You can learn quite a lot about it here, and in a couple of months, you should be able to buy my translation of The Silent Change, which is mentioned there.
Your translation? Does that mean it's going to be like the Spanish dub of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where it sounds like one guy did all the voices in the movie - including the girl's?
But the management was the worst of the worst. I think there was a factory in Argentina where the union kept the shop going after the owners went bust. Too bad the 30,000 employees of Circut City that still have their souls couldn't do the same thing.
But holy shit, now I know what they meant. I fucking love Cowboy Bebop, I fucking LOVE it, and now Hollywood is going to fuck it up the ass.
Just take shelter in your Samurai Champloo DVD's, until they turn that series into a movie as well. It'll probably star Stiffler, I mean Seann William Scott as Mugen, Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes (who looks like Keanu's younger, retarded half-brother) as Jin, and Lindsey Lohan as Fuu.
Err, no. When I opened by old Archos Jukebox mp3 player I found a 2.5" laptop hard drive.
A valid nit. The Archos did indeed come out before the iPod, and used a 2.5" hard drive. However, it was two and a half times as big and weighed almost twice as much as the first iPod. It was also hobbled by USB 1.1 and Musicmatch, which was nicely described in a Penny Arcade strip (that I unfortunately can't find but do remember):
Tycho: Imagine iTunes as a fresh orange, glistening with morning dew... Johnathan: Okay.... Tycho: And Musicmatch is a bag filled with dog poop. Johnathan: Yuck! Dog poop isn't even food! Tycho: Exactly.
Translation: you're a Kool Aid drinking anti-Apple fanboy, a breed vastly more common than the Apple fanboy. Apple could cure cancer and legalize pot, and you'd still find something to bitch about.
Ron Paul has a record trying to pass anti-liberty legislation.
Fixed that for you. Ron Paul is one of the Libertarians that believes that the federal government doesn't have the authority to enforce the Bill of Rights on state governments. He introduced the We the People Act, which would strip federal courts to hear cases over the first amendment, gay rights and abortion rights.
So in other words, say you live in a third world state like Georgia, and the state government passes a law mandating Southern Baptist led prayer in public schools. If you object, sad day for you.
mp3 players might have been drab before the iPod, but they were certainly far from useless.
Are you forgetting that Apple was the first to use a 5 gig micro hard drive? Everything else was either tiny flash memory (64-256 megs) or heavy desktop hard drives. And Apple used 400 Mpbs Firewire when everything else used 11 Mpbs USB 1.1.
You can argue the iPod was priced high, or that it's nothing special now. You can't argue that it wasn't revolutionary when it came out.
1. Apple was the first to use a micro hard drive. 2. Everything else was either a tiny flash memory player (64 megs) or used a heavy desktop drive. 3. Apple used 400 Mbps Firewire when everyone else used 11 Mbps USB 1.1. 4. They had a good hardware/software interface.
As to point #4, I remember a nice Penny Arcade strip from way back (which unfortunately I can't find right now) where Jonathan asks Tycho how well Musicmatch staked up against iTunes. It went something like this:
Tycho: Imagine iTunes as a fresh orange, glistening with morning dew...
Johnathan: Okay...." Tycho: And Musicmatch is a bag filled with dog poop. Johnathan: Yuck! Dog poop isn't even food! Tycho: Exactly.
See point #1. There's a reason why politicians fall for "think of the children" arguments: because nothing is more political than a parent's children. If you didn't have teacher unions, teachers would constantly be fighting for their jobs if they give a bad grade to Jimmy Bob, son of Upstanding Member of the Community, James Bob.
And as far as teacher quality goes: you get what you pay for. You can't expect high quality professionals on > $25,000 a year starting salary. But I've never, ever, ever seen a Republican bitch about teacher unions AND ask for his property taxes to be raised so better teachers can be hired.
However, what was the average hourly wage for workers in the auto industry in north america the past 10 years compared to europe or asia?
What's the average executive wage at Honda or Mercedes compared to Detroit? Funny how you never see Republicans complaining about THOSE numbers, even when the CEO of GM ($16 million a year salary) presides over a $70 BILLION loss for the company.
