The problem with this as it relates to the market is that a vanishingly small percentage of the population would even know what cd means, much less make. These markets serve people that want to get stuff done (email, phone, text, post to websites/blogs/etc...) and are not remotely interested in using the device to geek out on it. They use the devices that allow them to do what they want while staying out of the way. My principle complaint of the Android devices when I had one was that a simple OS update meant reinstalling all of my apps! Why in the world would someone allow that to be shipped? I swore off Android at that point, but may look at it again some time in the future.
For now, iOS lets me do what I need to do without getting in the way or making me find the right libraries or compile anything. When I spend time compiling software for the iOS, I want it to do something new and perhaps make some money while doing it.
I have an HTC Evo since the day it was released. Since then, I've been through a few minor updates and a major release (Froyo). I have never had to reinstall apps and I've never had to worry about libraries or compiling anything at all. For that matter, I've never known anyone to have to compile anything for Android with the exception of a developer I know.
So, I don't know what phone or Android version you're running, but it can't be anything recent. I think your issues could be compared with someone bashing Ubuntu because way back when they ran Linux, they had to compile everything from source.
As for Apple, I have two iPod Touch units, one 3rd Gen and one 4th Gen. I've had to reinstall different software apps several times and had some just stop working after a time (don't know if an update caused the problems). Of course, when something stops working on the iPod/Phone, there's really nothing you can do except uninstall and reinstall and see if that fixes your issue. Other than that, well, just uninstall and hope you can get your money back if it's an app you paid for. Those issues were with the 3rd Gen. I can't really speak for the 4th Gen as it only worked for a couple of days before I had to send it back to Apple. Apple service was great, but I shouldn't of had to send the damn thing back in the first place. I didn't have to pay any money for the repair, but it did cost me several hours trying to figure out what was wrong + a trip to the UPS store to have it shipped back to Apple.
If you ever wondered why Microsoft's products like Windows and Office are so bloated and underwhelming, while Apple's are almost always wonderful experiences, this analysis will solve that mystery.
Except I have 7 children, the last load of wash goes in about midnight, and my Wife, 2 older Children and I play Eve online until 2 Am. There's always activity as family members use the restroom in the middle of the night, raid the fridge or Momma and I are rocking the house on the rare moment that everyone *is* in bed and asleep. *Grin* Then there's the AC or the heater depending on the season. There's never silence in the home.
7 kids!??! I think you an momma have done enough house rockin'! Come up for air.
Or...
When you say you play Eve until 2:00am... is Eve your wife.
Just giving you hard time. Congrats. I have one child and no free time or money. I'm not going to ask where you find your time and money with 7. Your obviously doing something better than I am.
What good does ever-increasing speed do if I just end up blowing through my data cap that much faster? I can live with lower speeds, I just want reasonable prices per GB.
Sprint has no data cap. So, for Epic users, this is not a problem.
are you kidding me? So now you're saying that, if I have an idea to do or make something, but someone else beats me to the punch, I have a right to sue if I can prove the idea was mine first? Wow. IF that's that case, I could easily become very, very rich.
I don't understand how this guy can claim this is his idea. It's been done before.
I disagree. Hardcoded paths in a user-space app is a bug, period, end of story.
while I agree that it should be an option, by definition, it is not a bug. A bug is when an application does something that it is not supposed to do or fails to do something that it is supposed to do. In this case, if the app gave you an option to change the path but didn't when requested, that would be a bug. That is not the case here.
What we are looking at here is a very very poor design decision, but not a bug.
Do you see the irony in your comment? You've tried to negate the predictable complaints about having to use the command line to fix something - by providing instructions on how to workaround a bug (it's a bug as far as I'm concerned) with a program that comes standard with Ubuntu now.
In other words, you haven't nullified the argument that Linux isn't ready for the desktop at all, because the workaround provided shouldn't even be necessary IN THE FIRST PLACE. No wonder people get tired of this shit. At least we have the choice to use another app I suppose
First, it's not a bug. It's a feature that doesn't exist that he would like to exist. There is a difference between a bug and a feature request.
