Who modded the flamebait insightful? Kerry WAS a weak candidate with nothing except he ran against a despised candidate with a growing anti- sentiment, and who but for one single electoral state (ohio) would have won. He always struck me as a pompous, pampered, powdered lap of luxury rich kid with delusions of grandeur... add a hillbilly accent, and that describes "W" pretty well, too... which is why I didn't waste my vote, like 90+% of the fools in this country, and voted for change - Libertarian.
Bush won the election and Kerry was the only viable alternative because we Americans are TV watching SUV driving sheep who keep getting sheared every 4 years. Eventually somebody's going to have some mutton.
If we stop voting like we're betting on the Superbowl, we'll see some real change.
Everyone CAN'T make a $53M, regardless of education, effort, determination, etc... usually the people making ridiculous money are those with the most "flexible" morality/ethics. Are you SURE there'snothing wrong with capitalism? Or is it just that its currently working out ok for you so you justify yourself... I sure do. Its a brave new world - getting braver all the time, too;)
Why, that immigrant working on my lawn should be glad he has a job - of course the 4th generation walmart clerks ought to try harder, they could sell cars, or distribute spyware, or invest wisely for pity's sake.
You can get that without wasting your tax dollars on these cameras, just leave a wallet on the top of your car. As a bonus you can even get your kid's dog shot in front of him.
1) Will your team be addressing the problems with the DOM elements where IE uses the id and name attributes interchangably?
This problem causes the javascript function getElementsByName to cease to function is an ID and Name are both defined but not identical.
A workaround is to use the childNodes array of the containing DOM element - however, this too has its problems, since IE (again, ONLY IE, including version 7) adds "phantom" nodes containing only line breaks when there are none defined, requiring a further hack to remove empty elements.
These particular bugs have personally cost me tens of man hours on various recent projects - extrapolate that out to the rest of the world, and this nastiness is worth quite a bit of actual coin, since local (US) coders do not yet earn minimum wage (a topic for another day...)
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2) Since IE is distributed for free anyway, why not open it up as Open Source and enlist the programming prowess of the same group of developers that have managed to make Firefox a leading competitor without the benefit of an existing installation monopoly?
These problems would have been fixed LONG ago, along with the laundry list of CSS bugs destroying the sanity of designers, as well as developers.
The cause celebre of global warming being attached to everything from gas prices to alien invaders is not helping anyone come to terms with the realities of the harm pollution is doing to the planet, and gives the opposition the political fodder it needs to maintain the status quo - ie. chicken little bullshit does not help save the planet (IMHO).
I'm sorry Doc, but civilization did NOT create the Sahara desert.
This would be the result of Natural climate change, something you may not believe in, like say communism, but nevertheless manages to exist.
All you have to do is look at the data to see that the increase in carbon emissions does not precisely corrolate to the increase in temperature, likewise, human population does not corrolate to desert area expansion.
Is it just me, or is this chicken little bullshit really getting old?
Global warming was the only stated hypothesis, when in fact any number of possible reasons exist - which was kind of my point.
When you go into it with a theory of a cause, you tend to find evidence to support your theory. Everything else you find is just stuff that doesn't support it, so unexplained... Since apparently this is a known phenomenon, and not some sudden inexplicable wierdness as it is being portrayed in the article, I'd expect a little less media spin. I can accept that global warming is a growing problem with consequences, etc. but do we really need to blame everything on it? The current Heat Wave in the US and Europe, Katrina, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Toxic Algae Blooms, now this.
She leaped to her "Hypothesis" purely based on the facts, and the fact that every day there's a story about global warming having yet another effect has nothing to do with it - just the facts, huh? Right...
... Here, as in a handful of other coastal regions worldwide, the culprit may be global warming.
To be sure, the jury is still out on that connection, says Jane Lubchenco, a marine zoologist at Oregon State University who is heading up this day-long expedition....
This type of premature conclusion is, I believe, very damaging to those who want to have global warming taken seriously by the mainstream public (ie. Me). Leaping to the popular conclusion with no reason other than it being popular to blame frankly makes me doubt the professionalism of the researchers involved.
Maybe it's the over-logging in Oregon depleting the oxygen levels ("hypoxia" was the Word of the Day May 24th, 2004), or the number of $evil_utility_or_commercial_industry dumping toxic waste into the ocean, or perhaps if the media sweetheart "global warming" doesn't pan out, they can pin it on Saddam Hussein^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d Bin Laden^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d Iran's President whatsis name.
Whoever they are, we need to identify the culprit(s) and bring these godless killers to justice. Oh, wait, unless of course its us... in which case, market forces are sure to cause a "correction" in the system and all will be well on Wall Street once more.
... And you want to know why the 180? Isn't it enough we learned a lesson about trying to neuteral in a global war? Maybe that's when we decided we need to fight the wars elsewhere, and not let them bring themselves to our shores.
Maybe when you're the biggest kid in the class, and you look around and no one is challenging you anymore, you get bored and for fun you pick on the runts... what you may not realize is how many grades you had to fail to get to be the biggest kid in the class.
