I think much of what is wrong with America today is because so many people busy at their vocation don't work too many hours, then crawl into the cave they call home and never really notice a lot of these issues until they directly affect them, or they do, but they are too tired to care. A lot of apathy is simply lack of time or energy to do more than make a living and then relax. This guy invited folks into what he thought was his safe cave to have a poke at him.
Around here you need to show ID that you are one of the parents on the kid's birth certificate. That's if you want to get it on the spot. I don't know how you would go about getting some one else's kid's birth certificate.
People only get removed when they fail to show up for the next few elections. No one is actively verifiing that they are alive and no one is watching the obit column. Even a living person will get deleted if they go a few years without voting.
If Google had one that, GMail wouldn't have taken off much at all except for amongst the same geeks that are all excited about Greasemonkey. GMail would have marked you as the kind of person who liked to be outside of the mainstream business world.
Half of the articles in the Atlanta Journal Constitution are writtin by the times. The other half are by AP. They even carry the times op-ed articles. Too bad I don't subscribe, but it's one way to go if I mus get my nytimes fix.
I enjoy the op-ed section, too. Some of those same columnists are syndicated into other papers. I guess I'll just go there instead of to nytime.com. Just about any good article that someone wants me to pay for can be found elsewhere with a google search. Or have they figured out a way to stop that leakage?
In related news, The Economist has adopted the earn a day pass for premium content idea popularized by Salon.com. I wonder which publication has the best economists?
"Think of the Children" doesn't work anymore, but we still can't handle "We must support the Troops"
The President would need the backbone to convince the public that him vetoing a badly written bill is the Congress' fault, not his. That weakening our right to privacy doesn't help our troops and doesn't belong in a bill that supposed to help our troops.
Whoops, sorry about the unattributed quote. I don't have the foggiest notion of where I got it, probably wikipedia.
Here's a nifty Emancipation Timeline courtesy of the Library of Congress. It contains link to the draft version, the beta version, and the final version. And just think, my fifth grade History teacher taught us that he wrote it on an envelope on the way to event.
I think the Line-Item Veto would be one of the most effective ways to start cleaning things up
If I was President, here's what I'd do. I don't need a LIV, I'd just veto the whole damn bill and make a list of which lines I found objectionable. If I did that, how quickly could they cut the crap out and send the money to the troops or whatever was the original purpose, that of course, is assuming they went with the best case scenario. In a worst case, this could iterate forever up and down the Mall, not just back and forth in the Capital.
That Neilson TV thingy sounds inconvenient. For radio, they just send you a little diary. They sent me one for each member of my family. Naturally, I filled them all out with my NPR shows and sent them back after the requested time period.
They never publish the numbers for NPR. I wish they would, I'll bet NPR has some of the most popular shows on radio.
But too many f'n geeks have no clue that 2 copies is cool (even though the media companies would never admit this -- but they've never even threaten anyone that made 4 or 5 copies) -- they think if 2 is cool, why isn't 1000 copies just as legal?
It is just as legal. They aren't required to go after everyone, so they choose their victims/defendents based on the probabilities that they will make more money than they spend. Therefore they pick on little kids and grannies who they hope will settle out of court and ugly guys who share an address with their mother, guys who won't get any sympathy from the public or the court.
That's kinda how I interpreted it. The headline (as usual) is misleading. When vertical, we are better at paying attention. when horizontal, our brains are more relaxed and wander around the whole problem, even slightly off topic. That's when we are most creative, when we hold several unrelated topics in our heads and then notice that there is a relationship after all.
He was thinking about his bath, not overflowing the tub, etc, while simultaneously holding the crown problem in his head. Suddenly the two thoughts merged and the rest is history or maybe just a legend. Did he really run down the street naked? I figured he just ran out to wherever his housemates were hanging out.
Right. this is why it is important for complaints, once made public, to be handled with simple, factual explantions of what happened. Even if the complaining customer can't be satisfied, plenty of other people can read and make up their own minds about who is being reasonable.
