There's the "McCain is old and can kick the bucket any time now" argument, but here's another angle.
(Conspiracy theorist hat: ON)
McCain may adopt the organizational structure of the Bush White House, on the insistence of his Rove-acolyte advisors. In the current White House, who is the real leader: George W. Bush, or Dick Cheney? Note that after listening to other Cabinet members, Bush would often talk privately with Cheney for the VP's advice. Why the secrecy from even Cabinet officials, that Bush would consult Cheney in private? Why not hear Cheney's advice in the same meeting for efficiency?
That's true only if the view of the creationist in question rejects natural selection (many do, but some don't, believing God wouldn't make a system that's easy to break).
To clarify, libertarianism's key points is individual liberty and minimization of the government. The economic interpretation of this platform is minimization of government influence through regulation and taxation on companies* and individuals.
Today's Republicans love to talk about a very narrow scope of individual liberty by pointing to Democrats and saying, "They raise taxes and waste them." They also love to talk about shrinking government by lowering spending while never doing anything of the sort-- if they really held to this libertarian idea, they would never have let Bush take the extreme liberties he did, nor would they have allowed a war of aggression. In fact, the emphasis on patriotism and party loyalty**, the focus on the executive as a commander and not a leader, and the general rejection of dissension are hallmarks of authoritarian views.
* Mini-rant: Minimizing government influence on the huge U.S. corporations will effectively strengthen a plutocracy, with the power vested in the corporations. When history demonstrates that many of these companies will neutralize a free market with anticompetitive tactics when unregulated, asking for fewer regulations is asking for more trouble.
** See the general GOP reaction to Scott McClellan, for example. I don't know what they said about Susan Eisenhower, but I can imagine what sort of letters they sent her.
If they're using the BSD license, how about a development/release model similar to FreeBSD's* or Debian's? Maintain 2 branches, 1 for testing anything and everything, and 1 for pushing to management as a stable, "will-not-blow-up" release? Default the online services to the stable branch, but allow limited opt-ins for the testing branch; for locally-installed software like Chrome, allow downloads of both branch builds.
The primary reason is likely the increasing incidents of teenagers killing people, and the increase in conspicuous murders like the infamous massacre in Akihabara this year-- and the couple of copycat murders or attempted murders. So instead of improving the ratio of quality of life to cost, education system, and its directionless (and decidedly GOP-like) government, an agency decided to ban a graphically violent game. Essentially, if the LDP don't have an easy scapegoat, they will have to deal with issues they'd rather not touch.
Today's Japan is very much a reactionary culture, where the old continue to govern by striking down that which they fear without careful consideration of the impact of their decisions. And the next in line can't wait to smack down the younger generation, so the cycle feeds itself.
And the "underground" stuff is technically contraband in Japan, IIRC. At least, I can't imagine an old cop letting an "ura" DVD slide.
It's the adolescent equivalent of "family-friendly". Some gamers don't speak political-correctese.
With all the bombs, smashing stuff, abuse of turtles and evil chestnuts/mushrooms, you'd think Jack Thompson would target Nintendo instead of Rockstar Games. But then, it's done with several doses of humor and Miyamoto-style wit, so no one is offended.
Well, except the turtles. How dare he strip search them.
But the blame should be placed on whoever designed the Gamecube (black/white should've been the first color), and all the companies who did nothing but contribute to the "Nintendo = kiddie" image by inundating the Gamecube, GBA, DS, and Wii market with ports of kids' television shows. You know, the actual kiddie games.
GP did say he didn't want to host gaming parties, so Wario, Sports, Smash Bros., and Mario Kart are out. Fair enough, but slapping the "kiddie" label on Nintendo's library is pretty hasty. What Nintendo does need, and I suspect this was a showstopper for him, is a team of networking people who can build a system that Nintendo can administer, but isn't prohibitively costly for those who join. Tie networking seamlessly into the Player 2-4 spots and synchronize displays between 2 Wii consoles, etc. A little late for this sort of design this late into the game, but I would bet that Nintendo is working to bring something like this to handhelds and home consoles-- that would redeem them for their silly and cumbersome "friend code" system that not many games use anymore.
