Yes, I'm sure Republicans, who would launch Congressional investigations if Clinton so much as farted in an elevator, would have been delighted if he dumped a military operation in Afghanistan into the lap of an incoming Republican president.
No. Political reconciliation is not something you resolve with combat forces.
Tell that to the Bush administration.
The purpose of the surge was to *finally* provide a basic level of security in Iraq so that the Iraqis themselves could rise to counter the insurgency.
No, the point is that you wont see an end to the insurgency until there is political reconciliation. The surge was to provide stability so that reconciliation could take place, no ifs, ands, ors or buts. It doesn't matter if the surge finds Saddam's nuclear program or the cure for cancer: if there is no reconciliation, the surge failed at what it was meant to do.
how about the accessory market for iPods, which requires special licensing and fees?
Good job, you named another one. But the problem with is.....what, exactly? If Bose wants to sell a fancy iPod doc for over $200, why is it unreasonable for Apple to get a chunk from an accessory market that they created?
Airtunes, Airtunes, Airtunes
There's a difference between "proprietary" and "not holding your hand". This is a case of the latter:
With Airfoil you can take audio from any application and send to your AirPort Express units, as well as Apple TVs, and even other Macs and PCs running Airfoil Speakers! Transmit audio from RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, and other media players. Send audio from web-based applications like Pandora, Last.fm, and more. You can even stream audio from audio devices like RadioSHARK, XM and Sirius radios, all around your house.
Heck, how about this very patent? You "Yawn" about it because everybody abuses patents, which makes Apple a saint of course, because Microsoft does it too.
Yes, yawn. Apple is not a patent troll. If you want examples of that, look at how Adobe and Macromedia would sue eachother every six months over lame patents.
The problem of the anti-Mac fanboys is that they're making false comparisons between Microsoft (a convicted monopolist) and Apple, which doesn't have a monopoly on anything. If you don't like FairPlay or the licensing fee, nothing is preventing you from having a similar experience with similar devices from other manufacturers.
That a company doesn't operate the way you want it too != design flaw or abusive practice. Porche wont sell me a 911 Turbo for $30,000, but you don't see me whine about it.
I'm not an Apple fan because of their tendency to use proprietary standards
Nah, that's just your excuse for drinking the hatorade. Their GUI is proprietary, FairPlay is proprietary, as well as their phones. Can you name anything else?
On the other hand, you have PCI/IDE/SATA/1394/BSD/Apache/Intel/USB/GCC/Ethernet/OpenGL/802.11/Bluetooth.
But I think it's definitely moving towards the point where you (as TFA says) are embarrassed to be an Apple fan. This sort of action is just petty.
Yawn. Good luck finding tech companies that DON'T have crazy patents. The way the current system is set up, you have an incentive to file as many patents as you can, so if somebody sues you for bogus patent xyz you can counter-sue for bogus patent abc.
Don't you remember this story? Domestic "law enforcement" has been chomping at the bit to get these toys. I just hope the courts reign them in, like when they wouldn't let LEO's use heat scanners from the street to see if people were growing pot inside their homes (from the heat given off by lamps).
The entire Iraqi operation was supposed to be over, from invasion to pull out, in six weeks. Six months at the most, according to Rumsfeld. How's that working out for us?
The entire purpose of the surge was to provide stability so political reconciliation could happen. It's failed. Meanwhile, Bushco talks about how "the surge is over" while the troop levels are still much higher than they were pre-surge.
The United States routinely hits military and economic targets when it's bombing some country back into the stone age. What were the Pentagon and the WTC? Military and economic targets.
This is why we need to watch what we do (i.e. not torture people) because we don't get to have one standard for ourselves and a much higher one for everyone else.
And before you guys flame me, I'm an Arab living in Israel, and I'm sick of hearing people here wail the same thing over and over again when an "innocent" person gets killed in Gaza.
is about as believable as a wingnut like yourself claiming that Jimmy Carter was your favorite president.
How many terrorists were in the Chinese embassy that we bombed ten years ago in Belgrade? How many Al Queda operatives were in the Al Jazeera office that we "accidentally" bombed in Iraq? How many Taliban fighters was Pat Tillman standing next to when he was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan? And why are you talking about Pakistan when the parent was talking about a bombing in Afghanistan?
