Smoot-Hawley Act didn't pass the Senate until March 1930, 5 months after Black Tuesday which is generally the recognized start date of the Great Depression. It does state that a trade war/Smoot-Hawley didn't start it, but probably extended it.
Most of the blame for starting it is on failing banks and the stock market crash. This caused people to cut back on spending and borrowing.
While superficially I agree with you, I'm still intend on writing my Rep and Senators and plan to include points made by this article. Who knows, it could be a Democrat proposing such a thing next time.
Seeing as how Hulu is owned by NBC and Newscorp, yes and yes. They ARE the content owners, and as we've seen time and again, content owners are self righteous idiots.
If only they did that when revenue was down. Now that do that when private corporations are on the brink of collapse. Sorry it's not getting any better.
In essence the original S3 has gone out of business. They sold off the video chipset biz to VIA a while ago (too lazy to look it up) and became SONICBlue (remember ReplayTV, Rio, and GoVideo? Completely different products than graphics cards) then declared bankruptcy a few years after that.
S3 for around the last decade has been an wing of VIA.
They've been working with some of todays hottest interior designers. I have friends that work for one of these designers and they snuck out some of their preliminary sketches! ENJOY!
The corps, politicos and average Americans are in one big staring contest right now.
Corps want government assurances that they can't/won't ever have a bad day and a ton of handouts before they'll start doing business as usual (fucking the average American for their ungodly gain). Politicians are going about their usual spinster ways, spreading as many sound bites about how they're right and the other guy is wrong so that come election day they can trot out their "record" (which will likely be wrong either way, but spun to sound like they're right).
And your average American sheeple is standing around waiting to follow orders. All along not realizing that once all is said and done, we'll be worse off over the long haul, but hazily satisfied that SOMETHING happened rather than nothing at all, and we'll all go back to living in our overly medicated stupor (prescribed or otherwise), thankful for a new season of $SHITTY_REALITY_SHOW or $MINDLESS_DRAMA_OR_SITCOM will give us just enough emotional boost to go to bed feeling anything.
Yes! Exactly! Your argument is so wonderfully persuasive. You've totally discouraged me from open source software! I will only send my children to universities that support convicted monopolists and their patent/copyright law abusing corporate pals. Also, I 100% agree that free as in speech OR beer software shouldn't exist to insure the enrichment of these companies.
It is of UTMOST importance that I spend two years of wages on an education designed to give my kids painstakingly detailed, precise instruction on where to point-click in MS-Word to make pretty charts! And to help cover the licensing costs, I will GLADLY support and requests to raise tuition. After all, it would be down right un-American to not work my ass off to help cloth and feed a bunch of rich assholes!
I work in a US uni and IT runs platform agnostic. Departments are allowed to purchase whatever they want for their people and the network is based upon open source and open protocols (e-mail is IMAP, no Exchange anywhere, Apache for WWW, OpenLDAP, etc.) In fact most of the problems helpdesk gets is due to Windows or Microsoft not working with something that is an open standard (Just this morning we got ragged on by a user frustrated by Outlook not working well with IMAP and LDAP).
We hardly ever get complaints from Mac or Linux users (and those complaints are usually due to misconfiguration, not all out incompatibility).
Widespread ignorance doesn't mean everyone hasn't a clue.
True you can't NOW, but when they're ubiquitous you won't even need to drive to a filling station. Instead you'll plug-in while parked. These sit right by the curb like a parking meter (I walked by them installing one in Portland the other day).
Would this really make a person happy or simply "satisfied until...".
This is just another form of addiction. It's giving ourselves a temporary boost that needs to be refreshed by buying a second dog (cause knowing he has a playmate makes us happy) or perhaps a new television. We're all addicts looking for the next hit.
According to the Top Gear spokeswoman, the tested Tesla was filmed being pushed into the shed in order to show what would happen if the Roadster had run out of charge.
"Top Gear stands by the findings in this film and is content that it offers a fair representation of the Tesla's performance on the day it was tested," the BBC said in statement."
Yeah, OK. So they're saying my gas powered car will miraculously make it home if I run out of fuel? I can't believe anyone would take that show seriously.
I agree with you as a whole, but at SOME point, it's almost inevitable that humans will have to spread out from Earth. I'm sure the future humans would be thankful that a lot of the heavy lifting was already done when that time comes and not having to scramble when faced with potential disaster.
Coincidently I've been watchin' the "When We Left Earth" DVD's recently. One of the astronauts that discussed the Columbia accident said that they know the risk and do it anyway.
How many more people have died in the Iraq conflict than the entire history of the space program? It's pretty twisted that the majority have done comparatively little to end that, but are ready to grab their pitch forks and torches when it comes to the space program.
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Smoot-Hawley Act didn't pass the Senate until March 1930, 5 months after Black Tuesday which is generally the recognized start date of the Great Depression. It does state that a trade war/Smoot-Hawley didn't start it, but probably extended it.
Most of the blame for starting it is on failing banks and the stock market crash. This caused people to cut back on spending and borrowing.
While superficially I agree with you, I'm still intend on writing my Rep and Senators and plan to include points made by this article. Who knows, it could be a Democrat proposing such a thing next time.
Seeing as how Hulu is owned by NBC and Newscorp, yes and yes. They ARE the content owners, and as we've seen time and again, content owners are self righteous idiots.
If only they did that when revenue was down. Now that do that when private corporations are on the brink of collapse. Sorry it's not getting any better.
I'm sure the CEO's and stock holders that have raked in multiple orders of magnitude more than these laborers thanks to their work agree with you.
In essence the original S3 has gone out of business. They sold off the video chipset biz to VIA a while ago (too lazy to look it up) and became SONICBlue (remember ReplayTV, Rio, and GoVideo? Completely different products than graphics cards) then declared bankruptcy a few years after that.
S3 for around the last decade has been an wing of VIA.
I have read it and not being a lawyer I'm confused. If research is funded by Federal money, how can they smack down it's open access?
They've been working with some of todays hottest interior designers. I have friends that work for one of these designers and they snuck out some of their preliminary sketches! ENJOY!
"...some of it that I don't even want comes on my computer every time I buy a new one."
Are you insinuating you *BUY* a computer built by someone else? You, sir, need to turn in your geek card.
Hell no; I work at a university! I want them to keep making money however it takes!
I was about to ditch WoW + Crossover for EVE because of their support (and talking my WoW friends into doing the same). Now I don't know...
The corps, politicos and average Americans are in one big staring contest right now.
Corps want government assurances that they can't/won't ever have a bad day and a ton of handouts before they'll start doing business as usual (fucking the average American for their ungodly gain). Politicians are going about their usual spinster ways, spreading as many sound bites about how they're right and the other guy is wrong so that come election day they can trot out their "record" (which will likely be wrong either way, but spun to sound like they're right).
And your average American sheeple is standing around waiting to follow orders. All along not realizing that once all is said and done, we'll be worse off over the long haul, but hazily satisfied that SOMETHING happened rather than nothing at all, and we'll all go back to living in our overly medicated stupor (prescribed or otherwise), thankful for a new season of $SHITTY_REALITY_SHOW or $MINDLESS_DRAMA_OR_SITCOM will give us just enough emotional boost to go to bed feeling anything.
Yes! Exactly! Your argument is so wonderfully persuasive. You've totally discouraged me from open source software! I will only send my children to universities that support convicted monopolists and their patent/copyright law abusing corporate pals. Also, I 100% agree that free as in speech OR beer software shouldn't exist to insure the enrichment of these companies.
It is of UTMOST importance that I spend two years of wages on an education designed to give my kids painstakingly detailed, precise instruction on where to point-click in MS-Word to make pretty charts! And to help cover the licensing costs, I will GLADLY support and requests to raise tuition. After all, it would be down right un-American to not work my ass off to help cloth and feed a bunch of rich assholes!
China made the stealth bomber?
How many rape victims do you know spend 500 billion+ on defense??
But you're right, I'll feel so much better when we have missles in the sky pointed at the entire fucking planet.
If I post a comment on last weeks article, will it also show up on this weeks article?
I work in a US uni and IT runs platform agnostic. Departments are allowed to purchase whatever they want for their people and the network is based upon open source and open protocols (e-mail is IMAP, no Exchange anywhere, Apache for WWW, OpenLDAP, etc.) In fact most of the problems helpdesk gets is due to Windows or Microsoft not working with something that is an open standard (Just this morning we got ragged on by a user frustrated by Outlook not working well with IMAP and LDAP).
We hardly ever get complaints from Mac or Linux users (and those complaints are usually due to misconfiguration, not all out incompatibility).
Widespread ignorance doesn't mean everyone hasn't a clue.
Lumens ratings in the chart at the bottom
True you can't NOW, but when they're ubiquitous you won't even need to drive to a filling station. Instead you'll plug-in while parked. These sit right by the curb like a parking meter (I walked by them installing one in Portland the other day).
Would this really make a person happy or simply "satisfied until...".
This is just another form of addiction. It's giving ourselves a temporary boost that needs to be refreshed by buying a second dog (cause knowing he has a playmate makes us happy) or perhaps a new television. We're all addicts looking for the next hit.
My question is: When did TV's ever come with a non-glossy screen?
According to the Top Gear spokeswoman, the tested Tesla was filmed being pushed into the shed in order to show what would happen if the Roadster had run out of charge.
"Top Gear stands by the findings in this film and is content that it offers a fair representation of the Tesla's performance on the day it was tested," the BBC said in statement."
Yeah, OK. So they're saying my gas powered car will miraculously make it home if I run out of fuel? I can't believe anyone would take that show seriously.
Sweet! I've lead such a useless existence, pipl isn't able to find anything about me!
I agree with you as a whole, but at SOME point, it's almost inevitable that humans will have to spread out from Earth. I'm sure the future humans would be thankful that a lot of the heavy lifting was already done when that time comes and not having to scramble when faced with potential disaster.
Coincidently I've been watchin' the "When We Left Earth" DVD's recently. One of the astronauts that discussed the Columbia accident said that they know the risk and do it anyway.
How many more people have died in the Iraq conflict than the entire history of the space program? It's pretty twisted that the majority have done comparatively little to end that, but are ready to grab their pitch forks and torches when it comes to the space program.