but as a oversight board run by the very people subject to it.
In other words, the passengers can alert the TSA to practices that don't seem right and its up to the TSA to find out why. Like the part about removing electronics and such from bags. It simply wasn't policy. Yet the TSA as a whole cannot know what every airport out of the ordinary unless there is some easy to access place to get that information. Its even better that it comes from someone other than their own people. I bet the local screeners who were requiring these items removed didn't know they were in the wrong, it probably started with some supervisor or such and spread within the airport because it seemed like a good idea.
I fully expect most suggestions to be ignored because many should be. Some will just be impossible to implement and others would be physicaly impossible (GFY for one). Who knows, someone might suggest to the TSA something they are overlooking. Still I hope the complaints come in as some TSA setups are just damn stupid, having moved beyond abusive. Heaven knows my little old mother and her Shih Tzu are a threat; she hasn't made it through TSA once without them going over the dog and her luggage EVERY SINGLE TIME.
The TSA is yet another bloated and overbearing government organization that will never go away. The employees are unionized which furthers the impossibility of removing this mess. Considering its size I am amazed anyone ever thought we could get rid of it.
I would like to see the industry go. Granted Diesel deserved its bad rep as they escaped the EPA rules of the 70s (actually I think only gasoline automobiles got whacked). The problem is getting past zealots in California and other states who have taken on deciding for the rest of the country what they can have. Yes, rest of the country. These states acting on their own are large enough to force manufacturers to accomodate them instead of abandoning them simply with California being the base.
I still think that SUVs will again rule after a short decline. Once series hybrid and similar SUV's come along getting upwards if not more than 35 effective MPG people will have even less reason to switch. Look at it this way, with each big increase in MPG the incentive to move to a small car gets less and less. Me, I would love a SUV with 35+ capability in city and highway (crossover sized, though the upcoming VW small SUV might make that mileage)
Sorry, it sounds good but I doubt you will find many people who actually pony up. I know people who bitch about the long time it takes to fly to LA from Atlanta, you think they are going to wait longer on a train? Let alone a train that stops for other people? People pay extra already to not have connecting flights
American's are impatient. We want it now.
I really tire of all the people who bitch about the lack of trains. There are many reasons it just doesn't work here.
1. Its on a schedule, which usually isn't the one you want. Unlike most airports where there are many options 2. Its still requires connecting transportation (cars, buses, etc) 3. Its still slow over long distances. 4. It already died because the public didn't want it. (Amtrak - goes where, well hell, who cares)
Elevated trains? Lets see, cost? Lack of use of existing facilities means its get harder to make the case to spend the money. Unlike most countries American's are used to not being near where they work. Its called independance. We are free to live where we want and how we want. We can change jobs frequently as well. People tend to no longer follow jobs. Its no fun uprooting family. Used to be you went where the work was. Now too many people get by living off of government handouts (I have friends in rent controlled apartments who basically don't work - 30% of their income is the max charge the apartment can do... they get their limited disability checks and others each month and do what, play EQ and WOW, why does that work, because some people will accept a lower lifestyle if they don't have to do anything)
If you read the US Constitution, that nice document the current US government ignores, you will see the seeds of government distrust in the US. Simply put, the Founding Fathers knew that governments become corrupt and they sought to head it off at the start, the Constitution defines the rights the people give to government, not what government gives to the people. It puts strict limits on how the government can act. The states were to be powerful entities in their own right.
Unfortunately our courts were supposed to protect us from the government making laws unconstitutional but they failed. Instead being government cronies themselves they let the government run the public and states over. Combined with the public being given the ability to vote for Senators and states lost their ability to oppose the government.
Doesn't mean the people gave in. While many are just fine and dandy with taking government handouts they don't want them in their house. A national id is like inviting them in. Once their in they will suddenly show up for dinner telling you what you can eat, telling you what you can watch or listen too, let alone eventually telling you what doctor your allowed to see.
We give up too much of our freedom already. We do not need a National ID card to prevent erroneous entry on documents we fill out during our days. We certainly don't need a one size fits all easy to create fradulent versions to further identity theft.
Microsoft isn't Washington's (state or capitol of the USA) bitch.
I am quite sure they are already paying enough taxes to support the needed infrastructure where they are located. I am also quite sure that money is available for bridges and schools and such but is diverted to PET PROJECTS. Yes, pork exist at all levels. There are probably some really good projects done just for local politicians and even federal one's where the money should have been spent on bridges.
