Obama is to the right of Nixon - and is considered "center-left".
What the hell does that mean? These linear political spectrums are not only stupid, their single dimensionality eradicate way too many variables to reduce someone's position arbitrarily on the line.
I believe that much of the problem is that SSD's are still a new technology compared to rotating disks. Right now, engineers are more concerned with increasing capacity and just making the damn things work.
Perhaps the problem is that rotating disks are too mature - I have not seen a capacity increase in a year and a half beyond 1TB (though I may have missed an announcement).
If an "ergonomic" keyboard works for you, that's great. But to me, that's a lot like saying there's nothing better than a big fat comfy chair for people who like to slouch.
That's bullshit. The modern qwerty keyboard was made just so traveling salesmane could type "typewriter" on the top row. And so with the modern keyboard - it may not be exactly be like the old keyboards of typewriters (staggered keys) but it's pretty much the same layout. You are saying modern research can not improve the initial incarnations? That's ridiculous.
Just look at your arms - what is that between them? Oh, a body. That prevents the hands from attacking the keyboard at the same angle. So why should the keyboard be designed as if that were not the case? Curved is more natural.
It can be had for about $20 at the store and for many people the plus is that it doesn't have so many extra buttons - just stuff like to pop up calculator (very useful). It does not have the dozens of extra buttons the higher models do.
It's also wired (which can be a positive). I only bought a higher microsoft model recently because it was bundled with a laser mouse - making it cheaper than this keyboard... but I still prefer the lowly 2000.
Mac OS X's day will definitely come at some point, but if people keep crying wolf every time someone whips up a theoretical and entirely implausible situation, no one is going to believe the security community once some black-hat does finally decide to attack the Macs.
How sure are you of that proposition? Not that I think OS X is invulnerable, but perhaps OS X isn't attacked, not because of Marketshare but because Windows is just much easier. Afterall, I don't hear people chiming the Linux bell so much in this area even though it is being sold commercially now (gPC, eeePC, etc.) and the two are built on a similiar base:
I'm pretty sure most of MS's attacks come from it supporting legacy apps and legacy cruft and not letting go (like the damned Registry). One thing Apple never had a problem with. Linux neither in many areas.
Not too long ago, right when Firefox came out around 2002, browsing the Internet with anything but IE was an iffy proposition. Would my browser work with this website, will it require Active X, etcetera? Internet Explorer thoroughly dominated the market, and mindshare. Websites were built around it and if it worked on other browsers -- that was entirely coincidental.
Firefox came, and now it would be hard to get people off of that: favorite plug-ins with no comparable utility in IE.
Internet browsing is the #1 killer app for computers for the average users. I would argue because of this, we are seeing OEMs finally coming out with computers with linux installed. Walmart (.com) is selling the low end computers (gPC) and other makers are coming on board as well (eeePC by Asus). Before this point, we had no mature internet browser that could handle 99% of web sites thrown at it.
The Japanese have taken over the steel (and car) industry in the 1960s by taking over the low margin low end market and going upward. This seems to be happening with the OS as well.
Not only that, but Microsoft has severe disadvantages now compared to a top distro like Ubuntu: Slow release cycle vs. 6 month release cycle Crippled out of the box vs. Complete system Lack of Quality Control over OEMs
The last item, OEMs are likely to add useless bloat to a system. I bought a low end Vista system lately, 5 years newer than my last computer. Moved along like a dog (Vista kept eye candy turn on even the video card was minimal). And with Ubuntu, I can make as many copies as I want, this system I would have to pay the OEM $30 to even get ONE copy on DVD! None came with the computer, there was only one on an invisible partition.
I see big problems for Microsoft down the road the way things are going. The problem is, you are asking for high end programs, while Linux is just starting to eat away at the bottom end right now. Give it time, Wine 1.0 just came out, some known software developers may even design the software so that it works on Windows or Wine soon.
I wonder how many of those cited rules are just selfmade dogma by someone?
Extremism on an issue does not mean someone is wrong, nor does it mean centrism is correct. This can be seen by the shifting eras -- being a moderate in one era, the exact same stand becomes extreme in the next. Or vice versa.
Rather than the image of bias, perhaps the news should concern itself with the facts or maybe even the truth before it shits its pants about its image. What you are talking about isn't really journalism, it's just keeping up appearances (which I know is basically what a journalism degree is -- journalism itself isn't that complicated of a subject).
