Save the chicken little propaganda for someone else. I'm not interested. Countries like China and Japan, who both hold 25% of our foreign debt, are not interested in seeing our economy fail, as it would mean failure for them too.
We've had higher federal debt in the past (WWII) and we were paying it down just fine, until Reagan entered office.
We need to either balance the federal budget, or reduce the deficit so that GDP growth outpaces it. After that, we can do what we were doing from 1946 through 1979 - that is, outgrow our debt slowly.
The moment a food company kills somebody through neglect, that company is finished just through the damage to its reputation, never mind the lawsuits.
The food is a terrible example of something to leave up to completely free market. Without the agencies like the FDA, co-ops would collude to hide the source of dangerous products and we would have no one to sue.
In a school environment, the vast majority of manpower is used for helpdesk type duties and tending to broken equipment. The services that get outsourced to Google are not saving the school manhours.
We are currently looking to outsource our students' email. As the in-house email system requires virtually zero time to admin, this will not save us manhours, but it will save us from having to spend tens of thousands of dollars adding capacity to our SAN.
(mind you, they never fixed my pet peeve which was adding a sensor to the phone so the screen turned off when you held it to your ear - instead going for ugly software hacks that never really worked properly)
My Touch Pro 2 and older models like the Touch Diamond have proximity sensors that work perfectly. For some unknown reason, the touch diamond 2 doesn't have one, but most their latest phones do have one.
They think people love and trust to Windows brand and would use it if they have been given a real chance to choose.
Every non-technical person I know that owns an Iphone or Android based phone had no idea that there were phones that ran Windows until I showed them my Touch Pro 2.
I don't think Microsoft's problem has ever been about the power of the underlying platform. What you just described has been easy to do (from a programming standpoint) in Windows Mobile for ages and there are several apps on my phone that are very location aware.
Setting aside them not being able to bring a touch friendly interface to WinMo fast enough, Microsoft's problem is that they assumed that their favorable position in the business phone market would magically carry over into the personal smart phone market. They completely dropped the ball when it came to marketing and marketing agreements. When my phone (T-Mo Touch Pro 2) came out in August T-Mobile was advertising their Android phones on TV 24x7. The only mention of the touch pro 2 was a measly little press release on their website. To this day, the touch pro 2 has never appeared on the front of T-mobile's website, and just recently, months after it's release in August, I saw the first TV advertisement for the touch pro 2. My guess is that Google had an agreement with T-Mo regarding advertising and the WinMo phones were barred from being advertised up until recently. It was so bad when the phone was released that even the T-Mo reps did not know about the touch pro 2 when it came out.
Everyone who I know who owns an iPhone or Android thinks my TP2 is a cool phone and in every case, they had no idea it even existed before I showed it to them. Just yesterday, I showed some guy who owned a Mytouch 3G my TP2 and he thought it was awesome phone. He assumed it was another android phone, and when I told him it ran "Windows Mobile" he was shocked - he had no idea there were Phones that ran "Windows", and the concept of a phone running Windows was not a negative thing to him.
I personally thought the whole "Windows Phone" brand was a lame move, but apparently the name "Windows" does not carry bad connotations outside of the Slashdot crowd.
Anyhow, it will interesting to see how the release of Windows Phone 7 plays out. Microsoft has dug itself a massive hole.
My wife dropped her Blackberry Pearl into water twice. The first time, it was the the toilet. Thankfully, the water had not been "treated" yet. Later, she dropped it into a glass of water on her bedside stand after picking it up to turn off the alarm. She didn't realize what she has done until an hour later when she woke back up. In both cases the phone was fine after being dried out. Both times, I disassembled the phone to speed up the drying time.
The reforms California needs are fundamental changes to the way the government is structured. Right now, the populace can vote huge spending projects with 50% + 1 vote via referendum, but the legislators cannot raise taxes to pay for those projects without a 2/3 vote, which are politically impossible to achieve.
It actually takes between 30 seconds and 2 minutes for the Windows machine to get its first infection. After 10 minutes it will be riddled with crap to the point of uselessness - and this is a "Fully Patched" Windoze 7 install.
Bullshit.
A whole series of stupid decisions way back when the NT kernel was still young, a whole lot of even worse commercial decisions since then
He actually uses Skype too to do video chat with me, but the ability to plug in a standard phone is valuable to him - as I suspect it is for many older people.
Like just about every other modern politician, Reagan used teleprompters every time he gave speeches. That's not a bash against Reagan. It's just how things are done.
Top two Google image results for 'Reagan Teleprompter'....
If you want to define "gifted orator", as someone who can give a good speech from memory, you'll probably need to cross the Atlantic and watch British politicians in parlament. By the British standard, the last gifted orator we've had in the oval office was William Jefferson Clinton, and ironically, he studied at Oxford...in Britain.
What is factually incorrect? I made the point that the USPS supports itself through revenue from it's customers. All you did was start some conspiratorial rant about how the our government is the equivalent of a police state because it exercises a right explicitly granted to it by it's constitution.
