I should clarify that by "Small Government" I don't mean the traditional fiscal responsibility (balanced budgets) that used to be what the Republican party was all about.
What I mean instead is the type of Small Government that could be dragged into the bathroom and drowned in the bathtub, to borrow a phrase.
Listen coward, I have actual data to support my reasons for supporting a bigger Government approach. Real data about the failures of Small Government, and real data about the successes of Big Government. In fact, some of it came out from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last month. I'm sure you're aware that CBO is hardly a left-wing, liberal, communist organization intent on destroying the American Way of Life (incl. the apparent "right" to pay no taxes whatsoever).
I know you're likely to just respond with your favorite quotes of the latest Ron Paul spam about the virtues of Small Government, but quite frankly that sort of economic policy has NEVER been tested successfully anywhere. Your blind faith to the religion of Small Government is not supported by ANY empirical evidence that it actually works.
In fact, there are ample evidence that it doesn't work, at all. Other than for rich folks, that is, for whom, I admit, it works extraordinarily well.
I have reasons for thinking like a "Slashthinker". I would be curious to find out about your reasons for thinking otherwise. Please provide as much details as possible, and please, PLEASE leave discussing untested economical theories to the classroom. They might work there, but unless you can show that they work in the real world, I'm not really interested in a theoretical discussion. We are, after all, talking about something that would affect the well being of over 200 million people (minus the 5% at the top of the wealth pyramid, of course). They're not lab rats.
1. Befriend a whole bunch of rich folks 2. Do the whole "small Government" thing 3. Move out of the country and resign (in that order, to make sure I'd be able to escape) 4. Watch and laugh as the whole country (well, not quite the whole country, just the poor and middle class people) slowly plummets into chaos 5. Call a few of those rick folks I made friends with 6. Profit!!
XBL seems to be straining. There have been more issues with the service in 2007 than all previous years combined (maybe the beta testing period excluded).
What's troubling is that the mean time between failure seems to be decreasing sharply, and Microsoft seems to be unable to prevent them from happening at all. And fixing is taking longer and longer.
"I don't know why anyone would store anything important or personally sensitive anywhere on the internet anyway,"
Because in this case the personally sensitive information is information about your interests and opinions that you may have selected to share only with a select few people, because you trust those people.
However, Google has now decided to, without your express permission, share that same information with EVERYONE on your GMail contact list, which, I'm sure everyone knows, includes people who you may not even know.
Now, imagine that you're a US Marine, who happens to be gay. You're using Google Reader to subscribe to a few RSS feeds about gay lifestyle. Your GMail contact list has many of your gay friends, and also many of your fellow marines, maybe including your superiors. You have chosen to share your gay lifestyle RSS feeds with your gay friends. However, since Dec 14th all your fellow Marines will also know about your gay lifestyle RSS feeds.
I'm sure you're aware of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy? The Marine just lost his/her job.
Just because someone dopehead at Google doesn't understand simple social networking concepts such as trust. It is a monumental screwup from Google's part.
PETHW (People for the Ethical Treatment of Hardware) strongly condemns these senseless attacks on the completely innocent pieces of perfectly fine hardware.
What harm have the cameras done to these afwul people? They just take photos, that's all. They don't care what anyone does with the photos. If you have a problem with those photos PETHW suggests you either drive slower, or take it up with the local constabulary, who are, after all, ultimately responsible for taking the photos and placing the cameras where they stand.
We urge all citizens to act upon this travesty and rise against these lawless individuals. How can they sleep at night knowing what they've done???
Gee, thanks for assuming to know how I prefer to use my computers better than I do. Excuse me for not preferring a pecker sized monitor like you.
I guess your eyesight is just better than mine. Congratulations.
It never, ever ceases to amaze me how some idiots can't understand that people have different preferences, hence it might actually make sense for companies like Dell to give MORE choices to customers.
But hey, I'm glad you're happy with your laptop. I'm very happy with mine. It has a 17" display. Love it. Wish I could run Linux on it.
While I agree the movie was pretty damn funny, I don't think the future as depicted in the movie was "really thought out". It had just one premise: everyone's dumber than your shoe. There was nothing else to it.
