This guys argument reminds me vaguely of the guy who asked about Itchy striking Scratchy's same rib twice and making two distinct notes.
Apple is the top of the technology food chain now. I dislike Apple's marketing and pricing and corporate shenanigans - especially their views on "approving" software that I can run - and their success annoys me. So I get where this guy is coming from, though it's a pretty petty complaint.
I just hope the iPhone 4 inspires HTC to release an updated version of the Incredible with a front facing camera. Otherwise, the specs are either very close or better on the HTC.
Plus, it doesn't require a $30 accessory cable that will last three months, or force me to ask permission to run the apps that I want. Hell, it even gets reception in major cities! Which is good when you need to make phone calls.
No, I'm talking about the cap. The oil companies lobbied for a cap of 75 million on environmental disasters that could cost billions. How is it that the liability on something like P2P file sharing is in the trillions when there are virtually zero real costs to ending it's impact on the injured party?
It represents an imbalance that is pretty bleeding obvious.
You know, the justice system is at least supposed to give the illusion of justice in order to work. Apparently I can destroy the ecosystem of a good 20% of the American coastline and pay 20,000 times less than a company that made P2P file sharing easier.
After 9/11, we could have easily used the national will to ditch foreign oil like Carter tried to do in the late 1970s. Unfortunately, we were told to get back to work and keep shopping, while the terrorists were "brought to justice."
Nearly ten years later, we have no high level convictions in any court, only dead suspects. Our economy has been wrecked by tax cuts during a time in which we spent an extra three trillion dollars or so on military expenditures. We've doubled the death toll of Americans, maimed thousands more, killed at least one hundred thousand civilians, and we are still happily sending cash directly into the pockets of the people who fund Al Qaeda.
Oil is also mainly responsible for the looming climate change that may spur even more resource wars across the world, not to mention the simple catastrophic effects of having it spill anywhere.
They don't call oil the devil's excrement for nothing.
Government dollars are for difficult projects that improve our lives, like trillion dollar wars, multi million dollar arms sales to future enemies we'll fight in trillion dollar wars, and so forth.
Easy things like cancer research that carry zero benefit for the population at large should be privately owned forever by unaccountable tyrannies. Not only do we spend billions of dollars on erectile dysfunction research and marketing instead of cancer, but the drug companies also get to spend two to four times more money for marketing than research, which results in lots of awesome TV commercials.
In a state as blessed as Texas, they were told that God would provide protection against acts of God. I imagine many of the faithful are confused, especially when Jesus day is only a few days away.
Maybe they didn't execute enough retarded people this year?
True. I'm sure that secret software mandated by a communist government to be installed at their ISP is entirely in the best interests of their population.
Cisco's Backdoor for Hackers Cisco isn't actually the primary target of Cross' critique. He points out that all networking companies are legally required to build lawful intercepts into their equipment.
You can proceed with whatever rambling rationalization your reality demands.
Before making comments like that, you may want to check your numbers a bit better, because you just hit grand prize on the exaggeration scale... if you can bring positive proof that tens of thousands of Iraqi children have died as a consequence of this war, as well as proof that millions of professional Iraqi men even exist, then you my friend would almost certainly make the headlines in every major newspaper and station in the country
Do you think the major media outlets are in the habit of telling the truth about the Iraq War? From 2003 to 2008, about 9% of all violent deaths in Iraq were children. That brings the number of dead children to a minimum of 9,000, and that's the lowest estimate possible according to Iraq Body Count. If you believe the Lancet, that number could be as high as 54,000. This does not even begin to address infant mortality issues, or deaths caused by the deplorable conditions we created by destroying Iraq's infrastructure.
As to your comment about professional Iraqi men, that just illustrates your unbelievable ignorance. Iraq was one of the most secular, highly educated and literate cultures in the Middle East. It was one of the few places were women could receive an education. And yes, over two million Iraqis have fled their home country because of the civil war there, with millions more internally displaced. Most of these people are middle class citizens.
I'm just saying get your damn numbers right
I'm just saying you're an ignorant fuck. Full stop.
Oh, and you know what's funny, the professional Iraqi citizens were leaving the country at every opportunity even BEFORE the war! I think it had something to do with a very controlling leader, and a lack of well paying jobs... America has done nothing but made it a much more easy and pleasant process to leave. Sad but true.
