This guy gets fired, Tyler Perry gets a pass for describing how his mother always taught him how to act if he got held up by white cops and then suing for discrimination basically because 2 white cops didn't know he was famous. All in the same week, and with no incredulity about the double standard. I love our media. And by love, i mean despise.
Isn't this a moot point? The subsidy is going away, but NOT the requirement! The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, specifies how many billions of gallons of "renewable" fuels have to be used in the US every year (as compared to petroleum-based products). This has the net effect of forcing us all to buy ethanol, regardless of its actual benefits/detriments, as the fuel manufacturer's are required to blend it in to meet federal requirements. Beginning this year i believe, the requirements stipulate more gallons of ethanol than is even produced per year, resulting in massive fines they will be paying, driving up the cost of our fuel even higher for no benefit (other than government spending). Score one for the bureaucrats.
Oh, this one's easy. MSNBC hosts that openly shilled, on the air, for political candidates:
Chris Matthews:
"I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often." - re: an Obama speech
"No. You know I've been criticized for saying he inspires me and to hell with my critics!" - re: Obama
Rachel Maddow: (Democrat shilling rather than specific candidate shilling):
That, this evidence that you, that we have before us here in you, manifested in Bill Wolff, this phenomenon, being fired up like that, that is the key to the most important thing going on in American politics right now, I am convinced. This weekend Congress is going to be in session, this weekend! On a Saturday! We heard it as breaking news last night during this show, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announcing that he is not letting the Senate go home, the Democratic leadership is keeping the Senate in Washington over the weekend, because the thing that we have been talking about, the thing that they have been fighting about for months now is finally going to happen, tomorrow, on the weekend. Senate Democrats are finally going to do it. They are finally going to go through with this vote that they've been trying to psyche themselves up for on the Bush tax cuts.
Keith Olbermann:
This one isn't shilling, but man, you can't disagree that there's bias here:
"In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex nude model, teabagging, supporter of violence against women, and against politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history this man would have been laughed off the stage, as an unqualified, and a disaster in the making by the most conservative of conservatives. Instead the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is close to sending this bad joke to the Senate of the United States."
Not amazingly, this already happened about 37 years ago. We call this new party the "Libertarian Party". We Libertarians would be quite happy if you came to join our ranks.
I just bought a Panasonic PT-56LCZ70 - one of their new "LIFI" rear projection TVs. If i'm not horribly mistaken, this is the bulb they are using now. They rate the life at 20,000 hours, they describe it as a sealed, electrode-less lamp that is powered by microwaves, and they get pretty darn bright on relatively low wattage.
Definitely a bit knee jerk, but the solution is dead on. For those concerned enough to do a little research, you may want to check out the Libertarian Party (www.lp.org) - they fit the bill for civil liberties advocates pretty handily, and are on the ballot in 48 states (more than any other "third" party!).
All three are pretty (the third gets my vote), but all three have quirks in IE 6. C'mon guys...it may not be the browser of choice for most Slashdot followers, but how can we complain about websites that are IE specific and don't render properly in Firefox if we're doing the exact same thing in reverse?!
Per existing law, I cannot publish your stuff without your permission. It's called copyright law. Yes, it is illegal for me to put files up for download on a P2P network if I am not legally entitled to do so. Why people seem to equate that to a need to keep keep from developing P2P applications is beyond me.
Amen to that! It's amazing how many people don't realize how critical unit tests are these days. I'm experiencing that in full force at my current job. We're under such tight deadlines that there's no time to write the unit tests before the deadline, and after the deadline we're on to the next job, so no time there either. It bites them in the butt later, but hey, doesn't it look great on the bottom line at the moment?:P
There is an entire market surrounding this that is beginning to emerge (or at least, some Indian states are attempting to start it). A "full package" will be offered to the US including round-trip airfair, hotel accomodations, and the service being performed....all for a fraction of the price in the insurance-heavy, litigious United States. With the entitlement society we live in here, it's no wonder things like this are possible elsewere in the world.
I agree with this completely. The net wouldn't exist as it does today if the GPL were used as the license of choice in "the early days". It's the BSD license that has promoted the internet as we know it, allowing commercial entities to implement standards (such as TCP/IP) without restriction.
