-closed Guantanimo (closure blocked by "bipartisan"--but mostly Republican--majority in House and Senate removing funding for any transfer, as well as forbidding the transfer to anywhere inside the US)
-passed a stimulus bill that actually invested the majority of its money into job creation, rather than half into tax breaks for the rich (a "compromise" made with Republicans to keep them from stonewalling more than they already did)
-given us a public healcare option (blocked by thirty-nine Republicans plus Joe Frickin' Lieberman whose state houses the headquarters of most major health insurance companies)
-written a banking reform law with teeth (again, rendered toothless by forty Republicans)
You're dead on! It could have been a lot worse. But, don't give up we still have QE. They are printing money like you wouldn't believe, driving up the price of oil, which is tied to the U.S. dollar, and inflation at the same time. All on a global scale. The effort he has put into bankrupting our economy is so impressive I'm not sure we'll make it to the next election. So, don't worry, Obama may just stay in power forever.
As far as progressive taxes go, I'm not a thief and believe stealing is a sin. If you do believe in stealing and took everyone's income including all corporate income it would cover the budget for about one year. Enjoy Eat the Rich. Then the U.S. is bankrupt again with no source of income, which isn't a problem, because, that's the plan.
That doesn't mean being anti-religious, but certainly one would hope that with critical thinking people would realise that such beliefs are best kept as a personal thing...
Are you are a "Seeing is believing" kind of guy? Belief is: faith in things unseen. Critical thinking people know that, because, seeing is proof and has nothing to do with belief.
Suppose you are talking with a friend while waiting for an elevator. Your friend is distract by your intelligent discourse and the door opens. Opps, there's no elevator but your friend proceeds to board the elevator. Would you try to save your friend or keep the information to yourself?
Details? You want details? Who has time to troubleshoot every distro when a different one will work? That's the beauty of Linux. I guess you could look at which kernel modules are in the ram disk images and compare them across distros, but wouldn't it be easier to just insert another Live CD? It certainly has saved me a lot of time taking the path of least resistance.
The only way I could get my scanner to work was with Fedora, Ubuntu hasn't been able to find it since 9.04. The real trick with Linux is to keep trying different distros until you get one that works with the hardware you've got. I have another computer that only likes Mint, not Ubuntu, not Fedora. My friend could only get his computer to work with PCLinuxOS. My sister's computer prefers Ubuntu and wouldn't run Fedora. After you work with several different computers you'll learn to have a stack of live CDs.
Think how fast litigation would move if software and idea patents were illegal, like they used to be. There would be no trial, no lawyers, no judges, no one sucking off of other peoples innovation.
Now, if I write some code that does caching, Bedrock can sue me. They can sue anyone using Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. as they all have caching modules. Bedrock didn't invent caching, it's been around since memory was invented. DNS, HTTP, any web browser uses caching, most of which existed before Bedrock or the patent.
The logical conclusion for these idea vampires is to create an idea patent that states ownership of "the process of litigation against others using any patented idea." Then they could get a cut from any lawyer that sues any company with patents.
The difference is Iran will use nukes. They believe it is necessary to cause as much bloodshed as possible so the Mahdi can return. Even if you don't believe it Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does.
Follow the links. First one takes you to the real article. In the real article there is something like "What the heck is Super WiFi?" on the left about a paragraph down. It's lower frequency than WiFi so expect less throughput bandwidth unless the spec allows more than one channel at a time.
If they were really fancy they could write a script that runs automatically every week or month and then discard the duplicated data. The tricky part is authentication with the bank.
Now we can compare numbers. According to the this NCS article based on this 2009 National Safety Council estimate (pdf) we have 636,000 crashes, 330,000 injuries, 12,000 serious injuries, and 2,600 deaths by cell phone. For a total of about 1.4 million crashes. I selected this new link as it had grand totals like your 2008 data. If we just compare injuries and deaths we have...
drunk vs cell phone
257,000 vs 342,000 injuries
11,800 vs 2,600 deaths
Your numbers look good: 1) Drunks win at killing people 4 to 1. 2) Cell phone users pull ahead with injuries.
