When asked if nitrogen would be a more humane way for the state to kill, the leading voice of the American pro-death penalty movement, Professor Robert Blecker, strongly disagrees.
"If the killers who smash their victims on the side of the heads with hammers and then slit their throats go out in a euphoric high, that is not justice."
Google needs them just as much as they need Google.
No, Google doesn't need the AP at ALL. They don't charge for access to their news aggragator, nor do they place ads on it. Either way, it's no skin off Google's nose.
AP is behaving like the record labels - in the face falling sales and file sharing, what do they do? Demand that Apple, the #1 seller of their products, jack up their prices. AP should be THANKING Google for directing readers to sites bearing AP's content. Google should call their bluff and send all those online advertising dollars towards the BBC and Reuters for a while.
That said, Schmidt's idea that newspapers should live in fear of "pissing off" readers is fatuous and lame, and exactly wrong.
How so? Who wants to pay extra for news in 2009? Look at the NYT, they dropped their "Times Select" membership service after they realized they made more money from advertising than from the few people willing to pay for their opinion page and back stories.
Instead of dropping the charges, the DOJ should have asked for a new trial - which is exactly what Steven's attorneys were asking for.
No, the bullshit is that Don Siegleman is still a convict while Steven's walks. The prosecutorial misconduct was far, far, FAR, FAR worse in the case of the former governor than it was for the former senator. Just to start with, the prosecutor who went after Siegleman is married to the campaign manager of Siegleman's opponent.
They do want people looking at, they just want to be paid for their work. You know:
"Information wants to be free, but information purveyors want to be paid."
Straw man. No one is saying AP shouldn't make money. It's because AP is attempting to ignore Fair Use rights so they can nickle and dime (with a few zeroes added) for quoting parts of an article.
This "the information should be free" crap is always posted by people who want *everything* to be "free"...except of course the things THEY produce.
Except of course that's a straw man. No one is claiming that AP doesn't have the right to make money, it's that AP is charging an arm, leg & a kidney for access, and ignoring fair use rights (i.e. threatens to pursue people for quoting a couple paragraphs from a story).
First off, when the activists at Seabrook said "no nukes," it most certainly did not stand for "nuclear weapons." Look it up.
This story is about what Obama said, so that's a red herring. Google that one, too.
Our enemies are, if nothing else, patient.
Also irrelevant. Even if North Korea develops a nuke AND an ICBM in secret AND manages to strike the U.S., we have more than enough conventional weapons to blast the country into bedrock multiple times over.
What makes you think we're going to be able to track the "nation" that used the first strike nuke, if it even is a nation, and not some decentralized covertly funded group with an agenda?
Because producing a nuke (that context thing again) isn't like making homemade dynamite in your basement. It takes considerable time, considerable resources and significant facilities to construct.
Barack Obama seems totally naive on that point, judging by the content of his speeches.
The city I live in in Arizona, where you can carry a handgun with no permit, has gun ownership over 50% of the population. there hasn't been a murder here in 10 years. we only have 20,000 people, but still...
In New York City you can't even own a hand gun, yet many people are killed by handguns.
Intersting, no?
Interesting, no. Laughable, yes. Of course you'll see more murders in NYC than in a town of 20,000 people, because NYC is 400 times bigger, dumbass.
Sure, countries may try and stash to a few nukes. But if the vast majority are destroyed, then we don't have to worry about nuclear winter for most of the planet. And even those last few will be used as last resort, as any nation that uses nukes as first-strike weapons will be a pariah.
The problem is, a power plant program can (and likely will) be used to make weapons.
1. That takes more work 2. Any nation that uses nukes as first-strike weapons will be a pariah
We'll see how he executes his plans, or us.
And what flavor of wingnut kool-aid are you drinking this morning? Whatever happened to the militia types when Bush was spying on Americans and arguing he had the right to lock them up without a warrant or trial, and torture them?
They tend to spend most of their time digging the country out of the cluster fuck the Republicans got us in
Fixed that for you.
Obama pledged in the campaign to run an open and transparent administration
And in most areas, he has. Exceptions would be with his finance team (who should be fired) and lack of will to investigate/overturn Bush's unconstitutional war policies.
He promised that he'd not sign any bill until the people had some time to read it
Under the alternative Constitution that exists in your mind? The president has 10 days to sign or veto a bill.
He promised change so us wingnuts are going to respond with the usual blathering, raving & ranting, lying, and pathetic attempts at misdirection
Fixed that too. Obama may indeed fail to get the job done - but if that happens, it will be because he was too conservative to do what was necessary.
Great example indeed. Contrast the media attention paid to Spitzer's hooker problem vs Diaper David Vitter. We're still hearing about Spitzer today, while Vitter was a two day story. Republicans in the NY state senate threatened to start impeachment hearings against Spitzer if he didn't resign within 24 hours after his initial press conference. When Vitter returned to the U.S. Senate, instead of expulsion hearings the Senate Republicans gave him a standing ovation.
