Wait for the ARM invasion. If hardware CAN run Windows vendors are always going to get pressured to load it. The ARM machines simply can't do it. Give a choice between a full Linux desktop, Android and WinCE and Microsoft's offering is going to come up a little short.
Would you be so sure about that? The whole point of a netbook is that you can basically do a few simple things. If you can do that with WinCE as well as Linux, then what difference does it make? The whole value proposition of Linux is that it has a full server stack with it. You don't need that with a netbook.
Those books are not yours. That's the fundamental thing. THAT PROPERTY IS NOT YOURS. If I am Joe author of a book, and Google scans it, I have every right to demand Google yank it back out. Convenience is not an excuse to violate civil rights.
.and then she finally has a REAL reason to kill herself, or what do you want to tell us?
See, why would you kill yourself though, in a situation like that. Why not kill all the people that keep calling you. That's what I don't get. You get all these guys that lost it all, and take it out on their families...I don't condone what these people do, but, if you are going to do it, then, you may as well take one for the team and take out a couple of incompetent CEOs, politicians, and what not. Seriously, if one of these people that went on a kiling spree went and shot up Davos instead, do you really think the public would be outraged? I'm not saying its right. It's not.
Just because some people are in the doo deeply enough that an archeological dig wouldn't find them doesn't mean that I should be happy when I only got it up past my nose
No, actually, the good old USA. The big dirty secret of credit cards is that, there's really not a whole lot that banks can really do to you. You have all the leverage with them. You have their money, and what can they do? Take back 20,000 cigarette butts, reclaim 2000 gallons of gasoline, or somehow auction off empty mcdonald's cartons? They might get one of those TGI-Friday's ceramic onion ring dip holders, but that's about it. When a bank gives you a credit card, despite all their harassment, phone calls, everything else, you are holding all the cards, you have all the power, not they. The debt is -unsecured-.
The funny thing is, as spoiled and weak is this new generation supposedly is, they have been one of the best military generations this country has had. They seem to have held unit cohesion and pretty much won a counter-insurgency in Iraq, all the while at a tempo and rate of enemy contact that is pretty far above that of many other wars.
and so on. In the modern, free west, you can anonymously report anyone for anything. At some point, just having to say how great the king is might actually be a better deal than getting nickle and dimed over every federal regulation.
I know a lot of WOMEN Republicans who liked McCain but were absolutely furious at the pick of Palin. Palin was a two edged sword. She got a lot of people fired up but she also lost a lot of people. Had Palin not flubbed Katie Couric, it might have been different, but, a lot of women looked at her, and said, "jeez, I though we were the party of working and being successful and you guys went and picked a bimbo."...
Or songs, or even movies have one great writer, or one great director...
Even corporations always shine at their best when they have that one visionary founder or leader. Rockefeller drove Standard Oil.. Henry Ford drove, well, Ford, Gates drove Microsoft... and, even GM in its prime, was basically dominated by Sloan. You have to have that one person in charge, who also has a vision.
The girl needs to get a grip. Just wait till she gets older, screws up, buys a house bigger than she can afford, runs up 30k in credit cards that gets ramped up to 100k because the overlimit charges are just enough to wipe payments out, bringing on more overlimit charges... sooner or later, you learn to just pay what you can, unplug the phone, and move on with life.
You might be able to make a movie but the best stories are the one that one guy thinks up and makes. Committees do not make things great. Please do not hold Linux up as an example of otherwise. Linux is a collection of successful programs, each of which is run by a benevolent dictator of some kind.
Oh, did they? Let's see. Obama went to Europe looking for two things: a European style stimulus package like the one that he passed, and more troops for Afghanistan. He got neither. In fact, I dare say that Bush got more cooperation out of Europe than Obama has thus far, and, I bet the historical record will show that the Coalition of the Willing will top any military coalition that Obama would be able to put together, regardless of the cause. As soon as Obama put the missile bases on the table, he lost the support of eastern europe, and, what's really foolish, is that he also lost meaningful support of Great Britain. But I guess our harvard educated law professor missed that class that showed just how much Britain valued the sovereignty of eastern european nations, particularly Poland. Dick Cheney didn't.
