What impresses me most about their rocket is that multiple restarts are allowed for the second stage, allowing the possibility of correcting errors or changing mission orbits slightly. Truly an impressive effort considering they designed the engines themselves.
With all the player friendly changes finally incorporated into the old world the game is essentially new enough for people who have never touched WOW. It also is freshened enough for existing players to want to revisit the old world. Overall, its a much better expansion than BC and possibly better than Wrath. Is it perfect, no, but rarely will changes please everyone.
FWIW, someone made maximum level with the help of their guild within hours of the game starting up in Europe. Should be fun seeing all the people crush through the zones and race an un-winnable race
because the hatred expressed by some of my fellow poster is disgusting.
Sorry, you guys need to get a grip.
People here are equating spamming with murder and rape. The mere suggestion is revolting. The punishments suggested in this thread in no way are justified by his crime.
Whats next, jaywalking in front of a Prius warrants your loss of life? Drive a hummer, become someone's bitch in jail?
I understand some make the suggestions in jest but from some of the responses I am not so sure.
It says a lot about the hatred in others when posts stating that such ideas are hate and beyond reason are moderated as flamebait.
Too bad you guys can't get the same amount of feeling for subjects that really matter.
Calling the kettle black apparently hit a nerve, well good.
Amazing on how some people view the world. Apparently if you interfere with their lives or fun its OK to make jokes about killing the person who causes it.
Were any lives lost? Human or animal? So how is this so adversely affecting you or others that it should cost this man his life.
Look, we have people fight every day to keep monsters alive, serial killers and rapist who have proven their lack of value, are given more accordance than the homeless. Something is very wrong in society when monsters are more important than victims and when punishment has little bearing on the crime
and brave in dictating how we think other people's money should be spent.
Welcome to the me generation, where the freedom and justice are just buzzwords to drive angst on message boards, but wait Jennifer Anniston has a new boyfriend? I can't believe they allowed that Palin girl to get to the finals, and did you see who the new judges on Idol are going to be?
I don't understand why so many think it is. It is too heavily compromised in its current state. For anyone who has been in one its interior is craptastic, as in stuff that should not have ever been allowed out the door. While the view from the front seats is OK provided you get the charcoal interior, if your in the back seats you would swear your in the cheapest econo box on the planet.
Throw in an overly complex system which has arisen because they could not get the original idea to work but had to get it out the door now. As in, if they had pushed it back another year then we might not have three planetary gear sets, three separate cooling/heating loops, etc. Let alone having the gas engine drive the wheels directly which it can do over 40mph.
The Leaf is more innovative because it changes how we think about cars. It forces you to actually think about driving, instead of just going because you can. The Volt is not because it doesn't require you to actually change your habits. It lets you have your "feel good I am an ENVIRONMENTALIST" smugness without actually having to do it. You would do more for the environment and your walled by buying the Cruze HF model, which gets 40mpg on the highway all the time and 30 in the city and costs around 20k.
The only reason GM can sell these at a loss is because the tax payer poured enough money into them to keep them afloat. Worse the tax payer is further keeping them afloat by subsidizing the purchase of each Volt sold. People bitch about hand outs and for some reason turn a blind eye to this boondoggle? Get real. So we now are handing money over to the 100k per year crowd and feeling good about it? Even after the $7500 credit it is not an inexpensive car, so the majority of middle class will only see this in the parking lot at work; usually on reserved spots or those with someone's initials, or at the dealer ship.
GM isn't behaving like a start up, they are behaving like the banks did a few years ago (specifically Fannie Mae). They know they can never go under because the US will step in and make it all all right. There are also reports out already that they may actually not be losing ANY money on this car at 41K.
because the angsty crowd which has taken over/. in the last few years is the last group I want to be associated with. I mean, really, if the amount of protesting, chest thumping,wearing sackcloth, that you see expressed on message boards like this translated into the real world it would really have to be a different place. Yet it isn't. Why not? Because this is where the effort ended for those angst ridden posters.
