No, really: the fact that Lieberman won as an independent in Connecticut, Democratic control of the House is modest, and control of the Senate is down to the wire belies your assertion, sir.
Irrespective of the winner, the good news is that the will of the people has been peacefully expressed.
The Loyal Opposition was not given a sufficient mandate to, say, impeach the Bush outright, but merely prune it a bit.
Somebody on the left has got to be miffed at the 20k+ Green party voters. If they'd thrown their lot in with Webb, the conversation would be much closer to finished.
OTOH, it would be nice to have more choice in my voting experience system.
Well, the lobbyists and permanent committee staff write the laws; the elected congresscritters look at the resulting 1,200 page forest-killer and say, "Dude, have you got clue #1 what's in that piece of work?"
To which the reply is: "Hey, I won't read it if you don't. That's why we have staff."
Awful lot of power wielded by people whose names and ideology remain hidden...
It seems we should turn off the cell phone when not using it.
Nah, go the other direction: let's have every vacuous twit in North America calling every other one while driving, and then start cascading the accidents to the point that nothing moves.
This will trivialize the traffic analysis problem.
One man's insanity is another man's business opportunity.
Verily, it is far better to maintain the insanity, at a reasonable price, than to set about fixing it.
Not quite tracking the transition from "one who considers sacred oaths a serious matter" to "repressed puritanical mike foxtrot".
Call me retro, I guess.
Ah, yes: the silent 'r'. The misguided masses often still say "fuh-ree" speech, when they really mean "fee" speech.
We must either educate them better, or whisk them off to a battlefield.
Yeah, but if this move somehow spares the world another Bob, then it may be justified. Certainly, wedding themselves to intelligent design in the first place would be better, but this is/., and we don't go around telling people what to do with their pointing devices, now do we?
Now, now, your anonymousness: I'm as interested in your money as I am in your sexuality (which is to say, not at all).
The contentious issue is the documentation and reliability.
I have parted with my own money for hardware (a fat IDE drive) that developed read-write errors and locked my system hard under OpenBSD 3.9, yet worked flawlessly in a, shall we say "Magical Situation".
I want to pay you and your engineering team to produce your finest in a completely de-coupled fashion, by adhering to published, documented standards.
Short of that, to paraphrase the King of Swamp Castle, "we just bicker and argue over who mugged who."
indicator of a project doomed to failure by apathy.
Well, I don't think it's been advertised terribly well.
Two points are
The tax writeoff aspect needs to be emphasized. While we can all get a warm fuzzy in the midriff about the kids, it's that pleasure jolt in the wallet from getting mugged by the taxman that affects behavior.
The driver issue bears review. http://lwn.net/Articles/203562/#Comments explores some of the issues in better detail than anywhere else I've seen. Let's see a contribution bounty, after which some of the companies supporting the hardware cough up their precsioussss, precioussss "intellectual property".
Gates sits in the background, only the lower half of his face visible beneath the shadow of his hood.
Ballmer, in black plastic armor, cape, and phallic helmet, stands behind a chair.
Across the room stand Brin and Page. Ballmer: <schooop-hah>"And we would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids."<schooop-hah> Brin:"Please don't throw the chair at us, Mr. Ballmer". Ballmer: <schooop-hah>"You know I don't do cliches."<schooop-hah>
Your common sense point falls far beside the ultimate truth that
it is at least an order of magnitude easier to whine about something than
to undertake corrective action.;)
How so? It would certainly different if all vendors worked to published standards.
Certainly, if you're a vendor, the idea utterly sucks.
The question is whether the unfairness is evenly spread across vendor, market, and buyer.
"tear that end to end user experience apart" seems somewhat subjective.
?
Apple mainly sells OS X.
MicroSoft sells Office for the Mac.
This would seem a good example of what I'm trying to say: while a purist would say that the market should manage itself, the anti-competitive leverage of the OS/application duo, as eventually excreted by Redmond, is arguably not helping the consumer.
Punishment (but, then, the US seems to have lost its nerve for holding anyone accountable)
Staying in character
Maintaining the status quo. Since the US lacks the courage to minimize anti-competitive practices by requiring companies to operate in a single layer of the OSI model. (Such an idea may indeed suck, but it is at least enforceable).
Why would every state have a nuclear waste disposal facility. That seems... arbitrary. What's more, some states might not have the requisite geology. And the more such sites there are, the more vulnerable they are to terrorist attack.
First, this was just and example, one of magnitude to get attention. The reason for pursuing a seemingly arbitrary policy: uniformity.
The geology/security arguments are certainly important. My real point is that disposal facilities in every state are a serious commitment check. If states are going to bow out, fine, but let there be a very simple set of tradeoffs, so that the pain is evenly distributed.
I was totally unimpressed by one senator who killed a great project just because it would have been too near some personal property.
The next thing to get straight is that the leadership needs to set the example.
Start with the concept of every state having their own nuclear waste disposal facility, for example, and work from there.
Find out who is merely pandering to the meme, and who is serious about offering up treasure to address the issue.
All the same
We take our chances
Laughed at by time
Tricked by circumstances Plus a change Plus c'est la meme chose
The more that things change
The more they stay the same
Or, go the other direction, and sell more compilations, of artists that don't suck, along with material that is interesting to fans.
Oh, wait: that would be a quality over quantity argument.
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Yes, the fact that the "Michael Moore set" failed to prevail in Connecticut is among the signs that the Democrats fall short of a clear mandate.
Irrespective of the winner, the good news is that the will of the people has been peacefully expressed.
The Loyal Opposition was not given a sufficient mandate to, say, impeach the Bush outright, but merely prune it a bit.
Somebody on the left has got to be miffed at the 20k+ Green party voters. If they'd thrown their lot in with Webb, the conversation would be much closer to finished.
OTOH, it would be nice to have more choice in my voting experience system.
Well, the lobbyists and permanent committee staff write the laws; the elected congresscritters look at the resulting 1,200 page forest-killer and say,
"Dude, have you got clue #1 what's in that piece of work?"
To which the reply is: "Hey, I won't read it if you don't. That's why we have staff."
Awful lot of power wielded by people whose names and ideology remain hidden...
A macacaphonic chorus.
Nah, go the other direction: let's have every vacuous twit in North America calling every other one while driving, and then start cascading the accidents to the point that nothing moves.
This will trivialize the traffic analysis problem.
Aye, Moby Dick fans: swallow ye the whale, ere that Soviet Russian devil swallow you.
One man's insanity is another man's business opportunity.
Verily, it is far better to maintain the insanity, at a reasonable price, than to set about fixing it.
Not quite tracking the transition from "one who considers sacred oaths a serious matter" to "repressed puritanical mike foxtrot".
Call me retro, I guess.
Why, yes, to the tune of Zappa's "Keep it greasy (so it'll go down easy)"
Ah, yes: the silent 'r'. The misguided masses often still say "fuh-ree" speech, when they really mean "fee" speech.
We must either educate them better, or whisk them off to a battlefield.
One of the main reasons to like it is that the pressure at the top end of the market drives down costs for lesser but adequate parts.
Yeah, but if this move somehow spares the world another Bob, then it may be justified. Certainly, wedding themselves to intelligent design in the first place would be better, but this is /., and we don't go around telling people what to do with their pointing devices, now do we?
Now, now, your anonymousness: I'm as interested in your money as I am in your sexuality (which is to say, not at all).
The contentious issue is the documentation and reliability.
I have parted with my own money for hardware (a fat IDE drive) that developed read-write errors and locked my system hard under OpenBSD 3.9, yet worked flawlessly in a, shall we say "Magical Situation".
I want to pay you and your engineering team to produce your finest in a completely de-coupled fashion, by adhering to published, documented standards.
Short of that, to paraphrase the King of Swamp Castle, "we just bicker and argue over who mugged who."
Two points are
Gates sits in the background, only the lower half of his face visible beneath the shadow of his hood.
Ballmer, in black plastic armor, cape, and phallic helmet, stands behind a chair.
Across the room stand Brin and Page.
Ballmer: <schooop-hah>"And we would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids."<schooop-hah>
Brin:"Please don't throw the chair at us, Mr. Ballmer".
Ballmer: <schooop-hah>"You know I don't do cliches."<schooop-hah>
Your common sense point falls far beside the ultimate truth that ;)
it is at least an order of magnitude easier to whine about something than
to undertake corrective action.
How so? It would certainly different if all vendors worked to published standards.
Certainly, if you're a vendor, the idea utterly sucks.
The question is whether the unfairness is evenly spread across vendor, market, and buyer.
"tear that end to end user experience apart" seems somewhat subjective.
?
Apple mainly sells OS X.
MicroSoft sells Office for the Mac.
This would seem a good example of what I'm trying to say: while a purist would say that the market should manage itself, the anti-competitive leverage of the OS/application duo, as eventually excreted by Redmond, is arguably not helping the consumer.
These NASCAR dads, playing the race card...
The geology/security arguments are certainly important. My real point is that disposal facilities in every state are a serious commitment check. If states are going to bow out, fine, but let there be a very simple set of tradeoffs, so that the pain is evenly distributed.
I was totally unimpressed by one senator who killed a great project just because it would have been too near some personal property.
The next thing to get straight is that the leadership needs to set the example.
Start with the concept of every state having their own nuclear waste disposal facility, for example, and work from there.
Find out who is merely pandering to the meme, and who is serious about offering up treasure to address the issue.
All the same
We take our chances
Laughed at by time
Tricked by circumstances
Plus a change
Plus c'est la meme chose
The more that things change
The more they stay the same
Or, go the other direction, and sell more compilations, of artists that don't suck, along with material that is interesting to fans.
Oh, wait: that would be a quality over quantity argument.