Oh please. If that was really the case MSNBC would have been playing it lead story for the last two months. If that was really the case NYT would have lead story everyday for a week.
And I would have heard of it. The press is in the tank of BO, and anyone who doesn't see it is a crazy loon.
This is becoming less so. Most new phones and devices I've seen are using a mini USB connector as charger.
It is cheaper to now use Mini USB than proprietary connector, and when the cost adds up to make your ugly phone more expensive than the next ugly phone, it pays to go "cheap", and sell a phone rather than accessories, most of which aren't even brand related anyways.
I won't buy a device unless the payback period is shorter than the lifecycle of the next big thing. Right now, solar is about Ten Years for payback, and a life span of about... twenty. The next "big" thing is unknown, but from the articles I've been seeing, many breakthroughs have been made and now need to be commercialized. Next Big thing is somewhere in the next 4-8 years.
That means, if I buy now, and the next big thing is in the 4-8 year range away, I'll be wasting (sunk cost) money, having to replace the existing before the payback period.
Most people don't have a clue what a "sunk cost" is, nor how to run calculations to account for them.
It pays to wait if the "next big thing" is less time away than the current state of the art. In 4-8 years from now, I'll be able to get really cheap, used equipment, or buy the next big thing, especially if it has a payback shorter than about 5 years.
[quote]It isn't negative campaigning to point out the church, and its Pastor, you are running against and with all the terrorists he has hung out with.[/quote]
There fixed that for you.
Except, I'm sure that you'll give O a pass, while still believing GWB is evil. If McCain had ONE of the weird "associates" that Obama has had, it would have been the one and only story till he had to drop out. Simply amazing that nobody on the left cares about who BO's associates are.
And it is interesting how they left goes after Joe the plumber, Palin and all, with a hatred and vitriol that is unsurpassed in my recent memory. I even heard one left wing radio talk show guy spew that he wished Joe dead.
If you line up all the left wing loons I can't believe anyone is actually voting for the guy.
Not that I'm voting for McCain either, because I'm not for either of the top two guys. He's no better than GWB in my opinion. I can barely stand the guy I'm voting for, but I know he can't be elected, so there is some consolation in that!
The sad state of affairs is such that these are the two best we've got? There's nobody better?
Standard anti gun idiocy never realizes that armed sheep are less likely to be eaten, even by well armed wolves.
And typically, you also fail to realize that wolves deciding what's for dinner are eating sheep, without much of a fight, and you seem to think that is okay.
Like I said, if I'm a sheep, I'm arming myself, and I don't care if the wolves are upset.
In my house, we discuss ideas, not positions. I have a problem with people who take a position such as "Creationists shouldn't be in office". That's their opinion. They don't have any idea what we're like, or not like. They don't care, we scare them, and that is all that matters to them. It isn't really any difference between the Creationist boogieman and the "Terrorist" boogieman. Both are the result of IRRATIONAL FEAR mongering.
Additionally, the problem with that opinion, is that people holding it try to bring that into the full force of law. Our legal system is filled with laws because someone says "There ought to be a law", and thus, there is. Nobody asks the question "WHY do we need a law for that?" All those Political Correctness laws and "hate" laws are meaningless drivel that distract from real harm.
Personally, I don't see any problems with Creationism OR Evolution. We'll see in the end... or not.
As for those that don't even grasp what the basics are, they should be taught the basics and not the fullness of crap that is currently being taught in the name of "social engineering".
Um go back and read what you wrote. It says that a person carrying a firearm is more likely to shoot themselves or someone innocent than those that would make dinner out of them.
The problem is, that a sheep with a gun is not likely to become dinner at all, and probably won't need to actually use the gun. Your comment doesn't take this into account.
Even Jesus asked is followers to be armed....
Luk 22:36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take [it], and likewise [his] scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Luk 22:38 And they said, Lord, behold, here [are] two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
I posted the second verse because many try to twist the first to say it was about scripture or something.
Not to mention
Ecc 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Blanket statements from Christians always make me giggle.
So, what you are saying is that you'd rather be dinner than carry a gun for fear of accidentally shooting someone because you don't know how to carry a firearm?
Why can't you simply go to your PTA meetings and your teacher in service meetings and be a responsible parent and know what your children are doing?
