Nancy Pelosi passed over 400 major bills in 2009-2010. Harry Reid couldn't deal with Republican filibusters. But she did pass legislation through her chamber.
Sorry registering in polls. And in terms of libertarians as a party...
Most of the early libertarians who were animated by social issues and quite often more similar to anarchists became libreraltarians and then liberals. They are in the base of the Democratic party supporting capitalist economics and liberal social policies. The later libertarians, who are conservative on social issues... yeah those are Republicans.
Me. Under X my most common is XQuartz and after that, I mostly do what I've been doing for 17 years: WindowMaker. But I wouldn't claim either of those are the best window managers. I'd say Enlightment likely is.
In terms of switching out Window Managers with KDE, yes I know it is possible. I've done a window manager switch with Gnome 1 once when I needed features the default didn't have.
Demonization was not an American tradition. If anything the opposite. It has been guys like Romney 09-10 who made it a tradition, and put themselves in this box. He very easily could have pointed to areas of agreement frequently and sought to tweak policy where he disagreed.
If you look at who is in Tea Parties they are mostly people who were involved in other right politics: Christian coalition, John Birch, Anti-pornography groups.... Statistically the hard right is down from around 21% to about 17-18% of the population. The story is the collapse of moderate Republicanism so there is no internal counter force.
I think this has to do with changes in campaign laws. Moderate Republicans are your $5000 donors. With $1m donations, who cares what the $5000 donors think?
he wasn't received well by most Republicans or Democrats for it.
In 2005 about 4% of the American people registered as right / libertarians. In 2009 it is looking like more like 15%. I'd say that's rather substantial.
He's not being himself in any of this and refuses to say anything lest he be branded as a liberal by most of the extreme right in his party. After all, his positions ARE pretty similar to Obama's.
Exactly. He could have during the last 4 years have spoken in favor of money of Obama's positions that agreed with his own and had a genuine influence on tone. I don't know if he would have won the nomination but he would be doing great in winning presidency.
Note how even Ron Paul also got pushed so hard to the right that he wasn't even able to say much of anything about his core Libertarian beliefs in the primaries.
Ron Paul openly spoke in favor of 4% government Ron Paul openly spoke about exiting all foreign commitments. Ron Paul openly spoke about drug legalization
Any regulation Washington chooses to dream up, like requirements for what to broadcast, wireless sales, content regulations, etc
Exactly. Which is what I said. They are effected by a small percentage of regulations specific to media. Which means on most regulations they are unaffected and indifferent.
Many countries with the kind of system you favor force media companies to have government representatives on their board or submit to government content regulation.
You don't have any idea what sort of system I favor.
There are no contributions involved. These companies and organizations make films and ads and put them on the air, just like anybody else who wants to speak to the American public. And you want to silence them.
Nobody is questioning them producing content. They are questioning purchasing advertising.
I agree with your descriptions, in the sense I get your point though I consider that best. You seem to know window managers what makes kwin the best IYO?
If a politician is beholden to one company, then the company gets whatever it wants and fuck everyone else
Absolutely. But one company only cares about a few issues that come up in a year. Which means on 3 votes per year he's bought and paid for and on the other 997 he is free to vote his conscious or to represent his constituants.
then the politician must make decisions on what specific things will best benefit the group. This is how representative democracy is supposed to work.
You are identifying the interests of constituants with the interests fo the broad high value donor community. Those are not the same.
Obama appointed Julius Genachowski to head a lot of these. He has been pro open standards and pro open access but indifferent to FOSS vs. commercial. You can look his positions up.
Some of this is BS like the amount of time Obama has spent with this national security team. What's Romney's policy on Libya? What is Romney's policy on terrorism? Other than "not apologizing" he seems to mostly agree with Obama. So his policy is what, do what Obama wants just be more of a jackass while doing it? Romney has repeatedly refused to answer any questions on the budget. Obama's budget's conversely have been rather good blocking Republican spending cuts and continuing the 2009 budget more or less indefinitely. As for more people being on food stamps or jobs. Obama (or more accurately Pelosi) would love to pass something like the WPA and get them off food stamps and into government jobs. Dire poverty has far more to do with Republicans failing to provide needed stimulus.
Those are agreements between the networks and for people buying the exit poll data contract information not to say in advance what the exit polls show until polls close. There are no laws preventing anyone from saying anything about the exit polls. So in 2008 Matt Drudge leaked the information early without consequence.
I think the desktop is meant to be a carryover from Win 7. I think the idea is that Win32 becomes a legacy environment feeling more and more like a guest operating system on Metro. This pushes application developers towards supporting Metro directly.
