Portals like CrooksandLiars and Buzzflash (and, of course,/.) offer a concentration of relevant news that give any single web site, much less the boob tube, a run. Face it, Katie's legs just aren't that good anymore and the dimples are looking pretty cynical.
Digital broadcast and my MythTV are all the tube time I want and need. By the time people realize conversion sucks hopefully commercial HD broadcast sets will be plentiful.
I say we build up the airports ala Second Life and party in the lounges! And, yes, you would have to actually fly to each airport and deplane in my vision.
The airports could become hubs into the cities. FlightGear has great potential to become a parallel earth so why not start populating it?
To think I was once a subscriber. Recent years they've been big on the creationism "controversy", had "Why Kids Love Big Brother" as a cover story, and interviewed Newt Gingrich and the "end of science" guy at length. Their editorial policy couldn't be more clearly directed toward driving the magazine into the dirt.
So getting dissed by Discover is _good_ advertising taking the source into consideration.
Various groups of people within the one-in-a-1000 to one-in-a-million IQ societies have been making this argument for years. "I may not know your business but hire me as a consultant because I'm smart." I think the success of the argument has been stunningly underwhelming.
Next they'll be telling us we can only play CDs on specific CD players, at volumes which don't allow others to hear the recording, and then force us to pay royalties if the tune gets stuck in our heads...
Technological impediments. Obviously, they've tried the first. I believe they may have been successful at the second. Auto mechanic, was it, sued for having a player where customers could hear it? So it's just the technical problem of developing safe, portable PET headgear, getting the government mandate to monitor all our thoughts, upgrading the NSA infrastructure _some_, and building a fusion plant in Maryland to power it all. Who can say there isn't some conservative think tank "futurist" getting paid right now to brainstorm it?
Mercantilism is an economic theory that holds the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of trade is "unchangeable." Economic assets, or capital, are represented by bullion (gold, silver, and trade value) held by the state, which is best increased through a positive balance of trade with other nations (exports minus imports). Mercantilism suggests that the ruling government should advance these goals by playing a protectionist role in the economy, by encouraging exports and discouraging imports, especially through the use of tariffs.
Unchangeable volume of trade? Bullion? Positive balance of trade? Exports? When did the US last resemble that? Early Nixon years?
I think you were just searching for a kinder word for fascism.
Democrats _love_ Hollywood, the RIAA, MPAA, DMCA and anything that gives media more money and control. Who's the little cheapskate when it comes to greasing politician's palms? You are, gaming industry, yes you are!
My MythTV box with an internal antenna is about 40 miles from the transmitters and there can be issues. I'm not that far from a flight path and planes can cause a streak of pixel loss. Maybe you haven't seen Comcast's "Dump the Dish" campaign. We also have a woods nearby and heavy wind and precipitation have had me dialing back to the "SD" channel on rare occasion to avoid breakup -- presumably from scatter. A _really_ cool and weird drop out is when a heavy storm is causing the sat link at the station to break up _too_ and my box is already having trouble getting a lock.
Just saying. On balance, it's fantastic compared to analog rabbit ears. Just not perfect. And since we've never had cable and don't want it, we're happy and hope broadcast never goes away.
No kidding. How the scales have shifted. My favorite quotes (paraphrasing from memory):
Harry Shearer eulogizing on the "genius" of the departed Sonny Bono (a promoter as well as a performer) after his skiing into a tree: "How much 'genius' does it take to meet on Monday morning to decide how to spread the payola around?"
Randi Rhodes: "Being a disk jockey, you know the _really_ cool promos -- one ones that came with the little packet of cocaine."
About 1/2 an hour into one of those "Know your NT server" 1-day seminars in '98, the out-of-town presenter said, "I really think I have appendicitis and have to go to an emergency room -- right now!"
On the other hand, he was one of the most honest presenters I've ever seen. Took the time to point out the manual page with URL references and said, "You can always get answers to your questions on the web."
I'm so old I can remember when a non-Microsoft app would win Product of the Year: like WordPerfect for word processing and Quattro Pro for spreadsheet. You have to recognize the source to appreciate the degree of condemnation.
