I Nielsen is involved it means the games will be phoning home!
They may be placing in-game ads already but there is no live tracking going on as yet. This appears to be a test of the online ad interaction TRACKING service. Which brands get the most attention, what sort of interactivity gets the most attention... how do competing brands fare in-game? Will coke and pepsi see brand loyalty even without a physical product? How about giving out special offers to people who interact with the ads... free music downloads.. or unlocking bonus levels, the possibilities for engaging people and especially kids is 'virtually unlimited'.
I'd say this is the closest to an iPod killer I've seen so far. It's not locked into WMA but can play them if you have DRMed WMAs.
Style is the killer part here... this thing just looks great. It easily competes with iPod on style... as llong as the UI is as easy to use as it looks...
AND those societies can reap the 'rewards'. We are not being passed by in science or technology... nearly all of the same techniques used to derive benefits from such experimentation will be practiced, regardless of policy. They will do so using approved areas of study... confirming technique so that future studies will be more efficient.
Give it time... give it wisdom... allow the people, the world, the scientific community to mature and understand what is at stake. Reasonable policy will follow revelation from science.. do not doubt it. However... brash action based on 2-3 year old research can not be given free reign just because it is exciting.
World-wide health problems have and will be major issues today, yesterday and tomorrow... we can't solve them all at once... give it time. Yes some people will suffer needlessly perhaps but it is chance pure chance that there is even a remote possibility for any sort of cure or treatment today. Policy is not made on chance... and it's not reasonable to do so.
Actually #3 IS the current policy towards terrorism... if you haven't noticed. Afghanistan? Iraq? Soon it will be Sudan and later Iran and North Korea... let's not forget Chechnya which will need to be treated as a sovereign nation first.. same goes for Palestine. One of these days... Cuba?
It is quite a feat which is why it is costing so much damn money to do.... though personally I just can't think of anything better to spend it on.
Next they should work out how to grow pure cotton fibres so they can save the senseless slaughter of millions of cotton plants every year... just so us hairless apes can stay warm!
I'm outraged that they have chosen the ignoble cow to save, itself guilty of torturing living plants (did you know they eat them alive... then chew them and grind them up several times before sending them to four, count them four stomaches to be slowly and cruelly digested via the use of ACID!).
This is an old post I'm responding to but goddamn you are jaded.
How can you "Vote for Change"?
You say yourself that John Kerry is "all around the subject" and he will "twist it around to the talking points he rehearsed earlier in the day". Do you expect more of the same during his presidency or will he gain some sort of integrity when he assumes office. Certainly he would be a better statesman and his state of the union speech would make everyone feel very comfortable with whatever problems the nation happens to be in. Question is will he try to make everyone comfortable? Can he stand by his much vaunted plans?
Personally I feel just as safe, just as secure and yes I do live more comfortably, have more money... no job security or subsidized health care but then I am self-employed (I had a very nice job from 1999 - early this year) so that's to be expected.
I like the way things are going. Instead of the Clinton Era where everyone was getting paid to live a lie of hype and great expectations we now are living in a real world where "marketing" can't get you millions in funding but a good business plan can.
In addition the world is on the move... after Reagan it seemed like the world said "We're all tired of fighting against intolerance and oppression... let's take a break". Which isn't entriely accurate but the tendency was certainly there... noone was looking at unjustice societies in the world and trying to change them. THe only foreign policy seemed to be emergency response, Kuwait, Bosnia, etc. Problems that should have been addressed BEFORE they broke out. Oh but it was all too comfortable to remember the world still had problems. We'd rather exhult in our new technologies, new found wealth and put off social problems for another day.
Then our social problems decided they were tired of being ignored... 9/11. Bam... what do you do now?
SO now you've got a President who decided to take up the torch of action and do something. AND I don't just mean reacting to an emergency, ala Osama Bin Laden... Bush and company decided that it was time to become active in the world again... that the US needed to begin a new campaign against oppressive governments and begin building a case for establishng new democracies in countries that had been left behind during the first wave of democratization... ie: the fight against communism.
Yes it is idealism but can you think of a better ideal to fight for? Is there any higher cause than free choice of leadership? AND where else to begin than the cradle of civilization? Iraq has the resources to make it as a democracy. Not all oppressed nations are ready... Iraq has a large number of educated citizens whether ex-patriot or not.. they have enough to manage themselves. Iraq also has natural wealth with which to trade in the global economy, very important for a self sustaining nation on the road to freedom and liberty... poverty has never given rise to freedom, survival always gets in the way and allows might to make right, as long as it provides sustainabillity.
