Don't be nitpicky. I'm sure he meant "buried undered [inside tunnels]". Very few cities just drop cables in the ground without any protection. They run them through tunnels or pipes, which have room for adding more cables in the future.
>>You then go on to explain how the government actions made the crisis worse, but don't explain how they created it.
Yet another idiot who doesn't know how to read: "The government used regulation of the loan/credit market (i.e. constantly lowering interest rates) to create a humongous bubble. If government had not done that, the housing/credit bubble would have burst back in 2000-1, and it would have been painful, but it would have only been a minor flooding not a tidal wave (in terms of impact)."
BTW:
If our government ever becomes 100% Socialist, such that Congress cares for us like children from cradle-to-grave, I'm going to just stop working. Why bother working when I can live on the very-profitable Welfare state for the rest of my life, like a parasite?
Summary: 1. John Quincy Adams, IQ 175 2. Thomas Jefferson, 160 --- my favorite 3. John F. Kennedy, 159.8 4. Bill Clinton, 159 5. Jimmy Carter, 156.8 6. Woodrow Wilson, 155.2 7. Theodore Roosevelt, 153 8. Chester A. Arthur, 152.3 9. Abraham Lincoln, 150 ---- I thought he'd rank higher, but he is just a "dumb" Republican after all (just joking)
And here's the bottom of the barrel:
Harry S. Truman, 140 George W. Bush, 138.5 Ulysses S. Grant, 130 average college graduate, 109
I'm sorry. I won't tell any more jokes. Reminds me of a Star Trek episode:
GUY: "What do you call those pointy things on your head?" SPOCK: "I call them 'ears'." GUY: "Are you trying to be funny?" SPOCK: "Never."
So I'll just go-round being as unfunny as Spock. The British guy was merely answering questions. When the reporter asked, "What happens when I upgrade my phone in six months time?", the man merely provided a factual response: The reporter already knows the answer. Logical.
Things have changed a lot in a short time. He could be a college grad, but if he graduated the same time as me, then there are lots of things he would not have been exposed to:
- no MP3 players - no PDAs - no cellphones - no amazon - no web
War in Afghanistan War in Iraq Shutdown of detention centers Saving the economy from Drepression Part 2 Helping laid-off americans Making a new budget.
I'd rather have Obama focus on the above items than some stupid cookie. Besides, I already have youtube cookies on my computer so even if whitehousegov banned youtube, it wouldn't make any difference; Youtube cookies would still be on my machine.
I saw a lot of those computers in my college lab, and of course experimented with the "turbo" button but it never seemed to do anything. Why were those buttons installed on old machines? And how come they're no longer used in modern PCs?
My old Commodore 128 had a "FAST" command in Basic, and it did make a noticeable difference. The TV screen went blank.
>>>That's insane, right in the middle of Miami I could only get 5 analog channels
I live about halfway between three major cities - Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Harrisburg, and that's why I get between 20 and 25 stations with analog.
As for digital cable I agree it's a ripoff. We used to get TCM, SciFi, and a few other channels free with analog cable, but then Comcast had the greedy idea to move them to digital. Now you have to pay an extra 60 dollars a year to rent a box to restore channels you had before. Bastards.
>>>I'm assuming he must understand the churn rate for phone, right? It's probably more than a year, less than two.
I must be abnormal. I had the same phone for 7 years, and the only reason I got rid of it was because "they" turned the analog towers off. I suppose it would still work somewhere like Wyoming? Not sure. In any case I keep stuff a long, long time.
No, "propagander" is reflective of how the British say that word. They add an "r" to the word even though it's not there. (And yet for some reason they still say "cah" which actually DOES have an r. Confused?)
Therefore he's not our dumbest president... merely our second dumbest (after Ulysses S Grant).;-) Our smartest president was John Q Adams, another son of a former president, and our second smartest president was Thomas Jefferson.
I think you're giving them too much credit. After all when they were asked, "Can you really expect people to buy music that's locked to a device they upgrade every 12 to 18 months?", they replied,
"I didn't realize phones were churning that quickly in the marketplace these days."
They are marketing idiots. Probably grads from the local community college.
>>>Disturbingly, this administration is not pushing YouTube to modify their policies for the White House channel
Right now I think the U.S. government and Obama have more important things to worry about than whether or not there's a cookie on my c: drive. Even if whitehouse.gov demanded youtube.com Not install cookies, what's the point? It won't change the fact that I *already* have youtube cookies on my machine.
ASIDE:
I was looking at whitehouse.gov with the Wayback machine. Back during Clinton's time, there was virtually nothing there. I was surprised because I thought Clinton would have used the net more effectively than just posting a photo of himself, but it was not until Bush took over that the site became a useful portal for information.
They don't. The slashdot summary is incorrect. As you stated, the video is not formally part of whitehouse.gov, but an external link to youtube.com and therefore the rules of youtube.com apply. It's perfectly logical.
Why anyone would expect Youtube to suddenly stop using cookies makes no sense to me. They are a private company and follow their OWN market-based rules, not Obama's. He's not a dictator.
Good point. Fortunately the coupon boxes do not implement Macrovision, because the whole idea is to let people continue using their old analog sets, not to send them scrambled images.
>>>I did a quick search on google and found nothing. I could certainly use a cheap card to capture S-video off my Super VHS camcorder or DTV box. >>> (Score:2, Troll)
I never realized that merely asking a question makes a person a "troll". Hmmm.
Discussing cable in a topic about Over-The-Air television is disingenuous. Yes DRM exists on cable, but it has *nothing* to do with the topic at hand which is broadcast DTV boxes. They do not use DRM, and therefore purchasers of this product need not worry about their DVRs refusing to record tonight's Supernatural episode.
>>>Chickenhead congressmen aren't really privy to the sort of information the president is.
I can't believe you said that with seriousness. The Congressional representatives are the ones who make law - they may not know every little detail, but they DO know a lot of classified information. They have to, in order to perform their job. They aren't just a bunch of ignorant boobs stumbling-around in the dark.
And if you do think they are "chickenheads" then why the hell did you elect one to be your president??? I'm sorry but I completely disagree with your viewpoint of Congress.
>>>the man receiving the salary is doing some work for the government
Invalid. When I made my original post, I made the assumption the man was NOT doing any work. Nor his colleagues. Which is why they got laid off because they were just a waste of taxpayer dollars.
You may think that's preposterous, but in my government experience at the FAA, over 50% of the workers don't do anything. They surf the net all day & collect a paycheck. It's like burning $200,000* times however many non-working employers exist.
* * ($100,000 for the salary, and another $100,000 for the overhead of office space, medical benefits, and 8% matching contribution to SS/medicare)
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Don't be nitpicky. I'm sure he meant "buried undered [inside tunnels]". Very few cities just drop cables in the ground without any protection. They run them through tunnels or pipes, which have room for adding more cables in the future.
>>>>>Regulation is what CREATED this crisis.
>>You then go on to explain how the government actions made the crisis worse, but don't explain how they created it.
Yet another idiot who doesn't know how to read: "The government used regulation of the loan/credit market (i.e. constantly lowering interest rates) to create a humongous bubble. If government had not done that, the housing/credit bubble would have burst back in 2000-1, and it would have been painful, but it would have only been a minor flooding not a tidal wave (in terms of impact)."
BTW:
If our government ever becomes 100% Socialist, such that Congress cares for us like children from cradle-to-grave, I'm going to just stop working. Why bother working when I can live on the very-profitable Welfare state for the rest of my life, like a parasite?
It wasn't meant to be accurate. I was just joking.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/pops/2006/00000027/00000004/art00001;jsessionid=1i07kdv5wgn5p.alexandra?format=print
Summary:
1. John Quincy Adams, IQ 175
2. Thomas Jefferson, 160 --- my favorite
3. John F. Kennedy, 159.8
4. Bill Clinton, 159
5. Jimmy Carter, 156.8
6. Woodrow Wilson, 155.2
7. Theodore Roosevelt, 153
8. Chester A. Arthur, 152.3
9. Abraham Lincoln, 150 ---- I thought he'd rank higher, but he is just a "dumb" Republican after all (just joking)
And here's the bottom of the barrel:
Harry S. Truman, 140
George W. Bush, 138.5
Ulysses S. Grant, 130
average college graduate, 109
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/pops/2006/00000027/00000004/art00001;jsessionid=1i07kdv5wgn5p.alexandra?format=print
Summary:
1. John Quincy Adams, IQ 175
2. Thomas Jefferson, 160 average college graduate, 109
I'm sorry. I won't tell any more jokes. Reminds me of a Star Trek episode:
GUY: "What do you call those pointy things on your head?"
SPOCK: "I call them 'ears'."
GUY: "Are you trying to be funny?"
SPOCK: "Never."
So I'll just go-round being as unfunny as Spock. The British guy was merely answering questions. When the reporter asked, "What happens when I upgrade my phone in six months time?", the man merely provided a factual response: The reporter already knows the answer. Logical.
(yawn)
Things have changed a lot in a short time. He could be a college grad, but if he graduated the same time as me, then there are lots of things he would not have been exposed to:
- no MP3 players
- no PDAs
- no cellphones
- no amazon
- no web
>>>What are those more pressing things?
War in Afghanistan
War in Iraq
Shutdown of detention centers
Saving the economy from Drepression Part 2
Helping laid-off americans
Making a new budget.
I'd rather have Obama focus on the above items than some stupid cookie. Besides, I already have youtube cookies on my computer so even if whitehousegov banned youtube, it wouldn't make any difference; Youtube cookies would still be on my machine.
