They're just bones. Does it matter which bones are where? Change the name from Arlington National Cemetery to Arlington National Memorial and you don't even need the bones at all.
To you it means -- uh, what does it mean? That the President could, technically, do anything? And thus has unlimited power? I suppose the President "has the power" to walk into Congress and cap all the Senators in the face by that definition.
If the president walked into congress and started shooting people, I have no doubt he would be impeached and tried. Yet the president regularly oversteps his constitutional authority with no consequences. That's the difference here.
Wait, I don't follow. Why would a closeted gay sign a petition against gay marriage if no one could verify that he'd done it? I mean, I can see why a closeted gay would sign such a petition if the names were going to go public. If anything, the closeted gay would want the names to go public as evidence that he's not a gay sympathizer.
This is not about gays not wanting to be outed as gays. This is about bigots not wanting to be outed as bigots.
Just because the power to suspend the constitution isn't written in the constitution doesn't mean that the president doesn't have that power. He may not have legitimate authority to do so, but he definitely has the power.
Where have you been? Congress has been doing more to harm America than terrorists have, well, essentially forever. Compare the lives and treasure lost in Iraq to that lost on 9/11 for instance.
Instead of dismissing the idea, consider a good implementation of in-game advertising that could allocate more resources to developers to make games cheaper and better.
Video games are already ridiculously cheap in terms of entertainment time per dollar. They don't need to be any cheaper. And I'm not sure that "more resources" will make games any better. What makes a game great is the core idea, the gameplay. More resources might buy you some more enemy models, or voice actors, but that doesn't make the game any better, just prettier.
Well, the.xxx domain is probably pointless. The vast majority of adult sites aren't going to be moving so you still won't be able to easily filter based on that criteria.
The.xxx domain definitely has a point. If porn sites don't move, you won't be able to filter them by domain. So, they will be forced to move by law, you know, for the children. That gives the government a legal cudgel it can use against anyone who hosts borderline material. This causes a chilling effect on healthy discussions of sexuality, advancing the agenda of the puritanical community.
That's exactly what I was going to say. F-Prot is good shit. Load it on a live USB image (unetbootin is your friend) and you're good to go.
Another thing worth mentioning... From what I've read, the write protect tabs on USB flash devices are implemented in software, not hardware. It would be entirely possible for a compromised PC to load a driver that ignores that flag. Perhaps a USB CDROM would be safer.
coming out of a recession, economic output could actually increase relative to pre-recession numbers due to improve efficiency, despite unemployment remaining high.
If I can't find a job to pay the rent, why do I care what the economic output is? Low but equitable economic output is preferable to high but inequitable economic output.
And many people are homeless, many are in poverty, many are miserable and so on. Nothing is ever perfect or is going to be perfect. Your point being? No seriously, what are you trying to say?
What is your point here? That because we can never be perfect that we shouldn't even try? That 10% unemployment doesn't matter because rich people are making out ok?
All I'm saying is that we need to measure success with a metric that relates in some way to something that actually matters. It doesn't mean shit if the DOW goes to 20,000 if people can't get jobs.
No seriously, what are you trying to say? Do you have a solution that doesn't make thing even worse or implodes the economy in thirty years?
The economy implodes on it's own every 30 years anyway.
Because we live in a capitalistic society where the economy is driven by investment and money.
Now you're just begging the question. Money is important because we live in a capitalistic society where money is important.
The rest works out from there
This is simply an article of faith.
Money can also be measured easily while everything else can't
Reminds me of the story of the guy on his hands and knees under a streetlight looking for his wedding ring. "Where was the last time you had it?" "I was across the street." "Then why are you looking here?" "Because this is where the light is."
BTW, Bhutan would disagree with you about what can and cannot be measured.
If you do not understand the basic foundations of the society you live in then either don't argue about them or go read a book about them.
I understand the foundations of society just fine. Well enough to see the flaws. If there's one thing that everyone should have learned from the recent crisis it's that economics is not settled science. It's really sad to see people not take home that basic lesson.
