I don't think the vast majority of people in the market for a car need to do 70mph for 300 miles- or 0 to 250 in 4.5 hours on anything close to a regular basis.
If you're regulary having to travel 250 miles- sorry... I'm glad my commute is only 20 miles a day.
The Teslas are expensive for what they give you- and electiric cars do have a huge curve to climb before they match diesel or petrol; however, they would fill the need for the vast majority of households (if the vast majority of households had vast quantites of cash).
If twice a year you go across a few states to see Grandma- well... can't do that in your Tesla- so either rent a car (if you're paying this much for a car- what's another $25 twice a year) or wait until they have fast-charge stations.;)
I would have thought Linux users would be happy if MS borrowed their ideas- it makes the "mainstream" operating system more like the one they have chosen to use for themselves.
Surely MS copying Linux can only be a good thing? No?
I've heard MS is going to even start using a penguin as their logo too.;)
OK- not verbatim; but it shows Washington himself expressing that the nation was not founded as a Christian nation- so why 200 years later people are trying to attest that it was is baffling.
Regardless of how it was translated (most likely a translator who didn't agree with that one statement, or an oversight)- that was what was written and endorsed. It may not have been in the second treaty of tripoli - but that doesn't matter. O'Bam didn't reannounce the freedom of slaves at his state of the union address- doesn't change what happened in the past. They are still free.
Washington said the country is not Christian- that statement isn't taken out of context. Congress endorsed what he wrote.
The glorifying of Guy Fawlkes for his attempt to blow up parliment? What?
V for Vendetta is a stupid movie.
The author made a parable about the modern day embedded political symbolism and a social narrative. He then made that story popular amongst a demographic whom if you asked "would you like to read a parable about the politico-socio struggle facing our times?" would say "hell no".
I say- he took his ideas and ideals- expressed them in a way that was understandable to his target demographic- and convinced a large number of peoples that his interpretation of politics and society was correct.
I would say he's a near-genius.
Yeah, the movie was kinda boring- I don't really think Guido is the best role-model, but hey- he made it work.
It is like Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote what were, uncouth plays that were targeted to a low-brow audience and which many in the aristorcracy disliked.
Today old William is considered the greatest writer of the English language by many high brow linguists.
Why? He took ideas that withstood time and were relevant to people of all classes across the ages. Mr. Moore is no Shakespeare- but he has certainly made an achievement here- even if the movie version was kinda dull.
That could be seen as radicalism for the time. Most of the population were non-catholic- so trying to overthrow the mainstream religion to put a Catholic on the throne was sort-a radical for the day.
Well... we already know the V mask version of Guido Fawkes and where it came from... but what about the Lulz characters?
Both LulzSec and that new one- whats it called something "S" Sec- the one that got FoxConn recently use a snobby looking character with a top-hat. The two logos are different- but there are obvious similarities... the black tophat for one.
The only thing I can think of is "black hat"- although they're not really black hat hackers... Personally, I think they should be called "Red Hat" because they don't fit the white hat or grey hat definitions either. Red is the symbol for revolution and activism.
Nonetheless- I thought the colour hat referred to Westerns- you know the cowboy in white was the good guy- the guy in black was the bad guy. No?
Anyhow- back on subject- what is the origin of that guy- is it just a coincidence the new groups logo looks similar to Lulzsecs logo?
I always vote third party out of principal. Even if I don't agree with what they say. Even if I know they won't win. The US voters have got into a mindset that there are only two parties.
My vote (and yours, anyones) for a third party is not a wasted vote- it is a vote towards establishing the legitimacy of ANY viewpoint- not just two.
The more people vote 3rd party- the more people will see it as a legitimate stance- which hopefully one day will lead to more than two parties.
I'm actually a huge fan of sortition- or an election/sortition hybrid- I believe that will truly give government the full-spectrum of political beliefs of the country- something that isn't represented in our two-party system.
I also am opposed to political party being listed on the ballot- or the option to vote "straight party ticket". We are electing people- not parties. The party should not show up on the ballot- nothing in our constitution says we are electing parties or that parties should be listed on the ballot. This creates an unfair environment and an unlevel playing field.
If you don't know what party someone belongs to- do you really know enough to be voting for them?
Don't believe in a creator? That's fine, but understand this country was founded by Religous people and we will always be fighting to govern it, because we know our rights are provided by our Creator.
Standard response from those wanting to take away civil liberties and put their particular view of god on the throne.
