I can buy the 'used to be there' arguement about the elevated rail, but at the shot where the train is about to jump the tracks at the end, the shot pans and the rail appears to be over four stories up. No elevated rail lines in any major metropolis in the US has above the street rail that high, to my knowledge. even if it did, check out the end of the track. Usually the last stop on any line has a crossover, that enables the train to switch directions in order to service the opposite direction. wasn't there in the movie.
What is a 'Global Class action Lawsuit'? is this when the entire planet sues a company?
Perhaps Microsoft didn't adhere to Global Law and will face a Global Court. In front of this World Court where juristiction is not in any way ambiguous, microsoft shall be cleansed of all the evil wealth it created and be forced to continue to work for free on open source projects.
Check this out: its about $180 ($89 each way) to go from Boston to Washington DC via rail (amtrak). That's a non-acela train.
To go from Boston to Washington (or providence to Washington, which is a 6 dollar MBTA train ride from Boston) via air is $141 according to expedia, probably on peak travel days. And its a third of the time to fly as it is to Rail. Less money + quicker = better.
the rail's downfall in the US came from two sources: 18 wheelers and airplanes. 18 wheelers can transfer smaller, cheaper loads and hit more locations. Rail can't do that. Also, 18 wheelers have no infrastructure and only require one operator per vehicle, and can work on any schedule. And airfare has been a government subsidy (essentially) for so long that airfare is relatively cheap for travelers.
Rail still seems to hold a place in commuters lives, which is a good thing. In Boston, where I live, it helps me get around. I'd hate boston if it wasn't for our T.
usefulness! While I agree that Las Vegas and all other major cities should really have a public transportation system (not necessarily owned by the government), this doesn't do what it really should do: make the entire city accessible. While the 4 mile strip section served here will benefit, its still a pain in the ass to get to old las vegas. I remember taking a bus there and thinking, what a pain.
When the monorail serves everywhere from the airport to old las vegas, then it will be cool. and it should run 24 hours, since the rest of the cities do. Transportation initiatives like this help eliminate drunk drivers, help make commuters lives easier (although prolly not much so in Vegas), and connect neighborhoods.
poorly managed databases, not the ASP.NET, are probably what's bringing it down. Or really poorly written SQL calls.
You know, the sloppy stuff, like right outer joining half of the most contented tables in the database... never deleting rows from databases. Cross Joining due to laziness. poorly managed indexes. seen it all.
a humorist. He made funny pokes at interal US issues and put out hilarious DVDs. He once drove around Harlem in a cab and refused to drive white people, only black people. (this was when there was a NYT article claiming that cab drivers don't stop for black people. he did his own thing where a former white felon and a upstanding black citizen were trying to get a cab, and the white guy got it every time). So I watched his DVDs, and I knew that I didn't have to take the thing seriously because he made it a point to express his ideas as ridiculous.
Now, where he's being taken seriously as a journalist (whether you want to be or not, if you produce a movie like this, you're no longer just a humorist), his inconsistencies and inferences are bothering the fuck out of me. He doesn't lie, but he puts facts in such positions as to make people draw conclusions that just aren't true. Bin Laden family members were rushed out of the coutnry, therefore , the conclusion drawn is that the FBI never got to question them and had no hand in the process. which isn't true.
seems unlikely that the FBI had no oppourtunity to question the family members when, indeed, the FBI was involved in retriveing the family members from their homes, flying them to central locations, and flying them out of the country. FBI agents were all over the planes. if they wanted to question them, they could. and they did.
is that Mr. Moore attempts to infer that the FBI never got to question Bin Laden family members that were whisked out of the country. To me, that is simply misleading. He first is implying that the Bin Laden family members (most of which hadn't met him before his saudi citizenship was revoked) would have had anything to do with 9/11. Only one Bin Laden had anything to do with 9/11. second, he is implying that Bush went over the FBI to protect friends. that too is misleading.
I usually turn to snopes for my fact-checking. I hate dishonesty, even in urban legends.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/flight.htm Did flights take bin Laden family members out of the U.S. over the objections of the FBI?