Ah, of course the unemployment statistic is flawed too. The underemployed and non-employable are not counted. And yes, the quality of the job matters too.
Unemployment doesn't particularly matter, not every job is equal and most of them don't matter that much. Welcome to reality.
Tell that to the 10% of the US population that's underemployed and you'll get a taste of reality.
The stock market, theoretically, measures the value, including future potential, of companies and thus of the market.
Why should we care what the value of companies are beyond how many people they employ and how good those jobs are?
The real problem is the reliance on the stock market as a measure of the economy in the first place. The stock market is a completely artificial construct that has nothing to do with anything. It would be best if people just ignored it.
Look at this recession for instance. If you look at the stock market you'd think that the recession is over. Fat lot of good that does for all the people who are still out of work. And no, unemployment is not a "lagging indicator", it's the only thing that matters.
Once in a while a kernel upgrade will require me to run nvidia's installer again. Takes about a minute a couple times a year. I'm not exactly pulling my hair out over it.
The DS has proven that Nintendo doesn't have to have the prettiest graphics to be successful. As long as this is a significant jump over the existing DS line, it's going to be well received.
Hey, I like the way you think. But I don't think it's necessary to shed blood. However, given the state of our government I think it's a lot more likely we'll see justice from an out of work shrimper with a sniper rifle than from our legal system.
I remain unconvinced that tens of billions of dollars of fines will produce any significant change in corporate culture at BP or in the oil industry in general. I expect nothing but lip service to well safety for as long as this remains in the news, and then a quick return to the same behavior. I wouldn't be surprised to see BP cut even more corners now that they have to make up for lost profits.
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I dare you to show me any kind of electronic record from more than 30 years ago.
There's a bunch of them right here.
You're probably better off just going with JBOL.
They're just bones. Does it matter which bones are where? Change the name from Arlington National Cemetery to Arlington National Memorial and you don't even need the bones at all.
To you it means -- uh, what does it mean? That the President could, technically, do anything? And thus has unlimited power? I suppose the President "has the power" to walk into Congress and cap all the Senators in the face by that definition.
If the president walked into congress and started shooting people, I have no doubt he would be impeached and tried. Yet the president regularly oversteps his constitutional authority with no consequences. That's the difference here.
No, they're just stupid.
Wait, I don't follow. Why would a closeted gay sign a petition against gay marriage if no one could verify that he'd done it? I mean, I can see why a closeted gay would sign such a petition if the names were going to go public. If anything, the closeted gay would want the names to go public as evidence that he's not a gay sympathizer.
This is not about gays not wanting to be outed as gays. This is about bigots not wanting to be outed as bigots.
But why would you want to? You can get another cat free at the humane society.
Just because the power to suspend the constitution isn't written in the constitution doesn't mean that the president doesn't have that power. He may not have legitimate authority to do so, but he definitely has the power.
Where have you been? Congress has been doing more to harm America than terrorists have, well, essentially forever. Compare the lives and treasure lost in Iraq to that lost on 9/11 for instance.
Instead of dismissing the idea, consider a good implementation of in-game advertising that could allocate more resources to developers to make games cheaper and better.
Video games are already ridiculously cheap in terms of entertainment time per dollar. They don't need to be any cheaper. And I'm not sure that "more resources" will make games any better. What makes a game great is the core idea, the gameplay. More resources might buy you some more enemy models, or voice actors, but that doesn't make the game any better, just prettier.
I hope this doesn't encourage would-be censors to restrict the kinds of content allowed in non-xxx domains.
Of course it will. There is no other reason for it to exist.
Well, the .xxx domain is probably pointless. The vast majority of adult sites aren't going to be moving so you still won't be able to easily filter based on that criteria.
The .xxx domain definitely has a point. If porn sites don't move, you won't be able to filter them by domain. So, they will be forced to move by law, you know, for the children. That gives the government a legal cudgel it can use against anyone who hosts borderline material. This causes a chilling effect on healthy discussions of sexuality, advancing the agenda of the puritanical community.
