That has nothing to do with whether or not it's a trilogy. The Godfather movies are a trilogy, even though the plots are interconnected. Indeed, as the movies have shown, each part of the trilogy has a distinct climax and resolution. If this were not the case, the movies could not be watched a year apart and be fulfilling.
Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could become an MIA and then we'd all be put out on KP
Interesting idea. How long has the single child policy been in effect? I know it goes at least back to the mid-80's, which would put the first children born under the policy at around 18 today. I don't know how the draft works in China, but in the USA, 18-25 is eligible for the draft, but 18 and 19 year olds are least likely to be drafted (20 is first, then 21, 22, etc. to 25, then 19, then 18).
By that argument, American blacks are better off than Africans, so slavery was good. Native Americans would still largely be hunters and gatherers if it wasn't for Europe, so imperialism was a good thing. Jews wouldn't have been given Israel if it hadn't been for the holocaust, so Hitler should be applauded.
These types of "greater good" arguments are very dangerous, and in almost all cases, the freedom to try to make life better on one's own is better than being forced into a "better" lifestyle.
all I really know is the situation would be messy.
Which is reason enough. In the last Taiwanese election, China was testing missiles in the waters around Taiwan to dissuade them from electing the pro-independence canidate (who got elected anyway). *sigh* I just hope that rising standards of living will cause the people of China to demand more freedoms, much as it happened in Europe and her colonies.
Okay, that's a good point, I'll agree that copyright law is fucked, and that has a chilling effect on media distribution. However, I don't think that the right way to solve that is to continue to force fractionalization of media companies. Two bad laws don't make a good one.
Unfortunately, the law, and society as a whole, disagrees with you. Videos of 16-year-olds performing explicit acts is considered child porn throughout the USA. "She looked like she was over 18" is not considered an excuse, either.
I agree. Aside from annoying delays in initial setup (mainly due to the fact that I assumed that they had to come to my apartment complex to turn it on, and none of the customer support people would tell me otherwise), speed was generally better than advertised, and service outages were no more frequent than what I experienced in my dorm at the university.
The entire point of this document is to get Darl & Co. out of hot water when the lawsuits start flying. When it becomes clear to the general public that the SCO claims were full of shit, and that the insiders cashed out during that period, shareholders will start suing, and the SEC may even launch an investigation. McBride will point to this 10Q and say "we warned you that our claims might not hold up in court, and we furthermore went on to warn you that if our claims did not hold up, SCOsource would stop making money, and we would have no more revenue."
I don't think he was saying that Britney Spears videos ARE child porn, but many of them do depict a minor in a sexual manner. No doubt people within the music industry encouraged her to market herself in such a manner. They are advocating the viewing of 16-year-olds as sexually available. I think the original poster has a good point, the RIAA is not responsible for child porn, but they're certainly not figures who we should be taking moral advice from.
Huh, when I was working, I wore a suit to the office. So did everyone I knew. Who says they don't wear the same things to work that their constituents do?
Anyway, I prefer them to maintain a more professional appearance. They are, after all, supposed to be representing our country. I would rather not have the nation's leaders look like a bunch of slobs.
I don't think a few thousand comments, in a country with hundreds of millions of people, can be viewed as statistically significant. As for the ACLU and the NRA uniting, of course they'd unite, they're both fringe groups that are afraid consolidation would cost them airtime. I, for one, am in favor of the FCC's new rules, but I didn't bother to write a comment, because I figured why argue for something they're planning on doing anyway?
As far as I'm concerned, the old rules were a dinosaur, left over from a time when it was difficult to be a content producer. Today, with the Internet, I no longer believe that to be the case. Even with the new rules, I expect that in the next 20 years, we'll actually end up seeing more alternative viewpoints, rather than fewer.
How is 55-40, with 5 abstaining, a huge majority? It sounds to me like if Bush vetos it, it will die, as it is well short of the 2/3rds needed to override a veto. As far as I'm concerned, that's a good thing; these rules are stupid in an age where barriers to becoming a content distributor are virtually nil (maybe $10/month in web hosting costs).
That's a good point: if people were allowed to talk on their cell phones, the normal flying activity would probably change from reading to talking on your phone. With the number of people they've got packed onto those planes, all talking at once, it'd be intolerably noisy. If cell phones ever are certified as safe for airline use, they'll probably still have to regulate them, make you go to the rear of the aircraft or something.
I'm sorry, I thought we were arguing about what the USA was actually like, not how the rest of the world perceives it.
