Just like there are similarities between Einstein and Carrot Top (Wacky Hair?), and disparities, Einstein's a lot smarter than Carrot Top and definitely a lot more important. There are similarities between Harper and Bush, both are autarchs who like to ignore anything that contradicts their beliefs about how things should be, and differences, Harpers a lot smarter than Bush.
However, Harper likes the way American politics works, he wants to be Canada's Bush (but with higher approval ratings). He takes his cues from American conservatism, he always has. I used to be a Conservative voter, but the party's dropped the fiscal conservatives to embrace the social conservatives and that's just not acceptable.
Frankly, I'm sick of Harper's one issue campaign: Dion is worse than I am. Methinks thou dost protest too much, Sar Harper!
I'd prefer Dion over Harper, Dion seems to be more grounded in reality and less likely to try to be the King of Canada (figuratively, not literally). But frankly, I think neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives deserve a majority.
Looks like it's the fiscally conservative and socially liberal party for me. I think I'll be voting Green tonight.
That's not quite true. There were more qualified female conservative candidates. Palin was chosen because she's pretty, religious, conservative and against all of the traditional women's issues.
They figured with all the practice on Bush they could work around everything else. And as far as core republican voters are concerned she's just awesome. Of course, to anyone who watches anything either in addition or instead of Fox news, she's a complete disaster.
Actually, I pretty sure that's a code for "The rich get richer and everyone else gets trod upon".
It's also true that some people make good use of that opportunity, the real truth is that most people will experience a decrease in their opportunities.
There's reasonable doubt and then there's willful ignorance.
These guys were recording private conversations that they should have been listening to, then gathering around it listening to the "exciting parts" making fun of the people they were listening and generally whooping it up.
Anyone who complained that this was inappropriate behaviour was dressed down for rocking the boat. They were told that their bosses "were ordered" to "record everything" including private calls that were obviously between Americans. As reported by actual people who used to work in intelligence, this was clearly illegal and they used to drop those calls as soon as they knew it was between Americans and flag then so other people wouldn't listen to them.
This sounds like a dramatic departure from the previous operating mode, not an innocent "oops". The behaviour of the majority of the employees indicates a lack of respect for the law and the people they were illegally spying on.
If anyone needs a wake up call it's the indolent people who just don't care that their government is breaking laws because it would be inconvenient to follow them.
Even scarier is the part where the one intelligence operative notified her superior that a building targetted for an airstrike was a hotel with American journalists in it and her superior told her it was none of her business who they decided to kill.
Senator McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican convention seemed to be almost same as Governor Bush's acceptance speech. Senator McCain made the same promises that Governor Bush made in 2000. That doesn't look like change to me.
Senator McCain is taking advice from Bush's advisors. For example, Carl Rove picked his VP nominee for him, which admittedly is better than having Dick Cheney pick your VP nominee (which Dick Cheney did in 2000). But if McCain is using the same advisors as bush, that doesn't look like change to me.
I mean McCain, for all his "mavericking" voted for the legislation President Bush supported 95% of the time over the last 8 years. That doesn't look like change to me.
Both George Bush and John McCain come from privileged white backgrounds. Senator McCain's father and grandfather were admirals.
I just don't see this change anywhere. Both McCain and Bush come from similar backgrounds, listen to the same advisors, and have the same basic approach to the issues. Where's the change?
It's called abuse of power and that's the real issue here, she tried to fire someone for not firing someone else. It's not acceptable behaviour from a governor and it would be worse behaviour in a president or vice-president. Therefore it speaks directly to Governor Palin's ability to perform the job of vice-president or as is reasonably likely given the age and health of Senator McCain, the job of president.
Well, it's not so much that the people at the CBC are dumb, as they are on a budget and the people who own the rights to the Hockey Night in Canada theme song think they deserve a lot more money than the CBC is prepared to pay for a renewal of the license for the song.
The people who used to be in charge of the CBC may or may not be dumb for not having bought perpetual rights to the song.
Of course, if we had sane copyright laws, that wouldn't be an issue, because the song is old enough that the copyright should have expired by now.
It's interesting you should mention that, because it's Internet Explorer that is most widely known for having such serious 0-day exploits.
You know, the browser that you're usually required use instead of that untrustworthy, shifty, new comer, Firefox.
If "it might break someday" is your excuse for saying "no", you might as well shut the whole company down now, crawl into a deep bunker and hide until the day you die.
Not really, their point is pretty good. If a Tsunami would have broken up on your island, the "invisibility" rings will instead pass it on to the guy behind you.
Of course, a better analogy of why that has to be acceptable is that, you can't be held liable if you duck and the guy behind you gets shot. It's not your fault that he was unwilling or unable to duck too.
