- and they could care less about my health, happiness, or welfare. All corporations care about are profits. All other priorities are rescindent.-
And, of course, we all know the best way for a corporation to maximize its profits and to grow its business is to totally disregard the health, happiness and welfare of its customers.
BTW, your Marx is showing.
Let me give you a news flash. Corporate abuses always occur through the arm of government. A corporation cannot force you to sell your land. Only a government can do that. Look up eminent domain abuses. The government is always involved.
It is an out of control, intrusive government that is the problem, not your favorite corporate whipping horse.
In the words of a very smart man: Government is the problem, not the solution. It's something the framers understood when they wrote the Constitution. Governments are a necessary evil, and will ALWAYS gravitate toward tyranny unless checked on ALL fronts, including regulation of business.
You want to know why Corporate America is so heavily involved in Government? It's because government is so heavily involved in regulating and controlling business.
-The constitution of the US very strictly defines the limits of government power. That's the whole reason for its existence. It allows the people to pool their resources for the common good while protecting the individual from tyranny. You've lost sight of who is on your side and who is aligned against your well being.-
What has this got do to with the fact that a government which controls the property you need to live, work and eat controls your life?
If the US federal government controlled all property in the country, how long do you think we would remain a constitutional republic?
Sauron's great fear was that someone of power would obtain the ring and use it themselves to overthrow him. The great irony is that they themselves would then become another Sauron. It's one of the fundamental premises of the book and explains the ENTIRE strategy of Gandalf, Frodo, and others, and is, of course, therefore, one of the first things Jackson tosses into the trash.
If someone who was weak tried to use the ring, yeah, Sauron would just grab them and take it. But if someone like Galadriel, or Gandalf or Saruman, or Aragorn took it, all bets were off.
This whole concept that the ring was Sauron's tool alone and anyone who used it would simply betray themselves to Sauron and hand him the ring is a Peter Jackson fabrication, and is yet another reason the movies keep having to re-write the story. Jackson keeps yanking out the foundation for the story, and then has to patch the resulting sagging mess with bubble gum and scotch tape.
I stand by my initial statement, flamebait moderated and all.
Either Jackson is a clueless idiot when it comes to the books, or he is a slimy snake deliberately changing the story into some weird incarnation that, in his ego, he thinks is better.
There is NO other explanation for him changing fundamental themes and characters. Adapting a book to a movie NEVER requires you to CHANGE themes and RE-WRITE character personalities.
And those lot of people are total idiots. You either have personal property rights, or you have the government exercising control of all the property.
The moment a government has the power to control the land you need for shelter, food and industry, that's the day that government can control every fundamental aspect of your life. They can tell you where to live, where to farm, where to work.
99.9% of the fools who argue against property rights are basically envious of some rich guy on the hill and either want him living in a trailer park out of spite, or they have some idiotic idea that with the government owning all the land, they'd be living in that house on the hill for free.
Sometimes I wish I could just send them all to a public housing project for six months.
The whole story line of needing to draw Sauron out early was shot to crap when Frodo stood in Osgiliath and tried to give the ring to one of the Wraiths.
Having him then lightly tripse back to Morder without all the armies of Sauron hot on his tail was such a big plot hole and such an example of absolutely crappy writing, that the screenwriter should crawl under a rock in shame. That scene showed, more than anything, that Jackson is either a clueless idiot who doesn't have a stinking clue about the books, or a slimy snake who, in his own ego, actually thinks he's written a better story than Tolkien.
And, on a conspiracy note, I suspect Saruman's scenes were cut because Lee's morning greeting to Jackson was: Well, how are you going to rape the books today, Pete?
I'm laughing so hard, that it's difficult to type this. You mean you actually BELIEVE it when Communist China says they are only interested in commercial ventures on the Moon?
Moron. How dare you shatter the utopia vision slashdotters have of the blessed Chinese realm.
No doubt you'll get some idiot comparing Fox News to the state run Chinese english television and the Patriot Act to Chinese travel permits and work vouchers.
You can't KEEP anybody honest. What you can do is promote a moral culture in which honesty is prized. But, that, GASP, would probably involve that hated beast, religion.
Time printed the article in the first place because they don't like Bush II, and thought it would be a good hit on him to have Dad criticize his policies.
Only, when you read Dad's predictions, they are so totally out of whack to what's really happening in Iraq (ie, no Arab street), that Dad comes across just looking stupid and Bush II comes across looking really smart.
This makes the article useless to Time, so they yank it.
There's a conspiracy here, but it's not by the Bush II people.
