YOU are the perfect example of an individual who just blindly believes whatever NBC, FOX, CNN feeds you. They TELL you that Paul is racist and you swallow it like an American swallowing Bush's propaganda that Iraq had WMDs. "I saw it on the news; it must be true." If you'd bother to do even a little bit of research, you'd discover the evidence shows the exact opposite.
Don't be such a dupe. You're allowing the Cable News channels to brainwash you Mr. Anon. Coward.
Yeah I'm not that picky. I'm not looking at porn.;-) I'm typically looking at the news, or the latest piece of trash released on the Big 4 broadcast networks, or some old 60s/70s/80s show (TwilightZone, Dragnet, Cheers) that is already blurry to begin with. Basically stuff I don't care how it looks.
Recently I upgraded from analog to digital TV reception. The picture quality improved quite a bit... from watching a picture worse than VHS to DVD quality. I'm satisfied with that, because high definition isn't a mandate for the content I described above. And if it were, then I'd just move the video over to my computer screen.
Trivia - the old 70s TV is the same one my parents gave me to play Atari games. The Atari died long ago, but the TV still keeps working. It says "Sears" on the front but I suspect it was built by Panasonic. Their stuff lasts-and-lasts.
Which really means they will ship the screens to China (thus burning oil), where the item will be recycled by workers not wearing masks, breathing dangerous fumes or dust, and the toxic components like mercury just dumped to the ground.
BESIDES most of the toxicity actually comes from the manufacture of the new item: Digging-up the materials, or strip-mining the ground, plus shipping them from who-knows-where to the factory (more oil burned), plus side effects like pollution caused by the workers and their living quarters or cars. The longer you use an item the more you postpone the damage which manufacturing causes.
Because they didn't break. Throwing-away a still working piece of equipment is what is filling-up landfills and damaging the environment. In addition to the 4:3 CRT and LCD screens, I also still use a TV set from the 70s, a second set from the 90s, a Pentium 4 computer, a Pentium 3 laptop, a Dolby 5.1 surround stereo, and 1987 and 97 cars..... rather than toss them in the trash, I just keep using them until they die. THEN I will upgrade.
>>>The only thing 16:9 is good for is watching HD videos
Which is probably what the majority of computer users are doing... watching youtube or hulu or other video sites. Very few are doing actual work with vertical documents like we do every day.
I don't have a wide 16:9 screen but if I did, it would HAVE to be at least 1024 vertical (same as my old 12:9 CRT). The currently-popular res is too cramped (though it beats the 320 or 640x200 of my early computer days).
I'm still using a CRT with standard aspect ratio, and two spare CRTs/LCDs in the basement. I won't be going widescreen for awhile.
But an up-and-down resolution of only 768 would feel cramped to me. I'm used to 1024 pixels of room, so I can comfortably read documents and books (which are oriented vertically).
Also the government doesn't need a warrant to access the information & data the ISP has obtained. They conveniently skirt-around the 4th amendment by letting the corporation do the spying.
>>>what I do worry about is the total lack of CARING on the part of the young people, today.
That's what I used to think until I started visiting the Ron Paul page and talking to them (almost all 39 and younger). They are not going to let go of "their" internet. They consider it their property and their voice, and the way to fight back against the Corporate-owned NBC, FOX, CNN channels.
ObamaRomney's Top Donators:. They are just paying back the media companies to say "thank you". Oh and "Here's your copyright law to protect your old-fashioned cable or media business."
A bunch of banks plus: University of California $1,648,685 Harvard University $878,164 Microsoft Corp $852,167 Google Inc $814,540 ---> Time Warner $624,618 Sidley Austin LLP $600,298 Stanford University $595,716 ---> National Amusements Inc $563,798 WilmerHale LLP $550,668 Columbia University $547,852 --> Skadden, Arps et al $543,539 UBS AG $532,674 IBM Corp $532,372 ---> General Electric $529,855 US Government $513,308 Morgan Stanley $512,232 Latham & Watkins $503,295
If this list was longer we'd probably see donations from Verizon, Comcast, Sony, MGM, RIAA, and MPAA.
This is just a distraction. "Solyndra and other solar projects failed under the Democrat's stimulus bill. That's the sad truth. But it wasn't our fault! Those damn Chinese are giving free money to their solar companies! We must punish them with tariffs." -- It's typical politics. When a program fails, rather than admit you screwed up as a Congressman or president, you deflect the blame to somebody else (and dupe the voters to reelect you).
