Yes, Ron Paul would help get the government out things it shouldn't be doing - needless wars, torture, warrantless wiretapping, etc. He would not help the government get into things it *should* be doing, like single payer health care and reducing our CO2 emissions.
The problem with Libertarianism is that it's one-size-fits-all philosophy has no way to deal with issues that require government action: health care costs, global warming, pollution, etc.
Is there any candidate in this race other than Giuliani who has actively supported gun control? There's a flareup every time there's a school shooting, but as a major issue it went away in the 90's along with the high crime rates.
Not all sources and stories are created equal. Is the public served by protecting whistleblowers like Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) or Sherron Watkins (Enron) if they wish to remain anonymous? Certainly. Is the public served by protecting the identity of the maid that takes pictures of Britney Spears in the shower and sells them to a tabloid? Not really.
If Think Secret were covering stories of corruption or lawbreaking at Apple, that would be one thing. But they aren't, they're engaging in tabloid journalism on Apple.
Before I begin my first real anti-apple rant on Slashdot, I should note that I have and love an iBook, a 4th Gen iPod, a 2nd Gen iPod Shuffle, a Hackintosh, and an iPod Mini.
A lot of trolls say much the same thing now, so your statement doesn't help you any even if it's true.
Now, to the rant. Perhaps I'm just paying more attention, but it feels to me that Apple is becoming more and more of an Evil Empire(tm).
Well, you get points for not using the cliches of "Apple is turning into Microsoft" or "if this were Microsoft, you'd all be up in arms..."
It's a little thing, but it pushed me over the edge
Did they offer you some cheese at that point?
In a related story, are there competitors to the nano that are as elegantly designed and easy to use?
MP3 was a far more entrenched audio format than FLAC when Apple came out with the iPod, but that didn't stop them from making AAC the default format for iTunes and the iPod. And for people who already have iPods or even just use iTunes, what's the incentive to switch to FLAC? Just rip to Apple Lossless and call it good.
Although I totally agree with you, let's not forget that behind professional sports, there are gazillions of dollars.
No, lets forget. First, "having it good" does not mean you should have to put up with getting cornholed. Second, the "megabucks" only to go the top players, so your proposal is even more disingenuous.
At the annual student staff meeting at my university, we were split up into groups by department. The groups were to then come up with a "super hero" who's "super power" would have something to do with our department's function. We were also to come up with a "super weakness" like Kryptonite, which would also have something to do with our department. We were given large pieces of paper and markers to draw our super hero.
This clusterfuck apparently came together by directors taking suggestions from the full time staff and combining them together, sort of like the cubes in the Cube movies. Since the only mandatory part of the meeting was the annual safety training, most of the students left on the spot.
The president and members of the House and Senate take oaths to protect the Constitution. By voting to sweep warrantless wiretapping, a direct violation of the 4th Amendment, under the rug they are breaking those oaths.
No dice. Anything integral to the operation of the printer should be in the box, period. What is especially egregious is when you buy a complete computer system and printer from HP and there is no USB cable. This happened to my girlfriend's mom - she bought a bundled HP computer and printer for her office, and had to run out and buy a USB cable.
I don't think Ian Holm will be able to be cast as Bilbo... they made him look younger for a brief shot in LOTR, but from what I remember it involved stretching the skin on his face, etc, and wouldn't be workable for a full movie.
There is the digital de-aging stuff they did for Patrick Steward and Ian McKellan in X-Men 3. Don't know how well it work work for a whole movie though...
See, it's dumbfucks like you that can't tell the difference between arguable fact ("anyone who talks about how great a shit sandwich tastes is...a troll") and opinion ("Vista is a shit sandwich") that fuck up the moderation system. In reality, it's shit-sucking toads like you that are the trolls. And, of course, foul mouthed asshole like me. The difference is that I just call people names rather than try to silence them.
It is a fact. A bloated, massive downgrade in performance for little to no benefit in return is a shit sandwich anyway you slice it...cock gobbler.:)
Fuckin' tard. What part of "not saturating any of the machine's bottlenecks" did you not understand? It works nigh-instantaneously already.
It's not about bottlenecks, it's about improving performance, dumbass. Is a 500 hp Mustang Cobra pretty sweet? Of course. But a 750 hp Saleen S7 is even sweeter. With Vista, you're trading performance (and a lot of disk space) for what? A pretty GUI? Whoop de fuckin do.
Poorly conceived, but never implemented plan to give law enforcement backdoor access to computer systems if given a warrant
is somehow worse than
Actually spying on Americans on a massive scale without warrants. Furthermore, the justification for this program is The War On Terrah. Except the NSA wiretapping started before 911 and didn't stop it.
Stork, this is exactly what Ben Franklin (allegedly) was talking about when he said:
Those who trade freedom for security deserve neither, and lose both
So what makes attempted key escrow so bad under Clinton, but NSA wiretapping a-okay under Bush? Clinton did it. So, stork, let's the play the "what if Clinton did it" game:
What would be the wingnut response if:
Clinton apologized to a communist government for a mid-air crash clearly caused by their pilot
Clinton was warned point blank that Al Queda was determined to attack the U.S., possibly using hijacked airplanes as weapons, and ignored it
Clinton sat around on his ass and read a children's book for 20 minutes when he knew the nation was under attack
Clinton was warned point blank that a coastal city was in danger of being destroyed by a hurricane, and rushed!...to go on vacation
Clinton stays on vacation after hurricane hits and destroys said coastal city.
Clinton lied us into attacking and occupying another country
Clinton's administration did zero planing for how to run said occupied country
Clinton fired United States Attorneys because they wouldn't press bogus cases against Republicans just before an election
Clinton started a massive wiretapping program, without warrants, with the NSA
Clinton's DOJ held American citizens in jail, without trial, and tortured them (yes, sensory deprivation is torture)
Clinton routinely used recessed appointments to get around the Republican Senate. Remember how Republicans freaked out when Dems discussed filibustering a few of Bush's nominees, when the UpOrDownVote party blocked 60 of Clinton's?
Considering the wingnut Republicans impeached Bill Clinton over a blowjob (no, it was NOT for lying under oath), I'd imagine he'd be strung up by his testicles in some cave with a permanent blood transfusion so they could torture him 24 hours a day. You guys should go for some truth in advertising and change your name from the Republic Party to the Giant Fucking Hypocrisy Party.
It's just a socialist joke.
So if Democrats are socialists for objecting to unconstitutional wiretapping, that would make the Republic Party communists for complaining about FBI files, right?
Seriously stork, I don't know why you even bother replying anymore when I catch you trying to spread your BS. You're Charlie, I'm Lucy, and I pull your football of lame talking points out from under you every time.
It makes a lot of sense to segment the Operating system into Home and Business.
Yes, just as it made sense for Microsoft to charge more for multiple processors when the code difference is a few lines in the registry. Client/Server segmentation does make sense. Home/Business, not so much.
Indeed, two or three fuckwad asshat groupthink mods have modded you "-1 Troll" for daring to civilly express the opinion that Vista is not all that bad in your experience. Good old Slashdot.
No, anyone who talks about how great a shit sandwich tastes is either a tool or a troll. And Vista is a shit sandwich.
Of course, my new machine is a Core2 Quad 2.4GHz (OC'd to 3.2GHz) with 4GB RAM and four 250GB hard drives in a RAID10 array, so there's probably little out there that could choke it.
Naturally. Find a work around for your driver issue and upgrade it to XP. You'll notice the difference.
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Yes, Ron Paul would help get the government out things it shouldn't be doing - needless wars, torture, warrantless wiretapping, etc. He would not help the government get into things it *should* be doing, like single payer health care and reducing our CO2 emissions.
The problem with Libertarianism is that it's one-size-fits-all philosophy has no way to deal with issues that require government action: health care costs, global warming, pollution, etc.
Is there any candidate in this race other than Giuliani who has actively supported gun control? There's a flareup every time there's a school shooting, but as a major issue it went away in the 90's along with the high crime rates.
What Apple fans need to remember
What Apple fans? Those crickets over in the corner?
Two words: Osborne Effect.
Not all sources and stories are created equal. Is the public served by protecting whistleblowers like Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) or Sherron Watkins (Enron) if they wish to remain anonymous? Certainly. Is the public served by protecting the identity of the maid that takes pictures of Britney Spears in the shower and sells them to a tabloid? Not really.
If Think Secret were covering stories of corruption or lawbreaking at Apple, that would be one thing. But they aren't, they're engaging in tabloid journalism on Apple.
Before I begin my first real anti-apple rant on Slashdot, I should note that I have and love an iBook, a 4th Gen iPod, a 2nd Gen iPod Shuffle, a Hackintosh, and an iPod Mini.
A lot of trolls say much the same thing now, so your statement doesn't help you any even if it's true.
Now, to the rant. Perhaps I'm just paying more attention, but it feels to me that Apple is becoming more and more of an Evil Empire(tm).
Well, you get points for not using the cliches of "Apple is turning into Microsoft" or "if this were Microsoft, you'd all be up in arms..."
It's a little thing, but it pushed me over the edge
Did they offer you some cheese at that point?
In a related story, are there competitors to the nano that are as elegantly designed and easy to use?
Nope.
MP3 was a far more entrenched audio format than FLAC when Apple came out with the iPod, but that didn't stop them from making AAC the default format for iTunes and the iPod. And for people who already have iPods or even just use iTunes, what's the incentive to switch to FLAC? Just rip to Apple Lossless and call it good.
Is FLAC better than the lossless AAC that Apple uses?
I see, the athletes should get cornholed because other people make and spend a great deal of money on sports. Makes perfect sense now.
Like the Steroid Olympics on SNL where a guy tries to clean & jerk 1800 lbs and ends up tearing his arms off in the attempt.
Although I totally agree with you, let's not forget that behind professional sports, there are gazillions of dollars.
No, lets forget. First, "having it good" does not mean you should have to put up with getting cornholed. Second, the "megabucks" only to go the top players, so your proposal is even more disingenuous.