That's exactly what I was going to say. F-Prot is good shit. Load it on a live USB image (unetbootin is your friend) and you're good to go.
Another thing worth mentioning... From what I've read, the write protect tabs on USB flash devices are implemented in software, not hardware. It would be entirely possible for a compromised PC to load a driver that ignores that flag. Perhaps a USB CDROM would be safer.
coming out of a recession, economic output could actually increase relative to pre-recession numbers due to improve efficiency, despite unemployment remaining high.
If I can't find a job to pay the rent, why do I care what the economic output is? Low but equitable economic output is preferable to high but inequitable economic output.
And many people are homeless, many are in poverty, many are miserable and so on. Nothing is ever perfect or is going to be perfect. Your point being? No seriously, what are you trying to say?
What is your point here? That because we can never be perfect that we shouldn't even try? That 10% unemployment doesn't matter because rich people are making out ok?
All I'm saying is that we need to measure success with a metric that relates in some way to something that actually matters. It doesn't mean shit if the DOW goes to 20,000 if people can't get jobs.
No seriously, what are you trying to say? Do you have a solution that doesn't make thing even worse or implodes the economy in thirty years?
The economy implodes on it's own every 30 years anyway.
Because we live in a capitalistic society where the economy is driven by investment and money.
Now you're just begging the question. Money is important because we live in a capitalistic society where money is important.
The rest works out from there
This is simply an article of faith.
Money can also be measured easily while everything else can't
Reminds me of the story of the guy on his hands and knees under a streetlight looking for his wedding ring. "Where was the last time you had it?" "I was across the street." "Then why are you looking here?" "Because this is where the light is."
BTW, Bhutan would disagree with you about what can and cannot be measured.
If you do not understand the basic foundations of the society you live in then either don't argue about them or go read a book about them.
I understand the foundations of society just fine. Well enough to see the flaws. If there's one thing that everyone should have learned from the recent crisis it's that economics is not settled science. It's really sad to see people not take home that basic lesson.
Ah, of course the unemployment statistic is flawed too. The underemployed and non-employable are not counted. And yes, the quality of the job matters too.
Unemployment doesn't particularly matter, not every job is equal and most of them don't matter that much. Welcome to reality.
Tell that to the 10% of the US population that's underemployed and you'll get a taste of reality.
The stock market, theoretically, measures the value, including future potential, of companies and thus of the market.
Why should we care what the value of companies are beyond how many people they employ and how good those jobs are?
Thank you for your bare assertion with no supporting evidence or arguments.
The real problem is the reliance on the stock market as a measure of the economy in the first place. The stock market is a completely artificial construct that has nothing to do with anything. It would be best if people just ignored it.
Look at this recession for instance. If you look at the stock market you'd think that the recession is over. Fat lot of good that does for all the people who are still out of work. And no, unemployment is not a "lagging indicator", it's the only thing that matters.
Once in a while a kernel upgrade will require me to run nvidia's installer again. Takes about a minute a couple times a year. I'm not exactly pulling my hair out over it.
The DS has proven that Nintendo doesn't have to have the prettiest graphics to be successful. As long as this is a significant jump over the existing DS line, it's going to be well received.
If you design a console to sit vertically, it ought to be able to withstand being toppled.
Well I'm glad we can agree on that much, lol. It's been an interesting discussion, as always.
In Canada a 5.5 earthquake is news. In California a 55F day is news.
Hey, I like the way you think. But I don't think it's necessary to shed blood. However, given the state of our government I think it's a lot more likely we'll see justice from an out of work shrimper with a sniper rifle than from our legal system.
I remain unconvinced that tens of billions of dollars of fines will produce any significant change in corporate culture at BP or in the oil industry in general. I expect nothing but lip service to well safety for as long as this remains in the news, and then a quick return to the same behavior. I wouldn't be surprised to see BP cut even more corners now that they have to make up for lost profits.