In conclusion: It's much more likely that I will be injured rather than killed. I'm slightly more likely to be injured by a cell phone user than a drunk. But, in the less likely case that the driver tries to kill me, drunks do a much better job.
Others can decide if the additional 636,000 crashes without injury are significant because we do not know how many drunks get away.
With the numbers above people can really decide on which they think is worse. I'd rather neither were driving around.
Who cares! if they're not as bad as some a**hole with a.15 BAC LOL. There are hundreds of thousands of cell phone users. How many people have a BAC over.15? Are there that many drunks driving around because I see cell phones around me constantly. So the problem with cell phones is worse than drunk driving which would make your last statement correct.
As far as "playing" I think this has been completely one sided. You have not posted a single link to support any of your arguments. You aren't even in the game.
The people above and I have included numerous links. I do not think ignoring news of death and destruction has anything to do with common sense. Include some links to statistics that indicate an "order of magnitude". Oh never mind, here it is car accident statistics. Looks like there are lots and lots of cell phone drivers causing problems. Here are facts on hands free vs hand held, there's no significant difference. Here's a study on drunk driving vs cell phone driving. A study from the University of Utah showing cell phones are as bad as drunk driving. There is lots of evidence if you're willing to do a little research.
My personal experience is that I have more trouble with cell phone drivers because there are so many out there. About an hour ago someone with a cell phone swerved into my lane. The road was perfectly straight.
So what is the difference between drunk drivers or cell phone users trying to kill us?
The reason you do not hear about these things is because you do not research them. Searching the web reveals lots of death and destruction from cell phone users.
I guess the phrase "significant factor" is what you thought my comment was about. I do not believe Linux is a large or even significant consideration in the sales of PS3s. It would be a consideration if I were going to buy one. With the feature removed it is a definite lost sale and others in the Open Source community feel the same.
It is strange to watch people throw money away yet I've seen it happen many times.
I have found that cell phone users have actually tried to run me down on the motorcycle. Hold the phone, don't hold the phone, there is little difference once any thought provoking question is asked. The person on the phone is no longer giving operation of their vehicle proper attention. I would like to see the Driving Under the Influence laws modified to include cell phone usage. Anyone using one for non-emergency use while operating a vehicle should be subject to DUI laws and the appropriate insurance penalties. Want to make a call? Pull over so others won't be killed.
When I look at products I like to see Linux support listed. So I buy stuff from ZA Reason and System76 and used to like the PS3. If you have to hack it, the product has less of a future. Imagine a marketing department deciding to remove a major bullet point from the sales brochure, does this really make sense if you want to sell something?
I saw something about Dynamic Books on one of my news feeds. It looks like you can completely configure the book (useful for teachers), distribute it to students computers, and they can interactively create notes and links within the books. Looks cool but is probably a Windows only thing.
I would have stored the plans to my purple pony, created with Blender, on my DmCrypt partition, with the 30 plus character passphrase, that you have to type in when Fedora boots, and never even created a Facebook account. But I would have to agree with the comments above, most people don't care about what they use if it works.
Maybe pcause posted the wrong article. Maybe by evil he meant to outline all the terrorist videos YouTube hosts. See the SMACKDOWN Corps for a complete list.
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If Obama could ignore Congress, he would have:
-closed Guantanimo (closure blocked by "bipartisan"--but mostly Republican--majority in House and Senate removing funding for any transfer, as well as forbidding the transfer to anywhere inside the US) -passed a stimulus bill that actually invested the majority of its money into job creation, rather than half into tax breaks for the rich (a "compromise" made with Republicans to keep them from stonewalling more than they already did) -given us a public healcare option (blocked by thirty-nine Republicans plus Joe Frickin' Lieberman whose state houses the headquarters of most major health insurance companies) -written a banking reform law with teeth (again, rendered toothless by forty Republicans)
You're dead on! It could have been a lot worse. But, don't give up we still have QE. They are printing money like you wouldn't believe, driving up the price of oil, which is tied to the U.S. dollar, and inflation at the same time. All on a global scale. The effort he has put into bankrupting our economy is so impressive I'm not sure we'll make it to the next election. So, don't worry, Obama may just stay in power forever.
