LOL how often have we heard conservatives sniping at people who object to the expansive, unchecked powers of the Patriot Acts? Now do you understand what "nation of laws not a nation of men" means? This is why you don't give the government totalitarian powers (even if it's your party) and turn your back expecting them not to be abused. Let the March of the Frogs begin!
Regardless of any performance or security issues, Microsoft never bothered to give developers time or the tools to port some crucial Mobile device utilities. There's no published way to migrate synchronization service providers (as of a week ago). So, anyone syncing custom data through ActiveSync between a mobile device and a PC has no guarantee their old code will work or how to fix it if it doesn't.
Of course, Microsoft could care less because they don't get the irate phone calls from customers when our applications break on Vista boxes.
My problem is the faux historical works that attempt to legitimize themselves by intermingling actual people and events. Writers will always have to do things like fabricate dialog, but it irks me when they start playing with real events. Martin Scorsese is horrible about this (I'm not talking about a director's interpretation of history). He screwed up events in the Aviator and just BSed the biographies of real figures in "Gangs of New York." All for the legitimacy of the "based on a true story" label.
Umm, you realize Bush already gave Bin Laden what he wanted by "appeasing" and withdrawing our troops from Saudi Arabia? That's what 9/11 was about for him. And, when did foreign policy become so moronically black and white as the choice between appeasement and invade a country that didn't have a damned thing to do with the attack against you?
Us "losers" are complaining because Diebold ISN'T 100% fraud-free, isn't verifiably so, and in fact deliberately designed not to be.
blackboxvoting.com
The assumption for this project is that you'll be able to find enough other sources of food to last you until the next harvest; canned goods, plants, the dead. No one said this is supposed to feed survivors immediately, otherwise they would have built a pantry. Plus, with all the genetic engineering going on, it's nice to know that we have at least some of the original stock preserved should we accidentally implant some Achilles Heel that causes a crop to be wiped out be disease, plague, or climate.
Hmmm, so I guess the flood of outsourced jobs and the severe depression of new job wages are just coincidental? You're using more of that Libertarian pipe-smoking non sequitor logic. Just because a business cuts costs does NOT mean that money is trickling down to the US workforce. Hell, now there's a move away from even doling out stock dividends. Now which brokerage is handing out $10s million bonuses to executives?
Freedom != Open Markets
I'm working on the 100 greatest books list and trying to read them comprehensively not just to say I did it. I'm not a disciplined or fast reader and I probably only get through 5-10 fiction books a year, so I spend a lot of time rereading sections I can't interpret. I spent about 30 minutes sifting through War and Peace one night trying to find the passage "God, death, love, brotherhood of man." For those of us looking for these kinds of passages or favorite quotes, this is awesome.
When a Supreme Court ruling tells you why a law is unconstitutional or where applications of a law would be illegal or unconstitutional, that's one way. Check out the latest Supreme Court ruling on Bush's use of a terrorism blacklist. The Supreme Court indeed does the power to tell the other branches of government what they can and cannot do (with limitations of course).
Don't get suckered into all that "activist judges" propaganda.
This sounds like a problematic space mission because of the potential of collisions. I'm not talking about the Star Wars image of an asteroid field. But, any asteroids we approach will probably be of significant size. And, they'll probably be surrounded by a cloud of small rocks or particles. Maybe you can inch up to one from a long way out to mitigate the risk of high-speed impacts, but it seems like impacts will be a certainty.
When I found out my girlfriend from back in my college days hadn't seen any of the movies (or even remembered if she had), I took it upon myself to break her in. She was so bored by Star Wars that it was comical to watch her reactions. To her, the movie was about a guy in a bad ape suit and blue-screened model airplanes. Some people just don't get sci-fi and there's not much point it expecting the franchise to have the same impact on them as it did you.
Of course, she got her revenge by forcing me to sit through "Meet Joe Black":(
Amazing how fans love to take shots at the new movies.
Lucas didn't choose to hide info to make the movies work sequencially because they weren't CREATED sequencially. The fact is the last movies covered the exposure of the cliffhangers. Trying to hide them so that geeks can watch 6 movie marathons and pretend not to know what's going to happen is ridiculous. Especially when it doesn't make a damned bit of sense in the context of the original movies. Hide Yoda, the uber Jedi, for no reason beside a movie marathon?
As for Leia's memory, I never thought her memory was of her real mother. As a kid, I could never imagine why if the mother was alive Luke wouldn't have been living with her as well (maybe just dumb kid logic, but always stuck with me).
Voter fraud is the much exaggerated issue of the Republicans. There's simply no organized way to conduct mass voter fraud without being busted. Run through the steps you took to vote and you'll see why. The issue Democrats are concerned with is VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT which has been empirically shown to be true over at least the last 4 election cycles. We even had some of same old Republican tactics employed this time around like intimidating letters and false information leaflets and BS requests for picture IDs. But, there was such a huge movement this time around to watch elections that there was no way for the really sleazy tactics to be used en masse. The FBI is still investigating some cases like the Repub robospam calls worded to sound like their opponents are calling.
You forget. Republicans hate foreigners more than they love money. Having Frenchmen defile our country with their fried potatoes and toast is an acceptable loss.
Well the way our laws work if 1% of a complex set of regulations is unconstitutional, it shouldn't be passed. No one ever made the argument that the Patriot Act was all bad. But, the small percent of it that is unacceptible validates a challenge. Too bad the public was never allowed to hear an honest debate over it.
The entire "institutional barriers" slogan was just a bunch of Rovian trash. There never *was* a legal barrier. Unless you consider your 4th amendment rights a barrier. The CIA can do things outside this country that the FBI can't do. Whenever there were gray areas or overlap, you could always go to a judge and get the warrants to do the searches etc. that you wanted to do. The problems came about in cases like Moussaoui's (the supposed 20th hijacker) when the judge said info could be shared as long as there was a filtering process. Without it, you effectively give the FBI a backdoor for circumventing the 4th amendment. Instead of following orders, unscrupulous agents from both agencies would "screen" intelligence together. They then *lied* to a judge about it and had their warrants revoked. Which is why Moussaui's laptop was never looked at. It wasn't because of a barriers, it was because of lying-assed Feds.
Another problem was that the FBI wasn't well informed of the exception rules. They must have been too complex for managers to deal with since so many agents developed the impression that it was a simple no-no. Jane(?) Gorelick on the 9-11 commission helped construct the original wall laws and I recall her saying that the "intelligence wall" shouldn't have obstructed investigations.
Now, if you want to argue the turf-protection problems with sharing information then that's another story. But, it's not a legal issue. From what I gleaned from the 9-11 commission report, the stovepiping problem was more of an intra-agency problem. FBI field offices weren't talking to each other.
I want to see the entire friggin' industry flipped on its head. There's no reason for record companies any more. The industry should be service oriented from distribution, to studio time, to advertising, even album cover art. Everything should be driven by the band with the musician treated as the CEO and not an employee. People download with such reckless abandon because we're sophisticated enough now to know how so many artists the industry rips off anyway. Of course, the payola network in place has to be dismantled so that legitimate musicians are getting air time instead of the Britney Spears and Ashley Simpsons of the world. Let the bimbos go back to doing porn mag shoots and leave the singing to people with actual talent.
I vaguely remember the numbers for TLC's first hit, they got something like $1 million altogether for a $125 million hit record. After taxes and split three ways, they took home $200,000 each. You're not going to garner much support from the consumer when every knows you're raping stars like that.
I remember hearing this theory many years ago (15 or so), but I also remember it being said that measuring perturbations over several years would validate the theory. I never heard any conclusion, so I've always assumed the Nemesis theory didn't hold water. BTW, IANAAP.
Except the market is subject to forces that can cause illegitimate changes to an object's worth. You can define worth by market price or by it's true value (how to calculate that is beyond me). And, buyers don't always set the market price, such as in cases of collusion. What about Walmart undercutting pharmacies (and selling drugs at a loss)? That's definitely a case where worth and value are (were?) different. There are so many cases that blow the idealistic free market value system out of the water.
Why doesn't Opera just push out a current list of badly behaving links, rather than having users ping their site each time? Seems like browser-local cache is better in every regard except for the staleness problem. Unless you have ulterior motives...
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LOL how often have we heard conservatives sniping at people who object to the expansive, unchecked powers of the Patriot Acts? Now do you understand what "nation of laws not a nation of men" means? This is why you don't give the government totalitarian powers (even if it's your party) and turn your back expecting them not to be abused. Let the March of the Frogs begin!
Regardless of any performance or security issues, Microsoft never bothered to give developers time or the tools to port some crucial Mobile device utilities. There's no published way to migrate synchronization service providers (as of a week ago). So, anyone syncing custom data through ActiveSync between a mobile device and a PC has no guarantee their old code will work or how to fix it if it doesn't. Of course, Microsoft could care less because they don't get the irate phone calls from customers when our applications break on Vista boxes.
My problem is the faux historical works that attempt to legitimize themselves by intermingling actual people and events. Writers will always have to do things like fabricate dialog, but it irks me when they start playing with real events. Martin Scorsese is horrible about this (I'm not talking about a director's interpretation of history). He screwed up events in the Aviator and just BSed the biographies of real figures in "Gangs of New York." All for the legitimacy of the "based on a true story" label.
Umm, you realize Bush already gave Bin Laden what he wanted by "appeasing" and withdrawing our troops from Saudi Arabia? That's what 9/11 was about for him. And, when did foreign policy become so moronically black and white as the choice between appeasement and invade a country that didn't have a damned thing to do with the attack against you?
Us "losers" are complaining because Diebold ISN'T 100% fraud-free, isn't verifiably so, and in fact deliberately designed not to be. blackboxvoting.com
The assumption for this project is that you'll be able to find enough other sources of food to last you until the next harvest; canned goods, plants, the dead. No one said this is supposed to feed survivors immediately, otherwise they would have built a pantry. Plus, with all the genetic engineering going on, it's nice to know that we have at least some of the original stock preserved should we accidentally implant some Achilles Heel that causes a crop to be wiped out be disease, plague, or climate.
It's the cover-up that kills you!
Hmmm, so I guess the flood of outsourced jobs and the severe depression of new job wages are just coincidental? You're using more of that Libertarian pipe-smoking non sequitor logic. Just because a business cuts costs does NOT mean that money is trickling down to the US workforce. Hell, now there's a move away from even doling out stock dividends. Now which brokerage is handing out $10s million bonuses to executives? Freedom != Open Markets
Waiting for the ideologue posts about how big government spending can never do any good, and never any better than private industry...
I'm working on the 100 greatest books list and trying to read them comprehensively not just to say I did it. I'm not a disciplined or fast reader and I probably only get through 5-10 fiction books a year, so I spend a lot of time rereading sections I can't interpret. I spent about 30 minutes sifting through War and Peace one night trying to find the passage "God, death, love, brotherhood of man." For those of us looking for these kinds of passages or favorite quotes, this is awesome.
When a Supreme Court ruling tells you why a law is unconstitutional or where applications of a law would be illegal or unconstitutional, that's one way. Check out the latest Supreme Court ruling on Bush's use of a terrorism blacklist. The Supreme Court indeed does the power to tell the other branches of government what they can and cannot do (with limitations of course). Don't get suckered into all that "activist judges" propaganda.
This sounds like a problematic space mission because of the potential of collisions. I'm not talking about the Star Wars image of an asteroid field. But, any asteroids we approach will probably be of significant size. And, they'll probably be surrounded by a cloud of small rocks or particles. Maybe you can inch up to one from a long way out to mitigate the risk of high-speed impacts, but it seems like impacts will be a certainty.
When I found out my girlfriend from back in my college days hadn't seen any of the movies (or even remembered if she had), I took it upon myself to break her in. She was so bored by Star Wars that it was comical to watch her reactions. To her, the movie was about a guy in a bad ape suit and blue-screened model airplanes. Some people just don't get sci-fi and there's not much point it expecting the franchise to have the same impact on them as it did you. Of course, she got her revenge by forcing me to sit through "Meet Joe Black" :(
Amazing how fans love to take shots at the new movies. Lucas didn't choose to hide info to make the movies work sequencially because they weren't CREATED sequencially. The fact is the last movies covered the exposure of the cliffhangers. Trying to hide them so that geeks can watch 6 movie marathons and pretend not to know what's going to happen is ridiculous. Especially when it doesn't make a damned bit of sense in the context of the original movies. Hide Yoda, the uber Jedi, for no reason beside a movie marathon? As for Leia's memory, I never thought her memory was of her real mother. As a kid, I could never imagine why if the mother was alive Luke wouldn't have been living with her as well (maybe just dumb kid logic, but always stuck with me).
