Pretty unlikely that they broke off as individuals to hunt. About the only analogy that would support that would be some sort of mass migration behavior like with birds. Hmmm...
Such a small percentage of the population even knows enough and is interested enough to follow a traditional debate. Throw in esoteric scientific debates, and you're cutting that number down to a measly slice of the citizenship.
I just bought a Dell XPS in a package deal that included a high-end graphics card. I don't own a console or play console games because I hate the controllers, the resulting UI, and I don't usually play the kinds of games that consoles offer (and first person shooters are far superior on a PC with a mouse to aim with). So, the console "option" is irrelevant to me. If I can play my games with the graphics settings cranked and see no performance loss, and I know my system will be cutting edge for years, then I'm happy.
To hell with greed, what about fair compensation? If an act produces a record that hundreds of thousands of people want to listen to, I think they SHOULD be well compensated. In this world, if the artist doesn't get the money, some creative and greedy person will concoct a scheme to sell the product at the correct market price and eat the profits.
I'm worried about a Windows CE-like business model. Unlike traditional certificates, with CE you don't purchase certificates but use a signing "service." While that might seem cheaper, you have to sign EACH of your binaries EVERY time a modification is made. That's incentive for developers to NOT release patches. Fortunately, it's not being enforced by many OEMs, but heaven help our wallets should that happen. There are a lot of small mobile shops our there that can't absorb these kinds of costs.
Innocent until PROVEN guilty my friend. I said the impeachment VOTE failed, as in the vote that occurred during impeachment. Perjury charges also relates to relevance. The Republicans wanted to use their witch hunt investigations to start generally trawling around for dirt on Clinton. You'll note that the best they came up with in 8 years was that the President was getting blow jobs from an intern. EVERYTHING else turned out to be bogus stories floated to the gullible right-wing machine. Trooper gate, file gate, you name it. And, you'll note that while this was all going on, the Republicans were telling us all how Al Qaeda was just a "wag the dog" excuse to get away from the Monica affair.
As for the misleading testimony, one would be a crime and the other was professional misconduct. Accept the fact that there was no THERE there. You're rehashing a failed argument made 10 years ago.
Sorry, but in our democracy you haven't committed a felony unless you've been found guilty of committing a felony. And, the impeachment vote FAILED. His law license was suspended for misleading testimony, that's as far as it went.
Firstly, you're insane or ignorant if you think the Watergate Hearings were some sort of witch hunt. I suggest you read some transcripts of the Nixon archive tapes before regurgitating that BS. Nixon decided to leave office when his OWN PARTY told him the game was over. I wish he still would have been criminally prosecuted for his REAL abuses of the Constitution.
Secondly, steering a Senate investigation into a President's extramarital affair is damned straight a witch hunt, especially in the context of the "Arkansas Group" and the BS Troopergate story. And, the Clinton impeachment vote wasn't along party lines. Even some Republicans weren't stupid enough to vote for it.
But thanks for rehashing the same uninformed myths about our political history that reveal the widespread ignorance that gets us into debacles like Iraq.
If you've been paying attention to the news, the service providers simply cave into the government's demands for personal information then cry for legislation to retroactively exonerate them when they're caught breaking the law. Policies, legally-binding agreements, and laws mean jack in the current environment.
In LZ's defense, they did put their own spin on a lot of tracks; which was the tradition in blues anyway. Compare LZ's Travelin' Riverside Blues to the Willie Dixon cut; they hardly sound the same. You'd be amazed at how many "classic" blues tracks are nothing but another song with different lyrics, including at least one cut by Robert Johnson.
I always found that a good analogy for some math operation was all it took to understand what I was working with. Of course, you have to be careful that your analogy doesn't have flaws. I was lucky in algebra since I used the "move-x-to-the-other-side" analogy and I came to an understanding before the formulas got too complex for that trick to work.
Lots of people with no business on the watch list ended up on it without clear guidelines for getting yourself removed. Lots of vocal opponents of the Bush administration like Senator Ted Kennedy, a real terrorist name if ever I heard one;( and Randi Rhodes, the screaming liberal radio host. Of course, if you complain then not only are you a terrorist sympathizer, you must hate freedom too. Reading conservative blogs, you see how funny they seem to think this is.
Microsoft is a pain when it comes to protocols. If they have a bug, unless it blows up Fortune 500 servers they put the burden on you to work around them. I wrote a HTTP proxy client lib a while back that ran with no problems for months/years until Microsoft got into our market. "But the RFC says..." means jack to your clients when their deployment is bombing out on transactions.
With just one irate customer out there with a ton of visibility, he could have told her he'd see to it personally and put a hand-picked tech on the job. "Don't worry ma'am. I'LL handle this!" He looks like a hero in front of thousands of people at the resource cost of ONE measly support call. If he wanted to be slick, he could have dressed up the solution as normal customer support (although he'd be fast-tracking her ticket behind the scenes).
Some musicians get called "idiots" by the same "idiots" who routinely do things like buying a house or a car or purchasing software without getting a lawyer to read the fine print. Same concept, people have a tendency to trust clean-cut, intelligent sounding people. The jokers who love to prey on musicians and pro athletes have the image down pat. Lots of people made fun of artists like MC Hammer and TLC for going bankrupt. They indebted themselves because they weren't aware of how badly they were being screwed.
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The telecoms will just give the government whatever permissions they want in illegal backroom deals. If they get busted, they'll just run to Congress and get retroactive legal cover. Welcome to the Amerika, comrades.
I thought there was still some debate regarding whether the Central American crater is the actual impact site of the dinosaur-killing asteroid?
Pretty unlikely that they broke off as individuals to hunt. About the only analogy that would support that would be some sort of mass migration behavior like with birds. Hmmm...
Such a small percentage of the population even knows enough and is interested enough to follow a traditional debate. Throw in esoteric scientific debates, and you're cutting that number down to a measly slice of the citizenship.
I just bought a Dell XPS in a package deal that included a high-end graphics card. I don't own a console or play console games because I hate the controllers, the resulting UI, and I don't usually play the kinds of games that consoles offer (and first person shooters are far superior on a PC with a mouse to aim with). So, the console "option" is irrelevant to me. If I can play my games with the graphics settings cranked and see no performance loss, and I know my system will be cutting edge for years, then I'm happy.
Not with our president. Bush would just point to the heavens and say, "See? God hates terrorism, too!"
Only one force in the known universe is capable of unleashing such a devastating blast.
"Can you fuck it?" with apologies to Robot Chicken.
While I despise greed
To hell with greed, what about fair compensation? If an act produces a record that hundreds of thousands of people want to listen to, I think they SHOULD be well compensated. In this world, if the artist doesn't get the money, some creative and greedy person will concoct a scheme to sell the product at the correct market price and eat the profits.
Just don't link the image please.
I'm worried about a Windows CE-like business model. Unlike traditional certificates, with CE you don't purchase certificates but use a signing "service." While that might seem cheaper, you have to sign EACH of your binaries EVERY time a modification is made. That's incentive for developers to NOT release patches. Fortunately, it's not being enforced by many OEMs, but heaven help our wallets should that happen. There are a lot of small mobile shops our there that can't absorb these kinds of costs.
Innocent until PROVEN guilty my friend. I said the impeachment VOTE failed, as in the vote that occurred during impeachment. Perjury charges also relates to relevance. The Republicans wanted to use their witch hunt investigations to start generally trawling around for dirt on Clinton. You'll note that the best they came up with in 8 years was that the President was getting blow jobs from an intern. EVERYTHING else turned out to be bogus stories floated to the gullible right-wing machine. Trooper gate, file gate, you name it. And, you'll note that while this was all going on, the Republicans were telling us all how Al Qaeda was just a "wag the dog" excuse to get away from the Monica affair.
As for the misleading testimony, one would be a crime and the other was professional misconduct. Accept the fact that there was no THERE there. You're rehashing a failed argument made 10 years ago.
Sorry, but in our democracy you haven't committed a felony unless you've been found guilty of committing a felony. And, the impeachment vote FAILED. His law license was suspended for misleading testimony, that's as far as it went.
Firstly, you're insane or ignorant if you think the Watergate Hearings were some sort of witch hunt. I suggest you read some transcripts of the Nixon archive tapes before regurgitating that BS. Nixon decided to leave office when his OWN PARTY told him the game was over. I wish he still would have been criminally prosecuted for his REAL abuses of the Constitution.
Secondly, steering a Senate investigation into a President's extramarital affair is damned straight a witch hunt, especially in the context of the "Arkansas Group" and the BS Troopergate story. And, the Clinton impeachment vote wasn't along party lines. Even some Republicans weren't stupid enough to vote for it.
Third, Clinton didn't perjure himself. Go research the Clinton perjury myth.
But thanks for rehashing the same uninformed myths about our political history that reveal the widespread ignorance that gets us into debacles like Iraq.
If you've been paying attention to the news, the service providers simply cave into the government's demands for personal information then cry for legislation to retroactively exonerate them when they're caught breaking the law. Policies, legally-binding agreements, and laws mean jack in the current environment.
In LZ's defense, they did put their own spin on a lot of tracks; which was the tradition in blues anyway. Compare LZ's Travelin' Riverside Blues to the Willie Dixon cut; they hardly sound the same. You'd be amazed at how many "classic" blues tracks are nothing but another song with different lyrics, including at least one cut by Robert Johnson.
I always found that a good analogy for some math operation was all it took to understand what I was working with. Of course, you have to be careful that your analogy doesn't have flaws. I was lucky in algebra since I used the "move-x-to-the-other-side" analogy and I came to an understanding before the formulas got too complex for that trick to work.
My *ahem* research has also ruled out masturbation as a potential cause.
Lots of people with no business on the watch list ended up on it without clear guidelines for getting yourself removed. Lots of vocal opponents of the Bush administration like Senator Ted Kennedy, a real terrorist name if ever I heard one ;( and Randi Rhodes, the screaming liberal radio host. Of course, if you complain then not only are you a terrorist sympathizer, you must hate freedom too. Reading conservative blogs, you see how funny they seem to think this is.
Microsoft is a pain when it comes to protocols. If they have a bug, unless it blows up Fortune 500 servers they put the burden on you to work around them. I wrote a HTTP proxy client lib a while back that ran with no problems for months/years until Microsoft got into our market. "But the RFC says..." means jack to your clients when their deployment is bombing out on transactions.
With just one irate customer out there with a ton of visibility, he could have told her he'd see to it personally and put a hand-picked tech on the job. "Don't worry ma'am. I'LL handle this!" He looks like a hero in front of thousands of people at the resource cost of ONE measly support call. If he wanted to be slick, he could have dressed up the solution as normal customer support (although he'd be fast-tracking her ticket behind the scenes).
Just bad politicking, man.
Some musicians get called "idiots" by the same "idiots" who routinely do things like buying a house or a car or purchasing software without getting a lawyer to read the fine print. Same concept, people have a tendency to trust clean-cut, intelligent sounding people. The jokers who love to prey on musicians and pro athletes have the image down pat. Lots of people made fun of artists like MC Hammer and TLC for going bankrupt. They indebted themselves because they weren't aware of how badly they were being screwed.
Speaking of which, why don't probes ever have true color cameras? What's with all the false color images from probes?
I cast you <slap!> OUT demons! Along with your brains!
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