The were wiped out c. 1350AD by global cooling, about the same time that the Thames River froze for the first time in recorded memory. So, if the current climatological trends allow the planet to return to 13th century conditions, what's the problem?
Let's convert our interstate system over to a system of privately owned roads, and let middle managers decide on the speed limit and tolls as they see fit. Better yet, we'll let all of the road providers merge into two or three corporations so we can be gouged more easily. And if we have non-authorized purchases in our trunk (say, from the Pirate States of Canada), the corporate cops will have the right to confiscate our vehicle.
The new Doctor Who is one of the most original series in production, and it's from the UK.
I tuned in to Numb3rs to see what it was all about (I'm a math prof), and it was the same old retread garbage that's been on since the days of "Barnaby Jones", at least. Oh yeah, and they flashed a few equations across the screen at near lightspeed.
1. Will it play my games? As in _all_ of them? 2. Will it work with my iPod? 3. Does it run Office?
Want to grab customers? Then Wine must play Win95 games better than Vista as well as _all_ of the latest releases, automagically.
Linux must also interact with an iPod and be capable of running Office _at the time of installation_. No extra stuff to download -- it needs to 'just work'.
Forget "free as in free beer" -- if that were going to attract Joe User, it would have happened already. Instead, Mac has the buzz, despite its higher price.
Free downloads of Kubuntu forever, but my father-in-law had better have the chance to buy the above at Wal-Mart or Linux will never capture the desktop market.
...when either gender simply acts kindly to the other, magic happens. Best of all, it doesn't matter who starts it. This was the point of the parent article, which you lost during your diatribe.
It's just too hard to govern when we act as if the Constitution meant something. It would just be easier for overworked bureaucrats, politicians, and CEO's if we just submitted our will to a Larger Program. Don't you think?
Oh, wait... I said "think". Slip of the tongue! I may need more reeducation.
In America, we prosecute the drug user rather than the dealer, because the dealers can afford good lawyers.
We prosecute the illegal immigrant rather than recognize that what's happening is an economic migration caused by an excessively high minimum wage in the US and a corrupt Mexican government.
We consider criminal prosecution of file traders rather than notice that the **AA are attempting to support price gouging in an effort to capitalism with mercantilism.
It's time to bite the bullet, as the saying goes, and start fixing the real problems.
Then thank God we have the ACLU to tell what it progressive and what is not. Lawsuits are certainly the best way to make sure everything happens the way they are supposed to.
Oh wait, I mentioned God. That's not progressive. Crap, are they going to sue me, or will I just be modded down as Troll again?
...but I'm paying less than $0.27USD per song on eMusic. I could pay less per song if I chose to. Now, if that business model starts to eat into this guy's house payments, is he going to campaign for eMusic to increase it prices? Or would he just advocate for a surtax? He's skipping over this whole 'free market' thing that we're supposed to be operating under, so what would stop him from taking the next logical step?
It's about time we recognize that what it going on here is _not_ an attempt to reform capitalism. It is an attempt to replace capitalism with _mercantilism_. Remember that minor North American rebellion in 1776? It had in part to do with British plans for how the colonies would buy imported crap ad infinitum, regardless of how they felt about the matter.
My fellow conservatives, allow to me scream 'wake up!' in your general direction. When an industry owns a market, it's no longer a _free_ market! Duh!
Amazon limits the number of tracks you can buy and $$ you can save per download unless you download entire albums using their download software. However, it's only available for Windows and Mac.
eMusic also requires that you download their application, but they offer a nice GUI-based app for Linux. They even claim that it runs on a 2.2.14 kernel! Their selection isn't as good, and their business model is different (subscription vs. per download), but it's worth taking a look.
If nothing, email Amazon and ask for a Linux downloader. Mentioning eMusic ought to help get them moving in the right direction.
I was teaching at Wichita State before the Free Speech Zones. They had to implement them because Women's Studies majors were interrupting class by blowing an air horn to announce "Take Back the Night"-type events. So, the left-wing administrators had to find a way to kept the far-left-wing advocates from interrupting class and came up with the zoning scheme as the solution.
If the right is truly repressing speech on campus via federal reg's, it's double-plus bad ungood; however, I contend there's far more internal repression of speech, and hence of thought, from the left on campus and has been for decades. (Why? Because they believe that true diversity will be achieved once everyone agrees with them.) So, if we want free speech on campus, let's make sure all of the sources of repression are dealt with.
