something that large just doesn't get launched near a major metropolitan area to test.
The plume on that missile was very large, so one has to assume it came from the US Navy, or someone similarly equipped.
I doubt it was a secret test, most likely the office contacted at the Pentagon doesn't have permission to release the information. The worst case scenario is that no one takes credit and the Pentagon lets conspiracy theory people take over. Launching a ballistic missile from close to US shores at someone else would be a very dangerous move for any nation. If it isn't ours, some heads are going to roll that it could take place. If it is ours, someone is still going to get the roll over for being so daft as to let it get out of hand
like how the ease of use of the Wii did (well once they fixed that damned controller). The difference is, with the Wii you can "game" it. As in, half the time the motions you make with the controller really don't have any bearing on what your avatar is doing. What I have see of kinect is that we finally have a system which does what you physically do. None of the "interpretation" like the Wii controller .
It will probably open up gaming to more people now. I can see great uses in exercise programs here, your own personal trainer who really does know if your doing it right. Think of the ability to extend this to at home rehabilitation! That alone makes this device a break through.
Many of us keep lamenting all those wonder sci fi depictions of what computer technology can do and when its delivered some simply dismiss it because its from Microsoft.
It is a good start. Perhaps it will give other people the inspiration to help us make a real leap.
My license has one of those complex bar codes on the back. Why not produce a receipt encoded with this value, the allow the voter in votes that are contested by the candidates to be able to return to a polling place and swipe the results to see that their vote was accepted? If like my voting place, no one but the voter is allowed at the booth except under very special circumstances. This of course would require making sure that the poll watchers only permit the owner of the strip to use it.
Even with such a system you can engineer abuses. I find that many stamping their feet over e-voting are those who stand a better chance of manipulating results if a paper system is used. Regardless of system employed, we also need a simple means to ensure people are who they say they are and they only vote once per election.
Still its good to see many people concerned with the privacy of their vote. Just remember your friends in union shops as some in Congress want to take away the secret ballot in union votes just for the purpose of intimidation.
The House take over, while expected, is not the big news. The major push Republicans made at the state level shows the strength of the move. Actually by not winning the Senate the Republicans may have preserved the ability to take the White House in 2012. Given that there are more Democratic Senators up for election in 12 than Republicans they have a near majority on many issues.
God, Gays, and Subpoena's, are about the best way for Republicans to knock themselves out of the House control in 12, as in, lean into any of those areas too far and the voters will show them the door.
Do I expect budget miracles, nope. I expect a whole lot of gridlock, preventing new large government programs from being implemented. That will do us nicely. The government has been on a binge of spending in the last four years and needs to be reigned in. Too much of the government spending is untouchable but if the line can be held, by gridlock or vote, to where spending does not go up by more than 2% per year the economy can grow us out of the deficit spending.
However, like I read elsewhere, the good news is the Democrats lost the House, the bad news is the Republicans won it. Like Rove and a few others mention, Washington doesn't care what the country thinks and the Senate is the worst of the lot. As in, Tea Party candidates, candidates of "change", or whatnot, are in for one rude surprise. The nice thing about the Senate however is that regardless of seniority or committee assignment anyone can submit new legislation
Was is a slap in the face of Democrats. Sure it was, just like 08 was us telling Republicans, no more of this crap; let alone don't expect us to vote for rights killers like McCain. Obama and Pelosi got told, there are no Kings and Queens in America, so quit acting like one.
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and not try to make societal statements. I mean, how hard is it to stamp our feet, display our angst on message boards, and not buy a game we weren't going to buy in the first place.
Sometimes this generation depresses me, too many put more effort protesting makers of games than those running their lives.
Any restriction on political speech should not exist. It would have only been a matter of time before the only groups allowed to make political speech are approved wholly by the people they are electing. People form groups, corporations, unions, non-profits, and the like, to give more weight to their voice. The individual long lost their ability to sway the politicians, but a group of them, regardless of how they are formed, still holds that power.
What CU did was strike down the ability of government to define acceptable groups. As in, the politicians saw the power that these groups had over them and reacted to prevent anyone not in their pocket from exercising influence over them. As in, they wished to not be held accountable to the people regardless how the people formed.
