Miller was a leftist, right up until 9/11. Immediately afterwards he was a champion of the right.
To put it plainly, the terrorists scared him into becoming a conservative.
I don't think of it so much as cowardice than of naive in his convictions: he was a liberal because he thought it was hip, not because he had thought it through. The world is a dangerous place; always has been and always will be. I'm a (classical) liberal BECAUSE of that, not in spite of it. I believe that in the marketplace of ideas, liberalism will win out. But I'm also aware that others with different idealogies are going to fight my ideas with guns, bombs, and terror and my side must be willing to respond with spptriate levels of lethality when neccessary. To wit - Aghannistan sorely needed cleasned out. Iraq could have waited. In both countries, however, we HAVE to win the war of ideas with the common folk which means getting infrastructure back up and running regardless if that means we have to put 300000 more troops in. Only a small group of the enemy is out to kill americans becasue they want us out of the mid east. But there are large groups of them who are willing to do so when it's seen that the Americans are the ones who can't keep the lights on and the roads safe.
However, to get back on subject, Miller castigated the US Military every chance he got because he didn't really think they'd ever be needed for anything more than suppport for UN peacekeeping missions. When he found out that he was wrong, he jumped to the other side of the fence because he hadn't really thought that non nuclear warfare would ever be used again. He started "studying war no more" a whole lot sooner than the rest of the world did.
If you really think that those two shots are "equally good" I HIGHLY recommend the following actions:
1 Disconnect your monitor from you computer. 2 Put it and yourself in your automobile. 3 On your way to the nearest optometrist drop the monitor into the first dumpster you see. 4 After getting your eyes checked, go to a Best Buy, Circuit City, etc and buy a decent monitor.
The fact is that it's not the "rich SOBs" that you're tired of, it's only the "rich SOBs" with opinions that differ from your own. Otherwise you'd be complaining about the rich SOB televangelists and the rich SOBs like Delay and Bush "pushing their agendas on everyone else because they've got the money."
I grew up in that part of Colorado. The reason for that high suicide rate is all the country & western radio stations. Everybody thinks they're a goddamn cowboy and has to wear the boots and listen to the music. Damnedably depressing.
That's the way I recall it. You mean it doesn't play that way now??? That sucks. I'm all for releasing "director's cut" editions, but the original release should stay just that.
Good thing I enjoyed reading more than movies when I was growing up.
4. "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture" by Michael A. Bellesiles, for inaccuracy.
Inaccuracy?? Citing sources that are known to have been destroyed in 1906 goes a tad beyond inaccuracy. That tends to force one to quit before being fired:
A candid conversation with America's newest billionaires about their oddball company, how they tamed the web and why their motto is "Don't be evil"
Just five years ago a googol was an obscure, unimaginable concept: the number one followed by 100 zeros. Now respelled and capitalized, Google is an essential part of online life. From American cities to remote Chinese villages, more than 65 million people use the Internet search engine each day. It helps them find everything from the arcane to the essential, and Google has become a verb, as in, "I Googled your name on the Internet and, uh, no thanks, I'm not interested in going out Friday night."
In addition to being the gold standard of Internet search engines, Google is setting a new example for business. It's difficult to imagine Enron or WorldCom with a creed similar to Google's: "Don't be evil," a motto the company claims to take seriously.
This maxim was perhaps most apparent in May when the company announced it was going public. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page explained their lofty ambitions. "Searching and organizing all the world's information is an unusually important task that should be carried out by a company that is trustworthy and interested in the public good," they wrote in an unprecedented letter to Wall Street. With the release of the letter, Newsweek reported, "The century's most anticipated IPO was on, and the document, revealing the search giant's financial details, business strategy and risk factors, instantly eclipsed Bob Woodward's Iraq book as the most talked about tome in the nation."
