"Yes, more legislation is required. The law has not kept up with this type of criminal activity," U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, told the Houston television station KPRC." With a nod from Gitmo Gonzales ""Short of changes in the law in Congress, we may be limited about what we can do in this area," U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said." It's yet another shenanigan and publicity stunt by a *Texas Republican* and a Texas local TV station. I resent that the article submitter did not mention that. Not that I ever was fond of the bot-infested Yahoo chat, but the action of those US Talibans reeks of stink; we found something we didn't like on this thing, nevermind that we shouldn't have been looking for it in the first place, so we'll mess it up *ALL*, for all, and let's take a chance and excuse to legislate!
Remember that 'sexy cheerleading' legislation?! I hate those folks; buckle up for their attempts, onslaught after first step, to legislate their morality and force it upon all!
Not a chance in hell! At the risk of being modded down into oblivion by google fanboys, I will NOT use such Google Wallet. Google already knows WAY too much about me and I have only been willing to use its services in as much as I have had a faint, albeit not exactly true, hope in being at least slightly anonymous to them.
Now they want my name, address, and bank details?!!
Has anyone seen the sign-up forms for Orkut?! Google is hedious! I have never come across *anyone* online who expressed such an interest in expecting me to provide them with SO MUCH personal information about me! No one ever even dared to ask. May all those who are suckered by "Google doeth no evil" just suck it!
For all the scandalous durability of CDs, I'm really amazed that there hasn't been a class-action lawsuit against the responsible corporations thus far. I'm sure there was no technical, or even economic reason why they couldn't have come up with a more durable solution, at least some sort of packaging like MiniDisc. I suspect that it serves their interests that CDs and DVDs are of such low durability; if it's scratched, you'd have to buy another one!
*Sigh* - I miss the days when tapes where thrown about the place and at people without worrying about damage.
Why have you been modded insightful??!! for all I can see you have been lacking insight for years!
Theater: You drive x number of miles to be squeezed into a packed, filthy theater with unidentifiable gunk coating the floors and other 'movie patrons' who smell like either really bad milk or really good cheese.
Why, at the theatres I go to people look and smell the coolest and the finest I can imagine; to be in the midst them alone is worth the entry price. But then I mostly go to watch arthouse movies and mix with an arthouse crowd. Perhaps you're mixing with the wrong crowd, and if it isn't so, what does that say about you!
Theater: Public area, public standards of decency apply (barely), see above reason for why you should *never* take off your shoes in a movie theater.
Why? I regularly take my shoes off in a movie theatre. So it doesn't stink? Perhaps you need take better care of your feet!
Theater: You are forced to purchase the theater's overpriced, low-quality slop.
Who's forcing you? Again, go to a good, old-fashioned arthouse theatre where they still have a good bar that offers large cups of coffee and fine glasses of wine with a sociable sitting area instead of the slush they serve in multiplexes. My local arthouse theatre just redecorated and they look as neat as any place.
But that makes sense, the movies are usually decent in an arthouse places, so the theatre management and the crowd they attract are too. The theatre I go to always distributes a free two-page sheet by a renowned critic why the movie they're screening is worth seeing, and there is often an invited local intellectual who will give a short talk about it before the feature starts.
It's the same with food, you can go to McDonald's and be served its crap, or you can cook at home, or you can go to a nice little quaint restaurant, usually not much more expensive, if not even less, than a junk outlet, and experience stuff you would never have come across on your own. At the end of such night out, you'd feel thankful you got out of your confine. So if you're fed up with the multiplex, and its junk conglomerate culture, find yourself decent independent threatre! It's not the fault of the restaurant industry that you choose to eat at McDonald's!
I think you're missing the point. I don't think Jobs had "jobs" in mind. Qualifications or professional requirements are for employers; it enables them to know what they're getting to a large extent. Individual variations may exist, but for simplicity, when you get a BSc it's a BSc. That's how they make a decision on you within minutes; it's because someone else, in a university, had taught you, and rated you, and took the hassle of that out of their minds.
Jobs though is talking about a world where the achievement is *not* to be employable, but to create employment. It doesn't matter much what qualifications or degrees you got, because no one can stop you from starting up a company, unless it's in a regulated field, and as long as your company is profitable and succeeds no one cares what you did or didn't do at school. If your company fails, it's certainly no consolation to anyone that you have a PhD.