Next, the reason use CLI stuff to explain something is because it's faster. The post describing how to do it via CLI was two lines long. The post explaining how to do it in the GUI was much more than that.
...because the workaround provided shouldn't even be necessary IN THE FIRST PLACE...
So every piece of software should do everything that everyone might want it to do?
This workaround offers a feature enhancement, not a bug fix, as I've said before. Can you explain how to get any number of windows, import photo applications to import to different folder? Is it even possible? Well, when you are done with your instructions, go ahead and answer the "because the workaround provided shouldn't even be necessary IN THE FIRST PLACE" you brought up because it didn't know where I wanted the images copied before I told it.
Ah yes... "back when Reagan took office". I remember that. The economy was so bad they had to invent this thing called "The Misery Index" to measure how miserable everyone was. Yeah! let's go back to that.
That doesn't work. You're just shuffling chairs around. You've reduced the national debt by converting it into state debt, state debt which gets paid at a higher interest rate than federal bonds. With the added bonus that nearly all states have a balanced budget requirement.
So? If your state is spending too much and has too big of a deficit and fails, MOVE! Not really option when the problem is the feds.
The only way to reduce the national debt is by selling more stuff to other nations than you buy from them. Aside from energy savings (which I bet won't be anywhere close to $1T), I don't see how to switch to e-government or any of the rest of this stuff will make any difference.
No, the way to reduce the national debt is to...
wait for it...
STOP SPENDING MONEY!!!!
You can do that by turning over any service that can be performed by local and state governments to local and state governments.
This is Tennessee we're talking about. Any attempt to do that would be met by a rally of tea-partiers calling you a socialist. Got to keep the government off our backs, you know.
I guess I have to tell you this since you obviously don't know. However, ignorance didn't seem to stop you from spouting off.
The TEA Party has no problem with taxes for local services. TEA Partiers have a problem with the federal government providing services they have no business providing that can be handled better and more efficiently by local governments.
This guy is a poster case for personal responsibility. You'll notice most conservatives here are saying that his house burning down was his fault whereas liberals are saying that the fire department should have saved his house even though he chose not to pay the fee. The problem is that liberals don't seem to understand that if you start offering services for those who don't pay for them, pretty soon, no one will be paying for the services that everyone is entitled to.
You can blame the Republicans and blue dogs for that. They want to cut taxes, but are unwilling to cut any of the services which their constituents want. Sure people like tax cuts and don't mind somebody elses services getting cut, but the fact is that as long as they refuse to contribute to a solution we're not going to have one.
If you pay really close attention to campaign ads for conservatives they rarely if ever mention what precisely it is that they intend to cut in order to reduce the deficit nor do they typically point out that unless you cut spending by more than you cut taxes you end up with either no change in debt levels or an increased debt load.
Democrats and liberals aren't exactly saints, but at least they understand that it's tax and spend, not charge and spend. It's easy to be the party of thrift when you can make the other party actually find the money.
Of course Republicans don't want a cut in the services they receive. They just want the FEDERAL government to cut the services it offers. Republicans, actually conservatives, don't mind paying taxes for government services, they just want those taxes and services to be local, where there is more control. The only power the federal government should have are the powers spelled out in the Constitution.
Why should someone in North Dakota pay to fix a bridge in Florida? Why should someone in New Mexico pay for upgrades to the NYC subway system? Why should someone in Oregon pay for bus efficiency upgrades in Houston? Let each state take care of themselves. If your state makes you pay too much in taxes, move to a state with a lower tax rate. If you state doesn't offer the services you want or require, move to a state that does. The federal government should have no say in matters that happen entirely within a single state, unless Constitutional rights of citizens are violated or the Constitution lists that particular function as a federal power. You know, like the 10th Amendment says. Anything that crosses state lines falls under federal jurisdiction.