The point is that you may want to look at a bigger picture other than your own convenient standard of living.
4 more years of the same revolutionary world wide changes in governments, opportunity for 3rd world nations, liberty for the oppressed, free elections happening for the first time in several nations... I'm definitely voting for more of the same. If that makes me work a little harder to maintain my decadently high standard of living it is a sacrifice I'm more than willing to pay so that millions can have for the first time the same opportunities that I have had my entire life.
Is it possible that a mere 169 professors (out of millions of MBAs and tens of thousands of professors... more than 50 from 'Harvard'), may have failed the partisan test?
I say the parent is less than insightful... more like an ignorant hater hopping on a bandwagon in a pitiful attempt to claim some of the attention.
This is off-topic and I won't argue your statements, only say this:
The best way to fight terrorism is to establish popular accountability in the governments of any nation in the world where terrorist groups have found sanctuary at any time past or future and particularly the present time.
Any other strategy is a stop-gap solution at best as it requires constant policing of the entire world by a single nation or at best a small cadre of peace seeking nations with the resources to do so.
Establishing freely elected and popularly accountable government (whether via an American style democracy, British style democracy, Australian style democracy, Russian, German, Turkish, Greek, Italian, Brazilian, Japanese, Afghanistan style democracy) is THE best way to ensure that terror groups can find no sanctuary, no place to hide, to regroup, to train, to recruit, to refinance.
The alternative is to chase after each and every individual person, cell, organization that seeks to use terror tactics for whatever goal they happen to pick that day... through all the countries in the world who do not have an accountable government, meaning that they are capable of trading their citizens safety for personal gain.
Current existing WMDs or not, Saddam was known to have the technology, the inclination and now we know (through the oil-for-food program) the funding to put said technology in the hands of terrorist organizations who had the agility and determination to carry out attacks that Saddam himself could not, due to the scrutiny he was under via the UN Security Council. Even if he was too senile or mad to have taken such action, the raw materials were in Iraq and available... which makes his potential incompetence as a steward of WMD technology that much more dangerous. He easily could have traded said tech for Cash to build more palaces to make his mark on history that much more memorable (old age seems to have that effect.. people tend to forget about the future other than how that future will remember them).
Osama is one man and much like our own presidential office his organization will not die with him.
Apprehending Osama or killing him is not a solution to terror tactics... follow the money... the resources, the regions in the world which offer sanctuary and support either officially or unofficially. Historically wars have been one time and time again by cutting off the supply chain. Wars have never been won by destroying one regiment or even entire armies... more armies can be raised... even leadership can be renewed if the 'cause' is fanatical enough. Cut off the supply chain and you win.
Establish popularly elected and accountable governments in all nations of the world and you are 99% of the way there... and this is the only solution that will work for the future. It will work because governments that are accountable to their electorate can not deal with terrorist organizations, they will in fact police themselves and work with other free nations to monitor such activity and squash it before it can gain support. As a free nation they are not only accountable to their electorate but to the world body as well... the government is transparent because they must answer to their own elected members and the people they represent... thus they are transparent to the world, their policies are known and predictable...
Think about it. The only solution that works. It's not Kerry's solution. He just wants to kill Osama so everyone can feel good about themselves and say "look Osama is dead... it's over, right?"
But it won't be over and there will be no plan for what happens next.
Establishing freely elected and accountable governments IS WINNING THE PEACE! It is a plan and it is the only solution.
Seriously think about it. It worked in Germany, it worked in El Salvador, it worked in Japan, it worked in Italy, it worked in Spain, it worked in Mexico, most recently it worked in Tur
It has been stated that Pres. Bush has specifically requested that the republican controlled Senate and House should not send him legislation regarding spending that he will need to veto. Because both houses are republican controlled they have been able to withhold bills of spending until they were at the point where no veto would be needed.
If you are a coder you might understand this analogy...
Imagine coding a application with no bugs in it.
Then imagine being judged, performance reviewed based on the number of bugs that you fixed.
I think these two quotes are the ones under scrutiny:
First: "Well attendance was not that bad."
Later: "Well certainly he missed quite a few (classes)."
IMHO those two statements are contradictory. Now he is speaking in vagueries so it's not exactly quantitative... but the implication is that he BOTH had decent attendance AND missed quite a few classes.. which was it OR is this the norm in Harvard Business School and if it is then there is no comparison to be made regarding Bush and other Students.
I would get a laser workhorse for utility printing if I needed that.. I mostly print out proofs for my clients, very little text document printing.
