...so I have a job (recently acquired) doing part-time theatre work. Lets me keep my regular, decently-paying, 45 hour per week job but also keep my fingers in the stuff that I used to really love doing, but had to give up to support my family (without working 80+ hours per week).
Best of both worlds!
Course I'm working more than 45 hours per week, but who's counting (aside from me)?
Firefox is far more feature-rich than IE, once you take into account third-party extensions, which is the second reason most of the people that I know who use FF give for using it over IE (after security). That additional functionality can't be dismissed.
I don't claim to have any of the answers at all - just a lot of opinions. And I agree with your post and its grandparent that control of the media is more important than, and more sinister than, issues of finance.
However, your post begs the question of whether or not this is a "free speech" issue. In my mind, free speech is only truly free if everyone has it in equal amounts. Once some people have more of it than others it's no longer "free speech". It's like saying some people are more equal than others.
I'm not some pie-in-the-sky idealist (well, maybe a little), and I realize that the quantities of both equality and freedom of speech are, de facto, un-equal, but that doesn't make it any less distasteful or wrong.
Yes, but as you might notice, Dan Rather got himself into a big hole with his free speech, didn't he? The media is responsible to someone and when they demonstrably abuse their "free speech" they are usually called on the carpet about it. You may believe that they are skewed in one direction or another, but there is some level (however pitiful) of oversight.
The other groups I mentioned (and many others, besides) have no such oversight. Mr. Soros and Bob J. Perry have no such limitations, and no matter how many untruths they tell, they cannot be held responsible in any meaningful way.
Not that I'm saying that either of them are telling falsehoods (heaven forfend!), but what if...?
As it may be, I agree with George Soros about almost all that he says publicly, but I still don't want him to be able to influence elections the way he has.
The problem with this view is that it gives those who have more money more "free speech".
I don't want George Soros or the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush to have more free speech than I do. I want them to have exactly the same amount, regardless of how much money they have or can gather. Simply because I get paid more than someone else does and can contribute more to someone's kitty for political ads doesn't mean that my views should be more widely disseminated.
While this may be a highly enlightened point of view, it's also important to note that RSS feed aggregators like Bloglines offer much, much more than subscribing simply to blogs. The name of Bloglines is misleading; my account feeds me some blogs, but also lots of other great content.
Personally I prefer Feedster. It doesn't force me to look at my feeds one feed at a time.
If I want to see what's new, I want to see the newest stuff across my feeds, not have to click each feed to view the newest posts for each one separately. Unless I've missed something on Bloglines it doesn't offer me this view.
That said, these APIs might convince me to roll my own aggregator for my own use....
I suspect because there's no next movie to build excitement for, since those were typically released about the same time of year that this extended DVD is.
Plus, maybe it's extra good! I understand it took more effort than the others did.
Maybe it's just the fact that I've some training as a cook, or just that I'm so used to reading standard recipes. Or maybe I'm just a girly-man. But I don't find these terribly more easy to read.
However, the same basic concepts are there; gathering all the ingredients, an order of operations, and times/temperatures, and I think this alternative might make a lot mor epeople like to cook, and that's great!!
I've always kind of felt like there wasn't any such thing; that the human mind really can only do one thing at a time, and the issue of multi-/hyper-tasking has to do with how quickly and efficiently you can switch between things.
In fact, my understanding (small though it be) of Zen philosophy says that we should concentrate excluseivly on one thing at a time, thus the value of meditation. Always seemed like it might actualy make for better multi-tsking, but I've never been able to find the time to do it.
I wasn't curious about this guy, since I did RTFA. I was curious about the rise in conterfeiting in Canada in general.
"A large part of the increase in overall crime [last year] was the result of the more than 138,000 counterfeiting incidents reported by police," noted Statistics Canada in July. "Counterfeiting incidents now represent 5% of all Criminal Code offences, making it the sixth-largest crime category in Canada."
That's certainy not all related to Weber, no matter how skilled at it he is.
How exactly does banning me from making a cell phone call during a flight keep anyone any safer given that I can make the same call on the "AirPhone" on the back of the seat in front of me?
My (probably gullible) impression was always that the risks that were involved were due to potential interference with the pilot to control tower communication (I mean, what if I were telling someone on the other end of my cell call "Lower! Lower!!!!" very urgently and the pilot thought that was the air traffic controller talking to him/her).
A more cynical view might be that the airlines wanted to control a slice of the air time charges and couldn't do that with cell phones. Might that be the case? Nah.
Yeah, that's going to be just GREAT!
We don't know what the heck to do with the population we have right now, and that's with people dying with some regularity. Once we conquer all of those pesky things that kill us off before we're 120 yrs old, what are we going to do with the surplus population then?
Sure, science can develop ways of controlling population, but we already have some, and they don't get particularly wide use. And the last thing I want is the government (any government) telling people how many kids to have.
No, for my money, a certain amount of attrition in the human race is a Good Thing (tm). I know it sounds brutal, but there you are.
