It's not just Bush. Palin taxed the crap out of oil companies in Alaska and redistributed the wealth in the form of checks to all Alaskans including herself.
Clearly she's a Neiman-Marxist.
The entire point of the projector issue is for McCain to be able to ignore the true causes of next year's projected $500 billion budget deficit (the costly Iraq war and the excessive tax cuts for the rich) and divert peoples' attention by saying, "Look over there! Earmarks! Ooga-booga!"
To me the "Thundering Herd of Dumbass" is the army of health insurance company pencil pushers whose job is to deny coverage for vital health care services for whatever flimsy excuse they can find (e.g., "Pre-existing condition").
Bush messes up, launches a war of choice we can't afford, deregulates the banking industry, the economy is in the crapper, Bush's senatorial sock puppet McCain proclaims the economy "fundamentally sound" while promising four more years of the same, and all you can say is: Look over there! Jimmy Carter!
why is it always "big" business, and "big" pahrma, wy are you people so afraid to debate without the pejorative scare words?
You mean pejorative scare words like "Socialism"?
Did it ever occur to you that the reason no one makes that point is because the income redistribution isn't "taking from the rich and giving to the poor" but rather "not requiring businesses to pay tax that can oterwise be used t creat jobs and give promotions and bonuses"?
Did it ever occur to you that the reason that's irrelevant is that businessmen feel free to fire their countrymen and do their job creation offshore?
Freedom of speech should only be taken away when it's a matter of life and death, like shouting "Fire!" in a crouded theater, or giving away national security secrets. Speech that educates people on how to break DRM doesn't fall into that category, and should be protected.
What worker rights do you want enshrined into law?
Back in the '90s I got fed up with my employer and found work elsewhere. And even though my new company used the same health insurance provider as my old company, they now refused to cover my daughter's serious health problem, calling it a "pre-existing condition". When I protested that they covered it a couple of weeks ago they told me that because I changed employers my health insurance was somehow completely different. I called the office of my state's insurance commissioner and asked whether they could legally do that and they told me yes, they could.
The worker's right that I want enshrined into law is the right to not get screwed by the fucking for-profit health insurance companies (may they all vanish from the face of the planet) if my employment status changes.
It's also in the immediate interest of these companies to not be perceived as a bunch of greedy pigs stealing music from the public domain and then suing people for taking what should rightfully be theirs.
In countries with government-run health care you don't have to ask the government for money when you get sick, you just go see your doctor.
Government-run health care makes sense just like government-run fire departments, and has less overhead than for-profit health insurance run by big-salaried executives with armies of pencil pushers whose job is to find your pre-existing conditions so they can deny your claims whenever you get sick.
"You get into a bit of a grey area if you've ripped the tracks from a modern CD rather than the original record, since the digital re-mastering may itself be subject to copyright."
Why? There's nothing artistic or creative about sampling audio from an old phonograph record and removing the clicks and pops with, say, Audacity. It's a very mechanical process. Furthermore, if you and I each have a copy of the same public domain Beethoven record, digitize it, and then do a perfect job removing all the surface noise, we'll end up with identical-sounding digital audio files. Why should either of us be able to claim copyright on that? All we're doing is restoring the audio to sound like the original public domain recording. It's not like we're adding a wowzy new synthesizer track.
Change means getting rid of the war-mongering, water-boarding, warrentless-wiretapping weasels in the White House.
George W. McSame doesn't have a chance.
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To paraphrase Nobel economist Paul Krugman, China supplies the US poisonous toys and in return the US supplies China with fraudulent securities.
You lost, get over it.
It's not just Bush. Palin taxed the crap out of oil companies in Alaska and redistributed the wealth in the form of checks to all Alaskans including herself. Clearly she's a Neiman-Marxist.
The entire point of the projector issue is for McCain to be able to ignore the true causes of next year's projected $500 billion budget deficit (the costly Iraq war and the excessive tax cuts for the rich) and divert peoples' attention by saying, "Look over there! Earmarks! Ooga-booga!"
To me the "Thundering Herd of Dumbass" is the army of health insurance company pencil pushers whose job is to deny coverage for vital health care services for whatever flimsy excuse they can find (e.g., "Pre-existing condition").
Bush messes up, launches a war of choice we can't afford, deregulates the banking industry, the economy is in the crapper, Bush's senatorial sock puppet McCain proclaims the economy "fundamentally sound" while promising four more years of the same, and all you can say is: Look over there! Jimmy Carter!
Hey dude, it's the 21st century. Time to wake up.
You mean pejorative scare words like "Socialism"?
Did it ever occur to you that the reason that's irrelevant is that businessmen feel free to fire their countrymen and do their job creation offshore?
Wouldn't the old guy make a better v14gr@ spokesman?
Freedom of speech should only be taken away when it's a matter of life and death, like shouting "Fire!" in a crouded theater, or giving away national security secrets. Speech that educates people on how to break DRM doesn't fall into that category, and should be protected.
What does Congress have to do with it? The bumbling CEOs who run their corporations into the ground deserve all the credit.
I like this one, from VAX/VMS's predecessor, RSX-11M:
IE.NFW - Path to network partner lost
Silly me, for some reason I thought that Babar was a Republican.
of "Harry Potter and the Lawsuit of the Lexicon".
in which the employee who fixed the most bugs won a car.
When asked what he was up to Wally said,"I'm coding up a Lexus!"
Savings in gas: $700
Satisfaction at not forking over money to the Saudi royal family and their BFF Bin Laden: priceless
That didn't stop conservative activist judges on the Supreme Court from overruling Florida state law in Bush v. Gore.
What worker rights do you want enshrined into law?
Back in the '90s I got fed up with my employer and found work elsewhere. And even though my new company used the same health insurance provider as my old company, they now refused to cover my daughter's serious health problem, calling it a "pre-existing condition". When I protested that they covered it a couple of weeks ago they told me that because I changed employers my health insurance was somehow completely different. I called the office of my state's insurance commissioner and asked whether they could legally do that and they told me yes, they could.
The worker's right that I want enshrined into law is the right to not get screwed by the fucking for-profit health insurance companies (may they all vanish from the face of the planet) if my employment status changes.
It's also in the immediate interest of these companies to not be perceived as a bunch of greedy pigs stealing music from the public domain and then suing people for taking what should rightfully be theirs.
Just because, in this era of absurd copyright term extensions, copyright infringement is illegal, that doesn't mean it's immoral.
In countries with government-run health care you don't have to ask the government for money when you get sick, you just go see your doctor.
Government-run health care makes sense just like government-run fire departments, and has less overhead than for-profit health insurance run by big-salaried executives with armies of pencil pushers whose job is to find your pre-existing conditions so they can deny your claims whenever you get sick.
"You get into a bit of a grey area if you've ripped the tracks from a modern CD rather than the original record, since the digital re-mastering may itself be subject to copyright."
Why? There's nothing artistic or creative about sampling audio from an old phonograph record and removing the clicks and pops with, say, Audacity. It's a very mechanical process. Furthermore, if you and I each have a copy of the same public domain Beethoven record, digitize it, and then do a perfect job removing all the surface noise, we'll end up with identical-sounding digital audio files. Why should either of us be able to claim copyright on that? All we're doing is restoring the audio to sound like the original public domain recording. It's not like we're adding a wowzy new synthesizer track.
Richard Nixon was pardoned by Gerald Ford, whose White House chief of staff was none other than Dick Cheney. I see a connection here.
Telecoms are corporations. They are not people. The Bill of Rights says diddly squat about the rights of corporations.
Republicans also cry fowl, just not while they're out hunting it with Dick Cheney.
Change means getting rid of the war-mongering, water-boarding, warrentless-wiretapping weasels in the White House. George W. McSame doesn't have a chance.