A corporation is simply a way of organizing a group of people for a stated purpose. Like other people and groups of people, some are more lovable than others. But, no moral person can advocate that a crime perpetuated against a victim that you don't like is okay. I don't think that most of us consider the corporate form of organization to be any less moral than any other way of organizing large groups of people for a purpose as complex as most modern businesses.
If you don't like HP's business decisions, you have several legal alternatives. You can boycott their products or use other forms of Economic Activism, that's the simplest. You can buy a few shares of stock and make a speech at the shareholders meeting. Many corporations are influenced by activivist shareholder demands. You can write letters to the management. You can get a job with HP and influence decision making from the inside. You can sue them if you catch them doing something illegal. You can work with government at any level or any branch to effect changes to what corporations are allowed to do. You can advocate going to war against India. But, you can't steal small amounts of money and expect your opinion to receive the respect due to anyone other than a petty thief.
Doesn't your computer know how to be a fax machine? Open up that email you wrote and select "print to fax". The folks up in DC won't be able to tell it from a real fax. If you really want to make an impact, "print to printer", fold it up and stick it in an envelope, address it properly, don't forget the stamp, then mail it the old fashioned way. That still makes the strongest impression and it really isn't much harder, assuming you don't need to buy a stamp.
I know what a filibuster is. Sounds like fun, sometimes it's nice to see the Senate do nothing at all, especially if it can get a small supermajority to go along.
Fast forward to Lincoln, and his claim that no such right of secession existed. His source for this "fact" was none other than the Articles of Confederation.
Actually, he somehow logicked that the allowance of sucession was the equivalent of anarchy - that it made more sense for states to have a civilized debate in Congress than to work out treaties with adjacent states that comprised an alien nation.
In Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, he never references the Articles of the Confederation. Maybe some other speech, but he intended the First Inaugural to be a sufficient explanation.
Here's the part that makes the most sense:
Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can not but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before?
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I think much of what is wrong with America today is because so many people busy at their vocation don't work too many hours, then crawl into the cave they call home and never really notice a lot of these issues until they directly affect them, or they do, but they are too tired to care. A lot of apathy is simply lack of time or energy to do more than make a living and then relax. This guy invited folks into what he thought was his safe cave to have a poke at him.
Around here you need to show ID that you are one of the parents on the kid's birth certificate. That's if you want to get it on the spot. I don't know how you would go about getting some one else's kid's birth certificate.
This might also explain some of the recent jury decision. Most communities pick jurors from the voter registration rolls.
People only get removed when they fail to show up for the next few elections. No one is actively verifiing that they are alive and no one is watching the obit column. Even a living person will get deleted if they go a few years without voting.
If Google had one that, GMail wouldn't have taken off much at all except for amongst the same geeks that are all excited about Greasemonkey. GMail would have marked you as the kind of person who liked to be outside of the mainstream business world.
http://del.icio.us/tag/ironing has a surprising number of entries.
Half of the articles in the Atlanta Journal Constitution are writtin by the times. The other half are by AP. They even carry the times op-ed articles. Too bad I don't subscribe, but it's one way to go if I mus get my nytimes fix.
I enjoy the op-ed section, too. Some of those same columnists are syndicated into other papers. I guess I'll just go there instead of to nytime.com. Just about any good article that someone wants me to pay for can be found elsewhere with a google search. Or have they figured out a way to stop that leakage?
In related news, The Economist has adopted the earn a day pass for premium content idea popularized by Salon.com. I wonder which publication has the best economists?
I wouldn't put anything past a flock of birds. I've seen the movie, much scarier than that shark movie.
With a fleet of these things, Google Maps could operate in real time. It would make UFO tracking much easier.
"Think of the Children" doesn't work anymore, but we still can't handle "We must support the Troops"
The President would need the backbone to convince the public that him vetoing a badly written bill is the Congress' fault, not his. That weakening our right to privacy doesn't help our troops and doesn't belong in a bill that supposed to help our troops.
Whoops, sorry about the unattributed quote. I don't have the foggiest notion of where I got it, probably wikipedia.
