The cost of the entire budget for the armed forces is less than a quarter of our budget. What about the other 2.1 TRILLION DOLLARS the federal government is spending? I don't seem to hear a lot of complaining about that money -- and every attempt to make things like social security opt-in gets shot down and we're told we're out to harm old people. Yes, let's make all federal programs opt-in...
And he's willing to continue it for up to 100 years if that's what it takes.
You are either: a) Intentionally misrepresenting what McCain said, or b) You don't know what he actually said.
What he said was that he wouldn't object to a presence (like the one in Korea, Japan, Germany, or France), for 100 years, so long as Americans aren't being killed. You can see the comment yourself: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VFknKVjuyNk
Or you can just continue to believe the lie spit out by his opponents and happily go on distorting the truth.
He said today he'd order a look at every federal program and stop spending increases dead. So there is that. I don't really like McCain all that much, but there's no way I'm voting for either of the two Democrat frontrunners... The last thing we need is a triangulation between Pelosi, Reid, and (Obama or Hillary) on taxes.
Because the money going to Iraq was previously going toward NASA? No. That's a false line of reasoning; the billions spent in Iraq weren't previously allocated to NASA, and Gore never went out and championed raising the NASA budget. NASA hasn't suffered because of Iraq. NASA has suffered because the people who think space travel is a Good Idea are a distinct minority. Or at least, those of us who are vocal about it... and until there's enough popular support and it's enough of an issue to sway an election? Probably going to keep having a crap budget.
As for Obama, if he tries that, he'll lose congress and a re-election. Just ask the Democrats how the AWB worked out for them in the 1994 election...
They're not doing whatever they want with it. They're selling the physical copy. This is a different.
There was no contract. Therefore, there's no "Well IF they had a contract..." That's totally besides the point. IF they get a contract, then they can expect it to be followed. No one is arguing this.
But if they just send someone a CD -- for free -- then they can't dictate that the person not resell that CD. And since it's for free, I don't know that "first sale" applies.
You forgot to mention the whole carbon footprint of launching something big enough to colonize Mars... something that would probably make Gore have an aneurysm.
Actually, and maybe this is because I have astigmatism, black background and bright text gives me a headache. Only on a computer monitor, actually. It also gets annoying when I look away and can still see the letters -- I don't have the same problem with light background and dark text. Probably because my eye is more adjusted to the brighter monitor. I'm not an expert on the eyes, so I can only guess at the reasons.
But websites with white-on-black typically result in me turning off page colors for the duration and making a note to try and find an alternate source. I don't have the same problem with green on black as long as the green isn't freakishly bright. But white-on-black is literally painful for me.
Watching and thinking "How can he POSSIBLY make this movie worse?"
Then not thirty seconds later, Tara Reid opens her mouth to try and be Hollywood Badass Chick. Or Christian Slater tries to look pensive and ends up looking constipated. Or the movie just continues down the path of shit, in a car made of shit, on the way to shittytown.
Fair warning, however: I watched ALL of Alone in the Dark. I could only watch ten minutes of Highlander: The Source before turning it off in disgust. So there are shittier movies. They just take a LOT of effort to produce.
I still don't know how they fucked up Doom so bad. they turned a movie about demons and hell into a movie about... pretty much the same type of zombies that were in the Resident Evil movie, or (insert 90% of zombie movies).
It's such a damn simple script:
Guy (or even the typical hollywood team-captain-planet crew) trapped on Phobos. He (they) find out that the moon base is directly over hell. It was easier than making Ramen, and they fucked it up. One of the cooler parts of Doom? The creepy-ass "Hell" parts. Like some of the twisted wall textures in the game. It had a mood to it. There was no "omfg a virus that makes you CRAZY!" in Doom.
But as to Turd Boll, see his Alone in the Dark movie. THAT is fucking horrible. I saw it before I realized he was involved, and I rented it without realizing Tara Reid was in it. there's not even any "this is so bad, it's good." It was like all the worst parts of every movie I've ever seen condensed into one shitfest. The only way it could have been worse would be if it had a full on hardcore sex scene between Michael Moore and Jabba the Hut. Actually, in retrospect, I'd probably watch that over Alone in the Dark if I had a gun to my head.
You obviously don't know what the assault weapon ban actually banned. This is common among its supporters.
It did not ban the equivalent of the "BFG" or any sort of military rifle. It did not ban fully automatic weapons -- those were regulated in 1938. Many of the things it banned were cosmetic features.
But don't let the facts get in the way of your spiel about Doom and the BFG.
Dude, Linux is my primary* OS, and I think "M$" is childish and stupid. Not everyone who thinks calling them "M$" is stupid is a microsoft fanboy. I'm *certainly* not.
*As in out of every month I spend less than five hours in Windows. If that.
Sweet. I can't wait until my car radio has 10,000 stations and I have to wade through them all to try to find something that doesn't suck.
I can't find something that doesn't suck now. More radio stations playing more varied things would be a Good Thing(tm).
I don't listen to the radio in the car anymore -- I have an MP3 player for car rides where I'm not listening to news/talk. Because, maybe this is different in big cities but, the selection here sucks goat balls.
I'll grant that point. Maybe it's a libertarian thing; they ignored the Libertarians in 2000 and 2004, but slathered all over Ralph Nader. Yet, in 2004, the Libertarian candidate (Badnarik?) got nearly as many votes as Nader... without the media hype.
Using Rudy Giuliani in your example is sort of flawed. Due to 9/11, he's always going to get some extra coverage. Nobody knew who the hell he was on September 10th, 2001, except for people from New York and people seriously into politics. He was expected to do a lot better than he did -- by pretty much everyone.
Also, Fred Thompson was an actor, so there was that angle, too. He also basically got drafted into running by his few supporters.
Huckabee had the evangelicals (which was stupid, IMO, but that's another post), Romney had a seriously good network, and McCain had that whole "maverick" thing going for him (and the fact that until he won the nomination the media lurved him). I can't recall any other candidates offhand, but each of them had their own reason to get a lot of coverage.
Ron Paul -- I have never met a Ron Paul supporter in person, I don't know anyone who likes him (in person), and I don't know anyone who doesn't think he's nutty. I do, however, know a LOT of people who got really annoyed by his supporters on the internet. Basically spamming any blog, acting like total dickheads in comments and posts, etc.
I also believe if he really had such a great grassroots effort he would have done a lot better. It was a grassroots effort that lobbied congress into not passing immigration reform, against the wishes of a good number of politicians (including Bush, and McCain, and both of the Democrats still running if I'm understanding their positions right). But Paul couldn't even come in second in his own state, in a three man race.
I dunno if that's fair. She spent the entire duration of the Duke case basically calling for the players to be sentenced without a trial. (And then the night the charges were dropped she didn't even appear on her own show!) It's more like "Nancy Grace and the latest thing for her to act like a crazy bitch about."
He didn't associate with Hagee for twenty years. He didn't admit last year to running every major decision by Hagee. He didn't get married in Hagee's church, and Hagee hasn't worked for his campaign.
also, while Hagee has a negative opinion of Catholics, he has not said the horrible racist and conspiracy-theory-idiot things Jeremiah Wright has. I've seen video of the man claiming the government knew about 9/11, claiming Israel was involved in 9/11, and that the government lied about Pearl Harbor. In addition, he's apparently said HIV/AIDS is a government conspiracy to kill black people.
That's a whole hell of a lot more vicious and personal than "omg u catholics are teh suck." The Protestant/Catholic divide is pretty mean-spirited as is. The last thing this country needs, however, is a president in thrall to a racist lunatic. (I know someone will post something or another about how GWB is, but he's not on the ballot, and his term is coming to an end.)
I should clarify that by "more games" I mean "more available than at launch" not "more available than the 360." I'm not sure of the exact count but I'm pretty sure the 360 is still ahead here.
I'm not surprised the PS3 has surpassed it in monthly sales. I'll be surprised, however, when the PS3 surpasses it in total sales. Right now, the PS3 is doing well for a variety of reasons; price drops, more games, and the 360 has really taken a beating over the hardware issues (in my 360-owning opinion). But Microsoft is somewhat of a vast evil empire, and I won't be surprised if they come up with a way to keep second place.
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The cost of the entire budget for the armed forces is less than a quarter of our budget. What about the other 2.1 TRILLION DOLLARS the federal government is spending? I don't seem to hear a lot of complaining about that money -- and every attempt to make things like social security opt-in gets shot down and we're told we're out to harm old people. Yes, let's make all federal programs opt-in...
And he's willing to continue it for up to 100 years if that's what it takes.
You are either:
a) Intentionally misrepresenting what McCain said, or
b) You don't know what he actually said.