As long as the teacher unions are in existence, there is nothing any parent can do to influence what goes on in the classrooms. Trust me, as a parent not too happy with what was going on in MY kids classrooms, there are way too many that "don't care" or worse!
The option I had was to take my kids out of the classroom, and teach them at home. Why more parents don't do this is beyond me. If you really are concerned with your childs education, you wouldn't make them dodge the rain drops of crappy teachers. Unless of course, you like the crap they are calling "education" today.
Me, I'm in favor of forced choices. Force parents to be involved, by requiring CHOICE. If they actually participated in the process, they could change the system. VOUCHERS are the best way to deal with complete failure which is our education system!
Teach READING, WRITING, and MATH. Everything else can be learned once we have the basics. We have whole groups of people, going through nine to twelve years of schooling that can barely READ, WRITE and do basic MATH.
I believe in creationism (of a sort), but that hasn't kept me from being reading, writing, and doing advanced math. They aren't related at all. It hasn't stopped me from being functional in our society. It hasn't stopped me from producing an income to support my family, and have offspring who are smart and intelligent.
My daughters started college in high school, and are well beyond their peers. My 16 year old will graduate High School with her AA degree in hand, two years of college complete by year 18. AND it hasn't hindered either of their science learning either.
We haven't fill her brains up with useless information like Johnny has two daddies and Mary had a little lamb (for a lover) crap.
You don't want creationism in the classroom, great! I don't want your bullshit crap in their either.
I work for school district and I can tell you that I don't like what I see going on in classrooms today. From the Home Economics teacher teaching relationships from the likes of Rikki Lake (no kidding!) and movies to babysit the kids for days on end.
So, the whole "creationism" line many spew is a red herring of hatred against the Judeo-Christian ethic. I often wonder how bigoted they really are.
When I go see the doctor, I don't actually see a doctor. I see a Nurse. She's very good. She admits when things are out of her area, and best of all, she listens to ME.
I was on some meds that were making me feel "odd", and I found an obscure article detailing that one of the side effects of the medicine was exactly what I was experiencing. It wasn't a common side effect, only 1 out of 150,000 or so, but there it was.
I broght the article in, and in less than two minutes, had a prescription for another med, that hasn't giving me any side effects.
My solution for medical healthcare insurance hospital crisis is this. Get rid of the stupid monopoly of having to see an MD for sniffles and scrapes.
Start offering NURSES to deal with the daily care of regular patients, directly. Let them prescribe certain classes of meds for common problems.
Second step of my plan is to eliminate insurance "discounts" for proceedures. One price for ALL for everything. By this I mean no pentalty for going to a hospital and paying "cash", and no charging less for insurance companies. We can accomplish this if people getting the services had to fill out the insurance claims based upon the hospital bills, rather than the hospitals and insurance companies being in collusion and hiding the cost from the patients.
Lastly, I recommend changing the TORT laws in regard to medical care. We have to realize that SHIT happens, and even the best care providers screw up from time to time. When OBGYNs are leaving the field due to tort lawsuits (Thanks alot John Edwards) there is a problem not with the doctors, but with the lawyers. First thing I'd do to reform "tort" laws, the punitive portions are not going to the victims, but to the state into a "victims fund". AND lawyers don't get a piece of that either, 100% goes to the state. Tort reform should start at getting rid of the "lottery" effect.
The problem is the inefficiencies being built into, and the "routing around" the problems that are taking place. Insurance companies SKIM off the top, Lawyers scrape the muck at the bottom, and everyone else gets "less" services for what they are paying for in the process.
Government can't help this other than require processes that streamline and produce "fairness" in the market place.
We can fix this, if we toss out the corruption that is causing the problems in the first place. Lawyers and Insurance companies are gaming the system for their gain.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Neither do the American People learn. They voted for the guy... twice.
And look whose running on the two major parties now. We have a committed socialist vs old war horse (with socialist tendencies). Neither of which are prepared for the challenges ahead.
Just imagine if we actually had viable third parties to choose from.
I actually think that 5% is reasonably attainable by BO, though I don't think it will be that high.