When working a friends election campaign we didn't have any of those types around, oh sure some would show up ONCE. Apparently they are more "idea people" and the foot work is best left to other people. We just nod our heads when they showed up, and promptly ignored them knowing they would not return. Pretty much for the same who posted on his site. Its really easy to know who is worth paying attention to and who is not.
Nah, I will stick with Amazon. Their decision has no effect on me. Wikileaks by its very nature needs to stand on its own. We have no right to expect any other companies to support them nor do we have a right to require them to do so. Frankly and publicly traded company would be nuts to do so. Wikileaks needs to rat on the banks they claim they will very soon because once they get their guy all this will vanish.
I will give her one thing, she knows how to capitalize on an emerging trend. She has no viability, yet, of making it to the White House. I know quite a few independents who are starting to think "she has got to be better than what we have". I don't think she would succeed because too many are overly invested in seeing her fail or worse, suffer from PDS, the equivalent of the BDS that was prevalent a few years ago.
That she sparks such reaction from both sides of the aisle is her greatest asset, to herself and us. She has the ability to draw focus to events and issues that has rarely been seen. While many many like her or even some of the items she brings up, she is getting them discussed. I, like many others, think that the government is way beyond control, it certainly proves it when it cannot run anything close to a balanced budget. Both parties are dysfunctional. She has called them out. Hence their allies will do what is necessary to minimize the damage, which in politics that means character assassination. For all those who thinks she is a loon there are as many who think no better of Obama.
Its a given the Republicans, if they run her, by choice or force, will sink their chances in 2012. Yet we don't know what the next two years will bring. She has caused a lot of people to take an interest in politics and their government, something for which I thank her for. Too many people just brushed off critical thinking about their government and their politicians. Too many had no hope. The Tea Party (WHICH IS NOT HERS!) showed the even established politicians can still be taken down, even from within the party most attributed to the Tea Party. That alone is worth the price of bearing with her.
I hope that what she does end up being is a catalyst for people waking up and electing those who will change the system. When senior members of Congress starts to mean people with only two terms in the Senate for a few in the House then perhaps the parties will understand they are supposed to serve us, not the other way around
Charge him or the leaker? The Marine they have in jail is who should be charged. Yet what was his motive? Buyer's remorse (possibly voting for change but not liking what he saw) or hater who doesn't like who he works for (truther/birther/etc)?
Yes, I think Julian Assange is grand standing now, he seems hell bent on going after only the US and its interests. Conveniently ignoring countries far worse than the US. Yes the US does some things that are deplorable, but it is far far from the worse game in town. What it does have is an accessible number of people who feel no threat in acting on their beliefs. Other countries, not so much. So it is expected the leaks hit the US first, however Julian Assange focus only on the US exposes his actions as one sided to the point of going for fame over doing what his site was originally targeted too.
Charge him? For what? Being biased? Sure, but how do you charge a non citizen with our laws? I guess if he is stupid enough to end up in a US territory we can could find something to get him on. Then again, with our new found willingness to kill our own citizens abroad maybe he should be worried.
in both countries basically giving the other side a list of whom to kill. So why would anyone want to cooperate with a government whose important documents are being leaked?
Sorry, this guy is only pursuing the US documents because he know the US cannot afford to take him out. Anything happens to him, real or not, gets blamed on the US. Which becomes, take him out because the US gets blamed anyway.
He is doing more damage than good, he went past doing good for others when he indiscriminately releases documents which endanger the lives of others all so he can appear holier than thou.
their tax income is some of highest in Europe, the problem is their spending out stripped their taxes. Raising taxes on the businesses will most likely hurt them long term.
Typical of many governments, they started spending more and more instead of evaluating services and such for need. The EU wants Ireland to raise business taxes to put them at a disadvantage. Nothing other than pure greed amongst the rest of the EU.
Ireland like California rolled in the big bucks and instead of constraining government spending they opened the checkbook for every thing under the sun, well you can't spend yourself out of a depression and you cannot tax out of it either.
Since when in recent memory has what something costs prevented the government (state, local, or federal) from doing something?
When your dealing with an entitle that considers deficit spending as being caused by not taxing enough instead of spending too much how can you write off this idea?
It will find its way to select train stations, places where politicians routinely need to advertise their concern.
Cost won't be the primary concern in their implementation outside of airports, the primary concern is, how much money my district gets and credit I get versus scorn I receive for spending said money or scorn received for what was implemented.
However, I for one would love to see bus drivers forbidden from using them, seeing police officers from using them - because I know a few cops and its not used for on the job calls - they are talking to their wife.
First make public officials and employees be model citizens before forcing it down our throats. Though as an avid motorcyclist I fully support banning them in moving vehicles. The number of weaving, slow moving, fail to respond, violating someone else lane, cutting people off, etc, using cell phones is amazing. Many people don't notice just how many people are affected by their phone usage but long time riders know to watch the driver as well as the wheels to see what the other vehicle is going to do.
feeling one gets as the progress in many games. The "damn, if I haven't seen THAT ten bazillion times before. Far too many developers are blind to the repetitive nature of their games, somehow think they are unique among designers and came up with something we never saw elsewhere. Then you can also top it off with what I call dick moves. Essentially dick moves are mechanics whereby the player will do it the designers way or no way. Dick moves are things like gratuitous loss and such. Gimmick fights and over use of gimmicks also tends to dull one's willingness to follow a game to its end (I am looking at you HL2 : yeah I know you have a physics engine but damn if I am not tired of finding the one item I need to move from X to Y so I can cross a three foot chasm)
consistently bringing out the scare that Republicans will take away Senior citizen's benefits? Take away your health care? Take away this that or the other thing?
All so they can remain cozy with their Wall Street and Pharma buddies?
Hate to break it to you, both parties are only concerned with power and those who have enough money to interest them, and the public has neither in sufficient quantities. The public is too easily played for the fool
Sad part is your right. People seem to be outraged for as long as the story stays front page. Then suddenly they become "don't bother me with that, your just a whiner". We see our rights slapped around all the time and in the end we get an even bigger and more intrusive government. We are seeing a system (TSA) which is as convoluted as it is because its striving to not offend those who we should be offending. We have our own rights whacked all under the guise of politically correct. PC Security is no security. Its a scam. Can't wait till children are used in the next attack or items stuffed in orifices. Then what, cavity scans to fly?
I still think the software used by these machines can be adapted to present the data similar to what was shown in the movie, The Running Man. There is no reason a computer cannot eliminate what is considered normal, which means physical features. Just present a skeletal image with all unusual items highlighted.
Worse, coming down the pike is unionization for TSA and possibly collective bargaining. So people who have jobs which are not threatened by other than own arrogance and stupidity will be able to hold the air travel industry hostage when they decide their wages or working conditions warrant it. I am sure the airlines are still happy because they don't directly foot the bill, yet if another plane comes down who is going to take the brunt of it? We will.
No, the machines are fine. Its the human element that needs fixing. When my mom has not had a flight in the last five years without special attention something is wrong with the system. Little old ladies and their small dogs are not a threat to the traveling public. Yet as I have seen and she has, you want to get through unmolested, go smelling like a piss factory or worse. Hell, be a tattooed freak and you will get the wave by. Be someone who looks like they cannot afford to or are too meek to stand up to the system and they will target you. They prey on those who cannot resist, not those who can make a scene or actually look threatening.
but even without Israel Palestinians would never be free. No one wanted them before Israel existed and after it did, Israel got to be the target for their plight. Let alone the fact that most Palestinians have more to fear from their own government and other entities within their lands than from Israel.
Just as you claim their example is a strawman so is yours. I am of the opinion that if you can have car payments on a recent model car, a cell phone bill beyond the simple pay as you go, cable, or high speed internet, then you should have paid for health care insurance first or contributed like.
