Please, explain to me what was so bad about the ending to BSG?
Now, if you want to see a godawful ending to a show, watch the finale of Lost. I was all set to buy every season of Lost on DVD until they showed the final two episodes.
They supported it because they knew that they were going to have large taxes imposed on them - which they did. They made a futile attempt to pay off the Democrats into not placing those large taxes on them. The amusing thing is that if they hadn't attempted to buy off the Democrats, the bill probably wouldn't have passed since Democrats always came back to "See - the pharmaceutical companies support the bill!". Your explanation does explain insurance companies supporting it, but not pharmaceutical companies.
"The App Store" refers specifically to Apple. Android is called "The Marketplace" and.........well, I don't know anyone who uses other devices to have a clue what they call their stores.
The difference between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia - lets see.....
Mass executions of anyone the leaders didn't like? Yup, both groups did that.
Government control of industries and most all businesses? Yup, both groups did that.
Absurd laws limiting behavior with extreme punishments (often death)? Yup, both groups did that.
Projects to brainwash children into mindlessly following government ideology? Yup, both groups did that.
Crap...I forgot, I was supposed to be making a list of DIFFERENCES....hm, looks like I couldn't find any other than one was in Russia and the other was in Germany.
Democrats are pro business? I'd love to visit the alternate reality in which you live. I've yet to see a Democrat give a speech or an interview where they DIDN'T demonize businesses and clamor for the "evil businesses" to be punished.
Except you can't - with voting machines and scan-tron ballots, there's either no way to register that or it would simply be thrown out and ignored. Face it, the people are pretty powerless when it comes to elections in the US. I'm at the point now of considering not wasting my time voting. Regardless of who wins, the American people lose.
Exactly. That's why I always tell people that I can offend members of both parties - I'm very liberal socially (though not the "gay pride" or "enviro-nut" stuff - I just support people being able to do what they want as long as they're not harming anyone, no promoting special interest agendas) and very conservative economically (only necessary government regulations on businesses to prevent abuses, no taxes for non-essential programs, etc). Either way, people get pissy with me for not blindly following one side or the other.
If American Democrats are "right of center"... what is Center?
Apparently, the Soviet Union from my best guess. I've yet to see people on the left call someone left-wing that's short of a dictator - anything else they call a "moderate" or "right wing". As a journalist once put it, most left-wing people live in densely packed left-wing area's - so they're distorted into thinking that "extreme left wing" is "moderate" and that anything short of absolute government control of everything is "right wing". I've known plenty of people from extremely liberal area's who spend their time railing on about the virtues of communism and yet claim that they're moderate, simply because everyone from where they grew up is as far left as they are.
I'd guess because, sans a few companies like MS, Apple, and Google, it's because most tech companies don't make enough money to trip the governments "lets fine them to get some more tax revenue" gauge.
What about all the money pharmaceutical companies donated to the Democrats to try (unsuccessfully) to get the Democrats to go easy on the raping with Obamacare?
It's a problem all over the world - idiots think that by doing as their enemy wishes, they'll get a lesser punishment once the enemy seizes power. You don't, you just sacrifice your dignity and validate the enemies position.
The problem with Myst wasn't that it was hard - it was that they gave you no hint whatsoever about what you were supposed to do. It's akin to me locking you in a room with a tv, stack of movies, pc with plenty of games, and some glue and popsicle sticks and expecting you to build the Eiffel Tower out of the popsicle sticks.
The situation is made worse by the trend of adding "experience" to multiplayer shooters, so that the more you play, the better weapons you have. It makes it impossible for someone who has a job and a life to ever win because they're always going up against people who have no life and play the game 'round the clock.
Exactly. There was a great Queen of Wands comic about this a few years back. A girl goes to buy a PS2 and the salesman tries to get her to buy the one with a modem because "you can play online with other people". She tells him "I play video games so that I don't HAVE to interact with other people". I play video games to escape from real life, not so I can go online and meet some jackass who ruins the game.
If you don't like the democratic or republican candidate - support a third party candidate that does agree with your views.