I saw a lot of those computers in my college lab, and of course experimented with the "turbo" button but it never seemed to do anything. Why were those buttons installed on old machines? And how come they're no longer used in modern PCs?
My old Commodore 128 had a "FAST" command in Basic, and it did make a noticeable difference.
The TV screen went blank.
P.S.
It may seem like a lot of hype, but according to Nielsen Ratings the analog cutoff will affect 1/6th of American homes.
>>>That's insane, right in the middle of Miami I could only get 5 analog channels
I live about halfway between three major cities - Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Harrisburg, and that's why I get between 20 and 25 stations with analog.
As for digital cable I agree it's a ripoff. We used to get TCM, SciFi, and a few other channels free with analog cable, but then Comcast had the greedy idea to move them to digital. Now you have to pay an extra 60 dollars a year to rent a box to restore channels you had before. Bastards.
I just switched to one of my marginal DTV stations. The picture is blocky, the sound corrupted, but the captions are still coming through 99% clear.
>>>I'm assuming he must understand the churn rate for phone, right? It's probably more than a year, less than two.
I must be abnormal. I had the same phone for 7 years, and the only reason I got rid of it was because "they" turned the analog towers off. I suppose it would still work somewhere like Wyoming? Not sure. In any case I keep stuff a long, long time.
No, "propagander" is reflective of how the British say that word. They add an "r" to the word even though it's not there. (And yet for some reason they still say "cah" which actually DOES have an r. Confused?)
Bush actually had an IQ of 135.
Therefore he's not our dumbest president... merely our second dumbest (after Ulysses S Grant). ;-) Our smartest president was John Q Adams, another son of a former president, and our second smartest president was Thomas Jefferson.
I think you're giving them too much credit. After all when they were asked, "Can you really expect people to buy music that's locked to a device they upgrade every 12 to 18 months?", they replied,
"I didn't realize phones were churning that quickly in the marketplace these days."
They are marketing idiots. Probably grads from the local community college.
>>>Disturbingly, this administration is not pushing YouTube to modify their policies for the White House channel
Right now I think the U.S. government and Obama have more important things to worry about than whether or not there's a cookie on my c: drive. Even if whitehouse.gov demanded youtube.com Not install cookies, what's the point? It won't change the fact that I *already* have youtube cookies on my machine.
ASIDE:
I was looking at whitehouse.gov with the Wayback machine. Back during Clinton's time, there was virtually nothing there. I was surprised because I thought Clinton would have used the net more effectively than just posting a photo of himself, but it was not until Bush took over that the site became a useful portal for information.
>>>So why do they need a special exemption?
They don't. The slashdot summary is incorrect. As you stated, the video is not formally part of whitehouse.gov, but an external link to youtube.com and therefore the rules of youtube.com apply. It's perfectly logical.
Correct.
Why anyone would expect Youtube to suddenly stop using cookies makes no sense to me. They are a private company and follow their OWN market-based rules, not Obama's. He's not a dictator.
I've never had any problem with my NBC or FOX captions. That suggests your problem is caused by the local station, not the network.
Good point. Fortunately the coupon boxes do not implement Macrovision, because the whole idea is to let people continue using their old analog sets, not to send them scrambled images.
>>>I did a quick search on google and found nothing. I could certainly use a cheap card to capture S-video off my Super VHS camcorder or DTV box.
>>> (Score:2, Troll)
I never realized that merely asking a question makes a person a "troll". Hmmm.
Discussing cable in a topic about Over-The-Air television is disingenuous. Yes DRM exists on cable, but it has *nothing* to do with the topic at hand which is broadcast DTV boxes. They do not use DRM, and therefore purchasers of this product need not worry about their DVRs refusing to record tonight's Supernatural episode.
>>>Chickenhead congressmen aren't really privy to the sort of information the president is.
I can't believe you said that with seriousness. The Congressional representatives are the ones who make law - they may not know every little detail, but they DO know a lot of classified information. They have to, in order to perform their job. They aren't just a bunch of ignorant boobs stumbling-around in the dark.
And if you do think they are "chickenheads" then why the hell did you elect one to be your president??? I'm sorry but I completely disagree with your viewpoint of Congress.
>>>the man receiving the salary is doing some work for the government
Invalid. When I made my original post, I made the assumption the man was NOT doing any work. Nor his colleagues. Which is why they got laid off because they were just a waste of taxpayer dollars.
You may think that's preposterous, but in my government experience at the FAA, over 50% of the workers don't do anything. They surf the net all day & collect a paycheck. It's like burning $200,000* times however many non-working employers exist.
*
* ($100,000 for the salary, and another $100,000 for the overhead of office space, medical benefits, and 8% matching contribution to SS/medicare)