So, you think success and insight are determined by GPA? Seriously?
Maybe McCain didn't do well in the Academy, because he wasn't focussed on doing well in the Academy. Meanwhile, we have a candidate that left two years out of his autobiography, and the media mysteriously lets him slide on that. Could it be because he was dealing drugs?
That oh-so-bright candidate you worship doesn't have the vision to know when to shut the hell up. Lipstick on a pig? Whether he was talking about Palin or not, he knew the context he was saying it in. If he didn't recognize the context for what it was, he is a fool. If he did recognize it for what it was, and then claimed that he didn't mean it that way, he is a liar. You choose.
That oh-so-bright candidate has spent a lifetime under the teachings of a radical racist, and referred to the man as a mentor. When called to the rug, The Messiah says he never heard such talk. No choice here. That was just flat out lying. If it isn't, you'd have to believe he didn't know about Ayers past or the history of the PLO spokesman he liked to hang with.
No all intelligence is wrapped up in a GPA. In fact, very few leadership qualities or character judgment qualities are quantifiable by a GPA. Obama fails on both counts.
According to some Christian interpretations, The Anti-Christ will rule in peace for 3.5 yrs, and then the Great Tribulation will go on for 3.5 yrs. Then there will be the Battle of Armegeddon.
Ummh? You haven't actually seen that dynamic duo of Olberman and Maddox in action have you?
I always find it humorous (well, humorless actually) how liberal drone on and on about yelling and talking points as if O'Reilly actually represented anyone. Well, fine then. Have it your way. The left is represented by a sneering bubble-heads that are afraid to be confronted by anyone with an opposing view. Or did you think the yes-men those two have on their shows constitute an open-minded view?
I've spent most of this campaign season hitting the "last" button on my remote, flipping between Fox News and MSNBC. I gave up on MSNBC towards the end, as their 'reporting' was mostly repugnant idiocy that ranged from illogical to vitriolic, but seldom settled on anything resembling sanity.
OHIP isn't paying for anything. You are. OHIP may serve as an intermediary, but the money doesn't come out of thin air.
Are our waiting rooms full? Yes, for two reasons: Free systems are abused and people are stupid.
So how will it improve our health system to clog it with MORE stupid people clamoring for free care? We have way to many stupid people here in the US. OTOH, to many of us are aware of the obscenely fat-assed women pushing shopping carts full of pork and Twinkies to the supermarket checkout counter where they break out their book of Food Stamps. The liberals raised an unholy stink when the Republicans pushed for legislation in the 90's that would push people off welfare and into jobs. Nationalized health-care gives us visions of paying for them to get unhealthy, and then paying to keep them alive so that they remain a burden.
And in a few years you will have the exact same situation. The problem isn't the actors, it is the stage.
Push for your candidates to pledge to randomize committee selection in the legislature. Get rid of the powerlock that long time incumbents have. Once that is done, new people will actually have a chance of doing something that makes sense.
Maybe you prefer a great father in Washington to take care of all your ills and order your coming and goings, but a great many of us actually have a spine and prefer freedom. We're called adults. We do things like say, "Hmmm? A hurricane is coming and I live in a coastal city below sea level. Maybe I should get the hell outta' the way?" If we decide not to get out of the way, we don't whine that someone didn't come to take care of our ills.
The adults among us do much better when the government does nothing.
Term limits are nearly impossible to implement in practice. Instead, of aiming at the head, aim at the heart of the problem. Push for all candidates to sign a pledge that congressional committee appointments will be by random selection.
Ted Stevens stayed in the Congress so long, because he was able to "bring home the pork." Alaskans would be insane to drop a political figure that was able to bring in money from Florida to pay for things in Alaska. He was popular with Alaskans because he was able to get money to pay for things they wanted without raising their taxes.
