I remember waaay back when, if you looked at the ROM in a hex dump, very plainly in the middle of all the code was the string "Stolen From Apple Computer". The magic, I was told, is that the code was actually functional and if you took it out, the OS would crash.
I guess it never even occurred to them to put wind mills on the buildings in the city. Can't have that can we?
Now if Ted Kennedy lived in Upstate New York, there's be federal legislation in the works for sure.
It would be nice if all the so-called environmentalists would go ahead and put their money (and/or property values) where their mouth is and put wind farms/solar farms/alge ponds/nuclear/coal/gas powerplants, etc. in their neighborhoods.
Educational software is a tool, nothing more. Used correctly, it leverages the educator, allowing them to be more effective in the classroom. Used incorrectly, it will run the students into the ground.
I am also in the educational software industry. I have found there is a disturbing tendency among some educators to abandon the kids in the lab with what amounts to little more than cartoons.
Good educational software has three important parts. First, the content, which should be clear, concise, grade/age appropriate and interesting, not entertaining. Second, a method of assessing the students progress in the lesson plan. Third and most important, a real live person attending to the students as they use this tool.
Educational software is a tool that leverages the educator, not replaces them.
Petroleum - Green House problems...scratch that Natural Gas - scarce, greenhouse problems. Exney on that Wind - Spoils the view, kills the birds, Ted Kennedy would never stand for it Hydroelectric - Kills the fish, destroys natural habitat. The Sierra Club would stroke. Solar - too many nasty chemicals used to make them. Vast acres would spoil the natural habitats and reflect heat back into space. That would be a good thing now, but at some point, people would start bitching about it. Nuclear - The whole freakn Green movement would riot, lawsuits, radioactive waste. Fusion - According to Slashdot lefties, there's no way that would work Hydrogen - see Fusion Thermal Gradient, Ocean - Disrupts the natural balance of the ocean. Thermal Gradient, Land - All those drilling rigs? And besides, Old Faithful would stop being faithful.
Did I miss anything?
It seems like the left has nothing but objections to any technology. Also looks like they have no solutions other than to bitch and moan.
Of course, they have no problem making these objections using a computer full of plastics and toxic materials, using power derived from some of the above methods, an internet that scars the land with wires or ditches, etc, etc.
I probably could dig up the manual to my first Apple III, which stated in print, that 128K was more than anyone would ever need or something approximate to that.
We read this as we were trying to figure out why the System Utility software was crashing with a stack overflow...it was because it required 256K to run.
You are already doing the only thing that the left knows how to do, ignore the facts, bitch, whine, and moan, and then refuse to listen to any opposing opinions.
Yeah, you're so damn smart, you don't need reality to interfere with what you beleive.
And why would you even be interested in openly discussing anything? You said it yourself..."I'm not listening".
And whatever moron modded your post a five is probably the same kind of "open minded" liberal.
You don't think that if spends millions of dollars investing in a business in a country, that they don't have a right or expectation that it won't be nationalized, or otherwise taken from the investors?
The problem is that in many of these countries, regulating private business amounts to stealing them.
I should have added another editorial which essentially said that all the people having a cow over this are nothing but drama queens.
The Patriot Act does not make the U.S. a Police State. You want a Police State? Look at China. Look at North Korea, etc.
The fact the Dems didn't start shitting their pants over this until they discovered that it worked for the politically tells me that they thought it was a reasonable thing to do also (along with Clinton and Carter and the Court itself)
Is breaking into medical research labs and setting the animals free (or just taking them) and then trashing the place terrorism? It causes millions in damage and sets back research by years.
Or what about burning down car dealerships? Just as a matter of course, that's 20 years in jail; worse if someone dies trying to put out the fire.
I bet all the Pro-Choice groups wouldn't have a problem with the feds listening in on the Pro-life groups.
Of course, not one Democrat had a problem with someone listening in on Newt Gingrich's cell phone calls and the publishing them.
As we have come to find out, what they are doing now is very tightly controlled, reviewed every 45 days, the congressional leadership and the judges they normally would go to were all informed, Including the Democrats that are now having a cow.
No one is listening to someone's dirty phone calls to get political dirt, all the calls were international calls that originated outside the US (If I remember right), and although some would dispute it, the lawyers at the justice department think that it's ok under existing laws.
This whole kerfuffle is nothing more than the Times hawking a book and trying to influence legislation and the Democrats being their usual political opportunist selves.
Did you read anything in my post about handing over absolute power? Did any of your moron buddies in congress vote against these in the original bill? No.
The only thing that's changed now is that it's politically expedient for the communist Democrats and some spineless Republicans to oppose these now.
Funny, I don't seem to remember being oppressed in the last 4 years when these provisions were in effect. Oh yeah, your a liberal, even the idea that some scumbag terriorist is being denied his rights keep you up at night.
Give people like you a few years of peace of mind and you forget what it took to achieve it.
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...to the wacky left. It drives them around the bend.
I remember waaay back when, if you looked at the ROM in a hex dump, very plainly in the middle of all the code was the string "Stolen From Apple Computer". The magic, I was told, is that the code was actually functional and if you took it out, the OS would crash.
I guess it never even occurred to them to put wind mills on the buildings in the city. Can't have that can we?
Now if Ted Kennedy lived in Upstate New York, there's be federal legislation in the works for sure.
It would be nice if all the so-called environmentalists would go ahead and put their money (and/or property values) where their mouth is and put wind farms/solar farms/alge ponds/nuclear/coal/gas powerplants, etc. in their neighborhoods.
I wonder how much of this actually ends up in the pockets of the musicians.
My bet is that the vast majority of it lines the pockets of the gangsters called RIAA or its equivalent.
...the lot of you.
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A Troll post for a Troll submission.
Ahhh...did you read my post?
Educational software is a tool, nothing more. Used correctly, it leverages the educator, allowing them to be more effective in the classroom. Used incorrectly, it will run the students into the ground.
I am also in the educational software industry. I have found there is a disturbing tendency among some educators to abandon the kids in the lab with what amounts to little more than cartoons.
Good educational software has three important parts. First, the content, which should be clear, concise, grade/age appropriate and interesting, not entertaining. Second, a method of assessing the students progress in the lesson plan. Third and most important, a real live person attending to the students as they use this tool.
Educational software is a tool that leverages the educator, not replaces them.
Petroleum - Green House problems...scratch that
Natural Gas - scarce, greenhouse problems. Exney on that
Wind - Spoils the view, kills the birds, Ted Kennedy would never stand for it
Hydroelectric - Kills the fish, destroys natural habitat. The Sierra Club would stroke.
Solar - too many nasty chemicals used to make them. Vast acres would spoil the natural habitats and reflect heat back into space. That would be a good thing now, but at some point, people would start bitching about it.
Nuclear - The whole freakn Green movement would riot, lawsuits, radioactive waste.
Fusion - According to Slashdot lefties, there's no way that would work
Hydrogen - see Fusion
Thermal Gradient, Ocean - Disrupts the natural balance of the ocean.
Thermal Gradient, Land - All those drilling rigs? And besides, Old Faithful would stop being faithful.
Did I miss anything?
It seems like the left has nothing but objections to any technology. Also looks like they have no solutions other than to bitch and moan.
Of course, they have no problem making these objections using a computer full of plastics and toxic materials, using power derived from some of the above methods, an internet that scars the land with wires or ditches, etc, etc.
There will be some group, somewhere, objecting to something about this.
I'm waiting for C++-Ultimate0xff
I'm sure that the Guardian considers this a scandalous affair which somehow involves G.W. Bush secretly taking over the world.
If everything is in MS Office, it's guaranteed to be inaccessible after just two upgrades.
But, they aren't listening. They are all out protesting something now and telling each other how smart and right (left actually) they are.
And guaranteed, one of them will mod the post down to troll so no one sees it...can't have the truth out there ya know.
Pearls before swine.
The Left believes what the Left believes. No facts or evidence will convince them otherwise.
Arguing with them is like arguing with your dog.
Your post will be modded down to Troll due to the excessive use of factual information contrary to liberal opinion.
I probably could dig up the manual to my first Apple III, which stated in print, that 128K was more than anyone would ever need or something approximate to that.
We read this as we were trying to figure out why the System Utility software was crashing with a stack overflow...it was because it required 256K to run.
The only people pissed off are the Ney York Times and the Democratic Underground and it's little trolls.
The NSA has done this kind of thing for decades under Democrats and Republicans. Jokes are made about it.
The left is just a buch of Drama Queens that look for anything they can find to use as an excuse to call Bush Hitler.
Hell, the Clinton Haters can't hold a candle to this crowd.
You are already doing the only thing that the left knows how to do, ignore the facts, bitch, whine, and moan, and then refuse to listen to any opposing opinions.
Yeah, you're so damn smart, you don't need reality to interfere with what you beleive.
And why would you even be interested in openly discussing anything? You said it yourself..."I'm not listening".
And whatever moron modded your post a five is probably the same kind of "open minded" liberal.
I guess you should have been the number three guy in the Justice department during Clinton's Administration. You apparently know better than he does.
Slashdot is beginning to sound like the unhinged nut case democraticunderground.com
You don't think that if spends millions of dollars investing in a business in a country, that they don't have a right or expectation that it won't be nationalized, or otherwise taken from the investors?
The problem is that in many of these countries, regulating private business amounts to stealing them.
I should have added another editorial which essentially said that all the people having a cow over this are nothing but drama queens.
The Patriot Act does not make the U.S. a Police State. You want a Police State? Look at China. Look at North Korea, etc.
The fact the Dems didn't start shitting their pants over this until they discovered that it worked for the politically tells me that they thought it was a reasonable thing to do also (along with Clinton and Carter and the Court itself)
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-05
It's the necessary thing to do:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2
It's been done before by your pals Clinton and Carter
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051222-122610
You are all for it when it serves your politics :
http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_21
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A Troll post for a Troll post.
I guess it depends on what you call terrorism.
Is breaking into medical research labs and setting the animals free (or just taking them) and then trashing the place terrorism? It causes millions in damage and sets back research by years.
Or what about burning down car dealerships? Just as a matter of course, that's 20 years in jail; worse if someone dies trying to put out the fire.
I bet all the Pro-Choice groups wouldn't have a problem with the feds listening in on the Pro-life groups.
Of course, not one Democrat had a problem with someone listening in on Newt Gingrich's cell phone calls and the publishing them.
As we have come to find out, what they are doing now is very tightly controlled, reviewed every 45 days, the congressional leadership and the judges they normally would go to were all informed, Including the Democrats that are now having a cow.
No one is listening to someone's dirty phone calls to get political dirt, all the calls were international calls that originated outside the US (If I remember right), and although some would dispute it, the lawyers at the justice department think that it's ok under existing laws.
This whole kerfuffle is nothing more than the Times hawking a book and trying to influence legislation and the Democrats being their usual political opportunist selves.
Oh Great, another liberal smoking crack.
Did you read anything in my post about handing over absolute power? Did any of your moron buddies in congress vote against these in the original bill? No.
The only thing that's changed now is that it's politically expedient for the communist Democrats and some spineless Republicans to oppose these now.
Funny, I don't seem to remember being oppressed in the last 4 years when these provisions were in effect. Oh yeah, your a liberal, even the idea that some scumbag terriorist is being denied his rights keep you up at night.
Give people like you a few years of peace of mind and you forget what it took to achieve it.
Yeah, I figured it would modded down. People like this can't stand to hear opinions they don't like.