It is thanks to Compaq, MS and Intel (and the "failures" of the rest) that we got this accidentally remarkably open platform.
That depends on your definition of "accident". You are right that it was mostly an accident that the PC became a fairly open platform. However, it was no accident at all that the more open platform then kicked everybody else's asses in sales. Macs and Amigas were far better machines for years, but they got steamrolled by the open PC platform. They could never compete on price with hundreds if not thousands of different hungry PC vendors, and eventually they got beat on features too.
Actually, the prosecution was not cancelled. It was narrowed to only the strongest charges against one of the earlier four subjects (something that doesn't seem all that odd once lawyers start seriously looking at what they can prove in court).
Upon later congressional investigation, it was found that the decision to do this was made by two 30-year employees of the Justice Department, not "new appointees from the Obama administratoin".
At this point partisan activists get involved, throwing all sorts of allegations. Some of them might even be true, but its tough to credit when its coming from people who'd happily tell you dang near any wild story about their political opponents they thought you might believe, and they won't even acknowelge the two facts above properly.
Yeah, it is annoying when people try to rewrite history.
No fear from Democrats, they love Johnson. He may help them win North Carolina.
The thing is, big issues like Gay Marriage, Abortion, and even Prohibition back in the day, only became big issues because one of the two major parties felt it was in their electoral advantage to take up the issue. That will only happen if it is something some of their supporters care about, (or better yet, some of the other guy's supporters might disagree with him on). If the only people who care about it don't vote, or are locked up by third parties (same thing really), then there's no benifit, so they can keep on ignoring it. And they will.
So it is your position that we are somehow obligated to do business with people or organizations we find morally repugnant? Interesting position. So if Jerry Sandusky set up a sandwhich shop, and everyone in town refused to patronize it because they find his personal activites repugnant, they are somehow bad people for not helping him support his family?
If Iran wants to trade with other civilized nations, they can damn well start acting like one themselves. If not, it certianly isn't everybody else's fault.
Um...one perfectly justified emergency hospital trip will blow right past your puny $10K cap.
Honestly, $10K in a year would be finincially painful, but if it didn't happen every year I could deal (maybe). It is for exceptional cases that go well past that which I need insurance for. So what you just described doesn't even constitute "insurance" in my book. I could do the same damn thing you're doing for myself by self-insuring with an IRA and some monthly deductions.
See, there are some issues (some call them "the important issues") that neither major party candidate is even willing to mention.
A damn good point...
Which is why I do not vote for the major parties.
...whereupon they are proven completely justified in ignoring you and your concerns, and will never have any incentive whatsoever to address this. This is precisely how things get so badly out of whack in this country. For better or worse, you can't win if you don't play the game.
Al Gore as president almost certinaly would never have even come up with the idea of invading Iraq. He also inherited a budget surplus, and presumably would have tried to keep those policies rather than engage in the peculiar cocktail of unneeded wars, huge tax cuts, and huge Medicare drug benifit increases, which turned that into a deficit during Bush's term. If he had been elected instead, it is quite likely we'd today have nearly no debt, and thousands of US soldiers and upwards of a million Iraqi's would be alive today.
He lost the election by somewhere in the vicinity of a couple of thousand votes cast in one of a couple of different states.
I'm sorry but the argument that they are all the same so it doesn't matter who you vote for, or even if you vote for either, is a complete load of "malarky".
China, on the other had, implemented the largest stimulus the world has ever seen, and came out of their recession almost immediately. Their economic growth last year was somewhere in the vicinity of 7%.
Shame they didn't listen to the Republican pseudo-econmics and throw millions of government workers out on the streets, huh?
Depressingly, "trickle up" doesn't work all that well either. If people spend their surplus buying foreign made goods, benefit to the overall economy is quite limited.