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How do I rate this +1 disturbing? Oh CRAP I replied... nevermind.
Who modded the flamebait insightful? Kerry WAS a weak candidate with nothing except he ran against a despised candidate with a growing anti- sentiment, and who but for one single electoral state (ohio) would have won. He always struck me as a pompous, pampered, powdered lap of luxury rich kid with delusions of grandeur... add a hillbilly accent, and that describes "W" pretty well, too... which is why I didn't waste my vote, like 90+% of the fools in this country, and voted for change - Libertarian.
Bush won the election and Kerry was the only viable alternative because we Americans are TV watching SUV driving sheep who keep getting sheared every 4 years. Eventually somebody's going to have some mutton.
If we stop voting like we're betting on the Superbowl, we'll see some real change.
Mmmmmm.... mutton.
There he is, over there... get him!
Everyone CAN'T make a $53M, regardless of education, effort, determination, etc... usually the people making ridiculous money are those with the most "flexible" morality/ethics. Are you SURE there'snothing wrong with capitalism? Or is it just that its currently working out ok for you so you justify yourself... I sure do. Its a brave new world - getting braver all the time, too ;)
Why, that immigrant working on my lawn should be glad he has a job - of course the 4th generation walmart clerks ought to try harder, they could sell cars, or distribute spyware, or invest wisely for pity's sake.
Tim
The performer is the owner.
Very entertaining imagery, thanks!
Tim
Seriously, what a cakewalk. This is more scripted than a presidential Q & A session.
Tim
The fact that this comment got modded -1 says alot about the jury system, and the knee jerk reactions of Joe and Mary Public.
As a parent of 3 young children, this story is scary - yes, even scarier than the horror of one of my children getting touched inappropriately.
I hope he's the liar your making him out to be, but judging by everything else I know abut the US legal system, I find this story quite believable.
Tim
1) Will your team be addressing the problems with the DOM elements where IE uses the id and name attributes interchangably?
This problem causes the javascript function getElementsByName to cease to function is an ID and Name are both defined but not identical.
A workaround is to use the childNodes array of the containing DOM element - however, this too has its problems, since IE (again, ONLY IE, including version 7) adds "phantom" nodes containing only line breaks when there are none defined, requiring a further hack to remove empty elements.
These particular bugs have personally cost me tens of man hours on various recent projects - extrapolate that out to the rest of the world, and this nastiness is worth quite a bit of actual coin, since local (US) coders do not yet earn minimum wage (a topic for another day...)
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2) Since IE is distributed for free anyway, why not open it up as Open Source and enlist the programming prowess of the same group of developers that have managed to make Firefox a leading competitor without the benefit of an existing installation monopoly?
These problems would have been fixed LONG ago, along with the laundry list of CSS bugs destroying the sanity of designers, as well as developers.
Tim
Try this: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/99071 2080500.htm
The cause celebre of global warming being attached to everything from gas prices to alien invaders is not helping anyone come to terms with the realities of the harm pollution is doing to the planet, and gives the opposition the political fodder it needs to maintain the status quo - ie. chicken little bullshit does not help save the planet (IMHO).
Tim
I'm sorry Doc, but civilization did NOT create the Sahara desert.
This would be the result of Natural climate change, something you may not believe in, like say communism, but nevertheless manages to exist.
All you have to do is look at the data to see that the increase in carbon emissions does not precisely corrolate to the increase in temperature, likewise, human population does not corrolate to desert area expansion.
Is it just me, or is this chicken little bullshit really getting old?
Tim
Global warming was the only stated hypothesis, when in fact any number of possible reasons exist - which was kind of my point.
When you go into it with a theory of a cause, you tend to find evidence to support your theory. Everything else you find is just stuff that doesn't support it, so unexplained... Since apparently this is a known phenomenon, and not some sudden inexplicable wierdness as it is being portrayed in the article, I'd expect a little less media spin. I can accept that global warming is a growing problem with consequences, etc. but do we really need to blame everything on it? The current Heat Wave in the US and Europe, Katrina, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Toxic Algae Blooms, now this.
She leaped to her "Hypothesis" purely based on the facts, and the fact that every day there's a story about global warming having yet another effect has nothing to do with it - just the facts, huh? Right...
Tim
This type of premature conclusion is, I believe, very damaging to those who want to have global warming taken seriously by the mainstream public (ie. Me). Leaping to the popular conclusion with no reason other than it being popular to blame frankly makes me doubt the professionalism of the researchers involved.
Maybe it's the over-logging in Oregon depleting the oxygen levels ("hypoxia" was the Word of the Day May 24th, 2004), or the number of $evil_utility_or_commercial_industry dumping toxic waste into the ocean, or perhaps if the media sweetheart "global warming" doesn't pan out, they can pin it on Saddam Hussein^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d Bin Laden^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d Iran's President whatsis name.
Whoever they are, we need to identify the culprit(s) and bring these godless killers to justice. Oh, wait, unless of course its us... in which case, market forces are sure to cause a "correction" in the system and all will be well on Wall Street once more.
Tim