They don't want their deceptive advertising, bordering on criminal fraud, exposed. They committed the equivalent of overselling shares in a company, like in The Producers.
But at least TWC has reasonable plans. They're going to start doing metered usage and make the high bandwidth users pay more. State the truth about your network capacity and charge people for their use, what a concept!
Bring back key escrow, make it mandatory. Possession of encryption software without automatic escrow is illegal. Illegal software far fetched? No, the DMCA showed us this, as did the recent law in Germany over "hacking tools."
Initially the keys will only be released to "catch terrorists," and that is how it will be passed. Watch it start to be used for regular crime, then to snoop for copyright infringement. Far fetched? Again no, the Patriot Act's over-reaching powers were sold as anti-terrorist, but they've become popular in going after regular criminals, and then they were used against a Stargate SG-1 fan for copyright infringement.
That Dell is about the size of the MacBook, which costs less and is more powerful. It is lighter, but then it also has a smaller screen. It is far bigger than the MBA.
A more apt comparison is the one Jobs did, with the Sony slim notebook, and the Sony's more expensive.
Kyoto wasn't an environmental treaty. It was a wealth distribution scheme. This concept was also at the core of the recent Bali meeting. A quote from there:
"A response to climate change must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources."
To be truly about the environment, any treaty must have at its heart the environment and be devoid of other causes and ideologies.
For example in the southeast united states, the is just a little bit of a demend imbalance with water supplies, as it stands I give the atlanta region just about a year before the shit hits the fan, because water demand is pretty quickly depleating water supplies
We have a "drought" here with some reservoirs completely dry, yet others fairly close that are filled. It's not a "drought," it's a distribution problem.
As it stands the IEA is reporting that at current depleation rates oil production, peak oil might have occured or will occur within a short time frame, best case estimate is 40 years from now, but I'm not buying that.
Over 20 years ago I saw a presentation that said we'd all without oil by now and starving. Paging Mr. Malthus. Few people believe Chicken Little anymore after his previous predictive failures. Find another tact.
I'm 100% sure that unsustainable conspicuous consumption of natural basic resources (like water and oil) will eventually lead to a proverbial hell on earth
A much easier way is to remind them that God created the Earth and left us as its stewards. Thus, it's practically a sin to be irresponsible about the environment.
I'd also have tax credits for people who install solar panel, invest in wind turbine
1) Enable General Assembly decisions to be binding on nation-states (with certain limits to avoid over-centralization).
That is dangerous with the current thinking of the UN. For one, they see the solution for pretty much anything to be to drain money from the successful nations and give it to the poorer ones -- and they're not good at recognizing which is which (except that they know the US is their money pot).
They also would be able to enforce political correctness. Nothing could be muttered that would offend anyone in the world, except the Muslims would still be allowed to chant "Death to Israel" as they are an oppressed, protected class. It would be illegal to defend yourself against the violence committed by any such protected class.
And then there's the problem where an individual country's constitution guarantees rights that would be violated by a UN decision.
Ensure that there are minimum standards for human rights in order for a country to even belong to the U.N.
Ain't that the truth. Now they put them on the human rights council. However, who decides who is oppressive? With the right maneuvering in the initial deciding round we could end up with the oppressive countries voting out the free countries as oppressive, especially since one of the most oppressive countries in the world would carry one quarter of the proportional vote you propose.
"Did you make $50000 or less this year? If yes, you owe $0 in tax, sign here, and do not fill out anything else in this form." To pay for this, I'd stick a big tax on gas, perhaps $1 per gallon.
Too bad your $50K guy is has a job that requires him to drive 40,000 miles a year. Let's see, at even 40 mpg that comes out to $1,000 extra in tax every year, on top of the current gas taxes. Since he has a wife and three kids to support he wasn't paying any federal income tax before, but now he's out $83 a month.
Currently, hospitals and doctors try to charge outrageously high prices for their services. Claim they have to pay for all those deadbeats who need care but can't afford it.
It's not just that. Medical malpractice suits are getting to be a hobby in some states, people looking for the lawsuit lottery, jackpot justice. The insurance premiums are thus extremely high, and the costs are passed to the patients. In fact, they can get so high that some types of doctors are fleeing certain states because they can't afford something like $100K a year in malpractice insurance (plus the building, equipment and staff leaves little for the doctor at standard rates).
While these are all pretty bad, they all pale in comparison to Bush's stupid war in Iraq which is costing us hundreds of billions and has killed thousands.
Thanks for reminding me of the mess Clinton got us into in Kosovo, how he let Bin Laden get away although offered to him on a plate, and how he had no substantial response to the WTC, embassy and ship bombings, leaving Bush with a hell of a mess to clean up (although his clean-up talents are lacking).
Bush also has done questionable or even despicable political things, like exposing Valerie Plame, pushing the Patriot Act, cozying up to energy companies in secret including infamous Ken Lay (is he really dead, or was that a cover-up?).
