They're reporting that the earthquake warning system DID work, but you've got to wonder how much warning did they get. Report are that "Hundreds of bodies found after 23-foot tsunami strikes northern coast of Japan." There is also a passenger train unaccounted for.
"Utah lawmakers passed a bill today to force public school teachers to teach that the USA is a republic, not a democracy, because a "Democracy" would have "Democrat" in it."
Doesn't say that. Commentary fail.
What the article actually says: "HB220 would require schools to teach students that the U.S. is a compound constitutional republic and about other forms of government such as pure democracy, monarchy and oligarchy along with political philosophies and economic systems such as socialism, individualism and free-market capitalism. The Senate passed the bill with no dissenting votes Monday."
Sounds like a well-rounded course. So unless you're only wanting to teach from one side, I don't see a problem with this.
My comment isn't about open source. It's about piracy. The argument is the people in poorer countries can't afford to pay the software cost and turn to pirated copies. Theory being that if the cost was relative to what they could afford, they'd buy legit copies. My point is someone who is getting Windows/Office for free is not going to turn around and pay for it at a reduced cost as long as the "free" version is available.
Of course the question begs: How are people who are living in such poverty able to afford computers or other electronics in the first place, much less the music or software to run on them? Often these electronics are priced much HIGHER than they are in developed nations.
I thought CF cards were on the way out. I've got an older Kodak that uses the CF, but most everything else I see uses SDs.
I wasn't so much thinking of photo storage or transferring photos as much as I would rather have a removable/exchangable disk vs. having to upgrade to a larger internal drive and port over everything via USB.
Unless I missed something, it still only comes with an embedded hard drive, forcing you to shell out $$ for a larger hard drive. Even my NookColor has an SD slot (and is also rootable on Android). I feel pretty much about this as I did the first one--looks cool, but considering it costs approx. the same as a laptop (except without Flash), it's an expensive toy.
Ballmer: Gianugo, I'm an old man, and most people hate me. But I don't like them either, so that makes it all even. You know just as well as I do that I run practically everything in this town but Open Source. You know, also, that for a number of years I've been trying to get control of it...or kill it. But I haven't been able to do it. You have been stopping me. In fact, you have beaten me, Gianugo, and as anyone in this county can tell you, that takes some doing. Take during the Internet bubble, for instance. You and I were the only ones that kept our heads. You saved Open Source, and I saved all the rest.
Gianugo: Yes. Well, most people say you stole all the rest.
Ballmer: The envious ones say that, Gianugo, the suckers. Now, I have stated my side very frankly. Now, let's look at your side. Young man, twenty-seven, twenty-eight...married, making, say...forty a week.
Gianugo (indignantly): Forty-five!
Ballmer: Forty-five. Forty-five. Out of which, after supporting your mother, and paying your bills, you're able to keep, say, ten, if you skimp. A child or two comes along, and you won't even be able to save the ten. Now, if this young man of twenty-eight was a common, ordinary yokel, I'd say he was doing fine. But Gianugo Rabellino is not a common, ordinary yokel. He's an intelligent, smart, ambitious young man - who hates his job.
Gianugo (taken aback): Now what's your point, Mr. Ballmer?
Ballmer: My point? My point is, I want to hire you.
One of the girls got so excited to actually purchase the book that, when I waved her up to my cash register from the line, she ran as fast as she could to get to me. She slipped on the tile floor in front of the register, sprawled head first into the counter, and knocked herself clean out.
To some degree this is what a lot of people do before a romantic date.
Agree. Or what a successful salesman does before going into a large negotiation.
Let's suspend the black helicopters, people. These are not supermen capable of reading minds or "Jedi mind tricks." And despite some in congress being complete idiots, I don't think they were hypnotized or given a case of Stockholm syndrome.
All in all, if that's what they were doing, it looks like a big waste of time. Many of those *targeted* were already clearly supporters of the war and the military and likely didn't need much persuasion.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said he was certain top military officials would investigate any abuses or wrongdoing. He added that he was the last person who needed to be convinced of more resources for Afghanistan, never mind by the arts of a “psy-ops” team.
Now were they lied to...quite possibly, and I'll bet they are lied to by every other department wanting an increase in their budget.
Well and I'm sure they just don't want to be embarrassed by all the glowing reviews of what a great place the correctional facilities/DMV is to work!
