I'll go with -1, but Ignorant (which is not the same as Stupid).
First of all, all the headlines (save for the last one, I don't know about that one) are from known left-leaning "mainstream media" outlets that show blatant media bias, and these are just more examples typical anti-Bush drivel... intentionally misleading, intentionally wrong, intentionally written to drive more anti-Bush sentiment.
Anyone that seriously believes that Bush (or the US for that matter) is trying to colonize space, or start a war in space, or do any of the other things implied by those knee-jerk, apoplectic headlines really needs to book an appointment with a therapist.
Last time I checked, he's not running for President again; it's tough to understand why the lefty-loonies are adamant to continue to campaign against him.
As for what feelings the rest of the world has for us... read very carefully, I'll put it in terms that cannot possibly be misinterpreted: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SHOULD NOT GIVE A RODENT'S REAR END WHAT ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD THINKS OF IT.
Nor should any other country care what other countries think about them.
USA foriegn policy has worked in the past because of it's strength... NOT because the rest of the world thinks it's a "good guy" in the world. Doesn't matter what the world thinks.
Consider what North Korea is doing right now: does anyone in their right mind think that Kim Jong (Mentally) Il(l) cares about the USA? Is that nutball really going to stop developing nukes for any reason. Even it's best friend China is ticked at them, and yet they keep up with the nukes, while starving their own people to death. The North has no hope of beating anyone... but they don't care. They think they can force the world to cater to it because it has believes it may now threaten nuclear war if it doesn't get its way.
People (including myself) may not respect the nutjob running that place... but we respect strength.
The USA has no interest in colonizing space, but it surely has an interest in protecting the space above it's soil. Consider that in the past several months China has fired lasers into the sky to "blind" (if not disable) US satellites flying over it. China has made no secret it's intentions to ramp up it's space program, and for predominately MILITARY purposes.
The USA would be absolutely foolish not to do something with regard to space to protect it's own national interests. Naturally, those on the left by and large never will understand this.
What's completely chilish and BS is the left's desperation to grab political power at any cost... even to the detriment of US national security.
Youtube is not a terribly complicated web application, yet the founders are going to cash it in and walk away with USD 1.65 Billion (with a B).
Certainly Ballmer's developers! developers! developers! could have come up with the same thing and brought it to market far faster... but they didn't. Redmond even think about it, did they?
The fact that you didn't get them proves my point exactly: many words that have are trademarks have fallen into the public domain by virtue of thier generic usage.
I used 8, plus the disputed "Podcast" in my original post:
1. Kleenex ("...brings a tear to my eye, that I'll have to wipe off with a kleenex...") 2. Band-Aid ("...the same hand that has a band-aid on it...") 3. Coke ("a glass that I tried to pour some coke into.") I've heard both Coke and Pepsi used generically for any kind of soda pop. 4. Ace Bandage ("...I stumbled on my gimpy foot that's wrapped up in an ace bandage.") No matter what brand of elastic cloth tape it is, it's usually called an "ace bandage". 5. Google ("now I'll go googling for some travel ideas for my vacation") 6. Priceline ("I will probably priceline the tickets") I've heard "pricelining" used for tickets even bought through Hotwire or Expedia. 7. Spam ("I'll probably check my e-mail and delete more spam.") 8. Personal Computer ("Then, I'll turn off my personal computer...")
and of course:
9. iPod ("...listening to a new PODCAST that I just downloaded...")
There are many, MANY more examples of this. I believe Apple is best served by innovating, rather than by litigating. I don't see them winning this one at all.
It's so sad to see such a big successful company act so childish.
I brings a tear to my eye, that I'll have to wipe off with a kleenex, using the same hand that has a band-aid on it from a cut that I got while accidentally breaking a glass that I tried to pour some coke into. I broke the glass because I stumbled on my gimpy foot that's wrapped up in an ace bandage.
Well, I'm done with this story, so now I'll go googling for some travel ideas for my vacation that I will probably priceline the tickets on. After that, I'll probably check my e-mail and delete more spam. Then, I'll turn off my personal computer and go work out, listening to a new PODCAST that I just downloaded...
