however I am not one to open e-mails from people I do not know, nor am I one who would just type in his system password when prompted.
Unfortunately based on several local user group meetings I know a lot of people who would do both. First and foremost because they are utterly convinced in their superiority to PC users and OS X's immunity to viruses, after all if they harm OS X Apple would provide a virus program.
Seems they are as common as coffee at Starbucks. I can't imagine that the workers will be pleased if this catches on as their chance of tips will decrease. In some stores it is almost a given if you don't dump the change you get back (at least the coins) you coffee cup won't be as full, let alone having a special drink
and don't even get started on what get its own page in Wikipedia. Their editors are more than a bit fickle. One growing issue is the apparent changing of how they handle hybrid cars. Apparently someone got their panties into a bunch and has declared what hybrid/alternative fuel vehicles deserve their own page and which ones do not, see the related article at http://green.autoblog.com/2011/01/19/electric-car-pages-on-wikipedia-in-danger-of-disappearing/
Anime characters, episodes of such series, music artists, individual songs, all those things have warranted their own pages. It all comes down to, which editor did you run afoul of and how good of week did they have.
They are burdened under horrendous labor agreements. They are not legally allowed to use their profitability as part of labor negotiations. As in, even if the current contract or proposed contracts would cause financial distress that fact is not allowed to be considered when negotiating a new labor contract. How do you expect them to be profitable when they cannot consider that one major facet of their viability? My Aunt and Cousin both work for the Post Office; retired and active; and achieved the Post Master (?) level which meant they ran their own offices and both ended up with large regions under their control. My cousin used to call it "her name"'s Day Care. The childish behavior of her unionized employees was beyond silly she said. She had her hands tied in many areas, there was simply no way to discipline employees with many years of service. They could go out sick whenever they wanted without any Doctor's notes, they could "forget" houses in their routes. It was atrocious. Then top it off with gold plated pensions and you have a system ripe for Federal intervention. Oh, throw in that dropping a day requires Congressional approval.
No, they cannot be saved until they adhere to the rules of business, which primarily is, can we operate profitably with these labor and other capitol costs?
He was at the right place at the right time with the right people. The people he worked with and he himself were no slouches. I doubt you could find a group of people here who put in the hours they did when they started out. When they had to work within real constraints of very limited hardware and hand writing everything. Gates is definitely more technically inclined than Jobs ever could be.
Read Gates bio, what he and Allen did isn't the stuff of idiots, people here might not like Windows or Microsoft, but don't deny that Gates did what few people at his time could. He had the ability and the drive at the right time. Most people lack the drive, it is what separates message board bitchers from those they bitch about
What is waste? I am sure we can find justification for every government expenditure, whether its a new library named for a local politician to whether men in African gay bars (in Africa) contract AIDS at a higher rate than in other locales. Therein lies the problem, we are a greedy society, everything we want obviously is warranted.
So, we end up with the budget mess we have because of people who think like you do. It is incredibly easy to "guilt" people into paying for ANYTHING. It all depends on how you word the question. Ever watch Yes Prime Minister? They have several great skits on just how easy it is to manipulate the public into doing something or not doing something, how to coerce them into paying taxes and the like. We see it everyday. What happens in Atlanta when they had budget problems, well the obvious, they cut fire and police services; specifically in areas where people griped the most about taxes.
A government that does everything for you can make you do anything as well, they have you by the balls. If not directly they certainly have enough people who will line up to hang you by your balls. All because their needs are justifiable.
what is "waste"? is funding fundamental science waste? is funding liberal arts waste? are the likes of the FDA waste? is paying for some dubious piece of art in your own town waste?
Yes, Yes, No, and Yes.
Yes, because there is no guarantee we are not targeting needs of society that are of the utmost importance, or at least we cannot verify we are. Where is the list of what we are funding? Who decides what is right and what isn't? When is it too much or too little? Whose little pet projects are we funding, what big corporation is getting a free ride? Justify all of it. It will add up.
Yes, because the term is too broad and it is common for such terms to be tossed about in order to bury any attempts at real analysis.
