Heck I got to see Maria Von Trapp talk in the mid 80's, even back then she was claiming that America was starting to look like pre-WWII Germany. That was 20 some years ago, I would imagine we are just about 1 pep rally away by now.
Apple is not a monopoly in the mp3 player business, they are not even close to a monopoly. They are only the industry leader in the mp3 player market. There are a plethora of music stores and players available to consumers. Hell I can even burn my iTunes purchases to disc as mp3s and play them on any player that can play an mp3. If apple was a monopoly and they had the ethics of Microsoft the only music format available would be AAC and it would only play on iPods. There would be no other choices (sort of like what MS is trying to do with WMA).
On the other hand, Microsoft has used their industry dominance in operating systems to squash Netscape (include a browser in their OS), kill Lotus (nastygrams when running 1-2-3 on a windows/DOS system), bankrupt WordStar, trash Kodak (picture editor) and many other nasty tricks they have pulled over the years.
Not sure what country you are living in but I guarantee you if we all started driving hybrids and using less gas we would be paying over $6/gal. Faster than you could say WTF!
Its easy to just blame SUV drivers, though I agree with you that big gas guzzling SUVs are ridiculous and unecessary. Blaming SUV drivers for our gas problems is monumentally naive. Boogey men are easy, actual problem solving is difficult.
Exactly which is why we have to program them to only kill military and political leaders. In other words they should only kill the people who would deploy something like a war robot. To me that would solve two problems at once, we would create a robot that could save some human lives but at the same time kill the assholes who start these fucking wars in the first place.
costs will decrease, but to you and me gasoline will always be the same price. As long as the energy can be controlled by a small group of despots we will only ever see our costs continue rising.
Hmm, I wonder if we now have the short list of republicans that have something to hide. If Bush is as innocent as he his claiming then he should have no problem with these people testifying in front of congress.
Its too bad so many well-meaning conservatives are so paranoid and fearful that they are willing to take the rest of us down their delusional filled fantasies.
Right on brother, the only political branch of governement that lawyers should be eligible to serve in should be the judicial branch. I also dont think it is right that lawyers should be eligble for election in the Executive branch either. We "are" in a position where law makers are passing laws just to ensure their careers if they dont get elected, and not law makers that are creating laws to benefit the people. I really dont consider it a deliberate conspiracy but you have to admit, the law profession as a whole has strategically placed itself in all branches of government so that they benefit more than anyone else from government. And they dont seem to give a rats ass what happens to the public they are suppose to be serving. In my book that is treason, if there actually is organization behind this movement, then the organizers should be strung up.
This really bothers me when people start touting about farmers being paid not to farm crops. These are not the subsidies we need to get rid of. I would still be in favor of subsidies to farmers for not growing crops on a certain stretch of land. The reason farmers are paid to not grow crops is for land reclamaition purposes. Farming is really hard on the soil, the constant growing and harvesting of crops sucks many of the nutrients out of the soil, every few years a farmer will need to leave a bit of his land go fallow to allow the soil to regenerate itself. Crop rotation helps to reduce the need to let the land stand dormant but it does not eliminate the need. Over farming of the land was one of the causes of the dust bowl. When a farmer does this it affect his income because now he cannot bring as much product to market, so some of these subsidies actually do help people. Its the subisidies that the large corps are getting (think Con-Agra) that we have to look at.
I heard the scientology site got hacked this weekend and so did the RIAA website. Someone...PLEASE!...someone do it again only this time post negaive scientology propoganda on the the RIAA website and RIAA properties on the scientology website. They would have to sue each other, and considering the tactics both sides like to use the resulting trial could take 100 years or more.
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Heck I got to see Maria Von Trapp talk in the mid 80's, even back then she was claiming that America was starting to look like pre-WWII Germany. That was 20 some years ago, I would imagine we are just about 1 pep rally away by now.
Well if anyone is going to understand two-party lock-in I would think it would be Microsoft.
Apple is not a monopoly in the mp3 player business, they are not even close to a monopoly. They are only the industry leader in the mp3 player market. There are a plethora of music stores and players available to consumers. Hell I can even burn my iTunes purchases to disc as mp3s and play them on any player that can play an mp3. If apple was a monopoly and they had the ethics of Microsoft the only music format available would be AAC and it would only play on iPods. There would be no other choices (sort of like what MS is trying to do with WMA).
On the other hand, Microsoft has used their industry dominance in operating systems to squash Netscape (include a browser in their OS), kill Lotus (nastygrams when running 1-2-3 on a windows/DOS system), bankrupt WordStar, trash Kodak (picture editor) and many other nasty tricks they have pulled over the years.
Christ, Im going to have nightmares for a week now. Thanks a lot guys.
Sheesh!
Not sure what country you are living in but I guarantee you if we all started driving hybrids and using less gas we would be paying over $6/gal. Faster than you could say WTF!
Its easy to just blame SUV drivers, though I agree with you that big gas guzzling SUVs are ridiculous and unecessary. Blaming SUV drivers for our gas problems is monumentally naive. Boogey men are easy, actual problem solving is difficult.
Exactly which is why we have to program them to only kill military and political leaders. In other words they should only kill the people who would deploy something like a war robot. To me that would solve two problems at once, we would create a robot that could save some human lives but at the same time kill the assholes who start these fucking wars in the first place.
costs will decrease, but to you and me gasoline will always be the same price. As long as the energy can be controlled by a small group of despots we will only ever see our costs continue rising.
Any company that puts profits before their products is going to produce inferior products. End of story.
Um, there is a reason why school administrators administrate schools instead of multi-billion dollar corporations?
Hmm, I wonder if we now have the short list of republicans that have something to hide. If Bush is as innocent as he his claiming then he should have no problem with these people testifying in front of congress.
Really, I want to get paid the rest of my life for the very first program I ever wrote.
What a maroon.
Its too bad so many well-meaning conservatives are so paranoid and fearful that they are willing to take the rest of us down their delusional filled fantasies.
I have heard it is based off of man-inches.
And I am also sure Kalvin Klein and the Gap havent contributed either.
Right on brother, the only political branch of governement that lawyers should be eligible to serve in should be the judicial branch. I also dont think it is right that lawyers should be eligble for election in the Executive branch either. We "are" in a position where law makers are passing laws just to ensure their careers if they dont get elected, and not law makers that are creating laws to benefit the people. I really dont consider it a deliberate conspiracy but you have to admit, the law profession as a whole has strategically placed itself in all branches of government so that they benefit more than anyone else from government. And they dont seem to give a rats ass what happens to the public they are suppose to be serving. In my book that is treason, if there actually is organization behind this movement, then the organizers should be strung up.
This really bothers me when people start touting about farmers being paid not to farm crops. These are not the subsidies we need to get rid of. I would still be in favor of subsidies to farmers for not growing crops on a certain stretch of land. The reason farmers are paid to not grow crops is for land reclamaition purposes. Farming is really hard on the soil, the constant growing and harvesting of crops sucks many of the nutrients out of the soil, every few years a farmer will need to leave a bit of his land go fallow to allow the soil to regenerate itself. Crop rotation helps to reduce the need to let the land stand dormant but it does not eliminate the need. Over farming of the land was one of the causes of the dust bowl. When a farmer does this it affect his income because now he cannot bring as much product to market, so some of these subsidies actually do help people. Its the subisidies that the large corps are getting (think Con-Agra) that we have to look at.
then have kids. You will go from being rich to being in debt in no time flat.
Just remember, hotmail was the leading web based email service until MS got a hold of them.
Microsoft may have the big money, but Google has the big brains. This ought to be interesting.
and keep the same timeframe. Wouldnt it be the winter of coding?
Damn, O'Reilly could just cut/paste this into a book and call it "Politics in a Nutshell"
I have to agree, in certain situations my tool becomes my brain.
Im no lawyer but this would only apply to the Maine courts, right?
we are going to see cockroaches with tiny satellite dishes attached to them?
I heard the scientology site got hacked this weekend and so did the RIAA website. Someone...PLEASE!...someone do it again only this time post negaive scientology propoganda on the the RIAA website and RIAA properties on the scientology website. They would have to sue each other, and considering the tactics both sides like to use the resulting trial could take 100 years or more.