Please answer this question yes or no. Do you want a Palin presidency?
I'll answer that "yes or no" if you answer mine "yes or no". Do you still place objects up your ass for pleasure? Yes or no!
Now, for a real answer...
Palin is near the bottom of my list of Republicans I would like to see get the nomination. However, if she is to get the nomination, she will receive my vote over President Obama. Although, if you wanted to give me a hard question, try asking me if I'd vote for Joseph Stalin over President Obama. That's a tough one.
(See what I did there? I called him "President Obama". Not "Mr. Obama". Not "Obama". Not "NObama". And especially not "MSNBC-GE-57States-InflatingTirePressureWillSolveOurEnergyWoes-Obama". He is the President of the United States and I will give him the respect that title deserves, unlike what was done to former President Bush.)
You really need to clean up your quote. It's quite difficult to read.
But, in response, I'm sure that Sarah Palin thinks that Paul Revere stopped at every church, hopped off of his horse, ran inside and rang the bells before heading off to the next church.
Her quote may be a bit convoluted, but that doesn't give you the right to make up your own unrealistic interpretation of what she meant.
But, hey. Don't take my word for it:
Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, “Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting,’ and the British are aware as they’re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing — she was right about that — and warning shots being fired. That’s accurate.”
I'm sure that you know more than a guy with a Ph.D. from Brown University. Please be sure to copy any responses to him directly and be sure to tell him that you think he's a moron and knows nothing about history.
It's really kind of sad. I mean, it's OK to not like Sarah Palin. You are even free to think she's not very bright. But when you have to change facts in your own mind to back up your opinion, it just makes you self disillusioned partisan. You are supposed to find facts that already back up your assertion, not change facts that don't.
Sarah Palin yesterday insisted her claim at the Old North Church last week that Paul Revere “warned the British” during his famed 1775 ride — remarks that Democrats and the media roundly ridiculed — is actually historically accurate. And local historians are backing her up.
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In fact, Revere’s own account of the ride in a 1798 letter seems to back up Palin’s claim. Revere describes how after his capture by British officers, he warned them “there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the Country all the way up.”
Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, “Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting,’ and the British are aware as they’re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing — she was right about that — and warning shots being fired. That’s accurate.”
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Meanwhile, the state’s Democratic Party held a thin blue line on the issue, insisting on mocking Palin despite a brief historical review of the matter. State party chairman John Walsh wise-cracked that the region welcomes all tourists, even those with “an alternative view of history.”
“If you believe he was riding through the countryside sending text messages and Tweets to the British, still come to Boston,” he said. “There are a lot of things to do and see.”
But Cornell law professor William Jacobson, who asserted last week that Palin was correct, linking to Revere quotes on his conservative blog Legalinsurrection.com, said Palin’s critics are the ones in need of a history lesson. “It seems to be a historical fact that this happened,” he said. “A lot of the criticism is unfair and made by people who are themselves ignorant of history.”
I believe that last statement could refer to you. You should be careful of who you call "moron". You know the old saying about glass houses, right?
I just read about the Austalian health care system, Medicare. There seems to an awful lot of people with private health insurance in Australia. Why is that? If the government pays 100% and gives such good service, why would anyone buy private insurance? And if you care about the fate of the poor who can't afford private insurance who have to wait at the public hospital, why are you not doing anything about? Why is the Australian government not paying for private insurance for the poor? Why should the rich get better coverage than those who can't afford it?
BTW, here in the US, poor people can get Medicaid to pay for their medical expenses.
"Poor people" get cared for in the US, regardless of their ability to pay. It's not like they are just wheeled out of the hospital and thrown onto the street. Hospitals must treat patients by law. Whoever told you otherwise is lying.
And still, it's easy to get health insurance. Hell even Walmart and McDonald's full time employees get health insurance. Even the old guy on a walker that greets you when you walk into Walmart has full coverage with a $20 copay and premiums that are the exact same as everyone else who works there. It's not hard to get health insurance. Oh, and company offered health insurance can not deny you because of pre-existing conditions. That's another lie I hear so often. (If you try to get health insurance yourself you can be denied, but not on company or group plans.) George W. Bush tried to eliminate that by allowing groups of people to join together and purchase health insurances like large companies do, but the Democrats shot it down because it was proposed by George W. Bush.
And finally, I have lived under socialized health care. In the US Army, I got to experience what it was like to have the government pick my doctor, choose my procedure and how it would be carried out. I still remember the US Army dentist holding me down with his knee on my chest as his pried my wisdom teeth out with pliers. Sure, I couldn't feel what he was doing to my teeth because of the local anesthetic, but I could sure feel the cramp in my neck from trying to hold my head up. See, the doctor didn't care what I though about his bedside manner. It made no difference to him, his career or his life whatsoever. He was going to get paid and move on to his next patient. If I wasn't happy, tough. I had no recourse. I guess I could have filed a complaint with someone, but this is the government we are talking about here. The best I could hope for would be for whoever his superior was to have a talk with him. I would have no satisfaction. I was given the weekend off to heal with a bottle of Vicodin for the soreness in my mouth and neck.