BTW, this law is OK, because TV usually crosses state lines. Sure, there are local stations, but most of those are owned by an interstate company. Of the truly, independently owned local stations, federal law should not apply and the states should regulate them.
Driving it was similar to a diesel, in that it had a startup procedure one had to follow, but it otherwise operated normally
I don't know what the procedure was for this car, but the M1's startup procedure involved turning on the main power with a switch and pushing the "Start" button. The only problem with starting a turbine was that it took several seconds to spin up and ignite. Not a problem in a hybrid as a hybrid can run just fine on battery while the engine spins up.
Gas turbines are powerful for their weight, but not exactly economical in fuel use.
A friend of mine was a tank commander in the US army. He complained about the reliability of the gas turbine engines in the M1 Abrams tanks. When they break down, oil gets into the turbine, and spews itself around.
Over the radio, when your tank breaks down, you say, "I shit the bed."
On the other hand, he was really impressed with the German Leopard tank. It just uses a turbo diesel engine, so it is not so sexy, but seems to get the job done.
I was an armor crewman for the US Army on M1s also and I've never heard that expression. If there was ever oil in the engine well, it was from the transmission as the turbine engine uses no oil. I believe your friend was complaining about the tank's transmission, which has four forward and two reverse gears and has to transfer the power from the 1500 hp engine to the tracks independently (one track forward, one track backwards if need be) to move a 72-ton monster through deep mud. In other words, we asked from an awful lot from our transmissions that required some extreme engineering. I'm still amazed the damn things worked at all. I don't believe this car has a transmission as they are not really necessary for electric powered vehicles.
The M1's engines were solid. In my entire time in the service, I never saw a tank break down due to the engine itself. The problem was always somewhere else like transmission, batteries, hydraulics or air intakes.
My view of the tanks were the exact opposite of your friend's. I was in awe of the turbine engine and looked down on the diesel's that powered everything else.
Unless free from prejudice and narrow-mindedness, i.e. liberal,
Like when conservatives get shouted down whenever they are to speak at college campuses? Like how brown^H^H^H purple shirted SEIU thugs lock out anyone with an opposing view, sometimes using violence? that kind of "free from prejudice and narrow-mindedness"?
Sorry, but liberals are no longer the ones with open minds, willing to listen to all opinions and give them a fair shot and even consider foreign ideas in their own minds. Those true liberals got shouted down and mashed under the thumb of "progressive" liberals long ago. Even other progressives who stray too far from the group think gets silenced.
You should have seen the way Democrats treated each other at the local Democratic caucuses required by Democrats in Texas to elect a candidate. It was held in my local town at City Hall. I was there. It was a sight to see: Manuella: "Excuse me, every one of you up there is an Obama supporter. Wouldn't it be fair if we had some Clinton supporters up there?' Person in charge: "Denied" Manuella: "Well, shouldn't there at least be one Clinton supporter there to oversee everything?" Person in charge: "Who would you recommend?" Manuella: "Well, I could do it." Person in charge: "OK. What's your name? OK, Manuella. Anyone else? John? OK. All in favor of Manuella?" Group: "Aye" Person in charge: "OK, all in favor of John?" Group: "Aye" Person in charge: "John is the Clinton monitor" Manuella: "But John has an Obama button on..."
>Tax cuts INCREASED government receipts, not decreased them.
Unpaid tax cuts add to the deficit, period.
I don't think you read that right. Tax cuts made the government treasury LARGER. That means that even though taxes per individual were lower as a percentage, people were making more money, and therefor sending more dollars to Washington. It was the unpaid increases in spending that added to the deficit... uh... period.
I didn't read beyond that point. What's the point since you are either not reading or not capable of understanding what I post.
100+ THOUSAND people died over Bush's cooked intelligence.
Here is a little quote from a BBC article about a UNICEF study:
In what it describes as an "ongoing humanitarian emergency", it shows a dramatic rise in child mortality rates in central and southern Iraq - areas controlled by Baghdad.