Too many "uncertainties" right now to be sure about anything. I don't think he'll get close to 8%, there is too much going against him at the moment for him to get that much. Unless the (R)s just don't show up at the polls, or make a break to the (L) party. Then it could actually reach into the fabled 10%-12% range. But that would also mean BO might not make even 50% of popular vote.
And as for the "Postal" and "nutcase" comment... you have no idea what putting both those terms in the same sentence does to me. I have to go clean my guns now.
One article in a single news paper 6 months ago. No followups, no other coverage, no interviewing people who were there, no NY Times article either, no reports on CBSNBCABCCNNPBS either.
The question is, which is more important Palin's 150K wardrobe or more ties to radical extremists by BO?
Maybe you care more about $150K wardrobe than BO's associations, and that is fair enough. But to claim the coverage has been "fair" is laughable.
Mind you, I'm not voting for McCain, because he's too "Mavericky" for my tastes. I'm voting 3rd party because I can't stand either the (R) or the (D) anymore. They both SUCK.
The problem for you, is that you don't even think he'll make 8%, or else you'd take the bet, costing you nothing, should he get 8%. You know there is a much greater likelyhood of BO not actually making 8% than there is he making 12%.
Which really means you don't believe the 8-12% any more than I do.
My suspicions are that BO will win the election, but not by the margins being claimed by many of the polls. I even suspect that he may actually lose, in a Bradley Effect .
I actually fear for our country should BO lose a close election. It won't be pretty.
Here's a bet for you. For Slashdot Prop Honors, You win if Obama scores 10% victory over McCain after Tuesday's election. 10% because that is 1/2 way between 8% and 12% you claim.
I win if it is less than 10%. If it is more than 12%, I'll send you $10, if it is less than 8%, you send me $10 (US currency).
Is it a bet? This is a real test of what do you really believe!
Slashdot Mirror
Oh please. If that was really the case MSNBC would have been playing it lead story for the last two months. If that was really the case NYT would have lead story everyday for a week.
And I would have heard of it. The press is in the tank of BO, and anyone who doesn't see it is a crazy loon.
This is becoming less so. Most new phones and devices I've seen are using a mini USB connector as charger.
It is cheaper to now use Mini USB than proprietary connector, and when the cost adds up to make your ugly phone more expensive than the next ugly phone, it pays to go "cheap", and sell a phone rather than accessories, most of which aren't even brand related anyways.
I won't buy a device unless the payback period is shorter than the lifecycle of the next big thing. Right now, solar is about Ten Years for payback, and a life span of about ... twenty. The next "big" thing is unknown, but from the articles I've been seeing, many breakthroughs have been made and now need to be commercialized. Next Big thing is somewhere in the next 4-8 years.
That means, if I buy now, and the next big thing is in the 4-8 year range away, I'll be wasting (sunk cost) money, having to replace the existing before the payback period.
Most people don't have a clue what a "sunk cost" is, nor how to run calculations to account for them.
It pays to wait if the "next big thing" is less time away than the current state of the art. In 4-8 years from now, I'll be able to get really cheap, used equipment, or buy the next big thing, especially if it has a payback shorter than about 5 years.
Federal Government of the USA
[quote]It isn't negative campaigning to point out the church, and its Pastor, you are running against and with all the terrorists he has hung out with .[/quote]
There fixed that for you.
Except, I'm sure that you'll give O a pass, while still believing GWB is evil. If McCain had ONE of the weird "associates" that Obama has had, it would have been the one and only story till he had to drop out. Simply amazing that nobody on the left cares about who BO's associates are.
And it is interesting how they left goes after Joe the plumber, Palin and all, with a hatred and vitriol that is unsurpassed in my recent memory. I even heard one left wing radio talk show guy spew that he wished Joe dead.
If you line up all the left wing loons I can't believe anyone is actually voting for the guy.
Not that I'm voting for McCain either, because I'm not for either of the top two guys. He's no better than GWB in my opinion. I can barely stand the guy I'm voting for, but I know he can't be elected, so there is some consolation in that!
The sad state of affairs is such that these are the two best we've got? There's nobody better?
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!
Han shoots first. Sheesh, don't you know anything?
Standard anti gun idiocy never realizes that armed sheep are less likely to be eaten, even by well armed wolves.
And typically, you also fail to realize that wolves deciding what's for dinner are eating sheep, without much of a fight, and you seem to think that is okay.
