I object to the whole 'cowboy' terminology used throughout the article like it was some sort of derogatory term. So this clown wore cowboy boots around the office: big deal. That doesn't make him a cowboy, and he certainly wasn't emulating cowboy behavior. Cowboys are straight-shooters and laid back. These AOLers are more like manic jackasses. Furthermore, anyone who emblazons their cowboy boots with the AOL logo seriously ought to have themselves checked by a psychiatrist--that's just not right.
Looks like we don't even need to worry about Total Information Awareness, Carnivore or our FBI files. The corporations are going to do all the work towards the police state, at the low low rate of $8 a record!!! They gather our information, they push for laws to restrict our freedom and extend the control of a few over cultural symbols, means of communication, and ideas themselves.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power"-- Mussolini (I think)
Somehow I don't think "Girl Box" would fly with the marketing folks. Parent's Groups might get upset about yet another suggestive toy being marketed at their children...
No, it's a Brits only recipe. Geezah, it's like well good when you go to the movies an' see a formula film, init? You don't hafta think, and then you can go listen to garage music and down ten Carlings. Big up yourself!
Local cops are not part of the executive branch. Hence the fact that they're *local*. There are federal cops of various sorts, like the national park ranger who pulled me over outside DC for speeding 37mph over the limit. He gave me a ticket that required I go to federal district court to have the fine levied by a federal judge. Creepily, that same court would later be the court used to try the American Taliban, John Walker Lindh. Also, it's not really the Constitution that gets in the way of the government, since the constitution is what outlines how the government will be 'constituted.' It's really the Bill of Rights that gets in the way, as Rights are really just restrictions on what the government can and cannot do. Which is obviously why all this 'rights' crap gets in the way so often. Sorry to nitpick.
"It is ideal for very computing intensive applications, for example in the area of simulation like meterology or geological calculations."
Along with the rollout of the 970 chip, Apple will introduce two new insanely great iLife Apps: iWeather and iEarth. Now you can calculate weather patterns in your neighborhood and export the results to iMovie! Also, use iEarth's predictive powers in landscaping your front yard, planning your garden, and preventing cracks in your house's foundation.
It is bizarre reading these posts and seeing people quote as fact the propaganda of the American government and media.
It is bizarre reading such a misleading blanket statement. Further, it's strange how you don't cite any of this propaganda, you merely indicate its existence, as if any common person ought to be able to recognize the statements you disagree with as such. Even more oddly is that propagandists use a similar technique to the one you're using. Clever.
That the American public is completely unfamiliar with the modern history of Iraq and with their own government's history of creating instablity in the region is quite shocking. I think it's the reason why Americans swallow whole the misinformation and outright lies spoon fed to them by their media and politicians.
I'm an American studying in London at the London School of Economics, and I can tell you that my peers here know much less about Iraq's modern history than I do. I think you drastically overestimate the specific knowledge that Europeans, and indeed people of all nationalities, have about Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and the modern history of the Middle East.
I would like to see the U.N. step in and make an effort to teach American school children some basic facts about life outside the U.S. and the long history of America's damage to the wider world. Such an effort might go a long way towards helping Americans learn to behave in a civilised manner both as individuals and as a society.
Perhaps the UN could step in and mandate the same for the imperialist colonizing nations of Europe. I think the children of Britain, France, Holland, Spain, Belgium and Portugal ought to know about the horrors their governments perpetrated against the continent of Africa, Central and South America, the South Pacific and South East Asia. Hundreds of years of colonial oppression is barely glossed over in your schools, and the students come out without a proper feeling of guilt. British still somehow believe they acquired their empire in a fit of absentmindedness. Perhaps the UN should mandate all children must be taught about the horrors of their own respective governments. I'm sure that the UN could force Libya to teach its students how it has maintained death squads throughout its country and practiced state-sponsored terrorism. Of course, that probably won't happen, what with Libya being the head of the UN council on Human Rights. The UN is certainly the guarantor of a peaceful and respectful world! (It's also worth mentioning at this point that Iraq is the head of the UN disarmament commission, co-chaired by Iran--gotta love the UN!)
American media (which we see here in Britain) is absolutely shocking.
Yes, and I'm sure that you consider The Sun, the newspaper with the widest circulation in Britain, a fine piece of journalism. The hysterical and sensationalist British media is by no means any better than the US media.
Smells like teen spirit would definitely have made it. It follows the verse/chorus/verse/chorus/solo/chorus schema. The solo isn't even a solo, it's just the guitar playing the vocal melody. Cobain was especially interested in the pop patterns of the Beatles, despite his dislike for corporate music. I love nirvana to death, but their song construction is fairly normal.
I couldn't agree more. Using the brushed metal for every single one of their 'flagship' applications doesn't strike me as a good aesthetic move. Brushed metal is fine for smaller windows (iTunes, iChat) but it looks terrible on big windows that take up most of the screen.
