Aim your ire a bit lower down the political ladder.
This was a great way for Pawlenty to spite McCain for picking a governor from a northern frozen state that just happened to not be Minnesota. Toss in Gus shutting down the convention and McCain won't be getting any good press out of this.
Another good possibility is ye olde mayors wanting to put on a show for all the big wigs in town. "Hey! Look at us! We're so sophistimacated that we arrest people before they do something! And we do it in a spectacular manner! And we arrest their neighbors just for living next to them!"
Where's Jesse "The Former Governor" Ventura when you need him?
A politician without a scandal is a politician who has not had their closet searched well enough by the media. If this is the best scandal they can come up with, she's squeaky clean as far as Washington Politics are concerned.
Try Senuti or some windows variant if your iPod isn't mac formatted.
You're really trying hard to make it more complicated than it needs to be.
All you need is a program that can read the iPod's database file to find which file corresponds to which song. Keep that program in storage on the iPod. Run that program when you want to pull stuff off of the iPod. No firmware crap necessary.
There are a lot of programs which will allow you to transfer songs from your iPod. You can even store those programs on your iPod.
Do you know why the iPod needs iTunes? iTunes does all the heavy lifting of making and maintaining the database that lets you sort around through your music without chewing up all the iPod's battery life while doing so.
Just a little bit of typing and you could find non-iTunes programs to manage your iPod and to transfer files the way you want to.
Pearl Harbor was an act of war by an actual official country. It was part of continued efforts by Japan to wage war on our country. Real war. Not this diluted down "war on [drugs|terror|crime]".
Real state actors with the resources to launch and sustain military actions on foreign territory.
9/11 only has the surprise factor in similarity to Pearl Harbor. Well and the fact it woke the sleeping giant. Though we were still pretty groggy this time around.
9/11 happened once. *poof* done. There's no sustained offensive. We aren't fighting to take back Manhattan.
Really, and this is what "they" don't want you to realize, is that OBL and crew just aren't relevant here.
Yes, we must use "think of the children (and women)!" as the primary rational for our laws.
Wait, emotional response as a foundation for a rational law, does not compute.
Personally, I'd find it normal for someone to be taking a picture of a woman. Cultural definition of beauty and all that. Children are sorta in the same boat. Society has been deluded into think those vile disease spreading proto-humans are "cute".
Now someone taking a picture of me, an ugly lug of a male? That's not normal. That'd mean there was a black helicopter or obsequious white van coming to take me away to a vacation in some unidentifiable basement.
And really, when your argument relies on "but think of the [children|women]!" your argument is nothing but pandering to emotion.
I think there's a way for you to enjoy modern inventory systems.
Whenever you pick up an item, pause the game. Then start up a game of tetris, easy for small items, increase difficulty as the item size increases. Beat 99 levels in row. If you fail you do not have enough inventory space for the item. Unpause the game. If you completed 99 levels, add the item to your inventory. Otherwise leave the item behind.
This way, the rest of us can actually play the game and you can still play inventory management.
Yes, I am one of those dirty filthy casuals that plays games to *gasp *horror* *shock* enjoy them. I tend to like the games that have innovative and fun gameplay. Unique visual audio styles are a plus.
Perhaps I'm just too old for the current definition of hardcore games and hardcore gamers but what I don't really get is how the number of pixels pushed or the volume of blood makes a game for the hardcore gamer.
I'd expect the hardcore gamer to want intricate and complex yet responsive control schemes that reward having faster-than-framerate reactions. Requiring six liquid cooled video cards just to render the game on its lowest setting or requiring a TARDIS built into the circulatory system of every mook to handle the amount of blood they spray when killed doesn't mean its "hardcore" to me. It generally says its cheaper to hire graphic designers than it is people capable of putting together a solid game.
I wouldn't have minded the Jedi being too goody goody.
Lucas, to me, made the Jedi the corrupted do-gooders who are now looking out for their own good instead of the galaxy's. Basically just 'this' side of being equals to the Sith. Who were doing exactly what the Jedi were up to, just being a lot less coy about it. Goodbye childhood nostalgia.
Of course, the Jedi we're supposed to like are the rebels and generally "bad" Jedi. Qui-"Stick it in your pointy ear"-gon for rebelling against the increasingly outdated and outmoded rules. Obiwan, or Qui-gon the Lesser, for being stuck between loyalty to Qui-gon and loyalty to the order and generally siding with his friends and allies and not the order. Though we still didn't have an everyman protagonist.
Genndy Tartakovsky's micro series was probably the best of the prequals. The Jedi are the Jedi you'd think of if ep. 4,5,6 had the effects budgets and stunt coordinators of this day and age. I think it was supposed to be Cody, who was a good example of a non-force user that could actually be useful and effective.
Have you ever read The Anarchist's Cookbook? It needs a second title of "Or How to Blow Yourself Up by Exactly Following These Instructions".
Do you really think Johnny, the littlest chemist, in this day and age is going to risk indulging in his hobby in an overt manner? No, he's going to have a stash of randomly collected files that'll have a far better chance of turning him into a martyr without a cause than a chemical engineer. He can't talk to mommy and daddy because they'd just turn him in because he *might* be making $drug_of_the_month. They'd much rather find a porn stash then a collection of chemistry journals.
People keep thinking that ignorance will protect their little Billy and Susy. Then little Billy tries to make nitroglycerin in an unsafe manner and blows a leg off and Susy gives herself permanent brain damage because she didn't know the fumes were toxic. They don't/can't teach this stuff in school anymore (hazmat teams for a broken thermometer, wtf?). They've got to learn it somewhere.
The goals of terrorism is to effect change through hitting non military targets like innocent women and children.
It's good thing that I'm male and thus so disposable that my death would have no impact on society and therefore not a worthy target of terrorism. It is entirely unfair that terrorists aren't running around kidnapping, torturing and beheading men like they exclusively doing to women and children. Women and children are bearing an undue burden of being the sole targets of terrorists.
Really, stop pandering to emotion by using "women and children" when people, humans or just "innocents" or "civilian bystanders" would work.
Perhaps instead of the "patches are welcome" you just say that you don't have time to work on it, don't want to work on it, or that it is very low on your priority list.
Why do you expect people to help you with YOUR project when you won't even give them a useful response? You just told them that their concern was beneath you and that they should bugger off. You really think that's going to motivate someone to help you?
I bet you're one of those people that want residential speed limits dropped to 10 mph just so kids have a 90% chance of surviving an impact.
Hmm, teach kid not to play in traffic or they'll get splattered like little Johnny did a few years ago or reduce speeds to the point where you'd need about five or more collisions per kid to get it to a 50/50 chance of one of them leaving the gene pool...
"Think of the children!" only goes to show you don't have rational argument and thus have to fall back on emotions.
I've been wondering if the reason why we have the department of Homeland security was because motherland and fatherland were already taken by countries (and their governments of the time) that were our enemies.
America is my country. America is my nation. I don't see America as a "homeland". It just hasn't been around long enough for that. We don't have the folklore or mythos to justify homeland. We don't have a "cultural story", we have a brief history. Our beginning is not legendary or mythic.
Why not call it department of national security? Why do we need the happy warm fuzzy bellyfeel Homeland?
Why is it better to defend our homeland than to defend our nation? I suppose "nation" implies a rule of law and reason while "homeland" panders to gut reaction and emotion, so it would be ok to defend the homeland in a kneejerk manner while the repercussions for defending your nation would have to be considered.
Fortunately a man called Samuel Colt made it so that one's defense no longer relies entirely on physical strength.
You really need to read up on some WWII history if you think the reason Okinawa turned out the way it did was because the locals were trying to karate chop soldiers, especially considering the locals (Okinawans) weren't entirely happy with the Japanese pinning them between the proverbial rock and a hard place of the Japanese and American forces and their poor treatment by the Imperial forces.
Let's see, did I say anything about the handling of a larger vehicle?
Hmm, nope I didn't.
What I insinuated is that relying on the agility of a car to always evade a collision instead of driving a vehicle capable of withstanding an impact is folly due to agility not always being able to be applied. A vehicle's structure is a passive defense. Agility is an active defense.
And yes, those SUVs end up in the ditch because they believe 4WD lets them drive on anything in any manner they want.
You can control your driving, but you can't control the behavior of other drivers. Get a localized patch of ice in one lane and you can get an out of control vehicle headed off into another lane. The driver in that lane now has to deal with that large object on a collision course with him.
I'd prefer to be in a vehicle that can absorb and safely distribute more energy than a pop can can. All these "big cars are evil!" "drive a tin can on wheels, it's more agile and it saves the world!" types rarely take actual conditions into consideration.
If you've got a small, agile car that can be agile in a controlled manner on ice, I think you'd have quite the market in regions that experience actual weather.
I take it you've never seen two cars sliding towards each other on glare ice with nothing the drivers can do about it.
I have a problem with people who claim to be supporters of Free Software.
Find a problem with a program and point it out? "Put on your dev hat and fix it yourself!" Ya, I'll get right on that. Actually I'll just move on to another program that actually works.
