Five years ago, we had plenty of money, and we were paying down the national debt, to the consternation of the debt holders.
Gotta call bullshit on this one again. The national debt has not gone down any year since 1960. Just ask the people who manage the debt. Mr. Clinton set new record debt levels every year just like all the presidents before him back to Kennedy. Until the government stops spending more than it takes in (minus the interest due on the debt), it will continue to rise.
So I gather that despite your poor spelling and grammar that you are not American?
and try to look at the world, actually, instead of some government-close tv stations.
So you are saying I should avoid the "government-close" American media and instead trust the government owned media in your home country? Seems a silly idea to me.
I picked the MBA-TM. I will be done at the end of this year. It has been a good program and my passion is really in technology and not so much in business. but I do need the business skills. I'm not sure that there is much of a difference in how the two degrees will be percieved. Both are still MBAs.
When I finish, I'll have over 11 years in the technology field and nine of that with my current company. I'll even have some real life management experience. Can't beat that.
...espresso machines mysteriously satisfy all the Sims needs, Sims are suddenly comfortable with open relationships, and the social worker no longer cares how they treat their children.
Oh my God! They are all becoming Democrats! Can't somebody stop the madness?
If it is under the GPL and you are giving proper credit, I don't see the problem. I see this kind of sharing as part of the entire point of putting one's work under the GPL.
There must be some bad blood for him to say something is under the GPL, except for you.
"From what I've seen, VERY few people actually use the GIMP for anything other than the occasional experiment to see if it has stopped sucking yet."
Breathless awaiting how you were able to see the way the world uses the Gimp. The road to easy mod points here appears to be say anything negative, no matter how ridiculous, about the Gimp.
To be honest, the poster has managed to see how I have used GIMP. I tried it a couple times to see if it would replace Photoshop 7 when I moved to Linux. It didn't, but I think it is mostly because of the interface rather than the functionality (I have no trouble moving between Corel Photopaint, Macromedia Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop). GIMP didn't work for me, so I bought Crossover Office and now use Photoshop 7 on my Mandrake box.
I have tried GIMP three times now and have always returned to other software. Whn it comes time to pay for another upgrade to Photoshop, I might try it again.
Perhaps a racist like yourself beleives (sic) that the film industry would be better off without great black actors like Morgan Freeman, Sidney Poiter, and the world renound (sic) voice of James Earl Jones.
Funny how Star Wars was criticized for not having any black characters despite Darth Vader being all black and with James Earl Jones' voice. Hence the addition of Billy D. Williams in Empire.
Someone back up the chain claimed that political correctness was to blame and they are probably right. Race is a much more sensitive issue in America than in the UK. I can see Ford as black with no problems. In fact, the only character who I see as white is Dent because he can be such an insecure wuss. Talk about a stereotype.
It's funny that you also mention Morgan Freeman. He was cast as one of the great racial re-writes in movie history. He played the red-headed Irish prisoner "Red" in Shawshank Redemption. Of course, it was a fantastic movie and most people never read the book (so they missed the joke when Tim Robbins asks why they call him Red and he replies "Because I'm Irish").
Finally, to Stateoftheunion, can't you make your argument without name-calling? The poster is well within his rights to say that he thinks it is a poor choice to cast a relatively unknown black actor into a role that has been played, drawn and represented as a white man. You and other members of the PC insurgents need to learn how to disagree with someone without calling them "racist", "ignorant" or "stupid".
Please don't take this as being condecending or rude. I appreciate your reply.
However, there is a vast difference between a 15-year old and an 18-year old. There is also a huge difference between a 18-year old and a 21-year old. If you "grew up" with these kinds of games, you must be in your early 20's and not what most people consider as a member of an age group known for making great choices or having much experience (in general, not you specifically). I will be 36 next week and was 11 when the first video games came to Chicago. Not that Break-Out was anything like GTA.
I just think that these things should not be sold to kids without their parents permission. It is much simpler to go to the mall and tell the clerk your kid can buy whatever they want than to go to every store in your city and try to get them not to sell to your kid. I'm not advocating making it illegal for the kids to have these games, it just should not be without parental consent.
If there is a simpler way to achieve that goal, I'll listen to it. But for now, my kids are my responsibility and I will decide what they buy, not some company out for profit.
It must be a full moon tonight or something. I got two reasonable and well written replies to my post. I'd better check to make sure I'm at the right place.