Washington quote "The United States of America is not a Christian nation". Jefferson- most certainly an atheist. Most of the others- Deists, or unitarian (and no- that doesn't mean what it means now).
What is most certain is that if ANY of the creators were Christian in the modern sense of the word- they were not baptists- or belong to any of those other freedom-hating churches.
Ironically, I probably would never view the video because the story doesn't interest me. However knowing it is an advert now- I'm kind of curios what it is like.
Would never buy the product- have zero interest in hoodies, but I am now curious about the ad.
Communist nations have done that, yes. - and to be honest, I can't think of any communist nation that hasn't been responsible for one attrocity or another.
That said, and I'm not defending communism, not all communists are bad people- they just have a bad taste in political ideology. Plenty of democracies have done horrendous things.
I guess my point is, it seems undemocratic to persecute people of one political belief system, no matter how flawed- BEFORE they do, or conspire to do anything wrong.
If I were to be in favour of a sortition based government (which I am actually) no-one would try to throw me out of the country. If I were in favour of the US adopting Britney Spears as a constitutional monarch (don't worry I'm not that crazy) no one would throw me out the country. I could even run on one of those platforms for a government position. (just not for President).
If someone happens to believe in communism- even if they promote it peacefully- that's not criminal (or shouldn't be)- it should just be a bad opinion.
I'm baffled by America's continuing war on stamping out communists.
Sure, this is a democracy, we want to stay a democracy. We had enemies who were communists; however, the witch hunt against communism, which is still going on to a lesser degree is baffling.
When I applied for my green card, and later my citizenship (as recent as 2 years ago)- I had to fill in a form saying I hadn't overthrown any governments, wasn't a communist, etc, etc, etc.... and no, I'm not a communist- although I joined a joke "communist party" in university that parodied the Republican and democrat clubs (I'm actually very centrist)- surprise they didn't find that and block my citizenship...:)
To me it seems to be "undemocratic" to try and stamp out an individual party or belief like that. Sure- if they try to over-throw the country- or do terrorist acts- or represent a foreign nation- but to try to keep people out because of their belief. Obviously the made a point- even as late as the 80's to make sure Jobs wasn't a commie... this was after the worst of the cold war- and after McCarthyism was en vogue.
Even MLK was demonized by the FBI- they spread false rumours about him trying to discredit him because he had communist friends and they FBI was worried he too might be a communist trying to spread communism.
I dunno- but even as someone who is opposed to communism - I find the attack on communism by the government to be kinda creepy- it feels as if some rights are being violated somehow. If I did want to be a commie- should I not be allowed to? Should I not be allowed to have a political opinion that is not main stream? What if a Republican government later decides to attack and out law the green party, or the democrats?
Am I the only one who finds this wrong? I know we're supposed to hate the commies- but we're also supposed to let people believe whatever they want and only arrest them if the commit a crime or conspire to do so.
OK... thank you- sorry, I guess I'm a square and not really up to speed on my drug terms; but, I thought they were the same thing (or variants thereof). Decided it would not be prudent to google the terms to find out for sure.
I suspect 90% of his generation living in California had similar exposure.
It probably isn't the "best" metric to measure schools by; however, I would at least expect a rough correlation between SAT scores and how good a school is (with some exceptions). There was no correlation between SAT and spending that I saw.
(again this was 10 years ago- so whether things have changed I don't know- 10 years is a couple of "generations" of students passing through a specific school and admittedly, I don't even recall who published the study, politically motivated, or how acurate it was- this is from the back pages of my memory).
Most people calling a shrink just need someone to listen to them:
I think I'm going to start up a new business; Pyschic Psychiatrist.
You don't need to come in for a visit. You don't need to call me using VOIP. You don't even need to know you have a problem. You don't need to know I'm treating you. I'll just listen to your troubles from afar by reading your brain and send you a bill in the mail.
Just so you know- I've read the brains of everyone on slashdot- you're all screwed up the head- but I've listend to your problems.
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I don't think the vast majority of people in the market for a car need to do 70mph for 300 miles- or 0 to 250 in 4.5 hours on anything close to a regular basis.
If you're regulary having to travel 250 miles- sorry... I'm glad my commute is only 20 miles a day.
The Teslas are expensive for what they give you- and electiric cars do have a huge curve to climb before they match diesel or petrol; however, they would fill the need for the vast majority of households (if the vast majority of households had vast quantites of cash).
If twice a year you go across a few states to see Grandma- well... can't do that in your Tesla- so either rent a car (if you're paying this much for a car- what's another $25 twice a year) or wait until they have fast-charge stations. ;)
I would have thought Linux users would be happy if MS borrowed their ideas- it makes the "mainstream" operating system more like the one they have chosen to use for themselves.
Surely MS copying Linux can only be a good thing? No?
I've heard MS is going to even start using a penguin as their logo too. ;)
OK- not verbatim; but it shows Washington himself expressing that the nation was not founded as a Christian nation- so why 200 years later people are trying to attest that it was is baffling.
Regardless of how it was translated (most likely a translator who didn't agree with that one statement, or an oversight)- that was what was written and endorsed. It may not have been in the second treaty of tripoli - but that doesn't matter. O'Bam didn't reannounce the freedom of slaves at his state of the union address- doesn't change what happened in the past. They are still free.
Washington said the country is not Christian- that statement isn't taken out of context. Congress endorsed what he wrote.
I don't see any controversy there.
The glorifying of Guy Fawlkes for his attempt to blow up parliment? What?
V for Vendetta is a stupid movie.
The author made a parable about the modern day embedded political symbolism and a social narrative. He then made that story popular amongst a demographic whom if you asked "would you like to read a parable about the politico-socio struggle facing our times?" would say "hell no".
I say- he took his ideas and ideals- expressed them in a way that was understandable to his target demographic- and convinced a large number of peoples that his interpretation of politics and society was correct.
I would say he's a near-genius.
Yeah, the movie was kinda boring- I don't really think Guido is the best role-model, but hey- he made it work.
It is like Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote what were, uncouth plays that were targeted to a low-brow audience and which many in the aristorcracy disliked.
Today old William is considered the greatest writer of the English language by many high brow linguists.
Why? He took ideas that withstood time and were relevant to people of all classes across the ages. Mr. Moore is no Shakespeare- but he has certainly made an achievement here- even if the movie version was kinda dull.
That could be seen as radicalism for the time. Most of the population were non-catholic- so trying to overthrow the mainstream religion to put a Catholic on the throne was sort-a radical for the day.
Well... we already know the V mask version of Guido Fawkes and where it came from... but what about the Lulz characters?
Both LulzSec and that new one- whats it called something "S" Sec- the one that got FoxConn recently use a snobby looking character with a top-hat. The two logos are different- but there are obvious similarities... the black tophat for one.
The only thing I can think of is "black hat"- although they're not really black hat hackers... Personally, I think they should be called "Red Hat" because they don't fit the white hat or grey hat definitions either. Red is the symbol for revolution and activism.
Nonetheless- I thought the colour hat referred to Westerns- you know the cowboy in white was the good guy- the guy in black was the bad guy. No?
Anyhow- back on subject- what is the origin of that guy- is it just a coincidence the new groups logo looks similar to Lulzsecs logo?
Absolutely agree 100%.
I always vote third party out of principal. Even if I don't agree with what they say. Even if I know they won't win. The US voters have got into a mindset that there are only two parties.
My vote (and yours, anyones) for a third party is not a wasted vote- it is a vote towards establishing the legitimacy of ANY viewpoint- not just two.
The more people vote 3rd party- the more people will see it as a legitimate stance- which hopefully one day will lead to more than two parties.
I'm actually a huge fan of sortition- or an election/sortition hybrid- I believe that will truly give government the full-spectrum of political beliefs of the country- something that isn't represented in our two-party system.
I also am opposed to political party being listed on the ballot- or the option to vote "straight party ticket". We are electing people- not parties. The party should not show up on the ballot- nothing in our constitution says we are electing parties or that parties should be listed on the ballot. This creates an unfair environment and an unlevel playing field.
If you don't know what party someone belongs to- do you really know enough to be voting for them?
Don't believe in a creator? That's fine, but understand this country was founded by Religous people and we will always be fighting to govern it, because we know our rights are provided by our Creator.
Standard response from those wanting to take away civil liberties and put their particular view of god on the throne.
Washington quote "The United States of America is not a Christian nation". Jefferson- most certainly an atheist. Most of the others- Deists, or unitarian (and no- that doesn't mean what it means now).
What is most certain is that if ANY of the creators were Christian in the modern sense of the word- they were not baptists- or belong to any of those other freedom-hating churches.
Cue that kids from the Simpsons laughing... Point at Eolas laughing:
Ha Haa!
I won't do Tiger Direct anymore because they asked for my SSN. WHY?1?! Why on earth does Tiger Direct need my SSN?