Probably dealing with labor strikes. Or else being cut-off from the rest of the world for abusing their workers (sanctions). QUOTE: "When Jobs decided just a month before the iPhone hit markets to replace a scratch-prone plastic screen with a glass one, a Foxconn factory in China woke up about 8,000 workers when the glass screens arrived at midnight....."
How would YOU feel if you just went to bed at 9 or 10, and then suddenly your bosses wake you up at midnight to work another 12 hour shift? This is noting more than human abuse.
No wonder these people are jumping off roofs. They are sick-and-tired of being sick and tired.
It doesn't work that way in real life? I just gave you a list of examples where it DID work in real life:
- Microsoft OS/Explorer monopoly of the 90s broken-up by challengers Apple, Google, Mozilla (firefox)
- Kmart's retail monopoly of the 70s/80s broken-up by challenges from Walmart, Target
- DVD/Bluray Consortium movie monopoly currently being challenged by iTunes, NetFlix, Amazon, and other streaming movie downloads.
- I could go on and on and on.
NEVER has a monopoly been able to hold onto its monopoly, because the young, fresh competitors arrive with cheaper goods. And we the people choose those cheaper products. I challenge you right now to give an example of a company that held its monopoly more than 20 years. (You won't find any because it doesn't exist; the free market is self-correcting. High priced costs lead customers to seek lower-cost alternatives.)
This is why I'm heading back to college. The demand for hardware engineers has dried-up... everything is moving to fixed, proven designs with moderate speed upgrades (swap-out the old Pentium for a P4 or a DualCore). Simple. The main demand is for software upgrades ever year or so; there's like 10 more SW engineers than HW engineers. So time to earn that software degree. As you said THINGS CHANGE.
>>>Maybe because their workers operate round-the-clock
According to Steve Jobs. He claimed this is the reason he manufactures in China, because they are available 24/7 whenever Apple needs a rush job. American workers aren't. I say it's time for the EU/US to insist China start treating their workers better (or else cut off the product at the incoming port). Having the Chinese operate 70-80 hours a week, or woken up in the middle of the night to drag them into a factory, is an infringement upon basic human rights.
Why is it cheaper in China? Maybe because their workers operate round-the-clock, while our workers are not allowed (due to labor protection laws). It may be time to demand China stop forcing their workers to operate 70, 80, 90 hours a week.
The last man standing monopoly (examples: Microsoft OS/Explorer, Kmart, Bluray Consortium) only works until a new guy comes-along (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Walmart, streaming movie downloads) and challenges it with lower prices. Then the monopoly must either lower its prices back to free market levels, or die.
If this ever came to court, most of Facebook's EUA would be thrown-out just as most of Paypal's EUA was thrown-out by the judge. (Who then ordered paypal to refund the money it had stolen from its customers.) You cannot sign-away your legally-protected rights.
If the Congress can mandate you MUST buy a product (insurance), then they also have the power to mandate you buy other products. Like the solar panels you describe.
Or hybrid cars. Or LED bulbs. Or thermostats controllable by your electric monopoly. Or PCs that enable at-home voting (note: the application only works on Windows 7/8. Sorry.). Or......
And what's wrong with China subsidizing panels? WE subsidize our products (hybrid cars, corn, sugar, banks, mortgage companies, solar companies like Solyndra, etc) . So it's wrong when China does it, but okay when the EU/US do it? Hypocrites.
The government does this crap all the time. They hand-out Social security checks, and then they tax them. So they hand-out money and then they take it back, thus creating bureaucratic waste (and white collar welfare for workers reviewing Retired folks tax returns). It would be more logical for the government to just not tax the SS checks and eliminate that waste.
I hear this complaint from my elderly parents all the time... about how more-and-more government programs & corporate services are moving to the internet where they can't access them. And I agree with them. You should be able to get access through the phone, or in person, like it was in the past. Internet (or facebook) should not be the ONLY fucking option.
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Ron Paul is not bat-shit crazy. Or "racist".