Page, 31, is the son of Carl Page, a pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence at the University of Michigan. Larry was surrounded by computers when he was growing up and once built a programmable ink-jet printer out of Legos. Reticent but wide-eyed and reflective, he is Google's clean-cut geek in chief, the brilliant engineer and mathematician who oversees the writing of the complex algorithms and computer programs behind the search engine. His partner, Brin, 30, is a native of Moscow, where his father was a math professor. As Jews, the Brins where discriminated against and taunted when they walked down the street. "I was worried that my children would face the same discrimination if we stayed there," his father told Reuters. "Sometimes the love for one's country is not mutual." The family emigrated to the U.S. when Brin was six. A part-time trapeze artist. Brin is the company's earnest and impassioned visionary--a quieter, nerdier Steve Jobs. Early on, when Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked how the company determines what exactly is and is not evil, he answered, "Evil is whatever Sergey says is evil."
Page and Brin met as graduate students at Stanford University. After years of analyzing the mathematics, the computer science and the psychological intricacies involved in searching for useful information on the ever-growing World Wide Web, they came up with the Google search engine in 1998. It was far superior to existing engines, and many companies, including Yahoo and MSN, licensed it. (Yahoo recently severed its ties with Google, introducing its own search engine. Bill Gates, who once admitted that "Google kicked our butts" on search-engine technology, has announced that Microsoft will launch its own search engine next year.) With its simple design and unobtrusive ads, Google has quickly become one of the most frequented websites on the Internet, and the company is one of the fastest growing in history. The financial press has estimated that after the initial public offering, Google will be valued at $30 billion, and Brin and Page, each of whom owns about 15 percent, will be worth more than $4 billion apiece.
The two are unlikely billionaires. They seem uninterested in the accoutrements of wea
THERE ARE NO OTHER KINDS OF CREDIT CARDS IN THE USA.
I'm willing to bet that he was thinking of check/debit cards. Just because they have the visa/mastercard label doesn't mean that they come with the same protections as a credit card.
if somebody empties you account using one, your recourse is the justice system. rather notoriously slow.
but who said pedophiles want to be Irish? Eonugh people are going to hate them already for being pedophiles; being Irish on top of that? I'd almost feel sorry for them.
No one really believes in free trade. They're all for free trade until it hits them in the pocketbook.
Look at the Senate and House with the farm bill.
Hell, look at farmers. They want subsidies out the ying yang. I live in north central Pennsylvania where they have minimum prices for milk. 30 miles north of here, it's 30% cheaper.
"Knowing that no matter how much patches come out, Linux will be more secure - Pricess"
Price[le]ss
And that sums up the problem with Linux at this stage of the game: no matter what you want it to do, there seems to be one little piece that isn't there yet.
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That pic is the second most popular download from the site www.dwp.ch.vu
I'm betting that means I'm not the only person who saw the first screenshot and said, "to hell with the graphics, where'd he find the girl?"
"While I hope the bell went off in their heads, that something needs to be done, my guess is that they will instead over-react and try to restrict the public's access to even more information.(whew, long run-on.) "
No. It's not. It's a valid sentence. The terem "run-on" is primarily a way for english teachers to avoid showing students how to form long, complex sentences.
I knew the idea was familiar. I was stationed in Bamberg, Germany in the early '80s, just as VCRs were getting popular. A bunch of people (soldiers and spouses of soldiers) got together and formed a company to rent videos. The fee was $12 per month and you could take out 4 (I think)tapes at a time. Keep them as long as you liked but you couldn't get any more until you brought those back.
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I don't think of it so much as cowardice than of naive in his convictions: he was a liberal because he thought it was hip, not because he had thought it through. The world is a dangerous place; always has been and always will be. I'm a (classical) liberal BECAUSE of that, not in spite of it. I believe that in the marketplace of ideas, liberalism will win out. But I'm also aware that others with different idealogies are going to fight my ideas with guns, bombs, and terror and my side must be willing to respond with spptriate levels of lethality when neccessary. To wit - Aghannistan sorely needed cleasned out. Iraq could have waited. In both countries, however, we HAVE to win the war of ideas with the common folk which means getting infrastructure back up and running regardless if that means we have to put 300000 more troops in. Only a small group of the enemy is out to kill americans becasue they want us out of the mid east. But there are large groups of them who are willing to do so when it's seen that the Americans are the ones who can't keep the lights on and the roads safe.