The downward statistical trend in US education begins with the secularization of schools in the 60's. Also, creationists tend to home-school their children, and home-schooled children seem to outperform their peers in public school. (I say "seem" because there are some issues in regards to data collection.) So, your first bullet point doesn't hold H2O.
I haven't received abstinence-only education, but I got the "safe sex" course taught the pro-prophylactic crowd; it seems to operate under the delusion that "you're gonna do it anyway" -- I guess it's a good thing they don't use that logic about murder, huh? "Johnny, if you're going to go for the jugular, make sure to sharpen your knife!" It's not unlike the pre-criminal reasoning that's helping to throttle American society (P2P, security at airports, tax laws, etc.) Maybe both sides have a screw loose, I don't know.
As for the War on Drugs: it's too bad this book is out of print, but an excerpt can be found here. It details the most successful drug enforcement agency in the US... and it was killed by the FBI in order to start the War on Drugs. Let's face it, liberals won't be able to end the WOD without conservatives' help, and this book provides the reasons that conservatives would listen to.
That's what I hear from my freshman-sophomore math majors nearly every day. Sorry to pass the buck, but I suspect that HS math is either dumbed down or grade inflation prevents the kids and their parents and their parents' lawyers from complaining too much. So, they get A's in a "hard" subject, get lots of kudos because this must indicate that they're smart, and so some decide (quite logically) to choose math as a major in college.
Then if you get a prof who expects excellent performance for an A, average for a C, and F if you never did work enough to catch on, and then their world turns absolutely upside-down.
Should students study harder? Absolutely. And _13 years_ of public education ought to provide adequate training in how to study. If not, we'll get more of these "disturbing" trends.
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The cop can't arrest the prostitute until money has changed hands either.
How is evolution disprovable?
Isn't that like an Obama supporter lamenting that Obama was called a Presidential Candidate by the press?
The were wiped out c. 1350AD by global cooling, about the same time that the Thames River froze for the first time in recorded memory. So, if the current climatological trends allow the planet to return to 13th century conditions, what's the problem?
Let's convert our interstate system over to a system of privately owned roads, and let middle managers decide on the speed limit and tolls as they see fit. Better yet, we'll let all of the road providers merge into two or three corporations so we can be gouged more easily. And if we have non-authorized purchases in our trunk (say, from the Pirate States of Canada), the corporate cops will have the right to confiscate our vehicle.
And then we hit the sidewalk fees....
It drives the nurses wild on NCC-1701.
The new Doctor Who is one of the most original series in production, and it's from the UK.
I tuned in to Numb3rs to see what it was all about (I'm a math prof), and it was the same old retread garbage that's been on since the days of "Barnaby Jones", at least. Oh yeah, and they flashed a few equations across the screen at near lightspeed.
No cable? Just get NetFlix.
1. Will it play my games? As in _all_ of them?
2. Will it work with my iPod?
3. Does it run Office?
Want to grab customers? Then Wine must play Win95 games better than Vista as well as _all_ of the latest releases, automagically.
Linux must also interact with an iPod and be capable of running Office _at the time of installation_. No extra stuff to download -- it needs to 'just work'.
Forget "free as in free beer" -- if that were going to attract Joe User, it would have happened already. Instead, Mac has the buzz, despite its higher price.
Free downloads of Kubuntu forever, but my father-in-law had better have the chance to buy the above at Wal-Mart or Linux will never capture the desktop market.
...when either gender simply acts kindly to the other, magic happens. Best of all, it doesn't matter who starts it. This was the point of the parent article, which you lost during your diatribe.
It's just too hard to govern when we act as if the Constitution meant something. It would just be easier for overworked bureaucrats, politicians, and CEO's if we just submitted our will to a Larger Program. Don't you think?
Oh, wait... I said "think". Slip of the tongue! I may need more reeducation.
I'd love to demo that combo, in case anyone wants to take on the challenging of porting.
In America, we prosecute the drug user rather than the dealer, because the dealers can afford good lawyers.
We prosecute the illegal immigrant rather than recognize that what's happening is an economic migration caused by an excessively high minimum wage in the US and a corrupt Mexican government.
We consider criminal prosecution of file traders rather than notice that the **AA are attempting to support price gouging in an effort to capitalism with mercantilism.
It's time to bite the bullet, as the saying goes, and start fixing the real problems.
...where Joel & company ask you politely not to share the flick with millions of strangers. Friends and family are no problem.
I can guess what the difference in compliance between the two approaches will be.