They should make Safari simply Aqua, not Brushed Metal, and make the navigation buttons bigger. I'll probably end up using Safari, if and when they fix all the CSS2 bugs and add tabs though, despite the UI, because i'm a big sucker for Apple crap.
I really think it will be a bad move for Chimera to stop developing at this stage in the game. If this clown wants to stop, i hope all the other developers don't follow his lead and instead keep making Chimera the browser to beat.
You can bet that if Dreamix can introduce Mac/Linux support for the XBox that microsoft will find a way to break that support--either through software or lawyers
"I take good songs, and translate them into annoying beeps. I'm proud of that and would like to publicly take credit for it."
Then again, with the general level of quality that the music industry expects of it new up-and-coming groups, he just may be able to get that fat record deal he's always been hoping for.
There are also tunnels under Georgetown University which I explored this summer while working for their housing department. Some of them are mostly maintenance tunnels, steamy hot, dark and filled with pipes running to big underground boiler rooms that supply dorms with hot water and hot air and the like.
Exploring them around 2am one night, we found a tunnel that eventually led into the Ryan Administration building, and not knowing any better, my friends and I set off a silent alarm. As we were about to go upstairs, two gaurds arrived and told us we had to leave. Fortunately most of us were wearing housing shirts so the gaurds didn't harass us.
Other tunnels, like the one under Reiss building, were really nice poured concrete, but they lead to a locked door eventually. Another tunnel led into the Dahlgren Crypt where five of the Dalhgrens are buried. I'm not really sure who they are, but it's not easy to get into the crypt through normal means, and it was creepy to find our way there through dark and nasty tunnels in the middle of the night.
There are rumors that a tunnel exists that goes between Georgetown and the White House, although no one will ever confirm that. There is a train that goes underground between the White House and Congress, and I know that they emergency meeting place for Congress is in Gaston Hall, which is in the main building on campus (Healy). Also, it's said that if a nuclear attack were to hit the center of washington, Healy building would be the only major building left standing because of its thick stone walls. I'm not sure if that's true, but there's definitely urban legend support for the white house/georgetown tunnels existence.
I was walking by the Aldwych station friday night around 2:30am coming back from a club. The station is abandoned, and you barely even notice it exists, but that night you could hear some heavy house music blasting out. Someone was holding a rave in there, but there was no way in unfortunately. There was a gate in the front that they had locked, but the door behind that was open. I was quite pissed off. At least the old stations are going to some good use though...
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I object to the whole 'cowboy' terminology used throughout the article like it was some sort of derogatory term. So this clown wore cowboy boots around the office: big deal. That doesn't make him a cowboy, and he certainly wasn't emulating cowboy behavior. Cowboys are straight-shooters and laid back. These AOLers are more like manic jackasses. Furthermore, anyone who emblazons their cowboy boots with the AOL logo seriously ought to have themselves checked by a psychiatrist--that's just not right.
Looks like we don't even need to worry about Total Information Awareness, Carnivore or our FBI files. The corporations are going to do all the work towards the police state, at the low low rate of $8 a record!!! They gather our information, they push for laws to restrict our freedom and extend the control of a few over cultural symbols, means of communication, and ideas themselves.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power"-- Mussolini (I think)
Somehow I don't think "Girl Box" would fly with the marketing folks. Parent's Groups might get upset about yet another suggestive toy being marketed at their children...
No, it's a Brits only recipe. Geezah, it's like well good when you go to the movies an' see a formula film, init? You don't hafta think, and then you can go listen to garage music and down ten Carlings. Big up yourself!
Local cops are not part of the executive branch. Hence the fact that they're *local*. There are federal cops of various sorts, like the national park ranger who pulled me over outside DC for speeding 37mph over the limit. He gave me a ticket that required I go to federal district court to have the fine levied by a federal judge. Creepily, that same court would later be the court used to try the American Taliban, John Walker Lindh. Also, it's not really the Constitution that gets in the way of the government, since the constitution is what outlines how the government will be 'constituted.' It's really the Bill of Rights that gets in the way, as Rights are really just restrictions on what the government can and cannot do. Which is obviously why all this 'rights' crap gets in the way so often. Sorry to nitpick.
No, you just need a US billing address. I'm downloading songs while in the UK because my credit cards are billed to my home in the US.
"It is ideal for very computing intensive applications, for example in the area of simulation like meterology or geological calculations."
Along with the rollout of the 970 chip, Apple will introduce two new insanely great iLife Apps: iWeather and iEarth. Now you can calculate weather patterns in your neighborhood and export the results to iMovie! Also, use iEarth's predictive powers in landscaping your front yard, planning your garden, and preventing cracks in your house's foundation.
Perfect for your digital lifestyle.
Eat that Miscrosoft!
It is bizarre reading these posts and seeing people quote as fact the propaganda of the American government and media.
It is bizarre reading such a misleading blanket statement. Further, it's strange how you don't cite any of this propaganda, you merely indicate its existence, as if any common person ought to be able to recognize the statements you disagree with as such. Even more oddly is that propagandists use a similar technique to the one you're using. Clever.
