The missing car seat is a bit odd. Plus buying books a couple days after to read about how police investigate crimes. Until they have a body though, it's going to be hard to prove a murder.
Growing up, I knew a few guys who ended up becomming professional snowboarders; they lasted about 18 months before their sponsership and were 'forced' out. I imagine that, if gaming continues as a 'sport', professional-gamers will have to 'train' for 8 hours a day to stay competitive.
I say 'so what'? You do it for as long as you can, and then go to school (or do whatever other career you want to try out). It's not like trying to be a professional whatever is going to ruin the rest of anyones life.
As the right to life is one of the most fundamental human rights, and one of those most often considered inalienable
I agree, so what do you with someone who has permanently taken that right from someone else? What punishment would you consider just and fair in that scenario?
Murder punishment is an interesting topic to ponder. What do you do with someone who has taken all opportunity from someone else? No punishment, other than murdering the murderer, can match what was done to the original victim. Sure, you can rehab the murderer, but where does that leave the victim and their family?
You know, even murderers can be rehabilitated. I've met a guy who killed his wife. He spend 8 years in prison and now he's out being a productive member of society. So long as he has a community of support, he won't commit another.
To bad his wife will never have the opportunity to be a productive member of society. Her family and friends will never be able to speak to her again or know what she might have become. In the extreme case she could have been the one who could have cured cancer. 8 years hardly sounds fair or near enough when you took eternity from someone else, and most likely wrecked an entire family.
Murder prevention is what we need to be going for, and I'm not sure the threat of going to jail prevents much. I wonder what would happen if anyone convicted of murder was automatically sentenced to death. Would that prevent murders?
The one thing that he did stress though, was that we will never KNOW we've hit the peak until after we've crossed that point.
I agree. The peak may be tomorrow or 100 years from now or have already happened. I also agree that we should be researching and preparing for when the peak may come around. I've felt for a long time that the country that comes up with the next big source of energy will be the next dominant super power in the world. Fear mongering and dooms day is what I disagree with.
I know for certain that I'll never be able to buy gas for 39 cents a litre like I did ten years ago.
Is this supply demand based or inflation based? I know for certain I'll never be able to buy a loaf of bread for 5c again or soda or any number of products, but it doesn't mean that we are running out of them.
And how's that? Fact is that oil is refilling wells and they can't figure out why or how. It's literally bubbling up from the seabed in certain places and they can't figure out where it's coming from.
I'm not arguing against moving off of oil (I want to move off of oil for environmental concerns), just arguing for looking at the whole picture to remain credible.
The real question is, why didn't they use data from the IEA [iea.org] or EIA [doe.gov]? (I know, very similar letters)
The EIA suggests cheaper energy prices long term and a probable energy glut short term because we've had unreasonably high oil prices (high prices means that you drill for more oil... but our consumption has been basically flat = too much oil!) and the IEA is more moderate.
I agree. The other thing that high oil prices do is make innovation look more financially attractive. Oil exporting countries don't actually want oil prices too high. They know that long term that will force people to find other energy methods and lower oil consumption. I'm actually surprised they let it get as high as they did over the summer, but I guess there is only so much you can do against speculation.
I can't find it now, but I read an article a couple months ago that interviewed a bunch of oil execs who all said the same thing. They expect prices to plummet as the speculators leave the market so they were being very cautious about what to do with their recent profits.
I don't think I said anywhere that none of the issues are the fault of the US or Israel. There is plenty of blame to go around to all sides and leaders for the past 20-30+ years. Years of our policies have gotten us to where we are today, and they aren't just policies that were started when Bush Jr. took office. You post like you know exactly how to fix everything yet you don't offer up many ideas. I feel like I'm conversing with John Kerry..."bush sucks, but I don't have any ideas of my own, oh yeah bush sucks."
Oh, you did offer up one idea, cut Israel off and let them get pushed into the ocean. While we're at it we should pull out of the UN (since we're the only ones who give the UN any teeth anyways), close our borders and basically isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. Let the rest of the world do what it wants. IIRC, the last time the US went isolationist was prior to WWII. We let Hitler take over most of EU before deciding to do anything.
The simple basic fact of reality that you continually fail to grasp is that things are not black and white. We are not magically always right and good and people who dislike us are not magically pure evil.
I think my whole previous post was about how things aren't black and white. You seem to think things are easy to fix, just toss Bush and all will be right with the world. That seems like a pretty black and white idea to me. I also don't think I mentioned anywhere of people being pure evil. Way to put words in my mouth.
I'm talking about our domestic issues. Those are simple and clear cut. The solution is the impeachment, prosecution and execution of the current administration.
And what domestic issues does this fix? With technology the way it is nowadays the wiretapping issue was bound to come up regardless. Better to have it be settled by the supreme court now rather than later.