I had my other two wisdom teeth pulled after I left the Army by a civilian dentist. I walked into a clean waiting room, sat on a comfortable couch and watched TV for my five minute wait. I was then given a pill and went into the room with the dentist chair. Next thing I knew, I was done. I woke up on a small bed in a sleeping room by my girlfriend who was there to pick me up. I don't know what the doctor did and I don't care as I don't remember a thing. I was given my prescription for pain pills, a long list of do's and don't's and was even given a couple of courtesy calls throughout the week.
See, there is a dentist on every corner. These guys want me to come back and be THEIR patient. They will do everything they can to make sure I have a pleasant experience... AT THE DENTIST!!!
So, yeah. I've lived through socialized health care and it sucks. Even for the Army wives who had a short list of civilian doctors they could take their kids to said their health plans sucked, so it wasn't just the way they treated soldiers. When the government pays for something, it usually turns to crap, in the US at least.
I am more than happy with the govt medical here in Australia, it is excellent.
I feel sorry for those in the US who believed the stream of Republican lies thay are told about socialised medicine. No accountant of beurocrat gets to decide my treatment, only my doctor.
So by all means go on believing the lies you have been told Archer B.
The "lies" I have been told have come in the form of raw statistics and "scare" stories about hospital overcrowding (does the Manchester Evening News count as a Republican controlled outfit?). I've also spoken to some of my Canadian friends who have been forced to come to the US for quality, expedient treatment. They could have gotten treatment in Canada, but were unwilling or unable to wait or would get better quality here and they were wiling/able to pay for it.
I am very glad you like you the Australian run system and I sincerely hope you get to keep it. I don't think I've ever heard anything negative about health care in Australia so it must be top notch. Tell ya what... you stay there and keep your top notch government funded/run health care system and I'll stay here and keep my top notch, privately funded health care system. That way, we can both be happy. And when you see people bitching about a gov't run system, you tell to come to America where they can pay for themselves if they so desire and I'll send the people that want that gov't run system to you guys. See, we can all win here. I really don't understand why people would want to take away what I have in order to gain what they could easily obtain by moving to someplace that already has it. As a bonus, I get to keep mine too!
Your simplistic world view betrays your ignorance and lack of intelligence.
And your response lacks any supporting statements whatsoever. It contains exactly as many facts as the tried and true "I'm rubber, you're glue..." argument.
Next time a "doctor" is about to put you under and saw through your sternum to operate on your heart, ask yourself the same question.
I hope if I get to that point (heart problems run in my family) I've another citizenship besides USA in a country that doesn't try to shoehorn capitalism into medicine.
After working at an answering service for 5 years, I've learned that doctors in the USA at least are duplicitous, technically inept (as in can't understand their pager doesn't work when turned off), and willing to lie left and right just to get a small discount on their bill. I've stopped going to my doctor altogether because the board of directors at the affiliated hospital let us know that it might not be safe to be a patient of one of their doctors any more over a billing dispute.
I have less respect for doctors than I do lawyers, because at least the lawyer clients have some basis for an argument when they dispute their bill. All doctors know are cuss words, and I intend to drop my health insurance next open enrollment period because I'm sick of subsidizing these pigs.
Boy, if you think doctors are inept now, wait until the bureaucracy takes over. Nothing spells incompetence like a bureaucrat. If you think medicine is a bad example, look at cars. Compare cars made by governments (Communist countries) to cars made by private citizens (capitalist countries) and tell me which one is more reliable, more efficient and safer? Now, ask yourself if you want your doctor to run like a Toyota or a Moskvitch.
I'm a huge Apple fan, but even I think this stuff with the "i" branding is just stupid and faintly embarrassing. Every Apple product has a fraeking "i" before it's otherwise utterly unimaginative name? "iCloud" - FFS.
Well, they used to start everything with "Mac", but too many people would be saying "there can be only one" if they called it MacCloud.
That is the treat of sideloading. And I wouldn't give it up for anything.
So you would doom millions to be raked over the coals by exploits like this, all so you can sideload. Awesome.
Shouldn't the model be more of one where people who cannot manage systems have systems pre-secured for them, and the ones who can handle security can open them?
It's worked well for iOS from a security standpoint.
I believe the point is to have the option. Sure, if you choose to sideload, you risk malware or other bad things, but freedom comes with risk. As long as you have the choice and you are willing and able to take responsibility for your device, there is no reason to forced to live in a walled garden. However, if you are happy with what the official channel has to offer, good for you. You should stay in the garden. But just because the protected environment is good for most, that doesn't mean we should all be forced to live there.
You misunderstand what Gandhi is I think. One of his most famous quotes is "I am a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, and a Jew". He believed in a brotherhood of man - not the dominance of one particular religion over another. That is very different from being a religious leader and forcing your doctrine on others.
That's not what you said. You said:
More like religion is a set of rules about morality that allow a chosen few to control and profit off the lemming majority while themselves completely ignoring the rules.
Not
Religious leaders set rules about morality...
