Well, he's against the war on drugs, he wants a policy of non-intervention in other countries, he believes marriage is something between 2 people that the government should stay out of, he wants to return to the gold standard, he's opposed to the Fed, he wants to repeal the 17th Amendment, he's against The Patriot Act, The Real ID act, domestic surveillance, summary executions of US citizens by our government (unlike the current administration), he opposes confronting Iran, he wants to end the embargo on Cuba, wants to end the TSA...
I can't see much of this in any other candidate's platform.
I suffered a major injury almost 2 years ago that involved compound fractures, wound treatment, PICC lines, osteomyelitis, hyperbaric therapy, 6 surgeries and culminated in a replacement ankle several weeks ago. I found the lack of communications between the various medical branches appalling. Kept photos of every X-ray, every exam, every bloodwork report, as well as a detailed chronology etc.. in my iPhone. That way I was able to share it with each Doc because they would NOT communicate with each other.
If you are dealing with multiple doctors, you need to make sure that each doc has all of the facts, because for the most part, they could care less about anything not directly in their specific field.
Actually, the politician with the most consistent and favorable position on MMJ and M in general is Ron Paul and he is about as different from the typical Democrat as can be. Of course he's just about as different from the typical Republican too.
I'm beginning to think people like the IRS more than the TSA.
I guess that's why the IRS put in charge of enforcing the healthcare 'reform' bill so we could more equitably spread the disdain for the different parts of the Federal Government around. Then they'll be equally hated.
Distributed power is how our grid should be set up. Also, being self-contained, these would allow us to put them closer to the actual users and cut transmission losses and costs. Why the hell aren't we doing it yet?
Exactly!
The fragility of our so-called "smart grid" terrifies me. Between solar events, terrorism, carelessness and stupidity it is bound to do some really bad things that impact our entire nation.
Distributed power like this (really a mix of this and NG CHP ) makes so much sense that there is almost no chance of our leadership in the U.S. ever allowing it to happen.
Freedom and liberation are relative terms. For that part of the world they've got about as much freedom and liberty as any country in the region is going to allow. This is the same neck of the woods where people are arrested in foreign countries and returned home to be executed for tweeting their thoughts.
This area has thousands of years of tradition of people having little in the way of rights, education or choice and that isn't going to be overcome in the tiny 'revolutions' that are occurring. All they are doing is replacing one oppressive regime with another.
Our traditional film business is sound as digital imaging
continues to evolve.
That was 10 years ago. The typical end-user desktop/notebook world probably has a similar life left. Just as a few specialty photographers still need film, there will always be niche professionals that need high-end desktop or notebooks, but most end users won't.
Is there any reason to believe that governments wouldn't put pressure on all OS vendors, telecom providers, etc that wanted to sell into their countries to do something like that? I'd be very surprised if very many cellphones so in the USA don't have a way in for the Feds.
At the same time, if you are concerned about the possibility of backdoors, it's awfully easy to bury one in deep in some standard hardware component that user space processes and most of the OS don't normally interract with. Since most of our cellphones and PCs (and GPSs and media boxes and cameras and...) originate in China, what are the odds that they are not all compromised?
IT jobs and pay seem to be booming in the Atlanta area and it seems to be a market where corporate jobs are paying as much as riskier consulting jobs. Folks with average to good skills are finding work easily and companies are loosening the purse strings on long delayed IT projects. Our small consulting firm of 75 has brought on 8 people in the past 6 weeks. This observation is based on what we see on the job boards and in the hiring process and what we hear colloquially from other firms.
TV sets are an incredibly slim margin market. Plus, they aren't going to be able to easily compete with larger set sizes and probably wouldn't want to. The distribution channel for larger devices in very high volumes is very different than for a handful of 27" iMacs and monitors as well
Instead, Apple could leverage their current position and just enhance the user experience with a nicer Apple TV (with video conferencing, camera, remote acess and other goodies thrown in.) They could even couple that with a centralized server and really low cost set top boxes at each set for a more consistent and compelling experience and even better margins. iOS games could also be integrated in.
