My dad bought me a car, and not because he really liked me a lot. He spent $2000 on a real junker that I could fix myself because I was involved in school activities and he didn't want to have to drive me every time we had a band competition/jazz band gig/Youth in Government meeting. He didn't really want to buy me one, but there was no way that I could have done all those things without having a car: nothing is within walking distance, and riding a bike is suicidal.
How will this get people to 'come to God?' Yeah, a VR church is cool, but for people who have been in virtual 3D environs since Wolfenstein, it's no biggie. How about saying why your book is any better than "Horton Hears a Who" as a basis for a belief system?
There's a difference between tuning in for the three shows per week (Charmed, Good Eats, and Iron Chef), and a couple specials here and there (Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters) and watching four hours of TV a day. There are people who sit in front of the TV from the time they get home until they go to bed. I know, my mother-in-law is one of them. They're helplessly addicted to TV, for any number of reasons.
Your best bet isn't to turn off the TV entirely for your kids, but to teach them to watch TV selectively. Let them pick three hours per week that they get to watch, or make it a family thing. (Sesame Street is on at 7PM in my area, so a lot of parents watch it with their kids before they go to sleep.) Don't let them be babysat by the One-Eyed Shitbox and they won't get addicted. I love my shows, and so does my fiance. But we don't watch any other TV shows because we have too much to do, and we like it that way.
Giving up TV for a week won't help anyone except the addicted. It will just make me miss shows I've been waiting for weeks to see.
Why authorize/deauthorize when you can simply set up a server and pipe the music over the network? Or put it on your iPod? Or hook it up to your stereo system and use a remote control?
Seems to me that you haven't been looking for a nice, legal solution because you're too busy/lazy to be bothered.
Seems to me that Intel just looked at the number of receipts they had from each school to compile that list. It wouldn't suprise me a bit if it's just spitting out the results from
SELECT Org_Name FROM Centrino_Sales WHERE Segment = Education ORDER BY total_units DESCENDING LIMIT 50
Because Soviet Russia was a bigger threat than any third world country was. The US through it served their interests in containing the spread of communism to arm Iraq against Iran.
That's a new one. The way I always heard it was that Iraq was fighting a war against Iran, who was our enemy. And how do you think the Iraqis got MiG jets and Russian tanks? The russians didn't like the Iranians either! It wasn't the Russians we were trying to fight, it was the Iranians.
Becuase it was an election year, and he didn't want to have to deal with the bloodshed that is going on now back then. He would have been re-elected too, if it hadn't been for Perot.
Yes!!! Finally one of you admits that Bush is going down in November!
I don't see it that way, wars are usually struggles over resources. While left leaning people are saying Iraq is over oil, and the righties are claiming its about the freedom of the Iraqi people it's really about striking fear into leaders of other muslim states.
If it's about resources, then planning and equal distribution would prevent war. If it's about religion, it's a little harder, but appearing non-threatening and friendly is a great way to keep religions from not liking you. Maybe it's about fear, but if we have to make people afraid of us in order to be secure, we have big issues. Why not try to make people like us instead of being feared?
Yeah it sucks, but until resources are unlimited and all men and women are equal in every way, there will be violence. Religion also seems to be a driving factor twards war historically. Maybe one day we will get over the violence of ancestors, but I doubt it. I hoped after the cold war the world would see a few hundred years of peace, but no dice. Maybe someday.
No, when people see that violence is wrong, and when it is not tolerated by all societies, then war will end. People who claim that war is necessary provide justification. War is not necessary. The more people who think this, the less war will be an option, and the more peaceful the world will become.
As for resources: Greed causes shortage, and greed is rewarded under capitalism, therefore capitalism, just like Marx said, causes war.
Getting your license involves giving your consent to a breath test whenever demanded by an officer. You signed something like that when you got/renewed your license. If you want to drive (a privilege), you have to consent. Period. Got a problem? Don't drive.
Also, what is the last four seconds of you being stopped going to tell the officer? You were slowing down, then you stopped. That's all that will be on there.
As long as it's not 24 hours + GPS location, then I have absolutely no problem with a system that records my car's state for the last few seconds before a crash. hell, it would probably lower my insurance rates, and may exonerate me.
Righties always scream "MOD ABUSE" when something they disagree with gets modded up. They don't even bother to think that maybe it's getting modded up because it's right.
And don't even start on off-topic. Right-wing knee-jerkists responding to an idiotic and old joke provided context for this debate. Why not mod that as off topic?
I'm a liberal, and I opposed the war because it is wrong. It represents a failure of diplomacy and patience. The case for war was not made for me, particularly because Rumsfeld negotiated the sale of WMD to Saddam in the 80s. However, they never said "we know he has them because we have the receipts." If Saddam was such a big threat, why did Reagan ally the US with him? Why didn't Bush I take him out? Why did Bush I specifically warn his son against invading Iraq?
