There's nothing wrong with being conservative. The GOP got hijacked by the religious right some time ago, but perhaps this ass-kicking will be the wake-up call needed to get back to fundamentals. Fiscal conservatism doesn't have to go hand in hand with social regression.
McCain was a step in the right direction for the party; if he didn't have the dead weight of Bush's legacy dragging him down I think people would have been more open to his ideas.
I usually vote conservative/Republican, and even I know that Fox leans to the right. However, I also think that CNN, MSNBC and where I live NBC and CBS all lean to the left. ABC generally has fair coverage. All of the local newspapers lean left.
In a way, this isn't a bad thing for me. It forces me to focus in on my core issues and ignore more of the rhetoric.
It was a big deal with a ton of press coverage when Clinton ran. There is a definite difference in how Obama was handled. I'm not sure of the reason why, but the press had a general tendency to like Obama better.
What people read in newspapers and see on TV is all they know about a candidate. The Fourth Estate can and does influence who is elected. It doesn't matter if you liked Obama or liked McCain, this should concern you. Maybe next time the press won't back your candidate.
I recommend sending an email complaining about the rudeness. This problem is even deeper than the depths we previously knew it to be. That's like really, super deep down. Way down.
Good points. But what about something like tortures in Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib? I'd put those acts in the evil category, and then it's debatable about how evil the parties in the responsibility chain are for not doing anything real about it. If I remember correctly, McCain wasn't too terribly opposed to those. I don't see him as evil, but some probably could.
You do not remember correctly.
McCain is emphatically opposed to torture. He formed this opinion while being subjected to it for several years.
FDR would have changed everything, if it weren't for the judiaciary and the seperation of powers. He probably came closest, though.
And thank god there were at least some checks and balances.
Two other things FDR did:
1) Suspended habeas corpus. Justice sure is swift when you don't have due process getting in the way, but it's also wrong a lot more often.
2) Embarked on the largest unlawful imprisonment based purely on ethnicity we've seen in the entire history of the US. Today's equivalent would be to round up every person of middle-eastern descent and send them to Gitmo. Every single one. Go back to item 1 on my list, and you have no recourse to this imprisonment. Maybe in 50 years the government will write you a small check.
My question would be, why didn't 95% of whites vote for Obama?
Anti-black racism in the white American community is ugly.
I didn't vote for Obama because (1) I don't agree with his Iraq policy... what he has of one, anyway and (2) I'm not looking forward to the tax hike I'll take paying for all the government programs he ran his campaign on.
I realize most of the country disagrees with my assessment. I'm ok with that, and we'll all find out together whether or not he'll be a good President. But labeling me a racist just because I didn't get on the Obama hope/change bandwagon?
This election set an historic precedent, but it wasn't about race. For me, anyway. Apparently it was for you.
I put Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop that has an integrated wireless card. That lasted perhaps two weeks before I reverted to XP.
1) Wireless required manual installation of NDIS wrappers. Understanding and performing this process took many hours. Even after getting it working, it was unreliable and would frequently drop the wireless connection.
2) Suspend with the nVidia drivers did not work. Well, to be specific you could resume from suspend exactly one time, and then would require the old hold the power button for 10-seconds reboot.
In my case, with my hardware, XP is a better choice. I like where Ubuntu is going, but it's just not there for me yet.
It's a bit unfortunate that they didn't decide to up the version number of the kernel as well so they match, but I guess the kernel team is too stubborn to change versions at the whim of marketing.
More like marketing is smart enough to know that no one except the people here will give two shits about the accuracy of the version number. They are also smart enough to know that, at least in the US, seven is commonly considered to be a lucky number, and this leaves a slightly more positive impression than over numbers. I know it seems silly, but when your job is to give a product a positive impressions, you do everything you can.
It doesn't seem like Apple and Stardock would be in competition, though, since Stardock is clearly aimed for the Windows market (and Apple already has the Mac tied up with the dock built in), and Apple has not released a dock for Windows (and I somehow doubt they will).
Jobs and Apple want you to buy an Apple PC because it has features that you can't otherwise get. Like the dock. With this patent, Apple will stop the distribution and development of Rocketdock, Object Dock, etc.
I've also been using Object Dock for years, and I sure hope it continues, but I'm not holding my breath.
For the humor-impaired, performing ROT-13 twice results in the same text as the original unencrypted message. Performing ROT-13 twice again to "decrypt" would once again result in the same text as the original, unencrypted message. It's just a joke, relax.
...the EFF case has a whole lot more likelihood of success if Obama and the Democrats are in charge of the NSA when this case moves forward.
I'm not following your argument, can you expand on your assertion? What exactly is it about an Obama presidency and/or Democrat-controlled Congress that would make the EFF's case more likely to succeed, and a McCain presidency and/or Republican-controlled Congress that makes it less so?