No, because the FDA protects the public and enforces government regulations which are designed to protect the public. Guaranteeing the safety of the food and medicines the public consumes benefits society as a whole. The test of any agency and every program within
Yes because if society doesn't want to pay for your Piss Jesus then society should not be forced to fund it. I have nothing against artist creating what they want, what I do have a problem with is that we must fund stuff they cannot find anyone else to buy. Look, if you want to make a living selling your art, be it poetry, paintings, stories, or whatnot, then by all means do so. Do not justify the government stepping in and paying for it because those damn trogs are too stupid to know what is good for them. Good art thrives, the rest relies on the government to exist.
Until we have the balls to stand up and stop just handing money out right and left we will forever be in trouble. We don't have the luxury of paying for items outside of root government functions which mainly are to protect the people and their freedom. Taking money from Peter to pay Paul for something which generally only benefits Paul is a violation of that requirement, you deny Peter his freedom to spend his money where he wants. While some taxation is understandable and required we have lost the connection between why we are taxed and what for. In other words, we no longer see the benefit, we see only the waste. We see only the waste because the burden has grown so big.
So, yeah, start gathering up those hundreds of thousands spent here and there, it will be substantial once you start. As a major radio personality likes to state, its a debt snowball. Start with the smallest and work out from there. Yeah its going to cost money to do it but damn , its better than pissing away our children's future all because we can't make up our minds.
He is taking government paid for phones. More than likely they already have land lines in all offices anyway, used for everything from calls to faxes to internet in some cases.
He is just trying to put some sense back into what the government is funding, and a cell phone is a luxury in many departments. It certainly is not a requirement of someone who rarely if ever leaves their office. He is going after vehicles next which is another good step. He should also go after traveling expenses and the like, nuke any employee conventions, and similar until they get their finances in order. The hard area where he will have to play in is compensation and retirement benefits that state employees have in California. That is where the real abuse is.
Should be interesting, a hero of the left can probably do things Arnie could not. I bet if Arnie did this there would screams in every California paper out there about how mean he was, if not racist.
When you can't pay your bills you have to make cuts. Every penny counts. This is why Congress is such a mess, they seem to think its okay to ignore "this cost" and "that cost" because they are so small. Well, get enough small expenses out and it will add up.
to make it near impossible for other competitors to get into many markets, before mocking the system you need to realize how many times it is the government which makes it not viable for competitors to enter an existing market. A great example is personal health insurance in the US, where the Federal Government has prevented people from buying insurance across state lines. Related to this article, in my locality, the larger city here is exclusively one provider because they cut a deal for the government sites screwing the people in the area. As in, we will get you excused from pole taxes and such if you provide us service to these buildings.
seeing the cut out where they masked the tie fighter flying around isn't cool and I remember that from some early versions of the film as sold to the public.
So I can see where he is coming from, if you start with the originals you will need to do all the work all over again to achieve the clarity that is needed to put it out on Blu-Ray. Some movies just don't cut it. Hi Def reveals lots of flaws and it makes some distracting.
What I do think he misses out completely on is that we want the story as originally presented. I don't give a rats ass about the effects, its the story I want unaltered, holes and all.
Stories about slot machines, for the most gambling establishments in general, are in the news a lot and none of them positive, yet people still go. It is no different than the guy walking into the convenience store buying a lottery ticket and a pack of smokes all the while thinking he will strike it lucky with the first and the second will never happen to him
add on "over the internets" which in their speak is "database driven online distributed tournament system" and suddenly you are patenting a whole new item in the world of lawyers and trolling companies.
There are many items I have seen raised here which I clearly remember being done in the old BBS days gone by, most of which are being claimed as "new" because they add phrases pertaining to abilities widely used on the "internet"
over our generation and what has it gotten us? Oh yeah, under performing teachers who can rarely be fired who get great pensions and benefits and nearly triple the number of non teaching positions with similar benefits. Seems the only ones who have not made out are the students.