Claiming that the military never fucks up and that "there's always one target" in the crowd is fantasy at best, and a flat out lie at worst.
Boy I'm glad I'm not physically close to Bush/Cheney/Condi/Wolfowitz/Rumsfield/Yoo/Powell then, so I don't have to worry when those war criminals are bombed.
And fiber would be less likely to be stolen, I imagine. I work for a TV station and someone just broke into one of our sites and made off with a $25,000 spool of copper wire.
I am comparing apples to apples, because there are games that simply will not run on my old computer from 2003, let alone one from 2000.
Ah, so it's double standards then. That DX10 games will not run on hardware from 2000 counts against PC's, but the fact that PS3 games wont run on a PS2 from 2000 doesn't count against the PS2.
And then you got the folks like the stereotypical PC gamer with two cards that eat up two slots each, and a half a dozen loud fans who spends more time playing benchmarks for bragging points on his e-penis than playing games.
As opposed to the Playstation fanboy with a $1000 stereo system and a 73" TV?
If the games are the most important thing, then why the big fuss over "in one year my PC will have a better GPU than the PS3"? Because too many PC gamers care more about the hardware behind games than games themselves.
No, because console fanboys always brag about how the next console will wipe PC's off the face of the map, while they're comparing current PC hardware to future console hardware, i.e. vaporware.
I can just pick up the game and know I'll be playing it as it's meant to be played. No muss, no fuss.
No fuss, no muss, and no expansion. Mods can add hundreds or even thousands of hours to a game. See: Counter-Strike, Team Fortress.
Infinite hardware combination possibilities are part of the reason PC games will always require patching.
Red herring. Developers don't have to worry about infinite combinations, they have to worry about DirectX. And even if tweaking is required, they only have to worry about ATI and Nvidia. Sloppy PC games aren't the fault of PC hardware, they're the fault of publishers who ignore serious bugs to make a release date. While consoles do have an advantage of a single hardware spec and API's, console games can't (for the most part) be patched after the fact, so serious bugs that would be shipped for a PC release are actually fixed for the console.
Right, which explains why MSNBC fired Donahue for questioning the Iraq war when he had the highest rated show on the network in 2003, and why they just benched Keith Olberman when he has the highest ratings for MSNBC in 2008.
As is usually the case dumbass, take the opposite of your opinion and we have reality.
Wrong, that was Ford, and only after Congress refused additional funding. LBJ may have started the quagmire in Vietnam, but Nixon escalated the hell out of it.
Palin mocked his community organizer gig after he dissed her qualifications (when asked) by completely downplaying her mayoral experience
Garbage.
1) McCain camp mocks Obama for months for his supposed lack of experience 2) McCain then appoints someone with far, far less experience than Obama 3) Obama camp rightly points out McCain's hypocrisy by pointing to Palin's razor thin resume 4) McCain camp pretends to be victims, saying Obama "made us do it" while they smear him some more.
Obama has spent months touting his judgment in opposing the invasion of Iraq and supporting additional troops to Afghanistan. Imagine if he then picked Donald Rumsfeld as his running mate, and then tried to spin the subsequent Republican cries of "bullshit!" by saying that were just highlighting McCain's own lack of judgment.
Considering that the vast majority of American(possibly all, but I'm not certain) logging companies specifically plant their own supply to avoid deforestation and much of Alaskan salmon(Not all by any means, but a quite sizable portion) is grown in fisheries, you're barking up the wrong tree on those.
No dice. Replanting is a relatively recent development, and in no way makes up for the loss of old growth forests that took hundreds or even thousands of years to develop.
You should see a doctor in North Korea about your broken sense of proportion. After that, take a good look around and find out what being leftist really looks like.
Palin is as far as I can discern more of a libertarian than Barr.
Then you need to get better glasses. Libertarians don't hire lobbyists to bring in the pork. Libertarians don't want to ban books from public libraries.
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Yes, I'm sure Republicans, who would launch Congressional investigations if Clinton so much as farted in an elevator, would have been delighted if he dumped a military operation in Afghanistan into the lap of an incoming Republican president.
No. Political reconciliation is not something you resolve with combat forces.
Tell that to the Bush administration.
