Churches are a huge political and financial force and they should be taxed as businesses are or, better, abolished outright.
Unions are much bigger, much more political.
But God forbid we let a little thing like the Constitution (freedom of religion, freedom to associate, freedom of speech) to get in the way of your well-reasoned and cogent rant.
And they only find out that they can't safely text while driving at the cost of one dead pedestrian per driver. 'Great' indeed.
And they only find out that they can't safely drink while driving at the cost of one dead pedestrian per driver. 'Great' indeed.
And they only find out that they can't safely shave while driving at the cost of one dead pedestrian per driver. 'Great' indeed.
Fines and criminal sentences don't serve to undo the act, they can only serve to deter those who would otherwise consider the risk worth the cost. Using your argument, we should not bother making DUI illegal, since you'd rather not be dead after being hit by a drunk driver.
If someone knows there is a huge fine for texting while driving and does it anyway, there is nothing you can do to not be dead when he runs you down. But the theory is that there will be lots of people who will not be dead from the people who get charged the fine without having run anyone over, or who stop texting because they know about the fine.
This 1000 times. I always bring my own bag, not only out of habit, it was common were I started doing it, but it also means I do not have to deal with their crappy bags.
Yeah, but if you don't use their plastic bags, you have to spend money to buy condoms.
in practice, I can grab a few things and check out in 30 seconds.
In practice, when I put the second item on the output belt, the system grinds to a halt, reverses the belt, and demands that I rescan the item. Four times. The next item, when placed on the belt, doesn't register as being "on the belt" so the system is stuck in "put the scanned item on the belt" mode. The fifth item doesn't scan at all and I finally just leave it setting on top of the machine. The sixth item is a "scan the card, the item is in lockup" so someone has to come over and then run to the special room they keep the expensive stuff in so I won't steal it from them anyway.
This is especially annoying when the one item I want to purchase is a bottle of pop and I have no reason to "put the item in the bag", I just want to drink it. But we can't proceed to paying for the item until I "put the item in the bag".
I've pretty much always found that the human checkout person is faster than the self-checkout, and the assistant will bag the stuff up while it's being paid for.
The stores are already fucking with me over membership cards and overpriced beef.
That's true whether you use human or self-checkout.
Funny, that, I don't see those former Clinton administration members advertizing this rally, so I find it hard to believe they're the "prime movers."
So when you see Brad Pitt appear on Regis And Kelly touting his latest movie, you would call him the "prime mover" in the creation of that movie, despite him being only an actor hired on relatively late in the creative process?
Sorry. Front men are called "front men" not because they are the people most interested in the activity, just the ones put up front to make it look palatable.
I find the irony of Jon Stewart fronting something called "return to sanity" simply overwhelming. Does that mean he's quitting his Comedy Central show? (Doubt it.)
I also don't doubt that were Karl Rove in any way involved, the press would be making that fact well known, while Stephanopolous is a mainstream "news" person these days and nobody says anything. And Carville appears on MSNBC as a "political commentator" while his wife appears as "Republican strategist".
...as someone else had already trademarked the name David Wilcox (an American musician).
IANAL, but I believe this issue is based on union requirements, not trademarks. At least for the Screen Actor's Guild. Michael J. Fox talks about thi s in one of his biographies. SAG wouldn't let him be "Michael Fox" the actor because there already was one, so he had to use his middle initial.
and it is nothing new. it's been flown in planes (by the USGS to map the coastline of the US), attached to vehicles of all kinds. Yes, the easiest data collection system is one where the lidar is motionless (except the scanning head, of course) so system motion doesn't have to be backed out of the data, but we've been putting lidar on so many platforms that it is nothing really new to put it in a backpack.
It's like the difference between a 1Gb thumb drive and a 2Gb one. Same technology, smaller package. Advances in MEMS sensors for acceleration and position make knowing the position of the lidar base much easier and more accurate. This "advance" is really nothing that anyone knowlegable in the art couldn't predict or produce.
If I was a pilot I would welcome that level of scrutiny. Where am I going wrong so that I can improve my skills as a pilot.
