within the confines of the current system there are only two choices.
Nope. There are two "business as usual" choices, and several others who offer a chance to express your disapproval for business as usual. One thing that's certain is that if you vote for either Obama or McCain, you'll not only get business as usual, you won't even be able to say you tried to stop it.
What's your next guess? I can count five candidates without even looking them up, not to mention write-ins.
any sane individual chooses the better of available choices when offered.
Any sane individual realizes that expecting different results by doing the same thing over and over is ridiculous.
But hey, if you're content with being part of the problem, go right ahead and vote for McCain or Obama. The empire is going to end either way, because it's broke.
Particularly coming on the heels of Obama picking a career party hack who's spent half of his worthless life in the senate, dreaming up new ways to interfere in our lives.
It's entirely likely that some scientologit did this and claimed that "anonymous" was behind it. Google for "operation freakout" for another example of the criminal nut-cult framing an innocent party for a crime.
His CNN writeup was an excuse to repeat three times that he would have his taxes raised by Obama.
Of course, neither Obama nor McCain can raise taxes. That's a congressional power, not an executive power. Frankly, I'm hoping that someone will confront both candidates about why they believe that as president, they will have powers that the constitution clearly places with the congress. Obama's a law professor, who should sure as hell know this.
Given that both Microsoft and Sony have completely failed to produce an iTunes killer
Microsoft, Sony, MTV, Wal-mart, Amazon, Real, and I forget who else. The only one that's a viable business is Amazon's music store, and that's because they sell tracks that work on the iPod.
I think they may be putting together enough clout to give Apple a good scare.
Considering the number of "ipod killers" and "itunes killers" that have come and gone so far, I think that anyone at Apple who felt even a twinge of anxiety over this would be overreacting.
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Correction, they did a good job of -starting- the business.
Every person I listed also ran their business for several decades after starting it.
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A 'car guy' is not necessarily good at running a business.
Henry Ford and Enzo Ferrari did pretty well at it. So did Ferdinand Porsche, Frederick Royce, Karl Benz, and Walter Bentley.
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I assume by "car guy" you mean someone with an engineering background.
Not necessarily. I mean someone who actually cares about the product. Could be an engineer, could be a racing driver, could be someone who started his career as a mechanic.
Look at how many snide "MBAs are idiots" comments you see here on slashdot.
Many of them are. I've met a few who weren't, but they were people who had already accomplished something in their careers before they went to get their ticket punched in an MBA program.
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The car companies certainly support your point. For quite a long time now, the CEOs of American auto makers have typically come from the sales or finance organizations. I'd like to see them go back to being run by a "car guy."
The language of the fourth amendment isn't ambiguous at all. Anyone who's passed the bar should know damned well that obtaining records from a private party requires a warrant.
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within the confines of the current system there are only two choices.
Nope. There are two "business as usual" choices, and several others who offer a chance to express your disapproval for business as usual. One thing that's certain is that if you vote for either Obama or McCain, you'll not only get business as usual, you won't even be able to say you tried to stop it.
-jcr
I can see you would have made a fine apparatchik, since you're so determined to argue against taking a stand.
Have a nice day, useless.
-jcr
you have 2 choices : obama. or mccain.
What's your next guess? I can count five candidates without even looking them up, not to mention write-ins.
any sane individual chooses the better of available choices when offered.
Any sane individual realizes that expecting different results by doing the same thing over and over is ridiculous.
But hey, if you're content with being part of the problem, go right ahead and vote for McCain or Obama. The empire is going to end either way, because it's broke.
-jcr
frankly I agree with them doing it.
Well then, let me be the first to say fuck you for condoning a crime.
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Heh.. You didn't hear me offering up McCain as a better example, did you?
Opposing Obama doesn't mean I support McCain. Try thinking beyond the confines of false choices offered up by the Ruling Party.
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it was quite an ingenious move on their part.
Particularly coming on the heels of Obama picking a career party hack who's spent half of his worthless life in the senate, dreaming up new ways to interfere in our lives.
"Change we can believe in"? Yeah, right.
-jcr
It's entirely likely that some scientologit did this and claimed that "anonymous" was behind it. Google for "operation freakout" for another example of the criminal nut-cult framing an innocent party for a crime.
-jcr
There is no evidence whatsoever to link this "anonymous" to the "anonymous" that's protesting scientology.
-jcr
His CNN writeup was an excuse to repeat three times that he would have his taxes raised by Obama.
Of course, neither Obama nor McCain can raise taxes. That's a congressional power, not an executive power. Frankly, I'm hoping that someone will confront both candidates about why they believe that as president, they will have powers that the constitution clearly places with the congress. Obama's a law professor, who should sure as hell know this.
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It's a racist epithet referring to black people.
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Economists tend to be academics, and academics tend to be pro-government.
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you will find that your bosses boss is a tech guy
Don't count on it. Microsoft and Sun, to name two, are run by suits.
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Given that both Microsoft and Sony have completely failed to produce an iTunes killer
Microsoft, Sony, MTV, Wal-mart, Amazon, Real, and I forget who else. The only one that's a viable business is Amazon's music store, and that's because they sell tracks that work on the iPod.
-jcr
I think they may be putting together enough clout to give Apple a good scare.
Considering the number of "ipod killers" and "itunes killers" that have come and gone so far, I think that anyone at Apple who felt even a twinge of anxiety over this would be overreacting.
-jcr
Correction, they did a good job of -starting- the business.
Every person I listed also ran their business for several decades after starting it.
-jcr
A 'car guy' is not necessarily good at running a business.
Henry Ford and Enzo Ferrari did pretty well at it. So did Ferdinand Porsche, Frederick Royce, Karl Benz, and Walter Bentley.
-jcr
I assume by "car guy" you mean someone with an engineering background.
Not necessarily. I mean someone who actually cares about the product. Could be an engineer, could be a racing driver, could be someone who started his career as a mechanic.
Look at how many snide "MBAs are idiots" comments you see here on slashdot.
Many of them are. I've met a few who weren't, but they were people who had already accomplished something in their careers before they went to get their ticket punched in an MBA program.
-jcr
The car companies certainly support your point. For quite a long time now, the CEOs of American auto makers have typically come from the sales or finance organizations. I'd like to see them go back to being run by a "car guy."
-jcr
"frothing Mac/Jobs fanbois"?
Your witty retorts need a bit of work, sunshine.
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This could be worse than staffing one of the Dell kiosks in a mall where there's an Apple store.
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The language of the fourth amendment isn't ambiguous at all. Anyone who's passed the bar should know damned well that obtaining records from a private party requires a warrant.
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Why is it when someone hits a nice payday folks who don't like the ad/show/music call them sell outs.
Jealousy.
For my part, I'd advertise Vista for only one million. For ten million, I'd even try to use it!
-jcr
Competition improves products, and Apple's sure not getting any competition in the design arena from Microsoft.
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A vendor offers an option, doesn't make enough money from it to make it worth continuing, so they drop it. Why does this warrant an article?
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What is the "worth" of the item?
I use "what anyone's willing to pay" as my operational definition for "worth".
-jcr