Oh, I sent Klobuchar a letter after her first FISA vote. Got back a bunch of "strong on terra" blah-de-blah. She's just playing the tired old hand that "nobody ever got ousted being tough on 'law enforcement'." No matter what it does to the structure of the country. Hard to argue with that proven strategy when they're all just unprincipled survey watchers.
Coleman? Yeah, calling him is going to do a lot of good. Klobuchar? Voted for FISA last summer. Blue dog Dem who votes against the constitution more often than not.
Chrysler officially put the cost of meeting the proposed rules at $6,700 per vehicle.
So, instead of selling people twice the vehicle they need, people will buy the equivalent of a $23K Prius instead of a $30K Expedition and Chrysler will lose $7K?
And the buyer will get nearly three times the gas mileage?
Seems like something promoted by the generator manufacturers' association. 210,000? I guess that's why they're the FCC and I'm not. Big thinking.
So, they'll sit in their boxes at each cell company's disaster-fortified warehouse until needed? Or it will provide jobs for people to change the oil and gas and test (and guard?) them periodically on or off site? I'm assuming the former. So it's sort of like the big Pharma handouts we give them to stock warehouses of drugs that get thrown out because we didn't need them over the course of their expiration.
Hey, it's only money. Soooo much better than POTS.
"If the world wants to keep plugging in big-screen TVs and iPods..."
So it's my 40" LCD screen that is destroying our energy supply, not the fact that the company air conditioning keeps me at 60 degrees F so I'm wearing a wool sweater in the middle of summer and still shivering? And you know that iPod is an energy sucker.
There is so much wrong with her argument.
What about the uranium miners and cancer? Haven't studies shown increased cancer downwind from nuke plants? That would imply she's either ignorant or lying when she says nuclear power has killed ZERO people in the U.S.
Has it killed more people than coal? I think the answer is "not _yet_". But one should honestly have to admit that capping over a site as a Death Zone for 100,000 years is "inconvenient". It reminds me of a Martingale gambling strategy where it looks like everything is going great until you catastrophically lose everything.
Frankly, the one thing we need is what nobody from the Pope to the guy carrying a sign on the street corner wants: fewer consumers. If we don't remedy that in a humane way, I suspect the planet and starving populations will find their own way. In the meantime, let's consider conservation the best way to _free_up_ available energy.
Yup, just waiting for the public paradigm shift. The three truths are:
1. Granny wants email and the web. 2. Granny might use OpenOffice.org to type up a letter if keeping the printer running isn't too challenging. Maybe upload pictures from her camera for processing if she's really hip. Downloading and printing some.pdf tax forms? I don't know. I think that's Hacker Granny. 3. No way, no how Granny is going to _maintain_ her computer -- Windows OR linux -- so that's a wash and we can just quit agonizing about the issue.
And "Granny" could probably account for half the home computer users out there. So why should she pay for Windows, much less Office? She isn't using the capabilities of free linux.
And, yes, any piece of crap new computer is fine for those things. Most computers from the last six years would be fine. The hardware is a commodity. All it has to do is run linux.
When they went from $100 to $200 I imagine they priced themselves out of the Chad market anyway. These things are going to end up in South America and some of Asia for the most part it looks like.
The animals weren't responding to other dogs and landscapes. They were responding to _photographs_ of dogs and landscapes. And dealing with them accordingly.
Do not confuse the finger with the moon, Grasshopper.
Yeah, like the British car reviewers who ran one of those Euro two-seaters into a concrete barrier at 70 mph by remote control. "See, the cage is intact! Of course, your organs would be liquified."
If we're wrong, it could be good news for organ banks. Still doesn't do much for the head and neck I imagine.
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Portals like CrooksandLiars and Buzzflash (and, of course, /.) offer a concentration of relevant news that give any single web site, much less the boob tube, a run. Face it, Katie's legs just aren't that good anymore and the dimples are looking pretty cynical.