The only problem with your argument is your or anyone's drug use DOES affect me. If you go out and get stoned (or drunk) and run over my kid, that affects me. And there's no way I want to see you running around naked and crazy after you drop some PCP!;-)
But I agree that people do give up their freedoms. For instance, letting the police seize large sums of money on just their assertion that the money was from drug sales.
And the only reason they are asking for their social network logins is because they're obviously concerned about whistle-blowing because it's such a shit place to work. I would think long and hard about working for anywhere that asked that type of question.
It's also another good reason to not use your real name when you don't have to and never link accounts such as using your FB login to another site.
"In a statement, the department said requests for user names and passwords had been voluntary, and had not been taken into account when evaluating job applicants."
cough*bullshit*cough
A 45-day review is not a win...it's a stalling tactic! Making sure it more consistently asked in the interview or other process across the board is NOT acceptable.
"Notice: This site is parody/satire. We assume Glenn Beck did not rape and murder a young girl in 1990, although we haven't yet seen proof that he didn't. But we think Glenn Beck definitely uses tactics like this to spread lies and misinformation."
And your point is? All this comes from Media Matters who on their own about page says:
"Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." Emphasis mine.
Hardly a unbiased source of which they make no secret.
Donors include George Soros, one of Beck's prime targets. (They don't publicly list their donors.) They are well known for attacking anyone on the right-wing, namely anyone who is popular in the conservative movement: Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Palin, etc.
There needs to be a Media Matters to correct Media Matters.
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When he was 1 second old he was in his first year and his first decade. Exactly 10 years later he was nine years old and in his second decade.
How does it feel to flunk first grade math?
And now do you need us to explain the 1900s being the 20th century, 2000s being the 21st century, etc?
You are NOT smarter than a 5th grader! ;-)
They're reporting that the earthquake warning system DID work, but you've got to wonder how much warning did they get. Report are that "Hundreds of bodies found after 23-foot tsunami strikes northern coast of Japan." There is also a passenger train unaccounted for.
"Utah lawmakers passed a bill today to force public school teachers to teach that the USA is a republic, not a democracy, because a "Democracy" would have "Democrat" in it."
Doesn't say that. Commentary fail.
What the article actually says:
"HB220 would require schools to teach students that the U.S. is a compound constitutional republic and about other forms of government such as pure democracy, monarchy and oligarchy along with political philosophies and economic systems such as socialism, individualism and free-market capitalism. The Senate passed the bill with no dissenting votes Monday."
Sounds like a well-rounded course. So unless you're only wanting to teach from one side, I don't see a problem with this.
My comment isn't about open source. It's about piracy. The argument is the people in poorer countries can't afford to pay the software cost and turn to pirated copies. Theory being that if the cost was relative to what they could afford, they'd buy legit copies. My point is someone who is getting Windows/Office for free is not going to turn around and pay for it at a reduced cost as long as the "free" version is available.
Of course the question begs: How are people who are living in such poverty able to afford computers or other electronics in the first place, much less the music or software to run on them? Often these electronics are priced much HIGHER than they are in developed nations.
But they've got that new iConstitution app...
...nothing will ever beat the price of FREE.
Considering politicians are trying to kill the space program.
In this case it's most certainly government control, not the stereotypical greedy corporation. Most of the latter is based on Hollywood portrayals.
"To enhance the power of politicians who want to control everyone's lives?"
Fixed that for you.
I thought CF cards were on the way out. I've got an older Kodak that uses the CF, but most everything else I see uses SDs.
I wasn't so much thinking of photo storage or transferring photos as much as I would rather have a removable/exchangable disk vs. having to upgrade to a larger internal drive and port over everything via USB.
Unless I missed something, it still only comes with an embedded hard drive, forcing you to shell out $$ for a larger hard drive. Even my NookColor has an SD slot (and is also rootable on Android). I feel pretty much about this as I did the first one--looks cool, but considering it costs approx. the same as a laptop (except without Flash), it's an expensive toy.
Indeed. I smell an "embrace and extend" coming.
Apologies to Frank Capra:
Ballmer: Gianugo, I'm an old man, and most people hate me. But I don't like them either, so that makes it all even. You know just as well as I do that I run practically everything in this town but Open Source. You know, also, that for a number of years I've been trying to get control of it...or kill it. But I haven't been able to do it. You have been stopping me. In fact, you have beaten me, Gianugo, and as anyone in this county can tell you, that takes some doing. Take during the Internet bubble, for instance. You and I were the only ones that kept our heads. You saved Open Source, and I saved all the rest.