Yes, the US spends far too much on its military. The US however does not spend too much on education, it spends too much disguised as education but which is nothing more than jobs and vote buying programs. When schools systems threaten to lay off teachers unless taxes are raised yet built hundred million dollar schools its obvious to you and me their priorities are skewed. When they spend more money fighting school choice than offering students the choice itself something is wrong. When the money follows the school and not the child there is no incentive for the system to fix itself. When ever attempt to do standardized testing is met with cries of racism there is no chance for success. When you have a society which rewards failure why would you expect less?
The free market is fine and good, however you have to change the mentality of many Americans now who have a culture of entitlement. Where working for a living for many is a foreign idea. Where you can get endless government assistance nearly unqualified. As in, you just pop out some kids because how dare someone make you earn money or ask you to try, after all you would not want to starve children would you? When we give money and assistance to people who will not work buy have cell phones, cable bills, car payments, and buy liquor and cigarettes it points to a cultural problem.
We created a group of Americans who are see nothing in wrong in having others pay their way, where we give them a thousand excuses to play the victim instead of trying to improve them. Politicians need victims, they create them through targeted entitlement programs. So we have all these people who won't go anywhere because society has enabled them not to.
Education is one major key, we already have sufficient money, we have to fix this culture where failure is acceptable or excusable.
What the real problem in these games trying to follow World of Warcraft is that they usually take aim at the previous generation of WOW. As in, Blizzard keeps moving WOW forward. The change the mechanics, the reinvent classes at times, they even change their world completely. They haven't stood still. Yet each time I see a new WOW killer come along it is aimed at WOW from three to four years ago claiming great new features which just btw, happen to be in the current WOW or are very similar.
Throw in the one thing they all miss, WOW has two major focus points. It has the leveling system which interests many people with thousands of quests and a lot of lore and it has the end game. The prior does not inhibit you from getting to the later by any appreciable degree. You can blow right through the quest systems, even ignore the majority, and strictly hit top level and do the end game content. Which is where WOW shines. Their end game content is always good. Far too many up and comers have NPC BOSS mechanics that feel nothing more than just that Rat I killed twenty of but with ten times the health. It might have one new effect but for the most part its as dumb as the rats outside.
What is happening at BIOWARE/EA is that I see "we have this great IP, hence any expense is justified" mentality which usually goes hand in hand with feature creep and never finishing a system to completely but having far too many incomplete ones.
Well from the article it is my impression they are trying to work more with Direct X than any other solutions. Since the Mac does not support Microsoft Direct X graphics I assume we will still see Nvidia Discreet graphics for time to come.
Sorry, but Apple really doesn't care. My iMac was in for a warranty fix for over two weeks. The motherboard was replaced and then they had to replace the video card which was a separate unit. You can write them all you want, they don't even reply. While I like their machines their support does suck. If you have an iMac you have to bring it to an authorized service center which can be a real bear with the larger iMacs.
Where as when my parents managed to fry one of the Dells I bought them the technician came out the next day and replaced the power supply and motherboard at their home. To think I paid for two extra years of warranty on my iMac and the cheap ass Dells get better support.
because the FCC was making back room deals and dallying in areas they don't have the right too. The same FCC which was going to work deals with who could charge for what and for how much. Guaranteed that we would see guaranteed price increases and bundling of "approved services".
The chairman was basically going to hand US (read you/me/etc) over the the big broadband companies. So, how money rules the world is insightful I will never know. Tell me how a government agency working hand in hand with the people selling the service is going to turn out good for me? It would result in fixed pricing meaning no one has to compete. It will probably cause me to have less services to select from as well.
People seem to reading some mythical story about how this was all ponies and kitties, but look a little deeper and it wasn't pretty.
and I am going to try it again this year. Amazing what prices they will match when it comes to getting a sale. This year I need two 42 LCD televisions, they want 699 whereas I can get them from a certain major online retailer wants 599 and others 589 with no tax or shipping costs.
In some portions of America this is true, but they are less PC about it, referring to it as "acting white" as if being white is the only measure of how smart someone is.
