It's an outdated information distribution technology, which is in its death throes as we speak. Collections of articles were printed on paper, and distributed from printing plants to a network of retail outlets, and also to children (paperboys) who would deliver them to customers' homes.
I was never stripped of any of my rights, and you weren't either, unless you're in the habit of communicating with suspected terror cells in-country or overseas
That resolution is not a declaration of war. I would describe it as the congress shirking their duty under the constitution to decide whether to go to war.
-- TARP: TARP was introduced during the Bush administration. Not sure how you can put the entire blame for that on Obama. I
Obama voted for it, and has made no attempt to scale it back or abolish it. In fact, bailouts are the clearest evidence of the interchangeability of both franchises of the Ruling Party. On an issue as important as whether to expend tax money to keep incompetent management in place in failed banks, it's pretty damned sad that Obama and McCain weren't on opposite sides of the question.
Mitt Romney would never have authorized spending the unbelievable amount of money that 0 has.
More like, Mitt wouldn't have gotten away with it. Every president since Eisenhower has tried to spend more than their predecessor, and I see no indication that Romney would have departed from the norm.
That depends on what you call "meaningful". Barack Obama has done precisely squat to reverse Bush's mistakes. He put a different script on the teleprompter, but he still claims that he can violate the right of habeus corpus, commit acts of war against a US ally, send troops into harm's way without a declaration of war, imprison innocent people on the pretext of the unconstitutional "war on drugs"... You get the idea.
I'll never be disappointed by him, though. It was clear to me long before he was elected that he's basically Mitt Romney with a better speechwriter.
Not true. CoS victims include the families of the suckers who join the cult, as well as critics. Paulette Cooper, Keith Henson, Graham Berry, and many, many others.
It's not a red herring at all. Climatology was a backwater with very little funding compared to many other areas of scientific research, until this doomsday scenario got picked up and repeated by politicians and the press. Now, right or wrong, there's a hell of a lot more money going into climate research.
The only problem is that the results of their studies support their bottom line. Profit.
So do the studies on the other side, with the difference that the profit is taken from the taxpayers. If that's your criterion for dismissing research, then you have to dismiss both sides.
Compressing air can be done with any source of mechanical energy. Put a windmill on your roof, gear it down, and have it drive the compressor directly.
Come to think of it, having a sizable amount of compressed air storage in one's house would be handy. Great for dusting.
If Microsoft had assisted the NSA and deliberately buggered their security model for the government's purposes, it would be a federal crime for them to admit it.
If people in the CoS have broken laws then that says nothing about other people who associate with that organization.
Interesting argument. Think it would work for the mob?
The simple fact is, that CoS members acting on direct orders from their top leaders have repeatedly committed crimes. This is a matter of public record in about half a dozen countries. It would take you all of a minute with Google to find any number of examples.
Sure, there may be some lower-level clambots who have a clean rap sheet (so far), but the truth is that as soon as anyone starts moving up in the hierarchy, they are prevailed upon to participate in fraud to extract as much money as possible from the marks.
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What is a newspaper?
It's an outdated information distribution technology, which is in its death throes as we speak. Collections of articles were printed on paper, and distributed from printing plants to a network of retail outlets, and also to children (paperboys) who would deliver them to customers' homes.
-jcr
They said the same thing about COBOL.
-jcr
I was never stripped of any of my rights, and you weren't either, unless you're in the habit of communicating with suspected terror cells in-country or overseas
Bullshit. Watch and learn.
We overthrew our king for this kind of abuse of power.
-jcr
That resolution is not a declaration of war. I would describe it as the congress shirking their duty under the constitution to decide whether to go to war.
-jcr
-- TARP: TARP was introduced during the Bush administration. Not sure how you can put the entire blame for that on Obama. I
Obama voted for it, and has made no attempt to scale it back or abolish it. In fact, bailouts are the clearest evidence of the interchangeability of both franchises of the Ruling Party. On an issue as important as whether to expend tax money to keep incompetent management in place in failed banks, it's pretty damned sad that Obama and McCain weren't on opposite sides of the question.
