Two Words: TERM LIMITS
If you can't make a career out of being a politician, you are more likely to do what is good for the people you represent, not do what will get you the most money and keep you in office.
"so I would assume that "every US news outlet" is currently "running coverage non-stop" of the devastation to a residential neighborhood caused by cruise missles from the american millitary? (even the american millitary admitted to this one)"
As someone who has been watching a lot of the news lately, I can say yes, US news services ARE providing LOTS of coverage of the bombing. Obviously, if it was a US bomb, it was an ACCIDENT. Why on earth would the US bomb civilians? Yet Al-Jazeera tows the Saddam line saying we did it on purpose. Maybe the Arab world needs to see the western perspective for a while. (oh, and I guess we really aren't sending all sorts of food over there either...Saddam did such a great job at feeding his people they have no need for it.)
I remember downloading that after I saw Jurassic Park. Wonderful tool. Why bother typing "ls" when I could impress my friends and spend 5 minutes graphically navigating to the directory I wanted to look in.
I got a widescreen HDTV about a year ago and have loved it. I got an HD cable box and Time Warner is nice enough to broadcast about 7 HD channels for me. BUT, in non-HD they put nice black bars on the screen. Never having owned a rear-projection tv, I didn't realise this was a Bad Thing. I noticed that I now have noticeable burn in where the black bars were (well, kinda inverted...the black bar area is nice an clean, while middle parts of the set look a little yellowish).
I love HD. I love progressive DVD. I love widescreen. I love Xbox. I HATE BURNIN.
Lesson here is, switch to HD ONLY when watching widescreen format broadcasts. Otherwise have your tv zoom to fill the whole screen.
That reminds me of an old Popular Mechanics I found asking the question "should we be going to the moon?" There were lots of "fix things on earth before going to space" arguments...but, what if we tried that? Would things be better on earth? Don't we all benifit from the technology developed during the space race?
There will always be homeless...there will always be poor. If we wait to fix every problem we will never make progress.
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Two Words: TERM LIMITS If you can't make a career out of being a politician, you are more likely to do what is good for the people you represent, not do what will get you the most money and keep you in office.
"so I would assume that "every US news outlet" is currently "running coverage non-stop" of the devastation to a residential neighborhood caused by cruise missles from the american millitary? (even the american millitary admitted to this one)"
As someone who has been watching a lot of the news lately, I can say yes, US news services ARE providing LOTS of coverage of the bombing. Obviously, if it was a US bomb, it was an ACCIDENT. Why on earth would the US bomb civilians? Yet Al-Jazeera tows the Saddam line saying we did it on purpose. Maybe the Arab world needs to see the western perspective for a while. (oh, and I guess we really aren't sending all sorts of food over there either...Saddam did such a great job at feeding his people they have no need for it.)
I remember downloading that after I saw Jurassic Park. Wonderful tool. Why bother typing "ls" when I could impress my friends and spend 5 minutes graphically navigating to the directory I wanted to look in.
I got a widescreen HDTV about a year ago and have loved it. I got an HD cable box and Time Warner is nice enough to broadcast about 7 HD channels for me. BUT, in non-HD they put nice black bars on the screen. Never having owned a rear-projection tv, I didn't realise this was a Bad Thing. I noticed that I now have noticeable burn in where the black bars were (well, kinda inverted...the black bar area is nice an clean, while middle parts of the set look a little yellowish).
I love HD. I love progressive DVD. I love widescreen. I love Xbox. I HATE BURNIN.
Lesson here is, switch to HD ONLY when watching widescreen format broadcasts. Otherwise have your tv zoom to fill the whole screen.
That reminds me of an old Popular Mechanics I found asking the question "should we be going to the moon?" There were lots of "fix things on earth before going to space" arguments...but, what if we tried that? Would things be better on earth? Don't we all benifit from the technology developed during the space race? There will always be homeless...there will always be poor. If we wait to fix every problem we will never make progress.