I am all for catastrophic health insurance. Even as a libertarian I can see the benefit. However I see no justice is taking the work of others and giving it to those who selfishly refuse to help themselves. Sorry, but if your shiny new car, smart phone, or 100 channels of televised shit, are more important to you than contributing to your health care insurance then your not important enough to society.
Preference, a yearly expense cap based on your income. As in, if your below the poverty line you pick up the first $250 or $500 (we can figure out what can be fair, but its amazing the number of people below the poverty line you will find with cell phones). Then we work from there and go up. This does not cover any optional (read : luxury health care items) stuff.
What pisses me off most about all this selfish behavior is that the DNC has made it out to be a rich versus poor thing. Well guess who got whacked already by the changes, doctors. My own doctor sold his practice because he cannot afford to go it alone. That meant three independent doctors and five nurses now are part of a conglomerate. From his stories its pretty much happening all over .
Worse, the government is leaning towards reducing what they will pay to serve all these new free loaders. Don't go off on me of that term, the common thread among many of his new patients are attempts to get free meds (amazingly the patients know exactly which ones they need to fix them - as in narcotics) or those looking for comp. Instead of being able to spend the time he used to spend with each patient he is now an assembly line. If the pay from the government gets lower he will probably just leave the trade. See, the dirty little secret is that they are reducing payments for the services on our behalf but not reducing the costs of delivering the services.
Your free health care is going to come on the backs of those delivering it. I don't seem to recall in the Constitution the right to the labor of another. If we continue down this path we won't have good health care at all. That or we will end up with two tiers, till the government regulates it out, where premium care is available to those who pay in cash and the government paid go to wards (say hello to UK style - private insurance gets better service)
So would the flaw in that its a missile be that we cannot see the propellant burn? It seems very obvious that the source of the plume not being visible that it should not be a missile, by that I mean, it is missing that nice spike of fire shooting from the tail that should have been visible
with those who give the orders. Soldiers do. The vast majority (five nines thank you) are the best we have to offer. Why? Because they are willing to do what has to be done regardless of personal costs. I am a bit bias, I did four years back in the eighties, but honestly, these people are special in many ways. Most would never brag, most have core sets of values they really do live up to. They do far more than message board bitchers will ever do.
Look, they aren't perfect, but I respect the least of them more than you.
One of the areas I figured Kinect would excel would be in rehabilitation and those who cannot use normal input devices. Seems this guy's kid is a great example of it. Controllers for the most part are just wrong. The Wii came close but the feel is broken as many times the motions one makes with the controller don't match up well if at all with on screen action.
So, yeah, this MS patent is a bit old, out of date, whatever. It is just more of programmers and such learning how people can, will, and do, interface with computers. the keyboard and mouse have got to go one day.
made. That is a side effect of creating a great business. All three created. Better yet, they created something that other people wanted. They influence millions through their work and some of them through their charity (see Gates, not so much the other two). To say they did not have influence in your life is absurd. Granted it is not on the level of your parents but all three influenced industry. All three pushed forward this business many of us work in.
I would be that many of their problems are not as bad as many make it out to be. It is common for people to tear down others, assign them issues, all to justify our position in life relative to theirs. somehow it make us feel better than people in higher positions somehow are defective or bear burdens we can claim to not want. Frankly, I would be happy to have created something even 1% of the people they influenced liked. People like the three you mention didn't get there without sacrifice, the difference between them and many of you/us is that they realized that getting there isn't done with 40 hour a week jobs and bitching on message boards.
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What impresses me most about their rocket is that multiple restarts are allowed for the second stage, allowing the possibility of correcting errors or changing mission orbits slightly. Truly an impressive effort considering they designed the engines themselves.
with Tron, grafting a younger looking Jeff Bridges face unto another actor.