YOU are the perfect example of an individual who just blindly believes whatever NBC, FOX, CNN feeds you. They TELL you that Paul is racist and you swallow it like an American swallowing Bush's propaganda that Iraq had WMDs. "I saw it on the news; it must be true." If you'd bother to do even a little bit of research, you'd discover the evidence shows the exact opposite.
Don't be such a dupe. You're allowing the Cable News channels to brainwash you Mr. Anon. Coward.
Yeah I'm not that picky. I'm not looking at porn. ;-) I'm typically looking at the news, or the latest piece of trash released on the Big 4 broadcast networks, or some old 60s/70s/80s show (TwilightZone, Dragnet, Cheers) that is already blurry to begin with. Basically stuff I don't care how it looks.
Recently I upgraded from analog to digital TV reception. The picture quality improved quite a bit... from watching a picture worse than VHS to DVD quality. I'm satisfied with that, because high definition isn't a mandate for the content I described above. And if it were, then I'd just move the video over to my computer screen.
Trivia - the old 70s TV is the same one my parents gave me to play Atari games. The Atari died long ago, but the TV still keeps working. It says "Sears" on the front but I suspect it was built by Panasonic. Their stuff lasts-and-lasts.
Which really means they will ship the screens to China (thus burning oil), where the item will be recycled by workers not wearing masks, breathing dangerous fumes or dust, and the toxic components like mercury just dumped to the ground.
BESIDES most of the toxicity actually comes from the manufacture of the new item: Digging-up the materials, or strip-mining the ground, plus shipping them from who-knows-where to the factory (more oil burned), plus side effects like pollution caused by the workers and their living quarters or cars. The longer you use an item the more you postpone the damage which manufacturing causes.
Because they didn't break. Throwing-away a still working piece of equipment is what is filling-up landfills and damaging the environment. In addition to the 4:3 CRT and LCD screens, I also still use a TV set from the 70s, a second set from the 90s, a Pentium 4 computer, a Pentium 3 laptop, a Dolby 5.1 surround stereo, and 1987 and 97 cars..... rather than toss them in the trash, I just keep using them until they die. THEN I will upgrade.
Another cramped resolution. Why wouldn't people use the higher 1280x1024 on their screens?
>>>The only thing 16:9 is good for is watching HD videos
Which is probably what the majority of computer users are doing... watching youtube or hulu or other video sites. Very few are doing actual work with vertical documents like we do every day.
I don't have a wide 16:9 screen but if I did, it would HAVE to be at least 1024 vertical (same as my old 12:9 CRT). The currently-popular res is too cramped (though it beats the 320 or 640x200 of my early computer days).
I'm still using a CRT with standard aspect ratio, and two spare CRTs/LCDs in the basement. I won't be going widescreen for awhile.
But an up-and-down resolution of only 768 would feel cramped to me. I'm used to 1024 pixels of room, so I can comfortably read documents and books (which are oriented vertically).
Also the government doesn't need a warrant to access the information & data the ISP has obtained. They conveniently skirt-around the 4th amendment by letting the corporation do the spying.
>>>what I do worry about is the total lack of CARING on the part of the young people, today.
That's what I used to think until I started visiting the Ron Paul page and talking to them (almost all 39 and younger). They are not going to let go of "their" internet. They consider it their property and their voice, and the way to fight back against the Corporate-owned NBC, FOX, CNN channels.
ObamaRomney's Top Donators:. They are just paying back the media companies to say "thank you". Oh and "Here's your copyright law to protect your old-fashioned cable or media business."
A bunch of banks plus:
University of California $1,648,685
Harvard University $878,164
Microsoft Corp $852,167
Google Inc $814,540
---> Time Warner $624,618
Sidley Austin LLP $600,298
Stanford University $595,716
---> National Amusements Inc $563,798
WilmerHale LLP $550,668
Columbia University $547,852
--> Skadden, Arps et al $543,539
UBS AG $532,674
IBM Corp $532,372
---> General Electric $529,855
US Government $513,308
Morgan Stanley $512,232
Latham & Watkins $503,295
If this list was longer we'd probably see donations from Verizon, Comcast, Sony, MGM, RIAA, and MPAA.
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This is just a distraction. "Solyndra and other solar projects failed under the Democrat's stimulus bill. That's the sad truth. But it wasn't our fault! Those damn Chinese are giving free money to their solar companies! We must punish them with tariffs." -- It's typical politics. When a program fails, rather than admit you screwed up as a Congressman or president, you deflect the blame to somebody else (and dupe the voters to reelect you).
