Well, it you actually understood economics you would know that this is in fact true.
By "true" I assume you mean "myth". Other than consumer spending, cutting taxes has never lead to a shred of economic growth. And unless a national sales tax is implemented, all the consumer spending in the world is going to do squat to raise funds for national security.
Honestly from what I've seen of this, I think women in responsible positions are given a tougher time then men.
Oh, please. Any time a man commits a crime, he gets zero sympathy and we rush to throw him in jail. Anytime a woman commits a crime, we rush to find out why she did it to see if she has an excuse.
So then we are left with the question of who's problem it is that someone is unable to live within their means.
For starters it helps if your government cares at least as much for those on the bottom of the social ladder as the ones on the top. Since Bush took office, Republicans have given huge tax cuts for the rich but there hasn't been a dent in payroll taxes for the working class. Raising the minimum wage, rolling back restrictions on unions, reducing offshoring and paying for for secondary education would do wonders for those on the bottom.
So? Putting bills on credit cards makes things worse.
And some people have no choice. And I have zero sympathy for the credit card industry, as they heap offers on people with bad or boderline credit, and drown anyone fresh out of bankruptcy court in credit offers as they can't declare bankruptcy again for 7 years.
Sorry, no. Babies don't 'just happen'. Just like bad credit *you* have to take deliberate action for it to happen.
No, seriously, spare us the elitism. You could be the most responsible person on earth and have money saved up to pay 6 years worth of bills and still be in serious trouble from an accident, a job loss, or medical problems not covered by insurance.
Right. That's why people lived for centuries in hot climates without air conditioning.
And you don't think people died then too?
Hardly. Protein != meat. It's quite possible to have a meatless diet and to quite healthy.
Probably the best solution then would be to add a downconvert option to library software, for those who like to keep their digital music in lossless format but want good battery life on their mp3 players. This would become more important if the industry ever quits dragging their feet on DVD-audio or come up with a new surround-sound format for computing devices.
This would almost never be true. People are just not that Jeckle and Hyde.
I think you'd be surprised - not everyone is a well-rounded Renaissance Man. And one streak of foolishness (like moving out at 18 and going on a credit card spree) or a string of bad luck (job loss) can leave you with bad credit years after you get your crap together.
I always thought it was rediculous to have poker games broadcast on a sports channel, but it seems to be big business for ESPN. I thought it was the lamest thing I ever saw on the network, until they started airing dart tournaments. Jay Leno did a bit around ten years ago on ESSP - the Especially Stupid Sports Network, featuring things like Nordic Trek racing - darts would seem to be just one step above that. If they can do darts and poker, I don't see any reason why they couldn't broadcast a good Counterstrike or Warcraft 3 game.
My guess is you have a piss poor credit rating, or at least not optimal! Why the hell should a company hire you without doing some background checks.
Because anything outside of my employment history and criminal record (or lack thereof) is not their fucking business, that's why. They have no more business acessing my reliability through a credit rating than if they asked me if I was divorced. Using credit scores on applicants should be as illegal as asking a woman if she's planning on having children.
You might get 1-2 geeks that knew what it was, so it was clear back in 1996 that nothing would ever became of MP3, which is exactly how it is today. Oh wait....
Yes, wait and think about why the mp3 caught on in the first place, and it's advantages over WAV. Then think about the number of similar leaps Ogg makes over mp3. You know, none.
I really don't understand the opposition to OGG.
Because Oggers act like it's the second coming of Crist, when in reality nobody gives a damn.
This is a direct result of government being entangled in the economy.
Considering this is all being done by private companies, how do you figure? This sounds more like a poster child case of when the government needs to interfere with the economy.
You can recover from identity theft. It's not easy, but you can get all the activity from the theft purged from your credit history and it will be restored to what it should be. So a year/two later, (maybe shorter), it would be a non-even credit history-wise.
If you've got a few thousand dollars to spend on a lawyer to help clear your name, maybe. Otherwise I doubt it.
You can explain this fact to your employer. I certainly would if they asked to check my credit history.
Someone may be a great worker on the job, but could be an obsessive-compulsive gambler or shopper off the job, which will hose their credit rating.
