Peart is probably the top rock drummer, but as far as jazz goes, Peart's pretty lousy (even by his own admission). Buddy Rich takes the crown there, but I think Rich wouldn't be as good of a rock drummer, too many drums, and he wouldn't be the center of attention. (not that I'm saying he was egotistic).
My gut feeling tells me that the monies used in the entire Hubble project would have changed lots of American lives in a big positive way. What have we got out of it that is worth all those billions spent so far? Can somebody convince me?
The fact that for every picture it takes, it disproves the Bible literalists' position ever so slightly more. For me, that's billions well spent. Besides you can take any government program and ask what have we really gotten out of it. A few billion is a lot cheaper than what the government doles out for social security. What have we really gotten out of that?
They did it with Madden as well by scooping up the NFL license just as Visual Concepts' ESPN NFL 2k series was starting to show signs of seriously competing with Madden.
You can blame the NFL for that one, since the prefer to exclusively license everything. EA had no choice but to buy the rights, if they wanted to continue publishing Madden with NFL teams.
I still have no idea why Microsoft decided to sell a HD-less console, and continue to force developers to not make HD-only games. It seems like most people who bought the core system, did so with the intent of buying an HD later, well now is later, so go get one. The Xbox 360 Core system was a regression from the original xbox in terms of storage, and the only reason they did it was to pinch pennies out of people who would otherwise not buy one.
Toshiba should have demanded that the 360 carry an HD-DVD drive standard. The addon carries extra bulk, and if you combine that with the cost of the 360, you might as well have just bought a PS3 instead.
and abolish the Federal Reserve in order to put America back on the gold standard.
Abolishing the Federal Reserve is not a necessary step for putting the US back on the gold standard, the US was on the gold standard after the Federal Reserve was created in early 20th century.
I also don't see where he is still making racists remarks from the article you linked to.
Pulling out of the UN wouldn't be such a bad idea, what exactly has the UN done since it's inception?
Imagine if WoW didn't work for a week? Why would that be unacceptable and LIVE not working for a week be considered OK?
That has actually indeed happened, well I don't think constantly for one week, but anyone who has played on Kel'Thuzad from the beginning can tell you, how they actually had to get up and go do something else besides playing WoW for a few days.
Live has been a little flaky for a few days, disconnecting once or twice and one COD4 matches not starting and some little lag other than that it's been fine.
It's their own service their providing, they can do whatever they want as far as filtering. I should have the same ability to sleep on an airplane like I did before they introduced internet access. I don't need to be sitting on a plane hearing a bunch of priests telling the passenger ahead of them how immoral pornography is, or hearing a people yell and scream if someone bring up goatse.
Like I said, why should I care if the student doesn't care. It's one thing if the student needs extra help to do better, and cares about his or her education, but if the student sits in the back of the classroom and does absolutely nothing, and doesn't give two shits about school, why should I feel bad for this person?
Alright I will succeed you Paul's view on abortion, but as President he can't outlaw it anyway.
Every child does deserve the chance, but if they don't act on it, why should I feel sorry for them? Today's school systems just rubber stamps a kid to the next grade without learning anything. Failure is indeed a viable option for today's students.
What has the UN really done since it's inception? Are we closer to world peace?
Yes Paul wants to make abortion illegal, not because God said so though, because he thinks it's ethically wrong. That argument is much more reasonable to me, than using a book that doesn't even say abortion as a basis.
Paul also wouldn't be the first to try and dump public education. I don't think it would be a bad thing either. If you look at the private schools, they do more with less as far as actual education goes and they throw out anyone who doesn't want to be there. Insane, not really.
What's really so insane about him? Because he wants to do things that haven't been done? Sure some of his ideas are a little far-fetched like going back to the gold standard, but lets face facts, I doubt Congress would let him do all that he's talking about, but it would be the biggest middle finger to the establishment that the country can give. What's the worst that can happen, he acts as a proper check on Congress? Is that so bad?
I'm conflicted. On the one hand I'm against these databases; once you've served your time you should be a free man in every way.
Child molesters and rapists are likely to continue to molest and rape after they get out of prison. I'm also guessing the probability of not wanting these people living next door to you is pretty close to 1. Is there a way for the community to know someone like this has moved into the neighborhood without revealing their identity? Probably not, even if the police don't tell who it is, gossip travels like a wild fire through a community and it's likely to get out anyway.
My friend told me that while he was camping out for a HDTV at Target (they were $800 on Black Friday I believe) He noticed that there was rather large line in front of Gamestop. The reason? There were 12 Wiis in stock. I myself don't see what the hype for the Wii is all about, having played one, I found the novelty of the controller wore off pretty quickly. I find my 360 more enjoyable, but to each his own.
Big chain stores could offer quality that could match the mom and pop stores but that requires money, and for anyone decent it requires a good deal of money, far more than the minimum wage that people get paid to work at these places. Fact is, jobs that make $10 or less an hour are easy to find, so there is no real motivation to be good at what you do when your work these jobs anyone with an once of actual knowledge in the field is working somewhere else.
Give Gold members Microsoft Points free when they get achievements and leave the Silver members with just their Achievement points. Or alternatively allow Gold members to simply accrue points when they renew their subscriptions. The worst possible outcome is that the subscribers take the free stuff and don't buy anything else so you haven't made any money beyond the subscription fee, but by the same token it costs you exactly nothing to give them this stuff for free, so it's a wash.
It costs bandwidth, and these downloads cost points, and they do so because they compensate the developers in the case of games, and the companies who produce the movies, and the tv shows you can download, you can't expect Microsoft to foot the bill because you threw a touchdown in Madden 08.
I find that most of the pay phone I've seen in and around my area, are either defaced with either gum or other crap, missing the handset all together, or broken (with the phone intact). With the advent of cells phones, becoming a necessity these days, do pay phones really much matter? I think not.
Microsoft's gaming division isn't that terrible, the areas that they actually face competition they actually strive to do well, and there are always going to be game development companies, as the entry cost isn't as high as other software areas.
No necessarily so, voter turnout would be a lot higher if you were voting for a name but a party similar to many European countries. Many people are turned off by the fact that three is corruption in politics. Many people don't vote unless there is a big name and position on the ticket.
The problem is, people can put Ron Paul's name on everything, but at the end of the day, people are too lazy to get out and vote for these people it doesn't much matter. (partially because people are lazy, and partially because it's a design flaw in the system)
I never had much of an issue with Verizon, although when I upgraded to the 3.0/768k service they switched the line to interleave mode, which increases latency. I called the basic support line and they had no clue what I was talking about, but I found out there was a higher tier tech support line for who ever had the Verizon Freedom package, there was little to no hold time, and they turned off interleave. I also had a problem with them having the wrong distance information for my location from the co, so they only let me have 768k/128 for awhile, but they updated all the distance measurements a month or two after. Other than that no issues, and so far FiOS hasn't given me any problems at all, not once have I lost internet or TV, which was a routine occurrence with Comcast and they don't cap my connection for downloading too much.
To fix this issue, Verizon needs to take the next step and upgrade its infrastructure to GPON which provides 2.488gbit/s download and 1.244gbit/s upload (which is what TELUS in Canada is currently testing).
They seem to be one step ahead of you because they only use GPON these days although they originally started off with BPON.
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Peart is probably the top rock drummer, but as far as jazz goes, Peart's pretty lousy (even by his own admission). Buddy Rich takes the crown there, but I think Rich wouldn't be as good of a rock drummer, too many drums, and he wouldn't be the center of attention. (not that I'm saying he was egotistic).
My gut feeling tells me that the monies used in the entire Hubble project would have changed lots of American lives in a big positive way. What have we got out of it that is worth all those billions spent so far? Can somebody convince me?
The fact that for every picture it takes, it disproves the Bible literalists' position ever so slightly more. For me, that's billions well spent. Besides you can take any government program and ask what have we really gotten out of it. A few billion is a lot cheaper than what the government doles out for social security. What have we really gotten out of that?
If these so-called invisible rootkits are so effective, why aren't we seeing them everywhere? Huh?
You forgot to select the tachyon detection grid option in your virus scanner. Duh.
They did it with Madden as well by scooping up the NFL license just as Visual Concepts' ESPN NFL 2k series was starting to show signs of seriously competing with Madden.
You can blame the NFL for that one, since the prefer to exclusively license everything. EA had no choice but to buy the rights, if they wanted to continue publishing Madden with NFL teams.
I still have no idea why Microsoft decided to sell a HD-less console, and continue to force developers to not make HD-only games. It seems like most people who bought the core system, did so with the intent of buying an HD later, well now is later, so go get one. The Xbox 360 Core system was a regression from the original xbox in terms of storage, and the only reason they did it was to pinch pennies out of people who would otherwise not buy one.
Fair enough, though he does make a valid point, but I think he goes about stating it in a non-pc way.
Toshiba should have demanded that the 360 carry an HD-DVD drive standard. The addon carries extra bulk, and if you combine that with the cost of the 360, you might as well have just bought a PS3 instead.
and abolish the Federal Reserve in order to put America back on the gold standard.
Abolishing the Federal Reserve is not a necessary step for putting the US back on the gold standard, the US was on the gold standard after the Federal Reserve was created in early 20th century.
I also don't see where he is still making racists remarks from the article you linked to.
Pulling out of the UN wouldn't be such a bad idea, what exactly has the UN done since it's inception?
Imagine if WoW didn't work for a week? Why would that be unacceptable and LIVE not working for a week be considered OK?
That has actually indeed happened, well I don't think constantly for one week, but anyone who has played on Kel'Thuzad from the beginning can tell you, how they actually had to get up and go do something else besides playing WoW for a few days.
Live has been a little flaky for a few days, disconnecting once or twice and one COD4 matches not starting and some little lag other than that it's been fine.