Anyway, I don't like the idea of the government regulating anything, really. But I also don't like the idea that some company out for its own profit can try to push crap on my kids. So where is the balance? Simple, the games have ratings on them already. Don't sell the R, MA and NC-17 (not too sure of all the ratings) to people under 18. You don't fine the clerk for the sale, you fine the store owners. I want to decide what my children watch. I don't want the government to do it and I also don't want big companies to do it. But the gaming world isn't a passive thing. There is big money being spent to intice people to buy these games.
I care what goes into my kid's heads. The government and game companies don't. I feel I should have some control over what is being pushed on them without having to be with them 24/7.
I was going to seriously disagree with you, because there IS a problem with letting a 14 year old buy porn in my own opinion.
Then I realized it's none of the states business.
Right. And it is none of the state's business if a little kid wants to buy beer, smokes or cocaine, right? I'm for the law. I don't want people pushing this crap on my kids. If I want them to have it, I'll get it for them myself.
I just don't understand you people. It must be that most of you don't have kids or are still kids yourselves. When someone is trying to push harmful crap on your kids, we'll see how you feel.
If you don't get the meaning of "Dinosaurs passing gas" then you must have missed some of the great theories about cow gas having an effect. I happen to be college educated and my little brother has a masters in Geophysics. I have another friend with her masters in Hydrogeology who is currently working on the development of fuel cells for cars. I'll stack these degrees up against any journalism major.
I live in Chicago. Please decribe to me the formation of moraines in Cook County and how the geography of this state was formed. Please explain the factors that lead to their development and how those environmental factors are no longer applicable to the environment today. If you of the guy who wrote the article can get those right, I'll stop considering you "noise".
He does have a point. Global warming has been blamed for both the heat waves in Europe and the cool summer we had in America. Al Gore gave a speech about the dangers of global warming on the coldest day on record in New York.
Personally, I blame the media for being lazy. Global warming and cooling has been happening for millions of years. We honestly don't have the data to say that human activity is causing more trouble than dinosaurs passing gas. We have nice curves to show that we think the temperature is rising a a more rapid rate than in the past, but with only 100 years of data, we can't tell if this is an abberation or not much less the cause. Sloppy science, political games and a media that is too busy to do anything other than print what they are told has made a huge mess out of the picture and makes it less likely that any real solutions will be able to cut through the noise.
Asimov was an idealist.. Apparently he has no concept of human history where a majority of technological innovation came about because of military conflict.
When my daughter was born, we donated her umbilical cord for research just like this. It was a huge hassle. Maybe break-throughs like this will help to make the process simpler so more people can participate. You can read more about it here.
Hmmm. "Never been successully used in any therapies". Maybe that is BECAUSE there is no federal funding for this. It's a self fulfilling prohpecy. Brought to use by the self-fulfilling prophecy president.
There is no funding for creating new lines. Why haven't all the old lines that were created come up with any results? If there are such miracle cures available, why aren't the drug companies funding the research so they can get rich? There is a huge profit potential.
Ahh, meanwhile you use the "talking points" style terminology and proudly display your brainwashing. Embryonic - not fetal. Different things. Calling it a fetal stem cell makes it sound dirtier, and shows that your source material is stupid fundies.
Let's take a vote: How many people think that we could advance science by conducting experiments on Pxtl? Sorry, Pxtl. Off to the labs with you. You won't mind giving your life for the chance of advancing science, right? I mean, you're not some "stupid fundie" who thinks your life has some greater value than science, right?
I saw that right after I posted. Now I wish I had quoted your message but I didn't want to be redundant.
I'm now going to be spending the rest of my day doing my very poor Steve Perry impersonation with your lyrics. Everyone in the lab is going to hate me!
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Prince,
You rock! That has got to be one of the funniest things I've seen here. Sadly, most mods will be too young to see the humor. Rock on!
Elected, not re-elected? Are you guys gonna cry that one for the next four years? So, you will allow him to run again in 2008 since you don't count the first four years? Better get your story straight before the next round of primary elections.
What the fuck with all this fairness shit? Live ain't fair, neither are greenhouse gases. Let's get on the stick about it and work out differences *later*!
Hey eggplant? Are you signing up to give up your job for the good of the world? Find 4,999,999 more Americans to join you and we can sign the treaty.
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Five years ago, we had plenty of money, and we were paying down the national debt, to the consternation of the debt holders.
Gotta call bullshit on this one again. The national debt has not gone down any year since 1960. Just ask the people who manage the debt. Mr. Clinton set new record debt levels every year just like all the presidents before him back to Kennedy. Until the government stops spending more than it takes in (minus the interest due on the debt), it will continue to rise.