Actually, it was the US sanctions that were strangling the country and killing half a million kids over a ten year period according to the UN. And no, the US has not made it easy to immigrate. There are less than 25,000 Iraqi immigrants in the United States. That's less than 3,500 per year.
you should be ashamed for badmouthing the hard working men and women who do serve, if anyone in your family really DID
I didn't say anything negative about anyone. I just said that while my grandparents both served in WWII, and two of their children served in Vietnam, I chose not to because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't providing safety or security to US citizens.
the year over year output of US manufacturing has gone up.. for a long time.
Not with respect to population increase or GDP output. Shall I explain what the word context means to you in some other way?
Regarding our debt situation: people are flocking to the USD because while we're screwed, the Euro is screwed even more.
The EU has more strict debt regulations. Greece's external debt is much better than ours in terms of percentage of GDP, but no one has any hope that they will recover as quickly as the United States.
The picture of the woman shoving wadfuls of marks into the furnce should be burned into everyone's mind.
If you think the United States looks anything like the rubble of Weimar Germany, then everything else you believe suddenly makes sense.
There are two commonly held misconceptions in your post:
1) the US manufacturing sector is in decline
The US export per GDP is now #179 in the world. That sounds pretty bad to me. Now, we have such a large economy that the raw numbers look great, but saying the US manufacturing sector isn't in a decline is pure nonsense. If I remember correctly, we're on the same performance level as Burma.
The US economy will cease to exist as you know it within your natural lifetime. I say "natural" lifetime because with the pending socio-political-economic collapse, many people will probably come to unnatural ends much sooner than they expect......The United States Federal government, as well as the governments of 49 of the 50 states, are legally insolvent. Not only is the federal government out of money, but the largest area of spending growth is debt servicing...
And more bullshit. Our external debt level is not even at an all time high (which was 120% after WWII). People are flocking from the Euro to the Dollar as we speak. No, really:
Global investors flock to US debt at record speed Gregory Daco, economist at HIS Global Insight, said the investment trends were clear evidence of trust in the US. "As the sovereign debt crisis in Greece intensified in March, foreign investors mostly sought refuge in the safe-haven US Treasury bonds and notes," he said.
"Nonetheless, government agency securities and corporate debt provided very attractive alternatives for investment – an encouraging sign that investors have faith in the US recovery."
No one said they raped babies. But their presence has caused the deaths of tens of thousand of Iraqi children, mostly due to destroyed infrastructure. It's forced millions of professional Iraqis out of their own country, forced many to live near pools of raw sewage, forced many Iraqi women to become prostitutes to provide for their family, and has created the ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda that did not exist before we invaded.
It's a fucking brutal mess that could have been avoided. The video is just proof of how many people die when Americans make mistakes. I'd bet my last dollar that a hundred times more people have died because of American "collateral damage" in the Iraq war than died on 9/11.
PS The last two generations of my family served. I chose not to because fighting for the US Military has nothing to do with defending the United States.
Inside those memos there could be a ton of sensitive information
There could be. Probably not, but seeing all of your mindless and uninformed speculation today, are you sure you didn't have a job post 9/11 looking for ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda? You seem to have the imagination and total lack of reasoning skills to accomplish the same mistake.
Not to mention that if the foreign governments, agencies or yes, terrorists
I do not fear terrorism, because to fear it would be to legitimize it. Terrorists are common criminals who should be arrested and tried under international law.
Your statement makes no logical sense. Any form of government could ban lobbying for any number of reasons.
There's a term for government that is run by the majority population. It's called a democracy, and if it's people choose, they can ban lobbying. And if that doesn't work, they can bring it back.
A country run by lobbyists paid by the rich is called a plutocracy, and while not quite as bad as some dictatorships, is still highly undesirable if you have any interest in equality before the law. I'd say paid lobbyists distort the government that's supposed to represent the will of the majority of americans, since lobbyist access is wealth dependent.
The hypocrisy can be summed up on that single page:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs explains why iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad do not support Flash and why open standards are the future of the web.
This demo was designed with the latest web standards supported by Safari. If you’d like to experience this demo, simply download Safari.