Here's a nifty Emancipation Timeline courtesy of the Library of Congress. It contains link to the draft version, the beta version, and the final version. And just think, my fifth grade History teacher taught us that he wrote it on an envelope on the way to event.
I think the Line-Item Veto would be one of the most effective ways to start cleaning things up
If I was President, here's what I'd do. I don't need a LIV, I'd just veto the whole damn bill and make a list of which lines I found objectionable. If I did that, how quickly could they cut the crap out and send the money to the troops or whatever was the original purpose, that of course, is assuming they went with the best case scenario. In a worst case, this could iterate forever up and down the Mall, not just back and forth in the Capital.
I too lazy for that, but I'd be interested in a solar laptop.
That Neilson TV thingy sounds inconvenient. For radio, they just send you a little diary. They sent me one for each member of my family. Naturally, I filled them all out with my NPR shows and sent them back after the requested time period.
They never publish the numbers for NPR. I wish they would, I'll bet NPR has some of the most popular shows on radio.
I'd rather see Little Joe in Ponderosa on the Prairie. He was the only cute one.
But too many f'n geeks have no clue that 2 copies is cool (even though the media companies would never admit this -- but they've never even threaten anyone that made 4 or 5 copies) -- they think if 2 is cool, why isn't 1000 copies just as legal?
It is just as legal. They aren't required to go after everyone, so they choose their victims/defendents based on the probabilities that they will make more money than they spend. Therefore they pick on little kids and grannies who they hope will settle out of court and ugly guys who share an address with their mother, guys who won't get any sympathy from the public or the court.
That's kinda how I interpreted it. The headline (as usual) is misleading. When vertical, we are better at paying attention. when horizontal, our brains are more relaxed and wander around the whole problem, even slightly off topic. That's when we are most creative, when we hold several unrelated topics in our heads and then notice that there is a relationship after all.
He was thinking about his bath, not overflowing the tub, etc, while simultaneously holding the crown problem in his head. Suddenly the two thoughts merged and the rest is history or maybe just a legend. Did he really run down the street naked? I figured he just ran out to wherever his housemates were hanging out.
Right. this is why it is important for complaints, once made public, to be handled with simple, factual explantions of what happened. Even if the complaining customer can't be satisfied, plenty of other people can read and make up their own minds about who is being reasonable.
Conversely, no store must participate, not even in the USA.
A corporation is simply a way of organizing a group of people for a stated purpose. Like other people and groups of people, some are more lovable than others. But, no moral person can advocate that a crime perpetuated against a victim that you don't like is okay. I don't think that most of us consider the corporate form of organization to be any less moral than any other way of organizing large groups of people for a purpose as complex as most modern businesses.
If you don't like HP's business decisions, you have several legal alternatives. You can boycott their products or use other forms of Economic Activism, that's the simplest. You can buy a few shares of stock and make a speech at the shareholders meeting. Many corporations are influenced by activivist shareholder demands. You can write letters to the management. You can get a job with HP and influence decision making from the inside. You can sue them if you catch them doing something illegal. You can work with government at any level or any branch to effect changes to what corporations are allowed to do. You can advocate going to war against India. But, you can't steal small amounts of money and expect your opinion to receive the respect due to anyone other than a petty thief.
Doesn't your computer know how to be a fax machine? Open up that email you wrote and select "print to fax". The folks up in DC won't be able to tell it from a real fax. If you really want to make an impact, "print to printer", fold it up and stick it in an envelope, address it properly, don't forget the stamp, then mail it the old fashioned way. That still makes the strongest impression and it really isn't much harder, assuming you don't need to buy a stamp.
I know what a filibuster is. Sounds like fun, sometimes it's nice to see the Senate do nothing at all, especially if it can get a small supermajority to go along.
Actually, he somehow logicked that the allowance of sucession was the equivalent of anarchy - that it made more sense for states to have a civilized debate in Congress than to work out treaties with adjacent states that comprised an alien nation.
In Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, he never references the Articles of the Confederation. Maybe some other speech, but he intended the First Inaugural to be a sufficient explanation.
Here's the part that makes the most sense: