In fact, this is one thing I cannot fathom. How the RNC and big business (which are essentially one now - with the other party quickly being subverted as well) have managed to still get support from the very people that they shaft over and over again. Big business won't trickle-down.
LOL!!! The RNC?
GE gives more to the Democrats, supports cap & trade, etc. They own MSNBC, which is the creepiest left-wing network on TV. Big business is all about regulation, which means they like the Democrats. So sorry.
Small business tends to support the RNC (lesser of two evils) because of this.
Look, big business likes regulation. They use it to 1) create barriers of entry into markets and 2) give themselves tax breaks and such. The Democrats are all about regulation, and they're the party to buy if you need some good regulation.
Small business abhors regulation because it hurts us. We create more jobs than big business, but we don't get tax breaks for it.
Check out the NFIB - they're a pretty good small-business advocate.
Gadaffi took over in a coup and has acted as a despot. His government is not legitimate. Sovereignty rests in the people, not some thug who has taken the place of a legitimate government. As such, this isn't a violation of their sovereignty - it is in support of it. God bless the Libyans.
Democrats are in bed with big business, too, and Republicans are in bed with Hollywood, too? Did you miss the Wall Street "bailouts" given by the Democrats? You can read here for plenty of Republicans pushing copyright legislation at the behest of the MAFIAA.
Everybody is running around talking about military intervention, but you're forgetting a basic point: This is an internal matter of a sovereign nation. We might not like what's happening, but going into Libya with guns blazing is just as illegal as doing it to Iraq.
Um, it was fully legal. The US had a UN resolution.
There is a long list of people who complain about america running around invading countries for their oil, and yet they will happily stand there and say that the americans should rush into this country and do the same.
To get the numbers out yet again: Iraq's oil production capabilities were $20B/year. We're spending $300B/year. It would take 15 years of us taking every drop of their oil to repay each year that we've been there. The next century. There isn't enough oil in the ground under Iraq to repay us. Afghanistan has even less oil, do the math. We clearly didn't go their for oil. The US has never "invaded a country to take their oil". Ever.
If we were going to invade a country to take their oil, we'd invade Saudi Arabia which has far more oil and no army.
The French came later in the war after Benjamin Franklin went over and personally asked for their help. The colonists may well have lost without their support.
The difference is that we had a group of people who had been thinking and writing on the subject of proper government for years at that point and who were able to fairly quickly establish a reasonable secular (yet respectful of religion) government with strong property rights, contract rights, and rule of law. We also had a populace that understood these concepts and their importance.
It's fairly easy to overthrow a dictator, and by the time I've written this Khaddafi may be dead for all we know. It's step two that's a bitch. I don't know if the people there have "what it takes" (sorry, it's early) to pull this off. There's a good post at 5 mod points about three screens up that sums this up nicely.
Half of my "friends" have a picture of their child instead of themselves for their profile picture. One couple, I kid you not, both have the exact same picture of their baby in their profile. If it gets around to pictures where someone's been tagged, God forbid, it'll be idiots who tagged me so that I'll see the picture because they're too stupid to hit "share", or the cartoon panels with "the babe, the ditz, the idiot, etc." where all their friends are tagged.
Holy shit, facebook makes people mouth-breathing stupid.
It's expected behavior. Many many sites uses javascript or images loaded from elsewhere. Google Analytics, the little badges that say that your site cert is good, on and on.
In any case, this interference is VERY unlikely to affect the flight controls. Most landings are done manually, so interference should not actually be able to bring down an airplane. However, in foggy weather, the plane is landed automatically and in this case, it's probably safest to just keep all electronics off just in case the autopilot suddenly behaves in some weird way. Planes have crashed because of relatively minor errors in input, for example the radio altimeter reading an altitude that is much too low, and the plane thinking it's above the runway and bringing the power back to idle while in fact it's still at a few hundred feet. That sort of thing. Yes, it can happen, and planes have crashed as a result.
So fix the plane. Holy crap, why do I feel like I'm the only adult in the room? If I paid $15,000 for a car, drove off the lot and found that the speedometer wasn't working, drove back to the dealer and he said "duh, huh huh, your cell phone is interfering with the instruments, you'll have to turn it off" I would sue them.
If I paid a hundred million for a plane? I'd be a little more pissed. Oh, just slightly.
I would land at the headquarters of whomever made the plane and tell them to fix it or give me my money back.
I appreciate what you've said, but do you not realize how utterly flaming stupid it is that a CD player can make your fuel gauge go to zero?
I'd like to see tests proving that. EMF/RFI shielding isn't rocket science. The electronics in cars are hardened against pretty much everything - cell phone towers, high voltage power lines, microwave repeaters, terrestrial radio transmitters, etc... I don't see how flight avionics, which also have to be hardened against increased cosmic radiation and RFI from operating closer to the ionosphere, are so sensitive to relatively low power transmitters.
Right. And as I've said a hundred times: If the airplane isn't properly shielded and a cell phone or ipod can interfere with it then the solution is to fix the damned plane, not make everybody turn off their cell phones.
This Arriana Huffington article is the second time this month that somebody on a plane has went nuts because someone else wouldn't turn off their electronics at take off. If people weren't told that the plane was going to crash if they didn't turn everything off then we wouldn't have this problem.
The system we have is descended from the mode of Christian thought that when a sin(crime) is committed, penance.is needed in order to make the person right with God.
That's not Christian thought, although you could be forgiven for thinking such. Actual Christian worldview states that sin cannot be atoned for through *anything* a person can do, and they therefore require Christ as an intermediary.
What you've described is what a lot of self-professed Christians would tell you, but you won't find anything like that in the New Testament.
The US tends to attack countries that have oil, don't have nukes, and refuse to play ball.
How did this idiocy get modded up? Who has the US attacked that has oil? We've been over this before. Afghanistan has essentially none. Iraq, at peak production, was generating US$20B/year in oil. We're spending $300B/year there. Think hard. 15 years of peak production to pay for 1 year of war. Even if we took all their oil (and we're not taking any) they don't have enough in the ground to repay us. We clearly didn't go there for their oil.
If anything, consumers should be pissed at Level3, not Comcast, because this will directly increase Comcast's operating costs... and we all know those costs are passed on to the consumer.
Why will this increase Comcast's operating costs? It's not going to affect Comcast's customers Netflix usage, so their overall traffic won't go up, it'll just be coming from a different peer.
In America, you can say whatever the hell you want about the government - even if it is slanderous, false, crazy, whatever - and unless you are directly threatening to kill somebody, you can get away with it.
Actually, there's been a few white guys, but non-Muslims don't bomb planes that they're on. Remember, most people don't want to die. Consider Timothy McVeigh who lights a 5 minute fuse and jumps in his waiting car and gets out of there.
No, it's just Muslims who do suicide bombing. I know it's not politically correct, but it's true.
I've mulled this over in my head a lot. The guy's worth tens of billions of dollars, so I'm not going to sit here and question his judgement, call him an idiot, or any of that. At the same time, I believe that his attitude - which seems to trickle throughout his company - has a negative impact on his company's performance.
But in the end, does it matter for him? What if he could make a few billion more off Java in another way? Does he need the cash?
Looking into this - they didn't just take her recipe. Bad summary as usual. They took her article, and they've apparently done this many times. They could easily be pushed to bankruptcy by the lawsuits coming their way, and that idiotic email is going to be the first exhibit at every one of them.
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LOL!!! The RNC?
GE gives more to the Democrats, supports cap & trade, etc. They own MSNBC, which is the creepiest left-wing network on TV. Big business is all about regulation, which means they like the Democrats. So sorry.
Small business tends to support the RNC (lesser of two evils) because of this.
Look, big business likes regulation. They use it to 1) create barriers of entry into markets and 2) give themselves tax breaks and such. The Democrats are all about regulation, and they're the party to buy if you need some good regulation.
Small business abhors regulation because it hurts us. We create more jobs than big business, but we don't get tax breaks for it.
Check out the NFIB - they're a pretty good small-business advocate.
Gadaffi took over in a coup and has acted as a despot. His government is not legitimate. Sovereignty rests in the people, not some thug who has taken the place of a legitimate government. As such, this isn't a violation of their sovereignty - it is in support of it. God bless the Libyans.
Democrats are in bed with big business, too, and Republicans are in bed with Hollywood, too? Did you miss the Wall Street "bailouts" given by the Democrats? You can read here for plenty of Republicans pushing copyright legislation at the behest of the MAFIAA.
Hopefully NASA can roll it back a few million before putting it up for sale. What's the KBB on a used space shuttle?
Everybody is running around talking about military intervention, but you're forgetting a basic point: This is an internal matter of a sovereign nation. We might not like what's happening, but going into Libya with guns blazing is just as illegal as doing it to Iraq.
Um, it was fully legal. The US had a UN resolution.
There is a long list of people who complain about america running around invading countries for their oil, and yet they will happily stand there and say that the americans should rush into this country and do the same.
To get the numbers out yet again: Iraq's oil production capabilities were $20B/year. We're spending $300B/year. It would take 15 years of us taking every drop of their oil to repay each year that we've been there. The next century. There isn't enough oil in the ground under Iraq to repay us. Afghanistan has even less oil, do the math. We clearly didn't go their for oil. The US has never "invaded a country to take their oil". Ever.
If we were going to invade a country to take their oil, we'd invade Saudi Arabia which has far more oil and no army.
The French came later in the war after Benjamin Franklin went over and personally asked for their help. The colonists may well have lost without their support.
The difference is that we had a group of people who had been thinking and writing on the subject of proper government for years at that point and who were able to fairly quickly establish a reasonable secular (yet respectful of religion) government with strong property rights, contract rights, and rule of law. We also had a populace that understood these concepts and their importance.
It's fairly easy to overthrow a dictator, and by the time I've written this Khaddafi may be dead for all we know. It's step two that's a bitch. I don't know if the people there have "what it takes" (sorry, it's early) to pull this off. There's a good post at 5 mod points about three screens up that sums this up nicely.
