AT&T for a long time didn't own the phone network. It did at first, but then the infrastructure was nationalized in the interests of 'national security'. Read the link I provided.
The idea of a nationally-owned network was the failure, not AT&T.
Clinton did receive a plurality of the popular vote. But at 47% of the popular vote, this clearly wasn't a majority.
It's important to note that U.S. presidents are not elected by popular vote at all. They're elected by by a majority vote of the electors in each state. IOW, we don't have >one presidential election every four years, we have 50 presidential elections every four years.
they still had a little aristocratic doubt in the back of their minds, and put this ridiculous electoral college system in place. an arostocratic hedge. a little doubt in the power of democracy. a fuck up
al gore should have rightfully been president of the united states in 2000,
Okay. But it's important to note that Bill Clinton didn't get an absolute majority of the popular vote either. In fact, Barack Obama is the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win a majority of the popular vote.
So by your logic, Clinton shouldn't have president either. Neither should have JFK, Nixon or Truman.
Incorrect. Barack Hussein Obama was, indeed, born in Hawaii 2 years after Hawaii achieved statehood. Read all about it on Snopes. Say what you will, but Barb and Dave are usually pretty good about scoping out all the facts.
Scientists who analyzed the mucus from the tissue President-Elect Obama used during the sneeze have determined that Obama is suffering from a rare strain of an interspecies-infecting influenza virus. The fate of the human race remains undetermined.
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Typing in an URL and a password might be such a repetitive action.
This is true. For 'lower security' passwords that I don't change often (yet are sufficiently complex), I often can't remember exactly what the password is if I have to tell it to someone else, I have to type it.
What the hell is this Lawless dude's deal anyway? Checking out Tamm's motivations? Oh, I'm sure he must be a terrorist, right?
Fsck that. Tamm reported what he clearly felt was illegal activity being performed by the federal government. As far as I'm concerned, I don't want Lawless spending another red cent of my tax dollars going after Tamm. Tamm is a patriot as far as I'm concerned. We should all stand up and applaud his efforts in exposing this ugly, terrible government corruption. These acts are illegal, going against our highest laws, morals and ideals. The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves at this immense injustice.
Please quantify 'never had a problem with it.' If you are an expert user, I wouldn't expect you to have a problem with it. You probably went in and turned of the UAC crap, etc., for example, when you got it. You probably knew how to tweak some of the settings and cut out unnecessary services to get better performance out of your relatively low-end machine.
I've seen Vista on relatively low-end hardware. It's slow as hell. Most common tasks like copying files and installing drivers take more than 50% longer on the same hardware without tweaks or loading additional software. I have benchmarked this, personally.
Most people won't touch sci-fi with a barge pole and will consider it a geeky propeller head argument.
Not counting the two Spider-Man movies (which are debatable -- technically they are 'comic book' movies and not 'sci-fi' in the strictest sense of the word), 5 of the top 20 all time best selling movies are sci-fi: Jurassic Park, E.T., and Star Wars Episodes I, III and IV. Meesa think your argument not holding water.
It's a joke. I know how to program in Perl, I just hate Perl. The reason I hate Perl is the reason so many like Perl -- TIMTOWTDI. Ironically, my love/hate relationship with Python revolves around the concept of TIOOTDI.
Hey, maybe they could bring in Natalie Portman as his borderline-lesbian-almost-love-interest. You know, the hot babe they bring in just for the sexual tension...;)
When I was in high school things like cell phones, cameras, pagers, and especially laptops were considered contraband!
Pffft. When I was in high school, cell phones were the still size of a small suitcase and laptops were still called 'portables'. They didn't even have color displays. They either had orange monochrome plasma displays or, if you were lucky enough, you could get them with of those newfangled 'TFT' displays. They were still passive displays and they were monochrome as well.
Not long before that, 'portable' meant neither bolted to the desk nor chained to an alarm system.
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Yes. The nationalization arrangement ended. Hence it was failure.
Again, you're conflating AT&T with the network. Read the link. Carefully this time.
AT&T for a long time didn't own the phone network. It did at first, but then the infrastructure was nationalized in the interests of 'national security'. Read the link I provided.
The idea of a nationally-owned network was the failure, not AT&T.
We had a government owned telecommunications infrastructure. It was a complete failure.
Data is a plural word. It's singular form is not 'anecdote.'
Link is correct -- mostly.
Clinton did receive a plurality of the popular vote. But at 47% of the popular vote, this clearly wasn't a majority.
It's important to note that U.S. presidents are not elected by popular vote at all. They're elected by by a majority vote of the electors in each state. IOW, we don't have >one presidential election every four years, we have 50 presidential elections every four years.
they still had a little aristocratic doubt in the back of their minds, and put this ridiculous electoral college system in place. an arostocratic hedge. a little doubt in the power of democracy. a fuck up
al gore should have rightfully been president of the united states in 2000,
Okay. But it's important to note that Bill Clinton didn't get an absolute majority of the popular vote either. In fact, Barack Obama is the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win a majority of the popular vote.
So by your logic, Clinton shouldn't have president either. Neither should have JFK, Nixon or Truman.
Incorrect. Barack Hussein Obama was, indeed, born in Hawaii 2 years after Hawaii achieved statehood. Read all about it on Snopes. Say what you will, but Barb and Dave are usually pretty good about scoping out all the facts.
Scientists who analyzed the mucus from the tissue President-Elect Obama used during the sneeze have determined that Obama is suffering from a rare strain of an interspecies-infecting influenza virus. The fate of the human race remains undetermined.
Typing in an URL and a password might be such a repetitive action.
This is true. For 'lower security' passwords that I don't change often (yet are sufficiently complex), I often can't remember exactly what the password is if I have to tell it to someone else, I have to type it.
What the hell is this Lawless dude's deal anyway? Checking out Tamm's motivations? Oh, I'm sure he must be a terrorist, right?
Fsck that. Tamm reported what he clearly felt was illegal activity being performed by the federal government. As far as I'm concerned, I don't want Lawless spending another red cent of my tax dollars going after Tamm. Tamm is a patriot as far as I'm concerned. We should all stand up and applaud his efforts in exposing this ugly, terrible government corruption. These acts are illegal, going against our highest laws, morals and ideals. The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves at this immense injustice.
If anyone is a criminal, it's Agent Lawless.
Please quantify 'never had a problem with it.' If you are an expert user, I wouldn't expect you to have a problem with it. You probably went in and turned of the UAC crap, etc., for example, when you got it. You probably knew how to tweak some of the settings and cut out unnecessary services to get better performance out of your relatively low-end machine.
I've seen Vista on relatively low-end hardware. It's slow as hell. Most common tasks like copying files and installing drivers take more than 50% longer on the same hardware without tweaks or loading additional software. I have benchmarked this, personally.
Most people won't touch sci-fi with a barge pole and will consider it a geeky propeller head argument.
Not counting the two Spider-Man movies (which are debatable -- technically they are 'comic book' movies and not 'sci-fi' in the strictest sense of the word), 5 of the top 20 all time best selling movies are sci-fi: Jurassic Park, E.T., and Star Wars Episodes I, III and IV. Meesa think your argument not holding water.
Because God knows both Cliff and Paul could do with all the income they can get in their autumn years.
Paul McCartney is worth $1.5 billion. I don't think he'd be hurting one bit if he never released another Christmas album -- ever.
No. He's a Fundamentalist Christian. Same thing, really.
It's a joke. I know how to program in Perl, I just hate Perl. The reason I hate Perl is the reason so many like Perl -- TIMTOWTDI. Ironically, my love/hate relationship with Python revolves around the concept of TIOOTDI.
Hey, maybe they could bring in Natalie Portman as his borderline-lesbian-almost-love-interest. You know, the hot babe they bring in just for the sexual tension... ;)
You wouldn't understand. It's a programmer thing. Go write a few hundred thousand lines of C, Python or Java and then you'll know.
Only by the marketing types ... hey, what are you doing in here?
As a seasoned programmer...I'd have to say I agree with the beer part. And someone mentioned pizza. Pizza is good. And I prefer single-malt Scotch.
Ah, and there was that Prince song. Yes, that one.
Ahem. That song didn't come out in 1999. It came out in 1982. Now get off my lawn.
Yeah. But the real questions is -- what are all the sites with Perl example code on them going to do?
Uh huh. They've already caught on, so much so that they're eating into Microsoft's bottom line.
Netbooks make a difference because they aren't running Windows. It has nothing to do with hardware and everything to do with software.
Or what modules you insert.
When I was in high school things like cell phones, cameras, pagers, and especially laptops were considered contraband!
Pffft. When I was in high school, cell phones were the still size of a small suitcase and laptops were still called 'portables'. They didn't even have color displays. They either had orange monochrome plasma displays or, if you were lucky enough, you could get them with of those newfangled 'TFT' displays. They were still passive displays and they were monochrome as well.
Not long before that, 'portable' meant neither bolted to the desk nor chained to an alarm system.