Fucknugget, I was opposed to it too, as I said in the previous post. I did just as poor a job pursuading the 51% as you did. It was a PR problem. We did a awful lot to make ourselves out to be loonies that the Republican assholes latched onto it and sold us out to be terrorists and un american. it WAS our fault just as much as it was the Republicans fault.
and the loony ass democratic supporters for doing a shit job and showing the idiotic sheep exactly what they are and coming up with a solution instead of just saying "the republicans screwed up."
That sums it up right there.
You opposed it, but you did nothing to sell your POV. Therefor your also to blame, just like I am to blame for exactly the same reason.
The military didn't come up with this hairbrained Iraq scheme you moron. The government did, and so far they have done a great job telling idiots like you what to think.
The military is a spiked club, they dont think they just do. And what they do is the will of the Executive and Legislative branches. If you have such a issue with the militarizes actions why dont you get off your fat ass bitching on a computer and let your state representative and the moron you voted into office KNOW that. And if they dont listen then you need to get every single person you know to vote them out.
The only people who we have to blame for this whole war disaster is the entire population of the United States. The republican supporters for being idiotic sheep, and the loony ass democratic supporters for doing a shit job and showing the idiotic sheep exactly what they are and coming up with a solution instead of just saying "the republicans screwed up." If the democrats had actually HAD a plan to get the troops out last election, there wouldnt have been a re-election of Bush.
Sharpton has gotten people of racial background different than his own murdered in NYC. Last I looked that was a good case for being a racist.
Also have little far to look than this week to see how he is bigoted against people of certain religions. But then he has frequently made his opinion of so called "lower races" known. Only racists would look past that and support him.
No he was. I worked as a Apple Rep back in 00-02, and my boss used to tell me stories about him. People at Apple really WHERE scared of him when he came back as CEO (rather iCEO at the time) While Im sure he wanted that image to get people at Apple doing their best (since he is a well known perfectionist) you dont get that image by petting kitties and buying ice cream for little kids.
As it was not long after he told me some of the stories, he and 700 other people in the Education branch of Apple where fired for poor job performance and restructuring. While a number got their jobs back in other departments, he was one of the ones let go and not rehired.
Well up till now all we have heard is analysts, who have said everything from there was nothing wrong, to its a boodbath and Apple's going under.
Both the FTC and Apple have been quiet since they where told not to talk about it.
The fact that Jobs has finally said the nature of the stock options issue, that it dealt with the fact that Apple's stock has been going up and up and within the days time between being awarded and actually getting the stock, its price increased, leads you to believe thats it, they are talking about it now which makes it a non-issue.
Like he's a new man all of a sudden? I mean yeah he had that cancer scare a year or two back, but like his attitude has changed. Its like he's not the same Jobs who stormed off MSNBC or CNN, or the same Jobs that people stayed away from when getting into elevators, cause you didnt know if you would have a job coming out of it.
He's almost jovial all of a sudden. Its frightening.
Nice of him to finally clear the air on the stock scandal and get the whole facts out there. Knowing the whole story now it really does look like what analysts where saying, a whole lot of nothing. Why the feds think they need to go after Apple of all companies when there a MUCH bigger fish to fry (*cough* hello big oil shutting down refineries for maintenance right after coming off of maintenance cycles to decrease production) who knows.
Also nice of him to again point out how stupid Greenpeace is. I quite enjoyed the maybe you should hire a few engineers so you can understand what the hell your talking about remark.
Funny people here post the opposite view on Apple (as in why the hell is every security update Apple does news?)
Very simple.
1) There are a number of Linux distros out there that would make it so that every single day we could have 5 security updates between Microsoft, Apple, and name your flavor OS (god that sounds like a ice cream sunday)
2) The issue people have with Microsoft is the time it takes them to patch things that are known about in advance. For Apple its the piss in the mac users cereal because 5 of us stupidly think that OS X is invulnerable. So they become prime targets.
3) And lastly because generally people DONT like Microsoft's attitude, just like they dont like Apples too.
Well would you rather our government actually do work? Or sit on their fat asses doing nothing while collecting 60k checks from their respective states on top of all the outside money they gain.
