I gotta agree with the AC, you are also a little wrong in that last statement. You are dramatically understating the role of Flans in the creative process
When they are TMBG, both Johns sing, and both did some writing. Flans does most of the rhythm guitar work, although these days they usually have a stronger guitar player doing the solos, both in the albums and on stage.
Listen to the Mono Puff album "It's fun to steal", which was essentially a Flans project that Linnell had nothing to do with, and you will get a sense of how much Flans influences the TMBG sound.
You very well might have seen Linnell playing with the Band of Dans on some given concert. The Johns seem to have a preference for using the Dans on the road, with good reason. Most of their other backup players seem to be NYC studio rats, or guys who play in other bands of their own, while the Dans are a solid road backup section.
TMBG, the legendary "Rhythm Section Want Ad" band, now tours with two different rhythm sections, both of which totally kick ass.
One band, which backs them up on most of their albums, and another, called the "Band of Dans", because all three of them happen to be named Dan.
I saw them in Minneapolis with the Dand of Dans last winter, and they owned the crowd all night long, although they also did a second encore where just the Johns were on stage signing "Maybe I Know", a dial-a-song classic that is on their MP3-Only album "Long Tall Weekend".
Personally, I think their post-"John Henry" material is some of their best work, every bit as original and creative as the stuff on the pink album, and they have simply evolved beyond their drum-machine-only phase.
The New Wave is now about 15 years old, and 10 years out of style. TMBG seems to know that.
The reason why we use 2D so much is because our eyes only see things from one direction at a time. Put two things next to each other, and I can see them both. But one thing 2 feet behind another thing, and what is the point, exactly? How is "2 feet behind" different in practical terms from "covered up in a two-dimensional image"?
User interaction is another issue. I can point at something to indicate its position in my relative 2D perspective, but I can't indicate how far away it is by pointing. You are not simplifying the user experience with a third dimension, but rather you are making it more complicated.
These reasons, among others, are why nearly every attempt an a user environment analogous to 3D ever invented has been regarded as little more than a curious toy... Great for making the little girl's search for the security system files in Jurassic park a little more thrilling in a movie, but not really useful in the real world.
that is why the rest of the world found humor in the fact that _americans_cared_ about
What part of "NOBODY" did you not understand? Americans did not "care" about where Clinton was laying pipe. Republicans didn't care. Ken Starr didn't care.
All that mattered regarding the Lewinsky affair was that Clinton lied under oath about his sexual history in a trial where it was considered relevant by the court. That is a crime. He also lied again about it before a federal grand jury. That is a federal crime. This means that for the last few years we have had a chief executive that considered himself above the court system.
The only people that thought that this was about sex were people like you who get all their news from/. and late night comedians, exclusively.
most of them think it's funny that we care he had a mistress
News flash: NOBODY cared that he had (another) mistress. We all knew about Ms. Flowers before he was elected, and figured there were probably more like her in Clinton's life. He was elected anyway.
Those who were for impeachment were concerned with his violations of the law (I do not say "alledged" violations, because he has since been found guilty of contempt of court and fined $95k), not the misadventures of the "little chief executive", which were of signifigance only because he lied about them under oath in a sexual harrassment lawsuit.
No, this is more a case of Gore behaving like the infamous Russian judges in the (IIRC) '72 Olympics. In the gold medal basketball game, they kept putting another 3 seconds back on the clock, over and over, until the game ended with the result they wanted. The US team won the game, and re-won it, but each time the buzzer sounded the judge would announce "There is still another 3 seconds to play" on the PA system.
When the game was over, the US team refused to accept their silver medals, choosing to give up olympic recognition entierly rather than legitimize such a farce. The medals still sit in a Swiss bank deposit box, unclaimed by each and every member of the team.
Yes, but it is NOT an option to turn it off on your CUSTOMERS' SYSTEMS. If you sell software to Whistler users, you will have to assume that SOME of them WILL have it turned ON, which means you are FORCED TO BUY a certificate, unless you want those customers frightened off my nasty MS error messages saying that your software is not trustworthy.
If you sell software and want it installed on the maximum number of machines possible, buy a certificate.
This is my whole point. In the world you envision, every time somebody tries to sell a new program, MS and Verisign get a taste of the action... risk free! They get paid even if your program makes no profit, even though they did nothing to help develop it. All they would be doing is extorting money out of you by threatening to frighten away your prospective customers if you don't buy their protection^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcertificate. It's what the feds used to call racketeering.
Let's get realistic here. Of course the software is buggy, and of course there are design flaws all over the hardware. It's a feakin' space station! They are hard to make, hard to launch, and hard to maintain. Why do you think the US and Russia tried to squeeze every last usable minute out of Mir?
