How were they able to patent gestures? Isn't that something that Microsoft Surface, among others, had first? I love the iPhone interface, but is there really anything brand new there?
I'm just wondering how they're going to find a way to make this site depend on Google. They managed it with Change.gov and Whitehouse.gov.
Are you talking about the youtube player? If so how does that equate to making the site depend on google? Install Flashblock and just use the links to download the videos directly instead. In normal usage dependent doesn't mean entirely optional.
Yeah, riders are a huge part of the problem. It seems to me though that banning them would be difficult. Legislators can always make an argument that converting Oklahoma into a landfill is germane, since umm.... Well, of course we'll need a place to dump all the orphans ratty old shoes. So who gets to decide what's relevant and what's not? Someone said they do this in Australia, I wonder how it works?
Come to think of it, if it works in Australia why do we constantly hear about so many crummy laws being past down under? Maybe it doesn't work so well for them.
So let me get this straight. You think other states should contribute to your admittedly high tax system because your senators are so benevolent and decide you really could use that money
Nice try, but according to this the reality is that Massachusetts pays more to the Federal government than it gets in return. How about that, so all that "pork" going to Mass is actually just them getting a percent of their own tax money back. Think of it as a tax rebate... now doesn't that just make your fiscally-conservative heart all aflutter?
Funny how you are so impressed with McCain and yet Arizona is taking in $1.19 per every dollar it pays. Supposedly no pork and yet he's still making off like a bandit. Nice trick that is.
No, you just need to price KWHs for whatever CO2 standard (or other hippie standard) you want. IIRC, zero-CO2 emission electricity is around 12c/KWH (about 3-4x the price of dirty coal plants, obviously depending on market), so you price your average power rates at that level, if it's important to you to do so. The invisible hand takes care of the rest.
You are saying that the market works iff you raise prices of dirty fuel to the same level as clean fuels. The power companies are obviously not going to do this themselves, if it benefited them they would have done it already. That means the government would have to require these changes. That means regulation is required. That means the market does not work.
As I said, the only thing less credible than talk radio is the internet. Just because the article says "Obama sides with Bush in Spy Case" doesn't mean it's true.
First of all, the document that the article cites comes from the DoJ, not the White House.
Secondly, the signatories of the document are holdovers from Bush's DoJ. In case you haven't been paying attention, voting on Obama's nominee for Attorney General is being held up in committee by the Republicans. Apparently they are concerned he might actually prosecute crimes.
Thirdly, even if this did come from Obama or an Obama appointee, all the document is calling for is a postponement. That kind of makes sense considering the transition going on at the moment.
The only thing less credible that someone on the radio is someone on the internet. I would say so far there is zero evidence for the assertion that Obama will be "bush on steroids".
The new executive order actually limits executive privilege, it doesn't boost it. The new part is that any assertion of executive privilege needs to be approved by the white house council and the attorney general. They have the option of rejecting the assertion if they feel it is being used inappropriately.
Yes, Thompson did the right thing in that situation, but he also had friends with guns covering him when he confronted his commanding officer. Things may not have gone so well for him if that wasn't the case, sad to say.
The person you were replying too was actually talking about government transparency in general, not just use of a personal PDA. You said that the government uses secrecy as protection against foreign interests wanting to do us harm. You are right in that that is the official reason for withholding documents from the public, but the Bush administration severely abused the system routinely classifying things for reasons other than national security. Cheney in particular was openly hostile to the idea of transparency. This idea that the President knows better than the people and doesn't need to answer to them comes at least partially from Leo Strauss's influence on the neocons.
Yeah, exactly like that. There was nothing wrong with having an rnc.org email address, in fact having a separate account for personal use is required by law. There is however a problem with using that personal account for official business.
Yeah, someone is rewriting history here a bit. For pretty much his entire first term the media was handling Bush with kid gloves. It wasn't until Hurricane Katrina that the media was shaken out of their stupor and they actually started questioning the administration. The resulting criticism was long overdue and very much warranted, they were hardly piling on the guy unfairly.
the need for security does not stem from fear of those that elected him, but from fear of foreign interests getting their hands on sensitive information.
Two days have past and you've already completely forgotten about the last guy? Good on you!
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How were they able to patent gestures? Isn't that something that Microsoft Surface, among others, had first? I love the iPhone interface, but is there really anything brand new there?
Or so you presume. Usually this is the case, but it all depends on what he's buying.
Are you talking about the youtube player? If so how does that equate to making the site depend on google? Install Flashblock and just use the links to download the videos directly instead. In normal usage dependent doesn't mean entirely optional.
Yeah, riders are a huge part of the problem. It seems to me though that banning them would be difficult. Legislators can always make an argument that converting Oklahoma into a landfill is germane, since umm.... Well, of course we'll need a place to dump all the orphans ratty old shoes. So who gets to decide what's relevant and what's not? Someone said they do this in Australia, I wonder how it works?
Come to think of it, if it works in Australia why do we constantly hear about so many crummy laws being past down under? Maybe it doesn't work so well for them.
Nice try, but according to this the reality is that Massachusetts pays more to the Federal government than it gets in return. How about that, so all that "pork" going to Mass is actually just them getting a percent of their own tax money back. Think of it as a tax rebate... now doesn't that just make your fiscally-conservative heart all aflutter?
Funny how you are so impressed with McCain and yet Arizona is taking in $1.19 per every dollar it pays. Supposedly no pork and yet he's still making off like a bandit. Nice trick that is.
Maybe that's why he's a former Mac user.
Why were you using KDE4 if you didn't want to be using it? You have no one to blame but yourself for that.
No, you just need to price KWHs for whatever CO2 standard (or other hippie standard) you want. IIRC, zero-CO2 emission electricity is around 12c/KWH (about 3-4x the price of dirty coal plants, obviously depending on market), so you price your average power rates at that level, if it's important to you to do so. The invisible hand takes care of the rest.
You are saying that the market works iff you raise prices of dirty fuel to the same level as clean fuels. The power companies are obviously not going to do this themselves, if it benefited them they would have done it already. That means the government would have to require these changes. That means regulation is required. That means the market does not work.
As I said, the only thing less credible than talk radio is the internet. Just because the article says "Obama sides with Bush in Spy Case" doesn't mean it's true.
First of all, the document that the article cites comes from the DoJ, not the White House.
Secondly, the signatories of the document are holdovers from Bush's DoJ. In case you haven't been paying attention, voting on Obama's nominee for Attorney General is being held up in committee by the Republicans. Apparently they are concerned he might actually prosecute crimes.
Thirdly, even if this did come from Obama or an Obama appointee, all the document is calling for is a postponement. That kind of makes sense considering the transition going on at the moment.
Same names and faces actually. This came from what is still effectively the Bush DOJ.
The only thing less credible that someone on the radio is someone on the internet. I would say so far there is zero evidence for the assertion that Obama will be "bush on steroids".
Bah. If stone tablets were good enough for the 10 Commandments, they're good enough for me.
That's kind of what they are doing by also having a link to download the video file directly instead of viewing the embedded youtube player.
Try to understand what's going on before criticizing it. This new executive order is putting limits on claims of executive privilege.
The new executive order actually limits executive privilege, it doesn't boost it. The new part is that any assertion of executive privilege needs to be approved by the white house council and the attorney general. They have the option of rejecting the assertion if they feel it is being used inappropriately.
Yes, Thompson did the right thing in that situation, but he also had friends with guns covering him when he confronted his commanding officer. Things may not have gone so well for him if that wasn't the case, sad to say.
Ha, of course you'd say that Mr. 600K.
The person you were replying too was actually talking about government transparency in general, not just use of a personal PDA. You said that the government uses secrecy as protection against foreign interests wanting to do us harm. You are right in that that is the official reason for withholding documents from the public, but the Bush administration severely abused the system routinely classifying things for reasons other than national security. Cheney in particular was openly hostile to the idea of transparency. This idea that the President knows better than the people and doesn't need to answer to them comes at least partially from Leo Strauss's influence on the neocons.
Yeah, exactly like that. There was nothing wrong with having an rnc.org email address, in fact having a separate account for personal use is required by law. There is however a problem with using that personal account for official business.
Yeah, someone is rewriting history here a bit. For pretty much his entire first term the media was handling Bush with kid gloves. It wasn't until Hurricane Katrina that the media was shaken out of their stupor and they actually started questioning the administration. The resulting criticism was long overdue and very much warranted, they were hardly piling on the guy unfairly.
Two days have past and you've already completely forgotten about the last guy? Good on you!
"You may not have, but I'm sure some did."
The difference is those morons didn't have a national stage.
AT&T U-Verse set top boxes are the worst. They don't even turn off the display, they turn on a screen saver when you hit the power.
Ok, don't give them credit. But they still did a hell of a lot better than Bush and the Republican congress or Reagan.
They've got to just lose the whole inane color coded threat thing. That was one of the stupidest ideas ever.