I'm of the opinion that any reasonably intelligent politician will only support suing the government and its leaders when they aren't the ones running it. It would be bad for Obama to lose litigation against an agency when he's the person at the head of it.
Similar to the national do-not-call registry for telemarketers, there should be a national do-not-send-UCE registry for email. Then the courts could freely inflict punishment on violators while keeping clear of the First Amendment.
The longer I'm married, the more sneaking around my own house I do. Especially damning is when boxes from Newegg show up at the door. I gotta get those suckers off the porch and into my office quickly before they are spotted.
Anyone who withholds information that doesn't belong to them until the mayor of a major city personally comes to get it from them is clearly an egomaniac.
Obviously he felt very strongly about protecting his network, which in a way is admirable. But it wasn't his network, it was theirs. Even if they were going to FUBAR it. His actions went beyond the bounds of ethical behavior. What he should have done is write to the mayor and the press with his allegations, but at the same time turn over the knowledge that belongs to the city.
I agree that the city is blowing the case out of proportion. The war is on, he started it, and they are going to end it.
I feel sorry for Childs. He did what he thought was right, even if no one else would agree with him. He must have known there would be consequences to his actions. Hopefully he's prepared to accept whatever comes.
There do appear to be a lot of morons involved in this scenario, and Childs was one of them. Basically what he said was "I am smarter than all of you, so I will do things my way, and trust me, you'll be better off."
Except they weren't, because he doesn't appear to be anywhere near as smart as he thinks he is. Even if he was smarter than the gaggle of incompetents he worked for.
I believe what the OP is saying is that racism is not what you think, it's what you do.
Depending on the amount of racial bias a person has, this only works as far as they can align their actions to ideals rather than impulses; some people will be better at it than others, and some people won't be able to do it at all.
I believe in the Bullworth Principal. Everybody fucks everybody until we're all the same color.
Truly. If the TOS for a service doesn't work for you, use something else instead. Not reading and understanding the TOS is on you, not them. It's not like Google is trying to hide what they are doing from anyone.
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There's nothing wrong with being conservative. The GOP got hijacked by the religious right some time ago, but perhaps this ass-kicking will be the wake-up call needed to get back to fundamentals. Fiscal conservatism doesn't have to go hand in hand with social regression.
McCain was a step in the right direction for the party; if he didn't have the dead weight of Bush's legacy dragging him down I think people would have been more open to his ideas.
...I doubt it's a conspiracy as much as an unintentional reflection of the mindset of the editors.
Bingo. In some cases, though, perhaps intentional.
I usually vote conservative/Republican, and even I know that Fox leans to the right. However, I also think that CNN, MSNBC and where I live NBC and CBS all lean to the left. ABC generally has fair coverage. All of the local newspapers lean left.
In a way, this isn't a bad thing for me. It forces me to focus in on my core issues and ignore more of the rhetoric.
It was a big deal with a ton of press coverage when Clinton ran. There is a definite difference in how Obama was handled. I'm not sure of the reason why, but the press had a general tendency to like Obama better.
What people read in newspapers and see on TV is all they know about a candidate. The Fourth Estate can and does influence who is elected. It doesn't matter if you liked Obama or liked McCain, this should concern you. Maybe next time the press won't back your candidate.
The Democrats would have won with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
They tried that in 2004 when their platform was essentially "But, we're not Bush. That's good, right?"
I recommend sending an email complaining about the rudeness. This problem is even deeper than the depths we previously knew it to be. That's like really, super deep down. Way down.
Good points. But what about something like tortures in Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib? I'd put those acts in the evil category, and then it's debatable about how evil the parties in the responsibility chain are for not doing anything real about it. If I remember correctly, McCain wasn't too terribly opposed to those. I don't see him as evil, but some probably could.
You do not remember correctly.
McCain is emphatically opposed to torture. He formed this opinion while being subjected to it for several years.
FDR would have changed everything, if it weren't for the judiaciary and the seperation of powers. He probably came closest, though.
And thank god there were at least some checks and balances.
Two other things FDR did:
1) Suspended habeas corpus. Justice sure is swift when you don't have due process getting in the way, but it's also wrong a lot more often.
2) Embarked on the largest unlawful imprisonment based purely on ethnicity we've seen in the entire history of the US. Today's equivalent would be to round up every person of middle-eastern descent and send them to Gitmo. Every single one. Go back to item 1 on my list, and you have no recourse to this imprisonment. Maybe in 50 years the government will write you a small check.
My question would be, why didn't 95% of whites vote for Obama?
Anti-black racism in the white American community is ugly.
I didn't vote for Obama because (1) I don't agree with his Iraq policy... what he has of one, anyway and (2) I'm not looking forward to the tax hike I'll take paying for all the government programs he ran his campaign on.
I realize most of the country disagrees with my assessment. I'm ok with that, and we'll all find out together whether or not he'll be a good President. But labeling me a racist just because I didn't get on the Obama hope/change bandwagon?
