The day that the elected representatives of the people can't overrule or remove a judge is the day you have become the subject of a kingdom with a judicial nobility instead of the citizen of a self-governing nation, so you better hope and pray that congress can still overrule and remove judges.
Yeah, why don't we just let unelected, unaccountable judges decide everything? Heck, we can let them write laws from the bench, too. I submit the Florida Supreme Court and the US 9th Circuit be given that job, since they're so good at it, although the US Supreme is catching up quick.
Let's just chuck this whole representative government thing and submit happily to judicial imperialism.
It's worse than that! Nearly 70% of the planet is covered in deep pools of DHMO and it is being vaporized by the billions of tons every day. A significant percentage of our atmosphere is filled with these vapors.
BTW, DHMO is THE most powerful greenhouse gas in existence. It is several times more powerful than CO2 and there is, on average, 70 times as much DHMO vapor in our atmosphere as CO2
That has nothing to do with the ozone hole (a fictional construct; there never was a whole, just a thinning) and everything to do with the fact that you are fifteen years older now and your skin is less resistant to UV radiation.
But what is not a minor thing is trivializing the horrors of the holocaust by comparing it to a software patch.
At least the holocaust deniers admit that, if it had happened, it would have been a horrible thing, but slimes like you say: Yeah, it happened, but it's no worse than a Microsoft software patch.
Typical Linux Geek thinking ease-of-use = dumbing down and that a good interface means pretty icons.
Ease of use means making the computer work the way PEOPLE think, not forcing people to work the way COMPUTERS think.
Linux geeks and other developers, who have been conditioned to think like the computer because of the work they do, have the mistaken notion that advanced computer user means a user who has learned to force the natural human way of doing things into the artificial machine way a computer does things.
Any interface that doesn't force this paradigm is "dumbed down."
The truth is, the Linux geek has simply been conditioned to do things the difficult way, not the natural way. Designing the interface to do things the natural way is not dumbing it down, it's making the Linux Geek's paradigm obsolete. Of course, the Linux Geek doesn't like this, so in a fit of human ego, he looks his nose down on anything that points out the stupidity of his position (working the way the computer demands; being the tool of the computer), and calls it "dumbing down."
The Sun Java Desktop follows this same, stupid convention.
The start menu is in the wrong place. In cultures that read left to right, top to bottom, the most important area of focus is always the upper left corner, followed by the upper right corner, then the lower right corner. The area of least importance, that takes the most conscious effort to locate, and feels the most unnatural, is the lower left corner. So guess where Sun, Windows, and other Linux copycats put the most important UI widget in the whole interface?
Next, the start menu is packed with long lists of applications in tons of different categories. To the Linux Geek, this is heaven, because it forces him to think like a computer. To a human, this is unnatural. The human mind works in small groups. The start menu should be sparse, with a few, general categories, containing a few applications. Lists should have no more than five items, with an option to dig deeper. You make the detail a conscious choice to the user, not throw it in his face. That's the Windows paradigm: Let's see how much crap we can throw on the screen because it proves our program is POWERFUL!!
And, finally, the reviewer totally ignores the most important UI elements for ease-of-use, which shows he doesn't get it...still.
Does the UI still use the web browser paradigm for file location? This is asinine. The web browser paradigm is based on pages of information. The folder/file structure of a hard drive is designed around a, well, folder, folder contents model. Using a page serving paradigm to locate items in a filing cabinet is stupid, and continuing to insist on it is asinine because it is unnatural, feels unnatural, and requires the user to expend too much effort to find what he wants.
What about configuring items in the start menu? How easy is it to add things? Remove things? No mention of this.
What about installing applications. Does the user have to deal with/usr/share,/usr/bin, and crap like that, or are applications put in a folder called Programs?
What about account management? Can the GUI allow root commands for installing software the way OS X does, by authenticating in a dialog, or does the user have to think like a computer, and change his identity just to install a program?
