I don't normally believe much in donating to campaigns, and I'm rather doubtful that I want to see Dodd as our next president... But I did want to send a message to some people, so I sent $25 his way.
Billary and Osama, on the other hand, get bupkiss from me. I'm not impressed. Her Highness the Pre-Crowned is just Repugnican Lite as far as I'm concerned.
I kinda hope Edwards pulls a Kerry, frankly. Aside from what some want to modbomb into oblivion...
That would make the race a bit more interesting if we saw an Edwards/Huckabee run race. Either way, you bring economic policy back to a saner level.
Reagan (and the people that support him) sold the country's soul to the company store. That's how he powered part of his economic growth. One part scapegoat, one sacrifice of national identity, and 12000 fired workers.
Anyway, it appears Ohio has quite an eclectic population. That's due to people moving out of Ohio that can. What's usually left are those who wish to corrupt- and those who cannot leave due to money.
(Score:-1, Troll) for three posts straight? Someone seems not to like it when their Dear Leader shows how he powered his illusion of prosperity.
Yeah, unfortunately I and many others suffered under his rule. Well, not exactly his rule since he was already senile when he entered office. I watched my parents investments and dividends and retirement bennies go up in a puff of smoke because of the business atmosphere that administration created. And I can tell you this. The IRS took 70% of my father's income, and my mom didn't have to find work to make up for it. Your Ronnie Reagan made it necessary to have three incomes to raise a family. Yeah that trickle down was a real winner that was. You don't know what you're talking about if think he was some kind of hero. Sounds like you never saw past the headlines. That's what the US gets for allowing businesses to be given the ability to act like they're $DEITY. One more reason that Ohio has cemented its distaste for him and his failed philosophies.
Why isn't somebody in jail over shit like this? This is Ohio. Thanks to Ronnie the Con Artist, our state's now against the Free Market Dogma. Now our main industry is corruption. Manufacturing and other jobs are now our exports.
(Score:-1, Troll) This is how the "free market" works, eh? You scratch my back I scratch yours? Is this a spillover from Reaganomics? Unfortunately that wasn't permitted if you were unionized. If you were union, you were broken in any way possible.
I don't mean to be offensive but it seems from my POV in the UK that Americans (and other countries like Australia?) need to stop putting such damn big engines in cars/pickups. Not going to happen. The engines here have to do a bit more work as there are more classes than just "compact" and "obscenely expensive, but not compact".
I mean seriously, there is no need for everyone to own a vehicle with a 3.0 litre or bigger engine. This isnt Europe. This isn't the land of the compact car, and aside from a minority of environmentalists, it'd be more appreciated to not force it upon us. That's one big reason why fuel efficiency rightfully takes a back seat in the US.
Higher gas prices don't have to harm the poor. It means the poor drive to work in cars with smaller engines. Big deal. They aren't exactly suffering major quality of life reductions because they cant do 0-60 in the same time as the next guy, and for the vast majority of commuters, the vast majority of the time they are trundling along so slow that the cars performance is irrelevant. Making the force indirect still does not help as someone else decided how low they would go - try getting a car with a V6/V8(or just anything not an 4cyl) in it and well under $20k new. That should be no problem, short of the environmentalists who've done a bit too much. That's why many are fine with 19/28 and would rather have the engine just be made just as powerful, with the same muscle, with the same sound, with the same long-term reliability not usually put into compacts.
Not all cities are that bad with traffic, and there's no need to stuff the Midwest with cars that cant handle those conditions(and the demands of the drivers). Go shove your knockoff electronics laden 4cyl's somewhere else.
Hmm... I've always wondered how the opposite of MAD would look like. MAD works by having very strong weapons against which there are no defense - but what if someone came up with very strong defense which no known weapon can penetrate? How would global politics look? The current and flawed implementation of globalization?
Of course, I would also be perfectly content to let drag-asses like Chrysler die Not going to happen. Fine enough to keep our interests protected and citizens with options built, designed, and marketed with the US citizen in mind.