This election set an historic precedent, but it wasn't about race. For me, anyway. Apparently it was for you.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/19/8-barack-obama/
The definition of "won" is:
1) A stable Iraqi government relatively friendly to the US.
2) Permanent military bases in Iraq.
Basically we'd like the same kind of relationship with Iraq that we established with Germany, Italy, Japan, etc. after WWII.
It depends on your hardware.
I put Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop that has an integrated wireless card. That lasted perhaps two weeks before I reverted to XP.
1) Wireless required manual installation of NDIS wrappers. Understanding and performing this process took many hours. Even after getting it working, it was unreliable and would frequently drop the wireless connection.
2) Suspend with the nVidia drivers did not work. Well, to be specific you could resume from suspend exactly one time, and then would require the old hold the power button for 10-seconds reboot.
In my case, with my hardware, XP is a better choice. I like where Ubuntu is going, but it's just not there for me yet.
It would be nice if MS could write a stable OS thats good for my gaming...
They did, and it comes with every XBox.
Ah, the good old days of QEMM386 and TSR applications. I miss them not.
It's a bit unfortunate that they didn't decide to up the version number of the kernel as well so they match, but I guess the kernel team is too stubborn to change versions at the whim of marketing.
More like marketing is smart enough to know that no one except the people here will give two shits about the accuracy of the version number. They are also smart enough to know that, at least in the US, seven is commonly considered to be a lucky number, and this leaves a slightly more positive impression than over numbers. I know it seems silly, but when your job is to give a product a positive impressions, you do everything you can.
It doesn't seem like Apple and Stardock would be in competition, though, since Stardock is clearly aimed for the Windows market (and Apple already has the Mac tied up with the dock built in), and Apple has not released a dock for Windows (and I somehow doubt they will).
Jobs and Apple want you to buy an Apple PC because it has features that you can't otherwise get. Like the dock. With this patent, Apple will stop the distribution and development of Rocketdock, Object Dock, etc.
I've also been using Object Dock for years, and I sure hope it continues, but I'm not holding my breath.
Downgrade? Upgrade is more like it.
You poor, poor dead horse. You've been beaten so badly. Rest now.
For the humor-impaired, performing ROT-13 twice results in the same text as the original unencrypted message. Performing ROT-13 twice again to "decrypt" would once again result in the same text as the original, unencrypted message. It's just a joke, relax.
...the EFF case has a whole lot more likelihood of success if Obama and the Democrats are in charge of the NSA when this case moves forward.
I'm not following your argument, can you expand on your assertion? What exactly is it about an Obama presidency and/or Democrat-controlled Congress that would make the EFF's case more likely to succeed, and a McCain presidency and/or Republican-controlled Congress that makes it less so?
I'm of the opinion that any reasonably intelligent politician will only support suing the government and its leaders when they aren't the ones running it. It would be bad for Obama to lose litigation against an agency when he's the person at the head of it.
Mitch: "And from now on, Kent, stop playing with yourself."
Kent: "It really is God!"
Similar to the national do-not-call registry for telemarketers, there should be a national do-not-send-UCE registry for email. Then the courts could freely inflict punishment on violators while keeping clear of the First Amendment.
The longer I'm married, the more sneaking around my own house I do. Especially damning is when boxes from Newegg show up at the door. I gotta get those suckers off the porch and into my office quickly before they are spotted.
Anyone who withholds information that doesn't belong to them until the mayor of a major city personally comes to get it from them is clearly an egomaniac.
Obviously he felt very strongly about protecting his network, which in a way is admirable. But it wasn't his network, it was theirs. Even if they were going to FUBAR it. His actions went beyond the bounds of ethical behavior. What he should have done is write to the mayor and the press with his allegations, but at the same time turn over the knowledge that belongs to the city.
I agree that the city is blowing the case out of proportion. The war is on, he started it, and they are going to end it.
I feel sorry for Childs. He did what he thought was right, even if no one else would agree with him. He must have known there would be consequences to his actions. Hopefully he's prepared to accept whatever comes.
There do appear to be a lot of morons involved in this scenario, and Childs was one of them. Basically what he said was "I am smarter than all of you, so I will do things my way, and trust me, you'll be better off."
Except they weren't, because he doesn't appear to be anywhere near as smart as he thinks he is. Even if he was smarter than the gaggle of incompetents he worked for.
I believe what the OP is saying is that racism is not what you think, it's what you do.
Depending on the amount of racial bias a person has, this only works as far as they can align their actions to ideals rather than impulses; some people will be better at it than others, and some people won't be able to do it at all.
I believe in the Bullworth Principal. Everybody fucks everybody until we're all the same color.
Truly. If the TOS for a service doesn't work for you, use something else instead. Not reading and understanding the TOS is on you, not them. It's not like Google is trying to hide what they are doing from anyone.