Someone who is willing to be the one term bull-in-a-china-shop we need to get the country back on track.
A one shot Cincinnatus who would divest the executive branch of the powers it has acquired but shouldn't have.
Obama might have a "useful" year or two but then he's going to spend the last two years of his term trying to get four more years. Aside from granting immunity to the telcos he was a really effective senator while he was out trying to get elected president. He (along with McCain and Hillary and the rest) should have resigned their seats in Congress to go on the campaign trail. The fact that they didn't showed they cared more for the personal power of their positions than doing any sort of good for the government or the country.
It was only by the grace of God that they didn't get naked together and do the whole "be fruitful and multiply" bit. Just think of the damage done if they discovered that sex could be for recreation and not just procreation!
Teachers and other school staff are required to report stuff like this, or even suspicions. If they are aware of something like this and they do not report it they've basically ended their career if anyone ever finds out they didn't report it.
And the first half of type C (access to material no longer sold) can do nothing but increase sales if those materials were made available for purchase.
As much as I dislike the RIAA, when one of their members does go and do something like making a formerly unavailable work available again (that I had interest in) I do try to encourage that behavior by purchasing a copy if I hadn't already tracked it down in the used market (at some exorbitant rate...).
There's a lot of major label music you just cannot buy new (which is the only time they get money on a sale).
Lots of film scores are out of print in the US. You can only get them used or as imports.
Sure Patton was an obscure movie with a forgettable soundtrack (sarcasm there folks) but that doesn't mean the only legal way to get a new copy of the original soundtrack (not the re-recording with tora tora tora) should be buying the collector's edition dvd and extracting the soundtrack from the photo-montage on the extras disc.
Up until a few months ago you couldn't get a copy of the Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack for under $80 (thank you eMusic, especially for using a good import version!!!). They've finally re-released it as part of a cd set, but they've made changes and omitted some cues which is a big turn off for anyone who knows the original score.
If you (the music labels) want to cut down on illegal music downloads and increase your sales, take a look at all the music that is unavailable (Terminator soundtrack) but widely downloaded and put it up on your own digital distribution system. There's a massive demand you are not fulfilling though people with no economic gain are making the effort to do it for you.
It's too bad that once you're pregnant, you have to have the kid(s). If someone could find a way around that problem lots of issues would be solved (including all those birth control hormones that end up in the water supply).
"Papers", at the time of the drafting of the constitution, were a means of both storing and transmitting information.
A telephone transmits information.
An email transmits information.
Both serve the modern purpose paper had at the time the constitution was written. If you had recorded all your documents on thin sheets of metal instead of paper back then, would you be denied any protection for them because they weren't "paper". Should vellums and parchments require their own specific mentions? Just because paper was the specific medium of physically storing and transporting information at the time does not mean the protections granted should extend solely to that specific medium.
Why would they have to define which words are profane? Just about any word can be vulgar or obscene to someone and all they need is that someone. You don't expect them to apply the law equally do you?
Not so much the police themselves. People with guns or knives can be dealt with. The legal system and the media, on the other hand, are pretty much a death sentence with no parole or pardon.
I ordered the combo pack that has the CycloDS Evolution and a GBA flash cart. The CycloDS will load up a gba rom from its micro SD card to the gba flash cart and boots the game.
So it can't run them on its own but it can store the files and be the interface for the gba flash cart. I never tried the R4 but I'd have to say the user interface on the CycloDS is pretty slick.
As a CycloDS owner, I can say that exactly zero (0) of the roms I have are pirated.
Why did I get a flash card if not to pirate?
Primarily, my upgrade to the lite left the gba cart sticking out, which made it less than convenient to carry with anything but the plug in the gba slot. Next was the convenience of not having to bring anything more then the DS itself while still having access to all my carts. Also some used games can't easily be restored to a clean state. The ripping process and separate save files solves that problem.
Speaking as an ugly lug of a male American, I can say, and I'm probably speaking for a few others, that if there was a random kid in distress in a public, my top priority would be to put a safe distance between myself and the area the kid is in. Exceptions might be made for situations as extreme as obviously being abducted at gun or knife point. Other than that I dare not risk the cops-and-lawyer-on-conference-call-speed-dial response enough parents have.
The poetic injustice of the whole situation is that in their mindless quest to protect their kids from everything they've actually made it more dangerous for their kids. The only random people likely to willingly interact with their kid are "the bad people" because the non-bad people don't want to get slapped with being a pedophile/molester/deviant. Sort of like the moron out west who is suing someone who tried to rescue them from a possibly life threatening situation. I help you, you sue me, my life is ruined, you live happily ever after. I don't help you, you die, I live. Great precedent to establish.
If every little ripper out there didn't feel the need to have the bestest files on the intarweb by turning every knob to 11, having infinity+1.1 audio channels in the ogg codec for every audio stream and every-option-on h.264 with bitrates higher than the original studio masters and every subtitle, including the original Klingon, in the blingy-est graphical overlay format, people might have liked the container format.