The market is just a force that purports its advantage for having no point to readily assail it. I'll take a good helping of regulations to confer lessons over market misdirection(e.g. oil and the jitters that take a huge chunk) to do everything.
The marketplace should be a knife fight. Well, markets have you stabbing at shadows. Balanced regulations bring them to the light.
I wouldn't be bailing them out or protecting them with tariffs or subsidies if I were King. Then you would be shortly followed by someone who would cement them permanently. I'd just have given them strengthened regulations that cover any import brand even if they build factories in the US as an import, and to have Taft-Hartley be history. The US need not give up its national sovereignty.
Google is a great company filled with brilliant people like maybe no company has ever been. You overstate their "brilliance". It is mostly exclusivity and secrecy that makes it look like there's openness that is not there.
But there's something I never understood about it : how do they actually plan to lock in their position ? Multiple class shares. You put money in, you get no decision out. One opinion, one voice, one leader. Otherwise people would be able to steer Google away from bad moves such as China.
It's not quite that simple I'm afraid. True a large part of the price of Oil is probably due to the speculation on its price you mention. Well, giving them 3 years to work with Middle East jitters doesn't help when they were proven wrong in Iran. I'd not mind knowing how much oil wouldn't go up if there was accurate information about the reserves and intelligence.
However there is also the inconvenient fact that we are not discovering new fields as fast as we are depleting mature fields beyond the point it becomes cost efficient to extract. We are also becoming a lot more adept at extracting oil from very mature fields but it still doesn't change the fact that Oil is a finite resource and it will eventually run out.
Then there is China. The Chinese demand for oil is growing at a staggering rate, both from the peoples desire to drive their own car to work and the countries industrial growth. India is also crying our for more oil due to their economic growth. The fact is the world needs more and more oil as these countries develop but it has less and less. That should have been accounted for when we started selling out our nation to that part of the world.
The oil that is left is becoming more concentrated in fewer and fewer countries in the middle east. It will not be long (50-100 years, I believe) before the only oil left in the world is under Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Unsurprisingly these countries are demanding top dollar for their oil. As less and less countries have oil to sell the remaining ones that do are going to charge more and more. Then we're probably going to go to war once again should there be any problems with that country that threaten access to oil. It would also nicely deal with the issues with the Far East. It's not a matter of if, more a matter of when. Trade with the problem countries of the East is not going to stop that war.
Also, there's still a lot of people who haven't wadded in to the whole thing yet... Well, Google didn't help by being exclusivist in the first time around with Orkut.
We do not want to build a walled garden of content; we want to disseminate it as widely as possible. Google will not ask for any exclusivity on any of this content and will make that content available to any other search engine. Unfortunately that seems counter to their history of imitating Stanford and building themselves as being an exclusivist entity. What openness they've had has been hollow at best and completely opaque at worst.
Get rid of the multiclass shares, exclusivist culture in there and then they can be looked at as open.
You are right - some of their older hardware that still is quite usable except for them cutting out support at inopportune times. They've kept 8bit cg* framebuffers yet dropped 24bit ZX's from existence. They kept [very limited] sbus in Opensolaris, yet have made a conscious effort to erase Sparcstations from ever existing in the code.
Should you run into a SunPC or similar, that will bite doubly for being Solaris only (and for versions that may not be in circulation).
Now if you run into something on the order of an E10k, and dont mind powering it, Sun would rather you not.
If they were to clean up Solaris 9 and have it up to speed as best as you can expect a SS/10 (or a Ross SS/20) to run it, that codebase would probably be fine enough.
When you have to pull teeth for their own hardware, they certainly are not going to be any better (See SunPC, E10k's with their hardware license keys) with Linux.
bmc, this definitely applies to you(and those who've dropped the axe): "The past has been erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth"
Start with the jittery oil speculators first and knock it down $30-40+. Then you can start dealing with things that aren't marked up in housing due to oil.
There are other repressive countries in that region ready to retool into the next Sweatshop Country. Nothing like a law that makes compliance the only viable path to get the job done without sacrificing national sovereignty and/or humanity.
