Republicans can still be moderates in Illinois. In fact to be elected statewide in Illinois as a Republican you have to be a moderate, which Topinka is.
Yep, the Secretary of State job is the jumping off point for the Governorship, Big Lobbyist Jim Thompson, Edgar the Miser, and Orange Jumpsuit Ryan.
Anyway, Big Jim spent money on Illinois infrastructure, too much. Forcing Edgar to be the frickin miser and raise taxes, which he suggested that he wouldn't but his opponents Netsch and Hartigan would. But Edgar was too much the Miser, so Ryan spent money on infrastructure again, too much money. So that leaves Blago in a tough position, he can either raise taxes and have the Dems be blasted with the "tax and spend label" for even longer, or he can sit still and shuffle a few things here and there and do nada.
He's going for the nada shuffle.
The GRT was a good idea though, if businesses don't want to pay their workers fair wages and benefits (and in some cases encourage them to apply for government assistance) make them pay up for doing their job for them. He did forget that since businesses haven't been paying their fair share of the tax burden they've got tons of money to spend on lobbyists.
Sure Blago is corrupt, but in Illinois you need money to win that governorship and to do that you need to make deals. And he is probably wanting to run for the Senate or the Presidency but he's just not the material for it.
As for the Republicans in Illinois they're falling apart which presages what may happen to the party on the national level. The moderate country club Republicans and the "Church" Republicans can't stand each other.
You must not live in Illinois where it's easier to grease a palm and get your suspended license reinstated than for the average person to get their license legally renewed at the DMV
There's only so many DMV facilities for around 12 million people and only so many hours, you're supposed to renew by phone/mail/internet.
If you want in-person renewels to go faster, you're going to have to pay more money for longer DMV hours, more offices, and more people.
They chose the DualShock2 because it's better than the DualShock1. It's lighter, the rumble is actually stronger and the analog sticks are more responsive. Even the buttons feel better.
That's not exactly accurate. Small towns and rural areas did have public transit, before the auto and petroleum industries bought them up to shut them down. There were regional bus services, trolley lines, short distance train services even in places like central Illinois.
Well the parent referred to making money of his WoW character. Actually, I listed two, EQOA is also subscription based.
I could have thrown in some of the longer non-online RPG's, especially those with tons of optional quests/items/characters that take tons of time to complete if you're a completist.
Consoles are BIG, bigger than big, we're talking HUGE market. Bigger than it ever was. And the games are more diverse than they used to be and lots more of them.
In addition you can actually use your computer for other important stuff "Like surfing Porn".
The PSP and PS3 have bult in web browsers. The Wii has one available for download via the Nintendo store built into the machine.
Linux can be installed on the PS2 and PS3, and it's an officially supported function.
I cant get my wife or relatives to play the 360, but all of them seem to gravitate to the wii. I came home from work yesterday and caught my wife bowling at 3 in the afternoon, I can guarantee I've never come home and caught her playing halo.
That's because the Wii is the non-gamers system. It's meant to sit in the living room and turned on maybe a few times a month when friends are over or when Lost/Project Runway/CSI/Law & Order are all reruns.
The Xbox/PS3 sit in the den/rec room/bedroom, next to another TV and get played by "Traditional gamers"
They're different markets. The Wii might be selling lots of consoles, but non-gamers do not buy lots of games. Those grannies and soccer moms playing wii golf are going to keep playing wii golf because they don't "get" spending $50 on a game, when there's other things they could spend it on.
While the PS3/Xbox360 in the den will have an ever growing stack of games next to it.
It's kind of like how some "casual gamers" will play flash/java games on their PC's for hours, but it would never occur to them that they could buy games to play on their PC.
Bit of an exaggeration. Many games have voice chat in addition to keyboard. Of course 99.9% of console games are unable to use the keyboard for talking.
Except online PS2/PS3 games, the majority of which do support keyboard chat.
The fact that I'm having a child in this state scares the hell out of me.
That map reminds me of the red state/blue state electoral college map. You can see the dividing line at the Ohio river. You could compare things like poverty, average income, teenage pregnancy and the like and it would look pretty similar.
Warcraft, C&C:RA, the first Tomb Raider,.........or even Sim City 2000? Nobody who isn't computer-savvy and willing to spend hours tracking down and tweaking DOSbox or VDMSound can run any of those anymore,
Well, you could always play the PSone ports, they'll run easily.
.I guess what I'm saying is I really wish I could play MechWarrior 2 again.
I suppose the more action oriented PSone port wouldn't fulfill the need? It plays crappy with the standard digital pad though, you really do need the massive original Dual Analog Joystick to do it justice.
However, try to find documentation on how to use the GUI frontends, like GPA. The documentation I've seen for the Windows users even new ones, pretty much ignores it and goes to the command line They should be telling people who aren't console cowboys to be using that, and no listing the icons is not enough.
You'll also see the mutt-GPG howto, but very little for integrating GPG in email programs that "ordinary people" actually use. (Yes I have mutt installed, but I use Claws Mail, thank goodness they have good documentation)
I had the devil of the time myself just generating my key using the command line (not enough entropy), but GPA worked.
With GnuPG, it took me quite a long time to find out that the secret key is still encrypted even when it's exported, though the existing documentation says that's it's insecure to export your secret key. How then, if that's insecure, are you supposed to share a single secret key among multiple computers?
Technically you're supposed to have a separate secret key for yourself on the other box, but that's just annoying if you want to decrypt your own stuff on another box. I just transferred my secret key over and use one on both.
Speaking of bad UI, the mechanism to set an away message makes me want to run down the street screaming and stabbing UI developers.
I agree, I'd rather have the little buttons back than that blasted status thingy. But you're lucky, one of the beta's was broken enough to have TWO of them.
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Republicans can still be moderates in Illinois. In fact to be elected statewide in Illinois as a Republican you have to be a moderate, which Topinka is.
Cthulhu wasn't on my ballot so I held my nose and voted for Blago.
Yep, the Secretary of State job is the jumping off point for the Governorship, Big Lobbyist Jim Thompson, Edgar the Miser, and Orange Jumpsuit Ryan.
Anyway, Big Jim spent money on Illinois infrastructure, too much. Forcing Edgar to be the frickin miser and raise taxes, which he suggested that he wouldn't but his opponents Netsch and Hartigan would. But Edgar was too much the Miser, so Ryan spent money on infrastructure again, too much money. So that leaves Blago in a tough position, he can either raise taxes and have the Dems be blasted with the "tax and spend label" for even longer, or he can sit still and shuffle a few things here and there and do nada.
He's going for the nada shuffle.
The GRT was a good idea though, if businesses don't want to pay their workers fair wages and benefits (and in some cases encourage them to apply for government assistance) make them pay up for doing their job for them. He did forget that since businesses haven't been paying their fair share of the tax burden they've got tons of money to spend on lobbyists.
Sure Blago is corrupt, but in Illinois you need money to win that governorship and to do that you need to make deals. And he is probably wanting to run for the Senate or the Presidency but he's just not the material for it.
As for the Republicans in Illinois they're falling apart which presages what may happen to the party on the national level. The moderate country club Republicans and the "Church" Republicans can't stand each other.
You don't like Social Security?
It's a good thing we "pay people not to work". We don't have enough jobs for everyone as it is. The more people in the workforce, the lower wages are.
There's only so many DMV facilities for around 12 million people and only so many hours, you're supposed to renew by phone/mail/internet.
If you want in-person renewels to go faster, you're going to have to pay more money for longer DMV hours, more offices, and more people.
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They chose the DualShock2 because it's better than the DualShock1. It's lighter, the rumble is actually stronger and the analog sticks are more responsive. Even the buttons feel better.
That's not exactly accurate. Small towns and rural areas did have public transit, before the auto and petroleum industries bought them up to shut them down. There were regional bus services, trolley lines, short distance train services even in places like central Illinois.
Just started up Firefox on a PS2 Linux kit, but posting with Dillo.
