If you are going to call an argument dumb you better not have an absolutely retarted counter argument lest you look like a dumbshit. Compare the total data amounts between Netflix, which has a large, but essentially fixed number of files, all of which can be backed up on-site and easily migrated to another service with very little interruption. Now look at Dropbox who has to store a massive amount of ever changing data, of which they probably do not have a separate store of, and even if they did it would take them massive amounts of time to migrate. But yeah, you are right, totally the same and I am so stupid, your brilliance is shining through, oh all wise dumbass, impart more wisdom on me.
The biggest problem is the amount the media exaggerates the importance of the Iowa straw poll(because they have 24 hours and websites to fill). Before the 24-hour news cycle, how many people actually cared about the Iowa straw polls? Now it's all everyone talks about, which means that "winning" is all the more important because it is essentially the biggest free commercial you can give yourself. Look at the massive amount of free press that Romney is given because he won. Same with Obama in 2008, He barely won the Iowa straw poll, but the media blew that all out of proportion and essentially anointed him the winner.
In fact a few years back(not sure if this is still in effect), Iran essentially asked Japan to pay in yen(which of course in hindsight seems incredibly wise, as the yen has almost doubled in value since then), one of the first really big oil contracts to be denominated in a currency other than dollars. Should be an interesting diplomacy game to see if Washington is even able to convince Japan to restrict Iranian oil imports....
Regardless, this is the stupidity of Bush's cowboy diplomacy and Obama's kowtowing to Republicans coming home to roost. We are certainly going to be paying a lot for letting the man-child try to impress daddy and play war general.
Not to mention constantly worrying about what might be free, what isn't, and what is just a tease for premium content really takes you out of the game. Now instead of just exploring/playing how you want, you have to sit back at every decision point and ask whether or not x is worth spending money on, doesn't sound particularly enjoyable to me.
Dropbox is essentially just a middleman for Amazon s3, their entire business model depends on Amazon(or another provider) continuing to remain cheap forever, maybe a good business model but tying your fortunes so closely to another company like that seems like it's just asking for trouble.
The weapons inspectors said he didn't have shit, I don't care what lies you make up to defend your stupid bullshit, the fucking weapons inspectors said no weapons, the Bush administration would have scored a huge victory if there were actually WMD in Iraq. There were none, case closed. Bush did it because he needed to bully a country, Iraq was the weakest. And before you point out that Iraq invaded 2 countries, you do realize that Bush and his cohorts were behind both of them. You can deny that you listen to Fox news all you want, but you obviously get your news from them.
Well, if you live in a world where Fox News reports on reality, then you are right. But for those of us who live in the real world, no, you are very, very wrong. The closest thing found to anything even resembling WMDs were some chemical residues left over from pre GW1 weapons. But again, trying to argue facts with a Republican is pointless, they just make up their own facts and reality.
What would Star Wars have been like if James Earl Jones also did the stunts? RIP, they don't make guys that can do all the special effects without green screens like you anymore.
Your argument makes no sense, "he didn't give up his weapons program, all he did was destroy his weapons program". Yeah, that makes about as much sense as he man-child invading Iraq, i.e. none. He did allow inspectors in, in fact the inspectors that were there had a report, it was on the news, that stated that, guess what, Iraq got rid of the WMD. Thats why you didn't find......drumroll please......WMD in Iraq! There was no way they could have destroyed all those WMDs without leaving a trace, absolutely none. But then again, I guess I should expect such an argument coming from a Republican, remember never let facts get in the way of your beliefs.
Obama went into Libya because he is still convinced he is in high school and he can get everyone to like him if he just tries hard enough. He went into Libya for the same reasons he approved the Bush tax cuts and kowtows to the Republicans every demand, he is still convinced that *SOMEHOW* he can get the Republicans to like him, but the more he bends over, the deeper the Republicans plow him in the ass. The Republicans are convinced that Obama is the anti-christ and nothing he says or does can change their mind. Obama is like secret gay boyfriend of an evangelical, he is convinced that if he just tries hard enough he can get his "boyfriend" to admit his true feelings for him. But all the evangelical does is use the fact that the guy is willing to do anything for him to get his jollies off and then goes out the next day and declares that all homosexuals should be put to death. Obama needs to grow a pair and put the Republicans in their place, he hasn't, and if he loses in 2012(which I don't think he will, namely because of how buffoonish most of the Republican field is), he will only have himself to blame.
