Okay well it still makes sense that BBC news should not be available "free" to non-UK citizens, just as radio and television programs websites are not available for free. Non-citizens have not paid the BBC license.
>>>charging people for its data even though it's funded from taxation
It sounds to me like the ECMWF and MET operate the same as U.S. roads. They are Not funded by taxation, but instead funded by tolls charged to people using them. Ditto our post office.
Oh I forgot NBC. They did a story about rollover-prone SUVs on Dateline, but some sharp-eyed viewers noticed that the SUVs were *pushed over* by a machine under the vehicle.
If you believe FOX News is the only channel that lies, then you are easily duped.
What about when CBS rigged cars to explode when they slammed into a wall, and then used that story to convince viewers "to call your Senators and Congressmen to ask for tougher safety laws". Fake news indeed.
And then there's John Stossel over at ABC who admitted his corporate overlords routinely censor his pro-small government stories saying, "We can't risk angering the Congress." That video, in case you want to watch it, is on youtube. Keywords - Freedom Watch John Stossel
>>>I'd trust the BBC any day of the week over "news" reported by a Murdoch mouthpiece.
I disagree. Not that I have any great love fox Murdoch, but I don't trust the BBC. They are as slanted as PBS, constantly trying to explain why we need more and bigger government programs. I don't need to hear that bias. Just once I'd like to hear either the BBC or PBS present a story about why government needs to be smaller, but of course that will never happen.
NOAA forecasts are not available to non-U.S. citizens (or if they are available, have no value way over in Europe).
Likewise it makes sense that BBC news should not be available to non-UK citizens, just as radio and television programs websites are blocked. Non-citizens have not paid the BBC license.
Really? ABC-Disney is the largest? I thought for sure the largest conglomerate was NBC-Universal which owns at least 10 channels in the U.S., an Europe-wide channel, and also various broadcast stations in Australia and Japan. That would make FOX-Murdoch a distant fourth, after the ABC, CBS, NBC oligarchs.
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I'm surprised the BBC gives-away free news on the web. They block their radio and television programs from being seen by anyone who has not paid a TV/radio license (UK citizens), so I would expect them to do the same for text. (shrug)
The "3%" statistic comes from the Washington Examiner, which got its numbers from the CBO. To put it briefly - most people who believe they are "uninsured" are actually eligible from government programs like Medicare, COBRA, and SCHIP. A lot more people (about 20 million) are wealthy enough to get insurnace but don't want it (like me).
That leaves just 3% of Americans who *want* health insurance but are not covered either privately or by government. The "86%" number comes polling data performed by Time Magazine.
The first thing I do after I boot XP or Vista is to open the task manager, and kill any running programs or processes that I don't need. Why all this crap is running in the background when I don't want it makes no sense to me, but killing them does free-up a lot of RAM and speed-up the computer (no hard drive thrashing).
My computer handles HD video okay (with just a few skips), but the internet connection does not. It's only 750 kbit/s. I could upgrade but that would mean increasing cost from $15/month to $35/month so I decided SD quality is "good enough." In fact many of the files I download are the 125 megabyte NapisyPL files, which are abarely better than VHS (320x480).
My television is also SD quality (a digital box fed into old analog CRT). It's appears to be DVD quality which is "good enough" for me.
I'm going to run-over your little kid while I'm texting. Then come back here and tell us all if you still think I only deserve 5 years in jail for destroying a human life. I think anyone who's not a cold-hearted bastard like Saddam Hussein should realize that "oops I hit a tree" versus "oops I killed a person" deserve very different levels of punishment.
Why don't you just pullover? (duh.) That's what I do when I receive a phonecall. I look at the number, and if it's nobody important I ignore it, but if it is my home than I answer and say "Hello. Please wait while I stop my car." Then I pull off the road (preferably at a ramp) and take the call. Simple.
This bullshit about buying tactile phones or Crakberries or whatever and saying, "It's safer than an iPhone," is completely and utterly acceptable." And yes I do call the police when I spot people texting or shaving their face or curling their hair. Yes that makes me an asshole, but at least I'm a LIVE asshole instead of a dead one.