Much of those bill are not laws, mostly it is already spent money, ie money budgeted for something but not actually spent on it. The bills end up being the EXACT purpose that the money was budgeted for.
To put it in a simple company example. I have 10000 dollars budgeted for my technology spending. I need 4 new computers. I put in a request to use say 8000 dollars to pay for those computer.
Very simple, but thats from a company pov. Government would require loads of paperwork involving bids, and justifications, and studies and such to prevent you from just saying hey bud let me hook you up (and despite this yes it still happens, but at a much less frequent level) but in the end its all to spend money that technically was spent to begin with as it would not go back to the American people had it not been spent that year.
They get their share of silly laws, and the occasional important bill, but mostly its all budgetary matters.
You dont know much about American politics beyond what your news stations tell you do you? Thats the only way you could ever make a statement like that and think it was in any way true with our political situation.
We agreed to go to war in Afghanistan for legitimate reasons that where much graver than anything your own countries did to start WWI. Iraq is a sore subject and was only agreed to because people lied about intel. We are now coming to the agreement on how to best pull our troops out of the war, we are fighting, but I strongly expect a agreement to be hammered out before July. On top of this more bills pass through our government in a month, than the EU has passed in their existence, many with some manner of debate and disagreement over them. The difference is majority wins in the US. If 55% of our elected officials voted yes, and our president doesnt veto, then its yes even if you dont like it. Only when it comes to being a Veto (which would be the case of the recent war spending bill which was passed pretty much as a FU to the presedent to make him veto a bill giving money to our troops than it was a expectation the moron would actually suck it up and admit he fucked up royally) does it come down to a large majority vote to bypass the president and make it law. While the recent bill didnt, bills in the past have.
I never said it wasnt a little worrying. But much like the argument that the EU has about internet control... you guys much like the US it's self have MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS than to be pissing in each others pool over something less than 10 years ago we used to use a compass and other tools.
well you elected or appointed the officials so yes it is your fault. I sure as hell didnt elect our Nitwit in Chief but I take my share of blame for having people in this country so easily manipulated as to be idiots. You guys need to do the same.
It's US. They dont like the idea that we can turn out the lights or degrade service if say they get it in their mind to come over and invade us. Or us them.
Its a very silly argument though not without merit since I would be a fool to looking back 60 years now. But still I think there are much more pressing matters at hand than to worry about the US taking care of your navigational needs.
Did you not think that the same kind of bureaucratic disaster would have plagued a combined EU army?
Thats really what I dont understand about Europeans and their EU RA RA comments. You say your all for it and love it and want the feeling of superiority over the US it would likely provide, yet time and again for years now it has been showed you guys will never ever get your acts together and just AGREE. Hell in the US we fight constantly with each other but when it comes time to buckle up and agree we do it. About the only thing you guys managed to agree with is money, which funny enough, is doing really well over the US dollar. So why is it so hard for the EU to move beyond that and agree on more things?
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Over the age of 18 this only counts to academic scores and record, meaning either something else was afoot, or they REALLY want to trash her while looking like they are protecting her since they know they fucked up and dont want it to be known.
yes but for many the get it working ONCE is far far too much. As I look at it, back in the DOS days we used to have to reconfigure the config.sys and autoexec.bat on a regular basis. Could take hours to get it configured right. Once you did it and it worked you where done, never touched it again, but you still had to do it
Why in 2007 would I want to go back to doing something I did in 1987?
With tracking down things that work. Hell even on the Mac I hit this issue recently because there was a shift going on a few years back to the PC that only recently has shifted back to the Mac. While if you where geeky enough you could fiddle around and get it working, most musicians I know want it to JUST WORK out of the box no questions asked, and get annoyed if it doesn't since for a lot of people musical inspiration is a hit or miss opportunity (I know friends who keep digital recorders on them at all times because of how often they hummed something out and forgot it 2 hours later)
I would love for free and cheap solutions to present themselves, i think musical programs as well as most programs are overly expensive for what they are, but given the choice between a 600 dollar mac mini with garageband, or fiddling around in linux to get something to work, a lot of the type of people I know musicians to be are going to go with the former.
