No Democracy lasts long, and usually devolves into the majority voting themselves largess from the public coffers.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship." -- Professor Alexander Tytler over 200 years ago
"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." -- John Adams, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814
Since the U.S. is indeed a Representative Republic and not a Democracy (which the founders despised), why is this an issue.
I thought schools were supposed to teach facts?
We bought a license to deploy it at a company I worked for in 1997.
It worked well for us.
Supposedly he was writing an OS that was Windows Compatible, but I never heard anything about it. No screenshots or anything.
Oh please...
You have no idea how desperate American Companies are going to be for employees when all the boomers retire.
You haven't learned a thing from the past, and haven't done ANY critical thinking.
You just spewed some leftist garbage at me, and didn't think for yourself and then accused me of RNC stuff.
Get a clue!
Support is like insurance, the cost is spread over a large volume of customers.
while any single customer may cost the company more than they paid for a single support incident, that cost is spread out among so many other customers who never call for support that in aggregate, it's not a losing proposition for the manufacturer.
But no smart company is going to miss the opportunity to reduce support costs by outsourcing.
Rather than whining about outsourcing, people need to develop their marketable skills so that companies want to hire them.
If you have skills that pay your salary and more, you'll never be outsourced.
And there are many kinds of jobs that never can be outsourced by their nature or the need to be physically in proximity to the customer.
That's not true. The data shows that insourcing has far exceeded the number of jobs outsourced.
It's a myth that we're losing jobs to outsourcing.
We're losing certain kinds of jobs, while the nature of our workforce is changing.
Smart kids will be entering into the medical field as the coming increase of retirees is going to place a heavy demand on medical trades.
Ethics isn't an issue here.
Life isn't set in stone. Things evolve and change.
People who helped install electric lamps and put gaslight lighters out of work weren't unethical.
People who built cars and put buggy whip makers out of work weren't unethical.
Progress happens.
I find off-shore call centers to be substandard. I am always having problems with them.
Companies will realize the false savings in them and bring back home-based centers.
Customer support is a form of sales and advertising. Savings in off-shoring them is penny-wise and pound foolish.
I wouldn't give it a second thought. I trust cream to rise to the top.
You still miss the point. The article isn't about Japanese films being pirated in the U.S.
It's about Japanese films in Japan.
I'm speaking about American films in and TV shows in America.
Any talk about Fansubbing or foreign films is off the point. They are special cases.
Fansubbing isn't the issue. The article talks about Japanese productions in Japan.
I'm talking about English language productions in english speaking countries, comparing like to like.
All the talk about fansubbed unauthorized copies is off-topic.
But, for a permanent place in a collection, the better produced DVDs with extra content are much preferable.
I buy the DVDs of the shows I like as soon as they are released.
Pirated stuff isn't good enough to be a "keeper".
Star Trek: Phase II is a labor of love, and it's insulting to call the performers "shitty". YOU put up hundreds of thousands of dollars to make one of these things. You'll have more of an appreciation of the work that goes into it.
And, they just don't have the money to hire many real actors, because they have to be paid a certain amount of money based on the time they spend working due to SAG rules. Not-for-profit productions just can't afford to use SAG actors on a regular basis.
Just for full disclosure, I was crew on two episodes: "Enemy: Starfleet" and "Kitumba".
There are now 6 released episodes, and one vignette. There are another 4 in post production with another episode slated to be filmed next summer. The quality of the show is much improved over the course of the shows, just like ANY show.
The first few episodes of TOS and TNG were nothing like the quality of later shows.
Give the later shows a try. You might like them better.
The problem with the Edubook is that you can't buy them retail. The shipping cost for one unit is $50us.
You need to buy the unit in bulk to get the shipping cost reasonable.
Nohrtec doesn't seem to care that these units get into people's hands. they don't have them in a U.S. warehouse to ship single units, and they don't have an American distributor.
These are inexpensive units great for use on-the-go. They aren't power user machines. But good enough for E-mail, browsing and as a media player.
And they can always be upgraded with a faster CPU in the future.
Nohrtec just doesn't know how to market.
I suggest you check the Battleground Poll, question D3 which has for the last decade recorded approximate 60% of respondents as Conservative.
You might wish to be red-faced with the projection your message demonstrates.
I am Roman Catholic by birth. But, am not a practicing Catholic now. I believe in Christ and God, and do my own thing.
I think children ought to be taught the strictures in the Bible like the Ten Commandments, and major stories. It's interesting and I believe it to be educational.
I don't believe that the Earth is 5000 some odd years old, and don't know anyone who does. How anyone came up with that figure is beyond me.
I don't believe the story of creation in the Bible is 100% accurate. I think it's just a story. It was handed down orally for generations. Who knows how much it changed from the first telling when it was finally recorded in writing?
