and their "our way or the highway" mentality. Apple could be screwing themselves in the long run for some short term profitability.
I have an iPod which I think is a very good machine and the iTMS has the best licensing deal available.
However, Apple is going to eventually have to share with others as these upstarts are not going to go away. Right now they are trying to be the hardware and "songware" provider. They tried that in the 80s with their PCs and had disastorous results. They will be headed for a repeat. All it will take is for the.WMA format to get traction, just like Windows of old.
Look into the history of this company. It was created by Chris Tulamello who formally worked for AE. Chris is also the sole member of Tulga games. They did not even have a web presences until days after the announcement.
Chris Tulamello and Steve Favorito are members of a corporation, 67TH AVENUE HOLDINGS, incorporated on 6/09/2004
David Bowman, Steve Favorito, and Rick Simmons are members of a corporation, ARIZONA ONLINE GAMES, incorporated on 6/10/2004.
All of this points to a shell game. AE will be liqudated as well all of its unsecured outstanding debt. The "so called" secured investors will agree to this transfer, which by the way keeps David Bowman and crew intact and in charge of Horizons", because it keeps them from losing their investment. The intellectual property is protected!
Another way to look at it. They used other companies to finance their way to a low population but stable income model. The people getting the short end are the companies which provide services. Technically legal but totally unethical. I really don't know what is worse, the actions of these guys or the fanbois of the game cheering them on, justifying anything for their selfish enjoyment.
A copy of their current bankruptcy documents is available here for the time being (zipped PDF assembled by someone else)
Amazing I did not see any outcries here about the the concerts which are decidely pro-Kerry and funded/sponsored by MoveOn. F/911 is treated as a documentary but many know the distortions it presents and how laughable the film is. Yet where was the outcry here over the idea of running it on TV before the election?
The key issue here is this, this is a freedom of speech issue. We have the DNC and 18 Democratic Senators attempting to get the FCC to block it. Since when is ANY SPEECH to be blocked by the Federal government? We should ALL be up in arms over this.
Too many here think the Campaign Reform bill is a good thing as long as it applies to their side and not another. I say its bad all around. I say its far worse travesty we actually may see the FCC shut down this broadcast because IT MIGHT INFLUENCE AN ELECTION.
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK FREEDOM OF SPEECH MEANS?
It MEANS we can have Michael Moore run his movie THE DAY OF THE ELECTION if he so chooses and anyone is willing. I would applaud it.
But NO.... Too many people are so blinded by their hatred they are willing to ditch the most important rights we still "barely" have.
I am so tired of idiots who harp on the issue of corporate taxes. Just like my brother in laws small business and my cousins small business there are no taxes paid by corporations.
It all comes out of the end consumers pocket. That tax my relatives pay for their business? Tacked on to their normal bill disguised as normal business cost.
Guess what, big corporations do that too. That new car you want that cost 25K? Hate to tell you, but all the corporate tax the automotive company paid is EMBEDDED in each car they sell.
So before getting on some stupid soapbox crying how big corporations are not paying their fair share realize just who pays that fair share.
Money for paying taxes is not something that corporations find coming out of thin air, it only comes from one source, their custoemers.
Nader is just an idiot, he like other politicians relies on the general ignorance of the American public. What sounds good is not necessarily true. Just like "evil corporations" paying taxes sounds good it doesn't mean it is.
EMBEDDED taxes. The easiest way to lull ignorant people into paying even MORE of their income to the ever wastes government.
They primarily appeal to late twenty something and beyond women, at least in my experience down here in Atlanta. Throw in children and the appeal skyrockets. They are portrayed as safer than cars and their truck like looks appeal to those seeking something rugged.
Saner people gravitate towards vans but the prices on SUVs are appealing. For 20K you can get more perceived safety, the security by being above everyone else, and the some practical cargo space. Very hard to beat when many cars in that price range are far smaller and fragile looking. Example, Chevy Equinox, 20k. Looks a lot more imposing than the car counterparts priced the same.
America, Japan, and Europe all have the knowledge of how to build safe cars and they all do build them. However local preferences are what must be catered to.
Don't get me wrong, I would not mind having one to toy with but as for I use my PC for the MAC will not suffice.
That being said.
