I think that was his point. The Government has taken over Private Industry and ignored/site-stepped/thrown-out the laws of the of the land to do it. That is Fascism by any definition.
Lets be even more clear. If this passes the Senate, you start paying for this NOW, but it does not get enacted until 2013. If this topic is *so* important, why are they waiting until *after* the start of the next Presidential term?
A lot earlier than you think. To have received this award, the absolute *latest* he could have been nominated for it was 11 DAYS into his Administration. Not months, not week, DAYS, because that is when the nominations closed. Whether you think he deserves it or not, 11 days is NOT enough time to decide anything, let alone this prize.
Repeal the 17th Amendment. Restore the Republic and restore the State's right to appoint their Senators. This will go a long way towards bring them back under the control of the individual States and not the PAC with the largest donation. (yes, we need other safe guards in place for the whole process, but this is the place to start.)
Because that huge station will be hit by all the small useless bit of junk, making more bits of junk to float about in orbit. Eventually, that solid station would look like swiss cheese and turn into a giant floating junk pile of millions of bits. That would be horrifyingly worse.
The part that is being left out of this discussion is the Copyright aspect of this. You should not be able to patent software, buy you should be able to copyright it. The algorithms you use might not be unique by themselves, but the way you combine them might be. THAT is the part that you should be able to protect for a period of time.
Did Jack-in-the-Box or Odwalla go out of business when they killed people?
I live in Chicago and I'm old enough to remember when Jack-in-the-Box was here. I also remember news stories about the people they killed and it left a lasting impression in my mind... and everybody else in Chicago. I won't even eat there when I travel... those memories keep me from doing so.
It has been almost 30 years and Jack has yet to attempt a return to the Chicagoland area for that very reason. While they may not have died a nationwide death, they have certainly been removed from Chicago and are not likely to ever return.
If, as you say, the piece is bring written by a Bush Administration hold-over nad is not the will of the Obama Administration, why is he being allowed to push it? Why isn't the Obama Administration shutting him/it down if it is against their policy?
It was a Roman Catholic Priest who said it in relation to Evolution (I forget his name and I'm too lazy to look it up), but he said something along the lines of "Science is the How, God is the Why." That is pretty much the official stance of the Church on evolution. Seems to be that Texas needs to keep that in mind.
Which is why the 17th Amendment should be repealed. The House should continue to be elected by the people (No taxation without Representation... that is why the House controls the purse strings, not the Senate) and the State Legislatures should be appointing the Senator's NOT the masses. Think I'm crazy? Go look it up and read how it was and WHY the Founding Fathers set it up that way... Balance of Power.
Once the Senators become beholden to their respective STATES and not the special interest groups, the balance of power will start shifting back towards the States & their local legislatures, and the People of those States and away from an over-reaching Federal Government. As it stands now, there is little difference between a House Rep and a Senator in terms of who they serve. (read: themselves)
Have you ever wondered WHY State Governors got to appoint an open Senate seat but open House seats get a special election? We are supposed to be a Republic, not a pure Democracy. Repeal the 17th and we'll start getting back to that.
Psystar is not reselling the OS. If they were simply reselling the packaged Mac OS, then there would not be (much?) of an issue. Where Apple has them is because they are modifying the OS and kernel to run on non-Apple hardware, and *then* selling it.
Every time I tell this story, I get looked at like I am lying through my teeth, but I remind them that this happened back in 1998, when Windows 3.11 was still being used, the 56k modem standard was still being written, and outside of a private T1, an ISDN line was your best bet for a fast connection to the Internet.
I was working Tier 1 Tech Support for a Chicago based ISP and a customer called up saying he was having problems getting onto the Internet. I confirm that he is on Windows 95, and having memorized the steps needed to get his computer configured to connect to us, I start walking him through the process. One of the final steps is to reboot Windows for the settings to take hold.
The computer shuts down without issue and starts the power-up cycle when I hear the CD Drive, a strange liquid sound, and immediately hear the sound of frying electronics and the customer swearing like a sailor on shore leave. Turns out, they had an in-house conference in the office that day and they were serving coffee in those paper cones. Since he could not find a holder for it, he opened up his CD tray and rested the coffee in the center void. When the computer rebooted, it closed said CD tray... ingesting the paper cone and the coffee, frying it into uselessness.
