I've often thought that for Microsoft to significantly damage Linux on the desktop... I think that Microsoft is worried about Linux on the desktop in the same way that John McCain is worried about Ron Paul.
I saw it and I want my 80 minutes back. It was pretty much a vehicle for special effects and jerky home video. I guess the acting was OK, but the story was, well, pretty poorly written. When I say implausible, I don't mean a monster attacking NYC, I mean the "reaction" of the characters to the event. My opinion? Cloverfield isn't a low budget scifi/horror show, it's a big budget TV show. Maybe it should have been an HBO film or something.
The Star Trek trailer? Please, god, don't let Abrams screw it up...
Why are people surprised noone wants to go into engineering in the US: stagnant wages, offshoring, age discrimination, long hours. It's a shitty way to waste $100k on an education.
I am a sample size of one, but...
I've had a raise every year (for the past 5 years) of between 7% and 21% (making in the low 6 figures now). Nobody in this company of over 20,000 has had his or her job offshored. I was hired straight out of college...at the age of 42. I work 40 hours a week. Oh, and I went to a state university where tuition was a whopping $1500 a semester.
I live and work in flyover country. Maybe that makes a difference.
That's an interesting comment. How many were grounds for starting World War III? I don't know - I know that the incident that caused the platform to be blown up resulted from Iran's mining of an area of international water in the Gulf, a minefield that caused substantial damage to one of our ships. I know that the sinking of the ship was in retaliation for that ship firing a surface to surface cruise missile at my ship. And I know that the downing of the aircraft was in response to their targeting my ship with fire control radar during the surface to surface engagement.
World War III? It didn't happen then, even though the US Navy destroyed or disabled two thirds of Iran's Navy. And that was a measured retaliation. It was, as they say, a battle, not a war. We stopped. And they couldn't (practically speaking) continue. Would that be the case today? I couldn't say. I hope, if a similar situation occurred, that it would have the same conclusion.
I'm not going to delve into the right of free navigation in international waters and the US Navy's peacetime mission of keeping those waters open. But it certainly applies in this case.
Now, I don't hate on Ron Paul. I don't support him because, frankly, I think that he's a fringe candidate with no chance of making an impact, but I don't hate him or hate on him. But I still say that his comment showed a serious misunderstanding about what is or is not dangerous to a Naval vessel. It was a sound bite moment.
What he said smacks of arrogance - it says, "Why should our all-powerful Navy be worried about a few insignificant speedboats?" The Navy worries because the ships are not invulnerable and the speedboats represent an area of vulnerability that is very difficult to address.
Don't confuse an incident like the speedboats versus ships as a seed of war. Unless things have changed a lot over the course of 20 years, this one made it to the news for just a couple of reasons. One is that a camera was around and the other is that conflict with Iran is the news du jour.
I don't support a war with Iran. I don't happen to support Thompson, Romney or, for that matter, many of the Bush Administration's policies concerning the Middle East (among others). So, it's a little tough to stand accused of "regurgitating any more of the garbage" that I've been fed. Thanks, I can make up my own mind. And, having been there and having seen and experienced the particular vulnerability that Naval ships face from high speed gunboats, I feel pretty secure in the validity and originality of my comments.
Ron Paul thought it was ridiculous to assume that the world's most powerful navy should feel threatened by speed boats.
That's because Ron Paul made a flip comment that was a quick sound bite. When I was on a frigate in the Persian Gulf about 20 years ago, we were worried about speedboats then, just like now. Why? Because our deck mounted gun could not depress low enough to fire at one at close range. We mounted a bunch of.50 caliber machine guns and 40mm grenade launchers specifically to defend against them. And when they closed on us, we also threatened them with action.
Interestingly, during that Persian Gulf cruise, we shot down a fighter jet, sunk a warship and destroyed a Revolutionary Guard command and control platform. And we were roundly cheered for doing it. Why? Because back then, the Iranians were the big bullies, kicking the pants off this poor little country who never did anything wrong to them - Iraq. Funny how things change.
And that makes me wonder what the risk of hijacking would be if carrying guns was allowed (even encouraged?) on airplanes. I'd love to see a terrorist managing to take control of a plane for more than 5 minutes if other passengers had guns.
I think that I'd rather just see the air marshal and the pilots armed, thanks. The thought of being in the crossfire of a bunch of trigger-happy passengers is a little chilling to me.
And it isn't just planes. Think about your local shopping mall. I'd just as soon not have to deal with 20 wannabe enforcers who can't shoot straight when they're under pressure. If the police don't hit the bad guys with every round, imagine the carnage if a bunch of civilians started shooting. I've got a CCW, but I would have to be pretty damn sure of myself before I actually considered using my weapon in any area where there was a chance of hitting an innocent bystander.
Institutional investors don't keep stock that is desisted, so its just being dumped. Bet they wish they did that yesterday.
Not to worry, the largest institutional investor owned about 600,000 shares as of September 30. A paltry.03% was owned by mutual funds and only 11% by institutional investors. Insider ownership? About 25%.
The real chuckle, to me, is the market cap - a whopping US$1.9 million.
Are all of you actually buying into this as something real? C'mon, look at who you're dealing with - this is nothing but a big hoax. A funny hoax, though, especially since it was absolutely guaranteed to draw in a ton of frothing at the mouth suckers.
Of note is the fact that Mitt Romney had some supporters waiting in line to vote multiple times.
In Florida. Read your own article:
The Florida Republican straw poll, held last Saturday, became increasingly chaotic as Paul supporters sparred with those of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney over the amount of votes individuals cast.
Though individuals were allowed to purchase up to ten voting tickets for $20 apiece, Paul supporters actively displayed their single tickets while Romney supporters reportedly cashed in multiple stubs.
Well, to be honest, I can't think of a lot of Americans that love their government. No matter who's running it. Like the philosopher said, we're lucky that we don't get all the government we pay for.
I spend weekends in a resort town in central Idaho and it's pretty easy to tell which structures are designed by architects who aren't familiar with the area. Homes with several different rooflines, wood or slate shingles or even, god forbid, flat roofs are a sure sign that the architect has no idea that the structure will be dealing with five to ten feet of snow accumulation.
Then, when the spring thaw hits, the snow and ice catches in the valleys of the various rooflines, tears the shingles off the roof or, about every other year, collapses a roof. And it's always worth a chuckle to see a sidewalk or driveway buried in, literally, a ton of snow that slide off a roof pitched the wrong direction.
And don't even get me started on the perils of drainage!
It's unfortunate, but the architectural design that works best where I live is, essentially, a box with a metal roof. Of course, there's a lot that you can do with a box to make it look nice.
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Microsoft is smart. They did not get where they are by being idiots.
Yes, and the same can be accurately said for Dick Cheney.
There has to be a corollary to Godwin's Law here...
So SQRT(popularity^2 + quality^2) = (popuqual value)
The only hitch is that I'm not quite sure what the units of popularity and quality are.
Posting a comment that links to an article with actual facts earns me a troll tag? Nice moderator power trip.
Boo hoo.
Except that Rocky Horror Picture Show didn't suck. And most people don't play rolls. They eat them.
I saw it and I want my 80 minutes back. It was pretty much a vehicle for special effects and jerky home video. I guess the acting was OK, but the story was, well, pretty poorly written. When I say implausible, I don't mean a monster attacking NYC, I mean the "reaction" of the characters to the event. My opinion? Cloverfield isn't a low budget scifi/horror show, it's a big budget TV show. Maybe it should have been an HBO film or something.
The Star Trek trailer? Please, god, don't let Abrams screw it up...
But my message was in response to why nobody wants to be an engineer...I understand the problems with research.
Why are people surprised noone wants to go into engineering in the US: stagnant wages, offshoring, age discrimination, long hours. It's a shitty way to waste $100k on an education.
I am a sample size of one, but...
I've had a raise every year (for the past 5 years) of between 7% and 21% (making in the low 6 figures now). Nobody in this company of over 20,000 has had his or her job offshored. I was hired straight out of college...at the age of 42. I work 40 hours a week. Oh, and I went to a state university where tuition was a whopping $1500 a semester.
I live and work in flyover country. Maybe that makes a difference.
That's an interesting comment. How many were grounds for starting World War III? I don't know - I know that the incident that caused the platform to be blown up resulted from Iran's mining of an area of international water in the Gulf, a minefield that caused substantial damage to one of our ships. I know that the sinking of the ship was in retaliation for that ship firing a surface to surface cruise missile at my ship. And I know that the downing of the aircraft was in response to their targeting my ship with fire control radar during the surface to surface engagement.
World War III? It didn't happen then, even though the US Navy destroyed or disabled two thirds of Iran's Navy. And that was a measured retaliation. It was, as they say, a battle, not a war. We stopped. And they couldn't (practically speaking) continue. Would that be the case today? I couldn't say. I hope, if a similar situation occurred, that it would have the same conclusion.
I'm not going to delve into the right of free navigation in international waters and the US Navy's peacetime mission of keeping those waters open. But it certainly applies in this case.
Now, I don't hate on Ron Paul. I don't support him because, frankly, I think that he's a fringe candidate with no chance of making an impact, but I don't hate him or hate on him. But I still say that his comment showed a serious misunderstanding about what is or is not dangerous to a Naval vessel. It was a sound bite moment.
What he said smacks of arrogance - it says, "Why should our all-powerful Navy be worried about a few insignificant speedboats?" The Navy worries because the ships are not invulnerable and the speedboats represent an area of vulnerability that is very difficult to address.
