Agreed. I really like what Perot brought to the table back then. He was certainly off-beat, but he forced both Poppa Bush and Clinton to say more than they wished to.
Yeah, little doubt about it, but that the republicans have gone far right and will likely continue to do so as the tea party takes over the neo-cons who currently control it.
Has any organization made any effort in taking back the presidential debates or even just having an alternate nationally televised live debate? I realize that at first it wouldn't be as popular as the current debates since the republican and democrat candidates would probably simply refuse to participate but if it was promoted enough it eventually might become popular enough that they would be forced to participate or be severely hurt in their campaign.
IIRC, First election after that, the league actually did host a debate, but neither dems nor pubs showed up (that would be Clinton vs. Dole). More importantly, NONE of the networks televised it. With that being the time when us nerds were the only ones on the net, it was a none-starter. Now, with the net developed enough, it MIGHT be the way to go.
Personally, I am hoping that when rootstrikers amends the constitution, they will also push to bring back such debates.
Also, the debate questions need to be tougher. I have said this earlier but the debates should happen at least three times a week for a month. I could even see the candidates choosing their cabinets early and having them as part of the debates. Any good leader should surround themselves with smart, capable people.
Oh yeah. Those questions sound like they are tailored to the candidates. Not to make them think or force them to answer, but to allow them to slam the other guy. In many ways, this is just more bread and circus, rather than the serious debates that I recall as a kid.
Rules and debates got changed after Poppa Bush lost because of Perot taking votes from him. As such, the neo-cons pushed for rule changes, and dems went along with it. Prior to that, we had the league of women voters hosting the debates and yes, included a number of 3rd party candidates. IIRC, they had to have to be on more than 45 states ballots and then they were included.
When Poppa Bush lost to Clinton because of Perot being the election, the rules were changed. At that point, the republicans pushed through rules that pretty much prevented 3rd parties. Sadly, the dems went along with it. Now, that our system really is down to 2 parties, you can see the republicans pushing for 1 party rule. A good example is Chuck Norris claiming that it is unpatriotic to vote for ANYTHING except a republican. In fact, even if the guy was Hitler or Stalin, it appears that he would be OK with it so long as he has an R after it. At this point, America is in serious need of major re-working.
If anybody thinks that they will be in academy for a nice simple life, they are dead wrong. Yes, you have to put in 80-100 hrs/week esp. until about age 40. After that, you can coast and do 50 or so. And yes, the work SHOULD be on your mind constantly.
First off, creating a unified account is not illegal. Far from it. Apple does it. MS does it. Companies that offer a number of services does this. So, I do not understand why you think that this is illegal.
And as to google map coming in the top, well, who has the dominate mapping? Google does. As such, I am not surprised to see it up there.
I note that when I do this I see mapquest right behind. But that is expected. There remains a lot of mapquest links around the area.
So, if you are gripping that Google's results show the #1 mapping tool, all I have to say is come up with a better one. You can even grab google's source code.
Ok, so what I hear are accusations. I do not see any proof on-line or even from you. The truth is, that if Google's results are rising to the top, I suspect that is because
Likewise, assuming that the issue is android and mapping, as I have pointed out to others, android is opensource. For that matter, so is google mapping since it is all in javascript. The voice is a separate product that Apple wants, but does not want google to place their other apps on ios.
I say that Google should not be investigated, but that if it is, then Apple should be as well.
Good points in the start. Now, what I find interesting is that you point out Apple's massive use of a market to attempt control of an industry. Yet, the FTC is ignoring it. What strikes me is that if FTC is going after Google, they NEED to investigate Apple as well. Otherwise, it is an indication of massive corruption going on.
Personally, I say that unless FTC has proof on Google, they should let sleeping dogs lie.
So, why will apple not move some of their apps or simply release the specs on say their word editor files? Apple wanted what Google has for voice control. Google said that they would do so, if apple would allow them to put other products on the apple system. Apple said no because they did not want the competition. Exactly HOW is google the bad guy here?
