I too was amazed that nobody until this poster mentioned the sheer ugliness of thi car. Who's gonna drive such a butt-ugly monstrosity? I don't care how fast it goes. I'm not Austin Powers.
> Democracy and socialism/communism are not opposites any more than "round" and "purple" are opposites.
I seem to have missed the part where I said these were opposites.
> One describes a form of government and the other describes an economic system.
Thank you Captain Obvious. Did you have a point, or are you just typing to watch yourself type?
I gather you don't think Winston Churchill was insightful. You're entitled to your opinion of course, and thanks for sneezing over those who disagree with you.
I wonder the same thing about CBS and 60 Minutes after the whole forged memo deal. You just have to shake your head and never take anything the MSM tells you at face value.
Socialism itself may not be evil. Neither is totalitarianism. But history has shown that heinous evils are committed when such power systems are used. Plus, they limit the power and freedom of those governed. Thus, they have come to be known as Bad Ideas.
I would be willing to bet that EA employees are required to sign a noncompete contract. Which means they can quit, but the can't get another job in the software industry for a set period of time (in years, most likely). This is the gotcha. EA knows their employees have nowhere to go, so they whip them like sled dogs.
I used to really respect and admire the people who came together to form EA, back when they were producing really fantastic stuff like Mail Order Monsters and Racing Destruction Set and Archon. Sadly, that company is no more.
I don't recall ever specifically "locking" my domain names, because this article is the first I've heard of this issue, but all 8 of mine at Network Solutions are locked, I just checked. I would hazard a guess and say this is the default when you register with them.
I don't think it was a robot designed for home security. It was just a little helper bot (a HERO if I recall correctly) that wigged out and picked up a gun and started shooting.
My favorite part of that movie was how "futuristic" the cop cars looked because they were Ford Tauruses instead of blocky Chevy Caprices. Oh, and Cynthia Rhodes was an early crush for me.
That said, what the hell is "Interrogation mode". Is that where the gun just zooms around on its gears at a captured enemy combatant just to be scary while he's being interrogated?
> The Guardian is certainly a biased paper. Give it credit though, it doesn't hide it.
You give them credit for this why? Journalism should have NO BIAS. Only objective reporting of the facts. That is the expectation the public should have from journalists, unless they are specifically looking for opinion, in which case they can turn to the editorial section.
A newspaper with any credibility will have no bias whatsoever and will take pains to make sure that no subjective editorial opinion does not appear in its news pages. Sadly, there are very few such papers with said credibility. The Guardian is cannot be said to be an objective newspaper, and the fact that its bias is blatantly apparent does not earn it points or credit whatsoever, it makes it look like just another unobjective and partisan (and therefore useless) paper.
It is the expectation of near-immediate results that is stupid. I didn't say it couldn't be done.. I'm saying that when efficiency (accuracy divided by speed) is prioritized over accuracy itself, you trade off accuracy for speed. There is no good reason to make this trade.
.. the fact that CBS has been unable to do that is directly attributable to the fact that the blogosphere refuses to let the story die. That's the influence they weild: they, as a whole, define what the politically-aware public is talking about. It's not handed down to them by 60 Minutes or 20/20 anymore.
That's why you see MSM stories discrediting bloggers.. they're sore losers.
I think somebody ought to do research as to which city or county has the FEWEST MISTAKES in their elections. Then that system should be mandated nationwide, regardless of inefficiencies due to varying population sizes.
I think too many people expect the votes to be counted and the results known by first thing the next morning. That is stupid. There is no reason we have to have the outcome of a presidential election that night or even the next morning. That expectation has been stoked by the news media to drive their ratings. But it is totally unnecessary. Can we stop fucking around with whiz-bang computerized voting systems that can crash, be hacked, lose power, etc. for the sake of needless luxuries like "efficiency"?
Accuracy of the count is what should be the highest priority. I can wait a few days, even a week, to get the results if I know for a fact that the most accurate systems are being employed to record and tally the votes.
I don't care much about crackwhores who pound out a new dependant every year, but my taxes go to help them too. I don't like it, but not much I can do about it.
That's very true with me. I will buy a CD for one or two songs, then over the course of listening to it, I will grow to love other tracks on the CD that I didn't pay much attention to at first.
That's why when I hear something new that I like, I will download a few tracks by the artist, and if I like him/her, I will buy their CD. I will first look at my used store for it though. I'd happily buy it new from Streetside if the RIAA weren't being such assholes about suing people who share music. If the RIAA would just leave file sharers alone they'd see their sales increase rather than decrease.
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I am flamebating socialists and totalitarians! It's been a good day.
I too was amazed that nobody until this poster mentioned the sheer ugliness of thi car. Who's gonna drive such a butt-ugly monstrosity? I don't care how fast it goes. I'm not Austin Powers.
Those pictures of the dude frying himself on the electrical tower are interesting .. looks like he short-circuited the whole sky.
> Democracy and socialism/communism are not opposites any more than "round" and "purple" are opposites.
I seem to have missed the part where I said these were opposites.
> One describes a form of government and the other describes an economic system.
