Kerry couldn't appoint anyone until one of the justices retired. Stevens is the oldest and probably wouldn't retire if Bush is in office. Replacing Stevens with a liberal won't change the tilt of the court. Rehnquist is next oldest and probably wouldn't retire if Kerry was President. O'Connor is next oldest. I don't know if she would retire or not.Thomas and Scalia are both relatively young and won't be retiring for a long time.
Plus, the Senate is controlled by the Republicans. You can bet your boots that the Republicans in the Senate will repay the Democratic strategy of blocking conservatives by blocking liberals.
You don't seem to understand the whole checks and balances thing. No matter how much Bush (or Kerry) wants anything, it won't happen unless Congress passes a law. And no Congressman who wants to keep his job will vote for such a law, barring an invasion.
Unlike the Assault Weapon Ban, which had a built-in expiration date, the draft doesn't. There is no back door way of reinstating the draft.
Maybe you should RTFP. What I said was in response to what you repeated--Bush may need to reinstate the draft. Bush is AGAINST the draft and will not reinstate it.
First, Bush does NOT want to reinstitute the draft. It's the anti-war people who want to reinstitute the draft, not the hawks.
Second, who cares if the volunteer service is not "representative"? Life is not perfect. The ranks of every profession in the world is disproportionate.
The analysis is a lot easier than this. Why do people use Word? Because everyone else uses Word. It's that simple.
Law firms were the last hold outs, as many firms had relied on WordPerfect for years. But many big firms eventually switched to Word. Why? Because clients used Word and that's all that mattered.
OO being the official ISO standard may sound great. But if everyone else is using Word, people aren't going to switch merely because of the letters ISO.
Not quite true. My mother-in-law's computer crapped out on her, so she bought a new one and gave the old one to me. Turns out that it was just infested and had low memory. So I put in a clean XP install and brought the memory up to 256 MB. You know what? It was too sluggish for me (It had a 700 MHz Celeron, I believe). I was just using it for my daughter to run educational software, and it wouldn't run them very well. I just tossed the whole computer in the trash.
That's very short sighted. If there's anything that's true about storage it's that you fill up the space you have.
When I first got my computer, I didn't know what to do with the space. My old computer had a 10 GB hard drive and I didn't know what I would do with a 30 GB hard drive.
About a year later, I'm installing a 40 GB hard drive. A few months later, I'm adding an 80 GB external drive. Yesterday, I got a disk full message on the external drive.
Personally, I have over 50 GB of MP3s. And I haven't even encoded 50-75% of my collection.
There is never enough space. I have started encoding my collection. I don't think I've done even 25% of it yet. But I have 50 GB of MP3s (most of it VBR at around 192 kbps). What's the largest mini hard drives out?
Actually, that was exactly my point. As another example, the Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, shares many views with Andrew Sullivan. But because Reynolds is reflexively pro-Bush (or anti-Kerry), he seems more conservative than the anti-Bush Sullivan, even though their views on most issues are similar.
He may be conservative (especially with respect to government spending), but he has become reflexively anti-Bush (e.g., when CBS revealved the fake documents, Sullivan immediately said it was bad news for Bush, when any objective commentator would have realized that no one cares about Bush's TANG service), which is what causes people to see him as being not conservative.
I moved into a new apartment and the phone lines didn't work. The apartment complex swore up and down that it was SBC's problem to fix. So I call SBC and they swear up and down that it is the apartment complex's problem and they will do nothing about it.
So I buy Vonage. No outages so far. Some echo problems, but that's rare. But many benefits--(1) virtual phone number in another area code; (2) use the internet to control voice mail and call forwarding (call forwarding never worked at my old apartment; (3) save about $20/month and still get unlimited calls.
Why is backwards compatibility an incentive to get the Xbox2 in the first place? Presumably to play XBox 1 games. But if you own Xbox1 games, you probably have an Xbox 1 system to play it.
Personally, I don't give a crap about backwards compatibility. I'll decide which one is better, Xbox 2 or PS3, and buy that one. Whether or not the PS3 plays my existing PS2 games will have exactly ZERO bearing on my decision.
Nonetheless, I wholeheartedly agree with you that backwards compatibility is the way to go. I don't want that 50 bucks I dropped on a first gen game to be wasted when I want to go play it again.
Here's a novel idea. Keep the first gen console. You buy an XBox 2, but are itching to play Halo again? Pop the disc in your Xbox 1 and play it.
Can one bring a fair use lawsuit? What Fair Use says, basically, is that certain types of uses are can't be prosecuted. Can you sue because you're not allowed to make a "fair use" copy? And how can you prove that you were going to make a "fair use" copy as opposed to putting it on Kazaa?
Whoops. I made a typo. I meant that I want all links and bookmarks to open in new tabs. But my copy of 0.9.whatever insists on opening links and bookmarks in the existing tab.
Does TabBrowser extensions work properly with the new version of Firefox? At work I have 0.8 and it works they way I configured it--when I click on a link, it opens in a new window. On my home computer, I've tried each of the 0.9 releases and TBE didn't work with any of them, insisting on opening links in the same window.
I think the movie industry (and music too) have lost the fact that we aren't clamoring for higer resolutions of our recorded media, we just want ones that don't wear out.
Sez you. There are many people on AVS forum who are gleefully looking forward to the HD future. Basically, once you get to a certain screen size (some say 50", some say 60" some say 46" or less), standard definition sucks and you need HDTV. There seems to be a lot of clamoring for HD video.
I think you're right about SACD/DVD-A, though. Although there is a small subset of people who don't like CD and want higher quality, their numbers aren't nearly as big as the HD fans.
Every used CD/DVD store I've been to guarantees the used products--if they are so scratched such that don't work on your system, they will refund your money. Moreover, there is quality control when they buy CDs/DVDs for later sale--they don't buy scratched up discs.
As for packaging, I don't buy movies and CDs for their packaging. I buy for content. YMMV.
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Plus, the Senate is controlled by the Republicans. You can bet your boots that the Republicans in the Senate will repay the Democratic strategy of blocking conservatives by blocking liberals.
But he stated that his estimates were for 98% of the /. crowd, not Large Format hobbyists
Unlike the Assault Weapon Ban, which had a built-in expiration date, the draft doesn't. There is no back door way of reinstating the draft.
Maybe you should RTFP. What I said was in response to what you repeated--Bush may need to reinstate the draft. Bush is AGAINST the draft and will not reinstate it.
Second, who cares if the volunteer service is not "representative"? Life is not perfect. The ranks of every profession in the world is disproportionate.
Law firms were the last hold outs, as many firms had relied on WordPerfect for years. But many big firms eventually switched to Word. Why? Because clients used Word and that's all that mattered.
OO being the official ISO standard may sound great. But if everyone else is using Word, people aren't going to switch merely because of the letters ISO.
For $400, you could buy an XBOX plus 5 games.
Not quite true. My mother-in-law's computer crapped out on her, so she bought a new one and gave the old one to me. Turns out that it was just infested and had low memory. So I put in a clean XP install and brought the memory up to 256 MB. You know what? It was too sluggish for me (It had a 700 MHz Celeron, I believe). I was just using it for my daughter to run educational software, and it wouldn't run them very well. I just tossed the whole computer in the trash.
When I first got my computer, I didn't know what to do with the space. My old computer had a 10 GB hard drive and I didn't know what I would do with a 30 GB hard drive.
About a year later, I'm installing a 40 GB hard drive. A few months later, I'm adding an 80 GB external drive. Yesterday, I got a disk full message on the external drive.
Personally, I have over 50 GB of MP3s. And I haven't even encoded 50-75% of my collection.
There is never enough space. I have started encoding my collection. I don't think I've done even 25% of it yet. But I have 50 GB of MP3s (most of it VBR at around 192 kbps). What's the largest mini hard drives out?
Actually, that was exactly my point. As another example, the Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, shares many views with Andrew Sullivan. But because Reynolds is reflexively pro-Bush (or anti-Kerry), he seems more conservative than the anti-Bush Sullivan, even though their views on most issues are similar.
So if I watched a show based on fake documents, I would have known that what the fake documents said was true. Gotcha.
How do you know what the docs said are true? The only proof is in the form of fake documents.
He may be conservative (especially with respect to government spending), but he has become reflexively anti-Bush (e.g., when CBS revealved the fake documents, Sullivan immediately said it was bad news for Bush, when any objective commentator would have realized that no one cares about Bush's TANG service), which is what causes people to see him as being not conservative.
The Boston Globe was lying. It's a fact and CBS admitted it today.
So I buy Vonage. No outages so far. Some echo problems, but that's rare. But many benefits--(1) virtual phone number in another area code; (2) use the internet to control voice mail and call forwarding (call forwarding never worked at my old apartment; (3) save about $20/month and still get unlimited calls.
Yeah the traditional press would never run a news story that was full of factual errors. And a blog could never do a more thorough fact checking job than traditional media.
Will he have to re-run the comparison now that Sims 2 is out?
Personally, I don't give a crap about backwards compatibility. I'll decide which one is better, Xbox 2 or PS3, and buy that one. Whether or not the PS3 plays my existing PS2 games will have exactly ZERO bearing on my decision.
Here's a novel idea. Keep the first gen console. You buy an XBox 2, but are itching to play Halo again? Pop the disc in your Xbox 1 and play it.
Can one bring a fair use lawsuit? What Fair Use says, basically, is that certain types of uses are can't be prosecuted. Can you sue because you're not allowed to make a "fair use" copy? And how can you prove that you were going to make a "fair use" copy as opposed to putting it on Kazaa?
Whoops. I made a typo. I meant that I want all links and bookmarks to open in new tabs. But my copy of 0.9.whatever insists on opening links and bookmarks in the existing tab.
Does TabBrowser extensions work properly with the new version of Firefox? At work I have 0.8 and it works they way I configured it--when I click on a link, it opens in a new window. On my home computer, I've tried each of the 0.9 releases and TBE didn't work with any of them, insisting on opening links in the same window.
Sez you. There are many people on AVS forum who are gleefully looking forward to the HD future. Basically, once you get to a certain screen size (some say 50", some say 60" some say 46" or less), standard definition sucks and you need HDTV. There seems to be a lot of clamoring for HD video.
I think you're right about SACD/DVD-A, though. Although there is a small subset of people who don't like CD and want higher quality, their numbers aren't nearly as big as the HD fans.
As for packaging, I don't buy movies and CDs for their packaging. I buy for content. YMMV.