Plame was Robert Novak, the Patriot Act has been the wet dream of every Attorney General for decades (do you think Bush's guys actually wrote that whole thing in such a short time?), energy companies was very bad.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
No, Arafat was a terrorist. Didn't you just hear he was part of the Munich massacre? He was responsible for many intended deaths of innocent civilians. He only entered negotiations with Israel with the express intent of using any ground gained diplomatically as a staging ground for more attacks. The IRA was a completely different animal.
Yep, those suck too, but Bush's screw-ups have been much more visible to the general public, who doesn't even know of the DMCA, nor care about encryption.
I think Clinton was just so damn good with the media, so damn likeable, that he was given a pass in the media for much of what he did, stories filed in obscurity. The media doesn't like Bush (understandable), so every little thing will hit the front page news.
, and other than personal issues, there weren't any major screw-ups like our current adminstration.
Cash for pardons (Marc Rich), illegal campaign fundraising (22 convictions), the improperly obtaining the FBI background investigations for hundreds of Republicans, ordering the attack on an aspirin factory in Sudan, inability to push through health care reform (Democrats had the House and Senate, yet he couldn't manage it), lost the House and Senate, initiated the "regime change" policy for Iraq that Bush completed, believing known terrorist Yassir Arafat actually wanted peace. And let's not forget signing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Communications Decency Act and sending Gore on a mission to give us all the Clipper Chip and key escrow.
Obama is too young and inexperienced. He's only been a senator for a couple of years.
Obama has more time in a legislative body than Hillary, 10 years, though mostly at the state level. He also taught constitutional law and has executive experience as the director of a large community program.
Because it is not part of the Constitution, not part of the official process.
Our two ruling parties have so taken over our process that what they do is effectively the process. We hold multimillion dollar conventions to select the candidates on the taxpayer's dime, and they are really just functions of the two parties. Minority leader, majority leader, minority/majority whip, etc., all just a power structure within our government invented by the two parties, yet they get paid more, get a bigger staff, etc. The only legitimate one is the House Speaker.
The electoral college is peculiar to us because of our original situation. It is designed for the now unfortunately antiquated idea that the individual states are sovereign and have only created a federal government for their common defense and other things best managed as a group, such as coining money and international relations.
But we don't try to export our way of democracy. Notice that Iraq and Afghanistan have parliamentary systems.
We could get a Democrat FCC that would demand ISPs block all p2p traffic at the behest of the entertainment industry. While they hedge their bets with some Republican donations, they tend to give about two to three times as much money to Democrats.
Yes, the biggest government whores for the entertainment industry are generally Democrats, led by Berman and Hollings (the latter thankfully recently retired).
I heard a story about pilots who could do aerobatic stunts with B-52s -- until they crashed doing it.
The moral of the story is: Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should do it.
Apple had a choice, tack the functionality they wanted onto X11, basically rewriting most of X11 and adding complexity just for the fact they're dealing with X11, or do it themselves from scratch with an architecture designed from the ground-up for the functionality they wanted. And don't be paranoid, you saw from one of the developers of Quartz that it was a technical choice.
They sensibly chose the latter, and only now -- almost seven years after the introduction of OS X -- are X11-based systems even starting to get close to Quartz. For those who want that one functionality of X11, Apple makes it available for free. So you can't remote window iTunes, boo hoo, pick a program that does.
Or, OMFG what a concept, exercise your freedom to not use OS X. But don't transfer your frustration to the millions of us who do and are happy to be out of the Linux and Windows UI slums.
I appreciate your zeal in defending the Mac, it is fully expected.
Why? Am I a long-time Apple user? Surprise, I'm a Linux/Windows user who recently switched to Mac for most work.
Regardless, a valuable and useful functionality was eliminated from the UNIX platform and despite what you wish to argue, it makes the Mac unusable for a number of users.
And more usable for the majority of other users. If I need to remote on the Mac, I'll just use Remote Desktop.
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They don't want their deceptive advertising, bordering on criminal fraud, exposed. They committed the equivalent of overselling shares in a company, like in The Producers.
But at least TWC has reasonable plans. They're going to start doing metered usage and make the high bandwidth users pay more. State the truth about your network capacity and charge people for their use, what a concept!
Bring back key escrow, make it mandatory. Possession of encryption software without automatic escrow is illegal. Illegal software far fetched? No, the DMCA showed us this, as did the recent law in Germany over "hacking tools."
Initially the keys will only be released to "catch terrorists," and that is how it will be passed. Watch it start to be used for regular crime, then to snoop for copyright infringement. Far fetched? Again no, the Patriot Act's over-reaching powers were sold as anti-terrorist, but they've become popular in going after regular criminals, and then they were used against a Stargate SG-1 fan for copyright infringement.