This review can basically be summed up as: This is a cool desktop because, hey, it's got a cool look, all the apps follow that look, there's a documents folder on the desktop for morons who don't know any better, and the start menu is so full of crap, it's unusable.
Sorry, but Linux is STILL not ready for the desktop. Go back to OS X, study it again, find out that it's NOT Aqua and throbbing buttons that make it a great GUI, and try again.
I always get the biggest laugh out of "educated, enlightened, I've moved past unthinking Christian mindless robot" types who are unthinking mindless robot types.
Do you honestly think you are the first person in the history of the world to notice the two creation accounts in Genesis?
Do you think that all the great Christian thinkers like Irreanus, Aquinas, Luther, Calivn, etc. didn't know there were two creation accounts in Genesis?
Do you think they just looked at it, and said, Oh, my, they disagree. We'll just sweep the second one under the rug!
If you do think this, then you really should be too embarrassed to call any Christian unthinking or ignorant, or blinded to reality.
And in other news, Microsoft announced today a security vulnerability in their Embedded XP used in ATM machines. Apparently, a certain sequence of information on the magnetic stripe used on ATM cards can cause a buffer overflow and allow the user to fool the machine into thinking their bank account has an unlimited balance. Additionally, it also disables the $200 per day withdrawl limit.
Microsoft representatives rated this as a serious security risk, and said that ATM machines using their embedded XP operating system would be upgraded over the next several months as ATM technicians became available to open each affected ATM and swap out the hard drive.
These "wealth" stats are nothing more than troll bait for class warfare types.
90% of Bill Gates' wealth is tied up in Microsoft and is completely untouchable. If he were to try and grab all 43 billion, the wealth would evaporate overnight as his company's value disintegrated. Don't believe me? Do the thought experiment. What exactly would happen to Microsoft's stock value if Gates suddenly announced that he was going to sell every share of stock he owned that afternoon?
It's this same stupid valuation that makes my neighbor a millionaire because he owns a couple of rigs and runs a small trucking outfit.
Hope you thank the rich men at Hormel for making Spam possible. Otherwise you might be a North Korean, boiling grass to keep from starving to death in that socialist utopia.
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And I find it absolutely amazing that you are not totally outraged at the INJUSTICE of 1% of wage earners paying 23% of all federal taxes. But, keep looking. By the time you get to the top 50% of wage earners, you find out that they are paying 96% of all taxes. That makes the other 50% freeloaders. That used to be something that people were ashamed of. Now it's considered a fundamental right.
Actually, the big market for this would be people who move their laptops daily between work and home.
Plugging every thing every morning at work, unplugging it all at 5 and plugging it back in at home at 5:30, rinse and repeat five days a week is a pain in the butt, and buying two docking stations is an expensive solution.
Additionally, that laptop has to sit somewhere on your desk while you've got all that stuff plugged into it. Put it under a stand, and you limit access to the CD-ROM. Set it off to the side, and you're using up valuable desk space.
This design will be a big seller for companies that issue laptops to their employees. The slight additional cost of the laptop will be more than offset by not having to buy an external monitor for the employee to use when at work.
Not necessarily. You see, the CO2 in the coal or oil was in the biosphere at one time. Putting it back in a million years later environmental catastrophe, since the climate seemed quite capable of supporting a tremendous biodiversity in the time of the Dinosaurs when this stuff was first made.
Secondly, you are operating from the premise of a static model. Gaia theory holds that putting extra CO2 into the atmosphere would trigger a plant growth bloom, that would pull the CO2 back out again, pushing the system back to it's current equilibrium. Kind of like dumping fertilizer on your yard and having to mow the grass three times a week instead of once a week.
>>We've got a long heritage in which we have always taken a harsh and hard rule on protecting the privacy of our customers' information.'
OK. Assuming the above statement is a lie, since these companies will sell your information in a heartbeat to telemarketers, the question to ask is: What is the REAL reason SBC is holding out?