/proc/2827/status
2827 CronoClo 0 0 15256 9748 5372 S 4816 0.0 31.9 0:24 firefox-bin
[CronoCloud@midgar CronoCloud]$ cat
Name: firefox-bin
State: S (sleeping)
Pid: 2827
PPid: 2822
Uid: 501 501 501 501
Gid: 501 501 501 501
Groups: 501
VmSize: 57768 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS: 9752 kB
VmData: 10836 kB
VmStk: 380 kB
VmExe: 152 kB
VmLib: 27356 kB
Well the parent referred to making money of his WoW character. Actually, I listed two, EQOA is also subscription based.
I could have thrown in some of the longer non-online RPG's, especially those with tons of optional quests/items/characters that take tons of time to complete if you're a completist.
The PSP and PS3 have bult in web browsers. The Wii has one available for download via the Nintendo store built into the machine.
Linux can be installed on the PS2 and PS3, and it's an officially supported function.
SOCOM?
Final Fantasy XI?
Everquest Online Adventures Frontiers?
Star Wars Battlefront?
Only the shortest of console game can be beat in a few days. I take it you don't play RPG's?
That's because the Wii is the non-gamers system. It's meant to sit in the living room and turned on maybe a few times a month when friends are over or when Lost/Project Runway/CSI/Law & Order are all reruns.
The Xbox/PS3 sit in the den/rec room/bedroom, next to another TV and get played by "Traditional gamers"
They're different markets. The Wii might be selling lots of consoles, but non-gamers do not buy lots of games. Those grannies and soccer moms playing wii golf are going to keep playing wii golf because they don't "get" spending $50 on a game, when there's other things they could spend it on.
While the PS3/Xbox360 in the den will have an ever growing stack of games next to it.
It's kind of like how some "casual gamers" will play flash/java games on their PC's for hours, but it would never occur to them that they could buy games to play on their PC.
On my machine the root prompt is #
[root@midgar root]#
Except online PS2/PS3 games, the majority of which do support keyboard chat.
I just had to make this joke even though I'm not an IT person and the only 'nix box I have is my personal desktop
I have the greatest sysadmin in the world!
$ su -l
Enter password:
#
Why do you ask?
That map reminds me of the red state/blue state electoral college map. You can see the dividing line at the Ohio river. You could compare things like poverty, average income, teenage pregnancy and the like and it would look pretty similar.
Well, you could always play the PSone ports, they'll run easily.
I suppose the more action oriented PSone port wouldn't fulfill the need? It plays crappy with the standard digital pad though, you really do need the massive original Dual Analog Joystick to do it justice.
Great idea!
Though some projects out there don't have good enough documentation for even advanced users to figure out how to use them.
Oh it's not too bad, the Mini-Howto is enough to get started:
http://webber.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/GP
However, try to find documentation on how to use the GUI frontends, like GPA. The documentation I've seen for the Windows users even new ones, pretty much ignores it and goes to the command line They should be telling people who aren't console cowboys to be using that, and no listing the icons is not enough.
You'll also see the mutt-GPG howto, but very little for integrating GPG in email programs that "ordinary people" actually use. (Yes I have mutt installed, but I use Claws Mail, thank goodness they have good documentation)
I had the devil of the time myself just generating my key using the command line (not enough entropy), but GPA worked.
Technically you're supposed to have a separate secret key for yourself on the other box, but that's just annoying if you want to decrypt your own stuff on another box. I just transferred my secret key over and use one on both.
Hey thanks, I wondered what finch was.
Now I have to figure out how the UI works on it.
I agree, I'd rather have the little buttons back than that blasted status thingy. But you're lucky, one of the beta's was broken enough to have TWO of them.
It only seems to have less features because they hid some of them in menus rather than having separate entries for them.
For me one of the annoying things is the removal of the invite button in Yahoo conferences. You have to Conversation>Invite.
UMD is better than ROM cart in one important way, the same way the PSone game CD was superior to the N64 cartridge: capacity.
the DS ROM cartridge only holds 128MB.
UMDs hold 1.8GB, roughly 14 times as much data.
Yes, but with the PSP they're all built in, including WPA support. No extra hardware needed.
At least they did do it, better late than never. Hopefully they'll do the same with hobbyist development in some way.