Unions are only a problem in this respect if they are able to maintain overvalued compensation for their workers
Isn't it amazing how that only applies to the worker, and never the executive.
No, what's laughable is worker-hating wingnuts arguing points that have been pre-debunked. So called free trade laws mean that Americans have to compete with workers that have no overtime laws or health & safety regulations. I say "free trade" because the agreements are only free on the bottom: you'll actually find plenty of legal conditions in free trade agreements, they just benefit big business (see: copyrights and patents).
but that doesn't make it any less true for those of use who can actually think.
Go ahead and let us know when you actually start doing that.
That sounds like a reasonable way of calculating it.
No, it's a bald-faced lie. It takes the total compensation paid to current and retired workers and divides it by the number of current workers only. The "$71 an hour" canard is a massively dishonest Republican talking point, but I repeat myself.
No, unions do not prevent people from being fired for cause.
Pro-athletes, writers, directors, and actors can make vast sums of money, are rewarded for success and creativity, and yet are members of unions. There is nothing about unions that would prevent you from making that six figure salary and getting that Viper you've wanted since you were 16 - nothing.
Yes, sometimes unions make mistakes, and some union members are lazy. But who hasn't worked at a non-union shop and seen lazy people who manage to keep their jobs.
Enron. Worldcom. Bear Sterns. Morgan Stanley. AIG. CitiGroup. Big companies that probably managed to lose a trillion dollars between them. Therefore, big companies are bad, will never work, and should be eliminated. Hey, it's the same tired argument that get's used against unions.
Unions haven't driven a single job overseas. Not one. You can blame executive greed and "free" trade for that.
No, union workers in Detroit do *not* earn $71 an hour. That figure is a lie, created by adding up all the compensation paid to current workers and the benefit costs to retired members, and dividing that by the current number of workers.
You work hard, you get rewarded. That's how it's supposed to work in this country. Yet if the minimum wage had increased at the same rate as the rise in productivity from the American worker, it would be $19 an hour today. If it had increased at the same rate as CEO compensation, it would be over $50 today.
Union workers make at least 11% more in compensation, have more vacation time, have *much* better health benefits, and have much greater job security than non-union workers. You may think you can do a better job negotiating alone, but it's simply not going to be the case. Unless...
Finally, say you really are the hot shit you think you are, AND ignore point #2 above. If you really are 10x as smart and work 10x as hard as the next guy, you don't want to be a worker bee in any case - you want to be in upper management, where union rules don't apply.
...if you were a complete moron who's trying to have his own set of facts to back up his opinions.
It normally takes a few years to achieve this much scandal but he's not even in office and he has corruption (Blogo's relationship to Chief-of-staff Emmanuael
Ah, the "associations" bullshit again. Emanuel was a prominent congressman from Illinois - and Blago was the governor of Illinois. OF COURSE there will have been times when they have talked. Even Fox says there was only one conversation between them on the subject of Obama's replacement to the Senate.
Bill Richardson
Withdrew his name for consideration as he came under investigation. What's your point?
David Rubin
Who donated money to Richardson in an alleged pay-to-play scheme...which is Obama's fault how, exactly?
AND backpedaling on stated policy (withdraw from Iraq), etc.
Just how stupid are you, really? Obama's position on Iraq has been nothing but consistent: a flexible withdrawl over the course of 16 months.
If you want to bitch about Obama, there are plenty of substantive criticisms to make - his FISA flip flop, having his head up Israel's ass, picking the bigoted Rick Warren to be a part of his inauguration - without having to make dumb shit up.
And that does....what exactly to change the fact that Israel launched the sneak attack that started the war in 1967? Or that if Israel's stance is that a blockade is justification for a military assault, that Hamas is perfectly justified in their rocket attacks into Israel?
It does jack shit, that's what. But you do have your nick to uphold.
It is a SEVERE war crime, Perfidy to do what those two militants did. You are expressing outrage at the wrong side. Those two Hamas Militants caused the deaths of 68 civilians by engaging in Perfidy, their families should be mourning and begging for forgiveness for the acts of their kin.