At 1299 I can buy the lowest cost iMac. A similar PC system, discounting the nice packaging but keeping a similar sized LCD, will set me back 999 from DELL. It is the same or cheaper from some other vendors. For the very basics that most users do that price and "Windows familarity" will be all that is needed to keep people from looking at the iMac. Throw in the fact that your standard department store doesn't carrry Mac or anything related and the potential drops furhter.
There are laptops cheaper than both that satisfy the needs of many people. Then there are the bottom end PCs that put the masses onto the net and what other progression in buying do you expect them to take? When they out grow their 499 PC they probably will end up with yet another 499 PC!
The geek side of me says, The iMac combined with OSX is better than WinXP. The geek side in me says , SO FRICKING WHAT! I want to play game X now! The gaming geek isn't going to budge. The FPS gaming geek wouldn't even have a iMac pass the laugh test.
Yes MAC has an OS that finally appeals to some of us. The trouble is it is still too expensive, too hard to find software for, and too hard to get general support for if your not part of the culture of Apple or geek.
What I would like to see is a bottom end 4 piece (case, monitor, keyboard, mouse) Mac computer. It would feature OSX, at most a 15" LCD, a 1.4 or slower G5 (make them all one speed and don't publish the number), 256mb ram expandable to 512/768 and about 40gb of disk with a CDRW. Have it all for around 699 or so. I don't know if Apple can reach this low or wants too? They seem to want to maintain an air of exlusivity yet at the same time want more people to pay attention to them.
My only worry is that Apple will steer to far away from their PC side and it will wither. I like the fact that Jobs has transformed Apple so that it is not so vulnerable to one market but I hope he doesn't take it to far away from what it was.
Cell phones take a lot of abuse and I doubt current HDDs can take it. Flash may be an alternative as most songs probably aren't going to change. Getting their cost to storage ratio down is the key.
One major issue remains. Battery life. How to overcome the battery life issue when you combine all those features? One company recently dropped their "do all phone" because of battery life. Now to toss a HDD in there?
I would lean towards streaming music to a cell phone before throwing a HDD into one.
Just as having someone "Monitor" the elections. The Democrat party is attempting to setup escape routes should the election be close and they are on the losing end. They are implying that any close election they lose is fradulent. They are even go so far as saying any election they don't win is fraudulent.
Combined with the ever famous use of the race card (Kerry's little speech recently promising that they will NOT allow millions of African Americans from being "disenfranchised" AGAIN") it only shows how low the political parties are willing to go.
If you live in a battleground state I fully expect you to see more local evidence of "election protetection" squads and such. Nothing could be farther from the truth. This is a form of intimidation. It also is an insult to the many public election officials who do a great and THANKLESS job. Remember, 19 out of 20 counties in Florida with voting issues were adminstered by Democrats and the last by an independant. How would you feel if your party was making you out to be a buffoon?
There is just too much money in politics. Political parties are the worst incarnation of a corporation ever seen. Worse they are funded by our money.
I wonder if there will ever be an election where 10% of the House turns over.
They are a great idea but you don't seem them in mass use because they are expensive to produce and fade. The fade rate is apparently high enough that they cannot be used in monitors.
The inner city schools are not substandard because of LACK OF MONEY. Most of these schools receive higher dollar amounts per students than surrounding schools and still do poorly.
Why? Simple. Bureaucratic abuse. The inner city schools are run by politics and croynism. Atlanta city schools are a perfect example. They have long been a place for corrupt mayors and city officials to put family members into jobs they had no business having. Just like they abuse the airport here.
How are they able to get away with this? Simple, no accountability. As soon as you raise the issue they scream racism and proceed to belittle anyone bringing along facts.
E-Rate was highly abused in Georgia by companies connected to the same politicians who filled the administrative sections.
Crime pays if your in the Government. Students are secondary to city schools, hell they may even be lower than 2nd.
If you are maintaining online friends over real ones then I would call it insecurity rather than living alone. I have seen this justification before, but it always ends up being a delusion. See, it is far easier to be someone other than yourself when you don't have to meet the other person face to face.
That leads to all sorts of "justifications" as the emotional needs are VERY powerful. The only people who truly live alone are rare and defintely don't tread forums such as this. Consider forums like/. to be the equivalent of some people's MMORPG addictions.
I know one who lost his because of his obsession with a game. Putting more hours into it than a real time job. Yet, another who knows the first is headed down the same path.
The games do provide an easy means of feeling as if you have accomplished something. Apparently that is a real danger to some people out there. To find satisfaction is accomplishing something with no real inherent value over actually being successful in life.
