Tesla has to get out now. They are simply one of the better marketed names in this upcoming industry. If anything the cars coming down the road in the next year or two (pun, I know) will make this car look amateurish.
Other than the chassis and frame this is not a great example of the technology. The chassis and frame were done by an established company and hence this confined the ability to do something different.
Whether you agree with them of not, hippies' (sometimes overzealous) efforts to bring to everyone's attention the effect humans have on the world is not ignorable. You may not know it, but your lifestyle is dependent on that "fucking rare tortoise" you demean so crassly.
Except that as a group they can never agree on everything. In other words, what one thinks is bad the other thinks is fine, usually because the latter is doing just that.
Look, any child can declare the habits of someone else offensive, bad, or wasteful. Its another to just shut up and lead by example. For every moron declaring homes are too big I look at them and wonder what made them settle on their house, how is that they define perfect? The real fallacy is many of these "hippies" based their usage rules on our society, somehow totally missing the fact that in many other areas of the world people would find them grossly excessive.
All systems impact the earth, but what irks me the most is how so many try to vilify America or fellow Americans. Sorry, but I went to former Soviet states while some were still under their thumb and even afterward. America has nothing on what the Soviet states did to the environment.
If she published it on the web how does her age protect her? Actually how is someone to know the age of the publisher within reasonable certainty?
If the mother should be mad at anyone it is at the daughter. This is just one big "duh" case. Its sad to see that "lack of self responsibility" crowd exists on both sides of the pond.
I saw references to it going away on some blogs and even one or two news sites.
think about it, the more restrictions that are placed on their being able to QOS types of traffic or such the more likely they will introduce hard caps by simple removing the unlimited as an option.
I look at it this way, if I can get cheaper access with caps I will take it. I don't care to subsidize anyone. This isn't the government holding a gun to my head and as such if someone comes along as says "rate X for price Y" and its cheaper I'm there.
The number of child abuse cases involving teachers is very heavily buried. States enact laws to protect themselves from abuses committed by teachers and other school officials. The reasons the priesthood stood out so much was because it was both wrong and a great soapbox for anti-religion zealots to scream "see see see!"
I can cite any number of examples of various job categories and claim they are predisposed to abuse children, its just a fact that anyone group around children is going to have people in it of bad intent.
The real fact is, people always think its the "other" guy that is the problem, their representative is the "good one". Just like when public school discussions come up, the one you send your kid too is the best, its not like those "other" schools.
While I don't favor the idea of removing choice from our voting ability, term limits make sense because we really have no choice. Being able to choose one side of the same coin over another is not a choice. Democrats and Republicans are most often the only people we can choose to vote for and they work to redistrict us out of alternatives and worse write laws which are backed by courts and even the press to prevent third party candidates from given a chance. The D & R parties don't care about their voters, just look how the Democrats have dismissed Michigan and Florida voters, yet will scream sometime down the road as in the past that "Every vote must count" - that is until the vote isn't to their liking.
I would prefer term limits, 2 terms in Congress, no more. It can mean twice as a Senator, twice as a Representative, or once as both.
Someone mentioned that Senators don't represent us but instead represent the states. That is wrong, they USED to represent the states but that protection for the states was lost by Amendment turning over their election to popular vote. This coincided nicely with the run up in Federal Power assisted by stacked courts. If anything the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed or we need term limits. Until Congress again answers to the public we will never have our rights protected.
When the people who govern you are not afraid of you you have no right.
OK, I know that the subject line is trolling but look at it this way, it almost seems at times if some actions of the world and even own our politics are just the opposite of whatever Bush declares just to be "opposite of Bush".
Regimes like this exist for the same reason that Iraq existed for so long. Western nations don't necessarily have the stomach to put an end to them. We have lapsed back into the thirties where people were more concerned with their well being and as long as the rest of the world left them alone they couldn't care what happened to these "other" people. See it costs nothing to ignore other people "over there". Works the same for Europe as well as the United States.
Life is grand with our cellphones, computers, lattes, and satellite TV. Why should they care? Oh, because festering wounds like this breed organizations who see nothing wrong with targeting civilians. Countries like this focus the ire of their people outward so they continue the oppression internally. All the while declaring it is to crack down on people looking to harm them.
No uprising? Gee, go figure. We can't even get enough people to peacefully kick out the Democrats and Republicans from office here and yet if you read blogs, message boards, and sites like this you would think the world is ending. The difference there in Iran and similar countries is that the government has already shown its willingness to kill its own people.