It works great. Money spent on food, rent, and utility bills by definition stays in the USA for a few more cycles. Better yet, if you give money to someone who otherwise would have to forgo a bit (or all) of one of the above, they will spend it immediately. If you give it to someone who is more comfortable, it may sit in the bank for a while until they decide what to do with it. Its even worse with tax breaks, as they may not even see the extra money until next April. You are trying to give the economy momentum, which involves both the amount of dollars floating around and how fast they flow around from person to person.
This is why the economists who have studied this topic tell us that the most effective dollars spent in stimulus are those spent on unemployment benifits, and just about the least effective are those spent on tax breaks.
This is why I have always absolutely refused to interview for biomedical jobs that use C. For stupid GUI's, fine use an insecure bug-prone language, but for God's sake not when human life is on the line. I will have no part in that.
Romney is on record supporting a life-begins-at-conception amendment and has pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices
Note that part of how "The Pill" works is by preventing fertilized (aka: "Concieved") embryos from emplanting. So Romney's ammendment would outlaw birth control pills.
This would be a massive change. You just flat out cannot have the society we have today without The Pill. How radical of a change banning it would be not only can't be overstated, it is hard to even wrap your mind around if you grew up after 1965. This really ought to be a huge issue.
This article is more like a "Flame-honeypot". It draws all people who are just aching to engage in flamewars on this topic today into this one article, so that people who have no wish to see such talk can avoid it by just not reading this one article.
Its not perfect, but Slashdot would be a lot less enjoyable for those not interested in USA politics today without it.
The senate rules need to change. Filibusters should actually be required to fillibuster.
What makes you think the current batch of Republicans wouldn't do just that? They'd get their names in the papers, contiunous coverage of their principled stand, etc. They'd love it if their filibusters were more dramatic and media-worthy.
No, what has to change is one of two things. Either:
1- All the people who care more about their party and ideology than the proper functioning of the United States of America need to be voted out and replaced by people who care about actually governing the country, or
2- the entire filibuster rule needs to go bye-bye. A simple majority should rule (just like the Constitution says it does in the Senate). Then the off party can be reflexively contrary to their heart's content, and in times of emergency the country will no longer burn, fall over, and sink into the swamp because our government is incapable of doing anything.
You must have heard of Bob Dylan (who took his name from Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet). The y in Glyn is exactly as the y in Dylan. (Although many people from the US seem to think that Dylan is actually pronounced Dialin', which is what you do on a telephone
The typical pronounciation of the man's name in the USA is more like "Dillun". I suspect you were talking to someone using one of our outlier accents (at a guess, I'd say a thick Southern American English, but that's just a SWAG).
Just look at what happened at American Airlines. Some maintenance worker loosened up a bunch of seats, and bingo within a week the Pilot's union has a new contract after over a year of negotiating. Some coincidence!
No the NON unions american airlines el salvador maintenance works did it.
Exactly. It was only after it happened *twice* that they sent everything to the union shop (right here in Tulsa) to get it fixed right. Then they settled with the union (and *still* shipped some more of their jobs to El Salvador, just not as many as they'd been trying to).
I'd really like to see the AC's story about the union NFL referees. The non-union refs are comically bad for weeks, then blow a game-changing call on Monday Night football, and bingo within a week the Referee's union has a new contract after over a year of negotiating. Some coincidence!
...and Jay Miner (father of the Atari 2600, Atari 800 line, and the Amiga) won't be remembered for that, even though he's probably the single individual most reponsible for it.
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It is thanks to Compaq, MS and Intel (and the "failures" of the rest) that we got this accidentally remarkably open platform.
That depends on your definition of "accident". You are right that it was mostly an accident that the PC became a fairly open platform. However, it was no accident at all that the more open platform then kicked everybody else's asses in sales. Macs and Amigas were far better machines for years, but they got steamrolled by the open PC platform. They could never compete on price with hundreds if not thousands of different hungry PC vendors, and eventually they got beat on features too.
The more open platform almost always wins.
