Pretty sure when the iPhone came out we were told that the operating system WAS OSX.
Hmm. First it's OSX with all the berries and security. Than it's re-named iOS when the iPad is added.
Now we can increase share values just by claiming they're one and the same again.
Amazing. Accounting/economics is truly a mysterious art. One in which you tell your shareholders you're making boku bucks and then tell the government you're losIng money.
LOL
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As I recall, Clinton engaged in deficit spending as well. The last president to pay $$$ on our principal was Truman I believe.
And the last President to pretty much pay off the debt or the vast majority there of was Andrew Jackson.
Let's really go for representation. Why not get rid of the election of representatives. *gasp* What you say. Anti-democratic. You betcha!
Democracy is 51% telling the other 49% what to do, a.k.a. two wolves and a sheep deciding who will be dinner. Liberty being a well-armed sheep. Anyways...
Instead of voting, we draft people to Congress. Similar to jury-duty. For 2 years you find yourself serving the people for a reasonable stipend. 2x avg salary should suffice.
Then the people elect 100 representatives to server a second term in the Senate. These do not make laws. Rather they rescind laws by a 1/3 vote (as proposed by Heinlein).
Lastly, we elect one Senator to serve a 3rd term as President.
While it may not be direct democracy. As I stated, I am not convinced of the merits of democracy. I am however, convinced of the merits of representation. And this system would do so. While at the same time ending most of the political machines. A single term, then you're fired or retained for Senate. No need to sell your soul for years before obtaining a national seat. And suddenly, Congress would go from being 90% lawyers to having a diversity of plumbers, teachers, engineers, computer programmers, CEOs, etc, etc.
It would be a significant improvement over our current system IMHO.
I've lived in Connecticut and now live in fairly rural Pennsylvania. I have a 6mb/s connection, but usually far exceed that in speedtests. Granted my mother-in-law is stuck with a 1mb/s wireless cell service for her internet. But seriously, I'm not even paying for the higher data speeds.
Most urbarn/suburban areas now offer 6mb/s in America.
1) Does the study record simply the speed of connection? Because I highly doubt all of China's citizens have access to personal internet connection. Not every American does, but it's pretty darn high. It's easier to have a high avg speed if only a select portion of the populace has access.
2) Usually, these studies fail to account for geography. For example, a densely populated modern nation like Japan or Hong Kong will score high because most of their population is within a small region and thus less infrastructure is required, maintained or updated.
In the U.S, we have internet out to many areas that would be considered "rural". For many nations (ie: Canada where 90% of the population lives on the southern border beside the U.S.) the ranking will be higher than the U.S., because we're covering a lot more suburbs, & rural areas.
So what we really need in order to rank a nation are two additional statistics. Population density and percentage of population in the most dense areas. Why is this important? Canada has a lower population density level than the U.S., but a larger portion of it's population lives in it's denser areas.
Combine that factor with speed, and percentage of citizens with internet access and you'll find out who really is the top dog for providing it's people access to the internet. I'd wager that America wouldn't show too badly in that measurement.
Absolutely unreasonable....if you're religious in your belief that Democrats (or Republicans) can do no wrong. And irrational enough to not be able to do the math and realize that $10 in and $20 out can't be done.
In fact, try to find ANY difference between President Bush & Obama's actual policies. You can't. Both implemented healthcare social programs. Both got us into military conflicts. Both spent beyond our means. Seriously, the only difference is Bush had to deal with 9-11 & Katrina. President Obama hasn't had any disasters to try his mettle yet.
OMG, it might take 10 years. Of course, that was the reason we didn't drill in Alaska 10 years ago. Dang...sure would be nice to have that oil now that it's 10 years later.
Damn idiots only think 2-4 years down the road. And it's destroying our country. Meanwhile, China has a 50 year plan for the continent of Africa. Who do you think is going to be a player in 50 years?
I'll take more taxes, so long as we cut spending and actually start PAYING DOWN the national debt.
Right now when we talk about deficit reductions, we talk about reducing how much we're increasing the debt. Never do we talk about paying down our credit cards.
FDR was a fascist. He had government and corporate control highly integrated. He seized individual's savings. He imprisoned Americans. He restricted businesses from lowering prices. And prolonged the Depression several years.
Oh, and the only 4 term president. Interesting to note that after FDR, his own party put term limits on him. They were afraid of him.