That the American public is completely unfamiliar with the modern history of Iraq and with their own government's history of creating instablity in the region is quite shocking. I think it's the reason why Americans swallow whole the misinformation and outright lies spoon fed to them by their media and politicians.
I'm an American studying in London at the London School of Economics, and I can tell you that my peers here know much less about Iraq's modern history than I do. I think you drastically overestimate the specific knowledge that Europeans, and indeed people of all nationalities, have about Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and the modern history of the Middle East.
I would like to see the U.N. step in and make an effort to teach American school children some basic facts about life outside the U.S. and the long history of America's damage to the wider world. Such an effort might go a long way towards helping Americans learn to behave in a civilised manner both as individuals and as a society.
Perhaps the UN could step in and mandate the same for the imperialist colonizing nations of Europe. I think the children of Britain, France, Holland, Spain, Belgium and Portugal ought to know about the horrors their governments perpetrated against the continent of Africa, Central and South America, the South Pacific and South East Asia. Hundreds of years of colonial oppression is barely glossed over in your schools, and the students come out without a proper feeling of guilt. British still somehow believe they acquired their empire in a fit of absentmindedness. Perhaps the UN should mandate all children must be taught about the horrors of their own respective governments. I'm sure that the UN could force Libya to teach its students how it has maintained death squads throughout its country and practiced state-sponsored terrorism. Of course, that probably won't happen, what with Libya being the head of the UN council on Human Rights. The UN is certainly the guarantor of a peaceful and respectful world! (It's also worth mentioning at this point that Iraq is the head of the UN disarmament commission, co-chaired by Iran--gotta love the UN!)
American media (which we see here in Britain) is absolutely shocking.
Yes, and I'm sure that you consider The Sun, the newspaper with the widest circulation in Britain, a fine piece of journalism. The hysterical and sensationalist British media is by no means any better than the US media.
Smells like teen spirit would definitely have made it. It follows the verse/chorus/verse/chorus/solo/chorus schema. The solo isn't even a solo, it's just the guitar playing the vocal melody. Cobain was especially interested in the pop patterns of the Beatles, despite his dislike for corporate music. I love nirvana to death, but their song construction is fairly normal.
I couldn't agree more. Using the brushed metal for every single one of their 'flagship' applications doesn't strike me as a good aesthetic move. Brushed metal is fine for smaller windows (iTunes, iChat) but it looks terrible on big windows that take up most of the screen.
They should make Safari simply Aqua, not Brushed Metal, and make the navigation buttons bigger. I'll probably end up using Safari, if and when they fix all the CSS2 bugs and add tabs though, despite the UI, because i'm a big sucker for Apple crap.
I really think it will be a bad move for Chimera to stop developing at this stage in the game. If this clown wants to stop, i hope all the other developers don't follow his lead and instead keep making Chimera the browser to beat.
You can bet that if Dreamix can introduce Mac/Linux support for the XBox that microsoft will find a way to break that support--either through software or lawyers
.What worse way to become musically recognized:
"I take good songs, and translate them into annoying beeps. I'm proud of that and would like to publicly take credit for it."
Then again, with the general level of quality that the music industry expects of it new up-and-coming groups, he just may be able to get that fat record deal he's always been hoping for.
There are also tunnels under Georgetown University which I explored this summer while working for their housing department. Some of them are mostly maintenance tunnels, steamy hot, dark and filled with pipes running to big underground boiler rooms that supply dorms with hot water and hot air and the like.
Exploring them around 2am one night, we found a tunnel that eventually led into the Ryan Administration building, and not knowing any better, my friends and I set off a silent alarm. As we were about to go upstairs, two gaurds arrived and told us we had to leave. Fortunately most of us were wearing housing shirts so the gaurds didn't harass us.
Other tunnels, like the one under Reiss building, were really nice poured concrete, but they lead to a locked door eventually. Another tunnel led into the Dahlgren Crypt where five of the Dalhgrens are buried. I'm not really sure who they are, but it's not easy to get into the crypt through normal means, and it was creepy to find our way there through dark and nasty tunnels in the middle of the night.
There are rumors that a tunnel exists that goes between Georgetown and the White House, although no one will ever confirm that. There is a train that goes underground between the White House and Congress, and I know that they emergency meeting place for Congress is in Gaston Hall, which is in the main building on campus (Healy). Also, it's said that if a nuclear attack were to hit the center of washington, Healy building would be the only major building left standing because of its thick stone walls. I'm not sure if that's true, but there's definitely urban legend support for the white house/georgetown tunnels existence.
I was walking by the Aldwych station friday night around 2:30am coming back from a club. The station is abandoned, and you barely even notice it exists, but that night you could hear some heavy house music blasting out. Someone was holding a rave in there, but there was no way in unfortunately. There was a gate in the front that they had locked, but the door behind that was open. I was quite pissed off. At least the old stations are going to some good use though...
Lickable Interface.
It looks like Steve's reality distortion has reached new levels (and new species).