-jcr
Mitt Romney would never have authorized spending the unbelievable amount of money that 0 has.
More like, Mitt wouldn't have gotten away with it. Every president since Eisenhower has tried to spend more than their predecessor, and I see no indication that Romney would have departed from the norm.
-jcr
That depends on what you call "meaningful". Barack Obama has done precisely squat to reverse Bush's mistakes. He put a different script on the teleprompter, but he still claims that he can violate the right of habeus corpus, commit acts of war against a US ally, send troops into harm's way without a declaration of war, imprison innocent people on the pretext of the unconstitutional "war on drugs"... You get the idea.
I'll never be disappointed by him, though. It was clear to me long before he was elected that he's basically Mitt Romney with a better speechwriter.
-jcr
I dug my share of holes in the yard too, but I still have allergies. I don't tend to get colds or flu very often, though. Maybe once in ten years.
-jcr
Neither does CoS without the subject's consent.
Not true. CoS victims include the families of the suckers who join the cult, as well as critics. Paulette Cooper, Keith Henson, Graham Berry, and many, many others.
-jcr
It's not a red herring at all. Climatology was a backwater with very little funding compared to many other areas of scientific research, until this doomsday scenario got picked up and repeated by politicians and the press. Now, right or wrong, there's a hell of a lot more money going into climate research.
-jcr
No, but when the Japanese use European loan words incorrectly, they're wrong.
Good thing there are people like you to set them straight! Why don't you go there and try to make them comply with your standards?
-jcr
Taking money from taxpayers is not profit for anyone
Of course it is. The money isn't just taken from us, it's given to someone else. The person it's given to has profited. QED.
-jcr
The only problem is that the results of their studies support their bottom line. Profit.
So do the studies on the other side, with the difference that the profit is taken from the taxpayers. If that's your criterion for dismissing research, then you have to dismiss both sides.
-jcr
I wonder if CMU will relocate, or just fade away?
-jcr
Compressing air can be done with any source of mechanical energy. Put a windmill on your roof, gear it down, and have it drive the compressor directly.
Come to think of it, having a sizable amount of compressed air storage in one's house would be handy. Great for dusting.
-jcr
Guess again. Apple doesn't want Java on the iPhone because it's crap.
-jcr
If Microsoft had assisted the NSA and deliberately buggered their security model for the government's purposes, it would be a federal crime for them to admit it.
-jcr
There may be 100,000 apps, but 95% of those are useless crap
That reminds me of the saying that 95% of statistics that people cite in online discussions are made up on the spot.
-jcr
I can purchase whatever apps I want from whomever I want.
Sure! Dozens of them.
-jcr
Over 100,000 apps on the store, and a handful of anecdotes of people deciding to leave the market. Somehow, I'm not particularly concerned.
-jcr
Don't assume that malice and stupidity are mutually exclusive.
-jcr
If people in the CoS have broken laws then that says nothing about other people who associate with that organization.
Interesting argument. Think it would work for the mob?
The simple fact is, that CoS members acting on direct orders from their top leaders have repeatedly committed crimes. This is a matter of public record in about half a dozen countries. It would take you all of a minute with Google to find any number of examples.
Sure, there may be some lower-level clambots who have a clean rap sheet (so far), but the truth is that as soon as anyone starts moving up in the hierarchy, they are prevailed upon to participate in fraud to extract as much money as possible from the marks.
-jcr
That's fairly rare among politicians. Congratuations, Austraila!
-jcr
Oh, right. It must be crazy to oppose the idea of the government deciding who's good enough to live or die, or be born in the first place. FUCK YOU.
-jcr
As long as the rest of us are required to subsidise their offspring surely we have a stake, and a moral right to some input into the process.
That's just one of the reasons why it's evil to force people to subsidize other people's offspring.
There's a word for someone who lives in total dependence, and that word is not "free".
-jcr