I've never noticed ads for gift cards, but there are "groupon" type ads which claim 50% off massages, cupcakes, destination vacations, etc (typing this, I wonder if my Kindle thinks I'm female...).
So they're not as worthless as a TV ad, but on the other hand, there hasn't been anything interesting enough for me to bother clicking on. I don't regret saving the money though, the ads don't bother me at all.
I wouldn't consider 8 years in the Illinois senate and 2 years as a US senator as a "blank page". That's longer than Hillary has been in elected office. And even if you count her "35 years" of experience, then you'd have to say Obama has over 20 years starting with his work as a community organizer getting people registered, getting poor people on the South Side of Chicago job training, and then working as a civil rights lawyer. You might find this interesting: http://kikustuff.blogspot.com/ and if you actually even attempted to become an informed voter, then you'd realize how wrong that charge of being a "blank page" is.
If you disagree with his policies that's one thing, but if the best his opponents can come up with is that he's all suit and no substance, which is demonstrably false, then it's not looking too good for them.
Patent Reform Obama's stance on his website. McCain doesn't even *mention* patent reform at all on his website, and even after a cursory Google search the best I could find is this quote from PC World:
When Mossberg asked if we needed to fix copyright policy, McCain gave a tentative yes: "I think we probably do," to applause from the audience. "But it's got to be carefully thought through--most members of Congress do not understand the complexity of these issues." However, when Mossbrg said that many people think that U.S. patent law is allowing companies to patent existing ideas, and asked McCain if this was a problem on his radar screen, McCain gave such a firm "No!" that it prompted audience laughter.
Meanwhile Obama's co-sponsoring legislation with a Democrat and a Republican like this:
Stop Tax Shelter Patents by prohibiting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from issuing patents for "inventions designed to minimize, avoid, defer, or otherwise affect liability for Federal, State, local, or foreign tax"
I'd also like you to show me an instance in this campaign where McCain has gone into great detail about his patent and immigration stances beyond platitudes in a nationally televised speech. It's what all politicians do, because talking about patent reform for 5 minutes is terrifically boring to most people. But as long as there are lazy people, I guess they'll continue to just automatically swallow the pill that he's all talk and no action instead of actually looking for themselves and seeing it's not the case at all. It's a false choice that's being presented, you can have BOTH a great speaker and a detailed policy.
And I thought "Wow, this guy gets it!" I had semi-followed him since the 2004 DNC speech, and in everything I read about him I like him that much more.
Also I LOVE the fact that his entire campaign is supported by individual donations (of which I am one of them, and it's also the first time I've ever given money to a politician). He's not beholden to any special interest group once he gets in.
I was never taught how to parallel park nor tested on it in drivers ed either. In fact, parking was barely covered. It probably didn't also help that my parent's cars are huge passenger cars (think Grand Marquis) so parking in that is a nightmare to begin with. I remember the first time I drove a smaller car (my friend's Camry) and thinking how much easier it was to park.
My Sony P72 broke the exact same way over the summer. It was on the second day of a 5 day roadtrip to California/San Francisco. I had taken about 4 pictures of the giant redwood trees, and then all of the sudden it's nothing but blue streaks that look pretty much like your photos.
I ended up buying a Canon camera a week later after some research, and always meant to call Sony to see how much it would cost to fix my camera (to give to my little brother or something) but never got around to it. But now that I find out it's a common problem and I can get it fixed for free, I'm definitely going to send it back in.
You'd send a plain text resume to someone? Good luck with that. Not to say it's impossible to get a job like that, but I wouldn't say you have good odds.
I agree with the parent. I like using OO and I love the export to PDF feature, but when it comes to things I know I'd have to turn in, I always do it in Word since formatting always gets screwed up. And A lot of times opening MS Powerpoint and Word documents also results in (sometimes really bad) formatting errors.
Your post is exactly my reasons for being against this war and Bush's policies. The crusade to "spread freedom to Iraq" only came about because there were no WMD found, and there was no terrorism reason to pre-emptively attack them in the first place. Bush just needed a diversion to get the American public's minds off the fact that bin Laden wasn't found, and figured that "Hey, no one likes that Saddam guy anyways and it should be an easy victory and make me popular". This is why he went ahead and attacked, because he needed this war to save face. Unfortunatly for him it did not turn out how he planned (which was partly due to poor planning and a weak understanding of that part of the world) and it blew up in his face.