Needless to say, he was quite pissed and I was laughing my arse off for days.
But sounding the death knell for the device is Gartner analyst Steve Prentice who said "the mouse will no longer be mainstream in three to five years."
Yeah... right... it won't be mainstream in 3-5 years... sorry, but I call BS.
Touchscreens and facial recognition software will not replace the mouse in an office environment. It won't replace it for gaming. Hell, it won't replace it period.
Take gaming as a simple example. When I'm playing WoW, I'm often looking elsewhere, eating a snack, drinking a beer, or talking to my wife who is sitting on the other side of the room... the last thing I'm going to want to do is stare at the screen and make funny faces at it to move the mouse. Sorry, ain't gonna happen.
Don't get me wrong here; touch screens are a huge boon and will have a place in specialized industries; auto interfaces, shared spaces, Cell Phones, etc.
But making the claim that it will no longer be mainstream and large companies, lets say HR Block, will drop the mouse and replace everything with a touch screen and facial recognition software is the biggest load of crap I've heard in quote a long time.
I'm hoping the public will get smart and start demanding term limits on the Senate and House so that we have a better handle on the morons in there.
I'm talking both sides... *ANYBODY* making a career of politics is going to lose touch with the people he is supposed to represent after a period of time. By forcing them out after a set period of time, they might actually try to get something *real* done instead of constantly trying to stay in office.
Oh wait, this is the public we're talking about... *sigh*
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I think that was his point. The Government has taken over Private Industry and ignored/site-stepped/thrown-out the laws of the of the land to do it. That is Fascism by any definition.
Lets be even more clear. If this passes the Senate, you start paying for this NOW, but it does not get enacted until 2013. If this topic is *so* important, why are they waiting until *after* the start of the next Presidential term?
Sewers take the shit out and the Internet brings the shit in?
...I wonder what the Capitol Building must smell like?
A lot earlier than you think. To have received this award, the absolute *latest* he could have been nominated for it was 11 DAYS into his Administration. Not months, not week, DAYS, because that is when the nominations closed. Whether you think he deserves it or not, 11 days is NOT enough time to decide anything, let alone this prize.
Repeal the 17th Amendment. Restore the Republic and restore the State's right to appoint their Senators. This will go a long way towards bring them back under the control of the individual States and not the PAC with the largest donation. (yes, we need other safe guards in place for the whole process, but this is the place to start.)
Because that huge station will be hit by all the small useless bit of junk, making more bits of junk to float about in orbit. Eventually, that solid station would look like swiss cheese and turn into a giant floating junk pile of millions of bits. That would be horrifyingly worse.
The part that is being left out of this discussion is the Copyright aspect of this. You should not be able to patent software, buy you should be able to copyright it. The algorithms you use might not be unique by themselves, but the way you combine them might be. THAT is the part that you should be able to protect for a period of time.
PNG Transparencies in IE5.5 and 6? DONE!
I found this a LONG time ago. I did not write it, but the link to the authors who did, sits in the comments at the top.
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img.outerHTML = strNewHTML
i = i-1
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window.attachEvent("onload", correctPNG);
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{
if (window.ie55up)
{
var imgID = (myImage.id) ? "id='" + myImage.id + "' " : ""
var imgClass = (myImage.className) ? "class='" + myImage.className + "' " : ""
var imgTitle = (myImage.title) ? "title='" + myImage.title + "' " : "title='" + myImage.alt + "' "
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I live in Chicago and I'm old enough to remember when Jack-in-the-Box was here. I also remember news stories about the people they killed and it left a lasting impression in my mind... and everybody else in Chicago. I won't even eat there when I travel... those memories keep me from doing so.
It has been almost 30 years and Jack has yet to attempt a return to the Chicagoland area for that very reason. While they may not have died a nationwide death, they have certainly been removed from Chicago and are not likely to ever return.
uummm... I hope your attempting to be "+1 Funny", because the UN was formed AFTER WWII.
...you mean Projekt creep?
Sorry, sorry... but you did leave the door wide open...
If, as you say, the piece is bring written by a Bush Administration hold-over nad is not the will of the Obama Administration, why is he being allowed to push it? Why isn't the Obama Administration shutting him/it down if it is against their policy?
