Following the Peter Principle then, He is almost good enough to be President of the US. Again I wouldn't really call that failure. Moron, bad speaker, coorprate agenda driven person, there are several ways to define GWB but failure is absolutly not one of them. If you're playing a game and the score is 70 - 40 and you're on the winning team. If you miss that last shot does that make you a failure?
I'd say it would be likely that the public sites are not going to be the decision makers. Not only will 99.9% of them be fine but if they don't work people are not counting on them for anything. It's those 2-3 shamefull internal company web pages that make someone switch. Those are going to be the ones that somebody "has" to access. And if they require IE then IE it will be.
That's funny I get POOP, DICK, VIGINAS, POOP, DICK, VAGINAS. Wonder why that would be a failure? You're right though it is kinda funny. Say that like 5 times out load at work.
"As for your crack on the middle east; America, Europe, China, and Russia are all directly responsible for the problems over there. Ever since oil was discovered, we have all been overtly and covertly fighting for the control of the resource. So yes, it was relatively an "oasis of happiness" and yes we did fuck it up."
Your other points are valid. Atribiting a little bit of hyperbole to some important events, but valid none the less. The above is just rediculous though. When in the past 4000 years has the middle ease been any kind of oasis of happiness?
Yea, I hate the fact that we have so many civial wars that cause mass instability within our contry. We should look to the shining example of the middle east. Well, you know the oasis of happiness and love it was before the US went over there and fucked it all up.
Twitch for a second, then lie still. A few seconds later they get up like nothing happend except for the fact that they react slightly slower than before.
You mention the last portion of the free market that nobody ever seems to talk about. "Corporate Power" This is another government sponsered entity that gives coorperations immunity when their needs to be responsibility. Boards and investors need to be held responsible for what a coorpartion does. And not just when it becomes really bad. Fines need to be based on percentage with a minimum rather than favoring the rich by being based on a fixed rate.
Saying a corporate user shouldn't have to learn to use a computer is like saying a carpenter shouldn't have to learn how to use a hammer. Sorry if you can't learn the tools of the trade then perhaps you should try a diffrent trade.
I think the original Metroid was also one of the big ones. It had a, slightly, diffrent ending depending on how fast you beat it. If it was less than 1 hour You'd get Samus in her Bikini suit rather than the big bulky one.
More affirmative action crap. Why not just let people do what they want? Why does it matter if a game is developed by a black, white, man, woman, child etc?
Why don't we have more white people in basket ball? how about Blacks in hockey?
I also thought in the sunset clause it should be 51% to vote a law in, 75% to keep it in. My reason for this is it would allow you to test laws for 1 year that more than half of congress thought would be a good idea. But after 1 year it should be obvious weather or not it was a good idea and needs 75% vote to maintain.
Actually two changes to the Constitution that I would have written in would have been:
1) Exponential sunset clause on all laws based on a year. eg. new law goes in effect, 1 year later revote on law 2 years after that revote 4, 8, 16 etc...
2) Line item vote for congress similar to line item veto but that gives too much power to the president. Keep the voting power to congress and make each sen/rep vote on each line of every bill. This will also help give a more detailed track record of each sen/rep's position on everything.
You'd think, wouldn't you. Of course there are far more stuipid laws than can even be tested. To many stupid or unconstitiutinal laws get created for threat porpuses only and everyone pleas down to something that is legal. Allowing for more stupid laws comming in at a rate far greater than can be tested in court.
I am not strickly against patents and copyright, but I do feel they go entirely the wrong way. They shouldn't be getting extended but actually made shorter. Copyright maximium should be 25 years. Patent maximium should be around 5-7 years max for mechinical devices and 1-2 years max for information based devices.
And also pointed out in the gp post on both hands used in his examples they create more laws. for every one law that is repealed 100 new ones are made. This is why we need 10 lawyers for every engeneer.
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Following the Peter Principle then, He is almost good enough to be President of the US. Again I wouldn't really call that failure. Moron, bad speaker, coorprate agenda driven person, there are several ways to define GWB but failure is absolutly not one of them. If you're playing a game and the score is 70 - 40 and you're on the winning team. If you miss that last shot does that make you a failure?