And organization and care in one area of someones life does not mean organization and care in all parts of their lives. Like that old bit of advice dads would give their daughters over potential dates - look at how well the guy takes care of his car. But what if you're dealing with someone who cares more for material possessions than people?
Some guys were trying to release a Marathon mod for Quake as it supported OpenGL and was a better engine. Mara-Quake, I believe, but Google isn't very forthcoming. Bungie stomped on that one, too.
It was okay, seemed like there were lots of graphical glitches.
What kind of glitches? If you're talking about seeing through walls, that was done on purpose so you wouldn't be fighting blind if your back was up against a wall. If they made a sequel (I wish) they would probably make the immediate walls transparent and fog out everthing behind them, but graphics cards weren't that powerful in 2000. There's also a patch for Win2k and XP that fixes a bug that would cause the game to crash. Other than that, I'm not sure what your problem would be, as I've run the game on ATI and Nvidia hardware without problems.
Also, I wasn't too sure about the hand to hand combat via mouse clicks.
I love it...nice and simple, hard to screw up. I'm an old fart who did well with Mortal Combat, but newer fighting and wrestling games sail over my head with their complicated control schemes. If multiplayer hadn't been gutted before release, and if it had been published with good mod tools, I'm sure you'd still see a big following to this day.
I wasn't aware Halo was being developed concurrently for windows and mac
Yup, Bungie and Blizard were setting good examples for the gaming industry...develop your different versions simultaniously and it's easier, cheaper and you don't have a year and half old game coming out for the Mac at $50 when the PC version is in the bargin bin at $20.
When Halo origionally demoed at a Macworld expo, I showed a guy at school the trailer, and he said "there's no way that's being rendered in real time". Of course, by the time it was ported to the Xbox, the graphics were decidedly average. Damn dirty Microsoft....
The whole point was to limit the revenue that the Federal had access to. The States could have an income tax as high or low as they would like... just not the Federal.
An overly draconian solution to pork and crazy military spending. There's a lot of national infrastructure and space exploration that never would have happened without large federal budgets.
After the 17th, the States had no representation in Congress, hence the rapid loss of all States Rights.
This doesn't make any sense to me. Senators from Kansas aren't selected by voters in New York or by Congress in DC, they're selected by the voters of Kansas. They represent the state of Kansas every bit as much now as before the 17th amendment, they're just selected by the voters as opposed to the state legislature. I don't see how we'd have any fewer partisan issues or problems with pork and corruption if we used the old system.
PETA is pretty much hypocritical from the top down. From their president who is dependant on animal derived medical products
Unless you can show that it's been an official PETA position or that of it's president that people should be willing to die rather than use research developed with animals that happened decades ago, assume it couldn't have been developed any other way, and isn't going to make a bit of difference either way today...then yes, she is guilty of hypocracy. If not, you are spinning bullshit from the top down.
Research breakthrough A was discovered by experiment B, which used an animal. So if you're against experiment B because it used an animal in the experiment then breakthrough A is not valid according to your own code of ethics. Just because it was discovered 20-30 years ago doesn't make a difference.
This isn't some anti-wrinkle cream we're talking about here, she's probably going to die without insulin. If it's been an official PETA position or that of it's president that people should die rather than use animal research that was done decades ago, that they had zero control over, and assume that it couldn't have been developed any other way, then yes she is guilty of hypocracy. Otherwise, that is a big old pile of bullshit you're trying to dump in their laps.
First of all please never refer to my spin as Fox-style...its more Colbert Report style, still working on the Daily Show style.
Except when they do it, they are pretending to be asshats. Watching you anti-PETA types is like watching Pat Robertson complain about crazy Muslims.
Didn't they say if a cure for cancer was found via animal testing that it would be immoral to use it?
Who is "they"? If it's been documented that it's been an official PETA position or a personal stance of its president that people should die rather than use medical advances gained through decades-ago animal testing, then yes, she's guilty of hypocracy. Otherwise, no.
