Because the Olympic Committee are a bunch of money-grubbing slime bags who waant to maintain a monopoly on distributing media of this so-called non-professional competition.
The Olympics have become too bogged down in corruption and conspiracy between committee members on the take, crooked judges and athelete on drugs. You know, I just can't care any more.
Here's the fact: The Federal authorities are prohibited by regulation from questioning more than 2 Arabs per flight. This is what's stupid. So you get the case like we had a few weeks ago where there were 14 Syrians travelling together and behaving so suspiciously that passengers thought there was an imminent terror attack. Because of political correctness, we are checking unlikely people in favor of likely people.
Your righteous indignation is amusing, but misplaced because you are arguing against your simplisitic view of what you think people who disagree with you think while apparently completely missing my point.
Next you be saying all Republicans are rascist and all Democrats are Commies. Oh, yeah, all blacks are lazy and all Jews are money-grubbing.
Please do me a favor and read what I'm actually saying rather then launching into some spittle-flinging tirade about how intellectually superior you think you are.
Wonderful. Swear words in bold are always a sign of mature reason.
I never said you don't search other people. But when you are talking about suicide missions, it's going to be hard to find recruits that aren't complete fanatics and nutcases, ergo, Middle Easterners are the most likely to be involved.
You sound like one of those people who argue that everyone is at the same risk for AIDS, so we should mandate AIDS testing for ninety-year-old shut-ins because old Mrs. Beasley who hasn't been out of her apartment in 5 years is just as at risk as Chester Pantsdown cruising the sex clubs for a quick lay and an armful of smack.
Why don't you sit down, take a deep breath and lay off the caffeine. Maybe consider a bit of therapy for your anger-management issues. A little medication can go a long way. Oh yeah, and finish your algebra homework before you get your allowance suspended.
The inability of government agents to question more than 2 Arabs per flight does make it easier for terrorists. They're strip searching blue-haired grannies and toddlers while large groups of Middle Easterners are openly practicing "dry runs" for terrorist attacks on airplanes.
One of my big disappointments with the Bush administration is not kicking all the politically correct morons out on their ass and start treating airline security seriously instead of mostly paying lip service. I don't care what those freaks in the ACLU say, this is one time and place where racial profiling is not only useful, but mandatory if we are going to prevent another attack.
Kerry's response to all this seems to be to go kiss Jacques Chirac's ass followed by Kofi Annan. He seems to want to treat this like a law enforcement issue. That's what got us in the situation in the first place. But he would ratehr hypocritically call for a recall of the "Unfit for Command" book while treating Michael Moore like a saint. I feel sorry for those people who have legitimate reasons to want Bush out, unfortunately, your candidate sucks (as a candidate), and he knows it. Why else would he run on something he did 35 years ago and completely fail to talk about what he's done lately?
It's nice to see the Senior Swimming Instructor from Massachusetts having to suffer some of the problems we proles live with all the time. Now if we could only get him and his 534 colleagues to have to do their own taxes, or deal with insurance companies THEN we'd get some reform.
I remember playing Dungeon Master (anyone remember that game), and trying every damn spell combination to see if there were other 'unknown' spells besides zo-kath-ra.
I did that too! I still have a sheet of paper somewhere where I logged the results of that experiment. DM was one of the best games I ever played.
Fortunately there weren't really that many combinations.
Meh. GUI's are for wimps. I made this without a GUI. I did use a couple of home-grown C++ programs to generate the tree and drapes, but this was done all by writing scripts. Really, it's not that bad for a lot of things.
Of course, there are no 3D articulated people or detailed sports cars in it or anything.
Rick
p.s. Look closely and you'll notice the room isn't furnished.
Good luck is all I can say. You couldn't pay me to live in that kooky state. I heard the northern part is OK, but you're still subject to the nanny-state tyrrany. California seems to want to legislate things that can only work through the free market (like alternative fuel quotas), and they fail time and again. I could not deal with that smothering benevolence. Of course, it could be worse. At least California didn't put a poet in charge of Homeland Security like NJ.
Still, this particular piece of legislation seems like a good idea because it increases information without reducing access. I avoid these kinds of games myself. Mostly I have no interest in violent games, but I have to support other people who want to purchase them (reluctantly because I think some of these games are morally harmful, but it's a free country).