Many students just entering college are presented with easy access to credit and credit cards, in fact, lending institutions are usually present on campus and offering prizes to anyone who signs up with them. The may be an understatement, but often students don't understand the serious consequences of the debts accrued with credit. Should anything that should be done about these practices or should we hold students entering college to be responsible for mistakes made out of ignorance?
Wow. I thought you were wrong, went to check the facts, and apparently you're right. The U.S. only needs to increase their military budget by about $32 billion (approximately 5% of the 2007 budget) to hit fully 50% of the world's total military spending.
My favorite example, comes from the 1960s, the founders of the libertarian movement? Former communists who felt betrayed by communism so they went to the utter opposite extreme.
It's not a matter of where the tyranny of the majority is ok or not. It is always present in every democratic group larger than about 100* people, and it's frequently present in smaller groups too. Like I said before, what's important are the protections against tyranny, not the size of group. It's like the libertarians say "Democracy is 2 wolves a sheep voting on what's for dinner". If the wolves are allowed to vote sheep, the result is inevitable.
Frankly, I sincerely doubt your ability to get your point across to 1 person who doesn't agree with you, let alone 599,999. And that's exactly why I said the difference between 300,000,000 and 600,000 is irrelevant, you have no influence in either group.
* There's research that indicates once a group grows beyond approximately 100 people it's impossible to actually care about all of the members of the group as individuals.
Yes the majority of users are idiots. Why? Because they run Windows and they have been trained to expect Windows to fail frequently. They don't look at the message boxes because they don't care what they say. They're busy. Who has time to waste looking at the same error message you see 3 or 4 times a day, every day.
The reasons are pretty simple, gold sellers and gold farmers make the game less fun for everyone else so that they can make a buck.
Whether it's the mobs that are instantly tagged and killed, the materials that sell for next to nothing on the auction hall, the jerk that sits there yelling "Ch3ap G0ld N0W", the asshole who's uploading trogan horse programs to MMO related web sites to hack your account, or the simply the fact that you bought your way out of the fun of the game, it's just less fun when gold farmers are involved.
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Just like there are similarities between Einstein and Carrot Top (Wacky Hair?), and disparities, Einstein's a lot smarter than Carrot Top and definitely a lot more important. There are similarities between Harper and Bush, both are autarchs who like to ignore anything that contradicts their beliefs about how things should be, and differences, Harpers a lot smarter than Bush.
However, Harper likes the way American politics works, he wants to be Canada's Bush (but with higher approval ratings). He takes his cues from American conservatism, he always has. I used to be a Conservative voter, but the party's dropped the fiscal conservatives to embrace the social conservatives and that's just not acceptable.
Frankly, I'm sick of Harper's one issue campaign: Dion is worse than I am. Methinks thou dost protest too much, Sar Harper!
I'd prefer Dion over Harper, Dion seems to be more grounded in reality and less likely to try to be the King of Canada (figuratively, not literally). But frankly, I think neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives deserve a majority.
Looks like it's the fiscally conservative and socially liberal party for me. I think I'll be voting Green tonight.
That's not quite true. There were more qualified female conservative candidates. Palin was chosen because she's pretty, religious, conservative and against all of the traditional women's issues.
They figured with all the practice on Bush they could work around everything else. And as far as core republican voters are concerned she's just awesome. Of course, to anyone who watches anything either in addition or instead of Fox news, she's a complete disaster.
Actually, I pretty sure that's a code for "The rich get richer and everyone else gets trod upon".
It's also true that some people make good use of that opportunity, the real truth is that most people will experience a decrease in their opportunities.
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-559597
Privacy International ranks the U.S. at the same level (their lowest level) as Russia, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the U.K.
There's reasonable doubt and then there's willful ignorance.
These guys were recording private conversations that they should have been listening to, then gathering around it listening to the "exciting parts" making fun of the people they were listening and generally whooping it up.
Anyone who complained that this was inappropriate behaviour was dressed down for rocking the boat. They were told that their bosses "were ordered" to "record everything" including private calls that were obviously between Americans. As reported by actual people who used to work in intelligence, this was clearly illegal and they used to drop those calls as soon as they knew it was between Americans and flag then so other people wouldn't listen to them.
This sounds like a dramatic departure from the previous operating mode, not an innocent "oops". The behaviour of the majority of the employees indicates a lack of respect for the law and the people they were illegally spying on.
If anyone needs a wake up call it's the indolent people who just don't care that their government is breaking laws because it would be inconvenient to follow them.
Even scarier is the part where the one intelligence operative notified her superior that a building targetted for an airstrike was a hotel with American journalists in it and her superior told her it was none of her business who they decided to kill.
Senator McCain doesn't look like change to me.
Senator McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican convention seemed to be almost same as Governor Bush's acceptance speech. Senator McCain made the same promises that Governor Bush made in 2000. That doesn't look like change to me.
