I read a book recently that touched on something similar to this. Part of the argument was if more of our leadership actually had any military experience, they might stop treating the military as a black box they can just throw any problem in and crank out any solution they desired. Also, if more of our leadership (cultural as well as political) had children who served in the military, they might think twice of using the military in some of the ways it's been used in the past decade.
The book was titled AWOL. Pretty interesting book, and while I don't agree with everything in it, it made me think.
That would suck for those BofA users that aren't total morons. If they periodically put that kind of run-around in the login process, that would get annoying pretty quickly.
I'm fairly certain Baltimore has already put up cameras on a large portion of the street corners throughout the city. It started in high crime areas and then extended throughout downtown. (Granted, some would argue the entire city could be considered a high crime area!:) )
I'm fairly certain TFA isn't talking about using this on commercial aircraft. They're testing controlling a swarm of UAVs for military purposes, they're just using an old passenger jet as the test bed. Cheaper to maintain than using a fighter jet for your test bed, plus you have more room to mount test equipment.
If you have to windoze your way around, get TortoiseSVN - Once of the best Open Source Win32 projects available.
As an aside, does anyone know if there is anything similar to TortoiseSVN for linux? I use TortoiseSVN at work since I'm on windows there and absolutely love it. Easily the most useful app on my box. It would be cool if there was something out there for linux that was similar.
I've heard it's made alot of money, but how does it hold up to the novels? I am sick of novels I love
being destroyed by two-bit producers who can't invest the little time and energy it would take to do
them right.
They didn't deviate from the story flagrantly and most of the main events you'd expect to see are in the movie. However, as with most of these type movies, there was a large amount of backstory that got cut. I felt like the movie was rushed and cut short as the details in the books really help fill out the overall story and help you understand why characters act the way they do.
The adding/deleting pushpins feature is decently helpful, works pretty well, and getting closer to a feature I really want to see added to ANY of these map services.... WAYPOINTS! I can't tell you the number of times I've needed directions from point A to point B, but needed to get there via some point C in the middle. I want to be able to easily map my route from Maryland to North Carolina by way of Kansas, dangit!
Taboo to say round these parts, I know, but socialism works pretty well.
Socialism seems to work well when it has a thriving, free market economy host on which to attach itself like a leech. If the socialist part of the society grows too large and pervasive, it is doomed to failure.
If you can cite examples of socialist societies that have succeeded in the past, I'd be interested, as all I've seen is a string of socialist failures in the historic record.
I've never used Virtuawin, but I have been using Virtual Dimension and have been really impressed with it. It integrates almost seamlessly with windows and is decently configurable. Another option to consider if (like me) you feel hindered without virtual desktops.
You're right, I suppose it would cause a reduction of advertising revenue for network TV. But TV stations (or whoever brings about internet television) could still embed commercials in the shows. They could even make advertising revenue off the websites used to host the content. Maybe the loss would outweigh any gains. I'm not familiar enough with the economic side to be able to guess.
I've wondered recently why there isn't more network television programming streamed over the internet. PVR boxes already exist, TV recording equipment already exists, network television is "free" over the airwaves, why couldn't they stream shows online and let me choose what I want to watch, when I want to watch it?
Makes sense to me. Maybe Google is doing something like this?
So what if Apple just let Sony and Warner go. If they want to raise the rates and they pull their music, fine, let them go. It might present an opportunity for other labels and indie bands. With so many iPods out there, it's not like iTunes won't get used or will lose a massive amount of popularity. It's just too easy to use iTunes with an iPod. Maybe if Sony/Warner walked away from iTunes, other music labels would make gains as the iTunes hordes continue to use the service and buy other music in place of Sony/Warner.
Ah, then again, this probably wouldn't make Apple investors very happy.
About the Author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com/ software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for NotePage http://www.notepage.net/ a wireless text messaging software company.
The whole article is just a sort of advertisment for this company's RSS feed software. Just another example of companies pushing ad campaigns that look very similar to news stories. Bah!
No frickin' kidding! I tried to get DSL without a land line when I moved to a new apartment recently and failed. Verizon said they couldn't do it, but they still got my business because ComCast in Baltimore is a racket, and about $20/mo more than DSL and bare-bones phone line combined.