But it's not only about the kids. It's important for everyone to be informed.
That's just it, everything about this campaign is strategy to beat Bush. They never cared who the candidate was as long as they think he can beat Bush. I think the Republicans made the same mistake in '96, although I'd always liked Dole.
The other thing is Kerry has a record similar to Dukakis (his old boss!) and Mondale. They looked really good in the summer of election year and got stomped. I'm not saying that will happen this time, but Clinton was convincing as a centrist, even if he really wasn't (of course, he was brilliant at helping certain Republican initiatives and being able to help take credit). Kerry doesn't seem to want to pin himself down as anything except NotBush, and regardless of what people think of the incumbent, people generally _do not_ want a New England hard liberal. So for many once again the choice is the lesser of two evils.
Well, Apple earned their good perception as much as Real earned their bad perception. I for one, am really glad Real is paying the price for being sleazy and incompetent. I'd rather deal with Microsoft than Real any day. The real issue, though, is that lack of interoperatability (is that a word?) only hurts the users. Its true in media and doubly true in the IM world. Don't lock out your competition from your file format, beat them on functionality. But of course, that take hard work and brains, both of which are at a premium.
Of course, that's why all my music is ripped to OGG. That gives me the most choices, and when I get a hardware music player, one that supports OGG will maximize my flexibility.
Which is of course retarded, since the majoraty of Americans, the rich included, have done better economically under Democratic presidents than Republican presidents.
Better under Carter than Reagan? See here's the thing. There's something called the business cycle. Some times it's up and some times it's down. The President can influence this cycle, but he doesn't cause it. Carter definitely made things worse. Reagan definitely made things better. So has Bush even though no one seems to realize it. Clinton was lucky. He came in after the dip in '91 or so, and things were doing well when he started. He definitely didn't screw things up, but he also didn't cause the boom of the 90's either. In fact, the bubble burst in 2000, and got really bad in 2001, greatly exacerbated by 9/11, but now things are much better. We have the lowest unemployment in 30 years except for a few months in the 90's, and things keep improving, maybe sporadically, but definitely improving. But the strongest economic periods in mylife time were the mid 80's and the mid 90's, so I don't think your categorization holds.
Well, I have to admit that Lurch was kind and helpful, if a bit scary-looking, but Kerry refused to tell us what his ideas are other than in vague generalities. Why does he spend 10 times as much speech time bragging about 4 months in Viet Nam (which is fine as far as I'm concerned) than what he did for 20 years in the Senate. He's acting like a complete cypher, proving that he doesn't want to run on his record, but rather as Not Bush. He's irrelevant to the campaign... there are only 4 choices for President in November:
Bush (if you largely agree with what the President has done)
Not Bush (if you largely _disagree_ with the President)
Nader (if you are from Mars)
Buchanan (if you are from Florida)
It seems the Democrats liked the polls from about a year ago showing Bush losing to an unnamed Democrat and decided to make that their strategy. I think Kerry's war record is a big plus, but it's far from necessary and sufficient to make him a good leader.
Um. "Fair" would mean everyone would pay the same. In other words, I pay $1000/year for roads and Bill Gates would pay $1000/year for roads.
We don't even do that. We don't even pay the same percentage of our income. It's a regressive tax system. Rich people not paying any taxes is a myth. If that were true then why would the top 5% of income earners be footing 50% of the bill (my numbers might not be exact, but they are about right).
Sure, rich people benefit from the government, but guess what? So do we. When's the last time you worked for a poor person. It's the rich people (and not the government like some people seem to think) who create jobs. How is socking it to the very people that create jobs consistent with Kerry's absurd notion of creating 10 million jobs (something he couldn't do because that would mean less than 0% unemployement)? The sad fact is that the Democrats base their platform largely on jealously and class warfare.
And in the interests of being open, I spent about 15 months in the last 30 out of work, largely because of the outsourcing of software development jobs, but you didn't hear me complaining that it was somehow Bush's (or anyone else's) fault. It's a free market, and I was temporary out of luck. So I sucked it in and dealt with it. No one owes me anything (and no, I didn't bother getting unemployement checks either, because I didn't want the Man telling me how to look for a job). Now I'm self-employed and doing just fine.