Here is a better question that needs to be asked of world leaders, why in the hell is China hosting the Olympics? Constant threats to Taiwan, which they will probably overrun in a few years, trampling rights in Tibet, and needless to say that little incident a lifetime ago in a certain square.
Simple answer. Its far easier to turn away. Its far easier to look inside our own borders and pretend the world of bad people really doesn't exist. Yes, there be monsters and covering your head under the sheets only works for so long. Then again occasionally that pesky world gets enough gumption to do something drastic like flying planes into buildings. It will happen again because while we don't have the stomach for wars these people do.
or a couple of fancy public restrooms in some Congressman's district for a park any rarely uses.
Earmarks alone consume more science money than we can imagine. Look, the DOD will always be here, its a requirement to maintain our standard of living and be able to scare the pants of petty 3rd world dictators who think neighboring countries are new areas to invade or people of certain ethnic traits need to die.
The real crime in our government is earmarks, essentially buying their seats of power with our tax dollars. I was dumb enough to expect some change when the Democrats moved in on their campaign of Republican corruption but they are far more corrupt that those replaced. Hell they have tried to pass rules to hide earmarks or use fancy talk to hide the fact of what they were. I just wish there were some real viable 3rd parties but for every good idea many have they have too many crackpots to be taken seriously. This doesn't even count the problems the face with the press which is in bed with the Democrats and Republicans.
Worse, some of the people running for office are suggesting cuts in NASA! This is all about votes, NASA and weirdly named science groups don't garner votes like a new highway; conveniently named for your local Congressmen; library, swimming pool, or yeah, a glorified outhouse.
I would rather pay for those 6m seats in a F22 than in an outhouse.
Sheesh people, they want you to bitch about the war and the military. It allows them to roll right on by under your nose while you have it up in the air in "righteous indignation". Keep buying it. Maybe someone will come along and promise change.... and you will buy that like we did in 2006
who have billions in endowments and yet sit on it? The numbers than some of the ivy league colleges have and essentially sit on is staggering. Yet the costs of college keep going up further locking many out of the loop. Those billions are just as "shady" invested as anything B&G do. Hell I bet I could designate shady anyone's investment, if your only intent is to vilify its damn easy to do.
because the high speed net isn't really doing anything for the majority of people except separating them from their money.
Look, my grand parents and my parents to a similar degree are from a more responsible generation. They didn't burden themselves down with so many monthlies that marketing gurus have dreamed up to separate us from our money. I can't count the number of people I know who scrape by but refuse to acknowledge how they drain their income relentlessly through monthlies. Its only $1 dollar a day! Its only 1.49 a day! Its just $100 a month.
Sheesh. These same people wonder why I can drive and own a new car when I want it. They don't understand the magic of being able to buy something I want when I want it for CASH. I don't look at each month as a routine of $30 here, $50 there, and $100 there, and having to do with X minus a whole lot of Ys.
For the most part with current offerings all high speed internet does is satisfy our impatience. There really isn't that much different to the net for many of us that wasn't there a few years ago. A lot people justify it by "well I might want to do X" and such. Words to make a marketer's ears perk and for them salivate over.
Hell if anything this survey tells me there are many Americans with a real life. Call them hicks, backwards trolls, whatever, I know many do just so they can justify their spending money like it comes from trees. It certainly makes it easier to pass these people off as ignorant but at the end of day who is happier?
I am in this camp as well, but I think my preference comes from years of working with 5250 sessions on an iSeries and 3270 on a mainframe. There is something to be said for what others came up with before. Sometimes the simplest solution is to look to the past.
Sorry, I am in a very large guild and not one of the members has been hacked in months. The only two "hacks" that occurred before that were from account sharing to farm BGs.
In other words, the majority of so called hacks can be limited to.
1. Sharing accounts (this is big, I don't understand how you can trust someone you never met in the flesh with your account info) 2. Buying accounts (and subsequent original owner recalling it) 3. Stupid use of the same userid for either in game names or non-blizzard forums. Points for those dumb enough to use the same password. 4. Powerleveling services. 5. Rarely, disgruntled SOs
It might be a serious problem but its not a common one. If it were common every WOW-hater would be shouting it out on competing game forums or wherever such haters gather.
What this does do is give people more assurance that they can't get compromised when they get careless, like not using good virus checkers for windows users and visiting a compromised site or having partaken of any of the items I listed.
How many people tune their radio more than once? I mean, really, this comparison is just silly. The majority of us set our stations early on and rarely go back and change it. Combined with on wheel controls you can flip through your channels and CDs without ever moving your eye. If you don't have enough coordination to do that then why are you driving?
Talking with someone in the car isn't the same as texting. I bet many drivers out there are quite capable of keeping their eyes on the road while chatting with someone in their car, I doubt the same could be said about texting. Plus texting requires at least one hand to do, something talking doesn't (Well unless your one of those people who flag down planes while talking or look like your swatting spider webs). There isn't a real comparison.
You could compare talking on the phone to talking to others in your car. Texting is just to interactive to not be a distraction from driving.
The use of phones in cars, for voice or texting, really needs to be limited if not prohibited. If anything prohibited on some roads or at certain times where any distraction isn't going to help - like rush hour.
Clinton campaigned as the candidate of change too.
Tell me how much different he was from any other administration. It is nothing more than a motto that implies more than it delivers.
I am concerned strictly by how they have voted in the past. What is more telling are what votes they skipped out on or merely voted "present". The more important the issue that a candidate misses out on or votes present the more damning things it implies.
They are not being lenient, they are acting out of fear of lawsuits and funding cuts.
Lenient is the PC way of saying we're letting unqualified people in because they meet one quota or another. Lenient is PC for saying passing over better qualified students because they don't come with bonus money : read government funds.
One thing that does amaze me is some of the larger "private" schools who are sitting on billions all the while bemoaning the fact that the government doesn't do enough to pay for quota groups to attend. BILLIONS. Their interest alone would pay for many thousands to have access to their schools but they prefer to sit on it.
Sorry, the courts and congress have already decided that merit is not a valid measurement, especially if declaring one side having more offends another.
The one great truth too many people want to ignore is that we are not all created equal. The law can state otherwise, "feel gooders" can cry all they want, the PC police can declare the sentence "hate speech" but fortunately nature doesn't care.
I moved my office downstairs. Simply put, the lower floor is always cooler in summer and the heat difference in winter isn't justification to have a system upstairs.
As such, the upstairs is left at 82F during the day while not in use, goes down to 78 starting that nearly an hour before expected time to turn in.
In other words, the politicians are using word play to infer that the oil companies are drilling on the lands relying on public ignorance that a lease of oil producing lands does not equate to a guarantee of oil.
So basically, the process is. 1. Secure the lease 2. Get the permits to do test drilling 3. Do test drilling 4. Determine if its economically feasible to recover the oil 5. Get permits to actually to set up a site to manage it 6. Get permits to drill on the site 7. Go to court to keep your permits after being sued by every other environmentalist group 8. Drill for oil 9. Profit?
Remember the first rule : If a Congressman's lips are moving he is 99% of the time telling you a lie or a falsehood by omission.
Sorry but the government has already acted. Instead of just being tried for a crime of aggression someone can be tried for what others think the perpetrator was thinking before and during the crime. There have been numerous cases in the press where a criminal case fell apart only to be followed with a "Hate Crime" trial that succeeded because the accusation is all so nebulous. Political Correctness run amok.
The courts already have been twisted into thought control. Yet it is nearly always biased in its application. There is no black and white in the definition of hate speech or hate crimes. Words used by one group become criminal while another group can use them with impunity. That is the very real world we live in today. Unfortunately too many people willingly accept this because they don't have the courage to stand up those who truly profess hate and instead want to wield the club of government to do it for them. Worse, they want to use that threat of government to manipulate and control the system.
The press is in it deep, consistently engaging in the same practice selectively changing context of stories to make the portrayal more offensive than it ever was. We are constantly bombarded by guilt, twisted phrases used to imply any opposing thought is not only wrong but criminal so.
It was always going to eventually happen. Given the increasing market share of OS X it was only a matter of time before the hackers got interested. Yet even they had to wait till a sufficient base of idiots got into OS X to make their job easier. I know people who significant other has trashed home PCs more than once opening attachments or running attachments even after all the pop ups. Note the more than once.
People forget or get in a hurry. Its the hacker's job to exploit that nature. That makes it difficult for the owners of the OS because even if you require a password/etc to execute something many people will just do that, type in the password regardless. Its like the story of the young girl who was a latch key kid, told to never ever let people in the house while mom was gone. Yet she did three times and even denied it until shown the film showing these people being let in. Worse, she didn't recall because it was so automatic. She was distracted by something else and that focus let her pass over doing what was right.