So why not for porn? You could have anyone you want in your porn movie.... and make it look even more realistic.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_en_ot/us_tron_digitally_young_3
With all the player friendly changes finally incorporated into the old world the game is essentially new enough for people who have never touched WOW. It also is freshened enough for existing players to want to revisit the old world. Overall, its a much better expansion than BC and possibly better than Wrath. Is it perfect, no, but rarely will changes please everyone.
FWIW, someone made maximum level with the help of their guild within hours of the game starting up in Europe. Should be fun seeing all the people crush through the zones and race an un-winnable race
because they know they will be bailed out again.
Just like its bad to have banks to big to fail its bad to have an industry leader who is too big to let them fail.
Contracts come up next year, should be fun to watch
because the hatred expressed by some of my fellow poster is disgusting.
Sorry, you guys need to get a grip.
People here are equating spamming with murder and rape. The mere suggestion is revolting. The punishments suggested in this thread in no way are justified by his crime.
Whats next, jaywalking in front of a Prius warrants your loss of life? Drive a hummer, become someone's bitch in jail?
I understand some make the suggestions in jest but from some of the responses I am not so sure.
It says a lot about the hatred in others when posts stating that such ideas are hate and beyond reason are moderated as flamebait.
Too bad you guys can't get the same amount of feeling for subjects that really matter.
Calling the kettle black apparently hit a nerve, well good.
Amazing on how some people view the world. Apparently if you interfere with their lives or fun its OK to make jokes about killing the person who causes it.
Were any lives lost? Human or animal? So how is this so adversely affecting you or others that it should cost this man his life.
Look, we have people fight every day to keep monsters alive, serial killers and rapist who have proven their lack of value, are given more accordance than the homeless. Something is very wrong in society when monsters are more important than victims and when punishment has little bearing on the crime
and brave in dictating how we think other people's money should be spent.
Welcome to the me generation, where the freedom and justice are just buzzwords to drive angst on message boards, but wait Jennifer Anniston has a new boyfriend? I can't believe they allowed that Palin girl to get to the finals, and did you see who the new judges on Idol are going to be?
I don't understand why so many think it is. It is too heavily compromised in its current state. For anyone who has been in one its interior is craptastic, as in stuff that should not have ever been allowed out the door. While the view from the front seats is OK provided you get the charcoal interior, if your in the back seats you would swear your in the cheapest econo box on the planet.
Throw in an overly complex system which has arisen because they could not get the original idea to work but had to get it out the door now. As in, if they had pushed it back another year then we might not have three planetary gear sets, three separate cooling/heating loops, etc. Let alone having the gas engine drive the wheels directly which it can do over 40mph.
The Leaf is more innovative because it changes how we think about cars. It forces you to actually think about driving, instead of just going because you can. The Volt is not because it doesn't require you to actually change your habits. It lets you have your "feel good I am an ENVIRONMENTALIST" smugness without actually having to do it. You would do more for the environment and your walled by buying the Cruze HF model, which gets 40mpg on the highway all the time and 30 in the city and costs around 20k.
The only reason GM can sell these at a loss is because the tax payer poured enough money into them to keep them afloat. Worse the tax payer is further keeping them afloat by subsidizing the purchase of each Volt sold. People bitch about hand outs and for some reason turn a blind eye to this boondoggle? Get real. So we now are handing money over to the 100k per year crowd and feeling good about it? Even after the $7500 credit it is not an inexpensive car, so the majority of middle class will only see this in the parking lot at work; usually on reserved spots or those with someone's initials, or at the dealer ship.
GM isn't behaving like a start up, they are behaving like the banks did a few years ago (specifically Fannie Mae). They know they can never go under because the US will step in and make it all all right. There are also reports out already that they may actually not be losing ANY money on this car at 41K.
because the angsty crowd which has taken over /. in the last few years is the last group I want to be associated with. I mean, really, if the amount of protesting, chest thumping ,wearing sackcloth, that you see expressed on message boards like this translated into the real world it would really have to be a different place. Yet it isn't. Why not? Because this is where the effort ended for those angst ridden posters.
