A Steve Jobs keynote is performance art. It's salesmanship taken to it's ultimate height. It's better rehearsed and staged than a Broadway musical. There's suspense, drama, comedy.
If any actor on Broadway or Hollywood could perform this well, they would quit and immediately start doing what Steve does. Because there's more fame, praise, adulation, and money in it than whatever they're currently doing.
It is probably a bit off-topic, but why doesn't Israel just give the fucking land back?
They tried that. The Palestinians weren't interested.
That is to say, the unelected, thieving thug claiming to represent the Palestinians wasn't interested. Now that said thug is in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital, and there's a real democratic election coming, the potential Palestinian leaders now seem much more interested in the possibility of peace.
It's specifically designed to make it easy for corporations to find the cheapest labor possible, which pushes expensive US jobs overseas to be done by equally qualified professionals in other places like India for a fraction of the cost.
Outsourcing sucks for the American worker right now, but trade is certainly improving the quality of life in the world as a whole. Just look at the 10's (100's?) of millions whose standard of living is improving by leaps and bounds in India and China right now.
Furthermore, as much as Americans are complaining about outsourcing, we're learning to roll with it at the same time. Our economy is still growing, we're still creating jobs, and we still have much less unemployment than, say, Europe. Furthermore, we certainly had a great ride in the 90s fueled in part by trade. If not for trade, many people would not have had those great jobs to lose in the first place.
So, taken as a whole, I still believe a world with free international trade is better than one without.
Peace be with you, -jimbo
Re:The situation has changed, but you have not.
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But our military hasn't.
Surely, then, you support Secretary Rumsfeld? No one has been working more tirelessly to reform and modernize the structure of the military than him.
Peace be with you, -jimbo
Re:How Israeli Companies Are Succeeding...
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You think the lack of a social safety net will lower your taxes. But those who are unemployed are not going around doing nothing.
This is exactly the argument for the U.S. system, where we have about half the unemployment rate of Europe. All of those unemployed people in Europe are bringing the European economy almost to a halt, and it's only getting worse. What's the GDP growth rate over there, half of the U.S.? Less?
For as far as I can see, dear poster and dear citizen of the US: we here in Europe don't need and have never asked for your protection. Moreover, I think most people here do not believe in the means of protection you are giving
Why have your governments not asked us to leave? We're starting to do that voluntarily, as the idea of letting Europe protect herself is quite popular here, as well.
Look at this slashdot page and see what posts are way rated up.
I do. I read what they say and make sure to adopt the opposite opinion.
Peace be with you, -jimbo
Re:How Israeli Companies Are Succeeding...
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including Iraqi resistance (most of whom are freedom-fighters)
Uh, right. If your idea of freedom is executing homosexuals, putting women in burkas and keeping them from an education, executing anyone with a different interpretation of religion, etc. etc.
Most of those 100,000 deaths you cite, by the way, are being caused by those same freedom fighters, who occasionally kill an American, but for the most part kill their fellow citizens for daring to have a vision of freedom that involves things like choosing their own leaders and their own destiny.
Peace be with you, -jimbo
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For your ignorant information: the same rule applies to Jews (who can use Hassidic law), Hindus, Seikhs, Quakers, Mennonites, Native Americans (tribal courts) etc etc.
And you're, um, proud of this? This means that Canada as a nation has ceased to exist. It has been replaced by a bunch of little theistic states.
Unbelievable. You run around proclaiming that the U.S. will be come a theistic state, while Canada has already become one. Er, a bunch of them.
My almost-3-year-old son's absolute favorite thing to do on the computer is for me to open TextEdit (yes, it's a Mac) and let him type letters and numbers. If he sees me at the keyboard, he pretty much demands it.
Then I'll type words and he tries to sound them out. Getting a little more high tech, I'll type the name of a color and then format the text to that color when he reads it correctly.
I've also taught him that the letters on the screen with all the funny ['s and ]'s scattered among them is called Objective-C:).
...and even harassment from a flag-waving driver gesturing obscenely (and blocking his car) on the streets of New Jersey. That's the sort of experience most light-skinned, native-born Americans are lucky not to face on a daily basis.
What's so un-libertarian about letting people pay for their smut? Where's the guarantee in the constitution of free (beer not speech) smut?
Whatever tawdry thing you desire to entertain yourself with, you can get it without very much effort in the United States of America. But broadcast airwaves are considered a PUBLIC resource. So it is subject to the mobocracy of public opinion.