I mean, it's kind of like your wife saying I'm not giving you any extra money to pay the bills until you hand over the credit cards and let me cut them up.
You explain "We can make the minimum payment"
And your wife says, yes, for now...but you just added another $2,000 grand to our credit debt. And your response is "But if we don't pay the minimum balance this month, we'll get hit with a late fee. Our rates my go up. And our credit rating will go down.
Your wife replies I know. But what does that matter if you're going to add a thousand dollars of debt every month. We're going to go bankrupt anyways and it will be a lot worse than a late payment. So let's cut the credit cards and start paying down our debts.
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Hmm.....doesn't sound so stupid anymore does. Who's the fool? Uh, yeah...those who want to raise the debt ceiling. Mind you, they're not saying they won't raise it. They just want to start cutting the credit cards first. Is that too much to ask?
We've already spent ALL the money my generation will ever earn. We're now into our children's and grand childrens lives. That's called thievery, greed, and stupidity. Extortion is threatening the livelihood of seniors, soldiers, etc if we don't let you spend our grandchildren's money. Rather that cutting the waste of government.
This isn't showing that global warming is some how destroying our ecosystem. What this shows is all that BS about it being the hottest ever was bogus. Clearly, if the Gray whales migrated back in the 1800's to the northern Atlantic. And they're "just now" doing it again. Then our global temperatures have really just become on par with the 1800's again.
So apparently, the author argues that websites NOT designed for mobile SUCK. And I agree... but is this a gripe of Flash or not?
How many HTML sites royally suck on my iPhone. TONS. Especially ones with multiple cascading menus, huge link lists, etc, etc. To exclaim that Flash apps made a few years back don't work well nor handle certain motion behaviors is a pretty lame argument. A site not made for mobile use is usually going to be a poor mobile experience. It doesn't matter if it's HTML or not.
Yes, the iPhone taunted the whole internet. But to be honest, I consider it an article reader browser for most sites. It's great for popping open a site, zooming in, and reading an article. But for actual use of many websites, it's just a PITA. This is not a fault of Apple, rather it's a fault of a screen not much bigger than a finger length.
A great example is going to a video player and complaining the menu controls aren't very usable. Well gee, you think. Does it matter whether such was made in HTML/Flash/HTML5 - nope. If the web app is NOT designed for mobile, the experience will suck. You will have to zoom in, use a control, zoom back out. LAME.
But as more apps are designed to recognize and deliver a mobile based experience. This will be come less of an issue. Does Flash lack the touch? Or does a 2 yr old desktop focused Flash app lack a touch experience. There is a difference.
Nearly every game for the Xbox 360 is single-player (or online frag fest).
Damn, where the hell are the Baldur's Gates, the Dungeon Heroes, the multi-player co-op dungeon crawlers. The platform has been out for years and there's practically nada for it.
Seriously, I am sick of single-player + fragfest. Why? Well, I'm married. I've got kids. I can't find the time to play through a super long campaign. And I sure as heck can't find the time to hone my death match skills. So not much fun there to be had.
I want a game I can play the campaign through in a a day or two of being sick. Better yet, I want a game with a good co-op campaign that my wife and I can play and that doesn't immediately become super-repetitive and boring.
When I look at the shelves....90% of the games on the shelf are single-player + online deathmatch or online co-op. Of the few remaining games with co-op, it's basically sports, racing, or crap.
I've had friends of all persuasions. Straight. Homosexual. I've had friends who were married in straight relationships and transgendered. I've had friends that were in homosexual lifestyles and didn't want to be anymore. There are people who have such desires but are married with families. They love their wives, and their kids. But find themselves attracted to members of the same sex. But they don't want to hurt or destroy their families.
It's as if someone had desires for affairs, but loves their wife and doesn't want to hurt them. And wants help, counseling, guidance on how to deal with the issues.
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Pretty sure when the iPhone came out we were told that the operating system WAS OSX.
Hmm. First it's OSX with all the berries and security. Than it's re-named iOS when the iPad is added.
Now we can increase share values just by claiming they're one and the same again.
Amazing. Accounting/economics is truly a mysterious art. One in which you tell your shareholders you're making boku bucks and then tell the government you're losIng money.
LOL
As I recall, Clinton engaged in deficit spending as well. The last president to pay $$$ on our principal was Truman I believe.
And the last President to pretty much pay off the debt or the vast majority there of was Andrew Jackson.
Damn Democracy....
Let's really go for representation. Why not get rid of the election of representatives. *gasp* What you say. Anti-democratic. You betcha!
Democracy is 51% telling the other 49% what to do, a.k.a. two wolves and a sheep deciding who will be dinner. Liberty being a well-armed sheep. Anyways...
Instead of voting, we draft people to Congress. Similar to jury-duty. For 2 years you find yourself serving the people for a reasonable stipend. 2x avg salary should suffice.
Then the people elect 100 representatives to server a second term in the Senate. These do not make laws. Rather they rescind laws by a 1/3 vote (as proposed by Heinlein).
Lastly, we elect one Senator to serve a 3rd term as President.
While it may not be direct democracy. As I stated, I am not convinced of the merits of democracy. I am however, convinced of the merits of representation. And this system would do so. While at the same time ending most of the political machines. A single term, then you're fired or retained for Senate. No need to sell your soul for years before obtaining a national seat. And suddenly, Congress would go from being 90% lawyers to having a diversity of plumbers, teachers, engineers, computer programmers, CEOs, etc, etc.
It would be a significant improvement over our current system IMHO.
At least Flash was pretty much playable in most browsers.
Weird...
I've lived in Connecticut and now live in fairly rural Pennsylvania. I have a 6mb/s connection, but usually far exceed that in speedtests. Granted my mother-in-law is stuck with a 1mb/s wireless cell service for her internet. But seriously, I'm not even paying for the higher data speeds.
Most urbarn/suburban areas now offer 6mb/s in America.
1) Does the study record simply the speed of connection? Because I highly doubt all of China's citizens have access to personal internet connection. Not every American does, but it's pretty darn high. It's easier to have a high avg speed if only a select portion of the populace has access.
2) Usually, these studies fail to account for geography. For example, a densely populated modern nation like Japan or Hong Kong will score high because most of their population is within a small region and thus less infrastructure is required, maintained or updated.
In the U.S, we have internet out to many areas that would be considered "rural". For many nations (ie: Canada where 90% of the population lives on the southern border beside the U.S.) the ranking will be higher than the U.S., because we're covering a lot more suburbs, & rural areas.
So what we really need in order to rank a nation are two additional statistics. Population density and percentage of population in the most dense areas. Why is this important? Canada has a lower population density level than the U.S., but a larger portion of it's population lives in it's denser areas.
Combine that factor with speed, and percentage of citizens with internet access and you'll find out who really is the top dog for providing it's people access to the internet. I'd wager that America wouldn't show too badly in that measurement.
Absolutely unreasonable....if you're religious in your belief that Democrats (or Republicans) can do no wrong. And irrational enough to not be able to do the math and realize that $10 in and $20 out can't be done.
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It's no new taxes without balancing the budget.
Agreed
In fact, try to find ANY difference between President Bush & Obama's actual policies. You can't. Both implemented healthcare social programs. Both got us into military conflicts. Both spent beyond our means. Seriously, the only difference is Bush had to deal with 9-11 & Katrina. President Obama hasn't had any disasters to try his mettle yet.
This election is "blah"
Rand Paul 2016
OMG, it might take 10 years. Of course, that was the reason we didn't drill in Alaska 10 years ago. Dang...sure would be nice to have that oil now that it's 10 years later.
Damn idiots only think 2-4 years down the road. And it's destroying our country. Meanwhile, China has a 50 year plan for the continent of Africa. Who do you think is going to be a player in 50 years?
The only time either party bends over backwards to negotiate is when they don't have the majority.
Sadly, that is probably in the future if we don't start getting rid of our debt. :-(
I'll take more taxes, so long as we cut spending and actually start PAYING DOWN the national debt.
Right now when we talk about deficit reductions, we talk about reducing how much we're increasing the debt. Never do we talk about paying down our credit cards.
You are absolutely right...
FDR was a fascist. He had government and corporate control highly integrated. He seized individual's savings. He imprisoned Americans. He restricted businesses from lowering prices. And prolonged the Depression several years.
Oh, and the only 4 term president. Interesting to note that after FDR, his own party put term limits on him. They were afraid of him.
Yeah...ridiculous...
I mean, it's kind of like your wife saying I'm not giving you any extra money to pay the bills until you hand over the credit cards and let me cut them up.
You explain "We can make the minimum payment"
And your wife says, yes, for now...but you just added another $2,000 grand to our credit debt. And your response is "But if we don't pay the minimum balance this month, we'll get hit with a late fee. Our rates my go up. And our credit rating will go down.
Your wife replies I know. But what does that matter if you're going to add a thousand dollars of debt every month. We're going to go bankrupt anyways and it will be a lot worse than a late payment. So let's cut the credit cards and start paying down our debts.
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Hmm.....doesn't sound so stupid anymore does. Who's the fool? Uh, yeah...those who want to raise the debt ceiling. Mind you, they're not saying they won't raise it. They just want to start cutting the credit cards first. Is that too much to ask?
We've already spent ALL the money my generation will ever earn. We're now into our children's and grand childrens lives. That's called thievery, greed, and stupidity. Extortion is threatening the livelihood of seniors, soldiers, etc if we don't let you spend our grandchildren's money. Rather that cutting the waste of government.
Is that we've been lied too...yup.
This isn't showing that global warming is some how destroying our ecosystem. What this shows is all that BS about it being the hottest ever was bogus. Clearly, if the Gray whales migrated back in the 1800's to the northern Atlantic. And they're "just now" doing it again. Then our global temperatures have really just become on par with the 1800's again.
Hmm...food for thought rather than hysteria.
Imagine modifying all future power lines, especially the big towers. To utilize this.
The power lines themselves could trickle charge the grid.
Libya...
You might not call it a war. But I am sure the people we're dropping hundreds of bombs are call it one.
Liberals love pretentious things. It's because they believe they're better than you, and know better than you. :-P
*flaming mackeral* on my trolling line.
So apparently, the author argues that websites NOT designed for mobile SUCK. And I agree... but is this a gripe of Flash or not?
How many HTML sites royally suck on my iPhone. TONS. Especially ones with multiple cascading menus, huge link lists, etc, etc. To exclaim that Flash apps made a few years back don't work well nor handle certain motion behaviors is a pretty lame argument. A site not made for mobile use is usually going to be a poor mobile experience. It doesn't matter if it's HTML or not.
Yes, the iPhone taunted the whole internet. But to be honest, I consider it an article reader browser for most sites. It's great for popping open a site, zooming in, and reading an article. But for actual use of many websites, it's just a PITA. This is not a fault of Apple, rather it's a fault of a screen not much bigger than a finger length.
A great example is going to a video player and complaining the menu controls aren't very usable. Well gee, you think. Does it matter whether such was made in HTML/Flash/HTML5 - nope. If the web app is NOT designed for mobile, the experience will suck. You will have to zoom in, use a control, zoom back out. LAME.
But as more apps are designed to recognize and deliver a mobile based experience. This will be come less of an issue. Does Flash lack the touch? Or does a 2 yr old desktop focused Flash app lack a touch experience. There is a difference.
Not here in U.S. either. It was about a year ago but was pulled.
Nearly every game for the Xbox 360 is single-player (or online frag fest).
Damn, where the hell are the Baldur's Gates, the Dungeon Heroes, the multi-player co-op dungeon crawlers. The platform has been out for years and there's practically nada for it.
Seriously, I am sick of single-player + fragfest. Why? Well, I'm married. I've got kids. I can't find the time to play through a super long campaign. And I sure as heck can't find the time to hone my death match skills. So not much fun there to be had.
I want a game I can play the campaign through in a a day or two of being sick. Better yet, I want a game with a good co-op campaign that my wife and I can play and that doesn't immediately become super-repetitive and boring.
When I look at the shelves....90% of the games on the shelf are single-player + online deathmatch or online co-op. Of the few remaining games with co-op, it's basically sports, racing, or crap.
I WANT BALDUR'S GATE III
I've had friends of all persuasions. Straight. Homosexual. I've had friends who were married in straight relationships and transgendered. I've had friends that were in homosexual lifestyles and didn't want to be anymore. There are people who have such desires but are married with families. They love their wives, and their kids. But find themselves attracted to members of the same sex. But they don't want to hurt or destroy their families.
It's as if someone had desires for affairs, but loves their wife and doesn't want to hurt them. And wants help, counseling, guidance on how to deal with the issues.