If your an indy band without a label you can try CD-Baby [cdbaby.com] they have cut a deal so that indy artists can go though them to seel on ITMS. You can read about it here [macnn.com] and here [macobserver.com].
This could easily be the death of the labels. Just imagine a major artist's contract with a label ends, and they sign up with CDBaby and keep 91% of sales. How does the RIAA compete with that?
So, let's say there can be twenty pieces of information for each user session. That means you need to push 20 hidden fields into EVERY PAGE GENERATED IN YOUR APP. Also, EVERY ACTION BY THE USER HAS TO BE A FORM SUBMIT, OR THE HIDDEN FIELD VALUES ARE LOST.
Now let's say you have a new requirement and you need 21 pieces of user information for each user session. You need to go to the template for every page in your site and add another hidden form field! Good thing you don't charge much as a developer, otherwise the time you spend doing this busy work would cost more than just buying some more RAM or another pizza box.
Also, pushing all the data into every page and fetching it back on every user action increases your network utilization. But we don't need to worry about that, right, because the only things that cost money are processors and RAM.
I'm sure I must be missing something here, so please enlighten me.
However, I have read (I don't remember where) that Bush has remarked that he feels he has been chosen by Providence to lead the nation through it's time of crisis.
I thought you would bring this up. First of all, I don't know what the exact quote is either, the context, or to what extent this has been urban legendized, but a couple things on Christian beliefs about earthly authority.
The New Testament teaches that earthly authorities are put in their position by God. Christians are called on to respect them as much as possible. Jesus demonstrated this by not resisting his accusers and persecuters, even as they killed him.
So every Christian must believe that everyone in a position of authority is there because God allowed that person to be there. So it is true that God has put GWB into the presidency, but it was also just as true that God put Bill Clinton into the presidency as well. I remember a pastor chastising the congregation because so many acted like God lost when Bill Clinton won. God was just as much in control then as he is now.
So the idea that God has put GWB into the presidency should not be controversial to a Christian, but it is certainly no means for boasting, either. By the same token, God put Saddam Hussein into his position as well, just as he was in control when Pharoah oppressed the Hebrews, etc. How God makes these decisions is beyond our discernment.
In summary, it's perfectly consistent for GWB to believe God put him in the presidency, and to be perfectly humbled by that fact as well. How GWB interprets that personally we can't speculate on without more context.
George Bush never used religion as an argument for war with the Taliban or the Baathists in Iraq. He has gone out of his way to defend Islam as a faith ocassionally hijacked by extremists, but not our enemy in and of itself. You may think his arguments were trumped up, but they certainly never cited his faith or God as a reason for war. Bush publically disavows the notion that somehow God directly imparts decisions to him; he says that he prays more for personal qualities like strength, humility, and wisdom.
I suppose the most direct support of religion is his call for public funding of humanitarian services provided by faith-based organizations. I concur that even many religous leaders find this a bad idea, for constitutional and practical reasons.
But beyond that, Bush does not present his faith as a reason for his policy decisions. The media make more of an issue of his faith, reporting on the fact that he prays and reads the Bible as if it were a huge scandal. Meanwhile, this is just behavior common to many mainstream Americans, shocking only to those surprised to find someone unashamed to have a strong faith in the 21st century.
Why is it so dangerous to make decisions informed by the distilled wisdom of countless generations distilled into religous texts? Why is it so dangerous to have a leader who seeks to humble himself before God?
Let's keep things in perspective, shall we? China is still a repressive, authoritarian state, who actively suppresses dissent and free speech. I suppose getting into space is a positive achievement, but not enough for me to cheer "GO CHINA!"
America is a religous country. We're very comfortable with having a religous man as our President. I'm sorry that you hate religous people so much, and want to ban them from having any part in public life. This nation was founded by people trying to get away from other people that didn't want them to practice their faith. Sad to see people who still want to consider religous people unfit for public office.