I had a period of where I worked dead end jobs but I never let games take over my reality. I have played MMORPGs to the point of addiction but real world responsibilities always won out, ALWAYS.
People like to pretend it is just kids who get addicted to games but there are many 30 year old, 40 year old, and beyond who are just as addicited if not worse.
Who is to blame? No one but the people suffering from it. Granted in the media we constantly see politicians and others tell people how its not their fault and how they deserve everything but that doesn't excuse it in the long run.
It probably does explain the way some people vote, it isn't hard to see what they will vote for when everything isn't their fault and they escape into fantasy worlds which are superficial and far easier to succeed in than life.
Worse are some of those who do vote...
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People who cannot name their own Senators or Representatives...
We harp on not having enough people voting but we ignore the bigger problem of having people vote who don't know the issues let alone the players.
It is kind of amusing you claim that Bush cannot run on his record, which he is doing, yet Kerry refuses to run on his record in the Senate. Why is that?
Fact is that Kerry faces a party where a good number of his people support the war and then are balanced out by many who oppose it. He can't please both meaning he is bound to lose out somewhere. Where you have a party powered by anti-religous bigots colliding with many ethnic groups who base most of their values in religion. No, Kerry has more work cut out from him. Assembling groups on the idea of "Anyone but Bush" doesn't get you to the finish and isn't something to be proud of. Of course he could ditch his integrity and be like Carter and accept victory at any cost (taking a Nobel prize when it was clear it was given to somehow insult Bush)
The key thing to remember is how one sided the press is in general and slashdot is great evidence of this. The whole politics section seems to revolve around negative Bush stories, negative modding of anyone expressing pro-Bush ideals, and then topped off with stories of nearly zero value like this one.
If you looked closely at the newspaper which claimed to be backing Kerry you would quickly realize this isn't something you want to brag about. The found was a anti-Baptist Zealot who not only viruently attacked religon but he also showed quite a bit of racism when he referenced blacks.
Your insightful mod points only show off the nearly blind liberal hate that infests/.
I won't be voting for Bush either, but at least I am not delusional nor filled with hate as many here are.
Many more can afford this. Considering what some people have put into weddings 10k won't be that bad of a fix. Also, factor in what it would cost for 2 or 3 good cruises and you can pay for this trip very easily.
This is the low road. Putting forth all sorts of tinfoil-hat claims just in case it does happen or something even distantly related happens.
It is nothing more advanced than the games we played on the playgrounds. It is childish and shows the levels the campaigns will stoop too.
Far worse than the October surprises are the claims that African Americans will be denied the right to vote by the millions, just as they were before!
Coming in October we should see claims that Senior Citizens will have their medicare and Social Security taken away, that blacks will be hounded by yahoos driving pickups in Texas, and that a certain Chief Executive eats babies.
Get real people.
I would be all for Osama or his Lts. being caught before the election. I don't care WHEN they are caught or killed, just that it happens.
To claim that it only happens because of an election is just to show how immature one side is compared to the other. (and they both STINK)
The General Assembly is a joke. Look at most of its committees. Either chaired by the very people they are need to investigate or totally impotent because they spend their entire time bashing Israel?
Jump over to the Security Council where VETO power protects the big 5 from any world responsibility or rebuke.
This same organization cannot even stop obvious cases of genocide because they take too damn long to act. They always want to review the issue, then sanction the bad guy, and only act after the oppressed party is reduced to little more than a handful. Nearly all of election monitoring they have provided was ripe with fraud as they will not put their monitors into situations where they could be killed, in other words - if you promise not to harm our UN people we will say your election was fair.
HELL NO! The Internet will be what reveals the UN for the failure it has become. It will fully reveal all the machinations of an organization taken over by 3rd world dictorship led countries whose only agenda is to oppress their own people and blame Israel.
Gee, lets see how unoriginal we can get. While I applauded Cedar Point for their interpetation of a "RollerCoaster" I don't think the term fits these beasts.
To me a Rollercoaster involves more than going up one incline, no matter how tall. It is all about the flow of the machine. Some wild machines are just a royal pain to ride as they thrash or feel disjointed from seemingly "just thrown in" hills and curves.
The Great American Scream machine in Six Flags over Georgia is representative of a classic rollercoaster. CedarPoint has many REAL roller coasters. These new things remind me of railed free fall machines. Boring...
