Bush has already been asked this. A written version of this question will provide us some precious anecdote about how he shouldn't have gotten his dog fixed.
here you go. Q Thank you, Mr. President. In the last campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you'd made in your life, and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. You've looked back before 9/11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons have you learned from it?
THE PRESIDENT: I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it. (Laughter.) John, I'm sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could have done it better this way, or that way. You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.
I would have gone into Afghanistan the way we went into Afghanistan. Even knowing what I know today about the stockpiles of weapons, I still would have called upon the world to deal with Saddam Hussein. See, I happen to believe that we'll find out the truth on the weapons. That's why we've sent up the independent commission. I look forward to hearing the truth, exactly where they are. They could still be there. They could be hidden, like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm.
One of the things that Charlie Duelfer talked about was that he was surprised at the level of intimidation he found amongst people who should know about weapons, and their fear of talking about them because they don't want to be killed. There's a terror still in the soul of some of the people in Iraq; they're worried about getting killed, and, therefore, they're not going to talk.
But it will all settle out, John. We'll find out the truth about the weapons at some point in time. However, the fact that he had the capacity to make them bothers me today, just like it would have bothered me then. He's a dangerous man. He's a man who actually -- not only had weapons of mass destruction -- the reason I can say that with certainty is because he used them. And I have no doubt in my mind that he would like to have inflicted harm, or paid people to inflict harm, or trained people to inflict harm on America, because he hated us.
I hope I -- I don't want to sound like I've made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.
Why won't you answer any of the fucking questions?
Thousands of people poured over the wording, grammar, and nature of these questions, making them as simple and clear as possible, yet both of you won't ANSWER THEM.
We don't want to hear you talk about unrelated crap that has nothing to do with the questions in front of you, we don't want a rambling missive about the failings of your opponent(s), we don't want a speech riddled with prewritten soundbites. We want answers.
You're posting, at 3 am. to this story.
You have over 2200 posts.
You mod your pals +5 Funny and -1 Troll. In real life.
You constantly Profit! from ???
You can imagine a beowulf cluster of sandwitches.
You wonder if linux can run on your girlfreind.
You snicker at the last one, because you don't know any girls.
You can spot a goatse link from a mile away.
You are no longer shocked by goatse.
You still can't figure out why/. changed to a non-number karma system, if pageviews make them $$$, you probably bought the new server which you constantly stress.
You never get mod points.
You know all my posts are hilarious.
why are musicians pursuing the dollar when their only goal should be the love of music. Doesn't compensation only corrupt their work?
One could ask the same of you. Does your minimum wage paycheck corrupt the way you flip burgers?
Please don't presume you know what musicians want or need.
Making music is like everything else in some respects - doing it well is difficult and a lot of very hard work. Musicians and songwriters create something out of thin air. Not many 'products' can claim that.
There are always going to be people who will create music for the love of it, and that's great. Don't lump everyone in with them. You don't make fries and shakes for free; why should songwriters and musicians *have* to offer their work for nothing?
If you like it - buy it. If you don't, don't give the **AAs legitamacy by downloading it. If you don't want to pay for music or support the RIAA, there's enough out there that doesn't cost anything, and is freely shared, or sold by artists themselves. Enjoy.
Music copyrights are being lengthened all the time. Left unchecked, eventually copyright extensions will be subject to diminishing returns, as the body of music grows, 'record' collections expand, there will be less money to be made from music that should have gone to public domain, as less will be 'repurchaced' and more variety will be available.
Many ad agencies, when making a commercial for TV, use music that has not been cleared. When the commercial is ready for production, they have someone record a 'similar' version with different chords or a melody that differs only slightly - enough that it is considered a separate work, and no license is required. Clearing copyright for movies is similar - a license for distribution in a movie is subject to contracts as long as your leg and the price is shooting ever higher.
I predict that the music industry will move to have the mood and 'feel' of a song copyrighted. Just think of the money to be made by copyrighting a genre or production style of music!