The next keynote should just have two massive murals of Stalin flanking the podium while Big Brother Steve tells you what you'll be allowed to do with your own equipment. And when he announces that they are no longer preventing you from running certain applications, that will become a feature. I guess he did learn a thing or two from Mr. Gates.
A University of Illinois research team is working on turning pig manure into a form of crude oil that could be refined to heat homes or generate electricity... Years of research and fine-tuning are ahead before the idea could be commercially viable -MSNBC
circumstantial evidence strongly favors a [biogenic] origin for almost all found to date. -The Straight Dope
Our findings illustrate that the abiotic synthesis of hydrocarbons in nature may occur in the presence of ultramafic rocks, water, and moderate amounts of heat. -WorldNetDaily
Skeptics say that while traces of abiotic hydrocarbons may exist, little data support the idea of economically meaningful deposits. "Companies have been looking for oil for 100 years. If all this abiogenic stuff is there, why haven't they found it?" asks geochemist Geoffrey Glasby, who spent nine months investigating the matter for a 2006 review paper in Resource Geology. He concluded the totality of the evidence did not support the concept. -Forbes (my link)
You may want to read the articles before you cite them.
PS: WorldNetDaily? Really? What's next, Mad Magazine and Star?
Why do you think replacing one form of finite energy with dangerous byproducts is superior to another form of finite energy with dangerous byproducts?
Nuclear can be a useful bridge, but we need to learn how to deal with the limitations of the energy that the sun provides on a daily basis, or harness the thermal energy of the Earth's core. Everything else is ultimately unsustainable.
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Ron Jeremy.
No, we're an ex jock with a coke problem they are still in denial about. We're wondering why we're always broke, when the answer is under our proverbial noses.
I will. I'll be in Manhattan making phone calls. Will you be using your second phone to accomplish the same task?
PS: Sorry you're too dumb to use computers. :-(
Only an Apple user would label making phone calls on a phone "politics."
This guys argument reminds me vaguely of the guy who asked about Itchy striking Scratchy's same rib twice and making two distinct notes.
Apple is the top of the technology food chain now. I dislike Apple's marketing and pricing and corporate shenanigans - especially their views on "approving" software that I can run - and their success annoys me. So I get where this guy is coming from, though it's a pretty petty complaint.
I just hope the iPhone 4 inspires HTC to release an updated version of the Incredible with a front facing camera. Otherwise, the specs are either very close or better on the HTC.
Plus, it doesn't require a $30 accessory cable that will last three months, or force me to ask permission to run the apps that I want. Hell, it even gets reception in major cities! Which is good when you need to make phone calls.
I'm sorry, the correct answer is: who gives a shit.
No, I'm talking about the cap. The oil companies lobbied for a cap of 75 million on environmental disasters that could cost billions. How is it that the liability on something like P2P file sharing is in the trillions when there are virtually zero real costs to ending it's impact on the injured party?
It represents an imbalance that is pretty bleeding obvious.
You know, the justice system is at least supposed to give the illusion of justice in order to work. Apparently I can destroy the ecosystem of a good 20% of the American coastline and pay 20,000 times less than a company that made P2P file sharing easier.
What. The. Fuck.
After 9/11, we could have easily used the national will to ditch foreign oil like Carter tried to do in the late 1970s. Unfortunately, we were told to get back to work and keep shopping, while the terrorists were "brought to justice."
Nearly ten years later, we have no high level convictions in any court, only dead suspects. Our economy has been wrecked by tax cuts during a time in which we spent an extra three trillion dollars or so on military expenditures. We've doubled the death toll of Americans, maimed thousands more, killed at least one hundred thousand civilians, and we are still happily sending cash directly into the pockets of the people who fund Al Qaeda.
Oil is also mainly responsible for the looming climate change that may spur even more resource wars across the world, not to mention the simple catastrophic effects of having it spill anywhere.
They don't call oil the devil's excrement for nothing.
Government dollars are for difficult projects that improve our lives, like trillion dollar wars, multi million dollar arms sales to future enemies we'll fight in trillion dollar wars, and so forth.