Didn't the Doctor already save us fom this madness back in the 1970's? Doesn't anyone remember what a disaster it was?
But don't republicans have all the guns?
Nope. Just all the legally owned guns.
Go get rid of your american pride a bit,
So I gather that despite your poor spelling and grammar that you are not American?
and try to look at the world, actually, instead of some government-close tv stations.
So you are saying I should avoid the "government-close" American media and instead trust the government owned media in your home country? Seems a silly idea to me.
I picked the MBA-TM. I will be done at the end of this year. It has been a good program and my passion is really in technology and not so much in business. but I do need the business skills. I'm not sure that there is much of a difference in how the two degrees will be percieved. Both are still MBAs.
When I finish, I'll have over 11 years in the technology field and nine of that with my current company. I'll even have some real life management experience. Can't beat that.
I remember hitting one on I-10 coming back from Vegas in the mid 1990's.
...espresso machines mysteriously satisfy all the Sims needs, Sims are suddenly comfortable with open relationships, and the social worker no longer cares how they treat their children.
Oh my God! They are all becoming Democrats! Can't somebody stop the madness?
He must be single. Let him dream...
Hey! I got the Atari Flashback for Christmas. My daughter who is four loves playing Sky Diver and Air-Sea Battle with me.
Sadly, she'll grow out of it, but I won't.
If it is under the GPL and you are giving proper credit, I don't see the problem. I see this kind of sharing as part of the entire point of putting one's work under the GPL.
There must be some bad blood for him to say something is under the GPL, except for you.
"From what I've seen, VERY few people actually use the GIMP for anything other than the occasional experiment to see if it has stopped sucking yet."
Breathless awaiting how you were able to see the way the world uses the Gimp. The road to easy mod points here appears to be say anything negative, no matter how ridiculous, about the Gimp.
To be honest, the poster has managed to see how I have used GIMP. I tried it a couple times to see if it would replace Photoshop 7 when I moved to Linux. It didn't, but I think it is mostly because of the interface rather than the functionality (I have no trouble moving between Corel Photopaint, Macromedia Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop). GIMP didn't work for me, so I bought Crossover Office and now use Photoshop 7 on my Mandrake box.
I have tried GIMP three times now and have always returned to other software. Whn it comes time to pay for another upgrade to Photoshop, I might try it again.
Perhaps a racist like yourself beleives (sic) that the film industry would be better off without great black actors like Morgan Freeman, Sidney Poiter, and the world renound (sic) voice of James Earl Jones.
Funny how Star Wars was criticized for not having any black characters despite Darth Vader being all black and with James Earl Jones' voice. Hence the addition of Billy D. Williams in Empire.
Someone back up the chain claimed that political correctness was to blame and they are probably right. Race is a much more sensitive issue in America than in the UK. I can see Ford as black with no problems. In fact, the only character who I see as white is Dent because he can be such an insecure wuss. Talk about a stereotype.
It's funny that you also mention Morgan Freeman. He was cast as one of the great racial re-writes in movie history. He played the red-headed Irish prisoner "Red" in Shawshank Redemption. Of course, it was a fantastic movie and most people never read the book (so they missed the joke when Tim Robbins asks why they call him Red and he replies "Because I'm Irish").
Finally, to Stateoftheunion, can't you make your argument without name-calling? The poster is well within his rights to say that he thinks it is a poor choice to cast a relatively unknown black actor into a role that has been played, drawn and represented as a white man. You and other members of the PC insurgents need to learn how to disagree with someone without calling them "racist", "ignorant" or "stupid".
Please don't take this as being condecending or rude. I appreciate your reply.
However, there is a vast difference between a 15-year old and an 18-year old. There is also a huge difference between a 18-year old and a 21-year old. If you "grew up" with these kinds of games, you must be in your early 20's and not what most people consider as a member of an age group known for making great choices or having much experience (in general, not you specifically). I will be 36 next week and was 11 when the first video games came to Chicago. Not that Break-Out was anything like GTA.
I just think that these things should not be sold to kids without their parents permission. It is much simpler to go to the mall and tell the clerk your kid can buy whatever they want than to go to every store in your city and try to get them not to sell to your kid. I'm not advocating making it illegal for the kids to have these games, it just should not be without parental consent.
If there is a simpler way to achieve that goal, I'll listen to it. But for now, my kids are my responsibility and I will decide what they buy, not some company out for profit.
