I, as a right leaning libertarian, can't agree more. The republicans should be taking the lead on this and saying it is a freedom. They shouldn't be for taxing the individual gambler but be for taxing the profits of the company who runs the site, just like Vegas.
I am pretty sure that's not the case. Mike Doogan, I believe, used to be a columnist for the Anchorage Daily News. It's been a long time since I lived there, so I could be wrong, but I believe that's the case.
With his connections at the paper and some reasonable investigation skills (or hiring someone), it would be possible to find out who they are.
Ok. I will give you that data. But I ask for one thing first. Can you show me a similar rapid increase in oil prices?
Oil prices were far too high, everyone knew it. However, just like the bubble in 99/00, it popped.
Are you going to say the correlation of gas prices dropping now is some conspiracy?
When President Bush lifted the executive order on offshore drilling, the prices immediately started to drop. Why? Even though not a single drop of oil was being added to the market, uncertainty did. And when uncertainty entered the market, it deflated the trader's hopes nad the price has steadily declined since then.
Of course, some people want the price to be high. Lots of people do. For example, Mr. Chavez of Venezuela and Mr. Ahmadinejad of Iran want higher oil prices. Their entire economic systems are now predicated on higher oil prices.
An interesting turn of events for Iran. See, when oil prices went high, Iran kept gas prices very low for its citizens. However, the cost of everything else went up, due to the price of oil. In case you aren't aware, oil is used in just about everything from synthetic fibers (carper, clothing) to plastics, to road creation, in addition to fuel.
Well, Iran imports almost everything. So, when the prices went high, Iran had some issues.
Mr. Chavez, on the other hand, needs the high oil prices to sustain his countries socialist programs. Well, except for electricity, as they have outages.
So, while you might think President Bush wants higher prices, I don't believe he really cares.
Mr. Obama and Ms. Pelosi certainly want higher energy prices. To them, oil is evil incarnate. Nothing good can come from oil.
If Mr. Obama becomes President Obama, he will realize that oil is the lifeblood of our economy. It doesn't mean he will change his mind and embrace oil. But he will ask congress to tax oil and other carbon based energy (such as coal) at every increasing rates. When energy is artificially expensive, it will affect our ability to compete. In this marketplace, I want a competitive USA.
We may also end up with Carbon Taxes. Strange that CO2 will be considered a pollutant when people exhale it and plants breathe it.
In the USA, I have never seen a gun drawn in public either. It's not that uncommon to have never seen one drawn in public. It just makes the news so much, you'd think it was an epidemic and you had better be wearing a bullet proof/resistant vest before walking out your front door.
Well, they ask, what about the unintentional gun deaths? Think of the children, they say.
In 2005, the cdc reported just over 30,000 gun deaths. Over 17,000 were suicides. Unintentional deaths (those caused be negligence and accidental discharge) were 174.
Heart disease killed over 300,000 the same year. Where's the people into regulating food intake and exercise?
It's not that he really hurts his causes. He does create a large uninformed population that takes what he has done as "truth" without actually critiquing what he is really presenting.
To say people have a reason for flawed beliefs is to excuse them.
Think about it. Otherwise, it is just excuse after excuse. Well, my grandparents lived during segregation. That means they should be racist. And because of that, they should be excused, right? If it is wrong for white people to spew hatred for nothing more than the color of one's skin, isn't it a double standard for black people to do the same but be held unaccountable?
How long it will take for people to blast this as Industry fallacy.
I say there's been so much doom-and-gloom about oil, every prediction I can remember about oil running out has been proven wrong time and time again. As our technology increases, we will find ways to get more oil out of existing locations and find new ones. Hmm. Go figure.
Hell, in 1879 Edison invented the light bulb. Who would have thought after 100+ years, the only thing a house from 1890 and 2006 would have in common is a lightbulb? And now the idustry is changing with LED bulbs for just about everything these days. I bet the next advancement doesn't take 100 years.
In oil, there's money. And a ton of it. So, advancement will happen much faster. We will use it more efficiently and get it from places we never thought possible.
First, Mac OS X running under XEN isn't going to happen without a lot of help from Apple. I don't see Apple participating on.
Second, I welcome VMWare for it's advanced features (snapshots, etc) over Parallels. That being said, I bought Parallels and it works well. It doesn't do everything, but it does work well and I got it long before the price increase.
Competition is good. I can't wait to play with VMWare on Mac OS X.
I was at AT&T Bell Labs in 1995 when AT&T decided it was going to lay off 45,000 managers. Yes, that number is correct. 45,000 managers. As I was a consultant, I talked to one manager and asked how many people he had working for him. He responded that no one worked for him. He was a manager, and stood by that title.
So, while 1000 sounds like a lot of managers, I have to wonder how many are managers in title only.. Sounds like more than a couple.