I see Ubuntu as overtaking Windows slowly. It's a long time coming but the momentum just seems to be on their side. When the OS is given away free, the development and evolution of the product is really, really fast and everybody is up-to-date vs. Windows Model of just security updates for X amount of years and then an upgrade that only a portion of the users get that may or may not be well recieved.
Vista really showed the flaws in the old, monolithic process of Microsoft's. I hope Windows 7 will be better, but MS often overhyped future products to forestall any decisions by the purchaser in favor of a competitor.
He is a head of state, c-in-c of military forces and chief of a vast security and bureaucratic apparatus. If he is not a king, it's really only a matter of terminology at this point.
And yet still he has the Legislature and Courts to contend with.
The Congress can impeach the elected executive officials, including the President, but even the current guy hasn't done anything slam-dunk Impeachable, and anyways his appointee would be the presiding judge, and Roberts tends to grant the executive benefit of the doubt on most of the offenses he could be impeached for (we'll see if he's so lax with a Democratic administration).
Impeaching someone is like indicting them. With the political will, Congress could impeach Bush for anything. This was seen in the 1990s when Clinton was impeached.
Also, the presiding judge would have little to say on the ultimate outcome -- it takes 2/3 of the senate to convict. If there was the will, a conviction would happen.
Your 3 libertarian mayors won't be able to get your phone lines untapped
I'm not Libertarian. Movements happen from the ground up though and so does the movement of politicians. It wasn't too long ago that Obama was just an Illinois Senator.
Why should a representative vote against something if it will cost them support in their district AND they're not going to win it?
I don't know. Ask Ron Paul why he voted against authorizing force (the Iraq War) when it was very popular at the time to support a war? It cost him support.
The Constitution is dear to them all,
Bullshit. You can't proclaim something dear to them and at the same time excuse them for not following it. It's as sad as fake Jesus freaks who "love the bible" and never read it but going around preaching it nonetheless.
I don't recall FDR going to jail for sending Japanese people to camps, or LBJ for lying about Tonkin, or Nixon for hiring people to bug the DNC (he paid a price, but it was political). Name me one occasion where the actual unconstitutional behavior of a President WAS fully punished
This lack of holding leaders accountable is not a sign that it is hard to do, but rather a weakness in our society related to revering figures/leaders perhaps left over from our tribal past. A sentimentality to an attached propaganda image that has no real relation to the person. We ought to do away with such feelings. After all, the little people are not so carefully handled.
Otherwise, rule of law means nothing -- other than the system eventually devolves into a tyranny like Rome did.
I fail to see how the GP will get his phone untapped by withholding his potential support from Barack Obama. It will not achieve his goal.
He could take the same support and enthusiasm and money and put it toward a candidate that supports that goal. Or better yet, towards candidates in lower positions that support the goal. He will not achieve his goal by supporting a candidate that doesn't work toward the constitution in either case. When you vote for the lesser of two evils, the direction of the country will always be steered toward evil by a lesser or greater degree.
The US Presidency is a first-past-the-post winner-take-all election. If you vote for a "protest" candidate in such an election, it is the equivalent of not voting at all
Then so be it. The President is not dictator, nor King. This is a representative democracy and power is supposed to be dispersed among three branches - the legislature with the greatest amount of elected representatives having most of it. Unlike what you say, the legislature is quite capable of stopping Bush, but the politicians do not have the will and are similiarly compromised.
If there is not a candidate that is good for President, stop focusing on the position of president and work for candidates on lower positons starting with state senators/representaives. If the foundation is rotten from the bottom up, you have to start replacing people from the bottom up. The top job may be lost this cycle around, but one can work toward future elections.
Of course, as others have pointed out, this law just formalizes Bush's arrangement for his successor, so who would you rather have running such an empowered Justice department?
No one. Here's your righteous Jefferson quote:
"In questions of power...let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson: Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.
You would be surprised... Many of Paul's supporters are motivated to go to the local levels and get things done. Most republicans (rank and file) just show up to the presidential election every 4 years, send some money in, and that's it. Paul's supporters can take over the party within a decade if they play their cards right and stay engaged in politics. That's basically all it takes -- people start taking Mayor positions, State Senate and Representative positions, etcetera, and then onward and upward. Nothing hard -- I expect a mass exodus of republicans this year as they get their behind handed to them in the general election (this is what happened to Democrats in '94?) so it makes it even easier for us.
I have respect for Libertarians, but 3rd party is a tougher fight because Repubs/Demos already legislated the playing field to suit themselves so it's easier to take over a major party than to get Libertarians in prominent political positions in order to have the average voter consider them a valid force.
