And if Palm did not have their head up their arse, they would have dropped their shitty desktop app, ported Evolution to OS X themselves, open-sourced hotsync, and be selling a hell of a lot more pda's then they do now.
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With a Magic Wand like that, all you need to do is add a microphone in addition to the accelerometers; and you've got the perfect game controller for a speech-and-swish controled spellcasting game.
There is a lot of really neat roleplaying that comes to mind with a microphone attachment, and it would also be a really cool karaoke machine - especially with the download ability. I can't wait!
Games are easier to aim in than real life because John Carmack (or which ever game you are currently playing's programmer) is helping you aim. The game is not real physics, the games creators have a pretty good idea of what the players will want to be doing at any given time, and they write the code to make it much easier than shooting real guns because if they did not most people would give up. Don't jump to equate games to real life so easily, especially when it comes to weapons.
Now backpack rocket boosters - you should be able to build yourself one of those no problem - just be sure to jump off a really tall building or bridge or something so you have enough time and space to teach yourself all the really cool controls on the way down. You can always start at ground level on subsequent flights.
"If any one of these groups--the British, the Jewish, or the administration--stops agitating for war, I believe there will be little danger of our involvement."
Charles Lindbergh- September 11, 1941
BTW, your view of Lincoln and the civil war is just whitewashed BS.
I think you are probably correct - personally I do not like Lincoln at all. I'm a Libertarian, and I hope someday that States can regain some of their rights - but it is hard to argue with the results. I don't think anyone could say what the current status of freedom and equality would be in the US if Lincoln had allowed the South to seceed - but I can not imagine it would be anything as good as we have today. James Meredith went to school in 1962. That's not that long ago.
Don't get me wrong, I have very mixed thoughts/feelings about both the war and Bush in general. That said:
Compare the lack of authority that the US federal government had over regulating an end to slavery in the independantly goverened southern states...
I don't believe the US should try to right every moral wrong, but I also believe that "establishing clear concensus amongst nations" is an impossible hurdle to reach, your arguments here have much in common with Charles Lindbergh's isolationist arguments against going to war with Germany. (you brought up the Nazis twice now)
I will be more willing to put trust in the UN and consensus when only countries with basics such as equal rights and women's sufferage are allowed to vote, or even speak. Everytime I hear things like "complexities of the region" I understand it to mean being culturely sensitive to norms we should never accept on a moral basis. These are cultures that think burning your wife to death on the street is OK, and hang people for sodomy.
You should get it into your head that noone is "supporting" Saddam. People are supporting the rule of international law and sovereignty of nations. People are opposing "unilateral", "pre-emptive", "might is right" and "who's gonna stop us!" crap which reaks of 1930s Germany. People are opposing hubris motivated stupididty like "exporting democracy" at a point of a gun to the Middle East while ignoring every last bit of cultural and historical data about the region. That is what is going on. Saddam and his impotent antics are secondary.
I don't think you get around Godwin's law that easily, you lost the argument.;-)
Seriously though, I don't think you can claim a moral high ground for defending "cultural and historical" nor even sovereignty of nations against the overthrow of a tyranical govenment that allows things like Saddam's Iraq did. The sad thing is that the UN did not act a long time ago - International law sucks.
The positive thing is that the US holds itself to the same standards, trampling over cultural and historical precidence with violence to end slavery in the south. If the south is any indicator, the violence will take many generations to dwindle out, it wasn't that long ago that the national guard had to guard black men 24/7 so they could attend public universities in the south. I have been in the middle east, and it really turns my stomach to see a place where you have no rights and are not even a citizen unless you are an adult male - yes, women are owned - I call that slavery, even if it offends cultural and historical niceties. I also call my ancestors bigots for not allowing women to vote until 1920.
My office has the lights on whenever anyone is working; actually, I have never seen any office that ran with the lights off, irregardless of the outdoor conditions, other than one small portion of a computer graphics studio, and there the lights were always off in certain areas because the workers did not like the effect of the floresent lights on their monitors. Same goes for stores, hotels, etc. I believe the whole point of DST is to get people to drive to the mall and spend money shopping, which does absolutely nothing to save energy. If you really like DST so much, please use real arguments to defend it.
I like everything else I have read from Franklin, and in actuality, I think this may have all been tongue-in-cheek, but that most politicians are to dense to see it as such. I think it is just about as serious as his "Conversation with the Gout", which has not caused me to play less chess. I hate Daylight Savings, it's the one thing I miss about Indiana. Your all sheep I say!
So, do you seriously feel you fully have Franklin's support on this issue??? Teaching swimming, yes; this I'm not so sure of. If only Franklin had clearly marked his sarcasm as such.
I'm sure he did, but the point is, here's Ballmer saying security is important to Microsoft, but if you want to put that in action, don't you dare put our products on the internet naked... put something running Linux, Cisco's IOS, one of the BSDs, or anthing we don't sell in between our products and the internet. And really, they do so, any administrator worth their salary does so... and yet look at how many Linux machines sit naked on the internet, or act as security appliances to protect those vulnerable Microsoft products... and then someone can say they have comparible security with a straight face?!?
Actual informed users can run administrator accounts on Windows with no problems whatsoever
I will believe it when Linus starts telling people to run Windows firewalls on the perimeter of their network to protect their Linux boxes - in contrast to how Ballmer tells people to "secure their perimeter" with something other than Windows. (I guess he'd get in trouble if he just came out and said Linux)
The question boils down to how the producers of "free" software make a living. If they have a low enough cost of living to spend their free time writing software to give away, then this is great.
My example says that programmers of free software are generally engineers and computer scientists that are paid a salary by a variety of companies to create software that is released as free(dom) software. Their employers make money by providing goods and services at a tangent to the software. It has nothing to do with government programs or free time.
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And if Palm did not have their head up their arse, they would have dropped their shitty desktop app, ported Evolution to OS X themselves, open-sourced hotsync, and be selling a hell of a lot more pda's then they do now.
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With a Magic Wand like that, all you need to do is add a microphone in addition to the accelerometers; and you've got the perfect game controller for a speech-and-swish controled spellcasting game.
There is a lot of really neat roleplaying that comes to mind with a microphone attachment, and it would also be a really cool karaoke machine - especially with the download ability. I can't wait!
Games are easier to aim in than real life because John Carmack (or which ever game you are currently playing's programmer) is helping you aim. The game is not real physics, the games creators have a pretty good idea of what the players will want to be doing at any given time, and they write the code to make it much easier than shooting real guns because if they did not most people would give up. Don't jump to equate games to real life so easily, especially when it comes to weapons.
Now backpack rocket boosters - you should be able to build yourself one of those no problem - just be sure to jump off a really tall building or bridge or something so you have enough time and space to teach yourself all the really cool controls on the way down. You can always start at ground level on subsequent flights.
Post to kill a some mis-moderation in this thread.
I'm glad I was finally able to get you to understand something I said.
"If any one of these groups--the British, the Jewish, or the administration--stops agitating for war, I believe there will be little danger of our involvement."
Charles Lindbergh- September 11, 1941
Good, now lets see an example against a tyrant?
Because we all know that being "shamed by a skilled politician" has resulted in so many of the freedoms we enjoy today.
Explain to me how Japan has remained so backwards because of our forcing of our egalitarian morals on their culture?
You are changing the argument, he said the appointee had Jewish friends, not that he was Jewish.
Don't get me wrong, I have very mixed thoughts/feelings about both the war and Bush in general. That said:
Compare the lack of authority that the US federal government had over regulating an end to slavery in the independantly goverened southern states...
I don't believe the US should try to right every moral wrong, but I also believe that "establishing clear concensus amongst nations" is an impossible hurdle to reach, your arguments here have much in common with Charles Lindbergh's isolationist arguments against going to war with Germany. (you brought up the Nazis twice now)
I will be more willing to put trust in the UN and consensus when only countries with basics such as equal rights and women's sufferage are allowed to vote, or even speak. Everytime I hear things like "complexities of the region" I understand it to mean being culturely sensitive to norms we should never accept on a moral basis. These are cultures that think burning your wife to death on the street is OK, and hang people for sodomy.
Seriously though, I don't think you can claim a moral high ground for defending "cultural and historical" nor even sovereignty of nations against the overthrow of a tyranical govenment that allows things like Saddam's Iraq did. The sad thing is that the UN did not act a long time ago - International law sucks.
The positive thing is that the US holds itself to the same standards, trampling over cultural and historical precidence with violence to end slavery in the south. If the south is any indicator, the violence will take many generations to dwindle out, it wasn't that long ago that the national guard had to guard black men 24/7 so they could attend public universities in the south. I have been in the middle east, and it really turns my stomach to see a place where you have no rights and are not even a citizen unless you are an adult male - yes, women are owned - I call that slavery, even if it offends cultural and historical niceties. I also call my ancestors bigots for not allowing women to vote until 1920.
My bets:
- Final day of SCO's existence: March 22nd, 2006
- Darl Incarcerated: November 9th, 2006
What's the prize?- Larry Wall
- Donald Knuth
I don't understand your issue with people having a religion, bad childhood? I saw your journal entry, are those really fans you are proud of?My office has the lights on whenever anyone is working; actually, I have never seen any office that ran with the lights off, irregardless of the outdoor conditions, other than one small portion of a computer graphics studio, and there the lights were always off in certain areas because the workers did not like the effect of the floresent lights on their monitors. Same goes for stores, hotels, etc. I believe the whole point of DST is to get people to drive to the mall and spend money shopping, which does absolutely nothing to save energy. If you really like DST so much, please use real arguments to defend it.
So you kind of admit the argument is flawed, and then proceed to attack the person pointing that out?
I like everything else I have read from Franklin, and in actuality, I think this may have all been tongue-in-cheek, but that most politicians are to dense to see it as such. I think it is just about as serious as his "Conversation with the Gout", which has not caused me to play less chess. I hate Daylight Savings, it's the one thing I miss about Indiana. Your all sheep I say!
So, do you seriously feel you fully have Franklin's support on this issue??? Teaching swimming, yes; this I'm not so sure of. If only Franklin had clearly marked his sarcasm as such.
I do like the other poster's suggestion of 1/2 an hour, although Newfoundland actually is in a time zone like that, so watch those bits of sarcasm.
Go Boilermakers!
I'm sure he did, but the point is, here's Ballmer saying security is important to Microsoft, but if you want to put that in action, don't you dare put our products on the internet naked... put something running Linux, Cisco's IOS, one of the BSDs, or anthing we don't sell in between our products and the internet. And really, they do so, any administrator worth their salary does so... and yet look at how many Linux machines sit naked on the internet, or act as security appliances to protect those vulnerable Microsoft products... and then someone can say they have comparible security with a straight face?!?
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