The purpose of the surge was to *finally* provide a basic level of security in Iraq so that the Iraqis themselves could rise to counter the insurgency.
No, the point is that you wont see an end to the insurgency until there is political reconciliation. The surge was to provide stability so that reconciliation could take place, no ifs, ands, ors or buts. It doesn't matter if the surge finds Saddam's nuclear program or the cure for cancer: if there is no reconciliation, the surge failed at what it was meant to do.
Then that comes back to the other point I made: why are you talking about Pakistan when the parent was talking about a bombing in Afghanistan?
how about the accessory market for iPods, which requires special licensing and fees?
Good job, you named another one. But the problem with is.....what, exactly? If Bose wants to sell a fancy iPod doc for over $200, why is it unreasonable for Apple to get a chunk from an accessory market that they created?
Airtunes, Airtunes, Airtunes
There's a difference between "proprietary" and "not holding your hand". This is a case of the latter:
Heck, how about this very patent? You "Yawn" about it because everybody abuses patents, which makes Apple a saint of course, because Microsoft does it too.
Yes, yawn. Apple is not a patent troll. If you want examples of that, look at how Adobe and Macromedia would sue eachother every six months over lame patents.
The problem of the anti-Mac fanboys is that they're making false comparisons between Microsoft (a convicted monopolist) and Apple, which doesn't have a monopoly on anything. If you don't like FairPlay or the licensing fee, nothing is preventing you from having a similar experience with similar devices from other manufacturers.
That a company doesn't operate the way you want it too != design flaw or abusive practice. Porche wont sell me a 911 Turbo for $30,000, but you don't see me whine about it.
I'm not an Apple fan because of their tendency to use proprietary standards
Nah, that's just your excuse for drinking the hatorade. Their GUI is proprietary, FairPlay is proprietary, as well as their phones. Can you name anything else?
On the other hand, you have PCI/IDE/SATA/1394/BSD/Apache/Intel/USB/GCC/Ethernet/OpenGL/802.11/Bluetooth.
But I think it's definitely moving towards the point where you (as TFA says) are embarrassed to be an Apple fan. This sort of action is just petty.
Yawn. Good luck finding tech companies that DON'T have crazy patents. The way the current system is set up, you have an incentive to file as many patents as you can, so if somebody sues you for bogus patent xyz you can counter-sue for bogus patent abc.
Good luck finding a tech company to buy from that hasn't filed for crazy patents.
Don't you remember this story? Domestic "law enforcement" has been chomping at the bit to get these toys. I just hope the courts reign them in, like when they wouldn't let LEO's use heat scanners from the street to see if people were growing pot inside their homes (from the heat given off by lamps).
The entire Iraqi operation was supposed to be over, from invasion to pull out, in six weeks. Six months at the most, according to Rumsfeld. How's that working out for us?
The entire purpose of the surge was to provide stability so political reconciliation could happen. It's failed. Meanwhile, Bushco talks about how "the surge is over" while the troop levels are still much higher than they were pre-surge.
The United States routinely hits military and economic targets when it's bombing some country back into the stone age. What were the Pentagon and the WTC? Military and economic targets.
This is why we need to watch what we do (i.e. not torture people) because we don't get to have one standard for ourselves and a much higher one for everyone else.
No, it's because
And before you guys flame me, I'm an Arab living in Israel, and I'm sick of hearing people here wail the same thing over and over again when an "innocent" person gets killed in Gaza.
is about as believable as a wingnut like yourself claiming that Jimmy Carter was your favorite president.
How many terrorists were in the Chinese embassy that we bombed ten years ago in Belgrade? How many Al Queda operatives were in the Al Jazeera office that we "accidentally" bombed in Iraq? How many Taliban fighters was Pat Tillman standing next to when he was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan? And why are you talking about Pakistan when the parent was talking about a bombing in Afghanistan?
Claiming that the military never fucks up and that "there's always one target" in the crowd is fantasy at best, and a flat out lie at worst.
Boy I'm glad I'm not physically close to Bush/Cheney/Condi/Wolfowitz/Rumsfield/Yoo/Powell then, so I don't have to worry when those war criminals are bombed.
And fiber would be less likely to be stolen, I imagine. I work for a TV station and someone just broke into one of our sites and made off with a $25,000 spool of copper wire.
