You know what? I'm really sick of ignorant people saying "both candidates suck, I shall weep".
I'm a fairly moderate Democrat, and you know what? Kerry doesn't suck. Neither did Al Gore. Neither did John McCain. I happen to really dislike George W Bush, but if I was a fairly hardcore right-wing conservative, I'd imagine I'd be pretty pissed to hear you say that he sucks.
Are they perfect, flawless, shining crystals of purity? No, they're mother-effing human beings who are probably trying to do what they feel is right, most of the time. (That is, when they aren't compromising to reach consensus. Yes, it happens. No, it's not bad.)
I'm sick of reading bitchy posts and hearing bitchy comments about how "oh, all the candidates are bad", and "I'm not going to vote". If you really feel the candidates are that bad, go to the polls anyway. Write in a vote for "NONE OF THE ABOVE", or maybe even the third party candidate of your choice. Badnarik, Nader, whoever--votes for those guys are how the parties realize they need to appeal to those platforms.
If we as young voters all pitch in and at least make an EFFORT to vote (even if they're throwaway votes for Nader or something), then our power as voters goes up. Then, maybe candidates will talk to the 18-28 demographic rather than blathering on about health care. (That sort of talk is all very well and good for Grandma but generally not too important to a 24-year-old.)
So go take a civics class or something and stop your complaining.
For those who didn't RTFA (like the editor), he was indeed predicting the end of the internet back in 2001. However, he was predicting that there were five years left. So he's been consistent on 2006.
Not that he's, yanno, sane or anything, but at least he's consistent.
I'm sorry, but I've been using gaim exclusively for about five months and I just dropped it today due to its general poor performance on my ancient 450mHz machines. Yeah, I know, you aren't surprised that they're slow. But guess what? MirandaIM runs MUCH more smoothly. I just started using it today, so I haven't found any annoyances with it yet, but boy is it smooth.
It's gotten to the point that I express outrage as soon as I see Ashcroft's name. I don't even have to see what he did anymore.
Seriously--are there any conservatives out there on/. who can justify this guy? I'm admittedly pretty liberal, but when I complain about Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft, I always hear people defend Bush and Cheney. No one ever says they agree with Ashcroft.
I work at Radio Shack. The Sanyo 8100 is $229. If you sign a 2-year contract, you get an instant rebate of $130. If you sign a 1-year, you get $65. If you don't sign, you don't get dick.
I'm actually working seasonal part time at a Radio Shack, where we sell the Sprint PCS Vision phones. While you can't get a free cameraphone, they're way down in price--the basic VGA-quality phone is $79.99.
I personally have the $99.99 Sanyo 8100, which does occasionally get me the advertised 50k/sec rate. The camera's really basic, the phone is tiny, and the battery life is just fine. A few days ago, I picked up the data link cable and software, and this morning I installed it, no sweat. It's definitely faster than my dialup access.
As far as the "phone doesn't need a camera" argument: no, it doesn't need a camera. It also doesn't need a calendar or an alarm clock or customizable ringers or wallpapers or any of the things that make cellphones sweet pieces of tech. The same can be said for a computer. If all you want is a basic phone, get the free phone they give you to sign the contract. If you want something with bells and whistles and wireless web access and a friggin' pony, then spend the extra $99 and get one with a camera in it too. No one's making you use it.
Cellphones don't NEED a camera, but cameras have gotten to the price where they can be included for nearly negligible prices, so they're being included. In five years, they're all going to have cameras, the same way they all have color screens and customizable ringtones, etc.
I just downloaded an application called MobiTV that lets me watch twenty-some-odd different channels on my cellphone. Is that necessary? No.
But--and this is the important thing--it's pretty effin' cool. I've had mine for three months (since before I started working for the Shack) and I'm still finding neat little apps and stuff. My cellphone can login to remote servers via SSH, control my copy of WinAmp on my home computer, even stream internet radio. I've never done those things. But if I feel the urge to, I can. I probably will, too, eventually.
The one thing I have yet to see as a plugin for these phones is VoIP. As soon as I find that... bwahaha...
It's a CHILDREN'S book. Of COURSE it's simplistic, that's the point. I'm a huge fan of the Ender's Game series, and I also love Harry Potter, but for two very different reasons.