Some company releases a new toy that happens to contain a processor? "We can't play with it the way we want to. We didn't have to buy it, but we did. We knew ahead of time we couldn't play with it like we wanted to, but we still bought it. And now we're going to go and piss off the people that actually like the toy!" Real f'ing brilliant.
Yes, it was such an unfair advantage being a white male when I went to college.
Working at the supermarket, ringing up WIC (women infants children) vouchers I felt sooo sorry for the poor breeders. Here I was, working to buy myself ramen, rice and boxed mac 'n cheese while they have to put up with being handed vouchers for fresh milk (mac 'n cheese without any milk, powdered or fresh, is soooooo much better), real cheese (vastly inferior to the powder in the box), cereal (hah, they even had to put real milk on it!) and fresh fruit and vegetables (denied the true delicacy of the ramen flavor pack).
Sure, all I had to do was show up, work nights, stocking shelves, cleaning bathrooms, while hoping that no one would bother to rob the joint during my shift. And just for that, I'm handed the luxuries of male life. Nothing like squeezing out a kid or two and then going to the mail box.
A modest solution to the problem of keeping our kids safe and innocent in this mean, nasty and evil world.
First, we kill everyone under the age of 18. Their poor sweet innocent little minds cannot be defiled if the minds are no longer functioning.
Next, we sterilize everyone of the age of 18 or older. This way there can be no more kids that can be corrupted by our cruel society.
And then all the children in the world will be sweet perfect little angels forever and ever....I hope they buy it. This think of the children crap is seriously getting annoying. What do you mean the speech to text device is still on? Yes, I did give you the cut sign. It's still on? Turn that bloody thing off now or you'll get to test the next death tra
That'd have to be one helluva computer assisted traction control system to get it to continually drift so it *might* be able to travel in the paths left by everyone else's four wheeled (two path) vehicles.
Three wheels with three tire paths would always have the rear wheel clearing a new path while the other two ride in already cleared paths.
That thing would be like having one side of the car continually in a drift with the other on a clear road.
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Aim your ire a bit lower down the political ladder.
This was a great way for Pawlenty to spite McCain for picking a governor from a northern frozen state that just happened to not be Minnesota. Toss in Gus shutting down the convention and McCain won't be getting any good press out of this.
Another good possibility is ye olde mayors wanting to put on a show for all the big wigs in town. "Hey! Look at us! We're so sophistimacated that we arrest people before they do something! And we do it in a spectacular manner! And we arrest their neighbors just for living next to them!"
Where's Jesse "The Former Governor" Ventura when you need him?
A politician without a scandal is a politician who has not had their closet searched well enough by the media. If this is the best scandal they can come up with, she's squeaky clean as far as Washington Politics are concerned.
Try Senuti or some windows variant if your iPod isn't mac formatted.
You're really trying hard to make it more complicated than it needs to be.
All you need is a program that can read the iPod's database file to find which file corresponds to which song. Keep that program in storage on the iPod. Run that program when you want to pull stuff off of the iPod. No firmware crap necessary.
There are a lot of programs which will allow you to transfer songs from your iPod. You can even store those programs on your iPod.
Do you know why the iPod needs iTunes? iTunes does all the heavy lifting of making and maintaining the database that lets you sort around through your music without chewing up all the iPod's battery life while doing so.
Just a little bit of typing and you could find non-iTunes programs to manage your iPod and to transfer files the way you want to.
Perhaps dress your kids appropriately for their activities?
Pearl Harbor was an act of war by an actual official country. It was part of continued efforts by Japan to wage war on our country. Real war. Not this diluted down "war on [drugs|terror|crime]".
Real state actors with the resources to launch and sustain military actions on foreign territory.
9/11 only has the surprise factor in similarity to Pearl Harbor. Well and the fact it woke the sleeping giant. Though we were still pretty groggy this time around.
9/11 happened once. *poof* done. There's no sustained offensive. We aren't fighting to take back Manhattan.
Really, and this is what "they" don't want you to realize, is that OBL and crew just aren't relevant here.
Yes, we must use "think of the children (and women)!" as the primary rational for our laws.
Wait, emotional response as a foundation for a rational law, does not compute.
Personally, I'd find it normal for someone to be taking a picture of a woman. Cultural definition of beauty and all that. Children are sorta in the same boat. Society has been deluded into think those vile disease spreading proto-humans are "cute".
Now someone taking a picture of me, an ugly lug of a male? That's not normal. That'd mean there was a black helicopter or obsequious white van coming to take me away to a vacation in some unidentifiable basement.
And really, when your argument relies on "but think of the [children|women]!" your argument is nothing but pandering to emotion.
I think there's a way for you to enjoy modern inventory systems.
Whenever you pick up an item, pause the game.
Then start up a game of tetris, easy for small items, increase difficulty as the item size increases.
Beat 99 levels in row. If you fail you do not have enough inventory space for the item.
Unpause the game. If you completed 99 levels, add the item to your inventory. Otherwise leave the item behind.
This way, the rest of us can actually play the game and you can still play inventory management.
Yes, I am one of those dirty filthy casuals that plays games to *gasp *horror* *shock* enjoy them. I tend to like the games that have innovative and fun gameplay. Unique visual audio styles are a plus.
Perhaps I'm just too old for the current definition of hardcore games and hardcore gamers but what I don't really get is how the number of pixels pushed or the volume of blood makes a game for the hardcore gamer.
I'd expect the hardcore gamer to want intricate and complex yet responsive control schemes that reward having faster-than-framerate reactions. Requiring six liquid cooled video cards just to render the game on its lowest setting or requiring a TARDIS built into the circulatory system of every mook to handle the amount of blood they spray when killed doesn't mean its "hardcore" to me. It generally says its cheaper to hire graphic designers than it is people capable of putting together a solid game.
I wouldn't have minded the Jedi being too goody goody.
Lucas, to me, made the Jedi the corrupted do-gooders who are now looking out for their own good instead of the galaxy's. Basically just 'this' side of being equals to the Sith. Who were doing exactly what the Jedi were up to, just being a lot less coy about it. Goodbye childhood nostalgia.
Of course, the Jedi we're supposed to like are the rebels and generally "bad" Jedi. Qui-"Stick it in your pointy ear"-gon for rebelling against the increasingly outdated and outmoded rules. Obiwan, or Qui-gon the Lesser, for being stuck between loyalty to Qui-gon and loyalty to the order and generally siding with his friends and allies and not the order. Though we still didn't have an everyman protagonist.
Genndy Tartakovsky's micro series was probably the best of the prequals. The Jedi are the Jedi you'd think of if ep. 4,5,6 had the effects budgets and stunt coordinators of this day and age. I think it was supposed to be Cody, who was a good example of a non-force user that could actually be useful and effective.
Have you ever read The Anarchist's Cookbook? It needs a second title of "Or How to Blow Yourself Up by Exactly Following These Instructions".
Do you really think Johnny, the littlest chemist, in this day and age is going to risk indulging in his hobby in an overt manner? No, he's going to have a stash of randomly collected files that'll have a far better chance of turning him into a martyr without a cause than a chemical engineer. He can't talk to mommy and daddy because they'd just turn him in because he *might* be making $drug_of_the_month. They'd much rather find a porn stash then a collection of chemistry journals.
People keep thinking that ignorance will protect their little Billy and Susy. Then little Billy tries to make nitroglycerin in an unsafe manner and blows a leg off and Susy gives herself permanent brain damage because she didn't know the fumes were toxic. They don't/can't teach this stuff in school anymore (hazmat teams for a broken thermometer, wtf?). They've got to learn it somewhere.
The goals of terrorism is to effect change through hitting non military targets like innocent women and children.
It's good thing that I'm male and thus so disposable that my death would have no impact on society and therefore not a worthy target of terrorism. It is entirely unfair that terrorists aren't running around kidnapping, torturing and beheading men like they exclusively doing to women and children. Women and children are bearing an undue burden of being the sole targets of terrorists.
Really, stop pandering to emotion by using "women and children" when people, humans or just "innocents" or "civilian bystanders" would work.
Because you might contract something, for example Ebola, though a series of unlikely circumstances.
Now you're not so healthy and may not have the resources to pay for your care and treatment.
Being 100% healthy yesterday does not protect you from becoming 99% dead tomorrow.
Perhaps instead of the "patches are welcome" you just say that you don't have time to work on it, don't want to work on it, or that it is very low on your priority list.
Why do you expect people to help you with YOUR project when you won't even give them a useful response? You just told them that their concern was beneath you and that they should bugger off. You really think that's going to motivate someone to help you?
I bet you're one of those people that want residential speed limits dropped to 10 mph just so kids have a 90% chance of surviving an impact.
Hmm, teach kid not to play in traffic or they'll get splattered like little Johnny did a few years ago or reduce speeds to the point where you'd need about five or more collisions per kid to get it to a 50/50 chance of one of them leaving the gene pool...
"Think of the children!" only goes to show you don't have rational argument and thus have to fall back on emotions.
