Firearms were more lethal in the past. A 225 grain copper jacketed bullet does FAR LESS damage than a one ounce lead ball.
Oh, it does, huh? Since you seem to think you know firearms, just how accurate is a musket vs a jacketed bullet? Okay, now how many shots can you get out a musket in the space of a minute vs a kalashnikov rifle? Your "more lethal in the past" argument is nonsense.
Then you don't know much about terminal ballistics. Soldiers of the civil war era died much more frequently from their wounds than did
Wow, that's amazing, you're calling him ignorant when you clearly know nothing. Soldiers in the Civil War died by the thousands BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANTIBIOTICS. Any dumbass who's taken remedial history knows that.
The truth of the matter is this. You are in no position to dictate to others what issues should be important to them, and you are in no position to dictate to others what they should think about those issues.
What, and you are? Throughout this thread you've been acting as if your view was the only view.
I never once saw nor heard President Bush bash gays.
...coming from the guy who didn't even watch conventions in 2000 or 2004, thats not saying much.
He was expressing support for the belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.
Okay, what if he expressed support for belief that marraige should be between one man and one woman of the same race? The anti-gay-marraige rehtoric is very similar to the anti-mixed-racial marraiges from 60 years ago.
Remember when I talked about anyone who is right of center not being wanted by the Democrats? This is the kind of thing I was talking about.
Okay, do you have any basis whatsoever for that assertion, or are you just full of shit?
ANYTHING that can give the enemy something over you can result in a loss of a security clearance.
Wow, I guess all those god fearing heterosexual people with kids need to lose their security clearance RIGHT NOW, because those kids could be used against them, too.
San Francisco is the gay Mecca. That's why there is so much tolerance there.
You don't have to like something to be tolerant of it. Don't like gay marriage? Then don't let gay couples get married at your church! Don't invite them to your backyard barbeque! But don't stick your nose in their private lives when its none of your fucking business.
It's not fair to blame the Republicans for spiking the ball when the Democrats gave them such a perfect set for it. Democrats were beating the drum of "gay rights"
Except the Democrats didn't have anything to do with it, dumbass. It was a court in Massachusetts, remember? Oh, here's another bit of trivia for you: the state with the lowest divorce rate is Massachusetts, which helps put the big lie to the "marriage protection" crap put out by the GOP.
You can't blame Republicans for taking advantage.
Of course we can, don't be an idiot. The GOP keeps saying that government should stay out of people's lives, and then they turn around and be complete hypocrites. However, we can blame the Democrats for being spineless sissies since ignoring GOP attacks worked SO WELL for President Dukakis.
After vilifying Bush's tax cut for 3 years, they couldn't then claim to want tax cuts.
Because trillions of cuts had already been allocated. Duh. But actually, yes they could: repeal the cuts for the wealthiest Americans, and give a cut to the millions of families that are too poor to pay income taxes but pay plenty in payroll taxes.
The Democrat base is now so far to the left
Wrong, its the GOP that keeps moving to the right. Note that a Republican who would have been called very conservative ten years ago is now called a moderate, and a conservative from twenty years ago is bordering on liberal. One of Nixon's attorney's said something to the effect that "this party is moving so far to the right that soon you wont be able to recognize it"...in 1972.
I vote based on the issues of Second Amendment rights and abortion.
Gotcha. Bush said back in the 2000 campaign that he would sign an extension of the assault weapons ban, and his nominee for Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, supports it today. So are you ignorant of Bush's support of gun control or just a hypocrite?
If it were not for the Bush Tax cut I would have owed money.
Wrong, the Democrats were going to cut taxes as well - but mainly for the middle/lower class. Know why you didn't get a cut on your payroll taxes? Because Republicans refused to do so, despite claiming that "if you pay taxes, you get a tax cut".
Shouldn't your angst also be directed at the creators of viruses and malware? Just because Microsoft is an easy target, that doesn't make them (solely) responsible for the problem.