Digital broadcast and my MythTV are all the tube time I want and need. By the time people realize conversion sucks hopefully commercial HD broadcast sets will be plentiful.
I say we build up the airports ala Second Life and party in the lounges! And, yes, you would have to actually fly to each airport and deplane in my vision.
The airports could become hubs into the cities. FlightGear has great potential to become a parallel earth so why not start populating it?
To think I was once a subscriber. Recent years they've been big on the creationism "controversy", had "Why Kids Love Big Brother" as a cover story, and interviewed Newt Gingrich and the "end of science" guy at length. Their editorial policy couldn't be more clearly directed toward driving the magazine into the dirt.
So getting dissed by Discover is _good_ advertising taking the source into consideration.
bring outsiders with no experience onto teams
Various groups of people within the one-in-a-1000 to one-in-a-million IQ societies have been making this argument for years. "I may not know your business but hire me as a consultant because I'm smart." I think the success of the argument has been stunningly underwhelming.
Next they'll be telling us we can only play CDs on specific CD players, at volumes which don't allow others to hear the recording, and then force us to pay royalties if the tune gets stuck in our heads...
Technological impediments. Obviously, they've tried the first. I believe they may have been successful at the second. Auto mechanic, was it, sued for having a player where customers could hear it? So it's just the technical problem of developing safe, portable PET headgear, getting the government mandate to monitor all our thoughts, upgrading the NSA infrastructure _some_, and building a fusion plant in Maryland to power it all. Who can say there isn't some conservative think tank "futurist" getting paid right now to brainstorm it?
Mercantilism is an economic theory that holds the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of trade is "unchangeable." Economic assets, or capital, are represented by bullion (gold, silver, and trade value) held by the state, which is best increased through a positive balance of trade with other nations (exports minus imports). Mercantilism suggests that the ruling government should advance these goals by playing a protectionist role in the economy, by encouraging exports and discouraging imports, especially through the use of tariffs.
Unchangeable volume of trade? Bullion? Positive balance of trade? Exports? When did the US last resemble that? Early Nixon years?
I think you were just searching for a kinder word for fascism.
Democrats _love_ Hollywood, the RIAA, MPAA, DMCA and anything that gives media more money and control. Who's the little cheapskate when it comes to greasing politician's palms? You are, gaming industry, yes you are!
My MythTV box with an internal antenna is about 40 miles from the transmitters and there can be issues. I'm not that far from a flight path and planes can cause a streak of pixel loss. Maybe you haven't seen Comcast's "Dump the Dish" campaign. We also have a woods nearby and heavy wind and precipitation have had me dialing back to the "SD" channel on rare occasion to avoid breakup -- presumably from scatter. A _really_ cool and weird drop out is when a heavy storm is causing the sat link at the station to break up _too_ and my box is already having trouble getting a lock.
Just saying. On balance, it's fantastic compared to analog rabbit ears. Just not perfect. And since we've never had cable and don't want it, we're happy and hope broadcast never goes away.
No kidding. How the scales have shifted. My favorite quotes (paraphrasing from memory):
Harry Shearer eulogizing on the "genius" of the departed Sonny Bono (a promoter as well as a performer) after his skiing into a tree: "How much 'genius' does it take to meet on Monday morning to decide how to spread the payola around?"
Randi Rhodes: "Being a disk jockey, you know the _really_ cool promos -- one ones that came with the little packet of cocaine."
About 1/2 an hour into one of those "Know your NT server" 1-day seminars in '98, the out-of-town presenter said, "I really think I have appendicitis and have to go to an emergency room -- right now!"
On the other hand, he was one of the most honest presenters I've ever seen. Took the time to point out the manual page with URL references and said, "You can always get answers to your questions on the web."
I'm so old I can remember when a non-Microsoft app would win Product of the Year: like WordPerfect for word processing and Quattro Pro for spreadsheet. You have to recognize the source to appreciate the degree of condemnation.