Reality's well known anti-conservative bias continues it's undefeated streak....
Unfortunately, most news sources in the US are biased, and the number of mainstream media outlets with liberal leanings appear to outnumber the conservative ones.
Except of course that is demonstrably false. Conservative writers dominate editorial pages and conservative commentators dominateTV.
On the national level: CNN, which has lost all credibility as a news source, is mostly iReporters and Hollywood gossip, and engage in constant concern trolling on Democrats
On the matter of outrageous bonuses for failed AIG leadership, why aren't we hearing about Franklin Rains cleaning up at Fannie Mae while he was simultaneously setting off a global recession?
Because that's a bile of BS Republican misdirection. Nevermind the 1:60 ratio between assets and liabilities that investment firms were taking on, nevermind the complete lack of oversight from the SEC, it's all the fault of FM/FM and the CRA.
If you are a typical/.er, then you should possess the wherewithal to upgrade the memory, hd, and optical drives for both of these models. Moreover, if you outgrow your mac, then the resale value is going to hold.
What if he wants more than one internal drive. What if he wants a high end consumer graphics card but doesn't want to pay for a quad core Xeon. Apple does have a significant hole in their lineup with the absence of a midrange tower.
It's just a common way for Mac fans to show how the prices of their systems aren't too high
Because PC fanboys like to compare a couple stats (size of screen, memory) while ignoring significant differences (size, weight, memory speed, graphics, etc).
If you don't want to buy a Mac because you don't way to pay for XYZ feature, then go ahead and buy from someone other than Apple. No skin of either of your noses.
There's also been a bit of a hole in the lineup since they stopped making the 12" Powerbook. While the vanilla Macbook can now use a 30" display, it still uses shared video memory and just lost Firewire.
The other big hole, of course, is a mid range tower. There are plenty of people that would like to have a dual core desktop with room for 4 internal hard drives (especially when ZFS support is added in Snow Leopard) but don't want to shell out $2500 for a base system.
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That only takes into account the president. The president can't pass spending laws.
But it's the president that submits the budget to Congress.
George W. Bush had a Democratic Majority House & Congress.
Interesting - were you in a coma from 2000-2006?
Really, you think pacifists (or whatever your preferred brand of idealist) are the only ones with ideals? How naive.
So we can make conjectures on what your thoughts are, and then belittle you for them?
What an asshole.
Yup. From YFA:
Google needs them just as much as they need Google.
No, Google doesn't need the AP at ALL. They don't charge for access to their news aggragator, nor do they place ads on it. Either way, it's no skin off Google's nose.
AP is behaving like the record labels - in the face falling sales and file sharing, what do they do? Demand that Apple, the #1 seller of their products, jack up their prices. AP should be THANKING Google for directing readers to sites bearing AP's content. Google should call their bluff and send all those online advertising dollars towards the BBC and Reuters for a while.
That said, Schmidt's idea that newspapers should live in fear of "pissing off" readers is fatuous and lame, and exactly wrong.
How so? Who wants to pay extra for news in 2009? Look at the NYT, they dropped their "Times Select" membership service after they realized they made more money from advertising than from the few people willing to pay for their opinion page and back stories.
How do you "taint" known facts, exactly? New jury, new trial, no problem.
Instead of dropping the charges, the DOJ should have asked for a new trial - which is exactly what Steven's attorneys were asking for.
No, the bullshit is that Don Siegleman is still a convict while Steven's walks. The prosecutorial misconduct was far, far, FAR, FAR worse in the case of the former governor than it was for the former senator. Just to start with, the prosecutor who went after Siegleman is married to the campaign manager of Siegleman's opponent.
They do want people looking at, they just want to be paid for their work. You know:
"Information wants to be free, but information purveyors want to be paid."
Straw man. No one is saying AP shouldn't make money. It's because AP is attempting to ignore Fair Use rights so they can nickle and dime (with a few zeroes added) for quoting parts of an article.
This "the information should be free" crap is always posted by people who want *everything* to be "free"...except of course the things THEY produce.
Except of course that's a straw man. No one is claiming that AP doesn't have the right to make money, it's that AP is charging an arm, leg & a kidney for access, and ignoring fair use rights (i.e. threatens to pursue people for quoting a couple paragraphs from a story).
First off, when the activists at Seabrook said "no nukes," it most certainly did not stand for "nuclear weapons." Look it up.
This story is about what Obama said, so that's a red herring. Google that one, too.
Our enemies are, if nothing else, patient.
Also irrelevant. Even if North Korea develops a nuke AND an ICBM in secret AND manages to strike the U.S., we have more than enough conventional weapons to blast the country into bedrock multiple times over.
What makes you think we're going to be able to track the "nation" that used the first strike nuke, if it even is a nation, and not some decentralized covertly funded group with an agenda?
