Patrick J. Leahy - Democrat Herb Kohl - Democrat Jeff Sessions - Republican Dianne Feinstein - Democrat Orrin G. Hatch - Republican Russ Feingold - Democrat Chuck Grassley - Republican
I didn't feel like going through the rest of them, but whatever they have in common, it isn't political party. Both of the big name parties are guilty here.
“Both versions, however, revised and re-ordered the executive summary, placing the peer review language immediately following the moratorium recommendation causing the distinction between the secretary’s moratorium recommendation – which had not been peer-reviewed – and the recommendations contained in the 30-Day Report – which had been peer-reviewed – to become effectively lost.”
I agree. We should tax everyone more. In fact, I think that everyone should send every single cent they earn to the government so that it can distribute the country's wealth in the most wise way possible.
If you want the people with the most money to pay the most taxes, then perhaps you would be interested in supporting a flat tax. Then nobody can gripe about class warfare. Also, if you aren't happy with your current income, then start busting your ass and find a way to make more.
I'm 100% in favor of a flat income tax, or a flat sales tax. Everyone is treated equally that way. I don't believe that successful people should be punished.
I'm simply happy that there's an organization that wants to succeed on its own merits instead of being a whiny crybaby trying to litigate its way to success.
Can someone comment on the support for red/green color blindness? I often had problems being able to read certain map features and recognizing some units in Civ III and Civ IV because of it.
Just wait until legislation is passed that will restrict what kind of research can and cannot be done without government supervision. After all, some things are just too important to be outside of the government's control.
Yeah, I don't know very much about short wave radio, but I was curious to see if it was available at all. I imagine the reception would be pretty awful. (o:
If you would love having a tuner in your phone, go and buy a phone with a tuner in it. They're not hard to find.
I tried to find a few phones that support the AM/FM band. I could only find two: The Sony Erikson R300 and R306. There are a few more phones that support FM, but not many.
I also couldn't find any phones that will receive shortwave radio. I'm not sure if that is feasible at all, but I decided to give it a look anyway just for fun.
You can lose nearly everything under the right circumstances.
And part of those circumstances would be you making a really, really bad decision. Nobody forced this person to undock with all those PLEX in his cargo hold. Nobody forced him to do this, or use autopilot - which I'm assuming he was doing, because otherwise he never would have been caught in the first place.
For everyone else, there is WoW:D.
Precisely. For those who don't like to use their brain, have zero risk, and like hugs and cuddles, there is indeed a WoW. For those of us who enjoy having consequences for our actions, there is Eve.
Actually, no. Eight years of being a professor isn't enough for me. She hasn't had a whole lot of "real world" experience. Theory and Practice, as I'm sure you know, are often very different.
If someone is going to get a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the country, then I want a depth of education and a depth of practice. Also, if you had listened to her interviews, you would see how many questions she dodged. It was very difficult to get straight answers out of her on many topics and that sends up massive red flags to me.
Development tests are very useful in that they can give you an idea of how someone works and what kind of quality to expect. Tests can be done in house or you can let them take them home if you'd like.
Provide a set of tasks and ask that they provide, for example, brief technical documentation, the code, database schema, and anything else relevant. Intentionally provide a task or two that doesn't have enough information - see if they ask for clarification (good thing) or just make up whatever they please (bad thing) and see if it is what you wanted.
So to use an analogy, it is better to not release the source code for a piece of software because it is awful code instead of releasing the awful source code so that others can improve on it.
This is something that is giving my pause about the new MechWarrior game. I LOVE these games because they're complex and provide a LOT of options. However, in an interview about the new game (it was a while ago, you'd have to find the references yourself but they're out there), the producer was talking about how it was also going to be released on console, and that some of the complexity of the game would have to be removed so that it was playable on a console's controller. Lame.
This is exactly what I came away with as well. The selected quotes make it sound like, "You naughty little boys! Stop it this instant or else!"
That said, I have not bought a whole lot of games lately, mostly because I have been playing MMOs (Eve Online) which really don't have an end game and are constantly changing. Every day there is a new situation. These types of games aren't the kind where you play through once or twice and you've seen pretty much everything.
The model here is new, regular content and interaction with other people. Lots of it. That is something you simply don't get with most PC games. Oh, and console games too.
There is also no draconian DRM - no destroying my machine with StarForce, no needing to phone home, etc. - the only real DRM is that I need to be connected to play, which is understandable in a multiplayer game. As has been mentioned, there are rogue WoW servers out there as well. I don't know much about them, but I know they're out there (and must have been a pain to produce, but kudos), so even that can be worked around in a way if you're dedicated enough.
I saw above that some people are saying, "Well, the PC market is dead, because people develop for consoles and just happen to release it for PC as well!" That's a bit of a contradiction in and of itself - the PC market isn't dead because obviously games are being released into the market - but I honestly don't really care where the game originally developed.