If the music industry can copyright the 'feel' or production style of a song, they will have what they always wanted - absolute control over who makes and distributes music. Independent songwriters who write a song that has a similar style to the Beatles 'Blackbird' will have to clear the copyright on that 'style'. Bands will be prevented from writing or performing 'a song that sounds like Led Zepplin'.
Yes, it sounds far fetched, yes, it is fraught with loopholes, opinion, and subjectiveness.
But it would make them rich, and it would make them all-powerful.
Why not take ed2k, rename it 200 times, make each version have it's own separate network.
Ideally, name them all profanely, such as fuckcock, shitcunt, ect.
That way, you make the **AA's press releases completely useless, the evening news won't talk about it, the networks are far less likely to be full of fake files, as there are too many to police.
I'm not doing anything that I'm afraid they'll find out about.
Yet.
Funny - a few years ago it was legal to to reverse engineer things, and post the results. Now we have the DMCA.
I guess you can continue in your mistaken belief that what you do now won't potentialy be held against you later.
It's a crazy world, run by people who want to keep what they have, and gather more. If they think you or your 'innocent' doings threaten their way of life, your ass will be legislated to illegality in the blink of an eye.
After all, it's far easier to do what you want to people when they're all criminals.
A browser is not a 'window to the internet' but IS the Internet to most clueless users. Even though these same people would be able to tell you that, 'No, there aren't little people putting on a play for me inside my TV.', they still don't know the most basic things about using the computer.
The tower case is the 'hard drive', the monitor is the 'computer', and even after being repeatedly told and shown what the correct terms are, it's gone in an hour.
My dad is a perfect example. One of the first things he would do on my infrequent visits home, is take off his digital watch and have me adjust it for daylight savings time.
"Hey, Pops - let me show you how to do this. It's easy."
"Don't bother, I will never remember. Just set it."
Ahhhrg. People don't remember, because they don't *want* to. I am constantly amazed at the lengths people will go to in order *not* to learn something.
I've been changing songs on my iPod by rotating the entire thing around my stationary finger. I sure was having doubts about Apple until I read this - I mean, that's a ton of work.
Thank you for revealing the secret!
I'm wondering if there isn't a secret behind other things too, like my TV's remote control. It works alright, but it's tough to push the little buttons on the TV with it sometimes.
Ha! Got you both beat! I have, in my possession, a television used in the watching of the Matrix movies, the LOTR trilogy, *the Making of Star Wars*, and countless other Sci-Fi classics!
It's a fine example of a 1998 21" Magnavox, and I will let it go very resonably, say... $250,000.
the Walmart photo website had a digital senior moment, and exchanged all of my photos with some random family's photos. My photos were of no consequence, (copies of product photos for work) but the photos they were replaced with were a window on a very poor family who lived in a trailer, had a t-topped Firebird up on blocks, and were suffering from poor dental hygiene.
There were about thirty-some shots that were all stereotypical 'poor southern family'. Very odd, and a little sad, until you realized that they were genuinely smiling in every picture.
Interesting stories played out in my head about this family until I got my boring pics back.
not since 10.3 ($29) - I'm on 10.3.5. Faster every time.
Of course MS is making users pay each upgrade - with their exploit ridden code, poor programming decisions, and heavy handed activation tactics, inconsistent UI, predatory business practices, FUD-filled marketing and the push to DRM lock in - every user of Windows pays. Through the nose.
I will happily move up to 10.4 when it comes out, and pay for it too. I like supporting a company that fixes exploits before they've been in the wild for months, that introduces features that MS can't touch for years, and provides an OS that doesn't work against me.
If it's not a worthless OEM copy of Windows that makes you format your drive in order to re-install, it's patch after patch after patch, or exploit after exploit after exploit.
They are a convicted monopoly that uses its market share to put others out of business, and has the gall to call it 'innovation'.
They take standards agreed upon and 'embrace and extend' them until they are ruined for everyone. They lie, cheat, steal, patent obvious things, and sue kids named Mike Rowe.
They hide APIs from everyone except their own devs, they break others to cause problems for competitors, and insist that open source is for terrorists and communists.
