community who want that to be the case too. I'd say.. Microsoft-haters, zealots, etc. The folks who believe the answer is almost always Linux.
There is a schism in the Linux community, with folks who want to code and folks who are happy with linux as it is on one side, and the business folks, the 'I want to see Linux take over the world,' 'Linux is good enough for my grandmother, it should be good enough for yours' folks on the other side. People on the outside aren't usually aware there are two differing philosophies and think Linux users want everyone to use Linux but don't want to make the necessary education/support necessary for it.
Normal passenger vehicle == better visibility, handling, braking, and parents are physically closer to children to help minimize distraction.
They will also get completely crushed when in an accident against an SUV. That's my biggest problem with SUVs. Many people buy them because they feel SUVs are 'safer,' and in a sense they are because you're upping the stakes in the arms race of car/truck construction and weight.
We have, as the foreward stated, one single second-hand source for this. If the speaker was indeed given a standing ovation and the Academy is not distancing itself from the remarks or sanctioning the speaker, then it seems more and more likely that the article writer is misquoting the speaker, intentionally or accidently.
Few times they extended the warranty on the spot, when fault happened just after expiration date.
Lucky you! I got screwed over by Dell when the actual fault happened before the expiration date, but they didn't detect the real problem until after the warrenty expired.
The issue was a short on the motherboard which caused the motherboard to drain the CMOS battery very quickly (the battery would go dead in a few weeks). The first time I called about a dead battery was before the warrenty ran out. The battery was replaced, then the replacement went dead and another was sent. That went dead, and a tech told me it was likely a short in the motherboard that drained the batteries and that I'd need a replacement. But of course, conveniently the warrenty had just run out, so the tech told me I'd have to purchase a replacement motherboard from them. I declined and have been assembling my own computers ever since.
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If only that's how things actually worked in this country. Americans are too passive (unless it comes to frivolous issues such as gay marriage). They will simply grumble and 'take it.' Some opposition will arise, but it will not be enough to break the power held by the telco lobbyists.
No, the people who decide the scientific curriculum should be scientists and science teachers. They, not popular opinion, define what is the truth in science. "Intelligent design" is nothing more than trying to shoehorn in a religious curriculum into an institution that is not allowed to give a religious curriculum.
The teacher's union in California is absurdly powerful. They basically get what they want. The only person who has actually stood up to them in the past several years is the governor (oh, I wish he would have chosen a better approach), and they're ensuring that this is his last term. Now they use all that teachers' union money to fund attack ads against him (when they aren't running ads for non-educational issues).
I lost my sympathy for the monetary issues of the California Teachers' Union when they started buying commercials asking Californians to support the Safeway union workers' strike. Union workers at a grocery store. Yes, that's where education money goes -- lobbying for non-educational causes that are aligned with the political philosophies of the union. After that travesty I became a little deafer to their "we need more money for education! Raise taxes again" cries.
From their perspective, there's nothing wrong with damning someone for a terrible action, but invoking the name of God in a curse is profane.
Sadly, Leeland Yee has a long history of not really knowing what he's talking about when it comes to video games.
Not anymore! Certainly not today. Now it's all about "intellectual property" and how much money can be leveraged from it, but whatever means increases the profit.
A man works all his life, and finally, nearing retirement gives away almost all his fortunes and he is also looked down upon.
You just can't win in this world...
Sounds very Green Party-ist, where rich people are evil solely by virtue of being rich, because you can only gain a lot of wealth through evil means.
Or maybe that was just Ralph Nader's personal take on affluence and why taxes on income should approach 100% for incomes above $50k. I lost any interest I'd had in the Green Party after reading those little gems in their election pamphlet.
You know, I'm not particularly sympathetic to the people who call me up during dinner to try to sell me things even when my number is on the "do not call" registery. Nor am I sympathetic to people who send misleading email spam or folks who try to throw as many roadblocks as possible to someone wishing to cancel an account. Having "being an ass" be a part of a job is not an excuse for being an ass, nor does it shield them from the negative reactions people are going to have for that.
Does the low caste have the skillset needed for the job?
You're probably right about the Klingnons and maaaaybe the Ferengi, but I disagree with your trying to add Romulans to the racist stereotype list. Intelligent, devious, amoral? Sure, all those were true. Harsh semi-collectivist government? I don't remember the Romulan government, other than it was harsh, but I'll go along with that assessment. Yellow skin? Erm, no, the Romulan skin pigment was the same as that of their white-bread cousins, the Vulcans. Slanty features? Certainly not in the facial features and eyes. The closest you might come is they all have bowl haircuts and long, straight eyebrows. Hell, all the Federation needed to do was give Deanna Troi a bowl cut and long eyebrows and she fit in in appearance with the Romulan society. So no, I don't think the Romulans fit into many asian stereotypes.
As I recall, Logan's Run had a solution for this.
Good God, man, are you a Scientologist?
I know a number of people at work who would buy it who didn't buy the special edition DVDs. For awhile it was popular to pass around homemade DVDs created from the Laserdisc version.