Then thank God we have the ACLU to tell what it progressive and what is not. Lawsuits are certainly the best way to make sure everything happens the way they are supposed to.
Oh wait, I mentioned God. That's not progressive. Crap, are they going to sue me, or will I just be modded down as Troll again?
Red herring, offsides, 10 yard penalty, still first down.
But don't worry, most people still don't realize that the ACLU is to free speech what the RIAA is to music distribution.
You're right! In order to stop this smuggling, I move that all truck traffic must observe a maximum speed of 45 mph.
There! That'll fix it.
...but I'm paying less than $0.27USD per song on eMusic. I could pay less per song if I chose to. Now, if that business model starts to eat into this guy's house payments, is he going to campaign for eMusic to increase it prices? Or would he just advocate for a surtax? He's skipping over this whole 'free market' thing that we're supposed to be operating under, so what would stop him from taking the next logical step?
It's about time we recognize that what it going on here is _not_ an attempt to reform capitalism. It is an attempt to replace capitalism with _mercantilism_. Remember that minor North American rebellion in 1776? It had in part to do with British plans for how the colonies would buy imported crap ad infinitum, regardless of how they felt about the matter.
My fellow conservatives, allow to me scream 'wake up!' in your general direction. When an industry owns a market, it's no longer a _free_ market! Duh!
(sigh).... Rant over. Thanks for your patience.
CowboyNeal. Isn't that the answer to everything around here?
(Attention lawyers: I'm _kidding_! Put the subpoena down!)
Amazon limits the number of tracks you can buy and $$ you can save per download unless you download entire albums using their download software. However, it's only available for Windows and Mac.
eMusic also requires that you download their application, but they offer a nice GUI-based app for Linux. They even claim that it runs on a 2.2.14 kernel! Their selection isn't as good, and their business model is different (subscription vs. per download), but it's worth taking a look.
If nothing, email Amazon and ask for a Linux downloader. Mentioning eMusic ought to help get them moving in the right direction.
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I was teaching at Wichita State before the Free Speech Zones. They had to implement them because Women's Studies majors were interrupting class by blowing an air horn to announce "Take Back the Night"-type events. So, the left-wing administrators had to find a way to kept the far-left-wing advocates from interrupting class and came up with the zoning scheme as the solution.
If the right is truly repressing speech on campus via federal reg's, it's double-plus bad ungood; however, I contend there's far more internal repression of speech, and hence of thought, from the left on campus and has been for decades. (Why? Because they believe that true diversity will be achieved once everyone agrees with them.) So, if we want free speech on campus, let's make sure all of the sources of repression are dealt with.
and wondered if you needed a woman who was willing to raise a child with you in the method of eunuchs.
She just muttered, "Geeks..."
It's the perfume my mother-in-law uses. She....
Run! RUN!!
The downward statistical trend in US education begins with the secularization of schools in the 60's. Also, creationists tend to home-school their children, and home-schooled children seem to outperform their peers in public school. (I say "seem" because there are some issues in regards to data collection.) So, your first bullet point doesn't hold H2O.
I haven't received abstinence-only education, but I got the "safe sex" course taught the pro-prophylactic crowd; it seems to operate under the delusion that "you're gonna do it anyway" -- I guess it's a good thing they don't use that logic about murder, huh? "Johnny, if you're going to go for the jugular, make sure to sharpen your knife!" It's not unlike the pre-criminal reasoning that's helping to throttle American society (P2P, security at airports, tax laws, etc.) Maybe both sides have a screw loose, I don't know.
As for the War on Drugs: it's too bad this book is out of print, but an excerpt can be found here. It details the most successful drug enforcement agency in the US... and it was killed by the FBI in order to start the War on Drugs. Let's face it, liberals won't be able to end the WOD without conservatives' help, and this book provides the reasons that conservatives would listen to.
That's what I hear from my freshman-sophomore math majors nearly every day. Sorry to pass the buck, but I suspect that HS math is either dumbed down or grade inflation prevents the kids and their parents and their parents' lawyers from complaining too much. So, they get A's in a "hard" subject, get lots of kudos because this must indicate that they're smart, and so some decide (quite logically) to choose math as a major in college.
Then if you get a prof who expects excellent performance for an A, average for a C, and F if you never did work enough to catch on, and then their world turns absolutely upside-down.
Should students study harder? Absolutely. And _13 years_ of public education ought to provide adequate training in how to study. If not, we'll get more of these "disturbing" trends.