Many states set requirements for certain packages. In NJ we have a choice of a select few Student info software packages that we can use.
All of them are commercial, all of them are not subsidized by NJ, one of them is REQUIRED by your district to keep track of student data which is then uploaded to the state.
While its noble to provide cheaper software, government officials are writing software requirements with their financial backers in mind, not the schools. How else could you explain the major shitstorm that is happening right now in terms of the "Reading First" program, where it was found that the whole program was designed as a advertisement for Scholastic, who reaped millions out of the program requiring software from them that has yet to even be updated for OS X 4 YEARS after they promised support (similar to support they promised recently to Vista which also has issues)
Worse, data showed years before the program was put out, that it wouldnt have even worked to improve test scores like they claimed.
actually its not a god given right. Its a right given to us by US laws which they feel are different because its a different medium on which its recorded on. Thus the only people actually breaking laws, are the AACS themselves since you cant restrict fair use in your home, and thats what this encryption key does.
Its nothing different than what people tried to do with VHS and the Supreme Court slapped the shit out of them then too. They only do it out of hope of getting a crew on the bench who are stupid, or sympathetic. Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesnt
maybe. What Im more hoping for is the NeoOffice guys and Sun will bury the hatchet and work together on this, since the point of contention between the teams is now moot.
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Fucknugget, I was opposed to it too, as I said in the previous post. I did just as poor a job pursuading the 51% as you did. It was a PR problem. We did a awful lot to make ourselves out to be loonies that the Republican assholes latched onto it and sold us out to be terrorists and un american. it WAS our fault just as much as it was the Republicans fault.
You opposed it, but you did nothing to sell your POV. Therefor your also to blame, just like I am to blame for exactly the same reason.
I JUST POINTED OUT the fact that the democrats did a piss poor job at SHOWING REPUBLICANS these facts...
The military is a spiked club, they dont think they just do. And what they do is the will of the Executive and Legislative branches. If you have such a issue with the militarizes actions why dont you get off your fat ass bitching on a computer and let your state representative and the moron you voted into office KNOW that. And if they dont listen then you need to get every single person you know to vote them out.
The only people who we have to blame for this whole war disaster is the entire population of the United States. The republican supporters for being idiotic sheep, and the loony ass democratic supporters for doing a shit job and showing the idiotic sheep exactly what they are and coming up with a solution instead of just saying "the republicans screwed up." If the democrats had actually HAD a plan to get the troops out last election, there wouldnt have been a re-election of Bush.
I think he meant Apollo 11. Remains in this case being the lower portion of the lander and other moon equipment we used.
Also have little far to look than this week to see how he is bigoted against people of certain religions. But then he has frequently made his opinion of so called "lower races" known. Only racists would look past that and support him.
As it was not long after he told me some of the stories, he and 700 other people in the Education branch of Apple where fired for poor job performance and restructuring. While a number got their jobs back in other departments, he was one of the ones let go and not rehired.
Both the FTC and Apple have been quiet since they where told not to talk about it.
The fact that Jobs has finally said the nature of the stock options issue, that it dealt with the fact that Apple's stock has been going up and up and within the days time between being awarded and actually getting the stock, its price increased, leads you to believe thats it, they are talking about it now which makes it a non-issue.
He's almost jovial all of a sudden. Its frightening.
Nice of him to finally clear the air on the stock scandal and get the whole facts out there. Knowing the whole story now it really does look like what analysts where saying, a whole lot of nothing. Why the feds think they need to go after Apple of all companies when there a MUCH bigger fish to fry (*cough* hello big oil shutting down refineries for maintenance right after coming off of maintenance cycles to decrease production) who knows.
Also nice of him to again point out how stupid Greenpeace is. I quite enjoyed the maybe you should hire a few engineers so you can understand what the hell your talking about remark.
Very simple.
1) There are a number of Linux distros out there that would make it so that every single day we could have 5 security updates between Microsoft, Apple, and name your flavor OS (god that sounds like a ice cream sunday)
2) The issue people have with Microsoft is the time it takes them to patch things that are known about in advance. For Apple its the piss in the mac users cereal because 5 of us stupidly think that OS X is invulnerable. So they become prime targets.