Show me where? Please... All I see is a President that put out a threat to shoot down a North Korean missile, backed down from it in the face of North Korean threats of war, and then, to cover up this whole sorry demonstration of his weakness, makes some ridiculous speech calling for the end of nuclear weapons. What a total joke! Just a failure of a President. He should start wearing a big kick me sign on his ass... in fact the French probably stuck one on him while he didn't know it... the whole G20 summit was a failure.
Well let's think about the nuances of this. Obama goes to Europe, embarrasses the country by continually apologizing for everything, gets stiffed by the Europeans on the war and on economics, backs down from North Korean threats and lets them launch their rocket at Japan, and then, expects that the Security Council will accomplish something more than issue a letter saying they will "remain seized of the moment."
He isn't naive. Nobody is gonna get rid of their nukes, especially the USA, and he knows it. It puts international pressure on countries who really have no business with them. It is just good politics
But the thing is, you have to take the man at his word, and I think he really that naive. I really think he does believe that the world is like Star Trek, where you can have a meeting with someone that totally hates you, and suddenly love breaks out. There's nothing that tells me that he believes otherwise.
I just, can't say enough... goes and lets North Korea shoot a rocket... oh, he'll get a warning letter out of the UN, is going to sit and watch the world gather up nukes... and he wants to disarm the USA? Even worse, he's basically going to eliminate nuclear power to do it?
Obama is an idiot. Why doesn't he go out and buy a unicorn for Sasha and Meliah and sing happy love the earth songs...
The problem is that the Global WArming brand was pushed so hard by certain groups that it became -the- brand, regardless of whatever scientists might have called it. Hansen called it Global Warming. Al Gore called it Global Warming. Plenty of environmental advocacy groups called it Global Warming and that was the message that stuck in the public mind, not, what scientists decided to call it in journals that don't have mass circulation.
Minnesota was just an example of "some place"... not be taken literally. Satellite temperatures show North America was quite bit warmer than normal in Jan 2009 but has been cooling off since.
I have no faith that cap and trade will work. The President's budget basically goes and gathers up all these CO2 taxes and then spends it on health care. That to me tells me what cap and trade really is, just another redistribution of wealth scheme. Can't get enough from taxing income, so now we have to pay taxes every time we build a fire. Go figure.
If we really wanted to get reduce greenhouse gasses, then we would be building nuclear power plants, because, if the nation so willed it, we could build sufficient plants to replace all of our coal, oil and nat gas plants in a decade. But, its not that important and so we'll dick with windmills and solar and pretty much nothing will change, the CO2 will keep going up, and so will the taxes. But this isn't going to help the environment... it never has been about the environment. It's just another socialist scheme, like we've said all along.
I predict that regardless of what treaty Obama signs, or cap and trade he signs, the Earth's CO2 will be higher in 10 years than it is today.
The name Climate Change is a lie. If its global warming that you are hawking, you don't change what you are selling because the guy in minnesota is having the worst winter ever. This kind of constant rebranding just infuriates me because it makes me think that the people doing it are a mess of liars. If you think the planet is warming up, call it global warming, because that's what it is.
the problem of expecting a CO2 market to emerge is that its basically worthless. Everybody can make CO2, its the getting rid of it is that tricky part. If you really wanted to make money, then take a CO2 tax, and then use the money to construct giant atmospheric scrubbers.
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Wait for the ARM invasion. If hardware CAN run Windows vendors are always going to get pressured to load it. The ARM machines simply can't do it. Give a choice between a full Linux desktop, Android and WinCE and Microsoft's offering is going to come up a little short.
Would you be so sure about that? The whole point of a netbook is that you can basically do a few simple things. If you can do that with WinCE as well as Linux, then what difference does it make? The whole value proposition of Linux is that it has a full server stack with it. You don't need that with a netbook.
