When they proposed giving IE away, BillG's initial response was to call them communists. When they said it was a standard monopolists' tactic, he got comfortable with it.
Put "Valuable Gun Collection Inside" on your lawn. Put a sticker "This vehicle protected by Smith and Wesson - easily pawned pistol in glovebox" on your bumber. See if your localized crime rate goes up or down.
When slave states had the preponderance of federal power, they were mostly in favor of strong central government. It was only when they started losing that preponderance of power (1830's? 1840's?) that States Rights became so important to them. It was not a principled thing at all, merely expedient.
It has nothing to do with mastering subjects. The real education is a sort of metalesson in conformity and obedience.
We've known for 100's of years that the way to teach science is to do science. The way to teach writing is have students write.
Instead, we warehouse kids. Schools solve the same problem as prisons, which is "how to you contain and control a population". The problem of how to develop thinking skills is a distant second or third.
Original postition: copyright violation is not criminal (general case) Your response: yes it is, read the law (general case) rebuttal: no it is not, read the law:only in very specific case is it criminal your attempt to rebut rebuttal: original position was bald!
Your response was as hairless.
If you did read it, it appears you did not read it closely. If you did read it closely, you did not summarize accurately.
Peacefire has a more or less turn-key proxy you can set up for your friends stuck behind the Wall. If this caught on, the bad guys could just watch the traffic to the mit site.
Well, I must admit that the famously dishonest Stockman and other Reagan officials did submit budgets with the bottom lines you indicated. They were bogus bottom lines, and the items in the budgets cost - or would have cost - more than the administration allowed for. The budget includes things like "x dollars per person on welfare" and if you assume that nobody will be on welfare, or that there will be no cost overruns for military procurement, or that interest rates on the national debt will go to zero, your budget is worthless.
It is interesting to see the right wingers defending David Stockman's numbers long after he admitted deliberately lying and cooking the books.
Ah... this depends on whether you accept David Stockman's famously bogus numbers for what the administration spending proposals would cost, and the much more accurate CBO estimates. http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/56More.h tm
Even accepting Stockman's numbers at face value, the 3 percent average difference was not what broke the bank - it was the trickle down tax cuts. The budget would not have balanced under Reagan's proposals.
The prez submits a budget. Reagan never once submitted a budget with lower spending proposals than the budget Congress actually passed for that year.
Shrub is doing the same thing: defunding government and deferring the hard part - cutting programs - to later administrations. And this after swearing he'd not leave his messes for our kids to clean up. Is EVERYTHING out of his mouth a lie? I can't recall an example. Holding a photo op at a jobs center just before cutting its budget to zero is a lie. He does that all the time!
Look folks, at some point taxes == services. It's nice to get stuff for free, but it doesn't happen much. Tanstafl applies to tax cuts, too.
It looked like they were pursuaded to pay more for the Redhat enterprise option rather than go with a cheaper SCO upgrade. The gist is that SCO was mired in rebranding, and not doing anything innovative or otherwise improving the product.
They had already determined that the crucial app would run well on either platform and the migration pain was not significant enough to mention.
A couple of years ago in Alaska. Cleaning them is a bit brutal - break them in half over a metal fin or something, just tear them up. Someone asked my 6 year old daughter if it bothered her to watch.
"No- I want to eat 'em! Good job, Dad!"
The legs are a couple of feet long, about 1.5 inches in diameter. The muscles contracted in the boiling water, scared the bejeepers out of me.
When he isn't throwing elections to the greater of two evils, he saves lives by the hundreds of thousands. His work on auto safety would completely offset the harm of a 1-term Bush.
Now, a second term...
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I had the sense that the story could stand up without fantasy, just as a parallel world historical kind of thing. For me, roughly half the magical stuff adds, and not much subtracts. The mythical age where all the cool structures like the Wall was cool. I like that the backstory of combat with dragons is mostly from the losers' point of view - like way back when, Harrenhal is completed just when Aegon lands with a tiny army and some great big dragons. Who view walls from above...
If you are referring to Melisandre's actions - she represents something new to Westeros, I think.
I think the dragons will be integrated slowly as they grow.
He had a guy who lost family at the WTC and who opposed bombing afghanistan because innocent civilians would be killed. O'Reilly's point was (and I'm not making this up) that afghan civilians should pay for WTC because OBL had refuge there.
Guy stood his ground, O'Reilly wasn't satisfied with the usual shouting down. Disgraceful. Even if you don't base your policy on a WTC victim's feelings, he has the right to his opinion.
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Let's see - so the OSS app gets criticized for copying Excel, which itself copied lotus 1-2-3. THen you criticize it for exceeding excel. Fucktard.