For shows "not available here" it'd be nice to be able to find them in a sensible format, like 13/26 episodes per dvd capacity and a bitrate that won't choke an eight core submersion cooled computer.
When you're talking gross 50-90k sounds like a lot.
Once you start talking take-home net, it doesn't look like much. Taxes, insurance, 401k contributions will consume at least half of your gross income. Now we're down to 25-45k usable per year. It's easy, even on a conservative budget, to have around a $1k in payments a month between student loans, house payments or rent and car payments. That brings us down to 13k-33k.
If you were on the $50k/year end of the scale and you live in an urban or suburban area you'd be lucky to have $13k/year in discretionary money and what you do have won't go all that far. And this is assuming a modest house (at sane prices) or apartment and one new car. If you're not single or dual-income-no-kids, good luck staying out of debt.
I wonder if anyone has done a study on which generates more CO2, a google search or a rabid environmentalist going into a frenzy over the thought of some bid bad datacenter harming the poor defenseless little planet.
The next question is if the rabid environmentalist generates more CO2 would they submit to having their carbon sequestered, for the good of the planet.
But you're not green unless everyone "knows" you're green so you have to go out of your way to look like you are green. If you were actually green no one would notice or pay attention since you wouldn't look "green".
Look at Green Peace vs. Apple. Apple wasn't going out of their way to look green so they weren't green enough for Green Peace.
I wasn't aware psion was still in business. I thought the psion series went the way of the newton around the time of palm/handspring era. I'd never heard of a psion netBook.
I'm not sure that level of non-advertising counts as actively used.
Yes, lets give everyone the education they need to become level 1 script jockeys instead of giving them a solid foundation to build their understanding upon.
Mathematics doesn't go out of date. Logic doesn't go out of date. Drivers go out of date. Networking goes out of date. Let the tech schools handle that stuff.
You can't really appreciate a history class until you already have an understanding of the subject. Do you think the average third grader would care what methods various cultures used to calculate the area of a circle, for either the historical aspect or the importance of pi?
What we need is more kids capable of thinking and less walking lossy databases whose soul purpose is to regurgitate facts for a test.
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Someone who is willing to be the one term bull-in-a-china-shop we need to get the country back on track.
A one shot Cincinnatus who would divest the executive branch of the powers it has acquired but shouldn't have.
Obama might have a "useful" year or two but then he's going to spend the last two years of his term trying to get four more years. Aside from granting immunity to the telcos he was a really effective senator while he was out trying to get elected president. He (along with McCain and Hillary and the rest) should have resigned their seats in Congress to go on the campaign trail. The fact that they didn't showed they cared more for the personal power of their positions than doing any sort of good for the government or the country.
And don't forget he's a politician.
Things won't change one bit until we stop electing professional politicians.
It was only by the grace of God that they didn't get naked together and do the whole "be fruitful and multiply" bit. Just think of the damage done if they discovered that sex could be for recreation and not just procreation!
Teachers and other school staff are required to report stuff like this, or even suspicions. If they are aware of something like this and they do not report it they've basically ended their career if anyone ever finds out they didn't report it.
And the first half of type C (access to material no longer sold) can do nothing but increase sales if those materials were made available for purchase.
As much as I dislike the RIAA, when one of their members does go and do something like making a formerly unavailable work available again (that I had interest in) I do try to encourage that behavior by purchasing a copy if I hadn't already tracked it down in the used market (at some exorbitant rate...).
And it just so happens that analog audio stream produced by that legit DVD player no longer has any copy protection to circumvent.
Which is why we now have hdmi being pushed down our throats.
There's a lot of major label music you just cannot buy new (which is the only time they get money on a sale).
Lots of film scores are out of print in the US. You can only get them used or as imports.
Sure Patton was an obscure movie with a forgettable soundtrack (sarcasm there folks) but that doesn't mean the only legal way to get a new copy of the original soundtrack (not the re-recording with tora tora tora) should be buying the collector's edition dvd and extracting the soundtrack from the photo-montage on the extras disc.
Up until a few months ago you couldn't get a copy of the Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack for under $80 (thank you eMusic, especially for using a good import version!!!). They've finally re-released it as part of a cd set, but they've made changes and omitted some cues which is a big turn off for anyone who knows the original score.
If you (the music labels) want to cut down on illegal music downloads and increase your sales, take a look at all the music that is unavailable (Terminator soundtrack) but widely downloaded and put it up on your own digital distribution system. There's a massive demand you are not fulfilling though people with no economic gain are making the effort to do it for you.
Or plunk down the hundred bucks and get a spectrum analyzer so you can actually see what's going on and when.
It's too bad that once you're pregnant, you have to have the kid(s). If someone could find a way around that problem lots of issues would be solved (including all those birth control hormones that end up in the water supply).
In my timezone it's only 4:30 you insensitive clod!
"Papers", at the time of the drafting of the constitution, were a means of both storing and transmitting information.
A telephone transmits information.
An email transmits information.
Both serve the modern purpose paper had at the time the constitution was written. If you had recorded all your documents on thin sheets of metal instead of paper back then, would you be denied any protection for them because they weren't "paper". Should vellums and parchments require their own specific mentions? Just because paper was the specific medium of physically storing and transporting information at the time does not mean the protections granted should extend solely to that specific medium.
Why would they have to define which words are profane? Just about any word can be vulgar or obscene to someone and all they need is that someone. You don't expect them to apply the law equally do you?
Only the politicians and the rich have that option. Their favorite though is our rights (which are different from their rights).
Not so much the police themselves. People with guns or knives can be dealt with. The legal system and the media, on the other hand, are pretty much a death sentence with no parole or pardon.
I ordered the combo pack that has the CycloDS Evolution and a GBA flash cart. The CycloDS will load up a gba rom from its micro SD card to the gba flash cart and boots the game.
So it can't run them on its own but it can store the files and be the interface for the gba flash cart. I never tried the R4 but I'd have to say the user interface on the CycloDS is pretty slick.
As a CycloDS owner, I can say that exactly zero (0) of the roms I have are pirated.
Why did I get a flash card if not to pirate?
Primarily, my upgrade to the lite left the gba cart sticking out, which made it less than convenient to carry with anything but the plug in the gba slot. Next was the convenience of not having to bring anything more then the DS itself while still having access to all my carts. Also some used games can't easily be restored to a clean state. The ripping process and separate save files solves that problem.
Speaking as an ugly lug of a male American, I can say, and I'm probably speaking for a few others, that if there was a random kid in distress in a public, my top priority would be to put a safe distance between myself and the area the kid is in. Exceptions might be made for situations as extreme as obviously being abducted at gun or knife point. Other than that I dare not risk the cops-and-lawyer-on-conference-call-speed-dial response enough parents have.
The poetic injustice of the whole situation is that in their mindless quest to protect their kids from everything they've actually made it more dangerous for their kids. The only random people likely to willingly interact with their kid are "the bad people" because the non-bad people don't want to get slapped with being a pedophile/molester/deviant. Sort of like the moron out west who is suing someone who tried to rescue them from a possibly life threatening situation. I help you, you sue me, my life is ruined, you live happily ever after. I don't help you, you die, I live. Great precedent to establish.
If every little ripper out there didn't feel the need to have the bestest files on the intarweb by turning every knob to 11, having infinity+1.1 audio channels in the ogg codec for every audio stream and every-option-on h.264 with bitrates higher than the original studio masters and every subtitle, including the original Klingon, in the blingy-est graphical overlay format, people might have liked the container format.
For shows "not available here" it'd be nice to be able to find them in a sensible format, like 13/26 episodes per dvd capacity and a bitrate that won't choke an eight core submersion cooled computer.
When you're talking gross 50-90k sounds like a lot.
Once you start talking take-home net, it doesn't look like much. Taxes, insurance, 401k contributions will consume at least half of your gross income. Now we're down to 25-45k usable per year. It's easy, even on a conservative budget, to have around a $1k in payments a month between student loans, house payments or rent and car payments. That brings us down to 13k-33k.
If you were on the $50k/year end of the scale and you live in an urban or suburban area you'd be lucky to have $13k/year in discretionary money and what you do have won't go all that far. And this is assuming a modest house (at sane prices) or apartment and one new car. If you're not single or dual-income-no-kids, good luck staying out of debt.
I wonder if anyone has done a study on which generates more CO2, a google search or a rabid environmentalist going into a frenzy over the thought of some bid bad datacenter harming the poor defenseless little planet.
The next question is if the rabid environmentalist generates more CO2 would they submit to having their carbon sequestered, for the good of the planet.
But you're not green unless everyone "knows" you're green so you have to go out of your way to look like you are green. If you were actually green no one would notice or pay attention since you wouldn't look "green".
Look at Green Peace vs. Apple. Apple wasn't going out of their way to look green so they weren't green enough for Green Peace.
Because 128 kbps AAC sounds a lot better than 128 kbps MP3 and thus you can have an acceptable sound quality and better storage capacity?
When is it (actual) war? Or, more importantly, when *isn't* it (actual) war.
I wasn't aware psion was still in business. I thought the psion series went the way of the newton around the time of palm/handspring era. I'd never heard of a psion netBook. I'm not sure that level of non-advertising counts as actively used.
Yes, lets give everyone the education they need to become level 1 script jockeys instead of giving them a solid foundation to build their understanding upon.
Mathematics doesn't go out of date.
Logic doesn't go out of date.
Drivers go out of date. Networking goes out of date. Let the tech schools handle that stuff.
You can't really appreciate a history class until you already have an understanding of the subject. Do you think the average third grader would care what methods various cultures used to calculate the area of a circle, for either the historical aspect or the importance of pi?
What we need is more kids capable of thinking and less walking lossy databases whose soul purpose is to regurgitate facts for a test.