At the annual student staff meeting at my university, we were split up into groups by department. The groups were to then come up with a "super hero" who's "super power" would have something to do with our department's function. We were also to come up with a "super weakness" like Kryptonite, which would also have something to do with our department. We were given large pieces of paper and markers to draw our super hero.
This clusterfuck apparently came together by directors taking suggestions from the full time staff and combining them together, sort of like the cubes in the Cube movies. Since the only mandatory part of the meeting was the annual safety training, most of the students left on the spot.
The president and members of the House and Senate take oaths to protect the Constitution. By voting to sweep warrantless wiretapping, a direct violation of the 4th Amendment, under the rug they are breaking those oaths.
Yep, and those oath breakers need to be tossed out of office.
It makes sense if you think about it.
No dice. Anything integral to the operation of the printer should be in the box, period. What is especially egregious is when you buy a complete computer system and printer from HP and there is no USB cable. This happened to my girlfriend's mom - she bought a bundled HP computer and printer for her office, and had to run out and buy a USB cable.
I also hate Wal-Mart, but it's open when Target and K-Mart are closed, and the only big box store in my town is Sams.
I don't think Ian Holm will be able to be cast as Bilbo... they made him look younger for a brief shot in LOTR, but from what I remember it involved stretching the skin on his face, etc, and wouldn't be workable for a full movie.
There is the digital de-aging stuff they did for Patrick Steward and Ian McKellan in X-Men 3. Don't know how well it work work for a whole movie though...
IIRC Aragon is 90 by the time the Fellowship gets going in LOTR, but that's about 90 years after The Hobbit. So he'd be a baby.
Or when Bilbo fights off the spiders in Mirkwood.
See, it's dumbfucks like you that can't tell the difference between arguable fact ("anyone who talks about how great a shit sandwich tastes is...a troll") and opinion ("Vista is a shit sandwich") that fuck up the moderation system. In reality, it's shit-sucking toads like you that are the trolls. And, of course, foul mouthed asshole like me. The difference is that I just call people names rather than try to silence them.
:)
It is a fact. A bloated, massive downgrade in performance for little to no benefit in return is a shit sandwich anyway you slice it...cock gobbler.
Fuckin' tard. What part of "not saturating any of the machine's bottlenecks" did you not understand? It works nigh-instantaneously already.
It's not about bottlenecks, it's about improving performance, dumbass. Is a 500 hp Mustang Cobra pretty sweet? Of course. But a 750 hp Saleen S7 is even sweeter. With Vista, you're trading performance (and a lot of disk space) for what? A pretty GUI? Whoop de fuckin do.
What would be the wingnut response if:
- Clinton apologized to a communist government for a mid-air crash clearly caused by their pilot
- Clinton was warned point blank that Al Queda was determined to attack the U.S., possibly using hijacked airplanes as weapons, and ignored it
- Clinton sat around on his ass and read a children's book for 20 minutes when he knew the nation was under attack
- Clinton was warned point blank that a coastal city was in danger of being destroyed by a hurricane, and rushed!...to go on vacation
- Clinton stays on vacation after hurricane hits and destroys said coastal city.
- Clinton lied us into attacking and occupying another country
- Clinton's administration did zero planing for how to run said occupied country
- Clinton fired United States Attorneys because they wouldn't press bogus cases against Republicans just before an election
- Clinton started a massive wiretapping program, without warrants, with the NSA
- Clinton's DOJ held American citizens in jail, without trial, and tortured them (yes, sensory deprivation is torture)
- Clinton tried lying us into war again on Iran
- Clinton routinely used recessed appointments to get around the Republican Senate. Remember how Republicans freaked out when Dems discussed filibustering a few of Bush's nominees, when the UpOrDownVote party blocked 60 of Clinton's?
Considering the wingnut Republicans impeached Bill Clinton over a blowjob (no, it was NOT for lying under oath), I'd imagine he'd be strung up by his testicles in some cave with a permanent blood transfusion so they could torture him 24 hours a day. You guys should go for some truth in advertising and change your name from the Republic Party to the Giant Fucking Hypocrisy Party.It's just a socialist joke.
So if Democrats are socialists for objecting to unconstitutional wiretapping, that would make the Republic Party communists for complaining about FBI files, right?
Seriously stork, I don't know why you even bother replying anymore when I catch you trying to spread your BS. You're Charlie, I'm Lucy, and I pull your football of lame talking points out from under you every time.
It makes a lot of sense to segment the Operating system into Home and Business.
Yes, just as it made sense for Microsoft to charge more for multiple processors when the code difference is a few lines in the registry. Client/Server segmentation does make sense. Home/Business, not so much.
Indeed, two or three fuckwad asshat groupthink mods have modded you "-1 Troll" for daring to civilly express the opinion that Vista is not all that bad in your experience. Good old Slashdot.
No, anyone who talks about how great a shit sandwich tastes is either a tool or a troll. And Vista is a shit sandwich.
Of course, my new machine is a Core2 Quad 2.4GHz (OC'd to 3.2GHz) with 4GB RAM and four 250GB hard drives in a RAID10 array, so there's probably little out there that could choke it.
Naturally. Find a work around for your driver issue and upgrade it to XP. You'll notice the difference.