I don't have an optical drive in my desktop. When I want to burn a CD to playon my Sega Saturn I have to boot up an old P3 box. That's about all I use it for.
basically made him a laughing stock for things not at all related to politics ("zomg, he saw a UFO!").
This is fair. If I can ridicule Perry for his sky wizard bullshit, Kucinich deserves the same.
But... the fact that people vote for who the media (or anyone) wants them to vote for is a deeper problem.
The problem is, this is an inherent part of the human condition. Your reality is shaped as much by what people tell you is true as by what is actually true, if not more. People are not going to wake up someday and be immune to propaganda. I see no rational basis to hope this will change.
Why? We lack the desire, or will, to educate ourselves. Beyond that, we lack the basics of education that allow a vast majority of us to be able to freely, and independently, evaluate claims. Basic critical thinking skills.
Of course, education is run by the government which has no interest in giving the people basic critical thinking skills. It's a catch 22. You can't get good critical thinking skills without a good government, and you can't get a good government without good critical thinking skills. I see no rational basis to hope this will change.
I do think if someone like Ron Paul won a clear majority (which would require voters to evaluate him on their terms and not just take what the media feeds them), he would be president. I don't think our system is that broken, yet.
He would be president in name, but he would get nothing accomplished. Even less than Obama. Anything he tried to do would be locked up in committee or by legal challenges for years, until his term was over and he was voted out for being ineffectual. You can't just elect a president and expect things to change, we have to throw out the entire D&R machine. I don't see any rational basis on which to hope this could happen.
I've been pondering a "citizens pac", or lobby group for a long time. Us little folk really need to organize on the same scale as corporate interests.
They tried that. It was instantly co-opted by the republican party. Any independant party or PAC will either be coopted by the existing party structure, or it will be ignored. This has been the fate of every attempt so far, and I dont' see any rational basis on which to hope any other attempts will fare any better.
I know there are people out there who believe we can still change things by working through the system. Why? Where do you get that hope? I can't imagine any plausible scenario where the political situation in America gets better. Are you seeing opportunities I do not? Please prove me wrong.
I'm not naive enough to believe a judge would follow basic princples of justice. It's still important to point out the fact that they don't as often as possible. It's the only way we'll ever get anything changed.
I'm not sure I understand. Surely sharing the cost of the textbooks among as many children as possible to keep the individual costs low would be the strategy chosen by societies that are not well off, right?
15 minute shower, 5-10 minutes for number 2, and 5-10 minutes for number 1. And that's being generous. I don't see how you can spend an hour per day in the bathroom, and I certainly don't understand how half the population can spend more than an hour a day in there.
From the pic of what they showed, that's all I saw. The casing, as well as the display themselves would cost double that amount.
It's for nerds and hackers, they don't need a case. And the display is intended to be any available screen. There's composite out as well as HDMI.
And keyboard - I'm assuming one wants it to be somewhat ergonomic, instead of dumping old keyboards to this just b'cos it might be for kids in Uganda
I'm not sure where you get the idea that old keyboards are less ergonomic than new keyboards. Any old keyboard should suffice.
Also, how is the BOM of this $35 - that would be just the cost of everything
That's what the BOM is defined as, just the cost of everything. I hope they're not reporting the BOM and making everyone think it will be the final price.
Most of the would-be revolutionaries I've mean, read about, etc... fall into two camps. Lunatics or Authoritarians who are mad that things aren't they way they perceive as the singular, a priori, truth.
I agree with you actually. This is why I'm not in favor of revolution at the moment. There's no popular movement in any direction that would make us more free. This makes me equally pessimistic about our chances for change inside and outside the system.
Nothing good has ever come from people who claim to "know better", who subsequently force their will on others.
I agree. But this is what our government seems to think it's supposed to do.
But... All of our faults fall onto the people. Sure, politicians are the people who do the actions, but we voted them in, watch as they do evil, and then, this is the important bit, vote them in again
Have you considered that maybe, we can't help it? That the system is rigged to produce a predetermined outcome? For instance, it's not "the people's" fault that we have a two party system. It's an inevitable mathematical consequence of the winner take all electoral system we have. In other countries with proportional representation third parties have a lot more influence.
American politics is a lot like a card trick. When a magician asks you to "pick a card, any card", do you think he cares what card you pick? No, no matter what card you pick, he can manipulate you, or the deck, to make the trick work. It's the same in politics. The electorate is vulnerable to misdirection and sleight of hand.
Look at Obama. The American people wanted change so badly they elected a half black one term senator, overcoming prejudices against race, inexperience, and foreigners. Even after overcoming all those hurdles, what did we get? We got another corporate puppet. You can't blame "the people" for that one.
Or look at Ron Paul this year. He got 2nd place in the Iowa Straw Poll, less than a percentage point behind Bachmann. Still, the media refuses to talk about him as if he were a serious candidate. It's obvious that what the people want simply doesn't matter.
Or lets go a few more elections back and talk about Ralph Nader. In 2004 and 2008 Nader faced a media blackout even more severe than that against Ron Paul today. Here's a guy who can draw crowds of 10000 strong, and can't get a mention in the local newspaper.