What he said was that he wouldn't object to a presence (like the one in Korea, Japan, Germany, or France), for 100 years, so long as Americans aren't being killed. You can see the comment yourself: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VFknKVjuyNk
Or you can just continue to believe the lie spit out by his opponents and happily go on distorting the truth.
He said today he'd order a look at every federal program and stop spending increases dead. So there is that. I don't really like McCain all that much, but there's no way I'm voting for either of the two Democrat frontrunners... The last thing we need is a triangulation between Pelosi, Reid, and (Obama or Hillary) on taxes.
I think that speaks for how ridiculous eBay can be about removing items. Did he get the auction reinstated?
Because the money going to Iraq was previously going toward NASA? No. That's a false line of reasoning; the billions spent in Iraq weren't previously allocated to NASA, and Gore never went out and championed raising the NASA budget. NASA hasn't suffered because of Iraq. NASA has suffered because the people who think space travel is a Good Idea are a distinct minority. Or at least, those of us who are vocal about it... and until there's enough popular support and it's enough of an issue to sway an election? Probably going to keep having a crap budget.
As for Obama, if he tries that, he'll lose congress and a re-election. Just ask the Democrats how the AWB worked out for them in the 1994 election...
They're not doing whatever they want with it. They're selling the physical copy. This is a different.
There was no contract. Therefore, there's no "Well IF they had a contract..." That's totally besides the point. IF they get a contract, then they can expect it to be followed. No one is arguing this.
But if they just send someone a CD -- for free -- then they can't dictate that the person not resell that CD. And since it's for free, I don't know that "first sale" applies.
You forgot to mention the whole carbon footprint of launching something big enough to colonize Mars... something that would probably make Gore have an aneurysm.
I was thinking Mahmoud Ahmedinijad (or however his lastname is spelled). I'm pretty sure bin Laden doesn't have internet in his cave.
Actually, and maybe this is because I have astigmatism, black background and bright text gives me a headache. Only on a computer monitor, actually. It also gets annoying when I look away and can still see the letters -- I don't have the same problem with light background and dark text. Probably because my eye is more adjusted to the brighter monitor. I'm not an expert on the eyes, so I can only guess at the reasons.
But websites with white-on-black typically result in me turning off page colors for the duration and making a note to try and find an alternate source. I don't have the same problem with green on black as long as the green isn't freakishly bright. But white-on-black is literally painful for me.
The most redeeming part of Alone in the dark:
Watching and thinking "How can he POSSIBLY make this movie worse?"
Then not thirty seconds later, Tara Reid opens her mouth to try and be Hollywood Badass Chick. Or Christian Slater tries to look pensive and ends up looking constipated. Or the movie just continues down the path of shit, in a car made of shit, on the way to shittytown.
Fair warning, however: I watched ALL of Alone in the Dark. I could only watch ten minutes of Highlander: The Source before turning it off in disgust. So there are shittier movies. They just take a LOT of effort to produce.
Two words: Roseanne Barr.
I still don't know how they fucked up Doom so bad. they turned a movie about demons and hell into a movie about... pretty much the same type of zombies that were in the Resident Evil movie, or (insert 90% of zombie movies).
It's such a damn simple script:
Guy (or even the typical hollywood team-captain-planet crew) trapped on Phobos. He (they) find out that the moon base is directly over hell. It was easier than making Ramen, and they fucked it up. One of the cooler parts of Doom? The creepy-ass "Hell" parts. Like some of the twisted wall textures in the game. It had a mood to it. There was no "omfg a virus that makes you CRAZY!" in Doom.
But as to Turd Boll, see his Alone in the Dark movie. THAT is fucking horrible. I saw it before I realized he was involved, and I rented it without realizing Tara Reid was in it. there's not even any "this is so bad, it's good." It was like all the worst parts of every movie I've ever seen condensed into one shitfest. The only way it could have been worse would be if it had a full on hardcore sex scene between Michael Moore and Jabba the Hut. Actually, in retrospect, I'd probably watch that over Alone in the Dark if I had a gun to my head.
You obviously don't know what the assault weapon ban actually banned. This is common among its supporters.
It did not ban the equivalent of the "BFG" or any sort of military rifle. It did not ban fully automatic weapons -- those were regulated in 1938. Many of the things it banned were cosmetic features.
But don't let the facts get in the way of your spiel about Doom and the BFG.
Nobody at the NRA is pushing for citizens to own nukes.