All wars, every one, can be prevented by a people who truly value peace and life. If you can't see a way, then you aren't looking hard enough.
Finally, my beliefs say that all life is sacred, and that any lives lost without purpose are a crime against life everywhere. We are too precious a resource to be blowing up. Eisenhower (a Republican) said it best: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
I don't know why it's doing so poorly! All we did is move its timeslot around and then preempt it with sports that its target audience doesn't want to watch.
[as] is like the nice, sweet geek friend who loves a girl (great cartoons) who's with a horrible boyfriend (Fox). He treats her wrong, and she runs to her geek. But as soon as she's feeling better, the dumbass boyfriend wants her back.
I'm not sure how to feel about this. Part of me says "woo hoo! New Episodes!" But another part says "Now it will be in the mainstream again, complete with lots of disgusting, annoying commercials and no funny cards."
When a company can simply write off 'punishments' as costs of doing business, they cease to be punishments. Increase the fines, or make them percentages instead of amounts, if you want to change anything. (Percentages would be better because it would affect small companies the same as big companies.)
Microsoft, like all other companies, has one duty: To make as big of a profit as possible. It's up to society, and therefore the government, to provide them with economic incentive to be nice and play fair.
The tags are there to prevent theft, just like DRM software. Circumventing them violates DMCA. Selling products that circumvent them violates DMCA. Say bye bye to your microwave.
Create effective, efficient public transportation, so that people who don't want to drive or can't (physically) drive well are able to live their lives without depending on roadways. This has the added benefit of lessening traffic at peak travel times and reducing emissions in urban areas.
Only smart cute girls like geeks. They realized in the 90s that the geeks were the ones making the billions, not the frat-boy business majors. We're becoming attractive because we can provide for them. We get nookie, they get $. It's like informal prostitution that's not necessarily illegal.
Or as my fiance put it "I invested a lot of time in you, and now [that you have a job making twice what I do] it's paying off."
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My dad bought me a car, and not because he really liked me a lot. He spent $2000 on a real junker that I could fix myself because I was involved in school activities and he didn't want to have to drive me every time we had a band competition/jazz band gig/Youth in Government meeting. He didn't really want to buy me one, but there was no way that I could have done all those things without having a car: nothing is within walking distance, and riding a bike is suicidal.
Why, yes, I do want 50mpg and no oil to replace.
But I also want to fix it myself so I get to save money.
So I'll get me a TDI and a veggie kit and run it till the doors fall off.
All the more reason to buy a Mac. They retain resale value better, and therefore make the next big computer purchase cheaper.
Not depressing at all for me. It gives me an excellent reason for my fiance to let me buy a new laptop to replace my 400mhz G4 tower.
How will this get people to 'come to God?' Yeah, a VR church is cool, but for people who have been in virtual 3D environs since Wolfenstein, it's no biggie. How about saying why your book is any better than "Horton Hears a Who" as a basis for a belief system?
If I ever get a lot of money, I'll buy prime time slots in the summer and broadcast the words: GO OUTSIDE for an hour straight.
There's a difference between tuning in for the three shows per week (Charmed, Good Eats, and Iron Chef), and a couple specials here and there (Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters) and watching four hours of TV a day. There are people who sit in front of the TV from the time they get home until they go to bed. I know, my mother-in-law is one of them. They're helplessly addicted to TV, for any number of reasons.
Your best bet isn't to turn off the TV entirely for your kids, but to teach them to watch TV selectively. Let them pick three hours per week that they get to watch, or make it a family thing. (Sesame Street is on at 7PM in my area, so a lot of parents watch it with their kids before they go to sleep.) Don't let them be babysat by the One-Eyed Shitbox and they won't get addicted. I love my shows, and so does my fiance. But we don't watch any other TV shows because we have too much to do, and we like it that way.
Giving up TV for a week won't help anyone except the addicted. It will just make me miss shows I've been waiting for weeks to see.
If these idiots think I'm going to miss Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters for their little protest, they've got another thing coming.
Why authorize/deauthorize when you can simply set up a server and pipe the music over the network? Or put it on your iPod? Or hook it up to your stereo system and use a remote control?
Seems to me that you haven't been looking for a nice, legal solution because you're too busy/lazy to be bothered.
Because Soviet Russia was a bigger threat than any third world country was. The US through it served their interests in containing the spread of communism to arm Iraq against Iran.
That's a new one. The way I always heard it was that Iraq was fighting a war against Iran, who was our enemy. And how do you think the Iraqis got MiG jets and Russian tanks? The russians didn't like the Iranians either! It wasn't the Russians we were trying to fight, it was the Iranians.
Becuase it was an election year, and he didn't want to have to deal with the bloodshed that is going on now back then. He would have been re-elected too, if it hadn't been for Perot.
