IIRC, the big complaint on the tax cuts is that people that do not pay income taxes are not getting any money out of the deal. I am quite puzzled that this arguement can escape from a Liberal Arts department or a Workers World Party meeting (yes, that was redundant).
The whole argument (against income tax cuts) is that it is "giving something to someone", which is obviously false. An absence of taking is not giving.
Perhaps we should give every person that does not pay income taxes $1,000,000.00 using the same logic,i.e., if it is not taken it is a gift, and all will be well?
Well, yes I think it is just fine and these rules are just silly anyway. The rules are only being modified, not eliminated and they are not much different than they were before. I prefer elimination, but that's just me and my "powers" of seeing through baseless assertions.
The basic complaint by those opposed is that there are several large companies competing with each other. These competitors have similar (NOT identical, but that is a matter of personal perspective) programming. The competitors as a group draw a large number of listeners/viewers (depending on medium) by airing similar programming. This has somehow been labeled as a monopoly.
Well, guess what, a group of COMPETITORS drawing large market share is NOT MONOPOLY. It is not even collusion. It is competition to draw an audience. It is like accusing auto amnufacturers of having a monopoly because they all amke cars and people buy the cars of 5 competitors 90% of the time, even though the smaller competitors make cars at the same price.
Guess what else? In the media as a whole there are indeed HUNDEREDS of competitors and, combined, they have 100% of the market! Woooo! Call out the National Guard!
I find it amazing that Pacifica and others keep repeating that they are somehow being "squeezed out" or "silenced" by "big media". Know how I hear this? I listen to their stations on occasion and they repeat it almost every half hour. Could have fooled me about their being "silenced". Maybe more people would listen if they stopped the whining and started programming that more people want to hear?
New York Times Three Gorges Rapids Project Complete by Jayson Blair and Peter Arnett
China's first theme park, the Three Gorges Rapids, opened last week. A massive engineering feat, the proud and resourceful free peoples of China who independently banded together collectively to form a theme park around the largest rapids ever created by man or nature.
The process included building a massive temproary dam, filling the resivour, then the controlled destruction of the dam resulting in the rapids forming where the dam once stood.
The road building and hotel construction will begin soon, as the Chinese wished to keep the area in it's pristine, natural state as long as possible . . .
What? From the 'most advanced society on earty'? The 'worker's paradise'? Surely you jest!
Oh, as for the earlier comment about 10,000 dead from a flood, would accupuncture bring them back to life? Perhaps some green tea, rhino horn and brown rice?
Yea, I know brown rice would have helped when 50,000 people starved to death because China decided every farmer needed to build his own steel mill too (1950's), but gosh, no rice then.
Input from a "Littel Red Book' scholar needed quick!
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That's still American, not Irish. It has English writing.
There was a documentry about the old technique, but it didn't work well.
If the Armegedon crew had used harpoons instead of that fancy jet thruster stuff everybody may have gotten back safely. Well, if they hadn't landed on that plate of iron too.
You are exactly right. The group of "monopolies" that many folk keep shouting about own around 10-25% of the TV stations and about 10% of the radio stations are owned by the "radio monopoly" of a few firms. Yet something like 80% of the viewers watch/listen to them.
The point being, these "monopolies" do not own a majority of stations/channels/satellite transponders, no one entity is being called a "monopoly" or anything of the sort. The complaint is that severla large, successful firms, with a tiny MINORITY of stations are drawing the majority of audience. Sounds more like competition to me.
I am sure my numbers might be off a bit, as I have been hearing and reading of this non-issue for months and really don't feel like digging up links anybody interested enough can find on their own.
Also, it was funny in another post someone quoting Ted Turner as being "against" the new rules when he controls so many media companies. Mr. consolidation is complaining of consolidation.
Just wondering... what digital tv guides are out there as alternatives?
Well, TV Guide has one and, IIRC, there was a script or something already out there to extract the info from their page and dump it into your TiVO.
It has been a while since I researched any of this, so I am sure I have missed plenty of info in this recollection. I suggest Googling for info freshness:-)
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The reason why many people choose to use Flash to display pictures is that it is harder for someone to steal it and put it on their website.
Apparently that was not the reason here. At least it was not the result.
Scroll down to this post, all of the case pix are in the http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/hires/ directory.
So, why couldn't this be done in standard HTML, so that more browsers can view it properly?
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To make matters worse, my browser is Netscape 4.7. This page shows all of the upper left portion of the page with no scrollbars to look at the rest.
Now for a serious question.