Don't confuse an incident like the speedboats versus ships as a seed of war. Unless things have changed a lot over the course of 20 years, this one made it to the news for just a couple of reasons. One is that a camera was around and the other is that conflict with Iran is the news du jour.
I don't support a war with Iran. I don't happen to support Thompson, Romney or, for that matter, many of the Bush Administration's policies concerning the Middle East (among others). So, it's a little tough to stand accused of "regurgitating any more of the garbage" that I've been fed. Thanks, I can make up my own mind. And, having been there and having seen and experienced the particular vulnerability that Naval ships face from high speed gunboats, I feel pretty secure in the validity and originality of my comments.
Ron Paul thought it was ridiculous to assume that the world's most powerful navy should feel threatened by speed boats.
.50 caliber machine guns and 40mm grenade launchers specifically to defend against them. And when they closed on us, we also threatened them with action.
That's because Ron Paul made a flip comment that was a quick sound bite. When I was on a frigate in the Persian Gulf about 20 years ago, we were worried about speedboats then, just like now. Why? Because our deck mounted gun could not depress low enough to fire at one at close range. We mounted a bunch of
Interestingly, during that Persian Gulf cruise, we shot down a fighter jet, sunk a warship and destroyed a Revolutionary Guard command and control platform. And we were roundly cheered for doing it. Why? Because back then, the Iranians were the big bullies, kicking the pants off this poor little country who never did anything wrong to them - Iraq. Funny how things change.
Dumbest, article, ever.
Clearly you weren't around during the Jon Katz era.
And that makes me wonder what the risk of hijacking would be if carrying guns was allowed (even encouraged?) on airplanes. I'd love to see a terrorist managing to take control of a plane for more than 5 minutes if other passengers had guns.
I think that I'd rather just see the air marshal and the pilots armed, thanks. The thought of being in the crossfire of a bunch of trigger-happy passengers is a little chilling to me.
And it isn't just planes. Think about your local shopping mall. I'd just as soon not have to deal with 20 wannabe enforcers who can't shoot straight when they're under pressure. If the police don't hit the bad guys with every round, imagine the carnage if a bunch of civilians started shooting. I've got a CCW, but I would have to be pretty damn sure of myself before I actually considered using my weapon in any area where there was a chance of hitting an innocent bystander.
Institutional investors don't keep stock that is desisted, so its just being dumped. Bet they wish they did that yesterday.
.03% was owned by mutual funds and only 11% by institutional investors. Insider ownership? About 25%.
Not to worry, the largest institutional investor owned about 600,000 shares as of September 30. A paltry
The real chuckle, to me, is the market cap - a whopping US$1.9 million.
Are all of you actually buying into this as something real? C'mon, look at who you're dealing with - this is nothing but a big hoax. A funny hoax, though, especially since it was absolutely guaranteed to draw in a ton of frothing at the mouth suckers.
Hi-lar-i-ous!
Of note is the fact that Mitt Romney had some supporters waiting in line to vote multiple times.
In Florida. Read your own article:
The Florida Republican straw poll, held last Saturday, became increasingly chaotic as Paul supporters sparred with those of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney over the amount of votes individuals cast.
Though individuals were allowed to purchase up to ten voting tickets for $20 apiece, Paul supporters actively displayed their single tickets while Romney supporters reportedly cashed in multiple stubs.
I don't know...the evidence is pretty clear that their last attempt at using the legal system to their advantage didn't work out so well.
Well, to be honest, I can't think of a lot of Americans that love their government. No matter who's running it. Like the philosopher said, we're lucky that we don't get all the government we pay for.
Funny you should say that, because everywhere I go in the world, people say that they love Americans. They just don't love the American government.
Otherwise known as the ON switch. Or, as we called it, the "oh shit" switch.
I spend weekends in a resort town in central Idaho and it's pretty easy to tell which structures are designed by architects who aren't familiar with the area. Homes with several different rooflines, wood or slate shingles or even, god forbid, flat roofs are a sure sign that the architect has no idea that the structure will be dealing with five to ten feet of snow accumulation.
Then, when the spring thaw hits, the snow and ice catches in the valleys of the various rooflines, tears the shingles off the roof or, about every other year, collapses a roof. And it's always worth a chuckle to see a sidewalk or driveway buried in, literally, a ton of snow that slide off a roof pitched the wrong direction.
And don't even get me started on the perils of drainage!
It's unfortunate, but the architectural design that works best where I live is, essentially, a box with a metal roof. Of course, there's a lot that you can do with a box to make it look nice.
Congratulations - you win the smallest epeen award.
Jesus...why do you guys do this?
Bowling, baby! Now that's a sport!
Sounds like Best Buy. With all the great press they get on/., why do people still go there?
/. as you think...
Probably because not as many people read
Lighten up, Francis.
Inverse logarithmic?