Ted Stevens was able to "bring home the pork" because he sat on powerful committees. But I ask you, why should Ted Stevens be any more powerful than Elizabeth Dole? Why should Alaska have more representation in Congress than North Carolina? Why should someone who's been hanging around for 30yrs have more control than the 'new blood' we periodically send in to fix things.
Spread the power around. Randomize committee selection. Get to the real power and disburse it.
If the house is worthy, give it your blessing of peace. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace. Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet. Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
Seems to fit pretty well with what I've said. Do you know something that contradicts that?
You obviously have the opinion that you are owed something by someone in this life.
How is it an "undue exercise of power" if I decide not to work for you for free? I'm not your slave, CannedTurkey, and I will not allow you to enslave me by proclaiming that I should feel guilty that you will not work for yourself.
Did talk to an attorney. He told me that he could take my money if it would make me feel better, but nothing would change.
My son repeated something he heard from a black comedian. The principal was black. The gang-bangers were black. Ipso-facto, by the powers of politically-correct magic, physical violence was justified.
By my twisted logic, the BET channel is now banned in my house.
They just have to wait till they're 18 first, because that's when I'm no longer legally responsible for feeding them, clothing them and insuring that they aren't disrupting their classroom.
I think it is great that the parents are called upon to discipline their children.
But, where does that leave us when the parental discipline is called child abuse? You take the kids out, but you can't do anything with them. Kids learn real fast that Daddy is mad, but it don't mean jack-shit.
The violence has always been there. What is missing now is respect for authority. The respect was what kept a lid on the violence and kept it hidden. You used to have to isolate someone in a bathroom. Now you can just beat the shit out of them in the halls.
My son got suspended when a group ganged up on him. Non of the gang-bangers were punished. He said something they didn't like, so he was being 'disrespectful'. The lesson there was that it is ok to force your will on someone, as long as you can demonstrate that they did something you didn't like.
A strong castle can be bombed out of existence, quietly and peacefully occupied by the foreign enemy, or just abandoned and left to rot in isolation. The latter two don't get you a "Year of" award. You just wake up one day and realize that Microsoft no longer dominates the desktop.
Really, that finish line doesn't really matter to most. People don't care about finish times really. They just care that the horses go fast. (avoiding a car analogy here)
No. People don't really care about the numbers. But they do care that their computer be faster than they are. As a developer, how do you judge that you're improving without a benchmark?
Because you bought hardware from a manufacturer that seems to think you should?
No, I use the secondhand hardware that my company tells me I have to use. I know a small number of people who can specify what laptop their employer should buy, but they are rare. So let's go back to the original question: Ubuntu runs faster than Vista, just not on my laptop or any laptop I'm likely to use. Therefore, Ubunutu (in fact linux in general) is not useful to me. I, and people like me, are theoretically the target market share, otherwise these comparisons would be unnecessary. Don't you think it would make more sens to solve the problems rather than berate me for choosing the wrong hardware?
It is not useful to you...today. But it is more useful to Joe the Plumber, and Joe the Plumber will soon be owning a business. Joe the Plumber is smart, and will specify laptops that can run the faster OS. Manufacturers will see how many more laptops are selling because they are able to run the faster OS, and then make sure that ALL their models are able to run with the faster OS.
At that point, linux will become useful to you.
!!! Troll alert !!! Troll Alert !!! Not long after that, either Obama will spread the wealth around, and you won't have to use the secondhand hardware that you company tell you you have to choose, or McCain will give you a tax credit so that we can have universal hardware.
You are correct, but we're talking about desktop systems.
The type of dependancy hell your talking about will apply to any system you try to maintain in that way. Ever try to maintain all the Windows sources yourself? And make no mistake, those Solaris kernel compiles are no easy task.
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So, you think success and insight are determined by GPA? Seriously?
Maybe McCain didn't do well in the Academy, because he wasn't focussed on doing well in the Academy. Meanwhile, we have a candidate that left two years out of his autobiography, and the media mysteriously lets him slide on that. Could it be because he was dealing drugs?
