Its insane because the generation from the 60s, those who lamented about the government being bad, are now that very same government!
Go figure. Look at the leadership in Congress, then look back at some of these people in the 60s and 70s. Notice that they are doing the very same thing they decried back then?
Where is the new generation? I guess after all these years they managed to turn the school system into celebrating government instead of America. Kids are so distracted as to not care about the government and its they who need to be interested now so as to do something later.
About the spying, tapping calls going out of or into from this country to know terrorist locations is not the same as spying on Tom calling Jerry across the street. I think it comes down to how the poll presents the spying being done. Does it present it truthfully or in tinfoil hat methods?
As for the politician question, for those of us Americans we should have all received from the IRS our official "Politician Relection Act" statement, aka the Economic Stimulus Package. Opening that up and reading who qualified was a big kick in the nuts for those who actually work. Then again those who pay the majority of taxes are already going to vote, the politicians need those others who don't normally vote; too lazy to do so - a general reflection on their other daily activities; and so checks needed to go out with a glorification of government for providing the money.
Politicians do not want an educated public. They want votes, ignorant people vote out of emotion more so than facts and as such they play to those ignorances. They play on bigotry, class envy, fear, and hatred. The news media caters to them, hell their story lineup pretty much is the same thing.
We talk about science and technology but rarely act on them. Its all the rage in schools until Little Susy gets a D then we can't have those subjects anymore because someone isn't capable of keeping pace and suddenly we are more concerned about feelings than getting them up to speed. We don't celebrate the leaders and achievers in school because it hurts other people's feelings. As such we don't emphasize areas which do require dedication and work : namely sciences and math. Cable news will cater to that as well, this is the American Idol generation.
The best thing about American Idol is that losers are shown and the winners celebrated. If we took that achievement equates to success ethic back to the schools then perhaps the kids would want something different out of the news when they grow into adults.
That government officials would abuse their positions, lie, cheat, and steal.
What bugs me more is that people cry foul over this but turn around and what these goons to run their medical needs as if that won't be an invasion of privacy and rights in itself.
When are people going to learn, letting the government do things you can do is wrong, letting them do the rest unsupervised is wrong, and expecting them to do it right in either case without public oversight is just stupidity.
The problem the FBI faces is very similar to what we read recently about the TSA. What one person thinks is legal probably isn't but subordinates don't know better either or don't have any means of contesting it without losing their own careers.
$30 bucks for the Blu-Ray version compared to 11 to 15 for the regular? Most big box retailers discount new releases and the online sites are great places to pick up old titles. So besides being hit hard for the player you have to turn around and actually by movies for it.
and me, having just received his free HD-DVD movies in the mail, finally, figures that I will end up with lots of cheap hd-dvd movies soon as retailers dump their stock.
It isn't about customer service. The most valuable asset in the physical store is shelf space. The profit margin on these cannot be that much, let alone to the profits to be made filling shelves with more game cartridges.
Remember back to the stories about Wal-Mart's push into CFLs and how the person at Wal-Mart pushing these had to make a case to get shelf space. They had to present a case and prove themselves.
I think the important part is that people forget that when you join the military (ex Air Force here) you give up a lot of your rights. You do so willingly. You do so with the expectation that it is for the common good. Don't take this as an ego trip, but for me today's soldiers are the people I look up to. To willfully put yourself in harms way in support of others, the majority of which will never know your sacrifice, is to be a true hero. Not some insipid hollyweird starlet, some sports player, or the latest American idol. These soldiers are of the same stock as firemen and policeman. They step up so the rest of us don't have to. Yet we don't always respect their contribution or what they give up. Some of them might not fully understand the later but I put this as coming from a society of entitlement viewpoint that comes to a screeching halt when you join.
So while I do not find too much wrong in limiting what they can say, especially with the fact that enemy of the day has near instant access to it, I think it does deserve a good amount of thought before it goes too far into restrictive. I know my friends letters from the first Desert Storm were monitored but that was easy to do, all mail went through the military. With the internet a big exposure is created and any attempt to close it appears as an affront. It is, but its one voluntarily entered. The military cannot afford to be all open and exposed. It doesn't work well in that environment. A good military works best when it can control the variables. There are some it can and this is one area where it can do something. Your there to do a job and the people around you don't need extra risk because you slipped up.
their overall profit isn't what they focus on. Considering that politicians focus on PROFIT and not the PROFIT MARGIN would be a big clue that the industry would be more than happy with less of the first if the second was greater as the idiocy of the American public could not be exploited by dishonest politicians.
Look at it this way, Exxon paid nearly 29 billion on 41 billion in profits. They paid more in taxes than nearly half of American taxpayers. It is by indirect taxation that real load on the taxpayer must be determined.
Back to your point, big oil ain't going anywhere because they long ago began diversifying when they saw the writing on the wall. Look at all the emerging energy techonologies, from storing to producing, and you will find a big oil company somewhere in the chain trying to find the next big thing.
People love to claim big oil is trying to stop innovation but they miss the point that big oil is desperately seeking the next big thing to deliver and do so before anyone else. They realize quite correctly that vehicle usage across the world will continue to rise and whomever can deliver the primary method of propuslion is in for some big returns.
I think you missed the point, the drugs do nothing. Its the idea that they do something that is the fix.
I think that has always been the key to the ME generation. Its not my fault, therefor a drug will obviously fix it because its beyond my control otherwise.
We've become a society which feels entitled to not bear any self responsibility. Drugs or Government, either one makes you short feel good but does nothing in the end except make your poorer and more dependant
but the point is that I made my choice because HD was being price competitive to the old DVD format and Blu-Ray wasn't even trying.
So now we have a standard. Big deal, Blu-Ray/Sony isn't trying to compete with DvD and unless other makers join in I doubt it will come down anytime soon. Plus as others have posted BluRay has all sorts of issues with drm/restrictions/etc...
at least with HDDVD I could play the freaking movie when I wanted to...
Because frankly given a choice between China running over the world or the US I would much prefer the latter. The way the world bends over backward for China; forced abortions, daily Taiwan threat, incredible number of deaths in mines, world leader in executions; makes me wonder just what the hell is everyone so bent out of shape about the US doing this?
At least the US didn't dump hundreds of objects into space because of some idiocy guided test as did China. Hell you could claim the threat is about nil for any space object falling from the sky, the problem is that nil becomes a really big number when it lands in your backyard.
Go and keep waving that dick, it just lets the loonies of the world know that they really aren't in a position to ignore the US or Europe (because I count Europe in a lot of these things - don't for a momnet believe they didn't want it to work). Dick waving is a helluva lot better than throwing actual bombs with little Mr. Mushrooms around
I don't see the problem. They are simply selling to a company which orders in large enough quantities to sustain a particular investment in people and plant space.
IOW - your really reaching.
What you have seen oil companies doing is snapping up new technologies because its the right thing to do to be in business down the road. Oil companies are big into battery technology because its an open avenue for future profit, provided they can deliver the technology before someone else.
The real market for them if not in liquid fuels is to create quick charge technologies that can be incorporated into their vast investment of stations and such. Think about, get a power system which can take 1 to 2 minutes to provide 20 to 30 miles of driving convienence and you open the door to lots of possibilities.
disclaimer: I do not work for an oil company or battery company, I do invest in them and follow acquisitions. Frankly if they just sat on their ass and let this new power delivery/storage technology pass them by I would be more pissed.
I am so tired of people misrepresenting shit like this, you only devalue its original meaning.
Freedom of Speech is our guarantee that one day should we ever get off our collective asses we can bitch all we want about the government and they cannot do anything about it. Trouble is we are giving it away each year, now we can't bitch if we name a candidate who is incumbent within 30 days of an election... what next?
Your reply speaks volumes as to why this idiot was fired. Your freedom of speech does not trump your employers rights. Your freedom of speech is guaranteed versus the government, not some other entity. Freedom of speech means accepting responsibility for those words, including being shunned by former friends, hated more by people who oppose your view, or being told to take a hike by a news organization which cannot afford to show bias among its staff.