Except that is not how the data would be used. Every infraction would be used as a reason to fire someone, and hire a less-expensive employee. And in case of any accident or incident, any unrelated error would be fodder for extended lawsuits. Any minor failure in a judgement call would be costly. If the pilots debate turning on the "fasten seatbelt" annunciator based on a marginal radar return and "maybe" some turbulence ahead and someone is injured, that debate will become "gross negligence".
You need to understand the aviation liability industry. There is a story of a fellow who flew a Piper Cub who removed the seats. He taxied to the runway, and because there were no seats he couldn't see over the dash, so he didn't see the van parked on the runway. He hit the van. He died. The family sued Piper Aircraft.
Similarly, most city-council politicians I know tend to work very hard to keep in touch with their voter base and to enact seemingly sane policies.
In my experience, it's the city council politicians who run based on personal agenda and then push that agenda as much as they can while in office. They also know that they can pass all kinds of stupid "pronouncements" with little to no real meaning other than making themselves look great to the loudest nutcases, so they don't have to worry about what they pass.
They can also schedule all their meetings so that no sane person could possibly attend them all, thus creating a lack of competition for the next election. Ours meets on the first and third Monday at noon AND at 7PM, and has commissions they are part of that meet on various weekdays at 7:30AM or 8PM. If you are in any way employed you are almost certain not to be able to attend all the meetings, so even if you did get elected you'd get kicked off the council for failing to attend meetings. Except for one council favorite who keeps taking time off to make illegal trips to Cuba and displays a Cuban flag pasted to the top of his city-funded laptop, he gets excused whenever he asks.
Hey if people want to piss and moan over the research and slow it to a crawl...
You do realize that this argument is over federal funding for the research, not the research itself, right?
Assuming that the lack of federal funding has slowed the research "to a crawl", as you put it, and assuming that the claims regarding the vast potential for curing the uncurable are correct, then exactly what is stopping the large pharma companies from pushing ahead? My gosh, the vast potential for gold and silver and frankincense and whatever and creation of new billionaires by finding a cure for, e.g., diabetes should be drawing VCs (not Viet Cong, venture capitalists, despite the similarity) like flies.
There must be some problem with the assumptions, then. Either research hasn't slowed to a crawl (negating your argument), or the potential for cures is vastly overstated.
I mean remember the crusades if you didn't believe in their god you got killed or tortured I don't think this is nearly as inhumane.
I find your argument fascinating. "Because some people centuries ago did some bad things, we should not worry at all about bad things we do today." In medical terms, I think this would be "we've found a cure for cancer, so let's stop worrying about all those little diseases mankind suffers from." May I subscribe to your newsletter?
As I recall from a recent podcast from the BBC or NPR (don't recall which), the congress DID pass the required changes but Bush vetoed it. Nobody has tried it since The One has been elected because they figured there were other more important ways to hand out free money, and that the Executive Order solved the problem.
It's already been through congress, so the chances of it being filibustered are slim.
The reason I recall the content, but not the source, of the podcast is because it was an interview with some pro-stemcell researcher who was complaining that going to court to stop other people's research by someone who is in the field and didn't get funded for non-embryonic research is some huge violation of the peer-review process, and how if his research had been worth doing it would have been funded. This, of course, ignores the fact that research money is not unlimited, and that many valid, worthwhile proposals go unfunded because there just isn't enough money. The non-embryonic research may very well be the next big cure for lots of diseases, but there wasn't enough money to fund both embyronic and non-embryonic at the same time, so he lost out. It doesn't mean the research isn't worthy of funding...
Ummm, I'm confused. The frequencies that GSM uses are licensed by the FCC to specific operators. The phones are used under the control of the operator, who has a license for each and every cell site.
How is Burning Man getting away with using these frequencies without a license?
More important, what happens when half a dozen people in an area with existing service start setting these up and interfering with the big companies who are selling service? We lived through the heyday of CB radio and how unusable it became when the FCC gave up on licensing after an explosion of popularity. Do we have to live through the same thing with our cell phones?
Funny, that's almost the exact argument about whether to allow the mosque to be built next to Ground Zero... and Obama came out and supported it.
Even as someone who thinks Obama is the worst and least qualified President we've had in the last 100 years, I will correct that statement in his favor. He pointed out, quite correctly, that there is no LAW preventing them from building there, and that the Constitution (which he has shredded with his takeover of the health care system) gives them the right to practice their religion free of government control.
This is significantly different than "I support them building there." It's kinda like "I don't agree with what you say but I'll defend your right to say it."
I think it is arrogant and counterproductive to Islamic/US relations for them to build this symbol near ground zero, but the laws of this land say they can. That's what makes the US different than, e.g., Iran or just about any Islamic nation. I wonder what the world's reaction would be were Jews to build a huge synagogue on the site of the first Iranian nuclear reactor they bomb into smithereens. Or the liberal reaction had Bush said that the muslims have the right to build next to Ground Zero.
When you've got that little space for your BASIC programs, removing the requirement for "let" in your BASIC code freed up valuable bytes. (other similar shortcuts existed back in the day, such as "?" available as a replacement for "print".)
Yeah, one whole byte per assignment statement, and ZERO bytes for each print. That "print" command got converted into a one-byte opcode, so '?' saved you nothing as far as storage, only typing time.
...the rock I chiseled my passwords into was destroyed in the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, so I can't log in with them anymore.
You had a rock to chisel your passwords into? Luxury. Sheer luxury. All I had was some interstellar gas, and we didn't know it was interstellar because there weren't any stars yet. So just some gas. And lots of protons and electrons, but not enough to form atoms...
And my very FIRST password I had to carve into a point singularity, but after a couple of weeks that blew up (literally).
This show, and others like it (Ice Road Truckers, American Loggers, etc.), are all PR tools for the industries that support them. For the most part, these industries live and die by the whim of opinion of the American public.
Those industries existed a long time before TV shows were produced about them, and I doubt very few people think "gee, I'll go out and buy a buttload of timber" after seeing American Loggers. On the other hand, I do think a lot about finding out how to buy a buttload of Minke whale meat from the Japanese after watching Whale Wars*.
No, they're TV shows because they cover odd or unusual occupations, and they're successful because they have characters that are captivating and human.
* Whale Wars, where the "cast" is all upset because one of their boats got rammed by a Japanese whaling boat early this season, after they deliberately rammed a Japanese boat last season, and while they wear watch caps with the Sea Shepard logo and the phrase "get ready to ram" (or something like that, I don't remember and the online store doesn't show it on the cap.) Karma is a bitch, Paul.
The only "reality" shows like this I actually enjoy are done by the BBC. They seem to get it right, rather than making it dramatic, they aim more for looking at the whole story.
I don't know if this one counts because it was done by LionHeart (or Lion whatever), but it was called "Survivor" IIRC, and was supposed to follow the lives of about 50 people moved out to the Shetlands. They were supposed to have been provided with houses and school, etc, but the production crew was way behind and only half of the stuff was built. The people were then supposed to grow their own crops and animals and stuff and live.
Since it wasn't finished, half the people never went to the island. Most of the missing half were staying in resort hotels along the coast waiting for them to finish; the doctor and his family stayed back in London. They actually televised some of the meetings between production staff and the missing people, with both sides playing contract lawyer.
The ones who did go to the island routinely got care packages with chocolate and all kinds of stuff like liquor by mail, and most of them were caught sneaking back and forth to the mainland on the mail ship.
About all I got out of it was that British television productions are unlikely to try to use the courts to enforce contracts with cast.
Imagine Big Brother with half the contestants living in a local hotel and the rest climbing the fence to go to KFC when they're hungry. And yes, the british BB where one guy DID climb the fence was a real hoot.
Deadliest Catch was amusing for an episode or two, but you definitely get more value from a decent documentary than from a whole season of this Discovery nonsense.
Not every program needs to be a documentary, and DC was not intended to be one. You were expected to follow the lives of the crews and have favorites, etc. Just like any other drama series.
Same for IRT. Hoot at how buffoonish "The Bear" treats Alex, his "friend". Hope that someone actually takes Bear's threats of "meeting in the parking lot" up and wallops him a good one. Drool over Lisa and hope that her accident with the ditch doesn't cost her a job. Get every guy who can't drive anything but an automatic thinking HE could do that job, too, and adopting Jake's really cool drawl. It's TV.
A television show? There are entire networks dedicated to attacking Obama.
Not in the US. Maybe where you live.
