Actualy, I have more respect for my father because he quit working a temp job at an electronics store (he had previously been fired) because the owner had questionable business practices. Never mind that he was unemployed for 6 months after that and we had to be very tight with money. I hav a hell of a lot fo respect for him for doing what he did.
Granted, it would be nie if he could pronounce words properly. But there are many factors that go into this, including level of comfort as a public speaker. This guy really has a lot of preassure on him during his big speeches, and little slip ups can be expected.
Also, until the mid 1990's pronouncing it Nu-ku-lar was fairly common. I remember asking why it wasn't pronounced the way it was spelled when I was a kid. It's only been recently that people have begun using nuclear as the actual pronuciation.
How do you think the systems communicate with each other? How does the alarm system in home x tell the monitoring station in city y that the house is on fire, and then how do you think the monitoring station in city y alerts the fire department in city x that house x is on fire?
I would like to point out that according to CNN and various other news sources, the requested additional 87 billion is not just for Iraq, but also for afganistan. So in all, it seems like a halfway decent deal to me.
Besides, in terms of the government, 187 Billion dollars is not a whole lot of money.
IT Contractor? As in Information Technology? As in the internet and communication between computers and devices? As in the very projects that were started by DARPA?
Yes you elect your president according to the terms laid out in the constitution. Your failure to understand the system is in no way a statement about the validity of the election.
PARTIOT and DMCA you also had a hand in. You elected the congress men, you elected the senators. It was your responsibility to loby for or against each act. Likewise, it is your responsiblity now to continue such lobbying.
And yes, you have rights.
Computer smulations and research is not the same as live fire testing. It's naive to think that the other countries don't do the same.
Yes, we have improved our weapons. To be more accurate, to be more stable and to be more precision so that if they need to be used, they eliminate the target, and minimize any other damage.
DU weapons are not dirty weapons. Please read the WHO report on DU and combat zones. Thank you.
I bet you they would have said the same thing about a netowrk of computer systems that monitors for fires and then provides the location of a fire over a series of interconnected wires.
I'd posit that there are better ways to have the same outcome, get the same cool products to market, without having to build weapons of mass distruction which then have to be sold to someone to justify their creation.
I don't know, I've been reading a bit on the history of aviation, and one of the things that strikes me as odd is how little private companies were willing to fund research into aviation. Really the big drive for aviation research came from military researchers arround the world who saw the military potential of aviation. Until that point, aviation was mostly a novelty.
Because in the end, I still get to choose where my money goes.
Funding the arts by government may have worked in the past, but it doesn't work well under our government, namely because of freedom of speech isssues.
And while it's nice that the government funding gives all artists enough money to live comfortably, I don't believe the government should be doing that. Hell, I can claim I'm an artist, I put colors on a piece of paper and call it art. Nobody is buying? They just don't appreciate my art.
Yes, some artists have millions, others are at the bottom and working two jobs to make ends meet. That's life my friend. Up untill the 1940's or so, almost all artists were down and out. There's a reason for the term "Starving Artist" and a reason why people who wanted to be artists were always told to have a backup plan. Because it's a cold and hard business that requires more effort than most people think.
Don't bother replying. I was unimpressed with your nit-picking and won't read anything further from you.
Your inability to deal with real and valid criticism of your plan is not an excuse to ignore the complaints. Yes, it is easy to criticise a system before it's fully fleshed out. That's how you find problems. I found problems, provide solutions. Problems don't go away by sticking your head in the sand.
How about a small amount of money is given out indiscriminantly to all PG13-rated or less music
Who rates the music?
additional funds based on popularity of the music over time?
How do you determine popularity? By what's played on the radio? What if musician A has more money than B and pays Radio Station Y to play his song twice a day instead of once a day?
How do you regulate what get's played? Stuff played at 1am has less of a chance of being heard than stuff at 12 noon.
as part of the free music deal you have to agree to see random banners displayed for all music groups, with no distributor-specified weighting.
So basicaly you're describing radio, except now instead of being able to change the station when the commercials come on, I'm going to have to watch blinking ans ever increasingly annoying ads just to listen to my music?
The promotion of music outside of the distribution system should be extremely limited and regulated to prevent creation of a bias against those with less of a marketing budget who still might have good talent.
Limiting free speech much?
Users who download an inordinate amount of music could be required to obtain a higher-use access account, for maybe something like 2x the price, or could pay on a per-song basis.
so it's not quite like radio, instead I have to subscribe and I have to pay more just because I appreciate music more? And why should it cost more to me? If the artists are getting paid the same anyways, it doesn't matter if I download 1 or a thousand songs, they're all getting paid so there is no loss to them if I download more.
I think this sounds like an ideal system of artistic distribution
No, given a choice between the system you have set forth and a system based on the current distribution methods, I think I'll take the current system.
Again, I said on the desktop. Now, if you would like to explain to someone how to navigate through the windows filesystem to find their desktop you can. I would rather just tell them, clikc on the desktop, click on the File Menu, click on New Folder
Task bar does not exist in the Mac OS, at best you could say the Dock, but the Dock does have a real world counterpart, a menu (like a McDonalds menu) see what you want and click it.
Hoverover is not used in OS X as far as I know except in third party programs.
Scroll bars granted have little resemblence to anything in the real world, but what else is there to use? Besides, scroll bars are faily intuitive anyways, down to scroll down, up to scroll up.
Just like the second mouse button?
No. In windows, the second mouse button is REQUIRED for many tasks. For example (and one that a novice user might want to do) there is no way to create a new folder on my desktop in windows without using the second mouse button.
Not quite, drang and drop is a very simple and intuitive concept to most users. I have never had to explain more than once to a person how it works, becuase it's designed to work just like it would in the real world.
However, second button context menus have no real world equivilent. As such, they are much harder to use and learn for novices.
Next up, modifiers keys yes take some effort to learn, but the beauty is, they aren't required. Everything that can be done from a modifier key can be done without it as well. Modifier keys are dsigned to make things faster for a more advanced user.
Finaly the issue of the function keys. The function keys in and of themselves do nothing in the OS. They are assigned extra and highlighted functions such as brightness and volume on the laptops, but otherwise, their function is limited to user defined functions. Even exposes can be changed to a different setting and does not require the use of function keys to work.
It really hasn't been that long. If you look at apple's past history, their products tend to be on a rotation of roughly every 6 months. So, since the powerbooks were updated last Feb, they would not have recieved any new updates untill sept or oct.
Because it as part of a genuine "well-ordered militia"; all Swiss males have to have military training. It's so you can defend the nation against invaders, not take potshots at anyone you think may be a threat.
I didn't say trainig should not be a part of gun ownership.
are the chances that a truly fucked up dickhead gets a hold of one of these squillion guns and shoots someone??
Very low. Ever wonder why these truely fucked up people you talk about never go on shooting sprees in police stations or on army barracks? Ever notice how you never hear of a gun shop owner being held up? I can't recall a single time I have ever heard of an armed citizen being robbed.
If you were going to mug someone. And you knew for a fact that your target was armed, and that every person in the nearby vacinity was armed. Would you go shooting?
now what if u couldn't get any guns... like say in australia??
whats the chances of someone getting one of these guns which no body has??
Much higher. Consider, if no one has a gun, what are the chances that you will own a gun that no one else has? Very high.
less guns means less deaths
So why does Switzerland, a country whihc REQUIRES it's citizens to have guns, have one of the lowest crime rates across the world? Why does Australia have the HIGHEST crime rate, while the US ranks in only at 13?
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It probably wouldn't fly, but sadly not because it's against the law, but because people are hypersensative on race issues.
Actualy, I have more respect for my father because he quit working a temp job at an electronics store (he had previously been fired) because the owner had questionable business practices. Never mind that he was unemployed for 6 months after that and we had to be very tight with money. I hav a hell of a lot fo respect for him for doing what he did.