There will always be a special interest group with more money and influence than we like, that is part of the process. Some are better setup than others, it doesn't mean they have to win.
and taking a pissy attitude towards them over how they choose to enforce the intellectual rights and protect their properties does not affect those of us who buy the games to play them. We don't have false bravdo by thumping our chests on message boards. Some of us spend our efforts where it actually matters, like helping out at MUST ministries, doing the quarterly (it seems like more) Habitat for Humanity, and donating time and other monies to charities. Hell I even spend time helping a friend get elected to our county board.
Your own tone suggest you left rational behind. Blizzard makes games, that is all I see them for. Just like I see Hollywood actors for nothing more than the roles they play. I certainly am not affected by their attempts to curb cheating, if not curb the mentality that one should be allowed to cheat whenever possible as if they are somehow entitled to do so.
Look, this type of stuff is crap. Go expend your time and angst doing something which helps people who need the help. Mod me down to hell, I really don't care, there are far too many losers who "take up causes on message boards" because it lets them feel as if they belong, or are oppressed somehow, but in the end they don't have to do something or expend any real effort. I really don't know why sites like/. attract the sort or mod them as if its honorable or such, man against evil corporation? In the end no one will remember, help serve food, see smiles on people's faces when you help them, now there is something to direct your energy too.
Yeah I know, the bogeyman is under the bed. Still the DRM that Blizzard has employed has never interfered with my games from them. I guess I am just too damn boring. I live with Steam DRM and see people bellyache about it as well. You can't win them all. The few games I do have without DRM seem to come from companies with games I find myself not playing long. So I take the bad with the good and go on with life. It is just a game and honestly taking a stand on DRM is about the least of my concerns. I have more important things to worry about. I play games to enjoy myself, so far no DRM system has impacted me. I grew up in the days where floppy discs had bad sectors for copy protection, manual checks, and code wheels. I just take it all in stride because in the end... it is just a game.
Of course Iran won't use them immediately, but they have their proxies who they can make use of them or related material. Regardless, they will simply become more belligerent because they know the world doesn't want to force a confrontation, so they will keep pushing, keep moving the line, and get away with more abuses to include attacking other counties believing they are safe because they have the bomb.
North Korea can make up any offense they want, they are good at it. They are quite willing to sell knowledge.
So, neither has to actually employ their usage, they just use their existence to ignore the world or force the world to not ignore them. One or both may be quite willing to provide proxies the means to employ nuclear bombs or dirty bombs. They will of course declare they "had nothing to do with it" and hide behind the threat of "defending themselves versus unjust attacks from the West".
Pakistan and India are actually more rational than Iran and North Korea, and frankly that is not reassuring.
Since we know Iran will get the bomb the new goal is to prevent them from delivering it.
for every tax paid by a corporation they have to get it from a person by selling services or goods.
It is simply indirect taxation of the populace. It is a far easier sale to the population than taking it directly, hell why do you think withholding taxes works so well.
If all taxes came directly from individuals too many would ask questions politicians would not want to answer.
I have an Acer One. It has a screen that is only 600 pixels tall which makes most browser use a pain in the ass. It comes with 1g memory and supports a maximum of two gig. It is tiny but its not thin. It is powered by an Atom processor, weak internal Intel Graphics, and has a 4200rpm drive (120 or 160, I forget - its fairly large). Comparing this to the MBA 11.6. The new MBA has better processor power, incredibly better graphics ability, and its damn small. It also appears more sturdy than netbooks which all I have seen are just black plastic jobs with an odd battery hump. Now my Acer's screen is pretty , its LED lit, but the 600 resolution in vertical really hampers its usage. I found Chrome to be ideal compared to other browsers which hog a fourth of the screen for the top bars and title.
That out of the way, the Air is very high priced in the standard 11.6 configuration. My Acer One with Windows 7 Starter was only $200 dollars at Target. Granted it was a sale but damn, throw on a monitor/kb/mouse for another $100 and you have a wonderful little machine to read mail/surf/etc at home for anyone. Something that takes up hardly any space. Still I would like to buy the Air. It comes with OS X, I can bootcamp to 7 or possibly use Parallels with it (not sure - will need to see some performance tests). The boost to 4g memory and flash drive should really kick up performance.