I should've elaborated; for all his "taste" you could've easily assumed that Steve Jobs was the child of a European elite. And by the way, Mona Simpson's book ""a Regular Guy" is widely thought to be about Steve. Also, I can't think of a more deserving Billionaire than Steve Jobs; he made big mistakes, he was honest to himself, nevermind how distorted his field might've been, through and through, and he stuck to his ideals for quality and beauty and never seemed to compromise on them. If he'd been difficult as a person at times, you gotta find him excuse in a difficult background.
Gotta love a billionaire who is not ashamed of his working-class background. To even add to that, he's an adopted child of an immigrant father; his dad was an Egyptian Arab and his mother an American, though he was adopted by the Jobs family. His sister, Mona Simpson (Mona is an Egyptian name) is an author and she wrote a novel called "The Lost Father", about her search for their dad who had disappeared in their childhood.
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What linux distributions would be a good alternative to Be?
I am disgusted with Diebold. Why do people treat it fatalistically and with inevitability as if it's the only company that can conduct electronic voting? Seriously, in any other field, such controversy would be bad news enough for the chances of a company and there would be many, many other bidders that would provide the service.
Those who lived during the 1980s will remember how the world was flooded with products from a tiny island, so much so that almost everything, unless it was made in Japan, was made in Taiwan. While back in the days Made-in-Taiwan was synonymous with bad quality, that's no longer the case and now fine products are made there. I still am amazed that a tiny island like Taiwan can supply the world with sooo many products.
An American government full of neo-cons was elected, and further re-elected, by a majority of Americans. That, in itself, is damning enough of a majority of a people.
I have no concerns about identifying myself and smiling for CCTV and other sorts of cameras. In fact, I'm happy that when I sit by the fountain in a European square and watch Europeans play in the sun that there is a monitoring camera that's watching over all to keep them safe. Here is what matters; in Europe I have higher trust that such information gathered won't be misused against me, and that my rights will be respected. I have greater confidence that they care about maintaining human rights and due process, and I won't find myself in a Gitmo-like situation without charge, trial, or such. I have greater comfort in knowing that the majority of the population are liberal-in-mind, respect individual differences, and that like the Swiss just voted to grant the gays further rights, they won't politically lynch the minorities or be easily agitated by expedient Machiavillians, having well learned their lesson from WWII.
"...we fear that the designation of information as classified in some cases [brought forth by Sibel Edmonds] serves to protect the executive branch against embarrassing revelations and full accountability... Releasing declassified versions of these reports, or at least portions or summaries, would serve the public's interest, increase transparency, promote effectiveness and efficiency at the FBI, and facilitate Congressional oversight." U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) in a Letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft http://www.justacitizen.com/
Five years ago, before Bush and his administration came to office, my heartfelt wish was "if only I had lived in America rather than Europe". After five years of Bush in office, my heartfelt bliss is that I lived in Europe rather than America.
The extradition agreement signed between the US's Ashcroft and the UK's Blunkett over terror is seriously flawed; it doesn't require the the Americans to provide *any* evidence, but demands so from the Brits, and American authorities have proved too willing to misuse it, far beyond "terror". Furthermore, the treaty removes key protections, and the UK parliament was *not* consulted at all http://tinyurl.com/4yph4. For all I've seen, it's all been one-sided so far, with Brits extradited for various reasons, even to a Brit CEO demanded by the Americans for "price-fixing"(!!) http://tinyurl.com/7tdkv. The UK should *not* extradite any Brits to the US, at all!!! This American Gitmo administration is not fit for any role of justice!
From TFA: "Google is now worth $80bn (£44bn). This takes it ahead of media leviathan Time Warner, which is valued at $78bn. The valuation comes in spite of the fact that Google's annual sales total just $3.2bn, a fraction of Time Warner's $42bn. "
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"Yes, more legislation is required. The law has not kept up with this type of criminal activity," U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, told the Houston television station KPRC." With a nod from Gitmo Gonzales ""Short of changes in the law in Congress, we may be limited about what we can do in this area," U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said."