One thing that worries me, as a motorcycle rider, is where do we figure in? Are we lost in a world where a few seem hell bent on control at any cost?
Granted riding on the slab isn't my ideal way of point A to point B but I have to question, just how many roads will I lose access to if "controlled" becomes the norm? (slab = interstate)
I can deal with items like EZ-PASS and the like. I already have access to HOV lanes, regardless of the logic of it. I am just curious where bikes fit in.
Granted they had to throw in the requisite George Bush jab, who by the way wasn't President when the Senate rejected the Kyoto treaty 98-0. No President is going to get past that majority.
The key here is money. Russia has something they can sell. They need money and what better way to obtain it?
Which brings up the point, whats the use of a treaty if you can just buy yourself a pass? What use is a treaty that excepts certain countries from the requirements?
Also, sea level rise is how much in the last half century?.7 of an inch? Glaciers? Ignoring the issue that some of them were bigger in times where the planet was hotter?
When the science behind Kyoto gets real proof then come back with the treaty. what we have is an anti-industrialist agenda which convienent opts out some of the upcoming bigger polluters.
Remember they said CONCURRENT numbers. So 10k is actually pretty good. There are many games with less than 10K online at any one time and some of those have been around for a while.
I do think that comparing similar games would have been better.
The problem is in the Congress. The Presidential elections are probably the only elections at the Federal level that the public has ANY chance to truly affect.
House of Representatives? Not really. A large number run unopposed, nearly 3/4s win their district by 60%+, and in 2002 only 4 of them lost their seats!
The Senate is nearly as bad. I don't have the statistics at hand (being at work) but the turnover in the Senate is near the House levels and worse the parties are not above using shennagins to protect seats.
(on the previous post, NY and CA do not have wildy different political profiles, especially when you factor in the abundant influences of their cities - which is what the article author is aiming for - giving population centers more influence)
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Anyone know where to find it? My HOA is one of these types, no political signs whatsover...
Would love to beat them over their heads with a real law... but finding it on the net is isn't simple
and their "our way or the highway" mentality. Apple could be screwing themselves in the long run for some short term profitability.
.WMA format to get traction, just like Windows of old.
I have an iPod which I think is a very good machine and the iTMS has the best licensing deal available.
However, Apple is going to eventually have to share with others as these upstarts are not going to go away. Right now they are trying to be the hardware and "songware" provider. They tried that in the 80s with their PCs and had disastorous results. They will be headed for a repeat. All it will take is for the
Look into the history of this company. It was created by Chris Tulamello who formally worked for AE. Chris is also the sole member of Tulga games. They did not even have a web presences until days after the announcement.
Chris Tulamello and Steve Favorito are members of a corporation, 67TH AVENUE HOLDINGS, incorporated on 6/09/2004
David Bowman, Steve Favorito, and Rick Simmons are members of a corporation, ARIZONA ONLINE GAMES, incorporated on 6/10/2004.
All of this points to a shell game. AE will be liqudated as well all of its unsecured outstanding debt. The "so called" secured investors will agree to this transfer, which by the way keeps David Bowman and crew intact and in charge of Horizons", because it keeps them from losing their investment. The intellectual property is protected!
Another way to look at it. They used other companies to finance their way to a low population but stable income model. The people getting the short end are the companies which provide services. Technically legal but totally unethical. I really don't know what is worse, the actions of these guys or the fanbois of the game cheering them on, justifying anything for their selfish enjoyment.
A copy of their current bankruptcy documents is available here for the time being (zipped PDF assembled by someone else)
http://www.archonon.com/artifact.zip
5mb, mirror if you would.
Amazing I did not see any outcries here about the the concerts which are decidely pro-Kerry and funded/sponsored by MoveOn. F/911 is treated as a documentary but many know the distortions it presents and how laughable the film is. Yet where was the outcry here over the idea of running it on TV before the election?
The key issue here is this, this is a freedom of speech issue. We have the DNC and 18 Democratic Senators attempting to get the FCC to block it. Since when is ANY SPEECH to be blocked by the Federal government? We should ALL be up in arms over this.
Too many here think the Campaign Reform bill is a good thing as long as it applies to their side and not another. I say its bad all around. I say its far worse travesty we actually may see the FCC shut down this broadcast because IT MIGHT INFLUENCE AN ELECTION.