Howard Stern is a great example of the market at work. He annoyed enough people in the general public that he got booted off the public airwaves. But you can still listen to Howard every morning to your heart's content, just as long as you pony up a few bucks for satellite radio.
So that's what bugs me about the way this debate is being framed. It's a free beer issue dressed up to look like a free speech issue.
Think about it. you have a exponential growth in complaints aren't you even curious about what group be it age range geographic area, etc that this is coming from.
What makes you think he doesn't know who the complaints are from?
I love the chemistry between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. It's corny, but you have pure logic on one side and pure passion on the other, with Kirk mediating in the middle. Spock's subtle putdowns of McCoy are classic. They always got a smirk out of Kirk.
This was probably the single strongest over riding theme of TOS, emotion versus intellect. Nimoy was amazing as Spock. None of the actors playing Vulcans since can carry his plastic pointy ears as an actor. You could always see the emotion Spock kept tightly under control was there under the surface, but never escaped (contrived plot twists not withstanding).
My favorite episode is when we finally meet Spock's mom and dad. Spock and Sarek put on a great show of logic and rationality, but Spock's mom sees through it effortlessly and scolds them for their stereotypically emotional father/son rivalry.
At the end of the episode, with both Spock and Sarek in sick bay as the result of some heroic something or other, Mom comes in to fuss over both of them. Spock looks at Sarek and says "Quite illogical, isn't she?" Sarek agrees. Mom just smiles.
- People actually making the choice aren't actually competent to make that choice. You don't hire people based on the gut feeling of the guy next door, do you?
Actually, I seem to remember reading recently that the performance of "the mob" in answering questions is often better than that of "experts". If you have a large enough group of people to answer a question, and take the most popular response, it's pretty likely to be right.
An example given for this was on the "Millionaire" show, where the audience poll "lifeline" outperformed the call an expert "lifeline".
So they vote for a tax cut and increased spending knowing it means more northern liberals are shelling out for them.
Uh, how can across the board tax cuts mean that northern liberals are shelling out MORE money than they were before the tax cuts? Or did I miss the part about tax cuts being just implemented in Red States?
Besides, isn't paying lots and lots of taxes a liberal's single favorite activity? Their voting behavior would seem to indicate that.
Remember, we did not win WWII without help from numerous states. Despite personal feelings we cannot spit at the French and tell the Germans to shut the fuck up and eat that kraut.
That's right! We never could have won WWII without the support of France and Germany!
How often did Jesus talk about homosexuality, abortion, or assisted suicide?
As for children, I believe he said if anyone hurt one of them, he would be better off thrown into the sea with a millstone around his neck. So I have a hard time believing he would support a party that supported killing one of them while half out of the womb.
As for homosexuality, he gave tacit approval to the system condemning it. Surely, he could have spoken out against the draconian punishments meted out to homosexuals in his day, as he spoke out against so many other misappropriations and misuses of God's law?
No, he didn't talk about assisted suicide, but I don't think Dr. Kevorkian got started until much later.
Peace be with you, -jimbo
Re:George Bush ignores the way of Christ
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But, despite the Republicans throwing those that have strength of faith some Old Testament bones, it is the God-fearing liberal Democrats like John Kerry that best exemplify the self-sacrifice and social compassion Jesus had.
Is your idea of compassion putting people into desolate public housing projects where the only viable occupation is selling drugs and going to prison is seen as a rite of passage? Is your idea of compassion a failing school system where teacher's unions blame everything and everyone else and refuse any and all change?
And if you believe the state is the rightful source of compassion, shouldn't the state ensure that material blessings are enjoyed equally by all? Is that truly the compassionate thing?
Finally, did Jesus suggest that taking someone ELSE's money and giving THAT to the poor is the definition of compassion? Or was that Robin Hood?
And I'm waiting to hear how John-I-marry-money-Kerry has exemplified self sacrifice, since returning from Vietnam (yes, his service there was truly self sacrificing, no sarcasm intended).
This is pathetic. Kerry proudly supports tax-payer funded abortions on demand from conception to infantici....err, partial birth...,err, dilation and extraction abortions. Meanwhile, Democratic senators are in hysterics that appointing a Bush justice to the lowest level of the Federal bench will instantaneously revoke RvW.
Democrats certainly are trying to convince the country that Bush is far, far more pro-life than Kerry. Probably 'cause it's true.
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If it is the case why are they not asking for the same stickers to be stuck on EVERY textbook?
I'd vote for that.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
What is the attraction?