I for one am convinced we bred them out of existence by diluting their gene pool. I say that in all seriousness.
Voter fraud is the much exaggerated issue of the Republicans. There's simply no organized way to conduct mass voter fraud without being busted. Run through the steps you took to vote and you'll see why. The issue Democrats are concerned with is VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT which has been empirically shown to be true over at least the last 4 election cycles. We even had some of same old Republican tactics employed this time around like intimidating letters and false information leaflets and BS requests for picture IDs. But, there was such a huge movement this time around to watch elections that there was no way for the really sleazy tactics to be used en masse. The FBI is still investigating some cases like the Repub robospam calls worded to sound like their opponents are calling.
You forget. Republicans hate foreigners more than they love money. Having Frenchmen defile our country with their fried potatoes and toast is an acceptable loss.
Too bad these miscalibrations never seem to help Democrats get elected.
Well the way our laws work if 1% of a complex set of regulations is unconstitutional, it shouldn't be passed. No one ever made the argument that the Patriot Act was all bad. But, the small percent of it that is unacceptible validates a challenge. Too bad the public was never allowed to hear an honest debate over it.
The entire "institutional barriers" slogan was just a bunch of Rovian trash. There never *was* a legal barrier. Unless you consider your 4th amendment rights a barrier. The CIA can do things outside this country that the FBI can't do. Whenever there were gray areas or overlap, you could always go to a judge and get the warrants to do the searches etc. that you wanted to do. The problems came about in cases like Moussaoui's (the supposed 20th hijacker) when the judge said info could be shared as long as there was a filtering process. Without it, you effectively give the FBI a backdoor for circumventing the 4th amendment. Instead of following orders, unscrupulous agents from both agencies would "screen" intelligence together. They then *lied* to a judge about it and had their warrants revoked. Which is why Moussaui's laptop was never looked at. It wasn't because of a barriers, it was because of lying-assed Feds.
Another problem was that the FBI wasn't well informed of the exception rules. They must have been too complex for managers to deal with since so many agents developed the impression that it was a simple no-no. Jane(?) Gorelick on the 9-11 commission helped construct the original wall laws and I recall her saying that the "intelligence wall" shouldn't have obstructed investigations.
Now, if you want to argue the turf-protection problems with sharing information then that's another story. But, it's not a legal issue. From what I gleaned from the 9-11 commission report, the stovepiping problem was more of an intra-agency problem. FBI field offices weren't talking to each other.
I vaguely remember the numbers for TLC's first hit, they got something like $1 million altogether for a $125 million hit record. After taxes and split three ways, they took home $200,000 each. You're not going to garner much support from the consumer when every knows you're raping stars like that.
Add to that CDs are WAY too expensive!
Uh, this is Slashdot. You should have responded with the obligatory "...as if a million turkeys gobbled and were suddenly silenced."
I remember hearing this theory many years ago (15 or so), but I also remember it being said that measuring perturbations over several years would validate the theory. I never heard any conclusion, so I've always assumed the Nemesis theory didn't hold water. BTW, IANAAP.
Except the market is subject to forces that can cause illegitimate changes to an object's worth. You can define worth by market price or by it's true value (how to calculate that is beyond me). And, buyers don't always set the market price, such as in cases of collusion. What about Walmart undercutting pharmacies (and selling drugs at a loss)? That's definitely a case where worth and value are (were?) different. There are so many cases that blow the idealistic free market value system out of the water.
Why doesn't Opera just push out a current list of badly behaving links, rather than having users ping their site each time? Seems like browser-local cache is better in every regard except for the staleness problem. Unless you have ulterior motives...
for the sodomizing you're going to get trying to take on Blizzard?