Denial: "That can't possibly be Seinfeld with Bill Gates." Anger: "WTF?! That made no sense at all!!" Bargaining: "Okay, just give me a few weeks to set up a counter-ad. I'll email Steve Jobs!" Depression: "Aw crap. The rest of the bar's laughing." Acceptance: See sig.
So what happens when the prominent members of private industry decide to buy out all the small fish? What happens when they start entrenching themselves in their own territories and never let competitors in?
Private industry only works when they actually do "duke it out". The telecom industry, however, has a history of cheating.
Cash payments are pretty common for used, unless I'm mistaken. They're very rare nowadays for new cars, and for good reason: financing is very, very lucrative, to the lender, and to the salesman who pitched the deal. The other reason is that our purchasing and investment decisions have become heavily weighted toward short-term goals. We take the sweet deal (e.g. nothing down, low APR), without thinking that we are essentially a CD to the lender, sometimes with very high interest rates.
It's generally a bad idea to compare credit markets in 2004 (housing/credit bubble) with today.
Also, some unscrupulous dealers will offer and close a sweet deal and later pull the plug on the interest deal that their financiers couldn't finagle. They call it "the squeeze": demanding a higher rate or an additional down payment after they reveal that they cannot finance you for the deal you were promised. It's like a bait-and-switch, but the dealer has a supposed way out: He couldn't afford the terms he initially offered, so he had no choice but to renege.
Finally, it depends on the dealer, it depends on the financial backer. I've seen a Toyota dealer offer a ~6% APR to someone with near-perfect credit, while others may have managed 3% or less in this credit crunch with a lower score.
I shouldn't feed trolls, but here's some clue sticks:
Round-trip time lost per day: 30 minutes = $X.
As always, there are people who conflate time and money while interpreting the phrase "time is money". The real interpretation of that is, "time has value." Some people regard time spent out of doors exercising as valuable. Perhaps you don't. Your evaluation of time spent on a bicycle is your opinion, not a counterpoint.
>Also, aluminum is not significantly lighter than steel for the same tensile strength
You may not be using your transportation device correctly. Check the manual.
Ever heard of the fallacy called a "non sequitur"? What in blue blazes does using one's "transportation device correctly" have to do with the strength of a material used in an automobile (original context)? HINT: Never, ever, argue with ambiguity. That is the pitfall of the Republican spokesperson in this election season.
Most people don't have a job where they can show up sweaty. For those who do, additional "exercise" may not be a "perk." You didn't comprehend his entire post, did you? I'm pretty sure he suggested an electric bike at the beginning.
Fixed that for ya. Not likely. His point was that industrialized people are whining too much about biking to work. You merely proved his point.
>The notion that we need a metal, inefficient powered carriage that is 10 feet wide to move a couple miles isn't really rational or natural considering human evolution
Like hell it's not. Ask the noble savage if he wants calories or carbon credits.
The noble savage knows he's dead if he's fat, because he can no longer keep up with his prey. Keep your simplistic views of the world's natives to yourself, please. "No wonder you Americans are so fat," said an Aucan native in his first visit to the U.S. "You can ride up to a window, and they give you food. You don't have to hunt at all, because you have food already in your houses." Prosperity is not a virtue in and of itself; it comes with costs, and it comes with responsibilities.
Isn't it because the EPA detests diesel passenger vehicles? It took us years to finally get the sulfur out of diesel fuel, and even then diesels are prone to particulates pollution. Honda says they have a great new diesel engine, but try convincing the environmental lobby of that.
1. American workers are less educated than others. 2. American companies are very hierarchial, making adaptations to new circumstances slow. 3. Patents and gigantic auxilliary legal costs. 4. Poor IT infrastructure. 5. The fact that driving people to work 60h/week with no sick leave and minimal vacations is worse for efficiency than having your staff working regular 40h/week schedules. ???
7. Profit? Well, we Ferengi, er Americans seem to desire that above quality.
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It sure looks like Google Chrome is designed first and foremost to be an advertising delivery system.
Yeah, looks like. When malice can be suspected, always assume malice. That spiel about writing a browser to showcase design ideas that they think are cool? Totally irrelevant. Corporate standard practice of covering all liabilities per lawyer paranoia? They must have something to hide. You could level the "advertising delivery system" argument at IE5-7, which all do a cracker-jack job at blocking ads without 3rd-party software. If Google designs Chrome to circumvent or break software like Privoxy, I would become concerned. Right now, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt-- besides, it's really stupid to pull shenanigans like that on a BSD-licensed project that is so easily forked.