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This guy gets fired, Tyler Perry gets a pass for describing how his mother always taught him how to act if he got held up by white cops and then suing for discrimination basically because 2 white cops didn't know he was famous. All in the same week, and with no incredulity about the double standard. I love our media. And by love, i mean despise.
I wonder when Alex will sue for copyright infringement and theft of IP. ;P
Isn't this a moot point? The subsidy is going away, but NOT the requirement! The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, specifies how many billions of gallons of "renewable" fuels have to be used in the US every year (as compared to petroleum-based products). This has the net effect of forcing us all to buy ethanol, regardless of its actual benefits/detriments, as the fuel manufacturer's are required to blend it in to meet federal requirements. Beginning this year i believe, the requirements stipulate more gallons of ethanol than is even produced per year, resulting in massive fines they will be paying, driving up the cost of our fuel even higher for no benefit (other than government spending). Score one for the bureaucrats.
Oh, this one's easy. MSNBC hosts that openly shilled, on the air, for political candidates: Chris Matthews: "I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often." - re: an Obama speech "No. You know I've been criticized for saying he inspires me and to hell with my critics!" - re: Obama Rachel Maddow: (Democrat shilling rather than specific candidate shilling): That, this evidence that you, that we have before us here in you, manifested in Bill Wolff, this phenomenon, being fired up like that, that is the key to the most important thing going on in American politics right now, I am convinced. This weekend Congress is going to be in session, this weekend! On a Saturday! We heard it as breaking news last night during this show, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announcing that he is not letting the Senate go home, the Democratic leadership is keeping the Senate in Washington over the weekend, because the thing that we have been talking about, the thing that they have been fighting about for months now is finally going to happen, tomorrow, on the weekend. Senate Democrats are finally going to do it. They are finally going to go through with this vote that they've been trying to psyche themselves up for on the Bush tax cuts. Keith Olbermann: This one isn't shilling, but man, you can't disagree that there's bias here: "In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex nude model, teabagging, supporter of violence against women, and against politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history this man would have been laughed off the stage, as an unqualified, and a disaster in the making by the most conservative of conservatives. Instead the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is close to sending this bad joke to the Senate of the United States."
"Either guy" implies there are only two options. If you don't care for Obama or McCain, don't vote for them; vote for one of the other parties.
Not amazingly, this already happened about 37 years ago. We call this new party the "Libertarian Party". We Libertarians would be quite happy if you came to join our ranks.
I just bought a Panasonic PT-56LCZ70 - one of their new "LIFI" rear projection TVs. If i'm not horribly mistaken, this is the bulb they are using now. They rate the life at 20,000 hours, they describe it as a sealed, electrode-less lamp that is powered by microwaves, and they get pretty darn bright on relatively low wattage.
Definitely a bit knee jerk, but the solution is dead on. For those concerned enough to do a little research, you may want to check out the Libertarian Party (www.lp.org) - they fit the bill for civil liberties advocates pretty handily, and are on the ballot in 48 states (more than any other "third" party!).
All three are pretty (the third gets my vote), but all three have quirks in IE 6. C'mon guys...it may not be the browser of choice for most Slashdot followers, but how can we complain about websites that are IE specific and don't render properly in Firefox if we're doing the exact same thing in reverse?!
Per existing law, I cannot publish your stuff without your permission. It's called copyright law. Yes, it is illegal for me to put files up for download on a P2P network if I am not legally entitled to do so. Why people seem to equate that to a need to keep keep from developing P2P applications is beyond me.
Amen to that! It's amazing how many people don't realize how critical unit tests are these days. I'm experiencing that in full force at my current job. We're under such tight deadlines that there's no time to write the unit tests before the deadline, and after the deadline we're on to the next job, so no time there either. It bites them in the butt later, but hey, doesn't it look great on the bottom line at the moment? :P
There is an entire market surrounding this that is beginning to emerge (or at least, some Indian states are attempting to start it). A "full package" will be offered to the US including round-trip airfair, hotel accomodations, and the service being performed....all for a fraction of the price in the insurance-heavy, litigious United States. With the entitlement society we live in here, it's no wonder things like this are possible elsewere in the world.
I agree with this completely. The net wouldn't exist as it does today if the GPL were used as the license of choice in "the early days". It's the BSD license that has promoted the internet as we know it, allowing commercial entities to implement standards (such as TCP/IP) without restriction.