This had the desired cascading effect of the USSR unable to trust any technology that may have been introduced from non-USSR sources and was considered an extremely significant part of the eventual collapse of the USSR.
This is predicated on the assumption they could not develop their own technology. That was the actual problem.
Put it this way: I have an exclusive partnership with my wife, and will be sorely disappointed if it means anything other than "to the exclusion of others."
I dunno, that doesn't seem to be the way she's treating it...
It is simply a convenient point of reference. As I said in another post, in person I generally don't call myself anything anymore. I just nod and agree with whomever is speaking. There is no point in this wasteland of dialogue.
All my knowledge of libertarinism is from a little rag called "Ergo" at MIT, which espoused Ayn-Rand "objectivist" policy and was so nutso that some felt it was in fact a communist plot to brainwash the engineers into believing capitalism was unstoppably evil.
Newsflash: Colleges are full of extremist views on all sides.
I really have never looked into, much, what the lp stands for. So what does it stand for that you object to?
They are pretty much out to dismantle the Federal Government. I'd be all up for dismantling a lot of it, but they see very little as the government's purview.
From a libertarian perspective things that cannot be managed individually fall under the realm of the government. What these things are vary widely in their interpretation. The Libertarian Party has gone really really far out in what they don't support. I like the idea of universal education, the EPA, defense of our borders (no overseas wars). On the other hand I'm not too fond of the FDA, the War on Drugs, or mandating the "Defense of Marriage". The LP pretty much espouses border defense and that's it.
Overall, the LP really has become very conservative which is very sad.
Maybe if you didn't get your libertarian news/opinion pieces from places that are anti-libertarian, you might realize that most of us are reasonable. Just like most people in each political spectrum are reasonable.
I think 'libertarian' has become a code-word like 'socialist' or 'liberal'. Most people don't know what it actually means, they just know they are supposed to hate it because the people who like it are bad.
You can believe in 'l'iberatianism without being a 'L'ibertarian. It's unfortunate that party chose that name. The Democrats aren't the 'P'rogressives so you can remain progressive even when the Democrats start shoveling more troops into Afghanistan and raining money on Wall Street. Similarly the Republicans aren't the 'C'onservatives so you can remain conservative even when Republicans are blowing up the size of Federal Government and borrowing every cent they can.
The 'L'ibertarian party lost me several years ago. I still believe social and economic freedom of libertarianism are good goals to pursue. Unfortunately, like most conservatives, I don't have a party. Even worse, the party that has abandoned my beliefs stole the name.
I can't mention believing in 'l'ibertarianism without being directed to lp.org which I pretty much disagree with at least half their platform.
So I pretty much just nod my head and smile when politics comes up these days. Surprisingly people seem to really like that.
and so you will never find a libertarian who is pro union, even though, according to their ideals, they should be.
I consider myself a libertarian, though I don't always espouse the exact party line of the big 'L' Libertarians.
I fully support unions as a group of freely associating group of people.
Also, I don't consider myself better than others, even those who would tell me that I think I am.
I do believe that the freest market possible provides the greatest benefit to the most individuals, though many people who also believe this are unclear that unfettered capitalism will lead to capital concentration and a non-free market. Therefore regulation is required to approximate one. A true free market is simply a thought experiment and target, it can never be achieved anymore than a marxist economy could.
Because everyone grew up watching Star Trek which clearly shows all computer interfaces are supposed to become glass touchscreens dangit!
Son, in my days I learned all computer interface are rows of large unlabeled plastic toggle switches with lots of randomly colored light bulbs scattered throughout them.
The result is that middle management is crammed with hyper reactive former engineers who jump from task to task on a seconds notice and literally cringe when the phone rings.
Wow! My work is the same way! How do you think we should fix it?!
Do you honestly think an HMO with a profit motive to deny you coverage is any better? I'll take laziness and incompetence over laziness, incompetence and greed any day.
I'll take laziness, incompetence, greed, and the potential to choose an alternative over both of them.
and our citizens in a terrible situation with a government that does nothing. HALF of which is out to slay Obama politically because they're babies.... The republicans i'm speaking about.
At this point the Republicans are significantly less than half.
They do not control the executive at all, and they have no ability to block any legilsation in the Senate.
They are, in fact, nearly powerless. Any lack of progress is solely due to Democrats.
There is also a different global cool myth, which claims that the scientist agreed that such was in store for us around 1970. Hope I didn't steal your thunder;)
There was actually. I remember reading an article about it in magazine in a Doctor's office circa 1980. I recall this quite vividly because I was around 10 at the time and it scared the heck out of me.
Based on every other product Apple has ever produced, a game console from them would be sleek, stylish, cost in excess of $900.00 (us), have only 3 titles available(each of which would require you to repurchase the title when a patch came out), and a controller with only button. Of course it would have an alternate means to use the button, but it would require you to press the option button on the console itself while trying to press the controller button.
The target demographic that's mainly interested in "mash[ing] some buttons to kill the baddies" is the group that's currently buying XBox 360s and Playstation 3s - and, based on sales, it's pretty obvious it's a significantly smaller group than the group buying the Wii
The 360 and PS3 combined have outsold the Wii. When you look at game attach rates, even more so.
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It seems if they have their methodology and processed data resurrecting the original should be trivial.
This had the desired cascading effect of the USSR unable to trust any technology that may have been introduced from non-USSR sources and was considered an extremely significant part of the eventual collapse of the USSR.
This is predicated on the assumption they could not develop their own technology. That was the actual problem.
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Put it this way: I have an exclusive partnership with my wife, and will be sorely disappointed if it means anything other than "to the exclusion of others."
I dunno, that doesn't seem to be the way she's treating it...
Why do you have to call yourself anything at all?