When you have a culture driven by hateful music, advancing disrespect for society and morality, how can you expect those who listen to it to get beyond it?
We can spend tens of thousands of dollars per child but if their community does not support their advancement it all goes to waste.
You can't buy health insurance across state lines because the Federal government specifically prevents it. It is one reason why we have such high costs because the government meddles with it preventing people from shopping around for the best deals. In essence, they engineered a system to fail so they could step in.
The point you brought up that most people miss is, this law compels people to purchase a private product. This would be no different that telling people to buy US made cars only.
The reason the current product has so much trouble is that unlike Medicare this one was crafted by one side who controlled the debate nearly completely, the House under Pelosi went out of their way to block amendments they didn't like from even making it to the floor for vote. Hence you have a product whose intent is to further the power of those in charge an enrich their contributors, namely big pharma and health care unions. It certainly doesn't benefit the end user. People can already get free health care by going to emergency rooms (BTDT).
So, now if your young and healthy you will be compelled to buy a product you may not use for many years subsidizing everyone else. Worse, there are so many open areas in the current bill that its real effect is not known, the rules are not written, they are to be written by the groups the law creates.
I am all for anyone challenging any take over by the government, they use the Commerce clause as an excuse to stomp on the people and the states. Hopefully one day we will get a Supreme Court ruling to curtain the Commerce clause.
What I find amusing is that they are going after corporations instead of nailing government sites. I guess its the old method of, go after those who can't put you into jail or bring harm to you and instead focus on those who are worth hits on news sites.
In other words, we can't go after the government because, they would, like uh, come after us and they can do it.
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however I am not one to open e-mails from people I do not know, nor am I one who would just type in his system password when prompted.
Unfortunately based on several local user group meetings I know a lot of people who would do both. First and foremost because they are utterly convinced in their superiority to PC users and OS X's immunity to viruses, after all if they harm OS X Apple would provide a virus program.
Seems they are as common as coffee at Starbucks. I can't imagine that the workers will be pleased if this catches on as their chance of tips will decrease. In some stores it is almost a given if you don't dump the change you get back (at least the coins) you coffee cup won't be as full, let alone having a special drink
and don't even get started on what get its own page in Wikipedia. Their editors are more than a bit fickle. One growing issue is the apparent changing of how they handle hybrid cars. Apparently someone got their panties into a bunch and has declared what hybrid/alternative fuel vehicles deserve their own page and which ones do not, see the related article at http://green.autoblog.com/2011/01/19/electric-car-pages-on-wikipedia-in-danger-of-disappearing/
Anime characters, episodes of such series, music artists, individual songs, all those things have warranted their own pages. It all comes down to, which editor did you run afoul of and how good of week did they have.
They are burdened under horrendous labor agreements. They are not legally allowed to use their profitability as part of labor negotiations. As in, even if the current contract or proposed contracts would cause financial distress that fact is not allowed to be considered when negotiating a new labor contract. How do you expect them to be profitable when they cannot consider that one major facet of their viability? My Aunt and Cousin both work for the Post Office; retired and active; and achieved the Post Master (?) level which meant they ran their own offices and both ended up with large regions under their control. My cousin used to call it "her name"'s Day Care. The childish behavior of her unionized employees was beyond silly she said. She had her hands tied in many areas, there was simply no way to discipline employees with many years of service. They could go out sick whenever they wanted without any Doctor's notes, they could "forget" houses in their routes. It was atrocious. Then top it off with gold plated pensions and you have a system ripe for Federal intervention. Oh, throw in that dropping a day requires Congressional approval.
No, they cannot be saved until they adhere to the rules of business, which primarily is, can we operate profitably with these labor and other capitol costs?
but at least it wipes clean easily.
Now comes the question, will it be an interactive application?
Seriously though, it will be hard keeping others who claim to be in a similar business off the store.
He was at the right place at the right time with the right people. The people he worked with and he himself were no slouches. I doubt you could find a group of people here who put in the hours they did when they started out. When they had to work within real constraints of very limited hardware and hand writing everything. Gates is definitely more technically inclined than Jobs ever could be.
