Come on folks, let's be a bit realistic here. It's been what, nigh a decade, and we still do not have browsers properly rendering stuff as simple as tables and positioning using CSS, DOM, etc.
And while granted that HTML5 may provide a nice alternative for embedding video and audio. If that's all you think Flash is for, than you've never done more than scratch the surface.
Check out Flex, AIR, and some of the 3D libraries for Flash. Experiment with remoting. See what you can REALLY do in Flash.
Only by leftist socialist political science professors in college. Who like to perpetrate a myth that socialism and communism are on one side of the spectrum. And fascism on the polar opposite with capitalism.
When in fact, fascism is quite at odds with capitalism and libertarianism. It is in fact nationalistic socialism. Where as communism is global socialism.
Fascism believes in strict regulatory powers over business. And tends toward a one party system.
People voted for him, for the same reason they voted for McCain.
They figured both were more moderate and less left leaning than the Democrat. It doesn't mean people liked Arlen Specter.
In fact, the last race, Arlen won the primary by something like a 51% to 49%. And that was with most of the Republican Party campaigning for Specter. Because parties are really good ol' boys clubs.
But it'd be nice if we did away with the numerous major party laws in state and local politics that make it near impossible for 3rd party candidates to compete.
"he just doesn't want to go with the ever-more-to-the-right movement of the republican party. The religious extremists (Sarah Palin & Co) have taken control, and not everyone would like to be a part of that."
Can any of you twits even state WHY you call such people religious extremists? Or show what in particular is a sign of the Republican Party moving to the right?
I can show you with the Democrats. Where we went from hunting communists. To now we have Senators calling for the nationalizing of industries ranging from oil to auto to banks (only the latter two for financial troubles).
There are only two issues that I know that can be even somewhat blamed on the religious right.
Issue #1: The issue of abortion. Which is a very gray area depending on how you define human life. If you define it one way, you err on the side of anti-abortion. If you define it another, you lean toward pro-abortion access.
Funny, when this same situation existed for blacks. Their were many of the same issues at hand. Blacks were not regarded as human by many. And the abolitionists who believed blacks to be human pushed for the elimination of slavery. Which turned out to be correct?
Think I am being far fetched? Let's talk about viability. 100 yrs ago a child born a few weeks early was not viable. Now a child born 3 months early can be viable. As technology advances, viability may be pushed back even further. Maybe 5 months, 4...3?
What happens when technology allows for 100% viability? In some advanced technology human incubator. In fact, women will likely start to choose to have children via such contraptions and not have to bear the burden of 9 months of pregnancy and labor. We'll have interesting debates than...
Oh, how will abortion apply then? What about viability? What if you keep the child in the incubator for 12 months. Can you still abort?
These are questions that we ignore today. But may be the questions we ask in 50 yrs.
Is it really so wrong to err on the side of life?
Issue #2: Homosexual marriage. Yes, some call for Constitutional Amendments. But most of the so-called religious right members I know are not really for such. They're more concerned about being forced into accepting something they do not believe in. And that fear is quite justified. When churches get sued for not hiring homosexuals, than sued for not offering benefits to their homosexual partners.
And while you may think it right for everyone to accept homosexuality. To force that view is wrong. I think the KKK is wrong. But I can't force someone to think a certain way. If you owned a business, wouldn't you like to reserve the right to NOT hire a racist KKK/neo-Nazi. I sure would...
Thought police and thought laws are never a good thing.
And with all this homosexual marriage debate. I find it very hypocritical as I have a number of poly friends who are still left up the creek without a paddle. So we argue it should be right for two men to marry, or two women...but not three or more?
I believe the real solution is less government. Why do we need a license from the government to be married?
Marriage should just be between the parties involved and only recognized by those of like belief or faith. If you believe in traditional judeo-christian values, than marriage is between a man and a woman. If you believe in some of the celtic systems of faith, you might have a marriage of a woman with her two husbands.
Get the government out of it and much of this issue disappears.
As for the economic issues. Settle that through wills and civil household incorporations. And those should not be related to marriage. If two 80 yr old elderly sisters are living out the rest of their lives. They should be able to do so as a joint-incorporated household.
Except the two parties have passed laws making it nearly impossible for 3rd parties to compete.
Then, they use a staggered primary to limit the effectiveness of party votes. (For example, by the time Pennsylvania had it's primary, McCain had already been locked in. Thanks to the states with open primary policies that allowed moderate non-party members to vote for McCain.)
The result...I never really got to vote, not in any valid way.