It's hard to make the case that flights of Saudis departed from the U.S. over the objections of the FBI when, according to former White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, the FBI itself gave the go-ahead: "Somebody brought to us for approval the decision to let an airplane filled with Saudis, including members of the bin Laden family, leave the country," he told Vanity Fair magazine.
Mr Clarke said he checked with FBI officials, who gave the go ahead. "So I said, 'Fine, let it happen'."6 And, as noted, the FBI was directly involved in the process of collecting bin Laden family members and ferrying them to departure points from which they could leave the country: The young members of the bin Laden clan were driven or flown under F.B.I. supervision to a secret assembly point in Texas.3 Was the FBI denied the chance to question departing bin Laden family members?
Again, it's hard to make the case that the FBI was denied any opportunity to question bin Laden family members given that they were directly involved in the process of rounding them up and gave the go-ahead for the flights to leave. Moreover, news accounts indicate that the FBI was not only "all over" the departing flights (grounding some of them temporarily), but had the opportunity to question passengers, and in at least some cases actually did:
All of those who took up the Saudi government's offer to fly home were reportedly questioned by the FBI before being allowed to board the flights. A source at Logan said that the FBI was "all over these planes" prior to takeoff.4
[P]rivate planes carrying the kingdom's deputy defense minister and the governor of Mecca, both members of the royal family, were grounded and initially caught up in the F.B.I. dragnet.3
Oh shut up. the solution to this is to use a different browser. Everytime government touches anything, it turns to shit. Do you really want a behemoth of a government telling companies how to make computing products?
Make way for regulated MMORPGs, safety tested (and cost enhanced) graphic accelerator cards.
if a company does something badly, tell them to go f' themselves. not like anyone paid for IE anyways, its free w/ the os. and you can install any browser you want. so quit bitchin'.
I hear you... oil is a finite resource. However, I think that price increases would have a weird effect on the oil markets.
there is a lot of oil in lots of different types of rocks in the earth. A lot of it is more expensive to extract than its value as oil... which is why it is not extracted. As the price of oil increases, and supply dwindles, these reserves will become economically feasible to extract because the price of oil has increased. Then more oil is available, which stabilizes the price.
Runaway oil inflation is unlikely, in my opinion. What is likely is that as certain billion-dollar companies see energy prices increase, and see the market change, they will adapt. For some companies, tapping into the trillions of cubic feet of natural gas for their fleet vehicles will help. for others, changing the way the business runs, etc etc.
because paying ZERO dollars for software means my government isn't spending any money when it doesn't have to, which means that I can keep more of my money instead of it going to taxes, right?
The exotic widget you're referring to can be achieved. Explode a directional nuclear reaction to your rear. i mean, i suppose blowing something like that up in the atmosphere, even high up and very thin, is probably a bad thing environmentally, but there's your thrust.
You forgot how disposable DVDs are mandated by the patriot act.
People won't pay more than $20 for a DVD. Rentals are already 1/4 the price of ownership. quit whining. this changes nothing, it just makes rental companies lives easier by minimizing inventory.
Typically, companies have a 'bid' put out, allowing the end companies to try and come up with a cheapest figure and a timeframe. It seems this is a permutation of this, where the contracting company says 'first to come up with an acceptable solution wins!'... this might mean that speed is more important than quality development, which i do not support.
when will Ferrari drop the price of their sportscars to compete with the ford focus. I mean, they both drive on roads, so they should both be the same price, right?
I once lived in a market with two cable companies, both which provided high speed internet service to my town. It was awesome having a choice. Alas, Boston was one of the few markets that have this available. (RCN and ComCast)
Competition is beautiful. That's why I love the movement away from landlines and towards cellular phones. Cellular companies aren't regulated all to hell like the local telcos are. I can have verizon, cingular, t-mobile, sprint, at&t... its awesome having a choice. and I found a company that treats me right, and prices are relatively cheap. and because the competition is so tight, you're seeing stuff you normally don't see with local telcos. Free long distance? never happen on landlines. also, the amount of plans is greatly increased. there's signing bonuses ie free hardware with contract. a lot of people may balk at the choices, but no one can say there isn't a crapload of them.