FTA: "The contrary Republican was Representative Tim Johnson of Illinois, described by the Almanac of American Politics as a lawmaker "with maverick tendencies," as demonstrated by his opposition to much of the Bush administration's record on the environment."
I suppose Ron Paul was not there, perhaps because this is not the final bill. I'd have to look, but I don't have the HR#, which the article should have included to make looking it up easier.
Ron Paul and his supporters and trying to change the Republican Party. This will be a slow process, probably taking 5-15 years before we have significant leadership positions in that party (such is libery, eternal vigilance). We need people running on all levels:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
and: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;"
So the Constitution has recognized that enemies can be domestic and I would say that there are many Senators that have given aid and comfort to enemies of the Constitution.
Did they fix the part where deleting the address bar history doesn't delete the address bar history in the meantime? (It only got rid of random addresses, it seemed).
I don't know if it was a buggy implementation, but reading up on it when I used RC six or so months back -- it sounded like a feature to keep the bookmarked pages or some such:/
I stopped using the Release Candidate after that. Anyway, it was very counterintuitive thing for the browser to do.
This is very easy. In the parts of Europe, when I buy almost any bottle, I pay a deposit. If I don't return the bottle (any place that sells bottles, doesn't have to be same store that sold it to me) - I don't get my deposit back. Yes, it's only $0.25 per bottle - but most people buy their drinks in crates and it adds up to a good amount.
Now, in America, Walmart charges you a $8 or so deposit when you buy a car battery. You get that back when you return the old battery. This way, batteries are not thrown in the trash. It works very well.
This same deposit they should put on all electronics. It's not enough that people CAN return it to the store when used up, but they need a financial incentive as well. Hell, then they could put it on the curb for all they care and someone else will pick it up just for the deposit.
Just mandate any store selling electronics must collect deposits and take things back to be disposed of properly. That way, you don't have to worry about this problem, manufacturers are free to use useful but not environmentally friendly materials in the products, and it all can be recycled with minimal interference on behalf of businesses/government.
Of course, this program has to mandated nationwide to be effective, with proper deposit amounts, and at any retailer retailing it. Not the half-assed 5 cent deposits in some states collected only at some locations like they do with aluminum cans/bottles.
Might as well just get a recumbent excercise bike with a adjustable desk postioned just so over it for a notebook or at least keyboard. Would save you several thousand $$ and at least you'd be reclined.
I think a good office chair at Costco, about $200 is plenty. Some of the suggestions here are really out there in price and just concept.
If you can select "Manual" or "Follow Local Convention" on something, it's fine. If it's meant to override any setting I put in, there's obviously going to be problems and abuse. In short, it should be there for the customer -- not big brother.
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What the hell does that mean? These linear political spectrums are not only stupid, their single dimensionality eradicate way too many variables to reduce someone's position arbitrarily on the line.
Perhaps the problem is that rotating disks are too mature - I have not seen a capacity increase in a year and a half beyond 1TB (though I may have missed an announcement).
That's bullshit. The modern qwerty keyboard was made just so traveling salesmane could type "typewriter" on the top row. And so with the modern keyboard - it may not be exactly be like the old keyboards of typewriters (staggered keys) but it's pretty much the same layout. You are saying modern research can not improve the initial incarnations? That's ridiculous.
Just look at your arms - what is that between them? Oh, a body. That prevents the hands from attacking the keyboard at the same angle. So why should the keyboard be designed as if that were not the case? Curved is more natural.
I agree with you on Ergonomics, but I find the Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 better:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823109026&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Keyboards-_-Microsoft-_-23109026
It can be had for about $20 at the store and for many people the plus is that it doesn't have so many extra buttons - just stuff like to pop up calculator (very useful). It does not have the dozens of extra buttons the higher models do.
It's also wired (which can be a positive). I only bought a higher microsoft model recently because it was bundled with a laser mouse - making it cheaper than this keyboard... but I still prefer the lowly 2000.
A better link for 1.0, this really hits home:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
A big pie with many fingers in it already. OS X would seem to be an attractive market, no?
Lot less anti-spyware, antivirus running on those machines to boot.
Also, you didn't attack the argument, just the person. I thought the argument was rather good.
How sure are you of that proposition? Not that I think OS X is invulnerable, but perhaps OS X isn't attacked, not because of Marketshare but because Windows is just much easier. Afterall, I don't hear people chiming the Linux bell so much in this area even though it is being sold commercially now (gPC, eeePC, etc.) and the two are built on a similiar base:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/04/01/the-unavoidable-malware-myth-why-apple-wont-inherit-microsofts-malware-crown/
I'm pretty sure most of MS's attacks come from it supporting legacy apps and legacy cruft and not letting go (like the damned Registry). One thing Apple never had a problem with. Linux neither in many areas.
