Microsoft's monopoly case was just as toothless. A relatively measly fine and promise to be good in the future. Exception, for corporate regulations to be effective, judgments have to be punitive and not regulatory. It simply takes too much of the state's resources and time to say "don't do it again." There's no deterrence when a CEO knows it'll be at least 4-5 years before a conviction (probably a wrist slap) comes down the pipe and that the state doesn't have the time or money to go after everyone. Hell, by then he'll be retired with a fat severance package from the fruits of his crime.
I'm sure that would be accounted for: similar numbers in captive sharks, higher occurrences of cancer in other marine large predators, no evidence of dead sharks with cancer washing up on shore, etc. From what I've seen on documentaries, the shark/cancer relationship is accepted by biologists.
Open-ended presence in Iraq and equally open-ended commitments to the President's war strategy without oversight or restrictions?
The old $5.15/hr minimum wage
Subsidies for oil companies when they're making the hugest profit margins in the history of the planet
No negotiation for medicare drug prices using the leverage of the number of potential customers
Higher student loan interest
Not knowing why 8 qualified and respected US attorneys were fired when there is evidence that they were canned for not opening bogus and politically timed investigations into political opponents of the President
Ignoring the recommendations of the 9/11 commission
These are just the bullets I found for the first 4 months of Democratic party control.
I think it was the Discover Channel that did the Oswald experiments that solidified in my mind that he was at LEAST the primary shooter if not the lone shooter. They simply reenacted Oswald's movement during and after the shooting and all of it was very plausible. That's not to say that he didn't have some connections to other organizations making sure he was successful.
Applying metric prefixes to bytes is simply wrong anyway. Metric prefixes are base 10, why did they start applying them binary values just because of an arbitrary approximation of 1024 (or 2E10) and 10E3? When you call a 1000 GiB drive 1000 GB, you're not using esoteric nomenclature. You're stating something that's wrong. Sadly, it'll probably take lawsuit to change things.
While I hate the Bush Administration, I learned from an early experience in IT to never attribute to malice what you can to incompetence. These guys simply were incompetent and then tried to hide it; which is where all the unnecessary secrecy stems from. I've seen a too many of the 9/11 conspiracies debunked already to give credence to an evil plot.
A little off-topic, but has anyone used Home Depot's self-checkout lanes? Just bought a house so I'm there a lot:( It's probably the same everywhere, but the item scanner is a good 2 feet away from the card reader, which isn't well integrated. You find yourself going back and forth sometimes and inappropriate selections such as payment type are actually on the item scanner. It's a very hacked-together system, probably since they wanted to recycle existing card readers.
The classic card-readers need their UI's redesigned as well. Do I really need to be funnelled through the "cash back" options every time I buy something (which I use about 1% of the time)? Especially when there's a long delay with no feedback and I've already pocketed my card. So annoying!
The entire computer experience for the average user is a leap of faith. When a user hammers out an E-mail and clicks "Send," they don't see a tangible letter sliding into a mail slot. Users are (rightly or wrongly) conditioned to assume that unless something blares or flashes neon orange in their face, then what they've done is OK. Take some time to watch the average- to low-end user at work or listen to them talking about IT. It's downright hilarious (in a cute, not ridiculing way) when you see how primitive their understanding is. A computer might as well be a magic box orating dictates from God.
Someone posted here yesterday that his grandmother waved a mouse in the air trying to get her pointer to move!
This reminds me of an "experiment" I did when I was 4 or 5. My mom would always tell me to use cold water when filling the ice tray. One day I decided to make hot ice by using hot water. Alas, I failed but it's good to know I was on to something!
I don't know if I should consider your post skepticism or rationalization, but I favor the latter. Palast has had the.ORG E-mails for years and talked about them just as long.
Sending them to the MSM first is ingenious in my opinion. Because you KNOW they'll sit on this to protect their corporate/congressional buddies. This gives Palast the credibility to make his point: Investigative journalism is dead in the US (except for Chris Hanson's notable exceptions).
These E-mails are valid; Republican operativess have already tried to explain that the caging lists weren't really caging lists.
What happened to Howard Dean was a travesty. The party insiders didn't want an outsider taking the reigns that they thought were "due" to one of them. So, in the span of about 2 weeks Howard Dean went from front-runner to raving madman based on a scream originally only heard by him and a soundguy (because of the raving Dems screaming in support of him).