Learn to know your rights and you won't be so quick to lose them.
he stickers read, "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."
So how is this different just because its Florida? I remember Cobb County getting lampooned for stating a fact, if for the wrong reasons.
Especially in this case. Assembly programming is still used on different systems. Sure on some it is not needed because of the tools provided but in every platform I have found there is always something that can be done better in assembly rather than a high level language. The key is to know when it not only is better to do so. That determination is usually based on performance versus time to develope versus ease of maintenance.
The difference being that the movies rarely go to the extent that man really will. A former friend, passed away, who served in Vietnam described some stuff the locals would do to get the information they wanted. For all the crap we hear about in Gitmo, Gitmo has nothing on what these monsters would do. The key wasn't to do one person but use a crowd. Let the others see what was coming up. Since most information extracted could be acted on immediately they could verify what they were after.
waterboarding is for sissys was his reply when all the talk about it came on the news, what he saw people of other countries do would shock people and worse it goes on to this day. One of our mutal friends is from Cambodia and the same rule applied...
torture isn't always about getting information, it works very well in cowing many of elements in society who would otherwise try to stop a government, over the long term it eventually turns against the governmetn but some have lasted generations by this fear method
I don't know about that first comment. I have run across a good number of women who like the anonyminity the internet gives them but don't seem to fear any of the men they chat with... especially after they get into any type of voice chat...
I would tend to think there are more stupid ones than scared ones.
Women are marginalized by too many seeking money so it works out both ways.
If you go now you will still be mostly confined to the "staged" Cuba, the Cuba presented to foreigners where the government needs to keep up appearances. If you want to see the real Cuba your going to either have to take risks or wait till the government collapses.
Castro and his ilk did far more damage to Cuba than any corporate entity could manage, let alone get away with. His country started falling apart once it was no longer propped up by the Soviets. He is a study in the strength of personality and use of tactics similar to East Germany to maintain power
Damn if there is one thing I hate about Leopard is damn seizures the system has. I'll be fine and suddenly the system is locked up and the mouse is all flaky acting. About 15 to 30 seconds and its fine. It comes out of the blue. No data loss because of it, just inability to use the system.
She wasn't sure where I lived, but she check various metro counties in Atlanta till my name popped up. She then was able to call me as my county listed the phone numbers then! The problem I have with valuations listed is that it gives people the ability to reason your income as well.
You cannot be anonymous much anymore and public records need some protection at it does open the door to stalkers. One of my ex-girlfriends tried repeatedly to have her name removed because of her ex-husband (restraining order and such) but ran into a stonewall.
Look at it this way, how many of the boneheaded ideas that people like Ted Turner or Steve Jobs had that people remember? I look at posting on/. in the same way. Throw out a dozen or so comments on the subject or not and don't look back.
The things that get you modded well are...
1. being first helps 2. appropriate subject line 3. knowing what your talking about 4. going along with popular opinion
Being first helps alot. Coming late to the party and your view will lost in the crowd. The subject line helps those of us with moderator points pick out the people who missed rule #1 and those who get crossed up in rule #4 PC mods, this also is about the only way I read AC posts - if their subject line catches my eye. Knowing what your talking about can help you get points even if someone scored by being first with similar information. Still, you can't help but being first.
Just remember, one person's troll can be another person's hero. There are many very unpopular categories to express support for on/. and if you do go against them just ignore their rating. With enough posting over time your Karma will be excellent all the time and who cares if the Neanderthals don't like it.
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Its insane because the generation from the 60s, those who lamented about the government being bad, are now that very same government!
Go figure. Look at the leadership in Congress, then look back at some of these people in the 60s and 70s. Notice that they are doing the very same thing they decried back then?
Where is the new generation? I guess after all these years they managed to turn the school system into celebrating government instead of America. Kids are so distracted as to not care about the government and its they who need to be interested now so as to do something later.