I see no reason to panic based on what was in that article.
The problem with this "option" is that if you are selling or distributing software you might be forced to assume that a certain percentage of your customers will have it turned on, which means that you have no choice but to send a fat wad of bills to Verisign (just like getting SSL certification on your web forms), and subject yourself to whatever anal probed MS insists on performing.
I think developers have plenty of reason to be uneasy about this news.
old Jewish people are as likely to vote for Buchanan as Nation of Islam members are to vote for David Duke.
Buchanan once got more than twice as many votes from that same district during the GOP primaries (and much fewer people normally vote in a primary). He has ALWAYS done better in that district than in the rest of Florida. I'm not going to pretend that I have any idea why, but it is true. As difficult as it may be for you to accept, there are a lot of Jews in America that agree with Buchanan's brand of hard-core religious conservatism. (Several can be found writing for the Jewish World Review... I'm not providing a link to it because "Dr. Laura" annoys the hell out of me. Find it yourself if you care.)
Nice to see George Junior already violating his campaign promises of tort reform and local governance by suing the state government of Florida.
I don't remember him ever promising to never file an injunction against anybody. That said, it was a very stupid move to stoop to Gore's level. Now they both come away looking like whiney bitches.
Nobody complained to Wexler until Gore's people had a telemarketing firm call 5000 Democrats in that district, asking them to put up a fuss. This is not a groundswell we are seeing, but the spin of a Politcal Action Committee. (...and I'm sure Senator Wexler knew it, too.)
A box with an X in it means a hand-count of all ballots. Try to keep in mind that there are very good reasons why we went to machines in the first place.
Election history in the US teaches us that a hand-count means 1. A longer, more expensive counting process. 2. More opportunities for human error to effect the count. 3. More opportunities for ballot fraud, especially in the late stages of counting a close race.
First of all, the "butterfly ballot" was created specifically to HELP voters with bad eyesight. Putting candidates on both sides made more room for large print.
Secondly, all this talk about thousands of people claiming they were confused is a fraud. It has just been discovered today that Al Gore's people hired a telemarketing firm to call thousands of Gore-friendly voters (in those close Florida districts we are hearing about) on election night, asking them to complain about confusing ballots. Over 5,000 people were called by that firm in the first 45 minutes, once the decision was made to start making a stink about the election.
All these "disenfranchized" voters picketing the streets in Florida is a total lie. Every one of those people is a Gore activist trying to reverse the loss of their favorite candidate, regardless of the legitimate outcome.
The democrats now claim to have somehwere around 8,000 sworn statements from people who think they accidentally voted for Buchannan, even though he only got about 3,500 votes in the disputed district.
The ballot that Jesse Jackson is waiving around and calling unfair is the same style as was used to elect his son in Chicago.
This ain't about a poor election system, folks. It is about a PR campaign to undermine the nations confidence in the process which left Al Gore on the losing side.
Well, I disagree, because I don't want to live in a nation that is ruled by California, New York, and Texas.
That said, even if we were going to switch to popular vote, it should not effect the outcome of this election.
Bush spent almost no time in California, because he know it would go to Gore, and playing by the rules he was better off trying to pick up states like Ohio, Washington, and Florida.
Bush did very well in his home state of Texas with the Hispanic vote. Between the Hispanics and the military bases in California, Bush could easilly have won a larger minority if he spent time and money trying to rally Republican turn-out. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine that probably could have done about 2-5% better, effectively erasing Gore's "popular vote" advantage in the national election... but he was campaigning to win electoral votes.
Even though I am not a Bush supporter, it is obvious that it would be unfair to suddenly overturn his election based on raw popular number.
Tax cut will be good for a little while, then the evil inflation demon will start to chew on your wallet.
People like you said the same thing before the Reagan tax cuts. The "misery index" (unemployment + inflation) was thought to be a constant. A tax cut would create runaway inflation. It was dogmatic law.
After the '81 tax cuts, inflation and unemployment both went down... way down.
The case could be made that the '86 and '90 tax hikes could be partly responsible for the recession that cost Bush his re-election.
Okay, I did not vote for Gore, and don't like him, and I agree that Clinton's record of troop deployment was horrible...
That said, I would like to point out that if the Florida recount tips Gore's way, he will make a much, much better Commander in Chief that Clinton ever did. All Gore and Sam Nunn are the best friends the military ever had in the Democratic party.
I don't care for Gore's economic policies, but his history as a legislator indicates that he would manage the military well.
1. Republican leaders have been, for months now, daring Flint and the Democrats to come forward with the hard evidence he claims to have about this. Since he still has not as of the day after Election Day, it is save to assume he was just blowing air up your skirt.