See, the thing that offends me about the initial subject of this is trying to load up one side of the argument with items you can't disagree with without being an ass. The politicians GEM of a saying to get your money and especially someone else's is " BUT IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN " . No corporation wants to hurt children do they? Hence people go right along allowing their taxes to go up because politicians won't spend the money they have already for the item needed but want new money. Well all that comes out of the taxpayers pocket. Microsoft and others will simply pass those taxes along to you and me. What, you don't buy their products? Too bad, someone you do business with does. Its all one big dogde. Government goons know they can redirect your ire by embedding taxes so you can't see them. Gas shoots up in 09 suddenly because of a tax on "excessive" profits will get the gas companies blamed, not the government.
Why not start looking to where the money is going when its needed elsewhere instead of some corporations bank account? You do realize that every tax dollar Microsoft spends is simply taken from their customers and their customers customers... and so on and so on. It also will take money from people through 401k loss and the like.
The reason corporations are located in higer taxe bracket areas isn't because of the support needed, its because these corporations can bear the taxes. Want to lower your tax income, simply tax unfairly companies in your region. As Detroit how well that did. Ask Youngstown. You can't keep bilking the golden goose. Eventually it leaves or dies.
because I don't begrudge the Pentagon's budget. What I cannot believe people put up with is Congressmen making monuments to themselves and their friends with our money.
There were more than enough earmarks in the 07 budget to fix the roads and data infrastructure. But like dutiful little parrots people yelp "What about the pentagon"
Look at the current political run for President. There won't be a DIME for fiber because all the money is going to be sucked up delivering on promises of government intervention into our lives where it already fails miserably. We spend over a trillion dollars a year on health care through the government, and for what? To see millions without healthcare? Yet who gets blamed? Insurance companies and business. The government already oversaw 200 billion dollars of so called investment in fiber, what did it get us? Not much yet you want them to take more and try again? Why? I bet the biggest beneficiaries of the last 200billion are still in office collecting on that payout.
Quit following their talking points. They want you to look everywhere else but behind the curtain. They want to direct your ire elsewhere and obviously it worked! Now we are being force fed two candidates who will simply take us further from the goal. Entitlement programs are far more damning than defense expenditures. They selectively buy votes and help hardly anyone yet the promise of the chicken in the pot works wonders.
Face it, us "geeks/nerds" are second class. We earn the money that the politicians want. They certainly aren't going to cater to us because we are not a big enough voting block to worry them. As such its up to us to support third party candidates who speak of getting the government out of our lives. Quit asking the government to fix it, they can't. They proved that very well with the last 200 billion dollars.
The Pope is a position granted by adherents of the Catholic Church. You can try to minimize its importance all you want but your declaration is irrelevant and immature.
I certainly would not want his position, I am not as firm in my beliefs as he is. As such I am also not as trapped either. The Pope of modern days must first respect his fellow Catholics and that means staying the course with little deviation. He walks a fine line in that while he does have a great amount of knowledge; don't fool yourself in believing him ignorant, while that may offer you solace in your belief he is far from it. In fact I figure he is well educated in this issue and its that education which puts a great difficulty before him. The Church can no longer afford to ignorant of science but it does not have to sit idly by and allow science to run over man.
The mission of the Church for some time has been directed to preserving the dignity of man. Yes we can dig up history and throw that in his face and the followers of any religion. The important issue is how it goes forward. What used to amaze me no longer does, people will flock to a politician offering a chicken in their pot, knowing full well its a lie, yet begrudge a man for holding to his principles. We will celebrate a whoring celebrity, a deceitful politician, and the almighty dollar, yet laugh at someone who is offers his beliefs to us.
What does it say about us? What does it say about him? The Church will be here long after many of us. It is through declarations like this that give us insight into how its going forward. While all religions have their radicals the leader of any stable religion can no longer afford such. Still they cannot stand still. He has opened a large door and taken a big step but here many are chastising him for not taking more steps. Give them time. They are monolithic and essentially eternal. They cannot he held to the same clock we hold ourselves. We make a decision and it usually affects us solely, the Church makes a decision and it affects tens of millions. As such their steps must be much more carefully thought out and delivered. I think he has made a great opening. He has relieve many Catholics who are in this line of research of many choices of faith that burdens them. He has given them freedom that many felt they may not have had. While he still have put barriers up he has shown some flexibility which allows the Church and its followers to go forward.
Rome was not built in a day, don't expect the Church to change in one either.
Yet I am more inclined to believe they want to fund cures as much as anything else. Why? Because cures/vaccines would be the big money show. Think of it this way, if a company does come out with a drug that cures "X" you can be damn sure that if the cost of using it is seriously lower than treating it that it would become mandatory. Knowing how most things work you would need booster doses at intervals during your life. It also doesn't hurt if your cure whacks a competitors value.
The added value to the companies selling "cures" and the like is in their side medicines, the erection meds, the beauty meds, etc. Suddenly the rest of their products look better because of their past successes.
Dead people don't buy drugs, and while maintenance works it also leads to more dead people than cures. With cures you leave open the road to fix something else wrong with the person, perceived or real. Besides if these companies are truly smart they diversify... into things living people want to do.
which allows the MPAA and RIAA to brand these people easily.