Senator McCain is taking advice from Bush's advisors. For example, Carl Rove picked his VP nominee for him, which admittedly is better than having Dick Cheney pick your VP nominee (which Dick Cheney did in 2000). But if McCain is using the same advisors as bush, that doesn't look like change to me.
I mean McCain, for all his "mavericking" voted for the legislation President Bush supported 95% of the time over the last 8 years. That doesn't look like change to me.
Both George Bush and John McCain come from privileged white backgrounds. Senator McCain's father and grandfather were admirals.
I just don't see this change anywhere. Both McCain and Bush come from similar backgrounds, listen to the same advisors, and have the same basic approach to the issues. Where's the change?
It's called abuse of power and that's the real issue here, she tried to fire someone for not firing someone else. It's not acceptable behaviour from a governor and it would be worse behaviour in a president or vice-president. Therefore it speaks directly to Governor Palin's ability to perform the job of vice-president or as is reasonably likely given the age and health of Senator McCain, the job of president.
Well, it's not so much that the people at the CBC are dumb, as they are on a budget and the people who own the rights to the Hockey Night in Canada theme song think they deserve a lot more money than the CBC is prepared to pay for a renewal of the license for the song.
The people who used to be in charge of the CBC may or may not be dumb for not having bought perpetual rights to the song.
Of course, if we had sane copyright laws, that wouldn't be an issue, because the song is old enough that the copyright should have expired by now.
It's interesting you should mention that, because it's Internet Explorer that is most widely known for having such serious 0-day exploits.
You know, the browser that you're usually required use instead of that untrustworthy, shifty, new comer, Firefox.
If "it might break someday" is your excuse for saying "no", you might as well shut the whole company down now, crawl into a deep bunker and hide until the day you die.
Unreasonable cowardice is not a virtue.
Not really, their point is pretty good. If a Tsunami would have broken up on your island, the "invisibility" rings will instead pass it on to the guy behind you.
Of course, a better analogy of why that has to be acceptable is that, you can't be held liable if you duck and the guy behind you gets shot. It's not your fault that he was unwilling or unable to duck too.
To both Senators.
Many students just entering college are presented with easy access to credit and credit cards, in fact, lending institutions are usually present on campus and offering prizes to anyone who signs up with them. The may be an understatement, but often students don't understand the serious consequences of the debts accrued with credit. Should anything that should be done about these practices or should we hold students entering college to be responsible for mistakes made out of ignorance?
Seriously. How does the minority party in Congress and the Senate kill anything?
Unless I'm mistaken, you would need bi-partisan opposition to kill it.
That's actually a really good point.
Proper answer:
My first weakness is I occasionally refuse to answer bullshit questions during interviews.
Next question, please.
Or am I?
Wow. I thought you were wrong, went to check the facts, and apparently you're right. The U.S. only needs to increase their military budget by about $32 billion (approximately 5% of the 2007 budget) to hit fully 50% of the world's total military spending.
I don't know which one is better: paid shilled, hopeless ideologue, or clueless dupe.
Because voting for that friendly guy in 2000 worked out so well...
My favorite example, comes from the 1960s, the founders of the libertarian movement? Former communists who felt betrayed by communism so they went to the utter opposite extreme.
It's not a matter of where the tyranny of the majority is ok or not. It is always present in every democratic group larger than about 100* people, and it's frequently present in smaller groups too. Like I said before, what's important are the protections against tyranny, not the size of group. It's like the libertarians say "Democracy is 2 wolves a sheep voting on what's for dinner". If the wolves are allowed to vote sheep, the result is inevitable.
Frankly, I sincerely doubt your ability to get your point across to 1 person who doesn't agree with you, let alone 599,999. And that's exactly why I said the difference between 300,000,000 and 600,000 is irrelevant, you have no influence in either group.
* There's research that indicates once a group grows beyond approximately 100 people it's impossible to actually care about all of the members of the group as individuals.
Yes the majority of users are idiots. Why? Because they run Windows and they have been trained to expect Windows to fail frequently. They don't look at the message boxes because they don't care what they say. They're busy. Who has time to waste looking at the same error message you see 3 or 4 times a day, every day.
The problem isn't the users, it's Windows.
Frankly, if you don't enjoy the time you spend grinding, stop playing the game. MMOs are nothing but grinding.
That's a game design issue but, believe me, it's more fun than buying gold and then having nothing to do.
I have. They aren't.
The reasons are pretty simple, gold sellers and gold farmers make the game less fun for everyone else so that they can make a buck.
Whether it's the mobs that are instantly tagged and killed, the materials that sell for next to nothing on the auction hall, the jerk that sits there yelling "Ch3ap G0ld N0W", the asshole who's uploading trogan horse programs to MMO related web sites to hack your account, or the simply the fact that you bought your way out of the fun of the game, it's just less fun when gold farmers are involved.