Yup, it's always been my thought that humans are essentially "opportunistically non-monogomous". If you look at it from an evolutionary perspective, it makes sense. If you constantly sleep around you aren't likely to create healthy offspring(as you may wind up dead, with an STD rendering you infertile, or in the case of women with a baby with 'weak' genetics), but if you put all your eggs into one basket, you are screwed if that basket has a hole in it.
You read stories from people who cheat and for the most part they aren't out there constantly chasing tail or willing to go to bed with the first thing that crosses their path, it's not worth risking the relationship for that. However there are people that drive them so wild that they have to have them, relationship be damned. Of course Facebook gives you a lot more opportunities to be opportunistically non-monogomaus. You don't have to spend time trawling bars(which would arouse the suspicion of your spouse), or even going out and explicitly looking for sex, opportunity comes to you in your browser.
This is just more evidence that Iraq was a huge mistake, not like we needed any more but here it is. When Bush outlined his "axis of evil", he decided to go after the least "evil" country on the list, Iraq. Why? Well most people will say oil, or personal vendetta, and while there is some truth to that, the real answer is Iraq was the weakest of the 3. Bush needed a war to boost his poll numbers, so he chose the country that was least able to defend itself.
Had he gone after North Korea, the result would have been an unmitigated humanitarian crisis as North Korea would have unleashed a barrage of missiles and artillery fire(possibly with chemical and/or biological weapons) on Seoul, and the North Koreans are so dug in that there would be no way they could be neutralized without significant damage to Seoul and the surrounding areas. Kind of nice for your enemy to put half their population and probably around 2/3 of their economic output well in range of your artillery isn't it?
Now look at Iran, they have the strongest navy in the middle east(Iraq didn't have anything resembling a functioning navy when the US invaded). They also have decent missiles thanks in no small part to the North Koreans, and a relatively formidable ground force. US casualties in Iran would have been huge, and thats assuming Iran DOESNT have any chemical/biological capabilities....
Now look at Iraq. Saddam eventually disarmed and complied with almost all the UN regulations. His army was incredibly weakened by the embargoes and his air force crippled. And now he is dead. Gadaffi gave up WMD, and now he is dead. What message does this send to dictators? If you disarm, we kill you, if you can cause massive amounts of suffering, we negotiate.
Now look at the Iranian regime, there are only 2 things keeping them even remotely popular, and thus probably in power, in Iran.
1. Defending agains the US(Which thanks to the cowboy president many Iranians legitimately think might invade)
2. Oil revenues(which is why oil continued to plummet after the recession started, Ahmadinejad and Chavez, among others made so many promises to their people assuming oil was going to be over $150/barrel. When the price fell they had no choice but to continue to keep supply high in order to keep the money flowing in)
So now what is happening? The regime knows its running out of time, and has to get nukes fast or else risk being wiped out. Stopping Iranian oil exports would essentially cause chaos at home, so Iran is doing everything in it's power, including going to the brink of war, to keep those oil exports going. It wouldn't be nearly this paranoid about getting nukes if the man-child hadn't decided he wanted to play war hero for daddy and take out a guy that while certainly not, to borrow a phrase from Lewis Black, a snuggy bear, was not any worse than most regimes supported by the US(and the EU before Europeans start getting all self-righteous, France went after Libya and thus has a hand in this too, though not as big as the US's obviously). So instead of his fantasy of making the world safe from tyrants, Bush's actions have basically said, "if you want your regime to stay in power, get WMDs" Good one. The Iraq war will go down as the biggest foreign policy blunder in post-war American history. And while the actual Vietnam and Korean Wars were probably more savage, they were relatively self-contained. The Iraq war(and supporting the Libyan rebels) will have implications that will be felt for decades to come.