Yes. It's a children's book. But it's a very good children's book.
That's the sort of mindset that puts pictures of aborted fetuses on big signs, it is.
Look, precision weapons don't always work, you know? The point is that the US military doesn't just indiscriminately lay waste to large areas--the goal is to take out the opposition's attack capabilities. The intent is not to produce the sorts of situations within your linked picture.
>>The thing is, PayPal is really a middleman >>looking for a piece of the credit card >>companies and merchant's action.
If MasterCard or VISA were interested in micropayments, then perhaps you'd have a valid argument here. It'd be easy for either MC or VISA to set up a PayPal-esque service. But until they do so, I'm having difficulty seeing how PayPal is doing anything BUT finding a niche in the market and filling it.
In the state of Florida, driver's licenses say "Operation of a motor vehicle constitutes consent to any sobriety test required by law". And supposedly, your signature on your driver's license is what seals the deal. I wonder if you can take the fifth on such things. Like the Miranda laws.
What we actually need is not a nation of martyrs OR a nation of revolutionaries. What we need is a bunch of martyrs FOR the revolutionaries to point at and fight for. Example: Martin Luther King--martyr. Malcolm X--revolutionary. The first wave always has to be peaceful and get the shit kicked out of them. Then the angry second wave has something to be genuinely angry about, which gets the social change made.
Part of these players' religious beliefs include being thankful to their diety for perceived blessings.
And another part of their religious beliefs prohibits them from expressing their thanks in an enormous stadium.
(Matthew 6:5-6):: "When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you."
These guys probably haven't even read the Bible they hold so dear to their hearts. Most likely, they're just working on that important public image. Jesus is a big moneymaker these days.
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You know what? I'm really sick of ignorant people saying "both candidates suck, I shall weep".
I'm a fairly moderate Democrat, and you know what? Kerry doesn't suck. Neither did Al Gore. Neither did John McCain. I happen to really dislike George W Bush, but if I was a fairly hardcore right-wing conservative, I'd imagine I'd be pretty pissed to hear you say that he sucks.
Are they perfect, flawless, shining crystals of purity? No, they're mother-effing human beings who are probably trying to do what they feel is right, most of the time. (That is, when they aren't compromising to reach consensus. Yes, it happens. No, it's not bad.)
I'm sick of reading bitchy posts and hearing bitchy comments about how "oh, all the candidates are bad", and "I'm not going to vote". If you really feel the candidates are that bad, go to the polls anyway. Write in a vote for "NONE OF THE ABOVE", or maybe even the third party candidate of your choice. Badnarik, Nader, whoever--votes for those guys are how the parties realize they need to appeal to those platforms.
If we as young voters all pitch in and at least make an EFFORT to vote (even if they're throwaway votes for Nader or something), then our power as voters goes up. Then, maybe candidates will talk to the 18-28 demographic rather than blathering on about health care. (That sort of talk is all very well and good for Grandma but generally not too important to a 24-year-old.)
So go take a civics class or something and stop your complaining.
For those who didn't RTFA (like the editor), he was indeed predicting the end of the internet back in 2001. However, he was predicting that there were five years left. So he's been consistent on 2006.
Not that he's, yanno, sane or anything, but at least he's consistent.
I'm sorry, but I've been using gaim exclusively for about five months and I just dropped it today due to its general poor performance on my ancient 450mHz machines. Yeah, I know, you aren't surprised that they're slow. But guess what? MirandaIM runs MUCH more smoothly. I just started using it today, so I haven't found any annoyances with it yet, but boy is it smooth.
Ah, the greatest electrical engineering principle of them all:
Low on features? Install a shitty camera.
On ANYTHING.
It's gotten to the point that I express outrage as soon as I see Ashcroft's name. I don't even have to see what he did anymore.
/. who can justify this guy? I'm admittedly pretty liberal, but when I complain about Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft, I always hear people defend Bush and Cheney. No one ever says they agree with Ashcroft.
Seriously--are there any conservatives out there on
Works for me.
First IBM, now Dell? A month apart? I'm betting there's a common part inside these that's failing--it's probably not just these two companies.
Dibs on Uranus!
...speaking of monkeys walking erect...
Well, when Microsoft buys out SCO and "generously" drops the lawsuit right before it goes to court, they can rehire all SCO's employees.
I work at Radio Shack. The Sanyo 8100 is $229. If you sign a 2-year contract, you get an instant rebate of $130. If you sign a 1-year, you get $65. If you don't sign, you don't get dick.
I'm actually working seasonal part time at a Radio Shack, where we sell the Sprint PCS Vision phones. While you can't get a free cameraphone, they're way down in price--the basic VGA-quality phone is $79.99.
I personally have the $99.99 Sanyo 8100, which does occasionally get me the advertised 50k/sec rate. The camera's really basic, the phone is tiny, and the battery life is just fine. A few days ago, I picked up the data link cable and software, and this morning I installed it, no sweat. It's definitely faster than my dialup access.
As far as the "phone doesn't need a camera" argument: no, it doesn't need a camera. It also doesn't need a calendar or an alarm clock or customizable ringers or wallpapers or any of the things that make cellphones sweet pieces of tech. The same can be said for a computer. If all you want is a basic phone, get the free phone they give you to sign the contract. If you want something with bells and whistles and wireless web access and a friggin' pony, then spend the extra $99 and get one with a camera in it too. No one's making you use it.
Cellphones don't NEED a camera, but cameras have gotten to the price where they can be included for nearly negligible prices, so they're being included. In five years, they're all going to have cameras, the same way they all have color screens and customizable ringtones, etc.
I just downloaded an application called MobiTV that lets me watch twenty-some-odd different channels on my cellphone. Is that necessary? No.
But--and this is the important thing--it's pretty effin' cool. I've had mine for three months (since before I started working for the Shack) and I'm still finding neat little apps and stuff. My cellphone can login to remote servers via SSH, control my copy of WinAmp on my home computer, even stream internet radio. I've never done those things. But if I feel the urge to, I can. I probably will, too, eventually.
The one thing I have yet to see as a plugin for these phones is VoIP. As soon as I find that... bwahaha...
It's a CHILDREN'S book. Of COURSE it's simplistic, that's the point. I'm a huge fan of the Ender's Game series, and I also love Harry Potter, but for two very different reasons.
Yes. It's a children's book. But it's a very good children's book.
That's the sort of mindset that puts pictures of aborted fetuses on big signs, it is.
Look, precision weapons don't always work, you know? The point is that the US military doesn't just indiscriminately lay waste to large areas--the goal is to take out the opposition's attack capabilities. The intent is not to produce the sorts of situations within your linked picture.
>>The thing is, PayPal is really a middleman
>>looking for a piece of the credit card
>>companies and merchant's action.
If MasterCard or VISA were interested in micropayments, then perhaps you'd have a valid argument here. It'd be easy for either MC or VISA to set up a PayPal-esque service. But until they do so, I'm having difficulty seeing how PayPal is doing anything BUT finding a niche in the market and filling it.
They probably wouldn't appreciate it very much, but I doubt they'd sue you.
And if they did, then they aren't very pro-free-speech, are they?
Wasn't this the subtext of the movie Contact?
A free copy of PhotoShop? But that's what I have Morpheus and a T-1 for!
Didn't stop George W Bush or John Ashcroft....
In the state of Florida, driver's licenses say "Operation of a motor vehicle constitutes consent to any sobriety test required by law". And supposedly, your signature on your driver's license is what seals the deal. I wonder if you can take the fifth on such things. Like the Miranda laws.
What we actually need is not a nation of martyrs OR a nation of revolutionaries. What we need is a bunch of martyrs FOR the revolutionaries to point at and fight for. Example: Martin Luther King--martyr. Malcolm X--revolutionary. The first wave always has to be peaceful and get the shit kicked out of them. Then the angry second wave has something to be genuinely angry about, which gets the social change made.
Part of these players' religious beliefs include being thankful to their diety for perceived blessings.
And another part of their religious beliefs prohibits them from expressing their thanks in an enormous stadium.
(Matthew 6:5-6):: "When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you."
These guys probably haven't even read the Bible they hold so dear to their hearts. Most likely, they're just working on that important public image. Jesus is a big moneymaker these days.
--Reverend Nimrod