This is a true question - I'm not being funny. What do you use it for? I've been coding PHP since '99 and everything I've ever needed to look up was online.
Did you actually read the article? The card performs exactly the same as the 9200 in the machine... it's like a car labelled as "300bhp" that actually does, *ahem*, 300bhp (but cheaper:-P)
You'd think NASA would have tested if the airbags would cause the lander to get stuck or not... hehehe
NASA goes for simplicity, not complexity. The thought behind their missions aren't exactly genius. Beagle 2 had on board a mass spectrometer. What does Spirit have? a canon digital camera and the largest pringles can antenna money can buy.
The war in Iraq can be traced back to Bush Sr... you don't have to go back that far. In fact, most of the people responsible for him are still in the White House. Go figure.
The people there are too busy being shot at by dimwitted American troops to engage foreigners about the transgressions of the former regime. The current one is worse.
Amnesty International was doing its thing. Being a respectable, diplomatic charity, it uses words and public opinion to change the world. Bush can't, so he wades in like an angry toddler. It's not GWB's fault, but his fathers (well, seeing as it took bush until last year to invade iraq, it is his fault to some extent). All that lovely money Bush Sr. gave to Saddam to buy weapons. And how Bush Sr. gave Saddam equipment to make WMDs, then gave him intelligence to use it. Hardly innocent.
Afghanistan did just approve their constitution, which was followed with mass violence afterwards. True, no more government thugs - just regional ones, who are VERY much in power. The warlords are still ever-present in Afghanistan. They won't be leaving.
Bush has already determined how history will see him. The cowboy president, fond of choking on pretzels, who called premieres by nicknames in public, who made up words when his own limited vocabulary failed him, etc. Oh, and sadistic, greedy warmonger.
You really need to turn off Fox News and read some books. America gave so much money and equipment to Iraq it's not even funny. Saddam used that to bolster his own dictatorial position, and exert his pressure on the region. The US didn't mind, as Saddam did what they said. When Saddam invaded Kuwait, Bush Sr. had to step in. After it was all done, Saddam was their buddy again (eg - no US support for the shia uprising in the south - which lead to the deaths of 30,000+ people, and which could have easily overthrown Saddam from INSIDE). The US only stands against dictators when the dictator isn't helping them. It's US foreign policy, it seems. Any thinly-veiled "humanitarian" excuse is quickly blown out of the water when you look at the facts. The US is about MONEY, pure and simple. If the US government was so hell-bent on preserving individual freedom, it wouldn't be pissing the whole world off imprisoning people on a base in cuba, without phone calls, legal representation or even being charged with anything. It also wouldn't put kids on death row, and it wouldn't have the highest prison population in the world.
Ronald Reagan was called a warmonger and idiot lunatic by everyone not a staunch Republican - there's a difference.
Well, seeing as Jimmy Carter has done more for the world during Bush's term than Bush, I think he'll be remembered in a much, much nicer light.
Changing it to International saved NASAs ass, as they could use Russia to send people and stuff to it when their ancient wobbly shuttles were grounded. Othewise, it would be a small tin can in space, with a stars and stripes on the side, empty.
Bagging on the UN for wasting money is pretty silly, considering that the US wastes more money than the UN ever has (500bn a year from the rest of the world, and the debt is slipping).
I was there recently... it's as bad as everyone says. Remember that Simpsons episode? They're on the right track.
I kid you not, it seemed as if every time Bush was on the news, rousing music would fade in from the background, and flags would start flying. Their US-centric news is horrific. I watched the news every day on Fox, and the only time any other part of the world was mentioned was if they had some exciting video (preferrably with some guns or an animal, or an animal with a gun) from it. It was as if the rest of the world didn't exist. It answered a lot of questions I had about America, that's for sure. The only country I know of that has recipes in its news programs. Recipes - I kid you not.
CNN is better, but it's still skewed as all heck - it's just the press wing of the white house.
If the US treated other countries with respect (as in not sending rednecks with humvees into them), and used its accumulated wealth (not even all of it, but 1% maybe), it could make such a dramatic humanitarian impact on the world, terrorism would drop considerably. How can you attack a country that exists purely to help others?
Try telling that to the 100,000 families of those who died. They're just as sad as those 2,000 families of the WTC victims.