Well, that's just stupid. It's much better to force tyranny on people militarily. What fool forces democracy militarily? I mean, soon they get ideas like the Phillipines of forcing you out of their country and you have to leave. Or they get uppity like Japan and demand your soldiers be tried in their courts and you have to comply.
How the heck are you supposed to form an empire if you go around FREEING people?!?
You haven't described censorship, you described propaganda.
You're pretty good at it, since you engage in a fair amount of it in your so-called explanation.
Personally, the examples I would have given would be No Blood for Oil, Haliburton is behind the war, Bush=Hitler and other purely propagandistic statements that use trigger-words to evoke visceral emotional reactions. Of course, that crown jewel of Howard Dean calling Hamas' terrorists soldiers cannot be left out of any truly complete compilation of propagandistic rhetoric.
But if you want to fixate on Sean Hannity calling Cynthia McKinney a socialist idiot, which is a factual and accurate description of both her political views and her mental powers, then feel free.
You bet North Korea is developing Nukes as a deterrent. Only, not in the way you obviously intended.
North Korea is developing Nukes as a deterrent against anyone attacking them NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO!
You see, it goes both ways.
With theater capability, NK, can now, say, invade SK. What are we going to do? Invade them and risk a nuclear strike?
There is a REASON third-world dictators lust for nuclear weapons, and it's NOT to protect them from US aggression.
Sometimes I think we should pack every America-hating liberal to a country like NK for six months just so they can realize what the hell a dictatorship and aggressive, bullying nation with aspirations of empire really looks like.
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The day that the elected representatives of the people can't overrule or remove a judge is the day you have become the subject of a kingdom with a judicial nobility instead of the citizen of a self-governing nation, so you better hope and pray that congress can still overrule and remove judges.
*Why not then let the court decide the case?*
Yeah, why don't we just let unelected, unaccountable judges decide everything? Heck, we can let them write laws from the bench, too. I submit the Florida Supreme Court and the US 9th Circuit be given that job, since they're so good at it, although the US Supreme is catching up quick.
Let's just chuck this whole representative government thing and submit happily to judicial imperialism.
Begging the Question: Using the conclusion of a premise to prove the premise.
Your example: Look at all the floods. It must be global warming because global warming causes floods.
It's worse than that! Nearly 70% of the planet is covered in deep pools of DHMO and it is being vaporized by the billions of tons every day. A significant percentage of our atmosphere is filled with these vapors.
BTW, DHMO is THE most powerful greenhouse gas in existence. It is several times more powerful than CO2 and there is, on average, 70 times as much DHMO vapor in our atmosphere as CO2
That has nothing to do with the ozone hole (a fictional construct; there never was a whole, just a thinning) and everything to do with the fact that you are fifteen years older now and your skin is less resistant to UV radiation.
Logical fallacy of begging the question, thus your point is irrelevant.
No, they'll "get away with it" because most consumers are not inconvenienced by it.
But what is not a minor thing is trivializing the horrors of the holocaust by comparing it to a software patch.
At least the holocaust deniers admit that, if it had happened, it would have been a horrible thing, but slimes like you say: Yeah, it happened, but it's no worse than a Microsoft software patch.
Typical Linux Geek thinking ease-of-use = dumbing down and that a good interface means pretty icons.
/usr/share, /usr/bin, and crap like that, or are applications put in a folder called Programs?
Ease of use means making the computer work the way PEOPLE think, not forcing people to work the way COMPUTERS think.
Linux geeks and other developers, who have been conditioned to think like the computer because of the work they do, have the mistaken notion that advanced computer user means a user who has learned to force the natural human way of doing things into the artificial machine way a computer does things.
Any interface that doesn't force this paradigm is "dumbed down."
The truth is, the Linux geek has simply been conditioned to do things the difficult way, not the natural way. Designing the interface to do things the natural way is not dumbing it down, it's making the Linux Geek's paradigm obsolete. Of course, the Linux Geek doesn't like this, so in a fit of human ego, he looks his nose down on anything that points out the stupidity of his position (working the way the computer demands; being the tool of the computer), and calls it "dumbing down."