Boost isn't owned by Sprint, they buy bulk service from Sprint's wholesale division and resell it. You aren't getting unlimited data btw you are getting 2.5g. Mainly the difference between yourself and a retail customer you would feel is when towers are overextended. You are far more likely to get dropped. But given that Sprint's wholesale division is a big money maker and their retail division a money loser it wouldn't shock me to see Sprint even further in the direction of just supporting wholesale clients and making the total experience identical.
The sliding scale thing is an interesting step towards building customer loyalty for Boost. If Boost can start to build long term customers they might even be able to move towards a postpay model and....
But then we don't have a (broadcast) media that openly campaigns for specific parties.
Prior to FOX we didn't either. We used to have more like your system where broadcast was establishment non partisan and print was diversified. But today most large towns have only one good newspaper but a few dozen cable news stations.
Anyway IMHO just to generalize because our media is corporate controlled it ends up being far less free in practice than it should be in theory. The result is that Europeans don't often realize how much stronger media protection laws are in the United States because we don't exercise them on the mainstream media. Its one of the reasons issues like Scientology or holocaust denial play very differently.
Certainly in the UK, once polling opens that's it for anything political. No exit polls, no party political broadcasts
Let me just point when I was a kid you used to get handed endorsement sheets at the polling place. In other words a 1/2 dozen political groups, would hand you a ballot with who to vote for. Most states have gotten rid of that because it could be used for intimidation but the intent was advertising / lobbying minutes before you voted.
No question. Microsoft is unhappy with the OEM's and is trying to be supportive of the higher end ones like moving to other ones like Vizio and Samsung. But that's the opposite question.
Dell has had OS options for decades. They used to OEM a SCO as Dell Unix back before there was a Linux, there was OS/2 at the same time and Xenix before that. The question is does Dell want to transition end users in a massive way to Ubuntu.
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Nancy Pelosi passed over 400 major bills in 2009-2010. Harry Reid couldn't deal with Republican filibusters. But she did pass legislation through her chamber.
Sorry registering in polls. And in terms of libertarians as a party...
Most of the early libertarians who were animated by social issues and quite often more similar to anarchists became libreraltarians and then liberals. They are in the base of the Democratic party supporting capitalist economics and liberal social policies. The later libertarians, who are conservative on social issues... yeah those are Republicans.
Me. Under X my most common is XQuartz and after that, I mostly do what I've been doing for 17 years: WindowMaker. But I wouldn't claim either of those are the best window managers. I'd say Enlightment likely is.
In terms of switching out Window Managers with KDE, yes I know it is possible. I've done a window manager switch with Gnome 1 once when I needed features the default didn't have.
So your position is it is the combination of power and ease of use that makes it the best?
Demonization was not an American tradition. If anything the opposite. It has been guys like Romney 09-10 who made it a tradition, and put themselves in this box. He very easily could have pointed to areas of agreement frequently and sought to tweak policy where he disagreed.
If you look at who is in Tea Parties they are mostly people who were involved in other right politics: Christian coalition, John Birch, Anti-pornography groups.... Statistically the hard right is down from around 21% to about 17-18% of the population. The story is the collapse of moderate Republicanism so there is no internal counter force.
I think this has to do with changes in campaign laws. Moderate Republicans are your $5000 donors. With $1m donations, who cares what the $5000 donors think?
he wasn't received well by most Republicans or Democrats for it.
In 2005 about 4% of the American people registered as right / libertarians. In 2009 it is looking like more like 15%. I'd say that's rather substantial.
He's not being himself in any of this and refuses to say anything lest he be branded as a liberal by most of the extreme right in his party. After all, his positions ARE pretty similar to Obama's.
Exactly. He could have during the last 4 years have spoken in favor of money of Obama's positions that agreed with his own and had a genuine influence on tone. I don't know if he would have won the nomination but he would be doing great in winning presidency.
Note how even Ron Paul also got pushed so hard to the right that he wasn't even able to say much of anything about his core Libertarian beliefs in the primaries.
Ron Paul openly spoke in favor of 4% government
Ron Paul openly spoke about exiting all foreign commitments.
Ron Paul openly spoke about drug legalization
I'd say Ron Paul stayed true to his beliefs.
True, true. Very good point.
Any regulation Washington chooses to dream up, like requirements for what to broadcast, wireless sales, content regulations, etc
Exactly. Which is what I said. They are effected by a small percentage of regulations specific to media. Which means on most regulations they are unaffected and indifferent.
Many countries with the kind of system you favor force media companies to have government representatives on their board or submit to government content regulation.
