The TRON fantasy worked in 1980 because computers for most of us were these magical black boxes. Compared to today, a really small group of people around the world understood how they worked or how to program them.
Today, our fantasies have grown with our understanding of their ever increasing power... enter The Matrix.
Tron 2010 needed to evolve but it didn't. This has nothing to do with _OUR_ lack of imagination, it has to do with the films own lack of imagination.
Because this is a typical corporate maneuver to get their foot in the door. Eventually opting out will not be a realistic option as various features will only be accessible if you're enrolled.
Blizzard failed with the frontal assault so now they're going sideways with their strategy.
it's two years of GDP but you make it sound like their GDP will drop to 0 and thus their savings will last them just 2 years. Maybe that's not what you intended to imply but that's how it comes across. - 9T in private citizens savings is HUGE no matter how you look at it. - "Boston University economist Lawrence Kotlikoff, for example, has argued that a relatively low rate of U.S. saving is ominous because: (1) it implies that Americans will have less wealth and income per person than the Japanese and Western' Europeans who record a savings rate from one-third to one-half higher than our own; (2) less wealth accumulation by Americans entails less control of the world's wealth by Americans, including wealth invested in the United States; and (3) the potential demands of the next generation of retirees on the next generation of workers. "
the good news is that in Pennsylvania they have a closed primary. Only Democrats can vote for other Democrats. Unfortunately in Texas and Ohio, they had open primaries. I'm hoping the media will pick up on these stories because it's important that people understand what's going on.
There's plenty of evidence that in both Texas and Ohio, Republicans are voting for Hillary in order to "bloody Obama" politically. Rush Limbaugh has been urging his listeners to do that for weeks.
http://www.middletownjournal.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/03/04/mj030408switchweb.html
Similar stories are coming in about Ohio. The political machine is starting to conspire against Obama from both sides. But I still believe that Obama will win the nomination because Hillary has a math problem.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/118240
But the feeling of dread comes from the notion that even if she loses the delegate count, that she'll still be able to pull out a victory via her usual shenanigans. She's going to fight to have Michigan and Florida's delegates seated even though in Michigan for instance, Barack's name wasnt even on the ballot.
Indeed. Too many people want to live in a black and white world where the good people where white hats and get the girl and succeed in life and the bad people always get what they deserve. Life isn't like the movies. Everyone's got problems but clearly some people have to battle massive challenges day in and day out for years and years and the battle can take it's toll resulting in an unnecessary premature death.
To all of you on your high horses who think you're somehow better than this guy, just remember that none of us are getting out of this alive.
The question is, can you create an AI that is like a Cmdr Data before he got his emotion chip? Data was able to learn and understand how and why humour worked, but as well all know, humour is all about the feeling and that was something Data never could know until the chip. But I digress.
You're completely missing the point. One day hopefully you will understand.
Ron Paul is a Federalist. Which sounds ironic but it means that he believes the States should be responsible for deciding on and taking on and care of the types of issues you describe. Ron Paul believes the States are more efficient (read less wasteful with tax payer dollars than the Federal Government) and better suited to make such policies on behalf of their respective populations than the Federal Government.
Ron Paul doesnt believe people should starve, freeze, be stuck in a bad contract, etc... he just doesnt believe its the Federal Government that should be entrusted to make national policies in these regards.
There's plenty of great games out there. They may not all have multimillion dllar budgets, but they are certainly tons of them.
There are plenty of great movies out there. They may not all have multi-million dollar budgets, but they are tons of them out there.
There is plenty of great music out there. They may not all have huge labels producing and marketing them, but there is a lot of great stuff out there.
Nah. This guy is just pining for the days of old when because there were so few video game makers out there, virtually everything good and bad was able to find a space on the shelf. Things have changed, but I would argue that there are more great games, movies, and music then ever before. You just wont necessarily find it at WalMart.
is how when things like this happen, we curse under our breath and then do nothing. By action, the vast majority of us are completely apathetic to the government, the police or any other powers that be, in abusing their powers.
This isn't about abuse of power. This is about citizen apathy.
Once you start arguing effectiveness then all it takes is a new study to show that it's still promising technology and that it just needs to be continued/improved/advanced/made more comprehensive/etc.
Dont fall into the trap of arguing the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of something that we already know has nothing to do with crime.
Because Cab Drivers in most large cities in the U.S are independant contractors. How would you like it if you were a freelance computer repair technician and the local government decided you had to pay to have a GPS installed in your service truck?
Then supposedly a more real time version of this software using up to date satellite feeds could detect all of the submarines "hiding" in the oceans?
Hoax?
However, causality between the violent content in the programs that were broadcast and real life perpetrated violence is not established. For instance, what if the real destructive factor of TV is
a) the social isolation and passive (non interactive) aspects it introduced into their culture that started keeping people at home watching crap instead of going out with their friends and families.
b) the blatant materialism worship on tv that makes the viewers feel crappy about being a "have not."
c) various other false imagery and notions about what is beautiful, what is desireable, how you should live your life, etc that eroded away in a few short years, hundreds of years of culture.
So rather than single out violence in TV, i would simply say TV in general is a source of social and personal rot.
Actually the original poster referred to income taxes not federal budget. Now i'm assuming the original poster meant total receipts so using the estimated 2007 data you linked to, thats $2.4 trillion vs $466 billion in defense spending next year so that's like ~19.5%
If we do in fact use just the $1.1 in individual income tax receipts, then it is 42%. Granted still not 64% but a hell of alot.
But whatever the case, you definetly would not refer to the overal budget since our government will be ~400 billion OVER total receipts (i.e deficit). Referencing as a percentage of GDP as another poster suggested is even more rediculous. The fact is, as a nation we are over $8 TRILLION dollars in debt and it's going to be getting larger and larger over the next decade. By the time we're rid of this president we'll be close to $10 trillion in debt... he'll have nearly doubled our debt in 8 years.
Somebody save us from these so called "conservatives."
This is a huge misconception. Failing to pay your credit cards does not constitute theft. When you buy stocks in a company you expect to make money on your investment but sometimes these companies do poorly or otherwise dont perform to expectation and you lose money.
Same goes with people and credit card companies. Credit card companies are investing in you. It's a business arrangement and like all business arrangements, there is risk involved. Credit card companies are not entitled to guaranteed payments or profits. Shit happens and if you end up not being able to pay, then primarily its the credit card companies problem. They made a bad investment.
True some people get credit cards and max them out with no intentions of paying them back from the start, but this is a small minority of people and if it results in a big loss (>5,000) for the credit card holder, than it's probably their own fault for giving them such a high-ish limit.
Most people know that maintaining a good credit history is important for their long term finances and they do try to pay and keep their credit in good standing. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement for card holder and card user alike.
Spyware, adware, DRM tools, exploits, viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, etc.... I LOVE THEM. Why? Because malware continues to keep the masses informed about the dangers of software and that nobody... not even big companies (e.g. Sony, Microsoft) should be trusted to release "good" software let alone "bug free" software. The more people get burned by malware, the more likely they are too research a piece of software before they install it.
Keep the malware coming!
I think if Steve wasn't in the water and tempting fate with dangerous wild beasts, he wouldnt have been the Steve Irwin we all know and love.
All the greats die young. We don't love that they die, but when they do go I think we can look back at their life styles and see that for all the reasons that made them wonderful, those same reasons lead to their deaths.
Saying such a person was "too this" or "too that" and "it was bound to happen" is to suggest that we wish they were somebody else.
Not trying to compare Steve Irwin with the likes of Kennedy, Kurt Cobain, Jimmi Hendrix, Ghandi and Martin Luther King... but am drawing parallels. Perhaps this is twisted logic but, I'm saying these people died because of who they were. Most of us will die and leave little impression on the world because of who we are.
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is what i'm trying to say...
The TRON fantasy worked in 1980 because computers for most of us were these magical black boxes. Compared to today, a really small group of people around the world understood how they worked or how to program them.