Because you obviously don't understand the point of Android. Only reason Android was developed was Google was deathly afraid that Apple would cut them out of iOS and therefore, cut them out of big mobile space share.
Google purchased (not created) Android in 2005. The work on the product had actually been started by Android, inc in 2003.
The first iPhone didn't released until 2007 and featured Google prominently.
To have already figured out that Apple might cut them out of iOS in 2005 is astounding. If this is correct, then they have amazing foresight.
The $4B from AT&T represents 4.3x TM's last 4 quarters of earnings.
Deutsch Telekom desperately wants to unload them. With 4 years profits in the bag they should just firesale them off at this point and declare victory.
The alternative is to make massive investments to try and end the hemmoraging of subscribers and turn the company around. The odds of their management making that happen successfully are somewhere between slim and unlikely.
No one else in the cellular market is going to want to buy them in the shape they are in. This is the time that someone who wants to be in that space and has deep pockets (Amazon? Google? Facebook?) should buy them. They could transform them into something other than a mediocre mobile phone company.
I've had service from all 4 of the major carriers (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and TMo) and they all sucked. How much they sucked depended to some extent on where I happened to be physically at any point in time and how much I had to deal with their customer service. In the case of TMo, they sucked on coverage, but they/really/ sucked the most on customer service. People complain about AT&T and Verizon customer service but I've had far more success with them than I ever did with TMo. I am not sure that I ever had a successful interaction with them and I finally dumped them after about 3 years of that crap.
These companies aren't going to change. The mindset of the management teams and boards prohibits it. They will continue to screw their bases with bizarre pricing plans, poorly implemented limits and serious privacy issues. Maybe what we need is for them to continue to roll up into a couple of large, lumbering, unresponsive companies and then have someone nimble come in with new technology and decent plans and radically shift the playing field.
I wonder how different that is from the money spent on and the energy consumed by video games? Its been estimated that the 2011 spend on video games could be as high as $49B. How more is spent on the hardware and energy to play them? Plus there are the all of the societal costs associated with them. We can't afford alternative energy, but we can spend billions of dollars on video games that consume energy, waste time and accomplish nothing.
In baseball, the only thing deemed important to cover is the ball. There may not be as much politics associated with it but you don't really get to see the shifts; what the pitcher and catcher do on most plays, etc.. If you aren't in the ball park seeing it in person, its a pretty intellectually dull sport.
They didn't; this was a psychological experiment. We already know what long-term zero G does; we have the ISS for that.
Agreed.
I do wonder though how they simulated the stress associated with the potentials of massive equipment failure, rupture of a compartment in space, collision with small, rapidly moving objects, etc... Space travelers, even those in the ISS have to maintain a certain level of alertness and be constantly prepared to deal with such incidents. 520 days of that small background stress is bound to add up and impact health and behavior.
Based on what Microsoft has that it can sell to consumers, they'd be a lot smarter to locate near a GameStop than an Apple store.
They XBox line is really all that they have to sell directly to consumers.
Why is it not the responsibilty of the buyers who reside in CA to pay the use tax on their purchases? Are they a state full of criminals? We file detailed and thorough use tax filings every quarter.
The states (not to mention the counties and cities are starving for revenues.) This is a step onto the slippery slope of making all retailers file and pay sales tax in all jurisdictions where they have sales regardless of nexus. When the revenue from this grab isn't enough it will be interesting to see how the states go after retailers selling from abroad (particularly digital sales.)
It could have been MAC addresses or it could have been something as simple as the time that a hack occurred. The homeowners may have been able to prove that they were not home at that time and couldn't have done it.
Based on the 2 weeks to hack WEP, this guy wasn't too bright. It may never have occurred to him to make sure that they were home whenever he did something.
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Well, he's against the war on drugs, he wants a policy of non-intervention in other countries, he believes marriage is something between 2 people that the government should stay out of, he wants to return to the gold standard, he's opposed to the Fed, he wants to repeal the 17th Amendment, he's against The Patriot Act, The Real ID act, domestic surveillance, summary executions of US citizens by our government (unlike the current administration), he opposes confronting Iran, he wants to end the embargo on Cuba, wants to end the TSA...