It's also electronic content. A kid should not be raised by proxy in front of a video screen, whether he/she has a controller (or a mouse and/or keyboard) or not. There's more to growing up than that.
One should also be actively and physically engaged as well. Playing outdoors, running around, playing with physical objects (whether they be Legos or whatever).
I was talking about the communicators in The Original Series, not from The Next Generation. They looked very much like today's flip phones.
Nor was I talking about stun guns. We do have honest to goodness laser weapons now, which at this point only cause blindness, but there are also weapons under development that will do further damage.
Transparent Aluminum, first introduced with ST4:The Voyage Home as the superstrong "metal glass" used to haul two humpback whales back to the 23rd century, is also the real thing.
Reading bits of TFA cause me to recall a scene in "ST4:The Voyage Home" where Chekov takes a bad fall and lands in a San Francisco hospital, near death, because the late-1980s medical technology can't help him.
Dr. McCoy finds him, puts some kind of device on his forehead and he's back to normal in less than a minute. He also finds time to cure an innocent bystander of their kidney disease.("Dialysis?! It's like the goddamn Spanish Inquisition!!!")
Star Trek's fictional technology, such as the communicator, tricorder, phaser, even Transparent Aluminum... have all come to exist as reality much quicker than imagined. While I did not imagine a crossover into medicine, perhaps that too will undergo a similarly fast transformation.
I'm just speculating here, just my best guesses (so mods, keep that in mind):
1. They can't (intentionally) kill working copies now. If they killed too many legit copies from too many "false positives", they'd be slapped with a class action that would make the current EU anti-trust pale by comparison.
2. While they can't kill windows, they can divide it into two classes (legit and cracked), and thus allow the legit ones to have all the eye candy and other accessories... not that too many people really care all that much about Power Calculator.
3. It is a test program for a future version of Windows, where they can very reliably kill cracked versions of the product, once they fine-tune their ability to tell a cracked version from a legit one.
I can only hope, however, they don't bog thier products down with so much "detection code" that the app is 90% slower... like recent versions of Norton Systemworks.
So let me get this straight: if we make the government (who you say is backing large companies in "enforcing" IP) get out of the way so that the large companies are unfettered to do so themselves... what's different? Open Source still gets crushed. OK, so it's a different lawyer at the controls.
Granted, the whole mess isn't taxpayer funded anymore. But innovation still dies, and we aren't going to be getting a tax rebate anytime soon. The government will just put their money elsewhere (such as, foe example, picking up the tab at strip clubs for victims of natural disasters).
Show those that believe natural-borne phenomenon such as volcanic activity and animal-sourced emissions are less significant than any man-made pollution. Prove it.
Clearly there are moments in our history when we have wrought damage to our environment. But to say (or even imply) that we are systematically destroying our planet... prove it.
Statements such as (paraphrasing one Gore's current talking points) "we have 10 years to go or our planet is beyond the point of no return" strike me as way over the top. To Mr. Gore or any of his followers/supporters: prove it.
I don't listen to Rush myself (I work during the time of his show), so I don't know what he is saying about this at present. But I can tell you my own point of view, and it is that it's really difficult to listen to the leftist claptrap that's coming out of the so-called "concerned scientist" community these days. It's obviously to me that it's about a political agenda, not about any concern for our environment.
Mod me down, all you lefties and socialists and ecology activists. Enjoy yourselves.
I'd be interested in seeing if any of your responses to this are any more than vitriol, or "just play along and our planet will survive" (still without any facts), or whatever.
I'll start with some real information of natural-borne phenomenon doing more environmental damage than what man can ever do. Google "Mt. Pinatubo", and you will get these links (among many others):
Effects of the Eruption (from the last link above):
740 people killed. A huge caldera was formed 2.5 km across. 260 m was lost off the summit of the volcano. The ash entered the stratosphere and covered the whole earth within 12 months. Global temperatures were reduced by 0.5 degree C the year after the eruption. Forests buried under 50-200 m deep ash and pumice. During the last five months of 1991 200 mudflows raced down the valleys of Pinatubo. Damage amounted to $450 million dollars. 8,000 houses were destroyed and 75,000 houses damaged. 2 million people were affected by the eruption. The biggest volcanic disaster of the 20th century was avoided due to good planning and monitoring.