Charles Schumer worked his same "insiders are due" magic on Paul Hackett. Hackett was the Iraq vet in position to take the senatorial nomination in Ohio (?), but since the local insider Representative was "due," good old Chuck called around and told donors to stiff Hackett.
Same thing happened after the resounding victory of Dean's 50-state strategy. Rather than pouring money into incumbent campaigns to give the Hillary's of the party untouchable 20-point victories, Dean as party chair decided to spread the wealth around. It worked, but immediately after the results started rolling Chuck Schumer and some of his insider buddies stood up before the mikes in a rehearsed press conference and actually tried to take credit! They even tried to blame Dean for not using up every dime of his available campaign funds!
I'm a hard-core Dem, but I will NOT vote for Hillary or Edwards in 2008 regardless of who they're up against. We need some fresh blood in Washington and more politicians not primarily concerned with their own reelections.
Mod parent UP. I'm an army brat and went to high school in Italy. This is exactly the experience I had with alcohol. Not that I don't go out drinking and sometimes a lot, but I grew up with a higher drinking-IQ than any of my peers in college. In high school I could walk into any store and buy anything from beer to Everclear, but the exposure made drinking no big deal. Unlike a lot of stateside-raised kids who think of alcohol as some sort of cool taboo that they guzzle at moronic rates leading to lots of stupid decisions under the influence.
Because our citizens have very tiny heads that can only hold 3-4 issues at a time. Hollywood gossip takes up an obligatory space and the Iraq Debacle takes up another two. Than only leaves room for roaming conversations over gay rights, border security, health care, global warming, oil prices, and anything else you might care about. I wonder how many people in this country are aware of the significant laws written during the Pelosi-dubbed First 100 hours?
I didn't follow Chinese version question (iii). Been a while since I've done much trig outside of programming. How do you compute an angle between two lines that don't intersect?
Isn't the fact that developers are exploiting the available processing power (putting pressure on hardware manufacturers to keep ahead) validation for the industry's focus on more performance at the same price?
Has anyone ever bought a Mercury because their spokesman is a hottie swimsuit model? It's all a part of the deal. Do people buy products just because they see them on the sides of NASCAR cars? People like security when they make purchases. If they see the Windows logo splashed everywhere, then "Hey, it must be good if everyone else is using it!" That's why the penguin logo is so important for Linux. Not for some geek in a basement formatting partitions. But for the CTOs out there who will seriously start considering Linux just because they see the logo splashed everywhere. It doesn't have to be on TV. It can be anywhere that gives Linux an air of credibility. "Hey, it must not be that much of a risk if everyone else is using it!"
Cartoonish, lovable characters are one of many tried and true ways of making your logo stick. Why the hell would anyone buy detergent simply because it's logo is painted on a race car? You can tell yourself that it doesn't work (and it shouldn't), but the fact is that this type of advertising is extremely effective. Most people don't research brands, they go by name recognition. And in IT, how often is the man with the purse strings IT-illiterate?
You're not in marketing are you? You probably don't own a television either since you don't recognize the power of graphics and silly characters in branding a product.
Advertising isn't about logic. You're not twiddling bits in your customers' heads. It's about visceral associations and name recognition. Some are clever, some are funny, some are moronic, some are annoying; the point is you remember the product instantly on sight.
First off, let me say I'm thankful for your service since anyone who doesn't support the war is branded as "not supporting the troops."
We DO hear about the good news in Iraq in the States. The problem is, we destroyed that country. Iraq used to be the icon for a modern secular Muslim nation with an equally modern health care. They didn't NEED our mobile hospitals before we invaded. The large majority of this country does not want to be there any more. That doesn't mean we "don't support the troops." That means we don't support Bush's policies in Iraq.
How much time have news services spend on the 32 students killed at VT compared to the 160 Iraqis killed the next day? There's this very incorrect impression that the "liberal" media has been hating on the occupation. Things are legitimately deteriorating over there, especially considering Bush's recent comments that we'll rely on Iraqi troops LESS! That means no more "stand down when they stand up" policy. That means more deployments for a long time for you.
Exit polls aren't self-selecting. They're not run by Commander Taco. Anything, like people refusing to answer, is factored into the margin of error. And, if I'm out of my mind, then so are all modern pollsters.
We used to levy sanctions on developing nations based on conflicting exit polls. Please spare me rationalization.