With physical property its called an "attractive nuisance." Think a pool in your backyard that's not surrounded by a fence in a neighborhood with a lot of kids. No one has ever said that developers for malware don't deserve any responsiblity, but MS deserves huge amounts of blame for their negligence, because they made the situation possible in the first place. As many email and macro viruses were around even back in the days of Windows 3.11, it was simply inexecusable for Microsoft to release Win2k and XP with the gaping holes that they have.
but don't blame them for NOT helping people who steal their software.
It's not stealing, it's copyright infringment.
Blocking security updates to pirated copies frequently doesn't hurt the pirater at all, because pirates aren't likely to pony up $300 just because their computer is a little slow. However, the spam zombies installed on their computers harm the entire Internet by sending out millions of messages, clogging networks and mail servers. Salon has a nice article on the subject.
I got really tired of most of the "monster of the week" episodes
I had the opposite experience...the only ones I could stand at about the middle of the show *were* the "monster of the week episodes", because the mythology episodes never went anywhere. No questions were really answered, no government coverups exposed, no public awareness raised. The "monster" episodes were almost always resolved, whereas the mythology episodes were always left open ended. In a day when even frikkin Star Trek (DS9) had plot resolution, and B5 and Buffy had great planning and story arcs, X-Files never went anywhere or did anything.
From who? All the ones I've seen you either get slightly more space for the same money or the same space for less money.
fm tuner
Usefull if you want it. But if people wanted it, they'd be buying players that have it, and not the iPod.
record and playback
Useless.
dolby compliance
AAC is from Dolby. If you're talking Dolby Digtial, who cares with headphones and lossy compression?
auto detection over most OS' as a USB mass storage device
News flash: so does the iPod.
Hech alot of them also support many other file formats
...and don't support others. You're trading AAC for WMA, and nobody outside of five posters on Slashdot gives a damn about Ogg.
and have no DRM
And what, exactly, is preventing you from having DRM free music on your iPod?
se rechargeable AAA or other standard cells instead of a hard to replace battery so that replacing it costs $9 not $99.
Pfft. Recharable AAA batteries last a fraction of 12 hours, take up a lot more space than built in batteries, and you'll spend more on alkaline batteries during the lifespan of the iPod's battery. And as long as you are doing it yourself, a new iPod battery is $30, not $100.
So obviously the iPod isn't winning because of it's technical merits. All I am saying that the iPod is king of the hill because of branding, and if anybody wants to unseat it, it has to have a strong brand.
What's obvious is that you are shooting your mouth off with absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. Technical merits? Who was the very first company to have an mp3 player with a 1.8" hard drive? Apple. Who was the first to use a 1.0" hard drive? Apple. Who used Firewire when other players used USB 1.1? Apple. Who has the best hardware and software interface? Apple. As another poster pointed out, Apple hasn't been using "dated technology", they've been bleeding edge. It's a fact, deal with it.
What you anti-fanboy's don't seem to realize is that the iPod came out with all around A+ features: capacity, size, software, hardware interface, and you seem to think that other manufacturers have an "iPod killer" because they have a couple more entries on a billeted list of features. But nobody gives a shit about voice recording (the next time you're in Best Buy check out the aisels filled with mp3 players and cd players and the two spots on one shelf in the entire store that contain voice recorders) and no one is going to watch a movie on a 2 inch screen. And inevitably, their players will suck ass in an area where Apple still has an A+, usually with the software or the user interface on the hardware.
Yes, Apple has a great brand in consumer audio right now. But that's because the iPod was great technically, not because of "branding", because before the iPod, they had no branding in consumer audio.
if sony can get the beatles on it's Itunes-killer, could it seize the advantage?
No, because Beatles fans already own the Beatles music on cd, which is breain-dead easy to convert to aac or mp3 for your iPod. This wouldn't be a killer feature for Sony unless they found some unreleased Beatles albums and only made it available on the Sony store.
Wow, you aren't the same AC who complains about the speed of copying a file with the old Mac OS 8 compared to NT 4, are you? Because that's what your complaints sound like: a bunch of unfounded malarky.
You didn't miss the point, you made it up. The parent didn't even mention buying music online. He was talking of the library management/hardware interface aspect.
How the hell do you ever think you'll keep your corporations and public officials under scrutiny if you're not allowed a (truly) free press?