It's cute that you quoted sources that also hate this President and hate seeing any person of faith in the public sphere. I ask you to consider, though, that a nation of religous people should be allowed to have a religous person for a leader.
(changing with X, but still it takes a lot more effort to really mess with the system than on windows)
Um, any basis for saying this? And is this a compliment or a complaint?
But I guess pressing enter is much more difficult than pressing command+C.
This is EXACTLY why so many people HATE Windows. Copy is supposed to be C-c (on Windows). Who was the genius that decided this one application should use "Enter" to do the same thing?
(part of my reliability may be due to the fact that I don't use any virus protection software most of the time - I'm convinced it does more harm than good.
And you're calling OTHER people incompetent? "No viruses yet, must be just lucky I guess!" You better hope that's some super duper magic firewall you got running there.
It is supposed to be write once run anywhere, but the reality is "write 3 or 4 times and debug everywhere, and then grouse about how slow it is, while rabidly defending the decision, which you are questioning yourself, to use it for such a mission critical application
Troll. Java is better at some things than some other languages and worse at some things than some other languages. The trolliness of this comment makes me question the rest of your assessments (which I found interesting until I got to this).
Split out the SPARC, replace it with Opteron. Ditch lots of the software. Spin out Java.
If you think that many companies make 90% profits, you obviously don't understand the costs of doing business. Any market where a company can repeatedly make a profit anywhere near that level is a market that will soon be flooded with competition.
It's nice that you've discovered the cause of everything bad. It's nice to know that Atheists and Agnostics, like Mao and Stalin and Hussein, never did anything bad to anyone. Everything bad that's ever happened is the fault of some religous person. It's nice to know that Mother Theresa, while appearing to give out food and care for the sick, the widow, the fatherless, the poor, was actually part of some sick, diabolical plot to oppress these people. It must be nice to live in a world so simple and absolute, with no shades of gray. The religous people are the bad guys, the unreligous are the good guys.
You have given me much insight into the world. I thought things were much more complex, but it's nice to have things simplified so much.
I also appreciate your evident humility. And it's nice to know you avoid such an obvious human failing like brotherly love. And I'm sure you're quite proud of your retard smacking ability.
Maybe it's just my take, but modern xtianity, especially in organized/corporate form (God, Inc.), seems to have way too much power and sway over the cluless, frightened massses, and it's abused enough to make me distrustful of almost all forms of organized religion.
And that was exactly the state of the religous leaders in Jesus day. That's why Jesus wasn't supporting or proposing an organized religion to replace this, but a personal relationship with himself (and with his Dad, as he claimed were the same person, I know, he said some pretty weird stuff). Anyhow, the fact that a lot of people have created the same kind of structure that Jesus railed against and have stuck his name on it is a colossal irony. So you certainly don't need to be part of any organization in order to claim to be a follower of Jesus. In fact, claiming blind allegiance to any organization or man other than Jesus pretty much disqualifies you from being his follower, if you go by what he said.
It's great that you're all for helping the disadvantaged and unfortunate. But I don't know how you can find support for that in the original post I replied to. Didn't read TheNewerGuy's post, guess I should.
I still think that Bush is going to really regret doing that stupid Top Gun stunt next November.
No WMD have been found, the economy's still not creating jobs, and you think the President's biggest problem is that he took a joy ride in a government airplane?
So you agree that no one should ever help the weak? That goes just as far off the Ayn Rand deep end as any fanatic might go off the Christian deep end.
As for religous "leaders", Jesus was harsher on such people than any other segment of society. He liked to use terms like "brood of vipers" and "white washed tombs" to describe them. I don't think much has changed since then.
But you might want to consider Jesus' take on the poor and down-trodden, instead of the Absolute Fundamentalist Objectivism you (and the parent post) are spouting.
Peace be with you, -jimbo
ps What's with the grammar nazism? Peace be with you has a nice ring, I think. It's from the NIV Bible, so you should inform them that they have some poor grammar in their translation.
What happens is that as people become wealthier, they start to have fewer babies. I'm pretty sure the American and Western European birth rates is below the level needed to sustain population levels (populations only continue to grow due to immigration). Japan is definitely not sustaining their population levels, and they won't allow more immigrants for cultural reasons, which is a huge problem for them. The poorer nations of the world are supplying almost all the population growth.
So the key to stopping population growth is to make poor countries into rich ones.
The reverse has turned out to be true and the most developed nations produce a huge overabundance of food, to the extent they have to pay farmers to grow less to maintain marketplace prices.
This is sometimes true, but perversely developed nations further subsidize agriculture, making it even harder for poor nations to export their agricultural products. In the most recent trade talks, the poor nations finally called the developed world on this B.S., pointing out the hypocrisy of rich countries proclaiming "free trade" while practicing protectionism as it benefits them (or at least benefits a handful of farmers, many of whom happen to be millionaires).
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What if you can't find the real CD?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
As compared to record stores, where if you buy a single they give you a discount when you buy the full album.
But wait! You can't really buy singles in record stores! Ha ha!
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
"Freedom for the world, why not?"
From whom, for whom?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
If your an indy band without a label you can try CD-Baby [cdbaby.com] they have cut a deal so that indy artists can go though them to seel on ITMS. You can read about it here [macnn.com] and here [macobserver.com].
This could easily be the death of the labels. Just imagine a major artist's contract with a label ends, and they sign up with CDBaby and keep 91% of sales. How does the RIAA compete with that?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
So, let's say there can be twenty pieces of information for each user session. That means you need to push 20 hidden fields into EVERY PAGE GENERATED IN YOUR APP. Also, EVERY ACTION BY THE USER HAS TO BE A FORM SUBMIT, OR THE HIDDEN FIELD VALUES ARE LOST.
Now let's say you have a new requirement and you need 21 pieces of user information for each user session. You need to go to the template for every page in your site and add another hidden form field! Good thing you don't charge much as a developer, otherwise the time you spend doing this busy work would cost more than just buying some more RAM or another pizza box.
Also, pushing all the data into every page and fetching it back on every user action increases your network utilization. But we don't need to worry about that, right, because the only things that cost money are processors and RAM.
I'm sure I must be missing something here, so please enlighten me.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
However, I have read (I don't remember where) that Bush has remarked that he feels he has been chosen by Providence to lead the nation through it's time of crisis.
I thought you would bring this up. First of all, I don't know what the exact quote is either, the context, or to what extent this has been urban legendized, but a couple things on Christian beliefs about earthly authority.
The New Testament teaches that earthly authorities are put in their position by God. Christians are called on to respect them as much as possible. Jesus demonstrated this by not resisting his accusers and persecuters, even as they killed him.
So every Christian must believe that everyone in a position of authority is there because God allowed that person to be there. So it is true that God has put GWB into the presidency, but it was also just as true that God put Bill Clinton into the presidency as well. I remember a pastor chastising the congregation because so many acted like God lost when Bill Clinton won. God was just as much in control then as he is now.
So the idea that God has put GWB into the presidency should not be controversial to a Christian, but it is certainly no means for boasting, either. By the same token, God put Saddam Hussein into his position as well, just as he was in control when Pharoah oppressed the Hebrews, etc. How God makes these decisions is beyond our discernment.
In summary, it's perfectly consistent for GWB to believe God put him in the presidency, and to be perfectly humbled by that fact as well. How GWB interprets that personally we can't speculate on without more context.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Where to begin?
George Bush never used religion as an argument for war with the Taliban or the Baathists in Iraq. He has gone out of his way to defend Islam as a faith ocassionally hijacked by extremists, but not our enemy in and of itself. You may think his arguments were trumped up, but they certainly never cited his faith or God as a reason for war. Bush publically disavows the notion that somehow God directly imparts decisions to him; he says that he prays more for personal qualities like strength, humility, and wisdom.