While private prisons are certainly feeding into the problem, I don't think they are nearly as responsible for the issues as most/. seem to think they are. There is a whole broken system in the US, and the prisons are only a part of it.
Another key component is the media, which to steal a line from Jon Stewart, is biased towards sensationalism and laziness. The media generates profits by scaring people, and the politicians take advantage of this to introduce new laws aimed at "fixing" this problem(even though statistically it's not a problem, however the US populace at large seems to be proud of their ignorance of statistics)...
Which brings me to the final, and perhaps most important contributor to the US prison population, the US populace. While most other industrialized nations, save for Japan, have given up on this notion that merely criminalizing something makes that thing go away, the US populace couldn't be more gung-ho about it. You not only have the "war on drugs", but the entire pro-life movement whose primary goal is to criminalize abortions because in their minds that would somehow stop abortions. They cling to this belief despite the fact that it would be even harder to enforce than drug laws, which we already can see are basically used to harass "undesirables" in various communities. Their law and order fantasy continues to live on, and thats why we will continue to see the US prison population climb.
don't think anyone has realized yet how huge a sea change the contract system is. The idea that my App can support social networks, data feeds, or other systems not even invented when I wrote it, is incredible.
Wow, you mean they invented the programming interface, only about as old as programming itself? How amazing that they gave it a completely new name and pretend like it is something fascinating. Get back to work, Ballmer is looking to fire slackers.
And you are an idiot, that much is clear. You do realize that big search engines existed before Google, right? You are aware of this thing called MySpace which existed before Facebook right? You are aware that both Microsoft and Sony entered into markets dominated by other "big players" and are still around right? You realize this list could go on all day and show how incredibly wrong you are, right? I'm not saying that corporations are perfect angels or anything, but this lazy pseudo-intellectualism on/. that gets modded up because the parrots that be like the "feel" of the post without regards to it's veracity or content.
Um, yes he did EXACTLY that. Guess what, you can hook up your PC to a TV, you can buy game controllers for your PC, the PC is a competitor to the game console in any way you look at it, and yet people still choose closed over open, defeating your entire argument.
Yeah, which gives them plenty of opportunities to gouge you with either erroneous fees or overages that they hope you will not notice. That was the real motivation.
The stated goal from bin Laden was the destruction of the capitalist monster that is the United States. He wanted 330 million people dead, regardless of our position or purpose in this country.
Except for no, that really wasn't his goal, well at least on not any realistic time scale. His operated on the "think locally, act globally" scale. His real objective was to drag the US into a war in the middle east in order to use their presence as a pretext to grabbing power in the middle east, which is why the bulk of Al Qaeda messages were about events in the middle east and not the US(they would always make anti-US statements because that is what grabbed media attention and helped their recruitment numbers)
And to a certain extent he was right, the attack provoked the US into wars in the middle east, but then again predicting Bush would do something stupid is sort of like predicting the sun will come up tomorrow, it doesn't take a whole lot of insight.
However his prediction that most of the muslim world would rally behind him was deeply flawed. They weren't exactly happy with the US, but sort of realized that what Bin Laden was doing was throwing a rock at a hornets nest then jumping in front of the hornets to show how much they are protecting everyone. While people get pissed at the hornets, they are also not very happy with the dude that threw the rock.
Like a convoy of vehicles constantly carrying fuel is more defendable than a fixed position solar array. There are more variables to consider you know.
Hookers and blow from dawn till dusk, that way you won't have to worry about when exactly the world ends, as your heart will burst before it comes anyway.
I mean if the world is going to end, it makes sense to spend the last moments on earth enjoying earthly delights, i.e. hookers and blow, both of which can be found in spades in Mexico. And hey, if the world doesn't end, you can celebrate your new lease on life with what else, hookers and blow. Perfect!
Libtard and Obooboo? How many hours did you spend coming up with those? Or were you hoping for something more before your mom told you to turn your light off and go to bed, you have to go look for a job tomorrow and no grocery store wants to hire an idiotic 40 year old.