You don't have any idea what sort of system I favor.
There are no contributions involved. These companies and organizations make films and ads and put them on the air, just like anybody else who wants to speak to the American public. And you want to silence them.
Nobody is questioning them producing content. They are questioning purchasing advertising.
I agree with your descriptions, in the sense I get your point though I consider that best. You seem to know window managers what makes kwin the best IYO?
The biggest issue that directly impacts them is government regulation
What regulations impact them strongly?
And that "educated elite" soon turns into a non-meritocratic elite of power and privilege,
How does that happen?
If you don't want to hear what Exxon or Google or the Catholic church have to say about a law, don't listen to them
The issue isn't their right to speak. It is their right to contribute.
If a politician is beholden to one company, then the company gets whatever it wants and fuck everyone else
Absolutely. But one company only cares about a few issues that come up in a year. Which means on 3 votes per year he's bought and paid for and on the other 997 he is free to vote his conscious or to represent his constituants.
then the politician must make decisions on what specific things will best benefit the group. This is how representative democracy is supposed to work.
You are identifying the interests of constituants with the interests fo the broad high value donor community. Those are not the same.
Continuing resolutions and debt extensions which have prevented the Republicans from doing much in the way of budget cuts.
I'm hard pressed to see how this isn't him getting stuff done.
Obama appointed Julius Genachowski to head a lot of these. He has been pro open standards and pro open access but indifferent to FOSS vs. commercial. You can look his positions up.
i doubt he has one. But he would likely be opposed he hates things in the public interest.
I understand. I think the alternative systems are a terrible idea but I do get it.
Best window manager? Come on, KDE has a rather simple window manager. The best window managers are the high power ones like enlightenment or xmonad,
Some of this is BS like the amount of time Obama has spent with this national security team.
What's Romney's policy on Libya? What is Romney's policy on terrorism? Other than "not apologizing" he seems to mostly agree with Obama. So his policy is what, do what Obama wants just be more of a jackass while doing it?
Romney has repeatedly refused to answer any questions on the budget. Obama's budget's conversely have been rather good blocking Republican spending cuts and continuing the 2009 budget more or less indefinitely.
As for more people being on food stamps or jobs. Obama (or more accurately Pelosi) would love to pass something like the WPA and get them off food stamps and into government jobs. Dire poverty has far more to do with Republicans failing to provide needed stimulus.
Those are agreements between the networks and for people buying the exit poll data contract information not to say in advance what the exit polls show until polls close. There are no laws preventing anyone from saying anything about the exit polls. So in 2008 Matt Drudge leaked the information early without consequence.
I think the desktop is meant to be a carryover from Win 7. I think the idea is that Win32 becomes a legacy environment feeling more and more like a guest operating system on Metro. This pushes application developers towards supporting Metro directly.
Boost isn't owned by Sprint, they buy bulk service from Sprint's wholesale division and resell it. You aren't getting unlimited data btw you are getting 2.5g. Mainly the difference between yourself and a retail customer you would feel is when towers are overextended. You are far more likely to get dropped. But given that Sprint's wholesale division is a big money maker and their retail division a money loser it wouldn't shock me to see Sprint even further in the direction of just supporting wholesale clients and making the total experience identical.
The sliding scale thing is an interesting step towards building customer loyalty for Boost. If Boost can start to build long term customers they might even be able to move towards a postpay model and....
But then we don't have a (broadcast) media that openly campaigns for specific parties.
Prior to FOX we didn't either. We used to have more like your system where broadcast was establishment non partisan and print was diversified. But today most large towns have only one good newspaper but a few dozen cable news stations.
Anyway IMHO just to generalize because our media is corporate controlled it ends up being far less free in practice than it should be in theory. The result is that Europeans don't often realize how much stronger media protection laws are in the United States because we don't exercise them on the mainstream media. Its one of the reasons issues like Scientology or holocaust denial play very differently.
Certainly in the UK, once polling opens that's it for anything political. No exit polls, no party political broadcasts
Let me just point when I was a kid you used to get handed endorsement sheets at the polling place. In other words a 1/2 dozen political groups, would hand you a ballot with who to vote for. Most states have gotten rid of that because it could be used for intimidation but the intent was advertising / lobbying minutes before you voted.
No question. Microsoft is unhappy with the OEM's and is trying to be supportive of the higher end ones like moving to other ones like Vizio and Samsung. But that's the opposite question.
Dell has had OS options for decades. They used to OEM a SCO as Dell Unix back before there was a Linux, there was OS/2 at the same time and Xenix before that. The question is does Dell want to transition end users in a massive way to Ubuntu.