What history book are you reading? The GOP sued to have Florida stop counting votes,
That is a lie. The Bush campaign rightfully sued to stop the endless RECOUNTS demanded by Gore, which would have taken the certification of the result beyond the date required for the electors to participate in the electoral college. The votes were counted, they were recounted. Gore wanted them counted again and again. SCOTUS ruled that the State of Florida was in charge of their elections (which the US Constitution clearly and unambiguously tells us) and did not have to recount forever. They could follow the process that was agreed to BY ALL SIDES prior to the vote and not change the rules after the vote was over.
Gore and his campaign, however, sued to have entire counties of votes thrown out for ridiculous reasons. For example, the military postal service didn't always apply postmarks to service-member's mail, so Gore sued to have all those votes thrown out, even though they arrived BEFORE THE DEADLINE (who the fuck cares what the postmark is if the mail arrives before the date it has to be postmarked by?). In one county, the Republican county chairman had the forethought to write the absentee voter's id number on the application and the Democrat didn't. The Democrats claimed the Republicans were tampering with the vote, sued, and lost.
I don't need a history book, I was alive and paying attention when it was happening. I even went and read the court proceedings just for fun. CSPAN had a lot of it live.
And I'll point out yet another fact to counter your lie: even the NY Times admitted after the unofficial recounts were over that Bush won the state of Florida.
... leading to the man who lost the popular vote being appointed president by the Supreme Court.
Yet another lie. There is no "popular vote" for President of the US. It simply does not exist. There is only the electoral college vote. You can neither win nor lose the "popular vote" for US President because the "popular vote" makes no difference in anything. You can sum up the by-state vote counts (which are used to determine the electors) but it doesn't mean anything. That's BY DESIGN. It is supposed to work that way. And I'll point out that the Democrats are quite happy when it works their way; they only cry foul when THEY lose.
As for SCOTUS, no, they didn't appoint anyone to be President. They don't have that power. Saying that they appointed one is patently absurd and a deliberate lie. I've already told you what they did, which isn't even close.
Again, there's an entire network doing this 24/7.
I can't speak for the entire world, but not in the US. Not one heaping deliberate and malicious ridicule upon a sitting President. And I don't have to predict what you'd say were there one doing it to Obama, because you already say:
And remember, never before has there been an American president who had to deal with racism from his opposition.
There's the liberal race-card: anyone opposing someone who is black is defacto a racist.
I hate to burst your magical bubble, but no, not everyone who opposes Obama is a racist. And he's not the first candidate to suffer from racism. Democrats love to play that card to get black voters on their side, so just about every Republican candidate since the party formed has had that card played against him. Every candidate against Obama who dared mention the words "Jeremiah Wright" because the victim of racism -- the accusation that they were when the truth was the opposite.
Even so, there have been Presidents who have suffered from -isms before. Notably, JFK faced a strong anti-Catholic sentiment. I'm not going to bother going further back in history to defend against your false claims.
You think there was this kind of nuttiness over Bush?
In a word, yes.
Show me a time in history before Bush where there was a television series running during his presidency that was nothing but malicious attacks painted as "humor". ("That's My Bush", Comedy Central).
Show me a time in history where there has been such unrelenting hate for the occupant of the oval office, such that the campaign against him was typically nothing more than "Anyone But Bush", even during a campaign where Bush was constitutionally unable to run for office.
Show me a time in history prior to Bush when the left went to such ridiculous efforts to disenfranchise an entire state's population as when Gore and his lawyers tried to have entire blocks of already-counted votes thrown out in Florida, many of them from active duty servicemen, and then try to delay the certification of the count from that state until after the electoral college had met. Which would, by the way, have resulted in an electoral majority to Gore, as if nobody would have noticed. You can point at "hanging chads", but the fact is that the Democratic officials in that county had APPROVED that ballot and balloting method AS REQUIRED BY LAW and did not complain until after the votes were counted and their candidate had lost. Had Gore carried the state, you can bet that there would have been none of the nonsense that everyone blames Bush for.
It was a fascinating time in history. It was amazing to watch the people the democrats hauled in to complain about the process they had agreed ahead of time was acceptable. One old guy stood up saying "I been voting for fifty years and I don't need to read no instructions on how to vote". Yes, sir, apparently you DID need to read the instructions, especially the one telling you how to poke a hole in a piece of paper. THAT'S what the democrats where claiming: their electorate was too dumb to be able to poke a hole in a piece of paper that was pre-punched to make it easier.
Show me the Dan Rathers crowing about how they have documented evidence about some current president's malfeasance, only to have it exposed that it was a forgery helped by the producer of his show.
Compare that to the teflon the current occupant is wearing with respect to continuing the same policies that Bush implemented, even after promising "change you can believe in". Remind me, how many days has it been that Gitmo was supposed to be closed "on day one", and remind me how many days Gitmo has actually been closed, and how little mention of that fact is mentioned in the mainstream press. Show me the people protesting the current wars on a daily basis that are blaming him for not shutting them down as he has promised.
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No, it wouldn't. Corporations are made up of people who already have the right to vote. One vote per person, remember?
There is, however, no "one speech per person" limitation written into the Constitution.
Corporations should have the same privacy rights we do. Information about criminal acts becomes public record when the charges are filed.
Unions are much bigger, much more political.
But God forbid we let a little thing like the Constitution (freedom of religion, freedom to associate, freedom of speech) to get in the way of your well-reasoned and cogent rant.
And they only find out that they can't safely drink while driving at the cost of one dead pedestrian per driver. 'Great' indeed.
And they only find out that they can't safely shave while driving at the cost of one dead pedestrian per driver. 'Great' indeed.
Fines and criminal sentences don't serve to undo the act, they can only serve to deter those who would otherwise consider the risk worth the cost. Using your argument, we should not bother making DUI illegal, since you'd rather not be dead after being hit by a drunk driver.
If someone knows there is a huge fine for texting while driving and does it anyway, there is nothing you can do to not be dead when he runs you down. But the theory is that there will be lots of people who will not be dead from the people who get charged the fine without having run anyone over, or who stop texting because they know about the fine.
Well, then, the answer is simple. Ban staples and only allow frivolous sandwiches.
Yeah, but if you don't use their plastic bags, you have to spend money to buy condoms.
In practice, when I put the second item on the output belt, the system grinds to a halt, reverses the belt, and demands that I rescan the item. Four times. The next item, when placed on the belt, doesn't register as being "on the belt" so the system is stuck in "put the scanned item on the belt" mode. The fifth item doesn't scan at all and I finally just leave it setting on top of the machine. The sixth item is a "scan the card, the item is in lockup" so someone has to come over and then run to the special room they keep the expensive stuff in so I won't steal it from them anyway.
This is especially annoying when the one item I want to purchase is a bottle of pop and I have no reason to "put the item in the bag", I just want to drink it. But we can't proceed to paying for the item until I "put the item in the bag".
I've pretty much always found that the human checkout person is faster than the self-checkout, and the assistant will bag the stuff up while it's being paid for.
The stores are already fucking with me over membership cards and overpriced beef.
That's true whether you use human or self-checkout.
Ahh, it's just filled with moss. Easiest money I made in my life.
1. She walks around the hanger until she says "ow".
2. She throws her underwear around and looks for any pair that sticks to "thin air".
Or "she finds it very comfortable, and much faster than her invisible dogsled."
So when you see Brad Pitt appear on Regis And Kelly touting his latest movie, you would call him the "prime mover" in the creation of that movie, despite him being only an actor hired on relatively late in the creative process?
Sorry. Front men are called "front men" not because they are the people most interested in the activity, just the ones put up front to make it look palatable.
I find the irony of Jon Stewart fronting something called "return to sanity" simply overwhelming. Does that mean he's quitting his Comedy Central show? (Doubt it.)
I also don't doubt that were Karl Rove in any way involved, the press would be making that fact well known, while Stephanopolous is a mainstream "news" person these days and nobody says anything. And Carville appears on MSNBC as a "political commentator" while his wife appears as "Republican strategist".
IANAL, but I believe this issue is based on union requirements, not trademarks. At least for the Screen Actor's Guild. Michael J. Fox talks about thi s in one of his biographies. SAG wouldn't let him be "Michael Fox" the actor because there already was one, so he had to use his middle initial.
It's like the difference between a 1Gb thumb drive and a 2Gb one. Same technology, smaller package. Advances in MEMS sensors for acceleration and position make knowing the position of the lidar base much easier and more accurate. This "advance" is really nothing that anyone knowlegable in the art couldn't predict or produce.
Except that is not how the data would be used. Every infraction would be used as a reason to fire someone, and hire a less-expensive employee. And in case of any accident or incident, any unrelated error would be fodder for extended lawsuits. Any minor failure in a judgement call would be costly. If the pilots debate turning on the "fasten seatbelt" annunciator based on a marginal radar return and "maybe" some turbulence ahead and someone is injured, that debate will become "gross negligence".
You need to understand the aviation liability industry. There is a story of a fellow who flew a Piper Cub who removed the seats. He taxied to the runway, and because there were no seats he couldn't see over the dash, so he didn't see the van parked on the runway. He hit the van. He died. The family sued Piper Aircraft.
In my experience, it's the city council politicians who run based on personal agenda and then push that agenda as much as they can while in office. They also know that they can pass all kinds of stupid "pronouncements" with little to no real meaning other than making themselves look great to the loudest nutcases, so they don't have to worry about what they pass.
They can also schedule all their meetings so that no sane person could possibly attend them all, thus creating a lack of competition for the next election. Ours meets on the first and third Monday at noon AND at 7PM, and has commissions they are part of that meet on various weekdays at 7:30AM or 8PM. If you are in any way employed you are almost certain not to be able to attend all the meetings, so even if you did get elected you'd get kicked off the council for failing to attend meetings. Except for one council favorite who keeps taking time off to make illegal trips to Cuba and displays a Cuban flag pasted to the top of his city-funded laptop, he gets excused whenever he asks.
You do realize that this argument is over federal funding for the research, not the research itself, right?
Assuming that the lack of federal funding has slowed the research "to a crawl", as you put it, and assuming that the claims regarding the vast potential for curing the uncurable are correct, then exactly what is stopping the large pharma companies from pushing ahead? My gosh, the vast potential for gold and silver and frankincense and whatever and creation of new billionaires by finding a cure for, e.g., diabetes should be drawing VCs (not Viet Cong, venture capitalists, despite the similarity) like flies.
There must be some problem with the assumptions, then. Either research hasn't slowed to a crawl (negating your argument), or the potential for cures is vastly overstated.
I mean remember the crusades if you didn't believe in their god you got killed or tortured I don't think this is nearly as inhumane.
I find your argument fascinating. "Because some people centuries ago did some bad things, we should not worry at all about bad things we do today." In medical terms, I think this would be "we've found a cure for cancer, so let's stop worrying about all those little diseases mankind suffers from." May I subscribe to your newsletter?
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When I see "open source" I assume that there can be no "licensing fee". My bad.
As I recall from a recent podcast from the BBC or NPR (don't recall which), the congress DID pass the required changes but Bush vetoed it. Nobody has tried it since The One has been elected because they figured there were other more important ways to hand out free money, and that the Executive Order solved the problem.
It's already been through congress, so the chances of it being filibustered are slim.
The reason I recall the content, but not the source, of the podcast is because it was an interview with some pro-stemcell researcher who was complaining that going to court to stop other people's research by someone who is in the field and didn't get funded for non-embryonic research is some huge violation of the peer-review process, and how if his research had been worth doing it would have been funded. This, of course, ignores the fact that research money is not unlimited, and that many valid, worthwhile proposals go unfunded because there just isn't enough money. The non-embryonic research may very well be the next big cure for lots of diseases, but there wasn't enough money to fund both embyronic and non-embryonic at the same time, so he lost out. It doesn't mean the research isn't worthy of funding...
How is Burning Man getting away with using these frequencies without a license?
More important, what happens when half a dozen people in an area with existing service start setting these up and interfering with the big companies who are selling service? We lived through the heyday of CB radio and how unusable it became when the FCC gave up on licensing after an explosion of popularity. Do we have to live through the same thing with our cell phones?
Even as someone who thinks Obama is the worst and least qualified President we've had in the last 100 years, I will correct that statement in his favor. He pointed out, quite correctly, that there is no LAW preventing them from building there, and that the Constitution (which he has shredded with his takeover of the health care system) gives them the right to practice their religion free of government control.