If you interviewed Facebook's founder, and he was being honest, he'd probably admit he took the name from his college's freshman facebook.
Probably dealing with labor strikes. Or else being cut-off from the rest of the world for abusing their workers (sanctions). QUOTE: "When Jobs decided just a month before the iPhone hit markets to replace a scratch-prone plastic screen with a glass one, a Foxconn factory in China woke up about 8,000 workers when the glass screens arrived at midnight....."
How would YOU feel if you just went to bed at 9 or 10, and then suddenly your bosses wake you up at midnight to work another 12 hour shift? This is noting more than human abuse.
No wonder these people are jumping off roofs. They are sick-and-tired of being sick and tired.
It doesn't work that way in real life? I just gave you a list of examples where it DID work in real life:
- Microsoft OS/Explorer monopoly of the 90s broken-up by challengers Apple, Google, Mozilla (firefox)
- Kmart's retail monopoly of the 70s/80s broken-up by challenges from Walmart, Target
- DVD/Bluray Consortium movie monopoly currently being challenged by iTunes, NetFlix, Amazon, and other streaming movie downloads.
- I could go on and on and on.
NEVER has a monopoly been able to hold onto its monopoly, because the young, fresh competitors arrive with cheaper goods. And we the people choose those cheaper products. I challenge you right now to give an example of a company that held its monopoly more than 20 years. (You won't find any because it doesn't exist; the free market is self-correcting. High priced costs lead customers to seek lower-cost alternatives.)
Well said.
This is why I'm heading back to college. The demand for hardware engineers has dried-up... everything is moving to fixed, proven designs with moderate speed upgrades (swap-out the old Pentium for a P4 or a DualCore). Simple. The main demand is for software upgrades ever year or so; there's like 10 more SW engineers than HW engineers. So time to earn that software degree. As you said THINGS CHANGE.
>>>Maybe because their workers operate round-the-clock
According to Steve Jobs. He claimed this is the reason he manufactures in China, because they are available 24/7 whenever Apple needs a rush job. American workers aren't. I say it's time for the EU/US to insist China start treating their workers better (or else cut off the product at the incoming port). Having the Chinese operate 70-80 hours a week, or woken up in the middle of the night to drag them into a factory, is an infringement upon basic human rights.
Why is it cheaper in China? Maybe because their workers operate round-the-clock, while our workers are not allowed (due to labor protection laws). It may be time to demand China stop forcing their workers to operate 70, 80, 90 hours a week.
The last man standing monopoly (examples: Microsoft OS/Explorer, Kmart, Bluray Consortium) only works until a new guy comes-along (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Walmart, streaming movie downloads) and challenges it with lower prices. Then the monopoly must either lower its prices back to free market levels, or die.
If this ever came to court, most of Facebook's EUA would be thrown-out just as most of Paypal's EUA was thrown-out by the judge. (Who then ordered paypal to refund the money it had stolen from its customers.) You cannot sign-away your legally-protected rights.
If the Congress can mandate you MUST buy a product (insurance), then they also have the power to mandate you buy other products. Like the solar panels you describe.
Or hybrid cars. ......
Or LED bulbs.
Or thermostats controllable by your electric monopoly.
Or PCs that enable at-home voting (note: the application only works on Windows 7/8. Sorry.).
Or
And what's wrong with China subsidizing panels? WE subsidize our products (hybrid cars, corn, sugar, banks, mortgage companies, solar companies like Solyndra, etc) . So it's wrong when China does it, but okay when the EU/US do it? Hypocrites.
The government does this crap all the time. They hand-out Social security checks, and then they tax them. So they hand-out money and then they take it back, thus creating bureaucratic waste (and white collar welfare for workers reviewing Retired folks tax returns). It would be more logical for the government to just not tax the SS checks and eliminate that waste.
We subsidize corn production and then sell it round the world. But it's okay when we do it; not okay when China does it (with solar). Double standard.
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I hear this complaint from my elderly parents all the time... about how more-and-more government programs & corporate services are moving to the internet where they can't access them. And I agree with them. You should be able to get access through the phone, or in person, like it was in the past. Internet (or facebook) should not be the ONLY fucking option.