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK FREEDOM OF SPEECH MEANS?
It MEANS we can have Michael Moore run his movie THE DAY OF THE ELECTION if he so chooses and anyone is willing. I would applaud it.
But NO.... Too many people are so blinded by their hatred they are willing to ditch the most important rights we still "barely" have.
Freedom of speech must never be surrendered.
I am so tired of idiots who harp on the issue of corporate taxes. Just like my brother in laws small business and my cousins small business there are no taxes paid by corporations.
It all comes out of the end consumers pocket. That tax my relatives pay for their business? Tacked on to their normal bill disguised as normal business cost.
Guess what, big corporations do that too. That new car you want that cost 25K? Hate to tell you, but all the corporate tax the automotive company paid is EMBEDDED in each car they sell.
So before getting on some stupid soapbox crying how big corporations are not paying their fair share realize just who pays that fair share.
Money for paying taxes is not something that corporations find coming out of thin air, it only comes from one source, their custoemers.
Nader is just an idiot, he like other politicians relies on the general ignorance of the American public. What sounds good is not necessarily true. Just like "evil corporations" paying taxes sounds good it doesn't mean it is.
EMBEDDED taxes. The easiest way to lull ignorant people into paying even MORE of their income to the ever wastes government.
They primarily appeal to late twenty something and beyond women, at least in my experience down here in Atlanta. Throw in children and the appeal skyrockets. They are portrayed as safer than cars and their truck like looks appeal to those seeking something rugged.
Saner people gravitate towards vans but the prices on SUVs are appealing. For 20K you can get more perceived safety, the security by being above everyone else, and the some practical cargo space. Very hard to beat when many cars in that price range are far smaller and fragile looking. Example, Chevy Equinox, 20k. Looks a lot more imposing than the car counterparts priced the same.
America, Japan, and Europe all have the knowledge of how to build safe cars and they all do build them. However local preferences are what must be catered to.
Don't get me wrong, I would not mind having one to toy with but as for I use my PC for the MAC will not suffice.
That being said.
At 1299 I can buy the lowest cost iMac. A similar PC system, discounting the nice packaging but keeping a similar sized LCD, will set me back 999 from DELL. It is the same or cheaper from some other vendors. For the very basics that most users do that price and "Windows familarity" will be all that is needed to keep people from looking at the iMac. Throw in the fact that your standard department store doesn't carrry Mac or anything related and the potential drops furhter.
There are laptops cheaper than both that satisfy the needs of many people. Then there are the bottom end PCs that put the masses onto the net and what other progression in buying do you expect them to take? When they out grow their 499 PC they probably will end up with yet another 499 PC!
The geek side of me says, The iMac combined with OSX is better than WinXP. The geek side in me says , SO FRICKING WHAT! I want to play game X now! The gaming geek isn't going to budge. The FPS gaming geek wouldn't even have a iMac pass the laugh test.
Yes MAC has an OS that finally appeals to some of us. The trouble is it is still too expensive, too hard to find software for, and too hard to get general support for if your not part of the culture of Apple or geek.
What I would like to see is a bottom end 4 piece (case, monitor, keyboard, mouse) Mac computer. It would feature OSX, at most a 15" LCD, a 1.4 or slower G5 (make them all one speed and don't publish the number), 256mb ram expandable to 512/768 and about 40gb of disk with a CDRW. Have it all for around 699 or so. I don't know if Apple can reach this low or wants too? They seem to want to maintain an air of exlusivity yet at the same time want more people to pay attention to them.
My only worry is that Apple will steer to far away from their PC side and it will wither. I like the fact that Jobs has transformed Apple so that it is not so vulnerable to one market but I hope he doesn't take it to far away from what it was.
Cell phones take a lot of abuse and I doubt current HDDs can take it. Flash may be an alternative as most songs probably aren't going to change. Getting their cost to storage ratio down is the key.
One major issue remains. Battery life. How to overcome the battery life issue when you combine all those features? One company recently dropped their "do all phone" because of battery life. Now to toss a HDD in there?
I would lean towards streaming music to a cell phone before throwing a HDD into one.
Just as having someone "Monitor" the elections. The Democrat party is attempting to setup escape routes should the election be close and they are on the losing end. They are implying that any close election they lose is fradulent. They are even go so far as saying any election they don't win is fraudulent.