Easy things like cancer research that carry zero benefit for the population at large should be privately owned forever by unaccountable tyrannies. Not only do we spend billions of dollars on erectile dysfunction research and marketing instead of cancer, but the drug companies also get to spend two to four times more money for marketing than research, which results in lots of awesome TV commercials.
It's a win-win!
By the way, what's wrong with re-writing the textbooks to eliminate the hardcore pro-materialist bias?
Pro-materialist bias? Is that what you ingrates are calling science and history now?
Jesus, is that you?!?!
In a state as blessed as Texas, they were told that God would provide protection against acts of God. I imagine many of the faithful are confused, especially when Jesus day is only a few days away.
Maybe they didn't execute enough retarded people this year?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Day
True. I'm sure that secret software mandated by a communist government to be installed at their ISP is entirely in the best interests of their population.
Cisco's Backdoor for Hackers
Cisco isn't actually the primary target of Cross' critique. He points out that all networking companies are legally required to build lawful intercepts into their equipment.
You can proceed with whatever rambling rationalization your reality demands.
Before making comments like that, you may want to check your numbers a bit better, because you just hit grand prize on the exaggeration scale... if you can bring positive proof that tens of thousands of Iraqi children have died as a consequence of this war, as well as proof that millions of professional Iraqi men even exist, then you my friend would almost certainly make the headlines in every major newspaper and station in the country
Do you think the major media outlets are in the habit of telling the truth about the Iraq War? From 2003 to 2008, about 9% of all violent deaths in Iraq were children. That brings the number of dead children to a minimum of 9,000, and that's the lowest estimate possible according to Iraq Body Count. If you believe the Lancet, that number could be as high as 54,000. This does not even begin to address infant mortality issues, or deaths caused by the deplorable conditions we created by destroying Iraq's infrastructure.
As to your comment about professional Iraqi men, that just illustrates your unbelievable ignorance. Iraq was one of the most secular, highly educated and literate cultures in the Middle East. It was one of the few places were women could receive an education. And yes, over two million Iraqis have fled their home country because of the civil war there, with millions more internally displaced. Most of these people are middle class citizens.
I'm just saying get your damn numbers right
I'm just saying you're an ignorant fuck. Full stop.
Oh, and you know what's funny, the professional Iraqi citizens were leaving the country at every opportunity even BEFORE the war! I think it had something to do with a very controlling leader, and a lack of well paying jobs... America has done nothing but made it a much more easy and pleasant process to leave. Sad but true.
Actually, it was the US sanctions that were strangling the country and killing half a million kids over a ten year period according to the UN. And no, the US has not made it easy to immigrate. There are less than 25,000 Iraqi immigrants in the United States. That's less than 3,500 per year.
you should be ashamed for badmouthing the hard working men and women who do serve, if anyone in your family really DID
I didn't say anything negative about anyone. I just said that while my grandparents both served in WWII, and two of their children served in Vietnam, I chose not to because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't providing safety or security to US citizens.
the year over year output of US manufacturing has gone up.. for a long time.
Not with respect to population increase or GDP output. Shall I explain what the word context means to you in some other way?
Regarding our debt situation: people are flocking to the USD because while we're screwed, the Euro is screwed even more.
The EU has more strict debt regulations. Greece's external debt is much better than ours in terms of percentage of GDP, but no one has any hope that they will recover as quickly as the United States.
The picture of the woman shoving wadfuls of marks into the furnce should be burned into everyone's mind.
If you think the United States looks anything like the rubble of Weimar Germany, then everything else you believe suddenly makes sense.
There are two commonly held misconceptions in your post:
1) the US manufacturing sector is in decline
The US export per GDP is now #179 in the world. That sounds pretty bad to me. Now, we have such a large economy that the raw numbers look great, but saying the US manufacturing sector isn't in a decline is pure nonsense. If I remember correctly, we're on the same performance level as Burma.
The US economy will cease to exist as you know it within your natural lifetime. I say "natural" lifetime because with the pending socio-political-economic collapse, many people will probably come to unnatural ends much sooner than they expect... ...The United States Federal government, as well as the governments of 49 of the 50 states, are legally insolvent. Not only is the federal government out of money, but the largest area of spending growth is debt servicing...
