There is a difference here, a lot of people [I fall into this category] defend speeding in a reasonable manner. On a 4 lane super highway with light traffic in good weather conditions 70-80 is not an unreasonable speed even if the posted speed limit is 55.
Small two lane important but still residental road with speed limit of 45, doing 25+ above on that is dangerous and is a problem because there you have people crossing, cars stopping to turn, etc.
I don't think anyone is defending the idiots going 100 swerving just a few feet from other cars to pass on the left in heavy traffic while on the cell phone. What that guy did in the residental neighborhood is pretty much the same sort of thing.
Honestly most residental roads [25-35mph] are pretty much good safe max speed limits regardless of time of day or type of car because of everything that can come out of next to nowhere there.
Highway speed limits are largely set either baised on out of date car safety levels, or more often, arbitarty state speed limits. If I remember right NY has a state speed limit of 55. Once you are well outside of NYC, see how reasonable that is along long streches of low traffic highway.
Right now I pay 0$ a month for downloading music. I either will get new stuff via webcasts [I can deal with a few ads here and there] or from other means.
However that is largely due to the fact that very very few 3minute songs are worth 1$ for me when most of the music I listen to is more of background noise when I am doing other things.
If music were 10c a song I would be much more inclined to download a good deal of it, because even if some of it sucked [which of course some of it would] there also would be enough music to offset that.
20$ a month for 200 new tracks would get me using one of the services, assuming it is in mp3/ogg format.
Friend of mine is living out in St. Petersburg currently and actully spent a fair amount of time up in Siberia [teaching english], he loved it. Pretty much as long as you have american money, that will speak for you. But just hold on to your posessions tightly, odds are you won't disapear but your camera sure might.
Read the parent more closely. He has a point, a lot of the very ignorant people in America do believe in Jesus. That does not mean most people that believe in Jesus are ignorant.
That can be true, some people are fanatical atheists. I still love the bumpter sticker "millitant agnostic: I don't know and you don't either". However a school not allowing a church to recruit on its property and not allowing a morning prayer to jesus is the same as a school not allowing a morning announcement stating why islam, or christianty is wrong.
At no point should a school be influencing, or hosting anyone, that is supporting one religon over another, or atheism over a religon. The schools are there to educate children, and sometimes that will come in conflict with religon such as teaching evolution against young earth believers. Another example is teaching some select areas of the bible to explain the importance of a part of classical lititure. It is not there to change someones mind or beliefs, it is there to educate them.
If a school sponsors an Athiest club and allows them to put anti-religous pamphlets all over school then that school is out of line. Same way with the christan athletics club, as long as they don't activly push their religon onto others then it isn't part of the school sponsored activities.
My issue is the classic one of a [normally] small midwestern school having morning prayer. This is the promotion of one religon over another. Schools are there to teach facts. Beliefs are things that should be formed baised on the person learning/being taught religous/philosphical material at home/church/other private instutions. It does not have a place for tax payer sponsored locations/orginizations.
Are you not familiar with the concept of "seperation of church and state"? This isnt some "leftist plot to ban the bible", its providing freedom from religous oppression in public instatutions.
Just to be anal, hinduism is not polytheistic, it has many avatars, and some believe those are true gods. However most Hindus believe that it is all part of one god. Some believe [not just Hindus, I know a lot of modern christians that feel this way] that the concept of reality is God, that everything in existiance is in itself the nature of god, and it is and is not a concious reality all at the same time.
Notice the prior post that said if you are stuck with a shrinkwrapped package, maybe its not the best plan for you.
There are tons of open source Point of sale systems, take your pick, most linux folks can get a stable, secure, fully patched system running apache in under an hour. You would still want to keep your windows desktop that handles quickbooks unless wine supports it, however if anyone knows if there is something that handles quickbooks data please reply I would be really curious about it.
As it has been said, Linux is not everything for everyone, but it is quite a lot, and a massive timesaver for many people.
I need to ask, what is the problem with this. A while back for GTA3 for the computer I put on a mod that made all of the cars real models/names including things like pepsi trucks and such. Seeing those going around actully did add to the game since it helped make it feel more real.
When used as they are in their real life counterparts [side of busses, billboards, etc] they can add a good bit to a movie/game/etc in terms of realisim. Product placement where it otherwise would not be part of the game is another matter [ET anyone?].
It adds to the realism, but it also says something about our society when things don't quite seem real if they don't have advertising.
Well that is exactly it. Most open source devs are not paid to do this, they do it for the love of what they are doing [or occasionally egotism, but hey at least its done in a positive way]. If they are not enjoying what they are working on why would they do it.
Get a corporation/government that wants to get off of M$, support folks to put it together.
Exactly like doctors should not wash their hands before delivering babies since that way it weeds out some of the mothers and babies that did not have the best immune systems helping clense the gene pool.
No but it is the perception that if server_x goes down due to an OS bug we can call up Microsoft support, pay whatever the cost is and they will have a solution for it. Many companies don't feel they have the same ability with OSS, even if they do have that option because often its not an offical business that the higher-ups reconize they won't believe they can get support.
Often if you fax/send a signed letter from someone in charge of IT or someone high up in the food chain for the orginization the domain is for, and you can prove you are with them, they will allow you to change it. I had to do this with a domain that I forgot to update the information for, and had moved and changed emails.
5$ for a cd is about right. Think about it this way, lately that is about 50 minutes of music, there is studio time, band costs, promotion [for the most popular music] etc. Concerts do recoup some of the costs. But tapes used to be 8-10$ new. When CD's first came out they promised us that the 12-13$ CD's were just temporary to recoup for the costs of all of the new hardware and they would drop prices below that of tapes in the near future.
Over a decade later prices have only risen, the number of new artists have been slashed and the RIAA has been fined repeatedly for price fixing.
Buy Independent labels, often you will find excellent music for the 5-8$ range [new] and often its the full 70-80 minutes of music if not a 2cd set with extra features.
And please compare the time/energy/manpower to make a cd that sells for 18$ that is 60 minutes of entertainment to that of a full length dvd + extra features that is 15-20$ new for 2-3 hours. Or a video game that is 40-60 hours [30-50$ new].
We just got our ISP [local] to drop down to 500/mo for each of ours when we showed them that pretty much all of the major national ones [speakeasy, mci, qwest] all offered it for about 500.
It is in part the status symbol thing, but not from the money aspect. Very few people are nearly as upset at Lexus, BMW, etc drivers in cars in similiar price ranges.
At least personally I have problems with folks getting huge suv's to drive around town and to and from work by themselves, where I see it as wasting their money [I feel that way about sports cars too, but if they want to let them] but more about the fact that it is harming the roads more and putting more people in danger due to the size of their trucks, and this goes far more for the escalades and H2's rather then the geo trackers or small SUV's.
And there are times and places where it is appropriate, I know of a few farmers/ranchers/etc that own H1's and I feel that is totally justified, a friend in VT owns a dodge ram that gets 6/9mpg but he has 5 months of mud season and lives on a small farm.
I live in DC, you DONT need an Escalade with spinning hubcaps to sit in traffic in 395, and when you don't pay attention and almost run me off the road it does affect me. And yes cars do that kind of thing too, however I find it happens more often with the honking huge SUVs and also if a small toyota hits me, it will normally be far more surviveable then a 3ton truck hitting me.
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/cars_and_suvs/page.cfm?pageID=1280
"38 different passenger SUVs including the Lincoln Navigator, which nets a combined 15 miles per gallon according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Cadillac Escalade (16 mpg), the BMW X5 (18 mpg), the Mercedes-Benz ML55 (16 mpg), and the notorious Hummer H2 (estimated 11 mpg) all weigh more than 6,000 pounds. This loophole allows some of the least fuel-efficient passenger vehicles on the road today to qualify for a significant tax break.
In 2003, the Bush administration proposed increasing the tax deduction to $75,000. Lawmakers responded by expanding it to a whopping $100,000 as part of the $350 million tax cut package. Yet Congress did not change the weight-based classification of the vehicles, creating a huge benefit for the largest, least efficient vehicles."
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Ah yes our current government, ever the defender of the small business and common man.
There is a difference here, a lot of people [I fall into this category] defend speeding in a reasonable manner. On a 4 lane super highway with light traffic in good weather conditions 70-80 is not an unreasonable speed even if the posted speed limit is 55. Small two lane important but still residental road with speed limit of 45, doing 25+ above on that is dangerous and is a problem because there you have people crossing, cars stopping to turn, etc. I don't think anyone is defending the idiots going 100 swerving just a few feet from other cars to pass on the left in heavy traffic while on the cell phone. What that guy did in the residental neighborhood is pretty much the same sort of thing. Honestly most residental roads [25-35mph] are pretty much good safe max speed limits regardless of time of day or type of car because of everything that can come out of next to nowhere there. Highway speed limits are largely set either baised on out of date car safety levels, or more often, arbitarty state speed limits. If I remember right NY has a state speed limit of 55. Once you are well outside of NYC, see how reasonable that is along long streches of low traffic highway.
Really, english is th eoffical language in the USA? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States#Languag e
Gotta get the right soundtrack to that, maybe a remix of some of creed layed over the weather girls.
They should set it up to use the DDR pad.
Right now I pay 0$ a month for downloading music. I either will get new stuff via webcasts [I can deal with a few ads here and there] or from other means. However that is largely due to the fact that very very few 3minute songs are worth 1$ for me when most of the music I listen to is more of background noise when I am doing other things. If music were 10c a song I would be much more inclined to download a good deal of it, because even if some of it sucked [which of course some of it would] there also would be enough music to offset that. 20$ a month for 200 new tracks would get me using one of the services, assuming it is in mp3/ogg format.
I had totally forgotten about Eeek the cat, great show.
Friend of mine is living out in St. Petersburg currently and actully spent a fair amount of time up in Siberia [teaching english], he loved it. Pretty much as long as you have american money, that will speak for you. But just hold on to your posessions tightly, odds are you won't disapear but your camera sure might.
Read the parent more closely. He has a point, a lot of the very ignorant people in America do believe in Jesus. That does not mean most people that believe in Jesus are ignorant.
That can be true, some people are fanatical atheists. I still love the bumpter sticker "millitant agnostic: I don't know and you don't either". However a school not allowing a church to recruit on its property and not allowing a morning prayer to jesus is the same as a school not allowing a morning announcement stating why islam, or christianty is wrong. At no point should a school be influencing, or hosting anyone, that is supporting one religon over another, or atheism over a religon. The schools are there to educate children, and sometimes that will come in conflict with religon such as teaching evolution against young earth believers. Another example is teaching some select areas of the bible to explain the importance of a part of classical lititure. It is not there to change someones mind or beliefs, it is there to educate them. If a school sponsors an Athiest club and allows them to put anti-religous pamphlets all over school then that school is out of line. Same way with the christan athletics club, as long as they don't activly push their religon onto others then it isn't part of the school sponsored activities. My issue is the classic one of a [normally] small midwestern school having morning prayer. This is the promotion of one religon over another. Schools are there to teach facts. Beliefs are things that should be formed baised on the person learning/being taught religous/philosphical material at home/church/other private instutions. It does not have a place for tax payer sponsored locations/orginizations.
Are you not familiar with the concept of "seperation of church and state"? This isnt some "leftist plot to ban the bible", its providing freedom from religous oppression in public instatutions.
Just to be anal, hinduism is not polytheistic, it has many avatars, and some believe those are true gods. However most Hindus believe that it is all part of one god. Some believe [not just Hindus, I know a lot of modern christians that feel this way] that the concept of reality is God, that everything in existiance is in itself the nature of god, and it is and is not a concious reality all at the same time.
Notice the prior post that said if you are stuck with a shrinkwrapped package, maybe its not the best plan for you. There are tons of open source Point of sale systems, take your pick, most linux folks can get a stable, secure, fully patched system running apache in under an hour. You would still want to keep your windows desktop that handles quickbooks unless wine supports it, however if anyone knows if there is something that handles quickbooks data please reply I would be really curious about it. As it has been said, Linux is not everything for everyone, but it is quite a lot, and a massive timesaver for many people.
I need to ask, what is the problem with this. A while back for GTA3 for the computer I put on a mod that made all of the cars real models/names including things like pepsi trucks and such. Seeing those going around actully did add to the game since it helped make it feel more real. When used as they are in their real life counterparts [side of busses, billboards, etc] they can add a good bit to a movie/game/etc in terms of realisim. Product placement where it otherwise would not be part of the game is another matter [ET anyone?]. It adds to the realism, but it also says something about our society when things don't quite seem real if they don't have advertising.
Rocket jumping!
Well that is exactly it. Most open source devs are not paid to do this, they do it for the love of what they are doing [or occasionally egotism, but hey at least its done in a positive way]. If they are not enjoying what they are working on why would they do it. Get a corporation/government that wants to get off of M$, support folks to put it together.
Exactly like doctors should not wash their hands before delivering babies since that way it weeds out some of the mothers and babies that did not have the best immune systems helping clense the gene pool.
No but it is the perception that if server_x goes down due to an OS bug we can call up Microsoft support, pay whatever the cost is and they will have a solution for it. Many companies don't feel they have the same ability with OSS, even if they do have that option because often its not an offical business that the higher-ups reconize they won't believe they can get support.
Often if you fax/send a signed letter from someone in charge of IT or someone high up in the food chain for the orginization the domain is for, and you can prove you are with them, they will allow you to change it. I had to do this with a domain that I forgot to update the information for, and had moved and changed emails.
5$ for a cd is about right. Think about it this way, lately that is about 50 minutes of music, there is studio time, band costs, promotion [for the most popular music] etc. Concerts do recoup some of the costs. But tapes used to be 8-10$ new. When CD's first came out they promised us that the 12-13$ CD's were just temporary to recoup for the costs of all of the new hardware and they would drop prices below that of tapes in the near future. Over a decade later prices have only risen, the number of new artists have been slashed and the RIAA has been fined repeatedly for price fixing. Buy Independent labels, often you will find excellent music for the 5-8$ range [new] and often its the full 70-80 minutes of music if not a 2cd set with extra features. And please compare the time/energy/manpower to make a cd that sells for 18$ that is 60 minutes of entertainment to that of a full length dvd + extra features that is 15-20$ new for 2-3 hours. Or a video game that is 40-60 hours [30-50$ new].
Sorry just being anal retentive and cynical. =)
There are liberals in congress? I see democrats but no liberals.
We just got our ISP [local] to drop down to 500/mo for each of ours when we showed them that pretty much all of the major national ones [speakeasy, mci, qwest] all offered it for about 500.
It is in part the status symbol thing, but not from the money aspect. Very few people are nearly as upset at Lexus, BMW, etc drivers in cars in similiar price ranges. At least personally I have problems with folks getting huge suv's to drive around town and to and from work by themselves, where I see it as wasting their money [I feel that way about sports cars too, but if they want to let them] but more about the fact that it is harming the roads more and putting more people in danger due to the size of their trucks, and this goes far more for the escalades and H2's rather then the geo trackers or small SUV's. And there are times and places where it is appropriate, I know of a few farmers/ranchers/etc that own H1's and I feel that is totally justified, a friend in VT owns a dodge ram that gets 6/9mpg but he has 5 months of mud season and lives on a small farm. I live in DC, you DONT need an Escalade with spinning hubcaps to sit in traffic in 395, and when you don't pay attention and almost run me off the road it does affect me. And yes cars do that kind of thing too, however I find it happens more often with the honking huge SUVs and also if a small toyota hits me, it will normally be far more surviveable then a 3ton truck hitting me.
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/cars_and_suvs /page.cfm?pageID=1280
"38 different passenger SUVs including the Lincoln Navigator, which nets a combined 15 miles per gallon according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Cadillac Escalade (16 mpg), the BMW X5 (18 mpg), the Mercedes-Benz ML55 (16 mpg), and the notorious Hummer H2 (estimated 11 mpg) all weigh more than 6,000 pounds. This loophole allows some of the least fuel-efficient passenger vehicles on the road today to qualify for a significant tax break.
In 2003, the Bush administration proposed increasing the tax deduction to $75,000. Lawmakers responded by expanding it to a whopping $100,000 as part of the $350 million tax cut package. Yet Congress did not change the weight-based classification of the vehicles, creating a huge benefit for the largest, least efficient vehicles."