Obama very clearly opposed this, then got in office and supports it. The clear inference here is that he learned _something_ between then and now to lead him to believe this was saving lives or in some other way acceptable.
If Obama did learn something between then and now. Do you think if people take this course of action and still stand behind Obama on this issue. That perhaps people also owe Bush an appalogy in regards to the wiretapping?
I mean if people say it is ok for Obama to brush the wiretapping stuff under the rug then maybe Obama found out the true reason why Bush was doing it and agrees with it? If that is the case I think people need to make a choice. They either support Bush and Obama on this matter or they hate the both on this matter.
There is no difference between a metropolitan area newspaper and a small town newspaper except for more stories and more readers. If your subscription base can not pay for your production (reporters, rent, printing, etc) then you need to cut back on services or go under. If a big city newspaper is going down, and it is because readers are going online for their news, then how do you explain the small town newspaper going down also? Could it not be for the same reason? The small town newspapers are loosing readers because of the internet also? So the question is why are small town newspapers loosing money? Because you say 40%+ of the non metropolitan readers will loose their newspaper but since they need their paper you would think they could pay for it via subscriptions so it would stay in business.
Why should my tax dollars support a failing business? I understand with banks, airlines, and in some respect the big 3 if they go under a lot of people and businesses are going to be hurting. However with a newspaper especially a local newspaper it is essentially a small business with around 500+ employees.
The real question is why is the number of subscriptions down? Could it be that people find their news online from different sources (cnn.com, associated press, bbc, etc) rather then one local news paper? Why should the government prop up a failing business model? Did the government prop up the horse drawn carriage makers when the automobile started to take wind? It is not like people are loosing their news. The news is just going to a new medium, the internet. I do not feel it the job of the tax payer to prop up the newspapers.
With the raise of demand, the environmental requirements will be dropped to compensate for the need to build new power plants fast.
Yes because California has a HUGE demand and they have power plants going up so fast.... If your statement was true California would have no shortage of power in the summer and no rolling blackouts right? Do you have any proof that in high demand for electricity environmental regulations have been lessened?
By dropping the requirements, we will get power plants that will generate 3 to 4 times more pollution that the "green" vehicles will generate.
Also you are assuming that all power plants being built will be coal or oil burning. Natural Gas burns clean, Wind is clean, Solar is clean, Hydroelectric is clean, and in some respects nuclear is clean (in regards to CO2 pollution.)
By your logic Microsoft is not a monopoly either. They just had a success by producing an operating system that a large portion of the world uses. But now they are the big bad wolf. Google did it better then the other guys they marketed they produced the software people wanted at the right time. Microsoft did the same thing in the 80's and 90's.
If they could buy an unencumbered product at what are perceived to be low & fair prices, they wouldn't bother to pirate and there would be no Pirate Bay or its' ilk.
Massive piracy and disregard for copyright laws happens because consumers find it the only avenue to get the product they want, at non-extortionate prices, and in unencumbered formats that don't hinder their enjoyment and fair use. Remove these obstacles and piracy would go back to meaning something that occurs at sea.
I could not agree more. For example I went to go see a movie at the theater this weekend. It come my wife and I $9.25 a ticket. So why would I want to pay $18.50 to go see a movie. When I can wait 6 months for it to come out on netflix or wait for it to come to the $1 theater. The media companies fail to realize that their customers are starting to realize that they are simply getting ripped off. Now everyone has a limits of what they consider "ripped off". For example I do not feel like I am getting ripped off when I pay $15 a month for netflix. Some people do feel that way. I think the media companies need to figured out a happy medium to reduce their losses and then prosecute the rest. For example lowering the price of a song to say $.75 and then suing people who distribute.
I did tech support for Dell and in our training we would look up customers. It turns out we were in a demo training environment with demo customers. I bet you were also in a demo training environment.
The true, insidious purpose of the space station has yet to reveal itself. It's up there to allow for a new unit of measurement. Even with tons, tonnes, elephants, library of congresses, football fields, million millions, we don't have a good cubic-meter measurement yet. So we'll use the obvious choice, (how many xxx can fit into a car?)
We stuff clowns into cars to see how many cubic feet they can reasonably allow. The reason the US, Russia, Japan, and all our other friends are collaborating on this project is to get all of our clowns up there, stuffed into the space station, to see how many can fit, and this will be our new standard of measurement for cubic space. Then, once we've tallied how many tens of thousands of clowns can fit into the space station, we launch it into the sun.
I'd like to see anyone disagree that all the money has been ill-spent on this endeavor.
I played this game when it first came out. I did not feel like paying to beta test it so I quit. What I remember is you just run around and collect Logos and kill bane. Has anything changed?