This is significantly different than "I support them building there." It's kinda like "I don't agree with what you say but I'll defend your right to say it."
I think it is arrogant and counterproductive to Islamic/US relations for them to build this symbol near ground zero, but the laws of this land say they can. That's what makes the US different than, e.g., Iran or just about any Islamic nation. I wonder what the world's reaction would be were Jews to build a huge synagogue on the site of the first Iranian nuclear reactor they bomb into smithereens. Or the liberal reaction had Bush said that the muslims have the right to build next to Ground Zero.
Yeah, one whole byte per assignment statement, and ZERO bytes for each print. That "print" command got converted into a one-byte opcode, so '?' saved you nothing as far as storage, only typing time.
You had a rock to chisel your passwords into? Luxury. Sheer luxury. All I had was some interstellar gas, and we didn't know it was interstellar because there weren't any stars yet. So just some gas. And lots of protons and electrons, but not enough to form atoms...
And my very FIRST password I had to carve into a point singularity, but after a couple of weeks that blew up (literally).
Those industries existed a long time before TV shows were produced about them, and I doubt very few people think "gee, I'll go out and buy a buttload of timber" after seeing American Loggers. On the other hand, I do think a lot about finding out how to buy a buttload of Minke whale meat from the Japanese after watching Whale Wars*.
No, they're TV shows because they cover odd or unusual occupations, and they're successful because they have characters that are captivating and human.
* Whale Wars, where the "cast" is all upset because one of their boats got rammed by a Japanese whaling boat early this season, after they deliberately rammed a Japanese boat last season, and while they wear watch caps with the Sea Shepard logo and the phrase "get ready to ram" (or something like that, I don't remember and the online store doesn't show it on the cap.) Karma is a bitch, Paul.
I don't know if this one counts because it was done by LionHeart (or Lion whatever), but it was called "Survivor" IIRC, and was supposed to follow the lives of about 50 people moved out to the Shetlands. They were supposed to have been provided with houses and school, etc, but the production crew was way behind and only half of the stuff was built. The people were then supposed to grow their own crops and animals and stuff and live.
Since it wasn't finished, half the people never went to the island. Most of the missing half were staying in resort hotels along the coast waiting for them to finish; the doctor and his family stayed back in London. They actually televised some of the meetings between production staff and the missing people, with both sides playing contract lawyer.
The ones who did go to the island routinely got care packages with chocolate and all kinds of stuff like liquor by mail, and most of them were caught sneaking back and forth to the mainland on the mail ship.
About all I got out of it was that British television productions are unlikely to try to use the courts to enforce contracts with cast.
Imagine Big Brother with half the contestants living in a local hotel and the rest climbing the fence to go to KFC when they're hungry. And yes, the british BB where one guy DID climb the fence was a real hoot.
Deadliest Catch was amusing for an episode or two, but you definitely get more value from a decent documentary than from a whole season of this Discovery nonsense.
Not every program needs to be a documentary, and DC was not intended to be one. You were expected to follow the lives of the crews and have favorites, etc. Just like any other drama series.
Same for IRT. Hoot at how buffoonish "The Bear" treats Alex, his "friend". Hope that someone actually takes Bear's threats of "meeting in the parking lot" up and wallops him a good one. Drool over Lisa and hope that her accident with the ditch doesn't cost her a job. Get every guy who can't drive anything but an automatic thinking HE could do that job, too, and adopting Jake's really cool drawl. It's TV.
Not in the US. Maybe where you live.
What history book are you reading? The GOP sued to have Florida stop counting votes,
That is a lie. The Bush campaign rightfully sued to stop the endless RECOUNTS demanded by Gore, which would have taken the certification of the result beyond the date required for the electors to participate in the electoral college. The votes were counted, they were recounted. Gore wanted them counted again and again. SCOTUS ruled that the State of Florida was in charge of their elections (which the US Constitution clearly and unambiguously tells us) and did not have to recount forever. They could follow the process that was agreed to BY ALL SIDES prior to the vote and not change the rules after the vote was over.
