Seriously, I see the trouble with third parties right now that we don't attack on the ground, so to speak. I find it odd how many people will banter on about McCain this and Obama that but couldn't tell you who their state and federal senators and representatives are or if they're even up for election. These soft targets is where the third parties need to make some headway. Third party supporters would do much better to throw a few bucks to the local and state candidates than they would be to throw it at the presidential candidate but I don't think most supporters do that.
it sure does nullify any idea that Republican presidents spend less than Obama.
Please. Let's wait for him to take office before making such proclamations. If you really think what he's saying today is what he's going to offer up tomorrow it shows that P.T. Barnum was right. BTW: Which minute were you born?
Seriously, he hasn't even won yet and the numbers of his "less taxation for the middle class" threshold are already dropping. Not to even mention that it's going to take us years to get out of Iraq in a "responsible" manner. Nixing the Iraq war spending is a big part of his budget and that spending is not going to change 01/20/09 either way. And every president faces the unforeseen that normally bites them in the ass.
I'm not trying to say the guy is an outright liar but he does not have the power to do what he says he will do and I think his optimism is just a bit over the top. No matter what the outcome of the election is there is going to be a political and social rift in this nation that the next president will have to deal with and that will likely hold up most of their plans for the nation if not stop them dead in their tracks.
I doubt either one will get more than 2 of their top 5 goals for the nation very far in their first term and I doubt that either one will have a real chance at a second. That's assuming that the economic sky really is falling. I'm still skeptical on that too.
Instead of general interest topics like this a forum would probably work better.
In any case... Bob Barr 2008!
I'm just so sick of dumb and dumber and altho he won't win I'll be voting my values instead of who I decide that I can tolerate. Too bad more people didn't do that and maybe there wouldn't be a stranglehold on the American people.
Amazon is far from being a book seller as a primary business any longer and do you know how many books probably get shipped by Amazon that are never read? While this could potentially hurt their e-book business I doubt that many of their better e-book sellers are going to be found on Google any time soon.
Amazon won't even feel a bump in the road when they ride over this one.
books written 50 years ago and already made millions for their writer's grandsons should not be still being used as cow cashes, instead should join the public domain to the common heritage of human civilization.
Well, in a couple of weeks you can either go tell McCain or Obama your thoughts on this and see if they'll start to put it together. Heck, tell them both since they'll both still have an office. But take my advice, don't hold your breath...
In all fairness to Christopher Tolkien, at least he had an active role in his father's estate and actually worked to produce some of the wealth. It's not like he sat on his hands and just let the checks roll in and any Tolkien fan should have a bit of admiration and offer up a little thanks for Christopher and his desire to see his father's work get to the masses. Without Christopher these works would either have been lost or found their way into a private collectors collection for a high price. He certainly didn't need to be as responsible as he is.
I thought something had to be worthwhile before it could jump the shark. Or am I wrong on that?
I remember Wired coming out and me and a friend of mine were all gunned up for it. We thought it was going to be like a Blacklisted 411 or 2600 but geared toward the mainstream of technology. Instead when we got to the newsstand on that fateful day we found lame wanna-be tech that even Omni wouldn't cover wrapped up in a cheap Spin Magazine template.
We can bring all the Slashdotters who think they can best the most advanced scientists and engineers with their high school and college 101 chemistry/physics/biology courses. It would only be fitting to humble these people in the shadow of the guys and gals who've spent decades in the field doing the cutting edge research and making the breakthroughs.
Why is it that years into this concept we still have people with such a fixation on the geographic side of things?
Los Alamos made sense in the day where even simple telephones were unreliable and getting large amounts of documentation from team to team would take hours if not days and there would be no real accounting for the integrity of them once they got there. But today this kind of thing is sadly out of touch with technology. Not to mention that there is a presumption that a great number of high end scientists will get along under one roof. This is doubtful, at best.
Regardless of your decision in this matter it has the possibility of changing your opportunities elsewhere... that is, if you tell your future would-be employer. My question is, why would you tell them either way? Even if you "do the right thing" do you really want to wear that on your sleeve in your next interview? I think that kind of thing is just asking for trouble.
Have a prospective employer questioning your ethics or lack there of in the interviewing process is going to throw up red flags. It's a question best avoided all together.
And that's fine if you don't feel like doing it but it's still no reason to claim it's not there. Also, keep in mind that Microsoft is actually not that bad in creating a fairly functional help file. Maybe not in all cases but in this case they did as I don't use Word in a regular basis either but was able to find these templates in a matter of a couple of minutes with assistance of the help file.
At least it's easy if you accept that anything worth referencing off of it is cited in the article. In this way you'll have what is normally a more credible source to cite instead of simply going off of Wiki's word.
I wonder how many people ever look at the references section to do further research.
Let me ask: Why should it matter where we buy it from? If anything you would think the manufacturers would find accessories of this nature to have high profit margins compared to their phones. I know I'd buy into it.
Yeah, my new vehicle was suppose to get better gas mileage than a 57 Chevy. But my new Volvo semi only gets 8 miles to the gallon. What bullshit. Technology is a scam people. Wake up!
Where did you find the figure of 1000 ly? I was wondering about this myself and if you have someone who put that together I would be interested in seeing their numbers and logic.
In any case, it would need to be 75 GW of power using the same receiver as was originally used with Voyager. Is it better today? My guess is that it is. We keep getting better responses out of the same bandwidth because our sensitivity to the signal increases. I bet you that NASA engineer looks back at the 3W/110 baud numbers with nostalgia and laughs on the same level many of us do about the 640k of RAM claim.
Barack Obama said: "I know that it may not be the direction you want to see IP laws go in but at least we're creating jobs for Joe the Network Admin with good health benefits."
John McCain explains: "I'd hate to see young college students go astray when there is so much to look forward to. Let's try to keep a level head and co-op these human resources with other areas of the campus IT departments. It won't be as wasteful and everyone wins in the end."
Both sides agree that this is money well spent and with that in mind the Court Jester-in-waiting does a happy little dance as he hopes his buffoonery will please his new king, whomever that may be.
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Seriously, I see the trouble with third parties right now that we don't attack on the ground, so to speak. I find it odd how many people will banter on about McCain this and Obama that but couldn't tell you who their state and federal senators and representatives are or if they're even up for election. These soft targets is where the third parties need to make some headway. Third party supporters would do much better to throw a few bucks to the local and state candidates than they would be to throw it at the presidential candidate but I don't think most supporters do that.
it sure does nullify any idea that Republican presidents spend less than Obama.
Please. Let's wait for him to take office before making such proclamations. If you really think what he's saying today is what he's going to offer up tomorrow it shows that P.T. Barnum was right. BTW: Which minute were you born?
Seriously, he hasn't even won yet and the numbers of his "less taxation for the middle class" threshold are already dropping. Not to even mention that it's going to take us years to get out of Iraq in a "responsible" manner. Nixing the Iraq war spending is a big part of his budget and that spending is not going to change 01/20/09 either way. And every president faces the unforeseen that normally bites them in the ass.
I'm not trying to say the guy is an outright liar but he does not have the power to do what he says he will do and I think his optimism is just a bit over the top. No matter what the outcome of the election is there is going to be a political and social rift in this nation that the next president will have to deal with and that will likely hold up most of their plans for the nation if not stop them dead in their tracks.
I doubt either one will get more than 2 of their top 5 goals for the nation very far in their first term and I doubt that either one will have a real chance at a second. That's assuming that the economic sky really is falling. I'm still skeptical on that too.
Instead of general interest topics like this a forum would probably work better.
In any case... Bob Barr 2008!
I'm just so sick of dumb and dumber and altho he won't win I'll be voting my values instead of who I decide that I can tolerate. Too bad more people didn't do that and maybe there wouldn't be a stranglehold on the American people.
I guess there's the reason you're not Amazon.
Amazon is far from being a book seller as a primary business any longer and do you know how many books probably get shipped by Amazon that are never read? While this could potentially hurt their e-book business I doubt that many of their better e-book sellers are going to be found on Google any time soon.
Amazon won't even feel a bump in the road when they ride over this one.
books written 50 years ago and already made millions for their writer's grandsons should not be still being used as cow cashes, instead should join the public domain to the common heritage of human civilization.
Well, in a couple of weeks you can either go tell McCain or Obama your thoughts on this and see if they'll start to put it together. Heck, tell them both since they'll both still have an office. But take my advice, don't hold your breath...
In all fairness to Christopher Tolkien, at least he had an active role in his father's estate and actually worked to produce some of the wealth. It's not like he sat on his hands and just let the checks roll in and any Tolkien fan should have a bit of admiration and offer up a little thanks for Christopher and his desire to see his father's work get to the masses. Without Christopher these works would either have been lost or found their way into a private collectors collection for a high price. He certainly didn't need to be as responsible as he is.
I thought something had to be worthwhile before it could jump the shark. Or am I wrong on that?
I remember Wired coming out and me and a friend of mine were all gunned up for it. We thought it was going to be like a Blacklisted 411 or 2600 but geared toward the mainstream of technology. Instead when we got to the newsstand on that fateful day we found lame wanna-be tech that even Omni wouldn't cover wrapped up in a cheap Spin Magazine template.
Very disappointing.
The global calamity is the product of the combined stupidity of millions of people, not just that of President Bush.
What? No. You can't possibly be blaming the thousands of people who accepted a mortgage offer from a dancing clown, could you?
And as sad as that is these ads are *STILL* all over the likes of msnbc.com.
We can bring all the Slashdotters who think they can best the most advanced scientists and engineers with their high school and college 101 chemistry/physics/biology courses. It would only be fitting to humble these people in the shadow of the guys and gals who've spent decades in the field doing the cutting edge research and making the breakthroughs.
Why is it that years into this concept we still have people with such a fixation on the geographic side of things?
Los Alamos made sense in the day where even simple telephones were unreliable and getting large amounts of documentation from team to team would take hours if not days and there would be no real accounting for the integrity of them once they got there. But today this kind of thing is sadly out of touch with technology. Not to mention that there is a presumption that a great number of high end scientists will get along under one roof. This is doubtful, at best.
and swap files over a 1337 9600 bps modem
9600? Pfft. N00b.
300 bps VicModem FTW
It's a different landscape now a days too. Back in my day we were phreaking to run warez to and from BBSs. Today we have P2P, e-mail and IM.
Cthulhu doesn't need the mandate of the people any more than McCain/Obama needs the mandate of the cockroach.
I know of someone who got caught up in something like this and here's the case for it... http://calorielab.com/news/2006/07/24/more-cowbell-diet-web-site-the-daily-plate-caught-borrowing-calorie-data/ I do not know what the final outcome was for all of this unfortunately.
Regardless of your decision in this matter it has the possibility of changing your opportunities elsewhere... that is, if you tell your future would-be employer. My question is, why would you tell them either way? Even if you "do the right thing" do you really want to wear that on your sleeve in your next interview? I think that kind of thing is just asking for trouble.
Have a prospective employer questioning your ethics or lack there of in the interviewing process is going to throw up red flags. It's a question best avoided all together.
apathy maybe (who doesn't care enough to log in)
And that's fine if you don't feel like doing it but it's still no reason to claim it's not there. Also, keep in mind that Microsoft is actually not that bad in creating a fairly functional help file. Maybe not in all cases but in this case they did as I don't use Word in a regular basis either but was able to find these templates in a matter of a couple of minutes with assistance of the help file.
Shhhh... don't you know that everything that is wrong with this country only happened in the last 7.5 years?
Just because you don't use MS Word doesn't mean the templates aren't there. They have been for some time. I'm just telling it like it is.
It also does things simply better! Take creating a business card, MS Word doesn't even come with a template for that job!
Wrong. The templates (yes, more than one is provided) is under Tool -> Letters and Mailings -> Envelops and Labels.
Granted, it's a pain to find it there but they've lumped all the Avery (and other large pre-formatted paper providers) templates in one area.
At least it's easy if you accept that anything worth referencing off of it is cited in the article. In this way you'll have what is normally a more credible source to cite instead of simply going off of Wiki's word.
I wonder how many people ever look at the references section to do further research.
Let me ask: Why should it matter where we buy it from? If anything you would think the manufacturers would find accessories of this nature to have high profit margins compared to their phones. I know I'd buy into it.
Yeah, my new vehicle was suppose to get better gas mileage than a 57 Chevy. But my new Volvo semi only gets 8 miles to the gallon. What bullshit. Technology is a scam people. Wake up!
Where did you find the figure of 1000 ly? I was wondering about this myself and if you have someone who put that together I would be interested in seeing their numbers and logic.
In any case, it would need to be 75 GW of power using the same receiver as was originally used with Voyager. Is it better today? My guess is that it is. We keep getting better responses out of the same bandwidth because our sensitivity to the signal increases. I bet you that NASA engineer looks back at the 3W/110 baud numbers with nostalgia and laughs on the same level many of us do about the 640k of RAM claim.
Barack Obama said: "I know that it may not be the direction you want to see IP laws go in but at least we're creating jobs for Joe the Network Admin with good health benefits."
John McCain explains: "I'd hate to see young college students go astray when there is so much to look forward to. Let's try to keep a level head and co-op these human resources with other areas of the campus IT departments. It won't be as wasteful and everyone wins in the end."
Both sides agree that this is money well spent and with that in mind the Court Jester-in-waiting does a happy little dance as he hopes his buffoonery will please his new king, whomever that may be.
And why not? I'd really like to see someone back that up.