You're the epitome of the typical TV-junkie. If it's not on Fox News with a fluttering flag graphic and talk of "us" and "them", you're not interested. Way to be a caring human. I hope you're proud.
Do you realise he just asked for billions for the last war he went on? It doesn't matter where the money goes, but where it comes from. He can't expect the US to keep pulling dollars out of its ass to fund his crazy crack-pot schemes (war/tax breaks/war/war/space/war/war/killing arabs/war/war/war). He needs to finish one project before moving on.
He will always be compared to his father. That's never going to change. Unfortunately, that's what you get from letting your dad bail you out all your life (sometimes literally) and hand you the presidency.
He's a PR machine. He's admitted it himself. Can't you see that?
I think it perfectly highlights the true motivation for this new direction.
Curing diseases in space doesn't make good TV. Video of US Marines in space will get middle america's heart racing. So freakin' predictable. Look at that charade on the aircraft carrier last year. Instead of flying out on a helicopter, he had the carrier turned round to hide the coast so he could lie and request a carrier landing and strut around the flight deck like some geriatric tom cruise mid-way through a stroke. He wasted MILLIONS of dollars on that stunt, purely to boost his own re-election campaign. If fraudulently using state money to ensure your "re-election" isn't a dictatorship, what is?
He's all about the sound/video bite. He's looking out for himself, not the world. That's painfully obvious.
If he did become Linux's #1 superfan, it doesn't change the fact he's a power-crazed idiot puppet, hell-bent on the almighty dollar and killing arabs. Can't you understand that?:)
He's waded into iraq, leaving millions of people up shit creek, now he's trying to use the Moon and Mars as PR tools to keep him in bananas for the next 4 years from November.
Are you glad he's squandering money that could be used to help people now, on flights of fancy (pun intended) that may just end up swallowing everyone's money and screwing things up even more?
Doesn't anyone else see how Bush pulls some "massive" piece of PR out of his ass at the drop of a hat to direct peoples' attention from his mistakes? The ol' bait and switch regime.
Until Bush has proven himself worthy of fixing the messes he makes, he shouldn't be allowed to dream up new messes.
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This is a true question - I'm not being funny. What do you use it for? I've been coding PHP since '99 and everything I've ever needed to look up was online.
That's where a digital projector with monitor inputs really helps ;)
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I think his point stands, mr. dafoomie. ;)
Look at the white house - is there a difference any more?
holepunches worked extremely well :)
err.. you can turn off DRM in your bios setting. That's something every proponent of DRM has said since day #1...
Did you actually read the article? The card performs exactly the same as the 9200 in the machine... it's like a car labelled as "300bhp" that actually does, *ahem*, 300bhp (but cheaper :-P)
Gimp is more powerful than Photoshop? I think he got off lightly being called flamebait..
Would you feel comfortable with letting a linux distro write all over your ipod? ;)
Deep underwater... not exactly spot on when when you're testing something that's going to have a higher internal pressure than external ;)
NASA goes for simplicity, not complexity. The thought behind their missions aren't exactly genius. Beagle 2 had on board a mass spectrometer. What does Spirit have? a canon digital camera and the largest pringles can antenna money can buy.
You've watched Armageddon too many times ;)
Energy = "Yaaawn!"
Free meds = "Yaaawn!"
Space => "Wait - that's like Star Trek, isn't it... oh, and Star Wars. Wow. He must be good. Yeah. Lets vote for him."
The war in Iraq can be traced back to Bush Sr... you don't have to go back that far. In fact, most of the people responsible for him are still in the White House. Go figure.
Don't you see? The Republicans ARE the fascists. Jeez.
Amnesty International was doing its thing. Being a respectable, diplomatic charity, it uses words and public opinion to change the world. Bush can't, so he wades in like an angry toddler. It's not GWB's fault, but his fathers (well, seeing as it took bush until last year to invade iraq, it is his fault to some extent). All that lovely money Bush Sr. gave to Saddam to buy weapons. And how Bush Sr. gave Saddam equipment to make WMDs, then gave him intelligence to use it. Hardly innocent.
Afghanistan did just approve their constitution, which was followed with mass violence afterwards. True, no more government thugs - just regional ones, who are VERY much in power. The warlords are still ever-present in Afghanistan. They won't be leaving.
Bush has already determined how history will see him. The cowboy president, fond of choking on pretzels, who called premieres by nicknames in public, who made up words when his own limited vocabulary failed him, etc. Oh, and sadistic, greedy warmonger.
You really need to turn off Fox News and read some books. America gave so much money and equipment to Iraq it's not even funny. Saddam used that to bolster his own dictatorial position, and exert his pressure on the region. The US didn't mind, as Saddam did what they said. When Saddam invaded Kuwait, Bush Sr. had to step in. After it was all done, Saddam was their buddy again (eg - no US support for the shia uprising in the south - which lead to the deaths of 30,000+ people, and which could have easily overthrown Saddam from INSIDE). The US only stands against dictators when the dictator isn't helping them. It's US foreign policy, it seems. Any thinly-veiled "humanitarian" excuse is quickly blown out of the water when you look at the facts. The US is about MONEY, pure and simple. If the US government was so hell-bent on preserving individual freedom, it wouldn't be pissing the whole world off imprisoning people on a base in cuba, without phone calls, legal representation or even being charged with anything. It also wouldn't put kids on death row, and it wouldn't have the highest prison population in the world.
Ronald Reagan was called a warmonger and idiot lunatic by everyone not a staunch Republican - there's a difference.
Well, seeing as Jimmy Carter has done more for the world during Bush's term than Bush, I think he'll be remembered in a much, much nicer light.
Bagging on the UN for wasting money is pretty silly, considering that the US wastes more money than the UN ever has (500bn a year from the rest of the world, and the debt is slipping).
Stones... Glass houses... you get the picture ;)
I kid you not, it seemed as if every time Bush was on the news, rousing music would fade in from the background, and flags would start flying. Their US-centric news is horrific. I watched the news every day on Fox, and the only time any other part of the world was mentioned was if they had some exciting video (preferrably with some guns or an animal, or an animal with a gun) from it. It was as if the rest of the world didn't exist. It answered a lot of questions I had about America, that's for sure. The only country I know of that has recipes in its news programs. Recipes - I kid you not.
CNN is better, but it's still skewed as all heck - it's just the press wing of the white house.
No - they thought they saw a mosque on it.
I have american friends (and an american wife), and I completely agree with you. they do too!
If the US treated other countries with respect (as in not sending rednecks with humvees into them), and used its accumulated wealth (not even all of it, but 1% maybe), it could make such a dramatic humanitarian impact on the world, terrorism would drop considerably. How can you attack a country that exists purely to help others?
You're the epitome of the typical TV-junkie. If it's not on Fox News with a fluttering flag graphic and talk of "us" and "them", you're not interested. Way to be a caring human. I hope you're proud.
It looks like they're already giving up on rebuilding iraq, so what makes you think this is any different?
He will always be compared to his father. That's never going to change. Unfortunately, that's what you get from letting your dad bail you out all your life (sometimes literally) and hand you the presidency.
He's a PR machine. He's admitted it himself. Can't you see that?
Curing diseases in space doesn't make good TV. Video of US Marines in space will get middle america's heart racing. So freakin' predictable. Look at that charade on the aircraft carrier last year. Instead of flying out on a helicopter, he had the carrier turned round to hide the coast so he could lie and request a carrier landing and strut around the flight deck like some geriatric tom cruise mid-way through a stroke. He wasted MILLIONS of dollars on that stunt, purely to boost his own re-election campaign. If fraudulently using state money to ensure your "re-election" isn't a dictatorship, what is?
He's all about the sound/video bite. He's looking out for himself, not the world. That's painfully obvious.
He's waded into iraq, leaving millions of people up shit creek, now he's trying to use the Moon and Mars as PR tools to keep him in bananas for the next 4 years from November.
Are you glad he's squandering money that could be used to help people now, on flights of fancy (pun intended) that may just end up swallowing everyone's money and screwing things up even more?
Doesn't anyone else see how Bush pulls some "massive" piece of PR out of his ass at the drop of a hat to direct peoples' attention from his mistakes? The ol' bait and switch regime.
Until Bush has proven himself worthy of fixing the messes he makes, he shouldn't be allowed to dream up new messes.