Gore and his campaign, however, sued to have entire counties of votes thrown out for ridiculous reasons. For example, the military postal service didn't always apply postmarks to service-member's mail, so Gore sued to have all those votes thrown out, even though they arrived BEFORE THE DEADLINE (who the fuck cares what the postmark is if the mail arrives before the date it has to be postmarked by?). In one county, the Republican county chairman had the forethought to write the absentee voter's id number on the application and the Democrat didn't. The Democrats claimed the Republicans were tampering with the vote, sued, and lost.
I don't need a history book, I was alive and paying attention when it was happening. I even went and read the court proceedings just for fun. CSPAN had a lot of it live.
And I'll point out yet another fact to counter your lie: even the NY Times admitted after the unofficial recounts were over that Bush won the state of Florida.
Yet another lie. There is no "popular vote" for President of the US. It simply does not exist. There is only the electoral college vote. You can neither win nor lose the "popular vote" for US President because the "popular vote" makes no difference in anything. You can sum up the by-state vote counts (which are used to determine the electors) but it doesn't mean anything. That's BY DESIGN. It is supposed to work that way. And I'll point out that the Democrats are quite happy when it works their way; they only cry foul when THEY lose.
As for SCOTUS, no, they didn't appoint anyone to be President. They don't have that power. Saying that they appointed one is patently absurd and a deliberate lie. I've already told you what they did, which isn't even close.
Again, there's an entire network doing this 24/7.
I can't speak for the entire world, but not in the US. Not one heaping deliberate and malicious ridicule upon a sitting President. And I don't have to predict what you'd say were there one doing it to Obama, because you already say:
And remember, never before has there been an American president who had to deal with racism from his opposition.
There's the liberal race-card: anyone opposing someone who is black is defacto a racist. I hate to burst your magical bubble, but no, not everyone who opposes Obama is a racist. And he's not the first candidate to suffer from racism. Democrats love to play that card to get black voters on their side, so just about every Republican candidate since the party formed has had that card played against him. Every candidate against Obama who dared mention the words "Jeremiah Wright" because the victim of racism -- the accusation that they were when the truth was the opposite.
Even so, there have been Presidents who have suffered from -isms before. Notably, JFK faced a strong anti-Catholic sentiment. I'm not going to bother going further back in history to defend against your false claims.
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In a word, yes.
Show me a time in history before Bush where there was a television series running during his presidency that was nothing but malicious attacks painted as "humor". ("That's My Bush", Comedy Central).
Show me a time in history where there has been such unrelenting hate for the occupant of the oval office, such that the campaign against him was typically nothing more than "Anyone But Bush", even during a campaign where Bush was constitutionally unable to run for office.
Show me a time in history prior to Bush when the left went to such ridiculous efforts to disenfranchise an entire state's population as when Gore and his lawyers tried to have entire blocks of already-counted votes thrown out in Florida, many of them from active duty servicemen, and then try to delay the certification of the count from that state until after the electoral college had met. Which would, by the way, have resulted in an electoral majority to Gore, as if nobody would have noticed. You can point at "hanging chads", but the fact is that the Democratic officials in that county had APPROVED that ballot and balloting method AS REQUIRED BY LAW and did not complain until after the votes were counted and their candidate had lost. Had Gore carried the state, you can bet that there would have been none of the nonsense that everyone blames Bush for.
It was a fascinating time in history. It was amazing to watch the people the democrats hauled in to complain about the process they had agreed ahead of time was acceptable. One old guy stood up saying "I been voting for fifty years and I don't need to read no instructions on how to vote". Yes, sir, apparently you DID need to read the instructions, especially the one telling you how to poke a hole in a piece of paper. THAT'S what the democrats where claiming: their electorate was too dumb to be able to poke a hole in a piece of paper that was pre-punched to make it easier.
Show me the Dan Rathers crowing about how they have documented evidence about some current president's malfeasance, only to have it exposed that it was a forgery helped by the producer of his show.
Compare that to the teflon the current occupant is wearing with respect to continuing the same policies that Bush implemented, even after promising "change you can believe in". Remind me, how many days has it been that Gitmo was supposed to be closed "on day one", and remind me how many days Gitmo has actually been closed, and how little mention of that fact is mentioned in the mainstream press. Show me the people protesting the current wars on a daily basis that are blaming him for not shutting them down as he has promised.