The mayor supported the Chief of Police in defying a Court Order not to troll through people's garbage without a warrant. But when a weekly paper went through THEIR garbage and published their findings (which were pretty banal, nothing spicey) the cop got "hostile" and the mayor went "ballistic"
Both should lose their jobs.
http://www.wweek.com/flatfiles/News3485.lasso
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Not to sell books, but be true to the story.
Some authors aren't the masters of their tales. (Masters of their craft, yes...) I don't think Martin enjoys the horrible acts the monsters in his books perpetrate. They are monsters! That's what gives his books life- his characters do what they will/would do, rather than conforming to a Code of Conduct. That's the world he finds himself writing. Tolkien folk don't bleed much - I don't fault him for it, that's the world he writes. I don't fault the Harry Potter series for being bloodless. That's how that world is. I hope my kids enjoy them long before they get to this series.
Martin's world appears to be inspired by the 100 years war and War of the Roses, where the actual events make his story seem fairly tame in comparison. The Brits depopulated large chunks of France when the French forces wouldn't/couldn't defend them. Battles were lost because the troops were so busy looting they forgot to finish the fight. In one instance, nominally Catholic English soldiers burned a nunnary, raping all the inhabitants and killing all but a few which were saved for further entertainment.
The 100 years war was a disaster for Britain because during the lulls the unemployed British soldiers had gotten a taste for rape and plunder, and kept it up when they got home.
One reader didn't care for the sex scenes - I don't think they are excessive, nor dwelt on in prurient detail. They are part of the characters' lives (illigitimate children play a huge role in the story). One character binds her husband to her by being both Queen and Lover. One incident reveals Theon Grayjoy's character nicely, though it doesn't advance the story much by itself.
I should sum up - it's a more realistic world than most, and if you like your fiction more squeeky clean, stay away. I have put away books that had similar violence without the honesty. There's a reason for it here - it has to be, or the story is less true.
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That's funny. I don't think you'll find a single astronomer or astrophysicist who would agree. So are we not to listen to astronomers?
Reported widely, nimrod. Do you know anything outside of direct, personal experience? Hint: this is not a philosophy class.
When they proposed giving IE away, BillG's initial response was to call them communists. When they said it was a standard monopolists' tactic, he got comfortable with it.
Put "Valuable Gun Collection Inside" on your lawn. Put a sticker "This vehicle protected by Smith and Wesson - easily pawned pistol in glovebox" on your bumber. See if your localized crime rate goes up or down.
When slave states had the preponderance of federal power, they were mostly in favor of strong central government. It was only when they started losing that preponderance of power (1830's? 1840's?) that States Rights became so important to them. It was not a principled thing at all, merely expedient.
It has nothing to do with mastering subjects. The real education is a sort of metalesson in conformity and obedience.
We've known for 100's of years that the way to teach science is to do science. The way to teach writing is have students write.
Instead, we warehouse kids. Schools solve the same problem as prisons, which is "how to you contain and control a population". The problem of how to develop thinking skills is a distant second or third.
Original postition: copyright violation is not criminal (general case)
Your response: yes it is, read the law (general case)
rebuttal: no it is not, read the law:only in very specific case is it criminal
your attempt to rebut rebuttal: original position was bald!
Your response was as hairless.
If you did read it, it appears you did not read it closely. If you did read it closely, you did not summarize accurately.
No apology due you, probably one due from you.
Trial by combat may still exist in some jurisdictions, which may be why Hilary Rosen left her position...
Peacefire has a more or less turn-key proxy you can set up for your friends stuck behind the Wall. If this caught on, the bad guys could just watch the traffic to the mit site.
Well, I must admit that the famously dishonest Stockman and other Reagan officials did submit budgets with the bottom lines you indicated. They were bogus bottom lines, and the items in the budgets cost - or would have cost - more than the administration allowed for. The budget includes things like "x dollars per person on welfare" and if you assume that nobody will be on welfare, or that there will be no cost overruns for military procurement, or that interest rates on the national debt will go to zero, your budget is worthless.
It is interesting to see the right wingers defending David Stockman's numbers long after he admitted deliberately lying and cooking the books.
Ah... this depends on whether you accept David Stockman's famously bogus numbers for what the administration spending proposals would cost, and the much more accurate CBO estimates.h tm
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/56More.
Even accepting Stockman's numbers at face value, the 3 percent average difference was not what broke the bank - it was the trickle down tax cuts. The budget would not have balanced under Reagan's proposals.
Let's also not forget that the Bush campaign successfully EXCLUDED late overseas ballots if they were going to Democrat-leaning counties.
There is no principle here, no honor. Just banana republican theft.
This sums it up nicely http://www.markfiore.com/animation/tia2.html
The prez sends a budget to Congress. They can trash it entirely or use it as the basis for the usual horsetrading.