As far as progressive taxes go, I'm not a thief and believe stealing is a sin. If you do believe in stealing and took everyone's income including all corporate income it would cover the budget for about one year. Enjoy Eat the Rich. Then the U.S. is bankrupt again with no source of income, which isn't a problem, because, that's the plan.
That doesn't mean being anti-religious, but certainly one would hope that with critical thinking people would realise that such beliefs are best kept as a personal thing...
Are you are a "Seeing is believing" kind of guy? Belief is: faith in things unseen. Critical thinking people know that, because, seeing is proof and has nothing to do with belief.
Suppose you are talking with a friend while waiting for an elevator. Your friend is distract by your intelligent discourse and the door opens. Opps, there's no elevator but your friend proceeds to board the elevator. Would you try to save your friend or keep the information to yourself?
Details? You want details? Who has time to troubleshoot every distro when a different one will work? That's the beauty of Linux. I guess you could look at which kernel modules are in the ram disk images and compare them across distros, but wouldn't it be easier to just insert another Live CD? It certainly has saved me a lot of time taking the path of least resistance.
The only way I could get my scanner to work was with Fedora, Ubuntu hasn't been able to find it since 9.04. The real trick with Linux is to keep trying different distros until you get one that works with the hardware you've got. I have another computer that only likes Mint, not Ubuntu, not Fedora. My friend could only get his computer to work with PCLinuxOS. My sister's computer prefers Ubuntu and wouldn't run Fedora. After you work with several different computers you'll learn to have a stack of live CDs.
You can read all about The Times at Timeswatch for free.
Think how fast litigation would move if software and idea patents were illegal, like they used to be. There would be no trial, no lawyers, no judges, no one sucking off of other peoples innovation.
Now, if I write some code that does caching, Bedrock can sue me. They can sue anyone using Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. as they all have caching modules. Bedrock didn't invent caching, it's been around since memory was invented. DNS, HTTP, any web browser uses caching, most of which existed before Bedrock or the patent.
The logical conclusion for these idea vampires is to create an idea patent that states ownership of "the process of litigation against others using any patented idea." Then they could get a cut from any lawyer that sues any company with patents.
Thanks man, America sincerely appreciates that.
The difference is Iran will use nukes. They believe it is necessary to cause as much bloodshed as possible so the Mahdi can return. Even if you don't believe it Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does.
Israel is a U.S. ally. They are surrounded by religious fanatics who will chop your infidel head off. Too bad we couldn't send them some F22s.
I didn't like the DRM and licensing. From what I've read I'm not sure if I buy a blu-ray disc whether I actually own it.
Follow the links. First one takes you to the real article. In the real article there is something like "What the heck is Super WiFi?" on the left about a paragraph down. It's lower frequency than WiFi so expect less throughput bandwidth unless the spec allows more than one channel at a time.
Is this some kind of racist WiFi?
If they were really fancy they could write a script that runs automatically every week or month and then discard the duplicated data. The tricky part is authentication with the bank.
..help you with today?
Nope, that's excellent.
Now we can compare numbers. According to the this NCS article based on this 2009 National Safety Council estimate (pdf) we have 636,000 crashes, 330,000 injuries, 12,000 serious injuries, and 2,600 deaths by cell phone. For a total of about 1.4 million crashes. I selected this new link as it had grand totals like your 2008 data. If we just compare injuries and deaths we have...
Your numbers look good: 1) Drunks win at killing people 4 to 1. 2) Cell phone users pull ahead with injuries.
In conclusion: It's much more likely that I will be injured rather than killed. I'm slightly more likely to be injured by a cell phone user than a drunk. But, in the less likely case that the driver tries to kill me, drunks do a much better job.
Others can decide if the additional 636,000 crashes without injury are significant because we do not know how many drunks get away.
With the numbers above people can really decide on which they think is worse. I'd rather neither were driving around.
Who cares! if they're not as bad as some a**hole with a .15 BAC LOL. There are hundreds of thousands of cell phone users. How many people have a BAC over .15? Are there that many drunks driving around because I see cell phones around me constantly. So the problem with cell phones is worse than drunk driving which would make your last statement correct.
As far as "playing" I think this has been completely one sided. You have not posted a single link to support any of your arguments. You aren't even in the game.
The people above and I have included numerous links. I do not think ignoring news of death and destruction has anything to do with common sense. Include some links to statistics that indicate an "order of magnitude". Oh never mind, here it is car accident statistics. Looks like there are lots and lots of cell phone drivers causing problems. Here are facts on hands free vs hand held, there's no significant difference. Here's a study on drunk driving vs cell phone driving. A study from the University of Utah showing cell phones are as bad as drunk driving. There is lots of evidence if you're willing to do a little research.
My personal experience is that I have more trouble with cell phone drivers because there are so many out there. About an hour ago someone with a cell phone swerved into my lane. The road was perfectly straight.
A guy driving a BMW tried to kill me. He wasn't paying attention and came over into my lane.
So what is the difference between drunk drivers or cell phone users trying to kill us?
The reason you do not hear about these things is because you do not research them. Searching the web reveals lots of death and destruction from cell phone users.
I guess the phrase "significant factor" is what you thought my comment was about. I do not believe Linux is a large or even significant consideration in the sales of PS3s. It would be a consideration if I were going to buy one. With the feature removed it is a definite lost sale and others in the Open Source community feel the same.
It is strange to watch people throw money away yet I've seen it happen many times.
I don't think the Mythbusters episode didn't say that driving while phoning isn't dangerous.
Nor did I say they did. I indicated it was just as dangerous either way so I agree with what you have written about road safety. They do not get it.
I have found that cell phone users have actually tried to run me down on the motorcycle. Hold the phone, don't hold the phone, there is little difference once any thought provoking question is asked. The person on the phone is no longer giving operation of their vehicle proper attention. I would like to see the Driving Under the Influence laws modified to include cell phone usage. Anyone using one for non-emergency use while operating a vehicle should be subject to DUI laws and the appropriate insurance penalties. Want to make a call? Pull over so others won't be killed.
The conclusion of that Mythbusters episode was that using a cell phone was as impairing as drunk driving. If you do not believe Mythbusters, check out the NTSB (staff usage ban), NTSB (2006 CDL recommended ban), NTSB (2005 teen ban) or the Center for Transportation Research News. They know what the rest of us survivors do, that these people are dangerous.
Wonder who switched his bulb on. Second place really sucks in two player game.
When I look at products I like to see Linux support listed. So I buy stuff from ZA Reason and System76 and used to like the PS3. If you have to hack it, the product has less of a future. Imagine a marketing department deciding to remove a major bullet point from the sales brochure, does this really make sense if you want to sell something?
I saw something about Dynamic Books on one of my news feeds. It looks like you can completely configure the book (useful for teachers), distribute it to students computers, and they can interactively create notes and links within the books. Looks cool but is probably a Windows only thing.
I would have stored the plans to my purple pony, created with Blender, on my DmCrypt partition, with the 30 plus character passphrase, that you have to type in when Fedora boots, and never even created a Facebook account. But I would have to agree with the comments above, most people don't care about what they use if it works.
Maybe pcause posted the wrong article. Maybe by evil he meant to outline all the terrorist videos YouTube hosts. See the SMACKDOWN Corps for a complete list.