Like I said, if I'm a sheep, I'm arming myself, and I don't care if the wolves are upset.
In my house, we discuss ideas, not positions. I have a problem with people who take a position such as "Creationists shouldn't be in office". That's their opinion. They don't have any idea what we're like, or not like. They don't care, we scare them, and that is all that matters to them. It isn't really any difference between the Creationist boogieman and the "Terrorist" boogieman. Both are the result of IRRATIONAL FEAR mongering.
Additionally, the problem with that opinion, is that people holding it try to bring that into the full force of law. Our legal system is filled with laws because someone says "There ought to be a law", and thus, there is. Nobody asks the question "WHY do we need a law for that?" All those Political Correctness laws and "hate" laws are meaningless drivel that distract from real harm.
Personally, I don't see any problems with Creationism OR Evolution. We'll see in the end ... or not.
As for those that don't even grasp what the basics are, they should be taught the basics and not the fullness of crap that is currently being taught in the name of "social engineering".
Um go back and read what you wrote. It says that a person carrying a firearm is more likely to shoot themselves or someone innocent than those that would make dinner out of them.
The problem is, that a sheep with a gun is not likely to become dinner at all, and probably won't need to actually use the gun. Your comment doesn't take this into account.
Even Jesus asked is followers to be armed ....
Luk 22:36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take [it], and likewise [his] scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Luk 22:38 And they said, Lord, behold, here [are] two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
I posted the second verse because many try to twist the first to say it was about scripture or something.
Not to mention
Ecc 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Blanket statements from Christians always make me giggle.
So, what you are saying is that you'd rather be dinner than carry a gun for fear of accidentally shooting someone because you don't know how to carry a firearm?
I love lamb.
Why can't you simply go to your PTA meetings and your teacher in service meetings and be a responsible parent and know what your children are doing?
As long as the teacher unions are in existence, there is nothing any parent can do to influence what goes on in the classrooms. Trust me, as a parent not too happy with what was going on in MY kids classrooms, there are way too many that "don't care" or worse!
The option I had was to take my kids out of the classroom, and teach them at home. Why more parents don't do this is beyond me. If you really are concerned with your childs education, you wouldn't make them dodge the rain drops of crappy teachers. Unless of course, you like the crap they are calling "education" today.
Me, I'm in favor of forced choices. Force parents to be involved, by requiring CHOICE. If they actually participated in the process, they could change the system. VOUCHERS are the best way to deal with complete failure which is our education system!
Here's a thought.
Teach READING, WRITING, and MATH. Everything else can be learned once we have the basics. We have whole groups of people, going through nine to twelve years of schooling that can barely READ, WRITE and do basic MATH.
I believe in creationism (of a sort), but that hasn't kept me from being reading, writing, and doing advanced math. They aren't related at all. It hasn't stopped me from being functional in our society. It hasn't stopped me from producing an income to support my family, and have offspring who are smart and intelligent.
My daughters started college in high school, and are well beyond their peers. My 16 year old will graduate High School with her AA degree in hand, two years of college complete by year 18. AND it hasn't hindered either of their science learning either.
We haven't fill her brains up with useless information like Johnny has two daddies and Mary had a little lamb (for a lover) crap.
You don't want creationism in the classroom, great! I don't want your bullshit crap in their either.
I work for school district and I can tell you that I don't like what I see going on in classrooms today. From the Home Economics teacher teaching relationships from the likes of Rikki Lake (no kidding!) and movies to babysit the kids for days on end.
So, the whole "creationism" line many spew is a red herring of hatred against the Judeo-Christian ethic. I often wonder how bigoted they really are.
If I'm a sheep, I'm arming myself with big guns. If I'm going to die for dinner, I'm taking someone with me.
THAT's the reason for the 2nd amendment.
You think that's bad, I live on slashdot, and every link I go to has this picture of this guy with a gaping ass.
I'd rather see some guy getting his brains blown out!
When I go see the doctor, I don't actually see a doctor. I see a Nurse. She's very good. She admits when things are out of her area, and best of all, she listens to ME.
I was on some meds that were making me feel "odd", and I found an obscure article detailing that one of the side effects of the medicine was exactly what I was experiencing. It wasn't a common side effect, only 1 out of 150,000 or so, but there it was.
