I was sitting waiting for a haircut a few weeks back, and spied a copy of Biography (like the show) magazine. I picked it up and read listing of contents. They had names and occupations for each biography.
I've heard they have a busniessman once in a while, but only the billionaire figurehead type.
Think they'd ever do a biography of the guy who invented one of best convenience devices ever created? No. I guess that's boring compared to Dubiously-Talented-Generic-Actress-Bint fretting over how hard it is to find a good sitter for her children's cat as they go on vacation to the South of France.
The familiar joke about Democrats being stupid but passionate and Republicans being cold but smart seems to fit this situation rather well, unfortunately
So which Party is smart and passionate and which Party gets to be cold and stupid?;-)
Maybe you could argue the lack of remote (or maybe not given this is first generation, and a remote function might have doubled the price... you don't just toss a remote function in there... that's hardware), but a point off for no audio cable is complete dump. Everyone's situation is going to be different. Do they put in a 3' cable? A 6' cable? A 9' cable? MonsterCable? Lamp cord? It's like dinging a mouse for not including the mouse pad. I have a box full of included cables I have never used.
The HoR is working on legislation that will authorize the use of players that filter objectionable content. While many/.ers see this as censorship
An attitude I have always found to be bizarre. We should PUSH HARD for any sort of technology that puts the filtering into the individual televisions/DVR/whatever and the control of it into the consumer's hands.
Then when some fat moo cow complains that her useless kids saw a nipple or heard a naughty word, we can all in unison shout, "LEARN HOW TO PROGRAM YOUR FILTER CHIP, YOU IGNORANT MOO COW!" The moo cow would have complete control over what her kids see and hear, and no more excuses.
The tech crowd has this weird dichotomy of demanding parents take care of their kids themselves, but then criticizing any tech or tool that gives the parents just that ability. If the parents want to leave the filtering choice up to another organization they have decided they trust (like with web filtering software, or that one a few months back that would filter DVDs in real time from a database), then so be it. That's another choice for people to make, and choice is good.
I have a DirecTivo which hasn't had HMO enabled. I just digitize the Tivo's S-video output to a Formac video capture box which I connect to my Powerbook's Firewire port, and transfer the file wirelessly to my desktop Mac for DVD burning (and commercial editing where necessary).
Supposedly I get a generational loss over direct digital transfer, but the stuff looks fine. I have the previous seasons of Dead Like Me, The Sopranos & The Shield on DVD now.:-) Along with a pile of moovies. If you're careful and use nice cables and keep it all clean, you can minimize the degradation to the point where only the OCD types will care.
And they cannot stop it. What are they going to do? Disable the Tivo's video output? They can dork about with analog protection (Macrovision) but you can only screw up the signal to the point where problems occur for normal "legal" viewing.
I really need a hardware MPEG2 encoder, though.:-\
Ah, yes, that's oh so different from the usual political bumblethink.
it's the difference between Linux and Microsoft.
Not a bad analogy seeing as "Microsoft" got all the votes.:-P
This election can make a grown man weep. An ebola derived pox on you Party-liners for giving us yet another choice between shit and shat. *shrug* Dean was just another flavor of excrement.
You can lower taxes and increase government revenues. For example, Reagan got taxes slashed and government revenues fell and that's why we had deficits, right? No. Federal revenues from 1981 to 1989 increased 56%. This is the alleged "voodoo economics", but it's voodoo that has been shown, empirically, again and again, to work.
Look up the Laffer Curve. It's an idea so simple that one wonder why it needs to be explained. It's just another search for zero slope. Politicians should be required to pass a business calculus course before taking office.
If you have no taxes, the government has no revenue. If you have 100% taxes, the government again has no revenue because the friggin economy has ceased to exist. Somewhere in between is the optimal point of tax rates that maximizes government revenue.
The Democrats want to set the tax rate too high because they are ignorant morons pandering to their voting blocks- hence the continual class warfare propaganda.
The Republicans talk the tlak, but they also set the tax levels too high because they are lying assholes.
So who do we vote for? The ignorant morons or the lying assholes?
I wonder what would happen if someone actually raised taxes to the point where they covered government spending...but that's crazy talk.
But it IS crazy talk, because the government would not stop increasing spending.
Why do you think California (where I live) almost went bankrupt (and still might)? The California legislators anally raped without lubrication a budget surplus into the largest budget deficit in the state's history. They blamed the dotcom collapse, but even over those years government revenue INCREASED year after year, and they still outspent it. This happened because, thanks to gerrymandering and a voting base with the intellectual prowess of lint, the California legislature is composed of the most fuckheaded, shit-filled atrocities ever to draw oxygen. If they truly cared about anything beyond their own foreskins or labia, they all commit suicide immediately.
Same thing happened in the Reagan years. Congress outspent the increasing revenue. And, yes, Reagan should have vetoed every unbalanced budget, just so you don't think I'm a Reagan worshipper.
But, for the moment, I'd go for freezing the tax rates and cutting spending, but they won;t cut spending. These are people who call a reduced increase a cut.
