You have no clue about the American legal system do you? A large corporation can keep a trial going through hearing without a real trial or any real evidence for years racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees in the process for both parties quite easily. Bankrupting a foe is a very common tactic these days.
Read up on SCO. There really isn't a better illustration of the failure of the US justice system. Both SCO and the defendents Novell and IBM spent millions in fees and lawyers.
There are Australian troops in Afghanistan and Assange is most certainly an Aussie last time I checked. He has put their lives in danger as surely as he has put the US troops in danger there. The Taliban won't differentiate. He is indeed a traitor by any measure of the word.
Back up your claim and cite. The Civil War itself isn't a good example as it was a time of panic mode, but you'll note the amendment was forced into place immediately after the Civil War once the state right's supporters had been thoroughly discredited by the war.
But prior to the war you won't find an example of what you seek, though your free to look.
Another point I failed to make in the initial post - if the senate is directly elected then what's the point of it? Unite the houses into a single legislature and be done with it. Equal representation right? Why the Hell should Rhode Island have as much say on international matters as California? If the states are little more than provinces that exist at the whim of the Federal government and deserve no representation in Congress then there is no point.
I'm thinking the motive is to prevent damage to morale, but I can't see how the order is any less destructive on morale than the contents of these documents.
The major reason to be rid of the 17th amendment is prior to its instatement Congress couldn't coerce the states. Now many Federal power grabs are backed by indirect forcing of the states to pass laws. For example, congress has no power to mandate seat belts. But it wants all the states to have such a law on the book and passes a Federal law that removes the federal highway funds of any state that fails to enact a seat belt law.
There are numerous other examples of this. It is bald, naked, coercion, and it is wrong. Repeal the 17th amendment and Congress would lose this power because all the Senators would know that the moment they passed a law telling the state legislators what to do they'd lose their seat.
The whole point of the senate was to have half the power of the Congress subject to the State's approval. State legislators are themselves career politicians - watching what Congress does is their job and livelihood. It isn't ours. We could care less about what Congress does day to day and don't have time to keep tabs on them.
Ironically, since the 17th amendment the roles of the House and Senate have reversed. State legislatures have used gerrymandering to control the House. This control isn't perfect - it certainly hasn't prevented coercion, but it has allowed them to influence the House more than they can the Senate. Senate seats have become competitive in most states where House seats almost never are do to Gerrymandering.
Want to fix the mess? Repeal the 17th amendment. Remove the right of districting from states and place it in the hands of a computer algorithm. Divide states into districts of 10 or less reps and use STB ballots to elect them. Elect the president with Instant Run off ballots. These measures would demolish the power of the parties (they'd persist, but in a highly weakened state). It would be nice to see this solution take effect, but too many people in power would lose power if it was ever enacted so it's nothing more than a pipe dream.
Exactly. Venus is almost exactly earth's size to within a thousand miles. It is certainly not "earthlike" - not unless you have pools of molten lead in your back yard.
5) Apple signed a contract with Satan (AT&T). As long as Apple lets AT&T have exclusive iPhone rights there will be people disgusted with the abyssal quality of AT&T's service that won't touch an iPhone because they don't want to have anything to do with AT&T. Android isn't similarly hindered, but it's also not got as great a market penetration.
6) Phones have a much shorter life than PC's. Except for enthusiasts like the majority of the readers of this site, most people keep a PC much longer than a phone. Cell phones tend to rotate with contract changes - about every 2 years. PC's stick around 5 to 8 years on average, even longer among corporations.
So yeah, Microsoft still has a shot. But that shot is quickly becoming a moon shot. They need to get their act together and soon.
Inertia is a powerful thing though. A system must be a LOT better to displace an established competitor. Linux fans should know this well, their OS is technically superior to Windows in pretty much every way, but Windows has the established customer base. Once systems are in place they tend to stay in place.
That's why getting into the phone market is so important to Microsoft. If they can't break in soon they never will. It may already be too late.
dream on - ie will be around on most machines for years to come, and for the simple reason that people like it.
the point here is that html is for text and pics - please leave the animation and video to flash. that's the way it is and that's the way it will stay.
keep your css and html5 crap to yourself thankyou very much. no one needs or wants it that stuff except cocksuckers like you.
How intelligent of you AC. Grouse all you want, but HTML 5 and CSS 3 are here to stay - IE 9 will be supporting them I for one am happy to see Microsoft finally starting to push back and innovate again. IE 9's use of the GPU especially for canvas rendering is impressive. But let's not kid ourselves - there would be no development on IE if Microsoft wasn't losing market share to competitors at an alarming rate.
IE 6 is not a bad browser in and of itself. But it overstayed its welcome. Microsoft won the browser war and then chose not to continue development. If IE 7 had followed in '02 or '03 then IE as a brand wouldn't be so tarnished. Instead Microsoft sat on their hands. The most comical part though is Microsoft let IE 6 and it's attendant corporate intranets get so much inertia that the browser has now cost them tens of millions of dollars in lost contracts as corporations actively resist upgrades to OS'es that don't support IE 6. I doubt they'll make this mistake again.
You can be immature and call people names like a kid out of junior high school all you want, but technology continues to push onward. Microsoft can join in this or be left behind. You have the same choice.
Microsoft ascended to supremacy because the PC was in a niche where IBM was irrelevant, and further was more important to a larger segment of the population than the segment that cared about IBM's dominance -- large computers and servers. IBM was never displaced from their market and Microsoft will never be displaced from the desktop. And now history is repeating itself. The iPhone and Android are in a niche where Microsoft, like IBM before it, is irrelevant. And honestly I haven't seen an effort to get into a market this feeble since since Atari released the Jaguar.
This is ultimately a good thing. Microsoft can only seem to do interoperability when they don't have a monopoly. Portable devices will destroy IE's ability to ever set the tone for the web again. Considering the damage they have done to the progress of the web their fall is something to celebrate.
And yes, scads of IE dependent corp machines will remain for years to come. The web will move on. Truth be known the inability of IE 6 to deal with highly interactive sites will be seen as a benefit by CEO's since employees won't be "playing" on the clock. That's fine though - the rest of us can move on.
Agreed. The only time political processes are stable is during war or under the threat of war. The only reason we reached the moon was it served as a convenient, popular excuse to develop the tech necessary to nuke Moscow with an ICBM. Allowing the Russians to have such a powerful asymmetrical threat was not an option.
whenever the manager states you must use XYZ product as a critical subcomponent in a large engineering project before it's started, you know there are going to be problems.
As I said, pork.
The senators behind this set specfic requirements that demand their constituent's plants and factories get the money. It has nothing to do with practicality or being cost effective.
It's just Pork. In its purest and most disgusting form.
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No, cause it doesn't exist. IE stopped at version 5.5 for Mac.
You have no clue about the American legal system do you? A large corporation can keep a trial going through hearing without a real trial or any real evidence for years racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees in the process for both parties quite easily. Bankrupting a foe is a very common tactic these days.
Read up on SCO. There really isn't a better illustration of the failure of the US justice system. Both SCO and the defendents Novell and IBM spent millions in fees and lawyers.
There are Australian troops in Afghanistan and Assange is most certainly an Aussie last time I checked. He has put their lives in danger as surely as he has put the US troops in danger there. The Taliban won't differentiate. He is indeed a traitor by any measure of the word.
You're right. Now do you have $100,000 to get it in front of a judge?
Increasingly in this country justice is the exclusive possession of the rich.
Back up your claim and cite. The Civil War itself isn't a good example as it was a time of panic mode, but you'll note the amendment was forced into place immediately after the Civil War once the state right's supporters had been thoroughly discredited by the war.
But prior to the war you won't find an example of what you seek, though your free to look.
Another point I failed to make in the initial post - if the senate is directly elected then what's the point of it? Unite the houses into a single legislature and be done with it. Equal representation right? Why the Hell should Rhode Island have as much say on international matters as California? If the states are little more than provinces that exist at the whim of the Federal government and deserve no representation in Congress then there is no point.
I'm thinking the motive is to prevent damage to morale, but I can't see how the order is any less destructive on morale than the contents of these documents.
The major reason to be rid of the 17th amendment is prior to its instatement Congress couldn't coerce the states. Now many Federal power grabs are backed by indirect forcing of the states to pass laws. For example, congress has no power to mandate seat belts. But it wants all the states to have such a law on the book and passes a Federal law that removes the federal highway funds of any state that fails to enact a seat belt law.
There are numerous other examples of this. It is bald, naked, coercion, and it is wrong. Repeal the 17th amendment and Congress would lose this power because all the Senators would know that the moment they passed a law telling the state legislators what to do they'd lose their seat.
The whole point of the senate was to have half the power of the Congress subject to the State's approval. State legislators are themselves career politicians - watching what Congress does is their job and livelihood. It isn't ours. We could care less about what Congress does day to day and don't have time to keep tabs on them.
Ironically, since the 17th amendment the roles of the House and Senate have reversed. State legislatures have used gerrymandering to control the House. This control isn't perfect - it certainly hasn't prevented coercion, but it has allowed them to influence the House more than they can the Senate. Senate seats have become competitive in most states where House seats almost never are do to Gerrymandering.
Want to fix the mess? Repeal the 17th amendment. Remove the right of districting from states and place it in the hands of a computer algorithm. Divide states into districts of 10 or less reps and use STB ballots to elect them. Elect the president with Instant Run off ballots. These measures would demolish the power of the parties (they'd persist, but in a highly weakened state). It would be nice to see this solution take effect, but too many people in power would lose power if it was ever enacted so it's nothing more than a pipe dream.
Birds fly...
fish swim...
and people...
Upper managment meddles. That's what they do.
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When I see services advertised at those kinds of rates I can't help but remember P.T. Barnum's slogan: "There's a sucker born every minute."
Exactly. Venus is almost exactly earth's size to within a thousand miles. It is certainly not "earthlike" - not unless you have pools of molten lead in your back yard.
I would personally add
5) Apple signed a contract with Satan (AT&T). As long as Apple lets AT&T have exclusive iPhone rights there will be people disgusted with the abyssal quality of AT&T's service that won't touch an iPhone because they don't want to have anything to do with AT&T. Android isn't similarly hindered, but it's also not got as great a market penetration.
6) Phones have a much shorter life than PC's. Except for enthusiasts like the majority of the readers of this site, most people keep a PC much longer than a phone. Cell phones tend to rotate with contract changes - about every 2 years. PC's stick around 5 to 8 years on average, even longer among corporations.
So yeah, Microsoft still has a shot. But that shot is quickly becoming a moon shot. They need to get their act together and soon.
Inertia is a powerful thing though. A system must be a LOT better to displace an established competitor. Linux fans should know this well, their OS is technically superior to Windows in pretty much every way, but Windows has the established customer base. Once systems are in place they tend to stay in place.
That's why getting into the phone market is so important to Microsoft. If they can't break in soon they never will. It may already be too late.
dream on - ie will be around on most machines for years to come, and for the simple reason that people like it.
the point here is that html is for text and pics - please leave the animation and video to flash. that's the way it is and that's the way it will stay.
keep your css and html5 crap to yourself thankyou very much. no one needs or wants it that stuff except cocksuckers like you.
How intelligent of you AC. Grouse all you want, but HTML 5 and CSS 3 are here to stay - IE 9 will be supporting them I for one am happy to see Microsoft finally starting to push back and innovate again. IE 9's use of the GPU especially for canvas rendering is impressive. But let's not kid ourselves - there would be no development on IE if Microsoft wasn't losing market share to competitors at an alarming rate.
IE 6 is not a bad browser in and of itself. But it overstayed its welcome. Microsoft won the browser war and then chose not to continue development. If IE 7 had followed in '02 or '03 then IE as a brand wouldn't be so tarnished. Instead Microsoft sat on their hands. The most comical part though is Microsoft let IE 6 and it's attendant corporate intranets get so much inertia that the browser has now cost them tens of millions of dollars in lost contracts as corporations actively resist upgrades to OS'es that don't support IE 6. I doubt they'll make this mistake again.
You can be immature and call people names like a kid out of junior high school all you want, but technology continues to push onward. Microsoft can join in this or be left behind. You have the same choice.
Microsoft ascended to supremacy because the PC was in a niche where IBM was irrelevant, and further was more important to a larger segment of the population than the segment that cared about IBM's dominance -- large computers and servers. IBM was never displaced from their market and Microsoft will never be displaced from the desktop. And now history is repeating itself. The iPhone and Android are in a niche where Microsoft, like IBM before it, is irrelevant. And honestly I haven't seen an effort to get into a market this feeble since since Atari released the Jaguar.
This is ultimately a good thing. Microsoft can only seem to do interoperability when they don't have a monopoly. Portable devices will destroy IE's ability to ever set the tone for the web again. Considering the damage they have done to the progress of the web their fall is something to celebrate.
And yes, scads of IE dependent corp machines will remain for years to come. The web will move on. Truth be known the inability of IE 6 to deal with highly interactive sites will be seen as a benefit by CEO's since employees won't be "playing" on the clock. That's fine though - the rest of us can move on.
... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot to the max ...
Covered in rust with a worm crawling out that has Steve Job's head on it perhaps? (Just a thought. Be a great visual done right).
Naive.
Yes, ICBM's existed before the commitment to reach the moon. And not a small part of the whole endeavor was a matter of pride, to beat the Russians...
But the technology developed during the race was put to use in war for larger rockets with larger payloads. To doubt that is to be naive.
Agreed. The only time political processes are stable is during war or under the threat of war. The only reason we reached the moon was it served as a convenient, popular excuse to develop the tech necessary to nuke Moscow with an ICBM. Allowing the Russians to have such a powerful asymmetrical threat was not an option.
That would be true if the point was the biggest rocket. But no, the point is a rocket built in Utah and Alabama regardless of size.
whenever the manager states you must use XYZ product as a critical subcomponent in a large engineering project before it's started, you know there are going to be problems.
Fixed it for you.
As I said, pork. The senators behind this set specfic requirements that demand their constituent's plants and factories get the money. It has nothing to do with practicality or being cost effective. It's just Pork. In its purest and most disgusting form.
Pork.
So when do the land based killer units get going?