Actually, we're not. The big two parties have enacted numerous laws, regulations and polices to essentially prevent us from electing those we want.
3rd party candidates have a near impossible time getting on the ballot. Districts are designed to protect incumbents. Campaign finance laws are designed to protect incumbents.
And in the case of 2008. By the time I could vote in the primary there were no choices left.
So don't tell me I put them there...it's like the ol' politiburo of the Soviet Republic. The Party gave you a choice in who to vote for. You just had to vote for one of their two chosen candidates. Twiddly Dee and Twiddly Dumb.
Seriously, I love the blame game of partisanship. Done on a partisan level.
It's both parties. Democrats don't want to make real cuts. Even all the cut proposals were mere cuts in expected spending. Neither party is willing to balance the budget. I support more taxes on all in exchange for a balanced budget.
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You do realize that 2012 hasn't happened yet. Just saying. Perhaps you mean 2008.
Both parties are bought a paid for. Idiots who believe one party is good and the other is bad, rather than realizing both are bad, are just that - 1D10T errors.
Even more ironic. The only one truly calling for a withdrawal from Iraq and other U.S. military actions. And who also pointed out concern with the U.S. banking industry years before it crashed.
Has an (R) after his name...Also has an "R" as the first letter of his name.;-)
Most of the Tea Party does NOT have a problem with increased taxes. We have a problem with increased taxes being wasted on more bloated ineffective programs and bailouts.
Were someone to come out in the political scene and say "I am raising taxes by 20%, but I am balancing the budget and paying off out debt. Not just reducing the amount we spend. But I'm going to send payments to our credit card too so our children are not burdened with out mistakes."
Tea Party would be all over that candidate.
But I think it's funny that you attack the Tea Party and Republicans, as out of touch. Are you really insinuating that the Democrats are not out of touch.
What about OWS. While I agree with a number of their issues, a lot is unrealistic. And as was proven out, regardless, America's debt rating was lowered.
How can it not be, when the U.S. debt is beginning to exceed the U.S. GDP
"The end result is that the committee was going to fail, because the "party line" of the Republicans."
Can we have a bit more intellectual honesty here? The end result is that the committee was going to fail because both parties are toeing the party line in order for it to fail so no real change can occur. Both the Dems & Repubs are mostly focus on maintaining the beneficial status quo that keeps them in power.
We need a 3rd entity (which I believe must come out of a combination of the Tea Party & OWS movements which share more in common with each other then they do with either the Dems/Repubs), an entity willing to raise taxes, eliminate tax loopholes, maintain liberty, and make painful cuts.
When you make $50,000 a year, and you've got $48,000 on the credit card. You need a raise and you need to turn off cable, internet, stop eating out, and pay off that credit card.
And the great thing is, once you do it, you find you've got about $1,000 a month more money to spend. If America got out of debt, we'd have nearly $400 billion to fund on programs. If we quit policing the world and pulled out of the middle-east, Germany, Japan, etc. We'd have around $800 billion to spend on programs. WITHOUT GOING INTO DEBT.
And by burn, I don't mean the actual building. (Heck, there are some great historic documents recorded by the patent office.) But the system, it needs to be tossed in the fire.
Seriously. We should just burn the patent office down.
Location reminders. Ident that suggestion to Apple 3 years ago. It was a no brainier and should have been included in the first GPs enabled iPhone. Google Circles, had that idea for 5 years.
Have many more. But at several thousand dollars a patent, it's pretty much relegated to the wealthy. It's why I have no respect for IP anymore. The entire IP system in its present form should be abolished as in violation of the Constitution. The patent office should be required to accept free submissions into public domain. Then if any patent is found to have had a similar entry submitted prior it's voided.
There are better ways to accomplish the goals of patents. Ways that are far more accessible, encourage innovation and benefit the inventors. Three thing out present system obstructs.
"Experts say primary care doctors are partly to blame for prescribing antibiotics for patients who demand them unnecessarily"
Sorry, I have seen from personal experience over and over again. Patients never "demand them unnecessarily".
Rather, patients go to the doctor. And the first thing the doctor almost always tries is "Here's a prescription for antibiotics." It's almost more akin to a diagnosis test. Take these and we'll determine if it's viral or baterial.