I hold the dubious honor of introducing the first Bender character to Comic Chat. I painstakingly copied him from a 'sneak preview' of Futurerama in some magazine.
There was only a couple of shots of him, so I had to add some more for the expressions. IIRC, it featured him taking a bottle of 'xxx' out of his chest. I haven't used CC in years, but I thought it was nifty at the time. Occasionally, inadvertent comedy resulted from sudden placement in a new frame.
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10 GOTO 20
20 GOTO 10
30 PRINT "Insightful Answer!":END
here you go.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. In the last campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you'd made in your life, and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. You've looked back before 9/11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons have you learned from it?
THE PRESIDENT: I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it. (Laughter.) John, I'm sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could have done it better this way, or that way. You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.
I would have gone into Afghanistan the way we went into Afghanistan. Even knowing what I know today about the stockpiles of weapons, I still would have called upon the world to deal with Saddam Hussein. See, I happen to believe that we'll find out the truth on the weapons. That's why we've sent up the independent commission. I look forward to hearing the truth, exactly where they are. They could still be there. They could be hidden, like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm.
One of the things that Charlie Duelfer talked about was that he was surprised at the level of intimidation he found amongst people who should know about weapons, and their fear of talking about them because they don't want to be killed. There's a terror still in the soul of some of the people in Iraq; they're worried about getting killed, and, therefore, they're not going to talk.
But it will all settle out, John. We'll find out the truth about the weapons at some point in time. However, the fact that he had the capacity to make them bothers me today, just like it would have bothered me then. He's a dangerous man. He's a man who actually -- not only had weapons of mass destruction -- the reason I can say that with certainty is because he used them. And I have no doubt in my mind that he would like to have inflicted harm, or paid people to inflict harm, or trained people to inflict harm on America, because he hated us.
I hope I -- I don't want to sound like I've made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.
Which immediate family member would you send into the midst of the most vicious fighting, and why?
Thousands of people poured over the wording, grammar, and nature of these questions, making them as simple and clear as possible, yet both of you won't ANSWER THEM.
We don't want to hear you talk about unrelated crap that has nothing to do with the questions in front of you, we don't want a rambling missive about the failings of your opponent(s), we don't want a speech riddled with prewritten soundbites. We want answers.
When will we get simple, clear answers?
You're posting, at 3 am. to this story. /. changed to a non-number karma system, if pageviews make them $$$, you probably bought the new server which you constantly stress.
You have over 2200 posts.
You mod your pals +5 Funny and -1 Troll. In real life.
You constantly Profit! from ???
You can imagine a beowulf cluster of sandwitches.
You wonder if linux can run on your girlfreind.
You snicker at the last one, because you don't know any girls.
You can spot a goatse link from a mile away.
You are no longer shocked by goatse.
You still can't figure out why
You never get mod points.
You know all my posts are hilarious.
Just thought I'd warn you.
Signed,
Steve Jobs
One could ask the same of you. Does your minimum wage paycheck corrupt the way you flip burgers?
Please don't presume you know what musicians want or need.
Making music is like everything else in some respects - doing it well is difficult and a lot of very hard work. Musicians and songwriters create something out of thin air. Not many 'products' can claim that.
There are always going to be people who will create music for the love of it, and that's great. Don't lump everyone in with them. You don't make fries and shakes for free; why should songwriters and musicians *have* to offer their work for nothing?
If you like it - buy it. If you don't, don't give the **AAs legitamacy by downloading it. If you don't want to pay for music or support the RIAA, there's enough out there that doesn't cost anything, and is freely shared, or sold by artists themselves. Enjoy.
Well, what do you know? Those pages were stuck together.
How did that happen?
oh.
Many ad agencies, when making a commercial for TV, use music that has not been cleared. When the commercial is ready for production, they have someone record a 'similar' version with different chords or a melody that differs only slightly - enough that it is considered a separate work, and no license is required. Clearing copyright for movies is similar - a license for distribution in a movie is subject to contracts as long as your leg and the price is shooting ever higher.