2. As a Senator, Al Gore voted AGAINST public funding of abortions. He was never a pro-choice Senator, and changed his view when he started his bit for President in the Democratic Primaries.
3. Both candidates are very wishy-washy on the abortion issue. Bush never made a committment to appoint pro-life judges, and did not make the usual promises to the religious right that is expected of most Republicans. The RR was motivated enough to see a GOP victory that they fell in line. Their influence in the Republican Party is obviously on a rapid decline, as evidenced by the weak showing of Gary Bauer in the primaries.
Nader is a frail, 65 year-old man. He may very well be dead in 2008, and the Green Party will not long survive him. Personality-driven parties never last (see Bull Moose & Reform parties as examples).
This thing about "warm beer" is related to English Ale, not Guinness. Ask The Beer Hunter!
Whatever your favorite beer critic on the web has to say, I find that Guinness tastes much better when it is only slightly chilled. (Cellar temperature is just about perfect.)
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When they are TMBG, both Johns sing, and both did some writing. Flans does most of the rhythm guitar work, although these days they usually have a stronger guitar player doing the solos, both in the albums and on stage.
Listen to the Mono Puff album "It's fun to steal", which was essentially a Flans project that Linnell had nothing to do with, and you will get a sense of how much Flans influences the TMBG sound.
You very well might have seen Linnell playing with the Band of Dans on some given concert. The Johns seem to have a preference for using the Dans on the road, with good reason. Most of their other backup players seem to be NYC studio rats, or guys who play in other bands of their own, while the Dans are a solid road backup section.
One band, which backs them up on most of their albums, and another, called the "Band of Dans", because all three of them happen to be named Dan.
I saw them in Minneapolis with the Dand of Dans last winter, and they owned the crowd all night long, although they also did a second encore where just the Johns were on stage signing "Maybe I Know", a dial-a-song classic that is on their MP3-Only album "Long Tall Weekend".
Personally, I think their post-"John Henry" material is some of their best work, every bit as original and creative as the stuff on the pink album, and they have simply evolved beyond their drum-machine-only phase.
The New Wave is now about 15 years old, and 10 years out of style. TMBG seems to know that.
The reason why we use 2D so much is because our eyes only see things from one direction at a time. Put two things next to each other, and I can see them both. But one thing 2 feet behind another thing, and what is the point, exactly? How is "2 feet behind" different in practical terms from "covered up in a two-dimensional image"?
User interaction is another issue. I can point at something to indicate its position in my relative 2D perspective, but I can't indicate how far away it is by pointing. You are not simplifying the user experience with a third dimension, but rather you are making it more complicated.
These reasons, among others, are why nearly every attempt an a user environment analogous to 3D ever invented has been regarded as little more than a curious toy... Great for making the little girl's search for the security system files in Jurassic park a little more thrilling in a movie, but not really useful in the real world.
What part of "NOBODY" did you not understand? Americans did not "care" about where Clinton was laying pipe. Republicans didn't care. Ken Starr didn't care.
All that mattered regarding the Lewinsky affair was that Clinton lied under oath about his sexual history in a trial where it was considered relevant by the court. That is a crime. He also lied again about it before a federal grand jury. That is a federal crime. This means that for the last few years we have had a chief executive that considered himself above the court system.
The only people that thought that this was about sex were people like you who get all their news from /. and late night comedians, exclusively.
News flash: NOBODY cared that he had (another) mistress. We all knew about Ms. Flowers before he was elected, and figured there were probably more like her in Clinton's life. He was elected anyway.
Those who were for impeachment were concerned with his violations of the law (I do not say "alledged" violations, because he has since been found guilty of contempt of court and fined $95k), not the misadventures of the "little chief executive", which were of signifigance only because he lied about them under oath in a sexual harrassment lawsuit.
When the game was over, the US team refused to accept their silver medals, choosing to give up olympic recognition entierly rather than legitimize such a farce. The medals still sit in a Swiss bank deposit box, unclaimed by each and every member of the team.
That sentence looks like it was written by the fish, too.
Nice racket, if you can get in on it.
This is my whole point. In the world you envision, every time somebody tries to sell a new program, MS and Verisign get a taste of the action... risk free! They get paid even if your program makes no profit, even though they did nothing to help develop it. All they would be doing is extorting money out of you by threatening to frighten away your prospective customers if you don't buy their protection^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcertificate. It's what the feds used to call racketeering.
I see no reason to panic based on what was in that article.
g/probed/s//probes/g
I gotta start remembering to use the preview button.