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If you are going to call an argument dumb you better not have an absolutely retarted counter argument lest you look like a dumbshit. Compare the total data amounts between Netflix, which has a large, but essentially fixed number of files, all of which can be backed up on-site and easily migrated to another service with very little interruption. Now look at Dropbox who has to store a massive amount of ever changing data, of which they probably do not have a separate store of, and even if they did it would take them massive amounts of time to migrate. But yeah, you are right, totally the same and I am so stupid, your brilliance is shining through, oh all wise dumbass, impart more wisdom on me.
The biggest problem is the amount the media exaggerates the importance of the Iowa straw poll(because they have 24 hours and websites to fill). Before the 24-hour news cycle, how many people actually cared about the Iowa straw polls? Now it's all everyone talks about, which means that "winning" is all the more important because it is essentially the biggest free commercial you can give yourself. Look at the massive amount of free press that Romney is given because he won. Same with Obama in 2008, He barely won the Iowa straw poll, but the media blew that all out of proportion and essentially anointed him the winner.
In fact a few years back(not sure if this is still in effect), Iran essentially asked Japan to pay in yen(which of course in hindsight seems incredibly wise, as the yen has almost doubled in value since then), one of the first really big oil contracts to be denominated in a currency other than dollars. Should be an interesting diplomacy game to see if Washington is even able to convince Japan to restrict Iranian oil imports....
Regardless, this is the stupidity of Bush's cowboy diplomacy and Obama's kowtowing to Republicans coming home to roost. We are certainly going to be paying a lot for letting the man-child try to impress daddy and play war general.
Not to mention constantly worrying about what might be free, what isn't, and what is just a tease for premium content really takes you out of the game. Now instead of just exploring/playing how you want, you have to sit back at every decision point and ask whether or not x is worth spending money on, doesn't sound particularly enjoyable to me.
Dropbox is essentially just a middleman for Amazon s3, their entire business model depends on Amazon(or another provider) continuing to remain cheap forever, maybe a good business model but tying your fortunes so closely to another company like that seems like it's just asking for trouble.
The weapons inspectors said he didn't have shit, I don't care what lies you make up to defend your stupid bullshit, the fucking weapons inspectors said no weapons, the Bush administration would have scored a huge victory if there were actually WMD in Iraq. There were none, case closed. Bush did it because he needed to bully a country, Iraq was the weakest. And before you point out that Iraq invaded 2 countries, you do realize that Bush and his cohorts were behind both of them. You can deny that you listen to Fox news all you want, but you obviously get your news from them.
Well, if you live in a world where Fox News reports on reality, then you are right. But for those of us who live in the real world, no, you are very, very wrong. The closest thing found to anything even resembling WMDs were some chemical residues left over from pre GW1 weapons. But again, trying to argue facts with a Republican is pointless, they just make up their own facts and reality.
What would Star Wars have been like if James Earl Jones also did the stunts? RIP, they don't make guys that can do all the special effects without green screens like you anymore.
Your argument makes no sense, "he didn't give up his weapons program, all he did was destroy his weapons program". Yeah, that makes about as much sense as he man-child invading Iraq, i.e. none. He did allow inspectors in, in fact the inspectors that were there had a report, it was on the news, that stated that, guess what, Iraq got rid of the WMD. Thats why you didn't find......drumroll please......WMD in Iraq! There was no way they could have destroyed all those WMDs without leaving a trace, absolutely none. But then again, I guess I should expect such an argument coming from a Republican, remember never let facts get in the way of your beliefs.
Obama went into Libya because he is still convinced he is in high school and he can get everyone to like him if he just tries hard enough. He went into Libya for the same reasons he approved the Bush tax cuts and kowtows to the Republicans every demand, he is still convinced that *SOMEHOW* he can get the Republicans to like him, but the more he bends over, the deeper the Republicans plow him in the ass. The Republicans are convinced that Obama is the anti-christ and nothing he says or does can change their mind. Obama is like secret gay boyfriend of an evangelical, he is convinced that if he just tries hard enough he can get his "boyfriend" to admit his true feelings for him. But all the evangelical does is use the fact that the guy is willing to do anything for him to get his jollies off and then goes out the next day and declares that all homosexuals should be put to death. Obama needs to grow a pair and put the Republicans in their place, he hasn't, and if he loses in 2012(which I don't think he will, namely because of how buffoonish most of the Republican field is), he will only have himself to blame.