Name the year Reagan sent a budget to Congress that contained a lower spending proposal than the budget congress actually passed that year.
Times up!
HE NEVER DID! Thanks for playing.
The prez submits a budget. Reagan never once submitted a budget with lower spending proposals than the budget Congress actually passed for that year.
Shrub is doing the same thing: defunding government and deferring the hard part - cutting programs - to later administrations. And this after swearing he'd not leave his messes for our kids to clean up. Is EVERYTHING out of his mouth a lie? I can't recall an example. Holding a photo op at a jobs center just before cutting its budget to zero is a lie. He does that all the time!
Look folks, at some point taxes == services. It's nice to get stuff for free, but it doesn't happen much. Tanstafl applies to tax cuts, too.
It looked like they were pursuaded to pay more for the Redhat enterprise option rather than go with a cheaper SCO upgrade. The gist is that SCO was mired in rebranding, and not doing anything innovative or otherwise improving the product.
They had already determined that the crucial app would run well on either platform and the migration pain was not significant enough to mention.
A couple of years ago in Alaska. Cleaning them is a bit brutal - break them in half over a metal fin or something, just tear them up. Someone asked my 6 year old daughter if it bothered her to watch.
/drools
"No- I want to eat 'em! Good job, Dad!"
The legs are a couple of feet long, about 1.5 inches in diameter. The muscles contracted in the boiling water, scared the bejeepers out of me.
They were good in butter and garlic.
So if you want a fish course to go with your spotted owl au vin, pick something else.
Alaska manages the salmon fishery quite well - the long term trends are stable, escapement is comparable to 70 years ago.
How is truth flamebait? Hint: "dittohead" is not a term of honor.
When he isn't throwing elections to the greater of two evils, he saves lives by the hundreds of thousands. His work on auto safety would completely offset the harm of a 1-term Bush.
Now, a second term...
I had the sense that the story could stand up without fantasy, just as a parallel world historical kind of thing. For me, roughly half the magical stuff adds, and not much subtracts. The mythical age where all the cool structures like the Wall was cool. I like that the backstory of combat with dragons is mostly from the losers' point of view - like way back when, Harrenhal is completed just when Aegon lands with a tiny army and some great big dragons. Who view walls from above...
If you are referring to Melisandre's actions - she represents something new to Westeros, I think.
I think the dragons will be integrated slowly as they grow.
He had a guy who lost family at the WTC and who opposed bombing afghanistan because innocent civilians would be killed. O'Reilly's point was (and I'm not making this up) that afghan civilians should pay for WTC because OBL had refuge there.
Guy stood his ground, O'Reilly wasn't satisfied with the usual shouting down. Disgraceful. Even if you don't base your policy on a WTC victim's feelings, he has the right to his opinion.
Let's see - so the OSS app gets criticized for copying Excel, which itself copied lotus 1-2-3. THen you criticize it for exceeding excel. Fucktard.
The mayor supported the Chief of Police in defying a Court Order not to troll through people's garbage without a warrant. But when a weekly paper went through THEIR garbage and published their findings (which were pretty banal, nothing spicey) the cop got "hostile" and the mayor went "ballistic"
Both should lose their jobs.
http://www.wweek.com/flatfiles/News3485.lasso
Not to sell books, but be true to the story.
Some authors aren't the masters of their tales. (Masters of their craft, yes...) I don't think Martin enjoys the horrible acts the monsters in his books perpetrate. They are monsters! That's what gives his books life- his characters do what they will/would do, rather than conforming to a Code of Conduct. That's the world he finds himself writing. Tolkien folk don't bleed much - I don't fault him for it, that's the world he writes. I don't fault the Harry Potter series for being bloodless. That's how that world is. I hope my kids enjoy them long before they get to this series.
Martin's world appears to be inspired by the 100 years war and War of the Roses, where the actual events make his story seem fairly tame in comparison. The Brits depopulated large chunks of France when the French forces wouldn't/couldn't defend them. Battles were lost because the troops were so busy looting they forgot to finish the fight. In one instance, nominally Catholic English soldiers burned a nunnary, raping all the inhabitants and killing all but a few which were saved for further entertainment.
The 100 years war was a disaster for Britain because during the lulls the unemployed British soldiers had gotten a taste for rape and plunder, and kept it up when they got home.
One reader didn't care for the sex scenes - I don't think they are excessive, nor dwelt on in prurient detail. They are part of the characters' lives (illigitimate children play a huge role in the story). One character binds her husband to her by being both Queen and Lover. One incident reveals Theon Grayjoy's character nicely, though it doesn't advance the story much by itself.
I should sum up - it's a more realistic world than most, and if you like your fiction more squeeky clean, stay away. I have put away books that had similar violence without the honesty. There's a reason for it here - it has to be, or the story is less true.