Your statement indicates you don't care to what degree the post office is lawless and aided by the government. Research form 1500, its dismissal by local postmasters, the total lack of accountability (aka the postmaster's liability) upon ignoring a properly served form.
I have no doubt that, given the number of post offices, certain local postmasters will fail to properly process that particular form. I've had an experience with a lazy ass postmaster myself. Your personal experience does not equate to a massive federal conspiracy to fill your mailbox with junk mail.
toadlife (301863), is there any reason not to dismiss you as a fucking moron? People who can't revise their opinion in the face of contrary evidence, and who offer no evidence to counter, are fucking imbeciles.
"Congress is demanding that the Health Care Industry continue to honor their universal service obligation, while still maintaining solvency. Perhaps congressional expectations are a tad bit unrealistic considering the reality of medicine today, and maybe drastic changes need to be made regarding Universal, Single Payer Health Care."
Apples to oranges. The U.S. postal service is still much less expensive than it's private competitors. They could make up the difference by raising prices and still be cheaper than UPS and Fed Ex, but congress throws a fit every time the USPS proposes price hikes. Our government holds the USPS to a high standard. You choose to interpret this as the USPS being inefficient.
On the subject of single payer health care, it has been proven to work efficiently and cost less in every country. When you actually compare metrics like life expectancy, infant mortality and and cancer survival rates, these countries with supposedly terrible health care (according to your corporate overlords) are on the same level, or superior to the United States.
Spare me your anecdotes (lies) about Foreign health care. I personally know people from Canada, Britain and Sweden.
Are you making the connection yet that everything the government touches gets fucked up?
No. It's only conservatives like you who equate government with failure. You end up making it a self fulfilling prophecy when you get put in charge. There is nothing "fucked up" about the US postal service, and sending and receiving mail is not equivalent to health care.
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He was a loudmouth Mexican
And one of his funniest bits was about people like you who assume all brownish people must be Mexican.
Congratulations on figuring out that we will not always be the dominant economic super power.
Now cheer up!
I, for one, will welcome our new Chinese and Indian overlords!
Save the chicken little propaganda for someone else. I'm not interested. Countries like China and Japan, who both hold 25% of our foreign debt, are not interested in seeing our economy fail, as it would mean failure for them too.
We've had higher federal debt in the past (WWII) and we were paying it down just fine, until Reagan entered office.
We need to either balance the federal budget, or reduce the deficit so that GDP growth outpaces it. After that, we can do what we were doing from 1946 through 1979 - that is, outgrow our debt slowly.
You do realize the US is close to bankrupt right?
While our debt is certainly an issue that needs to be addressed, the United States is not close to going bankrupt.
The moment a food company kills somebody through neglect, that company is finished just through the damage to its reputation, never mind the lawsuits.
The food is a terrible example of something to leave up to completely free market. Without the agencies like the FDA, co-ops would collude to hide the source of dangerous products and we would have no one to sue.
+1
Besides, reading the logs can be good for a laugh.
There's a perfectly valid and working single payer system right now.
How can you say that it works perfectly when a large percentage of the customers get treatment, but don't end up paying?
In a school environment, the vast majority of manpower is used for helpdesk type duties and tending to broken equipment. The services that get outsourced to Google are not saving the school manhours.
We are currently looking to outsource our students' email. As the in-house email system requires virtually zero time to admin, this will not save us manhours, but it will save us from having to spend tens of thousands of dollars adding capacity to our SAN.
(mind you, they never fixed my pet peeve which was adding a sensor to the phone so the screen turned off when you held it to your ear - instead going for ugly software hacks that never really worked properly)
My Touch Pro 2 and older models like the Touch Diamond have proximity sensors that work perfectly. For some unknown reason, the touch diamond 2 doesn't have one, but most their latest phones do have one.
They think people love and trust to Windows brand and would use it if they have been given a real chance to choose.
Every non-technical person I know that owns an Iphone or Android based phone had no idea that there were phones that ran Windows until I showed them my Touch Pro 2.
I'm from California. We operate by a different set of rules here.
I don't think Microsoft's problem has ever been about the power of the underlying platform. What you just described has been easy to do (from a programming standpoint) in Windows Mobile for ages and there are several apps on my phone that are very location aware.
Setting aside them not being able to bring a touch friendly interface to WinMo fast enough, Microsoft's problem is that they assumed that their favorable position in the business phone market would magically carry over into the personal smart phone market. They completely dropped the ball when it came to marketing and marketing agreements. When my phone (T-Mo Touch Pro 2) came out in August T-Mobile was advertising their Android phones on TV 24x7. The only mention of the touch pro 2 was a measly little press release on their website. To this day, the touch pro 2 has never appeared on the front of T-mobile's website, and just recently, months after it's release in August, I saw the first TV advertisement for the touch pro 2. My guess is that Google had an agreement with T-Mo regarding advertising and the WinMo phones were barred from being advertised up until recently. It was so bad when the phone was released that even the T-Mo reps did not know about the touch pro 2 when it came out.
