WTF are you talking about? Phoenix was released in late 2002. CSS Version 2 was four years old. The average web site featured dozens or hundreds of images, Flash, and DOM-oriented Javascript. Ajax was just taking off. And Phoenix still ran blazing fast circles around the POS that Mozilla finally released as Firefox.
It's an interesting theory, whether or not it has provable merit, and I'm sure the book you mention is a good read. Nonetheless, putting it forth as unquestioned fact in the face of overwhelming disagreement from the vast majority of historians and at least a nominal majority of economists (if the Wikipedia article's cited numbers are correct) is... disingenuous, at best.
I'm sure it is: in fact, the Wikipedia article's cited source for that claim of record growth notes (presumably post-war) Japan as a close second. The point of that quote is not that we'd likely see the same growth by instituting the same policies in today's economy; simply that the GP's claim that the New Deal created or extended the Great Depression is seriously at odds with historical fact.
It appears you're a little confused. (In fact, according to Wikipedia, "in Roosevelt's twelve years in office the economy had an 8.5% compound annual growth of GDP, the highest growth rate in the history of any industrial country...")
You do realize that Paul (like most big-L Libertarians, though perhaps even more extremely than most) is firmly and explicitly opposed to any such "New Deal" domestic policy, right? (We are, after all, talking about a man who would seek to completely eliminate the Department of Education and defund education spending at a federal level.)
Click on each photo for larger version, then click on the words "remove tag" next to your name beneath the photo. (I believe this also prevents anyone from re-tagging the photo.)
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to opt out completely. (Although it occurs to me that disabling searches for your account may disable tagging as well, since the tagging feature performs an implicit search on the name. Worth an experiment.)
Lying? Perhaps not. But it is precisely intended to inspire "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt" about Vista. It's startling how many people seem to have completely lost sight of the original meaning of the term "FUD", and now use it solely to mean "[presumptive] misinformation from Microsoft".
Voting is a serious activity. And the objective of that serious activity is an expression of one's political will, not a demonstration of one's proficiency at making marks in boxes. You fucking tool.
Please explain why someone's (in)ability to accurately mark a ballot on the first try should be more relevant to the practice of democracy than the vote they intended to cast.
It's a sad day when a Slashdot summary on Fourth Amendment issues apparently requires a gratuitous reference to the iPhone in the headline just to catch our attention.
Allow me to reiterate once more — perhaps pointlessly, as you appear too painfully dim and literal-minded to grasp this notion, despite the efforts of others in this thread to penetrate your mental fog: his actual point, the rhetoric of which appears to have confounded you, had nothing whatsoever to do with what "the community" should or should not do regarding DTrace or Quicktime 7.4.
His point, if I may restate it in expanded terms, was two-fold: 1) Apple's crippling of DTrace to protect iTunes DRM, while perhaps morally indefensible, has a much smaller and narrower impact on the vast majority of users than does breaking video applications which rely on Quicktime by encumbering 7.4 with new (apparently buggy) DRM; furthermore, 2) while "the community" fortuitiously had access to the original DTrace source code in order to "fix" Apple's crippled DTrace, there will be no such relief for those affected by the Quicktime 7.4 issues, who will be entirely at Apple's mercy due to Quicktime's closed nature.
Reading Comprehension: It's not just for Humanities majors.
"Gamut" merely means, "the entire range" — nothing specific to color. I don't know wtf the GP thought it meant, either, but if your intent was to make them look dumb...
Edward Farhi, director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT, said, 'It's a little less exotic than what you see in the movie. Teleportation has been done, moving a single proton over two miles. [But] teleporting a person? That is pretty far down the line.
Clearly he's never seen Hayden in Revenge of the Sith, or he'd be familiar with the technique used by most of the cast to phone in their performances.
If you don't find yourself needing a few minutes of non job-related "downtime" every two or three hours to work out the mental kinks, you're probably not working that hard to begin with. Have fun congratulating yourself on your "superior work ethic" as you shuffle windows on your desktop all day, and pray your management never institutes meaningful performance metrics.
As a matter of fact, I do. Since when does Sarbanes-Oxley apply to private individuals?
(I can assure you as well that my employer, a financial institution, has email records extending at least that far back, and we would be in serious trouble if we "recycled" them.)
Except that isn't a faked Basic Auth dialog, it's a real dialog box (genuine chrome!) with a spoofed Realm. Watch more closely. There's absolutely no reason this wouldn't work on a Mac.
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WTF are you talking about? Phoenix was released in late 2002. CSS Version 2 was four years old. The average web site featured dozens or hundreds of images, Flash, and DOM-oriented Javascript. Ajax was just taking off. And Phoenix still ran blazing fast circles around the POS that Mozilla finally released as Firefox.