Not a netbook, its an ultra portable notebook. It has a real screen and a real keyboard and that is what separates the two
Yet, somehow, granted his stay in Congress was short, he had the audacity to believe that a President rules. He came in; this is also the fault of his people; with the idea they could run the show. Somehow they perceived that Bush "ruled" and thereby they could too. How his Administration; I am looking at Rahm; and such could have such an upside down view of the current state of politics is beyond me. He blew it right off the bat by handing off all the big bills to Congress to craft and they crafted bills only committees could craft, hulking messes full of graft and crap. When he gave up his leadership role that early he lost any chance of getting it back. Pelosi and Reid run the show, he is just there to put a face on it and also deflect blame, be the lightning rod, be the one they can claim opponents to their legislative crap are really his opponents and only because of his race.
Carter tried and failed by confronting his party and as such became a single term President because he could do nothing. Reagan succeeded by personality as did Clinton. Bush #1 meandered and was relegated to a single term. Bush #2 stepped up after 9/11, frankly I figured he would be a single term, but he provided leadership when it was needed before falling off nearly completely in 08. Obama best hope he can find a good Republican foil in the House to let him step up, Clinton had Gingrinch but honestly I don't even think a Gingrinch can save Obama. He first needs to rule himself before he can lead the US. He comes off as too quick to castigate, he looks for the bad guy across the isle all the while ignoring the fact his own party minimizes him more, hell he had majorities that were proof against the minority party and he still could not get his party in line.
No, inspire comes after you have shown you can lead, he cannot. He got handed accolades before he tried and apparently that set him back further than even his most ardent foes could have hoped.
installed with Windows or OS X at the factory, with the costs hidden in the purchase, the public won't care.
To them it is "free" because the cost is not broken out. If you would challenge them most would come back and say a) they don't care, b) the makers get such big discounts it doesn't matter, or c) like what can you do?
So, the purchasing public doesn't see a need for a "free" OS when it just comes with the machine. When a new Windows upgrade finally comes down people can just buy a new cheaper computer to replace that "old slow one". People with Apples, well if its new and shiny (I own two Macs, so don't pelt me with rotten food)
Religion is not a buffet bar you saunter up to and select from the various rules from all available. While those of faith are rarely perfect in their adherence they acknowledge what is. To claim the church is not moral because a survey declares gay marriage as acceptable is a stretch. By the standards of Christian (and and in Islam and Judaism as well) the gay lifestyle is far from acceptable.
I guess you could say that certain loud parts of society are upset they cannot change what is and therefor declare what offends them as immoral.
So whether or not you agree with gay marriage/lifestyle/etc it do not expect to change religion, do not expect to minimize it by declaring it the problem either. I am quite sure you will find lots of positives in that survey who would not tolerate a gay couple in their circle of friends but are afraid of answering a poll in a way not considered politically correct. Can you change morality by intimidation?
when he starts picking on nations known to remove people who offend them. He picks on a target that cannot afford to take him down. While the US has its flaws it is far far from being the worst of the lot when it comes to the strong countries of this world. The difference is that most of the others would have no fear of dealing with him.
Ain't going to happen. Oh, I know, you must be one of the few who can tell 1080i from 1080p as well, or other such fun. Your example sizes are wrong for 15' foot viewing distances, you need a larger screen. So yeah, if you buy the wrong tv for where you plan to use it no one can help you.
There is a large difference in many DVD versus Blu-Ray, spend some time on any reputable AV forum and you will see (AVS is great) Many of the transfers done to Blu are far beyond the quality of regular DVD, if not just image but sound. The most common problem people have with digital TVs is they over saturate their pictures and that can take away the detail quality of the image.
Watch your wonderful 99 cent purchases, you can end up burying yourself faster with those as it doesn't feel like much till you look at it by month and yearly expenditures. I know a few people who blew right by $100 before they realized it all the while bragging how much they saved
it is woefully overdue. Ramp it up to 4gb of memory at least, being stuck at 2gb really limits the device. Prices of SSD should allow it to be the only storage offering available.