And more bullshit. Our external debt level is not even at an all time high (which was 120% after WWII). People are flocking from the Euro to the Dollar as we speak. No, really:
Global investors flock to US debt at record speed
Gregory Daco, economist at HIS Global Insight, said the investment trends were clear evidence of trust in the US. "As the sovereign debt crisis in Greece intensified in March, foreign investors mostly sought refuge in the safe-haven US Treasury bonds and notes," he said.
"Nonetheless, government agency securities and corporate debt provided very attractive alternatives for investment – an encouraging sign that investors have faith in the US recovery."
YEah, those damn baby-rapists...
No one said they raped babies. But their presence has caused the deaths of tens of thousand of Iraqi children, mostly due to destroyed infrastructure. It's forced millions of professional Iraqis out of their own country, forced many to live near pools of raw sewage, forced many Iraqi women to become prostitutes to provide for their family, and has created the ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda that did not exist before we invaded.
It's a fucking brutal mess that could have been avoided. The video is just proof of how many people die when Americans make mistakes. I'd bet my last dollar that a hundred times more people have died because of American "collateral damage" in the Iraq war than died on 9/11.
PS The last two generations of my family served. I chose not to because fighting for the US Military has nothing to do with defending the United States.
Inside those memos there could be a ton of sensitive information
There could be. Probably not, but seeing all of your mindless and uninformed speculation today, are you sure you didn't have a job post 9/11 looking for ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda? You seem to have the imagination and total lack of reasoning skills to accomplish the same mistake.
Not to mention that if the foreign governments, agencies or yes, terrorists
I do not fear terrorism, because to fear it would be to legitimize it. Terrorists are common criminals who should be arrested and tried under international law.
Your statement makes no logical sense. Any form of government could ban lobbying for any number of reasons.
There's a term for government that is run by the majority population. It's called a democracy, and if it's people choose, they can ban lobbying. And if that doesn't work, they can bring it back.
A country run by lobbyists paid by the rich is called a plutocracy, and while not quite as bad as some dictatorships, is still highly undesirable if you have any interest in equality before the law. I'd say paid lobbyists distort the government that's supposed to represent the will of the majority of americans, since lobbyist access is wealth dependent.
Person thinks the rules only apply to other people. News at 11.
Hypocrisy isn't restricted to politics. It's just easier to see in people other than yourself.
The hypocrisy can be summed up on that single page:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs explains why iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad do not support Flash and why open standards are the future of the web.
This demo was designed with the latest web standards supported by Safari. If you’d like to experience this demo, simply download Safari.
The next keynote should just have two massive murals of Stalin flanking the podium while Big Brother Steve tells you what you'll be allowed to do with your own equipment. And when he announces that they are no longer preventing you from running certain applications, that will become a feature. I guess he did learn a thing or two from Mr. Gates.
A University of Illinois research team is working on turning pig manure into a form of crude oil that could be refined to heat homes or generate electricity... Years of research and fine-tuning are ahead before the idea could be commercially viable -MSNBC
circumstantial evidence strongly favors a [biogenic] origin for almost all found to date. -The Straight Dope
Our findings illustrate that the abiotic synthesis of hydrocarbons in nature may occur in the presence of ultramafic rocks, water, and moderate amounts of heat. -WorldNetDaily
Skeptics say that while traces of abiotic hydrocarbons may exist, little data support the idea of economically meaningful deposits. "Companies have been looking for oil for 100 years. If all this abiogenic stuff is there, why haven't they found it?" asks geochemist Geoffrey Glasby, who spent nine months investigating the matter for a 2006 review paper in Resource Geology. He concluded the totality of the evidence did not support the concept. -Forbes (my link)
You may want to read the articles before you cite them.
PS: WorldNetDaily? Really? What's next, Mad Magazine and Star?
Why do you think replacing one form of finite energy with dangerous byproducts is superior to another form of finite energy with dangerous byproducts?
Nuclear can be a useful bridge, but we need to learn how to deal with the limitations of the energy that the sun provides on a daily basis, or harness the thermal energy of the Earth's core. Everything else is ultimately unsustainable.
Hey look! It's the aptly named troll of assertions!
Aww, isn't that cute... no, no, don't ask him to cite anything. He'll scurry away.