Very few people would say that Iraq was a great place under Saddam and I am sure many of the Iraqi people are happy to not live in fear of his policies, though with the anarchy and fear of terrorism they might not say it is much better. I don't know, I'm not over there. The point is however that if the removal of dictators is now America's job and this war was entirely about freeing oppressed people, then we'd be in wars all over the world, and would never stop being the world's police force. One of Bush's campaign promises in the 2000 election was to not go into nation building, to not try to police the world. It was also a big theme that year that he was a uniter, not a divider, and yet he does such a great job uniting the world today... yeah.... And to think Republicans attack Kerry over flip-flops.
1. Create playlist with protected songs 2. Click "Burn Disc" and let burn 3. Eject CD 4. Reinsert CD 5. Tell it to rip those songs into mp3 format when the dialog box comes up
I don't understand why there just isn't an automatic "Convert to mp3" option on protected songs and save you 50 cents.
Anyway, the BS CS majors had to take Discrete Math, Numerical Analysis, and plenty of other math courses. Basically, they might as well have all double majored in Math because the difference in coursework was so small.
That's sort of what I'm doing. I'm getting a BS in computer engineering, on the software side, and it's only two more 4000 level math courses to get a minor in Math. And I can have them count as technical electives in my department, so it doesn't even take any longer to get a math minor. And I don't think it's that many more (maybe another 2 math courses) to double major.
Heh, some universities (cough*mine*cough) don't care if there are legal uses. We were the subject of this wonderful article from the beginning of the year about schools to avoid.
Basically all file sharing programs are blocked, along with all bittorrent (say goodbye to Linux ISO's and any other legitimate use) and most recently they've blocked off IRC. Yes, all of IRC. It still works on the campus wireless network, but you can't get any wireless signal in the dorms where these restrictions take place. As much as I love the dorm life, I'm getting an apartment next year.
So legal uses or not, if someone thinks it'll solve a problem, they don't care what else gets in the way.
I'm a Junior at UF, and I took a graduate class in robotics this semester, and I've seen the robot a few times sitting at it's docking station in one of the rooms on the 3rd floor of Benton. It was also supposed to be demonstrated at this semester's demo day for our class (even though it wasn't part of the class, they just like to show what all the robots that the Machine Intelligence Lab is working on) but it had broken the night before. It does look pretty impressive in real life though just sitting there, but I wish I could report back how it acted in person.
The school I'm going to, University of Florida has been having it's headaches with spam for this same reason. It sends out a weekly newsletter about what is going on in the university, important dates, events, that kind of thing. It's sent out to everyone's university appointed email address (foobar@ufl.edu) but people can then have that forwarded to their AOL address.
Now some people don't like this weekly thing (which is somewhat important so students get needed information, but whatever. When you're a student here, you get the email.), and so they mark it as spam when they get it, or else they do the accidental spam report thing. AOL then sees all these "spam" mail coming from ufl.edu addresses, and promptly blocks ALL email from any ufl.edu address. This has happened 3 times now, and each time the university system adminstrator has had to go through a ton of hoops to get it back in the clear. Meanwhile everyone using an AOL account doesn't get teacher emails, club announcements that they signed up for, and any sort of personal mail that someone sends from their ufl.edu account.
Hopefully AOL will get it's act together. In the meantime they're trying to get people to stop having their mail forwarded to AOL accounts, but of course even college educated people want to use AOL, for whatever god forsaken reason.
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It's the latest talking point to people who mention Romney sticking their dog on their roof as it crapped all over himself.
He did actually mention eating dog in his biography. When he was 6. In Indonesia.
How do you figure this? A Dem sponsored it, while no Republican are on board, while a bill explicitly prohibiting this has 27 Republican sponsors.
Obama actually campaigned on doing exactly that, but Republicans think it's a tax conspiracy and refuse to do anything useful. ::sigh::
I've never noticed ads for gift cards, but there are "groupon" type ads which claim 50% off massages, cupcakes, destination vacations, etc (typing this, I wonder if my Kindle thinks I'm female...).
So they're not as worthless as a TV ad, but on the other hand, there hasn't been anything interesting enough for me to bother clicking on. I don't regret saving the money though, the ads don't bother me at all.
