Only a very naive person would believe that it was straightforward. Too many questions, not enough answers. Even the CIA and FBI agents who worked on the field at the time have expressed their concerns and serious problems with the official account.
The real problem would be if the assasination occured within a faction of the American government, which seems possible and perhaps likely.
The Soviet connection of Oswald was never revealed, and there should have been more information after Perestroika if this was actually the case.
It seems to me that the most despicable thing is the fact that the American people have never had the people who killed former Pres. Kennedy brought to justice, not had the whole facts of the assasination revealed publically and officially. Of course, such a revelation would probably reveal things still relevant today, so it stays secret.
If I was Sen. Edward Kennedy, I'd find this game less tasteless compared to a lack of answers and justice.
Of course, if I saw the game sold in a store, I'd reconsider ever purchasing from them again. Thourougly tasteless and disrepectful, regardless of whatever you might happen to think of JFK.
User interface design shouldn't be rocket science when you have a great deal of user comment like GIMP seems to.I mean you can spend hundreds of thousands on HCI experts and still get terrible design - Microsoft are experts at bad HCI for example. To my mind, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt that they had a good reason for their ideas because it's so different to every other graphics program that I've used. Nonetheless, I still don't like the layout myself.
GIMP and Gnome seem to have put a great deal of thought and discussion into their user interfaces - it shows to my eye. I personally don't like Gnome much and prefer KDE, but it seems like they've put in the work.
Other than when using GIMP, I'm quite happy with KDE, so although perhaps this suggestion might work for some, I myself would rather that GIMP improves.
Gimp seems like a really good graphics package, but I still really struggle with the fact that it opens all these seperate boxes that I have to move around. I just want them snapped into a background.
I want the good old Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver layout, without having to shuffle 4 floating tool windows about that do different stuff. I'm sure that there is a really good reason to the layout, but I just can't get beyond this unusual interface, and just switch to windows graphics packages because of it.
Even if I make the image take up my whole screen, I don't like the fact that the tool window etc can wander around and aren't fixed - like every other graphics package that I've ever used. Why oh why does it have to be different?
How long ago was that? I wonder because Hyundais here (in the US) used to be POSs, but they've greatly improved recently (mine seems more well-built than any American car my family has owned, at least).
About three years ago here. They're well priced, but they haven't shaken off the bad reputation from it quite yet. Ford and (GM) Holden just don't produce good cars compared to a lot of the Asian models nowadays. I sometimes think the US companies have stopped caring really. Our Australian made Ford and Holdens are not well designed in terms of safety. Their ads here encourage reckless driving in them too.
The Subaru Foresters are getting quite popular here as a general run about car for trips into the country. Roads aren't always great, and it gets quite hot in summer, so a great deal of cars don't always cope very well. The Subarus have beautiful suspension and steering, so are ideal for some of the dirt roads here outside of the suburbs. The Impreza's very nice and has a huge following - very snazzy and fast.
I'll have a look at the Hyundai - good to hear that they're getting better.
As an aside, I'm partial to Hyundais, and I hear they're popular in Australia..
Yep, Hyundais are popular here, but they're not well know for their safety engineering. In one case in Oz, Hyundai failed to recall a model with a chasis that could fall apart. The welding was all bad apparently. They're not popular with fans of safe cars for the most part.
Subaru make a great all wheel drive car here that really suits the Australian conditions. If I wasn't going to buy a piece of privacy invading German car engineering, I think this would be my next best choice.
Geez, somebody woke up on the god-side of the bed this morning...
Why don't you apply your philosophy to yourself: either stop being a hypocrite or shut your pie hole, Mr. Condescending.
His article was really more appropriate as a comment like this one or yours - it wasn't suitable as a story in itself. It's a valid opinion, but put forward in the wrong context.
Having a differing opinion to someone else is a valid form of debate - it's not exclusively a sign of crankiness or deification. I find that it's best to judge an arguement on it's merit instead of commenting on the imagined emotional content anyhow.
I'm all for debate and discussion - that's what the Internet is all about. I just don't think that everyone's random thoughts on things deserve to be called news. My ideas are no exception either of course.
I'm actually hooked on the VWs. I think next time however, I'm going to make them include the data connector and software - or at least get them to tell me how to turn the service alarm off.
Hopefully by then, the solution will be resolved. The way the computer industry is in Australia, my next purchase will be a used bicycle.