Apple still needs something to excite the lower end consumer, the Mac Mini doesn't cut it as it doesn't even come with keyboard and mouse which really does put off some people. I think they would be best served offering it up with keyboard, mouse, and a decent (read:no ips) stand alone display. Give people a complete solution and try to get all this into their hands for as near to $500 you can. Yeah, I know, we can't reach that price point, but I don't see why 699 isn't possible with the screen instead of being the price for just the box. I know it won't happen, but it something has got to give. Perhaps a cheaper packaging of the mini components would do the trick.
Having seen people in Best Buy they never do much other than look at the price and then go play with the iPad.
but if it appears on our network without previous authorization all hell breaks loose. Whether from internal or external auditors to just the network people freaking out. SOX reporting pretty much insures anything for us that can store information, even in transition, is documented, accounted for, and has its approvals all in order.
No, government is in a league of its own, there number of redundant programs and such is probably worthy of three to five years worth of investigation. They don't answer to anyone because no one bothers. A bunch of little kingdoms with no accountability because their budget entry is buried
I take the title of the shortened article, paste it into Google, and usually I find a version in the first two entries that allows me to read the entire article. It must be a barrier to the lazy.
Its bad enough people believe lines said by comedians are the actual lines of some high profile people, how can we hope that people will care enough to know if the video they are seeing is not edited? Hollywood doesn't need the tech to make movies, maybe to "fix" reality shows, but I figure politics is where the mileage comes in.
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something that large just doesn't get launched near a major metropolitan area to test.
The plume on that missile was very large, so one has to assume it came from the US Navy, or someone similarly equipped.
I doubt it was a secret test, most likely the office contacted at the Pentagon doesn't have permission to release the information. The worst case scenario is that no one takes credit and the Pentagon lets conspiracy theory people take over. Launching a ballistic missile from close to US shores at someone else would be a very dangerous move for any nation. If it isn't ours, some heads are going to roll that it could take place. If it is ours, someone is still going to get the roll over for being so daft as to let it get out of hand
because I doubt consumers will accept colors that don't jump out at them having been used to color LCD screens for so long.
I guess it really depends on how muted those colors are, if its like the screen is always dark or fuzzy its DOA.
I won't touch the new Nook (color LCD) or an iPad simply because battery life and usability out doors is so compromised.
for deletion requests its as good as not having a law requiring the ability to delete the information.
Like this light problem....
Don't send them any more light, you want to help these people, send them u-hauls, luggage, boxes. If you people would live where the LIGHT IS!
Why don't you people move to where the LIGHT IS!
like how the ease of use of the Wii did (well once they fixed that damned controller). The difference is, with the Wii you can "game" it. As in, half the time the motions you make with the controller really don't have any bearing on what your avatar is doing. What I have see of kinect is that we finally have a system which does what you physically do. None of the "interpretation" like the Wii controller .
It will probably open up gaming to more people now. I can see great uses in exercise programs here, your own personal trainer who really does know if your doing it right. Think of the ability to extend this to at home rehabilitation! That alone makes this device a break through.
Many of us keep lamenting all those wonder sci fi depictions of what computer technology can do and when its delivered some simply dismiss it because its from Microsoft.
It is a good start. Perhaps it will give other people the inspiration to help us make a real leap.
from when the other side controls it?
Really. Tell me. Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin. The key to it all is that we the people don't control the coin.
My license has one of those complex bar codes on the back. Why not produce a receipt encoded with this value, the allow the voter in votes that are contested by the candidates to be able to return to a polling place and swipe the results to see that their vote was accepted? If like my voting place, no one but the voter is allowed at the booth except under very special circumstances. This of course would require making sure that the poll watchers only permit the owner of the strip to use it.
Even with such a system you can engineer abuses. I find that many stamping their feet over e-voting are those who stand a better chance of manipulating results if a paper system is used. Regardless of system employed, we also need a simple means to ensure people are who they say they are and they only vote once per election.