Actually, the prosecution was not cancelled. It was narrowed to only the strongest charges against one of the earlier four subjects (something that doesn't seem all that odd once lawyers start seriously looking at what they can prove in court).
Upon later congressional investigation, it was found that the decision to do this was made by two 30-year employees of the Justice Department, not "new appointees from the Obama administratoin".
At this point partisan activists get involved, throwing all sorts of allegations. Some of them might even be true, but its tough to credit when its coming from people who'd happily tell you dang near any wild story about their political opponents they thought you might believe, and they won't even acknowelge the two facts above properly.
Yeah, it is annoying when people try to rewrite history.
Easy fix to that: Female inspectors.
Yeaaaah, right Sheriff. (looks him up and down). Try about 1/5th that distance.
No fear from Democrats, they love Johnson. He may help them win North Carolina.
The thing is, big issues like Gay Marriage, Abortion, and even Prohibition back in the day, only became big issues because one of the two major parties felt it was in their electoral advantage to take up the issue. That will only happen if it is something some of their supporters care about, (or better yet, some of the other guy's supporters might disagree with him on). If the only people who care about it don't vote, or are locked up by third parties (same thing really), then there's no benifit, so they can keep on ignoring it. And they will.
You can't win if you don't play.
AKA: Human beings.
So it is your position that we are somehow obligated to do business with people or organizations we find morally repugnant? Interesting position. So if Jerry Sandusky set up a sandwhich shop, and everyone in town refused to patronize it because they find his personal activites repugnant, they are somehow bad people for not helping him support his family?
If Iran wants to trade with other civilized nations, they can damn well start acting like one themselves. If not, it certianly isn't everybody else's fault.
Um...one perfectly justified emergency hospital trip will blow right past your puny $10K cap.
Honestly, $10K in a year would be finincially painful, but if it didn't happen every year I could deal (maybe). It is for exceptional cases that go well past that which I need insurance for. So what you just described doesn't even constitute "insurance" in my book. I could do the same damn thing you're doing for myself by self-insuring with an IRA and some monthly deductions.
See, there are some issues (some call them "the important issues") that neither major party candidate is even willing to mention.
A damn good point...
Which is why I do not vote for the major parties.
...whereupon they are proven completely justified in ignoring you and your concerns, and will never have any incentive whatsoever to address this. This is precisely how things get so badly out of whack in this country. For better or worse, you can't win if you don't play the game.
Al Gore as president almost certinaly would never have even come up with the idea of invading Iraq. He also inherited a budget surplus, and presumably would have tried to keep those policies rather than engage in the peculiar cocktail of unneeded wars, huge tax cuts, and huge Medicare drug benifit increases, which turned that into a deficit during Bush's term. If he had been elected instead, it is quite likely we'd today have nearly no debt, and thousands of US soldiers and upwards of a million Iraqi's would be alive today.
He lost the election by somewhere in the vicinity of a couple of thousand votes cast in one of a couple of different states.
I'm sorry but the argument that they are all the same so it doesn't matter who you vote for, or even if you vote for either, is a complete load of "malarky".
I guess you missed that part of the post you were replying to. Who you choose on election day does matter*, which is why I vote third party.
You clearly missed the fine print. I'll enlarge it for you:
* - ...unless you live in an area subject to Duverger's Law (a first-past-the-post voting system) and aren't voting for one of the two major parties.
China, on the other had, implemented the largest stimulus the world has ever seen, and came out of their recession almost immediately. Their economic growth last year was somewhere in the vicinity of 7%.
Shame they didn't listen to the Republican pseudo-econmics and throw millions of government workers out on the streets, huh?
Depressingly, "trickle up" doesn't work all that well either. If people spend their surplus buying foreign made goods, benefit to the overall economy is quite limited.
It works great. Money spent on food, rent, and utility bills by definition stays in the USA for a few more cycles. Better yet, if you give money to someone who otherwise would have to forgo a bit (or all) of one of the above, they will spend it immediately. If you give it to someone who is more comfortable, it may sit in the bank for a while until they decide what to do with it. Its even worse with tax breaks, as they may not even see the extra money until next April. You are trying to give the economy momentum, which involves both the amount of dollars floating around and how fast they flow around from person to person.