I look at it this way on my iMac, if that password prompt comes up and I didn't click initiate it from some update I know came from Apple or I was loading a package I downloaded I am going cancel the process. Yet I am quite sure my friends SO would dutifully type the password in. Can't be helped. Sometimes people cannot accept they did something wrong even when you show them
but back in those days they were who we are now. I am quite certain that at the time they were coming out with various versions of DOS and when Windows landed that they felt the same. They were up against the big hardware guys fighting for respect that they didn't have. It took them a long time to get there and in the process. In the long run they grew out of the need to go in a new direction as we are doing again. It is a never ending process and we should be glad for it. I am sure somewhere down the road, say twenty years or so, there will be people posting on boards dismissing Linux or OS X as being special just as some write off Windows.
Take it in the context of its time. Yes there were other platforms I would have liked to see succeed but they didn't have the drive needed. Just like today there are some ideas out there I would think should be better positioned but they lack the support of the community. Just as many here have grabbed onto Linux there are still those who prefer another way and they pursue it. Are they wrong? I am certain that back then Amiga and Atari people didn't think they were but they failed to form a large enough presence and community at the time to stay. With the internet it should be much easier for good systems to come along and get their day in the sun but at the same time it is also like a choir where you try to pick out that one voice but can't.
I grew up in those days and remember thinking how cool it was. I played with desqtop (sp?) and other windowing platforms. Yet I also remember how we were still pulling away from IBM PC brands at that time too, I remember stores filled with PS/2s and if anything Windows and various versions of DOS got us out of the control of platform vendors. It certainly helped to bring costs down to where most people could participate and perhaps that alone leads to where we are today?
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that your reply was perfect in demonstrating the OPs case don't you.
That point is, you can't make all people happy but we are nearly stuck simply because with the current court system we might actually have to.
Tesla has to get out now. They are simply one of the better marketed names in this upcoming industry. If anything the cars coming down the road in the next year or two (pun, I know) will make this car look amateurish.
Other than the chassis and frame this is not a great example of the technology. The chassis and frame were done by an established company and hence this confined the ability to do something different.
Whether you agree with them of not, hippies' (sometimes overzealous) efforts to bring to everyone's attention the effect humans have on the world is not ignorable. You may not know it, but your lifestyle is dependent on that "fucking rare tortoise" you demean so crassly.
Except that as a group they can never agree on everything. In other words, what one thinks is bad the other thinks is fine, usually because the latter is doing just that.
Look, any child can declare the habits of someone else offensive, bad, or wasteful. Its another to just shut up and lead by example. For every moron declaring homes are too big I look at them and wonder what made them settle on their house, how is that they define perfect? The real fallacy is many of these "hippies" based their usage rules on our society, somehow totally missing the fact that in many other areas of the world people would find them grossly excessive.
All systems impact the earth, but what irks me the most is how so many try to vilify America or fellow Americans. Sorry, but I went to former Soviet states while some were still under their thumb and even afterward. America has nothing on what the Soviet states did to the environment.
If she published it on the web how does her age protect her? Actually how is someone to know the age of the publisher within reasonable certainty?
If the mother should be mad at anyone it is at the daughter. This is just one big "duh" case. Its sad to see that "lack of self responsibility" crowd exists on both sides of the pond.
away?
I saw references to it going away on some blogs and even one or two news sites.
think about it, the more restrictions that are placed on their being able to QOS types of traffic or such the more likely they will introduce hard caps by simple removing the unlimited as an option.
I look at it this way, if I can get cheaper access with caps I will take it. I don't care to subsidize anyone. This isn't the government holding a gun to my head and as such if someone comes along as says "rate X for price Y" and its cheaper I'm there.
It will be curious what happens in the market
Its as good of a question to ask of teachers too.
The number of child abuse cases involving teachers is very heavily buried. States enact laws to protect themselves from abuses committed by teachers and other school officials. The reasons the priesthood stood out so much was because it was both wrong and a great soapbox for anti-religion zealots to scream "see see see!"
I can cite any number of examples of various job categories and claim they are predisposed to abuse children, its just a fact that anyone group around children is going to have people in it of bad intent.
of the mental limitations? What are the issues you have discussed concerning adapting humans mentally to living so long?