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Billary and Osama, on the other hand, get bupkiss from me. I'm not impressed. Her Highness the Pre-Crowned is just Repugnican Lite as far as I'm concerned.
I kinda hope Edwards pulls a Kerry, frankly. Aside from what some want to modbomb into oblivion...
That would make the race a bit more interesting if we saw an Edwards/Huckabee run race. Either way, you bring economic policy back to a saner level.
Now our main industry is corruption. Manufacturing and other jobs are now our exports.
This is how the "free market" works, eh? You scratch my back I scratch yours? Is this a spillover from Reaganomics? Unfortunately that wasn't permitted if you were unionized.
If you were union, you were broken in any way possible.
Not all cities are that bad with traffic, and there's no need to stuff the Midwest with cars that cant handle those conditions(and the demands of the drivers). Go shove your knockoff electronics laden 4cyl's somewhere else.
The market is just a force that purports its advantage for having no point to readily assail it. I'll take a good helping of regulations to confer lessons over market misdirection(e.g. oil and the jitters that take a huge chunk) to do everything. The marketplace should be a knife fight. Well, markets have you stabbing at shadows. Balanced regulations bring them to the light. I wouldn't be bailing them out or protecting them with tariffs or subsidies if I were King. Then you would be shortly followed by someone who would cement them permanently.
I'd just have given them strengthened regulations that cover any import brand even if they build factories in the US as an import, and to have Taft-Hartley be history. The US need not give up its national sovereignty.
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Then there is China. The Chinese demand for oil is growing at a staggering rate, both from the peoples desire to drive their own car to work and the countries industrial growth. India is also crying our for more oil due to their economic growth. The fact is the world needs more and more oil as these countries develop but it has less and less. That should have been accounted for when we started selling out our nation to that part of the world. The oil that is left is becoming more concentrated in fewer and fewer countries in the middle east. It will not be long (50-100 years, I believe) before the only oil left in the world is under Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Unsurprisingly these countries are demanding top dollar for their oil. As less and less countries have oil to sell the remaining ones that do are going to charge more and more. Then we're probably going to go to war once again should there be any problems with that country that threaten access to oil. It would also nicely deal with the issues with the Far East. It's not a matter of if, more a matter of when. Trade with the problem countries of the East is not going to stop that war.
Get rid of the multiclass shares, exclusivist culture in there and then they can be looked at as open.
But if a newspaper uses it, and they're of the wrong feather - they can't do right even if the trolls were of the Hot Air/LGF variety.
How about lasers on every [US owned] plane?
Well, their fry will be right on target. Wal-mart will be hit by accident.
You are right - some of their older hardware that still is quite usable except for them cutting out support at inopportune times. They've kept 8bit cg* framebuffers yet dropped 24bit ZX's from existence. They kept [very limited] sbus in Opensolaris, yet have made a conscious effort to erase Sparcstations from ever existing in the code.
Should you run into a SunPC or similar, that will bite doubly for being Solaris only (and for versions that may not be in circulation).
Now if you run into something on the order of an E10k, and dont mind powering it, Sun would rather you not.
If they were to clean up Solaris 9 and have it up to speed as best as you can expect a SS/10 (or a Ross SS/20) to run it, that codebase would probably be fine enough.
When you have to pull teeth for their own hardware, they certainly are not going to be any better (See SunPC, E10k's with their hardware license keys) with Linux.
bmc, this definitely applies to you(and those who've dropped the axe):
"The past has been erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth"
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If you thought RTBL editing was bad, at least your posts show up.
But it'd be quite nice to see that happen here for some of the obscured redirects.
Sounds like Bill O'Reilly and his co-hosts have been drinking too much of this already.
Start with the jittery oil speculators first and knock it down $30-40+. Then you can start dealing with things that aren't marked up in housing due to oil.
There are other repressive countries in that region ready to retool into the next Sweatshop Country. Nothing like a law that makes compliance the only viable path to get the job done without sacrificing national sovereignty and/or humanity.
Sometimes a good mix of regulation with the market does help instead of just cutting away at it.