I've been wondering if the reason why we have the department of Homeland security was because motherland and fatherland were already taken by countries (and their governments of the time) that were our enemies.
America is my country. America is my nation. I don't see America as a "homeland". It just hasn't been around long enough for that. We don't have the folklore or mythos to justify homeland. We don't have a "cultural story", we have a brief history. Our beginning is not legendary or mythic.
Why not call it department of national security? Why do we need the happy warm fuzzy bellyfeel Homeland?
Why is it better to defend our homeland than to defend our nation? I suppose "nation" implies a rule of law and reason while "homeland" panders to gut reaction and emotion, so it would be ok to defend the homeland in a kneejerk manner while the repercussions for defending your nation would have to be considered.
Fortunately a man called Samuel Colt made it so that one's defense no longer relies entirely on physical strength.
You really need to read up on some WWII history if you think the reason Okinawa turned out the way it did was because the locals were trying to karate chop soldiers, especially considering the locals (Okinawans) weren't entirely happy with the Japanese pinning them between the proverbial rock and a hard place of the Japanese and American forces and their poor treatment by the Imperial forces.
Soda is for southerners. Which is basically everyone south of I-90.
Let's see, did I say anything about the handling of a larger vehicle?
Hmm, nope I didn't.
What I insinuated is that relying on the agility of a car to always evade a collision instead of driving a vehicle capable of withstanding an impact is folly due to agility not always being able to be applied. A vehicle's structure is a passive defense. Agility is an active defense.
And yes, those SUVs end up in the ditch because they believe 4WD lets them drive on anything in any manner they want.
You can control your driving, but you can't control the behavior of other drivers. Get a localized patch of ice in one lane and you can get an out of control vehicle headed off into another lane. The driver in that lane now has to deal with that large object on a collision course with him.
I'd prefer to be in a vehicle that can absorb and safely distribute more energy than a pop can can. All these "big cars are evil!" "drive a tin can on wheels, it's more agile and it saves the world!" types rarely take actual conditions into consideration.
If you've got a small, agile car that can be agile in a controlled manner on ice, I think you'd have quite the market in regions that experience actual weather.
I take it you've never seen two cars sliding towards each other on glare ice with nothing the drivers can do about it.
Look up touchscreen gorilla arm.
That's why touch screens are not great and won't cause a revolution.
I have no problem with Free Software.
I have a problem with people who claim to be supporters of Free Software.
Find a problem with a program and point it out? "Put on your dev hat and fix it yourself!"
Ya, I'll get right on that. Actually I'll just move on to another program that actually works.
Some company releases a new toy that happens to contain a processor? "We can't play with it the way we want to. We didn't have to buy it, but we did. We knew ahead of time we couldn't play with it like we wanted to, but we still bought it. And now we're going to go and piss off the people that actually like the toy!"
Real f'ing brilliant.
Yes, it was such an unfair advantage being a white male when I went to college.
Working at the supermarket, ringing up WIC (women infants children) vouchers I felt sooo sorry for the poor breeders. Here I was, working to buy myself ramen, rice and boxed mac 'n cheese while they have to put up with being handed vouchers for fresh milk (mac 'n cheese without any milk, powdered or fresh, is soooooo much better), real cheese (vastly inferior to the powder in the box), cereal (hah, they even had to put real milk on it!) and fresh fruit and vegetables (denied the true delicacy of the ramen flavor pack).
Sure, all I had to do was show up, work nights, stocking shelves, cleaning bathrooms, while hoping that no one would bother to rob the joint during my shift. And just for that, I'm handed the luxuries of male life. Nothing like squeezing out a kid or two and then going to the mail box.
A modest solution to the problem of keeping our kids safe and innocent in this mean, nasty and evil world.
First, we kill everyone under the age of 18. Their poor sweet innocent little minds cannot be defiled if the minds are no longer functioning.
Next, we sterilize everyone of the age of 18 or older. This way there can be no more kids that can be corrupted by our cruel society.
And then all the children in the world will be sweet perfect little angels forever and ever. ...I hope they buy it. This think of the children crap is seriously getting annoying. What do you mean the speech to text device is still on? Yes, I did give you the cut sign. It's still on? Turn that bloody thing off now or you'll get to test the next death tra
That'd have to be one helluva computer assisted traction control system to get it to continually drift so it *might* be able to travel in the paths left by everyone else's four wheeled (two path) vehicles.
Three wheels with three tire paths would always have the rear wheel clearing a new path while the other two ride in already cleared paths.
That thing would be like having one side of the car continually in a drift with the other on a clear road.