My view is basically this: The American Dream, as you defined (and which I think most Americans would agree with) - is crap.
Then again, the American dream I was brought up with is that you give your children a better life than you had. I know it's terribly provincial and doesn't work for, say, the child-less but I like it.
...I guessing you already know that Richard Armatage was the person who outed Plame. He is a long time Democrat and a critic of the bush war policy...
Is this the same Richard Armitage who worked for the Reagan administration? The same one that signed "The Project for the New American Century" letter, urging President Clinton to overthrow Saddam? The same one that was a foreign policy adviser to George W. Bush when he was campaigning in 2000?
It damages your credibility when people find out you have no idea what you're talking about.
It doesn't matter whether you have an average-priced experienced lawyer, or a flashy whiz-bang zillion dollar court jester lawyer, as long as you don't have an idiot lawyer you're still in the fight.
I'm guessing that you haven't seen a public defender in action. It's can be a sad, sad thing.
My (October) 1993 1.6L Honda Civic del Sol is due for its second timing belt now that it's hit 180,000 miles. Would have been sooner but I've been taking the train for the past several months. Oh, and I am nowhere near religious about oil changes (that poor car;-).
gamma knife= bad at best, horrible in practice. There IS NO SAFE LEVEL FOR IONIZING RADIATION. Splitting it in 8 beams only increases the amount of affected tissue. The only reason its in use is that its marginally better than dying.
As someone whose wife went under the gamma knife, I have to tell you that you are full of shit...at best. She went under in the morning to zap a brain tumor and I took her home that afternoon (or was it the next morning?--I forget which). The tumor was completely destroyed and she suffered no ill-effects whatsoever. Major brain surgery, one day in the hospital, no cutting, no side-effects. Yeah, that was pretty horrible.
In the States, you can start a company, and with hard work make a success for yourself and your family?
I thought the American Dream® was to give your children a better life than you had. Eh, who knows? If everybody started their own company there wouldn't be anybody left to be employees.
The point is that there were plenty of catalogs on CD by the time The Beatles got around to putting out their CDs so, in that sense, they were late adopters. However, to their credit, they put them out right the first time. It's not like Led Zeppelin where they put their catalog out once, then put out a box set of some remastered songs, then put out the catalog remastered. Or The Doors (put out, then remastered, now in quad...I mean surround).
Hell, sometimes they don't even wait for you to register it. I've gone to do domain checks at GoDaddy for a domain I might want to use, decide to mull it over, and come back the next week to buy it only to find that some company got it and parked an ad site there. I have no idea how they know that I checked on it, but they somehow get it on a list and snap it up.
Like you, I'm pretty sure GoDaddy is the one doing the parking. I do my domain searches with "whois" from the command line. As for whether their domain checker actually works, I'll be finding out around May...
So you would be happy if Apple came up with their own audio format (call it Apple Audio Format) that they patented and would technically not be playable on any other hardware, yes? What is the difference between that and the current situation?
If they have given up some of their valuable time to respond to your invitation to interview, the least you can do is send them a brief letter saying sorry but we're not going to offer you the job.
This is currently my biggest pet peeve of job hunting. If you interview someone, let them know if they didn't get the job. Send a postcard, drop an email, have an HR tool call them. Something. It's just good manners, people.
The LP started its decline shortly after that, and cassettes peaked in 1989 so, while, of course, people didn't stop buying tapes and LPs in 1985, they sure stopped way before 1998.
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Sorry but "Saturday Night" and their version of "I Only Want to Be With You" are great pop songs.
My view is basically this: The American Dream, as you defined (and which I think most Americans would agree with) - is crap.
Then again, the American dream I was brought up with is that you give your children a better life than you had. I know it's terribly provincial and doesn't work for, say, the child-less but I like it.
Question: When is it okay for the Attorney General to lie to Congress?
Answer: When he is a Republican.
Game over? You never even made it into the stadium.
Is this the same Richard Armitage who worked for the Reagan administration? The same one that signed "The Project for the New American Century" letter, urging President Clinton to overthrow Saddam? The same one that was a foreign policy adviser to George W. Bush when he was campaigning in 2000?
It damages your credibility when people find out you have no idea what you're talking about.
Except there is no indication that there was anything illegal or immoral about the firing of the US Attorneys...