Those militants didn't use "human shields", they went home. By your logic, if Hamas sent suicide bombers to the home of the Israeli prime minister, and killed his entire extended family in the process, would the PM be guilty of using human shields? Of course not, that's nonsense - but that's what you are spouting.
NEARLY EVERY SINGLE CIVILIAN CASUALTY IN GAZA WOULD be AVOIDED IF THE MILITANTS WORE UNIFORMS AND AVOIDED CIVILIAN AREAS, requirements of a militia under the laws of war.
THERE IS NO PLACE FOR THEM TO AVOID CIVILIANS, YOU FUCKING JACKASS. Gaza is packed with people - there is no place you can go to and be away from civilians. Nowhere.
And to put your bullshit to bed, Israel started the 1967 war with a sneak attack on the Egyptian air force, because Egypt blockaded the Straits of Tiran.
So by Israeli logic, Hamas is PERFECTLY JUSTIFED in FIRING ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL in response to the blockade of Gaza.
But it's informed speculation. Apple has always treated the iTunes store as a loss leader (although they do make a small profit from it) so they have no need or desire to maintain DRM on their end. The iPod is their cash cow, not the store.
PS2 was top selling video console of all time but you said they blew it
He means they blew it in terms of developers. Making games for the top selling console is a no-brainer, no matter how hard it is to develop for. But with a new ball of wax (PS3/360/Wii), why bother with the hassle?
I really get the impression from the blog this guy was pretty antagonistic over being stopped when he thought he was in bounds, so to speak.
He had a right to be antagonistic as they had zero reason to hassle him, just as a young man being pulled over for DWB has a reason to be pissed at the officers.
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You can learn quite a lot about it here, and in a couple of months, you should be able to buy my translation of The Silent Change, which is mentioned there.
Your translation? Does that mean it's going to be like the Spanish dub of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where it sounds like one guy did all the voices in the movie - including the girl's?
But the management was the worst of the worst. I think there was a factory in Argentina where the union kept the shop going after the owners went bust. Too bad the 30,000 employees of Circut City that still have their souls couldn't do the same thing.
But holy shit, now I know what they meant. I fucking love Cowboy Bebop, I fucking LOVE it, and now Hollywood is going to fuck it up the ass.
Just take shelter in your Samurai Champloo DVD's, until they turn that series into a movie as well. It'll probably star Stiffler, I mean Seann William Scott as Mugen, Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes (who looks like Keanu's younger, retarded half-brother) as Jin, and Lindsey Lohan as Fuu.
You do know Q3A was open sourced, right?
Err, no. When I opened by old Archos Jukebox mp3 player I found a 2.5" laptop hard drive.
A valid nit. The Archos did indeed come out before the iPod, and used a 2.5" hard drive. However, it was two and a half times as big and weighed almost twice as much as the first iPod. It was also hobbled by USB 1.1 and Musicmatch, which was nicely described in a Penny Arcade strip (that I unfortunately can't find but do remember):
Tycho: Imagine iTunes as a fresh orange, glistening with morning dew...
Johnathan: Okay....
Tycho: And Musicmatch is a bag filled with dog poop.
Johnathan: Yuck! Dog poop isn't even food!
Tycho: Exactly.
Translation: you're a Kool Aid drinking anti-Apple fanboy, a breed vastly more common than the Apple fanboy. Apple could cure cancer and legalize pot, and you'd still find something to bitch about.
Ron Paul has a record trying to pass anti-liberty legislation.
Fixed that for you. Ron Paul is one of the Libertarians that believes that the federal government doesn't have the authority to enforce the Bill of Rights on state governments. He introduced the We the People Act, which would strip federal courts to hear cases over the first amendment, gay rights and abortion rights.
So in other words, say you live in a third world state like Georgia, and the state government passes a law mandating Southern Baptist led prayer in public schools. If you object, sad day for you.
Um, what? I ran Front Row just fine on my Macbook, now my Macbook Pro just fine. Minis, too.
The only thing that's out is the Mac Pro tower.
mp3 players might have been drab before the iPod, but they were certainly far from useless.