Is this really news? A single user's negative experience of Firefox hardly seems to me to be worth reading - more like a troll instead.This belongs on the Mozilla forums.
Next off, someone will post an article saying that they wish that their graphics card was faster for HL2. Purely subjective information, and not really worth repeating.
I'm running windows and linux builds and it's running flawlessly. Check your settings.
Perhaps in an age of blogging, there's a common tendency in thinking that every single thought that crosses one's mind is worthy of becoming an article. Unfortunately, this isn't the case.
I have a 2003 Volkswagen Golf, and have read that the data recording box in it records the number of time the ABS is engaged, fuel emisions, average speed and trip distance, number of times the seat belt isn't worn by the driver - pretty much everything.
What I hate about it is that the car demands it's service with a flashing light and tone, only a Volkswagen mechanic can turn the alert off. The dataport is hidden behind a removal panel below the radio, and there's no way in hell that my independant mechanic can get the thing to stop beeping at me because I didn't volunteer to be overcharged by a VW mechanic.
Personally, I think that all the information on black boxes should be accessible to the driver, and additionally, that there should be a standard interface port and protocol so that all mechanics can access the black box. I also think that the exact information being collated should be revealed before you purchase the car.
I'm happy if police can access the information in the case of a serious crash, but I don't want the information being provided to manufacturers without knowing exactly what my car is telling them. I don't have anything to hide about my driving habits etc and I am a safe driver and don't speed, but I resent not being able to choose my own independant mechanic without a great deal of inconvinience, and I don't like not knowing exactly what my car is recording.
Most porn I see on the internet has tired and sad looking women in it. I don't find it very addictive because it's mostly not very good quality - not very sexy women posing in not very sexy positions, or ugly couples rutting. Certainly not my idea of addictive but perhaps my aesthethic taste in porn is a bit more discerning that Senator Brownback. He must be too easily impressed.
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Bah - Maya would be a much better reason to go to the moon. Nonethless, I find you arguments strangely convincing nonetheless.
I had a Space1999 stun gun/water pistol - such a brilliant sci-fi show. They just don't make sci-fi and space babes the way they used to.
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There are other perhaps greater reasons - in the name of Science. After all "Ex Luna, Scientia"
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It's a pity that the NASA's reach into space was killed off so drastically through lack of political support. We should be actually living on the moon by now.
Every time I see a picture of Mars, it reminds me of Australia. The landscape speaks to me that we should go and live there, even more so than the moon.
We seem to have so many problems and distractions on Earth, that we forget that there are higher and more worthy goals than just watching tv and feeding ourselves. I really wish I could be a outerspace pioneer.
I sincerely hope they're knocked back. Why would it serve the public to have a special interest group with a history of skullduggery and legal strong arming, attempting to get in on a technology that by it's very design is supposed to be freely diseminated and unrestricted? The Internet is the antithesis of media property and what the MPAA stands for.
Hollywood can't even be trusted enough to turn out good movies with any decent intellectual or cultural content whatsoever. Why would they think they would be able to contribute to something that is so obviously out of their intellectual, cultural and moral league.
very good, quoting arguments from your philosophy 101 class:) Actually it was my third year Ethics class, but I digress.
I agree that some societal norms are good to break, but only if they're warranted. I personally don't like the thought of people taking pictures of women without their consent at a cost to their decency. My partner for instance was groped on the train a few months back and it was extremely upsetting for her. I wouldn't see someone taking a picture of her whilst she was undressing in beach changeroom as being any different. she would be terribly upset by such a thing. I agree that people could probably loosen their taboos around their bodies somewhat, but I still think that respecting a person's privacy should be mandatory.
I don't think that you're in danger of your wife being angry at your opinions, but I'd worry more if you suggested to her that she should allow people to photograph her breasts etc with camera phones.
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I predict that in 2004 onwards, all percentage predictions will be 99.9% (recurring) public relations hype and misinformation.
I have the figures to prove it too.
Only a very naive person would believe that it was straightforward. Too many questions, not enough answers. Even the CIA and FBI agents who worked on the field at the time have expressed their concerns and serious problems with the official account.
The real problem would be if the assasination occured within a faction of the American government, which seems possible and perhaps likely.
The Soviet connection of Oswald was never revealed, and there should have been more information after Perestroika if this was actually the case.
It seems to me that the most despicable thing is the fact that the American people have never had the people who killed former Pres. Kennedy brought to justice, not had the whole facts of the assasination revealed publically and officially. Of course, such a revelation would probably reveal things still relevant today, so it stays secret.
If I was Sen. Edward Kennedy, I'd find this game less tasteless compared to a lack of answers and justice.
Of course, if I saw the game sold in a store, I'd reconsider ever purchasing from them again. Thourougly tasteless and disrepectful, regardless of whatever you might happen to think of JFK.
I'll give it a try, thanks.
User interface design shouldn't be rocket science when you have a great deal of user comment like GIMP seems to.I mean you can spend hundreds of thousands on HCI experts and still get terrible design - Microsoft are experts at bad HCI for example. To my mind, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt that they had a good reason for their ideas because it's so different to every other graphics program that I've used. Nonetheless, I still don't like the layout myself.
GIMP and Gnome seem to have put a great deal of thought and discussion into their user interfaces - it shows to my eye. I personally don't like Gnome much and prefer KDE, but it seems like they've put in the work.
Thanks AstroDrabb, I'll have a go at this.
Very much appreciated.
I'm running GIMP 2.0 on Suse 9.2 and KDE 3.3.
Other than when using GIMP, I'm quite happy with KDE, so although perhaps this suggestion might work for some, I myself would rather that GIMP improves.
Gimp seems like a really good graphics package, but I still really struggle with the fact that it opens all these seperate boxes that I have to move around. I just want them snapped into a background.
I want the good old Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver layout, without having to shuffle 4 floating tool windows about that do different stuff. I'm sure that there is a really good reason to the layout, but I just can't get beyond this unusual interface, and just switch to windows graphics packages because of it.
Even if I make the image take up my whole screen, I don't like the fact that the tool window etc can wander around and aren't fixed - like every other graphics package that I've ever used. Why oh why does it have to be different?
How long ago was that? I wonder because Hyundais here (in the US) used to be POSs, but they've greatly improved recently (mine seems more well-built than any American car my family has owned, at least).
About three years ago here. They're well priced, but they haven't shaken off the bad reputation from it quite yet. Ford and (GM) Holden just don't produce good cars compared to a lot of the Asian models nowadays. I sometimes think the US companies have stopped caring really. Our Australian made Ford and Holdens are not well designed in terms of safety. Their ads here encourage reckless driving in them too.
The Subaru Foresters are getting quite popular here as a general run about car for trips into the country. Roads aren't always great, and it gets quite hot in summer, so a great deal of cars don't always cope very well. The Subarus have beautiful suspension and steering, so are ideal for some of the dirt roads here outside of the suburbs. The Impreza's very nice and has a huge following - very snazzy and fast.
I'll have a look at the Hyundai - good to hear that they're getting better.
Thanks for the advice. I'm glad I mentioned it.
Thanks Zazzel, I'll take your advice. Say hi to your TDI from me.
Ahh, completely understandable. The lovely old Bugs are great fun to drive. In Australia, everyone smiles at you when you drive an old bug around.
Oh and they certainly don't invade your privacy.
As an aside, I'm partial to Hyundais, and I hear they're popular in Australia..
Yep, Hyundais are popular here, but they're not well know for their safety engineering. In one case in Oz, Hyundai failed to recall a model with a chasis that could fall apart. The welding was all bad apparently. They're not popular with fans of safe cars for the most part.
Subaru make a great all wheel drive car here that really suits the Australian conditions. If I wasn't going to buy a piece of privacy invading German car engineering, I think this would be my next best choice.
Geez, somebody woke up on the god-side of the bed this morning...
Why don't you apply your philosophy to yourself: either stop being a hypocrite or shut your pie hole, Mr. Condescending.
His article was really more appropriate as a comment like this one or yours - it wasn't suitable as a story in itself. It's a valid opinion, but put forward in the wrong context.
Having a differing opinion to someone else is a valid form of debate - it's not exclusively a sign of crankiness or deification. I find that it's best to judge an arguement on it's merit instead of commenting on the imagined emotional content anyhow.
I'm all for debate and discussion - that's what the Internet is all about. I just don't think that everyone's random thoughts on things deserve to be called news. My ideas are no exception either of course.
I'm actually hooked on the VWs. I think next time however, I'm going to make them include the data connector and software - or at least get them to tell me how to turn the service alarm off.
