And even those areas of flagrant fraud and waste, while requiring a fix, won't come close to making up the national deficit. The bailout money, while significant this year, will barely be noticeable average over the decades between major bailouts, AND would presumably end up costing everyone far more money, if that money wasn't spent where and when it was needed.
>>morons like you will always stand up for the AstroTurfs.
That's pretending that: 1) The Republicans have any sort of ability to influence a mob whatsoever. 2) The people in the Tea Parties are all Republican plants.
My parents are involved with it, and the people in charge are Republican Party members. However, they are hopelessly incompetent and apparently doing everything they can to fuck up the protests, don't listen to the real grassroots people that are flooding the organization, and otherwise don't know what to do with all the popular outrage over the suicidal spending program Obama has us on.
>>Only if you want them to arrive on orbit as people paste. The G-forces in a cannon launch would be very high.
Oh, please. I've read From the Earth to the Moon. You just stuff it with cotton and the passengers will be fine, especially with a really really long barrel. Verne wouldn't get this wrong, right? =)
As of being two weeks in office, he couldn't possibly have done either the most or the best to promote peace.
I just double checked his timeline. He signed a bill to close Gitmo, and gave an interview to an Arabic TV station. That's all he'd done by the time he was nominated for the prize.
Even the Nobel committee has admitted it was an "aspirational award" meaning it's because they hope he'll do great things in the future. Technically, they could be sued for violating their fiduciary duty as trustees of an estate for doing this.
>>Yeah, but the concept is good. Just think, maybe some day instead of having to listen to mindless cell phone yakking on the subway, people will carry on their conversations silently in their heads.
At.14 bps, people had better get able to do Huffman encoding in their heads real fast.
>>Nobel Foundation is a private institution, they should be able to award any prize how they damn well please.
Their guidelines were established by the will of Alfred Nobel. In giving the award to Obama (who did not meet any of the guidelines established) they are breaching their fiduciary duty as trustees of an estate. They could actually be sued for making this award, though it's doubtful anyone would actually do so given the current political climate.
>>Yeah, I always thought that it was traditional to have to accomplish some significant shit to win a Nobel Prize.
Hey, he did a lot of stuff in his first two weeks in office (that's when he got nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize). You know, like went shopping with his wife... oh, and he locked himself out of the White House.
Sigh...
The Nobel Prize has officially jumped the shark for pulling this shit. They are now officially giving away Peace Prizes like it's a teen prom popularity contest.
>>Good God people! Have you never taken Physics 101???:-|
Sure, but don't try to argue that the wiring in my old apartment building isn't the same old copper wiring that has been in use for 100 years. The only difference is the segment length, not the wiring in my building. These are two very different things.
>>Doing that is pointless if the dot-com ignores it.
Yep. I think they just rubberstamp any complaint Sony makes, even with a counterclaim. So you can either sue them, or not care enough to sue them. I picked the latter.
>>When I look at Balrog in StreetFighter, and the black man in the Final Fantasies games, I see a game just portraying Black men as big dumb idiots who use profanity all the time.
Barrett in FF7 was the leader of the eco-revolutionary army that are the protagonists in FF7. He had a gun for an arm, but had a sort of love-hate relationship with it, worried that it made him a monster. I don't recall him ever cursing. I doubt even Balrog (aka Mike Tyson) actually curses, though I could be wrong.
Did you get upset over the stereotypical Indian guy in Street Fighter shooting "yoga flames" from his mouth?
I agree that the issue of race and culture and the effect it is having on black culture is very destructive. I just don't think these examples are really the best. Afro Samurai might be a better example, but really something like 50 Cent's Blood on the Sand is really what I think you're looking for... encapsulating and glorifying the destructive and negative stereotypes that black youth feel they need to embrace in order to buy in to "their culture".
>>You say myspace is the problem, but do you think this artist would get different results on other sites like youtube or googlevideo? Youtube's pulled-down every song owned by WB per their request
Yep. Youtube pulled a video of mine I had rights to, and ignored the counterclaim I filed. I think they basically rubber stamp any takedown notice the big companies send to them.
>>And/or because Sony's secret bylaws compel them to treat their customers with precisely equal amounts of hatred and contempt at all times.
You mean kinda like how Final Fantasy Tactics was just released for the PS3/PSPGo? But it's not the updated and revised version with the new animations, fixed dialogue, multiplayer, expanded character and mission lists, and new jobs, like you get on the UMD PSP version. It's the old version, with the incomprehensible dialogue, mistranslations (I SUMMON RICH) and old bugs. (Though it does allow you to steal Genji Gear from the Marquis de Limberry, one point in the old version's favor.)
To be honest, I kinda liked a lot of the old mistranslations. You don't really know what a Squidlarken is, but it sounds provocative.
But overall, making the owners of the new PSP use the old version of the game is kinda like introducing a new kid to your class, and then kicking him in the balls.
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>>Yes, just like his presupposition that pink unicorns don't exist. I don't understand why he just doesn't believe in whatever people tell him.
You're making the same mistake as the GP - confusing presupposition with proof.
I can presuppose that Black Swans don't exist, but that doesn't give me the ability to say that it is "blatantly obvious" that they don't exist.
If it is so blatantly obvious, what is your discrimination criteria between the last two options?
I mean, most people say that they can't tell, but since you take the opposite approach, I'm curious what your data is?
Oh? Just your presupposition that God doesn't exist proves that God doesn't exist? Got it, thanks.
>>If Maldives goes under water, 1 billion dollars a YEAR will be lost. Literally, all the tourism "goods" that Maldives can generate will disappear.
And the odds of it going underwater are? The science seems pretty clear that it won't.
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And even those areas of flagrant fraud and waste, while requiring a fix, won't come close to making up the national deficit. The bailout money, while significant this year, will barely be noticeable average over the decades between major bailouts, AND would presumably end up costing everyone far more money, if that money wasn't spent where and when it was needed.
Read this over:
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/102xx/doc10297/SummaryforWeb_LTBO.pdf
I know, I know, the CBO is part of the "vast right wing conspiracy". Probably tea-baggers, the lot of 'em, eh? EH?
>>I just can't get over the "socialist weapons" that punish you for doing well.
Heh, in our group we call them the Socialism Bullet and Socialism Shell, too. =)
>>morons like you will always stand up for the AstroTurfs.
That's pretending that:
1) The Republicans have any sort of ability to influence a mob whatsoever.
2) The people in the Tea Parties are all Republican plants.
My parents are involved with it, and the people in charge are Republican Party members. However, they are hopelessly incompetent and apparently doing everything they can to fuck up the protests, don't listen to the real grassroots people that are flooding the organization, and otherwise don't know what to do with all the popular outrage over the suicidal spending program Obama has us on.
>>Only if you want them to arrive on orbit as people paste. The G-forces in a cannon launch would be very high.
Oh, please. I've read From the Earth to the Moon. You just stuff it with cotton and the passengers will be fine, especially with a really really long barrel. Verne wouldn't get this wrong, right? =)
As of being two weeks in office, he couldn't possibly have done either the most or the best to promote peace.
I just double checked his timeline. He signed a bill to close Gitmo, and gave an interview to an Arabic TV station. That's all he'd done by the time he was nominated for the prize.
Even the Nobel committee has admitted it was an "aspirational award" meaning it's because they hope he'll do great things in the future. Technically, they could be sued for violating their fiduciary duty as trustees of an estate for doing this.
>>Yeah, I mean, voice across Fiber Optics? Madness.
I didn't realize our FO routers were all controlled by psions wired into the 'net, like in a bad Philip K. Dick novel or something.
>>Because god knows new technological applications never get any faster than they do at conception.
God also knows that technologies making little LED lights blink will probably never be able to sustain a real time voice communication.
>>Yeah, but the concept is good. Just think, maybe some day instead of having to listen to mindless cell phone yakking on the subway, people will carry on their conversations silently in their heads.
At .14 bps, people had better get able to do Huffman encoding in their heads real fast.
>>I'm not one to usually say this, but the graphics really do look dated
That's why God invented Shadow Complex. It's an old-school game with surprisingly pleasant graphics.
>>Nobel Foundation is a private institution, they should be able to award any prize how they damn well please.
Their guidelines were established by the will of Alfred Nobel. In giving the award to Obama (who did not meet any of the guidelines established) they are breaching their fiduciary duty as trustees of an estate. They could actually be sued for making this award, though it's doubtful anyone would actually do so given the current political climate.
>>Yeah, I always thought that it was traditional to have to accomplish some significant shit to win a Nobel Prize.
Hey, he did a lot of stuff in his first two weeks in office (that's when he got nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize). You know, like went shopping with his wife... oh, and he locked himself out of the White House.
Sigh...
The Nobel Prize has officially jumped the shark for pulling this shit. They are now officially giving away Peace Prizes like it's a teen prom popularity contest.
>>Good God people! Have you never taken Physics 101??? :-|
Sure, but don't try to argue that the wiring in my old apartment building isn't the same old copper wiring that has been in use for 100 years. The only difference is the segment length, not the wiring in my building. These are two very different things.
>>The point of the drive is that it would accelerate you and you *don't* feel it!
What would this do to the twin paradox, then?
5GB/month should be good enough for anyone.
>>Atomic battery. Seriously, it's all quaint and 1950s. Still a little cool and scary, but also fully controllable.
Heh. I like it.
>>Doing that is pointless if the dot-com ignores it.
Yep. I think they just rubberstamp any complaint Sony makes, even with a counterclaim. So you can either sue them, or not care enough to sue them. I picked the latter.
>>When I look at Balrog in StreetFighter, and the black man in the Final Fantasies games, I see a game just portraying Black men as big dumb idiots who use profanity all the time.
Barrett in FF7 was the leader of the eco-revolutionary army that are the protagonists in FF7. He had a gun for an arm, but had a sort of love-hate relationship with it, worried that it made him a monster. I don't recall him ever cursing. I doubt even Balrog (aka Mike Tyson) actually curses, though I could be wrong.
Did you get upset over the stereotypical Indian guy in Street Fighter shooting "yoga flames" from his mouth?
I agree that the issue of race and culture and the effect it is having on black culture is very destructive. I just don't think these examples are really the best. Afro Samurai might be a better example, but really something like 50 Cent's Blood on the Sand is really what I think you're looking for... encapsulating and glorifying the destructive and negative stereotypes that black youth feel they need to embrace in order to buy in to "their culture".
>>You say myspace is the problem, but do you think this artist would get different results on other sites like youtube or googlevideo? Youtube's pulled-down every song owned by WB per their request
Yep. Youtube pulled a video of mine I had rights to, and ignored the counterclaim I filed. I think they basically rubber stamp any takedown notice the big companies send to them.
>>And/or because Sony's secret bylaws compel them to treat their customers with precisely equal amounts of hatred and contempt at all times.
You mean kinda like how Final Fantasy Tactics was just released for the PS3/PSPGo? But it's not the updated and revised version with the new animations, fixed dialogue, multiplayer, expanded character and mission lists, and new jobs, like you get on the UMD PSP version. It's the old version, with the incomprehensible dialogue, mistranslations (I SUMMON RICH) and old bugs. (Though it does allow you to steal Genji Gear from the Marquis de Limberry, one point in the old version's favor.)
To be honest, I kinda liked a lot of the old mistranslations. You don't really know what a Squidlarken is, but it sounds provocative.
But overall, making the owners of the new PSP use the old version of the game is kinda like introducing a new kid to your class, and then kicking him in the balls.
>>If the OP is young or poor, I'm guessing that he is taking the standard deduction
If he's young and poor (less than $8000 in income), he's probably not going to be paying taxes anyway.
Any time work is done, S increases, right?
Is the converse true? Is it true that any time you see S increase, there is a possibility for usable work to be extracted?
It's something that has been bothering me recently.
Our anti-leak memo leaked.
That... that's ironic, right?
Yeah, that's the motherfucking definition of irony.
(http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/3/9/)