Its the old and stupid "Get back at the man" mentality. Its vindictive and childish. As such the people who act this way are the least likely to be able to do anything rationale meaning their "plight" if prolonged. Prolonged until they get supplanted by people who do things with maturity.
Right now its this face that the RIAA/MPAA presents as its opposition, a face that the public can easily ignore as something it wants no association with. Whereas the entertainment industry does get the favor of the public by enlisting the very people who could be its downfall. Seen the recent Cloverfield use of the net? How many got caught up in it (not people from here mind you, but I bet a good number from here did). The latest American idol feeds right into the RIAA... you and I all know people caught up in this.
As long as the xxAA can portray themselves in the Cloverfield and American Idol methods while casting those opposed as the pirate, losers, outcasts, they aren't going to be threatened by anything.
I know its considered "in" to bash the RIAA or predict their impending doom but lets face it, they control the majority, if not super majority, or music. As such it isn't their ship that floats or sinks, they own the ocean. Its all the resellers who are ships on that ocean and its the RIAA who decides who sinks or swims.
Continuing on that analogy, indie music and bittorrent are below the surface, not nearly dangerous enough to threaten the commerce on the RIAA's sea. Yeah we like to talk as if thats not the case but it sucks that its true. Buying from iTunes simply feeds their coffers. Buying from Amazon is the same. Hell, buying products advertised on radio indirectly supports them.
They can afford the mistakes, you can't drown in the sea when you are the sea. Its the other parties experimenting who are threatened. Regardless of which takes off unless the RIAA and studios give up their rights theirs is the base from which everyone else comes from.
One thing I was surprised with my Mac is how EVERY UPDATE requires me to boot. Hell installing the latest update to iTunes has me reboot. Windows updates were always expected to cause reboots. I guess I was spoiled by other OSes that didn't require it (the name of a particulary older one escapes me but it was famous for running doom + movies all at one time on hardware windows wouldn't)
Is so much embedded down low that they can't unload it temporarily?
Sorry but the majority of the OLPC bad press is because THEY DESERVE IT.
Did you ever think that some of their foolery needs an evil Microsoft just to dodge the issue? In other words - imply something that is not true but sounds good?
for a moonshot. Its too far off to generate interest. We are also buried under a horribly long political process.
I am very convinced that if some of the leading candidates get in with all their promises of health care and expanded benefits there won't be any money for NASA to do something big. It will simply fall by the way side because it simply doesn't get Congressmen or Presidents votes.
The best thing has already been done, the hard choice has already been made, axing the shuttle. Hopefully that expense relief won't be taken from NASA but I fear it will. Without the costly expenditures needed the money will probably go elsewhere.
If the main opposition is truly because "BUSH" wanted it then it speaks volumes for just how juvenile the opponents have become. We need a direction, it has to come from the Administration, as Congress no longer attempts to lead anywhere but schemes to keep themselves perpetually in office. NASA has been wandering, stuck with two spruce gooses. The shuttle and ISS. The ISS could flourish without the shuttle and we can hope it will. Yet I am very sure that with all the promises being made by candidates that NASA is the least of their concerns. We are seeing the greatest promised expansion of Federal power over our lives and people are cheering it on as if it were the latest American Idol contest. That is not an avenue for great science to occur
but its a mighty big assumption that if they offered tiered pricing and didn't see a significant increase in their churn rate that the other guys won't also jump on the bandwagon. Hell people act as if wireless will be the holy grail of internet connectivity convienently forgetting that it is the holy grail for PHONE companies. Getting people to pay for their minutes was probably the biggest cash cow they came up with in a long time with ring tones coming right behind.
Sorry, if Time Warner puts this out and doesn't lose people you can damn well expect it elsewhere. Besides, we don't know what their real pricing model will be, it might be akin to the various levels of slow dsl I am offered by AT&T which ranges from slower than the 80s to almost tolerable - but for download only.
On Sept. 11, 2001, he told a radio talk-show host in Baguio, the Philippines, that the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were "wonderful news," adding he was wishing for a scenario "where the country will be taken over by the military, they'll close down all the synagogues, arrest all the Jews and secure hundreds of thousands of Jewish ringleaders."
That and a few other choice comments attributed to him make me want to say, good riddance. It is such a travesty to see such greatness overshadowed by blantant and raving bigotry. I don't care how good at chess he was anymore, the world doesn't need to celebrate assholes like this just because "they were once great"
It really sounds like he succumbed to hate and had to disappear at times simply because he knew he couldn't exist in the real world
Well after reading the article, following links, and such its obvious the biggest thing they exploited with WOW during the course of writing and selling their book is the name. In other words, unless they had referenced WOW their book would be relegated to the dust bins of book sellers.