For this I suggest buying a 4 year old HP Laserjet 4MP... or modern equivalent if you want networking features or wifi connectivity... those old laser printers can't be beat for utility.
It has 8 cartridges... Red, Blue, Yellow, Cyan, Magenta, Matte Black, Gloss Black and a Gloss Coat.
Each cartridge is $12-$14. Depending on your printing needs you will run out of one or another color more frequently, but not all at once and not often. Quality is supreme. Hi-Res is 5760 x 1400 dpi and no bronzeing... great for giclee... super high qual prints. It has a setting for heavy weight papers... anyways... price it out and see if it is right for you... I love it.
"It's not fair that these men and women make almost no money when they are fighting a war to liberate oil fields. They should get some sort of profit sharing, right?"
You know that box on your taxes where you can donate money to a charitable cause... you should use it.
Military men and women get salary plus danger pay plus full health insurance, life insurance, housing stipends and travel expenses paid plus vacation pay, sick pay and family leave pay.
My older brother just left the army... he didn't know how good he had it until he got out... his pay has been cut by a third now that he's in the private sector and no housing allowance, half as much health coverage... etc, etc.
No he didn't leave because he disagreed with anything.. he had another child and wanted to spend more time with his two kids and his wife.
Military pay is just fine. If someone in the military wants to waste all their money on booze and partying that's their problem. Reality is they get paid plenty and the benefits more than make up for anything else you might complain about.
I could explain why the rest of Mr. Edward's and your own position are false but it would be a waste of time seeing as how you have the evidence you need to see how things work in the real world... not some fantasy land where money grows on trees but ohoh oh we can't take it cause it would endanger the environment....
During tonight's debate, John Edwards stated that John Kerry and He would "raise the active-duty forces by 40,000" hmmm that sounds like it might involve some sort of draft... what other incentive can they offer to entice more active duty forces during a war time?
Ya know I had an academic answer all written out... instead I'll just say in regards to 'using less energy':
The next time you want to post to a website and expect an international audience of millions of readers... you better be hand delivering a hand written letter having used hand made ink and paper, otherwise you're a hypocrite...
or
The next time you want to post to a website and expect an international audience of millions of readers... you better be sitting on a bike generator in the dark while you use your power hungry PC...
hmm but that doesn't account for the rest of us or the network we use or the manufacturers who made all the damn pieces or the people who work there or anything else in the freakin' equation that equals you being able to say something so naive to the rest of us.
Sorry, progress needs a never ending supply of cheap and reliable energy. Right now coal and nuclear are good sources... so until you've invented a 60% efficient solar cell you should shut your trap and get back to work.
Iraq still isn't producing a decent amount of oil... are you trying to say that the whole thing was about DECREASING the amount of oil available? Possibly... it's an interesting twist on the whole thing... ie: tie up a major source of oil and divert all purchases to suppliers who are in the pockets of the major players behind the coalition? Saddam never did play nice with OPEC... and 'oil for food' seemed to get around OPEC control completely..
Maybe Koffi Anan and France and Russia were getting a little too wealthy off the whole 'oil for food' fiasco?
Maybe it's a kill two birds with one strike sorta thing... redistribute oil wealth and set up a new capitalist country with a minimum of bloodshed....
Time will tell what's really going down... in the meanwhile a terrible, terrible tyrant and his progeny (Udai and Kusei were much worse than their father) have been deposed, saving the next generations from ever having to feel the terror of despotism and cruel dictatorship....
Elections will commence next year, at which point Iraq's oil reserves will be fully controlled by Iraq's new government and put to the purpose of rebuilding a country from 30 years of stagnation at the whim of a self-serving asshole.
Finally... GO BIODIESEL! GO SOLAR! GO TIDAL ENERGY!
You are done... now it is up to your credit companies to deal with unlawful inquiries... you put them on alert that you may have unwanted access happening.
If they want to minimize their own risk they will issue you new cards, etc.
you have reported... you can now request new cards and move on....
The Patriot act has a sunset... which means that ALL legislators.. not just republicans, will have to affirm it to be renewed and NO there is not a republican majority like there was when it was enacted to begin with...
The 'War on Terror' was affirmed by both sides, it's more a matter of how, not why at this point... conservatives feel they can not trust the rest of the world to do a damn thing about it (The UN talks and talks and passes various pieces of commentary but never acts on anything)... the liberals want to discuss it until there's no problem left (lets' just wait and see if it goes away)
Republicans say let's get it over with (and spend lots of money and are willing to sacrafice the volunteer army troops who have pledged to do their job) and everyone else jumps down their throat for being decisive... making a decision and sticking to it.... unaffected by politics or current public opinion... confident that they are doing what they were 'elected' to do... make choices that the rest of us don't want to make.