I think developers have plenty of reason to be uneasy about this news.
One little comma, and a simile becomes a metaphor (as spoken by a valley girl).
Buchanan once got more than twice as many votes from that same district during the GOP primaries (and much fewer people normally vote in a primary). He has ALWAYS done better in that district than in the rest of Florida. I'm not going to pretend that I have any idea why, but it is true. As difficult as it may be for you to accept, there are a lot of Jews in America that agree with Buchanan's brand of hard-core religious conservatism. (Several can be found writing for the Jewish World Review... I'm not providing a link to it because "Dr. Laura" annoys the hell out of me. Find it yourself if you care.)
Nice to see George Junior already violating his campaign promises of tort reform and local governance by suing the state government of Florida.
I don't remember him ever promising to never file an injunction against anybody. That said, it was a very stupid move to stoop to Gore's level. Now they both come away looking like whiney bitches.
Nobody complained to Wexler until Gore's people had a telemarketing firm call 5000 Democrats in that district, asking them to put up a fuss. This is not a groundswell we are seeing, but the spin of a Politcal Action Committee. (...and I'm sure Senator Wexler knew it, too.)
Election history in the US teaches us that a hand-count means
1. A longer, more expensive counting process.
2. More opportunities for human error to effect the count.
3. More opportunities for ballot fraud, especially in the late stages of counting a close race.
Secondly, all this talk about thousands of people claiming they were confused is a fraud. It has just been discovered today that Al Gore's people hired a telemarketing firm to call thousands of Gore-friendly voters (in those close Florida districts we are hearing about) on election night, asking them to complain about confusing ballots. Over 5,000 people were called by that firm in the first 45 minutes, once the decision was made to start making a stink about the election.
All these "disenfranchized" voters picketing the streets in Florida is a total lie. Every one of those people is a Gore activist trying to reverse the loss of their favorite candidate, regardless of the legitimate outcome.
The democrats now claim to have somehwere around 8,000 sworn statements from people who think they accidentally voted for Buchannan, even though he only got about 3,500 votes in the disputed district.
The ballot that Jesse Jackson is waiving around and calling unfair is the same style as was used to elect his son in Chicago.
This ain't about a poor election system, folks. It is about a PR campaign to undermine the nations confidence in the process which left Al Gore on the losing side.
Okay, when I said you were half right, it looks like I was only half right. :)
That said, even if we were going to switch to popular vote, it should not effect the outcome of this election.
Bush spent almost no time in California, because he know it would go to Gore, and playing by the rules he was better off trying to pick up states like Ohio, Washington, and Florida.
Bush did very well in his home state of Texas with the Hispanic vote. Between the Hispanics and the military bases in California, Bush could easilly have won a larger minority if he spent time and money trying to rally Republican turn-out. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine that probably could have done about 2-5% better, effectively erasing Gore's "popular vote" advantage in the national election... but he was campaigning to win electoral votes.
Even though I am not a Bush supporter, it is obvious that it would be unfair to suddenly overturn his election based on raw popular number.
People like you said the same thing before the Reagan tax cuts. The "misery index" (unemployment + inflation) was thought to be a constant. A tax cut would create runaway inflation. It was dogmatic law.
After the '81 tax cuts, inflation and unemployment both went down... way down.
The case could be made that the '86 and '90 tax hikes could be partly responsible for the recession that cost Bush his re-election.
You were wrong then, and you are wrong now.
Okay, I did not vote for Gore, and don't like him, and I agree that Clinton's record of troop deployment was horrible...
That said, I would like to point out that if the Florida recount tips Gore's way, he will make a much, much better Commander in Chief that Clinton ever did. All Gore and Sam Nunn are the best friends the military ever had in the Democratic party.
I don't care for Gore's economic policies, but his history as a legislator indicates that he would manage the military well.
2. As a Senator, Al Gore voted AGAINST public funding of abortions. He was never a pro-choice Senator, and changed his view when he started his bit for President in the Democratic Primaries.
3. Both candidates are very wishy-washy on the abortion issue. Bush never made a committment to appoint pro-life judges, and did not make the usual promises to the religious right that is expected of most Republicans. The RR was motivated enough to see a GOP victory that they fell in line. Their influence in the Republican Party is obviously on a rapid decline, as evidenced by the weak showing of Gary Bauer in the primaries.
Nader is a frail, 65 year-old man. He may very well be dead in 2008, and the Green Party will not long survive him. Personality-driven parties never last (see Bull Moose & Reform parties as examples).
You were half right.
Whatever your favorite beer critic on the web has to say, I find that Guinness tastes much better when it is only slightly chilled. (Cellar temperature is just about perfect.)