Yup, it's always been my thought that humans are essentially "opportunistically non-monogomous". If you look at it from an evolutionary perspective, it makes sense. If you constantly sleep around you aren't likely to create healthy offspring(as you may wind up dead, with an STD rendering you infertile, or in the case of women with a baby with 'weak' genetics), but if you put all your eggs into one basket, you are screwed if that basket has a hole in it.
You read stories from people who cheat and for the most part they aren't out there constantly chasing tail or willing to go to bed with the first thing that crosses their path, it's not worth risking the relationship for that. However there are people that drive them so wild that they have to have them, relationship be damned. Of course Facebook gives you a lot more opportunities to be opportunistically non-monogomaus. You don't have to spend time trawling bars(which would arouse the suspicion of your spouse), or even going out and explicitly looking for sex, opportunity comes to you in your browser.
This is just more evidence that Iraq was a huge mistake, not like we needed any more but here it is. When Bush outlined his "axis of evil", he decided to go after the least "evil" country on the list, Iraq. Why? Well most people will say oil, or personal vendetta, and while there is some truth to that, the real answer is Iraq was the weakest of the 3. Bush needed a war to boost his poll numbers, so he chose the country that was least able to defend itself.
Had he gone after North Korea, the result would have been an unmitigated humanitarian crisis as North Korea would have unleashed a barrage of missiles and artillery fire(possibly with chemical and/or biological weapons) on Seoul, and the North Koreans are so dug in that there would be no way they could be neutralized without significant damage to Seoul and the surrounding areas. Kind of nice for your enemy to put half their population and probably around 2/3 of their economic output well in range of your artillery isn't it?
Now look at Iran, they have the strongest navy in the middle east(Iraq didn't have anything resembling a functioning navy when the US invaded). They also have decent missiles thanks in no small part to the North Koreans, and a relatively formidable ground force. US casualties in Iran would have been huge, and thats assuming Iran DOESNT have any chemical/biological capabilities....
Now look at Iraq. Saddam eventually disarmed and complied with almost all the UN regulations. His army was incredibly weakened by the embargoes and his air force crippled. And now he is dead. Gadaffi gave up WMD, and now he is dead. What message does this send to dictators? If you disarm, we kill you, if you can cause massive amounts of suffering, we negotiate.
Now look at the Iranian regime, there are only 2 things keeping them even remotely popular, and thus probably in power, in Iran.
1. Defending agains the US(Which thanks to the cowboy president many Iranians legitimately think might invade)
2. Oil revenues(which is why oil continued to plummet after the recession started, Ahmadinejad and Chavez, among others made so many promises to their people assuming oil was going to be over $150/barrel. When the price fell they had no choice but to continue to keep supply high in order to keep the money flowing in)
So now what is happening? The regime knows its running out of time, and has to get nukes fast or else risk being wiped out. Stopping Iranian oil exports would essentially cause chaos at home, so Iran is doing everything in it's power, including going to the brink of war, to keep those oil exports going. It wouldn't be nearly this paranoid about getting nukes if the man-child hadn't decided he wanted to play war hero for daddy and take out a guy that while certainly not, to borrow a phrase from Lewis Black, a snuggy bear, was not any worse than most regimes supported by the US(and the EU before Europeans start getting all self-righteous, France went after Libya and thus has a hand in this too, though not as big as the US's obviously). So instead of his fantasy of making the world safe from tyrants, Bush's actions have basically said, "if you want your regime to stay in power, get WMDs" Good one. The Iraq war will go down as the biggest foreign policy blunder in post-war American history. And while the actual Vietnam and Korean Wars were probably more savage, they were relatively self-contained. The Iraq war(and supporting the Libyan rebels) will have implications that will be felt for decades to come.
While private prisons are certainly feeding into the problem, I don't think they are nearly as responsible for the issues as most /. seem to think they are. There is a whole broken system in the US, and the prisons are only a part of it.
Another key component is the media, which to steal a line from Jon Stewart, is biased towards sensationalism and laziness. The media generates profits by scaring people, and the politicians take advantage of this to introduce new laws aimed at "fixing" this problem(even though statistically it's not a problem, however the US populace at large seems to be proud of their ignorance of statistics)...
Which brings me to the final, and perhaps most important contributor to the US prison population, the US populace. While most other industrialized nations, save for Japan, have given up on this notion that merely criminalizing something makes that thing go away, the US populace couldn't be more gung-ho about it. You not only have the "war on drugs", but the entire pro-life movement whose primary goal is to criminalize abortions because in their minds that would somehow stop abortions. They cling to this belief despite the fact that it would be even harder to enforce than drug laws, which we already can see are basically used to harass "undesirables" in various communities. Their law and order fantasy continues to live on, and thats why we will continue to see the US prison population climb.
don't think anyone has realized yet how huge a sea change the contract system is. The idea that my App can support social networks, data feeds, or other systems not even invented when I wrote it, is incredible.
Wow, you mean they invented the programming interface, only about as old as programming itself? How amazing that they gave it a completely new name and pretend like it is something fascinating. Get back to work, Ballmer is looking to fire slackers.
And you are an idiot, that much is clear. You do realize that big search engines existed before Google, right? You are aware of this thing called MySpace which existed before Facebook right? You are aware that both Microsoft and Sony entered into markets dominated by other "big players" and are still around right? You realize this list could go on all day and show how incredibly wrong you are, right? I'm not saying that corporations are perfect angels or anything, but this lazy pseudo-intellectualism on /. that gets modded up because the parrots that be like the "feel" of the post without regards to it's veracity or content.
Um, yes he did EXACTLY that. Guess what, you can hook up your PC to a TV, you can buy game controllers for your PC, the PC is a competitor to the game console in any way you look at it, and yet people still choose closed over open, defeating your entire argument.
Yeah, which gives them plenty of opportunities to gouge you with either erroneous fees or overages that they hope you will not notice. That was the real motivation.
The stated goal from bin Laden was the destruction of the capitalist monster that is the United States. He wanted 330 million people dead, regardless of our position or purpose in this country.
Except for no, that really wasn't his goal, well at least on not any realistic time scale. His operated on the "think locally, act globally" scale. His real objective was to drag the US into a war in the middle east in order to use their presence as a pretext to grabbing power in the middle east, which is why the bulk of Al Qaeda messages were about events in the middle east and not the US(they would always make anti-US statements because that is what grabbed media attention and helped their recruitment numbers)
And to a certain extent he was right, the attack provoked the US into wars in the middle east, but then again predicting Bush would do something stupid is sort of like predicting the sun will come up tomorrow, it doesn't take a whole lot of insight.
However his prediction that most of the muslim world would rally behind him was deeply flawed. They weren't exactly happy with the US, but sort of realized that what Bin Laden was doing was throwing a rock at a hornets nest then jumping in front of the hornets to show how much they are protecting everyone. While people get pissed at the hornets, they are also not very happy with the dude that threw the rock.
Like a convoy of vehicles constantly carrying fuel is more defendable than a fixed position solar array. There are more variables to consider you know.
The article doesn't even mention the delicious cupcake they got in their stocking.
Hookers and blow from dawn till dusk, that way you won't have to worry about when exactly the world ends, as your heart will burst before it comes anyway.
I mean if the world is going to end, it makes sense to spend the last moments on earth enjoying earthly delights, i.e. hookers and blow, both of which can be found in spades in Mexico. And hey, if the world doesn't end, you can celebrate your new lease on life with what else, hookers and blow. Perfect!
Hah, you used technology to be efficient instead of wasting your life memorizing useless shit, what a loser :P
Yeah, but the weather is really lousy in Smarch(bonus points for the reference)
Libtard and Obooboo? How many hours did you spend coming up with those? Or were you hoping for something more before your mom told you to turn your light off and go to bed, you have to go look for a job tomorrow and no grocery store wants to hire an idiotic 40 year old.