Let them take arms. . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wasn't this part of Tim McVeigh's justification for blowing up the Murrah building in Oklahoma City?
I'll be honest, both sides in this case bother me. People who advocate the overthrow of the govt are, in my mind, dingbats. However, the gov't throwing one of these dingbats in jail for simply spouting off -- though apparently there is more to it than that -- i find equally noxious, and goes to prove the dingbats right. Wnat to say how to build a bomb? Fine, Tom Clancy made a mint doing just that in Sum of All Fears. Want to say the gov't is whack and change is needed? That's ok too, everybody has an opinion. Want to say the attack takes place at dawn and we're going after so-and-so? That's not cool, incitement to violence is where I draw the line.
I'm sure they sell Li-ion AAs. Could be wrong here.
You're not, they do sell Li-ion AA. I know because i've used them in my portable DAT recorder. However, all things being equal, I'd rather use my 1850ma NiMHs, i have hordes of NiMH's of various charges lying around. They're certainly a lot cheaper than buying akalines or the single-use Li-ions in the long run.
I do't take caffiene for the simple fact that it interacts with the creatine I take when I work out
Sorry, but all I can think of is Beefcake!:)
I personally don't drink coffee, but on the other hand I don't avoid all caffiene. If I'm driving home late at night, or am sitting in my cube the next morning then I'll buy a mountain dew or get a red bull or something similar. But I'm not getting regular shipments of bawls from thinkgeek or anything.
Anyway, I think after all of Clinton's scandals, he would have been hard pressed to win in 2000.
In 2000 the economy was still rosy so yes, Clinton would have won. Now 2002 would be a different matter, but an apparently strong economy is a huge advantage, especially when your opponent shoots himself in the foot by opening his mouth ("...fool me twice, shame on...shame on...won't get fooled again").
unless you're one of the persons who memorizes this sort of thing for fun, can you name the VPs of random presidents throughout the years?
I have a hard time with the Presidents of the 19th century. The spaces between Andrew Jackson and Lincoln and then from Johnson to McKinley are a big jumble to me.
I could do a point for point rebuttal of your differences with the Democrats here, but I'm really not in the mood for a rancourous political debate right now.
I'm a firm believer in the Constitution as written, not as some living document that's meant to be twisted to support whatever flaky idea wants to be pushed on us today.
It's a shame the Framers didn't agree with you and immediately changed the thing with the Bill of Rights. Notice that they're amendments and not included in the main body of the Constitution itself. Be quite a different country if Amendments 1-10 never existed.
Has anyone else noticed, though, that LINE IN jacks are becoming an endangered species?
Not if you buy pro-quality gear. MAudio Audiophile 2496 cards can be had for under 200 bucks, and the 2448's are even cheaper. You've got all sorts of input options with those.:)
The obvious question is "what would you do differently then?" That's what cost them in 2002 and what made people like me laugh at the antiwar protesters... "We shouldn't go after Saddam... solutions? Uh, I don't actually have any solutions. All I know is we just shouldn't go after Saddam."
Well obviously I want to see the Dem's nominee actually have plans and things of substance. I view Bush as being a President of little substance, so it it goes without saying that I want to see "my" candidate run on a platform of ideas and concrete plans to execute them. Sorry if i wasn't clear about that.
Wesley Clark would shore up some of Dean's weaknesses but I think the favorite for the lock on the VP nomination is Senator Graham because of Florida. It's worth noting that nobody was ever elected President based on their choice of VP though.
Certainly no, but a bad choice can contribute in sinking a candidate. Gore wasn't helped by having Lieberman, a guy who's smart, funny, decent but with possibly less charisma than Gore, on the ticket. On the other hand I do think Cheney helped smooth out people's qualms about Bush's lack of experience.
I, in all honesty and with my political beliefs aside, believe Bill Clinton was one of the most harmful and corrupt presidents in the history of our country. The success in the economy while he was in office was in spite of him, not because of him. He was offered Usama's head on a platter by Sudan 5 years after knowing he was behind the first World Trade Center attack and turned Sudan down despite the pleas from his cabinet's experts on the matter. There's also the issue of taking Chinese money and approving technology transfers to them that could be used in military applications. I could go on, but I don't want this to become about him.
when I first wrote that I said "Bill Clinton with a stronger moral compass," but changed it because I felt the language was too charged. I think I should have said "A less flawed Clinton" Regardless of how you feel about Clinton the guy has charisma out the wazoo and is still the best campaigner out there. I'm willing to bet that if Clinton had been able to run in 2000 he would have won handily. That's all I meant. Can we just rip Jed Bartlett out of the TV and use him?