The MSM just liked to make that insinuation. And Democrats loved jumping on it in an attempt to wash their hands of their own blame.
Oh yes, numerous Democrats saw the same reports President Bush did. And believed there to be WMDs or at least the intent to develop them.
Oh, and while there were no nukes or such. There probably was a lot of raw materials for WMDs...the fact we waited months while trucks moved out massive amount of equipment from Iraq. The fact we found lots of dual use chemicals and equipment. But the U.N. and U.S. media refused to accept such as evidence.
Oh, and it was a GOOD military strategy. One of the fundamental rules. Just like the best defense is a good offense. Another rule of war is bring the fight to your enemy.
Thanks to that decision, most of Al-Quaeda's efforts have focused on Iraq and not on the U.S.
"If you're hyper wealthy, you did it largely on the backs of lower paid, unskilled labor. You owe it to them to make their lives and their kids lives better somehow."
And most do...but when the government takes the profits away. Gives them to people who aren't working, and are taking advantage of the system that totally lacks oversight. And then blames the wealthy job makers for their greed. How is that right?
I worked for a company, it was a mid-sized company. It was very fair to it's employees. Gave good benefits. But the government would rather tax said company and make it harder and harder for it to offer that to it's employees.
"Even if you work your face off, you're still probably going to be poor."
Having grown up poor. And I mean dirt poor at times. Having been one of the few thousand without a toilet. I will tell you what I learned about government social programs.
They're ALL political. Most of them are scams. The lack of oversight creates a breed of "social services" that take advantage of people but pocket a lot of the money.
Yes, there are some decent programs. But most would be better off with more private charity than government social programs.
"So why are you resistant on the Government to do it? Private industry is just that, private. It's thanks to Government intervention we even have any level of transparency at all. Private charities are more prone to internal abuses like embezzlement than the Government is."
Are you !@#$% kidding? I'd wager that government embezzlement, fraud, corruption and waste in a year exceeds ALL of that in private industry combined.
Let's talk about Enron and MCI Worldcom. Our government blows that much fraudulent waste in about a day.
Let's talk about AIG. How does that compare to the government subsidized Fannie/Freddie. Pales in comparison.
"You're not forced to be here, so you're not forced to pay taxes either."
No, it's my right to live. And I choose to live free. And if you have a problem about that. You go ahead and try to enslave me...and I'll defend myself.
You leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone...fair?
And the Democrats see the world with rose colored glasses that hide all their sins.
Or did they not do all of the above and far far worse to Joseph Lieberman. (And Lieberman at least ran as an independent, and that only after losing the primary.) The Democrats were far more cruel to him than the Republicans have been to Specter.
But we all know the Democrats have no clothes...;-)
The Republican Party of today is about equivalent to the Democrat Party of JFK.
We haven't shifted to the right. We've shifted dramatically to the left. Only naivety and lack of education and knowledge would allow someone to think otherwise. (Or the major media outlets such as NBC, CNN, NY Times which are 90% staffed by liberals and conjures the term extreme right.)
At worst, the so-called extreme right is an advocate of status quo. And at best, they're an advocate for the increase of liberty and freedom.
- Nationalizing of industries (banking, auto, oil if they can)
- Majority tax on the wealthy so that most wealth is taken into the government coffers and distributed according to the all benevolent government authority.
- reduction of liberty, free speech (ie: fairness doctrine), etc.
- disarmament of the people so that the people are incapable of standing up and objecting to the government
Did I miss anything?
Granted, the Democrats are considered middle of the road moderates when compared to Europe. But blast it... I'd rather die than wind up like some European state where you have to name your child off an approved state sanctioned list of names.
"Give me liberty or give me death!"
We meant it then, we mean it now. America is NOT supposed to be like Europe.
Yes, because all the educated ones avoid the Democrat Party (and the Republican Party).
First off, you should learn what both neocon and fascist actually mean.
Neocon stood for neoconservatives. These were mainly Democrats, moderates and social progressives who were fiscally conservative and tended to vote in support of a number of Reagan era policies.
Fascist are not the epitomy of capitalism or the right as most leftist liberal Democrat political science teachers like to insinuate. Fascists were national socialists. Of which Obama and many of the Democrat progressives fall more strongly into the category than most Republicans or conservatives.
But after 8 yrs of solid demonizing by the extremist left media. Most conservatives just want to be left the !@#$ alone and stop being blamed for everything while the Democrat and Left is given a free pass on all their crimes.
It's not that we don't want to own up to our own wrongs, failures, etc. Bush sucked on a LOT of issues.