How does your comment have anything to do with what I wrote? I was talking about the memory layout and time slicing in Vista compared to Windows 7. Are you saying because windows 7 may not have the DRM subsystem overhead stuff should execute faster. If that is the case why did the encoding execute at the same speed (what the GP was originally talking about)
The productivity would actually increase if the front end speed increased since it would allow the user to interact faster etc. The other tests such as encoding etc are really CPU and application dependent and not very much OS dependent, so it's not really a fair test.
Umm encoding is not all CPU and application dependent. Maybe you forgot what an OS does. It schedules when a program executes, where it is located in memory etc. So if Vista puts a program in different places in memory rather then linear or it has a different caching model then windows 7, the execution time will be different. Also if vista does not let the program execute as much as windows 7 the execution time will be different.
Perhaps bit torrent search will be used for some new technology on the horizon, and not for stealing. Just because something can be used for stealing does not mean it can not have another purpose. Maybe instead of linux distros and game sites letting their websites get slammed when they release a new update (for example open office 3.0) they can just tell the users to perform a search of their torrent.
It is one thing to track something it is something different to hit a moving target. I know the US, Russia, and China can do this. However if a system can track an incoming missile what prevents the satellite from simply firing its thrusters and moving out of the way? Its not like the missile can turn very easily or maybe not the current generation of anti-satellite missiles.
If someone starts blowing up satellites you have bigger problems then someone affording plane tickets. We can not protect our borders effectively without satellites , boats use GPS so shipping is effected. Trains use GPS to track their locations so so trade by train is effected. When you purchase gas with a credit card the transaction is sent via satellite so credit card purchases are effected. Cell phones are effected if satellites are taken out. So in other words stop to think that maybe this is a good project because the second the US starts loosing satellites we have some huge problems on our hands.
This is beyond the realm of reality so cut me some slack...
Corporations (or their top execs) are starting to buy military hardware. Do you think we will ever see a corporation declare war on another corporation?
Gives a whole new meaning to hostile takeover...
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Obama very clearly opposed this, then got in office and supports it. The clear inference here is that he learned _something_ between then and now to lead him to believe this was saving lives or in some other way acceptable.
If Obama did learn something between then and now. Do you think if people take this course of action and still stand behind Obama on this issue. That perhaps people also owe Bush an appalogy in regards to the wiretapping?
I mean if people say it is ok for Obama to brush the wiretapping stuff under the rug then maybe Obama found out the true reason why Bush was doing it and agrees with it? If that is the case I think people need to make a choice. They either support Bush and Obama on this matter or they hate the both on this matter.
There is no difference between a metropolitan area newspaper and a small town newspaper except for more stories and more readers. If your subscription base can not pay for your production (reporters, rent, printing, etc) then you need to cut back on services or go under. If a big city newspaper is going down, and it is because readers are going online for their news, then how do you explain the small town newspaper going down also? Could it not be for the same reason? The small town newspapers are loosing readers because of the internet also? So the question is why are small town newspapers loosing money? Because you say 40%+ of the non metropolitan readers will loose their newspaper but since they need their paper you would think they could pay for it via subscriptions so it would stay in business.
Why should my tax dollars support a failing business? I understand with banks, airlines, and in some respect the big 3 if they go under a lot of people and businesses are going to be hurting. However with a newspaper especially a local newspaper it is essentially a small business with around 500+ employees. The real question is why is the number of subscriptions down? Could it be that people find their news online from different sources (cnn.com, associated press, bbc, etc) rather then one local news paper? Why should the government prop up a failing business model? Did the government prop up the horse drawn carriage makers when the automobile started to take wind? It is not like people are loosing their news. The news is just going to a new medium, the internet. I do not feel it the job of the tax payer to prop up the newspapers.
With the raise of demand, the environmental requirements will be dropped to compensate for the need to build new power plants fast.
Yes because California has a HUGE demand and they have power plants going up so fast.... If your statement was true California would have no shortage of power in the summer and no rolling blackouts right? Do you have any proof that in high demand for electricity environmental regulations have been lessened?
By dropping the requirements, we will get power plants that will generate 3 to 4 times more pollution that the "green" vehicles will generate.
Also you are assuming that all power plants being built will be coal or oil burning. Natural Gas burns clean, Wind is clean, Solar is clean, Hydroelectric is clean, and in some respects nuclear is clean (in regards to CO2 pollution.)
By your logic Microsoft is not a monopoly either. They just had a success by producing an operating system that a large portion of the world uses. But now they are the big bad wolf. Google did it better then the other guys they marketed they produced the software people wanted at the right time. Microsoft did the same thing in the 80's and 90's.
Do you need a hug?
If they could buy an unencumbered product at what are perceived to be low & fair prices, they wouldn't bother to pirate and there would be no Pirate Bay or its' ilk.
Massive piracy and disregard for copyright laws happens because consumers find it the only avenue to get the product they want, at non-extortionate prices, and in unencumbered formats that don't hinder their enjoyment and fair use. Remove these obstacles and piracy would go back to meaning something that occurs at sea.