In other words, you original statement was about religion, not just religious leaders. If your problem is with SOME religious leaders, say so. If your problem is with ALL religious leaders, might I recommend you research the true representatives of a religion, such as Gandhi (as I mentioned above), Mother Theresa, Lotti Moon or any number of religious leaders who became religious leaders by serving others in the name of their religion.
I'm sorry you think that all religion is nothing more than TV Preachers with string ties telling you that God commands that you send them money. Believing that stereotype is exactly the same as believing "all Arabs are terrorists", "all Jews are cheap", or "all %race% are %negative stereotype%". Thinking stereotypes are an accurate representation of a group of people is ignorant and bigoted.
Interstate commerce clause trumps the 9th and 10th. At least that is what the courts will say, and they may be correct. That said, I support states telling the feds to fuck off, as that is the only thing that gets them to reconsider stupid regulations that do NOT make flying safer.
Should the Interstate Commerce Clause trump the 1st or 2nd? No. Why? Because the authors of the Constitution wrote it, but some were hesitant to sign it for various reasons. Those concerns were answered by the Bill or Rights, or 1st ten Amendments of the Constitution. You could consider Amendments to be updates or corrections to what was written before it. Therefor, amendments to the Constitution should trump the Constitution as it was written previously. For an example, alcohol is still illegal according to the Constitution, but a later amendment allowed it again. The same could be said as any amendment taking precedence over the Commerce Clause.
However, the 10th Amendment states that the US gov't may only do what is spelled out in the Constitution. Regulating interstate commerce is spelled out via the commerce clause. The problem is that the courts have allowed the INTERSTATE commerce clause to apply in commerce that never leaves a state. In other words, the courts have said the federal government has unlimited power under the commerce clause.
More like religion is a set of rules about morality that allow a chosen few to control and profit off the lemming majority while themselves completely ignoring the rules.
Strange. Gandhi didn't seem to profit all that much.
Actually, correlation does IMPLY causation. However, correlation does not EQUAL causation.
Take the following as an example: I mow my yard with out my shirt on. The neighbor lady sees me and pukes. We can IMPLY from the given data that seeing my giant uni-moob (gut), my white, saggy, hairless chest, and my man-scaped back hair landing strip caused my neighbor to lose her lunch.
As it turns out, she had a stomach bug and had been bio-matter from both ends all day, but without all of the data, we were left with nothing but the implication that my shirtless body caused the spewing.
Imply-Strongly suggest the truth or existence of (something not expressly stated):
Orion was never canceled, try keeping up with the facts.
Orion was part of the Constellation program that was cancelled in this year's budget.
So, maybe you should try to RTFA:
The MPCV's crew capsule design takes a direct cue from Orion, which was to fulfill the same role for the Constellation program, an initiative that was canned after it fell behind schedule and over budget.
Yes.. "Towel Day" is cool and all... but how about a "Thanks for all the fish" day... and also the answer to everything.. the "42 day", Feb 11 maybe... day no 42 of the gregorian calendar.. or even "Restaurant at the end of the universe"! To be fair, they are more well known concepts of Douglas Adams... and probably could be more exciting than a towel. Maybe the day would have been more interesting if they linked Towelie (of SouthPark fame) to it, and the comments above serve to prove my point!
Yeah, I figured "Towel Day" would be on April 2 (4-2) or, like you said, Feb 11. Any significance to this date?
Tree-style tabs is what is keeping me on FF. Tabs are nested on the left side of the screen like split file manager window. Tabs opened from another get nested. For whatever reason, there is no such add-on for Chrome and it kills me to have my tabs listed across the top. You can get so many more tabs running vertically than you can horizontally.
Your not understanding, every time apple changed platform they increased the performance and speed. In this case its the opposite (one day arm may be at a similar performance but not now). Much much harder to get an emulator to work on slower equipment. My analogy should of said its like trying to play a PlayStation game on a Nintendo 64. There is a reason apple used ios on the iphone and its not touch.
What is preventing ARM from competing performance wise? Is there something inherent to the architecture that prevents a company like AMD or Intel from licensing the architecture and producing a six-core beast running at 4 GHz? I understand that ARM is optimized for low power consumption, but if you were to slap a big, honkin heat-sinc and fan on one, like you have to do with a x86 chip, and give up any powersaving features that rob performance, is there any reason why an ARM chip wouldn't outperform an x86 one?
Ubuntu is animal-centric in release naming. For release naming with sexual connotations, I suggest migrating to Gaybuntu, Archhole, Hoin'SuSIE, Ephebian or maybe OpenBSD&M
You forgot GayToo, FlapWare, DamnSmall and Yelper.
They don't hate us because we have freedoms. They hate us because we are currently free from them. So it would seem that "they hate us for our freedom" is not so moronic after all.
No, the islamic terrorists don't want a worldwide caliphate. They would be happy with a caliphate in the Middle East. They hate us because we are occupying their countries and messing with their politics for decades. They hate us because we take their freedom.
Is that why there are emerging Islamic states in Africa? Is that why so many are pushing for Sharia law in Europe and even in the US? Is Chechnya part of the Middle East? What about all the Pacific Islands that are Islamic controlled?