It's an interesting theory, whether or not it has provable merit, and I'm sure the book you mention is a good read. Nonetheless, putting it forth as unquestioned fact in the face of overwhelming disagreement from the vast majority of historians and at least a nominal majority of economists (if the Wikipedia article's cited numbers are correct) is ... disingenuous, at best.
I'm sure it is: in fact, the Wikipedia article's cited source for that claim of record growth notes (presumably post-war) Japan as a close second. The point of that quote is not that we'd likely see the same growth by instituting the same policies in today's economy; simply that the GP's claim that the New Deal created or extended the Great Depression is seriously at odds with historical fact.
It appears you're a little confused. (In fact, according to Wikipedia, "in Roosevelt's twelve years in office the economy had an 8.5% compound annual growth of GDP, the highest growth rate in the history of any industrial country...")
You do realize that Paul (like most big-L Libertarians, though perhaps even more extremely than most) is firmly and explicitly opposed to any such "New Deal" domestic policy, right? (We are, after all, talking about a man who would seek to completely eliminate the Department of Education and defund education spending at a federal level.)
If an end to expensive and counter-productive military adventurism and a re-commitment to New Deal-style domestic programs is something you feel strongly about, you might find yourself better served by a candidate like Barack Obama.
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Click on each photo for larger version, then click on the words "remove tag" next to your name beneath the photo. (I believe this also prevents anyone from re-tagging the photo.)
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to opt out completely. (Although it occurs to me that disabling searches for your account may disable tagging as well, since the tagging feature performs an implicit search on the name. Worth an experiment.)
This is "Flamebait"? Next time, try a little research before you reach for that button, mods. Here, let me start you off:
http://oversight.house.gov/investigations.asp?Issue=Politics+and+Science
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/02/72672
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/17/60minutes/main1415985.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08climate.html
Lying? Perhaps not. But it is precisely intended to inspire "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt" about Vista. It's startling how many people seem to have completely lost sight of the original meaning of the term "FUD", and now use it solely to mean "[presumptive] misinformation from Microsoft".
Voting is a serious activity. And the objective of that serious activity is an expression of one's political will, not a demonstration of one's proficiency at making marks in boxes. You fucking tool.
Please explain why someone's (in)ability to accurately mark a ballot on the first try should be more relevant to the practice of democracy than the vote they intended to cast.
Try reading the full sentence, next time: the summary is alluding to the same point. (Hint: the word you seem to have overlooked is "While".)
Life. Don't talk to me about life.
It's a sad day when a Slashdot summary on Fourth Amendment issues apparently requires a gratuitous reference to the iPhone in the headline just to catch our attention.
"Smart-ass"? Hm. No.
Allow me to reiterate once more — perhaps pointlessly, as you appear too painfully dim and literal-minded to grasp this notion, despite the efforts of others in this thread to penetrate your mental fog: his actual point, the rhetoric of which appears to have confounded you, had nothing whatsoever to do with what "the community" should or should not do regarding DTrace or Quicktime 7.4.
His point, if I may restate it in expanded terms, was two-fold: 1) Apple's crippling of DTrace to protect iTunes DRM, while perhaps morally indefensible, has a much smaller and narrower impact on the vast majority of users than does breaking video applications which rely on Quicktime by encumbering 7.4 with new (apparently buggy) DRM; furthermore, 2) while "the community" fortuitiously had access to the original DTrace source code in order to "fix" Apple's crippled DTrace, there will be no such relief for those affected by the Quicktime 7.4 issues, who will be entirely at Apple's mercy due to Quicktime's closed nature.
Reading Comprehension: It's not just for Humanities majors.
"Gamut" merely means, "the entire range" — nothing specific to color. I don't know wtf the GP thought it meant, either, but if your intent was to make them look dumb...
'Nuff said.
If you don't find yourself needing a few minutes of non job-related "downtime" every two or three hours to work out the mental kinks, you're probably not working that hard to begin with. Have fun congratulating yourself on your "superior work ethic" as you shuffle windows on your desktop all day, and pray your management never institutes meaningful performance metrics.
As a matter of fact, I do. Since when does Sarbanes-Oxley apply to private individuals?
(I can assure you as well that my employer, a financial institution, has email records extending at least that far back, and we would be in serious trouble if we "recycled" them.)
My failure to retain records of my communications isn't a violation of the Presidential Records Act.
GIGO.
Indication that your school might not be an "institution of higher learning": classes in reading.
Or maybe American universities have declined a lot more than I realized in the last ten years.
Right, because ships don't usually have names...
Are you sure you were installing the 64-bit version?
Except that isn't a faked Basic Auth dialog, it's a real dialog box (genuine chrome!) with a spoofed Realm. Watch more closely. There's absolutely no reason this wouldn't work on a Mac.