Skyhook, or even MS, are free to take Android and create their OWN version of it. What Google is doing is saying that we sell a package that includes our services with a set interface. There is NOTHING like MS who had closed source and actively changed it to make it impossible to switch off them without loads of pain for the seller AND customers.
If there is real proof that Google has a monopoly (i.e. they control the market) and that they have acted illegally by manipulating results wrongly or have forced tied products to their search engine, they SHOULD be investigated. The real issue here is that Google has a LARGE share, but does not have a monopoly. In addition, does anybody have any real proof that Google has manipulated results or forced other products to be tied to their search engine?
Good examples are ATT, IBM and MS. Is there any proof that Google has acted like these companies did? I have not seen it.
All are better options then the cable companies.
We switched from Comcast for TV and net, and now use qwest (centrury link) for FASTER internet, and dish for TV. However, once my kids get older, I want to kill even dish. In the meantime, we will never go back to comcast. Just a plain evil company.
What he means by that is that we lost much of our navy that day. The attack on us was devastating by a military perspective. He is saying lets not allow a nation to destroy our infrastructure in one attack, which right now, is possible.
First off, it is not known how many nukes Israel has. This is the first time that I have EVER heard anybody claim more than 6. 200+??? Please, do you have proof of that.
Secondly, Israel had these before NNPT started.
Thirdly, Israel did NOT sign the NNPT so we can not hold them to it.
Lastly, they have owned their about 50 years. They have not used it or sent it to other nations or terrorists. OTOH, Iran sends everything that they get to terrorists. And Iran currently backs a LARGE number of terrorists around the globe.
So many things wrong here.
1) USA does NOT have anywhere NEAR the number of nukes to destroy earth. In fact,even with the 3000 warheads of America and 5000 of Russia's and 3000 of Chinas, you still could not destroy the earth. Not once, let alone multiple times. Now, we can spread a lot more radiation, but that does not destroy earth. Heck as Chernobyl and nuke test sites has shown, it does not even destroy all life.
2) Lets assume that Iran really is doing just power. That requires enrichment of about 6%. Not a big deal, I grant you. But then they got caught running the centrifuges claiming that they were not doing this. Then when claiming that this was all that they had, USA then pointed out that they had another set of centrifuges buried 200' deep. Iran denied and then NNPT asked to see the area and Iran denied access. Upon being shown the evidence, then Iran admitted that they did have it, but that it was only for nuclear medicine (same thing that burma is doing:) ). Nuke medicine requires 20% enrichment. However, the amount of material that was KNOWN to be diverted, if made into nuclear medicine would provide the earth with 100% of its needs for the next 225 years. And that is on top of what Burma is making.
Note, that up until this point, I have backed Iran's right to own. But this alone is more then enough proof that Iran is in fact working on nukes.
3) If Iran is allowed to have a nuke, then it is not the west or even israel who is threatened. It is all of the arabs and sunni muslems that will be threatened. Saudi Arabia and OAE are now looking to buy reactors from Russia (USA will NOT sell them one). Do you really want all of the middle east to arm? Think carefully about that. Look at India and Pakistan. Owning nukes works when ALL sides do not believe that they can win a war (which is why I fear China since their military is now preaching that they CAN win a nuke war). It depends on MAD to keep ppl from firing. Sadly, it is now apparent that civilizations can be destroyed, but the earth will not be. As such, MAD is threatened by Iran's build up (along with China's military's massive build-up).
Is there really just one or two AC running around on this page spouting off all this crap? To be honest, it appears that way. I rarely see an intelligent posting by you.
Tesla is NOT RESPONSIBLE for GM developing it. Lutz says that he was able to start an 'electric' car line in response to it. However, it is lutz that was responsible for the start of it, and sadly, it was the financial idiots that gutted the volt and turned it into the nightmare that it is.
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed. I really like what Perot brought to the table back then. He was certainly off-beat, but he forced both Poppa Bush and Clinton to say more than they wished to.
Good posting.
Yeah, little doubt about it, but that the republicans have gone far right and will likely continue to do so as the tea party takes over the neo-cons who currently control it.
What do you know about ANY of them? The reason that you know nothing is because they are blocked from debating and are not mentioned on polling sites.
