Oh, that's too easy. Given how the DoJ under Bush was so easily corrupted by Gonzales and other Republican yes-men, it wouldn't be too hard to imagine the next President being paid to appoint some RIAA lawyers in there. Since Congress is already in the media industry's pocket, I doubt anyone will bat an eye at the confirmation hearings. Then you'll have the FBI start going after people for what used to be "civil" infringement.
Which essentially means, Obama gets to have his cake and eat it too:
Notice, if he chooses and he's elected and sworn in, he can keep the expanded surveillance powers, along with other insane Bush presidency precedents, and go after Bush/Cheney for wantonly breaking domestic and international law.
The Democrats were split on the bill, as half knew that it would be political suicide if word got out that they were essentially giving a free pass to the telcos and by extension, the Bush administration (unless the next POTUS' DoJ decides to somehow prosecute them, risking deadlock from the GOP buffoons over a perceived witch hunt). The other half were successfully paid off by the telcos and other lobbies, or were afraid of being "soft on terror" after all the opportunities to realize that the phrase was Cheney's "take over Congress for free" card.
The Republican Senators and most of the GOP House members must be voted out of office. They support a White House of liars, cheaters, despots, and thieves, and choose to do so at the cost of Constitutionally-protected rights. Likewise, the Democrats who voted for the new FISA must be removed from office-- I'd love to see Lieberman and Feinstein rendered politically irrelevant. If that sort of shakedown in the Congress doesn't scare them straight, nothing will short of a full-scale revolt or coup d'etat. The only way that's going to happen, sadly, is if someone jams ESPN, FOX, CNN, and other mass media outlets.
Let's put it this way: If you're in a developed country where the media cartels or the US have influence on the politics, there is no way you will escape the trend of free nations becoming police states. The US has a responsibility to protect and uphold its Constitution by protecting the rights of its citizens, and it has blown it spectacularly because its cash cows need to be protected. Should this persist, in a few decades the traditional "democratic" nations will make today's North Korea and Iran look libertarian, if they haven't annihilated them first.
The next amendment to the Constitution will no doubt amend the Preamble: We the corporations of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish profits, ensure domestic dominance, provide for defense of our wealth, promote our own welfare, and secure the blessings of property control, to ourselves and our posterity...
If Asus markets the Eee like Apple did the iPod, it certainly can take the world by storm. I don't think that's necessary, however, as Asus happens to be in the right place and time with the right product. At a time when much of the industrialized world is now computer-conscious and high-speed* 'Net access is becoming commonplace, along comes an inexpensive ultraportable computer that does all the basic stuff that novices need. Some of us thought that computer would be the OLPC XO, but it turns out the OLPC folks are better at managing an NPO and bickering amongst themselves, than running a business.
Apache license: Nearly every Linux and BSD-based hosting service uses Apache. If the website's servers aren't running Windows, chances are it's running Apache to serve up pages. That's a lot of servers, no matter how you slice it. Mozilla license: The number two browser on the 'net behind IE is Firefox, which has, surprise, the Mozilla Public License.
As for the others, aside from PHP the success may be exaggerated.
I realize that Chinese, Hindi, and Arabic are probably smarter choices economically, but there is a dearth of good engineers and technical people in Japan. Not only this, most engineers in Japan are like engineers in the US-- they only know their mother tongue. Having bilingual people in Japan teaching them English would be an incredible bonus to them, and incidentally, they're in high demand.
For some reason, only foreign-looking English teachers are in demand. Sucks to be Nisei.
Ugh, Bob Costas. If anything, he and Marv Albert should've called games with heavy springs in their jaws. Why? They are the ones who initiated the "talk continuously, even about things only tangentially related to the game, sometimes with a color commentator ex-professional sports guy, so that the audience doesn't figure out you can't really call sports games" school of sports broadcasting.
Okay, to be fair, ESPN is more guilty of the color commentator proliferation.
Some may remember that Costas said in 1988 that the Dodgers probably had the worst hitting line up in World Series history. Had he not said that, he wouldn't have had to eat his words after they won the series.