Except it's not really an option in the US. It's not just a matter of social custom, but the media actively work against any third party candidate or any candidate (republican or democrat) who wants to try to defy what the media wants. Ron Paul is a great example of this during the primaries for the 2008 election - the media did their best to ignore him and not show the clips from his debates and if they did, they twisted things to try to make him look evil for wanting to reign in the governments ever expanding power and actually follow the Constitution. Then there's also the matter of MONEY when it comes to campaigns and due to the way the system is set up, third parties will have a very hard time getting the money to advertise enough for the majority of people to know that they exist, let alone what they stand for.
I'd love to see third parties rise up, but realistically unless we get some laws passed forcing changes to the way campaigns are run, it's never going to happen.
It never NEEDED to be made official because for the previous 400 years, everyone who came here learned English if they didn't already know it. However, in the last 15-20 years there's been a huge pro-Mexican movement derived from the massive influx of illegals and they think it's OK to refuse to learn English and that society should change for that small percent that refuses to learn English. We do need a law that makes English the official language, and quickly.
It's support for older software was godawful (it amuses me that most of my old software had issues on Vista 32-bit yet runs perfectly fine on 7 64-bit). It's game performance was crap (on the same system I had games on a bran new system with Vista that ran at about 3 fps and after I reformatted and installed XP, they ran perfectly). It was slow and used WAY more resources than necessary (a system meeting the minimum specs for Vista crawls, where a system meeting the minimum specs for 7 works just fine).
Now, on the last batches of machines shipping with Vista, it was alright since they'd had three years up updates and fixes included, but due to the idiotic way Vista did patches, if you had an older version of Vista there was no guarantee that it would let you download all the new updates.
Sounds like the name of a line of Apple branded external hard drives. "You really should buy an iDataCenter drive to backup your files on your new MacBook - only an extra $300 for a 1 TB iDataCenter drive!"
Federal approval, though you have to do extra to get approved for California. I haven't been able to find the actual numbers, but I know that the cost is pretty high for jumping through all the regulatory hoops and, in some cases, modifying an engine to meet the higher emissions standards in the US.
It's wonderfully ironic that the very government that pushes people to buy higher mpg vehicles makes it incredibly difficult to get high mpg diesel cars in the US.
It's news because the US doesn't allow diesels like that to be sold here (well, technically they're allowed, the government just makes it such a hassle and so expensive that companies WON'T sell them here).
That's why the BMW 330d doesn't get as great of mpg as you would expect, because BMW would only pay to get one diesel engine approved for use in the US and they had to have an engine that could work for their SUV's as well.
So the idiot who poured coffee in her lap was a multi-billion dollar corporation? Funny, I always thought she was someone found on "people of wal-mart".
Republican efforts to kill the auto industry? You've GOT to be fucking kidding. Just because they were against bailing out companies that ran themselves into the ground through incompetent management, low quality products, and overpaid union workers does NOT mean that they were trying to "kill" the industry, merely make then accountable for their actions. I find it amusing that Democrats such as yourself screamed bloody murder about bailing out banks (which, while distasteful, prevented the collapse of the financial industry which would make it virtually impossible for people to buy cars, homes, or go to college for several years until we had a new banking industry), yet you're cheering on bailing out the auto industry which knew for well over a decade that they were going to go bust if they didn't make changes and they never did.
At the university level, tuitions were raised, making college unaffordable to many students
Bullshit. They may not be able to go to their dream school, but college is plenty affordable. Most public colleges only cost around $10,000 a year for in-state tuition. You could *gasp!* take out loans or work while in school, etc if by some reason you HAD to go to a more expensive school. I worked and took out loans through college and I'm doing the same for grad school, as have countless others. It's only those who either A) are looking for an excuse not to go to college or B) think that everything should be free who claim that college is "unaffordable" and that they can't go as a result.
I've heard this claim many a time, but I've never had issues with full screen Flash when running linux, even back in the Ubuntu 5.x days. Maybe the issue is hardware related? I've always used Nvidia cards and (since I'm a gamer and dual boot) tend to have pretty powerful systems.
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I guess this proves the title of Michael Savage's one book correct - Liberalism really IS a mental disorder!