One point I will repeat: Global temperatures were reduced by 0.5 degree C the year after the eruption.
This planet does more to ITSELF in a matter of months than us 6+ billion people could ever think of doing to ourselves in our entire recorded history.
Really nice to know that these folks has taken an apparent cue on safe and secure documents from the folks in Redmond.
On a serious note... this is seriously scary. Imagine if the NSA and other agencies are redacting all of their documents this way an passing them around the world to field offices, embassies and elsewhere.
Imagine the implications during legal proceedings here in the States. Yikes.
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I'll go with -1, but Ignorant (which is not the same as Stupid).
First of all, all the headlines (save for the last one, I don't know about that one) are from known left-leaning "mainstream media" outlets that show blatant media bias, and these are just more examples typical anti-Bush drivel... intentionally misleading, intentionally wrong, intentionally written to drive more anti-Bush sentiment.
Anyone that seriously believes that Bush (or the US for that matter) is trying to colonize space, or start a war in space, or do any of the other things implied by those knee-jerk, apoplectic headlines really needs to book an appointment with a therapist.
Last time I checked, he's not running for President again; it's tough to understand why the lefty-loonies are adamant to continue to campaign against him.
As for what feelings the rest of the world has for us... read very carefully, I'll put it in terms that cannot possibly be misinterpreted: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SHOULD NOT GIVE A RODENT'S REAR END WHAT ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD THINKS OF IT.
Nor should any other country care what other countries think about them.
USA foriegn policy has worked in the past because of it's strength... NOT because the rest of the world thinks it's a "good guy" in the world. Doesn't matter what the world thinks.
Consider what North Korea is doing right now: does anyone in their right mind think that Kim Jong (Mentally) Il(l) cares about the USA? Is that nutball really going to stop developing nukes for any reason. Even it's best friend China is ticked at them, and yet they keep up with the nukes, while starving their own people to death. The North has no hope of beating anyone... but they don't care. They think they can force the world to cater to it because it has believes it may now threaten nuclear war if it doesn't get its way.
People (including myself) may not respect the nutjob running that place... but we respect strength.
The USA has no interest in colonizing space, but it surely has an interest in protecting the space above it's soil. Consider that in the past several months China has fired lasers into the sky to "blind" (if not disable) US satellites flying over it. China has made no secret it's intentions to ramp up it's space program, and for predominately MILITARY purposes.
The USA would be absolutely foolish not to do something with regard to space to protect it's own national interests. Naturally, those on the left by and large never will understand this.
What's completely chilish and BS is the left's desperation to grab political power at any cost... even to the detriment of US national security.
Bombs, missles, IEDs... don't need a stinkin' laptop for those.
Youtube is not a terribly complicated web application, yet the founders are going to cash it in and walk away with USD 1.65 Billion (with a B).
Certainly Ballmer's developers! developers! developers! could have come up with the same thing and brought it to market far faster... but they didn't. Redmond even think about it, did they?
Sounds like a bit of jealousy... or sour grapes.
I am really annoyed by journalists who pose as experts in whatever they are reporting on.
This guy tries to explain to the average reader/non-geek that Microsoft
He should at least refer to it as a platform, even if the vast majority of the readership won't know the difference.
The fact that you didn't get them proves my point exactly: many words that have are trademarks have fallen into the public domain by virtue of thier generic usage.
I used 8, plus the disputed "Podcast" in my original post:
1. Kleenex ("...brings a tear to my eye, that I'll have to wipe off with a kleenex...")
2. Band-Aid ("...the same hand that has a band-aid on it...")
3. Coke ("a glass that I tried to pour some coke into.") I've heard both Coke and Pepsi used generically for any kind of soda pop.
4. Ace Bandage ("...I stumbled on my gimpy foot that's wrapped up in an ace bandage.") No matter what brand of elastic cloth tape it is, it's usually called an "ace bandage".