These two seem hell bent on FUD with Blizzard in regards to Warden. I haven't connected the dots but it appears these are either the same people who flew off the handle when Warden changed or are in the same group. Basically take something and use choice wording and catch phrases to imply sinister behaviour where none really exists. IOW - 911 conspiracy hacks read from the same play book. These guys just seem to be on some damn fool crusade against Warden that it borders on silly. The very same people probably don't blink when it comes to handing over their CC/Debit card to someone behind the counter freak out over a company that actually has to take steps to protect the data the players voluntarily entered when subscribing!
As for WOW itself, location hacks exist as the client and server are not always in synch for these actions. The biggest impact "cheaters" have on WOW is on the non-cheating players. Money transfers between accounts take an hour to complete, sales via the auction house are no longer immediate but instead take an hour, and trial accounts are so restricted that teaching someone to play with one is an exercise in frustration.
One problem that keeps the Apple laptops out of our office, let alone others, is no docking stations.
See, Executives have nice LARGE LCD monitors at work. If by chance they have a laptop; most of ours have computers given to them for home use complete with everything they have at work; they dock it at home and work. E-Mail, blackberry, thank you.
This is a Starbucks trophy. I can only imagine seeing a few pop up in two weeks at Starbucks. An accessory of the wanna be terminally cool crowd.
Do I want one... yes and no. Yes because it is so small, no because it is so small. Its a great form factor for college students... but honestly it only shaves two pounds off of their already light weight notebooks. My long term concern is the durability of something so light and small. I am not horribly upset at the battery, thats an annoyance and at most a "justification" for many to push off yet another good machine from Apple. I am still in the camp of wanting a headless system similar to the Mac Pro but in the iMac price range. I'll keep my iMac till then.
I actually got three to fours times a week. It is on my way home. I find it relaxing from the "stress" of work and the drive. I also see many different items I may have not considered adding to my diet. I impulse buy some vegetables and fruits simply because they look good that day.
I also happen to like the ladies at the registers and such and know many of the workers by name in the store. Its a social experience that many people don't take time for any more. The death of the neighborhood store is because people will sit home, locked away from the world, and point and click to get what they want. I don't want to hear how you have loads of friends so this excuses you from the comparison. The key is that your local businesses and such are what drive the community. If you don't frequent them or the surrounding shops how do you know what goes on and why?
If you don't have the time to shop then you have poor time management. Really, I don't see how people run out of time every day. The only one's I know who do that are just unorganized to an extreme.
I buy a lot of stuff online, but food will be the last thing I ever go that route with because I like to see what I am buying before I consume it, especially fresh produce and meats. As for the other stuff, seeing the rows of products lets me know when something new I might want comes along. Let alone the people watching time, or spending even more time with your mate. (yes, shopping with them is a pleasurable experience)
Don't get me wrong, I buy lots of stuff online as well, I just don't let it keep me from the bookstore, grocery, or even mall, because experiencing the people around us grounds us to who were are.
That prevent the proper and adequate supply of electricity. The hoops my local has to go through to increase generating capacity is shameful. It practically comes down to bribing state representatives in order to build plants. Hell, even when providers try to build "green" sources they are fought in courts by one group or another. It has become downright disgusting how easy it is to prevent any improvement, green or otherwise to the system. It is mainly these roadblocks which result in coal plants being kept in service longer. In some cases making improvements at said plants is difficult as well because of regulation.
You want to ban air condition, then get the government to do so first in their own buildings. Make them come up to the same specifications they impose on commercial and private properties. Make them conserve. Down here in Georgia we are suffering from a regulation caused water shortage. Stupid rules, monolithic government agencies, and ease of filing suits with willing courts have resulted in Georgia flushing billions of gallons down stream with no study to back it up. When the recent reviews didn't turn out like the conservationist wanted they simply went to the courts and lawmakers to get their view imposed. I have two lakes near me near 20 feet down. One of which could generate electricity cleanly provided it wasn't flushing twenty times the water needed for generation down the river. Rivers which because of the volume are near flood stage meaning rains push them over their banks.
If we cannot have comfort in our own homes then something is desperately wrong with the system. We are a nation with great resources, the technology to use them efficiently and cleanly, yet at every corner some interest group gets the government to impose such heavy handed regulation that the public suffers. We are a country that fought for freedom and then began making laws to give it away. Now I bet your the type that would be screaming at government ids and government healthcare yet you turn around and want intervention?
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but as a oversight board run by the very people subject to it.
In other words, the passengers can alert the TSA to practices that don't seem right and its up to the TSA to find out why. Like the part about removing electronics and such from bags. It simply wasn't policy. Yet the TSA as a whole cannot know what every airport out of the ordinary unless there is some easy to access place to get that information. Its even better that it comes from someone other than their own people. I bet the local screeners who were requiring these items removed didn't know they were in the wrong, it probably started with some supervisor or such and spread within the airport because it seemed like a good idea.
I fully expect most suggestions to be ignored because many should be. Some will just be impossible to implement and others would be physicaly impossible (GFY for one). Who knows, someone might suggest to the TSA something they are overlooking. Still I hope the complaints come in as some TSA setups are just damn stupid, having moved beyond abusive. Heaven knows my little old mother and her Shih Tzu are a threat; she hasn't made it through TSA once without them going over the dog and her luggage EVERY SINGLE TIME.
The TSA is yet another bloated and overbearing government organization that will never go away. The employees are unionized which furthers the impossibility of removing this mess. Considering its size I am amazed anyone ever thought we could get rid of it.
I would like to see the industry go. Granted Diesel deserved its bad rep as they escaped the EPA rules of the 70s (actually I think only gasoline automobiles got whacked). The problem is getting past zealots in California and other states who have taken on deciding for the rest of the country what they can have. Yes, rest of the country. These states acting on their own are large enough to force manufacturers to accomodate them instead of abandoning them simply with California being the base.
I still think that SUVs will again rule after a short decline. Once series hybrid and similar SUV's come along getting upwards if not more than 35 effective MPG people will have even less reason to switch. Look at it this way, with each big increase in MPG the incentive to move to a small car gets less and less. Me, I would love a SUV with 35+ capability in city and highway (crossover sized, though the upcoming VW small SUV might make that mileage)
Sorry, it sounds good but I doubt you will find many people who actually pony up. I know people who bitch about the long time it takes to fly to LA from Atlanta, you think they are going to wait longer on a train? Let alone a train that stops for other people? People pay extra already to not have connecting flights
American's are impatient. We want it now.
I really tire of all the people who bitch about the lack of trains. There are many reasons it just doesn't work here.
1. Its on a schedule, which usually isn't the one you want. Unlike most airports where there are many options
2. Its still requires connecting transportation (cars, buses, etc)
3. Its still slow over long distances.
4. It already died because the public didn't want it. (Amtrak - goes where, well hell, who cares)
Elevated trains? Lets see, cost? Lack of use of existing facilities means its get harder to make the case to spend the money. Unlike most countries American's are used to not being near where they work. Its called independance. We are free to live where we want and how we want. We can change jobs frequently as well. People tend to no longer follow jobs. Its no fun uprooting family. Used to be you went where the work was. Now too many people get by living off of government handouts (I have friends in rent controlled apartments who basically don't work - 30% of their income is the max charge the apartment can do... they get their limited disability checks and others each month and do what, play EQ and WOW, why does that work, because some people will accept a lower lifestyle if they don't have to do anything)
back to the point.
If you read the US Constitution, that nice document the current US government ignores, you will see the seeds of government distrust in the US. Simply put, the Founding Fathers knew that governments become corrupt and they sought to head it off at the start, the Constitution defines the rights the people give to government, not what government gives to the people. It puts strict limits on how the government can act. The states were to be powerful entities in their own right.
Unfortunately our courts were supposed to protect us from the government making laws unconstitutional but they failed. Instead being government cronies themselves they let the government run the public and states over. Combined with the public being given the ability to vote for Senators and states lost their ability to oppose the government.
Doesn't mean the people gave in. While many are just fine and dandy with taking government handouts they don't want them in their house. A national id is like inviting them in. Once their in they will suddenly show up for dinner telling you what you can eat, telling you what you can watch or listen too, let alone eventually telling you what doctor your allowed to see.
We give up too much of our freedom already. We do not need a National ID card to prevent erroneous entry on documents we fill out during our days. We certainly don't need a one size fits all easy to create fradulent versions to further identity theft.
Sorry, but I have to repeat that!
SO?
Microsoft isn't Washington's (state or capitol of the USA) bitch.
I am quite sure they are already paying enough taxes to support the needed infrastructure where they are located. I am also quite sure that money is available for bridges and schools and such but is diverted to PET PROJECTS. Yes, pork exist at all levels. There are probably some really good projects done just for local politicians and even federal one's where the money should have been spent on bridges.
See, the thing that offends me about the initial subject of this is trying to load up one side of the argument with items you can't disagree with without being an ass. The politicians GEM of a saying to get your money and especially someone else's is " BUT IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN " . No corporation wants to hurt children do they? Hence people go right along allowing their taxes to go up because politicians won't spend the money they have already for the item needed but want new money. Well all that comes out of the taxpayers pocket. Microsoft and others will simply pass those taxes along to you and me. What, you don't buy their products? Too bad, someone you do business with does. Its all one big dogde. Government goons know they can redirect your ire by embedding taxes so you can't see them. Gas shoots up in 09 suddenly because of a tax on "excessive" profits will get the gas companies blamed, not the government.
Why not start looking to where the money is going when its needed elsewhere instead of some corporations bank account? You do realize that every tax dollar Microsoft spends is simply taken from their customers and their customers customers... and so on and so on. It also will take money from people through 401k loss and the like.
The reason corporations are located in higer taxe bracket areas isn't because of the support needed, its because these corporations can bear the taxes. Want to lower your tax income, simply tax unfairly companies in your region. As Detroit how well that did. Ask Youngstown. You can't keep bilking the golden goose. Eventually it leaves or dies.
the day any of the world has common sense is the same day we don't read/hear about starvation and bombing.
until keep living under the delusion that somewhere else is better than some other place
because I don't begrudge the Pentagon's budget. What I cannot believe people put up with is Congressmen making monuments to themselves and their friends with our money.
There were more than enough earmarks in the 07 budget to fix the roads and data infrastructure. But like dutiful little parrots people yelp "What about the pentagon"
Look at the current political run for President. There won't be a DIME for fiber because all the money is going to be sucked up delivering on promises of government intervention into our lives where it already fails miserably. We spend over a trillion dollars a year on health care through the government, and for what? To see millions without healthcare? Yet who gets blamed? Insurance companies and business. The government already oversaw 200 billion dollars of so called investment in fiber, what did it get us? Not much yet you want them to take more and try again? Why? I bet the biggest beneficiaries of the last 200billion are still in office collecting on that payout.
Quit following their talking points. They want you to look everywhere else but behind the curtain. They want to direct your ire elsewhere and obviously it worked! Now we are being force fed two candidates who will simply take us further from the goal. Entitlement programs are far more damning than defense expenditures. They selectively buy votes and help hardly anyone yet the promise of the chicken in the pot works wonders.
Face it, us "geeks/nerds" are second class. We earn the money that the politicians want. They certainly aren't going to cater to us because we are not a big enough voting block to worry them. As such its up to us to support third party candidates who speak of getting the government out of our lives. Quit asking the government to fix it, they can't. They proved that very well with the last 200 billion dollars.
The Pope is a position granted by adherents of the Catholic Church. You can try to minimize its importance all you want but your declaration is irrelevant and immature.
I certainly would not want his position, I am not as firm in my beliefs as he is. As such I am also not as trapped either. The Pope of modern days must first respect his fellow Catholics and that means staying the course with little deviation. He walks a fine line in that while he does have a great amount of knowledge; don't fool yourself in believing him ignorant, while that may offer you solace in your belief he is far from it. In fact I figure he is well educated in this issue and its that education which puts a great difficulty before him. The Church can no longer afford to ignorant of science but it does not have to sit idly by and allow science to run over man.
The mission of the Church for some time has been directed to preserving the dignity of man. Yes we can dig up history and throw that in his face and the followers of any religion. The important issue is how it goes forward. What used to amaze me no longer does, people will flock to a politician offering a chicken in their pot, knowing full well its a lie, yet begrudge a man for holding to his principles. We will celebrate a whoring celebrity, a deceitful politician, and the almighty dollar, yet laugh at someone who is offers his beliefs to us.
What does it say about us? What does it say about him? The Church will be here long after many of us. It is through declarations like this that give us insight into how its going forward. While all religions have their radicals the leader of any stable religion can no longer afford such. Still they cannot stand still. He has opened a large door and taken a big step but here many are chastising him for not taking more steps. Give them time. They are monolithic and essentially eternal. They cannot he held to the same clock we hold ourselves. We make a decision and it usually affects us solely, the Church makes a decision and it affects tens of millions. As such their steps must be much more carefully thought out and delivered. I think he has made a great opening. He has relieve many Catholics who are in this line of research of many choices of faith that burdens them. He has given them freedom that many felt they may not have had. While he still have put barriers up he has shown some flexibility which allows the Church and its followers to go forward.
Rome was not built in a day, don't expect the Church to change in one either.
Yet I am more inclined to believe they want to fund cures as much as anything else. Why? Because cures/vaccines would be the big money show. Think of it this way, if a company does come out with a drug that cures "X" you can be damn sure that if the cost of using it is seriously lower than treating it that it would become mandatory. Knowing how most things work you would need booster doses at intervals during your life. It also doesn't hurt if your cure whacks a competitors value.
The added value to the companies selling "cures" and the like is in their side medicines, the erection meds, the beauty meds, etc. Suddenly the rest of their products look better because of their past successes.
Dead people don't buy drugs, and while maintenance works it also leads to more dead people than cures. With cures you leave open the road to fix something else wrong with the person, perceived or real. Besides if these companies are truly smart they diversify... into things living people want to do.
which allows the MPAA and RIAA to brand these people easily.