About the spying, tapping calls going out of or into from this country to know terrorist locations is not the same as spying on Tom calling Jerry across the street. I think it comes down to how the poll presents the spying being done. Does it present it truthfully or in tinfoil hat methods?
As for the politician question, for those of us Americans we should have all received from the IRS our official "Politician Relection Act" statement, aka the Economic Stimulus Package. Opening that up and reading who qualified was a big kick in the nuts for those who actually work. Then again those who pay the majority of taxes are already going to vote, the politicians need those others who don't normally vote; too lazy to do so - a general reflection on their other daily activities; and so checks needed to go out with a glorification of government for providing the money.
Politicians do not want an educated public. They want votes, ignorant people vote out of emotion more so than facts and as such they play to those ignorances. They play on bigotry, class envy, fear, and hatred. The news media caters to them, hell their story lineup pretty much is the same thing.
We talk about science and technology but rarely act on them. Its all the rage in schools until Little Susy gets a D then we can't have those subjects anymore because someone isn't capable of keeping pace and suddenly we are more concerned about feelings than getting them up to speed. We don't celebrate the leaders and achievers in school because it hurts other people's feelings. As such we don't emphasize areas which do require dedication and work : namely sciences and math. Cable news will cater to that as well, this is the American Idol generation.
The best thing about American Idol is that losers are shown and the winners celebrated. If we took that achievement equates to success ethic back to the schools then perhaps the kids would want something different out of the news when they grow into adults.
That government officials would abuse their positions, lie, cheat, and steal.
What bugs me more is that people cry foul over this but turn around and what these goons to run their medical needs as if that won't be an invasion of privacy and rights in itself.
When are people going to learn, letting the government do things you can do is wrong, letting them do the rest unsupervised is wrong, and expecting them to do it right in either case without public oversight is just stupidity.
The problem the FBI faces is very similar to what we read recently about the TSA. What one person thinks is legal probably isn't but subordinates don't know better either or don't have any means of contesting it without losing their own careers.
$30 bucks for the Blu-Ray version compared to 11 to 15 for the regular? Most big box retailers discount new releases and the online sites are great places to pick up old titles. So besides being hit hard for the player you have to turn around and actually by movies for it.
and me, having just received his free HD-DVD movies in the mail, finally, figures that I will end up with lots of cheap hd-dvd movies soon as retailers dump their stock.
It isn't about customer service. The most valuable asset in the physical store is shelf space. The profit margin on these cannot be that much, let alone to the profits to be made filling shelves with more game cartridges.
Remember back to the stories about Wal-Mart's push into CFLs and how the person at Wal-Mart pushing these had to make a case to get shelf space. They had to present a case and prove themselves.
so why cannot a computer be used to provide cover? In other words, it can mask out the irrelevant bits, and leave all the solid objects in view
at telling me I need a new version of it.
Requiring me to reboot my iMac to install that new version.
I think they make the windowms machines in my house reboot out of sympathy.
I have to agree with what you put forth. Compared to other players I have always found quicktime to be a dog, especially when embedded in a browsers
and repercussions for going over the line.
I think the important part is that people forget that when you join the military (ex Air Force here) you give up a lot of your rights. You do so willingly. You do so with the expectation that it is for the common good. Don't take this as an ego trip, but for me today's soldiers are the people I look up to. To willfully put yourself in harms way in support of others, the majority of which will never know your sacrifice, is to be a true hero. Not some insipid hollyweird starlet, some sports player, or the latest American idol. These soldiers are of the same stock as firemen and policeman. They step up so the rest of us don't have to. Yet we don't always respect their contribution or what they give up. Some of them might not fully understand the later but I put this as coming from a society of entitlement viewpoint that comes to a screeching halt when you join.
So while I do not find too much wrong in limiting what they can say, especially with the fact that enemy of the day has near instant access to it, I think it does deserve a good amount of thought before it goes too far into restrictive. I know my friends letters from the first Desert Storm were monitored but that was easy to do, all mail went through the military. With the internet a big exposure is created and any attempt to close it appears as an affront. It is, but its one voluntarily entered. The military cannot afford to be all open and exposed. It doesn't work well in that environment. A good military works best when it can control the variables. There are some it can and this is one area where it can do something. Your there to do a job and the people around you don't need extra risk because you slipped up.
their overall profit isn't what they focus on. Considering that politicians focus on PROFIT and not the PROFIT MARGIN would be a big clue that the industry would be more than happy with less of the first if the second was greater as the idiocy of the American public could not be exploited by dishonest politicians.
Look at it this way, Exxon paid nearly 29 billion on 41 billion in profits. They paid more in taxes than nearly half of American taxpayers. It is by indirect taxation that real load on the taxpayer must be determined.
Back to your point, big oil ain't going anywhere because they long ago began diversifying when they saw the writing on the wall. Look at all the emerging energy techonologies, from storing to producing, and you will find a big oil company somewhere in the chain trying to find the next big thing.
People love to claim big oil is trying to stop innovation but they miss the point that big oil is desperately seeking the next big thing to deliver and do so before anyone else. They realize quite correctly that vehicle usage across the world will continue to rise and whomever can deliver the primary method of propuslion is in for some big returns.
I think you missed the point, the drugs do nothing. Its the idea that they do something that is the fix.
I think that has always been the key to the ME generation. Its not my fault, therefor a drug will obviously fix it because its beyond my control otherwise.
We've become a society which feels entitled to not bear any self responsibility. Drugs or Government, either one makes you short feel good but does nothing in the end except make your poorer and more dependant
but the point is that I made my choice because HD was being price competitive to the old DVD format and Blu-Ray wasn't even trying.
So now we have a standard. Big deal, Blu-Ray/Sony isn't trying to compete with DvD and unless other makers join in I doubt it will come down anytime soon. Plus as others have posted BluRay has all sorts of issues with drm/restrictions/etc...
at least with HDDVD I could play the freaking movie when I wanted to...
Because frankly given a choice between China running over the world or the US I would much prefer the latter. The way the world bends over backward for China; forced abortions, daily Taiwan threat, incredible number of deaths in mines, world leader in executions; makes me wonder just what the hell is everyone so bent out of shape about the US doing this?
At least the US didn't dump hundreds of objects into space because of some idiocy guided test as did China. Hell you could claim the threat is about nil for any space object falling from the sky, the problem is that nil becomes a really big number when it lands in your backyard.
Go and keep waving that dick, it just lets the loonies of the world know that they really aren't in a position to ignore the US or Europe (because I count Europe in a lot of these things - don't for a momnet believe they didn't want it to work). Dick waving is a helluva lot better than throwing actual bombs with little Mr. Mushrooms around
because this is about the only thing which explains my friend and his girlfriends belief in Ghosthunters and such...
I always looked at things this article covers along the lines of we make a decision and justify it later, not the reverse.
I don't see the problem. They are simply selling to a company which orders in large enough quantities to sustain a particular investment in people and plant space.
IOW - your really reaching.
What you have seen oil companies doing is snapping up new technologies because its the right thing to do to be in business down the road. Oil companies are big into battery technology because its an open avenue for future profit, provided they can deliver the technology before someone else.
The real market for them if not in liquid fuels is to create quick charge technologies that can be incorporated into their vast investment of stations and such. Think about, get a power system which can take 1 to 2 minutes to provide 20 to 30 miles of driving convienence and you open the door to lots of possibilities.
disclaimer: I do not work for an oil company or battery company, I do invest in them and follow acquisitions. Frankly if they just sat on their ass and let this new power delivery/storage technology pass them by I would be more pissed.
I am so tired of people misrepresenting shit like this, you only devalue its original meaning.
Freedom of Speech is our guarantee that one day should we ever get off our collective asses we can bitch all we want about the government and they cannot do anything about it. Trouble is we are giving it away each year, now we can't bitch if we name a candidate who is incumbent within 30 days of an election... what next?
Your reply speaks volumes as to why this idiot was fired. Your freedom of speech does not trump your employers rights. Your freedom of speech is guaranteed versus the government, not some other entity. Freedom of speech means accepting responsibility for those words, including being shunned by former friends, hated more by people who oppose your view, or being told to take a hike by a news organization which cannot afford to show bias among its staff.
Learn to know your rights and you won't be so quick to lose them.
oh, I don't know, I hear Florida is a might bit nicer than Quebec in the winter... but thats just me.
Well that and I don't see any Girls Gone Wild videos being made on the streets of Montreal.
he stickers read, "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."
So how is this different just because its Florida? I remember Cobb County getting lampooned for stating a fact, if for the wrong reasons.
Especially in this case. Assembly programming is still used on different systems. Sure on some it is not needed because of the tools provided but in every platform I have found there is always something that can be done better in assembly rather than a high level language. The key is to know when it not only is better to do so. That determination is usually based on performance versus time to develope versus ease of maintenance.
The difference being that the movies rarely go to the extent that man really will. A former friend, passed away, who served in Vietnam described some stuff the locals would do to get the information they wanted. For all the crap we hear about in Gitmo, Gitmo has nothing on what these monsters would do. The key wasn't to do one person but use a crowd. Let the others see what was coming up. Since most information extracted could be acted on immediately they could verify what they were after.
waterboarding is for sissys was his reply when all the talk about it came on the news, what he saw people of other countries do would shock people and worse it goes on to this day. One of our mutal friends is from Cambodia and the same rule applied...
torture isn't always about getting information, it works very well in cowing many of elements in society who would otherwise try to stop a government, over the long term it eventually turns against the governmetn but some have lasted generations by this fear method
I don't know about that first comment. I have run across a good number of women who like the anonyminity the internet gives them but don't seem to fear any of the men they chat with... especially after they get into any type of voice chat...
I would tend to think there are more stupid ones than scared ones.
Women are marginalized by too many seeking money so it works out both ways.
If you go now you will still be mostly confined to the "staged" Cuba, the Cuba presented to foreigners where the government needs to keep up appearances. If you want to see the real Cuba your going to either have to take risks or wait till the government collapses.
Castro and his ilk did far more damage to Cuba than any corporate entity could manage, let alone get away with. His country started falling apart once it was no longer propped up by the Soviets. He is a study in the strength of personality and use of tactics similar to East Germany to maintain power
their currrent stance because.
1. The US can do it so much better
2. They will do it anyway and hope to hamper the US's ability to do it.
Damn if there is one thing I hate about Leopard is damn seizures the system has. I'll be fine and suddenly the system is locked up and the mouse is all flaky acting. About 15 to 30 seconds and its fine. It comes out of the blue. No data loss because of it, just inability to use the system.
She wasn't sure where I lived, but she check various metro counties in Atlanta till my name popped up. She then was able to call me as my county listed the phone numbers then! The problem I have with valuations listed is that it gives people the ability to reason your income as well.
You cannot be anonymous much anymore and public records need some protection at it does open the door to stalkers. One of my ex-girlfriends tried repeatedly to have her name removed because of her ex-husband (restraining order and such) but ran into a stonewall.
Look at it this way, how many of the boneheaded ideas that people like Ted Turner or Steve Jobs had that people remember? I look at posting on /. in the same way. Throw out a dozen or so comments on the subject or not and don't look back.
/. and if you do go against them just ignore their rating. With enough posting over time your Karma will be excellent all the time and who cares if the Neanderthals don't like it.
The things that get you modded well are...
1. being first helps
2. appropriate subject line
3. knowing what your talking about
4. going along with popular opinion
Being first helps alot. Coming late to the party and your view will lost in the crowd. The subject line helps those of us with moderator points pick out the people who missed rule #1 and those who get crossed up in rule #4 PC mods, this also is about the only way I read AC posts - if their subject line catches my eye. Knowing what your talking about can help you get points even if someone scored by being first with similar information. Still, you can't help but being first.
Just remember, one person's troll can be another person's hero. There are many very unpopular categories to express support for on