The Dem's biggest problem in 2002 was that they didn't stand for anything... They were just against anything the republicans wanted. For the last 10 years or so(since HillaryCare), they've been out of ideas and simply defining themselves as "not the republicans." Doing that, unless the republicans severely screw things up, the dems aren't going to win. At this point, nothing is bad enough for them to win on that platform, even if Dean goes out and challenges everything like you said he should. He'd still be defining himself as not the republicans. The economy isn't nearly as bad as it may seem on it's surface, Iraq isn't a quagmire, etc.
By the same token though I don't think it's possible for a democrat to win if they do not challenge Bush's policies. I mean, the issues that this election are going to revolve around are already pretty well known. And I am not saying that who ever the Dems throw out there should just say "Bush is wrong." I am simply saying that the candidate from the democrats should be out there saying "Bush should not be re-elected because he incites our enemies to attack our troops when he says 'Bring it On.' As President I would bring the proper solemnity to the office that it requires and leave displays of false machismo at home." Or something like that, I'm not Sam Seaborn, obviously.
Even the democratic establishment doesn't have faith in any of the current candidates and they're trying to either get Hillary Clinton (whom I honestly believe there's too much scandal around to win nationally), Wesley Clark (who's no Eisenhower) or Tom Brokaw (media personality != political viability) to run.
What the Democrats need is Bill Clinton with less of a wandering eye. I think Wesley Clark would make an excellent VP candidate. He gives a ticket instant credibility on issues of defense, foreign policy, security, etc. For somebody like Dean he'd be a perfect VP. Plus he's got all of the name recognition from being CNN's chief talking head in the war, but I don't think he should be trying for the Presidency.
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So Kerry would anger the neo-nazis just because of his (?) ethnic heritage? Out of the many reasons, this is the wrong reason to vote against Kerry. If it comes down to this, vote for him to give the Nazis hell.
Well, I didn't say it, but I think the problem would come more from aggitation from the Muslim voting bloc than the neo-nazis. Or possibly voters cognizant enough of the global situation that would be worried about what the Islamic world would think about a Jew being president. Of course if the voter is that aware they'd also realize the religion of the American President is probably a non-issue to the average Muslim, they're going to think he's an Agent of Zion regardless.
in comparison to the 9 dem candidates this year, do you think Al Sharpton or Dennis Kucinich or even Joe Lieberman etc are going to win any primaries?
I'm not saying that all the dems are viable candidates (in fact none of them really get me all fired up), I was just saying that the GOP field in 2000 wasn't as crowded as it appeared.
When the dems lost in 2002, they blamed themselves for being too centrist. What they fail to realize is that after the great depression, nobody has been been elected to the white house by running as a liberal instead of a centrist (OTOH, you have had conservatives win by running to the right, such as Reagan). Democrats also don't get elected because of foreign policy issues. The economy has been on the rebound for better than 2 years (again, despite the rhetoric) and post 9/11, America wants someone with a backbone.
I think the Dems lost in 2002 not because they ran too centrist, but because they ran scared. Paint the GOP as the party of corporate greed that's out to steal your money away. They were too wishy-washy to get the faithful fired up and the GOP, who is better organized anyway, walked all over them.
Barring a massive disaster with the economy, Dean doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning against Bush. Kerry is your best shot but he's got plenty of baggage of his own (since he's the wealthiest politician in DC, he can't say he's the average guy. He recently found out that he's of Jewish heritage and given the problems with the middle east, I'm not sure the average American wants to enflame the region more (I personally don't have a problem with this but there are a lot of people who would). He's flip flopping on the war, trying to play to public opinion, etc)
I think Dean might have a chance if he does one thing, challenge Bush. Challenge the tax cuts, challenge the record-setting deficit, challenge iraq, etc. I know, seems obvious, but it given the way they ran in 2002 you never know. The sad thing is I'd still rather see Bartlett run;)
GWB, McCain, Bauer, Keyes, Hatch, and Forbes off the top of my head. I seem to remember there being more that dropped out prior to the first actual primary as well. Several of the field of 9 democrats this time around won't make it to the ballot on the first primary.
The only member of that group who was even half-way relevant was McCain, did any of the other candidates(outside of McCain)even win a Primary?
I can name exactly two formats that QuickTime won't play.