Its the old and stupid "Get back at the man" mentality. Its vindictive and childish. As such the people who act this way are the least likely to be able to do anything rationale meaning their "plight" if prolonged. Prolonged until they get supplanted by people who do things with maturity.
Right now its this face that the RIAA/MPAA presents as its opposition, a face that the public can easily ignore as something it wants no association with. Whereas the entertainment industry does get the favor of the public by enlisting the very people who could be its downfall. Seen the recent Cloverfield use of the net? How many got caught up in it (not people from here mind you, but I bet a good number from here did). The latest American idol feeds right into the RIAA... you and I all know people caught up in this.
As long as the xxAA can portray themselves in the Cloverfield and American Idol methods while casting those opposed as the pirate, losers, outcasts, they aren't going to be threatened by anything.
I know its considered "in" to bash the RIAA or predict their impending doom but lets face it, they control the majority, if not super majority, or music. As such it isn't their ship that floats or sinks, they own the ocean. Its all the resellers who are ships on that ocean and its the RIAA who decides who sinks or swims.
Continuing on that analogy, indie music and bittorrent are below the surface, not nearly dangerous enough to threaten the commerce on the RIAA's sea. Yeah we like to talk as if thats not the case but it sucks that its true. Buying from iTunes simply feeds their coffers. Buying from Amazon is the same. Hell, buying products advertised on radio indirectly supports them.
They can afford the mistakes, you can't drown in the sea when you are the sea. Its the other parties experimenting who are threatened. Regardless of which takes off unless the RIAA and studios give up their rights theirs is the base from which everyone else comes from.
Pay us and we will let you protect yourself.
all for show and a great way to keep up the interest on techie sites.
All the little leaks do amount to keeping nerds talking about it, some slowly convincing themselves that once the SDK is out they can "now" buy one
One thing I was surprised with my Mac is how EVERY UPDATE requires me to boot. Hell installing the latest update to iTunes has me reboot. Windows updates were always expected to cause reboots. I guess I was spoiled by other OSes that didn't require it (the name of a particulary older one escapes me but it was famous for running doom + movies all at one time on hardware windows wouldn't)
Is so much embedded down low that they can't unload it temporarily?
Get real dude.
Sorry but the majority of the OLPC bad press is because THEY DESERVE IT.
Did you ever think that some of their foolery needs an evil Microsoft just to dodge the issue? In other words - imply something that is not true but sounds good?
IOW - Political speech 101.
Talk about FUD.
for a moonshot. Its too far off to generate interest. We are also buried under a horribly long political process.
I am very convinced that if some of the leading candidates get in with all their promises of health care and expanded benefits there won't be any money for NASA to do something big. It will simply fall by the way side because it simply doesn't get Congressmen or Presidents votes.
The best thing has already been done, the hard choice has already been made, axing the shuttle. Hopefully that expense relief won't be taken from NASA but I fear it will. Without the costly expenditures needed the money will probably go elsewhere.
If the main opposition is truly because "BUSH" wanted it then it speaks volumes for just how juvenile the opponents have become. We need a direction, it has to come from the Administration, as Congress no longer attempts to lead anywhere but schemes to keep themselves perpetually in office. NASA has been wandering, stuck with two spruce gooses. The shuttle and ISS. The ISS could flourish without the shuttle and we can hope it will. Yet I am very sure that with all the promises being made by candidates that NASA is the least of their concerns. We are seeing the greatest promised expansion of Federal power over our lives and people are cheering it on as if it were the latest American Idol contest. That is not an avenue for great science to occur
but its a mighty big assumption that if they offered tiered pricing and didn't see a significant increase in their churn rate that the other guys won't also jump on the bandwagon. Hell people act as if wireless will be the holy grail of internet connectivity convienently forgetting that it is the holy grail for PHONE companies. Getting people to pay for their minutes was probably the biggest cash cow they came up with in a long time with ring tones coming right behind.
Sorry, if Time Warner puts this out and doesn't lose people you can damn well expect it elsewhere. Besides, we don't know what their real pricing model will be, it might be akin to the various levels of slow dsl I am offered by AT&T which ranges from slower than the 80s to almost tolerable - but for download only.
they forgot that all important requirement for today's generation...
How does it make you look at Starbucks.
That and a few other choice comments attributed to him make me want to say, good riddance. It is such a travesty to see such greatness overshadowed by blantant and raving bigotry. I don't care how good at chess he was anymore, the world doesn't need to celebrate assholes like this just because "they were once great"
It really sounds like he succumbed to hate and had to disappear at times simply because he knew he couldn't exist in the real world
he also gives credit to science by talking to those in the field...
If the Pope believes it worthy to talk to them and discuss with them science then it has his "tacit seal of approval"
The Church is not as ignorant as some of its adherents. I learned evolution in a Catholic school, strictly Darwin, thank you.