Unicef estimates that over the last 10 years at least 500,000 child deaths could have been prevented.
However, the report says that in the northern Kurdish areas, where the UN runs a relief operation outside Baghdad's control, child fatalities have decreased by more than a fifth.
500,000 children died from preventable diseases between 1991 and 1999. I don't know how good you are at math, but 500000 is greater than 100000. Oh wait, are you saying that Bush controlled UNICEF? Or do half a million children still qualify as "no good reason"?
That's a significant amount of money and the two wars as well as the tax cut have put this country into ruin.
Damn! You on on a roll! Tax cuts INCREASED government receipts, not decreased them. I understand that when you think one dimensionally this makes no sense, but look up "Laffer Curve" as to a possible explanation as to what really happened.
BECAUSE WE WERE DEFICIT SPENDING. It was not at all affordable.
And we're DEFICIT SPENDING MORE now. So suddenly, with 4x the deficit spending it's suddenly not affordable?
If you can't pay for something without going deeply into debt you can't afford it.
Hey! We agree on something. So tell me, why are still railing on Bush and not saying a word about the 4x increase in deficit spending AND NASA cuts?
I pity you if you believe that.
I pity anyone who will take the ill informed word of The Daily Kos or Democrat Underground over the word of someone who was there simply because it fit neatly into their preconceived notion of reality.
Cost of Iraq war 750 BILLION dollars. NASA's annual budget floats a bit under 20 billion. That's 30+ years of NASA, genius.
That's $750 billion over eight years, and it's still less than what the government wasted on a single "stimulus" bill. Also, Constellation was still being funded through the Iraq war. I think it would be more honest to say that "stimulus" killed Constellation.
Loss of life: over 100+k CIVILIANS. Yes, the people there were happy to see you because they're alive and are afraid to piss off the guy with the gun. The angry ones, alas, are dead. If a military from a powerful country which killed all your leaders and 100k of your pals waltzed into your town, you'd grinning ear to ear too.
Let's see, if my leaders had ruined my country and raped my daughters, I think I welcome those 100,000 waltzers.
Evidently, you were not there and have spent no time talking with these people. In other words, you know nothing of which you speak.
That we spend so much of our money killing brown people for no good reason?
Strange. All the "brown people" you claim that we are killing were quite happy to see me when I was over there in camouflage. Maybe you should go over there and ask them if they think their lives and freedom fall under the "no good reason" category.
As for the money, the national debt has increased 4x in the past couple of years. I don't think the Iraq invasion was the problem. Maybe if they stopped spending money to reward groups that offer political support, they could easily triple NASA's funding and still come out ahead.
His argument doesn't really hold water. Sure, once you have life that can survive on a planet it's a bitch to keep it away from anywhere, but there's no guarantee that you'll get that life to begin with.
I'd say it doesn't hold water because... well, he simply doesn't have enough information at this point. If this guy saw Venus from 20 light years out, would he be so sure that it held life? It's the right size and the right distance from its star. It's very reflective so it could contain clouds and oceans. Wouldn't he be just as sure that Venus has life? I'm willing to bet that he'd be just as sure about Mars as well.
Still, sometimes, even though everything else seems right, something really common, simple and unforeseeable can stop life from ever forming. We have three planets in our solar system alone that are in the 'inhabitable zone", but only one that has any known or significant life on it. That means our odds at this point are at 33%. I would have started there if I were this guy.
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The problem with this as it relates to the market is that a vanishingly small percentage of the population would even know what cd means, much less make. These markets serve people that want to get stuff done (email, phone, text, post to websites/blogs/etc...) and are not remotely interested in using the device to geek out on it. They use the devices that allow them to do what they want while staying out of the way. My principle complaint of the Android devices when I had one was that a simple OS update meant reinstalling all of my apps! Why in the world would someone allow that to be shipped? I swore off Android at that point, but may look at it again some time in the future.
For now, iOS lets me do what I need to do without getting in the way or making me find the right libraries or compile anything. When I spend time compiling software for the iOS, I want it to do something new and perhaps make some money while doing it.
I have an HTC Evo since the day it was released. Since then, I've been through a few minor updates and a major release (Froyo). I have never had to reinstall apps and I've never had to worry about libraries or compiling anything at all. For that matter, I've never known anyone to have to compile anything for Android with the exception of a developer I know.
So, I don't know what phone or Android version you're running, but it can't be anything recent. I think your issues could be compared with someone bashing Ubuntu because way back when they ran Linux, they had to compile everything from source.
As for Apple, I have two iPod Touch units, one 3rd Gen and one 4th Gen. I've had to reinstall different software apps several times and had some just stop working after a time (don't know if an update caused the problems). Of course, when something stops working on the iPod/Phone, there's really nothing you can do except uninstall and reinstall and see if that fixes your issue. Other than that, well, just uninstall and hope you can get your money back if it's an app you paid for. Those issues were with the 3rd Gen. I can't really speak for the 4th Gen as it only worked for a couple of days before I had to send it back to Apple. Apple service was great, but I shouldn't of had to send the damn thing back in the first place. I didn't have to pay any money for the repair, but it did cost me several hours trying to figure out what was wrong + a trip to the UPS store to have it shipped back to Apple.
Oh, and don't even get me started on iTunes...
Add to that the fact that they couldn't predict the Spanish coming over and ending their world.
If you ever wondered why Microsoft's products like Windows and Office are so bloated and underwhelming, while Apple's are almost always wonderful experiences, this analysis will solve that mystery.
No bias here..
I thought that mystery was solved in this video.
I know, it's Slashdot. But still .
And, in fact, has already been posted on slashdot.
So it's a month old AND a dupe?
Well, yeah, this is Slashdot.
Except I have 7 children, the last load of wash goes in about midnight, and my Wife, 2 older Children and I play Eve online until 2 Am. There's always activity as family members use the restroom in the middle of the night, raid the fridge or Momma and I are rocking the house on the rare moment that everyone *is* in bed and asleep. *Grin* Then there's the AC or the heater depending on the season. There's never silence in the home.
7 kids!??! I think you an momma have done enough house rockin'! Come up for air.
Or...
When you say you play Eve until 2:00am... is Eve your wife.
Just giving you hard time. Congrats. I have one child and no free time or money. I'm not going to ask where you find your time and money with 7. Your obviously doing something better than I am.
What good does ever-increasing speed do if I just end up blowing through my data cap that much faster? I can live with lower speeds, I just want reasonable prices per GB.
Sprint has no data cap. So, for Epic users, this is not a problem.
Haha. AC has a point.
MacOS is the UNIX on the desktop and laptop that linux was never able to achieve.
Very good point... except GNU's Not Unix.
Honestly, looks more like a circle/square - an Octagon to me.
But hey, I am not 100,000 light years away to make that kind of judgement.
Here is a nice photo of the Milky Way just for fun...
Looks more like a swastika to me. Who knew God was a NAZI.
are you kidding me? So now you're saying that, if I have an idea to do or make something, but someone else beats me to the punch, I have a right to sue if I can prove the idea was mine first? Wow. IF that's that case, I could easily become very, very rich.
I don't understand how this guy can claim this is his idea. It's been done before.
I disagree. Hardcoded paths in a user-space app is a bug, period, end of story.
while I agree that it should be an option, by definition, it is not a bug. A bug is when an application does something that it is not supposed to do or fails to do something that it is supposed to do. In this case, if the app gave you an option to change the path but didn't when requested, that would be a bug. That is not the case here.
What we are looking at here is a very very poor design decision, but not a bug.
Do you see the irony in your comment? You've tried to negate the predictable complaints about having to use the command line to fix something - by providing instructions on how to workaround a bug (it's a bug as far as I'm concerned) with a program that comes standard with Ubuntu now.
In other words, you haven't nullified the argument that Linux isn't ready for the desktop at all, because the workaround provided shouldn't even be necessary IN THE FIRST PLACE. No wonder people get tired of this shit. At least we have the choice to use another app I suppose
First, it's not a bug. It's a feature that doesn't exist that he would like to exist. There is a difference between a bug and a feature request.
Next, the reason use CLI stuff to explain something is because it's faster. The post describing how to do it via CLI was two lines long. The post explaining how to do it in the GUI was much more than that.
...because the workaround provided shouldn't even be necessary IN THE FIRST PLACE...
So every piece of software should do everything that everyone might want it to do?
This workaround offers a feature enhancement, not a bug fix, as I've said before. Can you explain how to get any number of windows, import photo applications to import to different folder? Is it even possible? Well, when you are done with your instructions, go ahead and answer the "because the workaround provided shouldn't even be necessary IN THE FIRST PLACE" you brought up because it didn't know where I wanted the images copied before I told it.
Ah yes... "back when Reagan took office". I remember that. The economy was so bad they had to invent this thing called "The Misery Index" to measure how miserable everyone was. Yeah! let's go back to that.
That doesn't work. You're just shuffling chairs around. You've reduced the national debt by converting it into state debt, state debt which gets paid at a higher interest rate than federal bonds. With the added bonus that nearly all states have a balanced budget requirement.
So? If your state is spending too much and has too big of a deficit and fails, MOVE! Not really option when the problem is the feds.
The only way to reduce the national debt is by selling more stuff to other nations than you buy from them. Aside from energy savings (which I bet won't be anywhere close to $1T), I don't see how to switch to e-government or any of the rest of this stuff will make any difference.
No, the way to reduce the national debt is to...
wait for it...
STOP SPENDING MONEY!!!!
You can do that by turning over any service that can be performed by local and state governments to local and state governments.
BAM!!!!
Deficit solved.
This is Tennessee we're talking about. Any attempt to do that would be met by a rally of tea-partiers calling you a socialist. Got to keep the government off our backs, you know.
I guess I have to tell you this since you obviously don't know. However, ignorance didn't seem to stop you from spouting off.
The TEA Party has no problem with taxes for local services. TEA Partiers have a problem with the federal government providing services they have no business providing that can be handled better and more efficiently by local governments.
This guy is a poster case for personal responsibility. You'll notice most conservatives here are saying that his house burning down was his fault whereas liberals are saying that the fire department should have saved his house even though he chose not to pay the fee. The problem is that liberals don't seem to understand that if you start offering services for those who don't pay for them, pretty soon, no one will be paying for the services that everyone is entitled to.
There's no reason that one should have a choice.
Seriously?
You can blame the Republicans and blue dogs for that. They want to cut taxes, but are unwilling to cut any of the services which their constituents want. Sure people like tax cuts and don't mind somebody elses services getting cut, but the fact is that as long as they refuse to contribute to a solution we're not going to have one.
If you pay really close attention to campaign ads for conservatives they rarely if ever mention what precisely it is that they intend to cut in order to reduce the deficit nor do they typically point out that unless you cut spending by more than you cut taxes you end up with either no change in debt levels or an increased debt load.
Democrats and liberals aren't exactly saints, but at least they understand that it's tax and spend, not charge and spend. It's easy to be the party of thrift when you can make the other party actually find the money.
Of course Republicans don't want a cut in the services they receive. They just want the FEDERAL government to cut the services it offers. Republicans, actually conservatives, don't mind paying taxes for government services, they just want those taxes and services to be local, where there is more control. The only power the federal government should have are the powers spelled out in the Constitution.