I hope people flock in droves to this sort of thing so that other companies follow suit.
The purpose of the media used to be to provide information and critical comment. That's changed. A newspaper or a TV network makes more money if it's operated primarily as an entertainment.
Right on the money! The bad part is that people still treat the mass media as if they were interested in finding the truth when they're just a guilty of lying and spinning things as the subjects they report on. How do you combat that?
Yeah, so this is a generalization and generalizations are... you know. But I still think people should fact check the media just as heavily as all other sources. They're not the noble, unbiased, independant champions of truth that so many believe they are.
That phrase, "move government out of the realm of ", needs to be used so much more often than it is! It's too bad, IMO, the answers to problems these days always seem to be more government intervention, regulation, and laws.
> You are either voting against Bush or for Bush. Unless the other candidate is a child molesting, neo-nazi, it really doesn't matter much.
If the people who held this opinion would explore the other parties a little more and actually vote using their brains, we might actually have some intelligent people in office instead of career politicians who can't answer questions honestly, only tell people what they want to hear, and sometimes just seem in it for the power trip!
Also, this is exactly why we need approval voting instead of the current system. Then, we might actually have a real choice...
Sigh... well, at least there's some more evidence to cite _against_ the Patriot Act, so when its supporters challenge "Show me evidence of who it's actually hurting and rights its infringing.", we can point at specific things.
At some point, people who agree with the Libertarian position are going to have to vote that way. It very well may cause the Democratic or Republican candidate that you _would have_ voted for to lose, but if Libertarians would keep it up for a few elections, the party would gain steam and the ideas would gain popularity... and then the Libertarian point of view would be able to contend with the two main parties.
Unless you like the bloated government controlling your life, taking most of your money, and screwing you in the end. Don't worry, they'll protect you... Great Father Government will provide for you and solve all your problems. ha. right.
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The point of the article wasn't that meetings are bad.
You must be a PHB, right?
I read a book recently that touched on something similar to this. Part of the argument was if more of our leadership actually had any military experience, they might stop treating the military as a black box they can just throw any problem in and crank out any solution they desired. Also, if more of our leadership (cultural as well as political) had children who served in the military, they might think twice of using the military in some of the ways it's been used in the past decade.
The book was titled AWOL. Pretty interesting book, and while I don't agree with everything in it, it made me think.
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That would suck for those BofA users that aren't total morons. If they periodically put that kind of run-around in the login process, that would get annoying pretty quickly.
I'm fairly certain Baltimore has already put up cameras on a large portion of the street corners throughout the city. It started in high crime areas and then extended throughout downtown. (Granted, some would argue the entire city could be considered a high crime area! :) )
I'm fairly certain TFA isn't talking about using this on commercial aircraft. They're testing controlling a swarm of UAVs for military purposes, they're just using an old passenger jet as the test bed. Cheaper to maintain than using a fighter jet for your test bed, plus you have more room to mount test equipment.
If you have to windoze your way around, get TortoiseSVN - Once of the best Open Source Win32 projects available.
As an aside, does anyone know if there is anything similar to TortoiseSVN for linux? I use TortoiseSVN at work since I'm on windows there and absolutely love it. Easily the most useful app on my box. It would be cool if there was something out there for linux that was similar.
gb
They didn't deviate from the story flagrantly and most of the main events you'd expect to see are in the movie. However, as with most of these type movies, there was a large amount of backstory that got cut. I felt like the movie was rushed and cut short as the details in the books really help fill out the overall story and help you understand why characters act the way they do.
But that's pretty standard, what did I expect? :)
The adding/deleting pushpins feature is decently helpful, works pretty well, and getting closer to a feature I really want to see added to ANY of these map services.... WAYPOINTS! I can't tell you the number of times I've needed directions from point A to point B, but needed to get there via some point C in the middle. I want to be able to easily map my route from Maryland to North Carolina by way of Kansas, dangit!
If it means more government control of my life and more government enforced robbery, you can keep your cheap broadband!
This is definitely stated elsewhere in the comments, but France is only about twice the size of Colorado. Less space == less infrastructure expense.
Socialism seems to work well when it has a thriving, free market economy host on which to attach itself like a leech. If the socialist part of the society grows too large and pervasive, it is doomed to failure.
If you can cite examples of socialist societies that have succeeded in the past, I'd be interested, as all I've seen is a string of socialist failures in the historic record.
I've never used Virtuawin, but I have been using Virtual Dimension and have been really impressed with it. It integrates almost seamlessly with windows and is decently configurable. Another option to consider if (like me) you feel hindered without virtual desktops.
You're right, I suppose it would cause a reduction of advertising revenue for network TV. But TV stations (or whoever brings about internet television) could still embed commercials in the shows. They could even make advertising revenue off the websites used to host the content. Maybe the loss would outweigh any gains. I'm not familiar enough with the economic side to be able to guess.
I've wondered recently why there isn't more network television programming streamed over the internet. PVR boxes already exist, TV recording equipment already exists, network television is "free" over the airwaves, why couldn't they stream shows online and let me choose what I want to watch, when I want to watch it?
Makes sense to me. Maybe Google is doing something like this?
That's quite a bit to ask, seeing how SCOTUS doesn't even do so.
There's a dude in the bushes. Has he got a gun? I don't know! RED TEAM GO, RED TEAM GO.
So what if Apple just let Sony and Warner go. If they want to raise the rates and they pull their music, fine, let them go. It might present an opportunity for other labels and indie bands. With so many iPods out there, it's not like iTunes won't get used or will lose a massive amount of popularity. It's just too easy to use iTunes with an iPod. Maybe if Sony/Warner walked away from iTunes, other music labels would make gains as the iTunes hordes continue to use the service and buy other music in place of Sony/Warner.
Ah, then again, this probably wouldn't make Apple investors very happy.
About the Author: Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com/ software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for NotePage http://www.notepage.net/ a wireless text messaging software company.
The whole article is just a sort of advertisment for this company's RSS feed software. Just another example of companies pushing ad campaigns that look very similar to news stories. Bah!
I hope people flock in droves to this sort of thing so that other companies follow suit.
Oops... uh, now it's definately going to hit the earth. Sorry about that guys...
The purpose of the media used to be to provide information and critical comment. That's changed. A newspaper or a TV network makes more money if it's operated primarily as an entertainment.
Right on the money! The bad part is that people still treat the mass media as if they were interested in finding the truth when they're just a guilty of lying and spinning things as the subjects they report on. How do you combat that?
Yeah, so this is a generalization and generalizations are... you know. But I still think people should fact check the media just as heavily as all other sources. They're not the noble, unbiased, independant champions of truth that so many believe they are.
> but to move government out of the realm of marriage
Ever considered the Libertarian Party? :)
That phrase, "move government out of the realm of ", needs to be used so much more often than it is! It's too bad, IMO, the answers to problems these days always seem to be more government intervention, regulation, and laws.
> You are either voting against Bush or for Bush. Unless the other candidate is a child molesting, neo-nazi, it really doesn't matter much.
If the people who held this opinion would explore the other parties a little more and actually vote using their brains, we might actually have some intelligent people in office instead of career politicians who can't answer questions honestly, only tell people what they want to hear, and sometimes just seem in it for the power trip!
Also, this is exactly why we need approval voting instead of the current system. Then, we might actually have a real choice...
Sigh... well, at least there's some more evidence to cite _against_ the Patriot Act, so when its supporters challenge "Show me evidence of who it's actually hurting and rights its infringing.", we can point at specific things.
At some point, people who agree with the Libertarian position are going to have to vote that way. It very well may cause the Democratic or Republican candidate that you _would have_ voted for to lose, but if Libertarians would keep it up for a few elections, the party would gain steam and the ideas would gain popularity... and then the Libertarian point of view would be able to contend with the two main parties.
Unless you like the bloated government controlling your life, taking most of your money, and screwing you in the end. Don't worry, they'll protect you... Great Father Government will provide for you and solve all your problems. ha. right.
Badnarik 2004!!