For years, a "Vast Majority" of scientists and doctors said that smoking doesn't cause cancer. Of course there was a kickback from the Tobacco industry to help encourage these reports. King Tobacco was a million dollar industry.
How much money gets kicked back by entire countries buying/selling carbon credits in accordance to the Kyoto accord goes to fund climate research? Billions or Trillions? Just wondering...
There has been major discoveries that show there is very good reason to doubt the whole climate change. First a hacker exposed a major scientist fully admitting the numbers were fudged to show global warming models working, and the other big blow was a NASA 10 year report showing log-wave radiation (heat) was escaping Earth much faster than the global warming model provides (makes since knowing the numbers were fudged). The first was pretty much buried and ignored because "it wasn't fair to get hacked" or other such nonsense. The second was excused because the scientist was a skeptic *gasp* and believed Intelligence Design is plausible... therefore he can't be a "real" scientist.
There is reason to doubt, and people who do doubt shouldn't be ridiculed. I prefer my science to be more like science than religion.
Via copyright. It has been established that the person taking the photos holds the copyright on those photos. Not the person who owns the camera, or the bought the resources (film, storage, etc), but the person who took the pictures. So if she took the pictures... she could fight to get the images taken down the site, but copyright isn't well respected among many online users (or so I'm told *looks around*). If somebody got the images and redistributed them, it would be very hard to shut them all down.
But yes, she is guilty of owning stolen property and due to the legal issues that may bring.
(not a lawyer here, but recall the whole "Dr. Laura" scandal, and how she lost that case).
Separation of Church and State was added to prevent the government from telling you what to believe. This has expanded to the point where a teacher can't express their own religious views because that would be teaching religion... and if the teacher is paid by the government...
But now it's OK to tell people what NOT to believe when it comes to religion? The state should not be trying to sway people towards or away from any religion period. It should be up to individual, and they shouldn't be ridiculed or pressured by a state official to pick something else.
Both Democrats and Republicans voted FOR this.
Both Democrats and Republicans voted AGAINST this.
I don't know why the author decided to attach this to "Evil Republicans are doing this" when both sides are. What shocks me Hank "Guam will tip over and capsize" Johnson voted against this. I'm shocked he wasn't voted out of office.
There is a reason why it's the Tea-Party people "extorting" the government by saying No to raising the debt-ceiling. Both Republicans and Democrats have gone too far with spending.
If somebody came to you with massive credit card debt, about to default on most of them, and approaching their annual income in spending should they:
1) Get a new credit card, and make payments on old credit cards with new one, and continue spending.
2) Get a new credit card, promise they will spend a bit less in the future.
3) Don't get a new credit card. Make themselves reduce spending to get their finances in order.
Would you change your answer if you were the one who had to pay the credit-card bills?
It is way to easy to spend other people's money. I wouldn't call those people "extortionists" or "racists" if they finally said "Enough!".
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.
Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.
Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.
And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.
Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.
Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006
So far every app I've used worked perfectly and scaled well. This really looks like a FUD attack... And I have only one (that I know of) app made for the tablet platform (Weatherbug).
Note the "Rule of the majority", "Supreme power is vested in the people".
The majority does not rule here. If it did, we would only have the house (were seats are determined by who has the most people), and we would elect people solely on popular vote (we don't).
Doubt the majority doesn't rule? The majority of California voters voted against gay marriage. This was overturned by the courts (last I heard on the topic). The majority lost. Look at all the civil rights movements out there. We have laws in place that work AGAINST "Majority rule". The Senate was created purely against majority rule (Each state has 2 representatives, regardless of state population.. So Rode Island has the same pull as Texas, California, New York, etc).
The President is not elected by Majority vote either.
We are a Republic. We do have Democratic tenancies, but we are still a Republic.
First, it wouldn't stop squat. It's the same idea of "post on your main". People posting on their main character still acted like jerks. People act like jerks on facebook with their real names shown. And nothing was there to stop anybody from opening a new account with a fake name and pay with time-cards. There were many posts of the WoW forums from people admitting they will start a new account with a fake name "Inigo Montoya" "David D Davidson" and "Abe Froman" were already being listed as aliases.
If Blizzard really wanted to get rid of jerk posts, they could easily ban people doing so... but they have held back on banning, or any form of punishment. They could also add a rank up and rank down system and/or a karma rating. Seems to work pretty well in other places.
and Second, this has nothing to do with people trolling. It had to do with data farming and Facebook. The CEO of Activision-Blizzard has stated he has a vision of online gaming becoming a social-networking-gaming community and this was just a over zealous grab and making his vision come to light ignoring what others want.
If Blizzard would of allowed this to be optional to begin with (like Amazon's "Real Name" option), there wouldn't be as much, if any backlash.
As stated over and over here, you get warned in *BOLD RED LETTERS* "this app will want access to..." before you install. according to the article's posting, iPhone doesn't warn you.
there has been quite a few apps I declined to install because... why does a little game want access to my call history? [Cancel Install]
Plus there are people like me who already have a 16gb microSD card, and 3x 8gb cards around from my current (soon previous) phone. I'm going to have 48gb of storage out of the box (8x4 + 16).