If I were a billionaire, I sure as hell wouldn't support a party whose rhetoric is filled thinly-veiled hatred for rich people. This "Hate the Rich" rhetoric is mothing but pandering to people's jealousy, and trying to gain sympathy or votes from people who are poor, especially if they are poor because they are stupid or lazy.
But there's plenty of empirical evidence of biological harm caused by RF signals. When Gilligan got his head conked, his teeth picked up a radio station and it kept the Skipper up all night. Also, the Partridge Family's practice session was interrupted when Laurie's braces were picking up radio signals that were in a different time signature, causing her to not be able to play correctly.
The fallacy here is the Microsoft's API _can_ be made open. MS would have to publish all the bugs and they would have to be replicated for complete compatibility. Now if the API were something like the C++ standard, that is a Platonic ideal which all competitors work to acheive, then yes, this would work. The problem is that the API is whatever it is, warts and all. Compatibility means compatibility with all the bugs, quirks and calls to BurgerMaster or whatever the Windows XP version is. It's not that MS doesn't want to do it (Heck, they are light years more open than in the Windows 3.x days when the real anti-competitive damage was done, although it's far from perfect), it's that they literally could not without releasing the entire Win32 subsystem source. Could MS compete in a world where the Win32 source was open? I think so (after all MS Research is like IBM research, they have all kinds of mind-blowing stuff going on there), but there's no advantage to them to do so. They win by virtue of inertia and bundling (even when they are doing it fairly), so it will never change...
until Linux starts eating into their bottom line AND they are forced to deal with the problem fairly and not through FUD, intimidation or other bully practices.
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Because the Olympic Committee are a bunch of money-grubbing slime bags who waant to maintain a monopoly on distributing media of this so-called non-professional competition.
The Olympics have become too bogged down in corruption and conspiracy between committee members on the take, crooked judges and athelete on drugs. You know, I just can't care any more.
Here's the fact: The Federal authorities are prohibited by regulation from questioning more than 2 Arabs per flight. This is what's stupid. So you get the case like we had a few weeks ago where there were 14 Syrians travelling together and behaving so suspiciously that passengers thought there was an imminent terror attack. Because of political correctness, we are checking unlikely people in favor of likely people.
Your righteous indignation is amusing, but misplaced because you are arguing against your simplisitic view of what you think people who disagree with you think while apparently completely missing my point.
Next you be saying all Republicans are rascist and all Democrats are Commies. Oh, yeah, all blacks are lazy and all Jews are money-grubbing.
Please do me a favor and read what I'm actually saying rather then launching into some spittle-flinging tirade about how intellectually superior you think you are.
Oh, I just assume the site wasn't working with Firefox. Nice job, Web developers. I would never come back if all I saw was a black screen.
Oh well, someone posted the text anyway. It doesn't look too realistic to me.
Wonderful. Swear words in bold are always a sign of mature reason.
I never said you don't search other people. But when you are talking about suicide missions, it's going to be hard to find recruits that aren't complete fanatics and nutcases, ergo, Middle Easterners are the most likely to be involved.
You sound like one of those people who argue that everyone is at the same risk for AIDS, so we should mandate AIDS testing for ninety-year-old shut-ins because old Mrs. Beasley who hasn't been out of her apartment in 5 years is just as at risk as Chester Pantsdown cruising the sex clubs for a quick lay and an armful of smack.
Why don't you sit down, take a deep breath and lay off the caffeine. Maybe consider a bit of therapy for your anger-management issues. A little medication can go a long way. Oh yeah, and finish your algebra homework before you get your allowance suspended.
Great. Put the crack pipe down. I didn't say _I'm_ witnessing it. Maybe you should read a newspaper once in a while.
Yeah, I placed the last ball right before I needed to do the final render, so I didn't see the results until it had been grinding for a couple days.
Oops!
Me, too.
Sounds like their vision of the future is Microsoft only.
The inability of government agents to question more than 2 Arabs per flight does make it easier for terrorists. They're strip searching blue-haired grannies and toddlers while large groups of Middle Easterners are openly practicing "dry runs" for terrorist attacks on airplanes.
One of my big disappointments with the Bush administration is not kicking all the politically correct morons out on their ass and start treating airline security seriously instead of mostly paying lip service. I don't care what those freaks in the ACLU say, this is one time and place where racial profiling is not only useful, but mandatory if we are going to prevent another attack.