If you don't see the difference between actively working WITH an oppressive Government and knowingly buying merchandise from rapists, kidnappers and torturers and responding to a LEGALLY issued subpoena, I don't really expect you to see things realistically.
Yahoo obeys the laws of China no matter how immoral you think those laws are.
Try getting high demand tickets through TicketMaster.com sometime. You would think the biggest player in the industry could handle the volume that's entirely predictable. But no. Every single time there's a high demand event sold through TicketBastard its servers bog down to a crawl during the first 30 minutes or so after the tickets go on sale.
"It is a big drain to a company like ours to have to deal with incompatible systems."
Incompatible systems. Hmm...I wonder if the fine gentleman from Viacom also understands how big of a drain all these incompatible DRM systems, some with rootkits, are to their consumers. Probably not.
I doubt it. I unlocked the phone soon after I returned home, and went on another trip to Europe the following year. I used a prepaid SIM card on the same phone just fine.
The anti-spam activists (yea yea) have been complaining about Ameritrade "leaking" Email addresses to spammers for a LOOOOOOONG time. I can't remember when the first time I heard about this, but a really quick Googling reveals July 2006 blog post...comments on it seemed to suggest it had already been going on for while before that date.
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I should clarify that by "Small Government" I don't mean the traditional fiscal responsibility (balanced budgets) that used to be what the Republican party was all about.
What I mean instead is the type of Small Government that could be dragged into the bathroom and drowned in the bathtub, to borrow a phrase.
Listen coward, I have actual data to support my reasons for supporting a bigger Government approach. Real data about the failures of Small Government, and real data about the successes of Big Government. In fact, some of it came out from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last month. I'm sure you're aware that CBO is hardly a left-wing, liberal, communist organization intent on destroying the American Way of Life (incl. the apparent "right" to pay no taxes whatsoever).
I know you're likely to just respond with your favorite quotes of the latest Ron Paul spam about the virtues of Small Government, but quite frankly that sort of economic policy has NEVER been tested successfully anywhere. Your blind faith to the religion of Small Government is not supported by ANY empirical evidence that it actually works.
In fact, there are ample evidence that it doesn't work, at all. Other than for rich folks, that is, for whom, I admit, it works extraordinarily well.
I have reasons for thinking like a "Slashthinker". I would be curious to find out about your reasons for thinking otherwise. Please provide as much details as possible, and please, PLEASE leave discussing untested economical theories to the classroom. They might work there, but unless you can show that they work in the real world, I'm not really interested in a theoretical discussion. We are, after all, talking about something that would affect the well being of over 200 million people (minus the 5% at the top of the wealth pyramid, of course). They're not lab rats.
1. Befriend a whole bunch of rich folks
2. Do the whole "small Government" thing
3. Move out of the country and resign (in that order, to make sure I'd be able to escape)
4. Watch and laugh as the whole country (well, not quite the whole country, just the poor and middle class people) slowly plummets into chaos
5. Call a few of those rick folks I made friends with
6. Profit!!
XBL seems to be straining. There have been more issues with the service in 2007 than all previous years combined (maybe the beta testing period excluded).
What's troubling is that the mean time between failure seems to be decreasing sharply, and Microsoft seems to be unable to prevent them from happening at all. And fixing is taking longer and longer.
"I don't know why anyone would store anything important or personally sensitive anywhere on the internet anyway,"
Because in this case the personally sensitive information is information about your interests and opinions that you may have selected to share only with a select few people, because you trust those people.
However, Google has now decided to, without your express permission, share that same information with EVERYONE on your GMail contact list, which, I'm sure everyone knows, includes people who you may not even know.
Now, imagine that you're a US Marine, who happens to be gay. You're using Google Reader to subscribe to a few RSS feeds about gay lifestyle. Your GMail contact list has many of your gay friends, and also many of your fellow marines, maybe including your superiors. You have chosen to share your gay lifestyle RSS feeds with your gay friends. However, since Dec 14th all your fellow Marines will also know about your gay lifestyle RSS feeds.
I'm sure you're aware of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy? The Marine just lost his/her job.
Just because someone dopehead at Google doesn't understand simple social networking concepts such as trust. It is a monumental screwup from Google's part.