Well after reading the article, following links, and such its obvious the biggest thing they exploited with WOW during the course of writing and selling their book is the name. In other words, unless they had referenced WOW their book would be relegated to the dust bins of book sellers.
These two seem hell bent on FUD with Blizzard in regards to Warden. I haven't connected the dots but it appears these are either the same people who flew off the handle when Warden changed or are in the same group. Basically take something and use choice wording and catch phrases to imply sinister behaviour where none really exists. IOW - 911 conspiracy hacks read from the same play book. These guys just seem to be on some damn fool crusade against Warden that it borders on silly. The very same people probably don't blink when it comes to handing over their CC/Debit card to someone behind the counter freak out over a company that actually has to take steps to protect the data the players voluntarily entered when subscribing!
As for WOW itself, location hacks exist as the client and server are not always in synch for these actions. The biggest impact "cheaters" have on WOW is on the non-cheating players. Money transfers between accounts take an hour to complete, sales via the auction house are no longer immediate but instead take an hour, and trial accounts are so restricted that teaching someone to play with one is an exercise in frustration.
One problem that keeps the Apple laptops out of our office, let alone others, is no docking stations.
See, Executives have nice LARGE LCD monitors at work. If by chance they have a laptop; most of ours have computers given to them for home use complete with everything they have at work; they dock it at home and work. E-Mail, blackberry, thank you.
This is a Starbucks trophy. I can only imagine seeing a few pop up in two weeks at Starbucks. An accessory of the wanna be terminally cool crowd.
Do I want one... yes and no. Yes because it is so small, no because it is so small. Its a great form factor for college students... but honestly it only shaves two pounds off of their already light weight notebooks. My long term concern is the durability of something so light and small. I am not horribly upset at the battery, thats an annoyance and at most a "justification" for many to push off yet another good machine from Apple. I am still in the camp of wanting a headless system similar to the Mac Pro but in the iMac price range. I'll keep my iMac till then.
I actually got three to fours times a week. It is on my way home. I find it relaxing from the "stress" of work and the drive. I also see many different items I may have not considered adding to my diet. I impulse buy some vegetables and fruits simply because they look good that day.
I also happen to like the ladies at the registers and such and know many of the workers by name in the store. Its a social experience that many people don't take time for any more. The death of the neighborhood store is because people will sit home, locked away from the world, and point and click to get what they want. I don't want to hear how you have loads of friends so this excuses you from the comparison. The key is that your local businesses and such are what drive the community. If you don't frequent them or the surrounding shops how do you know what goes on and why?
If you don't have the time to shop then you have poor time management. Really, I don't see how people run out of time every day. The only one's I know who do that are just unorganized to an extreme.
I buy a lot of stuff online, but food will be the last thing I ever go that route with because I like to see what I am buying before I consume it, especially fresh produce and meats. As for the other stuff, seeing the rows of products lets me know when something new I might want comes along. Let alone the people watching time, or spending even more time with your mate. (yes, shopping with them is a pleasurable experience)
Don't get me wrong, I buy lots of stuff online as well, I just don't let it keep me from the bookstore, grocery, or even mall, because experiencing the people around us grounds us to who were are.
to find Starflight and the original Wizardry... I still remember Wizardry on the IBM PC, complete with ASCII graphics.
That prevent the proper and adequate supply of electricity. The hoops my local has to go through to increase generating capacity is shameful. It practically comes down to bribing state representatives in order to build plants. Hell, even when providers try to build "green" sources they are fought in courts by one group or another. It has become downright disgusting how easy it is to prevent any improvement, green or otherwise to the system. It is mainly these roadblocks which result in coal plants being kept in service longer. In some cases making improvements at said plants is difficult as well because of regulation.
You want to ban air condition, then get the government to do so first in their own buildings. Make them come up to the same specifications they impose on commercial and private properties. Make them conserve. Down here in Georgia we are suffering from a regulation caused water shortage. Stupid rules, monolithic government agencies, and ease of filing suits with willing courts have resulted in Georgia flushing billions of gallons down stream with no study to back it up. When the recent reviews didn't turn out like the conservationist wanted they simply went to the courts and lawmakers to get their view imposed. I have two lakes near me near 20 feet down. One of which could generate electricity cleanly provided it wasn't flushing twenty times the water needed for generation down the river. Rivers which because of the volume are near flood stage meaning rains push them over their banks.
If we cannot have comfort in our own homes then something is desperately wrong with the system. We are a nation with great resources, the technology to use them efficiently and cleanly, yet at every corner some interest group gets the government to impose such heavy handed regulation that the public suffers. We are a country that fought for freedom and then began making laws to give it away. Now I bet your the type that would be screaming at government ids and government healthcare yet you turn around and want intervention?