When working a friends election campaign we didn't have any of those types around, oh sure some would show up ONCE. Apparently they are more "idea people" and the foot work is best left to other people. We just nod our heads when they showed up, and promptly ignored them knowing they would not return. Pretty much for the same who posted on his site. Its really easy to know who is worth paying attention to and who is not.
Nah, I will stick with Amazon. Their decision has no effect on me. Wikileaks by its very nature needs to stand on its own. We have no right to expect any other companies to support them nor do we have a right to require them to do so. Frankly and publicly traded company would be nuts to do so. Wikileaks needs to rat on the banks they claim they will very soon because once they get their guy all this will vanish.
I will give her one thing, she knows how to capitalize on an emerging trend. She has no viability, yet, of making it to the White House. I know quite a few independents who are starting to think "she has got to be better than what we have". I don't think she would succeed because too many are overly invested in seeing her fail or worse, suffer from PDS, the equivalent of the BDS that was prevalent a few years ago.
That she sparks such reaction from both sides of the aisle is her greatest asset, to herself and us. She has the ability to draw focus to events and issues that has rarely been seen. While many many like her or even some of the items she brings up, she is getting them discussed. I, like many others, think that the government is way beyond control, it certainly proves it when it cannot run anything close to a balanced budget. Both parties are dysfunctional. She has called them out. Hence their allies will do what is necessary to minimize the damage, which in politics that means character assassination. For all those who thinks she is a loon there are as many who think no better of Obama.
Its a given the Republicans, if they run her, by choice or force, will sink their chances in 2012. Yet we don't know what the next two years will bring. She has caused a lot of people to take an interest in politics and their government, something for which I thank her for. Too many people just brushed off critical thinking about their government and their politicians. Too many had no hope. The Tea Party (WHICH IS NOT HERS!) showed the even established politicians can still be taken down, even from within the party most attributed to the Tea Party. That alone is worth the price of bearing with her.
I hope that what she does end up being is a catalyst for people waking up and electing those who will change the system. When senior members of Congress starts to mean people with only two terms in the Senate for a few in the House then perhaps the parties will understand they are supposed to serve us, not the other way around
Charge him or the leaker? The Marine they have in jail is who should be charged. Yet what was his motive? Buyer's remorse (possibly voting for change but not liking what he saw) or hater who doesn't like who he works for (truther/birther/etc)?
Yes, I think Julian Assange is grand standing now, he seems hell bent on going after only the US and its interests. Conveniently ignoring countries far worse than the US. Yes the US does some things that are deplorable, but it is far far from the worse game in town. What it does have is an accessible number of people who feel no threat in acting on their beliefs. Other countries, not so much. So it is expected the leaks hit the US first, however Julian Assange focus only on the US exposes his actions as one sided to the point of going for fame over doing what his site was originally targeted too.
Charge him? For what? Being biased? Sure, but how do you charge a non citizen with our laws? I guess if he is stupid enough to end up in a US territory we can could find something to get him on. Then again, with our new found willingness to kill our own citizens abroad maybe he should be worried.
and Apple has no reason to be part of it, you can become a "useful" member of "their" community provided you follow the rules.
After all, all the cool kids will do so. See if you get any respect sitting in Starbucks without an Apple product, hell, see if they will serve you.
Yes, the above line was a bit of sarcasm, however Apple doesn't really care, they really don't think they have too.
in both countries basically giving the other side a list of whom to kill. So why would anyone want to cooperate with a government whose important documents are being leaked?
Sorry, this guy is only pursuing the US documents because he know the US cannot afford to take him out. Anything happens to him, real or not, gets blamed on the US. Which becomes, take him out because the US gets blamed anyway.
He is doing more damage than good, he went past doing good for others when he indiscriminately releases documents which endanger the lives of others all so he can appear holier than thou.
their tax income is some of highest in Europe, the problem is their spending out stripped their taxes. Raising taxes on the businesses will most likely hurt them long term.