If world politic were as simple as you seem to think we should've had world peace years ago.
None of the current issues are particularly complicated.
That's a pretty naive statement. Outside of the jihad rhetoric that Bin Laden spouts his main reason that I know he's stated for hating the US is the military base that we left in SA after the first gulf war. So lets say we take that base out of SA, will the terrorism suddenly stop? He has a whole group of people now who he's gotten to hate the US just because we are the US.
What about the rest of the middle east who hates Israel? The US policy has been to support Israel. Do we withdraw that support and let the rest of the middle east push them into the ocean?
I have even touched on the religious fundamentalist who need someone to point to in their speeches as someone to hate so they can easily keep power.
I'm not saying that our current path is the best way to solve the issues, but to say that the issues are simple and easily fixed shows a lack of knowledge about what got us to where we are today. Instead of having both sides bitch over things like if we should be in Iraq or if should allow wiretaps, it would be much more productive to try and figure out a plan to fix the mess that currently is called the middle east. Work that plan out and then align our actions with it.
Well the cool thing about this country is that there are parts of the constitution that were explicitly left vague so that it could adapt to changing times. Security could be interpreted by the courts to mean privacy now, and then be interpreted differently later. These changing meanings cause lots of heated debate (just view the comments of this story), but I think in the end the debate makes the eventual outcome much more robust.
On a side note, outside of the constitution there are plenty of privacy laws you can cite instead if you want to:)
Who are you going to murder when a democrat becomes the next president and continues on just like Bush? If a dem gets elected you think the world will suddenly love US and the terrorist will stop?
The bill of rights (yes, I know, they are pretty much irrelevant today, and it's saddening/maddening) actually contains a section about something relating to "right to privacy".
Actually it doesn't. Article IV is probably what you're refering to, but it doesn't actually mention privacy.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Actually more since it seems like near launch you have to buy a bundle with games, controllers, memory cards, etc... To get a ps3 at or near launch will probably cost closer to $800-$1000
I'm not sure how many of the online casinos are based in the US, but the brick and mortar casinos here definitely had a hand in getting this bill through. They view the money going online and thus offshore as money that they would've gotten if people were forced to travel to a real casino to gamble. The real casinos have been unable to cash in on the internet craze b/c of current gaming laws. This left the only ones who were able to profit as startups offshore.
Like the old saying goes. "The lottery is for people who are bad at math."
With that said I live in a state with Powerball. They have commerials all the time about playing the lottery. The problem is that gambling is illegal here.
The best part is a couple months back the police busted a small home poker game which included arresting an 80 year old lady and confiscating her $20 in chips. Guess they would rather her have spent that $20 on lotttery tickets, even though from what I hear she was pretty good at poker so it was almost certainly a worse investment.
Exactly. Apple looked around and said there are music players and song buying services, but they suck. So they took a market where everything sucked and made it suck less. If someone really wants to start their own business and do the work it's probably not that hard to find an idea. Read through a few WSJs and find a market where the current players suck and do something to make it suck less.
Seems like you're probably memory constrained. I have a G4 Powerbook with 2gb ram and everything runs fine w/o any noticable slowdowns.
Should >1GB of ram be required to run an OS and a few programs? That's up for debate, although I don't see people rushing to go back to a command line only interface.
I know you're just flamming, but what does 'beta' actually mean? It's just a label on a given version of a piece of software. Would it make you feel better if tomorrow google changed their gmail from 'beta' and put 'production' on the page? That is what most other software companies do. Especially if the product has been up and running successfully as long as gmail has.
In reality most software is either continously developed or it dies. I've worked on numerous software projects and few if any have ever reached a point where no more work was required. Even if you found and fixed every bug (haha), feature requests will continue to come in as people use the software. As soon as bugs/feature request quit coming in most software is essientially dead b/c that means people have quit using it.
Don't tell people what to work on? And exactly how does that finish projects, ever?
This is a direct by product of the type of person that google hires. They look for the really smart self motivated type. This is the same type of person that writes OSS (and no one tells them what to work on and there are surprisingly quite a few OSS projects in various stages of completion). Your comment also ignores the fact that no projects are ever really finished.
Googles method is a good one, and it works for them. I do think the author missed one of the huge reasons that it works - googles hiring practices.
I have the alpine model with the 3 line display. The ipod integration is great. Being able to pull up songs from the HU by either playlist, artist, album, song is really nice. My only minor gripe is that skipping songs could be a bit faster. I want CD skip speed, but I'm not sure that's possible with a HD based ipod.
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The missing car seat is a bit odd. Plus buying books a couple days after to read about how police investigate crimes. Until they have a body though, it's going to be hard to prove a murder.
At least they made an arrest. Where I live, if you're a cop you can kill someone and get away with it. Just check my sig.