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Microsoft's monopoly case was just as toothless. A relatively measly fine and promise to be good in the future. Exception, for corporate regulations to be effective, judgments have to be punitive and not regulatory. It simply takes too much of the state's resources and time to say "don't do it again." There's no deterrence when a CEO knows it'll be at least 4-5 years before a conviction (probably a wrist slap) comes down the pipe and that the state doesn't have the time or money to go after everyone. Hell, by then he'll be retired with a fat severance package from the fruits of his crime.
I'm sure that would be accounted for: similar numbers in captive sharks, higher occurrences of cancer in other marine large predators, no evidence of dead sharks with cancer washing up on shore, etc. From what I've seen on documentaries, the shark/cancer relationship is accepted by biologists.
Sharks have very low rates of cancer which would be grounds enough for study IMO.
So, I take it you like the following?:
These are just the bullets I found for the first 4 months of Democratic party control.
I bet that's not all you're saturating with fruits of your T1 pipe.
I think it was the Discover Channel that did the Oswald experiments that solidified in my mind that he was at LEAST the primary shooter if not the lone shooter. They simply reenacted Oswald's movement during and after the shooting and all of it was very plausible. That's not to say that he didn't have some connections to other organizations making sure he was successful.
Applying metric prefixes to bytes is simply wrong anyway. Metric prefixes are base 10, why did they start applying them binary values just because of an arbitrary approximation of 1024 (or 2E10) and 10E3? When you call a 1000 GiB drive 1000 GB, you're not using esoteric nomenclature. You're stating something that's wrong. Sadly, it'll probably take lawsuit to change things.
While I hate the Bush Administration, I learned from an early experience in IT to never attribute to malice what you can to incompetence. These guys simply were incompetent and then tried to hide it; which is where all the unnecessary secrecy stems from. I've seen a too many of the 9/11 conspiracies debunked already to give credence to an evil plot.
A little off-topic, but has anyone used Home Depot's self-checkout lanes? Just bought a house so I'm there a lot :( It's probably the same everywhere, but the item scanner is a good 2 feet away from the card reader, which isn't well integrated. You find yourself going back and forth sometimes and inappropriate selections such as payment type are actually on the item scanner. It's a very hacked-together system, probably since they wanted to recycle existing card readers.
The classic card-readers need their UI's redesigned as well. Do I really need to be funnelled through the "cash back" options every time I buy something (which I use about 1% of the time)? Especially when there's a long delay with no feedback and I've already pocketed my card. So annoying!
The entire computer experience for the average user is a leap of faith. When a user hammers out an E-mail and clicks "Send," they don't see a tangible letter sliding into a mail slot. Users are (rightly or wrongly) conditioned to assume that unless something blares or flashes neon orange in their face, then what they've done is OK. Take some time to watch the average- to low-end user at work or listen to them talking about IT. It's downright hilarious (in a cute, not ridiculing way) when you see how primitive their understanding is. A computer might as well be a magic box orating dictates from God. Someone posted here yesterday that his grandmother waved a mouse in the air trying to get her pointer to move!
This reminds me of an "experiment" I did when I was 4 or 5. My mom would always tell me to use cold water when filling the ice tray. One day I decided to make hot ice by using hot water. Alas, I failed but it's good to know I was on to something!
I don't know if I should consider your post skepticism or rationalization, but I favor the latter. Palast has had the .ORG E-mails for years and talked about them just as long.
Sending them to the MSM first is ingenious in my opinion. Because you KNOW they'll sit on this to protect their corporate/congressional buddies. This gives Palast the credibility to make his point: Investigative journalism is dead in the US (except for Chris Hanson's notable exceptions).
These E-mails are valid; Republican operativess have already tried to explain that the caging lists weren't really caging lists.
I was thinking more like the hooker on Mars in Total Recall. Wow, was that really 17 years ago? I made myself sad :(
What happened to Howard Dean was a travesty. The party insiders didn't want an outsider taking the reigns that they thought were "due" to one of them. So, in the span of about 2 weeks Howard Dean went from front-runner to raving madman based on a scream originally only heard by him and a soundguy (because of the raving Dems screaming in support of him). Charles Schumer worked his same "insiders are due" magic on Paul Hackett. Hackett was the Iraq vet in position to take the senatorial nomination in Ohio (?), but since the local insider Representative was "due," good old Chuck called around and told donors to stiff Hackett. Same thing happened after the resounding victory of Dean's 50-state strategy. Rather than pouring money into incumbent campaigns to give the Hillary's of the party untouchable 20-point victories, Dean as party chair decided to spread the wealth around. It worked, but immediately after the results started rolling Chuck Schumer and some of his insider buddies stood up before the mikes in a rehearsed press conference and actually tried to take credit! They even tried to blame Dean for not using up every dime of his available campaign funds! I'm a hard-core Dem, but I will NOT vote for Hillary or Edwards in 2008 regardless of who they're up against. We need some fresh blood in Washington and more politicians not primarily concerned with their own reelections.