Not too long ago, right when Firefox came out around 2002, browsing the Internet with anything but IE was an iffy proposition. Would my browser work with this website, will it require Active X, etcetera? Internet Explorer thoroughly dominated the market, and mindshare. Websites were built around it and if it worked on other browsers -- that was entirely coincidental.
Firefox came, and now it would be hard to get people off of that: favorite plug-ins with no comparable utility in IE.
Internet browsing is the #1 killer app for computers for the average users. I would argue because of this, we are seeing OEMs finally coming out with computers with linux installed. Walmart (.com) is selling the low end computers (gPC) and other makers are coming on board as well (eeePC by Asus). Before this point, we had no mature internet browser that could handle 99% of web sites thrown at it.
The Japanese have taken over the steel (and car) industry in the 1960s by taking over the low margin low end market and going upward. This seems to be happening with the OS as well.
Not only that, but Microsoft has severe disadvantages now compared to a top distro like Ubuntu:
Slow release cycle vs. 6 month release cycle
Crippled out of the box vs. Complete system
Lack of Quality Control over OEMs
The last item, OEMs are likely to add useless bloat to a system. I bought a low end Vista system lately, 5 years newer than my last computer. Moved along like a dog (Vista kept eye candy turn on even the video card was minimal). And with Ubuntu, I can make as many copies as I want, this system I would have to pay the OEM $30 to even get ONE copy on DVD! None came with the computer, there was only one on an invisible partition.
I see big problems for Microsoft down the road the way things are going. The problem is, you are asking for high end programs, while Linux is just starting to eat away at the bottom end right now. Give it time, Wine 1.0 just came out, some known software developers may even design the software so that it works on Windows or Wine soon.
I wonder how many of those cited rules are just selfmade dogma by someone?
Extremism on an issue does not mean someone is wrong, nor does it mean centrism is correct. This can be seen by the shifting eras -- being a moderate in one era, the exact same stand becomes extreme in the next. Or vice versa.
Rather than the image of bias, perhaps the news should concern itself with the facts or maybe even the truth before it shits its pants about its image. What you are talking about isn't really journalism, it's just keeping up appearances (which I know is basically what a journalism degree is -- journalism itself isn't that complicated of a subject).
I see Ubuntu as overtaking Windows slowly. It's a long time coming but the momentum just seems to be on their side. When the OS is given away free, the development and evolution of the product is really, really fast and everybody is up-to-date vs. Windows Model of just security updates for X amount of years and then an upgrade that only a portion of the users get that may or may not be well recieved.
Vista really showed the flaws in the old, monolithic process of Microsoft's. I hope Windows 7 will be better, but MS often overhyped future products to forestall any decisions by the purchaser in favor of a competitor.
Those handsfree phone devices are still a distraction and impact the attention you pay to the primary activity on hand: driving.
And yet still he has the Legislature and Courts to contend with.
I said Representative Democracy and the US is one of them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
Impeaching someone is like indicting them. With the political will, Congress could impeach Bush for anything. This was seen in the 1990s when Clinton was impeached.
Also, the presiding judge would have little to say on the ultimate outcome -- it takes 2/3 of the senate to convict. If there was the will, a conviction would happen.
I'm not Libertarian. Movements happen from the ground up though and so does the movement of politicians. It wasn't too long ago that Obama was just an Illinois Senator.
I don't know. Ask Ron Paul why he voted against authorizing force (the Iraq War) when it was very popular at the time to support a war? It cost him support.
Bullshit. You can't proclaim something dear to them and at the same time excuse them for not following it. It's as sad as fake Jesus freaks who "love the bible" and never read it but going around preaching it nonetheless.
This lack of holding leaders accountable is not a sign that it is hard to do, but rather a weakness in our society related to revering figures/leaders perhaps left over from our tribal past. A sentimentality to an attached propaganda image that has no real relation to the person. We ought to do away with such feelings. After all, the little people are not so carefully handled.
Otherwise, rule of law means nothing -- other than the system eventually devolves into a tyranny like Rome did.
He could take the same support and enthusiasm and money and put it toward a candidate that supports that goal. Or better yet, towards candidates in lower positions that support the goal. He will not achieve his goal by supporting a candidate that doesn't work toward the constitution in either case. When you vote for the lesser of two evils, the direction of the country will always be steered toward evil by a lesser or greater degree.
Then so be it. The President is not dictator, nor King. This is a representative democracy and power is supposed to be dispersed among three branches - the legislature with the greatest amount of elected representatives having most of it. Unlike what you say, the legislature is quite capable of stopping Bush, but the politicians do not have the will and are similiarly compromised.
If there is not a candidate that is good for President, stop focusing on the position of president and work for candidates on lower positons starting with state senators/representaives. If the foundation is rotten from the bottom up, you have to start replacing people from the bottom up. The top job may be lost this cycle around, but one can work toward future elections.
This is insightful?
No one. Here's your righteous Jefferson quote:
"In questions of power...let no more be heard of confidence in
man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the
Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson: Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.
You would be surprised... Many of Paul's supporters are motivated to go to the local levels and get things done. Most republicans (rank and file) just show up to the presidential election every 4 years, send some money in, and that's it. Paul's supporters can take over the party within a decade if they play their cards right and stay engaged in politics. That's basically all it takes -- people start taking Mayor positions, State Senate and Representative positions, etcetera, and then onward and upward. Nothing hard -- I expect a mass exodus of republicans this year as they get their behind handed to them in the general election (this is what happened to Democrats in '94?) so it makes it even easier for us.
I have respect for Libertarians, but 3rd party is a tougher fight because Repubs/Demos already legislated the playing field to suit themselves so it's easier to take over a major party than to get Libertarians in prominent political positions in order to have the average voter consider them a valid force.
FTA:
"The contrary Republican was Representative Tim Johnson of Illinois, described by the Almanac of American Politics as a lawmaker "with maverick tendencies," as demonstrated by his opposition to much of the Bush administration's record on the environment."
I suppose Ron Paul was not there, perhaps because this is not the final bill. I'd have to look, but I don't have the HR#, which the article should have included to make looking it up easier.
Ron Paul and his supporters and trying to change the Republican Party. This will be a slow process, probably taking 5-15 years before we have significant leadership positions in that party (such is libery, eternal vigilance). We need people running on all levels:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlqXq8YxQFQ
It's not? The Constitution you cite says:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
and:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;"
So the Constitution has recognized that enemies can be domestic and I would say that there are many Senators that have given aid and comfort to enemies of the Constitution.
Did they fix the part where deleting the address bar history doesn't delete the address bar history in the meantime? (It only got rid of random addresses, it seemed).
I don't know if it was a buggy implementation, but reading up on it when I used RC six or so months back -- it sounded like a feature to keep the bookmarked pages or some such:/
I stopped using the Release Candidate after that. Anyway, it was very counterintuitive thing for the browser to do.
This is very easy. In the parts of Europe, when I buy almost any bottle, I pay a deposit. If I don't return the bottle (any place that sells bottles, doesn't have to be same store that sold it to me) - I don't get my deposit back. Yes, it's only $0.25 per bottle - but most people buy their drinks in crates and it adds up to a good amount.
Now, in America, Walmart charges you a $8 or so deposit when you buy a car battery. You get that back when you return the old battery. This way, batteries are not thrown in the trash. It works very well.
This same deposit they should put on all electronics. It's not enough that people CAN return it to the store when used up, but they need a financial incentive as well. Hell, then they could put it on the curb for all they care and someone else will pick it up just for the deposit.
Just mandate any store selling electronics must collect deposits and take things back to be disposed of properly. That way, you don't have to worry about this problem, manufacturers are free to use useful but not environmentally friendly materials in the products, and it all can be recycled with minimal interference on behalf of businesses/government.
Of course, this program has to mandated nationwide to be effective, with proper deposit amounts, and at any retailer retailing it. Not the half-assed 5 cent deposits in some states collected only at some locations like they do with aluminum cans/bottles.
Might as well just get a recumbent excercise bike with a adjustable desk postioned just so over it for a notebook or at least keyboard. Would save you several thousand $$ and at least you'd be reclined.
I think a good office chair at Costco, about $200 is plenty. Some of the suggestions here are really out there in price and just concept.
If you can select "Manual" or "Follow Local Convention" on something, it's fine. If it's meant to override any setting I put in, there's obviously going to be problems and abuse. In short, it should be there for the customer -- not big brother.
they interrogate the suspects and expect to get the answer to everything?
With the Android, I wonder how the integration will be (which is Apple's strength).
I looked at HTC Touch Pro... but saw the windows start button (no thanks).
I should add Dennis Kucinich of Ohio voted Nay as well, since I like him too.