As much as I dislike him, Gates at the very least is a brilliant businessman who knows technology and the software market. Ballmer, on the other hand, demonstrates that he is a piss-poor business strategist/tactician (given his flailing with Yahoo) who somewhat knows technology and the market. You do the math.
As much as WINE and other VMs are usable, the only company that could guarantee 100% compatibility with legacy applications through whatever method (VM, hypervisor) is Microsoft-- they have the source code to every Windows version that existed. Reverse-engineering can get you far, but it does take you a long time to get there; what MS needs to do if it takes Apple's course is get a VM or hypervisor product out there that beats everyone else's.
Or they could play nasty and buy out everyone that makes a PC emulator (though I doubt the EU would like that).
You get to massage and spin news descriptions of yourself when you're the buddy of Steve Ballmer. What Icahn is doing is absolutely appalling, and the investors are probably thinking his idea is the best, even if it means YHOO will go down in flames no more than two years after any such deal.
Indeed, and it's amazing how the AC and others who still support Bush try to distribute and redirect the responsibility away from the White House: "But, but, but, THEY said the same thing too!"
Yes, and they didn't go and invade Iraq, instead preferring to use diplomacy and trade tactics to try to convince Saddam to give up the WMDs, and the UN sent inspectors to make damn sure that he wasn't building WMDs. None of them falsified or glorified intelligence reports, nor did they link Iraq to 9/11 like the Bush administration did to justify military action. The bottom line is, Cheney and his cronies were itching for a war in Iraq, and the WMD rumors were only one piece of the picture they were painting for us.
Well, the Supreme Court upheld the Second Amendment right to carry arms, and reaffirmed that the citizens can be the militia (as opposed to the minor standing army called the National Guard). Doubtless if there is no other viable option, someone will lead an armed revolt.
... ill advised military operations that are governed by the State Department more than the Pentagon...
Frontline has a great show called "Bush's War" that details the events leading up to the Iraq war up to a year or two before the "troop surge". It's very clear that the war was planned from the very beginning of Bush's presidency, and forced upon us by a series of brilliant media manipulation events that Karl Rove would be proud of. Among the really stupid things Bush and Cheney did were:
Completely ignored Powell and the CIA initially (the two Executive organizations that told them that an Iraq invasion would be a really bad idea, and forcing it on the USA would be worse)
Had Rumsfeld make up his own intelligence team (insert joke about "military intelligence")
Ignored CIA intelligence regarding Iraq and instead listened to Wolfowitz's exiled Iraqi buddy (who was provably a liar)
Compromised the CIA director politically and coerced him into producing a very bad report
Left "Smaller is better-- I like Rambo" Rumsfeld in charge of a massive occupation effort, then let Rice assume power after Rumsfeld's strategy failed spectacularly (which is what you're referring to)
I'm sure neo-cons will shrug and say, "So he sucked at his job. At least he didn't slaughter his own people." I tend to think that sending your people off to an unnecessary war based on lies is equivalent to slaughtering the people you've sworn to protect.
It's not misleading, as the US government is involved in the lawsuits as the Department of Justice (the Executive branch). It's therefore perfectly natural to say that the US government ruled against the US government.
Or, it's supposed to be; somehow the power-mongers in the White House and the cowards in Congress think that the US government ought to be a stand-alone unit. I'm pretty sure the framers of the Constitution had a whole pile of words to say about that irresponsible and appalling belief.
2) Oooooh, a language is faulty because it has a syntax with which you are not familiar. Immediately kill all non-Java clones!
What makes this rebuttal a ridiculous straw man is the fact that GP didn't even mention Java. He did mention C (with some derision), Ruby, and Python.
Here's a clue: what is familiar to you (Erlang) may have syntactic inconsistencies. Okay, so you took the time and effort to learn it, and more power to you. However, because syntax is a design decision rather than an implementation decision, it says a whole lot about the design when there are three different ways to end a statement. Perhaps next time, you could explain why Erlang was designed that way instead of responding with a useless hyperbole.
Apparently, if we're getting suckered for "concentrated water", we are deserving of the r-reversed crayon nutritional label that only has a certain finger raised for information.