And...who takes the check? What if he died in obscurity without any heirs or known relatives back in 1947?
That would obviously be me then. :-)
Except you died. Your estate wants nothing really to do with your book and the last known publication was 20 years ago.
And now, someone actually wants to read the book...
Then, write the estate a check. Gee, isn't that simple!
Joe Author needs a reality check. Abandoned property is no longer "his".
So, does that mean that I can go rummage through your attic and start taking all your stuff because you haven't used it in a while?
It's theft dude.
Those books are not yours. That's the fundamental thing. THAT PROPERTY IS NOT YOURS. If I am Joe author of a book, and Google scans it, I have every right to demand Google yank it back out. Convenience is not an excuse to violate civil rights.
.and then she finally has a REAL reason to kill herself, or what do you want to tell us?
See, why would you kill yourself though, in a situation like that. Why not kill all the people that keep calling you. That's what I don't get. You get all these guys that lost it all, and take it out on their families...I don't condone what these people do, but, if you are going to do it, then, you may as well take one for the team and take out a couple of incompetent CEOs, politicians, and what not. Seriously, if one of these people that went on a kiling spree went and shot up Davos instead, do you really think the public would be outraged? I'm not saying its right. It's not.
Just because some people are in the doo deeply enough that an archeological dig wouldn't find them doesn't mean that I should be happy when I only got it up past my nose
Sometimes you just have to "man up".
No, actually, the good old USA. The big dirty secret of credit cards is that, there's really not a whole lot that banks can really do to you. You have all the leverage with them. You have their money, and what can they do? Take back 20,000 cigarette butts, reclaim 2000 gallons of gasoline, or somehow auction off empty mcdonald's cartons? They might get one of those TGI-Friday's ceramic onion ring dip holders, but that's about it. When a bank gives you a credit card, despite all their harassment, phone calls, everything else, you are holding all the cards, you have all the power, not they. The debt is -unsecured-.
The funny thing is, as spoiled and weak is this new generation supposedly is, they have been one of the best military generations this country has had. They seem to have held unit cohesion and pretty much won a counter-insurgency in Iraq, all the while at a tempo and rate of enemy contact that is pretty far above that of many other wars.
http://www.epa.gov/tips/
http://www.siia.net/piracy/report.asp?gclid=COCrrZOs3JkCFRwDagodUxSNVg
and so on. In the modern, free west, you can anonymously report anyone for anything. At some point, just having to say how great the king is might actually be a better deal than getting nickle and dimed over every federal regulation.
I know a lot of WOMEN Republicans who liked McCain but were absolutely furious at the pick of Palin. Palin was a two edged sword. She got a lot of people fired up but she also lost a lot of people. Had Palin not flubbed Katie Couric, it might have been different, but, a lot of women looked at her, and said, "jeez, I though we were the party of working and being successful and you guys went and picked a bimbo."...
Or songs, or even movies have one great writer, or one great director...
Even corporations always shine at their best when they have that one visionary founder or leader. Rockefeller drove Standard Oil.. Henry Ford drove, well, Ford, Gates drove Microsoft... and, even GM in its prime, was basically dominated by Sloan. You have to have that one person in charge, who also has a vision.
The girl needs to get a grip. Just wait till she gets older, screws up, buys a house bigger than she can afford, runs up 30k in credit cards that gets ramped up to 100k because the overlimit charges are just enough to wipe payments out, bringing on more overlimit charges... sooner or later, you learn to just pay what you can, unplug the phone, and move on with life.
You might be able to make a movie but the best stories are the one that one guy thinks up and makes. Committees do not make things great. Please do not hold Linux up as an example of otherwise. Linux is a collection of successful programs, each of which is run by a benevolent dictator of some kind.
The Europeans loved Obama...