Has any organization made any effort in taking back the presidential debates or even just having an alternate nationally televised live debate? I realize that at first it wouldn't be as popular as the current debates since the republican and democrat candidates would probably simply refuse to participate but if it was promoted enough it eventually might become popular enough that they would be forced to participate or be severely hurt in their campaign.
IIRC, First election after that, the league actually did host a debate, but neither dems nor pubs showed up (that would be Clinton vs. Dole). More importantly, NONE of the networks televised it. With that being the time when us nerds were the only ones on the net, it was a none-starter. Now, with the net developed enough, it MIGHT be the way to go.
Personally, I am hoping that when rootstrikers amends the constitution, they will also push to bring back such debates.
Also, the debate questions need to be tougher. I have said this earlier but the debates should happen at least three times a week for a month. I could even see the candidates choosing their cabinets early and having them as part of the debates. Any good leader should surround themselves with smart, capable people.
Oh yeah. Those questions sound like they are tailored to the candidates. Not to make them think or force them to answer, but to allow them to slam the other guy. In many ways, this is just more bread and circus, rather than the serious debates that I recall as a kid.
Rules and debates got changed after Poppa Bush lost because of Perot taking votes from him. As such, the neo-cons pushed for rule changes, and dems went along with it. Prior to that, we had the league of women voters hosting the debates and yes, included a number of 3rd party candidates. IIRC, they had to have to be on more than 45 states ballots and then they were included.
Now, these debates are a joke.
And THAT is why you are crazy JJ.
Neither Mitt nor Obama have any concept of a Libertarian.
Heck, the average republican or dem have no concept of it.
When Poppa Bush lost to Clinton because of Perot being the election, the rules were changed. At that point, the republicans pushed through rules that pretty much prevented 3rd parties. Sadly, the dems went along with it. Now, that our system really is down to 2 parties, you can see the republicans pushing for 1 party rule. A good example is Chuck Norris claiming that it is unpatriotic to vote for ANYTHING except a republican. In fact, even if the guy was Hitler or Stalin, it appears that he would be OK with it so long as he has an R after it. At this point, America is in serious need of major re-working.
Bull shit. I do it coding. I did it for the last 4 decades. When I was in Academia and CDC, I was putting in 80 hrs+/wk.
You fucking kids have it easy and do not want to work for things. Get the fuck out of the way.
If anybody thinks that they will be in academy for a nice simple life, they are dead wrong. Yes, you have to put in 80-100 hrs/week esp. until about age 40. After that, you can coast and do 50 or so. And yes, the work SHOULD be on your mind constantly.
I agree. I had actually ran similar searches and got similar results.
good point.
Actually, I just read more of that. If google forced out XPS and that can be proven, that might be an issue.
First off, creating a unified account is not illegal. Far from it. Apple does it. MS does it. Companies that offer a number of services does this. So, I do not understand why you think that this is illegal.
And as to google map coming in the top, well, who has the dominate mapping? Google does. As such, I am not surprised to see it up there. I note that when I do this I see mapquest right behind. But that is expected. There remains a lot of mapquest links around the area.
So, if you are gripping that Google's results show the #1 mapping tool, all I have to say is come up with a better one. You can even grab google's source code.
Ok, so what I hear are accusations. I do not see any proof on-line or even from you. The truth is, that if Google's results are rising to the top, I suspect that is because
Likewise, assuming that the issue is android and mapping, as I have pointed out to others, android is opensource. For that matter, so is google mapping since it is all in javascript. The voice is a separate product that Apple wants, but does not want google to place their other apps on ios.
I say that Google should not be investigated, but that if it is, then Apple should be as well.
Good points in the start. Now, what I find interesting is that you point out Apple's massive use of a market to attempt control of an industry. Yet, the FTC is ignoring it. What strikes me is that if FTC is going after Google, they NEED to investigate Apple as well. Otherwise, it is an indication of massive corruption going on.
Personally, I say that unless FTC has proof on Google, they should let sleeping dogs lie.
So, why will apple not move some of their apps or simply release the specs on say their word editor files? Apple wanted what Google has for voice control. Google said that they would do so, if apple would allow them to put other products on the apple system. Apple said no because they did not want the competition. Exactly HOW is google the bad guy here?
Skyhook, or even MS, are free to take Android and create their OWN version of it. What Google is doing is saying that we sell a package that includes our services with a set interface. There is NOTHING like MS who had closed source and actively changed it to make it impossible to switch off them without loads of pain for the seller AND customers.
If there is real proof that Google has a monopoly (i.e. they control the market) and that they have acted illegally by manipulating results wrongly or have forced tied products to their search engine, they SHOULD be investigated. The real issue here is that Google has a LARGE share, but does not have a monopoly. In addition, does anybody have any real proof that Google has manipulated results or forced other products to be tied to their search engine?
Good examples are ATT, IBM and MS. Is there any proof that Google has acted like these companies did? I have not seen it.
All are better options then the cable companies.
We switched from Comcast for TV and net, and now use qwest (centrury link) for FASTER internet, and dish for TV. However, once my kids get older, I want to kill even dish. In the meantime, we will never go back to comcast. Just a plain evil company.
What he means by that is that we lost much of our navy that day. The attack on us was devastating by a military perspective. He is saying lets not allow a nation to destroy our infrastructure in one attack, which right now, is possible.
First off, it is not known how many nukes Israel has. This is the first time that I have EVER heard anybody claim more than 6. 200+??? Please, do you have proof of that.
Secondly, Israel had these before NNPT started.
Thirdly, Israel did NOT sign the NNPT so we can not hold them to it.
Lastly, they have owned their about 50 years. They have not used it or sent it to other nations or terrorists. OTOH, Iran sends everything that they get to terrorists. And Iran currently backs a LARGE number of terrorists around the globe.
So many things wrong here. :) ). Nuke medicine requires 20% enrichment. However, the amount of material that was KNOWN to be diverted, if made into nuclear medicine would provide the earth with 100% of its needs for the next 225 years. And that is on top of what Burma is making.
1) USA does NOT have anywhere NEAR the number of nukes to destroy earth. In fact,even with the 3000 warheads of America and 5000 of Russia's and 3000 of Chinas, you still could not destroy the earth. Not once, let alone multiple times. Now, we can spread a lot more radiation, but that does not destroy earth. Heck as Chernobyl and nuke test sites has shown, it does not even destroy all life.
2) Lets assume that Iran really is doing just power. That requires enrichment of about 6%. Not a big deal, I grant you. But then they got caught running the centrifuges claiming that they were not doing this. Then when claiming that this was all that they had, USA then pointed out that they had another set of centrifuges buried 200' deep. Iran denied and then NNPT asked to see the area and Iran denied access. Upon being shown the evidence, then Iran admitted that they did have it, but that it was only for nuclear medicine (same thing that burma is doing
Note, that up until this point, I have backed Iran's right to own. But this alone is more then enough proof that Iran is in fact working on nukes.
3) If Iran is allowed to have a nuke, then it is not the west or even israel who is threatened. It is all of the arabs and sunni muslems that will be threatened. Saudi Arabia and OAE are now looking to buy reactors from Russia (USA will NOT sell them one). Do you really want all of the middle east to arm? Think carefully about that. Look at India and Pakistan. Owning nukes works when ALL sides do not believe that they can win a war (which is why I fear China since their military is now preaching that they CAN win a nuke war). It depends on MAD to keep ppl from firing. Sadly, it is now apparent that civilizations can be destroyed, but the earth will not be. As such, MAD is threatened by Iran's build up (along with China's military's massive build-up).
seriously, for a 3 y.o., education has to come with the game.
Is there really just one or two AC running around on this page spouting off all this crap? To be honest, it appears that way. I rarely see an intelligent posting by you.
Tesla is NOT RESPONSIBLE for GM developing it. Lutz says that he was able to start an 'electric' car line in response to it. However, it is lutz that was responsible for the start of it, and sadly, it was the financial idiots that gutted the volt and turned it into the nightmare that it is.