If Apple buys Facebook, Microsoft will try to create their own Facebook in response. It's worth doing just to see how laughably bad Microsoft's Facebook ripoff would be.
Sorry to burst bubbles, but I'm not a right-winger nor do I read right-wing blogs. I know about him running to put in solar after he was caught because I was touring some out-of-state family members around Nashville, went by his house and saw the zoning meeting notice signs up. So, no, I'm not "repeating".
The irony is that you and a couple of other people have written responses that bring up the same list of "facts", oddly enough. Some of those "facts" are blatantly and demonstrably wrong, e.g. "Al's energy usage is so high because he has a fully-staffed office at his house", and I've seen it more than once from different people. I think it's obvious who's repeating...
You guys must all be reading off the same script. Gore has an office on West End in Loew's Vanderbilt. His house is in the city, and our codes do not allow someone to have a bunch of people working in a residential neighborhood. As for the "carbon offsets", well, *chuckle*.
I live in Nashville and I've seen his house. I can show it to you if you're in town. He bought solar panels *after* his energy usage was made public. While he has an office there, his main office is at Loew's Vanderbilt hotel on West End. I've seen him there in person while I was there on unrelated business. Codes don't allow him to staff an office at his Belle Meade mansion.
Furthermore, he had the money to build an efficient house rather than buy that one. One just a few blocks away sold recently for under $350K, he could have bulldozed it and put up an efficient house if he liked the neighborhood.
I don't want to take his home or anything else that he has.
G W Bush's house in TX is also one of the most environmentally friendly houses on the planet. Al Gore, on the other hand, lives in a mansion here in Nashville that is 3 times the size of my house but with 10 times the energy usage. He also has another mansion in CA that's comparable in size.
Sometimes it's what you *do* rather than what you *say* that tells me everything I need to know about you...
WWIII already happened - civilization vs. communism, fought in proxy countries such as Viet Nam and Korea. Civilization won, but ironically the proxies themselves had a mixed outcome.
WWIV is ongoing - civilization vs. militant Islam. This is part of it. Iran is one of the few countries belligerently ruled by militant Islamics. Thankfully, it's also one that has the best chance for a democratic overthrow of said "government". We should be putting all our efforts toward helping them (starting with an open internet for Iran) - get rid of the nuts running the place and the nuclear issue goes away.
Additionally, I'd check land ownership of the 5% of the land that *is* allowed to have cell towers. Someone may just be raising their own property values at everybody else's expense.
iOS' market share is huge. Their market isn't the PC market - it's the touch screen market. Last I saw iOS owned more than 50% of the market. If you think it's just part of the larger "PC" market, you're not getting it.
You might want to check into the NRA - it's likely because of their work that you can own a firearm for self-defense and go to the range. I've found the organization to be nowhere near as annoying as their supporters, and nothing like what the liberal media makes them out to be.
I'm all for hunting for food, but hunting for sport just seems gratuitous and disrespectful to nature.
Without wading too deeply into this: I understand your sentiments, and fox hunting is never about eating. Around here, we've destroyed all natural predators. Deer have to be hunted by something or they will quickly overpopulate and destroy the local forest.
This became obvious in my home state of Indiana. We didn't allow hunting in state parks, and our largest state park (about 40 square miles) ended up with deer that had devastated the forest and were left starving to death. Literally. The state finally started doing controlled hunts, with the usual nutbags protesting it, and the deer population was brought back under control, the rest of the deer became much healthier, and the forest itself became healthier.
It's not comparable to fox hunting, which is simply done to kill foxes in and make some sort of "sport" out of it.
There *is* a business model there, though. SCO Unix sucks by today's standards but is widely used in a number of vertical markets. All of them are ripe for replacement with Linux. Buying the assets and creating an "official" migration path to Linux, supporting and maintaining current users, and turning it into a service company could likely be a decent money maker. SCO was making money before they set out on these ludicrous lawsuits. Their revenue was declining as they refused to embrace Linux, but, well, that's the key, right?