It's their own service their providing, they can do whatever they want as far as filtering. I should have the same ability to sleep on an airplane like I did before they introduced internet access. I don't need to be sitting on a plane hearing a bunch of priests telling the passenger ahead of them how immoral pornography is, or hearing a people yell and scream if someone bring up goatse.
Like I said, why should I care if the student doesn't care. It's one thing if the student needs extra help to do better, and cares about his or her education, but if the student sits in the back of the classroom and does absolutely nothing, and doesn't give two shits about school, why should I feel bad for this person?
The reason the 360 was failing so much was fixed. New 360s shouldn't be as prone to failure. (I can't say never because that never happens)
Alright I will succeed you Paul's view on abortion, but as President he can't outlaw it anyway.
Every child does deserve the chance, but if they don't act on it, why should I feel sorry for them? Today's school systems just rubber stamps a kid to the next grade without learning anything. Failure is indeed a viable option for today's students.
What has the UN really done since it's inception? Are we closer to world peace?
Yes Paul wants to make abortion illegal, not because God said so though, because he thinks it's ethically wrong. That argument is much more reasonable to me, than using a book that doesn't even say abortion as a basis.
Paul also wouldn't be the first to try and dump public education. I don't think it would be a bad thing either. If you look at the private schools, they do more with less as far as actual education goes and they throw out anyone who doesn't want to be there. Insane, not really.
What's really so insane about him? Because he wants to do things that haven't been done? Sure some of his ideas are a little far-fetched like going back to the gold standard, but lets face facts, I doubt Congress would let him do all that he's talking about, but it would be the biggest middle finger to the establishment that the country can give. What's the worst that can happen, he acts as a proper check on Congress? Is that so bad?
I'm conflicted. On the one hand I'm against these databases; once you've served your time you should be a free man in every way.
Child molesters and rapists are likely to continue to molest and rape after they get out of prison. I'm also guessing the probability of not wanting these people living next door to you is pretty close to 1. Is there a way for the community to know someone like this has moved into the neighborhood without revealing their identity? Probably not, even if the police don't tell who it is, gossip travels like a wild fire through a community and it's likely to get out anyway.
My friend told me that while he was camping out for a HDTV at Target (they were $800 on Black Friday I believe) He noticed that there was rather large line in front of Gamestop. The reason? There were 12 Wiis in stock. I myself don't see what the hype for the Wii is all about, having played one, I found the novelty of the controller wore off pretty quickly. I find my 360 more enjoyable, but to each his own.
Big chain stores could offer quality that could match the mom and pop stores but that requires money, and for anyone decent it requires a good deal of money, far more than the minimum wage that people get paid to work at these places. Fact is, jobs that make $10 or less an hour are easy to find, so there is no real motivation to be good at what you do when your work these jobs anyone with an once of actual knowledge in the field is working somewhere else.
Give Gold members Microsoft Points free when they get achievements and leave the Silver members with just their Achievement points. Or alternatively allow Gold members to simply accrue points when they renew their subscriptions. The worst possible outcome is that the subscribers take the free stuff and don't buy anything else so you haven't made any money beyond the subscription fee, but by the same token it costs you exactly nothing to give them this stuff for free, so it's a wash.
It costs bandwidth, and these downloads cost points, and they do so because they compensate the developers in the case of games, and the companies who produce the movies, and the tv shows you can download, you can't expect Microsoft to foot the bill because you threw a touchdown in Madden 08.
I find that most of the pay phone I've seen in and around my area, are either defaced with either gum or other crap, missing the handset all together, or broken (with the phone intact). With the advent of cells phones, becoming a necessity these days, do pay phones really much matter? I think not.
Microsoft's gaming division isn't that terrible, the areas that they actually face competition they actually strive to do well, and there are always going to be game development companies, as the entry cost isn't as high as other software areas.
No necessarily so, voter turnout would be a lot higher if you were voting for a name but a party similar to many European countries. Many people are turned off by the fact that three is corruption in politics. Many people don't vote unless there is a big name and position on the ticket.
The problem is, people can put Ron Paul's name on everything, but at the end of the day, people are too lazy to get out and vote for these people it doesn't much matter. (partially because people are lazy, and partially because it's a design flaw in the system)
The speeds great and all, but if they cap you for actually using it, what good is it?
I never had much of an issue with Verizon, although when I upgraded to the 3.0/768k service they switched the line to interleave mode, which increases latency. I called the basic support line and they had no clue what I was talking about, but I found out there was a higher tier tech support line for who ever had the Verizon Freedom package, there was little to no hold time, and they turned off interleave. I also had a problem with them having the wrong distance information for my location from the co, so they only let me have 768k/128 for awhile, but they updated all the distance measurements a month or two after. Other than that no issues, and so far FiOS hasn't given me any problems at all, not once have I lost internet or TV, which was a routine occurrence with Comcast and they don't cap my connection for downloading too much.
To fix this issue, Verizon needs to take the next step and upgrade its infrastructure to GPON which provides 2.488gbit/s download and 1.244gbit/s upload (which is what TELUS in Canada is currently testing).
They seem to be one step ahead of you because they only use GPON these days although they originally started off with BPON.