How can "the people" be faulted for any of this? How do we have a chance when the deck is stacked against us?
since we're talking of revolution without the fear of ours doors being kicked in
I don't know about you, but I live in fear of having my doors kicked in. This country has been waging war on its own citizens for half a century now.
They're still failures. Handwriting is still an inferior input mechanism to keyboards, and tablets still cannot replace notebooks or desktops for many purposes. The limitations of the tablet format haven't changed. What has changed is the size of the market for a limited function device. It's not just rich guys who have 2 or 3 computers now.
Explorer has always been "just an app". You can edit system.ini and replace 'SHELL=explorer.exe' with any other application. e.g. LiteStep, a MAME front end, XBMC, etc.
Why do the American patriots have to abandon our country to those who have corrupted it and blasphemed against liberty and justice? Why not fight back, and put our nation back on the path towards a better America?
How? What can anyone do that has a chance of turning this country around? Anyone with radical enough ideas to really change this country will never be taken seriously by the media. Therefore you will never have a chance of getting elected, and never have a chance to make a change working with the system.
The other alternative is to work outside the system. Revolution. I'm ready today, but we can't pick up arms until we have a realistic chance of winning. Otherwise we'll just be treated like Loughner. Of course, we can't build a revolutionary army without getting our message out there. So we run into the same problem we see above.
Anyway you look at it, I see no light at the end of this tunnel.
Having said that, there is impetus for laws that are based on the concept that 'you can be held accountable for the actions of others'. For example, speed cameras. If your car is recorded speeding through a camera, you are legally accountable. It is your responsibility to demonstrate that you were not behind the wheel at the time.
No it's not. The burden of proof is always on the accuser. If the government fails to meet that burden and still convicts, it is tyrannical.
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That means there's 980,000 Galaxy tablets out there nobody wants.
I don't have an optical drive in my desktop. When I want to burn a CD to playon my Sega Saturn I have to boot up an old P3 box. That's about all I use it for.
"When dealing with the devil, expect to get burned"
You're referring to the diplomats working with the US there, right?
basically made him a laughing stock for things not at all related to politics ("zomg, he saw a UFO!").
This is fair. If I can ridicule Perry for his sky wizard bullshit, Kucinich deserves the same.
But... the fact that people vote for who the media (or anyone) wants them to vote for is a deeper problem.
The problem is, this is an inherent part of the human condition. Your reality is shaped as much by what people tell you is true as by what is actually true, if not more. People are not going to wake up someday and be immune to propaganda. I see no rational basis to hope this will change.
Why? We lack the desire, or will, to educate ourselves. Beyond that, we lack the basics of education that allow a vast majority of us to be able to freely, and independently, evaluate claims. Basic critical thinking skills.
Of course, education is run by the government which has no interest in giving the people basic critical thinking skills. It's a catch 22. You can't get good critical thinking skills without a good government, and you can't get a good government without good critical thinking skills. I see no rational basis to hope this will change.
I do think if someone like Ron Paul won a clear majority (which would require voters to evaluate him on their terms and not just take what the media feeds them), he would be president. I don't think our system is that broken, yet.
He would be president in name, but he would get nothing accomplished. Even less than Obama. Anything he tried to do would be locked up in committee or by legal challenges for years, until his term was over and he was voted out for being ineffectual. You can't just elect a president and expect things to change, we have to throw out the entire D&R machine. I don't see any rational basis on which to hope this could happen.
I've been pondering a "citizens pac", or lobby group for a long time. Us little folk really need to organize on the same scale as corporate interests.
They tried that. It was instantly co-opted by the republican party. Any independant party or PAC will either be coopted by the existing party structure, or it will be ignored. This has been the fate of every attempt so far, and I dont' see any rational basis on which to hope any other attempts will fare any better.
I know there are people out there who believe we can still change things by working through the system. Why? Where do you get that hope? I can't imagine any plausible scenario where the political situation in America gets better. Are you seeing opportunities I do not? Please prove me wrong.
Amoral may or may not conform to accepted standards of morality. An amoral act may be either moral or immoral, the point is you don't care either way.
I'm not naive enough to believe a judge would follow basic princples of justice. It's still important to point out the fact that they don't as often as possible. It's the only way we'll ever get anything changed.
I'm not sure I understand. Surely sharing the cost of the textbooks among as many children as possible to keep the individual costs low would be the strategy chosen by societies that are not well off, right?
15 minute shower, 5-10 minutes for number 2, and 5-10 minutes for number 1. And that's being generous. I don't see how you can spend an hour per day in the bathroom, and I certainly don't understand how half the population can spend more than an hour a day in there.
So what you're looking for is some company who will somehow have literally anything that you're looking for available instantly for a nominal price?
Yes.
I think the logistics behind that are mind-boggling. Seriously, work up some numbers.
It exists today for 0 dollars. Surely it can be done for slightly more than that.