What in the hell are you talking about? The Soviet Union was not any more militarized than we are now. What the terrorists accomplished was drawing us into a modern day crusade against Islam, torture, and being feared and looked down upon by the whole world. If you don't think that was their goal, well I think it worked out pretty well for them anyway. America, the torturing colonizer that covers its prisoners in shit and sics dogs on them.
Their goal is to get us out of their way. They will be unable to overtake Saudi Arabia as long as we have troops their. After SA, they will overrun or nuke Israel. Once they have a firm grip of the middle east, they will branch out to Africa, Asia, then Europe and finally, the Americas. They don't do it by taking over. They do it by forcing submission and holding land ferociously. Look at what happened in Beslan in Russia. The killed a bunch of school kids because they want to hold on to Chechnya. They did 9-11 to try to get us out of Saudi Arabia.
"O Lord, shatter their gathering, divide them among themselves, shake the earth under their feet and give us control over them." --Osama Bin Laden 1996
Well said. Unfortunately the Cartoon World is the one in which most of us live, so the moronic "they hate us for our freedom" narrative always gets good traction here.
Actually, "they hate us for our freedom" is not too far from the truth. Everyone here is playing coy when talking about the goals of terrorists. Of course the terrorists don't care if TSA is feeling up our kids or the government is asking for ID to fly. That's not the freedom they are after.
Sorry, but the goal of "terrorists" is an worldwide Caliphate, or Islamic state.
So govern between the people by that which God has revealed (Islam), and follow not their vain desires, beware of them in case they seduce you from just some part of that which God has revealed to you —[Qur'an 004:049
It's not our Bill of Rights that they hate, it's our freedom or religion and/or freedom FROM religion. It starts with wanting us out of their "holy land" (Saudi Arabia), which then expands to the entire Mid-East, the Africa, Europe, Asia, and finally the Americas.
After the infidels have been expelled from the land of Islam, bin Laden, like other Islamic radicals, foresees the overthrow of current regimes across the Muslim world and the establishment of one united government strictly enforcing Shari'a, or Islamic law. This vision harks back to the age of the caliphs, the successors to Muhammad who ruled Islam's domain from the 7th century to the 13th. What might a caliphate look like today? In bin Laden's view, it would look something like the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which he has praised as "among the keenest to fulfill [Allah's] laws." Bin Laden may imagine himself to be a potential new caliph. One of the titles he uses is "emir," which means ruler. However, he swears allegiance to (and thereby ranks himself below) the Taliban ruler, Mullah Mohammed Omar, so whatever political ambitions bin Laden may have are not yet on display.... But for bin Laden, the game is not as simple as taking Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Says Daniel Benjamin, a former National Security Council staff member now writing a book on religious terror: "He is looking for a world in which Islam regains the dominant role, and naturally that would include oil and nukes. But to say it's about oil and nukes suggests it's not a metaphysical struggle, which it is for him. He thinks this is a big moral battle in which he's got Allah's sanction to attack the West." In a 1996 proclamation, bin Laden asked, "O Lord, shatter their gathering, divide them among themselves, shake the earth under their feet and give us control over them."
They don't hate us because we have freedoms. They hate us because we are currently free from them. So it would seem that "they hate us for our freedom" is not so moronic after all.
Right. Because Slashdot is swarming with investors and stockholders, and a 5 digit UID is less legitimate than your own. I have to admire the level of bullshit accepted by the average slashbot when it comes to Microsoft. The hatred makes you guys more moronic than some of the most delusional Apple fanboys. Then again, you're the same bunch.
Actually, you are correct. I did not take the time to read the full comments carefully. However, after reading them, it is apparent that the posters were guessing as to what the marketing departments might be thinking. For example, take this comment:
You're right. There is a lot more to the mobile phone market than the high-end smart phone. Compared to any smart phone these two devices can't compete. But against the EnV, Backflip, etc I'd say they're more than interesting. I think the low to mid end of the mobile phone market is under-served with quality devices, there's a plethora of phones out there, but very few that are any good.
If these phones are executed well, they could definitely fill a gap in the market.
What I find most interesting about them is the ability to use a Zune Pass to download OTA. Either you're into music subscriptions or you're not, but I'm perfectly happy with the model and have used Rhapsody for years now. VZW currently has a rhapsody app for phones, but you can't use your to-go subscription to download songs OTA, and to rub salt in the wound it's something like 1.99 to purchase a song you can buy on your PC for.99. If you can download OTA for 'free' that could really increase the appeal of these phones.
Yeah, the phone is underwhelming if you're looking at it along with Android devices and the iPhone. The thing is, not everyone is, and phones like this are going to have appeal to people who are looking one tier below a smart phone.
Also note that the poster's name is BillG@Microsoft.com:-)
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Please answer this question yes or no. Do you want a Palin presidency?
I'll answer that "yes or no" if you answer mine "yes or no". Do you still place objects up your ass for pleasure? Yes or no!
Now, for a real answer...