As for privacy, it sounds as if you think Google is so tainted, even Summer of Code-assisted projects are suspect.
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I guess if he was confident enough to continue using Word to post to the Web...
It's customary for every government to delay, distract, and blame others before they ever accept that they are just as human as the rest of us. Even though they claim to be enlightened democratic republics, the aura of respect that they feel they must maintain and defend dates back to ancient monarchies.
Really, though, it's a defense against political enemies. If a Democrat-led office in the US screwed up like this and admitted their error, the Republicans would be all over them like Nelson Muntz, pointing and chanting, "Ha-ha!" before launching a full investigation complete with special prosecutor. Politics has gone to the point of keeping up false appearances because everyone behaves like schoolchildren when someone behaves like an adult by admitting fault or taking responsibility.
Either it's Chrome, or their webmaster got a lot of complaints. I see a green square, #00FF00 if I'm not mistaken. Of course, that's a standard overlay colorfor video and animation (or something like that-- when a video overlay fails to render correctly, I get that color).
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I don't understand Google's motivation for installing this without prompting the user or providing a removal option.
Over-eagerness of getting Chrome to the public, before vetting everything that it's packaged in? This is easily explained by incompetence on the part of Google's staff, and every person who cries spyware assumes malice.
I hate it when one crashes and takes out a dozen pages I had open earlier to read later and then have to grep and guess through my history. Firefox and Opera (and IE7, maybe?) save their sessions and tab orders/window contents on-the-fly in case a crash takes down the browser. Though if you open everything in a tab and can't remember which ones you've read...
Might wanna plan your tab/window opening a bit there.:)
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There's the "McCain is old and can kick the bucket any time now" argument, but here's another angle.
(Conspiracy theorist hat: ON)
McCain may adopt the organizational structure of the Bush White House, on the insistence of his Rove-acolyte advisors. In the current White House, who is the real leader: George W. Bush, or Dick Cheney? Note that after listening to other Cabinet members, Bush would often talk privately with Cheney for the VP's advice. Why the secrecy from even Cabinet officials, that Bush would consult Cheney in private? Why not hear Cheney's advice in the same meeting for efficiency?
That's true only if the view of the creationist in question rejects natural selection (many do, but some don't, believing God wouldn't make a system that's easy to break).
To clarify, libertarianism's key points is individual liberty and minimization of the government. The economic interpretation of this platform is minimization of government influence through regulation and taxation on companies* and individuals.
Today's Republicans love to talk about a very narrow scope of individual liberty by pointing to Democrats and saying, "They raise taxes and waste them." They also love to talk about shrinking government by lowering spending while never doing anything of the sort-- if they really held to this libertarian idea, they would never have let Bush take the extreme liberties he did, nor would they have allowed a war of aggression. In fact, the emphasis on patriotism and party loyalty**, the focus on the executive as a commander and not a leader, and the general rejection of dissension are hallmarks of authoritarian views.
* Mini-rant: Minimizing government influence on the huge U.S. corporations will effectively strengthen a plutocracy, with the power vested in the corporations. When history demonstrates that many of these companies will neutralize a free market with anticompetitive tactics when unregulated, asking for fewer regulations is asking for more trouble.
** See the general GOP reaction to Scott McClellan, for example. I don't know what they said about Susan Eisenhower, but I can imagine what sort of letters they sent her.
If they're using the BSD license, how about a development/release model similar to FreeBSD's* or Debian's? Maintain 2 branches, 1 for testing anything and everything, and 1 for pushing to management as a stable, "will-not-blow-up" release? Default the online services to the stable branch, but allow limited opt-ins for the testing branch; for locally-installed software like Chrome, allow downloads of both branch builds.
* Yeah, only related by history and name...
The primary reason is likely the increasing incidents of teenagers killing people, and the increase in conspicuous murders like the infamous massacre in Akihabara this year-- and the couple of copycat murders or attempted murders. So instead of improving the ratio of quality of life to cost, education system, and its directionless (and decidedly GOP-like) government, an agency decided to ban a graphically violent game. Essentially, if the LDP don't have an easy scapegoat, they will have to deal with issues they'd rather not touch.