That's nice, but totally irrelvant, since there is nothing to scrutinize here. No criminal acts committed, no bribes given to government officials, no hazardous products involved. This is the technical equivilant to sneaking into a celebrities backyard and taking pictures for a tabeloid rag. Whats the legality fo that in Sweden?
Now take your argument and take it to the logical next step.
No its not logical, because you're talking Apples and oranges. As soon as Apple Computer starts initiating wars under false pretenses, is involved in government coverups, or starts shipping biohazardous products, then we'll talk about your "next step." Until then, this is the technical of sneaking into the backyard of Britney Spears to try and snap some pictures of her latest husband/boyfriend, and then publishing them in the Sun while loudly blathering about the "publics right to know."
1) The new Ipod's aren't all the tiny. A lot of USB players are a lot smaller
Okay, which ones are smaller, cheaper, have screens, and are cheaper? Not to mention having the same capacity? In the post-expo story, some dude posted a link to a player that he said was smaller, cheaper etc...except it was actually about twice as big and more expensive.
Of course it does, or else you wouldn't have brought it up in the first place. Even if that's not what was in your mind at the time, its what the words you wrote meant.
I am doing no such thing: my attacking of the man is entirely separate from my argument.
Pfft. Have you done seperate posts for reasoned rebuttals and posts to flame? No? Then it's an ad hominem.
"The Panel cannot conclude that a political agenda at '60 Minutes Wednesday' drove either the timing or the airing of the [Bush Guard] Segment," wrote Thornburgh and Boccardi. And just to ensure that nobody missed the point, they reiterated, "The Panel does not believe that political motivations drove the Sept. 8 Segment."
Bam, kicked Goldberg's ass. Now, for neocons who just can't let this go, I got three things for ya: SBFVT, Nigerian yellowcake, and a nice, warm cup of stfu.
"Some communication" is pretty meaningless without something concrete. What are the chances either campaign DIDN'T talk to any one of the major channels?
I also find it hilarious that so much hot air has been spent over "Memogate", considering the "fib factor" hack job done on Al Gore in 2000, and all the uncritical coverage of SBVFT. Where's the investigation into the ties between SBVFT and the Bush campaign, eh? And for all the conservatives who just can't let this go: at least when CBS used a questionable memo, at least it wasn't one of the primary factors in the loss of 1,300 American lives and over $120 billion dollars for a false cause.
Yes there are some side affects of having 200,000 users on at the same time that you can't predict from even a lengthly beta period, but this isn't Blizzard's first MMOG, and they aren't a poor startup company. There is no excuse for having overloaded servers or not having enough bandwidth, because buying servers and OC3's is chump change when you are going to be getting over $100 million a year in subscriber fees and your parent company is Vivendi.
The Democrats didn't give a crap about the deficit before the Republican Congress and the Internet bubble erased it under Clinton
Bullshit. Clinton decided that fighting the deficit was his top priority when he was sworn into office, and pushed for a tax increase. Congressional Republicans wanted to give out tax breaks to "stimulate the economy", and thanks to Bush II we all know how well that approach works.
They sure didn't give a crap about it during the 1980s when they were in control of Congress.
Right, it was that damn Democratic president Reagan and his huge tax cuts and boosts in military spending that drove up the deficit in the 80's. Oh wait, Reagan wasn't a Republican...which party was he from again?
And don't get me started on Senator Byrd... He's the biggest pork barrel spender EVER.
Oh, sure, Democrats go for pork all the time. The difference between them and national Republicans is, they aren't two-faced hypocritical fucks about the issue. For example, take Senator Graham, who bitched about "big government" constantly, but then turned around and said "I'm carrying so much pork I've got tricinosis."
And that's the way it should be. There is no possible way to screen out potentially frivilous lawsuits without blocking worthy ones as well. How can you possibly decide the merit of a suit before hearing the facts? If a case doesn't have merit, it will be dismissed. If it is a "frivilous" one, it will be dismissed with prejudice so it can't be brought again.
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Firearms were more lethal in the past. A 225 grain copper jacketed bullet does FAR LESS damage than a one ounce lead ball.