Considering the top 1% control 33% of the wealth in the country, and the bottom 50% only have 2.5%, I'm pretty OK with that distribution.
It's a good thing business have never scammed anyone or gone after short term gains instead of long term stability then.
With upstanding businesses like Enron and WorldCom looking out for their reputations, I'm confident we'll never need any sort of regulations either!
..but not even reading the summary before being pushed to the front page?
I guess it is Friday afternoon, but still
Which is essentially what Better Place has planned.
I wouldn't consider 8 years in the Illinois senate and 2 years as a US senator as a "blank page". That's longer than Hillary has been in elected office. And even if you count her "35 years" of experience, then you'd have to say Obama has over 20 years starting with his work as a community organizer getting people registered, getting poor people on the South Side of Chicago job training, and then working as a civil rights lawyer. You might find this interesting: http://kikustuff.blogspot.com/ and if you actually even attempted to become an informed voter, then you'd realize how wrong that charge of being a "blank page" is.
If you disagree with his policies that's one thing, but if the best his opponents can come up with is that he's all suit and no substance, which is demonstrably false, then it's not looking too good for them.
Lets see what the candidates have to say:
Immigration
Obama's plan and record on immigration. Now lets compare that to
McCain's platform. Who's more "feels good but means nothing"?
Patent Reform
Obama's stance on his website. McCain doesn't even *mention* patent reform at all on his website, and even after a cursory Google search the best I could find is this quote from PC World:
http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/004506.html
Meanwhile Obama's co-sponsoring legislation with a Democrat and a Republican like this:
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=269479
I'd also like you to show me an instance in this campaign where McCain has gone into great detail about his patent and immigration stances beyond platitudes in a nationally televised speech. It's what all politicians do, because talking about patent reform for 5 minutes is terrifically boring to most people. But as long as there are lazy people, I guess they'll continue to just automatically swallow the pill that he's all talk and no action instead of actually looking for themselves and seeing it's not the case at all. It's a false choice that's being presented, you can have BOTH a great speaker and a detailed policy.
Remember kids, knowledge is power!
The thing that impressed me the most was when I heard his podcast on Net Neutrality back in mid 2006: http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/060608-network_neutral/
And I thought "Wow, this guy gets it!" I had semi-followed him since the 2004 DNC speech, and in everything I read about him I like him that much more.
There is also an interview with TechCrunch that goes into a lot of details: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/26/qa-with-senator-barack-obama-on-key-technology-issues/
(a shorter summary is here: http://www.techpolicycentral.com/2007/11/barack-obamas-take-on-tech.php)
Also I LOVE the fact that his entire campaign is supported by individual donations (of which I am one of them, and it's also the first time I've ever given money to a politician). He's not beholden to any special interest group once he gets in.
This makes far more sense now. I also thought it was implying the server was hacked and phishers put up a fake login on the main page.
So while still a serious problem, it won't affect near as many people.
I was never taught how to parallel park nor tested on it in drivers ed either. In fact, parking was barely covered. It probably didn't also help that my parent's cars are huge passenger cars (think Grand Marquis) so parking in that is a nightmare to begin with. I remember the first time I drove a smaller car (my friend's Camry) and thinking how much easier it was to park.
In fact it's right here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c109:405:./t emp/~c109u8qmKx:e429803:
But just think how long it would take to read and understand 300+ pages of this.
I believe all bills are already posted to the internet at http://thomas.loc.gov/
Seconding this. I love Katamari Damacy, it's one of the most fun games I've played in years.
My Sony P72 broke the exact same way over the summer. It was on the second day of a 5 day roadtrip to California/San Francisco. I had taken about 4 pictures of the giant redwood trees, and then all of the sudden it's nothing but blue streaks that look pretty much like your photos.
I ended up buying a Canon camera a week later after some research, and always meant to call Sony to see how much it would cost to fix my camera (to give to my little brother or something) but never got around to it. But now that I find out it's a common problem and I can get it fixed for free, I'm definitely going to send it back in.
You'd send a plain text resume to someone? Good luck with that. Not to say it's impossible to get a job like that, but I wouldn't say you have good odds.