PETHW (People for the Ethical Treatment of Hardware) strongly condemns these senseless attacks on the completely innocent pieces of perfectly fine hardware.
What harm have the cameras done to these afwul people? They just take photos, that's all. They don't care what anyone does with the photos. If you have a problem with those photos PETHW suggests you either drive slower, or take it up with the local constabulary, who are, after all, ultimately responsible for taking the photos and placing the cameras where they stand.
We urge all citizens to act upon this travesty and rise against these lawless individuals. How can they sleep at night knowing what they've done???
Join PETHW in fighting hardware abuse at http://pethw.org/
Gee, thanks for assuming to know how I prefer to use my computers better than I do. Excuse me for not preferring a pecker sized monitor like you.
I guess your eyesight is just better than mine. Congratulations.
It never, ever ceases to amaze me how some idiots can't understand that people have different preferences, hence it might actually make sense for companies like Dell to give MORE choices to customers.
But hey, I'm glad you're happy with your laptop. I'm very happy with mine. It has a 17" display. Love it. Wish I could run Linux on it.
I wish they had at least a 15" display on these things. I hate to squint.
Looks like Ubuntu 7.04 on 15" laptops, for now.
While I agree the movie was pretty damn funny, I don't think the future as depicted in the movie was "really thought out". It had just one premise: everyone's dumber than your shoe. There was nothing else to it.
Why aren't the direct marketing companies getting sued?
I don't believe for a sec any of his customers thought the lists were acquired legitimately.
I've been trying to get WDC to honor their warranty on one of these very drives for over a month now.
I have a two-disk version and one of the disks failed. It should be pretty simple to replace it under warranty, right? Oh, hell no.
Never again will I buy another WDC product if I can help it.
Obesity also increases risk of cancer, btw. Just not lung cancer.
And obese people also smoke.
I think it's a little more complicated than that.
If you don't see the difference between actively working WITH an oppressive Government and knowingly buying merchandise from rapists, kidnappers and torturers and responding to a LEGALLY issued subpoena, I don't really expect you to see things realistically.
Yahoo obeys the laws of China no matter how immoral you think those laws are.
They didn't sell out anyone.
What's Yahoo supposed to do when faced with a subpoena from the Chinese Government?
Tell the Chinese the US Government thinks you're douchebags and so we're not really gonna give you what you want?
Sure, that'll work real well.
Try getting high demand tickets through TicketMaster.com sometime. You would think the biggest player in the industry could handle the volume that's entirely predictable. But no. Every single time there's a high demand event sold through TicketBastard its servers bog down to a crawl during the first 30 minutes or so after the tickets go on sale.
"It is a big drain to a company like ours to have to deal with incompatible systems."
Incompatible systems. Hmm...I wonder if the fine gentleman from Viacom also understands how big of a drain all these incompatible DRM systems, some with rootkits, are to their consumers. Probably not.
I'll buy that, IF the subscription fee includes a 100x upgrade to my broadband connection speed.
Both companies had an exclusive publishing agreement with Microsoft Game Studios and were developing games only for the XBox and Xbox 360 platform.
Both companies will now be able to develop for other platforms as well.
The wheels are grinding, slowly. That's why.
It'll happen, sooner or later.
"Wonder if it was the actual phone."
I doubt it. I unlocked the phone soon after I returned home, and went on another trip to Europe the following year. I used a prepaid SIM card on the same phone just fine.
Roaming, yea.
I took a Cingular SIM card and a quad-band phone to Rome and Barcelona about two years ago.
I was hoping to roam. Let's just say that it didn't exactly work as well as you think it does. It didn't work at all.
...is to fire everyone.
Here's one from October 2005:
http://news.umailcampaign.com/message/107456.aspx
Amazing.
The anti-spam activists (yea yea) have been complaining about Ameritrade "leaking" Email addresses to spammers for a LOOOOOOONG time. I can't remember when the first time I heard about this, but a really quick Googling reveals July 2006 blog post...comments on it seemed to suggest it had already been going on for while before that date.
http://thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/2006/07/ameritrade-customer-email-lists-sold.html
"At $7, retailers would enjoy a profit margin they haven't seen since the days of cassette tapes and vinyl."
The profit margin on $0 in sales is 0%.