Not that this is even worth mentioning, but the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
Actually these two positions make good sense, and they are not directly related in the way you have implied:
If Israel is indeed our ally, he has certainly not been tough enough with Iran.
The quote from Mr. Chu (who officially represents the Obama administration on matters of energy), along with the administration's vetoing of the Canada-US pipeline (which would help reduce our dependency on countries like Iran), are but two very good examples why Obama *should* bear at least some of the blame for the record-high prices for winter this year.
Ever taken a side trip on a biz trip? Mightn't he have done that? Could have been the plan, articles don't say. Love how ev1's siding w/ pals by default.
Can't use it on my iPhone 3GS - in order to get the text big enough to be readable, most of it goes offscreen, so I have to continually scroll way back and forth to read it. I *think* the "Small Screen" setting in Options could potentially help, but there is no "Save" button to apply my changes when I select it. Very disappointing.
Ok, I'm way late to the party here, but feel the need to share. I am one of those who saw the original in theaters and loved it, and have watched it several times through the years. I went to see Legacy and pretty muchly hated it. Yes, it had awesome special effects (for the most part), and was a sleek-looking movie. Setting the effects and eye-candy aside, there are several weaknesses that undermine its relationship to the first movie.
Tron had a unique plot, Legacy has a Matrix-meets-Lawnmower Man plot.
Tron had (mostly) likable good guys, I had to work at liking everybody except Alan. Quorra was nice to look at, but didn't really add anything at all.
Tron had some great bad guys - you just love to hate Sark and the MCP. While the concept of Clu being a bad guy is great, the execution sucked due to the limited emotional range of Jeff Bridge's artificial face. And you never get to see Tron's face at all. Even Darth Vader has a facelike mask.
Legacy is a dark, joyless movie, with some attempts at sly humor; whereas Tron had a great sense of honest humor (remember Bit?).
Tron had a some great spiritual undertones, with the good guys being persecuted for believing in their Users/Creators (even tho the bad guys knew they existed too), and a Christlike sacrifice by Flynn. Legacy has more of a Zen thing going on, the yin-yang being Clu and The Dude.
There is so much more - blood in the computer world, the annoyingness of Zuse, etc. etc. etc., but I think you get how disappointed I am with Legacy compared to Tron.
My $.02.
Eldred v. Ashcroft was decided 7-2. Are you saying they bribed him in order to avoid a 6-3 or 5-4 decision? If so, with what were the other justices bribed?
The customer hammers on the IT department to cut costs, so the IT dept. consolidates their servers, ostensibly to reduce support overhead. However, some opportunity costs of consolidation (more security & controls requirements, lengthy endorsement/approval process, etc.) make it an onerous process to put servers into the datacenter, so then local "server rooms" start springing up again, especially for testing & development. Plus there are some things (security video, etc.) that you need to have local to each site, so total consolidation is a worthless cause IMHO.
Since we have already determined that the origins of the universe, stars, planets, life, etc. can all be categorized under "chance", stuff like this shouldn't surprise us. Maybe we should be surprised when we look at something and aren't surprised.
Microsoft can do no wrong. If all the issues (both technical and legal) with Windows haven't convinced people to vote (with their wallets) for other products, nothing will.
Also the Constitution, which states in Article IV, Section 4: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government."
On a related note, you would think that Amendment XVII would have given greater control of the Senate to we the people when it changed this:
"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote." (Article I, section 3)
to this:
"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote."...but it actually had the opposite effect. Whereas before, the state senators had to face their constituents every day and were therefore more likely to recall a US senator that the people were displeased with, now the US senator just runs off to DC for several years and answers to no one. Don't believe me? Just look at the healthcare bill - the US senate wanted to ram it through before recess so they wouldn't have to listen to what their constituents wanted.
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take kids balls away because someone might get hurt
Sterilizing them seems pretty extreme...
Not that this is even worth mentioning, but the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
There, FTFY.
Whoever labelled this 'flamebait' is a leftist ass that can't handle the facts. If I had points, I'd mod you up as insightful. Best comment so far.
Ever taken a side trip on a biz trip? Mightn't he have done that? Could have been the plan, articles don't say. Love how ev1's siding w/ pals by default.
The Cat peed over my 12in Album and side 2 is ruined.
scratch one cat.
Can't use it on my iPhone 3GS - in order to get the text big enough to be readable, most of it goes offscreen, so I have to continually scroll way back and forth to read it. I *think* the "Small Screen" setting in Options could potentially help, but there is no "Save" button to apply my changes when I select it. Very disappointing.
Ok, I'm way late to the party here, but feel the need to share. I am one of those who saw the original in theaters and loved it, and have watched it several times through the years. I went to see Legacy and pretty muchly hated it. Yes, it had awesome special effects (for the most part), and was a sleek-looking movie. Setting the effects and eye-candy aside, there are several weaknesses that undermine its relationship to the first movie. Tron had a unique plot, Legacy has a Matrix-meets-Lawnmower Man plot. Tron had (mostly) likable good guys, I had to work at liking everybody except Alan. Quorra was nice to look at, but didn't really add anything at all. Tron had some great bad guys - you just love to hate Sark and the MCP. While the concept of Clu being a bad guy is great, the execution sucked due to the limited emotional range of Jeff Bridge's artificial face. And you never get to see Tron's face at all. Even Darth Vader has a facelike mask. Legacy is a dark, joyless movie, with some attempts at sly humor; whereas Tron had a great sense of honest humor (remember Bit?). Tron had a some great spiritual undertones, with the good guys being persecuted for believing in their Users/Creators (even tho the bad guys knew they existed too), and a Christlike sacrifice by Flynn. Legacy has more of a Zen thing going on, the yin-yang being Clu and The Dude. There is so much more - blood in the computer world, the annoyingness of Zuse, etc. etc. etc., but I think you get how disappointed I am with Legacy compared to Tron. My $.02.
Eldred v. Ashcroft was decided 7-2. Are you saying they bribed him in order to avoid a 6-3 or 5-4 decision? If so, with what were the other justices bribed?
Yeah, ME was WAY better than 98!
The customer hammers on the IT department to cut costs, so the IT dept. consolidates their servers, ostensibly to reduce support overhead. However, some opportunity costs of consolidation (more security & controls requirements, lengthy endorsement/approval process, etc.) make it an onerous process to put servers into the datacenter, so then local "server rooms" start springing up again, especially for testing & development. Plus there are some things (security video, etc.) that you need to have local to each site, so total consolidation is a worthless cause IMHO.
Wonder how they feel. If I did that, my wife would kill me.
Since we have already determined that the origins of the universe, stars, planets, life, etc. can all be categorized under "chance", stuff like this shouldn't surprise us. Maybe we should be surprised when we look at something and aren't surprised.
Microsoft can do no wrong. If all the issues (both technical and legal) with Windows haven't convinced people to vote (with their wallets) for other products, nothing will.
"no matter what anybody says"
So... does what you just said matter?
Also the Constitution, which states in Article IV, Section 4: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." On a related note, you would think that Amendment XVII would have given greater control of the Senate to we the people when it changed this: "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote." (Article I, section 3) to this: "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote." ...but it actually had the opposite effect. Whereas before, the state senators had to face their constituents every day and were therefore more likely to recall a US senator that the people were displeased with, now the US senator just runs off to DC for several years and answers to no one. Don't believe me? Just look at the healthcare bill - the US senate wanted to ram it through before recess so they wouldn't have to listen to what their constituents wanted.