We just want a little balance and a little fairness. The media hyped every Bushism and slip of the tongue. But with Obama they sweep such under the carpet.
Enough...
A little equality would go a long way. Instead, we're being pushed and divided to a point where sadly, I do not know if this union will survive. And if it does, it probably will only survive as an abusive marriage and far from the liberty this nation was founded upon.
"It's a party which has been hijacked by radical right wingers who'd like to see American institutions blown up so they can be reengineered in a more ideal form."
Really....where do you get this?
Most of the right wingers just want to be left alone by the government. Less taxes. Not told what they can or cannot do. Yes, there is the exception of abortion. But they view abortion as forcing an event on a person who had no say. If you believe that a fetus is a human, than they're in the right. If you don't believe that, then they're in the wrong.
But it's a very gray issue. That has seen the right demonized as extremists. But if you applied this similarly to blacks. Would you still see it as extreme? When the likes of Margaret Sanger wanted to eliminate black offspring, execute them so as to reduce their numbers.
And yes, the media loves targeting the "religious right" as the demons to hate. But you know what, I didn't hear many christians calling for marriage amendments. That was tossed out as carrot, but most really wanted a reduction in government and their rights and liberties protected.
Most things, like the homosexual marriage issue, can be resolved with less government - not more. Ask yourself WHY you need a license from the government to be married. And you start to see the real problem.
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"because it gives consumers an all-too-easy alternative to buying a new "
For the used car industry, used firearms, used washers and dryers.
OMG
Can we say screw you publishers.
AT&T should focus on getting their 3G network working better. More coverage, more reliability, and more speed.
Frankly, Verizon's slower EvDO seemed to perform faster and have less issues.
In 1080p and capable of 120hz refresh rate?
???
Come on folks, let's be a bit realistic here. It's been what, nigh a decade, and we still do not have browsers properly rendering stuff as simple as tables and positioning using CSS, DOM, etc.
And while granted that HTML5 may provide a nice alternative for embedding video and audio. If that's all you think Flash is for, than you've never done more than scratch the surface.
Check out Flex, AIR, and some of the 3D libraries for Flash. Experiment with remoting. See what you can REALLY do in Flash.
Check out Sliderocket for an example, or Aviary.
Buy whatever device you want....
Take a small drill and drill through the lens and destroy the sensor CMOS. (Or if you want to be a bit more saavy, disassemble and remove it.) ;-)
Now you can have a government safe iPhone (okay, so you might have to remove the Wifi, microphone oh and the cell radio).
Only by leftist socialist political science professors in college. Who like to perpetrate a myth that socialism and communism are on one side of the spectrum. And fascism on the polar opposite with capitalism.
When in fact, fascism is quite at odds with capitalism and libertarianism. It is in fact nationalistic socialism. Where as communism is global socialism.
Fascism believes in strict regulatory powers over business. And tends toward a one party system.
You know Lieberman is Jewish right? It's called the "TANACH" :P
And if the Obama administration does screw the pooch? Sure looks like they're screwing everything...and scaring the crap out of Manhatteners to boot!
Of course, such open primaries is the reason us Republicans got stuck with McLame...
People voted for him, for the same reason they voted for McCain.
They figured both were more moderate and less left leaning than the Democrat. It doesn't mean people liked Arlen Specter.
In fact, the last race, Arlen won the primary by something like a 51% to 49%. And that was with most of the Republican Party campaigning for Specter. Because parties are really good ol' boys clubs.
Huh?
The GOP has pretty much been on a continual creep to the left. It did not leave Specter.
It bent over backwards for him last election. To the point of costing other politicians their seats.
But it'd be nice if we did away with the numerous major party laws in state and local politics that make it near impossible for 3rd party candidates to compete.
"he just doesn't want to go with the ever-more-to-the-right movement of the republican party. The religious extremists (Sarah Palin & Co) have taken control, and not everyone would like to be a part of that."
Can any of you twits even state WHY you call such people religious extremists? Or show what in particular is a sign of the Republican Party moving to the right?
I can show you with the Democrats. Where we went from hunting communists. To now we have Senators calling for the nationalizing of industries ranging from oil to auto to banks (only the latter two for financial troubles).
There are only two issues that I know that can be even somewhat blamed on the religious right.
Issue #1: The issue of abortion. Which is a very gray area depending on how you define human life. If you define it one way, you err on the side of anti-abortion. If you define it another, you lean toward pro-abortion access.