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Oh, that's too easy. Given how the DoJ under Bush was so easily corrupted by Gonzales and other Republican yes-men, it wouldn't be too hard to imagine the next President being paid to appoint some RIAA lawyers in there. Since Congress is already in the media industry's pocket, I doubt anyone will bat an eye at the confirmation hearings. Then you'll have the FBI start going after people for what used to be "civil" infringement.
Given SatanicPuppy's comment, he's already got the filibuster down.
After being in a courtroom with Thompson, beer only makes you want to go take a leak. You want stuff that's at least 40-proof.
I think they still have Karl Rove appear as a "guest commentator", so their opinion of their viewers is frighteningly low.
On the other hand, Rove is the Joseph Goebbels of the neoconservative Republicans...
Which essentially means, Obama gets to have his cake and eat it too:
Notice, if he chooses and he's elected and sworn in, he can keep the expanded surveillance powers, along with other insane Bush presidency precedents, and go after Bush/Cheney for wantonly breaking domestic and international law.
The Democrats were split on the bill, as half knew that it would be political suicide if word got out that they were essentially giving a free pass to the telcos and by extension, the Bush administration (unless the next POTUS' DoJ decides to somehow prosecute them, risking deadlock from the GOP buffoons over a perceived witch hunt). The other half were successfully paid off by the telcos and other lobbies, or were afraid of being "soft on terror" after all the opportunities to realize that the phrase was Cheney's "take over Congress for free" card.
The Republican Senators and most of the GOP House members must be voted out of office. They support a White House of liars, cheaters, despots, and thieves, and choose to do so at the cost of Constitutionally-protected rights. Likewise, the Democrats who voted for the new FISA must be removed from office-- I'd love to see Lieberman and Feinstein rendered politically irrelevant. If that sort of shakedown in the Congress doesn't scare them straight, nothing will short of a full-scale revolt or coup d'etat. The only way that's going to happen, sadly, is if someone jams ESPN, FOX, CNN, and other mass media outlets.
Let's put it this way: If you're in a developed country where the media cartels or the US have influence on the politics, there is no way you will escape the trend of free nations becoming police states. The US has a responsibility to protect and uphold its Constitution by protecting the rights of its citizens, and it has blown it spectacularly because its cash cows need to be protected. Should this persist, in a few decades the traditional "democratic" nations will make today's North Korea and Iran look libertarian, if they haven't annihilated them first.
The next amendment to the Constitution will no doubt amend the Preamble: We the corporations of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish profits, ensure domestic dominance, provide for defense of our wealth, promote our own welfare, and secure the blessings of property control, to ourselves and our posterity...
If Asus markets the Eee like Apple did the iPod, it certainly can take the world by storm. I don't think that's necessary, however, as Asus happens to be in the right place and time with the right product. At a time when much of the industrialized world is now computer-conscious and high-speed* 'Net access is becoming commonplace, along comes an inexpensive ultraportable computer that does all the basic stuff that novices need. Some of us thought that computer would be the OLPC XO, but it turns out the OLPC folks are better at managing an NPO and bickering amongst themselves, than running a business.
* Granted, "high-speed" according to the FCC...
Nah, they pulled down the price of the SSD Macbook Air, so you're probably going to have to spring for the Pro or Xserve. $10k+, yo.
The ex-high school linebacker who used to bully geeks, and who couldn't get into politics because of personality quirks or foul hygiene.
Like a lolcat, only without (I can haz) caps.
Apache license: Nearly every Linux and BSD-based hosting service uses Apache. If the website's servers aren't running Windows, chances are it's running Apache to serve up pages. That's a lot of servers, no matter how you slice it.
Mozilla license: The number two browser on the 'net behind IE is Firefox, which has, surprise, the Mozilla Public License.
As for the others, aside from PHP the success may be exaggerated.
Japanese.
I realize that Chinese, Hindi, and Arabic are probably smarter choices economically, but there is a dearth of good engineers and technical people in Japan. Not only this, most engineers in Japan are like engineers in the US-- they only know their mother tongue. Having bilingual people in Japan teaching them English would be an incredible bonus to them, and incidentally, they're in high demand.
For some reason, only foreign-looking English teachers are in demand. Sucks to be Nisei.
If the implication is "knowing girlspeak means you get to find a mate and have kids", your example is holding up like balsa wood.
Ugh, Bob Costas. If anything, he and Marv Albert should've called games with heavy springs in their jaws. Why? They are the ones who initiated the "talk continuously, even about things only tangentially related to the game, sometimes with a color commentator ex-professional sports guy, so that the audience doesn't figure out you can't really call sports games" school of sports broadcasting.
Okay, to be fair, ESPN is more guilty of the color commentator proliferation.
Some may remember that Costas said in 1988 that the Dodgers probably had the worst hitting line up in World Series history. Had he not said that, he wouldn't have had to eat his words after they won the series.
As much as I dislike him, Gates at the very least is a brilliant businessman who knows technology and the software market. Ballmer, on the other hand, demonstrates that he is a piss-poor business strategist/tactician (given his flailing with Yahoo) who somewhat knows technology and the market. You do the math.
As much as WINE and other VMs are usable, the only company that could guarantee 100% compatibility with legacy applications through whatever method (VM, hypervisor) is Microsoft-- they have the source code to every Windows version that existed. Reverse-engineering can get you far, but it does take you a long time to get there; what MS needs to do if it takes Apple's course is get a VM or hypervisor product out there that beats everyone else's.
Or they could play nasty and buy out everyone that makes a PC emulator (though I doubt the EU would like that).
You get to massage and spin news descriptions of yourself when you're the buddy of Steve Ballmer. What Icahn is doing is absolutely appalling, and the investors are probably thinking his idea is the best, even if it means YHOO will go down in flames no more than two years after any such deal.
Indeed, and it's amazing how the AC and others who still support Bush try to distribute and redirect the responsibility away from the White House: "But, but, but, THEY said the same thing too!"
Yes, and they didn't go and invade Iraq, instead preferring to use diplomacy and trade tactics to try to convince Saddam to give up the WMDs, and the UN sent inspectors to make damn sure that he wasn't building WMDs. None of them falsified or glorified intelligence reports, nor did they link Iraq to 9/11 like the Bush administration did to justify military action. The bottom line is, Cheney and his cronies were itching for a war in Iraq, and the WMD rumors were only one piece of the picture they were painting for us.
Well, the Supreme Court upheld the Second Amendment right to carry arms, and reaffirmed that the citizens can be the militia (as opposed to the minor standing army called the National Guard). Doubtless if there is no other viable option, someone will lead an armed revolt.
Frontline has a great show called "Bush's War" that details the events leading up to the Iraq war up to a year or two before the "troop surge". It's very clear that the war was planned from the very beginning of Bush's presidency, and forced upon us by a series of brilliant media manipulation events that Karl Rove would be proud of. Among the really stupid things Bush and Cheney did were:
I'm sure neo-cons will shrug and say, "So he sucked at his job. At least he didn't slaughter his own people." I tend to think that sending your people off to an unnecessary war based on lies is equivalent to slaughtering the people you've sworn to protect.
It's not misleading, as the US government is involved in the lawsuits as the Department of Justice (the Executive branch). It's therefore perfectly natural to say that the US government ruled against the US government.
Or, it's supposed to be; somehow the power-mongers in the White House and the cowards in Congress think that the US government ought to be a stand-alone unit. I'm pretty sure the framers of the Constitution had a whole pile of words to say about that irresponsible and appalling belief.
What makes this rebuttal a ridiculous straw man is the fact that GP didn't even mention Java. He did mention C (with some derision), Ruby, and Python.
Here's a clue: what is familiar to you (Erlang) may have syntactic inconsistencies. Okay, so you took the time and effort to learn it, and more power to you. However, because syntax is a design decision rather than an implementation decision, it says a whole lot about the design when there are three different ways to end a statement. Perhaps next time, you could explain why Erlang was designed that way instead of responding with a useless hyperbole.
Apparently, if we're getting suckered for "concentrated water", we are deserving of the r-reversed crayon nutritional label that only has a certain finger raised for information.
Whoops, I should've said "rebuttal of the myth of overpriced cables". Sorry about that.