Mod parent UP. I'm an army brat and went to high school in Italy. This is exactly the experience I had with alcohol. Not that I don't go out drinking and sometimes a lot, but I grew up with a higher drinking-IQ than any of my peers in college. In high school I could walk into any store and buy anything from beer to Everclear, but the exposure made drinking no big deal. Unlike a lot of stateside-raised kids who think of alcohol as some sort of cool taboo that they guzzle at moronic rates leading to lots of stupid decisions under the influence.
Because our citizens have very tiny heads that can only hold 3-4 issues at a time. Hollywood gossip takes up an obligatory space and the Iraq Debacle takes up another two. Than only leaves room for roaming conversations over gay rights, border security, health care, global warming, oil prices, and anything else you might care about. I wonder how many people in this country are aware of the significant laws written during the Pelosi-dubbed First 100 hours?
Explain how Kucinich has no credibility.
Too bad they don't care about pragmatically running bureaucracies.
I didn't follow Chinese version question (iii). Been a while since I've done much trig outside of programming. How do you compute an angle between two lines that don't intersect?
Isn't the fact that developers are exploiting the available processing power (putting pressure on hardware manufacturers to keep ahead) validation for the industry's focus on more performance at the same price?
Has anyone ever bought a Mercury because their spokesman is a hottie swimsuit model? It's all a part of the deal. Do people buy products just because they see them on the sides of NASCAR cars? People like security when they make purchases. If they see the Windows logo splashed everywhere, then "Hey, it must be good if everyone else is using it!" That's why the penguin logo is so important for Linux. Not for some geek in a basement formatting partitions. But for the CTOs out there who will seriously start considering Linux just because they see the logo splashed everywhere. It doesn't have to be on TV. It can be anywhere that gives Linux an air of credibility. "Hey, it must not be that much of a risk if everyone else is using it!"
Cartoonish, lovable characters are one of many tried and true ways of making your logo stick. Why the hell would anyone buy detergent simply because it's logo is painted on a race car? You can tell yourself that it doesn't work (and it shouldn't), but the fact is that this type of advertising is extremely effective. Most people don't research brands, they go by name recognition. And in IT, how often is the man with the purse strings IT-illiterate?
You're not in marketing are you? You probably don't own a television either since you don't recognize the power of graphics and silly characters in branding a product.
...
Geico Gecko
Budweiser Frogs (and equally successful ferret campaign)
Wendy's Raccoons
MetLife and Snoopy
Advertising isn't about logic. You're not twiddling bits in your customers' heads. It's about visceral associations and name recognition. Some are clever, some are funny, some are moronic, some are annoying; the point is you remember the product instantly on sight.
It's April 2007. Anyone who believes the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen (or not) isn't going to change what they think now.
The problem is getting those of you who think otherwise to look at the evidence.
First off, let me say I'm thankful for your service since anyone who doesn't support the war is branded as "not supporting the troops." We DO hear about the good news in Iraq in the States. The problem is, we destroyed that country. Iraq used to be the icon for a modern secular Muslim nation with an equally modern health care. They didn't NEED our mobile hospitals before we invaded. The large majority of this country does not want to be there any more. That doesn't mean we "don't support the troops." That means we don't support Bush's policies in Iraq. How much time have news services spend on the 32 students killed at VT compared to the 160 Iraqis killed the next day? There's this very incorrect impression that the "liberal" media has been hating on the occupation. Things are legitimately deteriorating over there, especially considering Bush's recent comments that we'll rely on Iraqi troops LESS! That means no more "stand down when they stand up" policy. That means more deployments for a long time for you.
Exit polls aren't self-selecting. They're not run by Commander Taco. Anything, like people refusing to answer, is factored into the margin of error. And, if I'm out of my mind, then so are all modern pollsters. We used to levy sanctions on developing nations based on conflicting exit polls. Please spare me rationalization.