I suppose the most direct support of religion is his call for public funding of humanitarian services provided by faith-based organizations. I concur that even many religous leaders find this a bad idea, for constitutional and practical reasons.
But beyond that, Bush does not present his faith as a reason for his policy decisions. The media make more of an issue of his faith, reporting on the fact that he prays and reads the Bible as if it were a huge scandal. Meanwhile, this is just behavior common to many mainstream Americans, shocking only to those surprised to find someone unashamed to have a strong faith in the 21st century.
Why is it so dangerous to make decisions informed by the distilled wisdom of countless generations distilled into religous texts? Why is it so dangerous to have a leader who seeks to humble himself before God?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Let's keep things in perspective, shall we? China is still a repressive, authoritarian state, who actively suppresses dissent and free speech. I suppose getting into space is a positive achievement, but not enough for me to cheer "GO CHINA!"
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
America is a religous country. We're very comfortable with having a religous man as our President. I'm sorry that you hate religous people so much, and want to ban them from having any part in public life. This nation was founded by people trying to get away from other people that didn't want them to practice their faith. Sad to see people who still want to consider religous people unfit for public office.
It's cute that you quoted sources that also hate this President and hate seeing any person of faith in the public sphere. I ask you to consider, though, that a nation of religous people should be allowed to have a religous person for a leader.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Well, it doesn't say anything against child-mulching machines, so it must be implying that they should be built and used to keep down the population.
Nice summary of the pro-choice position.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
(changing with X, but still it takes a lot more effort to really mess with the system than on windows)
Um, any basis for saying this? And is this a compliment or a complaint?
But I guess pressing enter is much more difficult than pressing command+C.
This is EXACTLY why so many people HATE Windows. Copy is supposed to be C-c (on Windows). Who was the genius that decided this one application should use "Enter" to do the same thing?
(part of my reliability may be due to the fact that I don't use any virus protection software most of the time - I'm convinced it does more harm than good.
And you're calling OTHER people incompetent? "No viruses yet, must be just lucky I guess!" You better hope that's some super duper magic firewall you got running there.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
It is supposed to be write once run anywhere, but the reality is "write 3 or 4 times and debug everywhere, and then grouse about how slow it is, while rabidly defending the decision, which you are questioning yourself, to use it for such a mission critical application
Troll. Java is better at some things than some other languages and worse at some things than some other languages. The trolliness of this comment makes me question the rest of your assessments (which I found interesting until I got to this).
Split out the SPARC, replace it with Opteron. Ditch lots of the software. Spin out Java.
Which leaves, what, exactly?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
You could save even more time by just not watching TV.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
If you think that many companies make 90% profits, you obviously don't understand the costs of doing business. Any market where a company can repeatedly make a profit anywhere near that level is a market that will soon be flooded with competition.
Microsoft.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
It's nice that you've discovered the cause of everything bad. It's nice to know that Atheists and Agnostics, like Mao and Stalin and Hussein, never did anything bad to anyone. Everything bad that's ever happened is the fault of some religous person. It's nice to know that Mother Theresa, while appearing to give out food and care for the sick, the widow, the fatherless, the poor, was actually part of some sick, diabolical plot to oppress these people. It must be nice to live in a world so simple and absolute, with no shades of gray. The religous people are the bad guys, the unreligous are the good guys.
You have given me much insight into the world. I thought things were much more complex, but it's nice to have things simplified so much.
I also appreciate your evident humility. And it's nice to know you avoid such an obvious human failing like brotherly love. And I'm sure you're quite proud of your retard smacking ability.
Peace to you,
-jimbo
Maybe it's just my take, but modern xtianity, especially in organized/corporate form (God, Inc.), seems to have way too much power and sway over the cluless, frightened massses, and it's abused enough to make me distrustful of almost all forms of organized religion.