I'm sorry to say that I don't take the entire Bible as gospel truth. I think there is a lot to learn from it as there are from lots of other spiritual writings. I think portions are inspired by God. I don't think the genealogies are. The Gospels surely are. I think the New Testament has a lot of good lessons in it. But, I don't think that even the New Testament is a 100% accurate recording of the events of the time.
Nonetheless, I think that all the different creation myths should be taught in schools. Kids should also read the Greek and Roman Mythology. The American Indian Myths and Legends, the Asian Myths and Legends. Kids should be exposed to a wide range of things to spark their imaginations.
Kids should also read the Iliad and the Odyssey, and other classics. Kids used to. And then someone dumbed down our curriculums and decided these things were too difficult for kids. They weren't too difficult for dozens of preceding generations...
Our children need to be exposed to the beliefs of 99% of the citizens in the world, not the lack of of belief of 1%. That's "Tyranny of the Minority". Nowhere in the American Constitution does it guarantee citizens a right to being unoffended. Adults have to develop a thick skin and be tolerant of the beliefs of others. If people don't want their kids exposed to the classics. Maybe they need to homeschool them, or register them in a Private Areligious School.
The entire education system in U.S. has a very left bias. Our kids are being indoctrinated, not taught.
This is good because these textbooks return facts to the books.
The left wing bias of most posters here is disconcerting. You all post as if your minority view is the correct one.
America is a Center-Right Country. Always has been. Our kids need to be taught facts, not leftist ideology and indoctrinated with lies and bias.
So, any movement to put facts into textbooks is a good one.
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well... then, what I read was wrong. There should be no reason an iPad should need a computer for setup.
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From what I read, no external computer is required for setup. And you can download stuff via WiFi or 3G.
A computer is optional.
Erosion is a natural process and isn't caused by "Global Warming". Global Warming isn't happening as the data says we've been cooling since 1998.
Global Warming isn't responsible for that Island being covered by water, but storm action can be.
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Only parts of it. I actually just downloaded it from Gutenberg.org
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/815 - Volume 1
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/815 - Volume 2
I've got a bunch of reading to do before them though. I'm cuurently reading "Blink" by Gladwell, and have two others of his books next.
Snopes.com is not a reliable source. Two people over a kitchen table who have been found to be inaccurate a lot of times, is not an impeccable source.
Since there's a lot of scholarship on the fact that the founders despised Democracies as a form of government, you are going to have to accept that.
Remember, Democracy as a form of Government, and democracy as a practice are two distinct things.
As we can see, despising the former had nothing to do with them incorporating the latter into our Representative Republic.
No Democracy lasts long, and usually devolves into the majority voting themselves largess from the public coffers.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."
-- Professor Alexander Tytler over 200 years ago
"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
-- John Adams, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814
Here's a link:
http://www.americantraditions.org/Articles/why_our_founders_feared_a_democr.htm
Sorry, got the highest marks in school for political science.
Democracy as a form of government is different than using a Democratic process within a Republic, which this country surely is.
I'd say the fail is yours. But, thanks for playing!
Since the U.S. is indeed a Representative Republic and not a Democracy (which the founders despised), why is this an issue. I thought schools were supposed to teach facts?
We bought a license to deploy it at a company I worked for in 1997. It worked well for us. Supposedly he was writing an OS that was Windows Compatible, but I never heard anything about it. No screenshots or anything.
Oh please... You have no idea how desperate American Companies are going to be for employees when all the boomers retire. You haven't learned a thing from the past, and haven't done ANY critical thinking. You just spewed some leftist garbage at me, and didn't think for yourself and then accused me of RNC stuff. Get a clue!
There will be jobs for everyone. With the coming mass retirement of boomers, finding people to fill positions will be the problem.
Support is like insurance, the cost is spread over a large volume of customers. while any single customer may cost the company more than they paid for a single support incident, that cost is spread out among so many other customers who never call for support that in aggregate, it's not a losing proposition for the manufacturer. But no smart company is going to miss the opportunity to reduce support costs by outsourcing. Rather than whining about outsourcing, people need to develop their marketable skills so that companies want to hire them. If you have skills that pay your salary and more, you'll never be outsourced. And there are many kinds of jobs that never can be outsourced by their nature or the need to be physically in proximity to the customer.
That's not true. The data shows that insourcing has far exceeded the number of jobs outsourced. It's a myth that we're losing jobs to outsourcing. We're losing certain kinds of jobs, while the nature of our workforce is changing. Smart kids will be entering into the medical field as the coming increase of retirees is going to place a heavy demand on medical trades.
Ethics isn't an issue here. Life isn't set in stone. Things evolve and change. People who helped install electric lamps and put gaslight lighters out of work weren't unethical. People who built cars and put buggy whip makers out of work weren't unethical. Progress happens. I find off-shore call centers to be substandard. I am always having problems with them. Companies will realize the false savings in them and bring back home-based centers. Customer support is a form of sales and advertising. Savings in off-shoring them is penny-wise and pound foolish. I wouldn't give it a second thought. I trust cream to rise to the top.
You still miss the point. The article isn't about Japanese films being pirated in the U.S. It's about Japanese films in Japan. I'm speaking about American films in and TV shows in America. Any talk about Fansubbing or foreign films is off the point. They are special cases.
Fansubbing isn't the issue. The article talks about Japanese productions in Japan. I'm talking about English language productions in english speaking countries, comparing like to like. All the talk about fansubbed unauthorized copies is off-topic.
But, for a permanent place in a collection, the better produced DVDs with extra content are much preferable. I buy the DVDs of the shows I like as soon as they are released. Pirated stuff isn't good enough to be a "keeper".
After having Firefox crash several times because of it. I removed it. I never used it, and don't miss it. Most Skype users won't.
You obviously haven't watched it in a LONG time.
Star Trek: Phase II is a labor of love, and it's insulting to call the performers "shitty". YOU put up hundreds of thousands of dollars to make one of these things. You'll have more of an appreciation of the work that goes into it.
And, they just don't have the money to hire many real actors, because they have to be paid a certain amount of money based on the time they spend working due to SAG rules. Not-for-profit productions just can't afford to use SAG actors on a regular basis.
Just for full disclosure, I was crew on two episodes: "Enemy: Starfleet" and "Kitumba".
There are now 6 released episodes, and one vignette. There are another 4 in post production with another episode slated to be filmed next summer. The quality of the show is much improved over the course of the shows, just like ANY show.
The first few episodes of TOS and TNG were nothing like the quality of later shows.
Give the later shows a try. You might like them better.
You'll like:
Starship Farragut: http://www.starshipfarragut.com/
Starship Farragut Animated: http://www.farragut-animated.com/
Star Trek: Intrepid: http://www.starshipintrepid.net/
Frontier Guard: http://www.frontier-guard.com/
These will give you a good start...
The problem with the Edubook is that you can't buy them retail. The shipping cost for one unit is $50us. You need to buy the unit in bulk to get the shipping cost reasonable. Nohrtec doesn't seem to care that these units get into people's hands. they don't have them in a U.S. warehouse to ship single units, and they don't have an American distributor. These are inexpensive units great for use on-the-go. They aren't power user machines. But good enough for E-mail, browsing and as a media player. And they can always be upgraded with a faster CPU in the future. Nohrtec just doesn't know how to market.
I suggest you check the Battleground Poll, question D3 which has for the last decade recorded approximate 60% of respondents as Conservative. You might wish to be red-faced with the projection your message demonstrates.
I am Roman Catholic by birth. But, am not a practicing Catholic now. I believe in Christ and God, and do my own thing. I think children ought to be taught the strictures in the Bible like the Ten Commandments, and major stories. It's interesting and I believe it to be educational. I don't believe that the Earth is 5000 some odd years old, and don't know anyone who does. How anyone came up with that figure is beyond me. I don't believe the story of creation in the Bible is 100% accurate. I think it's just a story. It was handed down orally for generations. Who knows how much it changed from the first telling when it was finally recorded in writing? I'm sorry to say that I don't take the entire Bible as gospel truth. I think there is a lot to learn from it as there are from lots of other spiritual writings. I think portions are inspired by God. I don't think the genealogies are. The Gospels surely are. I think the New Testament has a lot of good lessons in it. But, I don't think that even the New Testament is a 100% accurate recording of the events of the time. Nonetheless, I think that all the different creation myths should be taught in schools. Kids should also read the Greek and Roman Mythology. The American Indian Myths and Legends, the Asian Myths and Legends. Kids should be exposed to a wide range of things to spark their imaginations. Kids should also read the Iliad and the Odyssey, and other classics. Kids used to. And then someone dumbed down our curriculums and decided these things were too difficult for kids. They weren't too difficult for dozens of preceding generations... Our children need to be exposed to the beliefs of 99% of the citizens in the world, not the lack of of belief of 1%. That's "Tyranny of the Minority". Nowhere in the American Constitution does it guarantee citizens a right to being unoffended. Adults have to develop a thick skin and be tolerant of the beliefs of others. If people don't want their kids exposed to the classics. Maybe they need to homeschool them, or register them in a Private Areligious School.
The entire education system in U.S. has a very left bias. Our kids are being indoctrinated, not taught. This is good because these textbooks return facts to the books. The left wing bias of most posters here is disconcerting. You all post as if your minority view is the correct one. America is a Center-Right Country. Always has been. Our kids need to be taught facts, not leftist ideology and indoctrinated with lies and bias. So, any movement to put facts into textbooks is a good one.
well... then, what I read was wrong. There should be no reason an iPad should need a computer for setup.
From what I read, no external computer is required for setup. And you can download stuff via WiFi or 3G. A computer is optional.
Those buying a PS3 as a computational machine probably don't care about PSN.
Erosion is a natural process and isn't caused by "Global Warming". Global Warming isn't happening as the data says we've been cooling since 1998. Global Warming isn't responsible for that Island being covered by water, but storm action can be.