Kerry's response to all this seems to be to go kiss Jacques Chirac's ass followed by Kofi Annan. He seems to want to treat this like a law enforcement issue. That's what got us in the situation in the first place. But he would ratehr hypocritically call for a recall of the "Unfit for Command" book while treating Michael Moore like a saint. I feel sorry for those people who have legitimate reasons to want Bush out, unfortunately, your candidate sucks (as a candidate), and he knows it. Why else would he run on something he did 35 years ago and completely fail to talk about what he's done lately?
It's nice to see the Senior Swimming Instructor from Massachusetts having to suffer some of the problems we proles live with all the time. Now if we could only get him and his 534 colleagues to have to do their own taxes, or deal with insurance companies THEN we'd get some reform.
I should have received a degree in D&D with a minor in Computer Science.
I remember playing Dungeon Master (anyone remember that game), and trying every damn spell combination to see if there were other 'unknown' spells besides zo-kath-ra.
I did that too! I still have a sheet of paper somewhere where I logged the results of that experiment. DM was one of the best games I ever played.
Fortunately there weren't really that many combinations.
But I have been to California. Never saw so many bleached blondes and boob jobs in my life.
I've also never been to North Korea, but I think I know I wouldn't want to live there either.
Meh. GUI's are for wimps. I made this without a GUI. I did use a couple of home-grown C++ programs to generate the tree and drapes, but this was done all by writing scripts. Really, it's not that bad for a lot of things.
Of course, there are no 3D articulated people or detailed sports cars in it or anything.
Rick
p.s. Look closely and you'll notice the room isn't furnished.
Good luck is all I can say. You couldn't pay me to live in that kooky state. I heard the northern part is OK, but you're still subject to the nanny-state tyrrany. California seems to want to legislate things that can only work through the free market (like alternative fuel quotas), and they fail time and again. I could not deal with that smothering benevolence. Of course, it could be worse. At least California didn't put a poet in charge of Homeland Security like NJ.
Still, this particular piece of legislation seems like a good idea because it increases information without reducing access. I avoid these kinds of games myself. Mostly I have no interest in violent games, but I have to support other people who want to purchase them (reluctantly because I think some of these games are morally harmful, but it's a free country).
But it's not only about the kids. It's important for everyone to be informed.
That's just it, everything about this campaign is strategy to beat Bush. They never cared who the candidate was as long as they think he can beat Bush. I think the Republicans made the same mistake in '96, although I'd always liked Dole.
The other thing is Kerry has a record similar to Dukakis (his old boss!) and Mondale. They looked really good in the summer of election year and got stomped. I'm not saying that will happen this time, but Clinton was convincing as a centrist, even if he really wasn't (of course, he was brilliant at helping certain Republican initiatives and being able to help take credit). Kerry doesn't seem to want to pin himself down as anything except NotBush, and regardless of what people think of the incumbent, people generally _do not_ want a New England hard liberal. So for many once again the choice is the lesser of two evils.
Well, Apple earned their good perception as much as Real earned their bad perception. I for one, am really glad Real is paying the price for being sleazy and incompetent. I'd rather deal with Microsoft than Real any day. The real issue, though, is that lack of interoperatability (is that a word?) only hurts the users. Its true in media and doubly true in the IM world. Don't lock out your competition from your file format, beat them on functionality. But of course, that take hard work and brains, both of which are at a premium.
Of course, that's why all my music is ripped to OGG. That gives me the most choices, and when I get a hardware music player, one that supports OGG will maximize my flexibility.
Which is of course retarded, since the majoraty of Americans, the rich included, have done better economically under Democratic presidents than Republican presidents.
Better under Carter than Reagan? See here's the thing. There's something called the business cycle. Some times it's up and some times it's down. The President can influence this cycle, but he doesn't cause it. Carter definitely made things worse. Reagan definitely made things better. So has Bush even though no one seems to realize it. Clinton was lucky. He came in after the dip in '91 or so, and things were doing well when he started. He definitely didn't screw things up, but he also didn't cause the boom of the 90's either. In fact, the bubble burst in 2000, and got really bad in 2001, greatly exacerbated by 9/11, but now things are much better. We have the lowest unemployment in 30 years except for a few months in the 90's, and things keep improving, maybe sporadically, but definitely improving. But the strongest economic periods in mylife time were the mid 80's and the mid 90's, so I don't think your categorization holds.