Gianugo: Yes. Well, most people say you stole all the rest.
Ballmer: The envious ones say that, Gianugo, the suckers. Now, I have stated my side very frankly. Now, let's look at your side. Young man, twenty-seven, twenty-eight...married, making, say...forty a week.
Gianugo (indignantly): Forty-five!
Ballmer: Forty-five. Forty-five. Out of which, after supporting your mother, and paying your bills, you're able to keep, say, ten, if you skimp. A child or two comes along, and you won't even be able to save the ten. Now, if this young man of twenty-eight was a common, ordinary yokel, I'd say he was doing fine. But Gianugo Rabellino is not a common, ordinary yokel. He's an intelligent, smart, ambitious young man - who hates his job.
Gianugo (taken aback): Now what's your point, Mr. Ballmer?
Ballmer: My point? My point is, I want to hire you.
And he didn't get a lap dance out of it!
People forget how many technology ideas started out as Sci-Fi.
I don't think it's a matter about not being more amazing. I just don't think people know how to IMAGINE anymore.
And yet look at all the Sci-Fi movies coming out this spring/summer.
Or CourtTV became TruTV and turned into shows with dumb celebrity crooks showing videos of other dumb non-celebrity crooks.
They're going for the lowest common denominator.
One of the girls got so excited to actually purchase the book that, when I waved her up to my cash register from the line, she ran as fast as she could to get to me. She slipped on the tile floor in front of the register, sprawled head first into the counter, and knocked herself clean out.
But I'll bet she saw sparkles...
Really? I would have picked Field and Stream.
To some degree this is what a lot of people do before a romantic date.
Agree. Or what a successful salesman does before going into a large negotiation.
Let's suspend the black helicopters, people. These are not supermen capable of reading minds or "Jedi mind tricks." And despite some in congress being complete idiots, I don't think they were hypnotized or given a case of Stockholm syndrome.
All in all, if that's what they were doing, it looks like a big waste of time. Many of those *targeted* were already clearly supporters of the war and the military and likely didn't need much persuasion.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said he was certain top military officials would investigate any abuses or wrongdoing. He added that he was the last person who needed to be convinced of more resources for Afghanistan, never mind by the arts of a “psy-ops” team.
Now were they lied to...quite possibly, and I'll bet they are lied to by every other department wanting an increase in their budget.
Well and I'm sure they just don't want to be embarrassed by all the glowing reviews of what a great place the correctional facilities/DMV is to work!
The only problem with your argument is your or anyone's drug use DOES affect me. If you go out and get stoned (or drunk) and run over my kid, that affects me. And there's no way I want to see you running around naked and crazy after you drop some PCP! ;-)
But I agree that people do give up their freedoms. For instance, letting the police seize large sums of money on just their assertion that the money was from drug sales.
And the only reason they are asking for their social network logins is because they're obviously concerned about whistle-blowing because it's such a shit place to work. I would think long and hard about working for anywhere that asked that type of question.
It's also another good reason to not use your real name when you don't have to and never link accounts such as using your FB login to another site.
"In a statement, the department said requests for user names and passwords had been voluntary, and had not been taken into account when evaluating job applicants."
cough*bullshit*cough
A 45-day review is not a win...it's a stalling tactic! Making sure it more consistently asked in the interview or other process across the board is NOT acceptable.
Not sure what country you're from, but the US is not a democracy--it is a representative republic.
Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Except that the site itself said it was a parody Beck's tactics. Nice.
"Notice: This site is parody/satire. We assume Glenn Beck did not rape and murder a young girl in 1990, although we haven't yet seen proof that he didn't. But we think Glenn Beck definitely uses tactics like this to spread lies and misinformation."
And your point is? All this comes from Media Matters who on their own about page says:
"Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." Emphasis mine.
Hardly a unbiased source of which they make no secret.
Donors include George Soros, one of Beck's prime targets. (They don't publicly list their donors.) They are well known for attacking anyone on the right-wing, namely anyone who is popular in the conservative movement: Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Palin, etc.
There needs to be a Media Matters to correct Media Matters.
Which makes it interesting as Beck leans Libertarian.