The theory of relativity gave us atomic weapons, whereas incompetent patent offices give us patents on making a sandwich.
Actually, the patent office gave us Albert Einstein, who gave us the theory of relativity, which gave us atomic weapons. I thereby submit to you that in some way, the patent office is a source of pure evil and must be eliminated.
It wasn't a hard question. It was just a question which Obama had a hard time answering due to he nature of his (polarizing) answer.
It wasn't even a valid question. When it turns out that Joe was a poor man who had no chance in hell of even buying a plumbing business, the question was revealed for what it was: a fake question intentionally created to make Obama uncomfortable answering it. It's no state secret that Obama's tax plan would raise taxes for individuals and sole proprietors making more than $250,000 a year, so why not just pretend like you are one and ask why he wants to raise your taxes? That seems to be the strategy Joe used and while he was lying through his teeth about his earning potential, it left a few out of context sound bites the right wing media could latch onto.
This is hardly the first or only example of how or why Obama is a socialist. There is hardly any evidence available to support that he isn't; he's been involved in far-left socialist - dare I say marxist? - agendas since he was a teenager, and his rhetoric reflects that.
Citation needed. Oh yeah, you just brought out the typical right-wing nonsense "prove that he isn't a marxist." Sorry, but you need to prove that he is . You can't prove a negative. How in the hell did this get modded up in the first place? Damn right-wing troll mods I hope you lose mod privs on meta-moderation.
I'd be really curious to know how they are able to release an update that adds some quite significant features without having to charge for the update. Every time Apple brings out new features on the iPhone, they charge iPod Touch owners for that same update claiming that the Sarbanes-Oxley act means they cant add the features for free (with some sort of contract loophole for the iphone ).
This just depends on how the company would like to realize revenue for that particular product. Some companies realize revenue monthly (ie. iPhone), which means they can say any updates are part of your monthly service fee, so they don't need to charge. Xbox Live is also an example of this. You pay a yearly fee, so the NXE is just an extra "service" delivered as part of that fee. Other companies realize the sales revenue all at once (ie. iPod touch), so they need to charge for additional updates. This is more so that they can't claim that all the work they did on updates was a loss in the future and get a tax write-off.
The party system always did extend beyond these games (to most games in fact). The party system in NXE is different. You can be in a party with some friends, but doing different things (playing a game, watching a movie, etc). You can switch to the party channel if you wish to only communicate with people in your party, or the game channel if you want to chat with the people you're playing with. So if you want to play COD4 but you're tired of dealing with obnoxious gamers, you can first start a party with your friends, and then play COD4, and stay on the party channel -- no need to deal with obnoxious ppl. Same for any game, in NXE now.
While that is indeed a cool feature, I'm surprised by how far behind the PC gaming experience console gaming is. My friends and I have been doing this for years now. We have a Ventrilo (or Teamspeak) server and we all log in and talk about whatever games we're playing in a channel we all hang out in. Some days we might even be playing completely different games from each other. In fact, some people I know even run multiple copies of Ventrilo at the same time so they can participate in team chat in whatever game they're playing, as well as talk to their friends in another channel.
It's about time console gaming caught up to PC gaming.
I know what he did, and what he did not do. He did not hack the game. He DID ask permission to play in that way, and was granted it.
I think he would have been fine if he stayed out of group, tagged the mobs, and let his friends finish them off. The problem appears to come in when he was in the group initially, tagged the mob, then left group quickly, and let the group kill it.
That way, he got the grouped XP bonus, but wasn't actually in the group during the kill. This is where I believe the GM made the correct call that he crossed the line to exploiting.
The probability of it interfering increasing significantly if you are a member of a raiding guild. Since raiders are the people mentioned in the blurb, I think the OP's point was valid. He didn't even seem to be criticizing all WoW players, just those who rush out to "beat" the expansion quicker than anyone else.
You seem to be making the assumption that since the guild, TwentyFifthNovember defeated all of the raid content so quickly, they must have no social life.
In reality, this guild is sponsored by major computer component manufacturers such as Nvidia, Intel, AMD, etc. In other words, they get a regular paycheck to play World of Warcraft as their job. I would hardly qualify having a game you love be your job as "having no life." In reality, they probably play regular hours, at least 8-12 hours a day on most days (full time work), and during the expansion release (cruch time), they probably played 16 hours a day. Hardly any different from any other job in the software industry. The only difference is that their job is more likely a lot more fun.
So let's just quit with the generalization. Sure, WoW players might have problems with the game interfering with their social lives. You can't just assume that they all do however. Most are casual gamers that only play a few hours a week.
The one thing that Nethack lacks, that would make it an instant WoW-Killer, is multiplayer.
Seriously. Multiplayer-Nethack? That's 10 times the gameplay, depth and challenge of WoW right there.
Nethack is at it's heart, a turn-based game. I seriously don't want to play multiplayer Nethack unless it is real-time. Can you imagine how infuriating it would be to have to wait for a 3 minute timeout in between turns when someone just went AFK on the other end?
Also, Nethack has nowhere near the complexity of WoW. I'm sorry, but it doesn't have 3 dimensions. It doesn't care if you're actually facing your opponent, you can cast spells or attack in any direction without turning around. Nethack does have incredibly complex item interaction, but so does WoW.
Seriously, the PDP-11 called, it wants it's old tired single player text games back.
During the summer in the northern hemisphere, when it is winter in the southern hemisphere, they have a pretty good idea of what strains we will see because it is the flu season in places like Australia. The vaccine is created with weakened versions of the most common flu strains in countries from the southern hemisphere.
I'm tired of this boring old Slashdot group think that thinks it is ok to justify piracy. Either buy the game or don't. And if you are going to pirate, just shut up about it already. No one needs to know how you are breaking the law.
I buy about 2-3 games at full price per month. I spend thousands per year on my games, but I only buy from companies that treat their customers right.
It's sad, but at this point we need to hurt those companies that are trying to get too aggressive about DRM the only way we can: financially. Boycotting their games isn't enough. Pirate their games and teach others how to pirate as well. That's how I do it and I recommend you do the same thing.
As far as piracy, or even renting goes(and when did THAT become evil)..it's limited to people that never really planned on buying it anyways. Those aren't lost sales despite what their studies say. The vast majority of people still still just go to a store and buy it. Good games still sell well.
Not true. I have enough money to buy 2-3 games a month brand new if I wanted to, but I decided to pirate Spore because I didn't want to deal with SecuROM. When Gears of War 2 comes out for PC, I'll probably do the same thing. If they're going to treat their paying customers like criminals then they just might find out how well that works out for you.
Civil disobedience is the only way to teach these gaming companies that DRM is not ok. They are violating the first sale doctrine and they need to be smacked down.
If I buy a game like this with a "first buy code" you know what the first thing I'd do would be? Post it online.
You can't do this because the codes are unique, and you register your code with their server to get the content that should have shipped on the game disc in the first place. Basically, it's extortion. Pay $60 at the store for part of the game, then we'll hold the rest of the game hostage until you either prove you're the first owner or pay another $20.
It would be kind of sweet if someone came out with a CD key generator that started blacklisting legitimate CD keys, so that paying customers had to return the game because their key had already been used by a pirate...
They've identified a problem with their business model, and instead of legislating to protect their business model (like the recording industry), they've found a solution. What's the problem?
For now, it is just "bonus maps" or something innocuous. Pretty soon they will disable the entire game unless you're the original purchaser. That means you'll never be able to sell your used games again, and nobody will be able to buy your used games.
Bought a game that sucked? You just bought a $60 paperweight, sucker.
No company since Sony with the rootkit fiasco has had more contempt for their legitimate paying customers. Personally, I won't be buying another Epic game again. It's bittorrent and piracy for me. If they are going to "steal" from their customers by eliminating our resale value, I don't feel bad about stealing the game from them in the first place.