Are you forgetting that Apple was the first to use a 5 gig micro hard drive? Everything else was either tiny flash memory (64-256 megs) or heavy desktop hard drives. And Apple used 400 Mpbs Firewire when everything else used 11 Mpbs USB 1.1.
You can argue the iPod was priced high, or that it's nothing special now. You can't argue that it wasn't revolutionary when it came out.
This was modded +5 Insightful?!
It was because it was. See my response to defaria downthread.
I'm kind of sick of facts
Fixed that for you. Facts:
1. Apple was the first to use a micro hard drive.
2. Everything else was either a tiny flash memory player (64 megs) or used a heavy desktop drive.
3. Apple used 400 Mbps Firewire when everyone else used 11 Mbps USB 1.1.
4. They had a good hardware/software interface.
As to point #4, I remember a nice Penny Arcade strip from way back (which unfortunately I can't find right now) where Jonathan asks Tycho how well Musicmatch staked up against iTunes. It went something like this:
Tycho: Imagine iTunes as a fresh orange, glistening with morning dew...
Johnathan: Okay...."
Tycho: And Musicmatch is a bag filled with dog poop.
Johnathan: Yuck! Dog poop isn't even food!
Tycho: Exactly.
Teachers' unions keep bad teachers employed
See point #1. There's a reason why politicians fall for "think of the children" arguments: because nothing is more political than a parent's children. If you didn't have teacher unions, teachers would constantly be fighting for their jobs if they give a bad grade to Jimmy Bob, son of Upstanding Member of the Community, James Bob.
And as far as teacher quality goes: you get what you pay for. You can't expect high quality professionals on > $25,000 a year starting salary. But I've never, ever, ever seen a Republican bitch about teacher unions AND ask for his property taxes to be raised so better teachers can be hired.
Here's the catch: IT isn't a typical blue-collar job.
Yes, it's the only non-athletic profession where 90% of the workers feel like they are in all in the top 5% in performance.
This example is not an exaggeration.
Sure it is. See points 3 and 4, and the massive contractor waste in Iraq.
However, what was the average hourly wage for workers in the auto industry in north america the past 10 years compared to europe or asia?
What's the average executive wage at Honda or Mercedes compared to Detroit? Funny how you never see Republicans complaining about THOSE numbers, even when the CEO of GM ($16 million a year salary) presides over a $70 BILLION loss for the company.
Unions are only a problem in this respect if they are able to maintain overvalued compensation for their workers
Isn't it amazing how that only applies to the worker, and never the executive.
This is laughable.
No, what's laughable is worker-hating wingnuts arguing points that have been pre-debunked. So called free trade laws mean that Americans have to compete with workers that have no overtime laws or health & safety regulations. I say "free trade" because the agreements are only free on the bottom: you'll actually find plenty of legal conditions in free trade agreements, they just benefit big business (see: copyrights and patents).
but that doesn't make it any less true for those of use who can actually think.
Go ahead and let us know when you actually start doing that.
That sounds like a reasonable way of calculating it.
No, it's a bald-faced lie. It takes the total compensation paid to current and retired workers and divides it by the number of current workers only. The "$71 an hour" canard is a massively dishonest Republican talking point, but I repeat myself.
No, unions do not prevent people from being fired for cause.
Pro-athletes, writers, directors, and actors can make vast sums of money, are rewarded for success and creativity, and yet are members of unions. There is nothing about unions that would prevent you from making that six figure salary and getting that Viper you've wanted since you were 16 - nothing.
Yes, sometimes unions make mistakes, and some union members are lazy. But who hasn't worked at a non-union shop and seen lazy people who manage to keep their jobs.
Enron. Worldcom. Bear Sterns. Morgan Stanley. AIG. CitiGroup. Big companies that probably managed to lose a trillion dollars between them. Therefore, big companies are bad, will never work, and should be eliminated. Hey, it's the same tired argument that get's used against unions.
Unions haven't driven a single job overseas. Not one. You can blame executive greed and "free" trade for that.
No, union workers in Detroit do *not* earn $71 an hour. That figure is a lie, created by adding up all the compensation paid to current workers and the benefit costs to retired members, and dividing that by the current number of workers.