Eh, I don't believe it. I paid for IE when I first got it as part of the Windows 95 Plus pack. I mean, it came with Plus. Maybe they used record industry accounting.
I was recently alerted to a web site where people can post pics of themselves - with the url implying naked pics. There were women there with iphone pics that had enough exif info to get their street address. I would venture to guess that when they put their pics there they didn't think it would be possible to determine who they were or where they live.
Last time I went to the DMV I walked in, picked up a number, waited about 5 mins, talked to a teller and was out the door all on my lunch break.
Nice. Last time I went to the DMV to get my carry permit, I was the 4th person in the door and it took an hour and a half for them to quit picking their noses long enough (this was 3 employees handling the line) to process my payment and paperwork.
Banks are highly regulated. Cellular providers slightly less so.
Regulation by the government brings about concentration of wealth as those who get enough use what they have to buy legislation to get the rest. That's the problem, not the free market.
But we don't get any cut of the $20B/year. So, it's $300B/year. I actually agree with what you're saying about war profiteers, but the bottom line is that the pittance of oil in that country is unrelated.
Iraq's oil production capabilities are around $20B/year. We're spending $300B/year on the war. There literally isn't enough oil in the ground there to pay us back for the last 7.5 years, and it would take a century even if they tried. Can we please do some basic math and stop the stupid "it's all about oil" line of attack - it makes you look like an idiot.
It also doesn't help that people who yell the loudest about how we all need to change our lifestyles to head off an imminent catastrophe tend to live in huge houses and fly around in private jets. As Glenn Reynolds says, I'll believe it's important when those yelling about it *act* like it is.
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If Apple buys Facebook, Microsoft will try to create their own Facebook in response. It's worth doing just to see how laughably bad Microsoft's Facebook ripoff would be.
when they find out that an acre is only about 40,000 sq. ft.
Sorry to burst bubbles, but I'm not a right-winger nor do I read right-wing blogs. I know about him running to put in solar after he was caught because I was touring some out-of-state family members around Nashville, went by his house and saw the zoning meeting notice signs up. So, no, I'm not "repeating".
The irony is that you and a couple of other people have written responses that bring up the same list of "facts", oddly enough. Some of those "facts" are blatantly and demonstrably wrong, e.g. "Al's energy usage is so high because he has a fully-staffed office at his house", and I've seen it more than once from different people. I think it's obvious who's repeating...
You guys must all be reading off the same script. Gore has an office on West End in Loew's Vanderbilt. His house is in the city, and our codes do not allow someone to have a bunch of people working in a residential neighborhood. As for the "carbon offsets", well, *chuckle*.
I live in Nashville and I've seen his house. I can show it to you if you're in town. He bought solar panels *after* his energy usage was made public. While he has an office there, his main office is at Loew's Vanderbilt hotel on West End. I've seen him there in person while I was there on unrelated business. Codes don't allow him to staff an office at his Belle Meade mansion.
Furthermore, he had the money to build an efficient house rather than buy that one. One just a few blocks away sold recently for under $350K, he could have bulldozed it and put up an efficient house if he liked the neighborhood.
I don't want to take his home or anything else that he has.
G W Bush's house in TX is also one of the most environmentally friendly houses on the planet. Al Gore, on the other hand, lives in a mansion here in Nashville that is 3 times the size of my house but with 10 times the energy usage. He also has another mansion in CA that's comparable in size.
Sometimes it's what you *do* rather than what you *say* that tells me everything I need to know about you...
At least Apple gives you X-Code (which works well with open source software, btw) instead of charging you an arm and a leg for it.
WWIII already happened - civilization vs. communism, fought in proxy countries such as Viet Nam and Korea. Civilization won, but ironically the proxies themselves had a mixed outcome.