Couldn't you get the sarcasm in my post? Was it that hidden?
By the great Cthulhu, I'm weary of political wonks like you. You have to boil everything down to the black and white extremes and trot out your favorite little sound bites and precious strawmen. You little ideological singularities are so sure of your monochromatic views of reality, when in fact they are based on lies, myth and fantasy.
Your hero Roosevelt created big government. The Works Progress Administration in 1935 is the program that caused the coining of the term "boondoggle." The New Deal was politically motivated pork barrel the magnitude at which even we can only marvel. FDR actually created what was called a "depression within a depression" with his bilge. It wasn't until the Supreme Court tossed out the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Act (along with some other minor stuff) as unconstitutaion that the US economy began to recover.
The Depression was caused by inflationary monetray policies by the feds. They then followed that, under FDR, with even more bungling that has left a legacy of Brobdingian government. They *prolonged* the Great Depression. They created a vast Rube Goldberg device that makes Homeland Security look like the local animal control shack.
If you think 94% tax rates, draconian control over competion and production, wanton destruction of crops and livestock, arbitrary labor laws and trade destroying tariffs are bold visions, I have a tube of KY jelly for you.
We could get into FDR's "visionary" treatment of Jewish people, but I'm done with you.
I should have written governemt produce "bold visions" (with quotes).
I'm actually a basic supporter of space stuff, but I'd like to see a rational and logical approach. None of this boondoggle "send a man to Mars because we can" nonsense. Let's do some orbital industries or a solar power satellite farm. There's things NASA could do that COULD make a profit. Do something at L5.
Apple then announced a special version of OpenTalk for the French market called Beschwichtigung-Gespräch, and added the complete works of Ricahrd Wagner to the iTunes music store.
I have to agree. I always thought Asimov to be a tad overrated, and I'm someone who read a lot of his stuff until I realized it wasn't as rich a landscape as people kept telling me.
I recall the other SF geeks in college treating the three laws like a Muslim fundamentalist treats quots for the Koran. I wrote a story for a creative writing class that had the five anti-human laws of killer robots, but, alas, it is lost.
I'll catch "I, Robot" on HBO/Showtime. I like a silly action eye-candy flick when I'm not paying any extra for it.
Fucking stupid Tipper Gore bullshit, and my ma bought into it like a sucker.
Huh... My parents raised me on James Bond films and those cool 1970's martial arts flicks. I knew how to break a spine in three places or seduce a sexy Soviet double agent before I could tie my shoes.
Parents need to take some responsibility for their children's upbringing, if you don't like a game, then don't let them play it.
Not to support the law, but wasn't that the whole point?
It banned the sale to ***minors***. An 18 year old or older could still walk into the store and buy whatever the frig they wanted. The law required the game to be bought by the parent if the parent decided they approved it.
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I've heard they have a busniessman once in a while, but only the billionaire figurehead type.
Think they'd ever do a biography of the guy who invented one of best convenience devices ever created? No. I guess that's boring compared to Dubiously-Talented-Generic-Actress-Bint fretting over how hard it is to find a good sitter for her children's cat as they go on vacation to the South of France.
And people wonder why I'm a misanthrope.
That's just an adapter. They're, like, 89 cents at Radio Shack.
I use iDVD. Software MPEG2 encoding. :-( Slow even with dual processors.
So which Party is smart and passionate and which Party gets to be cold and stupid? ;-)
Maybe you could argue the lack of remote (or maybe not given this is first generation, and a remote function might have doubled the price... you don't just toss a remote function in there... that's hardware), but a point off for no audio cable is complete dump. Everyone's situation is going to be different. Do they put in a 3' cable? A 6' cable? A 9' cable? MonsterCable? Lamp cord? It's like dinging a mouse for not including the mouse pad. I have a box full of included cables I have never used.
An attitude I have always found to be bizarre. We should PUSH HARD for any sort of technology that puts the filtering into the individual televisions/DVR/whatever and the control of it into the consumer's hands.
Then when some fat moo cow complains that her useless kids saw a nipple or heard a naughty word, we can all in unison shout, "LEARN HOW TO PROGRAM YOUR FILTER CHIP, YOU IGNORANT MOO COW!" The moo cow would have complete control over what her kids see and hear, and no more excuses.
The tech crowd has this weird dichotomy of demanding parents take care of their kids themselves, but then criticizing any tech or tool that gives the parents just that ability. If the parents want to leave the filtering choice up to another organization they have decided they trust (like with web filtering software, or that one a few months back that would filter DVDs in real time from a database), then so be it. That's another choice for people to make, and choice is good.
Supposedly I get a generational loss over direct digital transfer, but the stuff looks fine. I have the previous seasons of Dead Like Me, The Sopranos & The Shield on DVD now. :-) Along with a pile of moovies. If you're careful and use nice cables and keep it all clean, you can minimize the degradation to the point where only the OCD types will care.
And they cannot stop it. What are they going to do? Disable the Tivo's video output? They can dork about with analog protection (Macrovision) but you can only screw up the signal to the point where problems occur for normal "legal" viewing.