Today, our fantasies have grown with our understanding of their ever increasing power... enter The Matrix.
Tron 2010 needed to evolve but it didn't. This has nothing to do with _OUR_ lack of imagination, it has to do with the films own lack of imagination.
Because this is a typical corporate maneuver to get their foot in the door. Eventually opting out will not be a realistic option as various features will only be accessible if you're enrolled.
Blizzard failed with the frontal assault so now they're going sideways with their strategy.
it's two years of GDP but you make it sound like their GDP will drop to 0 and thus their savings will last them just 2 years. Maybe that's not what you intended to imply but that's how it comes across.
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9T in private citizens savings is HUGE no matter how you look at it.
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"Boston University economist Lawrence Kotlikoff, for example, has argued that a relatively low rate of U.S. saving is ominous because: (1) it implies that Americans will have less wealth and income per person than the Japanese and Western' Europeans who record a savings rate from one-third to one-half higher than our own; (2) less wealth accumulation by Americans entails less control of the world's wealth by Americans, including wealth invested in the United States; and (3) the potential demands of the next generation of retirees on the next generation of workers. "
the good news is that in Pennsylvania they have a closed primary. Only Democrats can vote for other Democrats. Unfortunately in Texas and Ohio, they had open primaries. I'm hoping the media will pick up on these stories because it's important that people understand what's going on.
There's plenty of evidence that in both Texas and Ohio, Republicans are voting for Hillary in order to "bloody Obama" politically. Rush Limbaugh has been urging his listeners to do that for weeks. http://www.middletownjournal.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/03/04/mj030408switchweb.html Similar stories are coming in about Ohio. The political machine is starting to conspire against Obama from both sides. But I still believe that Obama will win the nomination because Hillary has a math problem. http://www.newsweek.com/id/118240 But the feeling of dread comes from the notion that even if she loses the delegate count, that she'll still be able to pull out a victory via her usual shenanigans. She's going to fight to have Michigan and Florida's delegates seated even though in Michigan for instance, Barack's name wasnt even on the ballot.
Diebold sucks. Let's dupe this article several times a month.
Indeed. Too many people want to live in a black and white world where the good people where white hats and get the girl and succeed in life and the bad people always get what they deserve. Life isn't like the movies. Everyone's got problems but clearly some people have to battle massive challenges day in and day out for years and years and the battle can take it's toll resulting in an unnecessary premature death. To all of you on your high horses who think you're somehow better than this guy, just remember that none of us are getting out of this alive.
The question is, can you create an AI that is like a Cmdr Data before he got his emotion chip? Data was able to learn and understand how and why humour worked, but as well all know, humour is all about the feeling and that was something Data never could know until the chip. But I digress.
You're completely missing the point. One day hopefully you will understand. Ron Paul is a Federalist. Which sounds ironic but it means that he believes the States should be responsible for deciding on and taking on and care of the types of issues you describe. Ron Paul believes the States are more efficient (read less wasteful with tax payer dollars than the Federal Government) and better suited to make such policies on behalf of their respective populations than the Federal Government. Ron Paul doesnt believe people should starve, freeze, be stuck in a bad contract, etc... he just doesnt believe its the Federal Government that should be entrusted to make national policies in these regards.
There's plenty of great games out there. They may not all have multimillion dllar budgets, but they are certainly tons of them.
There are plenty of great movies out there. They may not all have multi-million dollar budgets, but they are tons of them out there.
There is plenty of great music out there. They may not all have huge labels producing and marketing them, but there is a lot of great stuff out there.
Nah. This guy is just pining for the days of old when because there were so few video game makers out there, virtually everything good and bad was able to find a space on the shelf. Things have changed, but I would argue that there are more great games, movies, and music then ever before. You just wont necessarily find it at WalMart.
is how when things like this happen, we curse under our breath and then do nothing. By action, the vast majority of us are completely apathetic to the government, the police or any other powers that be, in abusing their powers.
This isn't about abuse of power. This is about citizen apathy.
Once you start arguing effectiveness then all it takes is a new study to show that it's still promising technology and that it just needs to be continued/improved/advanced/made more comprehensive/etc.
Dont fall into the trap of arguing the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of something that we already know has nothing to do with crime.
Because Cab Drivers in most large cities in the U.S are independant contractors. How would you like it if you were a freelance computer repair technician and the local government decided you had to pay to have a GPS installed in your service truck?
Because they can.
Then supposedly a more real time version of this software using up to date satellite feeds could detect all of the submarines "hiding" in the oceans? Hoax?
However, causality between the violent content in the programs that were broadcast and real life perpetrated violence is not established. For instance, what if the real destructive factor of TV is a) the social isolation and passive (non interactive) aspects it introduced into their culture that started keeping people at home watching crap instead of going out with their friends and families. b) the blatant materialism worship on tv that makes the viewers feel crappy about being a "have not." c) various other false imagery and notions about what is beautiful, what is desireable, how you should live your life, etc that eroded away in a few short years, hundreds of years of culture. So rather than single out violence in TV, i would simply say TV in general is a source of social and personal rot.
I mean really, what's the guarantee that your fingerprint data wont be uploaded through the network and stored in a big database somewhere?
This NIC card has no clothes. But hey, phishing schemes and Nigerian con artists can be successful so why shouldn't this?
Brillant
Actually the original poster referred to income taxes not federal budget. Now i'm assuming the original poster meant total receipts so using the estimated 2007 data you linked to, thats $2.4 trillion vs $466 billion in defense spending next year so that's like ~19.5%
If we do in fact use just the $1.1 in individual income tax receipts, then it is 42%. Granted still not 64% but a hell of alot.
But whatever the case, you definetly would not refer to the overal budget since our government will be ~400 billion OVER total receipts (i.e deficit). Referencing as a percentage of GDP as another poster suggested is even more rediculous. The fact is, as a nation we are over $8 TRILLION dollars in debt and it's going to be getting larger and larger over the next decade. By the time we're rid of this president we'll be close to $10 trillion in debt... he'll have nearly doubled our debt in 8 years.
Somebody save us from these so called "conservatives."
This is a huge misconception. Failing to pay your credit cards does not constitute theft. When you buy stocks in a company you expect to make money on your investment but sometimes these companies do poorly or otherwise dont perform to expectation and you lose money. Same goes with people and credit card companies. Credit card companies are investing in you. It's a business arrangement and like all business arrangements, there is risk involved. Credit card companies are not entitled to guaranteed payments or profits. Shit happens and if you end up not being able to pay, then primarily its the credit card companies problem. They made a bad investment. True some people get credit cards and max them out with no intentions of paying them back from the start, but this is a small minority of people and if it results in a big loss (>5,000) for the credit card holder, than it's probably their own fault for giving them such a high-ish limit. Most people know that maintaining a good credit history is important for their long term finances and they do try to pay and keep their credit in good standing. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement for card holder and card user alike.
Spyware, adware, DRM tools, exploits, viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, etc.... I LOVE THEM. Why? Because malware continues to keep the masses informed about the dangers of software and that nobody... not even big companies (e.g. Sony, Microsoft) should be trusted to release "good" software let alone "bug free" software. The more people get burned by malware, the more likely they are too research a piece of software before they install it. Keep the malware coming!
who says these systems they are talking about don't already do this?
I think if Steve wasn't in the water and tempting fate with dangerous wild beasts, he wouldnt have been the Steve Irwin we all know and love. All the greats die young. We don't love that they die, but when they do go I think we can look back at their life styles and see that for all the reasons that made them wonderful, those same reasons lead to their deaths. Saying such a person was "too this" or "too that" and "it was bound to happen" is to suggest that we wish they were somebody else. Not trying to compare Steve Irwin with the likes of Kennedy, Kurt Cobain, Jimmi Hendrix, Ghandi and Martin Luther King... but am drawing parallels. Perhaps this is twisted logic but, I'm saying these people died because of who they were. Most of us will die and leave little impression on the world because of who we are.