Growing up, I knew a few guys who ended up becomming professional snowboarders; they lasted about 18 months before their sponsership and were 'forced' out. I imagine that, if gaming continues as a 'sport', professional-gamers will have to 'train' for 8 hours a day to stay competitive.
I say 'so what'? You do it for as long as you can, and then go to school (or do whatever other career you want to try out). It's not like trying to be a professional whatever is going to ruin the rest of anyones life.
As the right to life is one of the most fundamental human rights, and one of those most often considered inalienable
I agree, so what do you with someone who has permanently taken that right from someone else? What punishment would you consider just and fair in that scenario?
Murder punishment is an interesting topic to ponder. What do you do with someone who has taken all opportunity from someone else? No punishment, other than murdering the murderer, can match what was done to the original victim. Sure, you can rehab the murderer, but where does that leave the victim and their family?
You know, even murderers can be rehabilitated. I've met a guy who killed his wife. He spend 8 years in prison and now he's out being a productive member of society. So long as he has a community of support, he won't commit another.
To bad his wife will never have the opportunity to be a productive member of society. Her family and friends will never be able to speak to her again or know what she might have become. In the extreme case she could have been the one who could have cured cancer. 8 years hardly sounds fair or near enough when you took eternity from someone else, and most likely wrecked an entire family.
Murder prevention is what we need to be going for, and I'm not sure the threat of going to jail prevents much. I wonder what would happen if anyone convicted of murder was automatically sentenced to death. Would that prevent murders?
The one thing that he did stress though, was that we will never KNOW we've hit the peak until after we've crossed that point.
I agree. The peak may be tomorrow or 100 years from now or have already happened. I also agree that we should be researching and preparing for when the peak may come around. I've felt for a long time that the country that comes up with the next big source of energy will be the next dominant super power in the world. Fear mongering and dooms day is what I disagree with.
I know for certain that I'll never be able to buy gas for 39 cents a litre like I did ten years ago.
Is this supply demand based or inflation based? I know for certain I'll never be able to buy a loaf of bread for 5c again or soda or any number of products, but it doesn't mean that we are running out of them.
Isn't this the same guy who said the DOW would be at 4000 in 2005? I hope he wasn't waiting for that point to buy into the market.
And how's that? Fact is that oil is refilling wells and they can't figure out why or how. It's literally bubbling up from the seabed in certain places and they can't figure out where it's coming from.
I'm not arguing against moving off of oil (I want to move off of oil for environmental concerns), just arguing for looking at the whole picture to remain credible.
The real question is, why didn't they use data from the IEA [iea.org] or EIA [doe.gov]? (I know, very similar letters)
The EIA suggests cheaper energy prices long term and a probable energy glut short term because we've had unreasonably high oil prices (high prices means that you drill for more oil... but our consumption has been basically flat = too much oil!) and the IEA is more moderate.
I agree. The other thing that high oil prices do is make innovation look more financially attractive. Oil exporting countries don't actually want oil prices too high. They know that long term that will force people to find other energy methods and lower oil consumption. I'm actually surprised they let it get as high as they did over the summer, but I guess there is only so much you can do against speculation.
I can't find it now, but I read an article a couple months ago that interviewed a bunch of oil execs who all said the same thing. They expect prices to plummet as the speculators leave the market so they were being very cautious about what to do with their recent profits.
Good point. The site definitely doesn't address the phenomenon of oil fields refilling. Can't let proper analysis get in the way...
I don't think I said anywhere that none of the issues are the fault of the US or Israel. There is plenty of blame to go around to all sides and leaders for the past 20-30+ years. Years of our policies have gotten us to where we are today, and they aren't just policies that were started when Bush Jr. took office. You post like you know exactly how to fix everything yet you don't offer up many ideas. I feel like I'm conversing with John Kerry..."bush sucks, but I don't have any ideas of my own, oh yeah bush sucks."
Oh, you did offer up one idea, cut Israel off and let them get pushed into the ocean. While we're at it we should pull out of the UN (since we're the only ones who give the UN any teeth anyways), close our borders and basically isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. Let the rest of the world do what it wants. IIRC, the last time the US went isolationist was prior to WWII. We let Hitler take over most of EU before deciding to do anything.
The simple basic fact of reality that you continually fail to grasp is that things are not black and white. We are not magically always right and good and people who dislike us are not magically pure evil.
I think my whole previous post was about how things aren't black and white. You seem to think things are easy to fix, just toss Bush and all will be right with the world. That seems like a pretty black and white idea to me. I also don't think I mentioned anywhere of people being pure evil. Way to put words in my mouth.
I'm talking about our domestic issues. Those are simple and clear cut. The solution is the impeachment, prosecution and execution of the current administration.
And what domestic issues does this fix? With technology the way it is nowadays the wiretapping issue was bound to come up regardless. Better to have it be settled by the supreme court now rather than later.