I think this means John Madden is now the final boss you face in Diablo 3
The real fact is, people always think its the "other" guy that is the problem, their representative is the "good one". Just like when public school discussions come up, the one you send your kid too is the best, its not like those "other" schools.
While I don't favor the idea of removing choice from our voting ability, term limits make sense because we really have no choice. Being able to choose one side of the same coin over another is not a choice. Democrats and Republicans are most often the only people we can choose to vote for and they work to redistrict us out of alternatives and worse write laws which are backed by courts and even the press to prevent third party candidates from given a chance. The D & R parties don't care about their voters, just look how the Democrats have dismissed Michigan and Florida voters, yet will scream sometime down the road as in the past that "Every vote must count" - that is until the vote isn't to their liking.
I would prefer term limits, 2 terms in Congress, no more. It can mean twice as a Senator, twice as a Representative, or once as both.
Someone mentioned that Senators don't represent us but instead represent the states. That is wrong, they USED to represent the states but that protection for the states was lost by Amendment turning over their election to popular vote. This coincided nicely with the run up in Federal Power assisted by stacked courts. If anything the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed or we need term limits. Until Congress again answers to the public we will never have our rights protected.
When the people who govern you are not afraid of you you have no right.
Actually what it comes down to is, will it get to the right court.
OK, I know that the subject line is trolling but look at it this way, it almost seems at times if some actions of the world and even own our politics are just the opposite of whatever Bush declares just to be "opposite of Bush".
Regimes like this exist for the same reason that Iraq existed for so long. Western nations don't necessarily have the stomach to put an end to them. We have lapsed back into the thirties where people were more concerned with their well being and as long as the rest of the world left them alone they couldn't care what happened to these "other" people. See it costs nothing to ignore other people "over there". Works the same for Europe as well as the United States.
Life is grand with our cellphones, computers, lattes, and satellite TV. Why should they care? Oh, because festering wounds like this breed organizations who see nothing wrong with targeting civilians. Countries like this focus the ire of their people outward so they continue the oppression internally. All the while declaring it is to crack down on people looking to harm them.
No uprising? Gee, go figure. We can't even get enough people to peacefully kick out the Democrats and Republicans from office here and yet if you read blogs, message boards, and sites like this you would think the world is ending. The difference there in Iran and similar countries is that the government has already shown its willingness to kill its own people.
Here is a better question that needs to be asked of world leaders, why in the hell is China hosting the Olympics? Constant threats to Taiwan, which they will probably overrun in a few years, trampling rights in Tibet, and needless to say that little incident a lifetime ago in a certain square.
Simple answer. Its far easier to turn away. Its far easier to look inside our own borders and pretend the world of bad people really doesn't exist. Yes, there be monsters and covering your head under the sheets only works for so long. Then again occasionally that pesky world gets enough gumption to do something drastic like flying planes into buildings. It will happen again because while we don't have the stomach for wars these people do.
or a couple of fancy public restrooms in some Congressman's district for a park any rarely uses.
Earmarks alone consume more science money than we can imagine. Look, the DOD will always be here, its a requirement to maintain our standard of living and be able to scare the pants of petty 3rd world dictators who think neighboring countries are new areas to invade or people of certain ethnic traits need to die.
The real crime in our government is earmarks, essentially buying their seats of power with our tax dollars. I was dumb enough to expect some change when the Democrats moved in on their campaign of Republican corruption but they are far more corrupt that those replaced. Hell they have tried to pass rules to hide earmarks or use fancy talk to hide the fact of what they were. I just wish there were some real viable 3rd parties but for every good idea many have they have too many crackpots to be taken seriously. This doesn't even count the problems the face with the press which is in bed with the Democrats and Republicans.
Worse, some of the people running for office are suggesting cuts in NASA! This is all about votes, NASA and weirdly named science groups don't garner votes like a new highway; conveniently named for your local Congressmen; library, swimming pool, or yeah, a glorified outhouse.
I would rather pay for those 6m seats in a F22 than in an outhouse.
Oh, yeah a bit of exaggeration but 200k for an outhouse does happen and its "justified" http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080601/NEWS/806010321/1001
219k for wool research? Happened.