I think wireless highspeed internet will do for broadband what cellular did for the telephone: introduce a ton of providers and drive down prices and up options.
Not true. Capitalism is not about destroying wealth. Capitalism is about the creation of wealth.
As a simple example:
there are many nations who have abundant natural resources, yet are financially poor.
Natural resources have a value; ie they have a price at which people are willing to pay, barter, or distribute. Now, if one was to take that resource and add human labor to create a product (fashioning a tool out of iron ore), that product has a value which is greater than the resource itself. (A hammer is worth more than the ore's value in the hammer. how much the human labor adds can be pennies or fortunes.) That the product has more value than the resource is the creation of wealth. If that product then allows the human labor of others to contribute even more value to resources, then the total wealth of the market/society is increased even more; ie a nation with crude oil can be poor; but a nation who refines the oil, uses it to trade for irrigation and agriculture can build their infrastructure, which lowers food prices, which increases the standard of living. (an example of this process, while not a completely capitalist nation, is the State of Israel.)
while this creation of wealth can happen in most types of economies, Capitalism specifically allows, through the idea of free trade, that individuals be allowed to excercise the freedom to choose which deals will grant them the greatest amount of wealth. ie an economy based on choice, not forced market prices and values.
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the location of beagle. I know we're probably talking a long distance, but its not as if we're doing anything else with them.
Kurt Vonnegut didn't write the sunscreen song.
u re s/daily/march99/sunscreen0318.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/feat
most people know him for his novels which often contain insane or delusional characters. see 'Slaughterhouse Five' and 'Breakfast of Champions'
He's also a rabid anti-capitalist and believes that the US terror problems stem from our 'technology' which oppresses other nations. He's certifiable.
"Hey, looks like you are buying PS2 games. You probably want a memory card to go with that."
Sounds awfully familiar, where have I heard that before?
'It looks like you're writing a letter'
I knew it. Clippy has been hired as the best buy marketing manager!
I can buy the 'used to be there' arguement about the elevated rail, but at the shot where the train is about to jump the tracks at the end, the shot pans and the rail appears to be over four stories up. No elevated rail lines in any major metropolis in the US has above the street rail that high, to my knowledge. even if it did, check out the end of the track. Usually the last stop on any line has a crossover, that enables the train to switch directions in order to service the opposite direction. wasn't there in the movie.
What is a 'Global Class action Lawsuit'? is this when the entire planet sues a company?
Perhaps Microsoft didn't adhere to Global Law and will face a Global Court. In front of this World Court where juristiction is not in any way ambiguous, microsoft shall be cleansed of all the evil wealth it created and be forced to continue to work for free on open source projects.
Check this out: its about $180 ($89 each way) to go from Boston to Washington DC via rail (amtrak). That's a non-acela train.
To go from Boston to Washington (or providence to Washington, which is a 6 dollar MBTA train ride from Boston) via air is $141 according to expedia, probably on peak travel days. And its a third of the time to fly as it is to Rail. Less money + quicker = better.
the rail's downfall in the US came from two sources: 18 wheelers and airplanes. 18 wheelers can transfer smaller, cheaper loads and hit more locations. Rail can't do that. Also, 18 wheelers have no infrastructure and only require one operator per vehicle, and can work on any schedule. And airfare has been a government subsidy (essentially) for so long that airfare is relatively cheap for travelers.
Rail still seems to hold a place in commuters lives, which is a good thing. In Boston, where I live, it helps me get around. I'd hate boston if it wasn't for our T.
usefulness! While I agree that Las Vegas and all other major cities should really have a public transportation system (not necessarily owned by the government), this doesn't do what it really should do: make the entire city accessible. While the 4 mile strip section served here will benefit, its still a pain in the ass to get to old las vegas. I remember taking a bus there and thinking, what a pain.