5. Google ("now I'll go googling for some travel ideas for my vacation")
6. Priceline ("I will probably priceline the tickets") I've heard "pricelining" used for tickets even bought through Hotwire or Expedia.
7. Spam ("I'll probably check my e-mail and delete more spam.")
8. Personal Computer ("Then, I'll turn off my personal computer...")
and of course:
9. iPod ("...listening to a new PODCAST that I just downloaded...")
There are many, MANY more examples of this. I believe Apple is best served by innovating, rather than by litigating. I don't see them winning this one at all.
It's so sad to see such a big successful company act so childish.
I brings a tear to my eye, that I'll have to wipe off with a kleenex, using the same hand that has a band-aid on it from a cut that I got while accidentally breaking a glass that I tried to pour some coke into. I broke the glass because I stumbled on my gimpy foot that's wrapped up in an ace bandage.
Well, I'm done with this story, so now I'll go googling for some travel ideas for my vacation that I will probably priceline the tickets on. After that, I'll probably check my e-mail and delete more spam. Then, I'll turn off my personal computer and go work out, listening to a new PODCAST that I just downloaded...
See the uphill battle you're facing, Mr. Jobs?
It's also electronic content. A kid should not be raised by proxy in front of a video screen, whether he/she has a controller (or a mouse and/or keyboard) or not. There's more to growing up than that.
One should also be actively and physically engaged as well. Playing outdoors, running around, playing with physical objects (whether they be Legos or whatever).
Being raised is a matter of mind and body.
SHATNER: Money.
NIMOY: Yeah. The big, the big bucks.
SHATNER: Money. The money gets you fired up.
TOGETHER: The biiiig bucks.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/06/star.tre
I have patented the Breathing System (BS).
EVERYBODY PAY UP NOW!
A piece of fiction that won't even make their own Best Seller List...
No matter what method it tries to use to separate thier customers from thier hard-earned dinero, it's still AOL.
Same lousy service, same reputation as the dumbed-down "Intar-web thingy", same monthly shipment of drink coasters... er, I mean CDs.
This almost looks like NetZero's early dialup model... but it's still the same old AOL.
Not for me... thanks anyway.
No, it's there. Try the same link again.
Intel did.
http://www.intel.com/homepage/nav/pix/logo.gif
Ironic... When I first clicked the story link here on
Kinda like MySpace itself. Too funny.
Really, now... is this the fault of the iPod and not the punk-ass thugs doing this crap?
Being able to sort and manipulate things down to the atomic level?
This is going to make already messy divorce proceedings... even messier.
I was talking about the communicators in The Original Series, not from The Next Generation. They looked very much like today's flip phones.
Nor was I talking about stun guns. We do have honest to goodness laser weapons now, which at this point only cause blindness, but there are also weapons under development that will do further damage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personnel_Halting_an
There is also a laser-equipped 747 that can shoot high-powered beams at a given target.
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/000551.html
The tricorder is also a real device, although the technology still has a long way to go.
http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Sparky/t
Transparent Aluminum, first introduced with ST4:The Voyage Home as the superstrong "metal glass" used to haul two humpback whales back to the 23rd century, is also the real thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_aluminum
I don't smoke anything, not even tobacco.
Reading bits of TFA cause me to recall a scene in "ST4:The Voyage Home" where Chekov takes a bad fall and lands in a San Francisco hospital, near death, because the late-1980s medical technology can't help him.
Dr. McCoy finds him, puts some kind of device on his forehead and he's back to normal in less than a minute. He also finds time to cure an innocent bystander of their kidney disease.("Dialysis?! It's like the goddamn Spanish Inquisition!!!")
Star Trek's fictional technology, such as the communicator, tricorder, phaser, even Transparent Aluminum... have all come to exist as reality much quicker than imagined. While I did not imagine a crossover into medicine, perhaps that too will undergo a similarly fast transformation.
One can certainly hope.
It could have been the Chinese that are to "blame":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus
It's the DENTIST.
It's a NEEDLE.
It's not normal to have needles stuck into your MOUTH.
Therefore... it's still going to friggin' HURT.
I'm just speculating here, just my best guesses (so mods, keep that in mind):
1. They can't (intentionally) kill working copies now. If they killed too many legit copies from too many "false positives", they'd be slapped with a class action that would make the current EU anti-trust pale by comparison.
2. While they can't kill windows, they can divide it into two classes (legit and cracked), and thus allow the legit ones to have all the eye candy and other accessories... not that too many people really care all that much about Power Calculator.
3. It is a test program for a future version of Windows, where they can very reliably kill cracked versions of the product, once they fine-tune their ability to tell a cracked version from a legit one.
I can only hope, however, they don't bog thier products down with so much "detection code" that the app is 90% slower... like recent versions of Norton Systemworks.
So let me get this straight: if we make the government (who you say is backing large companies in "enforcing" IP) get out of the way so that the large companies are unfettered to do so themselves... what's different? Open Source still gets crushed. OK, so it's a different lawyer at the controls.
Granted, the whole mess isn't taxpayer funded anymore. But innovation still dies, and we aren't going to be getting a tax rebate anytime soon. The government will just put their money elsewhere (such as, foe example, picking up the tab at strip clubs for victims of natural disasters).
Well then... prove it already.
Show those that believe natural-borne phenomenon such as volcanic activity and animal-sourced emissions are less significant than any man-made pollution. Prove it.
Clearly there are moments in our history when we have wrought damage to our environment. But to say (or even imply) that we are systematically destroying our planet... prove it.
Statements such as (paraphrasing one Gore's current talking points) "we have 10 years to go or our planet is beyond the point of no return" strike me as way over the top. To Mr. Gore or any of his followers/supporters: prove it.
I don't listen to Rush myself (I work during the time of his show), so I don't know what he is saying about this at present. But I can tell you my own point of view, and it is that it's really difficult to listen to the leftist claptrap that's coming out of the so-called "concerned scientist" community these days. It's obviously to me that it's about a political agenda, not about any concern for our environment.
Mod me down, all you lefties and socialists and ecology activists. Enjoy yourselves.
I'd be interested in seeing if any of your responses to this are any more than vitriol, or "just play along and our planet will survive" (still without any facts), or whatever.
I'll start with some real information of natural-borne phenomenon doing more environmental damage than what man can ever do. Google "Mt. Pinatubo", and you will get these links (among many others):
http://library.thinkquest.org/17701/high/effects/
http://www.answers.com/topic/mount-pinatubo
http://www.volcanolive.com/pinatubo1991.html
Effects of the Eruption (from the last link above):
740 people killed.
A huge caldera was formed 2.5 km across.
260 m was lost off the summit of the volcano.
The ash entered the stratosphere and covered the whole earth within 12 months.
Global temperatures were reduced by 0.5 degree C the year after the eruption.
Forests buried under 50-200 m deep ash and pumice.
During the last five months of 1991 200 mudflows raced down the valleys of Pinatubo.
Damage amounted to $450 million dollars.
8,000 houses were destroyed and 75,000 houses damaged.
2 million people were affected by the eruption.
The biggest volcanic disaster of the 20th century was avoided due to good planning and monitoring.
One point I will repeat:
Global temperatures were reduced by 0.5 degree C the year after the eruption.
This planet does more to ITSELF in a matter of months than us 6+ billion people could ever think of doing to ourselves in our entire recorded history.
I don't know if Rush really said "prove it".
But I certainly will:
PROVE IT.
Really nice to know that these folks has taken an apparent cue on safe and secure documents from the folks in Redmond.
On a serious note... this is seriously scary. Imagine if the NSA and other agencies are redacting all of their documents this way an passing them around the world to field offices, embassies and elsewhere.
Imagine the implications during legal proceedings here in the States. Yikes.
Sorry folks, I just don't see a need for a smaller hard drive when shortly there won't be a need for any hard drive whatsoever.
Cheaper, faster, more reliable, higher-capacity Flash memory is coming.
I'll wait for that particular bandwagon when it comes.