I broght the article in, and in less than two minutes, had a prescription for another med, that hasn't giving me any side effects.
My solution for medical healthcare insurance hospital crisis is this. Get rid of the stupid monopoly of having to see an MD for sniffles and scrapes.
Start offering NURSES to deal with the daily care of regular patients, directly. Let them prescribe certain classes of meds for common problems.
Second step of my plan is to eliminate insurance "discounts" for proceedures. One price for ALL for everything. By this I mean no pentalty for going to a hospital and paying "cash", and no charging less for insurance companies. We can accomplish this if people getting the services had to fill out the insurance claims based upon the hospital bills, rather than the hospitals and insurance companies being in collusion and hiding the cost from the patients.
Lastly, I recommend changing the TORT laws in regard to medical care. We have to realize that SHIT happens, and even the best care providers screw up from time to time. When OBGYNs are leaving the field due to tort lawsuits (Thanks alot John Edwards) there is a problem not with the doctors, but with the lawyers. First thing I'd do to reform "tort" laws, the punitive portions are not going to the victims, but to the state into a "victims fund". AND lawyers don't get a piece of that either, 100% goes to the state. Tort reform should start at getting rid of the "lottery" effect.
The problem is the inefficiencies being built into, and the "routing around" the problems that are taking place. Insurance companies SKIM off the top, Lawyers scrape the muck at the bottom, and everyone else gets "less" services for what they are paying for in the process.
Government can't help this other than require processes that streamline and produce "fairness" in the market place.
We can fix this, if we toss out the corruption that is causing the problems in the first place. Lawyers and Insurance companies are gaming the system for their gain.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater.
Neither do the American People learn. They voted for the guy ... twice.
And look whose running on the two major parties now. We have a committed socialist vs old war horse (with socialist tendencies). Neither of which are prepared for the challenges ahead.
Just imagine if we actually had viable third parties to choose from.
Right, flamebait. Gotcha, because you haven't heard about it, it is flamebait. Got it.
I actually think that 5% is reasonably attainable by BO, though I don't think it will be that high.
Too many "uncertainties" right now to be sure about anything. I don't think he'll get close to 8%, there is too much going against him at the moment for him to get that much. Unless the (R)s just don't show up at the polls, or make a break to the (L) party. Then it could actually reach into the fabled 10%-12% range. But that would also mean BO might not make even 50% of popular vote.
And as for the "Postal" and "nutcase" comment ... you have no idea what putting both those terms in the same sentence does to me. I have to go clean my guns now.
Example: LA Times Obama Video: Rashid Khalidi
One article in a single news paper 6 months ago. No followups, no other coverage, no interviewing people who were there, no NY Times article either, no reports on CBSNBCABCCNNPBS either.
The question is, which is more important Palin's 150K wardrobe or more ties to radical extremists by BO?
Maybe you care more about $150K wardrobe than BO's associations, and that is fair enough. But to claim the coverage has been "fair" is laughable.
Mind you, I'm not voting for McCain, because he's too "Mavericky" for my tastes. I'm voting 3rd party because I can't stand either the (R) or the (D) anymore. They both SUCK.
Maybe. Let me see the details of the bet. :-D
The problem for you, is that you don't even think he'll make 8%, or else you'd take the bet, costing you nothing, should he get 8%. You know there is a much greater likelyhood of BO not actually making 8% than there is he making 12%.
Which really means you don't believe the 8-12% any more than I do.
My suspicions are that BO will win the election, but not by the margins being claimed by many of the polls. I even suspect that he may actually lose, in a Bradley Effect .
I actually fear for our country should BO lose a close election. It won't be pretty.
Here's a bet for you. For Slashdot Prop Honors, You win if Obama scores 10% victory over McCain after Tuesday's election. 10% because that is 1/2 way between 8% and 12% you claim.
I win if it is less than 10%. If it is more than 12%, I'll send you $10, if it is less than 8%, you send me $10 (US currency).
Is it a bet? This is a real test of what do you really believe!
GALLUP SAYS OBAMA +3
RASMUSSEN Tight: Obama +3
But what do I know?
Too late, you've been eaten by a Gore.
I hear Ralph Nader is pissed.