This isn't about taxes. It's about tracking you everyplace you go so they know WHERE you are at any given moment. Also this will allow them to give out speeding tickets, failure to full stop, etc. from the comfort of a computer room. And don't bother with court, the evidence is such you'll be guilty no matter what.
Remember, this IS NOT about taxes. It's about CONTROL.
Amateurs give their work away. Professionals get paid for it. If you're working overtime, especially lots of it, and you're not getting paid or comped for it, you're not a professional, you're an amateur.
Look at your bosses, the board, the executives, are they working for free? No, of course not, if they're working more than 40 a week, you can be sure they are getting compensated. I've been in the industry for over 2 decades now and I have learned that if you're not getting paid for your overtime, you are going to get F***'d bigtime. If they are promising you comp time, but don't put it in writing, you'll never see it. Same with ANY promises of ANY kind of payoff later on, unless it's in writing (and even then count your fingers after shaking hands) you won't see it.
In short, people who regularly make you work over 40 and don't pay you for it are SCUM. They're ripping you off, and they know it. I've worked on some of the most 'gee-whiz' crap ever to come out of DOD or private industry. They never asked us to work 'killer hours' without paying us. Why? Cause people who work 'killer hours' are less productive than those who work only 40. And after two plus decades in high tech, I can say that's definitely true.
... good 'in space' series? The New Star Trek sucks, stopped watching it after episode 2. Stargate Atlantis isn't too bad, but it really doesn't count as 'in space' it's really just 'vampires in space'.
2) We don't need to test it! 3) Requirements? What are those? 4) We're a level 5 organization! 5) We'll save money using window's Outlook 6) Extreme Programming 7) Cleanroom.
Dumb? Not at all. Valve is always going to lose some money to people ripping them off, it's part of the price of doing business.
But if they piss me and a good deal of the rest of their faithful customers off, they're not going to get our money anymore, which will hurt their profits even more, and the people who ripped them off in the past will either a) rip them off again with a hack, or b) just not bother playing their game.
So in short, you're the dumb fuck cause you do not understand economics at all, or that Valve's change will hurt them and not help them.
And don't forget all those people who CAN NOT connect to the internet. They're gonna love being shut out too.
I use two 17 inch monitors because I get a lot more real estate than I would on a 21 inch (or bigger) for less cost. I also like how I can open a full window document or application in one, and still have access to other windows without having to obscure it.
As flatpanels get cheaper (2 CRT's take up way too much space), I expect to see dual monitor systems everywhere.
Getting the energy out in a controllable stream, not all at once. It's not the storage of energy that is ever the issue: Capacitors and high-explosives store lots. It's just getting it out the way you want it that is the trick.
Just because you disagree with it, it does not make it wrong. I put up the FACTS.
If you think that information is wrong, than you have a problem. I suggest you stop listening to people like Mr. Moore, who has only a fleeting relationship with the truth, and start looking up the information yourself, from reputatable sources.
What time each of the networks called the Florida election, and for whom, and when they retracted those calls is a matter of public record.
Oh yeah, put 'em all online. I have a hard enough time already in libraries and book stores! If I could read any book I wanted to (even if they're only the ones already out of copyright) online, I'd probably not leave my computer until I passed out!!
At 10:00 p.m., which networks took the lead in retracting the premature Florida win for Gore? They were CNN and CBS, not Fox. (The two networks were using a shared Decision Team.) See Linda Mason, Kathleen Francovic & Kathleen Hall Jamieson, "CBS News Coverage of Election Night 2000: Investigation, Analysis, Recommendations" (CBS News, Jan. 2001), pp. 12-25.)
In fact, Fox did not retract its claim that Gore had won Florida until 2 a.m.--four hours after other networks had withdrawn the call.
Please note that while the networks called Florida for Gore BEFORE the polls had closed (and fox called it for Gore as well), that no one called it for Bush until after 2 IN THE MORNING.
You really need to stop reading socialist sites. Socialist LIE.
Sorry, but that is not true. Fox news DID NOT prematurely declare Bush the winner in Florida, it did so after several other networks did.
Don't believe anything michael moore said, he's a liar and that movie you saw was full of lies. I honestly can't even believe that you believe something that has been proven false countless times already.
Hydrogen will never be able to hold the power that petrochemicals (gas, diesel) are able to hold. And creating hydrogen costs energy and everytime you change the state of your energy (electricty to hydrogen, hydrogen to electricity, etc), you lose a lot (thermodynamics).
What we need are more efficent ways of burning our petrochemicals to get the most efficient energy out of them, as well as releasing the lowest amounts of pollutants while doing so. Or come up with an alternative source that has even more energy in it.