The lesson to be learned here is "pirate often". These companies like EA with their ridiculous SecuROM DRM limiting installs and Epic need to be smacked down hard. They need to learn a financial lesson, that if you treat your customers like criminals, they tend to become criminals.
You and people like you are precisely why the abusive monopolies exist. Your persistent drug-addiction-like dependence on gaming has placed all profiting parties so high on their thrones that they will continue to rule you and all the people like you. Put some principles before your pleasure once in a while and you might develop what some call "character."
It's a fucking computer, not a religion. What you fail to realize is that PC gaming is an entire ecosystem, from hardware manufacturers who have to make drivers for 3d and audio hardware, to Microsoft, to the game developers themselves. Every single component of that chain has literally billions of dollars invested, and it's unfortunate, but it doesn't make a lot of business sense to start over from scratch on some other platform.
Personally, I'd love to be able to play games on Linux and not deal with Windows, but be realistic, it won't happen until a significant market share of users is on Linux, and it won't happen until the entire ecosystem has "re-tooled" which includes Nvidia and ATI making decent Linux drivers (that don't suck twice as much as their Windows versions) and game developers learning how to code on Linux.
So don't put the blame on us, the gamer. It's not like we're going to quit playing games. We play games on whatever works, whether it's a Nintendo Wii, Xbox360, PS3, or a Windows PC. If you want us to stop playing games on those platforms, go build your own damn gaming ecosystem on Linux and make better games there. Until then, STFU and drop the religious OS shit. It's a fucking gaming platform, not a fucking religion.
The most paranoid, yet strangely compelling, Python script I like is one that works as a kind of panic button. You load the app and it immediately takes a photo of whatever the camera is aimed at, sends a MMS message (or email, or SMS) with your current location from the cell tower while it waits till it has a GPS lock and includes that photo if possible. Once it has GPS lock, it will send GPS coords via SMS every X (edit the script to set, defaults to 180) seconds and then will also call a designated number to play back a pre-recorded message, then use text-to-speech to give the GPS coordinates on that call. It can then call emergency services and play that same message for them. If it can't get GPS lock (say you're in a building or whatever) then it will just use cell towers it can detect so that there is at least some method of tracing you.
Please don't ever, ever do this. What will most likely happen is that one of your children will be playing with your phone and will press the OMG BIG RED BUTTON and set off the script.
If you're actually wealthy enough to have a serious risk of being kidnapped, hire your own private security firm and have the emergency message go to them. Hell, if you're actually wealthy enough to have a serious risk of being kidnapped, hire a real security guard to protect you.
And by North Korea standards every news station in the world is extremely liberal. It's all about perspective. Why do people keep dragging out this rhetoric. This is American politics and American mainstream media. Everyone knows by now how right wing the politics are compared to Europe. Does that really mean anything?
It does matter because America likes to try to "export" their idea of what democracy is to the rest of the world any chance they get. It also matters because the US dollar is the currency of record for most international transactions such as oil.
Therefore, the US government plays a disproportionately large role in defining what foreign governments can do. I think it's fairly justified for Europe and the rest of the civilized world to say "we've seen how much failure your hard right politics have caused and no thanks." Meanwhile the "socialist" countries of Europe are doing just fine, thank you very much, except for having to deal with the inevitable global consequences of failures in the US financial markets.
No, journalists love the Democrat [mediaresearch.org]! Around 81% of journalists vote Democrat.
Although some news sources such as Fox news and MSNBC have obvious biases, you can't just say "see, they vote democrat, therefore their news reports are all biased!" Correlation does not equal causation. There's also a very distinct other possibility that you fail to mention:
Perhaps news reporters and those that work in the media are more educated than your average American voter and vote more intelligently. Also, having been exposed to much more news and being more aware about what is going on in the world, they make the intelligent choice to vote democrat at this point in time.