This is why the economists who have studied this topic tell us that the most effective dollars spent in stimulus are those spent on unemployment benifits, and just about the least effective are those spent on tax breaks.
Nah. It's just a wee bit balmy.
This is why I have always absolutely refused to interview for biomedical jobs that use C. For stupid GUI's, fine use an insecure bug-prone language, but for God's sake not when human life is on the line. I will have no part in that.
...then Jimmy is promptly arrested for repeatedly going into the Ladies' restroom.
Romney is on record supporting a life-begins-at-conception amendment and has pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices
Note that part of how "The Pill" works is by preventing fertilized (aka: "Concieved") embryos from emplanting. So Romney's ammendment would outlaw birth control pills.
This would be a massive change. You just flat out cannot have the society we have today without The Pill. How radical of a change banning it would be not only can't be overstated, it is hard to even wrap your mind around if you grew up after 1965. This really ought to be a huge issue.
This article is more like a "Flame-honeypot". It draws all people who are just aching to engage in flamewars on this topic today into this one article, so that people who have no wish to see such talk can avoid it by just not reading this one article.
Its not perfect, but Slashdot would be a lot less enjoyable for those not interested in USA politics today without it.
The senate rules need to change. Filibusters should actually be required to fillibuster.
What makes you think the current batch of Republicans wouldn't do just that? They'd get their names in the papers, contiunous coverage of their principled stand, etc. They'd love it if their filibusters were more dramatic and media-worthy. No, what has to change is one of two things. Either:
1- All the people who care more about their party and ideology than the proper functioning of the United States of America need to be voted out and replaced by people who care about actually governing the country, or
2- the entire filibuster rule needs to go bye-bye. A simple majority should rule (just like the Constitution says it does in the Senate). Then the off party can be reflexively contrary to their heart's content, and in times of emergency the country will no longer burn, fall over, and sink into the swamp because our government is incapable of doing anything.
You must have heard of Bob Dylan (who took his name from Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet). The y in Glyn is exactly as the y in Dylan. (Although many people from the US seem to think that Dylan is actually pronounced Dialin', which is what you do on a telephone
The typical pronounciation of the man's name in the USA is more like "Dillun". I suspect you were talking to someone using one of our outlier accents (at a guess, I'd say a thick Southern American English, but that's just a SWAG).
So inspiring it see such an impassioned defence of Lulzbot by pr0nbot. :-(
I think its time I reported to the Sleepshop. I don't much like this new world.
Just look at what happened at American Airlines. Some maintenance worker loosened up a bunch of seats, and bingo within a week the Pilot's union has a new contract after over a year of negotiating. Some coincidence!
No the NON unions american airlines el salvador maintenance works did it.
Exactly. It was only after it happened *twice* that they sent everything to the union shop (right here in Tulsa) to get it fixed right. Then they settled with the union (and *still* shipped some more of their jobs to El Salvador, just not as many as they'd been trying to).
I'd really like to see the AC's story about the union NFL referees. The non-union refs are comically bad for weeks, then blow a game-changing call on Monday Night football, and bingo within a week the Referee's union has a new contract after over a year of negotiating. Some coincidence!
Wow, according to the The Revere Group website:
WHEN TRANSFORMING THEIR BUSINESS, TOP PERFORMERS TURN TO A TRUSTED ADVISOR
...but they are too expensive, so they then turn to the Revere Group.
Now we know what Canada's maple syrup reserve was stolen for!
...and Jay Miner (father of the Atari 2600, Atari 800 line, and the Amiga) won't be remembered for that, even though he's probably the single individual most reponsible for it.
Umm...unobtrusive if you are skiing, perhaps. If you are walking around town in the middle of September, not so much.