WWIV is ongoing - civilization vs. militant Islam. This is part of it. Iran is one of the few countries belligerently ruled by militant Islamics. Thankfully, it's also one that has the best chance for a democratic overthrow of said "government". We should be putting all our efforts toward helping them (starting with an open internet for Iran) - get rid of the nuts running the place and the nuclear issue goes away.
Additionally, I'd check land ownership of the 5% of the land that *is* allowed to have cell towers. Someone may just be raising their own property values at everybody else's expense.
LOL!
Reminds me of an old joke:
How does a woman seduce a man?
She shows up.
iOS' market share is huge. Their market isn't the PC market - it's the touch screen market. Last I saw iOS owned more than 50% of the market. If you think it's just part of the larger "PC" market, you're not getting it.
You might want to check into the NRA - it's likely because of their work that you can own a firearm for self-defense and go to the range. I've found the organization to be nowhere near as annoying as their supporters, and nothing like what the liberal media makes them out to be.
I'm all for hunting for food, but hunting for sport just seems gratuitous and disrespectful to nature.
Without wading too deeply into this: I understand your sentiments, and fox hunting is never about eating. Around here, we've destroyed all natural predators. Deer have to be hunted by something or they will quickly overpopulate and destroy the local forest.
This became obvious in my home state of Indiana. We didn't allow hunting in state parks, and our largest state park (about 40 square miles) ended up with deer that had devastated the forest and were left starving to death. Literally. The state finally started doing controlled hunts, with the usual nutbags protesting it, and the deer population was brought back under control, the rest of the deer became much healthier, and the forest itself became healthier.
It's not comparable to fox hunting, which is simply done to kill foxes in and make some sort of "sport" out of it.
That's the crux of the matter. Free speech means speech you don't like - nobody argues against free speech for something they agree with.
As I've said, the Cubans can talk about the weather. Ultimately, free speech is the right to offend others, including the government.
There *is* a business model there, though. SCO Unix sucks by today's standards but is widely used in a number of vertical markets. All of them are ripe for replacement with Linux. Buying the assets and creating an "official" migration path to Linux, supporting and maintaining current users, and turning it into a service company could likely be a decent money maker. SCO was making money before they set out on these ludicrous lawsuits. Their revenue was declining as they refused to embrace Linux, but, well, that's the key, right?
Eh, I don't believe it. I paid for IE when I first got it as part of the Windows 95 Plus pack. I mean, it came with Plus. Maybe they used record industry accounting.
I was recently alerted to a web site where people can post pics of themselves - with the url implying naked pics. There were women there with iphone pics that had enough exif info to get their street address. I would venture to guess that when they put their pics there they didn't think it would be possible to determine who they were or where they live.
If you don't like the FCC regulations, write your congressperson, get them changed.
You must be new here...
It works just like that. He just missed the "write a big check to your congressperson" step.
Nice. Last time I went to the DMV to get my carry permit, I was the 4th person in the door and it took an hour and a half for them to quit picking their noses long enough (this was 3 employees handling the line) to process my payment and paperwork.
Banks are highly regulated. Cellular providers slightly less so.
Regulation by the government brings about concentration of wealth as those who get enough use what they have to buy legislation to get the rest. That's the problem, not the free market.
So you actually think Obama is competent?
But we don't get any cut of the $20B/year. So, it's $300B/year. I actually agree with what you're saying about war profiteers, but the bottom line is that the pittance of oil in that country is unrelated.
Iraq's oil production capabilities are around $20B/year. We're spending $300B/year on the war. There literally isn't enough oil in the ground there to pay us back for the last 7.5 years, and it would take a century even if they tried. Can we please do some basic math and stop the stupid "it's all about oil" line of attack - it makes you look like an idiot.
It also doesn't help that people who yell the loudest about how we all need to change our lifestyles to head off an imminent catastrophe tend to live in huge houses and fly around in private jets. As Glenn Reynolds says, I'll believe it's important when those yelling about it *act* like it is.
Seriously - if I buy an iphone, how does copyright come into play? I don't copy anything.