Palin is near the bottom of my list of Republicans I would like to see get the nomination. However, if she is to get the nomination, she will receive my vote over President Obama. Although, if you wanted to give me a hard question, try asking me if I'd vote for Joseph Stalin over President Obama. That's a tough one.
(See what I did there? I called him "President Obama". Not "Mr. Obama". Not "Obama". Not "NObama". And especially not "MSNBC-GE-57States-InflatingTirePressureWillSolveOurEnergyWoes-Obama". He is the President of the United States and I will give him the respect that title deserves, unlike what was done to former President Bush.)
You really need to clean up your quote. It's quite difficult to read.
But, in response, I'm sure that Sarah Palin thinks that Paul Revere stopped at every church, hopped off of his horse, ran inside and rang the bells before heading off to the next church.
Her quote may be a bit convoluted, but that doesn't give you the right to make up your own unrealistic interpretation of what she meant.
But, hey. Don't take my word for it:
Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, “Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting,’ and the British are aware as they’re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing — she was right about that — and warning shots being fired. That’s accurate.”
I'm sure that you know more than a guy with a Ph.D. from Brown University. Please be sure to copy any responses to him directly and be sure to tell him that you think he's a moron and knows nothing about history.
It's really kind of sad. I mean, it's OK to not like Sarah Palin. You are even free to think she's not very bright. But when you have to change facts in your own mind to back up your opinion, it just makes you self disillusioned partisan. You are supposed to find facts that already back up your assertion, not change facts that don't.
that moron said that paul revere was warning not the americans (or colonials) but british.
From The Boston Herald:
Sarah Palin yesterday insisted her claim at the Old North Church last week that Paul Revere “warned the British” during his famed 1775 ride — remarks that Democrats and the media roundly ridiculed — is actually historically accurate. And local historians are backing her up.
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In fact, Revere’s own account of the ride in a 1798 letter seems to back up Palin’s claim. Revere describes how after his capture by British officers, he warned them “there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the Country all the way up.”
Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, “Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting,’ and the British are aware as they’re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing — she was right about that — and warning shots being fired. That’s accurate.”
and
Meanwhile, the state’s Democratic Party held a thin blue line on the issue, insisting on mocking Palin despite a brief historical review of the matter. State party chairman John Walsh wise-cracked that the region welcomes all tourists, even those with “an alternative view of history.”
“If you believe he was riding through the countryside sending text messages and Tweets to the British, still come to Boston,” he said. “There are a lot of things to do and see.”
But Cornell law professor William Jacobson, who asserted last week that Palin was correct, linking to Revere quotes on his conservative blog Legalinsurrection.com, said Palin’s critics are the ones in need of a history lesson. “It seems to be a historical fact that this happened,” he said. “A lot of the criticism is unfair and made by people who are themselves ignorant of history.”
I believe that last statement could refer to you. You should be careful of who you call "moron". You know the old saying about glass houses, right?
I just read about the Austalian health care system, Medicare.
There seems to an awful lot of people with private health insurance in Australia. Why is that? If the government pays 100% and gives such good service, why would anyone buy private insurance? And if you care about the fate of the poor who can't afford private insurance who have to wait at the public hospital, why are you not doing anything about? Why is the Australian government not paying for private insurance for the poor? Why should the rich get better coverage than those who can't afford it?
BTW, here in the US, poor people can get Medicaid to pay for their medical expenses.
"Poor people" get cared for in the US, regardless of their ability to pay. It's not like they are just wheeled out of the hospital and thrown onto the street. Hospitals must treat patients by law. Whoever told you otherwise is lying.
And still, it's easy to get health insurance. Hell even Walmart and McDonald's full time employees get health insurance. Even the old guy on a walker that greets you when you walk into Walmart has full coverage with a $20 copay and premiums that are the exact same as everyone else who works there. It's not hard to get health insurance. Oh, and company offered health insurance can not deny you because of pre-existing conditions. That's another lie I hear so often. (If you try to get health insurance yourself you can be denied, but not on company or group plans.) George W. Bush tried to eliminate that by allowing groups of people to join together and purchase health insurances like large companies do, but the Democrats shot it down because it was proposed by George W. Bush.
And finally, I have lived under socialized health care. In the US Army, I got to experience what it was like to have the government pick my doctor, choose my procedure and how it would be carried out. I still remember the US Army dentist holding me down with his knee on my chest as his pried my wisdom teeth out with pliers. Sure, I couldn't feel what he was doing to my teeth because of the local anesthetic, but I could sure feel the cramp in my neck from trying to hold my head up. See, the doctor didn't care what I though about his bedside manner. It made no difference to him, his career or his life whatsoever. He was going to get paid and move on to his next patient. If I wasn't happy, tough. I had no recourse. I guess I could have filed a complaint with someone, but this is the government we are talking about here. The best I could hope for would be for whoever his superior was to have a talk with him. I would have no satisfaction. I was given the weekend off to heal with a bottle of Vicodin for the soreness in my mouth and neck.