Read Gates bio, what he and Allen did isn't the stuff of idiots, people here might not like Windows or Microsoft, but don't deny that Gates did what few people at his time could. He had the ability and the drive at the right time. Most people lack the drive, it is what separates message board bitchers from those they bitch about
What is waste? I am sure we can find justification for every government expenditure, whether its a new library named for a local politician to whether men in African gay bars (in Africa) contract AIDS at a higher rate than in other locales. Therein lies the problem, we are a greedy society, everything we want obviously is warranted.
So, we end up with the budget mess we have because of people who think like you do. It is incredibly easy to "guilt" people into paying for ANYTHING. It all depends on how you word the question. Ever watch Yes Prime Minister? They have several great skits on just how easy it is to manipulate the public into doing something or not doing something, how to coerce them into paying taxes and the like. We see it everyday. What happens in Atlanta when they had budget problems, well the obvious, they cut fire and police services; specifically in areas where people griped the most about taxes.
A government that does everything for you can make you do anything as well, they have you by the balls. If not directly they certainly have enough people who will line up to hang you by your balls. All because their needs are justifiable.
what is "waste"? is funding fundamental science waste? is funding liberal arts waste? are the likes of the FDA waste? is paying for some dubious piece of art in your own town waste?
Yes, Yes, No, and Yes.
Yes, because there is no guarantee we are not targeting needs of society that are of the utmost importance, or at least we cannot verify we are. Where is the list of what we are funding? Who decides what is right and what isn't? When is it too much or too little? Whose little pet projects are we funding, what big corporation is getting a free ride? Justify all of it. It will add up.
Yes, because the term is too broad and it is common for such terms to be tossed about in order to bury any attempts at real analysis.
No, because the FDA protects the public and enforces government regulations which are designed to protect the public. Guaranteeing the safety of the food and medicines the public consumes benefits society as a whole. The test of any agency and every program within
Yes because if society doesn't want to pay for your Piss Jesus then society should not be forced to fund it. I have nothing against artist creating what they want, what I do have a problem with is that we must fund stuff they cannot find anyone else to buy. Look, if you want to make a living selling your art, be it poetry, paintings, stories, or whatnot, then by all means do so. Do not justify the government stepping in and paying for it because those damn trogs are too stupid to know what is good for them. Good art thrives, the rest relies on the government to exist.
Until we have the balls to stand up and stop just handing money out right and left we will forever be in trouble. We don't have the luxury of paying for items outside of root government functions which mainly are to protect the people and their freedom. Taking money from Peter to pay Paul for something which generally only benefits Paul is a violation of that requirement, you deny Peter his freedom to spend his money where he wants. While some taxation is understandable and required we have lost the connection between why we are taxed and what for. In other words, we no longer see the benefit, we see only the waste. We see only the waste because the burden has grown so big.
So, yeah, start gathering up those hundreds of thousands spent here and there, it will be substantial once you start. As a major radio personality likes to state, its a debt snowball. Start with the smallest and work out from there. Yeah its going to cost money to do it but damn , its better than pissing away our children's future all because we can't make up our minds.
He is taking government paid for phones. More than likely they already have land lines in all offices anyway, used for everything from calls to faxes to internet in some cases.
He is just trying to put some sense back into what the government is funding, and a cell phone is a luxury in many departments. It certainly is not a requirement of someone who rarely if ever leaves their office. He is going after vehicles next which is another good step. He should also go after traveling expenses and the like, nuke any employee conventions, and similar until they get their finances in order. The hard area where he will have to play in is compensation and retirement benefits that state employees have in California. That is where the real abuse is.
Should be interesting, a hero of the left can probably do things Arnie could not. I bet if Arnie did this there would screams in every California paper out there about how mean he was, if not racist.
