You realize that the article you linked ends by saying that he did say Israel should be wiped off the map, right?
I'll grant you that he didn't say that his country should be the one doing the wiping. There's still a huge difference between a stable democracy (India) and a country where the religious leadership holds a veto over everything (including who can run for office) and which denies the right of one of it's neighbors to exist.
On the one hand, there's no way that they'll let Iran or North Korea even so much as attempt to build a reactor, but as soon as India wants on the scene
And how many Japanese citizens has India captured and held against their will in the last few decades? How many times have they threatened to wipe a neighbor off the map?
In case you didn't know, all your other utilities are contended too
Yeah, but the utilities didn't seem to mind updating the contention ratios as time passed. I'm guessing that the contention ratio on today's power distribution network is not the same as it was back in the 50s when the biggest electrical appliance was the icebox, air conditioning was a luxury and nobody had PCs and a TV in every room.
The ISPs don't seem to want to update for the times. Look at Roadrunners purposed 40GB cap. Do you really think 40GB is fair in this day and age of streaming on-demand video? Did you watch any of the streaming video during the Olympics or Political Conventions? It would have been pretty easy to blow past this 40GB limit if you did so -- and that doesn't even count other services like Amazon's Unbox or Netflix instant view.
They can blame bittorrent all they want but at the end of the day if they can't handle 5% of the customers running p2p how are they going to handle 50% of them using streaming video?
I do find it amusing that it's generally the cableco's trying to impose these limits. Verizon doesn't seem to have any problem offering unlimited services to their customers -- and several of their executives have even made a point of mentioning this. I guess it's easier when your bread and butter isn't video (like the cable company) and you don't have a revenue stream to protect......
Go to any indigenous tribe in South America that hasn't been industrialized, and they could pretty much all easily run your commute without it even being challenging
My commute is 30 miles one way. I seem to recall from mythology that if you run that distance you have a good chance of dropping dead on the spot;)
The problem with natural gas is that there's not enough of it. The biggest reason for the rise in electric tariffs in the early part of the 2000's was largely because everyone built natural gas power plants, and, they more or less used up all the natural gas. Now you want to go and build natural gas cars... good luck getting natural gas.
Isn't that why Mr. Pickens is suggesting that we adopt wind power on a large scale? I saw one of his interviews and he advocated using wind to displace natural gas for electrical production so that our natural gas resources can go into the transportation sector.
If they're playing some kind of game where they're being unreasonable about licensing in order to help their oil company parents, well, they can be compelled to license on reasonable term. As we have been reminded over and over again, we are a nation at war.
We aren't a nation at war. Our volunteer military is at war. Our citizens and businesses haven't even been asked to pay for the war (we'll just put it on the national credit card...) so what makes you think that our Government would be smart enough to force a patent dispute resolution in the name of national security?
That was the ep where they tested boxers Vs briefs if I remember right.
Actually it was cooler than that. They were testing a myth about a woman in the Civil War that supposedly got impregnated by a bullet that hit her and which had previously hit the family jewels of some poor bastard.
They actually set up this rig downrange with (you guessed it) ballistics gel. Halfway downrange they had a bag of "genetic material" (semen) in the line of fire. They had a marksman fire through the bag and into the ballistics gel. Then they tried to find "genetic material" with a microscope.
Is it more fair to believe that security through obscurity is fair?
Security through obscurity is nothing new to Mythbusters. How many times have we seen them censor themselves when talking about explosives or chemicals when you can easily obtain the censored information in all of 30 seconds with a Google search?
My guess is that it's something the lawyers make them do.
They may have never been arrested, no. But up until recently, anyone who tried to speak out against the Iraq War was drowned out by its supporters, who, while may not be good at getting their facts straight, were very good at being loud with their opinions; effectively "closing down" the dissenters.
Then the dissenters should shout louder than the supporters.
OK - not a present-day situation but lets suppose back just after Saddam's regime had fallen and before the foundation of the present Iraqi government, I made that argument? I'd have been closed down and probably arrested too
Do you have a single citation of an American citizen being "closed down and probably arrested" for speaking out against the Iraq War? Or are you just talking out of your ass?
A system which relies on ordinary limited liability companies honouring promises over fifty years (or even just twenty) is, frankly, idiotic.
They don't have to honor the promise over 50 years. They have to properly fund the pension plan when they make the promise and leave it alone afterwards. Too many companies either failed to fund it properly to begin with or funded it properly but later raided the funds for other purposes.
Private pensions aren't actually that good an idea. Lot of industries (steel, auto, airline) that gave pensions to employees are currently struggling under massive pension debt because of technological advances that have substantially reduced the workforces in those companies
That wouldn't be a problem if they had properly funded the pension plans to begin with instead of making promises that they had no intention of keeping.
Except you only have the right to be left alone on your own property
I'm pretty sure that I have the same right to use the roadways and other transportation infrastructure as these "protesters" who were planning on disrupting them.
It seems to me that in this day and age (instant messaging, SMS, cell phones, blogs, etc) that it's going to take a lot more than disorderly conduct laws to stop people from assembling for political speech.
As with most things a balance needs to be struck. Your right to freedom of expression shouldn't trump my right to be left the hell alone if that's what I desire. There are ways to protest without disrupting traffic and "blockading" (to use their word) airports.
You should be ashamed for comparing the two issues.
Oh give me a break. I wasn't comparing standing up to a homeowners association to what Rosa Parks did. I was pointing out the absurdity of your statement: "There's nothing good about looking for conflict. The best path is to dodge it."
Yeah but this is/. -- that kind of sensationalist attention-grabbing headline removed from the reality of the actual story would never happen around here;)
That depends on your perspective, now doesn't it? Disgusting from the vantage point of the protesters..... probably just fine and dandy from the perspective of someone who just wants to get to work or the grocery store in a reasonable amount of time.
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You realize that the article you linked ends by saying that he did say Israel should be wiped off the map, right?
I'll grant you that he didn't say that his country should be the one doing the wiping. There's still a huge difference between a stable democracy (India) and a country where the religious leadership holds a veto over everything (including who can run for office) and which denies the right of one of it's neighbors to exist.
On the one hand, there's no way that they'll let Iran or North Korea even so much as attempt to build a reactor, but as soon as India wants on the scene
And how many Japanese citizens has India captured and held against their will in the last few decades? How many times have they threatened to wipe a neighbor off the map?
In case you didn't know, all your other utilities are contended too
Yeah, but the utilities didn't seem to mind updating the contention ratios as time passed. I'm guessing that the contention ratio on today's power distribution network is not the same as it was back in the 50s when the biggest electrical appliance was the icebox, air conditioning was a luxury and nobody had PCs and a TV in every room.
The ISPs don't seem to want to update for the times. Look at Roadrunners purposed 40GB cap. Do you really think 40GB is fair in this day and age of streaming on-demand video? Did you watch any of the streaming video during the Olympics or Political Conventions? It would have been pretty easy to blow past this 40GB limit if you did so -- and that doesn't even count other services like Amazon's Unbox or Netflix instant view.
They can blame bittorrent all they want but at the end of the day if they can't handle 5% of the customers running p2p how are they going to handle 50% of them using streaming video?
I do find it amusing that it's generally the cableco's trying to impose these limits. Verizon doesn't seem to have any problem offering unlimited services to their customers -- and several of their executives have even made a point of mentioning this. I guess it's easier when your bread and butter isn't video (like the cable company) and you don't have a revenue stream to protect......
True, but the ones that are unable to figure out the google search part are the ones we _really_ don't want messing around with homemade explosives.
Am I missing an eyebrow?
Go to any indigenous tribe in South America that hasn't been industrialized, and they could pretty much all easily run your commute without it even being challenging
My commute is 30 miles one way. I seem to recall from mythology that if you run that distance you have a good chance of dropping dead on the spot ;)
According to the New York Times [nytimes.com], 57% of Prius buyers cited "Makes a statement about me" as the reason they purchased the car.
Hmm..... I sense a coming storm of smug ;)
The problem with natural gas is that there's not enough of it. The biggest reason for the rise in electric tariffs in the early part of the 2000's was largely because everyone built natural gas power plants, and, they more or less used up all the natural gas. Now you want to go and build natural gas cars... good luck getting natural gas.
Isn't that why Mr. Pickens is suggesting that we adopt wind power on a large scale? I saw one of his interviews and he advocated using wind to displace natural gas for electrical production so that our natural gas resources can go into the transportation sector.
If they're playing some kind of game where they're being unreasonable about licensing in order to help their oil company parents, well, they can be compelled to license on reasonable term. As we have been reminded over and over again, we are a nation at war.
We aren't a nation at war. Our volunteer military is at war. Our citizens and businesses haven't even been asked to pay for the war (we'll just put it on the national credit card...) so what makes you think that our Government would be smart enough to force a patent dispute resolution in the name of national security?
The fact that it claims to use science as its basis is the show's hook, not its actual foundation.
Yeah, but at least that hook gets you thinking and talking about science again. Can you say that about American Idol?
That was the ep where they tested boxers Vs briefs if I remember right.
Actually it was cooler than that. They were testing a myth about a woman in the Civil War that supposedly got impregnated by a bullet that hit her and which had previously hit the family jewels of some poor bastard.
They actually set up this rig downrange with (you guessed it) ballistics gel. Halfway downrange they had a bag of "genetic material" (semen) in the line of fire. They had a marksman fire through the bag and into the ballistics gel. Then they tried to find "genetic material" with a microscope.
They busted the myth as I recall.
Is it more fair to believe that security through obscurity is fair?
Security through obscurity is nothing new to Mythbusters. How many times have we seen them censor themselves when talking about explosives or chemicals when you can easily obtain the censored information in all of 30 seconds with a Google search?
My guess is that it's something the lawyers make them do.
You forgot Jar Jar ;)
They may have never been arrested, no. But up until recently, anyone who tried to speak out against the Iraq War was drowned out by its supporters, who, while may not be good at getting their facts straight, were very good at being loud with their opinions; effectively "closing down" the dissenters.
Then the dissenters should shout louder than the supporters.
OK - not a present-day situation but lets suppose back just after Saddam's regime had fallen and before the foundation of the present Iraqi government, I made that argument? I'd have been closed down and probably arrested too
Do you have a single citation of an American citizen being "closed down and probably arrested" for speaking out against the Iraq War? Or are you just talking out of your ass?
You should see them quadruple their offer then. It's called hardball.
Or they bring out the lawyers and everybody loses. It wouldn't be the first time, either.
A system which relies on ordinary limited liability companies honouring promises over fifty years (or even just twenty) is, frankly, idiotic.
They don't have to honor the promise over 50 years. They have to properly fund the pension plan when they make the promise and leave it alone afterwards. Too many companies either failed to fund it properly to begin with or funded it properly but later raided the funds for other purposes.
Private pensions aren't actually that good an idea. Lot of industries (steel, auto, airline) that gave pensions to employees are currently struggling under massive pension debt because of technological advances that have substantially reduced the workforces in those companies
That wouldn't be a problem if they had properly funded the pension plans to begin with instead of making promises that they had no intention of keeping.
Of course, merchants still have every right to use hand-written sales slips and only accept cash, making the whole issue moot.
When has a little thing like reality ever stopped a Governmental mandate? ;)
Am I the only one who read the headline and pictured a guy in a chef suit firing at a pile of books with a NES lightgun?
Can you shoot the dog before he goes after the books? Please, pretty please?
Except you only have the right to be left alone on your own property
I'm pretty sure that I have the same right to use the roadways and other transportation infrastructure as these "protesters" who were planning on disrupting them.
It seems to me that in this day and age (instant messaging, SMS, cell phones, blogs, etc) that it's going to take a lot more than disorderly conduct laws to stop people from assembling for political speech.
As with most things a balance needs to be struck. Your right to freedom of expression shouldn't trump my right to be left the hell alone if that's what I desire. There are ways to protest without disrupting traffic and "blockading" (to use their word) airports.
You should be ashamed for comparing the two issues.
Oh give me a break. I wasn't comparing standing up to a homeowners association to what Rosa Parks did. I was pointing out the absurdity of your statement: "There's nothing good about looking for conflict. The best path is to dodge it."
Welcome to the world of sensationalist media.
Yeah but this is /. -- that kind of sensationalist attention-grabbing headline removed from the reality of the actual story would never happen around here ;)
That's a disgusting law
That depends on your perspective, now doesn't it? Disgusting from the vantage point of the protesters..... probably just fine and dandy from the perspective of someone who just wants to get to work or the grocery store in a reasonable amount of time.
There's nothing good about looking for conflict. The best path is to dodge it.
Yeah, Rosa Parks should have just taken the next bus......