However, to get back on subject, Miller castigated the US Military every chance he got because he didn't really think they'd ever be needed for anything more than suppport for UN peacekeeping missions. When he found out that he was wrong, he jumped to the other side of the fence because he hadn't really thought that non nuclear warfare would ever be used again. He started "studying war no more" a whole lot sooner than the rest of the world did.
If you really think that those two shots are "equally good" I HIGHLY recommend the following actions:
1 Disconnect your monitor from you computer.
2 Put it and yourself in your automobile.
3 On your way to the nearest optometrist drop the monitor into the first dumpster you see.
4 After getting your eyes checked, go to a Best Buy, Circuit City, etc and buy a decent monitor.
The fact is that it's not the "rich SOBs" that you're tired of, it's only the "rich SOBs" with opinions that differ from your own. Otherwise you'd be complaining about the rich SOB televangelists and the rich SOBs like Delay and Bush "pushing their agendas on everyone else because they've got the money."
I grew up in that part of Colorado. The reason for that high suicide rate is all the country & western radio stations. Everybody thinks they're a goddamn cowboy and has to wear the boots and listen to the music. Damnedably depressing.
That's the way I recall it. You mean it doesn't play that way now??? That sucks. I'm all for releasing "director's cut" editions, but the original release should stay just that.
Good thing I enjoyed reading more than movies when I was growing up.
Inaccuracy?? Citing sources that are known to have been destroyed in 1906 goes a tad beyond inaccuracy. That tends to force one to quit before being fired:
http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2
nice strawman fallacy.
if you're a day late with the info?
from here
PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: GOOGLE GUYS
A candid conversation with America's newest billionaires about their oddball company, how they tamed the web and why their motto is "Don't be evil"
Just five years ago a googol was an obscure, unimaginable concept: the number one followed by 100 zeros. Now respelled and capitalized, Google is an essential part of online life. From American cities to remote Chinese villages, more than 65 million people use the Internet search engine each day. It helps them find everything from the arcane to the essential, and Google has become a verb, as in, "I Googled your name on the Internet and, uh, no thanks, I'm not interested in going out Friday night."
In addition to being the gold standard of Internet search engines, Google is setting a new example for business. It's difficult to imagine Enron or WorldCom with a creed similar to Google's: "Don't be evil," a motto the company claims to take seriously.
This maxim was perhaps most apparent in May when the company announced it was going public. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page explained their lofty ambitions. "Searching and organizing all the world's information is an unusually important task that should be carried out by a company that is trustworthy and interested in the public good," they wrote in an unprecedented letter to Wall Street. With the release of the letter, Newsweek reported, "The century's most anticipated IPO was on, and the document, revealing the search giant's financial details, business strategy and risk factors, instantly eclipsed Bob Woodward's Iraq book as the most talked about tome in the nation."
Page, 31, is the son of Carl Page, a pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence at the University of Michigan. Larry was surrounded by computers when he was growing up and once built a programmable ink-jet printer out of Legos. Reticent but wide-eyed and reflective, he is Google's clean-cut geek in chief, the brilliant engineer and mathematician who oversees the writing of the complex algorithms and computer programs behind the search engine. His partner, Brin, 30, is a native of Moscow, where his father was a math professor. As Jews, the Brins where discriminated against and taunted when they walked down the street. "I was worried that my children would face the same discrimination if we stayed there," his father told Reuters. "Sometimes the love for one's country is not mutual." The family emigrated to the U.S. when Brin was six. A part-time trapeze artist. Brin is the company's earnest and impassioned visionary--a quieter, nerdier Steve Jobs. Early on, when Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked how the company determines what exactly is and is not evil, he answered, "Evil is whatever Sergey says is evil."
Page and Brin met as graduate students at Stanford University. After years of analyzing the mathematics, the computer science and the psychological intricacies involved in searching for useful information on the ever-growing World Wide Web, they came up with the Google search engine in 1998. It was far superior to existing engines, and many companies, including Yahoo and MSN, licensed it. (Yahoo recently severed its ties with Google, introducing its own search engine. Bill Gates, who once admitted that "Google kicked our butts" on search-engine technology, has announced that Microsoft will launch its own search engine next year.) With its simple design and unobtrusive ads, Google has quickly become one of the most frequented websites on the Internet, and the company is one of the fastest growing in history. The financial press has estimated that after the initial public offering, Google will be valued at $30 billion, and Brin and Page, each of whom owns about 15 percent, will be worth more than $4 billion apiece.
The two are unlikely billionaires. They seem uninterested in the accoutrements of wea
I'm willing to bet that he was thinking of check/debit cards. Just because they have the visa/mastercard label doesn't mean that they come with the same protections as a credit card.
if somebody empties you account using one, your recourse is the justice system. rather notoriously slow.
no, no, no. you made a 4th grade word problem error.
it's not 15 miles, it's 14 miles. 15 minus 1.
so he was only doing slightly in excess of 140 miles per hour.
Actually, with all the specialized 'jargon' picts, Chinese has in slight excess of 40,000 characters.
but who said pedophiles want to be Irish? Eonugh people are going to hate them already for being pedophiles; being Irish on top of that? I'd almost feel sorry for them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/education/21BOOK .html?ex=1067313600&en=f29e2e8bac871ef3&ei=5062&pa rtner=GOOGLE
Ever hear of Optical Character Recognition?
You forgot the second most serious mis-use of this system, behind employers having access:
Insurance companies having access. Health, life, and auto premiums adjusted higher due to clubbing.
I hadn't thought about her or the possibility of her being dead.
Who controls the estate now? He didn't AFAIK have any children.
No one really believes in free trade. They're all for free trade until it hits them in the pocketbook.
Look at the Senate and House with the farm bill.
Hell, look at farmers. They want subsidies out the ying yang. I live in north central Pennsylvania where they have minimum prices for milk. 30 miles north of here, it's 30% cheaper.
But she's going to vote for Al Gore anyway. So you're cynical apathy is helping her.
"Knowing that no matter how much patches come out, Linux will be more secure - Pricess"
Price[le]ss
And that sums up the problem with Linux at this stage of the game: no matter what you want it to do, there seems to be one little piece that isn't there yet.
That pic is the second most popular download from the site www.dwp.ch.vu
I'm betting that means I'm not the only person who saw the first screenshot and said, "to hell with the graphics, where'd he find the girl?"
Nah. I want one for the girlfriend's keys.
:)
Not that I'm a pessimistic, untrustful person.
"While I hope the bell went off in their heads, that something needs to be done, my guess is that they will instead over-react and try to restrict the public's access to even more information.(whew, long run-on.) "
No. It's not. It's a valid sentence. The terem "run-on" is primarily a way for english teachers to avoid showing students how to form long, complex sentences.
Dang, that first paragraph is good. I almost hit the reply button without reading the rest. :)
Bingo!
I knew the idea was familiar. I was stationed in Bamberg, Germany in the early '80s, just as VCRs were getting popular. A bunch of people (soldiers and spouses of soldiers) got together and formed a company to rent videos. The fee was $12 per month and you could take out 4 (I think)tapes at a time. Keep them as long as you liked but you couldn't get any more until you brought those back.
Admittedly, that wasn't by mail though.
use a liberal dose of PreperationH before that next flight. Wouldn't want to 'cause an armed pilot to get nervous over little ol' me.