Think the Congress will take action, oh yeah, they told us loud and clear http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/13/earmark.vote/ and http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11451.html
Want more ? http://earmarks.omb.gov/by-tracking/summary.html
Sheesh people, they want you to bitch about the war and the military. It allows them to roll right on by under your nose while you have it up in the air in "righteous indignation". Keep buying it. Maybe someone will come along and promise change .... and you will buy that like we did in 2006
who have billions in endowments and yet sit on it? The numbers than some of the ivy league colleges have and essentially sit on is staggering. Yet the costs of college keep going up further locking many out of the loop. Those billions are just as "shady" invested as anything B&G do. Hell I bet I could designate shady anyone's investment, if your only intent is to vilify its damn easy to do.
because the high speed net isn't really doing anything for the majority of people except separating them from their money.
Look, my grand parents and my parents to a similar degree are from a more responsible generation. They didn't burden themselves down with so many monthlies that marketing gurus have dreamed up to separate us from our money. I can't count the number of people I know who scrape by but refuse to acknowledge how they drain their income relentlessly through monthlies. Its only $1 dollar a day! Its only 1.49 a day! Its just $100 a month.
Sheesh. These same people wonder why I can drive and own a new car when I want it. They don't understand the magic of being able to buy something I want when I want it for CASH. I don't look at each month as a routine of $30 here, $50 there, and $100 there, and having to do with X minus a whole lot of Ys.
For the most part with current offerings all high speed internet does is satisfy our impatience. There really isn't that much different to the net for many of us that wasn't there a few years ago. A lot people justify it by "well I might want to do X" and such. Words to make a marketer's ears perk and for them salivate over.
Hell if anything this survey tells me there are many Americans with a real life. Call them hicks, backwards trolls, whatever, I know many do just so they can justify their spending money like it comes from trees. It certainly makes it easier to pass these people off as ignorant but at the end of day who is happier?
I am in this camp as well, but I think my preference comes from years of working with 5250 sessions on an iSeries and 3270 on a mainframe. There is something to be said for what others came up with before. Sometimes the simplest solution is to look to the past.
Sorry, I am in a very large guild and not one of the members has been hacked in months. The only two "hacks" that occurred before that were from account sharing to farm BGs.
In other words, the majority of so called hacks can be limited to.
1. Sharing accounts (this is big, I don't understand how you can trust someone you never met in the flesh with your account info)
2. Buying accounts (and subsequent original owner recalling it)
3. Stupid use of the same userid for either in game names or non-blizzard forums. Points for those dumb enough to use the same password.
4. Powerleveling services.
5. Rarely, disgruntled SOs
It might be a serious problem but its not a common one. If it were common every WOW-hater would be shouting it out on competing game forums or wherever such haters gather.
What this does do is give people more assurance that they can't get compromised when they get careless, like not using good virus checkers for windows users and visiting a compromised site or having partaken of any of the items I listed.
How many people tune their radio more than once? I mean, really, this comparison is just silly. The majority of us set our stations early on and rarely go back and change it. Combined with on wheel controls you can flip through your channels and CDs without ever moving your eye. If you don't have enough coordination to do that then why are you driving?
Talking with someone in the car isn't the same as texting. I bet many drivers out there are quite capable of keeping their eyes on the road while chatting with someone in their car, I doubt the same could be said about texting. Plus texting requires at least one hand to do, something talking doesn't (Well unless your one of those people who flag down planes while talking or look like your swatting spider webs). There isn't a real comparison.
You could compare talking on the phone to talking to others in your car. Texting is just to interactive to not be a distraction from driving.
The use of phones in cars, for voice or texting, really needs to be limited if not prohibited. If anything prohibited on some roads or at certain times where any distraction isn't going to help - like rush hour.
Clinton campaigned as the candidate of change too.
Tell me how much different he was from any other administration. It is nothing more than a motto that implies more than it delivers.
I am concerned strictly by how they have voted in the past. What is more telling are what votes they skipped out on or merely voted "present". The more important the issue that a candidate misses out on or votes present the more damning things it implies.
They are not being lenient, they are acting out of fear of lawsuits and funding cuts.
Lenient is the PC way of saying we're letting unqualified people in because they meet one quota or another. Lenient is PC for saying passing over better qualified students because they don't come with bonus money : read government funds.
One thing that does amaze me is some of the larger "private" schools who are sitting on billions all the while bemoaning the fact that the government doesn't do enough to pay for quota groups to attend. BILLIONS. Their interest alone would pay for many thousands to have access to their schools but they prefer to sit on it.
Sorry, the courts and congress have already decided that merit is not a valid measurement, especially if declaring one side having more offends another.