I can't see much of this in any other candidate's platform.
I suffered a major injury almost 2 years ago that involved compound fractures, wound treatment, PICC lines, osteomyelitis, hyperbaric therapy, 6 surgeries and culminated in a replacement ankle several weeks ago. I found the lack of communications between the various medical branches appalling. Kept photos of every X-ray, every exam, every bloodwork report, as well as a detailed chronology etc.. in my iPhone. That way I was able to share it with each Doc because they would NOT communicate with each other.
If you are dealing with multiple doctors, you need to make sure that each doc has all of the facts, because for the most part, they could care less about anything not directly in their specific field.
Actually, the politician with the most consistent and favorable position on MMJ and M in general is Ron Paul and he is about as different from the typical Democrat as can be. Of course he's just about as different from the typical Republican too.
I'm beginning to think people like the IRS more than the TSA.
I guess that's why the IRS put in charge of enforcing the healthcare 'reform' bill so we could more equitably spread the disdain for the different parts of the Federal Government around. Then they'll be equally hated.
Distributed power is how our grid should be set up. Also, being self-contained, these would allow us to put them closer to the actual users and cut transmission losses and costs. Why the hell aren't we doing it yet?
Exactly!
The fragility of our so-called "smart grid" terrifies me. Between solar events, terrorism, carelessness and stupidity it is bound to do some really bad things that impact our entire nation.
Distributed power like this (really a mix of this and NG CHP ) makes so much sense that there is almost no chance of our leadership in the U.S. ever allowing it to happen.
Freedom and liberation are relative terms. For that part of the world they've got about as much freedom and liberty as any country in the region is going to allow. This is the same neck of the woods where people are arrested in foreign countries and returned home to be executed for tweeting their thoughts.
This area has thousands of years of tradition of people having little in the way of rights, education or choice and that isn't going to be overcome in the tiny 'revolutions' that are occurring. All they are doing is replacing one oppressive regime with another.
Put a light on top and you've got a nice lighthouse there.
Clean it out and fill it with ping pong balls and float it off the shoals. Then tow it back to drydock.
Worked for Adam and Jamie when they tried it.
Just think of all of the ping pong ball manufacturing jobs created!
From Kodak's 2002 Annual Report:
Our traditional film business is sound as digital imaging continues to evolve.
That was 10 years ago. The typical end-user desktop/notebook world probably has a similar life left. Just as a few specialty photographers still need film, there will always be niche professionals that need high-end desktop or notebooks, but most end users won't.
Is there any reason to believe that governments wouldn't put pressure on all OS vendors, telecom providers, etc that wanted to sell into their countries to do something like that? I'd be very surprised if very many cellphones so in the USA don't have a way in for the Feds.
...) originate in China, what are the odds that they are not all compromised?
At the same time, if you are concerned about the possibility of backdoors, it's awfully easy to bury one in deep in some standard hardware component that user space processes and most of the OS don't normally interract with. Since most of our cellphones and PCs (and GPSs and media boxes and cameras and
IT jobs and pay seem to be booming in the Atlanta area and it seems to be a market where corporate jobs are paying as much as riskier consulting jobs. Folks with average to good skills are finding work easily and companies are loosening the purse strings on long delayed IT projects. Our small consulting firm of 75 has brought on 8 people in the past 6 weeks. This observation is based on what we see on the job boards and in the hiring process and what we hear colloquially from other firms.
I'm waiting for the follow-on where she does it in the winter.
TV sets are an incredibly slim margin market. Plus, they aren't going to be able to easily compete with larger set sizes and probably wouldn't want to. The distribution channel for larger devices in very high volumes is very different than for a handful of 27" iMacs and monitors as well
Instead, Apple could leverage their current position and just enhance the user experience with a nicer Apple TV (with video conferencing, camera, remote acess and other goodies thrown in.) They could even couple that with a centralized server and really low cost set top boxes at each set for a more consistent and compelling experience and even better margins. iOS games could also be integrated in.
It makes no sense for them to make sets.