And that was exactly the state of the religous leaders in Jesus day. That's why Jesus wasn't supporting or proposing an organized religion to replace this, but a personal relationship with himself (and with his Dad, as he claimed were the same person, I know, he said some pretty weird stuff). Anyhow, the fact that a lot of people have created the same kind of structure that Jesus railed against and have stuck his name on it is a colossal irony. So you certainly don't need to be part of any organization in order to claim to be a follower of Jesus. In fact, claiming blind allegiance to any organization or man other than Jesus pretty much disqualifies you from being his follower, if you go by what he said.
It's great that you're all for helping the disadvantaged and unfortunate. But I don't know how you can find support for that in the original post I replied to. Didn't read TheNewerGuy's post, guess I should.
Peace to you,
-jimbo
I still think that Bush is going to really regret doing that stupid Top Gun stunt next November.
No WMD have been found, the economy's still not creating jobs, and you think the President's biggest problem is that he took a joy ride in a government airplane?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
I read that sentence, and still agree whole heartedly that the government shouldn't be involved in this.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Basically, median household income increased about 6% from 1969 to 1966.
Typo, right? 1996, maybe?
Thanks for the info. Very interesting.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
So you agree that no one should ever help the weak? That goes just as far off the Ayn Rand deep end as any fanatic might go off the Christian deep end.
As for religous "leaders", Jesus was harsher on such people than any other segment of society. He liked to use terms like "brood of vipers" and "white washed tombs" to describe them. I don't think much has changed since then.
But you might want to consider Jesus' take on the poor and down-trodden, instead of the Absolute Fundamentalist Objectivism you (and the parent post) are spouting.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
ps What's with the grammar nazism? Peace be with you has a nice ring, I think. It's from the NIV Bible, so you should inform them that they have some poor grammar in their translation.
Most of the high-paying jobs for low-skill people are in manufacturing.
Maybe we should turn the low-skill people into high-skill people?
Median income per hour worked in the US peaked in 1973.
Just curious, what has happened to median income in absolute terms?
30 years ago, housing ate up about a quarter of income. Now, it eats up about half.
But isn't home ownership at all time highs? Isn't housing appreciation a good thing for homeowners?
Jurisdictions compete to offer lower taxes, and even lower wages.
Do you have any justification for your implication that lower taxes leads to lower wages?
Increased productivity does not inherently increase wages.
Anecdotal or statistical evidence of wages not going up with increased productivity over a prolonged period of time?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Do not give jobs to the pathetic guy who you feel sorry for. That is rewarding the weak.
I see why you didn't take too well to the whole Christian thing.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
What happens is that as people become wealthier, they start to have fewer babies. I'm pretty sure the American and Western European birth rates is below the level needed to sustain population levels (populations only continue to grow due to immigration). Japan is definitely not sustaining their population levels, and they won't allow more immigrants for cultural reasons, which is a huge problem for them. The poorer nations of the world are supplying almost all the population growth.
So the key to stopping population growth is to make poor countries into rich ones.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
This was not the health-care system's fault. It was rather the fault of people DUMPING their elderly parents in hospices and forgetting them there.
??? Aren't hospices expected to provide a certain level of care for patients? Like preventing preventable deaths due to extreme temperatures?
Maybe I just don't understand what these hospice things are, or what they're for?
Awaiting enlightenment,
-jimbo
The reverse has turned out to be true and the most developed nations produce a huge overabundance of food, to the extent they have to pay farmers to grow less to maintain marketplace prices.
This is sometimes true, but perversely developed nations further subsidize agriculture, making it even harder for poor nations to export their agricultural products. In the most recent trade talks, the poor nations finally called the developed world on this B.S., pointing out the hypocrisy of rich countries proclaiming "free trade" while practicing protectionism as it benefits them (or at least benefits a handful of farmers, many of whom happen to be millionaires).
Peace be with you,
-jimbo