You seem to be heavily invested in the red herring industry. There is no reason why math books have be dry, terse, and written for math majors. There is no reason why U.S. history textbooks have to all cover the same Columbus to WWII period. Kids might have the most awsome teacher that has ever existed on this planet, and still have to go home and do homework from a crappy textbook. And it's far easier to make an excellent textbook for millions of kids than it is to ensure those millions of kids have excellent teachers.
Except Israel wasn't attacked in 1967. They launched a pre-emptive strike against Egypt after they closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships.
I fully doubt that Israel would have full security until they are driven to the pre-1947/1948 borders, i.e. nothing. There are too many militants in fringe groups that say that Israel has no legitimate claim to existence to believe that giving up any land would do anything.
Because they don't have any legitimate claim to exist. The formation of a Jewish state was done with complete disreguard for the people already living there. The Gypsies were slaughtered by the Nazies with every bit as much enthusiasm as the Jews, but they never recieved their own homeland, a Steven Spielberg movie and sacred cow status.
Being cowards they hide among the civilian population. Since they get tacit support from them, the civilians are also guilty. I am very disappointed that Israel backed off.
Uh huh. Then you shouldn't be sorry for each Iraeli civilian who gets killed, because with their compulsory military service, each Israeli is a current solder, former soldier or future soldier involved in the occupation of Palistinian lands. Yes, Palistinian. If you want to talk anchient history, Jews aren't native to Israel anymore than WASPs are to the US.
I'm fairly certain I've seen translations of the Iranian "leaders" saying they want to eliminate all Jews
Like CNN translating their president as having said that Iran had the right to make "nuclear weapons" when he actually said "nuclear technology"? Never misunderestimate the laziness of the press in this country.
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Well, it you actually understood economics you would know that this is in fact true.
By "true" I assume you mean "myth". Other than consumer spending, cutting taxes has never lead to a shred of economic growth. And unless a national sales tax is implemented, all the consumer spending in the world is going to do squat to raise funds for national security.
Honestly from what I've seen of this, I think women in responsible positions are given a tougher time then men.
Oh, please. Any time a man commits a crime, he gets zero sympathy and we rush to throw him in jail. Anytime a woman commits a crime, we rush to find out why she did it to see if she has an excuse.
So then we are left with the question of who's problem it is that someone is unable to live within their means.
For starters it helps if your government cares at least as much for those on the bottom of the social ladder as the ones on the top. Since Bush took office, Republicans have given huge tax cuts for the rich but there hasn't been a dent in payroll taxes for the working class. Raising the minimum wage, rolling back restrictions on unions, reducing offshoring and paying for for secondary education would do wonders for those on the bottom.
So? Putting bills on credit cards makes things worse.
And some people have no choice. And I have zero sympathy for the credit card industry, as they heap offers on people with bad or boderline credit, and drown anyone fresh out of bankruptcy court in credit offers as they can't declare bankruptcy again for 7 years.
Sorry, no. Babies don't 'just happen'. Just like bad credit *you* have to take deliberate action for it to happen.
No, seriously, spare us the elitism. You could be the most responsible person on earth and have money saved up to pay 6 years worth of bills and still be in serious trouble from an accident, a job loss, or medical problems not covered by insurance.
Right. That's why people lived for centuries in hot climates without air conditioning.
And you don't think people died then too?
Hardly. Protein != meat. It's quite possible to have a meatless diet and to quite healthy.
Not on a budget its not.
Probably the best solution then would be to add a downconvert option to library software, for those who like to keep their digital music in lossless format but want good battery life on their mp3 players. This would become more important if the industry ever quits dragging their feet on DVD-audio or come up with a new surround-sound format for computing devices.
This would almost never be true. People are just not that Jeckle and Hyde.
I think you'd be surprised - not everyone is a well-rounded Renaissance Man. And one streak of foolishness (like moving out at 18 and going on a credit card spree) or a string of bad luck (job loss) can leave you with bad credit years after you get your crap together.
I always thought it was rediculous to have poker games broadcast on a sports channel, but it seems to be big business for ESPN. I thought it was the lamest thing I ever saw on the network, until they started airing dart tournaments. Jay Leno did a bit around ten years ago on ESSP - the Especially Stupid Sports Network, featuring things like Nordic Trek racing - darts would seem to be just one step above that. If they can do darts and poker, I don't see any reason why they couldn't broadcast a good Counterstrike or Warcraft 3 game.