20 years from now you will thank God or whoever you hold responsible for good things...and realize that the world has been changed for the better because of what George Bush did... make an unpopular choice to do what needed to be done... the middle east needed change... it needed to be brought up to the twentieth century at least.. to keep pace with the rest of the world.
Regardless of any cost... it is the right time to make change happen... without change you have no progress, without progress you have no future and you will fall into a spiral of decay.... decadence and failure.... not a pretty sight.
Iraq is ready for change, 90% of it's population is ready to vote in change... 10% resists change.. a very violent 10% that will make any change difficult...
It may not be popular but Iraq is changing... it is becoming something new, something different... and it is good.
Change is good... no matter the costs... have we forgotten what change looks like? Do we expect all change to be painless?
How dare you look back on the past and claim that their sacrifices were unnecessary... you think somehow that modern change is less painful than past changes... you fool.
We have not changed so much in 50 or 100 years that we need not sacrafice at least as much to gain the same rewards...
Many look at Vietnam as a failure... I prefer to look at it as a learning experience... if you don't see it as such you have no foresight... we must learn from our mistakes and move on...
All life is irreplacable.. but do not claim to know better and say that a life lost in the pursuit of liberty and justice is a life squandered... those men and women know what they are doing and have volunteered to do so... if they sought out the military only for the benefit of college credit then they made a bargain and lost... there are many other ways to attain educational funding... they knew the risks and accepted them... I played the lottery once and lost... I don't play the lottery anymore... the odds are too high against me.
Again, 20 years from now you will see the results of our current campaign...
I for one support this effort. It is right and moral and deserving of my support. It gets me nothing, in fact it costs me several hundred dollars a year at the pump and more come tax time and more for misc expenses I must fund with my tax dollars, I support it for my children as yet unborn... so that they may grow up in a world without the tension between a 'Middle East' that is poor and without an economy.. and the West with it's high standard of living.
Basically you have a Middle East with a strong history of innovation, etc.. that has been disenfranchised by dictatorship... and has lost it's power in the world. We need to provide a new structure that will allow them to participate in the world economy as they have been used to for the majority of their existence.... as a 'trading nation'.... they need capitilism in the worst way.... have you ever haggled with a persian? They are masters..... they need a fuckin' outlet for their mercantile tendencies.... state run 'bazarrs' are not the answer...
I have 3 Windows desktops and a Powerbook with a Linksys wireless G+B router. One of the desktop PCs (AlienWare with notebook wireless PC card) was updated to SP2... totally hosed the wireless network. As long as the updated Desktop was turned off and the router was reset, the rest of the network was fine. AS soon as the SP2 box booted up it would mangle the network and all other connected devices would lose access.
After about 8 hours of testing the network and changing settings and turning off services on both the SP2 PC and others we decided it had everything to do with the new BroadBand Connection control panel and zeroconf service.
Apparently SP2 was broadcasting an adhoc network of it's own, not recognizing that a network already existed and somehow DOSing the router. We tried turning off the service but then the SP2 PC couldn't connect without 3rd party software...
In the end we just reinstalled Windows XP Pro on the AlienWare PC, turned on backup/recovery so we wouldn't have to reinstall again if a future patched version of SP2 still caused this problem and went on with our lives.... making sure to turn off auto updates.
At some point we will attempt to apply the service pack again but not until we have plenty of free time to deal with collateral damage.
I'd say he's pointing out, more significantly, that GPL does not equal secure. Sounds like a lot of people downloaded Mailman because it does what it does very effectively and for very little cost. It's a one-trick pony to put it bluntly. This type of software will never get many developer eyeballs looking at it... plenty of admins, users and UI customizers but no real developers... why should it? It does it's thing, you leave it alone.
This speaks more to his own failings to audit his own software or recruit community support than for the failings of OSS.
I believe Google just uses surrounding textual metadata from the web page to identify a likely candidate image... combined with a false positive approach where an image named or labeled money.gif on a page with 50% content about puppies.. probably the image isn't a puppy, while all other large file sized images most likely are puppies...
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I Nielsen is involved it means the games will be phoning home!
They may be placing in-game ads already but there is no live tracking going on as yet. This appears to be a test of the online ad interaction TRACKING service. Which brands get the most attention, what sort of interactivity gets the most attention... how do competing brands fare in-game? Will coke and pepsi see brand loyalty even without a physical product? How about giving out special offers to people who interact with the ads... free music downloads.. or unlocking bonus levels, the possibilities for engaging people and especially kids is 'virtually unlimited'.