Today's Japan is very much a reactionary culture, where the old continue to govern by striking down that which they fear without careful consideration of the impact of their decisions. And the next in line can't wait to smack down the younger generation, so the cycle feeds itself.
And the "underground" stuff is technically contraband in Japan, IIRC. At least, I can't imagine an old cop letting an "ura" DVD slide.
It's the adolescent equivalent of "family-friendly". Some gamers don't speak political-correctese.
With all the bombs, smashing stuff, abuse of turtles and evil chestnuts/mushrooms, you'd think Jack Thompson would target Nintendo instead of Rockstar Games. But then, it's done with several doses of humor and Miyamoto-style wit, so no one is offended.
Well, except the turtles. How dare he strip search them.
But the blame should be placed on whoever designed the Gamecube (black/white should've been the first color), and all the companies who did nothing but contribute to the "Nintendo = kiddie" image by inundating the Gamecube, GBA, DS, and Wii market with ports of kids' television shows. You know, the actual kiddie games.
GP did say he didn't want to host gaming parties, so Wario, Sports, Smash Bros., and Mario Kart are out. Fair enough, but slapping the "kiddie" label on Nintendo's library is pretty hasty. What Nintendo does need, and I suspect this was a showstopper for him, is a team of networking people who can build a system that Nintendo can administer, but isn't prohibitively costly for those who join. Tie networking seamlessly into the Player 2-4 spots and synchronize displays between 2 Wii consoles, etc. A little late for this sort of design this late into the game, but I would bet that Nintendo is working to bring something like this to handhelds and home consoles-- that would redeem them for their silly and cumbersome "friend code" system that not many games use anymore.
Okay, did anyone else read the title and think "Gauntlet"?
"Canadian DMCA... needs food!"
"Canadian DMCA... needs food, badly!"
"Canadian DMCA... your life force is running out!"
Denial: "That can't possibly be Seinfeld with Bill Gates."
Anger: "WTF?! That made no sense at all!!"
Bargaining: "Okay, just give me a few weeks to set up a counter-ad. I'll email Steve Jobs!"
Depression: "Aw crap. The rest of the bar's laughing."
Acceptance: See sig.
His fellow inmates will steal it from him to watch porn.
So what happens when the prominent members of private industry decide to buy out all the small fish? What happens when they start entrenching themselves in their own territories and never let competitors in?
Private industry only works when they actually do "duke it out". The telecom industry, however, has a history of cheating.
Isn't that the stereotypical reason why people buy luxury cars, muscle/sports cars, large trucks, etc.?
The guy chose to buy a car. His money, his car, according to the things he values. Isn't that ultimately why anyone buys the cars they do?
If he is a fool for doing so, then he's probably a wiser fool than one who jeers his choice.
Cash payments are pretty common for used, unless I'm mistaken. They're very rare nowadays for new cars, and for good reason: financing is very, very lucrative, to the lender, and to the salesman who pitched the deal. The other reason is that our purchasing and investment decisions have become heavily weighted toward short-term goals. We take the sweet deal (e.g. nothing down, low APR), without thinking that we are essentially a CD to the lender, sometimes with very high interest rates.
It's generally a bad idea to compare credit markets in 2004 (housing/credit bubble) with today.
Also, some unscrupulous dealers will offer and close a sweet deal and later pull the plug on the interest deal that their financiers couldn't finagle. They call it "the squeeze": demanding a higher rate or an additional down payment after they reveal that they cannot finance you for the deal you were promised. It's like a bait-and-switch, but the dealer has a supposed way out: He couldn't afford the terms he initially offered, so he had no choice but to renege.
Finally, it depends on the dealer, it depends on the financial backer. I've seen a Toyota dealer offer a ~6% APR to someone with near-perfect credit, while others may have managed 3% or less in this credit crunch with a lower score.
I shouldn't feed trolls, but here's some clue sticks:
Round-trip time lost per day: 30 minutes = $X.
As always, there are people who conflate time and money while interpreting the phrase "time is money". The real interpretation of that is, "time has value." Some people regard time spent out of doors exercising as valuable. Perhaps you don't. Your evaluation of time spent on a bicycle is your opinion, not a counterpoint.
>Also, aluminum is not significantly lighter than steel for the same tensile strength
You may not be using your transportation device correctly. Check the manual.
Ever heard of the fallacy called a "non sequitur"? What in blue blazes does using one's "transportation device correctly" have to do with the strength of a material used in an automobile (original context)?
HINT: Never, ever, argue with ambiguity. That is the pitfall of the Republican spokesperson in this election season.
Most people don't have a job where they can show up sweaty. For those who do, additional "exercise" may not be a "perk."
You didn't comprehend his entire post, did you? I'm pretty sure he suggested an electric bike at the beginning.
Fixed that for ya.
Not likely. His point was that industrialized people are whining too much about biking to work. You merely proved his point.
>The notion that we need a metal, inefficient powered carriage that is 10 feet wide to move a couple miles isn't really rational or natural considering human evolution
Like hell it's not. Ask the noble savage if he wants calories or carbon credits.
The noble savage knows he's dead if he's fat, because he can no longer keep up with his prey. Keep your simplistic views of the world's natives to yourself, please.
"No wonder you Americans are so fat," said an Aucan native in his first visit to the U.S. "You can ride up to a window, and they give you food. You don't have to hunt at all, because you have food already in your houses."
Prosperity is not a virtue in and of itself; it comes with costs, and it comes with responsibilities.
Isn't it because the EPA detests diesel passenger vehicles? It took us years to finally get the sulfur out of diesel fuel, and even then diesels are prone to particulates pollution. Honda says they have a great new diesel engine, but try convincing the environmental lobby of that.
Why not? They're using caricature or cartoon whenever they describe a myth now.
Didn't an exasperated Jamie come out and call it "sperm" on the show, or was that relegated to the outtakes/"behind the myths" show?
7. Profit? Well, we Ferengi, er Americans seem to desire that above quality.
It sure looks like Google Chrome is designed first and foremost to be an advertising delivery system.
Yeah, looks like. When malice can be suspected, always assume malice. That spiel about writing a browser to showcase design ideas that they think are cool? Totally irrelevant. Corporate standard practice of covering all liabilities per lawyer paranoia? They must have something to hide.
You could level the "advertising delivery system" argument at IE5-7, which all do a cracker-jack job at blocking ads without 3rd-party software. If Google designs Chrome to circumvent or break software like Privoxy, I would become concerned. Right now, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt-- besides, it's really stupid to pull shenanigans like that on a BSD-licensed project that is so easily forked.
As for privacy, it sounds as if you think Google is so tainted, even Summer of Code-assisted projects are suspect.
... donâ(TM)t ... Iâ(TM)ll...
I guess if he was confident enough to continue using Word to post to the Web...
It's customary for every government to delay, distract, and blame others before they ever accept that they are just as human as the rest of us. Even though they claim to be enlightened democratic republics, the aura of respect that they feel they must maintain and defend dates back to ancient monarchies.
Really, though, it's a defense against political enemies. If a Democrat-led office in the US screwed up like this and admitted their error, the Republicans would be all over them like Nelson Muntz, pointing and chanting, "Ha-ha!" before launching a full investigation complete with special prosecutor. Politics has gone to the point of keeping up false appearances because everyone behaves like schoolchildren when someone behaves like an adult by admitting fault or taking responsibility.
Is it just me, or does the second review at http://www.monacome.com/2008/08/download-google-chrome-browser-review.html have a ridiculously annoying animated favicon?
Either it's Chrome, or their webmaster got a lot of complaints. I see a green square, #00FF00 if I'm not mistaken. Of course, that's a standard overlay colorfor video and animation (or something like that-- when a video overlay fails to render correctly, I get that color).
I don't understand Google's motivation for installing this without prompting the user or providing a removal option.
Over-eagerness of getting Chrome to the public, before vetting everything that it's packaged in? This is easily explained by incompetence on the part of Google's staff, and every person who cries spyware assumes malice.
... said the guy posting his own review. By your reasoning, your evaluation of Chrome and Google likewise sucks. :)
I think I'll go make me a skyscraper-climber a la Adam Savage. That's the kind of suckage we all need.
I hate it when one crashes and takes out a dozen pages I had open earlier to read later and then have to grep and guess through my history.
Firefox and Opera (and IE7, maybe?) save their sessions and tab orders/window contents on-the-fly in case a crash takes down the browser. Though if you open everything in a tab and can't remember which ones you've read...
Might wanna plan your tab/window opening a bit there. :)