I see a very high correlation to rural, uneducated voters choosing McCain. I also see a very high correlation of college educated city dwellers voting Obama. It could be me, but smart voters seem to prefer a smarter candidate, and don't respond as well to the baseless attacks and political mud-slinging of the McCain campaign. It could just be me though. Remember, correlation does not equal causation...;-)
To be honest every liberal should only get their news from Fox and every conservative should only get their news from NPR.
Fox News is a right-wing tabloid masquerading as a news source, and NPR is almost the last form of real, unbiased, in-depth news available. Of course, it's well known that reality has a liberal bias, so I can see why some on the right think NPR is biased, but please don't paint NPR with the same brush as Fox.
It's a shame that almost every so-called "News source" just relies on AP wire stories which are really just 30 second sound bites that can capture eyeballs. It's refreshing to hear real news stories on NPR, who actually pays reporters to go out into the field (strange concept, huh?) and write detailed stories that last 3 to 4 minutes long each.
I've learned more about both sides of many issues from a 3 minute long NPR story than I could ever hope to in a 30 second sound bite on any major news network.
Great acceleration and no range. I don't care if it takes me 12 or 20 seconds to reach 60mph if I can go 300mi/charge, with the heat, headlights and windsheild wipers on.
You might not care, but the 20 other drivers stuck behind you on the freeway on-ramp that have to merge into traffic going 70 mph at a speed of 30 mph care a great deal. Have you even thought about the traffic accidents you might cause trying to drive a vehicle like that in normal freeway traffic? 12 seconds is barely acceptable, but 20 seconds is an accident waiting to happen.
Like I just did yesterday.
What vehicle are you driving that allows you to go 300 miles on a charge? I'm curious to know.
I seriously don't know how Th!nk plans to stay in business with the City versus some of its competitors. Say, the Aptera, for example.
Every article that mentions electric cars, somebody brings up the Aptera. The reason why the Aptera is not really considered a likely candidate for mass transportation is that it's really just a motorcycle with a cage around it and wheels to balance it on the side. Most people would not consider this device to be safe enough to operate on a daily basis. Look it up, the only way they could get around the safety regulations in California is by classifying it as a motorcycle and not a car.
It still looks like an innovative design, but I wouldn't want to get in a wreck in one of them.
Either way, on in twenty iPhones and one in ten blackberry's? That's disgraceful. Could you imagine if one in ten intel chips failed within their first year? How about one in ten hard drives? How about one in ten cars/planes/boats?
People abuse the hell out of their cellphones. They drop them on the ground, set heavy objects on top of them, hell, people even throw them across the room in anger. How many computers have to put up with that type of abuse? I'm frankly amazed that it's only 1 in 20 iPhones.
Ted Stevens gets re-elected; then he resigns (or is kicked out of the Senate by 2/3rds); then there will be a special election in Alaska for Senate and Palin will most likely win. She plans this already. When she found out about Stevens she said (paraphrase) "He should leave the Senate. Even if he is re-elected, he should then resign." So we will most likely see her in the Senate for the next 4 years or so. The question is: will she be like Liddy Dole who people thought was an up-and-comer but who turned out to be a drag, or like Hillary who was a massively divisive figure but who used the Senate to grow to become liked by a broad spectrum of people.
I don't think so. What normally happens if a Senator gets kicked out is that the governor of that state gets to nominate a new Senator. As far as I know, you can't nominate yourself. I would suspect she'll find an equally corrupt Republican senator to nominate for Ted Stevens place.
I guess the question is this: do we want to make it a requirement that a candidate be able to afford high end clothing out of their own finances before they can run for President? Because if a candidate needs high end clothes, and its not acceptable for the campaign to buy them, then that's the requirement that we just added to the list of Presidential qualifications.