Oh, did they? Let's see. Obama went to Europe looking for two things: a European style stimulus package like the one that he passed, and more troops for Afghanistan. He got neither. In fact, I dare say that Bush got more cooperation out of Europe than Obama has thus far, and, I bet the historical record will show that the Coalition of the Willing will top any military coalition that Obama would be able to put together, regardless of the cause. As soon as Obama put the missile bases on the table, he lost the support of eastern europe, and, what's really foolish, is that he also lost meaningful support of Great Britain. But I guess our harvard educated law professor missed that class that showed just how much Britain valued the sovereignty of eastern european nations, particularly Poland. Dick Cheney didn't.
Show me where? Please... All I see is a President that put out a threat to shoot down a North Korean missile, backed down from it in the face of North Korean threats of war, and then, to cover up this whole sorry demonstration of his weakness, makes some ridiculous speech calling for the end of nuclear weapons. What a total joke! Just a failure of a President. He should start wearing a big kick me sign on his ass... in fact the French probably stuck one on him while he didn't know it... the whole G20 summit was a failure.
Obama is a joke.
No capability for critical thought, or nuance.
Well let's think about the nuances of this. Obama goes to Europe, embarrasses the country by continually apologizing for everything, gets stiffed by the Europeans on the war and on economics, backs down from North Korean threats and lets them launch their rocket at Japan, and then, expects that the Security Council will accomplish something more than issue a letter saying they will "remain seized of the moment."
How much failure do you need in a week?
He isn't naive. Nobody is gonna get rid of their nukes, especially the USA, and he knows it. It puts international pressure on countries who really have no business with them. It is just good politics
But the thing is, you have to take the man at his word, and I think he really that naive. I really think he does believe that the world is like Star Trek, where you can have a meeting with someone that totally hates you, and suddenly love breaks out. There's nothing that tells me that he believes otherwise.
I just, can't say enough... goes and lets North Korea shoot a rocket... oh, he'll get a warning letter out of the UN, is going to sit and watch the world gather up nukes... and he wants to disarm the USA? Even worse, he's basically going to eliminate nuclear power to do it?
Obama is an idiot. Why doesn't he go out and buy a unicorn for Sasha and Meliah and sing happy love the earth songs...
The problem is that the Global WArming brand was pushed so hard by certain groups that it became -the- brand, regardless of whatever scientists might have called it. Hansen called it Global Warming. Al Gore called it Global Warming. Plenty of environmental advocacy groups called it Global Warming and that was the message that stuck in the public mind, not, what scientists decided to call it in journals that don't have mass circulation.
Minnesota was just an example of "some place"... not be taken literally. Satellite temperatures show North America was quite bit warmer than normal in Jan 2009 but has been cooling off since.
I have no faith that cap and trade will work. The President's budget basically goes and gathers up all these CO2 taxes and then spends it on health care. That to me tells me what cap and trade really is, just another redistribution of wealth scheme. Can't get enough from taxing income, so now we have to pay taxes every time we build a fire. Go figure.
If we really wanted to get reduce greenhouse gasses, then we would be building nuclear power plants, because, if the nation so willed it, we could build sufficient plants to replace all of our coal, oil and nat gas plants in a decade. But, its not that important and so we'll dick with windmills and solar and pretty much nothing will change, the CO2 will keep going up, and so will the taxes. But this isn't going to help the environment... it never has been about the environment. It's just another socialist scheme, like we've said all along.
I predict that regardless of what treaty Obama signs, or cap and trade he signs, the Earth's CO2 will be higher in 10 years than it is today.
Maybe we should make computers out of them. In fact, they did...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_abacus
Uh, I think the guy is needlessly cynical. I know a lot of Navy guys that run our nukes and, they do know them inside and out.
The name Climate Change is a lie. If its global warming that you are hawking, you don't change what you are selling because the guy in minnesota is having the worst winter ever. This kind of constant rebranding just infuriates me because it makes me think that the people doing it are a mess of liars. If you think the planet is warming up, call it global warming, because that's what it is.
the problem of expecting a CO2 market to emerge is that its basically worthless. Everybody can make CO2, its the getting rid of it is that tricky part. If you really wanted to make money, then take a CO2 tax, and then use the money to construct giant atmospheric scrubbers.