The one great truth too many people want to ignore is that we are not all created equal. The law can state otherwise, "feel gooders" can cry all they want, the PC police can declare the sentence "hate speech" but fortunately nature doesn't care.
we won't even put out more than 10% of all CO2 emitted on the planet, if that.
I moved my office downstairs. Simply put, the lower floor is always cooler in summer and the heat difference in winter isn't justification to have a system upstairs.
As such, the upstairs is left at 82F during the day while not in use, goes down to 78 starting that nearly an hour before expected time to turn in.
Check out this article which details exactly what this lease and usage entails.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121391719487790187.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
In other words, the politicians are using word play to infer that the oil companies are drilling on the lands relying on public ignorance that a lease of oil producing lands does not equate to a guarantee of oil.
So basically, the process is.
1. Secure the lease
2. Get the permits to do test drilling
3. Do test drilling
4. Determine if its economically feasible to recover the oil
5. Get permits to actually to set up a site to manage it
6. Get permits to drill on the site
7. Go to court to keep your permits after being sued by every other environmentalist group
8. Drill for oil
9. Profit?
Remember the first rule : If a Congressman's lips are moving he is 99% of the time telling you a lie or a falsehood by omission.
Two more words: Hate Crimes
Sorry but the government has already acted. Instead of just being tried for a crime of aggression someone can be tried for what others think the perpetrator was thinking before and during the crime. There have been numerous cases in the press where a criminal case fell apart only to be followed with a "Hate Crime" trial that succeeded because the accusation is all so nebulous. Political Correctness run amok.
The courts already have been twisted into thought control. Yet it is nearly always biased in its application. There is no black and white in the definition of hate speech or hate crimes. Words used by one group become criminal while another group can use them with impunity. That is the very real world we live in today. Unfortunately too many people willingly accept this because they don't have the courage to stand up those who truly profess hate and instead want to wield the club of government to do it for them. Worse, they want to use that threat of government to manipulate and control the system.
The press is in it deep, consistently engaging in the same practice selectively changing context of stories to make the portrayal more offensive than it ever was. We are constantly bombarded by guilt, twisted phrases used to imply any opposing thought is not only wrong but criminal so.
It was always going to eventually happen. Given the increasing market share of OS X it was only a matter of time before the hackers got interested. Yet even they had to wait till a sufficient base of idiots got into OS X to make their job easier. I know people who significant other has trashed home PCs more than once opening attachments or running attachments even after all the pop ups. Note the more than once.
People forget or get in a hurry. Its the hacker's job to exploit that nature. That makes it difficult for the owners of the OS because even if you require a password/etc to execute something many people will just do that, type in the password regardless. Its like the story of the young girl who was a latch key kid, told to never ever let people in the house while mom was gone. Yet she did three times and even denied it until shown the film showing these people being let in. Worse, she didn't recall because it was so automatic. She was distracted by something else and that focus let her pass over doing what was right.
I look at it this way on my iMac, if that password prompt comes up and I didn't click initiate it from some update I know came from Apple or I was loading a package I downloaded I am going cancel the process. Yet I am quite sure my friends SO would dutifully type the password in. Can't be helped. Sometimes people cannot accept they did something wrong even when you show them
but back in those days they were who we are now. I am quite certain that at the time they were coming out with various versions of DOS and when Windows landed that they felt the same. They were up against the big hardware guys fighting for respect that they didn't have. It took them a long time to get there and in the process. In the long run they grew out of the need to go in a new direction as we are doing again. It is a never ending process and we should be glad for it. I am sure somewhere down the road, say twenty years or so, there will be people posting on boards dismissing Linux or OS X as being special just as some write off Windows.
Take it in the context of its time. Yes there were other platforms I would have liked to see succeed but they didn't have the drive needed. Just like today there are some ideas out there I would think should be better positioned but they lack the support of the community. Just as many here have grabbed onto Linux there are still those who prefer another way and they pursue it. Are they wrong? I am certain that back then Amiga and Atari people didn't think they were but they failed to form a large enough presence and community at the time to stay. With the internet it should be much easier for good systems to come along and get their day in the sun but at the same time it is also like a choir where you try to pick out that one voice but can't.
I grew up in those days and remember thinking how cool it was. I played with desqtop (sp?) and other windowing platforms. Yet I also remember how we were still pulling away from IBM PC brands at that time too, I remember stores filled with PS/2s and if anything Windows and various versions of DOS got us out of the control of platform vendors. It certainly helped to bring costs down to where most people could participate and perhaps that alone leads to where we are today?