Occasionally the doctor will call for a test such as flu, strep, etc. Just recently we were concerned about my 4 yr old daughter having been bit twice by ticks in a 2 week period. Short time later all her lymph nodes were swollen, she ached, and was generally miserable.
Rather than evaluate for any of the tick born infections. Our doctor was convinced it was the flu. We knew it was NOT the flu. They did a flu test, and guess what. We were right.
The truth of the matter is most American doctors are arrogant. 1/2 the time they are wrong. And very few care about treatment, they just want to prescribe and send away.
If it were a Republican president this would be considered fair posting for Slashdot.
(Gimme those troll points.):-{=
Re:In a 100 years Occupy will be equiv. with STUPI
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Occupy Flash?
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Guess it was the astericks I used to break up two thought areas.
Re:As much as I hate flash..
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Occupy Flash?
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· Score: 1
+ 10 for most intelligent post on topic.
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Seriously, I think so much effort is wasted on calls to get rid of Flash. When the focus should really be a replacement for JavaScript.
In a 100 years Occupy will be equiv. with STUPID
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Occupy Flash?
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· Score: 1, Insightful
Seriously,
Most people attacking Flash have never built an application in it. I'm not talking about some stupid animated banner ad. html 5 will do that fine.
But try coding a web application to handle a variety of browsers from ie 7 to ie 10, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and so on.
Doing that with html 5, js, css can often be a maze of exceptions, variants, etc. With Flash, it's simply installing a single common plugin.
Yes, there is a lot of bad Flash code out there. But there is far more bad html & js. Furthermore, there are many things that html 5 can't quite do on a level that Flash currently can.
So it makes more sense to allow for a transition. Allow html 5 to become more refined.
To call for such a policy of cold turkey is just stupid. Why not call for the elimination of all html 4 code from the web. I mean, we have the new glorious html 5.
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Let's look at the criticisms:
1. Flash is buggy well so are many html, ajaxsites. I find Facebook hugely buggy and constantly run into issues with ajax. In fact, I run into issues far more with html, js, ajax, etc than I do with Flash.
Score 0
2. Crashes a lot. I guess on Linux. Over the past several years I've had very few crashes of Flash on either my Windows or Mac PCs. Exception, for about 2-3 months there was a version of Flash Player 10 that was crashing with sad face all the time. Comparitively, if I exclude that one update period. Then Flash has crashed less for me than any browser I've used.
Score 0
3. Requires constant security updates. Seriously, what doesn't? Windows does. Firefox feels like it updates almost everytime I use my computer. iTunes, I swear has a new update and new terms of service every launch.
Score 0
4. Doesn't work on most mobile devices.
Score 1... but how much of that is corporate politics?
In conclusion...
Challenge: Before anyof you downgrade this post. I challenge you to go look at ActionScript 3 as a programming language. And compare it with JavaScript. Tell me which is a better programming language.
Flash's demise has far more to do with corporate politics, closed gardens, and restrictions on use than it does with the technology itself.
And OccupyFlash is clearly full of people on par with the stupidity of a lot of the ows crowd.
"Apple iPhones and iPads, have not been able to view media coded for Flash on their mobile gadgets" - Occupy Flash
Who's fault is that? Adobe's? No, it was a greedy Steve Jobs with a personal vendetta to kill a company that kept Apple alive for nigh a decade. But finally when Apple was around 5% market share decided to release it's next product version for Windows first. For this blatant sin Steve Jobs has waged a war against Adobe and sought it's death.
Why? Because if you could play all those Angry Birds and Zombie games in Flash. Why would anydeveloper needlessly fork over 30% of their profits to Apple.
And that folks, is the crux of the whole issue. Just as OWS is really just aiding the cause of those high up corrupt bankers (more government involvement and regulations just means less and bigger banks, with more bailouts). OccupyFlash is just make Apple leap for joy and secretly shout "SUCKERS!!!!!"
PS - Slashdot, sure would help if you gave an example of junk characters.
I was in high school in 89 using handheld LORAN. Not only did it show you where you were. It showed you relevant nautical chart information and relevant objects.
This is why our IP system is now nothing but masculine bovine fecal material.