I'd say this is the closest to an iPod killer I've seen so far. It's not locked into WMA but can play them if you have DRMed WMAs.
Style is the killer part here... this thing just looks great. It easily competes with iPod on style... as llong as the UI is as easy to use as it looks...
my 0.02
AND those societies can reap the 'rewards'. We are not being passed by in science or technology... nearly all of the same techniques used to derive benefits from such experimentation will be practiced, regardless of policy. They will do so using approved areas of study... confirming technique so that future studies will be more efficient.
Give it time... give it wisdom... allow the people, the world, the scientific community to mature and understand what is at stake. Reasonable policy will follow revelation from science.. do not doubt it. However... brash action based on 2-3 year old research can not be given free reign just because it is exciting.
World-wide health problems have and will be major issues today, yesterday and tomorrow... we can't solve them all at once... give it time. Yes some people will suffer needlessly perhaps but it is chance pure chance that there is even a remote possibility for any sort of cure or treatment today. Policy is not made on chance... and it's not reasonable to do so.
Actually #3 IS the current policy towards terrorism... if you haven't noticed. Afghanistan? Iraq? Soon it will be Sudan and later Iran and North Korea... let's not forget Chechnya which will need to be treated as a sovereign nation first.. same goes for Palestine. One of these days... Cuba?
It is quite a feat which is why it is costing so much damn money to do.... though personally I just can't think of anything better to spend it on.
Next they should work out how to grow pure cotton fibres so they can save the senseless slaughter of millions of cotton plants every year... just so us hairless apes can stay warm!
I'm outraged that they have chosen the ignoble cow to save, itself guilty of torturing living plants (did you know they eat them alive... then chew them and grind them up several times before sending them to four, count them four stomaches to be slowly and cruelly digested via the use of ACID!).
This is an old post I'm responding to but goddamn you are jaded.
How can you "Vote for Change"?
You say yourself that John Kerry is "all around the subject" and he will "twist it around to the talking points he rehearsed earlier in the day". Do you expect more of the same during his presidency or will he gain some sort of integrity when he assumes office. Certainly he would be a better statesman and his state of the union speech would make everyone feel very comfortable with whatever problems the nation happens to be in. Question is will he try to make everyone comfortable? Can he stand by his much vaunted plans?
Personally I feel just as safe, just as secure and yes I do live more comfortably, have more money... no job security or subsidized health care but then I am self-employed (I had a very nice job from 1999 - early this year) so that's to be expected.
I like the way things are going. Instead of the Clinton Era where everyone was getting paid to live a lie of hype and great expectations we now are living in a real world where "marketing" can't get you millions in funding but a good business plan can.
In addition the world is on the move... after Reagan it seemed like the world said "We're all tired of fighting against intolerance and oppression... let's take a break". Which isn't entriely accurate but the tendency was certainly there... noone was looking at unjustice societies in the world and trying to change them. THe only foreign policy seemed to be emergency response, Kuwait, Bosnia, etc. Problems that should have been addressed BEFORE they broke out. Oh but it was all too comfortable to remember the world still had problems. We'd rather exhult in our new technologies, new found wealth and put off social problems for another day.
Then our social problems decided they were tired of being ignored... 9/11. Bam... what do you do now?
SO now you've got a President who decided to take up the torch of action and do something. AND I don't just mean reacting to an emergency, ala Osama Bin Laden... Bush and company decided that it was time to become active in the world again... that the US needed to begin a new campaign against oppressive governments and begin building a case for establishng new democracies in countries that had been left behind during the first wave of democratization... ie: the fight against communism.
Yes it is idealism but can you think of a better ideal to fight for? Is there any higher cause than free choice of leadership? AND where else to begin than the cradle of civilization? Iraq has the resources to make it as a democracy. Not all oppressed nations are ready... Iraq has a large number of educated citizens whether ex-patriot or not.. they have enough to manage themselves. Iraq also has natural wealth with which to trade in the global economy, very important for a self sustaining nation on the road to freedom and liberty... poverty has never given rise to freedom, survival always gets in the way and allows might to make right, as long as it provides sustainabillity.
The point is that you may want to look at a bigger picture other than your own convenient standard of living.
4 more years of the same revolutionary world wide changes in governments, opportunity for 3rd world nations, liberty for the oppressed, free elections happening for the first time in several nations... I'm definitely voting for more of the same. If that makes me work a little harder to maintain my decadently high standard of living it is a sacrifice I'm more than willing to pay so that millions can have for the first time the same opportunities that I have had my entire life.