I predict that the music industry will move to have the mood and 'feel' of a song copyrighted. Just think of the money to be made by copyrighting a genre or production style of music! If the music industry can copyright the 'feel' or production style of a song, they will have what they always wanted - absolute control over who makes and distributes music. Independent songwriters who write a song that has a similar style to the Beatles 'Blackbird' will have to clear the copyright on that 'style'. Bands will be prevented from writing or performing 'a song that sounds like Led Zepplin'.
Yes, it sounds far fetched, yes, it is fraught with loopholes, opinion, and subjectiveness.
But it would make them rich, and it would make them all-powerful.
Watch for it.
Ideally, name them all profanely, such as fuckcock, shitcunt, ect.
That way, you make the **AA's press releases completely useless, the evening news won't talk about it, the networks are far less likely to be full of fake files, as there are too many to police.
Meanwhile, I will continue to use Shitwhorrent!
It works already!
Yet.
Funny - a few years ago it was legal to to reverse engineer things, and post the results. Now we have the DMCA.
I guess you can continue in your mistaken belief that what you do now won't potentialy be held against you later.
It's a crazy world, run by people who want to keep what they have, and gather more. If they think you or your 'innocent' doings threaten their way of life, your ass will be legislated to illegality in the blink of an eye.
After all, it's far easier to do what you want to people when they're all criminals.
Wait and see.
That is, indeed, what he did. :)
Now I'm holding out for him to return to the hand-cranked phone.
The tower case is the 'hard drive', the monitor is the 'computer', and even after being repeatedly told and shown what the correct terms are, it's gone in an hour.
My dad is a perfect example. One of the first things he would do on my infrequent visits home, is take off his digital watch and have me adjust it for daylight savings time.
"Hey, Pops - let me show you how to do this. It's easy."
"Don't bother, I will never remember. Just set it."
Ahhhrg. People don't remember, because they don't *want* to. I am constantly amazed at the lengths people will go to in order *not* to learn something.
First result of Ask Jeeves: Hmm?
First result of Google: Ahem.
There you have it.
Thank you for revealing the secret!
I'm wondering if there isn't a secret behind other things too, like my TV's remote control. It works alright, but it's tough to push the little buttons on the TV with it sometimes.
It's a fine example of a 1998 21" Magnavox, and I will let it go very resonably, say... $250,000.
No unreasonable offer refused.
There were about thirty-some shots that were all stereotypical 'poor southern family'. Very odd, and a little sad, until you realized that they were genuinely smiling in every picture.
Interesting stories played out in my head about this family until I got my boring pics back.
Of course MS is making users pay each upgrade - with their exploit ridden code, poor programming decisions, and heavy handed activation tactics, inconsistent UI, predatory business practices, FUD-filled marketing and the push to DRM lock in - every user of Windows pays. Through the nose.
I will happily move up to 10.4 when it comes out, and pay for it too. I like supporting a company that fixes exploits before they've been in the wild for months, that introduces features that MS can't touch for years, and provides an OS that doesn't work against me.
Then again, I'm running OS X.
Why doesn't MS copy that?
They are a convicted monopoly that uses its market share to put others out of business, and has the gall to call it 'innovation'.
They take standards agreed upon and 'embrace and extend' them until they are ruined for everyone. They lie, cheat, steal, patent obvious things, and sue kids named Mike Rowe.
They hide APIs from everyone except their own devs, they break others to cause problems for competitors, and insist that open source is for terrorists and communists.
So, Microsoft, my question for you is:
When will you stop EATING MY BALLS?
There was only a couple of shots of him, so I had to add some more for the expressions. IIRC, it featured him taking a bottle of 'xxx' out of his chest. I haven't used CC in years, but I thought it was nifty at the time. Occasionally, inadvertent comedy resulted from sudden placement in a new frame.
Sadly, it's far too Wimpy to be of any use.
If only the Dell Dude would have had access to this technology!
"I swear dude, I'm holding it for my laptop! Dude!"
Even now, I miss him. *sniff* dude *sniff*
You MIT bastards are gonna pay!
We could all be doooooooomed!