A system that costs nearly hundreds of dollars for a preliminary patent and around $10,000 for an actual patent. Essentially, putting patents beyond the reach of the common Joe.
And on the other side, we have a legal system that makes it a fortune to pursue patents. Well beyond the means of a small company. And even during blatant theft, the little companies seldom come out with their due.
When Microsoft spent a year in negotiations and review of the ball-less optical mouse. Then dropped negotiations only to release their own version. The little company won in their lawsuit against Microsoft. Who was forced to pay $1 million. But likely made far more than that off of all the Microsoft optical mice devices they sold.
Or Sony, who in trying to enforce copyrights. Stole the code of a programmer. Apparently, copyrights are only for the big fish.
They transmit it by reflecting back specific segments of the visual light spectrum.
OMG....your tiny brain thinks in such small dimensions. That you never even contemplated the transmission of light.
***
Yes....this is a stupid comment. But let's be honest. Almost EVERYTHING in IP law today is stupid.
Samsung Tablet banned because it's square, has a flat screen and somewhat resembles Apple's iPad. Which is also square, with a flat screen and oddly enough resembles Star Trek:TNG tablet pad.
Star Trek alone should have been enough to dismiss this case.
Where were all the liberals defending the free speech of Tea Party groups. Who largely, have been fighting for the exact same causes.
With two expections. They view.gov as an equal part of the problem. And aren't asking for entitlements. But Tea Party has been opposing the bank bailouts and Wall St crap for years. Where have all you OWS people been the past 4 years?
What role higher than our Constitution and the sacred rights outlined does a park exist for?
Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness. In that order. Using the park for issues related to Life & Liberty, comes before recreational (happiness) use IMHO.
And half those orgs are biased. I used to have some respect for FactCheck.org, but they've done out and out hit pieces on things for which solid evidence existed.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, we're not. The big two parties have enacted numerous laws, regulations and polices to essentially prevent us from electing those we want.
3rd party candidates have a near impossible time getting on the ballot. Districts are designed to protect incumbents. Campaign finance laws are designed to protect incumbents.
And in the case of 2008. By the time I could vote in the primary there were no choices left.
So don't tell me I put them there...it's like the ol' politiburo of the Soviet Republic. The Party gave you a choice in who to vote for. You just had to vote for one of their two chosen candidates. Twiddly Dee and Twiddly Dumb.
Which is why we clearly need a 3rd Entity willing to cut ALL.
No it's not. What's stupid is not having a balanced budget.
First agree to a balanced budget. Then we can talk about raising taxes.
Seriously, I love the blame game of partisanship. Done on a partisan level.
It's both parties. Democrats don't want to make real cuts. Even all the cut proposals were mere cuts in expected spending. Neither party is willing to balance the budget. I support more taxes on all in exchange for a balanced budget.
--
You do realize that 2012 hasn't happened yet. Just saying. Perhaps you mean 2008.
Both parties are bought a paid for. Idiots who believe one party is good and the other is bad, rather than realizing both are bad, are just that - 1D10T errors.
Even more ironic. The only one truly calling for a withdrawal from Iraq and other U.S. military actions. And who also pointed out concern with the U.S. banking industry years before it crashed.
Has an (R) after his name...Also has an "R" as the first letter of his name. ;-)
Au contraire...
Most of the Tea Party does NOT have a problem with increased taxes. We have a problem with increased taxes being wasted on more bloated ineffective programs and bailouts.
Were someone to come out in the political scene and say "I am raising taxes by 20%, but I am balancing the budget and paying off out debt. Not just reducing the amount we spend. But I'm going to send payments to our credit card too so our children are not burdened with out mistakes."
Tea Party would be all over that candidate.
But I think it's funny that you attack the Tea Party and Republicans, as out of touch. Are you really insinuating that the Democrats are not out of touch.
What about OWS. While I agree with a number of their issues, a lot is unrealistic. And as was proven out, regardless, America's debt rating was lowered.
How can it not be, when the U.S. debt is beginning to exceed the U.S. GDP
"The end result is that the committee was going to fail, because the "party line" of the Republicans."
Can we have a bit more intellectual honesty here? The end result is that the committee was going to fail because both parties are toeing the party line in order for it to fail so no real change can occur. Both the Dems & Repubs are mostly focus on maintaining the beneficial status quo that keeps them in power.
