As a Republican, I agree. After countless failed attempts to "save the troops" and get out of Iraq and debating endlessly over pointless drivel, you'd think they would eventually notice their terrible approval ratings and start listening to the people, but they're relentless. I wish they would stop wasting my tax money.
The public has such a low opinion of Congress because it hasn't challenged Bush enough, not because it challenged him to much.
I can asure you the US was in doldrums of international opinion long before Bush got into power.
Sense of proportion much? Attitudes from 10 years ago aren't in the same anti-American galaxy today.
Bush represents everything that liberals [inparticular from abroad] hate - hes a God-send to them. A right-wing Republican Texan with uneloquent speach.
If you're a conservative and have any respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, or a desire for a modicum of competence in your elected officials - you'll have a perfectly justified disgust for Bush. If not, you're just an IOKIYAR tool.
But on the other hand...who is going to pay the salaries of all the people who collect and publish scientific papers? I realize we don't have so many typesetters and draftsmen and layout artists needed, since stuff can be distributed right from the author's PDF file. But that just means we have to pay for server bandwidth, people to set up good security so that the server doesn't get hacked and start spewing a billion penis-pill ads, people to program a simple but robust user interface so people can upload and download papers, pay other (expensive) people to maintain a database and good search engine so you can find what you're looking for, et cetera and so forth. No way it won't cost loads of money to distribute high-quality work broadly.
We're already paying for all of that! Where do you think journals come up with the money for layout, printing and bandwidth? By charging us for access to research that we paid for in the first place! And aside from the physical costs, add salaries for these middle men, plus their lobbying to Congress to insure they can keep being leeches. Publicly financed access would be a insignificant fraction of continuing the private journal racket, and complaining about it is just another penny-wise pound-stupid reaction with those of an irrational fear of government.
This is what they did in India for decades. Until recently patents were only available on rather specific processes for making drugs, not for the drugs themselves. Results? Lots of cheap knockoff drugs, not a lot of innovative new drugs.
The Cold War of the second half of the 20th century was ultimately won by the US because the USSR couldn't keep up with the financial strain of building and maintaining such a huge military. The US basically outspent the USSR.
Wishful revisionist thinking to justify Reagan's enormous military spending. The USSR fell because of Gorbachev's perestroika and popular unrest, not because it was outspent in a military race that would have guaranteed mutual destruction in the event of an actual war.
You just said pretty much what I wanted to say. There's also this policy that Wal-Mart has that lets you return items that you have purchased. I think you even have 90 days to do so. If it takes you more than 90 days to realize that you bought something that's not a Wii-mote then you definitely have other problems.
Do they also compensate you for your wasted time and wasted gas money because they deliberately sold a crappy handheld that deliberately tries to look like a controller for a different system?
The goal of prison is rehabilitation. I hear that all the time. Are you claiming that the actual reason we use prison is punishment?
It's both, you incompetent twat. Where is that address? I'd like to see if your views on punishment stay the same when you're rolling around on the ground screaming in pain.
Completely batshit irrelevant: she did the crime but did not serve the time. Why don't you give me your address so I can come visit your house with a baseball bat and break your kneecaps. Then I'll promise to never do it again, and don't. So no harm no foul right?
I wish Firefly hadn't been canceled too, but c'mon, it cost a million bucks an episode to make and it was unpopular
Mmmm bullshit. You take a show that has to be watched in order, show it out of order, and constantly mess with the time slot, and it fails to pick up viewers? Who knew? The part that I don't understand is why greenlight the show and spend a bunch of money on it, only to deliberately run it into the ground so it gets canceled. Especially when they canceled Dark Angel because they wanted to use the money to make Firefly.
Aside from development costs, there's economics of scale. Compare the size of the game market today to what it was in the 80's. There are also a lot more games being made - Half Life 2 might have been a good shooter, but if Valve's asking price was $80, it would have given people second thoughts about where to spend their money.
I don't see why popularity on the web is reason for a Wikipedia article. If I want to know about a webcomic, and I have access to Wikipedia - well shit, I have access to the comic too. I can likely find out everything I could possibly want to know about the comic or its author on the comic page directly.
You could say the same thing about other subjects. Why have a page on Vista when I could go to Microsoft's site and read about it there? Besides, just because something is popular and available now doesn't mean it will still be popular and available in the future. If Penny Arcade closes shop next spring, someone who hears about it in 2012 might hear of it and want to read Wikipedia to see what it was about.
the notability standards are biased against web only things (like webcomics) since it will only accept citations from print sources or news sources, so unless it has gained visibility to the news media, or won an award it is not likely to meet the notability criteria even if it is notable on the web....This is a problem!
Hell yes it's a problem. If these admins would stop taking themselves *way* too seriously for five seconds, they might see the irony in saying web based subjects are not notable when they are working on a web based encyclopedia.
Can you name instance as popular of a couple of guys dubbing over some program with their own made up lines?
4 billion people on the planet
6 and a half billion. And how many of those have internet access?
it's hardly notable
That argument could be used for anything. Why have a page on Bengal cats? There just one breed of shorthair. Hardly notable. Why have pages on William Jefferson or Duke Cunningham or Tom Delay? Corrupt politicians are old news, hardly notable, so we can go ahead and delete those pages, can't we?
Basically, questionable issues of notability should be handled like shows you hate on TV: if you don't like it, don't look at it.
I remember when the entry for the "Juggernaut Bitch" video was deleted for lack of notability, nevermind that at that point over a million people had seen it, and was notable enough for for the producers to put it in the frikkin movie. Yet you'll have no problem finding lengthly articles on obscure Final Fantasy or Star Wars characters. "Notability" seems to be a completely arbitrary standard that admins use to remove articles they don't like.
news at 11. Remember when they wanted to raise album prices to $20-$25 because at $15 an album, they could only afford to buy Gulfstream 3's instead of Gulfstream 4's?
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As a Republican, I agree. After countless failed attempts to "save the troops" and get out of Iraq and debating endlessly over pointless drivel, you'd think they would eventually notice their terrible approval ratings and start listening to the people, but they're relentless. I wish they would stop wasting my tax money.
The public has such a low opinion of Congress because it hasn't challenged Bush enough, not because it challenged him to much.
I can asure you the US was in doldrums of international opinion long before Bush got into power.
Sense of proportion much? Attitudes from 10 years ago aren't in the same anti-American galaxy today.
Bush represents everything that liberals [inparticular from abroad] hate - hes a God-send to them. A right-wing Republican Texan with uneloquent speach.
If you're a conservative and have any respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, or a desire for a modicum of competence in your elected officials - you'll have a perfectly justified disgust for Bush. If not, you're just an IOKIYAR tool.
But on the other hand...who is going to pay the salaries of all the people who collect and publish scientific papers? I realize we don't have so many typesetters and draftsmen and layout artists needed, since stuff can be distributed right from the author's PDF file. But that just means we have to pay for server bandwidth, people to set up good security so that the server doesn't get hacked and start spewing a billion penis-pill ads, people to program a simple but robust user interface so people can upload and download papers, pay other (expensive) people to maintain a database and good search engine so you can find what you're looking for, et cetera and so forth. No way it won't cost loads of money to distribute high-quality work broadly.
We're already paying for all of that! Where do you think journals come up with the money for layout, printing and bandwidth? By charging us for access to research that we paid for in the first place! And aside from the physical costs, add salaries for these middle men, plus their lobbying to Congress to insure they can keep being leeches. Publicly financed access would be a insignificant fraction of continuing the private journal racket, and complaining about it is just another penny-wise pound-stupid reaction with those of an irrational fear of government.
Yup. ATI still has a red mark on it's face from the bitchslap it received a few years ago when it leaked some Mac specs the day before an expo.
most of that list is based on products that are innovations, not inventions.
This is what they did in India for decades. Until recently patents were only available on rather specific processes for making drugs, not for the drugs themselves. Results? Lots of cheap knockoff drugs, not a lot of innovative new drugs.
That's why you have publicly funded research.
The Cold War of the second half of the 20th century was ultimately won by the US because the USSR couldn't keep up with the financial strain of building and maintaining such a huge military. The US basically outspent the USSR.
Wishful revisionist thinking to justify Reagan's enormous military spending. The USSR fell because of Gorbachev's perestroika and popular unrest, not because it was outspent in a military race that would have guaranteed mutual destruction in the event of an actual war.
You have your s's mixed up - that was sarcasm.
You just said pretty much what I wanted to say. There's also this policy that Wal-Mart has that lets you return items that you have purchased. I think you even have 90 days to do so. If it takes you more than 90 days to realize that you bought something that's not a Wii-mote then you definitely have other problems.