-.ogg (I'm guessing they'll add this soon)
-.it (not a chance in hell, especially since ImpulseTracker isn't even actively developed anymore)
Unless something's changed I can add two more:
-.shn
-.flac
I think iTunes is a great piece of software, but until those two formats are supported it will never be my main audioplayer. I know I could always decompress the.shn or.flac files but that's a pain.
i use winamp in its smallest form always-on-top. i havn't used the mac version enough to be sure, but i didnt find an option to make it shrink very small
Are you talking about iTunes or MacAMP? iTunes you can either hide or minimize and control through the Dock and MacAmp...doesn't exist anymore I don't think, but Macamp lite (maltx) couldn't really get much smaller than it already was...assuming we're talking about OS X of course.:)
Having said that, I find the iTunes experience MUCH better than WinAMP. If you get iTunes for Windows, I would tend to think that won't want to use WinAMP anymore, since iTunes does it all.
For the formats that iTunes supports I agree completely. However, if you want to play something other than.wav/.aiff,.mp3, and.aac iTunes is not really the answer; which is a bummer because its visualizer is so much nicer than winamps.
Interesting, but not true. There are stores (such as Scan, at the Columbia, MD mall) that do not take cash. It may be different if I already have a debt, and attempt to repay in cash, but that does not mean that someone must always be willing to take cash for a good or service.
Not to mention that pretty much every gas station I've been to refuses to accept any bills greater than 50 bucks.
You use IE at work because that is what is installed (and I am guessing you cannot download a different browser)
That's it precisely, I don't want the boys over in corporate IS all over my ass for "illegal" network usage. If I could I'd download Firebird or mozilla 1.4 in a heartbeat, since i think both a hogillion times better than IE. Fun times in the corporate environment.
You know what? I'm a victim of this too. That little E is sitting right next to my start menu. Want to bet which browser gets used most?
That's why I clicked "Yes" when it asked "Do you want to make Firebird your default browser?" Really wasn't all that hard and the application did the prompting.
If the publishers were smart they'd offer these people the job of doing the translation. Which would probably cost far less than reaching for the lawyers in the first place.
Yes, because a group of amatuers are always guarenteed of producing a better, more cohesive product than a single linguistic professional.
I hear it's treated with reverence in Hawaii for some reason...
That's because for a while it was about the only meat you could get imported into hawaii. Or something like that. My parents lead a field trip there this past spring and when they got back they explained the hawaii spam connection. Anybody want to expand on my half-remembered explanation?
The Apple Design II, i believe that was the one, was one of the best keyboards i've ever used. It was the last ADB keyboard they made, and it was a nice full-zised keyboard with the righ amount of "clack" to it. Although admittedly my fondness for it could be based on the fact that it was pretty much a knock-off of the standard PS/2 hundred some key keyboard. The original iMac keyboard was ok, not great, but not awful, a little too spongy for my taste. They were sort of a throwback to the old Apple designs that were also pretty small. I really haven't had a chance to play with any of the new Apple Pro keyboards so I can't comment on 'em, once I get my G5 i'll let everyone know:).
uh-huh, so where's your 17" lcd, DVD-R drive, operating system, and.life suite of apps in that little cost analysis there? Like somebody else said, Apple doesn't make low-end computers, and they ain't forcing you to buy what they make either.
Dunno what you're talking about really... seems like a few months between releases to me. Besides, I did say each release was nifty... just seems like paying for each 10.X is a bit much.
I think if it wasn't for the fact that Apple's invested a lot into the OSX moniker they would have moved on to OS 11 by now. I mean when I first started using Macs back in late 95 the OS was at system 7.5, when i graduated college they were at or very close to OS 9 with Rhapsody on the horizon. Apple has always required you to pay for the "big" upgrades, the.5s, and done the others as freebies(or 20 bucks shipping and handling). This has changed with OSX, they really seem to be hesitant to get away from 10. Give the usual shape of things Jaguar should have been 10.5 and Pather should be 11, but OSXI just doesn't look as cool and OSX (v.11) is just confusing, so it's 10.3. But i'm sure other folks have hashed this out in a much more informed and eloquent fashion.:)
I held off buying Jaguar for a very long time and I'm debating Panther. I probably won't upgrade my current OSX machine, a Pismo G3 laptop, but I'm also planning on buying a G5 so hopefully Apple will throw in a rebate for a free copy of Panther, hint hint.
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Yeah, so, Apple doesn't charge anything for an "AppleID." You need one to get at their knowledgebase anyways so what's the big deal?
-samTim McVeigh's problem was that he thought blowing up a building full of people was a good idea.