Combined with the ever famous use of the race card (Kerry's little speech recently promising that they will NOT allow millions of African Americans from being "disenfranchised" AGAIN") it only shows how low the political parties are willing to go.
If you live in a battleground state I fully expect you to see more local evidence of "election protetection" squads and such. Nothing could be farther from the truth. This is a form of intimidation. It also is an insult to the many public election officials who do a great and THANKLESS job. Remember, 19 out of 20 counties in Florida with voting issues were adminstered by Democrats and the last by an independant. How would you feel if your party was making you out to be a buffoon?
There is just too much money in politics. Political parties are the worst incarnation of a corporation ever seen. Worse they are funded by our money.
I wonder if there will ever be an election where 10% of the House turns over.
They are a great idea but you don't seem them in mass use because they are expensive to produce and fade. The fade rate is apparently high enough that they cannot be used in monitors.
The inner city schools are not substandard because of LACK OF MONEY. Most of these schools receive higher dollar amounts per students than surrounding schools and still do poorly.
Why? Simple. Bureaucratic abuse. The inner city schools are run by politics and croynism. Atlanta city schools are a perfect example. They have long been a place for corrupt mayors and city officials to put family members into jobs they had no business having. Just like they abuse the airport here.
How are they able to get away with this? Simple, no accountability. As soon as you raise the issue they scream racism and proceed to belittle anyone bringing along facts.
E-Rate was highly abused in Georgia by companies connected to the same politicians who filled the administrative sections.
Crime pays if your in the Government. Students are secondary to city schools, hell they may even be lower than 2nd.
If you are maintaining online friends over real ones then I would call it insecurity rather than living alone. I have seen this justification before, but it always ends up being a delusion. See, it is far easier to be someone other than yourself when you don't have to meet the other person face to face.
/. to be the equivalent of some people's MMORPG addictions.
That leads to all sorts of "justifications" as the emotional needs are VERY powerful. The only people who truly live alone are rare and defintely don't tread forums such as this. Consider forums like
I know one who lost his because of his obsession with a game. Putting more hours into it than a real time job. Yet, another who knows the first is headed down the same path.
The games do provide an easy means of feeling as if you have accomplished something. Apparently that is a real danger to some people out there. To find satisfaction is accomplishing something with no real inherent value over actually being successful in life.
I had a period of where I worked dead end jobs but I never let games take over my reality. I have played MMORPGs to the point of addiction but real world responsibilities always won out, ALWAYS.
People like to pretend it is just kids who get addicted to games but there are many 30 year old, 40 year old, and beyond who are just as addicited if not worse.
Who is to blame? No one but the people suffering from it. Granted in the media we constantly see politicians and others tell people how its not their fault and how they deserve everything but that doesn't excuse it in the long run.
It probably does explain the way some people vote, it isn't hard to see what they will vote for when everything isn't their fault and they escape into fantasy worlds which are superficial and far easier to succeed in than life.
People who cannot name their own Senators or Representatives...
We harp on not having enough people voting but we ignore the bigger problem of having people vote who don't know the issues let alone the players.
It is kind of amusing you claim that Bush cannot run on his record, which he is doing, yet Kerry refuses to run on his record in the Senate. Why is that?
/.
Fact is that Kerry faces a party where a good number of his people support the war and then are balanced out by many who oppose it. He can't please both meaning he is bound to lose out somewhere. Where you have a party powered by anti-religous bigots colliding with many ethnic groups who base most of their values in religion. No, Kerry has more work cut out from him. Assembling groups on the idea of "Anyone but Bush" doesn't get you to the finish and isn't something to be proud of. Of course he could ditch his integrity and be like Carter and accept victory at any cost (taking a Nobel prize when it was clear it was given to somehow insult Bush)
The key thing to remember is how one sided the press is in general and slashdot is great evidence of this. The whole politics section seems to revolve around negative Bush stories, negative modding of anyone expressing pro-Bush ideals, and then topped off with stories of nearly zero value like this one.
If you looked closely at the newspaper which claimed to be backing Kerry you would quickly realize this isn't something you want to brag about. The found was a anti-Baptist Zealot who not only viruently attacked religon but he also showed quite a bit of racism when he referenced blacks.
Your insightful mod points only show off the nearly blind liberal hate that infests
I won't be voting for Bush either, but at least I am not delusional nor filled with hate as many here are.
Karma to BURN.
This isn't a respectable paper. Its founder was a very virulent anti-Baptist writer. One who took very negative views of black Americans.
Nah, I don't think I would want this endorsement, regardless of how many years since its founding. The original founder is just to shameful.
Many more can afford this. Considering what some people have put into weddings 10k won't be that bad of a fix. Also, factor in what it would cost for 2 or 3 good cruises and you can pay for this trip very easily.
This is the low road. Putting forth all sorts of tinfoil-hat claims just in case it does happen or something even distantly related happens.
It is nothing more advanced than the games we played on the playgrounds. It is childish and shows the levels the campaigns will stoop too.
Far worse than the October surprises are the claims that African Americans will be denied the right to vote by the millions, just as they were before!
Coming in October we should see claims that Senior Citizens will have their medicare and Social Security taken away, that blacks will be hounded by yahoos driving pickups in Texas, and that a certain Chief Executive eats babies.
Get real people.
I would be all for Osama or his Lts. being caught before the election. I don't care WHEN they are caught or killed, just that it happens.
To claim that it only happens because of an election is just to show how immature one side is compared to the other. (and they both STINK)
The General Assembly is a joke. Look at most of its committees. Either chaired by the very people they are need to investigate or totally impotent because they spend their entire time bashing Israel?
Jump over to the Security Council where VETO power protects the big 5 from any world responsibility or rebuke.
This same organization cannot even stop obvious cases of genocide because they take too damn long to act. They always want to review the issue, then sanction the bad guy, and only act after the oppressed party is reduced to little more than a handful. Nearly all of election monitoring they have provided was ripe with fraud as they will not put their monitors into situations where they could be killed, in other words - if you promise not to harm our UN people we will say your election was fair.
HELL NO! The Internet will be what reveals the UN for the failure it has become. It will fully reveal all the machinations of an organization taken over by 3rd world dictorship led countries whose only agenda is to oppress their own people and blame Israel.
Gee, lets see how unoriginal we can get. While I applauded Cedar Point for their interpetation of a "RollerCoaster" I don't think the term fits these beasts.
To me a Rollercoaster involves more than going up one incline, no matter how tall. It is all about the flow of the machine. Some wild machines are just a royal pain to ride as they thrash or feel disjointed from seemingly "just thrown in" hills and curves.
The Great American Scream machine in Six Flags over Georgia is representative of a classic rollercoaster. CedarPoint has many REAL roller coasters. These new things remind me of railed free fall machines. Boring...
One thing that worries me, as a motorcycle rider, is where do we figure in? Are we lost in a world where a few seem hell bent on control at any cost?
Granted riding on the slab isn't my ideal way of point A to point B but I have to question, just how many roads will I lose access to if "controlled" becomes the norm? (slab = interstate)
I can deal with items like EZ-PASS and the like. I already have access to HOV lanes, regardless of the logic of it. I am just curious where bikes fit in.
Ralph Nader is on there!
How did that happen?
Granted they had to throw in the requisite George Bush jab, who by the way wasn't President when the Senate rejected the Kyoto treaty 98-0. No President is going to get past that majority.
.7 of an inch? Glaciers? Ignoring the issue that some of them were bigger in times where the planet was hotter?
The key here is money. Russia has something they can sell. They need money and what better way to obtain it?
Which brings up the point, whats the use of a treaty if you can just buy yourself a pass? What use is a treaty that excepts certain countries from the requirements?
Also, sea level rise is how much in the last half century?
When the science behind Kyoto gets real proof then come back with the treaty. what we have is an anti-industrialist agenda which convienent opts out some of the upcoming bigger polluters.
Remember they said CONCURRENT numbers. So 10k is actually pretty good. There are many games with less than 10K online at any one time and some of those have been around for a while.
I do think that comparing similar games would have been better.
The problem is in the Congress. The Presidential elections are probably the only elections at the Federal level that the public has ANY chance to truly affect.
House of Representatives? Not really. A large number run unopposed, nearly 3/4s win their district by 60%+, and in 2002 only 4 of them lost their seats!
The Senate is nearly as bad. I don't have the statistics at hand (being at work) but the turnover in the Senate is near the House levels and worse the parties are not above using shennagins to protect seats.
(on the previous post, NY and CA do not have wildy different political profiles, especially when you factor in the abundant influences of their cities - which is what the article author is aiming for - giving population centers more influence)