I agree with the parent. I like using OO and I love the export to PDF feature, but when it comes to things I know I'd have to turn in, I always do it in Word since formatting always gets screwed up. And A lot of times opening MS Powerpoint and Word documents also results in (sometimes really bad) formatting errors.
Anyone know where in the paper it is? Like right behind the front page, or section E page 12
Your post is exactly my reasons for being against this war and Bush's policies. The crusade to "spread freedom to Iraq" only came about because there were no WMD found, and there was no terrorism reason to pre-emptively attack them in the first place. Bush just needed a diversion to get the American public's minds off the fact that bin Laden wasn't found, and figured that "Hey, no one likes that Saddam guy anyways and it should be an easy victory and make me popular". This is why he went ahead and attacked, because he needed this war to save face. Unfortunatly for him it did not turn out how he planned (which was partly due to poor planning and a weak understanding of that part of the world) and it blew up in his face.
Very few people would say that Iraq was a great place under Saddam and I am sure many of the Iraqi people are happy to not live in fear of his policies, though with the anarchy and fear of terrorism they might not say it is much better. I don't know, I'm not over there. The point is however that if the removal of dictators is now America's job and this war was entirely about freeing oppressed people, then we'd be in wars all over the world, and would never stop being the world's police force. One of Bush's campaign promises in the 2000 election was to not go into nation building, to not try to police the world. It was also a big theme that year that he was a uniter, not a divider, and yet he does such a great job uniting the world today... yeah.... And to think Republicans attack Kerry over flip-flops.
And iTunes makes it incredibly easy too.
1. Create playlist with protected songs
2. Click "Burn Disc" and let burn
3. Eject CD
4. Reinsert CD
5. Tell it to rip those songs into mp3 format when the dialog box comes up
I don't understand why there just isn't an automatic "Convert to mp3" option on protected songs and save you 50 cents.
Anyway, the BS CS majors had to take Discrete Math, Numerical Analysis, and plenty of other math courses. Basically, they might as well have all double majored in Math because the difference in coursework was so small.
That's sort of what I'm doing. I'm getting a BS in computer engineering, on the software side, and it's only two more 4000 level math courses to get a minor in Math. And I can have them count as technical electives in my department, so it doesn't even take any longer to get a math minor. And I don't think it's that many more (maybe another 2 math courses) to double major.
Heh, some universities (cough*mine*cough) don't care if there are legal uses. We were the subject of this wonderful article from the beginning of the year about schools to avoid.
Basically all file sharing programs are blocked, along with all bittorrent (say goodbye to Linux ISO's and any other legitimate use) and most recently they've blocked off IRC. Yes, all of IRC. It still works on the campus wireless network, but you can't get any wireless signal in the dorms where these restrictions take place. As much as I love the dorm life, I'm getting an apartment next year.
So legal uses or not, if someone thinks it'll solve a problem, they don't care what else gets in the way.
I'm a Junior at UF, and I took a graduate class in robotics this semester, and I've seen the robot a few times sitting at it's docking station in one of the rooms on the 3rd floor of Benton. It was also supposed to be demonstrated at this semester's demo day for our class (even though it wasn't part of the class, they just like to show what all the robots that the Machine Intelligence Lab is working on) but it had broken the night before. It does look pretty impressive in real life though just sitting there, but I wish I could report back how it acted in person.
The school I'm going to, University of Florida has been having it's headaches with spam for this same reason. It sends out a weekly newsletter about what is going on in the university, important dates, events, that kind of thing. It's sent out to everyone's university appointed email address (foobar@ufl.edu) but people can then have that forwarded to their AOL address.
Now some people don't like this weekly thing (which is somewhat important so students get needed information, but whatever. When you're a student here, you get the email.), and so they mark it as spam when they get it, or else they do the accidental spam report thing. AOL then sees all these "spam" mail coming from ufl.edu addresses, and promptly blocks ALL email from any ufl.edu address. This has happened 3 times now, and each time the university system adminstrator has had to go through a ton of hoops to get it back in the clear. Meanwhile everyone using an AOL account doesn't get teacher emails, club announcements that they signed up for, and any sort of personal mail that someone sends from their ufl.edu account.
Hopefully AOL will get it's act together. In the meantime they're trying to get people to stop having their mail forwarded to AOL accounts, but of course even college educated people want to use AOL, for whatever god forsaken reason.