Because you obviously don't understand the point of Android. Only reason Android was developed was Google was deathly afraid that Apple would cut them out of iOS and therefore, cut them out of big mobile space share.
Google purchased (not created) Android in 2005. The work on the product had actually been started by Android, inc in 2003.
The first iPhone didn't released until 2007 and featured Google prominently.
To have already figured out that Apple might cut them out of iOS in 2005 is astounding. If this is correct, then they have amazing foresight.
The $4B from AT&T represents 4.3x TM's last 4 quarters of earnings.
Deutsch Telekom desperately wants to unload them. With 4 years profits in the bag they should just firesale them off at this point and declare victory.
The alternative is to make massive investments to try and end the hemmoraging of subscribers and turn the company around. The odds of their management making that happen successfully are somewhere between slim and unlikely.
No one else in the cellular market is going to want to buy them in the shape they are in. This is the time that someone who wants to be in that space and has deep pockets (Amazon? Google? Facebook?) should buy them. They could transform them into something other than a mediocre mobile phone company.
Hopefully it will finally get ridiculous enough that public outrage will overcome intense funding of politicians by industry sources.
For some reason, when the STAN500100 appeared in Sept for $99 I jumped on it.
For once I am on the right side of a price change. The $99 with free shipping I got is looking pretty good now.
I've had service from all 4 of the major carriers (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and TMo) and they all sucked. How much they sucked depended to some extent on where I happened to be physically at any point in time and how much I had to deal with their customer service. In the case of TMo, they sucked on coverage, but they /really/ sucked the most on customer service. People complain about AT&T and Verizon customer service but I've had far more success with them than I ever did with TMo. I am not sure that I ever had a successful interaction with them and I finally dumped them after about 3 years of that crap.
These companies aren't going to change. The mindset of the management teams and boards prohibits it. They will continue to screw their bases with bizarre pricing plans, poorly implemented limits and serious privacy issues. Maybe what we need is for them to continue to roll up into a couple of large, lumbering, unresponsive companies and then have someone nimble come in with new technology and decent plans and radically shift the playing field.
I wonder how different that is from the money spent on and the energy consumed by video games? Its been estimated that the 2011 spend on video games could be as high as $49B. How more is spent on the hardware and energy to play them? Plus there are the all of the societal costs associated with them. We can't afford alternative energy, but we can spend billions of dollars on video games that consume energy, waste time and accomplish nothing.
In baseball, the only thing deemed important to cover is the ball. There may not be as much politics associated with it but you don't really get to see the shifts; what the pitcher and catcher do on most plays, etc.. If you aren't in the ball park seeing it in person, its a pretty intellectually dull sport.
They didn't; this was a psychological experiment. We already know what long-term zero G does; we have the ISS for that.
Agreed.
I do wonder though how they simulated the stress associated with the potentials of massive equipment failure, rupture of a compartment in space, collision with small, rapidly moving objects, etc... Space travelers, even those in the ISS have to maintain a certain level of alertness and be constantly prepared to deal with such incidents. 520 days of that small background stress is bound to add up and impact health and behavior.
Based on what Microsoft has that it can sell to consumers, they'd be a lot smarter to locate near a GameStop than an Apple store. They XBox line is really all that they have to sell directly to consumers.
Why is it not the responsibilty of the buyers who reside in CA to pay the use tax on their purchases? Are they a state full of criminals? We file detailed and thorough use tax filings every quarter.
The states (not to mention the counties and cities are starving for revenues.) This is a step onto the slippery slope of making all retailers file and pay sales tax in all jurisdictions where they have sales regardless of nexus. When the revenue from this grab isn't enough it will be interesting to see how the states go after retailers selling from abroad (particularly digital sales.)
This is great! Maybe we can custom design some lizards that eat only cockroaches and bedbugs and are litter box trained.
Should be a great revenue opportunity,
It could have been MAC addresses or it could have been something as simple as the time that a hack occurred. The homeowners may have been able to prove that they were not home at that time and couldn't have done it.
Based on the 2 weeks to hack WEP, this guy wasn't too bright. It may never have occurred to him to make sure that they were home whenever he did something.