I've had either two or 6 years to judge (depending on how you do the accounting), I wouldn't say that was especially quick. If you think this guy is leading the US in the right direction - I wouldn't say you were especially quick either.
I always wondered where some of that 29% approval rating came from - nice to make your acquaintance.
...but it's not like half the country took a crazy pill or something.
Dude. Have you SEEN who our President is? Do you remember the election results? It's almost EXACTLY like half the country took a crazy pill or something.
One company made an incomplete accommodation. Another has yet to do so. The possibility for this still exists.
Candidates' speeches given to the public for the express purpose of being placed "in capacity" should be public domain too.
My nation's political discourse is not something to be "given back" to me as a gesture of largesse of the corporations.
Utah Phillips said, "Freedom is something you assume; then you wait for somebody to try to take it away from you. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free."
American public political speech for the purposes of running a civil society should be de facto uncopyrightable. This is how you run a (supposed) democracy. If they don't like it, they can pay the entire annual FCC budget for every clip they want to keep to themselves. We GIVE them spectrum, we PAY to defend and protect it for them, this REALLY IS the very least they can do.
Personally, I think they should be compelled to air ??? hours of campaign content to help run the system that makes them their fortunes - it might start to reign-in some of the insane budgets "needed" to "win" office these days.
All Bubbles are Booms.....
on
The New Boom
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· Score: 2, Interesting
...until they burst. Look at almost all of the press before Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" claim - it was all boom, no bubble, "new economic paradigm" talk. Hindsight is 20/20, if people had largely identified the bubbles we've had a significant time BEFORE they burst - they probably would have not been bubbles.
e.g: Stan: "Hey, Bob wanna through your nest-egg in to the stock market? I heard it's a big bubble just waitng to burst!"
Oh, there couldn't POSSIBLY be any environmental consequences from everyone doing this on a large scale. Surely, nothing is dependent on that gradient. One big, lukewarm ocean....yup recipe for success.
Actually I was ponting out a semantic slant to the headline. You seem to be inferring, a moral arguement here, where one was not implicitly stated.
But let me explain something to you, Sport: You're right - the ultimate moral failure in employer-employee relations comes with the introduction of force.
Guess who usually is the party to do that, and to who's advantage? I'll give you a hint:
The Ludlow Massacre
IBM didn't "lose" 13,000 jobs - that sounds as if they misplaced them, or had this happen to them. Not so. IBM *cut* 13,000 jobs. Or *slashed* 13,000 jobs.
In a related news item: 13,000 IBM *workers* lost their jobs.
...it's not supported in Firefox, which the article is about.
snip -- The current version of the PrefBar is 2.2.2, build 20030228. It should work with Mozilla 1.0 to 1.7 (not 1.8a). It does not work with Mozilla Firefox. -- snip
While I totally agree that we need to de-classify corporations as persons (probably the most pernicious single act undermining of our democracy in the last century - and nary a peep!), I don't agree that telemarketing calls are inherently protected speech.
They may run their script about how I've won a trip to a magical kingdom run by a giant leprosy-spreading rodent all they want - but when the pipe it into my house - thus disturbing the quiet enjoyment of my home, that is not protected.
If you think it is protected, tell me your address and I will station myself outside your home with my bullhorn and reiterate my position until you see that this too is harassment.
If they wish to print in the paper their tripe, they may do so (they're called ads).
If they wish to do their speil on the TV or radio, same deal.
If they wish to sit on the town green and do it there - annoying, but protected.
If they - or a heavy breathing mastubator - wants to call me at all times of day or night despite my requests to the contrary - that is harassment, and not protected.
Is it where the ISP is? The address the bill goes to? Will Earthlink register itself (and all its customers) in California? Even those that retrieve thier mail form a terminal in New York? Will I switch to a company that affords me that protection if it's upheld in court? Oh my heavens, yes!
However you seem to forget that in Nordic households, healthcare and *good* schools are functionally free (post-tax), whereas in the US these items are exorbitantly expensive (also post-tax). These costs are negligeble to the uber-rich but completely prohibitive to the lower classes and fast becoming so for the middle-classes.
Yours is not an apples to apples comparison.
I loved Bloom County, but I'm worried that Berke Breathed is a harbinger for what the Chinese call "Interesting Times."
Sky High Defense spending, Moron in the White House, tax cuts for the rich, deficits a go-go. Yep time to trot out Berke!
Take cover!
Slashdot Mirror
I think the bigger threat on the airplane is when the Dad opens the back door to throw it out.
Here you go... This will come in handy when I need to compose a Nam Shub. That'll be 5 clay pots filled with monetary tokens, please.
I've had either two or 6 years to judge (depending on how you do the accounting), I wouldn't say that was especially quick. If you think this guy is leading the US in the right direction - I wouldn't say you were especially quick either. I always wondered where some of that 29% approval rating came from - nice to make your acquaintance.
Dude. Have you SEEN who our President is? Do you remember the election results? It's almost EXACTLY like half the country took a crazy pill or something.