Hopefully by then, the solution will be resolved. The way the computer industry is in Australia, my next purchase will be a used bicycle.
Is this really news? A single user's negative experience of Firefox hardly seems to me to be worth reading - more like a troll instead.This belongs on the Mozilla forums.
Next off, someone will post an article saying that they wish that their graphics card was faster for HL2. Purely subjective information, and not really worth repeating.
I'm running windows and linux builds and it's running flawlessly. Check your settings.
Perhaps in an age of blogging, there's a common tendency in thinking that every single thought that crosses one's mind is worthy of becoming an article. Unfortunately, this isn't the case.
I have a 2003 Volkswagen Golf, and have read that the data recording box in it records the number of time the ABS is engaged, fuel emisions, average speed and trip distance, number of times the seat belt isn't worn by the driver - pretty much everything.
What I hate about it is that the car demands it's service with a flashing light and tone, only a Volkswagen mechanic can turn the alert off. The dataport is hidden behind a removal panel below the radio, and there's no way in hell that my independant mechanic can get the thing to stop beeping at me because I didn't volunteer to be overcharged by a VW mechanic.
Personally, I think that all the information on black boxes should be accessible to the driver, and additionally, that there should be a standard interface port and protocol so that all mechanics can access the black box. I also think that the exact information being collated should be revealed before you purchase the car.
I'm happy if police can access the information in the case of a serious crash, but I don't want the information being provided to manufacturers without knowing exactly what my car is telling them. I don't have anything to hide about my driving habits etc and I am a safe driver and don't speed, but I resent not being able to choose my own independant mechanic without a great deal of inconvinience, and I don't like not knowing exactly what my car is recording.
I wish I knew the sites that he visits!
I like stuff along the lines of suicidegirls and lithiumpicnic but I'm too stingy/poor to pay up.
Most porn I see on the internet has tired and sad looking women in it. I don't find it very addictive because it's mostly not very good quality - not very sexy women posing in not very sexy positions, or ugly couples rutting. Certainly not my idea of addictive but perhaps my aesthethic taste in porn is a bit more discerning that Senator Brownback. He must be too easily impressed.
Bah - Maya would be a much better reason to go to the moon. Nonethless, I find you arguments strangely convincing nonetheless.
I had a Space1999 stun gun/water pistol - such a brilliant sci-fi show. They just don't make sci-fi and space babes the way they used to.
There are other perhaps greater reasons - in the name of Science. After all "Ex Luna, Scientia"
It's a pity that the NASA's reach into space was killed off so drastically through lack of political support. We should be actually living on the moon by now.
Every time I see a picture of Mars, it reminds me of Australia. The landscape speaks to me that we should go and live there, even more so than the moon.
We seem to have so many problems and distractions on Earth, that we forget that there are higher and more worthy goals than just watching tv and feeding ourselves. I really wish I could be a outerspace pioneer.
I sincerely hope they're knocked back. Why would it serve the public to have a special interest group with a history of skullduggery and legal strong arming, attempting to get in on a technology that by it's very design is supposed to be freely diseminated and unrestricted? The Internet is the antithesis of media property and what the MPAA stands for.
Hollywood can't even be trusted enough to turn out good movies with any decent intellectual or cultural content whatsoever. Why would they think they would be able to contribute to something that is so obviously out of their intellectual, cultural and moral league.
very good, quoting arguments from your philosophy 101 class :)
Actually it was my third year Ethics class, but I digress.
I agree that some societal norms are good to break, but only if they're warranted. I personally don't like the thought of people taking pictures of women without their consent at a cost to their decency. My partner for instance was groped on the train a few months back and it was extremely upsetting for her. I wouldn't see someone taking a picture of her whilst she was undressing in beach changeroom as being any different. she would be terribly upset by such a thing. I agree that people could probably loosen their taboos around their bodies somewhat, but I still think that respecting a person's privacy should be mandatory.
I don't think that you're in danger of your wife being angry at your opinions, but I'd worry more if you suggested to her that she should allow people to photograph her breasts etc with camera phones.
Perhaps the Government ID cards will match nicely with the government's 2.5 million video survelliance cameras.
Of course, if these sorts of measures really worked, there wouldn't be a lunatic sucessfully breaking into Buckingham palace every six months or so.