Typical of many governments, they started spending more and more instead of evaluating services and such for need. The EU wants Ireland to raise business taxes to put them at a disadvantage. Nothing other than pure greed amongst the rest of the EU.
Ireland like California rolled in the big bucks and instead of constraining government spending they opened the checkbook for every thing under the sun, well you can't spend yourself out of a depression and you cannot tax out of it either.
Cut the government.
Since when in recent memory has what something costs prevented the government (state, local, or federal) from doing something?
When your dealing with an entitle that considers deficit spending as being caused by not taxing enough instead of spending too much how can you write off this idea?
It will find its way to select train stations, places where politicians routinely need to advertise their concern.
Cost won't be the primary concern in their implementation outside of airports, the primary concern is, how much money my district gets and credit I get versus scorn I receive for spending said money or scorn received for what was implemented.
However, I for one would love to see bus drivers forbidden from using them, seeing police officers from using them - because I know a few cops and its not used for on the job calls - they are talking to their wife.
First make public officials and employees be model citizens before forcing it down our throats. Though as an avid motorcyclist I fully support banning them in moving vehicles. The number of weaving, slow moving, fail to respond, violating someone else lane, cutting people off, etc, using cell phones is amazing. Many people don't notice just how many people are affected by their phone usage but long time riders know to watch the driver as well as the wheels to see what the other vehicle is going to do.
feeling one gets as the progress in many games. The "damn, if I haven't seen THAT ten bazillion times before. Far too many developers are blind to the repetitive nature of their games, somehow think they are unique among designers and came up with something we never saw elsewhere. Then you can also top it off with what I call dick moves. Essentially dick moves are mechanics whereby the player will do it the designers way or no way. Dick moves are things like gratuitous loss and such. Gimmick fights and over use of gimmicks also tends to dull one's willingness to follow a game to its end (I am looking at you HL2 : yeah I know you have a physics engine but damn if I am not tired of finding the one item I need to move from X to Y so I can cross a three foot chasm)
consistently bringing out the scare that Republicans will take away Senior citizen's benefits? Take away your health care? Take away this that or the other thing?
All so they can remain cozy with their Wall Street and Pharma buddies?
Hate to break it to you, both parties are only concerned with power and those who have enough money to interest them, and the public has neither in sufficient quantities. The public is too easily played for the fool
Sad part is your right. People seem to be outraged for as long as the story stays front page. Then suddenly they become "don't bother me with that, your just a whiner". We see our rights slapped around all the time and in the end we get an even bigger and more intrusive government. We are seeing a system (TSA) which is as convoluted as it is because its striving to not offend those who we should be offending. We have our own rights whacked all under the guise of politically correct. PC Security is no security. Its a scam. Can't wait till children are used in the next attack or items stuffed in orifices. Then what, cavity scans to fly?
I still think the software used by these machines can be adapted to present the data similar to what was shown in the movie, The Running Man. There is no reason a computer cannot eliminate what is considered normal, which means physical features. Just present a skeletal image with all unusual items highlighted.
Worse, coming down the pike is unionization for TSA and possibly collective bargaining. So people who have jobs which are not threatened by other than own arrogance and stupidity will be able to hold the air travel industry hostage when they decide their wages or working conditions warrant it. I am sure the airlines are still happy because they don't directly foot the bill, yet if another plane comes down who is going to take the brunt of it? We will.
No, the machines are fine. Its the human element that needs fixing. When my mom has not had a flight in the last five years without special attention something is wrong with the system. Little old ladies and their small dogs are not a threat to the traveling public. Yet as I have seen and she has, you want to get through unmolested, go smelling like a piss factory or worse. Hell, be a tattooed freak and you will get the wave by. Be someone who looks like they cannot afford to or are too meek to stand up to the system and they will target you. They prey on those who cannot resist, not those who can make a scene or actually look threatening.
but even without Israel Palestinians would never be free. No one wanted them before Israel existed and after it did, Israel got to be the target for their plight. Let alone the fact that most Palestinians have more to fear from their own government and other entities within their lands than from Israel.