I'm just Amazon or NewEgg now.
It's sad- even "Buy More" got sold to Subway! :(
Ironically, I probably would never view the video because the story doesn't interest me. However knowing it is an advert now- I'm kind of curios what it is like.
Would never buy the product- have zero interest in hoodies, but I am now curious about the ad.
So if shocking your brain makes your brain get bigger... Does it work if I submit other parts of my body to electric shocks?
Communist nations have done that, yes. - and to be honest, I can't think of any communist nation that hasn't been responsible for one attrocity or another.
That said, and I'm not defending communism, not all communists are bad people- they just have a bad taste in political ideology. Plenty of democracies have done horrendous things.
I guess my point is, it seems undemocratic to persecute people of one political belief system, no matter how flawed- BEFORE they do, or conspire to do anything wrong.
If I were to be in favour of a sortition based government (which I am actually) no-one would try to throw me out of the country. If I were in favour of the US adopting Britney Spears as a constitutional monarch (don't worry I'm not that crazy) no one would throw me out the country. I could even run on one of those platforms for a government position. (just not for President).
If someone happens to believe in communism- even if they promote it peacefully- that's not criminal (or shouldn't be)- it should just be a bad opinion.
Yeah... and google will know what you're doing during the time the tracking is turned off too! We all will.
Google would show good humour if "marshmallow fluff" were the name of the next Android OS release.
Sorry, I trust google more than some random person on the web. How do you know you're not wrong about your age and gender?
I think you should accept the fact that you're not what you think you are.
That's less than one beer every 15 days for having google spy on you.
Install it on the library computer.
You're looking at this wrong; it's not that privacy is valued too cheaply- it's that Marshmallow fluff 6-packs are valued too highly.
I'm baffled by America's continuing war on stamping out communists.
Sure, this is a democracy, we want to stay a democracy. We had enemies who were communists; however, the witch hunt against communism, which is still going on to a lesser degree is baffling.
When I applied for my green card, and later my citizenship (as recent as 2 years ago)- I had to fill in a form saying I hadn't overthrown any governments, wasn't a communist, etc, etc, etc. ... and no, I'm not a communist- although I joined a joke "communist party" in university that parodied the Republican and democrat clubs (I'm actually very centrist)- surprise they didn't find that and block my citizenship... :)
To me it seems to be "undemocratic" to try and stamp out an individual party or belief like that. Sure- if they try to over-throw the country- or do terrorist acts- or represent a foreign nation- but to try to keep people out because of their belief. Obviously the made a point- even as late as the 80's to make sure Jobs wasn't a commie... this was after the worst of the cold war- and after McCarthyism was en vogue.
Even MLK was demonized by the FBI- they spread false rumours about him trying to discredit him because he had communist friends and they FBI was worried he too might be a communist trying to spread communism.
I dunno- but even as someone who is opposed to communism - I find the attack on communism by the government to be kinda creepy- it feels as if some rights are being violated somehow. If I did want to be a commie- should I not be allowed to? Should I not be allowed to have a political opinion that is not main stream? What if a Republican government later decides to attack and out law the green party, or the democrats?
Am I the only one who finds this wrong? I know we're supposed to hate the commies- but we're also supposed to let people believe whatever they want and only arrest them if the commit a crime or conspire to do so.
They have the most influence over iPads.
OK... thank you- sorry, I guess I'm a square and not really up to speed on my drug terms; but, I thought they were the same thing (or variants thereof). Decided it would not be prudent to google the terms to find out for sure.
I suspect 90% of his generation living in California had similar exposure.
It probably isn't the "best" metric to measure schools by; however, I would at least expect a rough correlation between SAT scores and how good a school is (with some exceptions). There was no correlation between SAT and spending that I saw.
(again this was 10 years ago- so whether things have changed I don't know- 10 years is a couple of "generations" of students passing through a specific school and admittedly, I don't even recall who published the study, politically motivated, or how acurate it was- this is from the back pages of my memory).
Most people calling a shrink just need someone to listen to them:
I think I'm going to start up a new business; Pyschic Psychiatrist.
You don't need to come in for a visit. You don't need to call me using VOIP. You don't even need to know you have a problem. You don't need to know I'm treating you. I'll just listen to your troubles from afar by reading your brain and send you a bill in the mail.
Just so you know- I've read the brains of everyone on slashdot- you're all screwed up the head- but I've listend to your problems.
Please send $5,000 each payable to Oswald McWeany, PO BOX 13X, Psychicville, MA