Everyone who I know who owns an iPhone or Android thinks my TP2 is a cool phone and in every case, they had no idea it even existed before I showed it to them. Just yesterday, I showed some guy who owned a Mytouch 3G my TP2 and he thought it was awesome phone. He assumed it was another android phone, and when I told him it ran "Windows Mobile" he was shocked - he had no idea there were Phones that ran "Windows", and the concept of a phone running Windows was not a negative thing to him.
I personally thought the whole "Windows Phone" brand was a lame move, but apparently the name "Windows" does not carry bad connotations outside of the Slashdot crowd.
Anyhow, it will interesting to see how the release of Windows Phone 7 plays out. Microsoft has dug itself a massive hole.
That'd be like going into a pizza shop...
This guy might be able to help you with that one.
+1 Hilarious
(I'm a WinMo user/fan/victim)
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Ditto.
My wife dropped her Blackberry Pearl into water twice. The first time, it was the the toilet. Thankfully, the water had not been "treated" yet. Later, she dropped it into a glass of water on her bedside stand after picking it up to turn off the alarm. She didn't realize what she has done until an hour later when she woke back up. In both cases the phone was fine after being dried out. Both times, I disassembled the phone to speed up the drying time.
The reforms California needs are fundamental changes to the way the government is structured. Right now, the populace can vote huge spending projects with 50% + 1 vote via referendum, but the legislators cannot raise taxes to pay for those projects without a 2/3 vote, which are politically impossible to achieve.
It actually takes between 30 seconds and 2 minutes for the Windows machine to get its first infection. After 10 minutes it will be riddled with crap to the point of uselessness - and this is a "Fully Patched" Windoze 7 install.
Bullshit.
A whole series of stupid decisions way back when the NT kernel was still young, a whole lot of even worse commercial decisions since then
Like what?
He actually uses Skype too to do video chat with me, but the ability to plug in a standard phone is valuable to him - as I suspect it is for many older people.
Like just about every other modern politician, Reagan used teleprompters every time he gave speeches. That's not a bash against Reagan. It's just how things are done.
Top two Google image results for 'Reagan Teleprompter'....
State of the Union 1988
Some Televised Speech (looks like a much older model)
If you want to define "gifted orator", as someone who can give a good speech from memory, you'll probably need to cross the Atlantic and watch British politicians in parlament. By the British standard, the last gifted orator we've had in the oval office was William Jefferson Clinton, and ironically, he studied at Oxford...in Britain.
It is factually incorrect.
What is factually incorrect? I made the point that the USPS supports itself through revenue from it's customers. All you did was start some conspiratorial rant about how the our government is the equivalent of a police state because it exercises a right explicitly granted to it by it's constitution.
Your statement indicates you don't care to what degree the post office is lawless and aided by the government. Research form 1500, its dismissal by local postmasters, the total lack of accountability (aka the postmaster's liability) upon ignoring a properly served form.
I have no doubt that, given the number of post offices, certain local postmasters will fail to properly process that particular form. I've had an experience with a lazy ass postmaster myself. Your personal experience does not equate to a massive federal conspiracy to fill your mailbox with junk mail.
toadlife (301863), is there any reason not to dismiss you as a fucking moron? People who can't revise their opinion in the face of contrary evidence, and who offer no evidence to counter, are fucking imbeciles.
Are you okay?
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
~One of Ronald Reagan's Ghost Writers
FTFY
My Dad bought one over a year ago. He still uses it and has been happy with it.
Have a nice MoveOn.org/OFA day!
Cheers to you too! :)
"Congress is demanding that the Health Care Industry continue to honor their universal service obligation, while still maintaining solvency. Perhaps congressional expectations are a tad bit unrealistic considering the reality of medicine today, and maybe drastic changes need to be made regarding Universal, Single Payer Health Care."
Apples to oranges. The U.S. postal service is still much less expensive than it's private competitors. They could make up the difference by raising prices and still be cheaper than UPS and Fed Ex, but congress throws a fit every time the USPS proposes price hikes. Our government holds the USPS to a high standard. You choose to interpret this as the USPS being inefficient.
On the subject of single payer health care, it has been proven to work efficiently and cost less in every country. When you actually compare metrics like life expectancy, infant mortality and and cancer survival rates, these countries with supposedly terrible health care (according to your corporate overlords) are on the same level, or superior to the United States.
Spare me your anecdotes (lies) about Foreign health care. I personally know people from Canada, Britain and Sweden.
Are you making the connection yet that everything the government touches gets fucked up?
No. It's only conservatives like you who equate government with failure. You end up making it a self fulfilling prophecy when you get put in charge. There is nothing "fucked up" about the US postal service, and sending and receiving mail is not equivalent to health care.