I could not agree more. For example I went to go see a movie at the theater this weekend. It come my wife and I $9.25 a ticket. So why would I want to pay $18.50 to go see a movie. When I can wait 6 months for it to come out on netflix or wait for it to come to the $1 theater. The media companies fail to realize that their customers are starting to realize that they are simply getting ripped off. Now everyone has a limits of what they consider "ripped off". For example I do not feel like I am getting ripped off when I pay $15 a month for netflix. Some people do feel that way. I think the media companies need to figured out a happy medium to reduce their losses and then prosecute the rest. For example lowering the price of a song to say $.75 and then suing people who distribute.
No this has not changed. I went into a CC store the other day and everything was $10-$15 over priced.
I did tech support for Dell and in our training we would look up customers. It turns out we were in a demo training environment with demo customers. I bet you were also in a demo training environment.
You did't vote for Bill Clinton did you?
Black widow spiders typically prey on a variety of insects, but occasionally they do feed upon woodlice, diplopods, chilopods and other arachnids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_widow_spider
The true, insidious purpose of the space station has yet to reveal itself. It's up there to allow for a new unit of measurement. Even with tons, tonnes, elephants, library of congresses, football fields, million millions, we don't have a good cubic-meter measurement yet. So we'll use the obvious choice, (how many xxx can fit into a car?) We stuff clowns into cars to see how many cubic feet they can reasonably allow. The reason the US, Russia, Japan, and all our other friends are collaborating on this project is to get all of our clowns up there, stuffed into the space station, to see how many can fit, and this will be our new standard of measurement for cubic space. Then, once we've tallied how many tens of thousands of clowns can fit into the space station, we launch it into the sun. I'd like to see anyone disagree that all the money has been ill-spent on this endeavor.
By clowns you mean lawyers right?
Windows NT ran on Alpha Processors so yes versions of windows have been ported to other architectures. DEC_Alpha
I played this game when it first came out. I did not feel like paying to beta test it so I quit. What I remember is you just run around and collect Logos and kill bane. Has anything changed?
ummmmmm yep the back space was broken :) The guy posted AC so I doubt I hurt his feelings, and if I did...ummm oh well.
How does your comment have anything to do with what I wrote? I was talking about the memory layout and time slicing in Vista compared to Windows 7. Are you saying because windows 7 may not have the DRM subsystem overhead stuff should execute faster. If that is the case why did the encoding execute at the same speed (what the GP was originally talking about)
The productivity would actually increase if the front end speed increased since it would allow the user to interact faster etc. The other tests such as encoding etc are really CPU and application dependent and not very much OS dependent, so it's not really a fair test.
Umm encoding is not all CPU and application dependent. Maybe you forgot what an OS does. It schedules when a program executes, where it is located in memory etc. So if Vista puts a program in different places in memory rather then linear or it has a different caching model then windows 7, the execution time will be different. Also if vista does not let the program execute as much as windows 7 the execution time will be different.
Perhaps bit torrent search will be used for some new technology on the horizon, and not for stealing. Just because something can be used for stealing does not mean it can not have another purpose. Maybe instead of linux distros and game sites letting their websites get slammed when they release a new update (for example open office 3.0) they can just tell the users to perform a search of their torrent.
Good to see the best minds of this generation have chosen to benefit humankind with... ...a better way to steal stuff!
Bit Torrent is not always used to steal stuff. Its how some game updates are downloaded, and most versions of Linux offer a Bit Torrent download.
Opera and myself have been browsing the web for porn since 2000 :) I never leave my pants on the floor without it :)
It is one thing to track something it is something different to hit a moving target. I know the US, Russia, and China can do this. However if a system can track an incoming missile what prevents the satellite from simply firing its thrusters and moving out of the way? Its not like the missile can turn very easily or maybe not the current generation of anti-satellite missiles.
If someone starts blowing up satellites you have bigger problems then someone affording plane tickets. We can not protect our borders effectively without satellites , boats use GPS so shipping is effected. Trains use GPS to track their locations so so trade by train is effected. When you purchase gas with a credit card the transaction is sent via satellite so credit card purchases are effected. Cell phones are effected if satellites are taken out. So in other words stop to think that maybe this is a good project because the second the US starts loosing satellites we have some huge problems on our hands.
while AMD buys an aircraft carrier from the near-bankrupt US Army
Umm that would be the Navy.
This is beyond the realm of reality so cut me some slack... Corporations (or their top execs) are starting to buy military hardware. Do you think we will ever see a corporation declare war on another corporation? Gives a whole new meaning to hostile takeover...
You mean like the East India Company?
What sort of resolution does this technology require? Could the technology be used on the CCTV images?
I wonder if this could also help with my porn collection and help me figure who's face is in the random porn pictures I have.