One company made an incomplete accommodation. Another has yet to do so. The possibility for this still exists.
Candidates' speeches given to the public for the express purpose of being placed "in capacity" should be public domain too.
My nation's political discourse is not something to be "given back" to me as a gesture of largesse of the corporations.
Utah Phillips said, "Freedom is something you assume; then you wait for
somebody to try to take it away from you. The degree to which you resist is
the degree to which you are free."
I guess we have a better sense of your degree.
American public political speech for the purposes of running a civil society should be de facto uncopyrightable. This is how you run a (supposed) democracy. If they don't like it, they can pay the entire annual FCC budget for every clip they want to keep to themselves. We GIVE them spectrum, we PAY to defend and protect it for them, this REALLY IS the very least they can do.
Personally, I think they should be compelled to air ??? hours of campaign content to help run the system that makes them their fortunes - it might start to reign-in some of the insane budgets "needed" to "win" office these days.
...it was the Chinese "lasers"!
...until they burst. Look at almost all of the press before Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" claim - it was all boom, no bubble, "new economic paradigm" talk. Hindsight is 20/20, if people had largely identified the bubbles we've had a significant time BEFORE they burst - they probably would have not been bubbles.
e.g:
Stan: "Hey, Bob wanna through your nest-egg in to the stock market? I heard it's a big bubble just waitng to burst!"
Bob:Um...no.
....but I'd LOVE to see him explain it to the TSA officer at the airport or subway.
Try telling that to the Scots and the Irish....
Let the Chtorran War begin! Just when IS he coming out with that Goddamned book, already?!?!?
Oh, there couldn't POSSIBLY be any environmental consequences from everyone doing this on a large scale. Surely, nothing is dependent on that gradient. One big, lukewarm ocean....yup recipe for success.
It's hard to overestimate the influence that Babylon 5 had on American television...
Um, dude, I think you just did...
...it's a bouncing baby black hole.
Length: Theoretically Infinite
Weight: Theoretically Infinite
Mass: Bigger by the second.
That's quite the apgar score!
Actually I was ponting out a semantic slant to the headline. You seem to be inferring, a moral arguement here, where one was not implicitly stated.
But let me explain something to you, Sport: You're right - the ultimate moral failure in employer-employee relations comes with the introduction of force. Guess who usually is the party to do that, and to who's advantage? I'll give you a hint: The Ludlow Massacre
IBM didn't "lose" 13,000 jobs - that sounds as if they misplaced them, or had this happen to them. Not so. IBM *cut* 13,000 jobs. Or *slashed* 13,000 jobs. In a related news item: 13,000 IBM *workers* lost their jobs.
Oops. I mean they don't want people to break their install of Firefox
...it's not supported in Firefox, which the article is about.
snip -- The current version of the PrefBar is 2.2.2, build 20030228. It should work with Mozilla 1.0 to 1.7 (not 1.8a). It does not work with Mozilla Firefox. -- snip
I wonder how will the cross look like then...
It will look like a Star of David, of course!
...Addressed with Corporate Revenue Enhancement Technology (TM)
Glad to see the outrageous hazard cellphones and other RF transmissions pose to airplane avionics is handily mitigated by the application of cash.
While I totally agree that we need to de-classify corporations as persons (probably the most pernicious single act undermining of our democracy in the last century - and nary a peep!), I don't agree that telemarketing calls are inherently protected speech.
They may run their script about how I've won a trip to a magical kingdom run by a giant leprosy-spreading rodent all they want - but when the pipe it into my house - thus disturbing the quiet enjoyment of my home, that is not protected.
If you think it is protected, tell me your address and I will station myself outside your home with my bullhorn and reiterate my position until you see that this too is harassment.
If they wish to print in the paper their tripe, they may do so (they're called ads).
If they wish to do their speil on the TV or radio, same deal.
If they wish to sit on the town green and do it there - annoying, but protected.
If they - or a heavy breathing mastubator - wants to call me at all times of day or night despite my requests to the contrary - that is harassment, and not protected.
Is it where the ISP is? The address the bill goes to? Will Earthlink register itself (and all its customers) in California? Even those that retrieve thier mail form a terminal in New York? Will I switch to a company that affords me that protection if it's upheld in court? Oh my heavens, yes!
However you seem to forget that in Nordic households, healthcare and *good* schools are functionally free (post-tax), whereas in the US these items are exorbitantly expensive (also post-tax). These costs are negligeble to the uber-rich but completely prohibitive to the lower classes and fast becoming so for the middle-classes. Yours is not an apples to apples comparison.
Someone in here recommended Boondocks, so I thought I'd check it out....Funny. Flipping through old strips I found this. Apropos of my earlier post...
I loved Bloom County, but I'm worried that Berke Breathed is a harbinger for what the Chinese call "Interesting Times." Sky High Defense spending, Moron in the White House, tax cuts for the rich, deficits a go-go. Yep time to trot out Berke! Take cover!