Apple had a patent about detecting accidental contact with a track pad, such as resting your hands on it. Maybe that technology made it into this.
That Dell is about the size of the MacBook, which costs less and is more powerful. It is lighter, but then it also has a smaller screen. It is far bigger than the MBA.
A more apt comparison is the one Jobs did, with the Sony slim notebook, and the Sony's more expensive.
Kyoto wasn't an environmental treaty. It was a wealth distribution scheme. This concept was also at the core of the recent Bali meeting. A quote from there:
"A response to climate change must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources."
To be truly about the environment, any treaty must have at its heart the environment and be devoid of other causes and ideologies.
They also would be able to enforce political correctness. Nothing could be muttered that would offend anyone in the world, except the Muslims would still be allowed to chant "Death to Israel" as they are an oppressed, protected class. It would be illegal to defend yourself against the violence committed by any such protected class.
And then there's the problem where an individual country's constitution guarantees rights that would be violated by a UN decision.Ain't that the truth. Now they put them on the human rights council. However, who decides who is oppressive? With the right maneuvering in the initial deciding round we could end up with the oppressive countries voting out the free countries as oppressive, especially since one of the most oppressive countries in the world would carry one quarter of the proportional vote you propose.
It's not just that. Medical malpractice suits are getting to be a hobby in some states, people looking for the lawsuit lottery, jackpot justice. The insurance premiums are thus extremely high, and the costs are passed to the patients. In fact, they can get so high that some types of doctors are fleeing certain states because they can't afford something like $100K a year in malpractice insurance (plus the building, equipment and staff leaves little for the doctor at standard rates).Too bad your $50K guy is has a job that requires him to drive 40,000 miles a year. Let's see, at even 40 mpg that comes out to $1,000 extra in tax every year, on top of the current gas taxes. Since he has a wife and three kids to support he wasn't paying any federal income tax before, but now he's out $83 a month.
Your post is the first one I've seen that appears to come from someone who didn't sleep through his government class.
You actually stated only things that are within the president's constitutional powers or that he can simply "advocate."
I don't agree with all of your points, such as a North American Union, but you at least know what you're talking about.
SSN + racist troll + torpedo tube = I'd pay to watch.
I almost expected to hear the phrase "Come close to the coastline and I'll ram an Ohio class up your ass!"
And recycling isn't. The more non-recycled paper you buy, the more trees must be planted to fuel the demand, and ... well, there you go, more trees.
I should get a carbon credit (what's the unit of that anyway?) every time I buy a ream of paper.
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The average since 1990 is that less than one third of their bribes go to Republicans.
That's not to say other industries don't donate to Republicans more in about the same ratio.
I said "closer of the two" not an exact match.
I have the same mix.
Remember the "one drop rule"? One drop of black blood makes you black.
Because it is not part of the Constitution, not part of the official process.
Our two ruling parties have so taken over our process that what they do is effectively the process. We hold multimillion dollar conventions to select the candidates on the taxpayer's dime, and they are really just functions of the two parties. Minority leader, majority leader, minority/majority whip, etc., all just a power structure within our government invented by the two parties, yet they get paid more, get a bigger staff, etc. The only legitimate one is the House Speaker.
The electoral college is peculiar to us because of our original situation. It is designed for the now unfortunately antiquated idea that the individual states are sovereign and have only created a federal government for their common defense and other things best managed as a group, such as coining money and international relations.
But we don't try to export our way of democracy. Notice that Iraq and Afghanistan have parliamentary systems.
American quasi-socialist neo-liberal or classical liberal? If the latter, Republican is the closer of the two parties.
Hollings, their #1 cheerleader until his recent retirement, represented South Carolina.
We could get a Democrat FCC that would demand ISPs block all p2p traffic at the behest of the entertainment industry. While they hedge their bets with some Republican donations, they tend to give about two to three times as much money to Democrats.
Yes, the biggest government whores for the entertainment industry are generally Democrats, led by Berman and Hollings (the latter thankfully recently retired).
I heard a story about pilots who could do aerobatic stunts with B-52s -- until they crashed doing it.
The moral of the story is: Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should do it.
Apple had a choice, tack the functionality they wanted onto X11, basically rewriting most of X11 and adding complexity just for the fact they're dealing with X11, or do it themselves from scratch with an architecture designed from the ground-up for the functionality they wanted. And don't be paranoid, you saw from one of the developers of Quartz that it was a technical choice.
They sensibly chose the latter, and only now -- almost seven years after the introduction of OS X -- are X11-based systems even starting to get close to Quartz. For those who want that one functionality of X11, Apple makes it available for free. So you can't remote window iTunes, boo hoo, pick a program that does.
Or, OMFG what a concept, exercise your freedom to not use OS X. But don't transfer your frustration to the millions of us who do and are happy to be out of the Linux and Windows UI slums.