Still its good to see many people concerned with the privacy of their vote. Just remember your friends in union shops as some in Congress want to take away the secret ballot in union votes just for the purpose of intimidation.
The House take over, while expected, is not the big news. The major push Republicans made at the state level shows the strength of the move. Actually by not winning the Senate the Republicans may have preserved the ability to take the White House in 2012. Given that there are more Democratic Senators up for election in 12 than Republicans they have a near majority on many issues.
God, Gays, and Subpoena's, are about the best way for Republicans to knock themselves out of the House control in 12, as in, lean into any of those areas too far and the voters will show them the door.
Do I expect budget miracles, nope. I expect a whole lot of gridlock, preventing new large government programs from being implemented. That will do us nicely. The government has been on a binge of spending in the last four years and needs to be reigned in. Too much of the government spending is untouchable but if the line can be held, by gridlock or vote, to where spending does not go up by more than 2% per year the economy can grow us out of the deficit spending.
However, like I read elsewhere, the good news is the Democrats lost the House, the bad news is the Republicans won it. Like Rove and a few others mention, Washington doesn't care what the country thinks and the Senate is the worst of the lot. As in, Tea Party candidates, candidates of "change", or whatnot, are in for one rude surprise. The nice thing about the Senate however is that regardless of seniority or committee assignment anyone can submit new legislation
Was is a slap in the face of Democrats. Sure it was, just like 08 was us telling Republicans, no more of this crap; let alone don't expect us to vote for rights killers like McCain. Obama and Pelosi got told, there are no Kings and Queens in America, so quit acting like one.
and not try to make societal statements. I mean, how hard is it to stamp our feet, display our angst on message boards, and not buy a game we weren't going to buy in the first place.
Sometimes this generation depresses me, too many put more effort protesting makers of games than those running their lives.
so dead that Apple has to send me e-mail telling me I should buy the new Microsoft Office for the Mac, which I am but I would love One Note as well.
was that is was not 9 to 0.
Any restriction on political speech should not exist. It would have only been a matter of time before the only groups allowed to make political speech are approved wholly by the people they are electing. People form groups, corporations, unions, non-profits, and the like, to give more weight to their voice. The individual long lost their ability to sway the politicians, but a group of them, regardless of how they are formed, still holds that power.
What CU did was strike down the ability of government to define acceptable groups. As in, the politicians saw the power that these groups had over them and reacted to prevent anyone not in their pocket from exercising influence over them. As in, they wished to not be held accountable to the people regardless how the people formed.
There will always be a special interest group with more money and influence than we like, that is part of the process. Some are better setup than others, it doesn't mean they have to win.
and taking a pissy attitude towards them over how they choose to enforce the intellectual rights and protect their properties does not affect those of us who buy the games to play them. We don't have false bravdo by thumping our chests on message boards. Some of us spend our efforts where it actually matters, like helping out at MUST ministries, doing the quarterly (it seems like more) Habitat for Humanity, and donating time and other monies to charities. Hell I even spend time helping a friend get elected to our county board.
Your own tone suggest you left rational behind. Blizzard makes games, that is all I see them for. Just like I see Hollywood actors for nothing more than the roles they play. I certainly am not affected by their attempts to curb cheating, if not curb the mentality that one should be allowed to cheat whenever possible as if they are somehow entitled to do so.
Look, this type of stuff is crap. Go expend your time and angst doing something which helps people who need the help. Mod me down to hell, I really don't care, there are far too many losers who "take up causes on message boards" because it lets them feel as if they belong, or are oppressed somehow, but in the end they don't have to do something or expend any real effort. I really don't know why sites like /. attract the sort or mod them as if its honorable or such, man against evil corporation? In the end no one will remember, help serve food, see smiles on people's faces when you help them, now there is something to direct your energy too.