**Not trolling, it was just too close to the title of his book to pass up making a comment.**
Please, explain to me what was so bad about the ending to BSG?
Now, if you want to see a godawful ending to a show, watch the finale of Lost. I was all set to buy every season of Lost on DVD until they showed the final two episodes.
They supported it because they knew that they were going to have large taxes imposed on them - which they did. They made a futile attempt to pay off the Democrats into not placing those large taxes on them. The amusing thing is that if they hadn't attempted to buy off the Democrats, the bill probably wouldn't have passed since Democrats always came back to "See - the pharmaceutical companies support the bill!". Your explanation does explain insurance companies supporting it, but not pharmaceutical companies.
"The App Store" refers specifically to Apple. Android is called "The Marketplace" and.........well, I don't know anyone who uses other devices to have a clue what they call their stores.
The difference between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia - lets see.....
Mass executions of anyone the leaders didn't like? Yup, both groups did that.
Government control of industries and most all businesses? Yup, both groups did that.
Absurd laws limiting behavior with extreme punishments (often death)? Yup, both groups did that.
Projects to brainwash children into mindlessly following government ideology? Yup, both groups did that.
Crap...I forgot, I was supposed to be making a list of DIFFERENCES....hm, looks like I couldn't find any other than one was in Russia and the other was in Germany.
Democrats are pro business? I'd love to visit the alternate reality in which you live. I've yet to see a Democrat give a speech or an interview where they DIDN'T demonize businesses and clamor for the "evil businesses" to be punished.
Except you can't - with voting machines and scan-tron ballots, there's either no way to register that or it would simply be thrown out and ignored. Face it, the people are pretty powerless when it comes to elections in the US. I'm at the point now of considering not wasting my time voting. Regardless of who wins, the American people lose.
Exactly. That's why I always tell people that I can offend members of both parties - I'm very liberal socially (though not the "gay pride" or "enviro-nut" stuff - I just support people being able to do what they want as long as they're not harming anyone, no promoting special interest agendas) and very conservative economically (only necessary government regulations on businesses to prevent abuses, no taxes for non-essential programs, etc). Either way, people get pissy with me for not blindly following one side or the other.
If American Democrats are "right of center" ... what is Center?
Apparently, the Soviet Union from my best guess. I've yet to see people on the left call someone left-wing that's short of a dictator - anything else they call a "moderate" or "right wing". As a journalist once put it, most left-wing people live in densely packed left-wing area's - so they're distorted into thinking that "extreme left wing" is "moderate" and that anything short of absolute government control of everything is "right wing". I've known plenty of people from extremely liberal area's who spend their time railing on about the virtues of communism and yet claim that they're moderate, simply because everyone from where they grew up is as far left as they are.
I'd guess because, sans a few companies like MS, Apple, and Google, it's because most tech companies don't make enough money to trip the governments "lets fine them to get some more tax revenue" gauge.
What about all the money pharmaceutical companies donated to the Democrats to try (unsuccessfully) to get the Democrats to go easy on the raping with Obamacare?
It's a problem all over the world - idiots think that by doing as their enemy wishes, they'll get a lesser punishment once the enemy seizes power. You don't, you just sacrifice your dignity and validate the enemies position.
They were - but again, you had to figure out what was a puzzle and what was useless, then dig through tons of useless stuff in the library.
The problem with Myst wasn't that it was hard - it was that they gave you no hint whatsoever about what you were supposed to do. It's akin to me locking you in a room with a tv, stack of movies, pc with plenty of games, and some glue and popsicle sticks and expecting you to build the Eiffel Tower out of the popsicle sticks.
The situation is made worse by the trend of adding "experience" to multiplayer shooters, so that the more you play, the better weapons you have. It makes it impossible for someone who has a job and a life to ever win because they're always going up against people who have no life and play the game 'round the clock.
Exactly. There was a great Queen of Wands comic about this a few years back. A girl goes to buy a PS2 and the salesman tries to get her to buy the one with a modem because "you can play online with other people". She tells him "I play video games so that I don't HAVE to interact with other people". I play video games to escape from real life, not so I can go online and meet some jackass who ruins the game.
If you don't like the democratic or republican candidate - support a third party candidate that does agree with your views.