A Steve Jobs keynote is performance art. It's salesmanship taken to it's ultimate height. It's better rehearsed and staged than a Broadway musical. There's suspense, drama, comedy.
If any actor on Broadway or Hollywood could perform this well, they would quit and immediately start doing what Steve does. Because there's more fame, praise, adulation, and money in it than whatever they're currently doing.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
It is probably a bit off-topic, but why doesn't Israel just give the fucking land back?
They tried that. The Palestinians weren't interested.
That is to say, the unelected, thieving thug claiming to represent the Palestinians wasn't interested. Now that said thug is in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital, and there's a real democratic election coming, the potential Palestinian leaders now seem much more interested in the possibility of peace.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
What can you possibly do that an indian or a chinese could not? I mean that sincerely.
What can an Indian or Chinese do that I cannot?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
It's specifically designed to make it easy for corporations to find the cheapest labor possible, which pushes expensive US jobs overseas to be done by equally qualified professionals in other places like India for a fraction of the cost.
Outsourcing sucks for the American worker right now, but trade is certainly improving the quality of life in the world as a whole. Just look at the 10's (100's?) of millions whose standard of living is improving by leaps and bounds in India and China right now.
Furthermore, as much as Americans are complaining about outsourcing, we're learning to roll with it at the same time. Our economy is still growing, we're still creating jobs, and we still have much less unemployment than, say, Europe. Furthermore, we certainly had a great ride in the 90s fueled in part by trade. If not for trade, many people would not have had those great jobs to lose in the first place.
So, taken as a whole, I still believe a world with free international trade is better than one without.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
But our military hasn't.
Surely, then, you support Secretary Rumsfeld? No one has been working more tirelessly to reform and modernize the structure of the military than him.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
You think the lack of a social safety net will lower your taxes. But those who are unemployed are not going around doing nothing.
This is exactly the argument for the U.S. system, where we have about half the unemployment rate of Europe. All of those unemployed people in Europe are bringing the European economy almost to a halt, and it's only getting worse. What's the GDP growth rate over there, half of the U.S.? Less?
For as far as I can see, dear poster and dear citizen of the US: we here in Europe don't need and have never asked for your protection. Moreover, I think most people here do not believe in the means of protection you are giving
Why have your governments not asked us to leave? We're starting to do that voluntarily, as the idea of letting Europe protect herself is quite popular here, as well.
Look at this slashdot page and see what posts are way rated up.
I do. I read what they say and make sure to adopt the opposite opinion.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
including Iraqi resistance (most of whom are freedom-fighters)
Uh, right. If your idea of freedom is executing homosexuals, putting women in burkas and keeping them from an education, executing anyone with a different interpretation of religion, etc. etc.
Most of those 100,000 deaths you cite, by the way, are being caused by those same freedom fighters, who occasionally kill an American, but for the most part kill their fellow citizens for daring to have a vision of freedom that involves things like choosing their own leaders and their own destiny.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
For your ignorant information: the same rule applies to Jews (who can use Hassidic law), Hindus, Seikhs, Quakers, Mennonites, Native Americans (tribal courts) etc etc.
And you're, um, proud of this? This means that Canada as a nation has ceased to exist. It has been replaced by a bunch of little theistic states.
Unbelievable. You run around proclaiming that the U.S. will be come a theistic state, while Canada has already become one. Er, a bunch of them.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
My almost-3-year-old son's absolute favorite thing to do on the computer is for me to open TextEdit (yes, it's a Mac) and let him type letters and numbers. If he sees me at the keyboard, he pretty much demands it.
Then I'll type words and he tries to sound them out. Getting a little more high tech, I'll type the name of a color and then format the text to that color when he reads it correctly.
I've also taught him that the letters on the screen with all the funny ['s and ]'s scattered among them is called Objective-C :).
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Not to mention having all of my apps and data held hostage to a subscription fee.
Absolutely. That's why no one is willing to leave their email on a server somewhere they can only access when connected to the internet.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Just look at the history of women rights, black rights, gay rights...
...the rights of the unborn...
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Obviously, you haven't lived in New Jersey.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Why, for crap's sake, is it not okay for the government to provide free wirless broadband access in Philadelphia?
Because they weren't going to provide it for free. They were going to charge people for it.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Very eloquently said.
But.
What's so un-libertarian about letting people pay for their smut? Where's the guarantee in the constitution of free (beer not speech) smut?
Whatever tawdry thing you desire to entertain yourself with, you can get it without very much effort in the United States of America. But broadcast airwaves are considered a PUBLIC resource. So it is subject to the mobocracy of public opinion.