Funny, when this same situation existed for blacks. Their were many of the same issues at hand. Blacks were not regarded as human by many. And the abolitionists who believed blacks to be human pushed for the elimination of slavery. Which turned out to be correct?
Think I am being far fetched? Let's talk about viability. 100 yrs ago a child born a few weeks early was not viable. Now a child born 3 months early can be viable. As technology advances, viability may be pushed back even further. Maybe 5 months, 4...3?
What happens when technology allows for 100% viability? In some advanced technology human incubator. In fact, women will likely start to choose to have children via such contraptions and not have to bear the burden of 9 months of pregnancy and labor. We'll have interesting debates than...
Oh, how will abortion apply then? What about viability? What if you keep the child in the incubator for 12 months. Can you still abort?
These are questions that we ignore today. But may be the questions we ask in 50 yrs.
Is it really so wrong to err on the side of life?
Issue #2: Homosexual marriage. Yes, some call for Constitutional Amendments. But most of the so-called religious right members I know are not really for such. They're more concerned about being forced into accepting something they do not believe in. And that fear is quite justified. When churches get sued for not hiring homosexuals, than sued for not offering benefits to their homosexual partners.
And while you may think it right for everyone to accept homosexuality. To force that view is wrong. I think the KKK is wrong. But I can't force someone to think a certain way. If you owned a business, wouldn't you like to reserve the right to NOT hire a racist KKK/neo-Nazi. I sure would...
Thought police and thought laws are never a good thing.
And with all this homosexual marriage debate. I find it very hypocritical as I have a number of poly friends who are still left up the creek without a paddle. So we argue it should be right for two men to marry, or two women...but not three or more?
I believe the real solution is less government. Why do we need a license from the government to be married?
Marriage should just be between the parties involved and only recognized by those of like belief or faith. If you believe in traditional judeo-christian values, than marriage is between a man and a woman. If you believe in some of the celtic systems of faith, you might have a marriage of a woman with her two husbands.
Get the government out of it and much of this issue disappears.
As for the economic issues. Settle that through wills and civil household incorporations. And those should not be related to marriage. If two 80 yr old elderly sisters are living out the rest of their lives. They should be able to do so as a joint-incorporated household.
Except the two parties have passed laws making it nearly impossible for 3rd parties to compete.
Then, they use a staggered primary to limit the effectiveness of party votes. (For example, by the time Pennsylvania had it's primary, McCain had already been locked in. Thanks to the states with open primary policies that allowed moderate non-party members to vote for McCain.)
The result...I never really got to vote, not in any valid way.
The MSM just liked to make that insinuation. And Democrats loved jumping on it in an attempt to wash their hands of their own blame.
Oh yes, numerous Democrats saw the same reports President Bush did. And believed there to be WMDs or at least the intent to develop them.
Oh, and while there were no nukes or such. There probably was a lot of raw materials for WMDs...the fact we waited months while trucks moved out massive amount of equipment from Iraq. The fact we found lots of dual use chemicals and equipment. But the U.N. and U.S. media refused to accept such as evidence.
Oh, and it was a GOOD military strategy. One of the fundamental rules. Just like the best defense is a good offense. Another rule of war is bring the fight to your enemy.
Thanks to that decision, most of Al-Quaeda's efforts have focused on Iraq and not on the U.S.
"Glenn Beck are out there supporting the GOP/right wing on national TV these days."
Oh come on...Glenn bashes the GOP more than probably anyone else on the radio except for Al Franken.
".well anti-intellectual xenophobic racist ape as part of the standard bearer for the party"
Frankly, until people like you stop applying labels wantonly with little truth behind it. This nation will continue to see an increase in division.
Glenn is far from xenophobic...
Glenn is not a racist...
Glenn might be an ape....
And that's why you see huge signs at Tea Parties stating "Republicans...you suck too!"
"If you're hyper wealthy, you did it largely on the backs of lower paid, unskilled labor. You owe it to them to make their lives and their kids lives better somehow."
And most do...but when the government takes the profits away. Gives them to people who aren't working, and are taking advantage of the system that totally lacks oversight. And then blames the wealthy job makers for their greed. How is that right?
I worked for a company, it was a mid-sized company. It was very fair to it's employees. Gave good benefits. But the government would rather tax said company and make it harder and harder for it to offer that to it's employees.
"Even if you work your face off, you're still probably going to be poor."
Having grown up poor. And I mean dirt poor at times. Having been one of the few thousand without a toilet. I will tell you what I learned about government social programs.
They're ALL political. Most of them are scams. The lack of oversight creates a breed of "social services" that take advantage of people but pocket a lot of the money.