I had my other two wisdom teeth pulled after I left the Army by a civilian dentist. I walked into a clean waiting room, sat on a comfortable couch and watched TV for my five minute wait. I was then given a pill and went into the room with the dentist chair. Next thing I knew, I was done. I woke up on a small bed in a sleeping room by my girlfriend who was there to pick me up. I don't know what the doctor did and I don't care as I don't remember a thing. I was given my prescription for pain pills, a long list of do's and don't's and was even given a couple of courtesy calls throughout the week.
See, there is a dentist on every corner. These guys want me to come back and be THEIR patient. They will do everything they can to make sure I have a pleasant experience... AT THE DENTIST!!!
So, yeah. I've lived through socialized health care and it sucks. Even for the Army wives who had a short list of civilian doctors they could take their kids to said their health plans sucked, so it wasn't just the way they treated soldiers. When the government pays for something, it usually turns to crap, in the US at least.
I am more than happy with the govt medical here in Australia, it is excellent.
I feel sorry for those in the US who believed the stream of Republican lies thay are told about socialised medicine. No accountant of beurocrat gets to decide my treatment, only my doctor.
So by all means go on believing the lies you have been told Archer B.
The "lies" I have been told have come in the form of raw statistics and "scare" stories about hospital overcrowding (does the Manchester Evening News count as a Republican controlled outfit?). I've also spoken to some of my Canadian friends who have been forced to come to the US for quality, expedient treatment. They could have gotten treatment in Canada, but were unwilling or unable to wait or would get better quality here and they were wiling/able to pay for it.
I am very glad you like you the Australian run system and I sincerely hope you get to keep it. I don't think I've ever heard anything negative about health care in Australia so it must be top notch. Tell ya what... you stay there and keep your top notch government funded/run health care system and I'll stay here and keep my top notch, privately funded health care system. That way, we can both be happy. And when you see people bitching about a gov't run system, you tell to come to America where they can pay for themselves if they so desire and I'll send the people that want that gov't run system to you guys. See, we can all win here. I really don't understand why people would want to take away what I have in order to gain what they could easily obtain by moving to someplace that already has it. As a bonus, I get to keep mine too!
Your simplistic world view betrays your ignorance and lack of intelligence.
And your response lacks any supporting statements whatsoever. It contains exactly as many facts as the tried and true "I'm rubber, you're glue..." argument.
Next time a "doctor" is about to put you under and saw through your sternum to operate on your heart, ask yourself the same question.
I hope if I get to that point (heart problems run in my family) I've another citizenship besides USA in a country that doesn't try to shoehorn capitalism into medicine.
After working at an answering service for 5 years, I've learned that doctors in the USA at least are duplicitous, technically inept (as in can't understand their pager doesn't work when turned off), and willing to lie left and right just to get a small discount on their bill.
I've stopped going to my doctor altogether because the board of directors at the affiliated hospital let us know that it might not be safe to be a patient of one of their doctors any more over a billing dispute.
I have less respect for doctors than I do lawyers, because at least the lawyer clients have some basis for an argument when they dispute their bill. All doctors know are cuss words, and I intend to drop my health insurance next open enrollment period because I'm sick of subsidizing these pigs.
Boy, if you think doctors are inept now, wait until the bureaucracy takes over. Nothing spells incompetence like a bureaucrat. If you think medicine is a bad example, look at cars. Compare cars made by governments (Communist countries) to cars made by private citizens (capitalist countries) and tell me which one is more reliable, more efficient and safer? Now, ask yourself if you want your doctor to run like a Toyota or a Moskvitch.
I'm a huge Apple fan, but even I think this stuff with the "i" branding is just stupid and faintly embarrassing. Every Apple product has a fraeking "i" before it's otherwise utterly unimaginative name? "iCloud" - FFS.
Well, they used to start everything with "Mac", but too many people would be saying "there can be only one" if they called it MacCloud.
That is the treat of sideloading. And I wouldn't give it up for anything.
So you would doom millions to be raked over the coals by exploits like this, all so you can sideload. Awesome.
Shouldn't the model be more of one where people who cannot manage systems have systems pre-secured for them, and the ones who can handle security can open them?
It's worked well for iOS from a security standpoint.
I believe the point is to have the option. Sure, if you choose to sideload, you risk malware or other bad things, but freedom comes with risk. As long as you have the choice and you are willing and able to take responsibility for your device, there is no reason to forced to live in a walled garden. However, if you are happy with what the official channel has to offer, good for you. You should stay in the garden. But just because the protected environment is good for most, that doesn't mean we should all be forced to live there.
You misunderstand what Gandhi is I think. One of his most famous quotes is "I am a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, and a Jew". He believed in a brotherhood of man - not the dominance of one particular religion over another. That is very different from being a religious leader and forcing your doctrine on others.
That's not what you said. You said:
More like religion is a set of rules about morality that allow a chosen few to control and profit off the lemming majority while themselves completely ignoring the rules.
Not
Religious leaders set rules about morality...