If being able to release a good game on a PC is an ancillary product, that's fine with me and good for the producers. That hardly makes the PC market a dead market - just a smaller one with a very, very low barrier to entry for an company making console games.
There was some babble in the article about the PC being totally non-standardized, and how it was just so difficult to develop on, and oh, woe is me. Yes, the PC is so difficult to develop on when there's large APIs that abstract all of the nasty stuff for you. From what I have read, developing on the XBox then porting over to the PC is a relatively simple process. I believe that the SDK for the PS3 has a similar path as well, otherwise we wouldn't see games being released on multiple platforms at once so often.
Yes, because we can sue, and win, and force payment from, the country of China in our own courts.
That's about as effective as getting a Very Very Sternly Worded Letter from the UN warning you that you should stop murdering lots of people, otherwise you might get a Very Very VERY Sternly Worded Letter in the near future.
I'm not particularly fond of unions myself, but I didn't want to derail the topic of topic of "made in america" electronics.
Unions, at one time, served a very important purpose - to prevent workers from being royally screwed by their employers. The Pullman trial is a great example of this.
In recent times, however, Unions have become very fat, very lazy, and very greedy (and extremely political) and because of that I have a distaste for them. I think that they have lost sight of their original purpose and that is a pretty sad thing.
Would you pay $10 more for a Google Motherboard built in Iowa or Idaho over an Asus built in China if it was the same quality?
Personally, I would. I already try to buy products made anywhere but in China - especially anything food or health related - but when it comes to electronics there really isn't a whole lot of choice.
For desktops and laptops, there IS the option of Union Built PC but the machines are only assembled, not actually made, in North America. I have no idea what the quality is like either.
It is true - these other browsers (and I use that term loosely - some of these are just wrappers around the IE engine) may be interesting to nerds and geeks for a variety of reasons but they offer minimal value to the average user.
It is nice for them to have exposure, but why expose users to bad software? I have tried some of these other browsers myself, specifically Sleipnir, Maxthon, and Avant. Saying that they're "not as good" is an understatement. They have a combined market share of less than 1% for a reason.
Users really are far better off using ANY of the top 5 than the bottom 7, and that includes IE8.
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Patrick J. Leahy - Democrat
Herb Kohl - Democrat
Jeff Sessions - Republican
Dianne Feinstein - Democrat
Orrin G. Hatch - Republican
Russ Feingold - Democrat
Chuck Grassley - Republican
I didn't feel like going through the rest of them, but whatever they have in common, it isn't political party. Both of the big name parties are guilty here.
Read the articles and you will be enlightened.
Could someone who knows Russian kindly translate the voice over in the video?
I agree. We should tax everyone more. In fact, I think that everyone should send every single cent they earn to the government so that it can distribute the country's wealth in the most wise way possible.
If you want the people with the most money to pay the most taxes, then perhaps you would be interested in supporting a flat tax. Then nobody can gripe about class warfare. Also, if you aren't happy with your current income, then start busting your ass and find a way to make more.
I'm 100% in favor of a flat income tax, or a flat sales tax. Everyone is treated equally that way. I don't believe that successful people should be punished.
I'm simply happy that there's an organization that wants to succeed on its own merits instead of being a whiny crybaby trying to litigate its way to success.
Can someone comment on the support for red/green color blindness? I often had problems being able to read certain map features and recognizing some units in Civ III and Civ IV because of it.
Just wait until legislation is passed that will restrict what kind of research can and cannot be done without government supervision. After all, some things are just too important to be outside of the government's control.
Yeah, I don't know very much about short wave radio, but I was curious to see if it was available at all. I imagine the reception would be pretty awful. (o:
If you would love having a tuner in your phone, go and buy a phone with a tuner in it. They're not hard to find.
I tried to find a few phones that support the AM/FM band. I could only find two: The Sony Erikson R300 and R306. There are a few more phones that support FM, but not many.
I also couldn't find any phones that will receive shortwave radio. I'm not sure if that is feasible at all, but I decided to give it a look anyway just for fun.
You can lose nearly everything under the right circumstances.
And part of those circumstances would be you making a really, really bad decision. Nobody forced this person to undock with all those PLEX in his cargo hold. Nobody forced him to do this, or use autopilot - which I'm assuming he was doing, because otherwise he never would have been caught in the first place.
For everyone else, there is WoW :D.
Precisely. For those who don't like to use their brain, have zero risk, and like hugs and cuddles, there is indeed a WoW. For those of us who enjoy having consequences for our actions, there is Eve.
If you don't want to get shot, don't undock.
Actually, no. Eight years of being a professor isn't enough for me. She hasn't had a whole lot of "real world" experience. Theory and Practice, as I'm sure you know, are often very different.
If someone is going to get a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the country, then I want a depth of education and a depth of practice. Also, if you had listened to her interviews, you would see how many questions she dodged. It was very difficult to get straight answers out of her on many topics and that sends up massive red flags to me.
It says so, with big Caution images all over the linked page.
Development tests are very useful in that they can give you an idea of how someone works and what kind of quality to expect. Tests can be done in house or you can let them take them home if you'd like.
Provide a set of tasks and ask that they provide, for example, brief technical documentation, the code, database schema, and anything else relevant. Intentionally provide a task or two that doesn't have enough information - see if they ask for clarification (good thing) or just make up whatever they please (bad thing) and see if it is what you wanted.
So to use an analogy, it is better to not release the source code for a piece of software because it is awful code instead of releasing the awful source code so that others can improve on it.
Yes, because his documenting everything and making it available to everyone won't help people that don't live where he lives. Right?
I'm sick of "First X Elected To Whatever Office." Haven't we moved past this yet? Ideas matter. Gender, ethnicity, heredity do not.
This is something that is giving my pause about the new MechWarrior game. I LOVE these games because they're complex and provide a LOT of options. However, in an interview about the new game (it was a while ago, you'd have to find the references yourself but they're out there), the producer was talking about how it was also going to be released on console, and that some of the complexity of the game would have to be removed so that it was playable on a console's controller. Lame.
This is exactly what I came away with as well. The selected quotes make it sound like, "You naughty little boys! Stop it this instant or else!"
That said, I have not bought a whole lot of games lately, mostly because I have been playing MMOs (Eve Online) which really don't have an end game and are constantly changing. Every day there is a new situation. These types of games aren't the kind where you play through once or twice and you've seen pretty much everything.
The model here is new, regular content and interaction with other people. Lots of it. That is something you simply don't get with most PC games. Oh, and console games too.
There is also no draconian DRM - no destroying my machine with StarForce, no needing to phone home, etc. - the only real DRM is that I need to be connected to play, which is understandable in a multiplayer game. As has been mentioned, there are rogue WoW servers out there as well. I don't know much about them, but I know they're out there (and must have been a pain to produce, but kudos), so even that can be worked around in a way if you're dedicated enough.
I saw above that some people are saying, "Well, the PC market is dead, because people develop for consoles and just happen to release it for PC as well!" That's a bit of a contradiction in and of itself - the PC market isn't dead because obviously games are being released into the market - but I honestly don't really care where the game originally developed.
If being able to release a good game on a PC is an ancillary product, that's fine with me and good for the producers. That hardly makes the PC market a dead market - just a smaller one with a very, very low barrier to entry for an company making console games.
There was some babble in the article about the PC being totally non-standardized, and how it was just so difficult to develop on, and oh, woe is me. Yes, the PC is so difficult to develop on when there's large APIs that abstract all of the nasty stuff for you. From what I have read, developing on the XBox then porting over to the PC is a relatively simple process. I believe that the SDK for the PS3 has a similar path as well, otherwise we wouldn't see games being released on multiple platforms at once so often.
Yes, because we can sue, and win, and force payment from, the country of China in our own courts.
That's about as effective as getting a Very Very Sternly Worded Letter from the UN warning you that you should stop murdering lots of people, otherwise you might get a Very Very VERY Sternly Worded Letter in the near future.
Onoes, please, anything but that.
I'm not particularly fond of unions myself, but I didn't want to derail the topic of topic of "made in america" electronics.
Unions, at one time, served a very important purpose - to prevent workers from being royally screwed by their employers. The Pullman trial is a great example of this.
In recent times, however, Unions have become very fat, very lazy, and very greedy (and extremely political) and because of that I have a distaste for them. I think that they have lost sight of their original purpose and that is a pretty sad thing.
Would you pay $10 more for a Google Motherboard built in Iowa or Idaho over an Asus built in China if it was the same quality?
Personally, I would. I already try to buy products made anywhere but in China - especially anything food or health related - but when it comes to electronics there really isn't a whole lot of choice.
For desktops and laptops, there IS the option of Union Built PC but the machines are only assembled, not actually made, in North America. I have no idea what the quality is like either.
I'm not sure why the parent is modded Flamebait.
It is true - these other browsers (and I use that term loosely - some of these are just wrappers around the IE engine) may be interesting to nerds and geeks for a variety of reasons but they offer minimal value to the average user.
It is nice for them to have exposure, but why expose users to bad software? I have tried some of these other browsers myself, specifically Sleipnir, Maxthon, and Avant. Saying that they're "not as good" is an understatement. They have a combined market share of less than 1% for a reason.
Users really are far better off using ANY of the top 5 than the bottom 7, and that includes IE8.
I hope that nobody is surprised by this.