Because producing a nuke (that context thing again) isn't like making homemade dynamite in your basement. It takes considerable time, considerable resources and significant facilities to construct.
Barack Obama seems totally naive on that point, judging by the content of his speeches.
[Citation needed]
We have thousands of car fatal car accidents a year...so we should ban personal transportation as well?
Transportation is necessary. Guns are not.
Because they happened?
Gun violence goes down with jobs and decent wages for the middle class, and WITHOUT prohibition.
Fixed that for you.
The city I live in in Arizona, where you can carry a handgun with no permit, has gun ownership over 50% of the population. there hasn't been a murder here in 10 years. we only have 20,000 people, but still...
In New York City you can't even own a hand gun, yet many people are killed by handguns.
Intersting, no?
Interesting, no. Laughable, yes. Of course you'll see more murders in NYC than in a town of 20,000 people, because NYC is 400 times bigger, dumbass.
Also meant to add, is it really appropriate to give someone pictures/video/audio of yourself as a gift?
Um, did you read the part of the story where it mentions the gift Obama got from the Queen? The gift she gives to all guests?
Sure, countries may try and stash to a few nukes. But if the vast majority are destroyed, then we don't have to worry about nuclear winter for most of the planet. And even those last few will be used as last resort, as any nation that uses nukes as first-strike weapons will be a pariah.
1. That takes more work
2. Any nation that uses nukes as first-strike weapons will be a pariah
And what flavor of wingnut kool-aid are you drinking this morning? Whatever happened to the militia types when Bush was spying on Americans and arguing he had the right to lock them up without a warrant or trial, and torture them?
They tend to spend most of their time digging the country out of the cluster fuck the Republicans got us in
Fixed that for you.
Obama pledged in the campaign to run an open and transparent administration
And in most areas, he has. Exceptions would be with his finance team (who should be fired) and lack of will to investigate/overturn Bush's unconstitutional war policies.
He promised that he'd not sign any bill until the people had some time to read it
Under the alternative Constitution that exists in your mind? The president has 10 days to sign or veto a bill.
He promised change so us wingnuts are going to respond with the usual blathering, raving & ranting, lying, and pathetic attempts at misdirection
Fixed that too. Obama may indeed fail to get the job done - but if that happens, it will be because he was too conservative to do what was necessary.
Here's a great recent example.
Great example indeed. Contrast the media attention paid to Spitzer's hooker problem vs Diaper David Vitter. We're still hearing about Spitzer today, while Vitter was a two day story. Republicans in the NY state senate threatened to start impeachment hearings against Spitzer if he didn't resign within 24 hours after his initial press conference. When Vitter returned to the U.S. Senate, instead of expulsion hearings the Senate Republicans gave him a standing ovation.
Reality's well known anti-conservative bias continues it's undefeated streak....
Unfortunately, most news sources in the US are biased, and the number of mainstream media outlets with liberal leanings appear to outnumber the conservative ones.
Except of course that is demonstrably false. Conservative writers dominate editorial pages and conservative commentators dominate TV.
On the national level: CNN, which has lost all credibility as a news source, is mostly iReporters and Hollywood gossip, and engage in constant concern trolling on Democrats
Fixed that for you.
Only if you are too stupid to realize that a company can't make money on unreleased products. You're arguing a distinction without a difference.
On the matter of outrageous bonuses for failed AIG leadership, why aren't we hearing about Franklin Rains cleaning up at Fannie Mae while he was simultaneously setting off a global recession?
Because that's a bile of BS Republican misdirection. Nevermind the 1:60 ratio between assets and liabilities that investment firms were taking on, nevermind the complete lack of oversight from the SEC, it's all the fault of FM/FM and the CRA.
If you are a typical /.er, then you should possess the wherewithal to upgrade the memory, hd, and optical drives for both of these models. Moreover, if you outgrow your mac, then the resale value is going to hold.
What if he wants more than one internal drive. What if he wants a high end consumer graphics card but doesn't want to pay for a quad core Xeon. Apple does have a significant hole in their lineup with the absence of a midrange tower.
It's just a common way for Mac fans to show how the prices of their systems aren't too high
Because PC fanboys like to compare a couple stats (size of screen, memory) while ignoring significant differences (size, weight, memory speed, graphics, etc).
If you don't want to buy a Mac because you don't way to pay for XYZ feature, then go ahead and buy from someone other than Apple. No skin of either of your noses.
There's also been a bit of a hole in the lineup since they stopped making the 12" Powerbook. While the vanilla Macbook can now use a 30" display, it still uses shared video memory and just lost Firewire.
The other big hole, of course, is a mid range tower. There are plenty of people that would like to have a dual core desktop with room for 4 internal hard drives (especially when ZFS support is added in Snow Leopard) but don't want to shell out $2500 for a base system.