*crickets*
Yeah... that's what I thought.
It was a Roman Catholic Priest who said it in relation to Evolution (I forget his name and I'm too lazy to look it up), but he said something along the lines of "Science is the How, God is the Why." That is pretty much the official stance of the Church on evolution. Seems to be that Texas needs to keep that in mind.
FAIL
"...Stuff that Matters."
EPIC. FAIL.
...the more they stay the same...
Found a link for ya: http://www.liberty-ca.org/repeal17/states/montana2003oneil.htm It is a place to start anyway...
Which is why the 17th Amendment should be repealed. The House should continue to be elected by the people (No taxation without Representation... that is why the House controls the purse strings, not the Senate) and the State Legislatures should be appointing the Senator's NOT the masses. Think I'm crazy? Go look it up and read how it was and WHY the Founding Fathers set it up that way... Balance of Power.
Once the Senators become beholden to their respective STATES and not the special interest groups, the balance of power will start shifting back towards the States & their local legislatures, and the People of those States and away from an over-reaching Federal Government. As it stands now, there is little difference between a House Rep and a Senator in terms of who they serve. (read: themselves)
Have you ever wondered WHY State Governors got to appoint an open Senate seat but open House seats get a special election? We are supposed to be a Republic, not a pure Democracy. Repeal the 17th and we'll start getting back to that.
Psystar is not reselling the OS. If they were simply reselling the packaged Mac OS, then there would not be (much?) of an issue. Where Apple has them is because they are modifying the OS and kernel to run on non-Apple hardware, and *then* selling it.
Fake Q: "Do you really expect me to buy your product when I can get DRM-free music that I won't lose upon upgrade, cheaper, elsewhere?"
Real A: "Well, I think you know the answer to that."
That would be Tipper Gore and the PMRC
Every time I tell this story, I get looked at like I am lying through my teeth, but I remind them that this happened back in 1998, when Windows 3.11 was still being used, the 56k modem standard was still being written, and outside of a private T1, an ISDN line was your best bet for a fast connection to the Internet.
I was working Tier 1 Tech Support for a Chicago based ISP and a customer called up saying he was having problems getting onto the Internet. I confirm that he is on Windows 95, and having memorized the steps needed to get his computer configured to connect to us, I start walking him through the process. One of the final steps is to reboot Windows for the settings to take hold.
The computer shuts down without issue and starts the power-up cycle when I hear the CD Drive, a strange liquid sound, and immediately hear the sound of frying electronics and the customer swearing like a sailor on shore leave. Turns out, they had an in-house conference in the office that day and they were serving coffee in those paper cones. Since he could not find a holder for it, he opened up his CD tray and rested the coffee in the center void. When the computer rebooted, it closed said CD tray... ingesting the paper cone and the coffee, frying it into uselessness.
Needless to say, he was quite pissed and I was laughing my arse off for days.
heh.. I'm reminded of a favorite quote of mine...
"Those who have read Marx are Communists... Those who understand Marx are Capitalists"
Yeah... right... it won't be mainstream in 3-5 years... sorry, but I call BS.
Touchscreens and facial recognition software will not replace the mouse in an office environment. It won't replace it for gaming. Hell, it won't replace it period.
Take gaming as a simple example. When I'm playing WoW, I'm often looking elsewhere, eating a snack, drinking a beer, or talking to my wife who is sitting on the other side of the room... the last thing I'm going to want to do is stare at the screen and make funny faces at it to move the mouse. Sorry, ain't gonna happen.
Don't get me wrong here; touch screens are a huge boon and will have a place in specialized industries; auto interfaces, shared spaces, Cell Phones, etc.
But making the claim that it will no longer be mainstream and large companies, lets say HR Block, will drop the mouse and replace everything with a touch screen and facial recognition software is the biggest load of crap I've heard in quote a long time.
I'm hoping the public will get smart and start demanding term limits on the Senate and House so that we have a better handle on the morons in there.
I'm talking both sides... *ANYBODY* making a career of politics is going to lose touch with the people he is supposed to represent after a period of time. By forcing them out after a set period of time, they might actually try to get something *real* done instead of constantly trying to stay in office.
Oh wait, this is the public we're talking about... *sigh*