Half of my "friends" have a picture of their child instead of themselves for their profile picture. One couple, I kid you not, both have the exact same picture of their baby in their profile. If it gets around to pictures where someone's been tagged, God forbid, it'll be idiots who tagged me so that I'll see the picture because they're too stupid to hit "share", or the cartoon panels with "the babe, the ditz, the idiot, etc." where all their friends are tagged.
Holy shit, facebook makes people mouth-breathing stupid.
It's expected behavior. Many many sites uses javascript or images loaded from elsewhere. Google Analytics, the little badges that say that your site cert is good, on and on.
In any case, this interference is VERY unlikely to affect the flight controls. Most landings are done manually, so interference should not actually be able to bring down an airplane. However, in foggy weather, the plane is landed automatically and in this case, it's probably safest to just keep all electronics off just in case the autopilot suddenly behaves in some weird way. Planes have crashed because of relatively minor errors in input, for example the radio altimeter reading an altitude that is much too low, and the plane thinking it's above the runway and bringing the power back to idle while in fact it's still at a few hundred feet. That sort of thing. Yes, it can happen, and planes have crashed as a result.
So fix the plane. Holy crap, why do I feel like I'm the only adult in the room? If I paid $15,000 for a car, drove off the lot and found that the speedometer wasn't working, drove back to the dealer and he said "duh, huh huh, your cell phone is interfering with the instruments, you'll have to turn it off" I would sue them.
If I paid a hundred million for a plane? I'd be a little more pissed. Oh, just slightly.
I would land at the headquarters of whomever made the plane and tell them to fix it or give me my money back.
I appreciate what you've said, but do you not realize how utterly flaming stupid it is that a CD player can make your fuel gauge go to zero?
I'd like to see tests proving that. EMF/RFI shielding isn't rocket science. The electronics in cars are hardened against pretty much everything - cell phone towers, high voltage power lines, microwave repeaters, terrestrial radio transmitters, etc... I don't see how flight avionics, which also have to be hardened against increased cosmic radiation and RFI from operating closer to the ionosphere, are so sensitive to relatively low power transmitters.
Right. And as I've said a hundred times: If the airplane isn't properly shielded and a cell phone or ipod can interfere with it then the solution is to fix the damned plane, not make everybody turn off their cell phones.
This Arriana Huffington article is the second time this month that somebody on a plane has went nuts because someone else wouldn't turn off their electronics at take off. If people weren't told that the plane was going to crash if they didn't turn everything off then we wouldn't have this problem.
The system we have is descended from the mode of Christian thought that when a sin(crime) is committed, penance.is needed in order to make the person right with God.
That's not Christian thought, although you could be forgiven for thinking such. Actual Christian worldview states that sin cannot be atoned for through *anything* a person can do, and they therefore require Christ as an intermediary.
What you've described is what a lot of self-professed Christians would tell you, but you won't find anything like that in the New Testament.
Or figure out the phone number of their dial-up line to South Africa and call it repeatedly - until they figure out how to disable call waiting.
These two things are not equivalent on any scale.
How did this idiocy get modded up? Who has the US attacked that has oil? We've been over this before. Afghanistan has essentially none. Iraq, at peak production, was generating US$20B/year in oil. We're spending $300B/year there. Think hard. 15 years of peak production to pay for 1 year of war. Even if we took all their oil (and we're not taking any) they don't have enough in the ground to repay us. We clearly didn't go there for their oil.
Um, parent is an anarchist, not a libertarian.
Bingo!
Why will this increase Comcast's operating costs? It's not going to affect Comcast's customers Netflix usage, so their overall traffic won't go up, it'll just be coming from a different peer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/us/02bar.html
You're mostly right, but we are heading down the wrong path.
Actually, there's been a few white guys, but non-Muslims don't bomb planes that they're on. Remember, most people don't want to die. Consider Timothy McVeigh who lights a 5 minute fuse and jumps in his waiting car and gets out of there.
No, it's just Muslims who do suicide bombing. I know it's not politically correct, but it's true.
What does this have to do with the GOP? Holy crap, people, give it up already. We still have a Democratic President, House, and Senate.
This is bi-partisan stupidity - call it what it is.
Yeah, that'd be like charging $900 for a toilet seat. Who would pay that?
I've mulled this over in my head a lot. The guy's worth tens of billions of dollars, so I'm not going to sit here and question his judgement, call him an idiot, or any of that. At the same time, I believe that his attitude - which seems to trickle throughout his company - has a negative impact on his company's performance.
But in the end, does it matter for him? What if he could make a few billion more off Java in another way? Does he need the cash?
Looking into this - they didn't just take her recipe. Bad summary as usual. They took her article, and they've apparently done this many times. They could easily be pushed to bankruptcy by the lawsuits coming their way, and that idiotic email is going to be the first exhibit at every one of them.
More from the copyright office:
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html
I've seen this pop up in a couple of places recently. It's not just wrong, but hilariously so. Where are you getting this information from?