No, it's simple. How do we know the earth isn't on a natural trajectory for temperature. Perhaps this is part of the who natural warming and cooling cycle.
Now, I won't argue that the earth seems to be getting warmer. However, the cause has not been proven. Saying CO2 is the likely cause may be right. Then again, perhaps the real cause is farming? Or passing gas? Or any other myriad of options.
At one point, Alaska had a topical climate. Why are we trying to muck with this, when many examples of us trying manage anything in the natural world have always turned out different than we expected.
I lived in Alaska during the Exxon Valdez disaster. For all the money and effort to clean up the oil, seems nature did it best. The natural tide and wave action did much better to break up the slicks than we did for all the chemicals and rock spraying we did. It was a "feel good" measure to clean birds and sea life, however, in the end it didn't matter a lick.
So, for all we did, we couldn't do more than a little time.
Some people just don't get it. Perhaps the earth is supposed to get warmer. What happens when they decide block the sun and the earth cools too fast, or photosynthesis doesn't occur like it's supposed to?
The same people who can't get beyond the Rule of Unintended Consequences want to something like this?
Can I take the next ship to another planet now? Either let it evolve or destroy it, but try not to do both.
Why is it the same people who love evolution are the same people who want to keep everything the same?
Perhaps I am not a big enough open source zealot. However, I would think that commercial software and hardware is a big boost to Linux as a whole. For example, Linux takes much longer to get support for certain types of hardware, simply because vendors want to protect their development effort.
So, using this reasoning, I am sure people believe that Oracle should open source their database, because it runs under Linux?
Although I like the thought of open source and free software, I also see the place for commercial packages. If the FSF wants to keep some vendors out because of a philosophical reason, that's ok. It just brings a chilling effect for other vendors to ignore the platform.
Let's face facts, Linux doesn't have enough market share to make a real difference in sales to graphics card company. And while Linux has gained some popularity, it needs the support of vendors before more people will use it as a primary platform. Chicken, where's the egg?
I got mine in December. I have to agree it is cool. However, it doesn't quite have all the space I need. So, I use it for some trips, but not others.
It is a great case, tho.
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I, as a right leaning libertarian, can't agree more. The republicans should be taking the lead on this and saying it is a freedom. They shouldn't be for taxing the individual gambler but be for taxing the profits of the company who runs the site, just like Vegas.
I have been to both Dell and Perot headquarters.
I ran into Ross (Sr.) in the lunch room. The entire HQ on Plano Parkway might as well be a history museum.
Contrast that with Dell's clinical feel.
It will be interesting.
They also have other markets, including health care. That was the group I was working with when they were one of my customers.
Me, too.
I am pretty sure that's not the case. Mike Doogan, I believe, used to be a columnist for the Anchorage Daily News. It's been a long time since I lived there, so I could be wrong, but I believe that's the case.
With his connections at the paper and some reasonable investigation skills (or hiring someone), it would be possible to find out who they are.
I'll take it...
I sold my Dual Processor G5 for $1800 after owning it for 2 years. I paid $2000 for it. That's a pretty low cost of ownership, if you ask me.
So, considering the bailout package was created by the Democrat Congress, who are you blaming exactly?
Ok. I will give you that data. But I ask for one thing first. Can you show me a similar rapid increase in oil prices?
Oil prices were far too high, everyone knew it. However, just like the bubble in 99/00, it popped.
Are you going to say the correlation of gas prices dropping now is some conspiracy?
When President Bush lifted the executive order on offshore drilling, the prices immediately started to drop. Why? Even though not a single drop of oil was being added to the market, uncertainty did. And when uncertainty entered the market, it deflated the trader's hopes nad the price has steadily declined since then.
Of course, some people want the price to be high. Lots of people do. For example, Mr. Chavez of Venezuela and Mr. Ahmadinejad of Iran want higher oil prices. Their entire economic systems are now predicated on higher oil prices.
An interesting turn of events for Iran. See, when oil prices went high, Iran kept gas prices very low for its citizens. However, the cost of everything else went up, due to the price of oil. In case you aren't aware, oil is used in just about everything from synthetic fibers (carper, clothing) to plastics, to road creation, in addition to fuel.
Well, Iran imports almost everything. So, when the prices went high, Iran had some issues.
Mr. Chavez, on the other hand, needs the high oil prices to sustain his countries socialist programs. Well, except for electricity, as they have outages.
So, while you might think President Bush wants higher prices, I don't believe he really cares.
Mr. Obama and Ms. Pelosi certainly want higher energy prices. To them, oil is evil incarnate. Nothing good can come from oil.
If Mr. Obama becomes President Obama, he will realize that oil is the lifeblood of our economy. It doesn't mean he will change his mind and embrace oil. But he will ask congress to tax oil and other carbon based energy (such as coal) at every increasing rates. When energy is artificially expensive, it will affect our ability to compete. In this marketplace, I want a competitive USA.