Do they also compensate you for your wasted time and wasted gas money because they deliberately sold a crappy handheld that deliberately tries to look like a controller for a different system?
Yeah, that's why we have well heeled lobbyists and wealthy special interests for them to sell out to.
The goal of prison is rehabilitation. I hear that all the time. Are you claiming that the actual reason we use prison is punishment?
It's both, you incompetent twat. Where is that address? I'd like to see if your views on punishment stay the same when you're rolling around on the ground screaming in pain.
since she hasn't killed anyone else.
Completely batshit irrelevant: she did the crime but did not serve the time. Why don't you give me your address so I can come visit your house with a baseball bat and break your kneecaps. Then I'll promise to never do it again, and don't. So no harm no foul right?
Every woman who kills her boyfriend/husband says it was because he was abusive.
Just how many songs do you have? My iTunes uses 70 megs of memory for 15,000 songs, plus artwork.
I wish Firefly hadn't been canceled too, but c'mon, it cost a million bucks an episode to make and it was unpopular
Mmmm bullshit. You take a show that has to be watched in order, show it out of order, and constantly mess with the time slot, and it fails to pick up viewers? Who knew? The part that I don't understand is why greenlight the show and spend a bunch of money on it, only to deliberately run it into the ground so it gets canceled. Especially when they canceled Dark Angel because they wanted to use the money to make Firefly.
Aside from development costs, there's economics of scale. Compare the size of the game market today to what it was in the 80's. There are also a lot more games being made - Half Life 2 might have been a good shooter, but if Valve's asking price was $80, it would have given people second thoughts about where to spend their money.
Thanks for backing me up, but...YUK! Poor bastard...
How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000MST3K?
Nope. MS3K would make interjections, not redub stuff.
I don't see why popularity on the web is reason for a Wikipedia article. If I want to know about a webcomic, and I have access to Wikipedia - well shit, I have access to the comic too. I can likely find out everything I could possibly want to know about the comic or its author on the comic page directly.
You could say the same thing about other subjects. Why have a page on Vista when I could go to Microsoft's site and read about it there? Besides, just because something is popular and available now doesn't mean it will still be popular and available in the future. If Penny Arcade closes shop next spring, someone who hears about it in 2012 might hear of it and want to read Wikipedia to see what it was about.
Never heard of the "Juggernaut Bitch" video, don't know which movie you are referring to
....This is a problem!
Here ya go.
the notability standards are biased against web only things (like webcomics) since it will only accept citations from print sources or news sources, so unless it has gained visibility to the news media, or won an award it is not likely to meet the notability criteria even if it is notable on the web
Hell yes it's a problem. If these admins would stop taking themselves *way* too seriously for five seconds, they might see the irony in saying web based subjects are not notable when they are working on a web based encyclopedia.
You talk like a million is a big number.
Can you name instance as popular of a couple of guys dubbing over some program with their own made up lines?
4 billion people on the planet
6 and a half billion. And how many of those have internet access?
it's hardly notable
That argument could be used for anything. Why have a page on Bengal cats? There just one breed of shorthair. Hardly notable. Why have pages on William Jefferson or Duke Cunningham or Tom Delay? Corrupt politicians are old news, hardly notable, so we can go ahead and delete those pages, can't we?
Basically, questionable issues of notability should be handled like shows you hate on TV: if you don't like it, don't look at it.
I remember when the entry for the "Juggernaut Bitch" video was deleted for lack of notability, nevermind that at that point over a million people had seen it, and was notable enough for for the producers to put it in the frikkin movie. Yet you'll have no problem finding lengthly articles on obscure Final Fantasy or Star Wars characters. "Notability" seems to be a completely arbitrary standard that admins use to remove articles they don't like.
news at 11. Remember when they wanted to raise album prices to $20-$25 because at $15 an album, they could only afford to buy Gulfstream 3's instead of Gulfstream 4's?
UN peacekeeping.
Peace is in our interests, ya dumb bitch. Given what happened in the last century, do you honestly think an unstable Europe is a good thing for us?
Unless you're transporting valuable cargo like, I dunno, medicine or food or something.
Nope.
Look up "Bosnia"
See above. And if you someday manage to pull your head out, try looking up WWI and see where that baby got started.
and stop posting AC after I show you you're wrong. We all know it's you.
Yawn. You're wrong. Again. Have you been right on anything in your life? I bet not.
Mancrush much? Why don't you just go ahead and suck his dick while you are at it?