Yeah I know, the bogeyman is under the bed. Still the DRM that Blizzard has employed has never interfered with my games from them. I guess I am just too damn boring. I live with Steam DRM and see people bellyache about it as well. You can't win them all. The few games I do have without DRM seem to come from companies with games I find myself not playing long. So I take the bad with the good and go on with life. It is just a game and honestly taking a stand on DRM is about the least of my concerns. I have more important things to worry about. I play games to enjoy myself, so far no DRM system has impacted me. I grew up in the days where floppy discs had bad sectors for copy protection, manual checks, and code wheels. I just take it all in stride because in the end... it is just a game.
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Of course Iran won't use them immediately, but they have their proxies who they can make use of them or related material. Regardless, they will simply become more belligerent because they know the world doesn't want to force a confrontation, so they will keep pushing, keep moving the line, and get away with more abuses to include attacking other counties believing they are safe because they have the bomb.
North Korea can make up any offense they want, they are good at it. They are quite willing to sell knowledge.
So, neither has to actually employ their usage, they just use their existence to ignore the world or force the world to not ignore them. One or both may be quite willing to provide proxies the means to employ nuclear bombs or dirty bombs. They will of course declare they "had nothing to do with it" and hide behind the threat of "defending themselves versus unjust attacks from the West".
Pakistan and India are actually more rational than Iran and North Korea, and frankly that is not reassuring.
Since we know Iran will get the bomb the new goal is to prevent them from delivering it.
for every tax paid by a corporation they have to get it from a person by selling services or goods.
It is simply indirect taxation of the populace. It is a far easier sale to the population than taking it directly, hell why do you think withholding taxes works so well.
If all taxes came directly from individuals too many would ask questions politicians would not want to answer.
I have an Acer One. It has a screen that is only 600 pixels tall which makes most browser use a pain in the ass. It comes with 1g memory and supports a maximum of two gig. It is tiny but its not thin. It is powered by an Atom processor, weak internal Intel Graphics, and has a 4200rpm drive (120 or 160, I forget - its fairly large). Comparing this to the MBA 11.6. The new MBA has better processor power, incredibly better graphics ability, and its damn small. It also appears more sturdy than netbooks which all I have seen are just black plastic jobs with an odd battery hump. Now my Acer's screen is pretty , its LED lit, but the 600 resolution in vertical really hampers its usage. I found Chrome to be ideal compared to other browsers which hog a fourth of the screen for the top bars and title.
That out of the way, the Air is very high priced in the standard 11.6 configuration. My Acer One with Windows 7 Starter was only $200 dollars at Target. Granted it was a sale but damn, throw on a monitor/kb/mouse for another $100 and you have a wonderful little machine to read mail/surf/etc at home for anyone. Something that takes up hardly any space. Still I would like to buy the Air. It comes with OS X, I can bootcamp to 7 or possibly use Parallels with it (not sure - will need to see some performance tests). The boost to 4g memory and flash drive should really kick up performance.
Not a netbook, its an ultra portable notebook. It has a real screen and a real keyboard and that is what separates the two
Yet, somehow, granted his stay in Congress was short, he had the audacity to believe that a President rules. He came in; this is also the fault of his people; with the idea they could run the show. Somehow they perceived that Bush "ruled" and thereby they could too. How his Administration; I am looking at Rahm; and such could have such an upside down view of the current state of politics is beyond me. He blew it right off the bat by handing off all the big bills to Congress to craft and they crafted bills only committees could craft, hulking messes full of graft and crap. When he gave up his leadership role that early he lost any chance of getting it back. Pelosi and Reid run the show, he is just there to put a face on it and also deflect blame, be the lightning rod, be the one they can claim opponents to their legislative crap are really his opponents and only because of his race.
Carter tried and failed by confronting his party and as such became a single term President because he could do nothing. Reagan succeeded by personality as did Clinton. Bush #1 meandered and was relegated to a single term. Bush #2 stepped up after 9/11, frankly I figured he would be a single term, but he provided leadership when it was needed before falling off nearly completely in 08. Obama best hope he can find a good Republican foil in the House to let him step up, Clinton had Gingrinch but honestly I don't even think a Gingrinch can save Obama. He first needs to rule himself before he can lead the US. He comes off as too quick to castigate, he looks for the bad guy across the isle all the while ignoring the fact his own party minimizes him more, hell he had majorities that were proof against the minority party and he still could not get his party in line.
