I think you're going to have a problem getting the Muslims to the party. Christianity says we are to try to help more people become Christians. I'm pretty sure Judaism is the same. I think budists/hindu or more of the mind of let us practice in peace. Athiests and Agnostics just don't want someone's religion forced down their throats.
Muslims however have been told to kill the infidels. It could get bloody.
If enough people like what you say, you'll get sponsors, donations, air time. If people don't like what you say you don't. There's nothing saying that someone has to provide to you the means to distribute your speech. You're free to start at the bottom, craft your message and go as far as you can.
There's a reason why beck, hannity, o'rielly and fox news are doing so well. People like what they say. If what they were saying wasn't interesting to people then Rupert Murdoch et all would not have them on their networks. If they don't generate ratings they get the ax. Their ratings are at their highest while msnbc/cnn are consistently behind.
Please don't complain about not getting your platform if people don't like what you say. If I get up and start harping on purple ponies and aliens, no one is going to pay for me to do it.
Have your Bible burning. We're used to it. People do it all the time. And while you're at it, burn some flags. We're all adults here, we can take it. Well, I guess some of us aren't. Let your 1st anal BBWR commence, it will just prove how our system is supposed to work.
But I hope you see the double standard here. People burn Bibles all the time. When it happens, the highest general in the land doesn't request for them to stop. The POTUSA doesn't go on good morning america and request that it stop. All of the attention that they are getting just makes it more important that they do it. Let the other side see how it feels. And when all the Muslims go ape shit over it, point it out. How many Christian riots have resulted from Bible burning? Muslim riots from the threat of a quran burning? Already a good number. Hell, they go nuts when someone draws mohammed in a cartoon. Talk about a glass house.
And to answer your question: Why this book at this time? Easy. Ground Zero Mosque. It's not illegal to build it there, even if 98% of Americans don't want it. Guess what, I don't want it. It offends me. It pisses me off. It's a victory mosque. The imam is doing this out of spite. Did you know there was a Greek Orthodox that's nearby and destroyed when WTC fell on it? Do you know that they haven't been given their permit to rebuild but the city has given one to the imam? They've been trying since it was destroyed.. There's that double standard again. How long do we have to put up with it?
It goes back longer than that. Jesus was pretty good at holding a rally. And before him, Moses could rally the troops and get them to march through the freakin desert for years! Damn, noah could even rally the animals!
Actually he's going to have a really hard time with that since in general,/. protects it's socialist overlords by not even posting said examples. And since they don't exist, I won't be able to back up that statement. But it doesn't mean it's not true;)
The point of it is that he doesn't like the idea of Municipalities joining international groups to influence their planning, spending, etc. The argument is that local goverments are going to start performing as arms of these organizations. Bikes are just one example of this. What if the next thing that happens is all the chinese cities in this org decide that in addition to pushing bikes, they should push mandatory abortions. Yes, I know they're no where near that, but in 1910 there wasn't much chance of us having a black president...
Going through, I'm shocked at how many blind idealists who's answers are basically one of two things:
Neither, because they don't do X the way I like. Neither, because they aren't free. Neither, because HTML 5 will be mo' better.
As George Thorogood said "Get a haircut and get a real job"
If you work for a BUSINESS and that business is interested in making MONEY you are going to pick a platform and get to work. No business worth it's EIN is going to say, oh, lets just wait until this other product is finalized and ubiquitous before we develop and roll out.
One guy who marries a woman, loves her and has mind-blowing sex with her three times, is clearly ahead of some guy with an iPhone who had ten one-night stands.
I can't answer to your whole question, but as far as what's included... On cars they generally measure HP to the flywheel or HP to the ground. Automakers of course tell you what it is to the flywheel because it's a higher number and they can tout how powerful their engine is. Race car engineers measure to the ground because it doesn't mean shit if you have 500hp out of the flywheel if your transmission axle et al only leave you with 300hp...
So if your driving the charge to distance per joul, pick the one you prefer. If your consumer friendly, to the ground. If your manuf. friendly, to the flywheel.
Just a disclaimer to make sure yall don't think I'm heartless. I have 2 kids of my own I'd never trade in. It's just those damn boys across the street that drive me nuts!