From the pic of what they showed, that's all I saw. The casing, as well as the display themselves would cost double that amount.
It's for nerds and hackers, they don't need a case. And the display is intended to be any available screen. There's composite out as well as HDMI.
And keyboard - I'm assuming one wants it to be somewhat ergonomic, instead of dumping old keyboards to this just b'cos it might be for kids in Uganda
I'm not sure where you get the idea that old keyboards are less ergonomic than new keyboards. Any old keyboard should suffice.
Also, how is the BOM of this $35 - that would be just the cost of everything
That's what the BOM is defined as, just the cost of everything. I hope they're not reporting the BOM and making everyone think it will be the final price.
12 year olds don't buy their textbooks. They're assigned textbooks owned by the school for the year.
No, it's a literary reference.
Most of the would-be revolutionaries I've mean, read about, etc... fall into two camps. Lunatics or Authoritarians who are mad that things aren't they way they perceive as the singular, a priori, truth.
I agree with you actually. This is why I'm not in favor of revolution at the moment. There's no popular movement in any direction that would make us more free. This makes me equally pessimistic about our chances for change inside and outside the system.
Nothing good has ever come from people who claim to "know better", who subsequently force their will on others.
I agree. But this is what our government seems to think it's supposed to do.
But... All of our faults fall onto the people. Sure, politicians are the people who do the actions, but we voted them in, watch as they do evil, and then, this is the important bit, vote them in again
Have you considered that maybe, we can't help it? That the system is rigged to produce a predetermined outcome? For instance, it's not "the people's" fault that we have a two party system. It's an inevitable mathematical consequence of the winner take all electoral system we have. In other countries with proportional representation third parties have a lot more influence.
American politics is a lot like a card trick. When a magician asks you to "pick a card, any card", do you think he cares what card you pick? No, no matter what card you pick, he can manipulate you, or the deck, to make the trick work. It's the same in politics. The electorate is vulnerable to misdirection and sleight of hand.
Look at Obama. The American people wanted change so badly they elected a half black one term senator, overcoming prejudices against race, inexperience, and foreigners. Even after overcoming all those hurdles, what did we get? We got another corporate puppet. You can't blame "the people" for that one.
Or look at Ron Paul this year. He got 2nd place in the Iowa Straw Poll, less than a percentage point behind Bachmann. Still, the media refuses to talk about him as if he were a serious candidate. It's obvious that what the people want simply doesn't matter.
Or lets go a few more elections back and talk about Ralph Nader. In 2004 and 2008 Nader faced a media blackout even more severe than that against Ron Paul today. Here's a guy who can draw crowds of 10000 strong, and can't get a mention in the local newspaper.
How can "the people" be faulted for any of this? How do we have a chance when the deck is stacked against us?
since we're talking of revolution without the fear of ours doors being kicked in
I don't know about you, but I live in fear of having my doors kicked in. This country has been waging war on its own citizens for half a century now.
They're still failures. Handwriting is still an inferior input mechanism to keyboards, and tablets still cannot replace notebooks or desktops for many purposes. The limitations of the tablet format haven't changed. What has changed is the size of the market for a limited function device. It's not just rich guys who have 2 or 3 computers now.
Turn off [xgk]dm and just boot to a console.
If we cannot change from within, then we have already lost the Constitution.
Yes, that's my point. The US government is wholly illegitimate, and has been for years. You simply haven't been paying attention.
Explorer has always been "just an app". You can edit system.ini and replace 'SHELL=explorer.exe' with any other application. e.g. LiteStep, a MAME front end, XBMC, etc.
Why do the American patriots have to abandon our country to those who have corrupted it and blasphemed against liberty and justice? Why not fight back, and put our nation back on the path towards a better America?
How? What can anyone do that has a chance of turning this country around? Anyone with radical enough ideas to really change this country will never be taken seriously by the media. Therefore you will never have a chance of getting elected, and never have a chance to make a change working with the system.
The other alternative is to work outside the system. Revolution. I'm ready today, but we can't pick up arms until we have a realistic chance of winning. Otherwise we'll just be treated like Loughner. Of course, we can't build a revolutionary army without getting our message out there. So we run into the same problem we see above.
Anyway you look at it, I see no light at the end of this tunnel.
The Atari 2600 was a glorified pong machine. It had hardware features to do things like mirror sprites.
Selective leaking is simply propaganda dressed up to look pretty.
Oh, like press releases.
No, his version of the story is not getting much press because there's no money in it. Truth and falsehood make no difference to the press.
Having said that, there is impetus for laws that are based on the concept that 'you can be held accountable for the actions of others'. For example, speed cameras. If your car is recorded speeding through a camera, you are legally accountable. It is your responsibility to demonstrate that you were not behind the wheel at the time.
No it's not. The burden of proof is always on the accuser. If the government fails to meet that burden and still convicts, it is tyrannical.
This is what signed packages are for.
You know, they do euthanize the mice before they homogenize them, right? Scientists are not wantonly cruel.
I've said for years that pretty much all FPS games are just Doom with better graphics
And worse everything else.