We should be able to track a single line from any elephant back to a single rodent.
No, because not every dead animal turns into a fossil. Very, very few of them do in fact.
In other words, every fossil was from a creature that was an evolutionary dead end. We have never found the fossil from a creature whose offspring evolved into something that's still around.
This is where your argument falls apart. Take a look at the evolution of the horse for example.
You can't fail at something you weren't trying to do.
and have handed over our tax dollars to rich corporations while Americans lose their jobs, their homes and receive nothing in the form of a ballout or help from our government.
So, no Americans work for the corporations who got the bailout money?
A failure so far. I'm a progressive Independent and I see nothing new with Obama. I have hopes... but if i dont see anything in 3 years... this guy is out on his ass.
If you're a progressive, who are you going to vote for in 4 years? Mitt Romney?
I'm looking at you Democrats, who have never seen a government program you didn't want to throw MORE money at, or a single issue that you didn't think some bureaucrat in Washington couldn't resolve better than the people directly involved.
The problem is that, broadly speaking, the people directly involved often don't make the best decision. I don't know if it's uniquely American or if it's built into our species somehow, but we often don't make decisions that are in our best interests, particularly our long-term interests.
Hell, look at the recent debacle in the car industry. People kept buying bigger and bigger SUVs when they didn't really need them. They didn't worry about it because, hey, gas is going to be cheap forever, right? The economy is always going to grow, right?
The upshot of this is that people sometimes have to be... nudged in the direction they "should" be going (whatever that means), and one way of doing that is taxing things that are bad for them. Ideally people would decide that driving a car they don't need is bad for their bank accounts and the planet; and that drinking a gallon of Coke a day isn't doing their bodies any favors either. The problem is that they don't.
Since the Constitution doesn't allow the Federal Government to mandate health care, a health care mandate (as is being proposed) would be unconstitutional.
Article I, Section 8 grants Congress the power to collect taxes for the general welfare of the United States. I would think universal healthcare would fall under general welfare.
1) Health care is not an entitlement or a right. You have to buy it, just like everything else. That means that there is no guarantee that there will be enough choices to suit your taste or budget available.
So tell me, what's it like being a complete failure as a human being?
Most people (like myself) don't want to have to go out and buy the latest and greatest graphics card to run a new game.
Well that's good, because you don't. You only need the latest and greatest card if you want to play a game at 1920x1200 and still get 120 fps. As long as you don't have to have all the knobs turned up to the max, you can stay one or two card generations behind, and your games will still look better than anything you can get on a console.
George R.R. Martin himself has now passed 60 years of age and still has at least two more books to write [after this one].
And yet he has plenty of time to post on his blog about the Giants during football season, go to endless conventions, and edit more Wild Cards books. Plus he has said something along the lines of all his notes will be destroyed when he's dead so no one will be able to finish the series.
Mind you, with UAC turned off, Vista 64 works great for me
Mind you, with UAC turned ON, Vista 64 works great for me. I seriously want to know what people are doing to see so many UAC prompts that they get annoyed enough to turn it off. The only time I see any is when I'm installing something, and I probably wouldn't see most of those if people would stop writing software that installs to places it shouldn't.
Once you can drag and drop one thing then you want to be able to drag and drop anything.
Well, yes.
With so much of the problem and criticism with the reigning proprietary OS being security related the open source community has tried to remain a little more focused on security related issues. Combine that with the difference in conceptual organization--F/OSS guys don't get paid to go to in house meetings together--and it is completely logical that something as "simple" as drag and drop is not implemented across largely unrelated application development groups.
So your argument against implementing a feature that people actually want and use on a regular basis is that it's just too hard?
I am sorry, but I don't want MS telling me I cannot watch a DVD I freaking bought and forcing me to watch it in crap-quality mode because I don't have a certain connection type to my monitor.
It's not MS telling you that, it's the movie industry.
It was dirty trick for Microsoft to put back the security?
Please, what Linux has done is shown the world that an OS can become popular, incredibly stable, and widely loved by a hundred million or more people world-wide.
SHould the user ahve to tunr off features to stop getting apop up, and having there disk grind all that time? no.
The user doesn't have to do that. If the user just leaves the system alone, the user will find that it settles down. A user will then rarely see a UAC prompt and the user's disk won't be thrashing. It's usually when the user starts mucking around with the system that the user finds that the user's system is behaving poorly.
X got it "right" 20 years ago when graphics were expensive. That's no longer the case. I feel the things that X does well are now liabilities rather than assets, but YMMV.
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We should be able to track a single line from any elephant back to a single rodent.
No, because not every dead animal turns into a fossil. Very, very few of them do in fact.
In other words, every fossil was from a creature that was an evolutionary dead end. We have never found the fossil from a creature whose offspring evolved into something that's still around.
This is where your argument falls apart. Take a look at the evolution of the horse for example.
They _HAVE_TO_CREATE_. They _HAVE_TO_SOLVE_PROBLEMS_.
Or maybe you're just wrong. Perhaps you should go outside and get some fresh air.
Watch the world outside the window?
He has failed on Universal Health Care
You can't fail at something you weren't trying to do.
and have handed over our tax dollars to rich corporations while Americans lose their jobs, their homes and receive nothing in the form of a ballout or help from our government.
So, no Americans work for the corporations who got the bailout money?