No, inspire comes after you have shown you can lead, he cannot. He got handed accolades before he tried and apparently that set him back further than even his most ardent foes could have hoped.
installed with Windows or OS X at the factory, with the costs hidden in the purchase, the public won't care.
To them it is "free" because the cost is not broken out. If you would challenge them most would come back and say a) they don't care, b) the makers get such big discounts it doesn't matter, or c) like what can you do?
So, the purchasing public doesn't see a need for a "free" OS when it just comes with the machine. When a new Windows upgrade finally comes down people can just buy a new cheaper computer to replace that "old slow one". People with Apples, well if its new and shiny (I own two Macs, so don't pelt me with rotten food)
the Church is automatically on the wrong side.
Religion is not a buffet bar you saunter up to and select from the various rules from all available. While those of faith are rarely perfect in their adherence they acknowledge what is. To claim the church is not moral because a survey declares gay marriage as acceptable is a stretch. By the standards of Christian (and and in Islam and Judaism as well) the gay lifestyle is far from acceptable.
I guess you could say that certain loud parts of society are upset they cannot change what is and therefor declare what offends them as immoral.
So whether or not you agree with gay marriage/lifestyle/etc it do not expect to change religion, do not expect to minimize it by declaring it the problem either. I am quite sure you will find lots of positives in that survey who would not tolerate a gay couple in their circle of friends but are afraid of answering a poll in a way not considered politically correct. Can you change morality by intimidation?
when he starts picking on nations known to remove people who offend them. He picks on a target that cannot afford to take him down. While the US has its flaws it is far far from being the worst of the lot when it comes to the strong countries of this world. The difference is that most of the others would have no fear of dealing with him.
Ain't going to happen. Oh, I know, you must be one of the few who can tell 1080i from 1080p as well, or other such fun. Your example sizes are wrong for 15' foot viewing distances, you need a larger screen. So yeah, if you buy the wrong tv for where you plan to use it no one can help you.
There is a large difference in many DVD versus Blu-Ray, spend some time on any reputable AV forum and you will see (AVS is great) Many of the transfers done to Blu are far beyond the quality of regular DVD, if not just image but sound. The most common problem people have with digital TVs is they over saturate their pictures and that can take away the detail quality of the image.
Watch your wonderful 99 cent purchases, you can end up burying yourself faster with those as it doesn't feel like much till you look at it by month and yearly expenditures. I know a few people who blew right by $100 before they realized it all the while bragging how much they saved
it is woefully overdue. Ramp it up to 4gb of memory at least, being stuck at 2gb really limits the device. Prices of SSD should allow it to be the only storage offering available.
Apple still needs something to excite the lower end consumer, the Mac Mini doesn't cut it as it doesn't even come with keyboard and mouse which really does put off some people. I think they would be best served offering it up with keyboard, mouse, and a decent (read:no ips) stand alone display. Give people a complete solution and try to get all this into their hands for as near to $500 you can. Yeah, I know, we can't reach that price point, but I don't see why 699 isn't possible with the screen instead of being the price for just the box. I know it won't happen, but it something has got to give. Perhaps a cheaper packaging of the mini components would do the trick.
Having seen people in Best Buy they never do much other than look at the price and then go play with the iPad.
but if it appears on our network without previous authorization all hell breaks loose. Whether from internal or external auditors to just the network people freaking out. SOX reporting pretty much insures anything for us that can store information, even in transition, is documented, accounted for, and has its approvals all in order.
No, government is in a league of its own, there number of redundant programs and such is probably worthy of three to five years worth of investigation. They don't answer to anyone because no one bothers. A bunch of little kingdoms with no accountability because their budget entry is buried
I take the title of the shortened article, paste it into Google, and usually I find a version in the first two entries that allows me to read the entire article. It must be a barrier to the lazy.
comes to life then?
Its bad enough people believe lines said by comedians are the actual lines of some high profile people, how can we hope that people will care enough to know if the video they are seeing is not edited? Hollywood doesn't need the tech to make movies, maybe to "fix" reality shows, but I figure politics is where the mileage comes in.