If this case mod was done to a G4 without Steve Jobs' express written permission, would it be an illegal alien?
My wife worked for their U.S. distributorship for a while.
I knew you were connected with the CIA! If I remember, your wife was pretty hot in that documentry too:-)
Oh well, it's OT, but I always thought it pretty crazy that Drax was using an outside vendor that never bothered to ask why he need all of these vials or that might have gotten suspicious.
We need them for this big project for "uncle", plus they look nice in some of our lanterns and, hey, if you ask any more questions we are going to LASER you.
Even more OT, didn't the pass code to the lab sound like Close Encounters?
This doesn't sit well with me. Should students at a University be studying, developing, and releasing improved methods with which to launch DOS attacks..?
Because Uiversities are where this sort of research shoud go on and solutions found.
I find it quite refreshing that this happened in a house of learning rather than "on the street".
Oh yes, a side topic, for those that don't know, most "solar cells" are made by the same firms that refine oil.
I have stopped being puzzled by the folks that say they use solar cells because they will not support "big oil", since they have no trouble finding a conspiracy under every unleaded pump, but they are 'unaware' that solar cells are made by energy companies.
Just thought I would mention that before the "solar power" folks swarm over your post.
Yea, the sales (marketing) part would be glossing over or ignoring where the hydrogen comes from, the lossy energy process used to crack it from whatever it was bound to, etc.
Actually that has been brought up already on the MegaSquirt list
Well, I hope so, since it is an existing MegaSquirt feature:
Input trigger events (compared to ignition events) can be divided by any number between one and eight (number of cylinders must be evenly divisable by this injection number) - this means that there can be an injection event for every ignition event, or an injection event for every other ignition event (skip one), and so on depending on selection. The user can switch which injection division number to use while the car is running - the system will scale the required fuel amount properly on the fly.
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IIRC, the big complaint on the tax cuts is that people that do not pay income taxes are not getting any money out of the deal. I am quite puzzled that this arguement can escape from a Liberal Arts department or a Workers World Party meeting (yes, that was redundant).
The whole argument (against income tax cuts) is that it is "giving something to someone", which is obviously false. An absence of taking is not giving.
Perhaps we should give every person that does not pay income taxes $1,000,000.00 using the same logic,i.e., if it is not taken it is a gift, and all will be well?
Well, yes I think it is just fine and these rules are just silly anyway. The rules are only being modified, not eliminated and they are not much different than they were before. I prefer elimination, but that's just me and my "powers" of seeing through baseless assertions.
The basic complaint by those opposed is that there are several large companies competing with each other. These competitors have similar (NOT identical, but that is a matter of personal perspective) programming. The competitors as a group draw a large number of listeners/viewers (depending on medium) by airing similar programming. This has somehow been labeled as a monopoly.
Well, guess what, a group of COMPETITORS drawing large market share is NOT MONOPOLY. It is not even collusion. It is competition to draw an audience. It is like accusing auto amnufacturers of having a monopoly because they all amke cars and people buy the cars of 5 competitors 90% of the time, even though the smaller competitors make cars at the same price.
Guess what else? In the media as a whole there are indeed HUNDEREDS of competitors and, combined, they have 100% of the market! Woooo! Call out the National Guard!
I find it amazing that Pacifica and others keep repeating that they are somehow being "squeezed out" or "silenced" by "big media". Know how I hear this? I listen to their stations on occasion and they repeat it almost every half hour. Could have fooled me about their being "silenced". Maybe more people would listen if they stopped the whining and started programming that more people want to hear?
Ah, flaimbait!
Must be due to my missing a zero on the 500,000 killed by a Mao-made famine!
Don't worry. In 10 years it will all be dry land again after the dam bursts.
Headline in 10 years:
New York Times
Three Gorges Rapids Project Complete
by Jayson Blair and Peter Arnett
China's first theme park, the Three Gorges Rapids, opened last week. A massive engineering feat, the proud and resourceful free peoples of China who independently banded together collectively to form a theme park around the largest rapids ever created by man or nature.
The process included building a massive temproary dam, filling the resivour, then the controlled destruction of the dam resulting in the rapids forming where the dam once stood.
The road building and hotel construction will begin soon, as the Chinese wished to keep the area in it's pristine, natural state as long as possible . . .
What? From the 'most advanced society on earty'? The 'worker's paradise'? Surely you jest!
Oh, as for the earlier comment about 10,000 dead from a flood, would accupuncture bring them back to life? Perhaps some green tea, rhino horn and brown rice?
Yea, I know brown rice would have helped when 50,000 people starved to death because China decided every farmer needed to build his own steel mill too (1950's), but gosh, no rice then.
Input from a "Littel Red Book' scholar needed quick!
That's still American, not Irish. It has English writing.
There was a documentry about the old technique, but it didn't work well.
If the Armegedon crew had used harpoons instead of that fancy jet thruster stuff everybody may have gotten back safely. Well, if they hadn't landed on that plate of iron too.
Progress will not wait for you my friend.
Great.
You would think we would have learned after the Andromeda Strain, Alien, Aliens, Chariots of the Gods, . . .
You are exactly right. The group of "monopolies" that many folk keep shouting about own around 10-25% of the TV stations and about 10% of the radio stations are owned by the "radio monopoly" of a few firms. Yet something like 80% of the viewers watch/listen to them.
The point being, these "monopolies" do not own a majority of stations/channels/satellite transponders, no one entity is being called a "monopoly" or anything of the sort. The complaint is that severla large, successful firms, with a tiny MINORITY of stations are drawing the majority of audience. Sounds more like competition to me.
I am sure my numbers might be off a bit, as I have been hearing and reading of this non-issue for months and really don't feel like digging up links anybody interested enough can find on their own.
Also, it was funny in another post someone quoting Ted Turner as being "against" the new rules when he controls so many media companies. Mr. consolidation is complaining of consolidation.
Just wondering ... what digital tv guides are out there as alternatives?
:-)
Well, TV Guide has one and, IIRC, there was a script or something already out there to extract the info from their page and dump it into your TiVO.
It has been a while since I researched any of this, so I am sure I have missed plenty of info in this recollection. I suggest Googling for info freshness
The reason why many people choose to use Flash to display pictures is that it is harder for someone to steal it and put it on their website.
Apparently that was not the reason here. At least it was not the result.
Scroll down to this post, all of the case pix are in the http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/hires/ directory.
So, why couldn't this be done in standard HTML, so that more browsers can view it properly?
To make matters worse, my browser is Netscape 4.7. This page shows all of the upper left portion of the page with no scrollbars to look at the rest.
Now for a serious question.
If this case mod was done to a G4 without Steve Jobs' express written permission, would it be an illegal alien?
My wife worked for their U.S. distributorship for a while.
:-)
I knew you were connected with the CIA! If I remember, your wife was pretty hot in that documentry too
Oh well, it's OT, but I always thought it pretty crazy that Drax was using an outside vendor that never bothered to ask why he need all of these vials or that might have gotten suspicious.
We need them for this big project for "uncle", plus they look nice in some of our lanterns and, hey, if you ask any more questions we are going to LASER you.
Even more OT, didn't the pass code to the lab sound like Close Encounters?
Yep!
This doesn't sit well with me. Should students at a University be studying, developing, and releasing improved methods with which to launch DOS attacks..?
Because Uiversities are where this sort of research shoud go on and solutions found.
I find it quite refreshing that this happened in a house of learning rather than "on the street".
Oh nonsense!
I can take off and land a UH-1H on that thing all day.
Black Hawk I can land a minimum of once.
(never got Black Hawk rated, yea, kinda old)
Well, if GE built whole aircraft carriers, they could pull a "Drax"(sp?) deal and make one for themselves like he made that spair Space Shuttle.
But if they break it, stealing one already delivered would be trickier than stealing a Shuttle.
All of the above is conjecture from viewing the documentry "Moonraker".
Yea, sure does :-)
It *probably* has an extensive communications system already.
Also, popular literature supplies some great ideas for other applications.
Oh silly, it's asatellite not afoot.
Well, that's why I get the hydrogen for my hydrogen powered Jeep at an Exxon station :-)
Oh yes, a side topic, for those that don't know, most "solar cells" are made by the same firms that refine oil.
I have stopped being puzzled by the folks that say they use solar cells because they will not support "big oil", since they have no trouble finding a conspiracy under every unleaded pump, but they are 'unaware' that solar cells are made by energy companies.
Just thought I would mention that before the "solar power" folks swarm over your post.
Yea, the sales (marketing) part would be glossing over or ignoring where the hydrogen comes from, the lossy energy process used to crack it from whatever it was bound to, etc.
I get the hydrogen for my Jeep from retail outlets that market it under a different name.
It goes a heck of a lot farther than 100km on one tank too!
Well, just like it except my Jeep has the same maintenance in reality, this scooter has the same maintenance in theory.
:-)
So, it's just the same except newer and different
Well, I hope so, since it is an existing MegaSquirt feature: