Vorbis is lossy. OGG is a container format that can have Vorbis or FLAC as codecs. So a.ogg file can contain a FLAC-formatted song and thus be non-lossy.
Reduced the size of government? Check Balanced the budget? Check Sent the military all over the place? Check Made Americans feel good about themselves? Check Reduced unemployment? Check Got people off welfare? Check
Yup. He's a Republican all right. The best one in at least 50 years. The current crop are Republicans in name only. They're certainly not conservative, unless you count that whole 'moral values' thing.
No, he did a 180 before the fines. He read Al Franken's book and he really despises this administration. He's typically pro-Republican - Whitman, Guliani, and Pataki all had good things said about them on his show and at least Whitman said she credited Stern with winning in NJ.
He backed Bush on Iraq, thinking they were an imminent threat to the US. Now that he sees they were not nor were they ever a threat, he's done what a lot of people did and started questioning the war. Not long after, he was dumped by Clear Channel stations and not long after that, fined by the FCC.
Yea, 87 is fine. In fact, the manufacturers of both our cars (VW and Saturn) both explicitly say to use 87 gas.
Just don't always get your gas from "bob's buy and fly gasoline". There's a reason you can get it for full serve for 5-10 cents less than the self-serve Mobil (and it's not all profits).
By first instinct, she hit the brakes (she was doing city driving), which then burnt. She then figured out what was going on and shifted into park and killed the engine. She didn't go all that far after she discovered what was going on (brakes were due to be changed anyway).
I never saw the symptoms, and the air filter was due for a change, so the bet was something got through the air filter.
The fault was a bit of grit or buildup preventing the throttle from closing properly.
Keep your air filter clean and don't buy junk gas.
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I didn't pursue it past the two books I was given, it was a bit of a downer, too as the authors had a small group of characters to play with after killing off the entire human race and finding bugger all in space.
Uhm. You know there were 8 TV series (seasons) of Red Dwarf done by the BBC, along with a movie that's in production, right? The two books only cover a part of the first season. The first 4 series are on DVD now, so go hit your local library or DVD rental store and check it out.
I get the Lowell Sun on Sundays and Mondays. Their idea of "Fair and Balanced" is to have one local libertarian/conservitive commentator, one syndicated conservative opinion (Thomas/Novak), and one "point/counterpoint" which at least seems to have some balance to it.
Given their reporting over the past year (and nice smear campaign against the Middlesex County Sheriff), it's no suprise they're endorsing Bush.
At least as you know them today. If I can get movies via my Tivo, then there's no need to get dedicated movie channels that show the same movie 20 times a month.
At least HBO/Showtime will probably increase the amount of original programming and make it edgier than existing cable. At least until the FCC gets wind of it.
Tax Freedom Day gives Americans an easy way to gauge the overall tax take, a task that can be quite daunting due to the multiplicity of taxes at each level of government, especially the "hidden" taxes and fees that are often buried in the cost of living. In effect, Tax Freedom Day provides taxpayers with a tax barometer that measures the total tax burden over time and by state.
Singling out Clinton means nothing if you're also tracking state and local taxes. This also counts things like sales taxes and property taxes over the period. Given the amount of wealth generated during that time, it would only seem natural that people would buy more things and thus pay more in sales taxes. In leaner years (2001-2003) people would look to cut back their expenses and thus buy fewer high-ticket items (SUVs for example?), resulting in on one hand fewer taxes paid locally, but also cutting back the "tax burden day".
Their calculations of property and sales taxes (which represented 25% of collected taxes) is mentioned over the 1992-2000 period. It would be interesting to see better numbers.
Sure, without any proof it works. The 80s were okay economically, but the "largest tax increase in the history of mankind" (according to Rush Limbaugh anyway) resulted in a great deal of economic growth combined with actual budget surpluses.
If one exchange got a reputation for listing untrustworthy companies, they would lose credibility.
Once a company gets large enough (MSFT, Wal-Mart, IBM, Monsanto, RIAA/MPAA members, etc.), there's no reason for said company to be good. If one division gets the company in PR trouble, its losses can be propped up by other divisions.
Want to boycott a company? Fine. They're better off without you as a customer calling them to complain than they make as a profit for having you as a customer. Even people who boycotted Disney for their pro-gay HR policies admitted it is really hard to tell a child that they can't go to Disneyworld or get the latest Mickey Mouse DVD. The RIAA/MPAA can easily spin sales numbers to say that their losses are not from boycotts, but from piracy.
In a world where a company relies on YOU as a customer, then image would matter. It doesn't anymore. And while I like many of the ideals that libertarians have, I don't think they have completely thought through the consequenses of their platform.
Sheesh. Just as I get my Mac, Linux box, and Palm T3 talking bluetooth wirelessly to my GSM phone.
Bluetooth = 802.11 but low cost, low power, low bandwidth.
I can control what devices connect to my BT devices. I can control what services on each device I want to offer. I can write SMS (text messages) from my PDA and have the phone send them.
No nearby 802.11 hotspot? No problem, go data through the phone.
I can sync the contacts on my laptop with those on my phone with those on my PDA. No more having different contacts all over the place.
There's various BT apps for PalmOS that allow you to have a small whiteboard/chat over BT. Great for meetings.
All without a wire. Not one is needed for communicating.
BT is currently languishing because Windows doesn't really support it. Linux has okay support (still needs some help) but Macs and embedded devices are doing pretty good with it.
It's nice, but bulky. Certainly not something you can put in your shirt or pants pocket and carry around with you. While you can charge the palm from the Enfora if the Enfora is plugged in, you can't use the Enfora battery to charge the Palm (one of my fears from the days when Palms didn't have rechargeable batteries and used AAAs).
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Feh. We've been doing that with sports arenas for years.
Vorbis is lossy. OGG is a container format that can have Vorbis or FLAC as codecs. So a .ogg file can contain a FLAC-formatted song and thus be non-lossy.
Instead of doing that, maybe they can spend time working with X developers to implement and document the SECURITY exension in X11.
Journalism should always be completely objective
What I think you mean to say is:
Journalism should always try to be as objective as possible.
Being objective makes you more credible. More credible = more reliable = more viewers = more money.
Too bad these days scandal/sex/war/terror = more money.
Advertising does have the effect of making potential customers aware that there are drugs that treat their conditions.
Bill Maher said it best (paraphrase):
If you're telling the doctor what he should be prescribing for you, he's no longer your doctor - he's your dealer.
Yea, but more importantly it makes me a Catholic that's going to an Episcopal Church.
Catholicism says that abortion and gay marriage are wrong.
Only I'm raised Catholic and think the Catholic church is wrong on both issues. But I'm not Hispanic.
Lessee...
Reduced the size of government? Check
Balanced the budget? Check
Sent the military all over the place? Check
Made Americans feel good about themselves? Check
Reduced unemployment? Check
Got people off welfare? Check
Yup. He's a Republican all right. The best one in at least 50 years. The current crop are Republicans in name only. They're certainly not conservative, unless you count that whole 'moral values' thing.
No, he did a 180 before the fines. He read Al Franken's book and he really despises this administration. He's typically pro-Republican - Whitman, Guliani, and Pataki all had good things said about them on his show and at least Whitman said she credited Stern with winning in NJ.
He backed Bush on Iraq, thinking they were an imminent threat to the US. Now that he sees they were not nor were they ever a threat, he's done what a lot of people did and started questioning the war. Not long after, he was dumped by Clear Channel stations and not long after that, fined by the FCC.
Yea, 87 is fine. In fact, the manufacturers of both our cars (VW and Saturn) both explicitly say to use 87 gas.
Just don't always get your gas from "bob's buy and fly gasoline". There's a reason you can get it for full serve for 5-10 cents less than the self-serve Mobil (and it's not all profits).
Maybe I should back up and tell more of the tale.
By first instinct, she hit the brakes (she was doing city driving), which then burnt. She then figured out what was going on and shifted into park and killed the engine. She didn't go all that far after she discovered what was going on (brakes were due to be changed anyway).
I never saw the symptoms, and the air filter was due for a change, so the bet was something got through the air filter.
She escaped with only burned out brake calipers.
The fault was a bit of grit or buildup preventing the throttle from closing properly.
Keep your air filter clean and don't buy junk gas.
I didn't pursue it past the two books I was given, it was a bit of a downer, too as the authors had a small group of characters to play with after killing off the entire human race and finding bugger all in space.
Uhm. You know there were 8 TV series (seasons) of Red Dwarf done by the BBC, along with a movie that's in production, right? The two books only cover a part of the first season. The first 4 series are on DVD now, so go hit your local library or DVD rental store and check it out.
I get the Lowell Sun on Sundays and Mondays. Their idea of "Fair and Balanced" is to have one local libertarian/conservitive commentator, one syndicated conservative opinion (Thomas/Novak), and one "point/counterpoint" which at least seems to have some balance to it.
Given their reporting over the past year (and nice smear campaign against the Middlesex County Sheriff), it's no suprise they're endorsing Bush.
Yea, and the X-15 didn't have 50+ years worth of research, computer technology, and space/materials engineering to work off of.
Sounds like the X-15 was a bargain for the research it generated.
At least as you know them today. If I can get movies via my Tivo, then there's no need to get dedicated movie channels that show the same movie 20 times a month.
At least HBO/Showtime will probably increase the amount of original programming and make it edgier than existing cable. At least until the FCC gets wind of it.
Singling out Clinton means nothing if you're also tracking state and local taxes. This also counts things like sales taxes and property taxes over the period. Given the amount of wealth generated during that time, it would only seem natural that people would buy more things and thus pay more in sales taxes. In leaner years (2001-2003) people would look to cut back their expenses and thus buy fewer high-ticket items (SUVs for example?), resulting in on one hand fewer taxes paid locally, but also cutting back the "tax burden day".
Their calculations of property and sales taxes (which represented 25% of collected taxes) is mentioned over the 1992-2000 period. It would be interesting to see better numbers.
Ever heard of trickle down economics?
Sure, without any proof it works. The 80s were okay economically, but the "largest tax increase in the history of mankind" (according to Rush Limbaugh anyway) resulted in a great deal of economic growth combined with actual budget surpluses.
Ever heard of "borrow and spend" economics?
Recession didn't start till March 2001. (or was it April?). Either way, Bush was in office at the time.
I am sad.
You obviously don't have children.
If one exchange got a reputation for listing untrustworthy companies, they would lose credibility.
Once a company gets large enough (MSFT, Wal-Mart, IBM, Monsanto, RIAA/MPAA members, etc.), there's no reason for said company to be good. If one division gets the company in PR trouble, its losses can be propped up by other divisions.
Want to boycott a company? Fine. They're better off without you as a customer calling them to complain than they make as a profit for having you as a customer. Even people who boycotted Disney for their pro-gay HR policies admitted it is really hard to tell a child that they can't go to Disneyworld or get the latest Mickey Mouse DVD. The RIAA/MPAA can easily spin sales numbers to say that their losses are not from boycotts, but from piracy.
In a world where a company relies on YOU as a customer, then image would matter. It doesn't anymore. And while I like many of the ideals that libertarians have, I don't think they have completely thought through the consequenses of their platform.
Or letting 13-yr olds you don't know into an R-rated movie (sheesh).
Everyone who's contributed documentation to the Linux Documentation Project.
Sheesh. Just as I get my Mac, Linux box, and Palm T3 talking bluetooth wirelessly to my GSM phone.
Bluetooth = 802.11 but low cost, low power, low bandwidth.
I can control what devices connect to my BT devices. I can control what services on each device I want to offer. I can write SMS (text messages) from my PDA and have the phone send them.
No nearby 802.11 hotspot? No problem, go data through the phone.
I can sync the contacts on my laptop with those on my phone with those on my PDA. No more having different contacts all over the place.
There's various BT apps for PalmOS that allow you to have a small whiteboard/chat over BT. Great for meetings.
All without a wire. Not one is needed for communicating.
BT is currently languishing because Windows doesn't really support it. Linux has okay support (still needs some help) but Macs and embedded devices are doing pretty good with it.
I have it.
It's nice, but bulky. Certainly not something you can put in your shirt or pants pocket and carry around with you. While you can charge the palm from the Enfora if the Enfora is plugged in, you can't use the Enfora battery to charge the Palm (one of my fears from the days when Palms didn't have rechargeable batteries and used AAAs).