It's yet another shenanigan and publicity stunt by a *Texas Republican* and a Texas local TV station. I resent that the article submitter did not mention that. Not that I ever was fond of the bot-infested Yahoo chat, but the action of those US Talibans reeks of stink; we found something we didn't like on this thing, nevermind that we shouldn't have been looking for it in the first place, so we'll mess it up *ALL*, for all, and let's take a chance and excuse to legislate!
Remember that 'sexy cheerleading' legislation?! I hate those folks; buckle up for their attempts, onslaught after first step, to legislate their morality and force it upon all!
That paypalsucks site you linked to is set up by a paypal competitotr.
Not a chance in hell! At the risk of being modded down into oblivion by google fanboys, I will NOT use such Google Wallet. Google already knows WAY too much about me and I have only been willing to use its services in as much as I have had a faint, albeit not exactly true, hope in being at least slightly anonymous to them.
Now they want my name, address, and bank details?!!
Has anyone seen the sign-up forms for Orkut?! Google is hedious! I have never come across *anyone* online who expressed such an interest in expecting me to provide them with SO MUCH personal information about me! No one ever even dared to ask. May all those who are suckered by "Google doeth no evil" just suck it!
... told me she listens to Iron Mainden.
I can't trust with them with space, or science, safety, finances or anything for that matter.
For all the scandalous durability of CDs, I'm really amazed that there hasn't been a class-action lawsuit against the responsible corporations thus far. I'm sure there was no technical, or even economic reason why they couldn't have come up with a more durable solution, at least some sort of packaging like MiniDisc. I suspect that it serves their interests that CDs and DVDs are of such low durability; if it's scratched, you'd have to buy another one!
*Sigh* - I miss the days when tapes where thrown about the place and at people without worrying about damage.
Why have you been modded insightful??!! for all I can see you have been lacking insight for years!
Theater: You drive x number of miles to be squeezed into a packed, filthy theater with unidentifiable gunk coating the floors and other 'movie patrons' who smell like either really bad milk or really good cheese.
Why, at the theatres I go to people look and smell the coolest and the finest I can imagine; to be in the midst them alone is worth the entry price. But then I mostly go to watch arthouse movies and mix with an arthouse crowd. Perhaps you're mixing with the wrong crowd, and if it isn't so, what does that say about you!
Theater: Public area, public standards of decency apply (barely), see above reason for why you should *never* take off your shoes in a movie theater.
Why? I regularly take my shoes off in a movie theatre. So it doesn't stink? Perhaps you need take better care of your feet!
Theater: You are forced to purchase the theater's overpriced, low-quality slop.
Who's forcing you? Again, go to a good, old-fashioned arthouse theatre where they still have a good bar that offers large cups of coffee and fine glasses of wine with a sociable sitting area instead of the slush they serve in multiplexes. My local arthouse theatre just redecorated and they look as neat as any place.
But that makes sense, the movies are usually decent in an arthouse places, so the theatre management and the crowd they attract are too. The theatre I go to always distributes a free two-page sheet by a renowned critic why the movie they're screening is worth seeing, and there is often an invited local intellectual who will give a short talk about it before the feature starts.
It's the same with food, you can go to McDonald's and be served its crap, or you can cook at home, or you can go to a nice little quaint restaurant, usually not much more expensive, if not even less, than a junk outlet, and experience stuff you would never have come across on your own. At the end of such night out, you'd feel thankful you got out of your confine. So if you're fed up with the multiplex, and its junk conglomerate culture, find yourself decent independent threatre! It's not the fault of the restaurant industry that you choose to eat at McDonald's!
"Until I'm dating a girl with a billionaire ex-boyfriend/stalker I think I should be fine keeping things the way they are."
No matter how teraflop-sophisticated the tools of humanity become, it always comes down to "pussy".
What advantages does slackware have that would make other distros a no-no?
Linux will outlast them all or morph into something else. Either that or a good OSS replacement for its shortcomings will arise.
I think you're missing the point. I don't think Jobs had "jobs" in mind. Qualifications or professional requirements are for employers; it enables them to know what they're getting to a large extent. Individual variations may exist, but for simplicity, when you get a BSc it's a BSc. That's how they make a decision on you within minutes; it's because someone else, in a university, had taught you, and rated you, and took the hassle of that out of their minds.
Jobs though is talking about a world where the achievement is *not* to be employable, but to create employment. It doesn't matter much what qualifications or degrees you got, because no one can stop you from starting up a company, unless it's in a regulated field, and as long as your company is profitable and succeeds no one cares what you did or didn't do at school. If your company fails, it's certainly no consolation to anyone that you have a PhD.
I should've elaborated; for all his "taste" you could've easily assumed that Steve Jobs was the child of a European elite. And by the way, Mona Simpson's book ""a Regular Guy" is widely thought to be about Steve. Also, I can't think of a more deserving Billionaire than Steve Jobs; he made big mistakes, he was honest to himself, nevermind how distorted his field might've been, through and through, and he stuck to his ideals for quality and beauty and never seemed to compromise on them. If he'd been difficult as a person at times, you gotta find him excuse in a difficult background.
Gotta love a billionaire who is not ashamed of his working-class background. To even add to that, he's an adopted child of an immigrant father; his dad was an Egyptian Arab and his mother an American, though he was adopted by the Jobs family. His sister, Mona Simpson (Mona is an Egyptian name) is an author and she wrote a novel called "The Lost Father", about her search for their dad who had disappeared in their childhood.
What linux distributions would be a good alternative to Be?
Colleges are now beer halls.
I am disgusted with Diebold. Why do people treat it fatalistically and with inevitability as if it's the only company that can conduct electronic voting? Seriously, in any other field, such controversy would be bad news enough for the chances of a company and there would be many, many other bidders that would provide the service.
Those who lived during the 1980s will remember how the world was flooded with products from a tiny island, so much so that almost everything, unless it was made in Japan, was made in Taiwan. While back in the days Made-in-Taiwan was synonymous with bad quality, that's no longer the case and now fine products are made there. I still am amazed that a tiny island like Taiwan can supply the world with sooo many products.
An American government full of neo-cons was elected, and further re-elected, by a majority of Americans. That, in itself, is damning enough of a majority of a people.
I have no concerns about identifying myself and smiling for CCTV and other sorts of cameras. In fact, I'm happy that when I sit by the fountain in a European square and watch Europeans play in the sun that there is a monitoring camera that's watching over all to keep them safe. Here is what matters; in Europe I have higher trust that such information gathered won't be misused against me, and that my rights will be respected. I have greater confidence that they care about maintaining human rights and due process, and I won't find myself in a Gitmo-like situation without charge, trial, or such. I have greater comfort in knowing that the majority of the population are liberal-in-mind, respect individual differences, and that like the Swiss just voted to grant the gays further rights, they won't politically lynch the minorities or be easily agitated by expedient Machiavillians, having well learned their lesson from WWII.
"...we fear that the designation of information as classified in some cases [brought forth by Sibel Edmonds] serves to protect the executive branch against embarrassing revelations and full accountability... Releasing declassified versions of these reports, or at least portions or summaries, would serve the public's interest, increase transparency, promote effectiveness and efficiency at the FBI, and facilitate Congressional oversight." U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) in a Letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft http://www.justacitizen.com/
Five years ago, before Bush and his administration came to office, my heartfelt wish was "if only I had lived in America rather than Europe". After five years of Bush in office, my heartfelt bliss is that I lived in Europe rather than America.
Does Ballmer "mis-remember" his others stats too; he's been showering us with them lately.
With numbers as varied as $42B and $3.2B, what profit margins do you think google makes versus those of TW that justify valuing it higher?
The extradition agreement signed between the US's Ashcroft and the UK's Blunkett over terror is seriously flawed; it doesn't require the the Americans to provide *any* evidence, but demands so from the Brits, and American authorities have proved too willing to misuse it, far beyond "terror". Furthermore, the treaty removes key protections, and the UK parliament was *not* consulted at all http://tinyurl.com/4yph4. For all I've seen, it's all been one-sided so far, with Brits extradited for various reasons, even to a Brit CEO demanded by the Americans for "price-fixing"(!!) http://tinyurl.com/7tdkv. The UK should *not* extradite any Brits to the US, at all!!! This American Gitmo administration is not fit for any role of justice!
From TFA: "Google is now worth $80bn (£44bn). This takes it ahead of media leviathan Time Warner, which is valued at $78bn. The valuation comes in spite of the fact that Google's annual sales total just $3.2bn, a fraction of Time Warner's $42bn. "