No, I think she should have worn nice jeans and a nice shirt to her rallies. That's all that's needed to win Joe Sixpack over. Especially when you pass yourself off as a hockey mom. Why not dress the part? I think the American people would appreciate a little honesty from their politicians every once in a while.
Did anyone read the rest of the article? I find it hilarious that Caribou Barbie went on an even bigger shopping spree than previously reported:
NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family--clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus.
Wait, it gets better:
According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.
I am so glad we won't be hearing from her at least until 2012 or so... Corruption in Alaska? You betcha!
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Actually, the patent office gave us Albert Einstein, who gave us the theory of relativity, which gave us atomic weapons. I thereby submit to you that in some way, the patent office is a source of pure evil and must be eliminated.
It wasn't even a valid question. When it turns out that Joe was a poor man who had no chance in hell of even buying a plumbing business, the question was revealed for what it was: a fake question intentionally created to make Obama uncomfortable answering it. It's no state secret that Obama's tax plan would raise taxes for individuals and sole proprietors making more than $250,000 a year, so why not just pretend like you are one and ask why he wants to raise your taxes? That seems to be the strategy Joe used and while he was lying through his teeth about his earning potential, it left a few out of context sound bites the right wing media could latch onto.
Citation needed. Oh yeah, you just brought out the typical right-wing nonsense "prove that he isn't a marxist." Sorry, but you need to prove that he is . You can't prove a negative. How in the hell did this get modded up in the first place? Damn right-wing troll mods I hope you lose mod privs on meta-moderation.
Thanks for trolling. He already said that if you don't pay taxes you won't get any money back. Nice try, though.
This just depends on how the company would like to realize revenue for that particular product. Some companies realize revenue monthly (ie. iPhone), which means they can say any updates are part of your monthly service fee, so they don't need to charge. Xbox Live is also an example of this. You pay a yearly fee, so the NXE is just an extra "service" delivered as part of that fee. Other companies realize the sales revenue all at once (ie. iPod touch), so they need to charge for additional updates. This is more so that they can't claim that all the work they did on updates was a loss in the future and get a tax write-off.
While that is indeed a cool feature, I'm surprised by how far behind the PC gaming experience console gaming is. My friends and I have been doing this for years now. We have a Ventrilo (or Teamspeak) server and we all log in and talk about whatever games we're playing in a channel we all hang out in. Some days we might even be playing completely different games from each other. In fact, some people I know even run multiple copies of Ventrilo at the same time so they can participate in team chat in whatever game they're playing, as well as talk to their friends in another channel.
It's about time console gaming caught up to PC gaming.
I think he would have been fine if he stayed out of group, tagged the mobs, and let his friends finish them off. The problem appears to come in when he was in the group initially, tagged the mob, then left group quickly, and let the group kill it.
That way, he got the grouped XP bonus, but wasn't actually in the group during the kill. This is where I believe the GM made the correct call that he crossed the line to exploiting.
You seem to be making the assumption that since the guild, TwentyFifthNovember defeated all of the raid content so quickly, they must have no social life.
In reality, this guild is sponsored by major computer component manufacturers such as Nvidia, Intel, AMD, etc. In other words, they get a regular paycheck to play World of Warcraft as their job. I would hardly qualify having a game you love be your job as "having no life." In reality, they probably play regular hours, at least 8-12 hours a day on most days (full time work), and during the expansion release (cruch time), they probably played 16 hours a day. Hardly any different from any other job in the software industry. The only difference is that their job is more likely a lot more fun.
So let's just quit with the generalization. Sure, WoW players might have problems with the game interfering with their social lives. You can't just assume that they all do however. Most are casual gamers that only play a few hours a week.
Nethack is at it's heart, a turn-based game. I seriously don't want to play multiplayer Nethack unless it is real-time. Can you imagine how infuriating it would be to have to wait for a 3 minute timeout in between turns when someone just went AFK on the other end?
Also, Nethack has nowhere near the complexity of WoW. I'm sorry, but it doesn't have 3 dimensions. It doesn't care if you're actually facing your opponent, you can cast spells or attack in any direction without turning around. Nethack does have incredibly complex item interaction, but so does WoW.
Seriously, the PDP-11 called, it wants it's old tired single player text games back.
During the summer in the northern hemisphere, when it is winter in the southern hemisphere, they have a pretty good idea of what strains we will see because it is the flu season in places like Australia. The vaccine is created with weakened versions of the most common flu strains in countries from the southern hemisphere.
I buy about 2-3 games at full price per month. I spend thousands per year on my games, but I only buy from companies that treat their customers right.
It's sad, but at this point we need to hurt those companies that are trying to get too aggressive about DRM the only way we can: financially. Boycotting their games isn't enough. Pirate their games and teach others how to pirate as well. That's how I do it and I recommend you do the same thing.
Not true. I have enough money to buy 2-3 games a month brand new if I wanted to, but I decided to pirate Spore because I didn't want to deal with SecuROM. When Gears of War 2 comes out for PC, I'll probably do the same thing. If they're going to treat their paying customers like criminals then they just might find out how well that works out for you.
Civil disobedience is the only way to teach these gaming companies that DRM is not ok. They are violating the first sale doctrine and they need to be smacked down.
You can't do this because the codes are unique, and you register your code with their server to get the content that should have shipped on the game disc in the first place. Basically, it's extortion. Pay $60 at the store for part of the game, then we'll hold the rest of the game hostage until you either prove you're the first owner or pay another $20.
It would be kind of sweet if someone came out with a CD key generator that started blacklisting legitimate CD keys, so that paying customers had to return the game because their key had already been used by a pirate...
Because it's unfair to consumers and violates the First Sale Doctrine.
For now, it is just "bonus maps" or something innocuous. Pretty soon they will disable the entire game unless you're the original purchaser. That means you'll never be able to sell your used games again, and nobody will be able to buy your used games.
Bought a game that sucked? You just bought a $60 paperweight, sucker.
No company since Sony with the rootkit fiasco has had more contempt for their legitimate paying customers. Personally, I won't be buying another Epic game again. It's bittorrent and piracy for me. If they are going to "steal" from their customers by eliminating our resale value, I don't feel bad about stealing the game from them in the first place.
The lesson to be learned here is "pirate often". These companies like EA with their ridiculous SecuROM DRM limiting installs and Epic need to be smacked down hard. They need to learn a financial lesson, that if you treat your customers like criminals, they tend to become criminals.
It's a fucking computer, not a religion. What you fail to realize is that PC gaming is an entire ecosystem, from hardware manufacturers who have to make drivers for 3d and audio hardware, to Microsoft, to the game developers themselves. Every single component of that chain has literally billions of dollars invested, and it's unfortunate, but it doesn't make a lot of business sense to start over from scratch on some other platform.
Personally, I'd love to be able to play games on Linux and not deal with Windows, but be realistic, it won't happen until a significant market share of users is on Linux, and it won't happen until the entire ecosystem has "re-tooled" which includes Nvidia and ATI making decent Linux drivers (that don't suck twice as much as their Windows versions) and game developers learning how to code on Linux.
So don't put the blame on us, the gamer. It's not like we're going to quit playing games. We play games on whatever works, whether it's a Nintendo Wii, Xbox360, PS3, or a Windows PC. If you want us to stop playing games on those platforms, go build your own damn gaming ecosystem on Linux and make better games there. Until then, STFU and drop the religious OS shit. It's a fucking gaming platform, not a fucking religion.
Please don't ever, ever do this. What will most likely happen is that one of your children will be playing with your phone and will press the OMG BIG RED BUTTON and set off the script.
If you're actually wealthy enough to have a serious risk of being kidnapped, hire your own private security firm and have the emergency message go to them. Hell, if you're actually wealthy enough to have a serious risk of being kidnapped, hire a real security guard to protect you.
In any case, that's a very cool script.
It does matter because America likes to try to "export" their idea of what democracy is to the rest of the world any chance they get. It also matters because the US dollar is the currency of record for most international transactions such as oil.
Therefore, the US government plays a disproportionately large role in defining what foreign governments can do. I think it's fairly justified for Europe and the rest of the civilized world to say "we've seen how much failure your hard right politics have caused and no thanks." Meanwhile the "socialist" countries of Europe are doing just fine, thank you very much, except for having to deal with the inevitable global consequences of failures in the US financial markets.
Although some news sources such as Fox news and MSNBC have obvious biases, you can't just say "see, they vote democrat, therefore their news reports are all biased!" Correlation does not equal causation. There's also a very distinct other possibility that you fail to mention:
Perhaps news reporters and those that work in the media are more educated than your average American voter and vote more intelligently. Also, having been exposed to much more news and being more aware about what is going on in the world, they make the intelligent choice to vote democrat at this point in time.
I see a very high correlation to rural, uneducated voters choosing McCain. I also see a very high correlation of college educated city dwellers voting Obama. It could be me, but smart voters seem to prefer a smarter candidate, and don't respond as well to the baseless attacks and political mud-slinging of the McCain campaign. It could just be me though. Remember, correlation does not equal causation... ;-)
Fox News is a right-wing tabloid masquerading as a news source, and NPR is almost the last form of real, unbiased, in-depth news available. Of course, it's well known that reality has a liberal bias, so I can see why some on the right think NPR is biased, but please don't paint NPR with the same brush as Fox.
It's a shame that almost every so-called "News source" just relies on AP wire stories which are really just 30 second sound bites that can capture eyeballs. It's refreshing to hear real news stories on NPR, who actually pays reporters to go out into the field (strange concept, huh?) and write detailed stories that last 3 to 4 minutes long each.
I've learned more about both sides of many issues from a 3 minute long NPR story than I could ever hope to in a 30 second sound bite on any major news network.
You might not care, but the 20 other drivers stuck behind you on the freeway on-ramp that have to merge into traffic going 70 mph at a speed of 30 mph care a great deal. Have you even thought about the traffic accidents you might cause trying to drive a vehicle like that in normal freeway traffic? 12 seconds is barely acceptable, but 20 seconds is an accident waiting to happen.
What vehicle are you driving that allows you to go 300 miles on a charge? I'm curious to know.
Every article that mentions electric cars, somebody brings up the Aptera. The reason why the Aptera is not really considered a likely candidate for mass transportation is that it's really just a motorcycle with a cage around it and wheels to balance it on the side. Most people would not consider this device to be safe enough to operate on a daily basis. Look it up, the only way they could get around the safety regulations in California is by classifying it as a motorcycle and not a car.
It still looks like an innovative design, but I wouldn't want to get in a wreck in one of them.
People abuse the hell out of their cellphones. They drop them on the ground, set heavy objects on top of them, hell, people even throw them across the room in anger. How many computers have to put up with that type of abuse? I'm frankly amazed that it's only 1 in 20 iPhones.
I don't think so. What normally happens if a Senator gets kicked out is that the governor of that state gets to nominate a new Senator. As far as I know, you can't nominate yourself. I would suspect she'll find an equally corrupt Republican senator to nominate for Ted Stevens place.
No, I think she should have worn nice jeans and a nice shirt to her rallies. That's all that's needed to win Joe Sixpack over. Especially when you pass yourself off as a hockey mom. Why not dress the part? I think the American people would appreciate a little honesty from their politicians every once in a while.
I gotta ask... How many files do you have with newlines in the name? And what kind of masochist puts newlines in a filename in the first place? ;-)
Did anyone read the rest of the article? I find it hilarious that Caribou Barbie went on an even bigger shopping spree than previously reported:
Wait, it gets better:
I am so glad we won't be hearing from her at least until 2012 or so... Corruption in Alaska? You betcha!