Except it's not really an option in the US. It's not just a matter of social custom, but the media actively work against any third party candidate or any candidate (republican or democrat) who wants to try to defy what the media wants. Ron Paul is a great example of this during the primaries for the 2008 election - the media did their best to ignore him and not show the clips from his debates and if they did, they twisted things to try to make him look evil for wanting to reign in the governments ever expanding power and actually follow the Constitution. Then there's also the matter of MONEY when it comes to campaigns and due to the way the system is set up, third parties will have a very hard time getting the money to advertise enough for the majority of people to know that they exist, let alone what they stand for.
I'd love to see third parties rise up, but realistically unless we get some laws passed forcing changes to the way campaigns are run, it's never going to happen.
It never NEEDED to be made official because for the previous 400 years, everyone who came here learned English if they didn't already know it. However, in the last 15-20 years there's been a huge pro-Mexican movement derived from the massive influx of illegals and they think it's OK to refuse to learn English and that society should change for that small percent that refuses to learn English. We do need a law that makes English the official language, and quickly.
What sucked about Vista?
It's support for older software was godawful (it amuses me that most of my old software had issues on Vista 32-bit yet runs perfectly fine on 7 64-bit). It's game performance was crap (on the same system I had games on a bran new system with Vista that ran at about 3 fps and after I reformatted and installed XP, they ran perfectly). It was slow and used WAY more resources than necessary (a system meeting the minimum specs for Vista crawls, where a system meeting the minimum specs for 7 works just fine).
Now, on the last batches of machines shipping with Vista, it was alright since they'd had three years up updates and fixes included, but due to the idiotic way Vista did patches, if you had an older version of Vista there was no guarantee that it would let you download all the new updates.
Sounds like the name of a line of Apple branded external hard drives. "You really should buy an iDataCenter drive to backup your files on your new MacBook - only an extra $300 for a 1 TB iDataCenter drive!"
Federal approval, though you have to do extra to get approved for California. I haven't been able to find the actual numbers, but I know that the cost is pretty high for jumping through all the regulatory hoops and, in some cases, modifying an engine to meet the higher emissions standards in the US.
It's wonderfully ironic that the very government that pushes people to buy higher mpg vehicles makes it incredibly difficult to get high mpg diesel cars in the US.
It's news because the US doesn't allow diesels like that to be sold here (well, technically they're allowed, the government just makes it such a hassle and so expensive that companies WON'T sell them here).
That's why the BMW 330d doesn't get as great of mpg as you would expect, because BMW would only pay to get one diesel engine approved for use in the US and they had to have an engine that could work for their SUV's as well.
So the idiot who poured coffee in her lap was a multi-billion dollar corporation? Funny, I always thought she was someone found on "people of wal-mart".
Republican efforts to kill the auto industry? You've GOT to be fucking kidding. Just because they were against bailing out companies that ran themselves into the ground through incompetent management, low quality products, and overpaid union workers does NOT mean that they were trying to "kill" the industry, merely make then accountable for their actions. I find it amusing that Democrats such as yourself screamed bloody murder about bailing out banks (which, while distasteful, prevented the collapse of the financial industry which would make it virtually impossible for people to buy cars, homes, or go to college for several years until we had a new banking industry), yet you're cheering on bailing out the auto industry which knew for well over a decade that they were going to go bust if they didn't make changes and they never did.
At the university level, tuitions were raised, making college unaffordable to many students
Bullshit. They may not be able to go to their dream school, but college is plenty affordable. Most public colleges only cost around $10,000 a year for in-state tuition. You could *gasp!* take out loans or work while in school, etc if by some reason you HAD to go to a more expensive school. I worked and took out loans through college and I'm doing the same for grad school, as have countless others. It's only those who either A) are looking for an excuse not to go to college or B) think that everything should be free who claim that college is "unaffordable" and that they can't go as a result.
I've heard this claim many a time, but I've never had issues with full screen Flash when running linux, even back in the Ubuntu 5.x days. Maybe the issue is hardware related? I've always used Nvidia cards and (since I'm a gamer and dual boot) tend to have pretty powerful systems.