It is simply a convenient point of reference. As I said in another post, in person I generally don't call myself anything anymore. I just nod and agree with whomever is speaking. There is no point in this wasteland of dialogue.
Why do you call yourself a libertarian?
Because if I called myself a Democrat or Republican I couldn't take enough showers to ever feel clean.
All my knowledge of libertarinism is from a little rag called "Ergo" at MIT, which espoused Ayn-Rand "objectivist" policy and was so nutso that some felt it was in fact a communist plot to brainwash the engineers into believing capitalism was unstoppably evil.
Newsflash: Colleges are full of extremist views on all sides.
I really have never looked into, much, what the lp stands for. So what does it stand for that you object to?
They are pretty much out to dismantle the Federal Government. I'd be all up for dismantling a lot of it, but they see very little as the government's purview.
From a libertarian perspective things that cannot be managed individually fall under the realm of the government. What these things are vary widely in their interpretation. The Libertarian Party has gone really really far out in what they don't support. I like the idea of universal education, the EPA, defense of our borders (no overseas wars). On the other hand I'm not too fond of the FDA, the War on Drugs, or mandating the "Defense of Marriage". The LP pretty much espouses border defense and that's it.
Overall, the LP really has become very conservative which is very sad.
Maybe if you didn't get your libertarian news/opinion pieces from places that are anti-libertarian, you might realize that most of us are reasonable. Just like most people in each political spectrum are reasonable.
I think 'libertarian' has become a code-word like 'socialist' or 'liberal'. Most people don't know what it actually means, they just know they are supposed to hate it because the people who like it are bad.
You can believe in 'l'iberatianism without being a 'L'ibertarian. It's unfortunate that party chose that name. The Democrats aren't the 'P'rogressives so you can remain progressive even when the Democrats start shoveling more troops into Afghanistan and raining money on Wall Street. Similarly the Republicans aren't the 'C'onservatives so you can remain conservative even when Republicans are blowing up the size of Federal Government and borrowing every cent they can.
The 'L'ibertarian party lost me several years ago. I still believe social and economic freedom of libertarianism are good goals to pursue. Unfortunately, like most conservatives, I don't have a party. Even worse, the party that has abandoned my beliefs stole the name.
I can't mention believing in 'l'ibertarianism without being directed to lp.org which I pretty much disagree with at least half their platform.
So I pretty much just nod my head and smile when politics comes up these days. Surprisingly people seem to really like that.
and so you will never find a libertarian who is pro union, even though, according to their ideals, they should be.
I consider myself a libertarian, though I don't always espouse the exact party line of the big 'L' Libertarians.
I fully support unions as a group of freely associating group of people.
Also, I don't consider myself better than others, even those who would tell me that I think I am.
I do believe that the freest market possible provides the greatest benefit to the most individuals, though many people who also believe this are unclear that unfettered capitalism will lead to capital concentration and a non-free market. Therefore regulation is required to approximate one. A true free market is simply a thought experiment and target, it can never be achieved anymore than a marxist economy could.
(And I shudder what future archaeologists with do with our pop culture as source material .
Or your post. Your post is barely readable.
Because everyone grew up watching Star Trek which clearly shows all computer interfaces are supposed to become glass touchscreens dangit!
Son, in my days I learned all computer interface are rows of large unlabeled plastic toggle switches with lots of randomly colored light bulbs scattered throughout them.
Also transporters required a slider.
The result is that middle management is crammed with hyper reactive former engineers who jump from task to task on a seconds notice and literally cringe when the phone rings.
Wow! My work is the same way! How do you think we should fix it?!
Any bureaucracy. Government as well.
Sadly, all are lofty goals eventually come down to a sociopathic bureaucrat acting solely to benefit himself.
Do you honestly think an HMO with a profit motive to deny you coverage is any better? I'll take laziness and incompetence over laziness, incompetence and greed any day.
I'll take laziness, incompetence, greed, and the potential to choose an alternative over both of them.
Peace, like marriage, requires that both parties are willing to work towards it.
Then why give out a prize to a single person? It should be shared by two parties that made peace.
and our citizens in a terrible situation with a government that does nothing. HALF of which is out to slay Obama politically because they're babies.... The republicans i'm speaking about.
At this point the Republicans are significantly less than half.
They do not control the executive at all, and they have no ability to block any legilsation in the Senate.
They are, in fact, nearly powerless. Any lack of progress is solely due to Democrats.
Will double width cards fit? Most cards are double width nowadays.
What about SLI? It seems the connectors would be blocked.
There is also a different global cool myth, which claims that the scientist agreed that such was in store for us around 1970. Hope I didn't steal your thunder ;)
There was actually. I remember reading an article about it in magazine in a Doctor's office circa 1980. I recall this quite vividly because I was around 10 at the time and it scared the heck out of me.
Based on every other product Apple has ever produced, a game console from them would be sleek, stylish, cost in excess of $900.00 (us), have only 3 titles available(each of which would require you to repurchase the title when a patch came out), and a controller with only button. Of course it would have an alternate means to use the button, but it would require you to press the option button on the console itself while trying to press the controller button.
That is the iPhone.
Most people do not want to pay $300 for a video game console, and then $10-20 a week to rent games, or $50 to buy.
Most people, perhaps not.
But by the numbers, most households... yes, yes they do.
The target demographic that's mainly interested in "mash[ing] some buttons to kill the baddies" is the group that's currently buying XBox 360s and Playstation 3s - and, based on sales, it's pretty obvious it's a significantly smaller group than the group buying the Wii
The 360 and PS3 combined have outsold the Wii. When you look at game attach rates, even more so.
Given those results, I say we give the human trials a green light!
Just make sure the people running it aren't red/green colorblind.
Is McDonald's the most successful restaurant?
Perhaps fiscally.
But not in my book.