Why do people think it's their God given right to whatever they want, whenever they want to do it?
Lets say I'm sitting in my bedroom, and I've thought of a good way to build the coolest new freakin' toy out there. Unfortunately is sooo damn expensive for me to do so, and it would cost you more money than you would normally pay. So, I need to find a way to allow you to pay over time...
So, lets say it costs me $200 to make this thing, I have to recover my R&D, I have to cover my FUTURE customer support costs (MANY people forget this) and I want to make a profit. Lets say to do that, it'd cost $800 for each device. No way I could sell that direct to consumer.
Hell, no one would ever agree to that price even if I did sell it over time... But lets say I blended that price in with something else that they also wanted, and they'd pay for that over time as well? How about a phone contract? Well, maybe I can get all my $$ up front and let the phone company bare the burden of $$/time. Well, they're only going to do that for me if I give them some reasonable assurance that when someone buys my device, they're going to stick with that company? Well, I can make my device only work with their service. That should assure them. Now I can sell the product... but what about that customer support nightmare? I want people to trust that my product is going to run the way they expect it to. How can I guarantee that it will? Well, I can approve every program that gets installed on it, making sure that 1. It's not spyware, 2. It's not a virus 3. It's not going to run folding@home in the background using up their plan's data and their battery. Or I could just people do whatever the F* they want on the thing and when they call in to customer support I can say their SOL. I'll take the chance that most people prefer I run an app store, and those who don't want it can F* off.
Sorry, this is getting long and I'll stop soon.
I guess my point is, if I'm going to build a product I'll charge whatever I want, put whatever rules on it I want and for those who don't like it can go buy something else*. Oh, just about all the other manufacturers realize this problem too? And they have the same solution? Then build your own damn phone! But don't tell ME what my product does and does not have to do. Don't tell me I have to sell my contract subsidized product to anyone for whatever they want to do with it.
*yes, it's reasonable to tell me I can't see a product that's going to shoot someone in the head or give babies lead poisoning
or possibly "Jailbreaking iPhone still not illegal (however now that's its officially legal we have set forth the process of making it illegal, where before it wasn't)
Unfortunately for competition, and us, those damn wires are so damn hard to get into the ground. They are expensive as hell to put down, even IF you can get a permit to lay them. The problem is, cities are stingy with those because they don't want some telcom/cable company ripping up the streets every time someone has enough capital to do so. If that wasn't the case most markets WOULD have more than one DSL and one cable company to choose from.
Hopefully the wireless stuff will be a viable option for usable broadband. At my house, it's all I have, 1.5MB down,.5 MB up (not capped at 5GB thank you grandfather clause)
Satellite will never be an option in my opinion because of latency. You just can't move a packet that far in a timely manner, no matter what you do. Hard to beat physics.
New Mexico, Mississippi, West VA and Montana are pissed of 24 hours a day.
Wonder why? When was this taken? I would like to see this on a matrix with some current events... How was mississippi/Loisiana before the oil spill? Is New Mexico Jealous they didn't get an immigration law like arizona? Is montana just sick of mountains?
I noticed that the flyover states are generally more angry than the coasts... What did they look like before obama care? Before Obama?
Wow, I can't belive this thread isn't full of this sort of comment, and likewise people whining about it.
FTR, this is exactly what I thought.
Obama to Arizona: Well, sorry, we just can't have you asking people where they are from and arresting them if they turn out to be illegals, but here have some of these fully automatic, shoot to kill border guards
You know, I was thinking, the border is huge, to big for an expensive wall. What if we made a system of highspeed wires, all driven from a few hubs. (think ski lift) on that speeds a few auto-cannons, or even better frikin lasers!. Those things zip back and forth like a patrol constantly. Or, have some long range radar/IR detecting activity and when it does out zips a deterrent. First we go with the microwave pain gun. If that doesn't send them back, a few rubber bullets, then a little scorching from a lower powered laser, still nothing? Increase the power... Still nothing bring out our north korean's guns... Oh, you're still coming? RPG time.
Instead of everyone bashing me for being a 'hater' how about yall give improvements to the system to actually secure the border (please skip the discussion on if it needs to be secure, and what to do with those already here)
And considering so many companies are moving towards web based interfaces for their internal applications, this is going to take a long time. Sure, MS can stop making IE for XP, but get SP3 on the machines and it's pretty damn secure. Add to that Chrome or FF to run the business applications and you have a machine that's going to last for many years to come. Want to go faster? Get faster/more servers! XP can essentially become a dumb terminal as for as those enterprises are concerned. I think that about the only thing they could do is to make new versions of office not run on XP. That'll make a few companies switch because they can't be without outlook+exchange/word/excel.
I hereby invite all/.ers to my house for July 4th. The only requirement is you have to bring your own fireworks, beer and copy of the constitution? Why the constitution? Because too many people have never read it so they don't even realize our rights are being eroded. Anyway, I live in alabama, I have 2 acres of land and there are 5 fireworks stands and a fireworks warehouse(http://tntfireworks.com/) 2 miles away.
See you there, and someone bring me some yengling, blue moon or sam adams.
Wow, is this what we're coming to? When I was a kid (34 now) I did all kinds of stuff that would now get someone in my family put in jail. It's not like I never got caught, it's just that people understood what 'boys will be boys' meant back then. Sure I didn't personally make a bomb (I would have) but you could have locked me up many times over for incendiary devices, or as I got older, reckless driving.
It's sad that it's come to this. How many of the worlds smartest people did dangerous things when they were kids? How many electrical engineers played with electricity? How many fire fighters played with fires? How many SWAT team members shot guns and made bombs? How many architects, civil engieers or constructions workers built forts out of wood the re-appropriated from their neighbors fences? How many lemon-aid stand kids are now rich capitalists?
Our government now only promotes mediocrity, not excellence.
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I think you're going to have a problem getting the Muslims to the party. Christianity says we are to try to help more people become Christians. I'm pretty sure Judaism is the same. I think budists/hindu or more of the mind of let us practice in peace. Athiests and Agnostics just don't want someone's religion forced down their throats.
Muslims however have been told to kill the infidels. It could get bloody.
If enough people like what you say, you'll get sponsors, donations, air time. If people don't like what you say you don't. There's nothing saying that someone has to provide to you the means to distribute your speech. You're free to start at the bottom, craft your message and go as far as you can.
There's a reason why beck, hannity, o'rielly and fox news are doing so well. People like what they say. If what they were saying wasn't interesting to people then Rupert Murdoch et all would not have them on their networks. If they don't generate ratings they get the ax. Their ratings are at their highest while msnbc/cnn are consistently behind.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/cable-news
Please don't complain about not getting your platform if people don't like what you say. If I get up and start harping on purple ponies and aliens, no one is going to pay for me to do it.
Have your Bible burning. We're used to it. People do it all the time. And while you're at it, burn some flags. We're all adults here, we can take it. Well, I guess some of us aren't. Let your 1st anal BBWR commence, it will just prove how our system is supposed to work.
But I hope you see the double standard here. People burn Bibles all the time. When it happens, the highest general in the land doesn't request for them to stop. The POTUSA doesn't go on good morning america and request that it stop. All of the attention that they are getting just makes it more important that they do it. Let the other side see how it feels. And when all the Muslims go ape shit over it, point it out. How many Christian riots have resulted from Bible burning? Muslim riots from the threat of a quran burning? Already a good number. Hell, they go nuts when someone draws mohammed in a cartoon. Talk about a glass house.
And to answer your question: Why this book at this time? Easy. Ground Zero Mosque. It's not illegal to build it there, even if 98% of Americans don't want it. Guess what, I don't want it. It offends me. It pisses me off. It's a victory mosque. The imam is doing this out of spite. Did you know there was a Greek Orthodox that's nearby and destroyed when WTC fell on it? Do you know that they haven't been given their permit to rebuild but the city has given one to the imam? They've been trying since it was destroyed.. There's that double standard again. How long do we have to put up with it?
Bah, my phone has Dolby Prologic, THX, dts, EAX, D3D and 7.1
And I'm just in alabama.
It goes back longer than that. Jesus was pretty good at holding a rally. And before him, Moses could rally the troops and get them to march through the freakin desert for years! Damn, noah could even rally the animals!