Yes!!! Finally one of you admits that Bush is going down in November!
I don't see it that way, wars are usually struggles over resources. While left leaning people are saying Iraq is over oil, and the righties are claiming its about the freedom of the Iraqi people it's really about striking fear into leaders of other muslim states.
If it's about resources, then planning and equal distribution would prevent war. If it's about religion, it's a little harder, but appearing non-threatening and friendly is a great way to keep religions from not liking you. Maybe it's about fear, but if we have to make people afraid of us in order to be secure, we have big issues. Why not try to make people like us instead of being feared?
Yeah it sucks, but until resources are unlimited and all men and women are equal in every way, there will be violence. Religion also seems to be a driving factor twards war historically. Maybe one day we will get over the violence of ancestors, but I doubt it. I hoped after the cold war the world would see a few hundred years of peace, but no dice. Maybe someday.
No, when people see that violence is wrong, and when it is not tolerated by all societies, then war will end. People who claim that war is necessary provide justification. War is not necessary. The more people who think this, the less war will be an option, and the more peaceful the world will become.
As for resources: Greed causes shortage, and greed is rewarded under capitalism, therefore capitalism, just like Marx said, causes war.
Getting your license involves giving your consent to a breath test whenever demanded by an officer. You signed something like that when you got/renewed your license. If you want to drive (a privilege), you have to consent. Period. Got a problem? Don't drive.
Also, what is the last four seconds of you being stopped going to tell the officer? You were slowing down, then you stopped. That's all that will be on there.
As long as it's not 24 hours + GPS location, then I have absolutely no problem with a system that records my car's state for the last few seconds before a crash. hell, it would probably lower my insurance rates, and may exonerate me.
The iTMS has produced a small profit this quarter, according to this.
No, it means he has Saddam's WMD in a bunker in Texas, and will 'find' them in October to raise opinion polls.
He has an election to win!
Righties always scream "MOD ABUSE" when something they disagree with gets modded up. They don't even bother to think that maybe it's getting modded up because it's right.
And don't even start on off-topic. Right-wing knee-jerkists responding to an idiotic and old joke provided context for this debate. Why not mod that as off topic?
I'm a liberal, and I opposed the war because it is wrong. It represents a failure of diplomacy and patience. The case for war was not made for me, particularly because Rumsfeld negotiated the sale of WMD to Saddam in the 80s. However, they never said "we know he has them because we have the receipts." If Saddam was such a big threat, why did Reagan ally the US with him? Why didn't Bush I take him out? Why did Bush I specifically warn his son against invading Iraq?
All wars, every one, can be prevented by a people who truly value peace and life. If you can't see a way, then you aren't looking hard enough.
Finally, my beliefs say that all life is sacred, and that any lives lost without purpose are a crime against life everywhere. We are too precious a resource to be blowing up. Eisenhower (a Republican) said it best: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
I don't know why it's doing so poorly! All we did is move its timeslot around and then preempt it with sports that its target audience doesn't want to watch.
[as] is like the nice, sweet geek friend who loves a girl (great cartoons) who's with a horrible boyfriend (Fox). He treats her wrong, and she runs to her geek. But as soon as she's feeling better, the dumbass boyfriend wants her back.
I'm not sure how to feel about this. Part of me says "woo hoo! New Episodes!" But another part says "Now it will be in the mainstream again, complete with lots of disgusting, annoying commercials and no funny cards."
When a company can simply write off 'punishments' as costs of doing business, they cease to be punishments. Increase the fines, or make them percentages instead of amounts, if you want to change anything. (Percentages would be better because it would affect small companies the same as big companies.)
Microsoft, like all other companies, has one duty: To make as big of a profit as possible. It's up to society, and therefore the government, to provide them with economic incentive to be nice and play fair.
The tags are there to prevent theft, just like DRM software. Circumventing them violates DMCA. Selling products that circumvent them violates DMCA. Say bye bye to your microwave.
The phone is a reader, not a tag. Unless you need to read the RFID tag on the door of the server room, there's no excuse for your boss bugging you.
My own wife is a lawyer and never made more than $30k as a public defender (before she quit the profession entirely- she's a stripper now).
Now we know you're lying. Heh.
"Yeah, it sucks, but I don't want to have to buy all new software."
Create effective, efficient public transportation, so that people who don't want to drive or can't (physically) drive well are able to live their lives without depending on roadways. This has the added benefit of lessening traffic at peak travel times and reducing emissions in urban areas.
But that would be reasonable and intelligent.
RTFA
That is all.
Only smart cute girls like geeks. They realized in the 90s that the geeks were the ones making the billions, not the frat-boy business majors. We're becoming attractive because we can provide for them. We get nookie, they get $. It's like informal prostitution that's not necessarily illegal.
Or as my fiance put it "I invested a lot of time in you, and now [that you have a job making twice what I do] it's paying off."