Oh, it does, huh? Since you seem to think you know firearms, just how accurate is a musket vs a jacketed bullet? Okay, now how many shots can you get out a musket in the space of a minute vs a kalashnikov rifle? Your "more lethal in the past" argument is nonsense.
Then you don't know much about terminal ballistics. Soldiers of the civil war era died much more frequently from their wounds than did
Wow, that's amazing, you're calling him ignorant when you clearly know nothing. Soldiers in the Civil War died by the thousands BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANTIBIOTICS. Any dumbass who's taken remedial history knows that.
The truth of the matter is this. You are in no position to dictate to others what issues should be important to them, and you are in no position to dictate to others what they should think about those issues.
What, and you are? Throughout this thread you've been acting as if your view was the only view.
I never once saw nor heard President Bush bash gays.
...coming from the guy who didn't even watch conventions in 2000 or 2004, thats not saying much.
He was expressing support for the belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.
Okay, what if he expressed support for belief that marraige should be between one man and one woman of the same race? The anti-gay-marraige rehtoric is very similar to the anti-mixed-racial marraiges from 60 years ago.
Remember when I talked about anyone who is right of center not being wanted by the Democrats? This is the kind of thing I was talking about.
Okay, do you have any basis whatsoever for that assertion, or are you just full of shit?
ANYTHING that can give the enemy something over you can result in a loss of a security clearance.
Wow, I guess all those god fearing heterosexual people with kids need to lose their security clearance RIGHT NOW, because those kids could be used against them, too.
San Francisco is the gay Mecca. That's why there is so much tolerance there.
You don't have to like something to be tolerant of it. Don't like gay marriage? Then don't let gay couples get married at your church! Don't invite them to your backyard barbeque! But don't stick your nose in their private lives when its none of your fucking business.
It's not fair to blame the Republicans for spiking the ball when the Democrats gave them such a perfect set for it. Democrats were beating the drum of "gay rights"
Except the Democrats didn't have anything to do with it, dumbass. It was a court in Massachusetts, remember? Oh, here's another bit of trivia for you: the state with the lowest divorce rate is Massachusetts, which helps put the big lie to the "marriage protection" crap put out by the GOP.
You can't blame Republicans for taking advantage.
Of course we can, don't be an idiot. The GOP keeps saying that government should stay out of people's lives, and then they turn around and be complete hypocrites. However, we can blame the Democrats for being spineless sissies since ignoring GOP attacks worked SO WELL for President Dukakis.
After vilifying Bush's tax cut for 3 years, they couldn't then claim to want tax cuts.
Because trillions of cuts had already been allocated. Duh. But actually, yes they could: repeal the cuts for the wealthiest Americans, and give a cut to the millions of families that are too poor to pay income taxes but pay plenty in payroll taxes.
The Democrat base is now so far to the left
Wrong, its the GOP that keeps moving to the right. Note that a Republican who would have been called very conservative ten years ago is now called a moderate, and a conservative from twenty years ago is bordering on liberal. One of Nixon's attorney's said something to the effect that "this party is moving so far to the right that soon you wont be able to recognize it"...in 1972.
I vote based on the issues of Second Amendment rights and abortion.
Gotcha. Bush said back in the 2000 campaign that he would sign an extension of the assault weapons ban, and his nominee for Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, supports it today. So are you ignorant of Bush's support of gun control or just a hypocrite?
If it were not for the Bush Tax cut I would have owed money.
Wrong, the Democrats were going to cut taxes as well - but mainly for the middle/lower class. Know why you didn't get a cut on your payroll taxes? Because Republicans refused to do so, despite claiming that "if you pay taxes, you get a tax cut".
The failure of the Democrats to court voters like me is the reason why Bush is in the Whitehouse.
Pfft. Why not just disband the whole Democratic party then? No, Democrats loose because they model their campaigns based on Dukakis.
Shouldn't your angst also be directed at the creators of viruses and malware? Just because Microsoft is an easy target, that doesn't make them (solely) responsible for the problem.
With physical property its called an "attractive nuisance." Think a pool in your backyard that's not surrounded by a fence in a neighborhood with a lot of kids. No one has ever said that developers for malware don't deserve any responsiblity, but MS deserves huge amounts of blame for their negligence, because they made the situation possible in the first place. As many email and macro viruses were around even back in the days of Windows 3.11, it was simply inexecusable for Microsoft to release Win2k and XP with the gaping holes that they have.
How about a series based around Elite Force from the ST:VOY game? You'd basically have an interplanetary SWAT team.
I got really tired of most of the "monster of the week" episodes
I had the opposite experience...the only ones I could stand at about the middle of the show *were* the "monster of the week episodes", because the mythology episodes never went anywhere. No questions were really answered, no government coverups exposed, no public awareness raised. The "monster" episodes were almost always resolved, whereas the mythology episodes were always left open ended. In a day when even frikkin Star Trek (DS9) had plot resolution, and B5 and Buffy had great planning and story arcs, X-Files never went anywhere or did anything.
For less money you get more hdd space
From who? All the ones I've seen you either get slightly more space for the same money or the same space for less money.
fm tuner
Usefull if you want it. But if people wanted it, they'd be buying players that have it, and not the iPod.
record and playback
Useless.
dolby compliance
AAC is from Dolby. If you're talking Dolby Digtial, who cares with headphones and lossy compression?
auto detection over most OS' as a USB mass storage device
News flash: so does the iPod.
Hech alot of them also support many other file formats
...and don't support others. You're trading AAC for WMA, and nobody outside of five posters on Slashdot gives a damn about Ogg.
and have no DRM
And what, exactly, is preventing you from having DRM free music on your iPod?
se rechargeable AAA or other standard cells instead of a hard to replace battery so that replacing it costs $9 not $99.
Pfft. Recharable AAA batteries last a fraction of 12 hours, take up a lot more space than built in batteries, and you'll spend more on alkaline batteries during the lifespan of the iPod's battery. And as long as you are doing it yourself, a new iPod battery is $30, not $100.
So obviously the iPod isn't winning because of it's technical merits. All I am saying that the iPod is king of the hill because of branding, and if anybody wants to unseat it, it has to have a strong brand.
What's obvious is that you are shooting your mouth off with absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. Technical merits? Who was the very first company to have an mp3 player with a 1.8" hard drive? Apple. Who was the first to use a 1.0" hard drive? Apple. Who used Firewire when other players used USB 1.1? Apple. Who has the best hardware and software interface? Apple. As another poster pointed out, Apple hasn't been using "dated technology", they've been bleeding edge. It's a fact, deal with it.
What you anti-fanboy's don't seem to realize is that the iPod came out with all around A+ features: capacity, size, software, hardware interface, and you seem to think that other manufacturers have an "iPod killer" because they have a couple more entries on a billeted list of features. But nobody gives a shit about voice recording (the next time you're in Best Buy check out the aisels filled with mp3 players and cd players and the two spots on one shelf in the entire store that contain voice recorders) and no one is going to watch a movie on a 2 inch screen. And inevitably, their players will suck ass in an area where Apple still has an A+, usually with the software or the user interface on the hardware.
Yes, Apple has a great brand in consumer audio right now. But that's because the iPod was great technically, not because of "branding", because before the iPod, they had no branding in consumer audio.
if sony can get the beatles on it's Itunes-killer, could it seize the advantage?
No, because Beatles fans already own the Beatles music on cd, which is breain-dead easy to convert to aac or mp3 for your iPod. This wouldn't be a killer feature for Sony unless they found some unreleased Beatles albums and only made it available on the Sony store.
Wow, you aren't the same AC who complains about the speed of copying a file with the old Mac OS 8 compared to NT 4, are you? Because that's what your complaints sound like: a bunch of unfounded malarky.
You didn't miss the point, you made it up. The parent didn't even mention buying music online. He was talking of the library management/hardware interface aspect.
How the hell do you ever think you'll keep your corporations and public officials under scrutiny if you're not allowed a (truly) free press?
That's nice, but totally irrelvant, since there is nothing to scrutinize here. No criminal acts committed, no bribes given to government officials, no hazardous products involved. This is the technical equivilant to sneaking into a celebrities backyard and taking pictures for a tabeloid rag. Whats the legality fo that in Sweden?
Now take your argument and take it to the logical next step.
No its not logical, because you're talking Apples and oranges. As soon as Apple Computer starts initiating wars under false pretenses, is involved in government coverups, or starts shipping biohazardous products, then we'll talk about your "next step." Until then, this is the technical of sneaking into the backyard of Britney Spears to try and snap some pictures of her latest husband/boyfriend, and then publishing them in the Sun while loudly blathering about the "publics right to know."
1) The new Ipod's aren't all the tiny. A lot of USB players are a lot smaller
Okay, which ones are smaller, cheaper, have screens, and are cheaper? Not to mention having the same capacity? In the post-expo story, some dude posted a link to a player that he said was smaller, cheaper etc...except it was actually about twice as big and more expensive.
You're an idiot.
And you're a partisan hack.
And as I have clearly shown, no, it does not.
Of course it does, or else you wouldn't have brought it up in the first place. Even if that's not what was in your mind at the time, its what the words you wrote meant.
I am doing no such thing: my attacking of the man is entirely separate from my argument.
Pfft. Have you done seperate posts for reasoned rebuttals and posts to flame? No? Then it's an ad hominem.
- "The Panel cannot conclude that a political agenda at '60 Minutes Wednesday' drove either the timing or the airing of the [Bush Guard] Segment," wrote Thornburgh and Boccardi. And just to ensure that nobody missed the point, they reiterated, "The Panel does not believe that political motivations drove the Sept. 8 Segment."
Bam, kicked Goldberg's ass. Now, for neocons who just can't let this go, I got three things for ya: SBFVT, Nigerian yellowcake, and a nice, warm cup of stfu."Some communication" is pretty meaningless without something concrete. What are the chances either campaign DIDN'T talk to any one of the major channels?
I also find it hilarious that so much hot air has been spent over "Memogate", considering the "fib factor" hack job done on Al Gore in 2000, and all the uncritical coverage of SBVFT. Where's the investigation into the ties between SBVFT and the Bush campaign, eh? And for all the conservatives who just can't let this go: at least when CBS used a questionable memo, at least it wasn't one of the primary factors in the loss of 1,300 American lives and over $120 billion dollars for a false cause.
Yes there are some side affects of having 200,000 users on at the same time that you can't predict from even a lengthly beta period, but this isn't Blizzard's first MMOG, and they aren't a poor startup company. There is no excuse for having overloaded servers or not having enough bandwidth, because buying servers and OC3's is chump change when you are going to be getting over $100 million a year in subscriber fees and your parent company is Vivendi.
Even the Mini is $100 more than what I can build a comperable X86 at.
No shit, Sherlock. The same is true for any other OEM.
I have three things for conservatives who just can't let this go:
The Democrats didn't give a crap about the deficit before the Republican Congress and the Internet bubble erased it under Clinton
Bullshit. Clinton decided that fighting the deficit was his top priority when he was sworn into office, and pushed for a tax increase. Congressional Republicans wanted to give out tax breaks to "stimulate the economy", and thanks to Bush II we all know how well that approach works.
They sure didn't give a crap about it during the 1980s when they were in control of Congress.
Right, it was that damn Democratic president Reagan and his huge tax cuts and boosts in military spending that drove up the deficit in the 80's. Oh wait, Reagan wasn't a Republican...which party was he from again?
And don't get me started on Senator Byrd... He's the biggest pork barrel spender EVER.
Oh, sure, Democrats go for pork all the time. The difference between them and national Republicans is, they aren't two-faced hypocritical fucks about the issue. For example, take Senator Graham, who bitched about "big government" constantly, but then turned around and said "I'm carrying so much pork I've got tricinosis."
You can sue anyone for pretty much anything.
And that's the way it should be. There is no possible way to screen out potentially frivilous lawsuits without blocking worthy ones as well. How can you possibly decide the merit of a suit before hearing the facts? If a case doesn't have merit, it will be dismissed. If it is a "frivilous" one, it will be dismissed with prejudice so it can't be brought again.