My guess is you have a piss poor credit rating, or at least not optimal! Why the hell should a company hire you without doing some background checks.
Because anything outside of my employment history and criminal record (or lack thereof) is not their fucking business, that's why. They have no more business acessing my reliability through a credit rating than if they asked me if I was divorced. Using credit scores on applicants should be as illegal as asking a woman if she's planning on having children.
How is this any different than saying that lower income families typically are unwilling to live within their means?
Try "unable to live within their means". Housing, fuel, and health costs have skyrocketed while wages have stagnated or even declined.
If you can't afford to have a baby, perhaps you shouldn't be risking it, and so forth.
Don't be an elitist ass. Shit can happen to you no matter how well prepared you are.
Tv's and air conditioning aren't 'necessities'.
Read up on this summer's heatwave and you'll find dozens of people died because they had no air conditioning.
Nor is steak(or any meat for that matter)
Hardly. A pure carb diet is very unhealthy, and a great ticket to obesity and diabetes.
when you get a copy of your yearly free credit report.
The problem with those free reports is the first thing they want is your social security number.
After a couple of more Moore's law doublings of capacity
But there is no Moore's law for battery life, and having to read 25 megabytes of data vs 4 megabytes of data per song is going to kill your battery.
Besides, why do you want lossless files for a player you'll be listening to with headphones?
You might get 1-2 geeks that knew what it was, so it was clear back in 1996 that nothing would ever became of MP3, which is exactly how it is today. Oh wait....
Yes, wait and think about why the mp3 caught on in the first place, and it's advantages over WAV. Then think about the number of similar leaps Ogg makes over mp3. You know, none.
I really don't understand the opposition to OGG.
Because Oggers act like it's the second coming of Crist, when in reality nobody gives a damn.
This is a direct result of government being entangled in the economy.
Considering this is all being done by private companies, how do you figure? This sounds more like a poster child case of when the government needs to interfere with the economy.
You can recover from identity theft. It's not easy, but you can get all the activity from the theft purged from your credit history and it will be restored to what it should be. So a year/two later, (maybe shorter), it would be a non-even credit history-wise.
If you've got a few thousand dollars to spend on a lawyer to help clear your name, maybe. Otherwise I doubt it.
You can explain this fact to your employer. I certainly would if they asked to check my credit history.
That's assuming they tell you.
Someone may be a great worker on the job, but could be an obsessive-compulsive gambler or shopper off the job, which will hose their credit rating.
And organization and care in one area of someones life does not mean organization and care in all parts of their lives. Like that old bit of advice dads would give their daughters over potential dates - look at how well the guy takes care of his car. But what if you're dealing with someone who cares more for material possessions than people?
Some guys were trying to release a Marathon mod for Quake as it supported OpenGL and was a better engine. Mara-Quake, I believe, but Google isn't very forthcoming. Bungie stomped on that one, too.
It was okay, seemed like there were lots of graphical glitches.
What kind of glitches? If you're talking about seeing through walls, that was done on purpose so you wouldn't be fighting blind if your back was up against a wall. If they made a sequel (I wish) they would probably make the immediate walls transparent and fog out everthing behind them, but graphics cards weren't that powerful in 2000. There's also a patch for Win2k and XP that fixes a bug that would cause the game to crash. Other than that, I'm not sure what your problem would be, as I've run the game on ATI and Nvidia hardware without problems.
Also, I wasn't too sure about the hand to hand combat via mouse clicks.
I love it...nice and simple, hard to screw up. I'm an old fart who did well with Mortal Combat, but newer fighting and wrestling games sail over my head with their complicated control schemes. If multiplayer hadn't been gutted before release, and if it had been published with good mod tools, I'm sure you'd still see a big following to this day.
I wasn't aware Halo was being developed concurrently for windows and mac
Yup, Bungie and Blizard were setting good examples for the gaming industry...develop your different versions simultaniously and it's easier, cheaper and you don't have a year and half old game coming out for the Mac at $50 when the PC version is in the bargin bin at $20.