Just as you claim their example is a strawman so is yours. I am of the opinion that if you can have car payments on a recent model car, a cell phone bill beyond the simple pay as you go, cable, or high speed internet, then you should have paid for health care insurance first or contributed like.
I am all for catastrophic health insurance. Even as a libertarian I can see the benefit. However I see no justice is taking the work of others and giving it to those who selfishly refuse to help themselves. Sorry, but if your shiny new car, smart phone, or 100 channels of televised shit, are more important to you than contributing to your health care insurance then your not important enough to society.
Preference, a yearly expense cap based on your income. As in, if your below the poverty line you pick up the first $250 or $500 (we can figure out what can be fair, but its amazing the number of people below the poverty line you will find with cell phones). Then we work from there and go up. This does not cover any optional (read : luxury health care items) stuff.
What pisses me off most about all this selfish behavior is that the DNC has made it out to be a rich versus poor thing. Well guess who got whacked already by the changes, doctors. My own doctor sold his practice because he cannot afford to go it alone. That meant three independent doctors and five nurses now are part of a conglomerate. From his stories its pretty much happening all over .
Worse, the government is leaning towards reducing what they will pay to serve all these new free loaders. Don't go off on me of that term, the common thread among many of his new patients are attempts to get free meds (amazingly the patients know exactly which ones they need to fix them - as in narcotics) or those looking for comp. Instead of being able to spend the time he used to spend with each patient he is now an assembly line. If the pay from the government gets lower he will probably just leave the trade. See, the dirty little secret is that they are reducing payments for the services on our behalf but not reducing the costs of delivering the services.
Your free health care is going to come on the backs of those delivering it. I don't seem to recall in the Constitution the right to the labor of another. If we continue down this path we won't have good health care at all. That or we will end up with two tiers, till the government regulates it out, where premium care is available to those who pay in cash and the government paid go to wards (say hello to UK style - private insurance gets better service)
So would the flaw in that its a missile be that we cannot see the propellant burn? It seems very obvious that the source of the plume not being visible that it should not be a missile, by that I mean, it is missing that nice spike of fire shooting from the tail that should have been visible
with those who give the orders. Soldiers do. The vast majority (five nines thank you) are the best we have to offer. Why? Because they are willing to do what has to be done regardless of personal costs. I am a bit bias, I did four years back in the eighties, but honestly, these people are special in many ways. Most would never brag, most have core sets of values they really do live up to. They do far more than message board bitchers will ever do.
Look, they aren't perfect, but I respect the least of them more than you.
http://www.gamingnexus.com/FullNews/I-think-Kinect-is-OK2c-but-its-the-best-24150-I-spent-on-a-console/Item20369.aspx
One of the areas I figured Kinect would excel would be in rehabilitation and those who cannot use normal input devices. Seems this guy's kid is a great example of it. Controllers for the most part are just wrong. The Wii came close but the feel is broken as many times the motions one makes with the controller don't match up well if at all with on screen action.
So, yeah, this MS patent is a bit old, out of date, whatever. It is just more of programmers and such learning how people can, will, and do, interface with computers. the keyboard and mouse have got to go one day.
made. That is a side effect of creating a great business. All three created. Better yet, they created something that other people wanted. They influence millions through their work and some of them through their charity (see Gates, not so much the other two). To say they did not have influence in your life is absurd. Granted it is not on the level of your parents but all three influenced industry. All three pushed forward this business many of us work in.
I would be that many of their problems are not as bad as many make it out to be. It is common for people to tear down others, assign them issues, all to justify our position in life relative to theirs. somehow it make us feel better than people in higher positions somehow are defective or bear burdens we can claim to not want. Frankly, I would be happy to have created something even 1% of the people they influenced liked. People like the three you mention didn't get there without sacrifice, the difference between them and many of you/us is that they realized that getting there isn't done with 40 hour a week jobs and bitching on message boards.