That oh-so-bright candidate you worship doesn't have the vision to know when to shut the hell up. Lipstick on a pig? Whether he was talking about Palin or not, he knew the context he was saying it in. If he didn't recognize the context for what it was, he is a fool. If he did recognize it for what it was, and then claimed that he didn't mean it that way, he is a liar. You choose.
That oh-so-bright candidate has spent a lifetime under the teachings of a radical racist, and referred to the man as a mentor. When called to the rug, The Messiah says he never heard such talk. No choice here. That was just flat out lying. If it isn't, you'd have to believe he didn't know about Ayers past or the history of the PLO spokesman he liked to hang with.
No all intelligence is wrapped up in a GPA. In fact, very few leadership qualities or character judgment qualities are quantifiable by a GPA. Obama fails on both counts.
Seems clear to me.
The only sane choice the round was Bob Barr.
According to some Christian interpretations, The Anti-Christ will rule in peace for 3.5 yrs, and then the Great Tribulation will go on for 3.5 yrs. Then there will be the Battle of Armegeddon.
Oooh! I can be a conspiracist, too.
Ummh? You haven't actually seen that dynamic duo of Olberman and Maddox in action have you?
I always find it humorous (well, humorless actually) how liberal drone on and on about yelling and talking points as if O'Reilly actually represented anyone. Well, fine then. Have it your way. The left is represented by a sneering bubble-heads that are afraid to be confronted by anyone with an opposing view. Or did you think the yes-men those two have on their shows constitute an open-minded view?
I've spent most of this campaign season hitting the "last" button on my remote, flipping between Fox News and MSNBC. I gave up on MSNBC towards the end, as their 'reporting' was mostly repugnant idiocy that ranged from illogical to vitriolic, but seldom settled on anything resembling sanity.
Two points:
OHIP isn't paying for anything. You are. OHIP may serve as an intermediary, but the money doesn't come out of thin air.
Are our waiting rooms full? Yes, for two reasons: Free systems are abused and people are stupid.
So how will it improve our health system to clog it with MORE stupid people clamoring for free care? We have way to many stupid people here in the US. OTOH, to many of us are aware of the obscenely fat-assed women pushing shopping carts full of pork and Twinkies to the supermarket checkout counter where they break out their book of Food Stamps. The liberals raised an unholy stink when the Republicans pushed for legislation in the 90's that would push people off welfare and into jobs. Nationalized health-care gives us visions of paying for them to get unhealthy, and then paying to keep them alive so that they remain a burden.
And in a few years you will have the exact same situation. The problem isn't the actors, it is the stage.
Push for your candidates to pledge to randomize committee selection in the legislature. Get rid of the powerlock that long time incumbents have. Once that is done, new people will actually have a chance of doing something that makes sense.
Maybe you prefer a great father in Washington to take care of all your ills and order your coming and goings, but a great many of us actually have a spine and prefer freedom. We're called adults. We do things like say, "Hmmm? A hurricane is coming and I live in a coastal city below sea level. Maybe I should get the hell outta' the way?" If we decide not to get out of the way, we don't whine that someone didn't come to take care of our ills.
The adults among us do much better when the government does nothing.
Term limits are nearly impossible to implement in practice. Instead, of aiming at the head, aim at the heart of the problem. Push for all candidates to sign a pledge that congressional committee appointments will be by random selection.
Ted Stevens stayed in the Congress so long, because he was able to "bring home the pork." Alaskans would be insane to drop a political figure that was able to bring in money from Florida to pay for things in Alaska. He was popular with Alaskans because he was able to get money to pay for things they wanted without raising their taxes.
Ted Stevens was able to "bring home the pork" because he sat on powerful committees. But I ask you, why should Ted Stevens be any more powerful than Elizabeth Dole? Why should Alaska have more representation in Congress than North Carolina? Why should someone who's been hanging around for 30yrs have more control than the 'new blood' we periodically send in to fix things.
Spread the power around. Randomize committee selection. Get to the real power and disburse it.
AIG? Lehman Brothers? Bear Sterns? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
I don't know about that.
http://nasb.scripturetext.com/matthew/10.htm
If the house is worthy, give it your blessing of peace. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace. Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet. Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
Seems to fit pretty well with what I've said. Do you know something that contradicts that?
You obviously have the opinion that you are owed something by someone in this life.
How is it an "undue exercise of power" if I decide not to work for you for free? I'm not your slave, CannedTurkey, and I will not allow you to enslave me by proclaiming that I should feel guilty that you will not work for yourself.
Did talk to an attorney. He told me that he could take my money if it would make me feel better, but nothing would change.
My son repeated something he heard from a black comedian. The principal was black. The gang-bangers were black. Ipso-facto, by the powers of politically-correct magic, physical violence was justified.
By my twisted logic, the BET channel is now banned in my house.
I read /. through a 9600baud modem, you insensitive clod!!
Why is it not illegal for you to tell us how it is illegal to verify Top Secret information or who it is to be secreted from?
I would mod it to +32,768.
UV-A or UV-B?
Damn straight.
They just have to wait till they're 18 first, because that's when I'm no longer legally responsible for feeding them, clothing them and insuring that they aren't disrupting their classroom.
I think it is great that the parents are called upon to discipline their children.
But, where does that leave us when the parental discipline is called child abuse? You take the kids out, but you can't do anything with them. Kids learn real fast that Daddy is mad, but it don't mean jack-shit.
They did.
The violence has always been there. What is missing now is respect for authority. The respect was what kept a lid on the violence and kept it hidden. You used to have to isolate someone in a bathroom. Now you can just beat the shit out of them in the halls.
My son got suspended when a group ganged up on him. Non of the gang-bangers were punished. He said something they didn't like, so he was being 'disrespectful'. The lesson there was that it is ok to force your will on someone, as long as you can demonstrate that they did something you didn't like.
Why? I use Kubuntu for business.
A strong castle can be bombed out of existence, quietly and peacefully occupied by the foreign enemy, or just abandoned and left to rot in isolation. The latter two don't get you a "Year of" award. You just wake up one day and realize that Microsoft no longer dominates the desktop.
Really, that finish line doesn't really matter to most. People don't care about finish times really. They just care that the horses go fast. (avoiding a car analogy here)
No. People don't really care about the numbers. But they do care that their computer be faster than they are. As a developer, how do you judge that you're improving without a benchmark?
Because you bought hardware from a manufacturer that seems to think you should?
No, I use the secondhand hardware that my company tells me I have to use. I know a small number of people who can specify what laptop their employer should buy, but they are rare. So let's go back to the original question: Ubuntu runs faster than Vista, just not on my laptop or any laptop I'm likely to use. Therefore, Ubunutu (in fact linux in general) is not useful to me. I, and people like me, are theoretically the target market share, otherwise these comparisons would be unnecessary. Don't you think it would make more sens to solve the problems rather than berate me for choosing the wrong hardware?
It is not useful to you...today. But it is more useful to Joe the Plumber, and Joe the Plumber will soon be owning a business. Joe the Plumber is smart, and will specify laptops that can run the faster OS. Manufacturers will see how many more laptops are selling because they are able to run the faster OS, and then make sure that ALL their models are able to run with the faster OS.
At that point, linux will become useful to you.
!!! Troll alert !!! Troll Alert !!!
Not long after that, either Obama will spread the wealth around, and you won't have to use the secondhand hardware that you company tell you you have to choose, or McCain will give you a tax credit so that we can have universal hardware.
What are you going on about? I always delete Windows out of the box if I'm given half a chance.
You forgot the reboot.
You are correct, but we're talking about desktop systems.
The type of dependancy hell your talking about will apply to any system you try to maintain in that way. Ever try to maintain all the Windows sources yourself? And make no mistake, those Solaris kernel compiles are no easy task.