If world politic were as simple as you seem to think we should've had world peace years ago.
None of the current issues are particularly complicated.
That's a pretty naive statement. Outside of the jihad rhetoric that Bin Laden spouts his main reason that I know he's stated for hating the US is the military base that we left in SA after the first gulf war. So lets say we take that base out of SA, will the terrorism suddenly stop? He has a whole group of people now who he's gotten to hate the US just because we are the US.
What about the rest of the middle east who hates Israel? The US policy has been to support Israel. Do we withdraw that support and let the rest of the middle east push them into the ocean?
I have even touched on the religious fundamentalist who need someone to point to in their speeches as someone to hate so they can easily keep power.
I'm not saying that our current path is the best way to solve the issues, but to say that the issues are simple and easily fixed shows a lack of knowledge about what got us to where we are today. Instead of having both sides bitch over things like if we should be in Iraq or if should allow wiretaps, it would be much more productive to try and figure out a plan to fix the mess that currently is called the middle east. Work that plan out and then align our actions with it.
Well the cool thing about this country is that there are parts of the constitution that were explicitly left vague so that it could adapt to changing times. Security could be interpreted by the courts to mean privacy now, and then be interpreted differently later. These changing meanings cause lots of heated debate (just view the comments of this story), but I think in the end the debate makes the eventual outcome much more robust.
:)
On a side note, outside of the constitution there are plenty of privacy laws you can cite instead if you want to
Who are you going to murder when a democrat becomes the next president and continues on just like Bush? If a dem gets elected you think the world will suddenly love US and the terrorist will stop?
The bill of rights (yes, I know, they are pretty much irrelevant today, and it's saddening/maddening) actually contains a section about something relating to "right to privacy".
Actually it doesn't. Article IV is probably what you're refering to, but it doesn't actually mention privacy.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Actually more since it seems like near launch you have to buy a bundle with games, controllers, memory cards, etc... To get a ps3 at or near launch will probably cost closer to $800-$1000
I'm not sure how many of the online casinos are based in the US, but the brick and mortar casinos here definitely had a hand in getting this bill through. They view the money going online and thus offshore as money that they would've gotten if people were forced to travel to a real casino to gamble. The real casinos have been unable to cash in on the internet craze b/c of current gaming laws. This left the only ones who were able to profit as startups offshore.
Like the old saying goes. "The lottery is for people who are bad at math."
With that said I live in a state with Powerball. They have commerials all the time about playing the lottery. The problem is that gambling is illegal here.
The best part is a couple months back the police busted a small home poker game which included arresting an 80 year old lady and confiscating her $20 in chips. Guess they would rather her have spent that $20 on lotttery tickets, even though from what I hear she was pretty good at poker so it was almost certainly a worse investment.
Exactly. Apple looked around and said there are music players and song buying services, but they suck. So they took a market where everything sucked and made it suck less. If someone really wants to start their own business and do the work it's probably not that hard to find an idea. Read through a few WSJs and find a market where the current players suck and do something to make it suck less.
Was that the straight price on dell's site or did you have some sort of coupon code? I've been looking at getting a merom laptop...
I know about TeX and that's why I said most. I think we can all agree that TeX is a fairly unique situation with a unique author.
Seems like you're probably memory constrained. I have a G4 Powerbook with 2gb ram and everything runs fine w/o any noticable slowdowns.
Should >1GB of ram be required to run an OS and a few programs? That's up for debate, although I don't see people rushing to go back to a command line only interface.
I know you're just flamming, but what does 'beta' actually mean? It's just a label on a given version of a piece of software. Would it make you feel better if tomorrow google changed their gmail from 'beta' and put 'production' on the page? That is what most other software companies do. Especially if the product has been up and running successfully as long as gmail has.
In reality most software is either continously developed or it dies. I've worked on numerous software projects and few if any have ever reached a point where no more work was required. Even if you found and fixed every bug (haha), feature requests will continue to come in as people use the software. As soon as bugs/feature request quit coming in most software is essientially dead b/c that means people have quit using it.
Don't tell people what to work on? And exactly how does that finish projects, ever?
This is a direct by product of the type of person that google hires. They look for the really smart self motivated type. This is the same type of person that writes OSS (and no one tells them what to work on and there are surprisingly quite a few OSS projects in various stages of completion). Your comment also ignores the fact that no projects are ever really finished.
Googles method is a good one, and it works for them. I do think the author missed one of the huge reasons that it works - googles hiring practices.
I have the alpine model with the 3 line display. The ipod integration is great. Being able to pull up songs from the HU by either playlist, artist, album, song is really nice. My only minor gripe is that skipping songs could be a bit faster. I want CD skip speed, but I'm not sure that's possible with a HD based ipod.