In other words, you original statement was about religion, not just religious leaders. If your problem is with SOME religious leaders, say so. If your problem is with ALL religious leaders, might I recommend you research the true representatives of a religion, such as Gandhi (as I mentioned above), Mother Theresa, Lotti Moon or any number of religious leaders who became religious leaders by serving others in the name of their religion.
I'm sorry you think that all religion is nothing more than TV Preachers with string ties telling you that God commands that you send them money. Believing that stereotype is exactly the same as believing "all Arabs are terrorists", "all Jews are cheap", or "all %race% are %negative stereotype%". Thinking stereotypes are an accurate representation of a group of people is ignorant and bigoted.
Interstate commerce clause trumps the 9th and 10th. At least that is what the courts will say, and they may be correct. That said, I support states telling the feds to fuck off, as that is the only thing that gets them to reconsider stupid regulations that do NOT make flying safer.
Should the Interstate Commerce Clause trump the 1st or 2nd? No. Why? Because the authors of the Constitution wrote it, but some were hesitant to sign it for various reasons. Those concerns were answered by the Bill or Rights, or 1st ten Amendments of the Constitution. You could consider Amendments to be updates or corrections to what was written before it. Therefor, amendments to the Constitution should trump the Constitution as it was written previously. For an example, alcohol is still illegal according to the Constitution, but a later amendment allowed it again. The same could be said as any amendment taking precedence over the Commerce Clause.
However, the 10th Amendment states that the US gov't may only do what is spelled out in the Constitution. Regulating interstate commerce is spelled out via the commerce clause. The problem is that the courts have allowed the INTERSTATE commerce clause to apply in commerce that never leaves a state. In other words, the courts have said the federal government has unlimited power under the commerce clause.
More like religion is a set of rules about morality that allow a chosen few to control and profit off the lemming majority while themselves completely ignoring the rules.
Strange. Gandhi didn't seem to profit all that much.
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.
http://xkcd.com/552/
Actually, correlation does IMPLY causation. However, correlation does not EQUAL causation.
Take the following as an example:
I mow my yard with out my shirt on. The neighbor lady sees me and pukes. We can IMPLY from the given data that seeing my giant uni-moob (gut), my white, saggy, hairless chest, and my man-scaped back hair landing strip caused my neighbor to lose her lunch.
As it turns out, she had a stomach bug and had been bio-matter from both ends all day, but without all of the data, we were left with nothing but the implication that my shirtless body caused the spewing.
Imply-Strongly suggest the truth or existence of (something not expressly stated):
Orion was never canceled, try keeping up with the facts.
Orion was part of the Constellation program that was cancelled in this year's budget.
So, maybe you should try to RTFA:
The MPCV's crew capsule design takes a direct cue from Orion, which was to fulfill the same role for the Constellation program, an initiative that was canned after it fell behind schedule and over budget.
MPCV is the new way to say Orion. The Constellation program became politically radioactive, so they renamed it's flagship project.
No, Obama canceled Orion, renamed it and the relaunched it with his name on it.
Yes.. "Towel Day" is cool and all... but how about a "Thanks for all the fish" day... and also the answer to everything.. the "42 day", Feb 11 maybe... day no 42 of the gregorian calendar.. or even "Restaurant at the end of the universe"! To be fair, they are more well known concepts of Douglas Adams... and probably could be more exciting than a towel. Maybe the day would have been more interesting if they linked Towelie (of SouthPark fame) to it, and the comments above serve to prove my point!
Yeah, I figured "Towel Day" would be on April 2 (4-2) or, like you said, Feb 11. Any significance to this date?
Tree-style tabs is what is keeping me on FF. Tabs are nested on the left side of the screen like split file manager window. Tabs opened from another get nested. For whatever reason, there is no such add-on for Chrome and it kills me to have my tabs listed across the top. You can get so many more tabs running vertically than you can horizontally.
Your not understanding, every time apple changed platform they increased the performance and speed. In this case its the opposite (one day arm may be at a similar performance but not now). Much much harder to get an emulator to work on slower equipment. My analogy should of said its like trying to play a PlayStation game on a Nintendo 64. There is a reason apple used ios on the iphone and its not touch.
What is preventing ARM from competing performance wise? Is there something inherent to the architecture that prevents a company like AMD or Intel from licensing the architecture and producing a six-core beast running at 4 GHz? I understand that ARM is optimized for low power consumption, but if you were to slap a big, honkin heat-sinc and fan on one, like you have to do with a x86 chip, and give up any powersaving features that rob performance, is there any reason why an ARM chip wouldn't outperform an x86 one?
Will this system work if less than 100% of the cars are equipped to communicate?
Ubuntu is animal-centric in release naming. For release naming with sexual connotations, I suggest migrating to Gaybuntu, Archhole, Hoin'SuSIE, Ephebian or maybe OpenBSD&M
You forgot GayToo, FlapWare, DamnSmall and Yelper.
There are more, I'm sure
They don't hate us because we have freedoms. They hate us because we are currently free from them. So it would seem that "they hate us for our freedom" is not so moronic after all.
No, the islamic terrorists don't want a worldwide caliphate. They would be happy with a caliphate in the Middle East. They hate us because we are occupying their countries and messing with their politics for decades. They hate us because we take their freedom.