When the monorail serves everywhere from the airport to old las vegas, then it will be cool. and it should run 24 hours, since the rest of the cities do. Transportation initiatives like this help eliminate drunk drivers, help make commuters lives easier (although prolly not much so in Vegas), and connect neighborhoods.
poorly managed databases, not the ASP.NET, are probably what's bringing it down. Or really poorly written SQL calls.
You know, the sloppy stuff, like right outer joining half of the most contented tables in the database... never deleting rows from databases. Cross Joining due to laziness. poorly managed indexes. seen it all.
a humorist. He made funny pokes at interal US issues and put out hilarious DVDs. He once drove around Harlem in a cab and refused to drive white people, only black people. (this was when there was a NYT article claiming that cab drivers don't stop for black people. he did his own thing where a former white felon and a upstanding black citizen were trying to get a cab, and the white guy got it every time). So I watched his DVDs, and I knew that I didn't have to take the thing seriously because he made it a point to express his ideas as ridiculous.
Now, where he's being taken seriously as a journalist (whether you want to be or not, if you produce a movie like this, you're no longer just a humorist), his inconsistencies and inferences are bothering the fuck out of me. He doesn't lie, but he puts facts in such positions as to make people draw conclusions that just aren't true. Bin Laden family members were rushed out of the coutnry, therefore , the conclusion drawn is that the FBI never got to question them and had no hand in the process. which isn't true.
Geez,
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/flight.htm
seems unlikely that the FBI had no oppourtunity to question the family members when, indeed, the FBI was involved in retriveing the family members from their homes, flying them to central locations, and flying them out of the country. FBI agents were all over the planes. if they wanted to question them, they could. and they did.
is that Mr. Moore attempts to infer that the FBI never got to question Bin Laden family members that were whisked out of the country. To me, that is simply misleading. He first is implying that the Bin Laden family members (most of which hadn't met him before his saudi citizenship was revoked) would have had anything to do with 9/11. Only one Bin Laden had anything to do with 9/11.
second, he is implying that Bush went over the FBI to protect friends. that too is misleading.
I usually turn to snopes for my fact-checking. I hate dishonesty, even in urban legends.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/flight.htm
Did flights take bin Laden family members out of the U.S. over the objections of the FBI?
It's hard to make the case that flights of Saudis departed from the U.S. over the objections of the FBI when, according to former White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, the FBI itself gave the go-ahead:
"Somebody brought to us for approval the decision to let an airplane filled with Saudis, including members of the bin Laden family, leave the country," he told Vanity Fair magazine.
Mr Clarke said he checked with FBI officials, who gave the go ahead. "So I said, 'Fine, let it happen'."6
And, as noted, the FBI was directly involved in the process of collecting bin Laden family members and ferrying them to departure points from which they could leave the country:
The young members of the bin Laden clan were driven or flown under F.B.I. supervision to a secret assembly point in Texas.3
Was the FBI denied the chance to question departing bin Laden family members?
Again, it's hard to make the case that the FBI was denied any opportunity to question bin Laden family members given that they were directly involved in the process of rounding them up and gave the go-ahead for the flights to leave. Moreover, news accounts indicate that the FBI was not only "all over" the departing flights (grounding some of them temporarily), but had the opportunity to question passengers, and in at least some cases actually did:
All of those who took up the Saudi government's offer to fly home were reportedly questioned by the FBI before being allowed to board the flights. A source at Logan said that the FBI was "all over these planes" prior to takeoff.4
[P]rivate planes carrying the kingdom's deputy defense minister and the governor of Mecca, both members of the royal family, were grounded and initially caught up in the F.B.I. dragnet.3
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/downloa d_ject.mspx
because if it is, there are indeed patches.
Oh shut up. the solution to this is to use a different browser. Everytime government touches anything, it turns to shit. Do you really want a behemoth of a government telling companies how to make computing products?
Make way for regulated MMORPGs, safety tested (and cost enhanced) graphic accelerator cards.
if a company does something badly, tell them to go f' themselves. not like anyone paid for IE anyways, its free w/ the os. and you can install any browser you want. so quit bitchin'.
I hear you... oil is a finite resource. However, I think that price increases would have a weird effect on the oil markets.
there is a lot of oil in lots of different types of rocks in the earth. A lot of it is more expensive to extract than its value as oil... which is why it is not extracted. As the price of oil increases, and supply dwindles, these reserves will become economically feasible to extract because the price of oil has increased. Then more oil is available, which stabilizes the price.
Runaway oil inflation is unlikely, in my opinion. What is likely is that as certain billion-dollar companies see energy prices increase, and see the market change, they will adapt. For some companies, tapping into the trillions of cubic feet of natural gas for their fleet vehicles will help. for others, changing the way the business runs, etc etc.
i expect it to be a sitcom-esque situation, where the baby lifts the family car when it gets stuck in the mud.
because paying ZERO dollars for software means my government isn't spending any money when it doesn't have to, which means that I can keep more of my money instead of it going to taxes, right?
right?
(crickets chirping....)
Okay, 30 years ago they predicted 40 years left of oil. why is it that time marches on but there's always still 40 years of oil left?
it doesn't show comments? then what good is it? do you expect me to read the articles? how preposterous!
The exotic widget you're referring to can be achieved. Explode a directional nuclear reaction to your rear. i mean, i suppose blowing something like that up in the atmosphere, even high up and very thin, is probably a bad thing environmentally, but there's your thrust.
You forgot how disposable DVDs are mandated by the patriot act.
People won't pay more than $20 for a DVD. Rentals are already 1/4 the price of ownership. quit whining. this changes nothing, it just makes rental companies lives easier by minimizing inventory.
Typically, companies have a 'bid' put out, allowing the end companies to try and come up with a cheapest figure and a timeframe. It seems this is a permutation of this, where the contracting company says 'first to come up with an acceptable solution wins!' ... this might mean that speed is more important than quality development, which i do not support.
I'd say he had a pretty good run. 3 million from one idea?
when will Ferrari drop the price of their sportscars to compete with the ford focus. I mean, they both drive on roads, so they should both be the same price, right?
Here Here!
I once lived in a market with two cable companies, both which provided high speed internet service to my town. It was awesome having a choice. Alas, Boston was one of the few markets that have this available. (RCN and ComCast)
Competition is beautiful. That's why I love the movement away from landlines and towards cellular phones. Cellular companies aren't regulated all to hell like the local telcos are. I can have verizon, cingular, t-mobile, sprint, at&t... its awesome having a choice. and I found a company that treats me right, and prices are relatively cheap. and because the competition is so tight, you're seeing stuff you normally don't see with local telcos. Free long distance? never happen on landlines. also, the amount of plans is greatly increased. there's signing bonuses ie free hardware with contract. a lot of people may balk at the choices, but no one can say there isn't a crapload of them.
I think wireless highspeed internet will do for broadband what cellular did for the telephone: introduce a ton of providers and drive down prices and up options.
Not true. Capitalism is not about destroying wealth. Capitalism is about the creation of wealth.
As a simple example:
there are many nations who have abundant natural resources, yet are financially poor.
Natural resources have a value; ie they have a price at which people are willing to pay, barter, or distribute. Now, if one was to take that resource and add human labor to create a product (fashioning a tool out of iron ore), that product has a value which is greater than the resource itself. (A hammer is worth more than the ore's value in the hammer. how much the human labor adds can be pennies or fortunes.) That the product has more value than the resource is the creation of wealth. If that product then allows the human labor of others to contribute even more value to resources, then the total wealth of the market/society is increased even more; ie a nation with crude oil can be poor; but a nation who refines the oil, uses it to trade for irrigation and agriculture can build their infrastructure, which lowers food prices, which increases the standard of living. (an example of this process, while not a completely capitalist nation, is the State of Israel.)
while this creation of wealth can happen in most types of economies, Capitalism specifically allows, through the idea of free trade, that individuals be allowed to excercise the freedom to choose which deals will grant them the greatest amount of wealth. ie an economy based on choice, not forced market prices and values.