I really need a hardware MPEG2 encoder, though. :-\
Ah, yes, that's oh so different from the usual political bumblethink.
it's the difference between Linux and Microsoft.
Not a bad analogy seeing as "Microsoft" got all the votes. :-P
This election can make a grown man weep. An ebola derived pox on you Party-liners for giving us yet another choice between shit and shat. *shrug* Dean was just another flavor of excrement.
Look up the Laffer Curve. It's an idea so simple that one wonder why it needs to be explained. It's just another search for zero slope. Politicians should be required to pass a business calculus course before taking office.
If you have no taxes, the government has no revenue. If you have 100% taxes, the government again has no revenue because the friggin economy has ceased to exist. Somewhere in between is the optimal point of tax rates that maximizes government revenue.
The Democrats want to set the tax rate too high because they are ignorant morons pandering to their voting blocks- hence the continual class warfare propaganda.
The Republicans talk the tlak, but they also set the tax levels too high because they are lying assholes.
So who do we vote for? The ignorant morons or the lying assholes?
I wonder what would happen if someone actually raised taxes to the point where they covered government spending...but that's crazy talk.
But it IS crazy talk, because the government would not stop increasing spending.
Why do you think California (where I live) almost went bankrupt (and still might)? The California legislators anally raped without lubrication a budget surplus into the largest budget deficit in the state's history. They blamed the dotcom collapse, but even over those years government revenue INCREASED year after year, and they still outspent it. This happened because, thanks to gerrymandering and a voting base with the intellectual prowess of lint, the California legislature is composed of the most fuckheaded, shit-filled atrocities ever to draw oxygen. If they truly cared about anything beyond their own foreskins or labia, they all commit suicide immediately.
Same thing happened in the Reagan years. Congress outspent the increasing revenue. And, yes, Reagan should have vetoed every unbalanced budget, just so you don't think I'm a Reagan worshipper.
But, for the moment, I'd go for freezing the tax rates and cutting spending, but they won;t cut spending. These are people who call a reduced increase a cut.
By the great Cthulhu, I'm weary of political wonks like you. You have to boil everything down to the black and white extremes and trot out your favorite little sound bites and precious strawmen. You little ideological singularities are so sure of your monochromatic views of reality, when in fact they are based on lies, myth and fantasy.
Your hero Roosevelt created big government. The Works Progress Administration in 1935 is the program that caused the coining of the term "boondoggle." The New Deal was politically motivated pork barrel the magnitude at which even we can only marvel. FDR actually created what was called a "depression within a depression" with his bilge. It wasn't until the Supreme Court tossed out the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Act (along with some other minor stuff) as unconstitutaion that the US economy began to recover.
The Depression was caused by inflationary monetray policies by the feds. They then followed that, under FDR, with even more bungling that has left a legacy of Brobdingian government. They *prolonged* the Great Depression. They created a vast Rube Goldberg device that makes Homeland Security look like the local animal control shack.
If you think 94% tax rates, draconian control over competion and production, wanton destruction of crops and livestock, arbitrary labor laws and trade destroying tariffs are bold visions, I have a tube of KY jelly for you.
We could get into FDR's "visionary" treatment of Jewish people, but I'm done with you.
I'm actually a basic supporter of space stuff, but I'd like to see a rational and logical approach. None of this boondoggle "send a man to Mars because we can" nonsense. Let's do some orbital industries or a solar power satellite farm. There's things NASA could do that COULD make a profit. Do something at L5.
Oh, I'm being mean again. I'm sorry.
Well... it does a little. :-)
How wouild you all feel if a French company decided to Trademark Meeting it's laughable.
Why, I'd nuke them into guacamole, of course. :-)
Actually, in general, being a budget-minded tax cutter IS being a bold visionary.
I dunno... I just think civilization has had more than enough government produced bold visions...
Which is yet another way of saying people fear what they do not understand.
I'm sorry. That was mean.
What? That fact that this spot on Mars appears to have a tasty graham cracker crust?
Pfft! That's a restrained response for me. When I flip out, I level hemispheres.
But that's me.
The 35th or 36th of *which* month?
Where is this interrogation taking place? Mars?
Hey, Redmond. I'm pointing a nuke at you! :-) Does this bug you? Does this bug you?
I recall the other SF geeks in college treating the three laws like a Muslim fundamentalist treats quots for the Koran. I wrote a story for a creative writing class that had the five anti-human laws of killer robots, but, alas, it is lost.
I'll catch "I, Robot" on HBO/Showtime. I like a silly action eye-candy flick when I'm not paying any extra for it.
Huh... My parents raised me on James Bond films and those cool 1970's martial arts flicks. I knew how to break a spine in three places or seduce a sexy Soviet double agent before I could tie my shoes.
Not to support the law, but wasn't that the whole point?
It banned the sale to ***minors***. An 18 year old or older could still walk into the store and buy whatever the frig they wanted. The law required the game to be bought by the parent if the parent decided they approved it.
Whta?
Am I the only one who uses Google as a quick spellchecker?