You mean the firings of attorneys investigating allegedly corrupt Republican politicians? No, no indication of anything wrong there.
It doesn't matter whether you have an average-priced experienced lawyer, or a flashy whiz-bang zillion dollar court jester lawyer, as long as you don't have an idiot lawyer you're still in the fight.
I'm guessing that you haven't seen a public defender in action. It's can be a sad, sad thing.
My (October) 1993 1.6L Honda Civic del Sol is due for its second timing belt now that it's hit 180,000 miles. Would have been sooner but I've been taking the train for the past several months. Oh, and I am nowhere near religious about oil changes (that poor car ;-).
gamma knife= bad at best, horrible in practice. There IS NO SAFE LEVEL FOR IONIZING RADIATION. Splitting it in 8 beams only increases the amount of affected tissue. The only reason its in use is that its marginally better than dying.
As someone whose wife went under the gamma knife, I have to tell you that you are full of shit...at best. She went under in the morning to zap a brain tumor and I took her home that afternoon (or was it the next morning?--I forget which). The tumor was completely destroyed and she suffered no ill-effects whatsoever. Major brain surgery, one day in the hospital, no cutting, no side-effects. Yeah, that was pretty horrible.
Is that supposed to be a joke?
Nice. Not perfect. Nice. By any measure the USA is a nice place to live.
I think you'll find that those three are often correlated with lying.
Does anybody remember the American Dream?
In the States, you can start a company, and with hard work make a success for yourself and your family?
I thought the American Dream® was to give your children a better life than you had. Eh, who knows? If everybody started their own company there wouldn't be anybody left to be employees.
If we weren't such pussies we would have done what Israel did to Lebanon when Hamas took two guys hostage.
You mean start a war they were bound to lose/not win and not even catch the original bad guys? I think we're doing a pretty good job of that already.
The real Aspie does not whine about not fitting in; he lacks the capacity to know he doesn't fit in.
I tell people that it's not just that you don't know the rules of the game, you don't even know there is a game being played.
Apple will blame anyone but themselves and try to spin it so that they don't look bad.
Apple's CEO just said that they will make all the music they sell DRM-free if the labels allow them to. Where is the spin here?
The point is that there were plenty of catalogs on CD by the time The Beatles got around to putting out their CDs so, in that sense, they were late adopters. However, to their credit, they put them out right the first time. It's not like Led Zeppelin where they put their catalog out once, then put out a box set of some remastered songs, then put out the catalog remastered. Or The Doors (put out, then remastered, now in quad...I mean surround).
Legislation was offered up in California to make it illegal to spank children under the age of 4.
Yeah and legislation is often offered up to ban flag desecration. Lots of stupid legislation is proposed. Passage? That's another matter...
Hell, sometimes they don't even wait for you to register it. I've gone to do domain checks at GoDaddy for a domain I might want to use, decide to mull it over, and come back the next week to buy it only to find that some company got it and parked an ad site there. I have no idea how they know that I checked on it, but they somehow get it on a list and snap it up.
Like you, I'm pretty sure GoDaddy is the one doing the parking. I do my domain searches with "whois" from the command line. As for whether their domain checker actually works, I'll be finding out around May...
So you would be happy if Apple came up with their own audio format (call it Apple Audio Format) that they patented and would technically not be playable on any other hardware, yes? What is the difference between that and the current situation?
Yeah, all that peace and prosperity. I don't know how we survived the nineties.
If they have given up some of their valuable time to respond to your invitation to interview, the least you can do is send them a brief letter saying sorry but we're not going to offer you the job.
This is currently my biggest pet peeve of job hunting. If you interview someone, let them know if they didn't get the job. Send a postcard, drop an email, have an HR tool call them. Something. It's just good manners, people.
"Toilet flushing" is a checkbox that the iPod cannot currently check but it isn't really something that people are clamoring for :-).
What, you've never seen Desperado?
For that matter...why can't there be a nerdcore ROCK movement?
Didn't Buddy Holly start one way back when? Just ask John Lennon.
And in Magic Happy Land, that actually works without a problem.
That land is called Sarbanes-Oxley Land and it has to work or you fail your audit.
The LP started its decline shortly after that, and cassettes peaked in 1989 so, while, of course, people didn't stop buying tapes and LPs in 1985, they sure stopped way before 1998.