-samWasn't this part of Tim McVeigh's justification for blowing up the Murrah building in Oklahoma City?
I'll be honest, both sides in this case bother me. People who advocate the overthrow of the govt are, in my mind, dingbats. However, the gov't throwing one of these dingbats in jail for simply spouting off -- though apparently there is more to it than that -- i find equally noxious, and goes to prove the dingbats right. Wnat to say how to build a bomb? Fine, Tom Clancy made a mint doing just that in Sum of All Fears. Want to say the gov't is whack and change is needed? That's ok too, everybody has an opinion. Want to say the attack takes place at dawn and we're going after so-and-so? That's not cool, incitement to violence is where I draw the line.
-samAwww, c'mon Scotty was pretty svelte in the original series. By the time the movies came around, yeah he was a large man, but not during the show.
-samYou're not, they do sell Li-ion AA. I know because i've used them in my portable DAT recorder. However, all things being equal, I'd rather use my 1850ma NiMHs, i have hordes of NiMH's of various charges lying around. They're certainly a lot cheaper than buying akalines or the single-use Li-ions in the long run.
-samI do't take caffiene for the simple fact that it interacts with the creatine I take when I work out
Sorry, but all I can think of is Beefcake! :)
I personally don't drink coffee, but on the other hand I don't avoid all caffiene. If I'm driving home late at night, or am sitting in my cube the next morning then I'll buy a mountain dew or get a red bull or something similar. But I'm not getting regular shipments of bawls from thinkgeek or anything.
-samI have a hard time with the Presidents of the 19th century. The spaces between Andrew Jackson and Lincoln and then from Johnson to McKinley are a big jumble to me.
I could do a point for point rebuttal of your differences with the Democrats here, but I'm really not in the mood for a rancourous political debate right now.
It's a shame the Framers didn't agree with you and immediately changed the thing with the Bill of Rights. Notice that they're amendments and not included in the main body of the Constitution itself. Be quite a different country if Amendments 1-10 never existed .
-samNot if you buy pro-quality gear. MAudio Audiophile 2496 cards can be had for under 200 bucks, and the 2448's are even cheaper. You've got all sorts of input options with those. :)
-samWell obviously I want to see the Dem's nominee actually have plans and things of substance. I view Bush as being a President of little substance, so it it goes without saying that I want to see "my" candidate run on a platform of ideas and concrete plans to execute them. Sorry if i wasn't clear about that.
Certainly no, but a bad choice can contribute in sinking a candidate. Gore wasn't helped by having Lieberman, a guy who's smart, funny, decent but with possibly less charisma than Gore, on the ticket. On the other hand I do think Cheney helped smooth out people's qualms about Bush's lack of experience.
when I first wrote that I said "Bill Clinton with a stronger moral compass," but changed it because I felt the language was too charged. I think I should have said "A less flawed Clinton" Regardless of how you feel about Clinton the guy has charisma out the wazoo and is still the best campaigner out there. I'm willing to bet that if Clinton had been able to run in 2000 he would have won handily. That's all I meant. Can we just rip Jed Bartlett out of the TV and use him?
-samBy the same token though I don't think it's possible for a democrat to win if they do not challenge Bush's policies. I mean, the issues that this election are going to revolve around are already pretty well known. And I am not saying that who ever the Dems throw out there should just say "Bush is wrong." I am simply saying that the candidate from the democrats should be out there saying "Bush should not be re-elected because he incites our enemies to attack our troops when he says 'Bring it On.' As President I would bring the proper solemnity to the office that it requires and leave displays of false machismo at home." Or something like that, I'm not Sam Seaborn, obviously.
What the Democrats need is Bill Clinton with less of a wandering eye. I think Wesley Clark would make an excellent VP candidate. He gives a ticket instant credibility on issues of defense, foreign policy, security, etc. For somebody like Dean he'd be a perfect VP. Plus he's got all of the name recognition from being CNN's chief talking head in the war, but I don't think he should be trying for the Presidency.
-samWell, I didn't say it, but I think the problem would come more from aggitation from the Muslim voting bloc than the neo-nazis. Or possibly voters cognizant enough of the global situation that would be worried about what the Islamic world would think about a Jew being president. Of course if the voter is that aware they'd also realize the religion of the American President is probably a non-issue to the average Muslim, they're going to think he's an Agent of Zion regardless.
-samI'm not saying that all the dems are viable candidates (in fact none of them really get me all fired up), I was just saying that the GOP field in 2000 wasn't as crowded as it appeared.