When Halo origionally demoed at a Macworld expo, I showed a guy at school the trailer, and he said "there's no way that's being rendered in real time". Of course, by the time it was ported to the Xbox, the graphics were decidedly average. Damn dirty Microsoft....
The whole point was to limit the revenue that the Federal had access to. The States could have an income tax as high or low as they would like... just not the Federal.
An overly draconian solution to pork and crazy military spending. There's a lot of national infrastructure and space exploration that never would have happened without large federal budgets.
After the 17th, the States had no representation in Congress, hence the rapid loss of all States Rights.
This doesn't make any sense to me. Senators from Kansas aren't selected by voters in New York or by Congress in DC, they're selected by the voters of Kansas. They represent the state of Kansas every bit as much now as before the 17th amendment, they're just selected by the voters as opposed to the state legislature. I don't see how we'd have any fewer partisan issues or problems with pork and corruption if we used the old system.
PETA is pretty much hypocritical from the top down. From their president who is dependant on animal derived medical products
Unless you can show that it's been an official PETA position or that of it's president that people should be willing to die rather than use research developed with animals that happened decades ago, assume it couldn't have been developed any other way, and isn't going to make a bit of difference either way today...then yes, she is guilty of hypocracy. If not, you are spinning bullshit from the top down.
Research breakthrough A was discovered by experiment B, which used an animal. So if you're against experiment B because it used an animal in the experiment then breakthrough A is not valid according to your own code of ethics. Just because it was discovered 20-30 years ago doesn't make a difference.
This isn't some anti-wrinkle cream we're talking about here, she's probably going to die without insulin. If it's been an official PETA position or that of it's president that people should die rather than use animal research that was done decades ago, that they had zero control over, and assume that it couldn't have been developed any other way, then yes she is guilty of hypocracy. Otherwise, that is a big old pile of bullshit you're trying to dump in their laps.
First of all please never refer to my spin as Fox-style...its more Colbert Report style, still working on the Daily Show style.
Except when they do it, they are pretending to be asshats. Watching you anti-PETA types is like watching Pat Robertson complain about crazy Muslims.
Didn't they say if a cure for cancer was found via animal testing that it would be immoral to use it?
Who is "they"? If it's been documented that it's been an official PETA position or a personal stance of its president that people should die rather than use medical advances gained through decades-ago animal testing, then yes, she's guilty of hypocracy. Otherwise, no.
It's a textbook. It won't cook for you, either.
You seem to be heavily invested in the red herring industry. There is no reason why math books have be dry, terse, and written for math majors. There is no reason why U.S. history textbooks have to all cover the same Columbus to WWII period. Kids might have the most awsome teacher that has ever existed on this planet, and still have to go home and do homework from a crappy textbook. And it's far easier to make an excellent textbook for millions of kids than it is to ensure those millions of kids have excellent teachers.
If Israel wasn't attacked in 1967
Except Israel wasn't attacked in 1967. They launched a pre-emptive strike against Egypt after they closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships.
I fully doubt that Israel would have full security until they are driven to the pre-1947/1948 borders, i.e. nothing. There are too many militants in fringe groups that say that Israel has no legitimate claim to existence to believe that giving up any land would do anything.
Because they don't have any legitimate claim to exist. The formation of a Jewish state was done with complete disreguard for the people already living there. The Gypsies were slaughtered by the Nazies with every bit as much enthusiasm as the Jews, but they never recieved their own homeland, a Steven Spielberg movie and sacred cow status.
Being cowards they hide among the civilian population. Since they get tacit support from them, the civilians are also guilty. I am very disappointed that Israel backed off.
Uh huh. Then you shouldn't be sorry for each Iraeli civilian who gets killed, because with their compulsory military service, each Israeli is a current solder, former soldier or future soldier involved in the occupation of Palistinian lands. Yes, Palistinian. If you want to talk anchient history, Jews aren't native to Israel anymore than WASPs are to the US.
I'm fairly certain I've seen translations of the Iranian "leaders" saying they want to eliminate all Jews
Like CNN translating their president as having said that Iran had the right to make "nuclear weapons" when he actually said "nuclear technology"? Never misunderestimate the laziness of the press in this country.