If you are willing to calmly debate with someone who disagrees with you, then your dissent is warranted. But if you go around screaming "Healthcare is going to kill your grandma!" or "Obama's setting up death panels!", then we have a problem.
On the other hand, Chinese citizens don't have a whole lot of money to spend on inflated prices for media and entertainment. Those industries are not innovative and unlike new tech and software industries don't produce anything of particular value. I don't believe protecting them at the expense of everyone else is really all that important.
Why do idiots like you exist in such large quantities in the US, and only in the US? I'm starting to think that there was some self-selection sample bias in terms of the genetic and/or psychological predispositions of the early American settlers.
Dissent IS a form of patriotism. But misinformed fear-mongering, blatantly FUD-spreading speculation, and purposeful yet meaningless obstruction is NOT.
So in other words what you're really saying is that you don't fit the target audience, therefore all hardcore gamers don't want this.
I'm actually looking forward to the idea of using motion controls. I didn't get a Wii because it was so underpowered and casual-gamer centric, and I didn't get a PS3/XBox 360 b/c one can get the same experience on a PC.
But motion controls on a PS3? I'm there. And ever since I got my hands on a copy of the original Zelda when I was 5 and was sucked into a world I had never experienced before, I'd call myself a hardcore gamer.
That's Nintendo's fault actually. Since the Gamecube era they've totally lessened the minimum quality requirements to have your game approved for publishing on their consoles. That Nintendo "seal of quality" has completely lost its meaning.
The good news for sure is an increase of $6 billion over the next five years. It stresses new technology and innovation (to the tune of over $1.5 billion), which is also good. A lot of NASA’s successes have been from pushing the limits on what can be done. It also stresses Earth science, which isn’t surprising at all; Obama appears to understand the importance of our environmental impact, including global warming. So that’s still good news.
The very very good news is that half that money — half, folks, 3.2 billion dollars — is going to science. Yeehaw! The release specifically notes telescopes and missions to the Moon and planets. That, my friends, sounds fantastic.
NASA’s Constellation program – based largely on existing technologies – was based on a vision of returning astronauts back to the Moon by 2020. However, the program was over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation due to a failure to invest in critical new technologies. Using a broad range of criteria an independent review panel determined that even if fully funded, NASA’s program to repeat many of the achievements of the Apollo era, 50 years later, was the least attractive approach to space exploration as compared to potential alternatives. Furthermore, NASA’s attempts to pursue its moon goals, while inadequate to that task, had drawn funding away from other NASA programs, including robotic space exploration, science, and Earth observations. The President’s Budget cancels Constellation and replaces it with a bold new approach that invests in the building blocks of a more capable approach to space exploration
It's not free you idjit. Why don't you read the fracking bills before you mouth off?
You know what, while we're at your stupid cost-cutting scheme, why don't we close down all public libraries? Who needs 'em? Just a huge waste of public money.
I would go through and debunk what is basically a complete lie on your part, but it seems others have already marked you a troll, so go right on ahead and keep living in your fantasy world.
You're a complete nutcase. You have a good grasp of history it seems, but you're still crazy. No resource in this world is limited. Water is limited. Should we not guarantee everyone have access to clean water? Should we not set up public libraries? Is it a right to read books, to have access to information? The same with electricity, heating in the winter, and so on and so forth. Obfuscating the issue with terms like "human right" is just stupid and far too ideological.
And what makes you think our healthcare industry isn't already socialized? Everything is socialized at least to some point. It's simply a matter of degrees. Have you ever heard of the AMA? If you're not a licensed physician you are not allowed to practice. You are not allowed to set up your own little "bone-setting" shop for super-cheap rates for people who get into accidents if you are not licensed. There are minimum levels of hygiene, sterilization, and quality of care required of hospitals by law. That itself is socialization as it prevents local shops from setting up. And I won't even get into what medicare, medicaid, and social security are. I'd like to see you take those away from Americans.
What we have now is far, far from a free market. And to assume that we should even have one regarding healthcare is simply cruel. As part of a progressive society it is utterly ridiculous that we cannot take care of our own people, despite the massive stores of wealth accumulated by the upper tiers of the populace. Yet even if you were to take a pragmatist's viewpoint, our healthcare system as it is now is horrendously inefficient. A health society is a productive one, and a focus on preventative care and low-cost technology solutions to expensive problems (such as super-low magnetic granular MRI imaging machines) is the best way to efficiently allocate limited resources.
You do realize the founding fathers replaced the libertarian articles of confederation with a constitution that established a very strong central government, right? Yes some had reservations and wrote papers about those fears, but actions speak louder than words. They adapted to the times, and what ultimately made them so great was that they were pragmatists rather than idealogues. Unfortunately Republicans these days no longer seem to understand this.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -Mohandas Gandhi
Gandhi and Reverend Andrews, a Presbyterian missionary, were walking together in South Africa. “The two suddenly find their way blocked by young thugs. Reverend Andrews takes one look at the menacing gangsters and decides to run for it. Gandhi stops him. ‘Doesn’t the New Testament say if an enemy strikes you on the right cheek you should offer him the left?’ Andrews mumbles that he thought the phrase was used metaphorically. ‘I’m not so sure,’ Gandhi replies. ‘I suspect he meant you must show courage - be willing to take a blow, several blows, to show you will not strike back nor will you be turned aside. And when you do that it calls on something in human nature, something that makes his hatred decrease and his respect increase. I think Christ grasped that and I have seen it work.’”
I believe this quote and anecdote properly illustrates the nature of religion in the West, and those who claim to follow those religions. It does not denote *everyone*, and in fact there are many good religious people, but 1% of a large number is itself a large number..
The IP's geographic area is meaningless for mapping data. It's not nearly granular enough, and the self-reporting mechanism just begs for fraud and false data. In addition there's also the huge issue of self-selection sampling bias, which any statistician will tell you automatically invalidates this silly program's data.
I suspected my inclusion of anti-Republican politics would net a flamebait or troll, but facts are facts. Under Republican FCC's and Congress, the 1996 Telecom Act was gutted and provisions put in place to encourage competition eliminated. The Democratic FCC hasn't done a whole lot better and in fact has been a huge disappointment, but without greater power the constant fear of litigation tying up their decisions in court and the need for Congress to approve any plan they enact is understandable.
This is a waste of time, and simply another one in the current Democratic FCC's array of disappointments. This kind of voluntary speed test information gathering is worthless, since there's no way to vet the contributors' address claims. It's really just for show, just like the rest of the FCC's attempts to regulate.
The problem right now is the FCC's policies, and from what I've heard its upcoming National Broadband Plan, are wimpy, non-confrontational, and will do nothing to change the status quo in the current duopoly broadband industry. Genachowski, the head of the FCC, early in the NBP creation process took government intervention off the table, essentially maiming any hope the agency had of accomplishing anything. They have no anti-trust powers or backing from Congress. The agency itself is just too weak to accomplish anything.
The worst example of this is the FCC commissioned a study to be conducted by Harvard's Berkman center to determine why US internet had lagged behind. In the conclusion of the study, the foremost recommendation was the reinstitution of line-sharing, which had proved to be hugely successful in expanding broadband in European countries. Yet despite its own commissioned report, the FCC's head of NBP creation, Blair Levin, refuted the usefulness of line-sharing, fearing the FCC would simply be tied up in court over it for years and years, just as Comcast did when it was punished by the FCC for secretly throttling people's P2P traffic.
Until the FCC is given some real power there's no hope for changing things. Unfortunately due to Congress being gridlocked over more important things like healthcare, we won't see this until at the earliest 2012, and only if Democrats maintain a majority in both House and Senate.
Mostly they don't spend it. That's how they accumulate wealth. Although they invest it, those investments are means for them to extract even more money from the economy and accumulate yet more wealth. While they do put it in banks, loans to the poor do not actually help the poor. Usually, especially in the case of the US, banks lend to the poor and middle class in a shark-like effort to indebt them to the bank for the rest of their lives.
Rich people are good at one thing: accumulating wealth. This is ultimately bad for an economy.
I think you're missing the point that the service made money and was incorporated into many of the set top boxes that most people use today. Not to mention the talents of the engineering team Perlman put together were very real.
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Are you...joking? I can't tell if I should be double-taking or laughing.
If you are willing to calmly debate with someone who disagrees with you, then your dissent is warranted. But if you go around screaming "Healthcare is going to kill your grandma!" or "Obama's setting up death panels!", then we have a problem.
On the other hand, Chinese citizens don't have a whole lot of money to spend on inflated prices for media and entertainment. Those industries are not innovative and unlike new tech and software industries don't produce anything of particular value. I don't believe protecting them at the expense of everyone else is really all that important.
I wish there was a tl;dr mod. Because holy mother of cow milk this was too long.
As far as I know most democratic supporters are disappointed with Obama's centrist policies. So you're just trolling. Good luck with that.
Why do idiots like you exist in such large quantities in the US, and only in the US? I'm starting to think that there was some self-selection sample bias in terms of the genetic and/or psychological predispositions of the early American settlers.
Dissent IS a form of patriotism. But misinformed fear-mongering, blatantly FUD-spreading speculation, and purposeful yet meaningless obstruction is NOT.
Well said. It's a shame that the majority of critics on this board won't even bother to read your post before vomiting up their point of views.
So in other words what you're really saying is that you don't fit the target audience, therefore all hardcore gamers don't want this.
I'm actually looking forward to the idea of using motion controls. I didn't get a Wii because it was so underpowered and casual-gamer centric, and I didn't get a PS3/XBox 360 b/c one can get the same experience on a PC.
But motion controls on a PS3? I'm there. And ever since I got my hands on a copy of the original Zelda when I was 5 and was sucked into a world I had never experienced before, I'd call myself a hardcore gamer.
Why don't you just not speak about the technology since you obviously have no idea what you're talking about?
That's because the Wii Motion Plus only came out recently, and until then the Wii's motion control sucked.
That's Nintendo's fault actually. Since the Gamecube era they've totally lessened the minimum quality requirements to have your game approved for publishing on their consoles. That Nintendo "seal of quality" has completely lost its meaning.
The good news for sure is an increase of $6 billion over the next five years. It stresses new technology and innovation (to the tune of over $1.5 billion), which is also good. A lot of NASA’s successes have been from pushing the limits on what can be done. It also stresses Earth science, which isn’t surprising at all; Obama appears to understand the importance of our environmental impact, including global warming. So that’s still good news.
The very very good news is that half that money — half, folks, 3.2 billion dollars — is going to science. Yeehaw! The release specifically notes telescopes and missions to the Moon and planets. That, my friends, sounds fantastic.
NASA’s Constellation program – based largely on existing technologies – was based on a vision of returning astronauts back to the Moon by 2020. However, the program was over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation due to a failure to invest in critical new technologies. Using a broad range of criteria an independent review panel determined that even if fully funded, NASA’s program to repeat many of the achievements of the Apollo era, 50 years later, was the least attractive approach to space exploration as compared to potential alternatives. Furthermore, NASA’s attempts to pursue its moon goals, while inadequate to that task, had drawn funding away from other NASA programs, including robotic space exploration, science, and Earth observations. The President’s Budget cancels Constellation and replaces it with a bold new approach that invests in the building blocks of a more capable approach to space exploration
You really hate Obama. Define "failed", providing real data.
It's not free you idjit. Why don't you read the fracking bills before you mouth off?
You know what, while we're at your stupid cost-cutting scheme, why don't we close down all public libraries? Who needs 'em? Just a huge waste of public money.
I would go through and debunk what is basically a complete lie on your part, but it seems others have already marked you a troll, so go right on ahead and keep living in your fantasy world.
What did he say? My experience with people like that is they get angry and clam up.
You're a complete nutcase. You have a good grasp of history it seems, but you're still crazy. No resource in this world is limited. Water is limited. Should we not guarantee everyone have access to clean water? Should we not set up public libraries? Is it a right to read books, to have access to information? The same with electricity, heating in the winter, and so on and so forth. Obfuscating the issue with terms like "human right" is just stupid and far too ideological.
And what makes you think our healthcare industry isn't already socialized? Everything is socialized at least to some point. It's simply a matter of degrees. Have you ever heard of the AMA? If you're not a licensed physician you are not allowed to practice. You are not allowed to set up your own little "bone-setting" shop for super-cheap rates for people who get into accidents if you are not licensed. There are minimum levels of hygiene, sterilization, and quality of care required of hospitals by law. That itself is socialization as it prevents local shops from setting up. And I won't even get into what medicare, medicaid, and social security are. I'd like to see you take those away from Americans.
What we have now is far, far from a free market. And to assume that we should even have one regarding healthcare is simply cruel. As part of a progressive society it is utterly ridiculous that we cannot take care of our own people, despite the massive stores of wealth accumulated by the upper tiers of the populace. Yet even if you were to take a pragmatist's viewpoint, our healthcare system as it is now is horrendously inefficient. A health society is a productive one, and a focus on preventative care and low-cost technology solutions to expensive problems (such as super-low magnetic granular MRI imaging machines) is the best way to efficiently allocate limited resources.
You do realize the founding fathers replaced the libertarian articles of confederation with a constitution that established a very strong central government, right? Yes some had reservations and wrote papers about those fears, but actions speak louder than words. They adapted to the times, and what ultimately made them so great was that they were pragmatists rather than idealogues. Unfortunately Republicans these days no longer seem to understand this.
Honestly I side with the other guy and think you're trolling Falcon. Just my 2 cents.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -Mohandas Gandhi
Gandhi and Reverend Andrews, a Presbyterian missionary, were walking together in South Africa. “The two suddenly find their way blocked by young thugs. Reverend Andrews takes one look at the menacing gangsters and decides to run for it. Gandhi stops him. ‘Doesn’t the New Testament say if an enemy strikes you on the right cheek you should offer him the left?’ Andrews mumbles that he thought the phrase was used metaphorically. ‘I’m not so sure,’ Gandhi replies. ‘I suspect he meant you must show courage - be willing to take a blow, several blows, to show you will not strike back nor will you be turned aside. And when you do that it calls on something in human nature, something that makes his hatred decrease and his respect increase. I think Christ grasped that and I have seen it work.’”
I believe this quote and anecdote properly illustrates the nature of religion in the West, and those who claim to follow those religions. It does not denote *everyone*, and in fact there are many good religious people, but 1% of a large number is itself a large number..
The IP's geographic area is meaningless for mapping data. It's not nearly granular enough, and the self-reporting mechanism just begs for fraud and false data. In addition there's also the huge issue of self-selection sampling bias, which any statistician will tell you automatically invalidates this silly program's data.
I suspected my inclusion of anti-Republican politics would net a flamebait or troll, but facts are facts. Under Republican FCC's and Congress, the 1996 Telecom Act was gutted and provisions put in place to encourage competition eliminated. The Democratic FCC hasn't done a whole lot better and in fact has been a huge disappointment, but without greater power the constant fear of litigation tying up their decisions in court and the need for Congress to approve any plan they enact is understandable.
This is a waste of time, and simply another one in the current Democratic FCC's array of disappointments. This kind of voluntary speed test information gathering is worthless, since there's no way to vet the contributors' address claims. It's really just for show, just like the rest of the FCC's attempts to regulate.
The problem right now is the FCC's policies, and from what I've heard its upcoming National Broadband Plan, are wimpy, non-confrontational, and will do nothing to change the status quo in the current duopoly broadband industry. Genachowski, the head of the FCC, early in the NBP creation process took government intervention off the table, essentially maiming any hope the agency had of accomplishing anything. They have no anti-trust powers or backing from Congress. The agency itself is just too weak to accomplish anything.
The worst example of this is the FCC commissioned a study to be conducted by Harvard's Berkman center to determine why US internet had lagged behind. In the conclusion of the study, the foremost recommendation was the reinstitution of line-sharing, which had proved to be hugely successful in expanding broadband in European countries. Yet despite its own commissioned report, the FCC's head of NBP creation, Blair Levin, refuted the usefulness of line-sharing, fearing the FCC would simply be tied up in court over it for years and years, just as Comcast did when it was punished by the FCC for secretly throttling people's P2P traffic.
Until the FCC is given some real power there's no hope for changing things. Unfortunately due to Congress being gridlocked over more important things like healthcare, we won't see this until at the earliest 2012, and only if Democrats maintain a majority in both House and Senate.
Mostly they don't spend it. That's how they accumulate wealth. Although they invest it, those investments are means for them to extract even more money from the economy and accumulate yet more wealth. While they do put it in banks, loans to the poor do not actually help the poor. Usually, especially in the case of the US, banks lend to the poor and middle class in a shark-like effort to indebt them to the bank for the rest of their lives.
Rich people are good at one thing: accumulating wealth. This is ultimately bad for an economy.
I think you're missing the point that the service made money and was incorporated into many of the set top boxes that most people use today. Not to mention the talents of the engineering team Perlman put together were very real.