I think the Dems lost in 2002 not because they ran too centrist, but because they ran scared. Paint the GOP as the party of corporate greed that's out to steal your money away. They were too wishy-washy to get the faithful fired up and the GOP, who is better organized anyway, walked all over them.
I think Dean might have a chance if he does one thing, challenge Bush. Challenge the tax cuts, challenge the record-setting deficit, challenge iraq, etc. I know, seems obvious, but it given the way they ran in 2002 you never know. The sad thing is I'd still rather see Bartlett run ;)
-samThe only member of that group who was even half-way relevant was McCain, did any of the other candidates(outside of McCain)even win a Primary?
-samA large pack of two where his opponent was a party maverick more appealing to independents than the party core.
-samUnless something's changed I can add two more:
-.shn
-.flac
I think iTunes is a great piece of software, but until those two formats are supported it will never be my main audioplayer. I know I could always decompress the .shn or .flac files but that's a pain.
-samAre you talking about iTunes or MacAMP? iTunes you can either hide or minimize and control through the Dock and MacAmp...doesn't exist anymore I don't think, but Macamp lite (maltx) couldn't really get much smaller than it already was...assuming we're talking about OS X of course. :)
-samFor the formats that iTunes supports I agree completely. However, if you want to play something other than .wav/.aiff, .mp3, and .aac iTunes is not really the answer; which is a bummer because its visualizer is so much nicer than winamps.
-samInteresting, but not true. There are stores (such as Scan, at the Columbia, MD mall) that do not take cash. It may be different if I already have a debt, and attempt to repay in cash, but that does not mean that someone must always be willing to take cash for a good or service.
Not to mention that pretty much every gas station I've been to refuses to accept any bills greater than 50 bucks.
-samYou use IE at work because that is what is installed (and I am guessing you cannot download a different browser)
That's it precisely, I don't want the boys over in corporate IS all over my ass for "illegal" network usage. If I could I'd download Firebird or mozilla 1.4 in a heartbeat, since i think both a hogillion times better than IE. Fun times in the corporate environment.
-samYou know what? I'm a victim of this too. That little E is sitting right next to my start menu. Want to bet which browser gets used most?
That's why I clicked "Yes" when it asked "Do you want to make Firebird your default browser?" Really wasn't all that hard and the application did the prompting.
-sam, posting from IE because he's at work.If the publishers were smart they'd offer these people the job of doing the translation. Which would probably cost far less than reaching for the lawyers in the first place.
Yes, because a group of amatuers are always guarenteed of producing a better, more cohesive product than a single linguistic professional.
-samI hear it's treated with reverence in Hawaii for some reason...
That's because for a while it was about the only meat you could get imported into hawaii. Or something like that. My parents lead a field trip there this past spring and when they got back they explained the hawaii spam connection. Anybody want to expand on my half-remembered explanation?
-sam
The Apple Design II, i believe that was the one, was one of the best keyboards i've ever used. It was the last ADB keyboard they made, and it was a nice full-zised keyboard with the righ amount of "clack" to it. Although admittedly my fondness for it could be based on the fact that it was pretty much a knock-off of the standard PS/2 hundred some key keyboard. The original iMac keyboard was ok, not great, but not awful, a little too spongy for my taste. They were sort of a throwback to the old Apple designs that were also pretty small. I really haven't had a chance to play with any of the new Apple Pro keyboards so I can't comment on 'em, once I get my G5 i'll let everyone know :).
-samTotal=$800
All quality products at super low cost.
uh-huh, so where's your 17" lcd, DVD-R drive, operating system, and
-sam
I think if it wasn't for the fact that Apple's invested a lot into the OSX moniker they would have moved on to OS 11 by now. I mean when I first started using Macs back in late 95 the OS was at system 7.5, when i graduated college they were at or very close to OS 9 with Rhapsody on the horizon. Apple has always required you to pay for the "big" upgrades, the .5s, and done the others as freebies(or 20 bucks shipping and handling). This has changed with OSX, they really seem to be hesitant to get away from 10. Give the usual shape of things Jaguar should have been 10.5 and Pather should be 11, but OSXI just doesn't look as cool and OSX (v.11) is just confusing, so it's 10.3. But i'm sure other folks have hashed this out in a much more informed and eloquent fashion. :)
I held off buying Jaguar for a very long time and I'm debating Panther. I probably won't upgrade my current OSX machine, a Pismo G3 laptop, but I'm also planning on buying a G5 so hopefully Apple will throw in a rebate for a free copy of Panther, hint hint.
-sam