This network we're discussing is the same one that gave US nuke secrets to Iran (and Libya, and N Korea) through Pakistani AQ Khan.
It's marketing for Star Wars. Which was the Bush/Cheney admin's main military programme priority, before their old employee Osama gave them the excuse for the much more powerful, lucrative and immediate Terror War (and its juicy Invade Iraq subsidiary). But the Terror War, and even Iraq, have limited (though huge) earning potential. With Star Wars, the sky's the limit (pun intended:P). So the Bush regime has to be sure to foster as much nuke and missile proliferation as possible while it can, despite how distracting that can be to a gang of very limited management bandwidth.
"Libertarian" is "corporate anarchist". People who subscribe to it as a practical politics, rather than an ideal notion (as is Plato's "Republic" or Smith's "Wealth of Nations", or any other philosopher's book), are either so insulated from consequences that they're naive enough to think government is at best just a waste, or they're trying to get away with crimes because they think they're strong or fast enough. My favorite are the gun fetishists who really just want to shoot someone without getting caught.
For a decade or two these people liked to call themselves "Conservatives", because that brand of destroying the government (without replacement) was popular. Now that they've had unchecked power for a decade or more, the "Conservative" brand is one of the worst in the world, so they're just changing their brand. That loses some popularity, as any rebranding will, especially as stock in its rebranded orgs falls.
To be fair (to the human condition, if not the undeserving humans who wallow in it), the only real way to counterbalance that death spiral is for an actual alternative, with a recognizable brand, to create real, recognizable value. If Democrats get the power we're expecting they will in 2009, and actually reform the government into a managed operation again, Americans (who love to consume government services) will line up behind it, with really only true sociopaths and worse still attacking it. If Democrats fail to do so (or are too slow, which combine for the most likely scenario), then another governing wannabe will have a chance at the power vacuum.
Personally, I'm hoping Democrats get the power, but are internally divided enough that they're checked and balanced against each other (in a way that Republicans never were or did). At least enough to slow them down, so impatient Americans get reforms that exclude the worst Unitary Executive and Do Nothing Congress abuses, but welcome a new entrant, at least one new Party. Which, in turn, will probably abuse the power the same as the others. But a few turns around that cycle could gradually disabuse America of the duopoly or even the partisan basis of allocating Federal power. At every turn, though, the power abuses have costs. I hope they're not irrecoverable, so we get through the next generation wiser, but not so broken we can't use our wisdom.
Can I have some of whatever drugs or videogames you're on? Because they must be pretty good for you to be bored by revelations that the US government is covering up theft of nuke secrets to threats like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
What does impress you, news of maybe an alien invasion?
If only liberal Democrats cared about whether the government is stealing our own nuke secrets and selling them to threats like Pakistan and the Sauds, I'd certainly hope that (American) Slashdotters turned Slashdot into something like the Daily Kos.
What's "Democratic" about caring that your government is so corrupt that it threatens nuke war?
"Chilling effect" is exactly the purpose of competing agencies requesting Executive records. That balance of power and mutual oversight is supposed to chill out the partisan hotheads who otherwise do whatever they want with the power that the public gave them.
Yeah, and I'm agreeing that it's fuzzy, and that's the way language works. Then I show that the difference in fuzziness is trivial "G/K". Which is close enough - an "exact match" is not required, when we're talking about words that have evolved pronunciation (nearly entirely among illiterates) along exactly the pattern that the European "K->G" spelling innovation represents.
How about we wait on this "medical credit rating" until after patients can easily see their potential doctor's performance logs? I want to search directories of doctors who are rated by their patients. See how many malpractice suits are lost or settled. See their personal stats of recovery/cure vs failure, compared to industry averages. Then I want to pick the ones who are charging an amount for their services related to their performance compared to the other doctors competing with them for patients.
If you understand comparative linguistics, you'll see that it's all fairly fuzzy. And that "Malaga" and "Malaka" are nearly exactly the same. In Indoeuropean, they're within the variation of accents, and not even different words. It's just the Roman script that makes them look at all different. 'G' is a recent invention (about 230BC), as a variation of 'C' distinguished from K. All of which postdates the naming of those ports.
I suppose there's nothing I can do with these old Li-ion batteries, like sell them to a refurber? Are they toxic/hazardous, or can I throw them in the trash?
Who knew buying a battery was like adopting a tamagotchi?
For its part, Apple has announced its intent to offer a MacBook Air Out-of-Warranty Battery Replacement Program, which promises authorized replacements for US $129. The mail-in repair process normally takes 5 business days, the company says.
Why are these batteries so expensive? I know Apple is just launching this AirBook, and all its tech is new, and battery life is its primary constraint. But that replacement cost is 7.5% of the $1720 of the entire AirBook. The R&D and manufacturing of the rest of the skinny tech seems more precious to me.
But it's not just Apple and the AirBook. I've got an Inspiron 8000 notebook that's been running continuously for about 7 years, with no problems or failures/wearout (including the HD, which I replaced just on principle - and capacity - after 6 years). Except for the batteries: two batteris that I hardly ever used (maybe 4h cumulative unplugged) that just died after 5 years, cost $75 each to replace. And no option to repair them.
Is there a reason? Maybe I'm just missing the aftermarket of cheap 3rd party batteries. Or maybe the vendors are just "power mad".
So the great ancient seafaring people of the Mediterranean named their seaports "Malaga", while their rough contemporaries, the other great ancient seafaring people of the Indian Ocean, called themselves "Malaga". And out of all the possible sounds, including the different phonemes in the Mediterranean and the Indian, especially the "l" sound, it's just a coincidence? Seems improbable.
I'd heard about that. How do you explain Malaga, Spain, which was a seaport for the Phonecians, the "Sea Peoples", but all the way around Africa (or across Arabia)?
Oh, you're one of those "it's only a crime when you get caught" Republicans. Who thinks getting caught lying about a blowjob is as bad as lying us into a war and fascism. So speaks "/dev/trash".
The language spoken in Madagascar is "malagasy". So is the language of the "Malay" people of Malaysia. The oldest ports around the Western European coast are called "Malaga".
Is this the remnant of some ancient global people? Did they bring a self-destructing palm from Asia to a giant African island?
Where are all the people who used to defend all the early signs that Bush was worse than Nixon?
You got us into this mess, by voting for Bush twice, and convincing other people it was OK to to do so. When your boys were riding high, you were unstoppable, especially in your bragging. Now where are you, when Bush is obviously worse than Nixon, and as bad as (or worse than) the rest of us said he was?
The cheapest blank DVD-Rs are $200 for 1000, or $0.044:GB, while a 750GB hard drive costs something like $140, or $0.187:GB. Sure, HDs are 4.2x as expensive as DVD-Rs. But you have to flip them. To get 750GB, you need to flip around a whole book of 160 DVDs. The capacities are large enough, and the prices low enough, that $140 for a big enough HD means buying DVDs to sort around is not so appealing.
That said, I own 3 DVD recorders each inside a 200 disc jukebox.
Except that with the law on our side, there is at least some check to their invasions.
If the counterattack is substantial enough, then it can create the break for people to take more control of our own telecom. Even if we can just pry open the platform so we can end to end encrypt our conversations, and route through anonymizing traffic aggregators, they're mostly out of our business, and back to just the business we pay them for.
What I want is not so much a table, but a tilted drawing board. This projection tech can do that. Hell, a nice big DLP/HDMI TV can do that, tilted over and propped up.
What we need is coffee mugs, pens, magazines and other regular objects that can stick on the tilted surface. 3M Post-Its tech to the rescue?
AT&T is already facing a mortal threat because it helped Bush/Cheney spy on every phonecall on its network for at least 5 years, in blatant violation of the FISA. Those crimes should get Bush/Cheney impeached (and it just might) - AT&T would be an even huger casualty. That's why it (and its also guilty "competitors" like Verizon - but not Qwest, which refused) is pulling in all its favors in the Congress (especially in the Senate), to get amnesty/immunity for having broken that essential law so much and so badly.
If it gets away with those many and flaming FISA violations, AT&T will write new laws to allow, even encourage, more spying like this one.
But if AT&T doesn't get amnesty (even if it convinces a court that it isn't liable for breaking the FISA, because "the devil^WExecutive made me do it"), then maybe it will be stopped. Not just from spying, but from doing whatever it damn pleases to prey on America, both regular people and the many people who've been trying for several years now to compete with new technologies like VoIP and other open networks.
Death to AT&T. Maybe a lawsuit right up its heat exhaust will do the trick.
You're shouting so hard that you can't tell that knowing the effects of its genetics on an animal are essential in knowing what will happen when we eat that animal. We don't eat animals with "questionable genetics" every day, unless you're sucking the refuse from a genetics lab. Wouldn't surprise me about you.
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This network we're discussing is the same one that gave US nuke secrets to Iran (and Libya, and N Korea) through Pakistani AQ Khan.
:P). So the Bush regime has to be sure to foster as much nuke and missile proliferation as possible while it can, despite how distracting that can be to a gang of very limited management bandwidth.
It's marketing for Star Wars. Which was the Bush/Cheney admin's main military programme priority, before their old employee Osama gave them the excuse for the much more powerful, lucrative and immediate Terror War (and its juicy Invade Iraq subsidiary). But the Terror War, and even Iraq, have limited (though huge) earning potential. With Star Wars, the sky's the limit (pun intended
Oh, you're just being sarcastic.
"Libertarian" is "corporate anarchist". People who subscribe to it as a practical politics, rather than an ideal notion (as is Plato's "Republic" or Smith's "Wealth of Nations", or any other philosopher's book), are either so insulated from consequences that they're naive enough to think government is at best just a waste, or they're trying to get away with crimes because they think they're strong or fast enough. My favorite are the gun fetishists who really just want to shoot someone without getting caught.
For a decade or two these people liked to call themselves "Conservatives", because that brand of destroying the government (without replacement) was popular. Now that they've had unchecked power for a decade or more, the "Conservative" brand is one of the worst in the world, so they're just changing their brand. That loses some popularity, as any rebranding will, especially as stock in its rebranded orgs falls.
To be fair (to the human condition, if not the undeserving humans who wallow in it), the only real way to counterbalance that death spiral is for an actual alternative, with a recognizable brand, to create real, recognizable value. If Democrats get the power we're expecting they will in 2009, and actually reform the government into a managed operation again, Americans (who love to consume government services) will line up behind it, with really only true sociopaths and worse still attacking it. If Democrats fail to do so (or are too slow, which combine for the most likely scenario), then another governing wannabe will have a chance at the power vacuum.
Personally, I'm hoping Democrats get the power, but are internally divided enough that they're checked and balanced against each other (in a way that Republicans never were or did). At least enough to slow them down, so impatient Americans get reforms that exclude the worst Unitary Executive and Do Nothing Congress abuses, but welcome a new entrant, at least one new Party. Which, in turn, will probably abuse the power the same as the others. But a few turns around that cycle could gradually disabuse America of the duopoly or even the partisan basis of allocating Federal power. At every turn, though, the power abuses have costs. I hope they're not irrecoverable, so we get through the next generation wiser, but not so broken we can't use our wisdom.
I was just joking.
Can I have some of whatever drugs or videogames you're on? Because they must be pretty good for you to be bored by revelations that the US government is covering up theft of nuke secrets to threats like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
What does impress you, news of maybe an alien invasion?
If only liberal Democrats cared about whether the government is stealing our own nuke secrets and selling them to threats like Pakistan and the Sauds, I'd certainly hope that (American) Slashdotters turned Slashdot into something like the Daily Kos.
What's "Democratic" about caring that your government is so corrupt that it threatens nuke war?
"Chilling effect" is exactly the purpose of competing agencies requesting Executive records. That balance of power and mutual oversight is supposed to chill out the partisan hotheads who otherwise do whatever they want with the power that the public gave them.
Yeah, and I'm agreeing that it's fuzzy, and that's the way language works. Then I show that the difference in fuzziness is trivial "G/K". Which is close enough - an "exact match" is not required, when we're talking about words that have evolved pronunciation (nearly entirely among illiterates) along exactly the pattern that the European "K->G" spelling innovation represents.
How about we wait on this "medical credit rating" until after patients can easily see their potential doctor's performance logs? I want to search directories of doctors who are rated by their patients. See how many malpractice suits are lost or settled. See their personal stats of recovery/cure vs failure, compared to industry averages. Then I want to pick the ones who are charging an amount for their services related to their performance compared to the other doctors competing with them for patients.
It's all about the trust, y'all.
Know any? In NYC?
If you understand comparative linguistics, you'll see that it's all fairly fuzzy. And that "Malaga" and "Malaka" are nearly exactly the same. In Indoeuropean, they're within the variation of accents, and not even different words. It's just the Roman script that makes them look at all different. 'G' is a recent invention (about 230BC), as a variation of 'C' distinguished from K. All of which postdates the naming of those ports.
I suppose there's nothing I can do with these old Li-ion batteries, like sell them to a refurber? Are they toxic/hazardous, or can I throw them in the trash?
Who knew buying a battery was like adopting a tamagotchi?
Why are these batteries so expensive? I know Apple is just launching this AirBook, and all its tech is new, and battery life is its primary constraint. But that replacement cost is 7.5% of the $1720 of the entire AirBook. The R&D and manufacturing of the rest of the skinny tech seems more precious to me.
But it's not just Apple and the AirBook. I've got an Inspiron 8000 notebook that's been running continuously for about 7 years, with no problems or failures/wearout (including the HD, which I replaced just on principle - and capacity - after 6 years). Except for the batteries: two batteris that I hardly ever used (maybe 4h cumulative unplugged) that just died after 5 years, cost $75 each to replace. And no option to repair them.
Is there a reason? Maybe I'm just missing the aftermarket of cheap 3rd party batteries. Or maybe the vendors are just "power mad".
So the great ancient seafaring people of the Mediterranean named their seaports "Malaga", while their rough contemporaries, the other great ancient seafaring people of the Indian Ocean, called themselves "Malaga". And out of all the possible sounds, including the different phonemes in the Mediterranean and the Indian, especially the "l" sound, it's just a coincidence? Seems improbable.
I wish someone could do something to recover the iPaq 3670 I half-installed uCLinux on that bricked it.
I'd heard about that. How do you explain Malaga, Spain, which was a seaport for the Phonecians, the "Sea Peoples", but all the way around Africa (or across Arabia)?
Oh, you're one of those "it's only a crime when you get caught" Republicans. Who thinks getting caught lying about a blowjob is as bad as lying us into a war and fascism. So speaks "/dev/trash".
A couple prank journalists made a gonzo expedition to the opening of the Cincinnati Creation Museum in _Let There Be Retards_.
The language spoken in Madagascar is "malagasy". So is the language of the "Malay" people of Malaysia. The oldest ports around the Western European coast are called "Malaga".
Is this the remnant of some ancient global people? Did they bring a self-destructing palm from Asia to a giant African island?
Where are all the people who used to defend all the early signs that Bush was worse than Nixon?
You got us into this mess, by voting for Bush twice, and convincing other people it was OK to to do so. When your boys were riding high, you were unstoppable, especially in your bragging. Now where are you, when Bush is obviously worse than Nixon, and as bad as (or worse than) the rest of us said he was?
The cheapest blank DVD-Rs are $200 for 1000, or $0.044:GB, while a 750GB hard drive costs something like $140, or $0.187:GB. Sure, HDs are 4.2x as expensive as DVD-Rs. But you have to flip them. To get 750GB, you need to flip around a whole book of 160 DVDs. The capacities are large enough, and the prices low enough, that $140 for a big enough HD means buying DVDs to sort around is not so appealing.
That said, I own 3 DVD recorders each inside a 200 disc jukebox.
Except that with the law on our side, there is at least some check to their invasions.
If the counterattack is substantial enough, then it can create the break for people to take more control of our own telecom. Even if we can just pry open the platform so we can end to end encrypt our conversations, and route through anonymizing traffic aggregators, they're mostly out of our business, and back to just the business we pay them for.
What I want is not so much a table, but a tilted drawing board. This projection tech can do that. Hell, a nice big DLP/HDMI TV can do that, tilted over and propped up.
What we need is coffee mugs, pens, magazines and other regular objects that can stick on the tilted surface. 3M Post-Its tech to the rescue?
AT&T is already facing a mortal threat because it helped Bush/Cheney spy on every phonecall on its network for at least 5 years, in blatant violation of the FISA. Those crimes should get Bush/Cheney impeached (and it just might) - AT&T would be an even huger casualty. That's why it (and its also guilty "competitors" like Verizon - but not Qwest, which refused) is pulling in all its favors in the Congress (especially in the Senate), to get amnesty/immunity for having broken that essential law so much and so badly.
If it gets away with those many and flaming FISA violations, AT&T will write new laws to allow, even encourage, more spying like this one.
But if AT&T doesn't get amnesty (even if it convinces a court that it isn't liable for breaking the FISA, because "the devil^WExecutive made me do it"), then maybe it will be stopped. Not just from spying, but from doing whatever it damn pleases to prey on America, both regular people and the many people who've been trying for several years now to compete with new technologies like VoIP and other open networks.
Death to AT&T. Maybe a lawsuit right up its heat exhaust will do the trick.
You're shouting so hard that you can't tell that knowing the effects of its genetics on an animal are essential in knowing what will happen when we eat that animal. We don't eat animals with "questionable genetics" every day, unless you're sucking the refuse from a genetics lab. Wouldn't surprise me about you.