The Sun Java Desktop follows this same, stupid convention.
The start menu is in the wrong place. In cultures that read left to right, top to bottom, the most important area of focus is always the upper left corner, followed by the upper right corner, then the lower right corner. The area of least importance, that takes the most conscious effort to locate, and feels the most unnatural, is the lower left corner. So guess where Sun, Windows, and other Linux copycats put the most important UI widget in the whole interface?
Next, the start menu is packed with long lists of applications in tons of different categories. To the Linux Geek, this is heaven, because it forces him to think like a computer. To a human, this is unnatural. The human mind works in small groups. The start menu should be sparse, with a few, general categories, containing a few applications. Lists should have no more than five items, with an option to dig deeper. You make the detail a conscious choice to the user, not throw it in his face. That's the Windows paradigm: Let's see how much crap we can throw on the screen because it proves our program is POWERFUL!!
And, finally, the reviewer totally ignores the most important UI elements for ease-of-use, which shows he doesn't get it...still.
Does the UI still use the web browser paradigm for file location? This is asinine. The web browser paradigm is based on pages of information. The folder/file structure of a hard drive is designed around a, well, folder, folder contents model. Using a page serving paradigm to locate items in a filing cabinet is stupid, and continuing to insist on it is asinine because it is unnatural, feels unnatural, and requires the user to expend too much effort to find what he wants.
What about configuring items in the start menu? How easy is it to add things? Remove things? No mention of this.
What about installing applications. Does the user have to deal with
What about account management? Can the GUI allow root commands for installing software the way OS X does, by authenticating in a dialog, or does the user have to think like a computer, and change his identity just to install a program?
This review can basically be summed up as: This is a cool desktop because, hey, it's got a cool look, all the apps follow that look, there's a documents folder on the desktop for morons who don't know any better, and the start menu is so full of crap, it's unusable.
Sorry, but Linux is STILL not ready for the desktop. Go back to OS X, study it again, find out that it's NOT Aqua and throbbing buttons that make it a great GUI, and try again.
I always get the biggest laugh out of "educated, enlightened, I've moved past unthinking Christian mindless robot" types who are unthinking mindless robot types.
Do you honestly think you are the first person in the history of the world to notice the two creation accounts in Genesis?
Do you think that all the great Christian thinkers like Irreanus, Aquinas, Luther, Calivn, etc. didn't know there were two creation accounts in Genesis?
Do you think they just looked at it, and said, Oh, my, they disagree. We'll just sweep the second one under the rug!
If you do think this, then you really should be too embarrassed to call any Christian unthinking or ignorant, or blinded to reality.
And in other news, Microsoft announced today a security vulnerability in their Embedded XP used in ATM machines. Apparently, a certain sequence of information on the magnetic stripe used on ATM cards can cause a buffer overflow and allow the user to fool the machine into thinking their bank account has an unlimited balance. Additionally, it also disables the $200 per day withdrawl limit.
Microsoft representatives rated this as a serious security risk, and said that ATM machines using their embedded XP operating system would be upgraded over the next several months as ATM technicians became available to open each affected ATM and swap out the hard drive.
These "wealth" stats are nothing more than troll bait for class warfare types.
90% of Bill Gates' wealth is tied up in Microsoft and is completely untouchable. If he were to try and grab all 43 billion, the wealth would evaporate overnight as his company's value disintegrated. Don't believe me? Do the thought experiment. What exactly would happen to Microsoft's stock value if Gates suddenly announced that he was going to sell every share of stock he owned that afternoon?
It's this same stupid valuation that makes my neighbor a millionaire because he owns a couple of rigs and runs a small trucking outfit.
Hope you thank the rich men at Hormel for making Spam possible. Otherwise you might be a North Korean, boiling grass to keep from starving to death in that socialist utopia.
And I find it absolutely amazing that you are not totally outraged at the INJUSTICE of 1% of wage earners paying 23% of all federal taxes. But, keep looking. By the time you get to the top 50% of wage earners, you find out that they are paying 96% of all taxes. That makes the other 50% freeloaders. That used to be something that people were ashamed of. Now it's considered a fundamental right.
Actually, the big market for this would be people who move their laptops daily between work and home.
Plugging every thing every morning at work, unplugging it all at 5 and plugging it back in at home at 5:30, rinse and repeat five days a week is a pain in the butt, and buying two docking stations is an expensive solution.
Additionally, that laptop has to sit somewhere on your desk while you've got all that stuff plugged into it. Put it under a stand, and you limit access to the CD-ROM. Set it off to the side, and you're using up valuable desk space.
This design will be a big seller for companies that issue laptops to their employees. The slight additional cost of the laptop will be more than offset by not having to buy an external monitor for the employee to use when at work.
Not necessarily. You see, the CO2 in the coal or oil was in the biosphere at one time. Putting it back in a million years later environmental catastrophe, since the climate seemed quite capable of supporting a tremendous biodiversity in the time of the Dinosaurs when this stuff was first made.
Secondly, you are operating from the premise of a static model. Gaia theory holds that putting extra CO2 into the atmosphere would trigger a plant growth bloom, that would pull the CO2 back out again, pushing the system back to it's current equilibrium. Kind of like dumping fertilizer on your yard and having to mow the grass three times a week instead of once a week.
>>We've got a long heritage in which we have always taken a harsh and hard rule on protecting the privacy of our customers' information.'
OK. Assuming the above statement is a lie, since these companies will sell your information in a heartbeat to telemarketers, the question to ask is: What is the REAL reason SBC is holding out?
Fallacy of subjectivism. Just because YOU think it's a poor substitute doesn't make it true.
Screen quality is not measured by how many pixels you can cram on it.
Screen quality is measured by contrast, brightness, pixel responsiveness and quality of the glass.
Apple screens are far superior to anything on the Wintel side.
Well, that's just stupid. It's much better to force tyranny on people militarily. What fool forces democracy militarily? I mean, soon they get ideas like the Phillipines of forcing you out of their country and you have to leave. Or they get uppity like Japan and demand your soldiers be tried in their courts and you have to comply.
How the heck are you supposed to form an empire if you go around FREEING people?!?
What idiot thought up this foreign policy?!
You haven't described censorship, you described propaganda.
You're pretty good at it, since you engage in a fair amount of it in your so-called explanation.
Personally, the examples I would have given would be No Blood for Oil, Haliburton is behind the war, Bush=Hitler and other purely propagandistic statements that use trigger-words to evoke visceral emotional reactions. Of course, that crown jewel of Howard Dean calling Hamas' terrorists soldiers cannot be left out of any truly complete compilation of propagandistic rhetoric.
But if you want to fixate on Sean Hannity calling Cynthia McKinney a socialist idiot, which is a factual and accurate description of both her political views and her mental powers, then feel free.
Or you could just put a tax on gasoline on the assumption that people who buy more gas do more driving on the roads.
A stupid book based on junk science. It's easy to make your moral message when you don't have to pay attention to reality.
Winston Churchill once said that it is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
I suggest you take his advice.
You bet North Korea is developing Nukes as a deterrent. Only, not in the way you obviously intended.
North Korea is developing Nukes as a deterrent against anyone attacking them NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO!
You see, it goes both ways.
With theater capability, NK, can now, say, invade SK. What are we going to do? Invade them and risk a nuclear strike?
There is a REASON third-world dictators lust for nuclear weapons, and it's NOT to protect them from US aggression.
Sometimes I think we should pack every America-hating liberal to a country like NK for six months just so they can realize what the hell a dictatorship and aggressive, bullying nation with aspirations of empire really looks like.