No, like the Republicans did in 1992 and 1996. Yes, Bill Clinton eventually lied under oath. After being badgered and badgered by the Republicans over something that, while repugnant, was not a national issue, unlike all the crap that Bush has pulled since day one of his presidency.
Not exactly. It is radioisotope power but it is not nuclear power in the sense that there is a reaction going on. The simple decay gives off heat. As I recall it's not that much, either. Something on the order of 110 watts. Still, it's much better than relying on solar panels. Here's a nice page of fact sheets for the mission.
...if Apple was the only company to make OSes and computers. As many around here are fond of pointing out, Apple doesn't even come close to having a majority in the market.
We have an astonishing level of debt. We are still spending billions in Iraq. The investment banks have taken us for a ride. You can be sure that no matter who gets elected everybody's taxes will be going up at some point.
I felt a little sick when I read the headline. Reading the above comment made me feel much more sick. I expect the government to try to do bad things. What is completely dismaying is the general public throwing up its hands and saying "what are you gonna do?" I far prefer political action than waiting for it to get bad enough for revolution.
Whoah, serious rationalizations going on there. If you really cared about being safe you'd drop back sufficiently far to be safe. Slowing down to 55 is a silly suggestion. All you have to do is drive the speed limit and leave at least 2 seconds between you and the car in front (if I can achieve this in L.A. you can probably achieve it anywhere). If someone is tailgating just gradually slow down until they pass.
I was almost in a wreck on the freeway yesterday. Two cars tangled up in the fast lanes and one of them came careening across all the lanes right in front of me and slammed into the sound wall. I got a look at both cars as I went past and they looked destroyed. And this all happened in traffic that was moving no faster than 50 m.p.h. Don't be a jackass. Just slow down.
"While there are a few situations I've been in where the ability to exceed 80 mph has been critical to safety (getting out from behind dangerous drivers on the freeway who are liable to cause a pileup, for instance), that's not the point."
Is this supposed to be a joke? You're the only one likely be causing any pile ups driving like that. Sheesh.
I have no idea about the Markdown formatting. I'm embarrassed to say this is the first I've heard of it.
The screen refresh rate is really not an issue. You have to wait a second or so and it's really no big deal. The only problem I have with it is that it doesn't support monospace fonts, so for any technical books with code examples in it is just not very readable. For everything else it's great.
If you only read paperbacks it's probably not worth it, but if you read new releases and other non-pulp kinds of stuff you have to remember that the cost of most e-books from Amazon is $10 or under. Most, not all. So, you save quite a bit of money in that respect.
Well said. Perhaps I should have been more clear, however. I didn't mean the people bartered away our freedoms, I meant as a nation (politicians, leaders, all) we have given away the things that made this nation great. Freedom doesn't require electing the right people. Freedom requires electing the right people and then hounding them to do the right thing.
"They're single-purpose devices with closed formats in an increasingly multipurpose open-format world."
I received a Kindle as a gift and the very first thing I loaded onto it was a plaintext file. It worked beautifully. It's hard to be more "open-format" than plain text. Not only that but unless you ever used one you will never know the pleasure of reading e-ink displayed text. It is nothing less than wonderful after staring at backlit text from an LCD all day.
Seriously depressing. I grew up with the mistaken belief that American people loved their freedoms (habeas corpus, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, free speech, rule of law, etc.). Instead it's starting to look more and more like all those ideals were just a relatively short-lived fluke as we barter away our true freedoms for freedom from responsibility.
"At the same time, its the greedy people like the ones at Apple who have really added to economy problems."
Wow, that's news to me. I had no idea that Apple was in the sub-prime lending market. Did they try to sell you a house along with that iPhone? Those bastards.
No, that is exactly the point. I am NOT the arbiter. Repeatable results are. It's not what I believe, it's what I can prove. That is the beauty of science, it doesn't ask people to believe "just because" but rather it shows results. Repeatable results.
"well if you read a little bit of history to go along with all the science of yours you might find there is a pattern of plausible divine intervention."
Please, please, please tell me you are joking. History is creative writing. And you want me to put that up against the scientific method?
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What the telco really means is that it wants no competition.
No, like the Republicans did in 1992 and 1996. Yes, Bill Clinton eventually lied under oath. After being badgered and badgered by the Republicans over something that, while repugnant, was not a national issue, unlike all the crap that Bush has pulled since day one of his presidency.
I'm sure you're right. Just like Clinton bankrupted this country. Wait a sec....
I was very angry with you last week. Or maybe it wasn't last week. And I don't think it was you.
That was amorphous anger.
What? You mean you didn't spend the George Bush stimulus check on an iPhone already?
Good observation.
Not exactly. It is radioisotope power but it is not nuclear power in the sense that there is a reaction going on. The simple decay gives off heat. As I recall it's not that much, either. Something on the order of 110 watts. Still, it's much better than relying on solar panels. Here's a nice page of fact sheets for the mission.
...if Apple was the only company to make OSes and computers. As many around here are fond of pointing out, Apple doesn't even come close to having a majority in the market.
We have an astonishing level of debt. We are still spending billions in Iraq. The investment banks have taken us for a ride. You can be sure that no matter who gets elected everybody's taxes will be going up at some point.
I felt a little sick when I read the headline. Reading the above comment made me feel much more sick. I expect the government to try to do bad things. What is completely dismaying is the general public throwing up its hands and saying "what are you gonna do?" I far prefer political action than waiting for it to get bad enough for revolution.
Perhaps this isn't a good time to mention it, but you should know that men can get breast cancer, too. Obviously it's not as common. Male breast cancers account for 1% of all breast cancers.
Whoah, serious rationalizations going on there. If you really cared about being safe you'd drop back sufficiently far to be safe. Slowing down to 55 is a silly suggestion. All you have to do is drive the speed limit and leave at least 2 seconds between you and the car in front (if I can achieve this in L.A. you can probably achieve it anywhere). If someone is tailgating just gradually slow down until they pass.
I was almost in a wreck on the freeway yesterday. Two cars tangled up in the fast lanes and one of them came careening across all the lanes right in front of me and slammed into the sound wall. I got a look at both cars as I went past and they looked destroyed. And this all happened in traffic that was moving no faster than 50 m.p.h. Don't be a jackass. Just slow down.
"While there are a few situations I've been in where the ability to exceed 80 mph has been critical to safety (getting out from behind dangerous drivers on the freeway who are liable to cause a pileup, for instance), that's not the point."
Is this supposed to be a joke? You're the only one likely be causing any pile ups driving like that. Sheesh.
I have no idea about the Markdown formatting. I'm embarrassed to say this is the first I've heard of it.
The screen refresh rate is really not an issue. You have to wait a second or so and it's really no big deal. The only problem I have with it is that it doesn't support monospace fonts, so for any technical books with code examples in it is just not very readable. For everything else it's great.
If you only read paperbacks it's probably not worth it, but if you read new releases and other non-pulp kinds of stuff you have to remember that the cost of most e-books from Amazon is $10 or under. Most, not all. So, you save quite a bit of money in that respect.
Before it was that stupid "In God We Trust" our national motto was "E Pluribus Unum."
Well said. Perhaps I should have been more clear, however. I didn't mean the people bartered away our freedoms, I meant as a nation (politicians, leaders, all) we have given away the things that made this nation great. Freedom doesn't require electing the right people. Freedom requires electing the right people and then hounding them to do the right thing.
"They're single-purpose devices with closed formats in an increasingly multipurpose open-format world."
I received a Kindle as a gift and the very first thing I loaded onto it was a plaintext file. It worked beautifully. It's hard to be more "open-format" than plain text. Not only that but unless you ever used one you will never know the pleasure of reading e-ink displayed text. It is nothing less than wonderful after staring at backlit text from an LCD all day.
Seriously depressing. I grew up with the mistaken belief that American people loved their freedoms (habeas corpus, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, free speech, rule of law, etc.). Instead it's starting to look more and more like all those ideals were just a relatively short-lived fluke as we barter away our true freedoms for freedom from responsibility.
"At the same time, its the greedy people like the ones at Apple who have really added to economy problems."
Wow, that's news to me. I had no idea that Apple was in the sub-prime lending market. Did they try to sell you a house along with that iPhone? Those bastards.
Keith Richards just looks older than that.
Well, naturally. It is, after all, the location of the HAL plant. Sheesh.
Just nevermind.
No, that is exactly the point. I am NOT the arbiter. Repeatable results are. It's not what I believe, it's what I can prove. That is the beauty of science, it doesn't ask people to believe "just because" but rather it shows results. Repeatable results.
"well if you read a little bit of history to go along with all the science of yours you might find there is a pattern of plausible divine intervention."
Please, please, please tell me you are joking. History is creative writing. And you want me to put that up against the scientific method?