Actually he's going to have a really hard time with that since in general, /. protects it's socialist overlords by not even posting said examples. And since they don't exist, I won't be able to back up that statement. But it doesn't mean it's not true ;)
I like what you did there. +1 Crafty
The point of it is that he doesn't like the idea of Municipalities joining international groups to influence their planning, spending, etc. The argument is that local goverments are going to start performing as arms of these organizations. Bikes are just one example of this. What if the next thing that happens is all the chinese cities in this org decide that in addition to pushing bikes, they should push mandatory abortions. Yes, I know they're no where near that, but in 1910 there wasn't much chance of us having a black president...
Going through, I'm shocked at how many blind idealists who's answers are basically one of two things:
Neither, because they don't do X the way I like.
Neither, because they aren't free.
Neither, because HTML 5 will be mo' better.
As George Thorogood said "Get a haircut and get a real job"
If you work for a BUSINESS and that business is interested in making MONEY you are going to pick a platform and get to work. No business worth it's EIN is going to say, oh, lets just wait until this other product is finalized and ubiquitous before we develop and roll out.
Here, let me fix that for you...
One guy who marries a woman, loves her and has mind-blowing sex with her three times, is clearly ahead of some guy with an iPhone who had ten one-night stands.
I can't answer to your whole question, but as far as what's included... On cars they generally measure HP to the flywheel or HP to the ground. Automakers of course tell you what it is to the flywheel because it's a higher number and they can tout how powerful their engine is. Race car engineers measure to the ground because it doesn't mean shit if you have 500hp out of the flywheel if your transmission axle et al only leave you with 300hp...
So if your driving the charge to distance per joul, pick the one you prefer. If your consumer friendly, to the ground. If your manuf. friendly, to the flywheel.
Just a disclaimer to make sure yall don't think I'm heartless. I have 2 kids of my own I'd never trade in. It's just those damn boys across the street that drive me nuts!
Get off my grass!!
works out great for me, I get a new computer and get one of those damn kids out of my hair.
Any takers? SHould I put them on craigslist or ebay?
Why do people think it's their God given right to whatever they want, whenever they want to do it?
Lets say I'm sitting in my bedroom, and I've thought of a good way to build the coolest new freakin' toy out there. Unfortunately is sooo damn expensive for me to do so, and it would cost you more money than you would normally pay. So, I need to find a way to allow you to pay over time...
So, lets say it costs me $200 to make this thing, I have to recover my R&D, I have to cover my FUTURE customer support costs (MANY people forget this) and I want to make a profit. Lets say to do that, it'd cost $800 for each device. No way I could sell that direct to consumer.
Hell, no one would ever agree to that price even if I did sell it over time... But lets say I blended that price in with something else that they also wanted, and they'd pay for that over time as well? How about a phone contract? Well, maybe I can get all my $$ up front and let the phone company bare the burden of $$/time. Well, they're only going to do that for me if I give them some reasonable assurance that when someone buys my device, they're going to stick with that company? Well, I can make my device only work with their service. That should assure them. Now I can sell the product... but what about that customer support nightmare? I want people to trust that my product is going to run the way they expect it to. How can I guarantee that it will? Well, I can approve every program that gets installed on it, making sure that 1. It's not spyware, 2. It's not a virus 3. It's not going to run folding@home in the background using up their plan's data and their battery. Or I could just people do whatever the F* they want on the thing and when they call in to customer support I can say their SOL. I'll take the chance that most people prefer I run an app store, and those who don't want it can F* off.
Sorry, this is getting long and I'll stop soon.
I guess my point is, if I'm going to build a product I'll charge whatever I want, put whatever rules on it I want and for those who don't like it can go buy something else*. Oh, just about all the other manufacturers realize this problem too? And they have the same solution? Then build your own damn phone! But don't tell ME what my product does and does not have to do. Don't tell me I have to sell my contract subsidized product to anyone for whatever they want to do with it.
*yes, it's reasonable to tell me I can't see a product that's going to shoot someone in the head or give babies lead poisoning
or possibly "Jailbreaking iPhone still not illegal (however now that's its officially legal we have set forth the process of making it illegal, where before it wasn't)
Unfortunately for competition, and us, those damn wires are so damn hard to get into the ground. They are expensive as hell to put down, even IF you can get a permit to lay them. The problem is, cities are stingy with those because they don't want some telcom/cable company ripping up the streets every time someone has enough capital to do so. If that wasn't the case most markets WOULD have more than one DSL and one cable company to choose from.