Howard Stern is a great example of the market at work. He annoyed enough people in the general public that he got booted off the public airwaves. But you can still listen to Howard every morning to your heart's content, just as long as you pony up a few bucks for satellite radio.
So that's what bugs me about the way this debate is being framed. It's a free beer issue dressed up to look like a free speech issue.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Think about it. you have a exponential growth in complaints aren't you even curious about what group be it age range geographic area, etc that this is coming from.
What makes you think he doesn't know who the complaints are from?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
I love the chemistry between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. It's corny, but you have pure logic on one side and pure passion on the other, with Kirk mediating in the middle. Spock's subtle putdowns of McCoy are classic. They always got a smirk out of Kirk.
This was probably the single strongest over riding theme of TOS, emotion versus intellect. Nimoy was amazing as Spock. None of the actors playing Vulcans since can carry his plastic pointy ears as an actor. You could always see the emotion Spock kept tightly under control was there under the surface, but never escaped (contrived plot twists not withstanding).
My favorite episode is when we finally meet Spock's mom and dad. Spock and Sarek put on a great show of logic and rationality, but Spock's mom sees through it effortlessly and scolds them for their stereotypically emotional father/son rivalry.
At the end of the episode, with both Spock and Sarek in sick bay as the result of some heroic something or other, Mom comes in to fuss over both of them. Spock looks at Sarek and says "Quite illogical, isn't she?" Sarek agrees. Mom just smiles.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Whatever you say, Senator Kerry!
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
- People actually making the choice aren't actually competent to make that choice. You don't hire people based on the gut feeling of the guy next door, do you?
Actually, I seem to remember reading recently that the performance of "the mob" in answering questions is often better than that of "experts". If you have a large enough group of people to answer a question, and take the most popular response, it's pretty likely to be right.
An example given for this was on the "Millionaire" show, where the audience poll "lifeline" outperformed the call an expert "lifeline".
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
So they vote for a tax cut and increased spending knowing it means more northern liberals are shelling out for them.
Uh, how can across the board tax cuts mean that northern liberals are shelling out MORE money than they were before the tax cuts? Or did I miss the part about tax cuts being just implemented in Red States?
Besides, isn't paying lots and lots of taxes a liberal's single favorite activity? Their voting behavior would seem to indicate that.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Remember, we did not win WWII without help from numerous states. Despite personal feelings we cannot spit at the French and tell the Germans to shut the fuck up and eat that kraut.
That's right! We never could have won WWII without the support of France and Germany!
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
How often did Jesus talk about homosexuality, abortion, or assisted suicide?
As for children, I believe he said if anyone hurt one of them, he would be better off thrown into the sea with a millstone around his neck. So I have a hard time believing he would support a party that supported killing one of them while half out of the womb.
As for homosexuality, he gave tacit approval to the system condemning it. Surely, he could have spoken out against the draconian punishments meted out to homosexuals in his day, as he spoke out against so many other misappropriations and misuses of God's law?
No, he didn't talk about assisted suicide, but I don't think Dr. Kevorkian got started until much later.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
But, despite the Republicans throwing those that have strength of faith some Old Testament bones, it is the God-fearing liberal Democrats like John Kerry that best exemplify the self-sacrifice and social compassion Jesus had.
Is your idea of compassion putting people into desolate public housing projects where the only viable occupation is selling drugs and going to prison is seen as a rite of passage? Is your idea of compassion a failing school system where teacher's unions blame everything and everyone else and refuse any and all change?
And if you believe the state is the rightful source of compassion, shouldn't the state ensure that material blessings are enjoyed equally by all? Is that truly the compassionate thing?
Finally, did Jesus suggest that taking someone ELSE's money and giving THAT to the poor is the definition of compassion? Or was that Robin Hood?
And I'm waiting to hear how John-I-marry-money-Kerry has exemplified self sacrifice, since returning from Vietnam (yes, his service there was truly self sacrificing, no sarcasm intended).
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
This is pathetic. Kerry proudly supports tax-payer funded abortions on demand from conception to infantici....err, partial birth...,err, dilation and extraction abortions. Meanwhile, Democratic senators are in hysterics that appointing a Bush justice to the lowest level of the Federal bench will instantaneously revoke RvW.
Democrats certainly are trying to convince the country that Bush is far, far more pro-life than Kerry. Probably 'cause it's true.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Well George had his four years and most people did not like what they saw
About half liked what they saw (Bush approval around 50% or so right now).
Won't be able to say more precisely until some time tonight.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo