Very true and quite insightful. I would also add that if parents are in control it's not called censorship and they are not censors. They are parents. Censorship applies to when Government engages in decided what can and cannot be seen/heard in the media.
Overwhemling numbers were and still are against this travesty. That's why it failed in the House the first time around. A lot of the provisions they added were put there to sway individual votes. Unfortunately by the time November rolls around people won't vote their incumbents out in any great number. They'll be too busy talking about the November TV ratings sweeps and shoving food in their mouths. People get all outraged then they either don't vote or they just vote blindly for one of the Rebpulicrat or Democrican candidates.
You make it sound like being able to update firmware easily over the Internet is a trival advantage. It's not, given the ever changing nature of the Blu Ray 'standard'.
The real problem is it's a moving target and if you don't buy a 'net connected player you might just be SOL in the near future with a new release. THAT is a problem.
But surely as a scientist you have an open mind? I don't think they are talking about 'seeing' the way we see to read. The forms of 'skin vision' cited are all ways to detect electromagnetic radiation but none of them would allow one to, for example, read Slashdot. There is vision and there is vision. I think in this case they are just using the term a bit loosely. I'm a bit skeptical about some of the forward looking claims as well, but this might just bear further research.
They took them away from staffers, not Congresscritters. Had you read the link you provided you'd know that. Lots of junior staffers love to leak because it makes them feel important, and Her Majesty Pelosi didn't want any premature details of the negotiations coming out before they had a deal to screw us out of yet more money.
Did you even read TFA? If so your comprehension skills are sorely lacking. Toyota is the one backing off of green car production while GM is advancing it's plans for plug in cars. Perhaps your bias is so strong to bash US companies that you can't see that?
I forget where I saw it on TV in the last six months or a year, but they did a test like that in a wine shop. Almost every single vinophile picked the cheap bottle of wine that they were told was more expensive over the aged bottled that was in reality the more expensive bottle.
Maybe Mom won't let them smoke outside, you insensitive clod, so they are stuck in the basement. Besides, that awful burning thing in the sky is out there. I forget what they call it but it's fucking scary.
If you honestly think taxpayers would have ever seen a dime from the ill advised bailout then you need to look at the last word of your post then a mirror. IF any profits were made the money would have been squandered by Congress, not returned to the people.
Submarine operation is probably a very good model for a long term interstellar trip. You *need* to have discipline and a command hierarchy when you operate under such hostile environmental conditions and in such close quarters.
It's just a matter of the submitter wanting to seem important and relevant so they had to come up with an inane editorial comment/question. I don't think anybody else really cares whether or not you can pidgeonhole a new product.
You had me up until the part about the Adminstration owning AIG. It doesn't. The Federal Reserve is not part of the Administration. That being said it's still a travesty, but you don't do your arguements justice by spinning them.
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Very true and quite insightful. I would also add that if parents are in control it's not called censorship and they are not censors. They are parents. Censorship applies to when Government engages in decided what can and cannot be seen/heard in the media.
Overwhemling numbers were and still are against this travesty. That's why it failed in the House the first time around. A lot of the provisions they added were put there to sway individual votes. Unfortunately by the time November rolls around people won't vote their incumbents out in any great number. They'll be too busy talking about the November TV ratings sweeps and shoving food in their mouths. People get all outraged then they either don't vote or they just vote blindly for one of the Rebpulicrat or Democrican candidates.
You make it sound like being able to update firmware easily over the Internet is a trival advantage. It's not, given the ever changing nature of the Blu Ray 'standard'.
The real problem is it's a moving target and if you don't buy a 'net connected player you might just be SOL in the near future with a new release. THAT is a problem.
Was that YOU with the groovy acid at Woodstock??? Long time no see! Let's go burn one man.
But surely as a scientist you have an open mind? I don't think they are talking about 'seeing' the way we see to read. The forms of 'skin vision' cited are all ways to detect electromagnetic radiation but none of them would allow one to, for example, read Slashdot. There is vision and there is vision. I think in this case they are just using the term a bit loosely. I'm a bit skeptical about some of the forward looking claims as well, but this might just bear further research.
They took them away from staffers, not Congresscritters. Had you read the link you provided you'd know that. Lots of junior staffers love to leak because it makes them feel important, and Her Majesty Pelosi didn't want any premature details of the negotiations coming out before they had a deal to screw us out of yet more money.
It's just 4 SPE's without the controlling CPU. This has nothing to do with yields and is a set of separately made parts.
Did you even read TFA? If so your comprehension skills are sorely lacking. Toyota is the one backing off of green car production while GM is advancing it's plans for plug in cars. Perhaps your bias is so strong to bash US companies that you can't see that?
These same american car companies seemed all too eager to give us bigger, less fuel efficient tanks while demand was high.
Toyota is a Japanese company. Just an FYI.
Yes, and it was apparantly posers and fools who came into the store they used that night.
I forget where I saw it on TV in the last six months or a year, but they did a test like that in a wine shop. Almost every single vinophile picked the cheap bottle of wine that they were told was more expensive over the aged bottled that was in reality the more expensive bottle.
I am calling BS on this. Water...falling out of the sky??? That's just crazy talk. Water comes in bottles and out of faucets...everyone knows that!
Maybe Mom won't let them smoke outside, you insensitive clod, so they are stuck in the basement. Besides, that awful burning thing in the sky is out there. I forget what they call it but it's fucking scary.
Actually that is just the lower bounds of the price per item since they say 'Over $20,000', but yeah I see your point.
I prefer cannabis as a CO2 eating mechanism, but to each his own.
If you honestly think taxpayers would have ever seen a dime from the ill advised bailout then you need to look at the last word of your post then a mirror. IF any profits were made the money would have been squandered by Congress, not returned to the people.
Submarine operation is probably a very good model for a long term interstellar trip. You *need* to have discipline and a command hierarchy when you operate under such hostile environmental conditions and in such close quarters.
It's not a concept machine. Concept machines are not production items...they are prototypes/proof of concept that may later become a production item.
It's just a matter of the submitter wanting to seem important and relevant so they had to come up with an inane editorial comment/question. I don't think anybody else really cares whether or not you can pidgeonhole a new product.
Only there wouldn't be nearly as many MS apologists as there are in this thread for Apple.
I'm thinking the $25-$30 per disc is keeping more Average Joes away from Blu Ray than DRM is.
You had me up until the part about the Adminstration owning AIG. It doesn't. The Federal Reserve is not part of the Administration. That being said it's still a travesty, but you don't do your arguements justice by spinning them.
Nope. There have been a few false positives, but there have been plenty of 'confirmed' sightings of extra-solar planets.
I thought the main goal was to bring affordable laptops to children around the world, and that OSS was just a means to an end.
Does Jack have noodly apendages?