Yes, there are some decent programs. But most would be better off with more private charity than government social programs.
"So why are you resistant on the Government to do it? Private industry is just that, private. It's thanks to Government intervention we even have any level of transparency at all. Private charities are more prone to internal abuses like embezzlement than the Government is."
Are you !@#$% kidding? I'd wager that government embezzlement, fraud, corruption and waste in a year exceeds ALL of that in private industry combined.
Let's talk about Enron and MCI Worldcom. Our government blows that much fraudulent waste in about a day.
Let's talk about AIG. How does that compare to the government subsidized Fannie/Freddie. Pales in comparison.
"You're not forced to be here, so you're not forced to pay taxes either."
No, it's my right to live. And I choose to live free. And if you have a problem about that. You go ahead and try to enslave me...and I'll defend myself.
You leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone...fair?
$13/week did nothing to help us... :P
And the Democrats see the world with rose colored glasses that hide all their sins.
Or did they not do all of the above and far far worse to Joseph Lieberman. (And Lieberman at least ran as an independent, and that only after losing the primary.) The Democrats were far more cruel to him than the Republicans have been to Specter.
But we all know the Democrats have no clothes... ;-)
Really...go look at history.
The Republican Party of today is about equivalent to the Democrat Party of JFK.
We haven't shifted to the right. We've shifted dramatically to the left. Only naivety and lack of education and knowledge would allow someone to think otherwise. (Or the major media outlets such as NBC, CNN, NY Times which are 90% staffed by liberals and conjures the term extreme right.)
At worst, the so-called extreme right is an advocate of status quo. And at best, they're an advocate for the increase of liberty and freedom.
Like...
- Mono-party control
- Nationalizing of industries (banking, auto, oil if they can)
- Majority tax on the wealthy so that most wealth is taken into the government coffers and distributed according to the all benevolent government authority.
- reduction of liberty, free speech (ie: fairness doctrine), etc.
- disarmament of the people so that the people are incapable of standing up and objecting to the government
Did I miss anything?
Granted, the Democrats are considered middle of the road moderates when compared to Europe. But blast it... I'd rather die than wind up like some European state where you have to name your child off an approved state sanctioned list of names.
"Give me liberty or give me death!"
We meant it then, we mean it now. America is NOT supposed to be like Europe.
Yes, because all the educated ones avoid the Democrat Party (and the Republican Party).
First off, you should learn what both neocon and fascist actually mean.
Neocon stood for neoconservatives. These were mainly Democrats, moderates and social progressives who were fiscally conservative and tended to vote in support of a number of Reagan era policies.
Fascist are not the epitomy of capitalism or the right as most leftist liberal Democrat political science teachers like to insinuate. Fascists were national socialists. Of which Obama and many of the Democrat progressives fall more strongly into the category than most Republicans or conservatives.
You're right...
But after 8 yrs of solid demonizing by the extremist left media. Most conservatives just want to be left the !@#$ alone and stop being blamed for everything while the Democrat and Left is given a free pass on all their crimes.
It's not that we don't want to own up to our own wrongs, failures, etc. Bush sucked on a LOT of issues.
We just want a little balance and a little fairness. The media hyped every Bushism and slip of the tongue. But with Obama they sweep such under the carpet.
Enough...
A little equality would go a long way. Instead, we're being pushed and divided to a point where sadly, I do not know if this union will survive. And if it does, it probably will only survive as an abusive marriage and far from the liberty this nation was founded upon.
"It's a party which has been hijacked by radical right wingers who'd like to see American institutions blown up so they can be reengineered in a more ideal form."
Really....where do you get this?
Most of the right wingers just want to be left alone by the government. Less taxes. Not told what they can or cannot do. Yes, there is the exception of abortion. But they view abortion as forcing an event on a person who had no say. If you believe that a fetus is a human, than they're in the right. If you don't believe that, then they're in the wrong.
But it's a very gray issue. That has seen the right demonized as extremists. But if you applied this similarly to blacks. Would you still see it as extreme? When the likes of Margaret Sanger wanted to eliminate black offspring, execute them so as to reduce their numbers.
And yes, the media loves targeting the "religious right" as the demons to hate. But you know what, I didn't hear many christians calling for marriage amendments. That was tossed out as carrot, but most really wanted a reduction in government and their rights and liberties protected.
Most things, like the homosexual marriage issue, can be resolved with less government - not more. Ask yourself WHY you need a license from the government to be married. And you start to see the real problem.