I was curious about this. I haven't installed yet (my laptop's already too frelling slow - didn't want to take the chance), but looking at this list I was curious as to why MS would turn the firewall on and then not give users an easy way to configure it (i.e. "Application xx has attempted to connect using port y. Do you wish to allow this coonection in the future.?"). I'm behind a hardware firewall, so don't use a software one, but when I did fool around with ZoneAlarm's free one I was pretty sure it did that. Seemed like MS might be shooting itself in the foot not to provide that option.
Anyone else have success or failure with this feature?
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...so I have a job (recently acquired) doing part-time theatre work. Lets me keep my regular, decently-paying, 45 hour per week job but also keep my fingers in the stuff that I used to really love doing, but had to give up to support my family (without working 80+ hours per week). Best of both worlds! Course I'm working more than 45 hours per week, but who's counting (aside from me)?
We all are aware that privacy and Google are a potentially dangerous combination, why is this surprising?
Firefox is far more feature-rich than IE, once you take into account third-party extensions, which is the second reason most of the people that I know who use FF give for using it over IE (after security). That additional functionality can't be dismissed.
However, your post begs the question of whether or not this is a "free speech" issue. In my mind, free speech is only truly free if everyone has it in equal amounts. Once some people have more of it than others it's no longer "free speech". It's like saying some people are more equal than others.
I'm not some pie-in-the-sky idealist (well, maybe a little), and I realize that the quantities of both equality and freedom of speech are, de facto, un-equal, but that doesn't make it any less distasteful or wrong.
The other groups I mentioned (and many others, besides) have no such oversight. Mr. Soros and Bob J. Perry have no such limitations, and no matter how many untruths they tell, they cannot be held responsible in any meaningful way.
Not that I'm saying that either of them are telling falsehoods (heaven forfend!), but what if...?
As it may be, I agree with George Soros about almost all that he says publicly, but I still don't want him to be able to influence elections the way he has.
It's got to be here somewhere....
I don't want George Soros or the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush to have more free speech than I do. I want them to have exactly the same amount, regardless of how much money they have or can gather. Simply because I get paid more than someone else does and can contribute more to someone's kitty for political ads doesn't mean that my views should be more widely disseminated.
Great.
I should've been more clear what I wanted, but Bloglines still isn't it.
While this may be a highly enlightened point of view, it's also important to note that RSS feed aggregators like Bloglines offer much, much more than subscribing simply to blogs. The name of Bloglines is misleading; my account feeds me some blogs, but also lots of other great content.
If I want to see what's new, I want to see the newest stuff across my feeds, not have to click each feed to view the newest posts for each one separately. Unless I've missed something on Bloglines it doesn't offer me this view.
That said, these APIs might convince me to roll my own aggregator for my own use....
Plus, maybe it's extra good! I understand it took more effort than the others did.
Hooray!
However, the same basic concepts are there; gathering all the ingredients, an order of operations, and times/temperatures, and I think this alternative might make a lot mor epeople like to cook, and that's great!!
what a big ... mailbox you have.
I also love WebDeveloper, DownThemAll, GMailCompose, SwitchProxy, and the ever-popular TabBrowser Prefs.
OK, maybe I'm a little over-extensioned.
Who will set the exchange rates for those community currencies that aren't tied to a measure of time or to the US dollar?
In fact, my understanding (small though it be) of Zen philosophy says that we should concentrate excluseivly on one thing at a time, thus the value of meditation. Always seemed like it might actualy make for better multi-tsking, but I've never been able to find the time to do it.
Maybe we need a book: The Zen of Hyper-tasking.
Wait, I should rite that down.
Especially in the military it seems to me that anonymity is critical to the practice of democracy.
I wasn't curious about this guy, since I did RTFA. I was curious about the rise in conterfeiting in Canada in general.
That's certainy not all related to Weber, no matter how skilled at it he is.Not trying for flamebait here, just clarifying.
They US Treasury has certainly made our bills more difficult to fake.
I thought the whole idea was to cool it down!
My (probably gullible) impression was always that the risks that were involved were due to potential interference with the pilot to control tower communication (I mean, what if I were telling someone on the other end of my cell call "Lower! Lower!!!!" very urgently and the pilot thought that was the air traffic controller talking to him/her).
A more cynical view might be that the airlines wanted to control a slice of the air time charges and couldn't do that with cell phones. Might that be the case? Nah.
Sure, science can develop ways of controlling population, but we already have some, and they don't get particularly wide use. And the last thing I want is the government (any government) telling people how many kids to have.
No, for my money, a certain amount of attrition in the human race is a Good Thing (tm). I know it sounds brutal, but there you are.
I was curious about this. I haven't installed yet (my laptop's already too frelling slow - didn't want to take the chance), but looking at this list I was curious as to why MS would turn the firewall on and then not give users an easy way to configure it (i.e. "Application xx has attempted to connect using port y. Do you wish to allow this coonection in the future.?"). I'm behind a hardware firewall, so don't use a software one, but when I did fool around with ZoneAlarm's free one I was pretty sure it did that. Seemed like MS might be shooting itself in the foot not to provide that option.
Anyone else have success or failure with this feature?