We need a 3rd entity (which I believe must come out of a combination of the Tea Party & OWS movements which share more in common with each other then they do with either the Dems/Repubs), an entity willing to raise taxes, eliminate tax loopholes, maintain liberty, and make painful cuts.
When you make $50,000 a year, and you've got $48,000 on the credit card. You need a raise and you need to turn off cable, internet, stop eating out, and pay off that credit card.
And the great thing is, once you do it, you find you've got about $1,000 a month more money to spend. If America got out of debt, we'd have nearly $400 billion to fund on programs. If we quit policing the world and pulled out of the middle-east, Germany, Japan, etc. We'd have around $800 billion to spend on programs. WITHOUT GOING INTO DEBT.
Why not?
They've made tons of obviously bad choices already. It'd be nice to see them try some potentially different bad choices. ;-)
And by burn, I don't mean the actual building. (Heck, there are some great historic documents recorded by the patent office.) But the system, it needs to be tossed in the fire.
Seriously. We should just burn the patent office down.
Location reminders. Ident that suggestion to Apple 3 years ago. It was a no brainier and should have been included in the first GPs enabled iPhone. Google Circles, had that idea for 5 years.
Have many more. But at several thousand dollars a patent, it's pretty much relegated to the wealthy. It's why I have no respect for IP anymore. The entire IP system in its present form should be abolished as in violation of the Constitution. The patent office should be required to accept free submissions into public domain. Then if any patent is found to have had a similar entry submitted prior it's voided.
There are better ways to accomplish the goals of patents. Ways that are far more accessible, encourage innovation and benefit the inventors. Three thing out present system obstructs.
I've only used American doctors. So I didn't want to speak for all out of a lack of experience.
"Experts say primary care doctors are partly to blame for prescribing antibiotics for patients who demand them unnecessarily"
Sorry, I have seen from personal experience over and over again. Patients never "demand them unnecessarily".
Rather, patients go to the doctor. And the first thing the doctor almost always tries is "Here's a prescription for antibiotics." It's almost more akin to a diagnosis test. Take these and we'll determine if it's viral or baterial.
Occasionally the doctor will call for a test such as flu, strep, etc. Just recently we were concerned about my 4 yr old daughter having been bit twice by ticks in a 2 week period. Short time later all her lymph nodes were swollen, she ached, and was generally miserable.
Rather than evaluate for any of the tick born infections. Our doctor was convinced it was the flu. We knew it was NOT the flu. They did a flu test, and guess what. We were right.
The truth of the matter is most American doctors are arrogant. 1/2 the time they are wrong. And very few care about treatment, they just want to prescribe and send away.
Medicine is in a second dark age.
Why not?
If it were a Republican president this would be considered fair posting for Slashdot.
(Gimme those troll points.) :-{=
Guess it was the astericks I used to break up two thought areas.
+ 10 for most intelligent post on topic.
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Seriously, I think so much effort is wasted on calls to get rid of Flash. When the focus should really be a replacement for JavaScript.
Seriously,
Most people attacking Flash have never built an application in it. I'm not talking about some stupid animated banner ad. html 5 will do that fine.
But try coding a web application to handle a variety of browsers from ie 7 to ie 10, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and so on.
Doing that with html 5, js, css can often be a maze of exceptions, variants, etc. With Flash, it's simply installing a single common plugin.
Yes, there is a lot of bad Flash code out there. But there is far more bad html & js. Furthermore, there are many things that html 5 can't quite do on a level that Flash currently can.
So it makes more sense to allow for a transition. Allow html 5 to become more refined.
To call for such a policy of cold turkey is just stupid. Why not call for the elimination of all html 4 code from the web. I mean, we have the new glorious html 5.
---
Let's look at the criticisms:
1. Flash is buggy well so are many html, ajaxsites. I find Facebook hugely buggy and constantly run into issues with ajax. In fact, I run into issues far more with html, js, ajax, etc than I do with Flash.
Score 0
2. Crashes a lot. I guess on Linux. Over the past several years I've had very few crashes of Flash on either my Windows or Mac PCs. Exception, for about 2-3 months there was a version of Flash Player 10 that was crashing with sad face all the time. Comparitively, if I exclude that one update period. Then Flash has crashed less for me than any browser I've used.