When the Special Edition for Star Trek: The Motion Picture was being created, effects shots were touched up and added because the original movie was never really finished. Bob Wise made a smart decision when he said he wanted all the new effects shots for the movie to look like they could have been created in 1979.. there were some CG Enterprise shots, but they looked like they fit in with the rest of the movie effects. Those shots did not call attention to themselves.
What I'm happiest about: the original Return of the Jedi ending! I have a strong dislike for the 'new' end celebration theme (not that the original was great by any means).
Honestly this is probably one of the Dukes of Hazzard's few strengths. Those "very special episodes" almost always fall flat in most dramatic shows, and especially fall flat in comedies. They're generally worthless, don't make you feel empathy for the characters, and too often involve blatant heartstrings-manipulation.
I used to think this is one of Linux's greatest strengths. Over the last 12 years I've come to realize it is simulaniously one of Linux's greatest weaknesses as well. if joe_155 uses one that doesn't play Quicktime it's his problem.
Unfortunately the interface for the mplayer plugin is god-awful, and one of the very few reasons I'll ever use the quicktime plugin. Watching a clip from beginning to end? Oh sure, the mplayer plugin is perfectly adequate. What if you want to pause? Go back a few seconds? See the progress of the clip loading from the external site? These are all tasks that yes, even your average user wants to do, yet can't with most of the plugins that merely run external programs. The Quicktime plugin has a "real" interface, which is why it's still in demand, even on Linux.
Yes, I'm pretty sure they won't. It's fine to criticize the current party for their power grabs; I do it all the time. Don't careen off into the land of tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories though. The Republican Party believes in elections (that it can win). They'll be quite happy with another 2004 situation where they have a regular election but the damage is done before election day through the tearing apart of the other candidate, whether through honest or dishonest means.
A case in point: The Nader/LaDuke/Green ticket got a percentage of the vote in 2000 (e.g. 3% in Iowa); in 2004, conditions for third parties were so much worse there was no noticeable Green presence *anywhere*. Looked like (to me) that the uptick in 3rd party voters in 2000 scared the Republicrats sufficiently that they took steps to make sure it didn't happen again.
Ummm, no. The Democratic party is FAR more threatened by the Greens than the Republican party is. Republican compaigns have been known to aid Green party campaigns in races where the Democratic and Republican candidates are neck and neck because when someone leaves one of the two major parties to vote for a Green Party candidate, it's almost never a Republican. Someone switching to Green is a loss for the Democrats and a gain for the Republicans. The Democrats feel the same way about the Libertarian Party, but I've not known them to stoop to helping that group. The Republicans have nothing to fear from aiding the Green Party, as it's not like that party has any honest chance of gaining -real- support. They have agendas that are a little too left-wing for the average American to agree with. So no, the Republicans aren't against the Green Party, just the opposite. What sort of party would it take for both the Republicans and Democrats to turn against it? A party that isn't left of the Democrats or right of the Republicans. Some sort of centrist party is a nightmare they both share. Do you want to know why there was no green party support in 2004? It's because the election of 2000 was so close that left-leaning Democrafts turned on the people voting for Greens and shouted "The election was almost ours! It's -your- fault that we lost and Bush is in power now!" So much frustration was taken out on the greens by people who said they threw their votes away and edge Bush the tiny edge he needed. Unfortunately, Bush turned out to be such an extremely polarizing figure that no one to the left of center wanted a repeat of the 2000 situation. Even though I didn't really like John Kerry much and aren't a Democrat, I voted for him in 2004 since I felt Bush was such a disaster. In my life, it's probably the vote I'm least proud of. In 2000, the Green Party had Ralph Nader, a man who (at the time) was well-liked and well-thought of for his consumer safety activism in earlier years. They had no charismatic candidate for the 2004.
I have yet to encounter such a creature.
Yeah, good luck getting people to take part in your revolution.
No, there are quite a few non-business folks in the linux community who want that to be the case too. I'd say.. Microsoft-haters, zealots, etc. The folks who believe the answer is almost always Linux.
There is a schism in the Linux community, with folks who want to code and folks who are happy with linux as it is on one side, and the business folks, the 'I want to see Linux take over the world,' 'Linux is good enough for my grandmother, it should be good enough for yours' folks on the other side. People on the outside aren't usually aware there are two differing philosophies and think Linux users want everyone to use Linux but don't want to make the necessary education/support necessary for it.
They will also get completely crushed when in an accident against an SUV. That's my biggest problem with SUVs. Many people buy them because they feel SUVs are 'safer,' and in a sense they are because you're upping the stakes in the arms race of car/truck construction and weight.
How many Donald Trumps are there?
Lucky you! I got screwed over by Dell when the actual fault happened before the expiration date, but they didn't detect the real problem until after the warrenty expired.
The issue was a short on the motherboard which caused the motherboard to drain the CMOS battery very quickly (the battery would go dead in a few weeks). The first time I called about a dead battery was before the warrenty ran out. The battery was replaced, then the replacement went dead and another was sent. That went dead, and a tech told me it was likely a short in the motherboard that drained the batteries and that I'd need a replacement. But of course, conveniently the warrenty had just run out, so the tech told me I'd have to purchase a replacement motherboard from them. I declined and have been assembling my own computers ever since.