Hopefully the wireless stuff will be a viable option for usable broadband. At my house, it's all I have, 1.5MB down, .5 MB up (not capped at 5GB thank you grandfather clause)
Satellite will never be an option in my opinion because of latency. You just can't move a packet that far in a timely manner, no matter what you do. Hard to beat physics.
New Mexico, Mississippi, West VA and Montana are pissed of 24 hours a day.
Wonder why?
When was this taken? I would like to see this on a matrix with some current events...
How was mississippi/Loisiana before the oil spill?
Is New Mexico Jealous they didn't get an immigration law like arizona?
Is montana just sick of mountains?
I noticed that the flyover states are generally more angry than the coasts... What did they look like before obama care? Before Obama?
Wow, I can't belive this thread isn't full of this sort of comment, and likewise people whining about it.
FTR, this is exactly what I thought.
Obama to Arizona: Well, sorry, we just can't have you asking people where they are from and arresting them if they turn out to be illegals, but here have some of these fully automatic, shoot to kill border guards
You know, I was thinking, the border is huge, to big for an expensive wall. What if we made a system of highspeed wires, all driven from a few hubs. (think ski lift) on that speeds a few auto-cannons, or even better frikin lasers!. Those things zip back and forth like a patrol constantly. Or, have some long range radar/IR detecting activity and when it does out zips a deterrent. First we go with the microwave pain gun. If that doesn't send them back, a few rubber bullets, then a little scorching from a lower powered laser, still nothing? Increase the power... Still nothing bring out our north korean's guns... Oh, you're still coming? RPG time.
Instead of everyone bashing me for being a 'hater' how about yall give improvements to the system to actually secure the border (please skip the discussion on if it needs to be secure, and what to do with those already here)
And considering so many companies are moving towards web based interfaces for their internal applications, this is going to take a long time. Sure, MS can stop making IE for XP, but get SP3 on the machines and it's pretty damn secure. Add to that Chrome or FF to run the business applications and you have a machine that's going to last for many years to come. Want to go faster? Get faster/more servers! XP can essentially become a dumb terminal as for as those enterprises are concerned. I think that about the only thing they could do is to make new versions of office not run on XP. That'll make a few companies switch because they can't be without outlook+exchange/word/excel.
I thought it was a Metric f'ing ton?
Yeah, guns/canons will be replaced with bottle rockets and roman candles.
I suggest safety glasses.
Sure, foreigners are welcome, and exempt from the constitution requirement.
Yeah, we'll have tea... but probably not the way you like it... Iced, with sugar. (not a LOT of sugar like some around here like it)
I hereby invite all /.ers to my house for July 4th. The only requirement is you have to bring your own fireworks, beer and copy of the constitution? Why the constitution? Because too many people have never read it so they don't even realize our rights are being eroded. Anyway, I live in alabama, I have 2 acres of land and there are 5 fireworks stands and a fireworks warehouse(http://tntfireworks.com/) 2 miles away.
See you there, and someone bring me some yengling, blue moon or sam adams.
Wow, is this what we're coming to? When I was a kid (34 now) I did all kinds of stuff that would now get someone in my family put in jail. It's not like I never got caught, it's just that people understood what 'boys will be boys' meant back then. Sure I didn't personally make a bomb (I would have) but you could have locked me up many times over for incendiary devices, or as I got older, reckless driving.
It's sad that it's come to this. How many of the worlds smartest people did dangerous things when they were kids? How many electrical engineers played with electricity? How many fire fighters played with fires? How many SWAT team members shot guns and made bombs? How many architects, civil engieers or constructions workers built forts out of wood the re-appropriated from their neighbors fences? How many lemon-aid stand kids are now rich capitalists?
Our government now only promotes mediocrity, not excellence.
I had someone give me a voodoo5 5500. a huge dual processor video card. It was neat, but quickly became outdated...
Now I'm pretty sure my 1st gen Iphone can out compute it.