At the end of the day, Congress, whatever the ethics of its members, is a directly elected body. Perhaps if more Americans bothered to vote, they might get better results.
I gave my iPhone to my daughter and bought a Nexus 5 precisely because getting the operating system (iOS 7 at that point) was just one big piece of suckage, and having to use the iTunes software to move songs, video and books off my computer. iTunes may actually be the worst software I've seen any major software house produce. If its designers and coders had any sense of honor, they'd find the highest building they could, and leap off of it.
Android has its flaws, but when I plug my into my computer's USB port, I can copy files on and off without trouble, create new directories, without any hassle at all.
The worst part of my saga is that my wife went out and bought an iPhone and an iPod, and I was trying to show her how to move all her MP3s on to those devices, and I discovered the newest version of iTunes is every bit as awful and non-intuitive as its forebears. After an hour of fucking about, my wife finally admitted that she should have gone with Android.
You're kidding, right? THe bulk of posters here appear to be Libertarians who believe having a duly elected legislative branch taxing them is somehow theft.
There is a strong vein of Hindu nationalism which intrudes on a number of fields. One particular area of research where this sort of Hindu jingoism pops in is in Indo-European linguistics. While the overwhelming majority of researchers into Proto-Indo-European believe the PIE urheimat is either in Eastern Europe or possibly Anatolia, there are a number of Indian linguists who insist, despite every evidence that the Indo-Iranian languages arrived relatively late in the subcontinent, that Proto-Indo-European's origins are in or near India.
There are damned few scientists in the West who claim those things. In fact, even the very tiny number of scientists who reject major branches of research, like Frank Spencer and Michael Behe, only do so in books, op-ed pieces and other similar anti-science venues.
"You have that a little wrong. God *can* (in principle) be proven. If the sky breaks open, choirs of angels break forth, a 10km-long arm reaches down from the skies and an 8km golden-haired, bearded face looks down upon humanity and utters words of unshakable truth...then God is proven."
No, God isn't proven. It might very well be an alien.
The article suggests heavily that a properly configured SSH client and server with secured cert chain is likely safe from prying. The problem with SSH, as with all things, is the use of older distros that may not be updated and not building a proper CA to sign certificates.
Because a spy agency given carte blanche to spy on the citizens it claims to protect would never use those powers and the information derived to maintain its position.
It's like J. Edgar Hoover never existed in your world.
"Well, Mr. Justice, it appears from the following web searches you made over the last eight months that you like chicks with dicks. Now you can either rule for the the Government, or the Wall Street Journal gets a hot new exclusive..."
Breaking Bad crappy? It may very well be one of the best stories told in the visual medium since Shakespeare's heyday. There was only one iffy episode as I recollect, and that was the one where they spent the episode hunting for a fly in the lab. The episode Ozymandias may be the best hour of TV in history.
Game of Thrones I'm less thrilled about, mainly because I read the first books a few years ago, and have a hard time adjusting my own vision of the characters should act to how they do on the screen. But as far as production values and writing goes, Game of Thrones is a top notch production. It's certainly the best medieval fantasy production ever made.
And that is a promotional issue. If a film like Wild got even a quarter the advertising budget The Hobbit did, you would see a lot more asses in those seats.
I watched Seven Brides For Seven Brothers recently. What a wonderful film; the technicolor cinematography so warm, the dancing sequences, particularly the fight at the barnraising, just absolutely astonishing. No CGI needed there, just lots of rehearsal and some stunning choreography.
Is it just me or did some of those Technicolor musicals just some of the most beautiful films ever made? Even if you don't like the songs and dancing, just the look of the films is extraordinary.
There certainly have evolved some rather sad trends. Average shot length in Hollywood films has plunged to the point that some films seem more like a jumble of barely coherent vignettes. I watch a Hitchcock film from the 1950s or a Sergio Leone film, and you see these incredibly long takes. I'm thinking specifically of the final standoff at the graveyard in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or the even more drawn out opening railway station scene from Once Upon A Time In The West. Men like Hitchcock and Leone were bold directors who made highly commercial films that challenged the viewer, and they weren't the only ones. Can you imagine The Godfather, or even moreso The Godfather II being made today?
You're right. Filmmakers, from the writers to the directors to the cinematographers to the editors and other post-production teams have become incredibly lazy, despite having budgets in some cases that would made the great filmmakers of past generations spin. A movie like Psycho, for instance, was made with Hitchcock's TV crew, and not his usual movie team. The awful remake probably cost, in adjusted dollars, ten times as much, and, apart from any other flaws, the actual quality of the filmwork was dreadful.
Good movies are still being made, some on budgets so low that a shoestring would be an improvement, but mainstream Hollywood is just turning into one homogeneous steaming pile of dreck.