With out competition we would still have the original iPhone.
Apps, Price drops, extra compatibility, and most of the features added the iphone was due to the competitors having these features. My AT&T Tilt came out about the same time as the iPhone 2g and it could do more out of the box... With iPhone 3Gs, it's getting closer, but not quite there. There is still a few things my Tilt can do that the iPhone 4G can't (micro-SD card, Replaceable battery), but the list is MUCH smaller now.
This fall when my contract is up, I'm in the market for a new phone. For the first time the iPhone is on my "to check" list, but the Android phones are still looking like my next phone (I REALLY like having the option to upgrade storage by swapping a Micro-SD card...)
Dear Rukie,
While you assume there is a monopoly, there isn't. You can get many different smart-phones, almost all of them does more than the iphone too, and cost less.
People are buying the iPhone due to it being a status symbol. You are paying more for it being a status symbol. AT&T is charging more because it is a status symbol.
I looked at the first iPhone (2g) and decided to go with a smart-phone from AT&T. From day one I could tether, run all the apps I wanted, play music, watch movies, surf the web, record video, take better pictures, and run at 3g speeds (remember, this is the first gimpy iPhone that wasn't even ready for "apps"). I spent less to. People with iPhones bought their status symbol, I bought a functional device that met all my needs.
If you want a status symbol, you will pay for it. If you are looking for a fictional smart-phone, there is a open market.
This would put product in the hands of quite a few potential buyers, this would be a smart move by Apple. As for Wi-Fi, last two flights I've been on had in-flight Wi-Fi connections (Both with Delta/Norwest)
As for the ipad... I'm still waiting for somebody else. iPad seems to be much to limited for what I want it to do. I want a productivity/viewing device, not just a viewing device.
Slashdot Mirror
For years, a "Vast Majority" of scientists and doctors said that smoking doesn't cause cancer. Of course there was a kickback from the Tobacco industry to help encourage these reports. King Tobacco was a million dollar industry.
How much money gets kicked back by entire countries buying/selling carbon credits in accordance to the Kyoto accord goes to fund climate research? Billions or Trillions? Just wondering...
There has been major discoveries that show there is very good reason to doubt the whole climate change. First a hacker exposed a major scientist fully admitting the numbers were fudged to show global warming models working, and the other big blow was a NASA 10 year report showing log-wave radiation (heat) was escaping Earth much faster than the global warming model provides (makes since knowing the numbers were fudged). The first was pretty much buried and ignored because "it wasn't fair to get hacked" or other such nonsense. The second was excused because the scientist was a skeptic *gasp* and believed Intelligence Design is plausible... therefore he can't be a "real" scientist.
There is reason to doubt, and people who do doubt shouldn't be ridiculed. I prefer my science to be more like science than religion.
Via copyright. It has been established that the person taking the photos holds the copyright on those photos. Not the person who owns the camera, or the bought the resources (film, storage, etc), but the person who took the pictures. So if she took the pictures... she could fight to get the images taken down the site, but copyright isn't well respected among many online users (or so I'm told *looks around*). If somebody got the images and redistributed them, it would be very hard to shut them all down.
But yes, she is guilty of owning stolen property and due to the legal issues that may bring.
(not a lawyer here, but recall the whole "Dr. Laura" scandal, and how she lost that case).
Separation of Church and State was added to prevent the government from telling you what to believe. This has expanded to the point where a teacher can't express their own religious views because that would be teaching religion... and if the teacher is paid by the government...
But now it's OK to tell people what NOT to believe when it comes to religion? The state should not be trying to sway people towards or away from any religion period. It should be up to individual, and they shouldn't be ridiculed or pressured by a state official to pick something else.
Both Democrats and Republicans voted FOR this.
Both Democrats and Republicans voted AGAINST this.
I don't know why the author decided to attach this to "Evil Republicans are doing this" when both sides are. What shocks me Hank "Guam will tip over and capsize" Johnson voted against this. I'm shocked he wasn't voted out of office.
Why do we need to provide our real information if we do not want to?
Would social networking sights break if people used a handle instead of a real name? To date, none have.
There is a reason why it's the Tea-Party people "extorting" the government by saying No to raising the debt-ceiling. Both Republicans and Democrats have gone too far with spending.
If somebody came to you with massive credit card debt, about to default on most of them, and approaching their annual income in spending should they:
1) Get a new credit card, and make payments on old credit cards with new one, and continue spending.
2) Get a new credit card, promise they will spend a bit less in the future.
3) Don't get a new credit card. Make themselves reduce spending to get their finances in order.
Would you change your answer if you were the one who had to pay the credit-card bills?
It is way to easy to spend other people's money. I wouldn't call those people "extortionists" or "racists" if they finally said "Enough!".
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.
Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.
Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.
And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.
Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.
Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006
-- Amazing how things change...
Eat recycled food. It's good for the environment, and OK for you!
Flip on phone's Wifi tethering.
Use tablet, laptop, and anything else. I have unlimited (real unlimited, not 5 gb/mo "unlimited") internet on my phone... why pay twice?
I believe madradioctiverat's goal was to get a Goatse link out there. Not post something true.
For a basic flyer? Not true at all.
Any PC can do a lot of graphic design and image manipulation using The GIMP for free. Heck you can make a basic flyer using Word templates.
I have a Xoom.
So far every app I've used worked perfectly and scaled well. This really looks like a FUD attack... And I have only one (that I know of) app made for the tablet platform (Weatherbug).
Instead of clicking the link, click on "Cached" instead. Then you can read the answer.
Note the "Rule of the majority", "Supreme power is vested in the people".
... and for the Republic for which it stands..
The majority does not rule here. If it did, we would only have the house (were seats are determined by who has the most people), and we would elect people solely on popular vote (we don't).
Doubt the majority doesn't rule? The majority of California voters voted against gay marriage. This was overturned by the courts (last I heard on the topic). The majority lost. Look at all the civil rights movements out there. We have laws in place that work AGAINST "Majority rule". The Senate was created purely against majority rule (Each state has 2 representatives, regardless of state population.. So Rode Island has the same pull as Texas, California, New York, etc).
The President is not elected by Majority vote either.
We are a Republic. We do have Democratic tenancies, but we are still a Republic.
We all know the next big apple product is Steve Jobs crapping in a box and slapping a label on it... the iPoo'd.
First, it wouldn't stop squat. It's the same idea of "post on your main". People posting on their main character still acted like jerks. People act like jerks on facebook with their real names shown. And nothing was there to stop anybody from opening a new account with a fake name and pay with time-cards. There were many posts of the WoW forums from people admitting they will start a new account with a fake name "Inigo Montoya" "David D Davidson" and "Abe Froman" were already being listed as aliases.
If Blizzard really wanted to get rid of jerk posts, they could easily ban people doing so... but they have held back on banning, or any form of punishment. They could also add a rank up and rank down system and/or a karma rating. Seems to work pretty well in other places.
and Second, this has nothing to do with people trolling. It had to do with data farming and Facebook. The CEO of Activision-Blizzard has stated he has a vision of online gaming becoming a social-networking-gaming community and this was just a over zealous grab and making his vision come to light ignoring what others want.
If Blizzard would of allowed this to be optional to begin with (like Amazon's "Real Name" option), there wouldn't be as much, if any backlash.
it does if they sell the information the "Free girly pic" app collects.
It still looks bad.
As stated over and over here, you get warned in *BOLD RED LETTERS* "this app will want access to..." before you install. according to the article's posting, iPhone doesn't warn you.
there has been quite a few apps I declined to install because... why does a little game want access to my call history? [Cancel Install]
Plus there are people like me who already have a 16gb microSD card, and 3x 8gb cards around from my current (soon previous) phone. I'm going to have 48gb of storage out of the box (8x4 + 16).
With out competition we would still have the original iPhone.
Apps, Price drops, extra compatibility, and most of the features added the iphone was due to the competitors having these features. My AT&T Tilt came out about the same time as the iPhone 2g and it could do more out of the box... With iPhone 3Gs, it's getting closer, but not quite there. There is still a few things my Tilt can do that the iPhone 4G can't (micro-SD card, Replaceable battery), but the list is MUCH smaller now.
This fall when my contract is up, I'm in the market for a new phone. For the first time the iPhone is on my "to check" list, but the Android phones are still looking like my next phone (I REALLY like having the option to upgrade storage by swapping a Micro-SD card...)
Victory for Al Gore!
I'm super serial!
Dear Rukie,
While you assume there is a monopoly, there isn't. You can get many different smart-phones, almost all of them does more than the iphone too, and cost less.
People are buying the iPhone due to it being a status symbol. You are paying more for it being a status symbol. AT&T is charging more because it is a status symbol.
I looked at the first iPhone (2g) and decided to go with a smart-phone from AT&T. From day one I could tether, run all the apps I wanted, play music, watch movies, surf the web, record video, take better pictures, and run at 3g speeds (remember, this is the first gimpy iPhone that wasn't even ready for "apps"). I spent less to. People with iPhones bought their status symbol, I bought a functional device that met all my needs.
If you want a status symbol, you will pay for it. If you are looking for a fictional smart-phone, there is a open market.
That's it!
Billy Borg and Darth Steve!
This would put product in the hands of quite a few potential buyers, this would be a smart move by Apple. As for Wi-Fi, last two flights I've been on had in-flight Wi-Fi connections (Both with Delta/Norwest)
As for the ipad... I'm still waiting for somebody else. iPad seems to be much to limited for what I want it to do. I want a productivity/viewing device, not just a viewing device.
And here Blizzard has a trick : WoW requires a monthly fee. So used games resell aren't a "threat" to its income.
Except selling/trading/giving WoW accounts is against Blizzard's Terms of Service and can/will be banned if caught.