Thank you Captain Obvious. Did you have a point, or are you just typing to watch yourself type?
I gather you don't think Winston Churchill was insightful. You're entitled to your opinion of course, and thanks for sneezing over those who disagree with you.
I wonder the same thing about CBS and 60 Minutes after the whole forged memo deal. You just have to shake your head and never take anything the MSM tells you at face value.
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery."
and
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried."
-Winston Churchill
Don't try to tell anyone here that journalists shouldn't have agendas, or can't be objective. Apparently that's impossible.
Don't bother, it was posted anonymously. When the original page goes down from the slashdot effect, his post won't seem so "redudant".
Socialism itself may not be evil. Neither is totalitarianism. But history has shown that heinous evils are committed when such power systems are used. Plus, they limit the power and freedom of those governed. Thus, they have come to be known as Bad Ideas.
I would be willing to bet that EA employees are required to sign a noncompete contract. Which means they can quit, but the can't get another job in the software industry for a set period of time (in years, most likely). This is the gotcha. EA knows their employees have nowhere to go, so they whip them like sled dogs.
I used to really respect and admire the people who came together to form EA, back when they were producing really fantastic stuff like Mail Order Monsters and Racing Destruction Set and Archon. Sadly, that company is no more.
> generating wind power for poor people (Incomes less than $100,000.00 a year)
Gosh, and all this time I thought I was middle class.
I don't recall ever specifically "locking" my domain names, because this article is the first I've heard of this issue, but all 8 of mine at Network Solutions are locked, I just checked. I would hazard a guess and say this is the default when you register with them.
Or Mighty AOLbots!
(Steve Case as "Ohno".)
I don't think it was a robot designed for home security. It was just a little helper bot (a HERO if I recall correctly) that wigged out and picked up a gun and started shooting.
My favorite part of that movie was how "futuristic" the cop cars looked because they were Ford Tauruses instead of blocky Chevy Caprices. Oh, and Cynthia Rhodes was an early crush for me.
James Cameron rocks.
That said, what the hell is "Interrogation mode". Is that where the gun just zooms around on its gears at a captured enemy combatant just to be scary while he's being interrogated?
Get back to me when they come out with one of these things designed for outdoor use with a garden hose.
I think we all know certain kids who we'd like to see traumatized in such a manner.
I hate to sound picky, but how do you "sodomize" a vagina?
> The Guardian is certainly a biased paper. Give it credit though, it doesn't hide it.
You give them credit for this why? Journalism should have NO BIAS. Only objective reporting of the facts. That is the expectation the public should have from journalists, unless they are specifically looking for opinion, in which case they can turn to the editorial section.
A newspaper with any credibility will have no bias whatsoever and will take pains to make sure that no subjective editorial opinion does not appear in its news pages. Sadly, there are very few such papers with said credibility. The Guardian is cannot be said to be an objective newspaper, and the fact that its bias is blatantly apparent does not earn it points or credit whatsoever, it makes it look like just another unobjective and partisan (and therefore useless) paper.
It is the expectation of near-immediate results that is stupid. I didn't say it couldn't be done .. I'm saying that when efficiency (accuracy divided by speed) is prioritized over accuracy itself, you trade off accuracy for speed. There is no good reason to make this trade.
I'm sorry, I must have missed their apology to President Bush for running a patently false hit piece against him.
No, their apology was from the Clinton book: "Sorry we got caught. We will cover our tracks better next time. Now can we all just move on?"
.. the fact that CBS has been unable to do that is directly attributable to the fact that the blogosphere refuses to let the story die. That's the influence they weild: they, as a whole, define what the politically-aware public is talking about. It's not handed down to them by 60 Minutes or 20/20 anymore.
That's why you see MSM stories discrediting bloggers .. they're sore losers.
I think somebody ought to do research as to which city or county has the FEWEST MISTAKES in their elections. Then that system should be mandated nationwide, regardless of inefficiencies due to varying population sizes.
I think too many people expect the votes to be counted and the results known by first thing the next morning. That is stupid. There is no reason we have to have the outcome of a presidential election that night or even the next morning. That expectation has been stoked by the news media to drive their ratings. But it is totally unnecessary. Can we stop fucking around with whiz-bang computerized voting systems that can crash, be hacked, lose power, etc. for the sake of needless luxuries like "efficiency"?
Accuracy of the count is what should be the highest priority. I can wait a few days, even a week, to get the results if I know for a fact that the most accurate systems are being employed to record and tally the votes.
I don't care much about crackwhores who pound out a new dependant every year, but my taxes go to help them too. I don't like it, but not much I can do about it.
That's very true with me. I will buy a CD for one or two songs, then over the course of listening to it, I will grow to love other tracks on the CD that I didn't pay much attention to at first.
That's why when I hear something new that I like, I will download a few tracks by the artist, and if I like him/her, I will buy their CD. I will first look at my used store for it though. I'd happily buy it new from Streetside if the RIAA weren't being such assholes about suing people who share music. If the RIAA would just leave file sharers alone they'd see their sales increase rather than decrease.