You work hard, you get rewarded. That's how it's supposed to work in this country. Yet if the minimum wage had increased at the same rate as the rise in productivity from the American worker, it would be $19 an hour today. If it had increased at the same rate as CEO compensation, it would be over $50 today.
Union workers make at least 11% more in compensation, have more vacation time, have *much* better health benefits, and have much greater job security than non-union workers. You may think you can do a better job negotiating alone, but it's simply not going to be the case. Unless...
Finally, say you really are the hot shit you think you are, AND ignore point #2 above. If you really are 10x as smart and work 10x as hard as the next guy, you don't want to be a worker bee in any case - you want to be in upper management, where union rules don't apply.
...if you were a complete moron who's trying to have his own set of facts to back up his opinions.
It normally takes a few years to achieve this much scandal but he's not even in office and he has corruption (Blogo's relationship to Chief-of-staff Emmanuael
Ah, the "associations" bullshit again. Emanuel was a prominent congressman from Illinois - and Blago was the governor of Illinois. OF COURSE there will have been times when they have talked. Even Fox says there was only one conversation between them on the subject of Obama's replacement to the Senate.
Bill Richardson
Withdrew his name for consideration as he came under investigation. What's your point?
David Rubin
Who donated money to Richardson in an alleged pay-to-play scheme...which is Obama's fault how, exactly?
AND backpedaling on stated policy (withdraw from Iraq), etc.
Just how stupid are you, really? Obama's position on Iraq has been nothing but consistent: a flexible withdrawl over the course of 16 months.
If you want to bitch about Obama, there are plenty of substantive criticisms to make - his FISA flip flop, having his head up Israel's ass, picking the bigoted Rick Warren to be a part of his inauguration - without having to make dumb shit up.
...and as Hollywood is Big Business, Republicans are also pro-Hollywood.
And that does....what exactly to change the fact that Israel launched the sneak attack that started the war in 1967? Or that if Israel's stance is that a blockade is justification for a military assault, that Hamas is perfectly justified in their rocket attacks into Israel?
It does jack shit, that's what. But you do have your nick to uphold.
It is a SEVERE war crime, Perfidy to do what those two militants did. You are expressing outrage at the wrong side. Those two Hamas Militants caused the deaths of 68 civilians by engaging in Perfidy, their families should be mourning and begging for forgiveness for the acts of their kin.
Those militants didn't use "human shields", they went home. By your logic, if Hamas sent suicide bombers to the home of the Israeli prime minister, and killed his entire extended family in the process, would the PM be guilty of using human shields? Of course not, that's nonsense - but that's what you are spouting.
NEARLY EVERY SINGLE CIVILIAN CASUALTY IN GAZA WOULD be AVOIDED IF THE MILITANTS WORE UNIFORMS AND AVOIDED CIVILIAN AREAS, requirements of a militia under the laws of war.
THERE IS NO PLACE FOR THEM TO AVOID CIVILIANS, YOU FUCKING JACKASS. Gaza is packed with people - there is no place you can go to and be away from civilians. Nowhere.
And to put your bullshit to bed, Israel started the 1967 war with a sneak attack on the Egyptian air force, because Egypt blockaded the Straits of Tiran.
So by Israeli logic, Hamas is PERFECTLY JUSTIFED in FIRING ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL in response to the blockade of Gaza.
That's speculation.
But it's informed speculation. Apple has always treated the iTunes store as a loss leader (although they do make a small profit from it) so they have no need or desire to maintain DRM on their end. The iPod is their cash cow, not the store.
PS2 was top selling video console of all time but you said they blew it
He means they blew it in terms of developers. Making games for the top selling console is a no-brainer, no matter how hard it is to develop for. But with a new ball of wax (PS3/360/Wii), why bother with the hassle?
I really get the impression from the blog this guy was pretty antagonistic over being stopped when he thought he was in bounds, so to speak.
He had a right to be antagonistic as they had zero reason to hassle him, just as a young man being pulled over for DWB has a reason to be pissed at the officers.
He rode the train. He wasn't loitering. He wasn't trespassing. Especially when passengers were invited by Amtrak to take photos for a contest.