I'd say it would be likely that the public sites are not going to be the decision makers. Not only will 99.9% of them be fine but if they don't work people are not counting on them for anything. It's those 2-3 shamefull internal company web pages that make someone switch. Those are going to be the ones that somebody "has" to access. And if they require IE then IE it will be.
Hmm, bumbling idiot possibly, but sense when has becoming the President of the US, then being elected again been the mark of a failure????
That's funny I get POOP, DICK, VIGINAS, POOP, DICK, VAGINAS. Wonder why that would be a failure? You're right though it is kinda funny. Say that like 5 times out load at work.
"As for your crack on the middle east; America, Europe, China, and Russia are all directly responsible for the problems over there. Ever since oil was discovered, we have all been overtly and covertly fighting for the control of the resource. So yes, it was relatively an "oasis of happiness" and yes we did fuck it up."
Your other points are valid. Atribiting a little bit of hyperbole to some important events, but valid none the less. The above is just rediculous though. When in the past 4000 years has the middle ease been any kind of oasis of happiness?
You know what would really help this thread?
Sarcasm.
Yea, I hate the fact that we have so many civial wars that cause mass instability within our contry. We should look to the shining example of the middle east. Well, you know the oasis of happiness and love it was before the US went over there and fucked it all up.
> 2019 U.S. citizens fall-over without warning.
Twitch for a second, then lie still.
A few seconds later they get up like nothing happend except for the fact that they react slightly slower than before.
When Apple said they would switch to intel what they didn't say was that Intel was switching to PPC.
You mention the last portion of the free market that nobody ever seems to talk about. "Corporate Power" This is another government sponsered entity that gives coorperations immunity when their needs to be responsibility. Boards and investors need to be held responsible for what a coorpartion does. And not just when it becomes really bad. Fines need to be based on percentage with a minimum rather than favoring the rich by being based on a fixed rate.
Saying a corporate user shouldn't have to learn to use a computer is like saying a carpenter shouldn't have to learn how to use a hammer. Sorry if you can't learn the tools of the trade then perhaps you should try a diffrent trade.
You're saying, "...more subtle ads in games to make them more real..."
I'm saying, "...less ads in real life to make games more real..."
sure it wont happen but I can dream
Mmmmmmmm baaaacooon.......
I think the original Metroid was also one of the big ones. It had a, slightly, diffrent ending depending on how fast you beat it. If it was less than 1 hour You'd get Samus in her Bikini suit rather than the big bulky one.
Where was Hillary then?
Are you implying that people of diffrent races are broken and need to be fixed?
fines need to be switched from a dollar ammount to a percentage amount. Instead of a fine get an income tax rais.
Government
it use to be:
by the people, for the people.
change that to:
Buy the people, for itself.
More affirmative action crap. Why not just let people do what they want? Why does it matter if a game is developed by a black, white, man, woman, child etc?
Why don't we have more white people in basket ball?
how about Blacks in hockey?
Do what you're good at and what you like.
I also thought in the sunset clause it should be 51% to vote a law in, 75% to keep it in. My reason for this is it would allow you to test laws for 1 year that more than half of congress thought would be a good idea. But after 1 year it should be obvious weather or not it was a good idea and needs 75% vote to maintain.
I just figured it was a dupe.
Actually two changes to the Constitution that I would have written in would have been:
1) Exponential sunset clause on all laws based on a year.
eg. new law goes in effect, 1 year later revote on law 2 years after that revote 4, 8, 16 etc...
2) Line item vote for congress
similar to line item veto but that gives too much power to the president. Keep the voting power to congress and make each sen/rep vote on each line of every bill. This will also help give a more detailed track record of each sen/rep's position on everything.
You'd think, wouldn't you. Of course there are far more stuipid laws than can even be tested. To many stupid or unconstitiutinal laws get created for threat porpuses only and everyone pleas down to something that is legal. Allowing for more stupid laws comming in at a rate far greater than can be tested in court.
I am not strickly against patents and copyright, but I do feel they go entirely the wrong way. They shouldn't be getting extended but actually made shorter. Copyright maximium should be 25 years. Patent maximium should be around 5-7 years max for mechinical devices and 1-2 years max for information based devices.
And also pointed out in the gp post on both hands used in his examples they create more laws. for every one law that is repealed 100 new ones are made. This is why we need 10 lawyers for every engeneer.
Depends, I may watch 3 hours worth of porn in 15 minutes and be done for the day.