Have you tried installing the GNU-Darwin ports? or FINK?
It's my understanding that they would work just fine with Darwin standalone... not sure about on x86 though...
Just take a look here:
clicky click workgroup management
Ye needs but ask sir...
Is it possible that a mere 169 professors (out of millions of MBAs and tens of thousands of professors... more than 50 from 'Harvard'), may have failed the partisan test?
I say the parent is less than insightful... more like an ignorant hater hopping on a bandwagon in a pitiful attempt to claim some of the attention.
BTW what are YOUR credentials?
I suspect you may be a Kerry supporter... ;-p
This is off-topic and I won't argue your statements, only say this:
The best way to fight terrorism is to establish popular accountability in the governments of any nation in the world where terrorist groups have found sanctuary at any time past or future and particularly the present time.
Any other strategy is a stop-gap solution at best as it requires constant policing of the entire world by a single nation or at best a small cadre of peace seeking nations with the resources to do so.
Establishing freely elected and popularly accountable government (whether via an American style democracy, British style democracy, Australian style democracy, Russian, German, Turkish, Greek, Italian, Brazilian, Japanese, Afghanistan style democracy) is THE best way to ensure that terror groups can find no sanctuary, no place to hide, to regroup, to train, to recruit, to refinance.
The alternative is to chase after each and every individual person, cell, organization that seeks to use terror tactics for whatever goal they happen to pick that day... through all the countries in the world who do not have an accountable government, meaning that they are capable of trading their citizens safety for personal gain.
Current existing WMDs or not, Saddam was known to have the technology, the inclination and now we know (through the oil-for-food program) the funding to put said technology in the hands of terrorist organizations who had the agility and determination to carry out attacks that Saddam himself could not, due to the scrutiny he was under via the UN Security Council. Even if he was too senile or mad to have taken such action, the raw materials were in Iraq and available... which makes his potential incompetence as a steward of WMD technology that much more dangerous. He easily could have traded said tech for Cash to build more palaces to make his mark on history that much more memorable (old age seems to have that effect.. people tend to forget about the future other than how that future will remember them).
Osama is one man and much like our own presidential office his organization will not die with him.
Apprehending Osama or killing him is not a solution to terror tactics... follow the money... the resources, the regions in the world which offer sanctuary and support either officially or unofficially. Historically wars have been one time and time again by cutting off the supply chain. Wars have never been won by destroying one regiment or even entire armies... more armies can be raised... even leadership can be renewed if the 'cause' is fanatical enough. Cut off the supply chain and you win.
Establish popularly elected and accountable governments in all nations of the world and you are 99% of the way there... and this is the only solution that will work for the future. It will work because governments that are accountable to their electorate can not deal with terrorist organizations, they will in fact police themselves and work with other free nations to monitor such activity and squash it before it can gain support. As a free nation they are not only accountable to their electorate but to the world body as well... the government is transparent because they must answer to their own elected members and the people they represent... thus they are transparent to the world, their policies are known and predictable...
Think about it. The only solution that works. It's not Kerry's solution. He just wants to kill Osama so everyone can feel good about themselves and say "look Osama is dead... it's over, right?"
But it won't be over and there will be no plan for what happens next.
Establishing freely elected and accountable governments IS WINNING THE PEACE! It is a plan and it is the only solution.
Seriously think about it. It worked in Germany, it worked in El Salvador, it worked in Japan, it worked in Italy, it worked in Spain, it worked in Mexico, most recently it worked in Tur
It has been stated that Pres. Bush has specifically requested that the republican controlled Senate and House should not send him legislation regarding spending that he will need to veto. Because both houses are republican controlled they have been able to withhold bills of spending until they were at the point where no veto would be needed.
If you are a coder you might understand this analogy...
Imagine coding a application with no bugs in it.
Then imagine being judged, performance reviewed based on the number of bugs that you fixed.
Do you see my point?
I think these two quotes are the ones under scrutiny:
First: "Well attendance was not that bad."
Later: "Well certainly he missed quite a few (classes)."
IMHO those two statements are contradictory. Now he is speaking in vagueries so it's not exactly quantitative... but the implication is that he BOTH had decent attendance AND missed quite a few classes.. which was it OR is this the norm in Harvard Business School and if it is then there is no comparison to be made regarding Bush and other Students.
I would get a laser workhorse for utility printing if I needed that.. I mostly print out proofs for my clients, very little text document printing.
For this I suggest buying a 4 year old HP Laserjet 4MP... or modern equivalent if you want networking features or wifi connectivity... those old laser printers can't be beat for utility.
It has 8 cartridges... Red, Blue, Yellow, Cyan, Magenta, Matte Black, Gloss Black and a Gloss Coat.
Each cartridge is $12-$14. Depending on your printing needs you will run out of one or another color more frequently, but not all at once and not often. Quality is supreme. Hi-Res is 5760 x 1400 dpi and no bronzeing... great for giclee... super high qual prints. It has a setting for heavy weight papers... anyways... price it out and see if it is right for you... I love it.
"It's not fair that these men and women make almost no money when they are fighting a war to liberate oil fields. They should get some sort of profit sharing, right?"
You know that box on your taxes where you can donate money to a charitable cause... you should use it.
Military men and women get salary plus danger pay plus full health insurance, life insurance, housing stipends and travel expenses paid plus vacation pay, sick pay and family leave pay.
My older brother just left the army... he didn't know how good he had it until he got out... his pay has been cut by a third now that he's in the private sector and no housing allowance, half as much health coverage... etc, etc.
No he didn't leave because he disagreed with anything.. he had another child and wanted to spend more time with his two kids and his wife.
Military pay is just fine. If someone in the military wants to waste all their money on booze and partying that's their problem. Reality is they get paid plenty and the benefits more than make up for anything else you might complain about.
I could explain why the rest of Mr. Edward's and your own position are false but it would be a waste of time seeing as how you have the evidence you need to see how things work in the real world... not some fantasy land where money grows on trees but ohoh oh we can't take it cause it would endanger the environment....
During tonight's debate, John Edwards stated that John Kerry and He would "raise the active-duty forces by 40,000" hmmm that sounds like it might involve some sort of draft... what other incentive can they offer to entice more active duty forces during a war time?
Ya know I had an academic answer all written out... instead I'll just say in regards to 'using less energy':
The next time you want to post to a website and expect an international audience of millions of readers... you better be hand delivering a hand written letter having used hand made ink and paper, otherwise you're a hypocrite...
or
The next time you want to post to a website and expect an international audience of millions of readers... you better be sitting on a bike generator in the dark while you use your power hungry PC...
hmm but that doesn't account for the rest of us or the network we use or the manufacturers who made all the damn pieces or the people who work there or anything else in the freakin' equation that equals you being able to say something so naive to the rest of us.
Sorry, progress needs a never ending supply of cheap and reliable energy. Right now coal and nuclear are good sources... so until you've invented a 60% efficient solar cell you should shut your trap and get back to work.
Iraq still isn't producing a decent amount of oil... are you trying to say that the whole thing was about DECREASING the amount of oil available? Possibly... it's an interesting twist on the whole thing... ie: tie up a major source of oil and divert all purchases to suppliers who are in the pockets of the major players behind the coalition? Saddam never did play nice with OPEC... and 'oil for food' seemed to get around OPEC control completely..
Maybe Koffi Anan and France and Russia were getting a little too wealthy off the whole 'oil for food' fiasco?
Maybe it's a kill two birds with one strike sorta thing... redistribute oil wealth and set up a new capitalist country with a minimum of bloodshed....
Time will tell what's really going down... in the meanwhile a terrible, terrible tyrant and his progeny (Udai and Kusei were much worse than their father) have been deposed, saving the next generations from ever having to feel the terror of despotism and cruel dictatorship....
Elections will commence next year, at which point Iraq's oil reserves will be fully controlled by Iraq's new government and put to the purpose of rebuilding a country from 30 years of stagnation at the whim of a self-serving asshole.
Finally... GO BIODIESEL! GO SOLAR! GO TIDAL ENERGY!
(finally something we can fully agree upon)
You processed the fraud alert...
You are done... now it is up to your credit companies to deal with unlawful inquiries... you put them on alert that you may have unwanted access happening.
If they want to minimize their own risk they will issue you new cards, etc.
you have reported... you can now request new cards and move on....
that's it... fairly simple...
-james
The Patriot act has a sunset... which means that ALL legislators.. not just republicans, will have to affirm it to be renewed and NO there is not a republican majority like there was when it was enacted to begin with...
The 'War on Terror' was affirmed by both sides, it's more a matter of how, not why at this point... conservatives feel they can not trust the rest of the world to do a damn thing about it (The UN talks and talks and passes various pieces of commentary but never acts on anything)... the liberals want to discuss it until there's no problem left (lets' just wait and see if it goes away)
Republicans say let's get it over with (and spend lots of money and are willing to sacrafice the volunteer army troops who have pledged to do their job) and everyone else jumps down their throat for being decisive... making a decision and sticking to it.... unaffected by politics or current public opinion... confident that they are doing what they were 'elected' to do... make choices that the rest of us don't want to make.
20 years from now you will thank God or whoever you hold responsible for good things...and realize that the world has been changed for the better because of what George Bush did... make an unpopular choice to do what needed to be done... the middle east needed change... it needed to be brought up to the twentieth century at least.. to keep pace with the rest of the world.
Regardless of any cost... it is the right time to make change happen... without change you have no progress, without progress you have no future and you will fall into a spiral of decay.... decadence and failure.... not a pretty sight.
Iraq is ready for change, 90% of it's population is ready to vote in change... 10% resists change.. a very violent 10% that will make any change difficult...
It may not be popular but Iraq is changing... it is becoming something new, something different... and it is good.
Change is good... no matter the costs... have we forgotten what change looks like? Do we expect all change to be painless?
How dare you look back on the past and claim that their sacrifices were unnecessary... you think somehow that modern change is less painful than past changes... you fool.
We have not changed so much in 50 or 100 years that we need not sacrafice at least as much to gain the same rewards...
Many look at Vietnam as a failure... I prefer to look at it as a learning experience... if you don't see it as such you have no foresight... we must learn from our mistakes and move on...
All life is irreplacable.. but do not claim to know better and say that a life lost in the pursuit of liberty and justice is a life squandered... those men and women know what they are doing and have volunteered to do so... if they sought out the military only for the benefit of college credit then they made a bargain and lost... there are many other ways to attain educational funding... they knew the risks and accepted them... I played the lottery once and lost... I don't play the lottery anymore... the odds are too high against me.
Again, 20 years from now you will see the results of our current campaign...
I for one support this effort. It is right and moral and deserving of my support. It gets me nothing, in fact it costs me several hundred dollars a year at the pump and more come tax time and more for misc expenses I must fund with my tax dollars, I support it for my children as yet unborn... so that they may grow up in a world without the tension between a 'Middle East' that is poor and without an economy.. and the West with it's high standard of living.
Basically you have a Middle East with a strong history of innovation, etc.. that has been disenfranchised by dictatorship... and has lost it's power in the world. We need to provide a new structure that will allow them to participate in the world economy as they have been used to for the majority of their existence.... as a 'trading nation'.... they need capitilism in the worst way.... have you ever haggled with a persian? They are masters..... they need a fuckin' outlet for their mercantile tendencies.... state run 'bazarrs' are not the answer...
-j
I have 3 Windows desktops and a Powerbook with a Linksys wireless G+B router. One of the desktop PCs (AlienWare with notebook wireless PC card) was updated to SP2... totally hosed the wireless network. As long as the updated Desktop was turned off and the router was reset, the rest of the network was fine. AS soon as the SP2 box booted up it would mangle the network and all other connected devices would lose access.
After about 8 hours of testing the network and changing settings and turning off services on both the SP2 PC and others we decided it had everything to do with the new BroadBand Connection control panel and zeroconf service.
Apparently SP2 was broadcasting an adhoc network of it's own, not recognizing that a network already existed and somehow DOSing the router. We tried turning off the service but then the SP2 PC couldn't connect without 3rd party software...
In the end we just reinstalled Windows XP Pro on the AlienWare PC, turned on backup/recovery so we wouldn't have to reinstall again if a future patched version of SP2 still caused this problem and went on with our lives.... making sure to turn off auto updates.
At some point we will attempt to apply the service pack again but not until we have plenty of free time to deal with collateral damage.
--my story
I'd say he's pointing out, more significantly, that GPL does not equal secure. Sounds like a lot of people downloaded Mailman because it does what it does very effectively and for very little cost. It's a one-trick pony to put it bluntly. This type of software will never get many developer eyeballs looking at it... plenty of admins, users and UI customizers but no real developers... why should it? It does it's thing, you leave it alone.
This speaks more to his own failings to audit his own software or recruit community support than for the failings of OSS.
I believe Google just uses surrounding textual metadata from the web page to identify a likely candidate image... combined with a false positive approach where an image named or labeled money.gif on a page with 50% content about puppies.. probably the image isn't a puppy, while all other large file sized images most likely are puppies...
"unprecedented grassroots campaign"
Read this as "we'll be posting announcements on Slashdot every day for the next month"...
I'll see if I can find it again... was one of those articles interesting enough to remember but not useful enough to bookmark...