We may also end up with Carbon Taxes. Strange that CO2 will be considered a pollutant when people exhale it and plants breathe it.
You need to respect a gun. But my gun has never scared me.
In the USA, I have never seen a gun drawn in public either. It's not that uncommon to have never seen one drawn in public. It just makes the news so much, you'd think it was an epidemic and you had better be wearing a bullet proof/resistant vest before walking out your front door.
Yes, but the guns are scary! Take them away.
Well, they ask, what about the unintentional gun deaths? Think of the children, they say.
In 2005, the cdc reported just over 30,000 gun deaths. Over 17,000 were suicides. Unintentional deaths (those caused be negligence and accidental discharge) were 174.
Heart disease killed over 300,000 the same year. Where's the people into regulating food intake and exercise?
It's not that he really hurts his causes. He does create a large uninformed population that takes what he has done as "truth" without actually critiquing what he is really presenting.
To say people have a reason for flawed beliefs is to excuse them.
Think about it. Otherwise, it is just excuse after excuse. Well, my grandparents lived during segregation. That means they should be racist. And because of that, they should be excused, right? If it is wrong for white people to spew hatred for nothing more than the color of one's skin, isn't it a double standard for black people to do the same but be held unaccountable?
Water the disclaimers for water now? May cause liver spots, thirst, anal leakage, near death experiences, etc..
How long it will take for people to blast this as Industry fallacy.
I say there's been so much doom-and-gloom about oil, every prediction I can remember about oil running out has been proven wrong time and time again. As our technology increases, we will find ways to get more oil out of existing locations and find new ones. Hmm. Go figure.
Hell, in 1879 Edison invented the light bulb. Who would have thought after 100+ years, the only thing a house from 1890 and 2006 would have in common is a lightbulb? And now the idustry is changing with LED bulbs for just about everything these days. I bet the next advancement doesn't take 100 years.
In oil, there's money. And a ton of it. So, advancement will happen much faster. We will use it more efficiently and get it from places we never thought possible.
First, Mac OS X running under XEN isn't going to happen without a lot of help from Apple. I don't see Apple participating on.
Second, I welcome VMWare for it's advanced features (snapshots, etc) over Parallels. That being said, I bought Parallels and it works well. It doesn't do everything, but it does work well and I got it long before the price increase.
Competition is good. I can't wait to play with VMWare on Mac OS X.
I was at AT&T Bell Labs in 1995 when AT&T decided it was going to lay off 45,000 managers. Yes, that number is correct. 45,000 managers. As I was a consultant, I talked to one manager and asked how many people he had working for him. He responded that no one worked for him. He was a manager, and stood by that title.
So, while 1000 sounds like a lot of managers, I have to wonder how many are managers in title only.. Sounds like more than a couple.
No, it's simple. How do we know the earth isn't on a natural trajectory for temperature. Perhaps this is part of the who natural warming and cooling cycle.
Now, I won't argue that the earth seems to be getting warmer. However, the cause has not been proven. Saying CO2 is the likely cause may be right. Then again, perhaps the real cause is farming? Or passing gas? Or any other myriad of options.
At one point, Alaska had a topical climate. Why are we trying to muck with this, when many examples of us trying manage anything in the natural world have always turned out different than we expected.
I lived in Alaska during the Exxon Valdez disaster. For all the money and effort to clean up the oil, seems nature did it best. The natural tide and wave action did much better to break up the slicks than we did for all the chemicals and rock spraying we did. It was a "feel good" measure to clean birds and sea life, however, in the end it didn't matter a lick.
So, for all we did, we couldn't do more than a little time.
Some people just don't get it. Perhaps the earth is supposed to get warmer. What happens when they decide block the sun and the earth cools too fast, or photosynthesis doesn't occur like it's supposed to?
The same people who can't get beyond the Rule of Unintended Consequences want to something like this?
Can I take the next ship to another planet now? Either let it evolve or destroy it, but try not to do both.
Why is it the same people who love evolution are the same people who want to keep everything the same?
So, using this reasoning, I am sure people believe that Oracle should open source their database, because it runs under Linux?
Although I like the thought of open source and free software, I also see the place for commercial packages. If the FSF wants to keep some vendors out because of a philosophical reason, that's ok. It just brings a chilling effect for other vendors to ignore the platform.
Let's face facts, Linux doesn't have enough market share to make a real difference in sales to graphics card company. And while Linux has gained some popularity, it needs the support of vendors before more people will use it as a primary platform. Chicken, where's the egg?
I got mine in December. I have to agree it is cool. However, it doesn't quite have all the space I need. So, I use it for some trips, but not others. It is a great case, tho.
I always knew that spamming was a gateway crime. It only leads to something bigger!
No, not gone. DCMA thing was taken care of.
I guess you've never heard of OSX Project?