Oh:
One more thing. If you kill somebody close to me like my wife of daughter, because you're texting, you consider your life forfeit. I can forgive drunk driving because drinking makes the brain not work properly - but there's NO excuse for a sane, rational being to be texting while driving. Use the God gave you or else I will splatter it across your living room wall.
Do I sound angry?
Damn straight.
I. Can. Not. Believe what I've been reading from supposedly *intelligent* people justifying why it's okay to text while driving. "That's the exact reason I chose a blackberry over the iPhone; tactile buttons." You self-centered egotistical bastards. If I see you I *will* call the police and help them track you down and arrest you. You don't deserve the privilege of having a drivers' license.
Even the cars that assign digital numbers to the dash, like my Honda, are not really thermostats. The numbers are arbitrary approximations. That's why mine is set to "80 degrees" and yet still feels frigid.
>>>hold the phone up in above the steering wheel while typing a couple letters at the time, so I can see brakelights
This. Does. Not. Work. Too many times I've seen people talking on the phone, their eyes are on the road, but their brains are Not registering what they are seeing. They drive right through red lights as if they never saw them. Many, many, many times I have seen this.
>>>For the majority of people, that will not matter - that extra couple k doesn't make a noticable difference
Precisely. The measurement of RAM is constrained by hardware to use a base 2 methodology (2^x where x == however many lines lead to/from the RAM module). But for external storage like disks and iPods, or the speed of an internet connection (56k == 56000 not 57344 bits/s) there's no such constraint, and they can use the standard base 10 definitio
Only in terms of RAM which is constrained by hardware to use a base 2 methodology (2^x where x == however many lines lead to/from the RAM module).
But for external storage like disks and iPods, or the speed of an internet connection (56k == 56000 not 57344 bits/s) there's no such constraint, and they can use the standard base 10 definition.
That's been one of the frustrating things about my Powerbook... It started on OS 10.3 and I was perfectly happy running 10.3 - except that all the applications I wanted to use (inlcuding things like VLC, Firefox, Fink, etc.) started requiring 10.4.
QFT. (Quoted For Truth). It forces users to upgrade even when they don't want to, and therefore Apple is more costly to use and maintain (just like any luxury brand like Lexus or Acura).
Also it's odd the Apple is phasing-out PowerPC-compatible OSes so quickly (after only two years). When they abandoned the 68040 in favor of the PPC, they still supported the 68040 six years later before finally going to a PPC-only OS. In my humble opinion they should do the same for before going Intel-only with their operating system.
Commodore PET computer (for 70s-era businesses) VIC-20 (for home which supplied the money to develop...) Commodore-64 (best selling computer ever created) Commodore Amiga 500 (second-best selling computer ever created)
I should also add the 6502 and 65816, which Commodore's semiconductor division developed and became the CPU for tons of machines including the Apple II, the 16-bit Apple IIgs, the Atari VCS/2600, the Nintendo Famicom and NES, and the Super Nintendo.
>>>You fail to explain how auditing the Federal Reserve helps anything or solves any problem.
Jeez. Asking "why do we need to audit" is like saying "why do I need an itemized bill from the phone company - just let them send me a bill that reads 'You owe $100' and I'll pay it even if I don't know what the 100 dollars was for." Foolishness. Oftentimes I've received itemized bills where I was charged for services I never used or signed-up for. In effect I audited the company and found mistakes.
QED, the purpose of an audit is to ascertain if the Fed actually IS helping solve our problems, or if they are just spending the money foolishly. We the people have a right to know where our hard-earned dollars (aka labor) went. If it's the former, good, but if it's the latter than we need to know that too.
>>>by most polls it's languishing pretty hard precisely because he *isn't* pushing it.
False. He asked Congress to pass the Healthcare bill within 2-3 weeks, just as he had done with the January DTV Transition Bill and the February Stimulus Bill. The holdup doesn't come from Obama who is anxious to sign it immediately, but from conservative Democrats who didn't like the bill as written.