Of course, your typical slashdotter, who, not surprisingly, has a grasp on reality equivalent to about a 12-year old doesn't get it.
And Europeans say that America is the evil land squelching free speech.
Behold the European socialist utopia where free speech means speech we like, and the rest of you can shut up or go to jail.
But, never fear, brave European utopians. We in primitive America are not far behind you. Soon, we, too will be putting people in jail who don't speak the way we want them to. We already send them to re-orientation camps (sensitivity training).
Force was a bad word choice. Encourage is a better one. Each Window in Windows, Gnome, KDE, etc. takes over your whole environment. The menu bar is contained within it, other windows for the application are contained within it, etc. This makes your whole focus and attention go to that one task.
The very idea of using a key to alt-tab through running apps is an example of this. You make a discreet change from one single-task to another.
The Mac user doesn't use the alt-tab as much, because his windows are free floating on the desktop, not bound within a "master application" window. The menu bar is global and changes to accomodate the current focus. The Mac gui lends itself to the user looking at his desktop as his work area with several applications and documents sitting on it. KDE et al compartmentalize the work area, restricting it to the front-most app. Thus, a more single-task mentality.
They didn't fabricate a hoax, they presented a flawed report. They presented two facts:
A. CFCs can degenerate into Cl radicals. B. Cl radicals break down ozone.
They then commit a post hoc fallacy by claiming A, therefore B.
They fail to account for other sources of chlorine radicals. They fail to account for natural Ozone fluctuations. They fail to account for the equilibrium pressures that will tend to favor ozone creation from atmospheric oxygen when ozone concentrations decrease. They fail to account for why ozone depletion was the worst over Antarctica when CFC production is the heaviest over North America.
They fail to account for many things.
By the way, your citing their nobel prize suffers from the fallacy of Appeal to Authority. The nobel committee made it clear that they award their prizes based on ideology and politics when they gave Carter the peace prize to express their dislike for Bush and his policies.
Give it a rest. The Nobel committee made it clear they award the prize for political reasons when they admitted Carter got the prize because they wanted to send a message to Bush.
Well, if Jackson actually cut out the hours of made up stuff he put into the films, he'd have plenty of time to explore the subtleties of the books.
I can think of a few scenes right now: The wizard fist fight between Gandalf and Saruman. The 20 minute cave troll battle scene. The ten minutes spent leaping from falling bridge fragments in Kazhad-dum. The whole Warg battle in TTT, and about 70% of the battle of Helm's deep.
Pay attention to the criticisms. Folks (myself included) are not criticizing that books need to be adapted to the screen, we're criticizing the NEEDLESS changes.
Jackson is totally assassinating characters, and raping fundamental themes that are throughout the book.
Changing the subtle war of philosophy between good and evil in the conversation of Saruman and Gandalf's first meeting in Isengard to a stupid wizard fistfight is what we are complaining about. Changing Saruman from a scheming wizard pretending to serve Sauron to get the ring for himself and eventually replace Sauron into a stooge of Sauron who utters the totally forgettable cliche: We cannot defeat the evil, we must join with it, is an unforgiveable treatment of the books.
The fact is, a proper screen adaptation of LOTR would be like a Ghandi, or Lawrence of Arabia or a Chariots of Fire. What we got instead was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
By straying from the original theme of the ring at the beginning of the movie, Jackson has started a domino effect that causes more and more damage the further into the story you go, and forces Jackson to get more and more radical in the patches he has to apply just to keep the story from looking totally stupid.
If Jackson had started his screenplay with Tolkien's treatment of the ring, then Faramir's character would make PERFECT sense, and would be a powerful foil against the pride of Boromir and make the love Faramir had for his brother all the more poignant.
That's because Gnome, KDE and Windows GUIs are single-task environments. They force you in to doing one thing at a time, and thinking about one thing at a time. That's why most people run their apps full screen.
The OS X is a multi-taks GUI environment. It lends itself to users doing many things at the same time, and keeping track of those many things.
Expose simply takes that paradigm a step farther. It does much more than manage window clutter. It allows you to be more effective at multitasking with your computer.
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- and they could care less about my health, happiness, or welfare. All corporations care about are profits. All other priorities are rescindent.-
And, of course, we all know the best way for a corporation to maximize its profits and to grow its business is to totally disregard the health, happiness and welfare of its customers.
BTW, your Marx is showing.
Let me give you a news flash. Corporate abuses always occur through the arm of government. A corporation cannot force you to sell your land. Only a government can do that. Look up eminent domain abuses. The government is always involved.
It is an out of control, intrusive government that is the problem, not your favorite corporate whipping horse.
In the words of a very smart man: Government is the problem, not the solution. It's something the framers understood when they wrote the Constitution. Governments are a necessary evil, and will ALWAYS gravitate toward tyranny unless checked on ALL fronts, including regulation of business.
You want to know why Corporate America is so heavily involved in Government? It's because government is so heavily involved in regulating and controlling business.
-The constitution of the US very strictly defines the limits of government power. That's the whole reason for its existence. It allows the people to pool their resources for the common good while protecting the individual from tyranny. You've lost sight of who is on your side and who is aligned against your well being.-
What has this got do to with the fact that a government which controls the property you need to live, work and eat controls your life?
If the US federal government controlled all property in the country, how long do you think we would remain a constitutional republic?
There is no false dichotomy. It is impossible to have a group of humans in association without some form of government present.
You've obviously never read the books.
Sauron's great fear was that someone of power would obtain the ring and use it themselves to overthrow him. The great irony is that they themselves would then become another Sauron. It's one of the fundamental premises of the book and explains the ENTIRE strategy of Gandalf, Frodo, and others, and is, of course, therefore, one of the first things Jackson tosses into the trash.
If someone who was weak tried to use the ring, yeah, Sauron would just grab them and take it. But if someone like Galadriel, or Gandalf or Saruman, or Aragorn took it, all bets were off.
This whole concept that the ring was Sauron's tool alone and anyone who used it would simply betray themselves to Sauron and hand him the ring is a Peter Jackson fabrication, and is yet another reason the movies keep having to re-write the story. Jackson keeps yanking out the foundation for the story, and then has to patch the resulting sagging mess with bubble gum and scotch tape.
I stand by my initial statement, flamebait moderated and all.
Either Jackson is a clueless idiot when it comes to the books, or he is a slimy snake deliberately changing the story into some weird incarnation that, in his ego, he thinks is better.
There is NO other explanation for him changing fundamental themes and characters. Adapting a book to a movie NEVER requires you to CHANGE themes and RE-WRITE character personalities.
And those lot of people are total idiots. You either have personal property rights, or you have the government exercising control of all the property.
The moment a government has the power to control the land you need for shelter, food and industry, that's the day that government can control every fundamental aspect of your life. They can tell you where to live, where to farm, where to work.
99.9% of the fools who argue against property rights are basically envious of some rich guy on the hill and either want him living in a trailer park out of spite, or they have some idiotic idea that with the government owning all the land, they'd be living in that house on the hill for free.
Sometimes I wish I could just send them all to a public housing project for six months.
The whole story line of needing to draw Sauron out early was shot to crap when Frodo stood in Osgiliath and tried to give the ring to one of the Wraiths.
Having him then lightly tripse back to Morder without all the armies of Sauron hot on his tail was such a big plot hole and such an example of absolutely crappy writing, that the screenwriter should crawl under a rock in shame. That scene showed, more than anything, that Jackson is either a clueless idiot who doesn't have a stinking clue about the books, or a slimy snake who, in his own ego, actually thinks he's written a better story than Tolkien.
And, on a conspiracy note, I suspect Saruman's scenes were cut because Lee's morning greeting to Jackson was: Well, how are you going to rape the books today, Pete?
I'm laughing so hard, that it's difficult to type this. You mean you actually BELIEVE it when Communist China says they are only interested in commercial ventures on the Moon?
Moron. How dare you shatter the utopia vision slashdotters have of the blessed Chinese realm.
No doubt you'll get some idiot comparing Fox News to the state run Chinese english television and the Patriot Act to Chinese travel permits and work vouchers.
They wouldn't use nukes. They'd use a mass driver. Any military strategist will tell you that the high ground is the strategic ground.
Pragmatism is an ideology as well.
You can't KEEP anybody honest. What you can do is promote a moral culture in which honesty is prized. But, that, GASP, would probably involve that hated beast, religion.
Well, duh. Of course they're idealogues. Name any war that wasn't driven by an ideology.
The question is: Is the ideology good?
OK. Here's the reason.
Time printed the article in the first place because they don't like Bush II, and thought it would be a good hit on him to have Dad criticize his policies.
Only, when you read Dad's predictions, they are so totally out of whack to what's really happening in Iraq (ie, no Arab street), that Dad comes across just looking stupid and Bush II comes across looking really smart.
This makes the article useless to Time, so they yank it.
There's a conspiracy here, but it's not by the Bush II people.
Of course, your typical slashdotter, who, not surprisingly, has a grasp on reality equivalent to about a 12-year old doesn't get it.
Not just any workstation, but the top of the line Intel workstation.
Yep, the candidate could say whatever he liked about himself, and no one could expose his lies.
Unless, of course, you are absolutely insane enough to suggest that the GOVERNMENT oversee the truthfulness of government candidates...
The Virginia Tech supercomputer disagrees with you.
And Europeans say that America is the evil land squelching free speech.
Behold the European socialist utopia where free speech means speech we like, and the rest of you can shut up or go to jail.
But, never fear, brave European utopians. We in primitive America are not far behind you. Soon, we, too will be putting people in jail who don't speak the way we want them to. We already send them to re-orientation camps (sensitivity training).
Force was a bad word choice. Encourage is a better one. Each Window in Windows, Gnome, KDE, etc. takes over your whole environment. The menu bar is contained within it, other windows for the application are contained within it, etc. This makes your whole focus and attention go to that one task.
The very idea of using a key to alt-tab through running apps is an example of this. You make a discreet change from one single-task to another.
The Mac user doesn't use the alt-tab as much, because his windows are free floating on the desktop, not bound within a "master application" window. The menu bar is global and changes to accomodate the current focus. The Mac gui lends itself to the user looking at his desktop as his work area with several applications and documents sitting on it. KDE et al compartmentalize the work area, restricting it to the front-most app. Thus, a more single-task mentality.
They didn't fabricate a hoax, they presented a flawed report. They presented two facts:
A. CFCs can degenerate into Cl radicals.
B. Cl radicals break down ozone.
They then commit a post hoc fallacy by claiming A, therefore B.
They fail to account for other sources of chlorine radicals. They fail to account for natural Ozone fluctuations. They fail to account for the equilibrium pressures that will tend to favor ozone creation from atmospheric oxygen when ozone concentrations decrease. They fail to account for why ozone depletion was the worst over Antarctica when CFC production is the heaviest over North America.
They fail to account for many things.
By the way, your citing their nobel prize suffers from the fallacy of Appeal to Authority. The nobel committee made it clear that they award their prizes based on ideology and politics when they gave Carter the peace prize to express their dislike for Bush and his policies.
Give it a rest. The Nobel committee made it clear they award the prize for political reasons when they admitted Carter got the prize because they wanted to send a message to Bush.
Well, if Jackson actually cut out the hours of made up stuff he put into the films, he'd have plenty of time to explore the subtleties of the books.
I can think of a few scenes right now: The wizard fist fight between Gandalf and Saruman. The 20 minute cave troll battle scene. The ten minutes spent leaping from falling bridge fragments in Kazhad-dum. The whole Warg battle in TTT, and about 70% of the battle of Helm's deep.
Pay attention to the criticisms. Folks (myself included) are not criticizing that books need to be adapted to the screen, we're criticizing the NEEDLESS changes.
Jackson is totally assassinating characters, and raping fundamental themes that are throughout the book.
Changing the subtle war of philosophy between good and evil in the conversation of Saruman and Gandalf's first meeting in Isengard to a stupid wizard fistfight is what we are complaining about. Changing Saruman from a scheming wizard pretending to serve Sauron to get the ring for himself and eventually replace Sauron into a stooge of Sauron who utters the totally forgettable cliche: We cannot defeat the evil, we must join with it, is an unforgiveable treatment of the books.
The fact is, a proper screen adaptation of LOTR would be like a Ghandi, or Lawrence of Arabia or a Chariots of Fire. What we got instead was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Exactly.
By straying from the original theme of the ring at the beginning of the movie, Jackson has started a domino effect that causes more and more damage the further into the story you go, and forces Jackson to get more and more radical in the patches he has to apply just to keep the story from looking totally stupid.
If Jackson had started his screenplay with Tolkien's treatment of the ring, then Faramir's character would make PERFECT sense, and would be a powerful foil against the pride of Boromir and make the love Faramir had for his brother all the more poignant.
That's because Gnome, KDE and Windows GUIs are single-task environments. They force you in to doing one thing at a time, and thinking about one thing at a time. That's why most people run their apps full screen.
The OS X is a multi-taks GUI environment. It lends itself to users doing many things at the same time, and keeping track of those many things.
Expose simply takes that paradigm a step farther. It does much more than manage window clutter. It allows you to be more effective at multitasking with your computer.
Oh, please. The hole in the Ozone was another manufactured crisis.
The hole was discovered before CFCs were even invented.