In fact, nobody at the NRA is pushing for citizens to have fully-automatic weapons (which have been regulated since 1938), either.
Dude, Linux is my primary* OS, and I think "M$" is childish and stupid. Not everyone who thinks calling them "M$" is stupid is a microsoft fanboy. I'm *certainly* not.
*As in out of every month I spend less than five hours in Windows. If that.
Sweet. I can't wait until my car radio has 10,000 stations and I have to wade through them all to try to find something that doesn't suck.
I can't find something that doesn't suck now. More radio stations playing more varied things would be a Good Thing(tm).
I don't listen to the radio in the car anymore -- I have an MP3 player for car rides where I'm not listening to news/talk. Because, maybe this is different in big cities but, the selection here sucks goat balls.
I'll grant that point. Maybe it's a libertarian thing; they ignored the Libertarians in 2000 and 2004, but slathered all over Ralph Nader. Yet, in 2004, the Libertarian candidate (Badnarik?) got nearly as many votes as Nader... without the media hype.
Yes, of course. Sensing a liberal bias when CBS uses faked documents and defends them for a month is because what the Republicans did is that bad...
I'm not sure how the exploding trucks thing is a liberal bias, unless the trucks were designed to explode by Karl Rove!
Did you even read the post you replied to?
Using Rudy Giuliani in your example is sort of flawed. Due to 9/11, he's always going to get some extra coverage. Nobody knew who the hell he was on September 10th, 2001, except for people from New York and people seriously into politics. He was expected to do a lot better than he did -- by pretty much everyone.
Also, Fred Thompson was an actor, so there was that angle, too. He also basically got drafted into running by his few supporters.
Huckabee had the evangelicals (which was stupid, IMO, but that's another post), Romney had a seriously good network, and McCain had that whole "maverick" thing going for him (and the fact that until he won the nomination the media lurved him). I can't recall any other candidates offhand, but each of them had their own reason to get a lot of coverage.
Ron Paul -- I have never met a Ron Paul supporter in person, I don't know anyone who likes him (in person), and I don't know anyone who doesn't think he's nutty. I do, however, know a LOT of people who got really annoyed by his supporters on the internet. Basically spamming any blog, acting like total dickheads in comments and posts, etc.
I also believe if he really had such a great grassroots effort he would have done a lot better. It was a grassroots effort that lobbied congress into not passing immigration reform, against the wishes of a good number of politicians (including Bush, and McCain, and both of the Democrats still running if I'm understanding their positions right). But Paul couldn't even come in second in his own state, in a three man race.
I dunno if that's fair. She spent the entire duration of the Duke case basically calling for the players to be sentenced without a trial. (And then the night the charges were dropped she didn't even appear on her own show!) It's more like "Nancy Grace and the latest thing for her to act like a crazy bitch about."
Oh no, he got an endorsement from a kook.
He didn't associate with Hagee for twenty years. He didn't admit last year to running every major decision by Hagee. He didn't get married in Hagee's church, and Hagee hasn't worked for his campaign.
also, while Hagee has a negative opinion of Catholics, he has not said the horrible racist and conspiracy-theory-idiot things Jeremiah Wright has. I've seen video of the man claiming the government knew about 9/11, claiming Israel was involved in 9/11, and that the government lied about Pearl Harbor. In addition, he's apparently said HIV/AIDS is a government conspiracy to kill black people.
That's a whole hell of a lot more vicious and personal than "omg u catholics are teh suck." The Protestant/Catholic divide is pretty mean-spirited as is. The last thing this country needs, however, is a president in thrall to a racist lunatic. (I know someone will post something or another about how GWB is, but he's not on the ballot, and his term is coming to an end.)
It's not a mod on that post. He normally posts at 0. (I thought it was odd, too, so I looked at his record.)
I should clarify that by "more games" I mean "more available than at launch" not "more available than the 360." I'm not sure of the exact count but I'm pretty sure the 360 is still ahead here.
I'm not surprised the PS3 has surpassed it in monthly sales. I'll be surprised, however, when the PS3 surpasses it in total sales. Right now, the PS3 is doing well for a variety of reasons; price drops, more games, and the 360 has really taken a beating over the hardware issues (in my 360-owning opinion). But Microsoft is somewhat of a vast evil empire, and I won't be surprised if they come up with a way to keep second place.
Man, when I read the title of this, I thought you were saying they were patenting "users that are annoying" by "annoying users."
That would be AWESOME...