Oh, I sent Klobuchar a letter after her first FISA vote. Got back a bunch of "strong on terra" blah-de-blah. She's just playing the tired old hand that "nobody ever got ousted being tough on 'law enforcement'." No matter what it does to the structure of the country. Hard to argue with that proven strategy when they're all just unprincipled survey watchers.
Coleman? Yeah, calling him is going to do a lot of good.
Klobuchar? Voted for FISA last summer. Blue dog Dem who votes against the constitution more often than not.
Democracy, 21st century style, in action.
Chrysler officially put the cost of meeting the proposed rules at $6,700 per vehicle.
So, instead of selling people twice the vehicle they need, people will buy the equivalent of a $23K Prius instead of a $30K Expedition and Chrysler will lose $7K?
And the buyer will get nearly three times the gas mileage?
Slashdot covered glofish (tm) years ago.
But, perhaps, the perfect gift for a glow-in-the-dark cat?
The generators are large and bolted to the concrete.
If there's a flood, I would rather they were bolted to the tower instead of the base.
Count me in as old and crusty too.
Seems like something promoted by the generator manufacturers' association. 210,000? I guess that's why they're the FCC and I'm not. Big thinking.
So, they'll sit in their boxes at each cell company's disaster-fortified warehouse until needed? Or it will provide jobs for people to change the oil and gas and test (and guard?) them periodically on or off site? I'm assuming the former. So it's sort of like the big Pharma handouts we give them to stock warehouses of drugs that get thrown out because we didn't need them over the course of their expiration.
Hey, it's only money. Soooo much better than POTS.
What's it going to be worth when they get out of prison in ten years?
"If the world wants to keep plugging in big-screen TVs and iPods..."
So it's my 40" LCD screen that is destroying our energy supply, not the fact that the company air conditioning keeps me at 60 degrees F so I'm wearing a wool sweater in the middle of summer and still shivering? And you know that iPod is an energy sucker.
There is so much wrong with her argument.
What about the uranium miners and cancer? Haven't studies shown increased cancer downwind from nuke plants? That would imply she's either ignorant or lying when she says nuclear power has killed ZERO people in the U.S.
Has it killed more people than coal? I think the answer is "not _yet_". But one should honestly have to admit that capping over a site as a Death Zone for 100,000 years is "inconvenient". It reminds me of a Martingale gambling strategy where it looks like everything is going great until you catastrophically lose everything.
Frankly, the one thing we need is what nobody from the Pope to the guy carrying a sign on the street corner wants: fewer consumers. If we don't remedy that in a humane way, I suspect the planet and starving populations will find their own way. In the meantime, let's consider conservation the best way to _free_up_ available energy.
Yup, just waiting for the public paradigm shift. The three truths are:
.pdf tax forms? I don't know. I think that's Hacker Granny.
1. Granny wants email and the web.
2. Granny might use OpenOffice.org to type up a letter if keeping the printer running isn't too challenging. Maybe upload pictures from her camera for processing if she's really hip. Downloading and printing some
3. No way, no how Granny is going to _maintain_ her computer -- Windows OR linux -- so that's a wash and we can just quit agonizing about the issue.
And "Granny" could probably account for half the home computer users out there. So why should she pay for Windows, much less Office? She isn't using the capabilities of free linux.
And, yes, any piece of crap new computer is fine for those things. Most computers from the last six years would be fine. The hardware is a commodity. All it has to do is run linux.
This just has to become common wisdom.
When they went from $100 to $200 I imagine they priced themselves out of the Chad market anyway. These things are going to end up in South America and some of Asia for the most part it looks like.
We need more semiotics taught in the schools.
The animals weren't responding to other dogs and landscapes. They were responding to _photographs_ of dogs and landscapes. And dealing with them accordingly.
Do not confuse the finger with the moon, Grasshopper.
Yeah, like the British car reviewers who ran one of those Euro two-seaters into a concrete barrier at 70 mph by remote control. "See, the cage is intact! Of course, your organs would be liquified."
If we're wrong, it could be good news for organ banks. Still doesn't do much for the head and neck I imagine.
Those were _HACKERS_! They booted a linux CD!