All of these hydrogen cars are like taking a step back to steam engines. It didn't work then, it isn't going to work now. We need steps forward, not backwards. If you are going to replace the internal combustion engine, you have to take a magnitude step forward, especially as we're not going to be running out of oil in anybody here's lifetime.
If yuo want the masses to adopt it, it has to be better. If you want people to manugacture it, the masses have to adopt it. These are like the battery cars, cute, looks good on the surface, but when you get down to brass tacks, a '64 buick still beats it.
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A lot of people have MP3 players now. If someone was to go make a serious effort at encoding and selling talk shows and other 'talker' formats for people to listen to on them, you could probably make a lot of money.
Think of all those language courses for example. If they didn't have to ship you all of those cassette's they'd save a fortune. Sell it all online, Web Sites make cheap store fronts after all.
Everyone has been so focused on Music that they've been overlooking other applications.
You should send this idea in to him. With all the listeners he has, and with the opportunity to move to an even larger market, he might just find this interesting.
This response makes it clear that you either DO NOT read the NY times, or you are so partisan, that anything they say is fine with you.
The Times is so heavily in support of the DNC and the Democratic party that sometimes I wonder if those 'talking points' faxes actually exist.
The times has on a number of occasions printed statements by people critical of Bush that were in fact never said. Furthermore, just what was that big pulitzer prize for? The one they're always trumpeting?
The times is highly biased towards the left. Always has been. And again, the nuclear program was only one of several reasons. The only reason for this article is to help their candidate.
Considering how many stories the times has 'gotten wrong' and 'had to retract' about Bush in the last four years, and all the other crap they write about, you have to take everything they write now with a grain of salt. A very large grain.
The NY times is so partisan, that they are no longer credible. So I have a very hard time believing any of this, nor anything they write. Besides nuclear weapons were only ONE of the reasons we went in there, read the state of the union address! And Sadam did have illegal weapons, he even used some of them in the war.
So please, get down off your cross already, somebody needs the wood.
You see, the candidates would only campaign in the areas of dense population. Anywhere else would be a waste of time and money, because if you carry those major populations centers, you'll win the country, even if your opponent carries all of 'flyover' country.
I used to live in Oregon, without the electorial college, no candidate would ever go to Oregon (or Washington either). Why? Because it's a waste of money with there being so few people there. All of that money would be better used campaigning in California, where any major city has more people than the entire state of Oregon!
So no, the votes aren't equal, because of the money you must spend to get them. In 2000 Bush and Gore came to Oregon over three times. Because those electorial votes mattered.
Furthermore, if we get rid of the Electorial College, then by the same logic we should get rid of the Senate too!! After all, THAT is NOT at all representative of a democracy! We have 2 from every state, no matter the population? That means California has just as much say as Oregon!! (1 million people versus 40 million). How can that be fair?
Really, I don't think you understand the situation clearly. The Electorial College was come up with people far smarter and more interested in your welfare than Mr. Cobb is. They knew what they were doing, and why. You should have been taught all of this in High School.
An uncontrolled roll is a serious problem. While rolling once every two seconds isn't an issue, if that rate increases you start to suffer severe aerodynamic problems (Mach Tuck) and eventually of course you disintegrate.
Problems would have started at about 4 to 6 times the roll rate he was having, possibly sooner, depending on the aerodynamic effects of that particular design, and the strength of the wings (which have a lot of wieght on the ends with that design).
So while it's possible your claim on the reporters is correct, the roll problem IS a severe problem pointing to possible instabilities in the design. Hopefully they can be corrected.
It is rather interesting that most of the people asking him questions, as well as Mr. Cobb himself don't know this rather BASIC fact of our country. I guess noone here took Civics in High School.
The USA is NOT a Democracy, it is a Representative Republic. The Founding Fathers were opposed to Democracy because of such things as the 'Tyranny of the Masses'. Remember that in a Democracy the Minority has NO Rights and NO Representation. Which is also why we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights.
Before you all go and criticize the electorial college, you should first understand it. Getting rid of it would probably benifit Mr. Cobb's party, which is why he opposes it obviously. But it would disenfranchise a majority of the States.
Without the Electorial College, everyone who doesn't live in places like New York and California no longer counts in the presidential election. States like Oregon would never see a candidate, nor would the candidates care about those states at all. They would be rendered meaningless in the election.
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This isn't about taxes. It's about tracking you everyplace you go so they know WHERE you are at any given moment. Also this will allow them to give out speeding tickets, failure to full stop, etc. from the comfort of a computer room. And don't bother with court, the evidence is such you'll be guilty no matter what.
Remember, this IS NOT about taxes. It's about CONTROL.
Amateurs give their work away. Professionals get paid for it. If you're working overtime, especially lots of it, and you're not getting paid or comped for it, you're not a professional, you're an amateur.
Look at your bosses, the board, the executives, are they working for free? No, of course not, if they're working more than 40 a week, you can be sure they are getting compensated. I've been in the industry for over 2 decades now and I have learned that if you're not getting paid for your overtime, you are going to get F***'d bigtime. If they are promising you comp time, but don't put it in writing, you'll never see it. Same with ANY promises of ANY kind of payoff later on, unless it's in writing (and even then count your fingers after shaking hands) you won't see it.
In short, people who regularly make you work over 40 and don't pay you for it are SCUM. They're ripping you off, and they know it. I've worked on some of the most 'gee-whiz' crap ever to come out of DOD or private industry. They never asked us to work 'killer hours' without paying us. Why? Cause people who work 'killer hours' are less productive than those who work only 40. And after two plus decades in high tech, I can say that's definitely true.
... good 'in space' series? The New Star Trek sucks, stopped watching it after episode 2. Stargate Atlantis isn't too bad, but it really doesn't count as 'in space' it's really just 'vampires in space'.
2) We don't need to test it!
3) Requirements? What are those?
4) We're a level 5 organization!
5) We'll save money using window's Outlook
6) Extreme Programming
7) Cleanroom.
No, I've bought every copy of Half life I ever owned.
Dumb? Not at all. Valve is always going to lose some money to people ripping them off, it's part of the price of doing business.
But if they piss me and a good deal of the rest of their faithful customers off, they're not going to get our money anymore, which will hurt their profits even more, and the people who ripped them off in the past will either a) rip them off again with a hack, or b) just not bother playing their game.
So in short, you're the dumb fuck cause you do not understand economics at all, or that Valve's change will hurt them and not help them.
And don't forget all those people who CAN NOT connect to the internet. They're gonna love being shut out too.
When I buy something, I don't expect to have to call the manufacter just to be able to use it.
I think I'll just wait for a pirate hack and not give any of my money to Valve after all now.
I use two 17 inch monitors because I get a lot more real estate than I would on a 21 inch (or bigger) for less cost. I also like how I can open a full window document or application in one, and still have access to other windows without having to obscure it.
As flatpanels get cheaper (2 CRT's take up way too much space), I expect to see dual monitor systems everywhere.
Getting the energy out in a controllable stream, not all at once. It's not the storage of energy that is ever the issue: Capacitors and high-explosives store lots. It's just getting it out the way you want it that is the trick.
Just because you disagree with it, it does not make it wrong. I put up the FACTS.
If you think that information is wrong, than you have a problem. I suggest you stop listening to people like Mr. Moore, who has only a fleeting relationship with the truth, and start looking up the information yourself, from reputatable sources.
What time each of the networks called the Florida election, and for whom, and when they retracted those calls is a matter of public record.
Why not quote from the Weekly World Standard? Or the National Enquirer?
Both papers have the same level of journalist standards.
Oh yeah, put 'em all online. I have a hard enough time already in libraries and book stores! If I could read any book I wanted to (even if they're only the ones already out of copyright) online, I'd probably not leave my computer until I passed out!!
At 10:00 p.m., which networks took the lead in retracting the premature Florida win for Gore? They were CNN and CBS, not Fox. (The two networks were using a shared Decision Team.) See Linda Mason, Kathleen Francovic & Kathleen Hall Jamieson, "CBS News Coverage of Election Night 2000: Investigation, Analysis, Recommendations" (CBS News, Jan. 2001), pp. 12-25.)
In fact, Fox did not retract its claim that Gore had won Florida until 2 a.m.--four hours after other networks had withdrawn the call.
Please note that while the networks called Florida for Gore BEFORE the polls had closed (and fox called it for Gore as well), that no one called it for Bush until after 2 IN THE MORNING.
You really need to stop reading socialist sites. Socialist LIE.
Kerry isn't the one hiring the lawyers. It's the DNC. How much money do THEY have?
Sorry, but that is not true. Fox news DID NOT prematurely declare Bush the winner in Florida, it did so after several other networks did.
Don't believe anything michael moore said, he's a liar and that movie you saw was full of lies. I honestly can't even believe that you believe something that has been proven false countless times already.
Typical slashdot, I make a comment based on my experience and the facts that go against the PC feelings and I get called a troll.
Yeah, so much for science and debate on slashdot.
Hydrogen will never be able to hold the power that petrochemicals (gas, diesel) are able to hold. And creating hydrogen costs energy and everytime you change the state of your energy (electricty to hydrogen, hydrogen to electricity, etc), you lose a lot (thermodynamics).
What we need are more efficent ways of burning our petrochemicals to get the most efficient energy out of them, as well as releasing the lowest amounts of pollutants while doing so. Or come up with an alternative source that has even more energy in it.
All of these hydrogen cars are like taking a step back to steam engines. It didn't work then, it isn't going to work now. We need steps forward, not backwards. If you are going to replace the internal combustion engine, you have to take a magnitude step forward, especially as we're not going to be running out of oil in anybody here's lifetime.
If yuo want the masses to adopt it, it has to be better. If you want people to manugacture it, the masses have to adopt it. These are like the battery cars, cute, looks good on the surface, but when you get down to brass tacks, a '64 buick still beats it.
A lot of people have MP3 players now. If someone was to go make a serious effort at encoding and selling talk shows and other 'talker' formats for people to listen to on them, you could probably make a lot of money.
Think of all those language courses for example. If they didn't have to ship you all of those cassette's they'd save a fortune. Sell it all online, Web Sites make cheap store fronts after all.
Everyone has been so focused on Music that they've been overlooking other applications.
You should send this idea in to him. With all the listeners he has, and with the opportunity to move to an even larger market, he might just find this interesting.
I have to admit, I find it interesting.
If I'm on parole for selling dope they sure do, and Sadam was 'on parole' for attacking Kuwait and losing the war.
And they did find WMD's and other illegal weapons. Don't you read anything beyond the Times?
Go read the Kay report and the other weapon inspector reports.
Ignorance is not bliss.
This response makes it clear that you either DO NOT read the NY times, or you are so partisan, that anything they say is fine with you.
The Times is so heavily in support of the DNC and the Democratic party that sometimes I wonder if those 'talking points' faxes actually exist.
The times has on a number of occasions printed statements by people critical of Bush that were in fact never said. Furthermore, just what was that big pulitzer prize for? The one they're always trumpeting?
The times is highly biased towards the left. Always has been. And again, the nuclear program was only one of several reasons. The only reason for this article is to help their candidate.
Considering how many stories the times has 'gotten wrong' and 'had to retract' about Bush in the last four years, and all the other crap they write about, you have to take everything they write now with a grain of salt. A very large grain.
The NY times is so partisan, that they are no longer credible. So I have a very hard time believing any of this, nor anything they write. Besides nuclear weapons were only ONE of the reasons we went in there, read the state of the union address! And Sadam did have illegal weapons, he even used some of them in the war.
So please, get down off your cross already, somebody needs the wood.
No, not really.
You see, the candidates would only campaign in the areas of dense population. Anywhere else would be a waste of time and money, because if you carry those major populations centers, you'll win the country, even if your opponent carries all of 'flyover' country.
I used to live in Oregon, without the electorial college, no candidate would ever go to Oregon (or Washington either). Why? Because it's a waste of money with there being so few people there. All of that money would be better used campaigning in California, where any major city has more people than the entire state of Oregon!
So no, the votes aren't equal, because of the money you must spend to get them. In 2000 Bush and Gore came to Oregon over three times. Because those electorial votes mattered.
Furthermore, if we get rid of the Electorial College, then by the same logic we should get rid of the Senate too!! After all, THAT is NOT at all representative of a democracy! We have 2 from every state, no matter the population? That means California has just as much say as Oregon!! (1 million people versus 40 million). How can that be fair?
Really, I don't think you understand the situation clearly. The Electorial College was come up with people far smarter and more interested in your welfare than Mr. Cobb is. They knew what they were doing, and why. You should have been taught all of this in High School.
An uncontrolled roll is a serious problem. While rolling once every two seconds isn't an issue, if that rate increases you start to suffer severe aerodynamic problems (Mach Tuck) and eventually of course you disintegrate.
Problems would have started at about 4 to 6 times the roll rate he was having, possibly sooner, depending on the aerodynamic effects of that particular design, and the strength of the wings (which have a lot of wieght on the ends with that design).
So while it's possible your claim on the reporters is correct, the roll problem IS a severe problem pointing to possible instabilities in the design. Hopefully they can be corrected.
It is rather interesting that most of the people asking him questions, as well as Mr. Cobb himself don't know this rather BASIC fact of our country. I guess noone here took Civics in High School.
The USA is NOT a Democracy, it is a Representative Republic. The Founding Fathers were opposed to Democracy because of such things as the 'Tyranny of the Masses'. Remember that in a Democracy the Minority has NO Rights and NO Representation. Which is also why we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights.
Before you all go and criticize the electorial college, you should first understand it. Getting rid of it would probably benifit Mr. Cobb's party, which is why he opposes it obviously. But it would disenfranchise a majority of the States.
Without the Electorial College, everyone who doesn't live in places like New York and California no longer counts in the presidential election. States like Oregon would never see a candidate, nor would the candidates care about those states at all. They would be rendered meaningless in the election.