When you can't pay your bills you have to make cuts. Every penny counts. This is why Congress is such a mess, they seem to think its okay to ignore "this cost" and "that cost" because they are so small. Well, get enough small expenses out and it will add up.
to make it near impossible for other competitors to get into many markets, before mocking the system you need to realize how many times it is the government which makes it not viable for competitors to enter an existing market. A great example is personal health insurance in the US, where the Federal Government has prevented people from buying insurance across state lines. Related to this article, in my locality, the larger city here is exclusively one provider because they cut a deal for the government sites screwing the people in the area. As in, we will get you excused from pole taxes and such if you provide us service to these buildings.
Welcome to byproducts of regulation.
to get all your characters mounts instead of buying them with real money. You can also use this trick to get all your bags too.
seeing the cut out where they masked the tie fighter flying around isn't cool and I remember that from some early versions of the film as sold to the public.
So I can see where he is coming from, if you start with the originals you will need to do all the work all over again to achieve the clarity that is needed to put it out on Blu-Ray. Some movies just don't cut it. Hi Def reveals lots of flaws and it makes some distracting.
What I do think he misses out completely on is that we want the story as originally presented. I don't give a rats ass about the effects, its the story I want unaltered, holes and all.
are a direct tax on stupid.
Stories about slot machines, for the most gambling establishments in general, are in the news a lot and none of them positive, yet people still go. It is no different than the guy walking into the convenience store buying a lottery ticket and a pack of smokes all the while thinking he will strike it lucky with the first and the second will never happen to him
add on "over the internets" which in their speak is "database driven online distributed tournament system" and suddenly you are patenting a whole new item in the world of lawyers and trolling companies.
There are many items I have seen raised here which I clearly remember being done in the old BBS days gone by, most of which are being claimed as "new" because they add phrases pertaining to abilities widely used on the "internet"
over our generation and what has it gotten us? Oh yeah, under performing teachers who can rarely be fired who get great pensions and benefits and nearly triple the number of non teaching positions with similar benefits. Seems the only ones who have not made out are the students.
Yes, the US spends far too much on its military. The US however does not spend too much on education, it spends too much disguised as education but which is nothing more than jobs and vote buying programs. When schools systems threaten to lay off teachers unless taxes are raised yet built hundred million dollar schools its obvious to you and me their priorities are skewed. When they spend more money fighting school choice than offering students the choice itself something is wrong. When the money follows the school and not the child there is no incentive for the system to fix itself. When ever attempt to do standardized testing is met with cries of racism there is no chance for success. When you have a society which rewards failure why would you expect less?
The free market is fine and good, however you have to change the mentality of many Americans now who have a culture of entitlement. Where working for a living for many is a foreign idea. Where you can get endless government assistance nearly unqualified. As in, you just pop out some kids because how dare someone make you earn money or ask you to try, after all you would not want to starve children would you? When we give money and assistance to people who will not work buy have cell phones, cable bills, car payments, and buy liquor and cigarettes it points to a cultural problem.
We created a group of Americans who are see nothing in wrong in having others pay their way, where we give them a thousand excuses to play the victim instead of trying to improve them. Politicians need victims, they create them through targeted entitlement programs. So we have all these people who won't go anywhere because society has enabled them not to.
Education is one major key, we already have sufficient money, we have to fix this culture where failure is acceptable or excusable.
It was just as grindy as all other games.
What the real problem in these games trying to follow World of Warcraft is that they usually take aim at the previous generation of WOW. As in, Blizzard keeps moving WOW forward. The change the mechanics, the reinvent classes at times, they even change their world completely. They haven't stood still. Yet each time I see a new WOW killer come along it is aimed at WOW from three to four years ago claiming great new features which just btw, happen to be in the current WOW or are very similar.
Throw in the one thing they all miss, WOW has two major focus points. It has the leveling system which interests many people with thousands of quests and a lot of lore and it has the end game. The prior does not inhibit you from getting to the later by any appreciable degree. You can blow right through the quest systems, even ignore the majority, and strictly hit top level and do the end game content. Which is where WOW shines. Their end game content is always good. Far too many up and comers have NPC BOSS mechanics that feel nothing more than just that Rat I killed twenty of but with ten times the health. It might have one new effect but for the most part its as dumb as the rats outside.
What is happening at BIOWARE/EA is that I see "we have this great IP, hence any expense is justified" mentality which usually goes hand in hand with feature creep and never finishing a system to completely but having far too many incomplete ones.
Well from the article it is my impression they are trying to work more with Direct X than any other solutions. Since the Mac does not support Microsoft Direct X graphics I assume we will still see Nvidia Discreet graphics for time to come.
Sorry, but Apple really doesn't care. My iMac was in for a warranty fix for over two weeks. The motherboard was replaced and then they had to replace the video card which was a separate unit. You can write them all you want, they don't even reply. While I like their machines their support does suck. If you have an iMac you have to bring it to an authorized service center which can be a real bear with the larger iMacs.
Where as when my parents managed to fry one of the Dells I bought them the technician came out the next day and replaced the power supply and motherboard at their home. To think I paid for two extra years of warranty on my iMac and the cheap ass Dells get better support.
because the FCC was making back room deals and dallying in areas they don't have the right too. The same FCC which was going to work deals with who could charge for what and for how much. Guaranteed that we would see guaranteed price increases and bundling of "approved services".
The chairman was basically going to hand US (read you/me/etc) over the the big broadband companies. So, how money rules the world is insightful I will never know. Tell me how a government agency working hand in hand with the people selling the service is going to turn out good for me? It would result in fixed pricing meaning no one has to compete. It will probably cause me to have less services to select from as well.
People seem to reading some mythical story about how this was all ponies and kitties, but look a little deeper and it wasn't pretty.
and I am going to try it again this year. Amazing what prices they will match when it comes to getting a sale. This year I need two 42 LCD televisions, they want 699 whereas I can get them from a certain major online retailer wants 599 and others 589 with no tax or shipping costs.
Will be curious what price they will go down to.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/17/0040244/Reading-Level-Filter-Added-To-Google-Search
It has been active on Slashdot for a long time, too bad we never knew it was marketable.
In some portions of America this is true, but they are less PC about it, referring to it as "acting white" as if being white is the only measure of how smart someone is.
When you have a culture driven by hateful music, advancing disrespect for society and morality, how can you expect those who listen to it to get beyond it?
We can spend tens of thousands of dollars per child but if their community does not support their advancement it all goes to waste.
I think China may actually be worse, but I am not sure, I can't get anyone their to comment.
Facebook is about ME!!!! ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!
Wikileaks is about, I can't believe the let that Palin girl get to the finals, and where is his birth certificate? Did you see that dress Kim had on?
Truly, Facebook is the perfect name for the ME generation. It is the perfect distraction from the real world they would have to pause and think about.
You can't buy health insurance across state lines because the Federal government specifically prevents it. It is one reason why we have such high costs because the government meddles with it preventing people from shopping around for the best deals. In essence, they engineered a system to fail so they could step in.
The point you brought up that most people miss is, this law compels people to purchase a private product. This would be no different that telling people to buy US made cars only.
The reason the current product has so much trouble is that unlike Medicare this one was crafted by one side who controlled the debate nearly completely, the House under Pelosi went out of their way to block amendments they didn't like from even making it to the floor for vote. Hence you have a product whose intent is to further the power of those in charge an enrich their contributors, namely big pharma and health care unions. It certainly doesn't benefit the end user. People can already get free health care by going to emergency rooms (BTDT).
So, now if your young and healthy you will be compelled to buy a product you may not use for many years subsidizing everyone else. Worse, there are so many open areas in the current bill that its real effect is not known, the rules are not written, they are to be written by the groups the law creates.
I am all for anyone challenging any take over by the government, they use the Commerce clause as an excuse to stomp on the people and the states. Hopefully one day we will get a Supreme Court ruling to curtain the Commerce clause.
What I find amusing is that they are going after corporations instead of nailing government sites. I guess its the old method of, go after those who can't put you into jail or bring harm to you and instead focus on those who are worth hits on news sites.
In other words, we can't go after the government because, they would, like uh, come after us and they can do it.
They are taking a good cause and ruining it.