It must be a full moon tonight or something. I got two reasonable and well written replies to my post. I'd better check to make sure I'm at the right place.
Anyway, I don't like the idea of the government regulating anything, really. But I also don't like the idea that some company out for its own profit can try to push crap on my kids. So where is the balance? Simple, the games have ratings on them already. Don't sell the R, MA and NC-17 (not too sure of all the ratings) to people under 18. You don't fine the clerk for the sale, you fine the store owners. I want to decide what my children watch. I don't want the government to do it and I also don't want big companies to do it. But the gaming world isn't a passive thing. There is big money being spent to intice people to buy these games.
I care what goes into my kid's heads. The government and game companies don't. I feel I should have some control over what is being pushed on them without having to be with them 24/7.
I was going to seriously disagree with you, because there IS a problem with letting a 14 year old buy porn in my own opinion.
Then I realized it's none of the states business.
Right. And it is none of the state's business if a little kid wants to buy beer, smokes or cocaine, right? I'm for the law. I don't want people pushing this crap on my kids. If I want them to have it, I'll get it for them myself.
I just don't understand you people. It must be that most of you don't have kids or are still kids yourselves. When someone is trying to push harmful crap on your kids, we'll see how you feel.
If you don't get the meaning of "Dinosaurs passing gas" then you must have missed some of the great theories about cow gas having an effect. I happen to be college educated and my little brother has a masters in Geophysics. I have another friend with her masters in Hydrogeology who is currently working on the development of fuel cells for cars. I'll stack these degrees up against any journalism major.
I live in Chicago. Please decribe to me the formation of moraines in Cook County and how the geography of this state was formed. Please explain the factors that lead to their development and how those environmental factors are no longer applicable to the environment today. If you of the guy who wrote the article can get those right, I'll stop considering you "noise".
He does have a point. Global warming has been blamed for both the heat waves in Europe and the cool summer we had in America. Al Gore gave a speech about the dangers of global warming on the coldest day on record in New York.
Personally, I blame the media for being lazy. Global warming and cooling has been happening for millions of years. We honestly don't have the data to say that human activity is causing more trouble than dinosaurs passing gas. We have nice curves to show that we think the temperature is rising a a more rapid rate than in the past, but with only 100 years of data, we can't tell if this is an abberation or not much less the cause. Sloppy science, political games and a media that is too busy to do anything other than print what they are told has made a huge mess out of the picture and makes it less likely that any real solutions will be able to cut through the noise.
Asimov was an idealist.. Apparently he has no concept of human history where a majority of technological innovation came about because of military conflict.
Really? And I thought it mostly came from PRON.
When my daughter was born, we donated her umbilical cord for research just like this. It was a huge hassle. Maybe break-throughs like this will help to make the process simpler so more people can participate. You can read more about it here.
Hmmm. "Never been successully used in any therapies". Maybe that is BECAUSE there is no federal funding for this. It's a self fulfilling prohpecy. Brought to use by the self-fulfilling prophecy president.
There is no funding for creating new lines. Why haven't all the old lines that were created come up with any results? If there are such miracle cures available, why aren't the drug companies funding the research so they can get rich? There is a huge profit potential.
Ahh, meanwhile you use the "talking points" style terminology and proudly display your brainwashing. Embryonic - not fetal. Different things. Calling it a fetal stem cell makes it sound dirtier, and shows that your source material is stupid fundies.
Let's take a vote: How many people think that we could advance science by conducting experiments on Pxtl? Sorry, Pxtl. Off to the labs with you. You won't mind giving your life for the chance of advancing science, right? I mean, you're not some "stupid fundie" who thinks your life has some greater value than science, right?
C'mon, buddy. Walk the talk.
I saw that right after I posted. Now I wish I had quoted your message but I didn't want to be redundant.
I'm now going to be spending the rest of my day doing my very poor Steve Perry impersonation with your lyrics. Everyone in the lab is going to hate me!
Prince,
You rock! That has got to be one of the funniest things I've seen here. Sadly, most mods will be too young to see the humor. Rock on!
Elected, not re-elected? Are you guys gonna cry that one for the next four years? So, you will allow him to run again in 2008 since you don't count the first four years? Better get your story straight before the next round of primary elections.
What the fuck with all this fairness shit? Live ain't fair, neither are greenhouse gases. Let's get on the stick about it and work out differences *later*!
Hey eggplant? Are you signing up to give up your job for the good of the world? Find 4,999,999 more Americans to join you and we can sign the treaty.