Is that why there are emerging Islamic states in Africa? Is that why so many are pushing for Sharia law in Europe and even in the US? Is Chechnya part of the Middle East? What about all the Pacific Islands that are Islamic controlled?
What in the hell are you talking about? The Soviet Union was not any more militarized than we are now. What the terrorists accomplished was drawing us into a modern day crusade against Islam, torture, and being feared and looked down upon by the whole world. If you don't think that was their goal, well I think it worked out pretty well for them anyway. America, the torturing colonizer that covers its prisoners in shit and sics dogs on them.
Their goal is to get us out of their way. They will be unable to overtake Saudi Arabia as long as we have troops their. After SA, they will overrun or nuke Israel. Once they have a firm grip of the middle east, they will branch out to Africa, Asia, then Europe and finally, the Americas. They don't do it by taking over. They do it by forcing submission and holding land ferociously. Look at what happened in Beslan in Russia. The killed a bunch of school kids because they want to hold on to Chechnya. They did 9-11 to try to get us out of Saudi Arabia.
"O Lord, shatter their gathering, divide them among themselves, shake the earth under their feet and give us control over them."
--Osama Bin Laden 1996
Well said. Unfortunately the Cartoon World is the one in which most of us live, so the moronic "they hate us for our freedom" narrative always gets good traction here.
Actually, "they hate us for our freedom" is not too far from the truth. Everyone here is playing coy when talking about the goals of terrorists. Of course the terrorists don't care if TSA is feeling up our kids or the government is asking for ID to fly. That's not the freedom they are after.
Sorry, but the goal of "terrorists" is an worldwide Caliphate, or Islamic state.
So govern between the people by that which God has revealed (Islam), and follow not their vain desires, beware of them in case they seduce you from just some part of that which God has revealed to you
—[Qur'an 004:049
It's not our Bill of Rights that they hate, it's our freedom or religion and/or freedom FROM religion. It starts with wanting us out of their "holy land" (Saudi Arabia), which then expands to the entire Mid-East, the Africa, Europe, Asia, and finally the Americas.
Time Magazine can explain it better than I can:
After the infidels have been expelled from the land of Islam, bin Laden, like other Islamic radicals, foresees the overthrow of current regimes across the Muslim world and the establishment of one united government strictly enforcing Shari'a, or Islamic law. This vision harks back to the age of the caliphs, the successors to Muhammad who ruled Islam's domain from the 7th century to the 13th. What might a caliphate look like today? In bin Laden's view, it would look something like the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which he has praised as "among the keenest to fulfill [Allah's] laws." Bin Laden may imagine himself to be a potential new caliph. One of the titles he uses is "emir," which means ruler. However, he swears allegiance to (and thereby ranks himself below) the Taliban ruler, Mullah Mohammed Omar, so whatever political ambitions bin Laden may have are not yet on display. ...
But for bin Laden, the game is not as simple as taking Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Says Daniel Benjamin, a former National Security Council staff member now writing a book on religious terror: "He is looking for a world in which Islam regains the dominant role, and naturally that would include oil and nukes. But to say it's about oil and nukes suggests it's not a metaphysical struggle, which it is for him. He thinks this is a big moral battle in which he's got Allah's sanction to attack the West." In a 1996 proclamation, bin Laden asked, "O Lord, shatter their gathering, divide them among themselves, shake the earth under their feet and give us control over them."
They don't hate us because we have freedoms. They hate us because we are currently free from them. So it would seem that "they hate us for our freedom" is not so moronic after all.
Right. Because Slashdot is swarming with investors and stockholders, and a 5 digit UID is less legitimate than your own. I have to admire the level of bullshit accepted by the average slashbot when it comes to Microsoft. The hatred makes you guys more moronic than some of the most delusional Apple fanboys. Then again, you're the same bunch.
Actually, you are correct. I did not take the time to read the full comments carefully. However, after reading them, it is apparent that the posters were guessing as to what the marketing departments might be thinking. For example, take this comment:
You're right. There is a lot more to the mobile phone market than the high-end smart phone. Compared to any smart phone these two devices can't compete. But against the EnV, Backflip, etc I'd say they're more than interesting. I think the low to mid end of the mobile phone market is under-served with quality devices, there's a plethora of phones out there, but very few that are any good.
If these phones are executed well, they could definitely fill a gap in the market.
What I find most interesting about them is the ability to use a Zune Pass to download OTA. Either you're into music subscriptions or you're not, but I'm perfectly happy with the model and have used Rhapsody for years now. VZW currently has a rhapsody app for phones, but you can't use your to-go subscription to download songs OTA, and to rub salt in the wound it's something like 1.99 to purchase a song you can buy on your PC for .99. If you can download OTA for 'free' that could really increase the appeal of these phones.
Yeah, the phone is underwhelming if you're looking at it along with Android devices and the iPhone. The thing is, not everyone is, and phones like this are going to have appeal to people who are looking one tier below a smart phone.
Also note that the poster's name is BillG@Microsoft.com :-)