Of course if we were TRULY following the process:
Government-provided healthcare is not authorized by the Constitution (it's reserved to the States per amend.10), therefore it should require a national amendment which says something like, "Congress shall have power to provide health care" and then get it ratified by 3/4 of the States. That's proper procedure... slow, deliberative, and ultimately more effective. If you're building a Republic intended to stand 1000 years (or more), why is it necessary to rush? It isn't.
>>>It makes me angry that some feel they can use them for their own political purposes
We use the National Socialists of 1930s Germany because they are relevant. Adolf Hitler was actually a decent guy when he was elected, bringing restoration to his people and abundance in a once-failing economy, and even received praise from people like Churchill and FDR as an excellent leader. The German people loved him and were proud to call Hitler their leader (sound familiar?). The relevance is that a smiling happy politician can so quickly-and-easily turn into a tyrant.
If you don't like me using Hitler as example, I could use Napoleon instead. Or Henry the 8th. Or Nero. Or Julius Ceasar.
>>>Clinton was the first president since 1980 to reduce the size of the deficit (as a percentage of GDP). The last person to do it prior to Clinton was Carter. >>>
False.
Clinton had ONE (just just one) year of surplus money, but when he left office the debt was about 1 trillion dollars larger than when he came in. Carter had a miserable presidency with rampant inflation, oil lines, and is really not worthy of considering (it's the reason escapism like disco clubs were so popular). The last president to actually shrink the debt was Andrew Jackson some ~150 years earlier.
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Okay well it still makes sense that BBC news should not be available "free" to non-UK citizens, just as radio and television programs websites are not available for free. Non-citizens have not paid the BBC license.
>>>charging people for its data even though it's funded from taxation
It sounds to me like the ECMWF and MET operate the same as U.S. roads. They are Not funded by taxation, but instead funded by tolls charged to people using them. Ditto our post office.
Oh I forgot NBC. They did a story about rollover-prone SUVs on Dateline, but some sharp-eyed viewers noticed that the SUVs were *pushed over* by a machine under the vehicle.
If you believe FOX News is the only channel that lies, then you are easily duped.
What about when CBS rigged cars to explode when they slammed into a wall, and then used that story to convince viewers "to call your Senators and Congressmen to ask for tougher safety laws". Fake news indeed.
And then there's John Stossel over at ABC who admitted his corporate overlords routinely censor his pro-small government stories saying, "We can't risk angering the Congress." That video, in case you want to watch it, is on youtube. Keywords - Freedom Watch John Stossel
Fake news indeed. Bias evident.
>>>I'd trust the BBC any day of the week over "news" reported by a Murdoch mouthpiece.
I disagree. Not that I have any great love fox Murdoch, but I don't trust the BBC. They are as slanted as PBS, constantly trying to explain why we need more and bigger government programs. I don't need to hear that bias. Just once I'd like to hear either the BBC or PBS present a story about why government needs to be smaller, but of course that will never happen.
NOAA forecasts are not available to non-U.S. citizens (or if they are available, have no value way over in Europe).
Likewise it makes sense that BBC news should not be available to non-UK citizens, just as radio and television programs websites are blocked. Non-citizens have not paid the BBC license.
Really? ABC-Disney is the largest? I thought for sure the largest conglomerate was NBC-Universal which owns at least 10 channels in the U.S., an Europe-wide channel, and also various broadcast stations in Australia and Japan. That would make FOX-Murdoch a distant fourth, after the ABC, CBS, NBC oligarchs.
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I'm surprised the BBC gives-away free news on the web. They block their radio and television programs from being seen by anyone who has not paid a TV/radio license (UK citizens), so I would expect them to do the same for text. (shrug)
The "3%" statistic comes from the Washington Examiner, which got its numbers from the CBO. To put it briefly - most people who believe they are "uninsured" are actually eligible from government programs like Medicare, COBRA, and SCHIP. A lot more people (about 20 million) are wealthy enough to get insurnace but don't want it (like me).
That leaves just 3% of Americans who *want* health insurance but are not covered either privately or by government. The "86%" number comes polling data performed by Time Magazine.
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The first thing I do after I boot XP or Vista is to open the task manager, and kill any running programs or processes that I don't need. Why all this crap is running in the background when I don't want it makes no sense to me, but killing them does free-up a lot of RAM and speed-up the computer (no hard drive thrashing).
My computer handles HD video okay (with just a few skips), but the internet connection does not. It's only 750 kbit/s. I could upgrade but that would mean increasing cost from $15/month to $35/month so I decided SD quality is "good enough." In fact many of the files I download are the 125 megabyte NapisyPL files, which are abarely better than VHS (320x480).
My television is also SD quality (a digital box fed into old analog CRT). It's appears to be DVD quality which is "good enough" for me.
That's nice.
I'm going to run-over your little kid while I'm texting. Then come back here and tell us all if you still think I only deserve 5 years in jail for destroying a human life. I think anyone who's not a cold-hearted bastard like Saddam Hussein should realize that "oops I hit a tree" versus "oops I killed a person" deserve very different levels of punishment.
HERE'S A RADICAL THOUGHT -
Why don't you just pullover? (duh.) That's what I do when I receive a phonecall. I look at the number, and if it's nobody important I ignore it, but if it is my home than I answer and say "Hello. Please wait while I stop my car." Then I pull off the road (preferably at a ramp) and take the call. Simple.
This bullshit about buying tactile phones or Crakberries or whatever and saying, "It's safer than an iPhone," is completely and utterly acceptable." And yes I do call the police when I spot people texting or shaving their face or curling their hair. Yes that makes me an asshole, but at least I'm a LIVE asshole instead of a dead one.
Oh:
One more thing. If you kill somebody close to me like my wife of daughter, because you're texting, you consider your life forfeit. I can forgive drunk driving because drinking makes the brain not work properly - but there's NO excuse for a sane, rational being to be texting while driving. Use the God gave you or else I will splatter it across your living room wall.
Do I sound angry?
Damn straight.
I. Can. Not. Believe what I've been reading from supposedly *intelligent* people justifying why it's okay to text while driving. "That's the exact reason I chose a blackberry over the iPhone; tactile buttons." You self-centered egotistical bastards. If I see you I *will* call the police and help them track you down and arrest you. You don't deserve the privilege of having a drivers' license.
>>>You are obviously the expert in the area.
And you obviously don't know how to use google (or watch tv news or read a paper).
LINK -"texting worse than drunk driving" - http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=texting+worse+than+drunk+driving
Even the cars that assign digital numbers to the dash, like my Honda, are not really thermostats. The numbers are arbitrary approximations. That's why mine is set to "80 degrees" and yet still feels frigid.
>>>hold the phone up in above the steering wheel while typing a couple letters at the time, so I can see brakelights
This. Does. Not. Work. Too many times I've seen people talking on the phone, their eyes are on the road, but their brains are Not registering what they are seeing. They drive right through red lights as if they never saw them. Many, many, many times I have seen this.
The brain is not designed for multitasking.
>>>For the majority of people, that will not matter - that extra couple k doesn't make a noticable difference
Precisely. The measurement of RAM is constrained by hardware to use a base 2 methodology (2^x where x == however many lines lead to/from the RAM module). But for external storage like disks and iPods, or the speed of an internet connection (56k == 56000 not 57344 bits/s) there's no such constraint, and they can use the standard base 10 definitio
>>>1 terabyte is 1024 gigbytes.
Only in terms of RAM which is constrained by hardware to use a base 2 methodology (2^x where x == however many lines lead to/from the RAM module).
But for external storage like disks and iPods, or the speed of an internet connection (56k == 56000 not 57344 bits/s) there's no such constraint, and they can use the standard base 10 definition.
That's 0.3% for those of us who are like Rodney McKay, and understand numbers better than words.
Some people probably don't realize but Garbage Pail Kids actually exist. It's an old 80s phenomenon that we used to trade:
LINK - http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Garbage+Pail+kids
That's been one of the frustrating things about my Powerbook... It started on OS 10.3 and I was perfectly happy running 10.3 - except that all the applications I wanted to use (inlcuding things like VLC, Firefox, Fink, etc.) started requiring 10.4.
QFT. (Quoted For Truth). It forces users to upgrade even when they don't want to, and therefore Apple is more costly to use and maintain (just like any luxury brand like Lexus or Acura).
Also it's odd the Apple is phasing-out PowerPC-compatible OSes so quickly (after only two years). When they abandoned the 68040 in favor of the PPC, they still supported the 68040 six years later before finally going to a PPC-only OS. In my humble opinion they should do the same for before going Intel-only with their operating system.
FOUR big hits:
Commodore PET computer (for 70s-era businesses)
VIC-20 (for home which supplied the money to develop...)
Commodore-64 (best selling computer ever created)
Commodore Amiga 500 (second-best selling computer ever created)
I should also add the 6502 and 65816, which Commodore's semiconductor division developed and became the CPU for tons of machines including the Apple II, the 16-bit Apple IIgs, the Atari VCS/2600, the Nintendo Famicom and NES, and the Super Nintendo.
Shit on a shingle! Don't you know how to use google??? LINK - http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=THE+FORD+PINTO+CASE%3A+
>>>You fail to explain how auditing the Federal Reserve helps anything or solves any problem.
Jeez. Asking "why do we need to audit" is like saying "why do I need an itemized bill from the phone company - just let them send me a bill that reads 'You owe $100' and I'll pay it even if I don't know what the 100 dollars was for." Foolishness. Oftentimes I've received itemized bills where I was charged for services I never used or signed-up for. In effect I audited the company and found mistakes.
QED, the purpose of an audit is to ascertain if the Fed actually IS helping solve our problems, or if they are just spending the money foolishly. We the people have a right to know where our hard-earned dollars (aka labor) went. If it's the former, good, but if it's the latter than we need to know that too.
>>>by most polls it's languishing pretty hard precisely because he *isn't* pushing it.
False. He asked Congress to pass the Healthcare bill within 2-3 weeks, just as he had done with the January DTV Transition Bill and the February Stimulus Bill. The holdup doesn't come from Obama who is anxious to sign it immediately, but from conservative Democrats who didn't like the bill as written.
Of course if we were TRULY following the process:
Government-provided healthcare is not authorized by the Constitution (it's reserved to the States per amend.10), therefore it should require a national amendment which says something like, "Congress shall have power to provide health care" and then get it ratified by 3/4 of the States. That's proper procedure... slow, deliberative, and ultimately more effective. If you're building a Republic intended to stand 1000 years (or more), why is it necessary to rush? It isn't.
>>>It makes me angry that some feel they can use them for their own political purposes
We use the National Socialists of 1930s Germany because they are relevant. Adolf Hitler was actually a decent guy when he was elected, bringing restoration to his people and abundance in a once-failing economy, and even received praise from people like Churchill and FDR as an excellent leader. The German people loved him and were proud to call Hitler their leader (sound familiar?). The relevance is that a smiling happy politician can so quickly-and-easily turn into a tyrant.
If you don't like me using Hitler as example, I could use Napoleon instead. Or Henry the 8th. Or Nero. Or Julius Ceasar.
Pick your poison Socrates.
>>>Clinton was the first president since 1980 to reduce the size of the deficit (as a percentage of GDP). The last person to do it prior to Clinton was Carter.
>>>
False.
Clinton had ONE (just just one) year of surplus money, but when he left office the debt was about 1 trillion dollars larger than when he came in. Carter had a miserable presidency with rampant inflation, oil lines, and is really not worthy of considering (it's the reason escapism like disco clubs were so popular). The last president to actually shrink the debt was Andrew Jackson some ~150 years earlier.