Why should someone in North Dakota pay to fix a bridge in Florida? Why should someone in New Mexico pay for upgrades to the NYC subway system? Why should someone in Oregon pay for bus efficiency upgrades in Houston? Let each state take care of themselves. If your state makes you pay too much in taxes, move to a state with a lower tax rate. If you state doesn't offer the services you want or require, move to a state that does. The federal government should have no say in matters that happen entirely within a single state, unless Constitutional rights of citizens are violated or the Constitution lists that particular function as a federal power. You know, like the 10th Amendment says. Anything that crosses state lines falls under federal jurisdiction.
BTW, this law is OK, because TV usually crosses state lines. Sure, there are local stations, but most of those are owned by an interstate company. Of the truly, independently owned local stations, federal law should not apply and the states should regulate them.
Driving it was similar to a diesel, in that it had a startup procedure one had to follow, but it otherwise operated normally
I don't know what the procedure was for this car, but the M1's startup procedure involved turning on the main power with a switch and pushing the "Start" button. The only problem with starting a turbine was that it took several seconds to spin up and ignite. Not a problem in a hybrid as a hybrid can run just fine on battery while the engine spins up.
Gas turbines are powerful for their weight, but not exactly economical in fuel use.
A friend of mine was a tank commander in the US army. He complained about the reliability of the gas turbine engines in the M1 Abrams tanks. When they break down, oil gets into the turbine, and spews itself around.
Over the radio, when your tank breaks down, you say, "I shit the bed."
On the other hand, he was really impressed with the German Leopard tank. It just uses a turbo diesel engine, so it is not so sexy, but seems to get the job done.
I was an armor crewman for the US Army on M1s also and I've never heard that expression. If there was ever oil in the engine well, it was from the transmission as the turbine engine uses no oil. I believe your friend was complaining about the tank's transmission, which has four forward and two reverse gears and has to transfer the power from the 1500 hp engine to the tracks independently (one track forward, one track backwards if need be) to move a 72-ton monster through deep mud. In other words, we asked from an awful lot from our transmissions that required some extreme engineering. I'm still amazed the damn things worked at all. I don't believe this car has a transmission as they are not really necessary for electric powered vehicles.
The M1's engines were solid. In my entire time in the service, I never saw a tank break down due to the engine itself. The problem was always somewhere else like transmission, batteries, hydraulics or air intakes.
My view of the tanks were the exact opposite of your friend's. I was in awe of the turbine engine and looked down on the diesel's that powered everything else.
Unless free from prejudice and narrow-mindedness, i.e. liberal,
Like when conservatives get shouted down whenever they are to speak at college campuses? Like how brown^H^H^H purple shirted SEIU thugs lock out anyone with an opposing view, sometimes using violence? that kind of "free from prejudice and narrow-mindedness"?
Sorry, but liberals are no longer the ones with open minds, willing to listen to all opinions and give them a fair shot and even consider foreign ideas in their own minds. Those true liberals got shouted down and mashed under the thumb of "progressive" liberals long ago. Even other progressives who stray too far from the group think gets silenced.
You should have seen the way Democrats treated each other at the local Democratic caucuses required by Democrats in Texas to elect a candidate. It was held in my local town at City Hall. I was there. It was a sight to see:
Manuella: "Excuse me, every one of you up there is an Obama supporter. Wouldn't it be fair if we had some Clinton supporters up there?'
Person in charge: "Denied"
Manuella: "Well, shouldn't there at least be one Clinton supporter there to oversee everything?"
Person in charge: "Who would you recommend?"
Manuella: "Well, I could do it."
Person in charge: "OK. What's your name? OK, Manuella. Anyone else? John? OK. All in favor of Manuella?"
Group: "Aye"
Person in charge: "OK, all in favor of John?"
Group: "Aye"
Person in charge: "John is the Clinton monitor"
Manuella: "But John has an Obama button on..."
>Tax cuts INCREASED government receipts, not decreased them.
Unpaid tax cuts add to the deficit, period.
I don't think you read that right. Tax cuts made the government treasury LARGER. That means that even though taxes per individual were lower as a percentage, people were making more money, and therefor sending more dollars to Washington. It was the unpaid increases in spending that added to the deficit... uh... period.
I didn't read beyond that point. What's the point since you are either not reading or not capable of understanding what I post.
100+ THOUSAND people died over Bush's cooked intelligence.
Here is a little quote from a BBC article about a UNICEF study:
In what it describes as an "ongoing humanitarian emergency", it shows a dramatic rise in child mortality rates in central and southern Iraq - areas controlled by Baghdad.
Unicef estimates that over the last 10 years at least 500,000 child deaths could have been prevented.
However, the report says that in the northern Kurdish areas, where the UN runs a relief operation outside Baghdad's control, child fatalities have decreased by more than a fifth.
500,000 children died from preventable diseases between 1991 and 1999. I don't know how good you are at math, but 500000 is greater than 100000. Oh wait, are you saying that Bush controlled UNICEF? Or do half a million children still qualify as "no good reason"?
This is from BBC, by the way, not Fox News.
That's a significant amount of money and the two wars as well as the tax cut have put this country into ruin.
Damn! You on on a roll! Tax cuts INCREASED government receipts, not decreased them. I understand that when you think one dimensionally this makes no sense, but look up "Laffer Curve" as to a possible explanation as to what really happened.
BECAUSE WE WERE DEFICIT SPENDING. It was not at all affordable.
And we're DEFICIT SPENDING MORE now. So suddenly, with 4x the deficit spending it's suddenly not affordable?
If you can't pay for something without going deeply into debt you can't afford it.
Hey! We agree on something. So tell me, why are still railing on Bush and not saying a word about the 4x increase in deficit spending AND NASA cuts?
I pity you if you believe that.
I pity anyone who will take the ill informed word of The Daily Kos or Democrat Underground over the word of someone who was there simply because it fit neatly into their preconceived notion of reality.
Cost of Iraq war 750 BILLION dollars. NASA's annual budget floats a bit under 20 billion. That's 30+ years of NASA, genius.
That's $750 billion over eight years, and it's still less than what the government wasted on a single "stimulus" bill. Also, Constellation was still being funded through the Iraq war. I think it would be more honest to say that "stimulus" killed Constellation.
Loss of life: over 100+k CIVILIANS. Yes, the people there were happy to see you because they're alive and are afraid to piss off the guy with the gun. The angry ones, alas, are dead. If a military from a powerful country which killed all your leaders and 100k of your pals waltzed into your town, you'd grinning ear to ear too.
Let's see, if my leaders had ruined my country and raped my daughters, I think I welcome those 100,000 waltzers.
Evidently, you were not there and have spent no time talking with these people. In other words, you know nothing of which you speak.
That we spend so much of our money killing brown people for no good reason?
Strange. All the "brown people" you claim that we are killing were quite happy to see me when I was over there in camouflage. Maybe you should go over there and ask them if they think their lives and freedom fall under the "no good reason" category.
As for the money, the national debt has increased 4x in the past couple of years. I don't think the Iraq invasion was the problem. Maybe if they stopped spending money to reward groups that offer political support, they could easily triple NASA's funding and still come out ahead.
His argument doesn't really hold water. Sure, once you have life that can survive on a planet it's a bitch to keep it away from anywhere, but there's no guarantee that you'll get that life to begin with.
I'd say it doesn't hold water because... well, he simply doesn't have enough information at this point. If this guy saw Venus from 20 light years out, would he be so sure that it held life? It's the right size and the right distance from its star. It's very reflective so it could contain clouds and oceans. Wouldn't he be just as sure that Venus has life? I'm willing to bet that he'd be just as sure about Mars as well.
Still, sometimes, even though everything else seems right, something really common, simple and unforeseeable can stop life from ever forming. We have three planets in our solar system alone that are in the 'inhabitable zone", but only one that has any known or significant life on it. That means our odds at this point are at 33%. I would have started there if I were this guy.
I think he got excited.