I am comparing apples to apples, because there are games that simply will not run on my old computer from 2003, let alone one from 2000.
Ah, so it's double standards then. That DX10 games will not run on hardware from 2000 counts against PC's, but the fact that PS3 games wont run on a PS2 from 2000 doesn't count against the PS2.
And then you got the folks like the stereotypical PC gamer with two cards that eat up two slots each, and a half a dozen loud fans who spends more time playing benchmarks for bragging points on his e-penis than playing games.
As opposed to the Playstation fanboy with a $1000 stereo system and a 73" TV?
If the games are the most important thing, then why the big fuss over "in one year my PC will have a better GPU than the PS3"? Because too many PC gamers care more about the hardware behind games than games themselves.
No, because console fanboys always brag about how the next console will wipe PC's off the face of the map, while they're comparing current PC hardware to future console hardware, i.e. vaporware.
I can just pick up the game and know I'll be playing it as it's meant to be played. No muss, no fuss.
No fuss, no muss, and no expansion. Mods can add hundreds or even thousands of hours to a game. See: Counter-Strike, Team Fortress.
There's new PS2 games released this year.
Yeah, because there's over a hundred million PS2 systems out there.
Try running a 2008 PC game on a non-upgraded PC from 2000.
You'll get a lot farther than you will trying to run a PS3 game on a PS2. Apples to apples, please.
Infinite hardware combination possibilities are part of the reason PC games will always require patching.
Red herring. Developers don't have to worry about infinite combinations, they have to worry about DirectX. And even if tweaking is required, they only have to worry about ATI and Nvidia. Sloppy PC games aren't the fault of PC hardware, they're the fault of publishers who ignore serious bugs to make a release date. While consoles do have an advantage of a single hardware spec and API's, console games can't (for the most part) be patched after the fact, so serious bugs that would be shipped for a PC release are actually fixed for the console.
Another wingnut talking point runs into reality's well known liberal bias: Obama wanted five debates and McCain said that was too many.
Right, which explains why MSNBC fired Donahue for questioning the Iraq war when he had the highest rated show on the network in 2003, and why they just benched Keith Olberman when he has the highest ratings for MSNBC in 2008.
As is usually the case dumbass, take the opposite of your opinion and we have reality.
Nixon ended the Vietnam war.
Wrong, that was Ford, and only after Congress refused additional funding. LBJ may have started the quagmire in Vietnam, but Nixon escalated the hell out of it.
Palin mocked his community organizer gig after he dissed her qualifications (when asked) by completely downplaying her mayoral experience
Garbage.
1) McCain camp mocks Obama for months for his supposed lack of experience
2) McCain then appoints someone with far, far less experience than Obama
3) Obama camp rightly points out McCain's hypocrisy by pointing to Palin's razor thin resume
4) McCain camp pretends to be victims, saying Obama "made us do it" while they smear him some more.
Obama has spent months touting his judgment in opposing the invasion of Iraq and supporting additional troops to Afghanistan. Imagine if he then picked Donald Rumsfeld as his running mate, and then tried to spin the subsequent Republican cries of "bullshit!" by saying that were just highlighting McCain's own lack of judgment.
It's the hypocrisy, stupid.
I said their experience is in the same ballpark.
Which is a laughable thing to say for even a drug enhanced imagination.
Considering that the vast majority of American(possibly all, but I'm not certain) logging companies specifically plant their own supply to avoid deforestation and much of Alaskan salmon(Not all by any means, but a quite sizable portion) is grown in fisheries, you're barking up the wrong tree on those.
No dice. Replanting is a relatively recent development, and in no way makes up for the loss of old growth forests that took hundreds or even thousands of years to develop.
Ah, so you're a PUMA then?
His outright lies when he said he didn't commit to public financing
No, that's a lie. Obama never committed to public financing. You must be thinking of McCain.
the Democratic platform approaches socialism.
You should see a doctor in North Korea about your broken sense of proportion. After that, take a good look around and find out what being leftist really looks like.
Palin is as far as I can discern more of a libertarian than Barr.
Then you need to get better glasses. Libertarians don't hire lobbyists to bring in the pork. Libertarians don't want to ban books from public libraries.