Anyway, as I said at the beginning, this sort of accounting is useless. We're hardly going to condemn modern day Germany for Nazism, or Russia for Stalinism, so it makes little sense to judge the USA now based on when certain civil rights acts were introduced.
Well, first and foremost, you have to realize that the US is not a homogenous entity. The south lagged, keeping segregation in effect for longer than the north. So it depends where you're talking about. Indeed, part of the reason that MLK, Jr. was so successful was that most of the country already agreed with him, and most states were non-segregated. Second, the USA has a much larger percentage of non-whites. In Europe, it would have been prohibitively expensive to maintain seperate schools and the like for a group that made up a tiny fraction of the population. Finally, while Euorpe may not have had much segregation on their home soil, England and Frace were both trying to cling to power in their colonies, ruling over other ethnic groups without giving them self determination.
As for the UN, I don't remember that instance, but I suspect it had more to do with the wording of the resolution than the fact that the official American position was "we support racism." For example, the US was blocking an anti-racism resolution just a couple years ago because the resolution included a bit condemning Zionism as a racist ideology. Whether or not it is isn't what I'm trying to argue here, I'm just saying there was probably more to it than just whether or not the USA considered blacks in South Africa people.
As for the death penalty, how is that even relevant? Yes, we execute mass murderers, rather than keeping them locked up for the rest of their lives without the possibility of parole. Many of those in prison for life try to kill themselves, but are prevented from doing so. Frankly, that seems like a worse fate to me than a swift, humane, painless death.
I'm afraid you've already lost the bet on granting homosexuals equality. The SCOTUS has already ruled that no laws may be enacted forbidding homosexual practices. Many states have laws to give same sex couples certain privileges ordinarily reserved for married couples, and Hawaii has legalized same sex marriage. Oh, there may be a couple years of lag before it's widespread, but nothing like the 24 year lag for France giving women the right to vote.
Consistently lagged behind? On what do you base this? Yes, the USA ended slavery after most of the rest of the Western world, but the USA also granted women the right to vote back in 1920, before most of Europe (France didn't give women the right to vote until 1944!). So as I see it, there's one point for, one point against. I see no consistency.
Anyway, the USA would have ended slavery sooner if it hadn't been for the fact that there was a powerful group of individuals in the South that benefited from it. I don't think that's "America's" fault anymore than Nazism is "Germany's" fault. Neither the Holocaust nor slavery was supported by the majority of the population.
Just my own personal machine, but I remember seeing it listed as a known issue for 9.0. I assumed, since I experienced the same problem in 9.1, that it was still a known issue. It's possible, though, that between 9.0 and 9.1 they fixed it in 99% of cases, and I'm just that unlucky remainder.
#1 is Jackson Pollack, not Andy Warhol. #2 is van Gogh, correct #3 is Seurat, I believe #4 and #5 are correct #6: James Joyce DID write Ulysses, but as I never read it, I can't confirm if that's what he's talking about #7 has got to be Hirst. Sure, others have used formaldehyde, but he was the one whose stuff was on display in New York when Guliani threw a fit #8: likewise, I have no idea #9 is the REAL Andy Warhol 10-12 are correct #13 is Cristo 14 and 15 are correct, I actually saw Triumph of the Will in 20th Century European History last year #16 is Hendrix #17 is Bret Ellis, the book is American Psycho, which my girlfriend read the first 100 pages of, and described as "too dull for words." I'm content to take it on faith. #18: this vaguely rings a bell, I think Seasame Street must have shown that clip or something when I was little, but I have no idea what it's from. #19: Dunno, never heard the song.
From the article: "...the remaining paintings, sketches and storyboards, along with 15 seconds of a test reel, were enough source material for director Dominique Monfery and his team of 25 Disney animators, based in Paris."
It sounds to me like they basically just took the outline that had been created, and made a completely new animation. I don't think that anything on screen will be from the 40's, but the storyboards and whatnot will have guided the 00's animators.
It's fine for use, it's only the installer that has difficulty. I have no idea why. It's not a big deal, again, one can either use keyboard navigation or use the USB to PS/2 adaptor for installation. But if they're adding ads, that's just another reason why the text based installer may be better.
When the hybrid cars first started coming out, I seem to recall someone saying something to the effect that they have huge li-ion battery packs (something like 50 lbs, over $1000 replacement cost), that were subsidized by government incentives for alternative fuel vehicles.
However, the poster commented that, as with laptops, these batteries are unlikely to last more than a couple of years, and will then have to be replaced by the owner, at the unsubsidized replacement cost.
Is this true? Anyone care to comment on the battery issue? Again, it was a while ago, so my memory may be faulty, or the original poster may have been full of shit, which is why I'm asking. This post is meant merely as a question, not as anti-hybrid FUD.
2 issues: first of all, if you don't patronize the cheaper gas stations, they won't compete on price. Hence, all gas will get more expensive. A limited form of this is one reason why gas prices always fall more slowly than they rise.
Second, while I agree that going out of your way isn't worth it, what I, and most people I know, do is that they will generally try to remember to fill up their tank when they happen to be near a station they know to be cheaper.
For me at least, I don't care about 2 or 3 cents, but often there will be $.10 or even $.20 differences. That's more like $1.50 per fillup, and if you fill up your tank a couple times a month, it can add up to about $35 or $40 per year. Not a lot of money, but not something to just throw away for no reason.
No, see, I know 9.1 had problems, I installed that just last week. It doesnt't happen all the time, but at least with a MS IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0, it freezes up sometimes when moving the mouse. One can more or less work around this by doing as much navigation as possible from the keyboard. This was a known issue for 9.0, so I assume they're still aware of it, but I didn't bother actually confirming.
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That has nothing to do with whether or not it's a trilogy. The Godfather movies are a trilogy, even though the plots are interconnected. Indeed, as the movies have shown, each part of the trilogy has a distinct climax and resolution. If this were not the case, the movies could not be watched a year apart and be fulfilling.
Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could become an MIA and then we'd all be put out on KP
Interesting idea. How long has the single child policy been in effect? I know it goes at least back to the mid-80's, which would put the first children born under the policy at around 18 today. I don't know how the draft works in China, but in the USA, 18-25 is eligible for the draft, but 18 and 19 year olds are least likely to be drafted (20 is first, then 21, 22, etc. to 25, then 19, then 18).
These types of "greater good" arguments are very dangerous, and in almost all cases, the freedom to try to make life better on one's own is better than being forced into a "better" lifestyle.
No no, Hitler built the Autobauhn. Mussolini got the trains running on time.
Which is reason enough. In the last Taiwanese election, China was testing missiles in the waters around Taiwan to dissuade them from electing the pro-independence canidate (who got elected anyway). *sigh* I just hope that rising standards of living will cause the people of China to demand more freedoms, much as it happened in Europe and her colonies.
Okay, that's a good point, I'll agree that copyright law is fucked, and that has a chilling effect on media distribution. However, I don't think that the right way to solve that is to continue to force fractionalization of media companies. Two bad laws don't make a good one.
Unfortunately, the law, and society as a whole, disagrees with you. Videos of 16-year-olds performing explicit acts is considered child porn throughout the USA. "She looked like she was over 18" is not considered an excuse, either.
I agree. Aside from annoying delays in initial setup (mainly due to the fact that I assumed that they had to come to my apartment complex to turn it on, and none of the customer support people would tell me otherwise), speed was generally better than advertised, and service outages were no more frequent than what I experienced in my dorm at the university.
The entire point of this document is to get Darl & Co. out of hot water when the lawsuits start flying. When it becomes clear to the general public that the SCO claims were full of shit, and that the insiders cashed out during that period, shareholders will start suing, and the SEC may even launch an investigation. McBride will point to this 10Q and say "we warned you that our claims might not hold up in court, and we furthermore went on to warn you that if our claims did not hold up, SCOsource would stop making money, and we would have no more revenue."
I don't think he was saying that Britney Spears videos ARE child porn, but many of them do depict a minor in a sexual manner. No doubt people within the music industry encouraged her to market herself in such a manner. They are advocating the viewing of 16-year-olds as sexually available. I think the original poster has a good point, the RIAA is not responsible for child porn, but they're certainly not figures who we should be taking moral advice from.
Anyway, I prefer them to maintain a more professional appearance. They are, after all, supposed to be representing our country. I would rather not have the nation's leaders look like a bunch of slobs.
As far as I'm concerned, the old rules were a dinosaur, left over from a time when it was difficult to be a content producer. Today, with the Internet, I no longer believe that to be the case. Even with the new rules, I expect that in the next 20 years, we'll actually end up seeing more alternative viewpoints, rather than fewer.
How is 55-40, with 5 abstaining, a huge majority? It sounds to me like if Bush vetos it, it will die, as it is well short of the 2/3rds needed to override a veto. As far as I'm concerned, that's a good thing; these rules are stupid in an age where barriers to becoming a content distributor are virtually nil (maybe $10/month in web hosting costs).
That's a good point: if people were allowed to talk on their cell phones, the normal flying activity would probably change from reading to talking on your phone. With the number of people they've got packed onto those planes, all talking at once, it'd be intolerably noisy. If cell phones ever are certified as safe for airline use, they'll probably still have to regulate them, make you go to the rear of the aircraft or something.
Anyway, as I said at the beginning, this sort of accounting is useless. We're hardly going to condemn modern day Germany for Nazism, or Russia for Stalinism, so it makes little sense to judge the USA now based on when certain civil rights acts were introduced.
As for the UN, I don't remember that instance, but I suspect it had more to do with the wording of the resolution than the fact that the official American position was "we support racism." For example, the US was blocking an anti-racism resolution just a couple years ago because the resolution included a bit condemning Zionism as a racist ideology. Whether or not it is isn't what I'm trying to argue here, I'm just saying there was probably more to it than just whether or not the USA considered blacks in South Africa people.
As for the death penalty, how is that even relevant? Yes, we execute mass murderers, rather than keeping them locked up for the rest of their lives without the possibility of parole. Many of those in prison for life try to kill themselves, but are prevented from doing so. Frankly, that seems like a worse fate to me than a swift, humane, painless death.
I'm afraid you've already lost the bet on granting homosexuals equality. The SCOTUS has already ruled that no laws may be enacted forbidding homosexual practices. Many states have laws to give same sex couples certain privileges ordinarily reserved for married couples, and Hawaii has legalized same sex marriage. Oh, there may be a couple years of lag before it's widespread, but nothing like the 24 year lag for France giving women the right to vote.
Anyway, the USA would have ended slavery sooner if it hadn't been for the fact that there was a powerful group of individuals in the South that benefited from it. I don't think that's "America's" fault anymore than Nazism is "Germany's" fault. Neither the Holocaust nor slavery was supported by the majority of the population.
Just my own personal machine, but I remember seeing it listed as a known issue for 9.0. I assumed, since I experienced the same problem in 9.1, that it was still a known issue. It's possible, though, that between 9.0 and 9.1 they fixed it in 99% of cases, and I'm just that unlucky remainder.
#1 is Jackson Pollack, not Andy Warhol.
#2 is van Gogh, correct
#3 is Seurat, I believe
#4 and #5 are correct
#6: James Joyce DID write Ulysses, but as I never read it, I can't confirm if that's what he's talking about
#7 has got to be Hirst. Sure, others have used formaldehyde, but he was the one whose stuff was on display in New York when Guliani threw a fit
#8: likewise, I have no idea
#9 is the REAL Andy Warhol
10-12 are correct
#13 is Cristo
14 and 15 are correct, I actually saw Triumph of the Will in 20th Century European History last year
#16 is Hendrix
#17 is Bret Ellis, the book is American Psycho, which my girlfriend read the first 100 pages of, and described as "too dull for words." I'm content to take it on faith.
#18: this vaguely rings a bell, I think Seasame Street must have shown that clip or something when I was little, but I have no idea what it's from.
#19: Dunno, never heard the song.
It sounds to me like they basically just took the outline that had been created, and made a completely new animation. I don't think that anything on screen will be from the 40's, but the storyboards and whatnot will have guided the 00's animators.
It's fine for use, it's only the installer that has difficulty. I have no idea why. It's not a big deal, again, one can either use keyboard navigation or use the USB to PS/2 adaptor for installation. But if they're adding ads, that's just another reason why the text based installer may be better.
However, the poster commented that, as with laptops, these batteries are unlikely to last more than a couple of years, and will then have to be replaced by the owner, at the unsubsidized replacement cost.
Is this true? Anyone care to comment on the battery issue? Again, it was a while ago, so my memory may be faulty, or the original poster may have been full of shit, which is why I'm asking. This post is meant merely as a question, not as anti-hybrid FUD.
Second, while I agree that going out of your way isn't worth it, what I, and most people I know, do is that they will generally try to remember to fill up their tank when they happen to be near a station they know to be cheaper.
For me at least, I don't care about 2 or 3 cents, but often there will be $.10 or even $.20 differences. That's more like $1.50 per fillup, and if you fill up your tank a couple times a month, it can add up to about $35 or $40 per year. Not a lot of money, but not something to just throw away for no reason.
No, see, I know 9.1 had problems, I installed that just last week. It doesnt't happen all the time, but at least with a MS IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0, it freezes up sometimes when moving the mouse. One can more or less work around this by doing as much navigation as possible from the keyboard. This was a known issue for 9.0, so I assume they're still aware of it, but I didn't bother actually confirming.