A failure so far. I'm a progressive Independent and I see nothing new with Obama.
I have hopes... but if i dont see anything in 3 years... this guy is out on his ass.
If you're a progressive, who are you going to vote for in 4 years? Mitt Romney?
When de Icaza has a couple of decades of predictive accuracy rivaling RMS's under his belt,
Sorry, what amazing oracular utterances has RMS made?
There's no changing the connotation of Microsoft's name, they must be... supplanted.
The irony of this statement is incredible.
You sound like one of those people that believe a second civil war is right around the corner. "Arms yourselves. The war's a comin', ya hear?"
I'm looking at you Democrats, who have never seen a government program you didn't want to throw MORE money at, or a single issue that you didn't think some bureaucrat in Washington couldn't resolve better than the people directly involved.
The problem is that, broadly speaking, the people directly involved often don't make the best decision. I don't know if it's uniquely American or if it's built into our species somehow, but we often don't make decisions that are in our best interests, particularly our long-term interests.
Hell, look at the recent debacle in the car industry. People kept buying bigger and bigger SUVs when they didn't really need them. They didn't worry about it because, hey, gas is going to be cheap forever, right? The economy is always going to grow, right?
The upshot of this is that people sometimes have to be... nudged in the direction they "should" be going (whatever that means), and one way of doing that is taxing things that are bad for them. Ideally people would decide that driving a car they don't need is bad for their bank accounts and the planet; and that drinking a gallon of Coke a day isn't doing their bodies any favors either. The problem is that they don't.
Since the Constitution doesn't allow the Federal Government to mandate health care, a health care mandate (as is being proposed) would be unconstitutional.
Article I, Section 8 grants Congress the power to collect taxes for the general welfare of the United States. I would think universal healthcare would fall under general welfare.
1) Health care is not an entitlement or a right. You have to buy it, just like everything else. That means that there is no guarantee that there will be enough choices to suit your taste or budget available.
So tell me, what's it like being a complete failure as a human being?
I still can't get anything done beyond the most basic tasks in Word because of the stupid ribbon
Somehow I feel that it may not be the ribbon that's the stupid part.
Computers are complicated because they are complicated.
No, computers are complicated because certain people think we should never change anything because it might make things complicated.
Ergo, we should ban anything that might give people, you know, ideas.
Most people (like myself) don't want to have to go out and buy the latest and greatest graphics card to run a new game.
Well that's good, because you don't. You only need the latest and greatest card if you want to play a game at 1920x1200 and still get 120 fps. As long as you don't have to have all the knobs turned up to the max, you can stay one or two card generations behind, and your games will still look better than anything you can get on a console.
George R.R. Martin himself has now passed 60 years of age and still has at least two more books to write [after this one].
And yet he has plenty of time to post on his blog about the Giants during football season, go to endless conventions, and edit more Wild Cards books. Plus he has said something along the lines of all his notes will be destroyed when he's dead so no one will be able to finish the series.
Face it, we will never see the end of ASoIaF.
If the Rouge class is under-powered then it just makes a high level Rouge player that much more impressive.
My 20th level Mascara would totally pwn your Rouge.
Mind you, with UAC turned off, Vista 64 works great for me
Mind you, with UAC turned ON, Vista 64 works great for me. I seriously want to know what people are doing to see so many UAC prompts that they get annoyed enough to turn it off. The only time I see any is when I'm installing something, and I probably wouldn't see most of those if people would stop writing software that installs to places it shouldn't.
Now, given the relative cost per gigabyte of disk space when XP was released vs today, how much does each cost in terms of dollars and cents?
Creative's SB Live drivers do not work at all in Vista.
Um, yes they do. I have an old SB Live card at home and the drivers work fine with Vista Ultimate 64.
Once you can drag and drop one thing then you want to be able to drag and drop anything.
Well, yes.
With so much of the problem and criticism with the reigning proprietary OS being security related the open source community has tried to remain a little more focused on security related issues. Combine that with the difference in conceptual organization--F/OSS guys don't get paid to go to in house meetings together--and it is completely logical that something as "simple" as drag and drop is not implemented across largely unrelated application development groups.
So your argument against implementing a feature that people actually want and use on a regular basis is that it's just too hard?
I am sorry, but I don't want MS telling me I cannot watch a DVD I freaking bought and forcing me to watch it in crap-quality mode because I don't have a certain connection type to my monitor.
It's not MS telling you that, it's the movie industry.
It was dirty trick for Microsoft to put back the security?
Please, what Linux has done is shown the world that an OS can become popular, incredibly stable, and widely loved by a hundred million or more people world-wide.
[citation needed]
SHould the user ahve to tunr off features to stop getting apop up, and having there disk grind all that time? no.
The user doesn't have to do that. If the user just leaves the system alone, the user will find that it settles down. A user will then rarely see a UAC prompt and the user's disk won't be thrashing. It's usually when the user starts mucking around with the system that the user finds that the user's system is behaving poorly.
They have claimed since Windows 98 that there is better security. Vista was supposed to be XP that had been fixed, remember?
Both of these are true though.
X got it right 20 years ago.
X got it "right" 20 years ago when graphics were expensive. That's no longer the case. I feel the things that X does well are now liabilities rather than assets, but YMMV.
You do realize not every city is a post-apocalyptic hellhole, right?
That's true. Some of them are just ordinary hellholes.