Score 0
3. Requires constant security updates. Seriously, what doesn't? Windows does. Firefox feels like it updates almost everytime I use my computer. iTunes, I swear has a new update and new terms of service every launch.
Score 0
4. Doesn't work on most mobile devices.
Score 1 ... but how much of that is corporate politics?
In conclusion...
Challenge: Before anyof you downgrade this post. I challenge you to go look at ActionScript 3 as a programming language. And compare it with JavaScript. Tell me which is a better programming language.
Flash's demise has far more to do with corporate politics, closed gardens, and restrictions on use than it does with the technology itself.
And OccupyFlash is clearly full of people on par with the stupidity of a lot of the ows crowd.
"Apple iPhones and iPads, have not been able to view media coded for Flash on their mobile gadgets" - Occupy Flash
Who's fault is that? Adobe's? No, it was a greedy Steve Jobs with a personal vendetta to kill a company that kept Apple alive for nigh a decade. But finally when Apple was around 5% market share decided to release it's next product version for Windows first. For this blatant sin Steve Jobs has waged a war against Adobe and sought it's death.
Why? Because if you could play all those Angry Birds and Zombie games in Flash. Why would anydeveloper needlessly fork over 30% of their profits to Apple.
And that folks, is the crux of the whole issue. Just as OWS is really just aiding the cause of those high up corrupt bankers (more government involvement and regulations just means less and bigger banks, with more bailouts). OccupyFlash is just make Apple leap for joy and secretly shout "SUCKERS!!!!!"
PS - Slashdot, sure would help if you gave an example of junk characters.
Perhaps that's how we fix this patent clusterfudge.
We eliminate the government's immunity.
How about the LORAN system. I was using hand held LORAN unit back in late 80's/early 90's.
Some could display nautical charts and points of interest. I think that's pretty close to prior art for this concept.
Mapquest does...
And has been doing so since before this patent was filed.
Then you NEVER used the Loran system.
I was in high school in 89 using handheld LORAN. Not only did it show you where you were. It showed you relevant nautical chart information and relevant objects.
This is why our IP system is now nothing but masculine bovine fecal material.
What is the good side?
A system that costs nearly hundreds of dollars for a preliminary patent and around $10,000 for an actual patent. Essentially, putting patents beyond the reach of the common Joe.
And on the other side, we have a legal system that makes it a fortune to pursue patents. Well beyond the means of a small company. And even during blatant theft, the little companies seldom come out with their due.
When Microsoft spent a year in negotiations and review of the ball-less optical mouse. Then dropped negotiations only to release their own version. The little company won in their lawsuit against Microsoft. Who was forced to pay $1 million. But likely made far more than that off of all the Microsoft optical mice devices they sold.
Or Sony, who in trying to enforce copyrights. Stole the code of a programmer. Apparently, copyrights are only for the big fish.
And that sir, is nearly an insult to every mess on the planet.
There are better options. But our current system has been bent to cater to mega-corporations. Sadly.
Easy...
They transmit it by reflecting back specific segments of the visual light spectrum.
OMG....your tiny brain thinks in such small dimensions. That you never even contemplated the transmission of light.
***
Yes....this is a stupid comment. But let's be honest. Almost EVERYTHING in IP law today is stupid.
Samsung Tablet banned because it's square, has a flat screen and somewhat resembles Apple's iPad. Which is also square, with a flat screen and oddly enough resembles Star Trek:TNG tablet pad.
Star Trek alone should have been enough to dismiss this case.
Hmm...
Where were all the liberals defending the free speech of Tea Party groups. Who largely, have been fighting for the exact same causes.
With two expections. They view .gov as an equal part of the problem. And aren't asking for entitlements. But Tea Party has been opposing the bank bailouts and Wall St crap for years. Where have all you OWS people been the past 4 years?
What role higher than our Constitution and the sacred rights outlined does a park exist for?
Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness. In that order. Using the park for issues related to Life & Liberty, comes before recreational (happiness) use IMHO.
Really...
And those were?
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And half those orgs are biased. I used to have some respect for FactCheck.org, but they've done out and out hit pieces on things for which solid evidence existed.