Granted, it would be nie if he could pronounce words properly. But there are many factors that go into this, including level of comfort as a public speaker. This guy really has a lot of preassure on him during his big speeches, and little slip ups can be expected.
Also, until the mid 1990's pronouncing it Nu-ku-lar was fairly common. I remember asking why it wasn't pronounced the way it was spelled when I was a kid. It's only been recently that people have begun using nuclear as the actual pronuciation.
How do you think the systems communicate with each other? How does the alarm system in home x tell the monitoring station in city y that the house is on fire, and then how do you think the monitoring station in city y alerts the fire department in city x that house x is on fire?
Really, so all that DOD and DARPA money that was dumped into the internet and computers is just a figment of our colective imaginations right?
I would like to point out that according to CNN and various other news sources, the requested additional 87 billion is not just for Iraq, but also for afganistan. So in all, it seems like a halfway decent deal to me.
Besides, in terms of the government, 187 Billion dollars is not a whole lot of money.
IT Contractor? As in Information Technology? As in the internet and communication between computers and devices? As in the very projects that were started by DARPA?
Sigh.
Yes you elect your president according to the terms laid out in the constitution. Your failure to understand the system is in no way a statement about the validity of the election.
PARTIOT and DMCA you also had a hand in. You elected the congress men, you elected the senators. It was your responsibility to loby for or against each act. Likewise, it is your responsiblity now to continue such lobbying.
And yes, you have rights.
Computer smulations and research is not the same as live fire testing. It's naive to think that the other countries don't do the same.
Yes, we have improved our weapons. To be more accurate, to be more stable and to be more precision so that if they need to be used, they eliminate the target, and minimize any other damage.
DU weapons are not dirty weapons. Please read the WHO report on DU and combat zones. Thank you.
And as for your last comment, ad hominem much?
I bet you they would have said the same thing about a netowrk of computer systems that monitors for fires and then provides the location of a fire over a series of interconnected wires.
I'd posit that there are better ways to have the same outcome, get the same cool products to market, without having to build weapons of mass distruction which then have to be sold to someone to justify their creation.
I don't know, I've been reading a bit on the history of aviation, and one of the things that strikes me as odd is how little private companies were willing to fund research into aviation. Really the big drive for aviation research came from military researchers arround the world who saw the military potential of aviation. Until that point, aviation was mostly a novelty.
Because in the end, I still get to choose where my money goes.
Funding the arts by government may have worked in the past, but it doesn't work well under our government, namely because of freedom of speech isssues.
And while it's nice that the government funding gives all artists enough money to live comfortably, I don't believe the government should be doing that. Hell, I can claim I'm an artist, I put colors on a piece of paper and call it art. Nobody is buying? They just don't appreciate my art.
Yes, some artists have millions, others are at the bottom and working two jobs to make ends meet. That's life my friend. Up untill the 1940's or so, almost all artists were down and out. There's a reason for the term "Starving Artist" and a reason why people who wanted to be artists were always told to have a backup plan. Because it's a cold and hard business that requires more effort than most people think.
Don't bother replying. I was unimpressed with your nit-picking and won't read anything further from you.
Your inability to deal with real and valid criticism of your plan is not an excuse to ignore the complaints. Yes, it is easy to criticise a system before it's fully fleshed out. That's how you find problems. I found problems, provide solutions. Problems don't go away by sticking your head in the sand.
Install it anyway. I've run into that a couple of times in the installer programs, they don't properly estimate the nessesary size for the install.
How about a small amount of money is given out indiscriminantly to all PG13-rated or less music
Who rates the music?
additional funds based on popularity of the music over time?
How do you determine popularity? By what's played on the radio? What if musician A has more money than B and pays Radio Station Y to play his song twice a day instead of once a day?
How do you regulate what get's played? Stuff played at 1am has less of a chance of being heard than stuff at 12 noon.
as part of the free music deal you have to agree to see random banners displayed for all music groups, with no distributor-specified weighting.
So basicaly you're describing radio, except now instead of being able to change the station when the commercials come on, I'm going to have to watch blinking ans ever increasingly annoying ads just to listen to my music?
The promotion of music outside of the distribution system should be extremely limited and regulated to prevent creation of a bias against those with less of a marketing budget who still might have good talent.
Limiting free speech much?
Users who download an inordinate amount of music could be required to obtain a higher-use access account, for maybe something like 2x the price, or could pay on a per-song basis.
so it's not quite like radio, instead I have to subscribe and I have to pay more just because I appreciate music more? And why should it cost more to me? If the artists are getting paid the same anyways, it doesn't matter if I download 1 or a thousand songs, they're all getting paid so there is no loss to them if I download more.
I think this sounds like an ideal system of artistic distribution
No, given a choice between the system you have set forth and a system based on the current distribution methods, I think I'll take the current system.
What about religious music groups? Can you imagine the uproar the day christian rock recieves funding?
only untill the end of the year
The DRM has long been cracked, it's called a re-encode. The issue here is whether it would be legal to resell the original file.
And what happens when the government starts denying funding to groups that it deems in appropriate?
Or they could theoreticaly set it up so that a song could be transfered from one account owner to another. But it's impractical again
Again, I said on the desktop. Now, if you would like to explain to someone how to navigate through the windows filesystem to find their desktop you can. I would rather just tell them, clikc on the desktop, click on the File Menu, click on New Folder
Task bar does not exist in the Mac OS, at best you could say the Dock, but the Dock does have a real world counterpart, a menu (like a McDonalds menu) see what you want and click it.
Hoverover is not used in OS X as far as I know except in third party programs.
Scroll bars granted have little resemblence to anything in the real world, but what else is there to use? Besides, scroll bars are faily intuitive anyways, down to scroll down, up to scroll up.
Just like the second mouse button?
No. In windows, the second mouse button is REQUIRED for many tasks. For example (and one that a novice user might want to do) there is no way to create a new folder on my desktop in windows without using the second mouse button.
And what pray tell is preventing you from doing this in OS X?
Not quite, drang and drop is a very simple and intuitive concept to most users. I have never had to explain more than once to a person how it works, becuase it's designed to work just like it would in the real world.
However, second button context menus have no real world equivilent. As such, they are much harder to use and learn for novices.
Next up, modifiers keys yes take some effort to learn, but the beauty is, they aren't required. Everything that can be done from a modifier key can be done without it as well. Modifier keys are dsigned to make things faster for a more advanced user.
Finaly the issue of the function keys. The function keys in and of themselves do nothing in the OS. They are assigned extra and highlighted functions such as brightness and volume on the laptops, but otherwise, their function is limited to user defined functions. Even exposes can be changed to a different setting and does not require the use of function keys to work.
It really hasn't been that long. If you look at apple's past history, their products tend to be on a rotation of roughly every 6 months. So, since the powerbooks were updated last Feb, they would not have recieved any new updates untill sept or oct.
Because it as part of a genuine "well-ordered militia"; all Swiss males have to have military training. It's so you can defend the nation against invaders, not take potshots at anyone you think may be a threat.
I didn't say trainig should not be a part of gun ownership.
LIAR!!!!
Show me some evidence! (I'm Australian)
Read the article I linked.
are the chances that a truly fucked up dickhead gets a hold of one of these squillion guns and shoots someone??
... like say in australia??
Very low. Ever wonder why these truely fucked up people you talk about never go on shooting sprees in police stations or on army barracks? Ever notice how you never hear of a gun shop owner being held up? I can't recall a single time I have ever heard of an armed citizen being robbed.
If you were going to mug someone. And you knew for a fact that your target was armed, and that every person in the nearby vacinity was armed. Would you go shooting?
now what if u couldn't get any guns
Ah yes, like Australia
whats the chances of someone getting one of these guns which no body has??
Much higher. Consider, if no one has a gun, what are the chances that you will own a gun that no one else has? Very high.
less guns means less deaths
So why does Switzerland, a country whihc REQUIRES it's citizens to have guns, have one of the lowest crime rates across the world? Why does Australia have the HIGHEST crime rate, while the US ranks in only at 13?