3) And lastly because generally people DONT like Microsoft's attitude, just like they dont like Apples too.
Much of those bill are not laws, mostly it is already spent money, ie money budgeted for something but not actually spent on it. The bills end up being the EXACT purpose that the money was budgeted for.
To put it in a simple company example. I have 10000 dollars budgeted for my technology spending. I need 4 new computers. I put in a request to use say 8000 dollars to pay for those computer.
Very simple, but thats from a company pov. Government would require loads of paperwork involving bids, and justifications, and studies and such to prevent you from just saying hey bud let me hook you up (and despite this yes it still happens, but at a much less frequent level) but in the end its all to spend money that technically was spent to begin with as it would not go back to the American people had it not been spent that year.
They get their share of silly laws, and the occasional important bill, but mostly its all budgetary matters.
We agreed to go to war in Afghanistan for legitimate reasons that where much graver than anything your own countries did to start WWI. Iraq is a sore subject and was only agreed to because people lied about intel. We are now coming to the agreement on how to best pull our troops out of the war, we are fighting, but I strongly expect a agreement to be hammered out before July. On top of this more bills pass through our government in a month, than the EU has passed in their existence, many with some manner of debate and disagreement over them. The difference is majority wins in the US. If 55% of our elected officials voted yes, and our president doesnt veto, then its yes even if you dont like it. Only when it comes to being a Veto (which would be the case of the recent war spending bill which was passed pretty much as a FU to the presedent to make him veto a bill giving money to our troops than it was a expectation the moron would actually suck it up and admit he fucked up royally) does it come down to a large majority vote to bypass the president and make it law. While the recent bill didnt, bills in the past have.
I never said it wasnt a little worrying. But much like the argument that the EU has about internet control... you guys much like the US it's self have MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS than to be pissing in each others pool over something less than 10 years ago we used to use a compass and other tools.
well you elected or appointed the officials so yes it is your fault. I sure as hell didnt elect our Nitwit in Chief but I take my share of blame for having people in this country so easily manipulated as to be idiots. You guys need to do the same.
Its a very silly argument though not without merit since I would be a fool to looking back 60 years now. But still I think there are much more pressing matters at hand than to worry about the US taking care of your navigational needs.
Thats really what I dont understand about Europeans and their EU RA RA comments. You say your all for it and love it and want the feeling of superiority over the US it would likely provide, yet time and again for years now it has been showed you guys will never ever get your acts together and just AGREE. Hell in the US we fight constantly with each other but when it comes time to buckle up and agree we do it. About the only thing you guys managed to agree with is money, which funny enough, is doing really well over the US dollar. So why is it so hard for the EU to move beyond that and agree on more things?
Why in 2007 would I want to go back to doing something I did in 1987?
I would love for free and cheap solutions to present themselves, i think musical programs as well as most programs are overly expensive for what they are, but given the choice between a 600 dollar mac mini with garageband, or fiddling around in linux to get something to work, a lot of the type of people I know musicians to be are going to go with the former.
All of them are commercial, all of them are not subsidized by NJ, one of them is REQUIRED by your district to keep track of student data which is then uploaded to the state.
While its noble to provide cheaper software, government officials are writing software requirements with their financial backers in mind, not the schools. How else could you explain the major shitstorm that is happening right now in terms of the "Reading First" program, where it was found that the whole program was designed as a advertisement for Scholastic, who reaped millions out of the program requiring software from them that has yet to even be updated for OS X 4 YEARS after they promised support (similar to support they promised recently to Vista which also has issues)
Worse, data showed years before the program was put out, that it wouldnt have even worked to improve test scores like they claimed.
Its nothing different than what people tried to do with VHS and the Supreme Court slapped the shit out of them then too. They only do it out of hope of getting a crew on the bench who are stupid, or sympathetic. Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesnt
Apple replaced it for free dickhead. THATS why I got new ones.
I know I myself had 2 G3s fail.
maybe. What Im more hoping for is the NeoOffice guys and Sun will bury the hatchet and work together on this, since the point of contention between the teams is now moot.