Well, I have to admit that Lurch was kind and helpful, if a bit scary-looking, but Kerry refused to tell us what his ideas are other than in vague generalities. Why does he spend 10 times as much speech time bragging about 4 months in Viet Nam (which is fine as far as I'm concerned) than what he did for 20 years in the Senate. He's acting like a complete cypher, proving that he doesn't want to run on his record, but rather as Not Bush. He's irrelevant to the campaign... there are only 4 choices for President in November:
Bush (if you largely agree with what the President has done)
Not Bush (if you largely _disagree_ with the President)
Nader (if you are from Mars)
Buchanan (if you are from Florida)
It seems the Democrats liked the polls from about a year ago showing Bush losing to an unnamed Democrat and decided to make that their strategy. I think Kerry's war record is a big plus, but it's far from necessary and sufficient to make him a good leader.
Um. "Fair" would mean everyone would pay the same. In other words, I pay $1000/year for roads and Bill Gates would pay $1000/year for roads.
We don't even do that. We don't even pay the same percentage of our income. It's a regressive tax system. Rich people not paying any taxes is a myth. If that were true then why would the top 5% of income earners be footing 50% of the bill (my numbers might not be exact, but they are about right).
Sure, rich people benefit from the government, but guess what? So do we. When's the last time you worked for a poor person. It's the rich people (and not the government like some people seem to think) who create jobs. How is socking it to the very people that create jobs consistent with Kerry's absurd notion of creating 10 million jobs (something he couldn't do because that would mean less than 0% unemployement)? The sad fact is that the Democrats base their platform largely on jealously and class warfare.
And in the interests of being open, I spent about 15 months in the last 30 out of work, largely because of the outsourcing of software development jobs, but you didn't hear me complaining that it was somehow Bush's (or anyone else's) fault. It's a free market, and I was temporary out of luck. So I sucked it in and dealt with it. No one owes me anything (and no, I didn't bother getting unemployement checks either, because I didn't want the Man telling me how to look for a job). Now I'm self-employed and doing just fine.
Of course rich people support Republicans.
If I were a billionaire, I sure as hell wouldn't support a party whose rhetoric is filled thinly-veiled hatred for rich people. This "Hate the Rich" rhetoric is mothing but pandering to people's jealousy, and trying to gain sympathy or votes from people who are poor, especially if they are poor because they are stupid or lazy.
But Kerry looks more like Lurch than Cheney looks like Skeletor.
Sorry, reasonable and detailed analysis backed up with facts is not allowed on /.
But I would mod you up anyway.
A privac violation is if they come into your home and require you to show them ID.
Or if you are standing around in public minding your own business...
But there's plenty of empirical evidence of biological harm caused by RF signals. When Gilligan got his head conked, his teeth picked up a radio station and it kept the Skipper up all night. Also, the Partridge Family's practice session was interrupted when Laurie's braces were picking up radio signals that were in a different time signature, causing her to not be able to play correctly.
TV has all the answers.
So that's how they make pop music. Figures!
The fallacy here is the Microsoft's API _can_ be made open. MS would have to publish all the bugs and they would have to be replicated for complete compatibility. Now if the API were something like the C++ standard, that is a Platonic ideal which all competitors work to acheive, then yes, this would work. The problem is that the API is whatever it is, warts and all. Compatibility means compatibility with all the bugs, quirks and calls to BurgerMaster or whatever the Windows XP version is. It's not that MS doesn't want to do it (Heck, they are light years more open than in the Windows 3.x days when the real anti-competitive damage was done, although it's far from perfect), it's that they literally could not without releasing the entire Win32 subsystem source. Could MS compete in a world where the Win32 source was open? I think so (after all MS Research is like IBM research, they have all kinds of mind-blowing stuff going on there), but there's no advantage to them to do so. They win by virtue of inertia and bundling (even when they are doing it fairly), so it will never change...
until Linux starts eating into their bottom line AND they are forced to deal with the problem fairly and not through FUD, intimidation or other bully practices.