And the rich flee, along with their capital. Heck, you don't even have to kill them. Just watch what is happening in Greece. If the anti-Euro zealots get in and go back to the drachma and a sovereign debt default, anyone with two Euros to rub together will be pulling their money and assets out of Greece post haste; in other words the rich will flee to brighter shores; leaving Greece with a worthless currency, no capital, and severely hampered in its ability to do business internationally.
I think we need to do more to make sure the ultrarich are playing by the rules, and that the rules aren't stacked in their favor. But this idea of yet another French revolution, where we go hang the aristos and put yet another pack of Jacobins in charge, doesn't exactly sound like a path to prosperity for all to me.
It's good solid Libertarian philosophy; you have the freedom to starve... or burn up in a flammable river. All that counts is that no one has to pay taxes or have to answer to anyone else.
Libertarianism is the philosophy of the sociopath.
Paying your taxes is no more theft than being required to drive within the speed limit is an infringement.
Christ you Libertarians really are just as deluded and swirdly eed as the Communists and the Anarchists. Your faith in the free markets is touching... about as touching as a band of stone age hunter gatherers believing tossing virgins into volcanoes will bring good harvests.
Does horizontal gene transfer count? Bacteria have been swapping genes for billions of years, and via viruses, this has and is happening with other kingdoms of life as well.
I would suspect plain old lifespan. Tablets don't get carried around as much, and thus tend to last signifcantly longer. Smart phones take a lot more abuse, so I'm wagering average lifespan isn't much more than two years.
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You could, oh I dunno, vote for someone else.
At the end of the day, Congress, whatever the ethics of its members, is a directly elected body. Perhaps if more Americans bothered to vote, they might get better results.
I gave my iPhone to my daughter and bought a Nexus 5 precisely because getting the operating system (iOS 7 at that point) was just one big piece of suckage, and having to use the iTunes software to move songs, video and books off my computer. iTunes may actually be the worst software I've seen any major software house produce. If its designers and coders had any sense of honor, they'd find the highest building they could, and leap off of it.
Android has its flaws, but when I plug my into my computer's USB port, I can copy files on and off without trouble, create new directories, without any hassle at all.
The worst part of my saga is that my wife went out and bought an iPhone and an iPod, and I was trying to show her how to move all her MP3s on to those devices, and I discovered the newest version of iTunes is every bit as awful and non-intuitive as its forebears. After an hour of fucking about, my wife finally admitted that she should have gone with Android.
You're kidding, right? THe bulk of posters here appear to be Libertarians who believe having a duly elected legislative branch taxing them is somehow theft.
There is a strong vein of Hindu nationalism which intrudes on a number of fields. One particular area of research where this sort of Hindu jingoism pops in is in Indo-European linguistics. While the overwhelming majority of researchers into Proto-Indo-European believe the PIE urheimat is either in Eastern Europe or possibly Anatolia, there are a number of Indian linguists who insist, despite every evidence that the Indo-Iranian languages arrived relatively late in the subcontinent, that Proto-Indo-European's origins are in or near India.
There are damned few scientists in the West who claim those things. In fact, even the very tiny number of scientists who reject major branches of research, like Frank Spencer and Michael Behe, only do so in books, op-ed pieces and other similar anti-science venues.
"You have that a little wrong. God *can* (in principle) be proven. If the sky breaks open, choirs of angels break forth, a 10km-long arm reaches down from the skies and an 8km golden-haired, bearded face looks down upon humanity and utters words of unshakable truth...then God is proven."
No, God isn't proven. It might very well be an alien.
Looks like the WSJ editors are here in force.
Of course there isn't. But there is this notion of journalistic ethics.
And you have some evidence of this, right?
The article suggests heavily that a properly configured SSH client and server with secured cert chain is likely safe from prying. The problem with SSH, as with all things, is the use of older distros that may not be updated and not building a proper CA to sign certificates.
Because a spy agency given carte blanche to spy on the citizens it claims to protect would never use those powers and the information derived to maintain its position.
It's like J. Edgar Hoover never existed in your world.
"Well, Mr. Justice, it appears from the following web searches you made over the last eight months that you like chicks with dicks. Now you can either rule for the the Government, or the Wall Street Journal gets a hot new exclusive..."
Breaking Bad crappy? It may very well be one of the best stories told in the visual medium since Shakespeare's heyday. There was only one iffy episode as I recollect, and that was the one where they spent the episode hunting for a fly in the lab. The episode Ozymandias may be the best hour of TV in history.
Game of Thrones I'm less thrilled about, mainly because I read the first books a few years ago, and have a hard time adjusting my own vision of the characters should act to how they do on the screen. But as far as production values and writing goes, Game of Thrones is a top notch production. It's certainly the best medieval fantasy production ever made.
Why, he might release the kraken, of course...
I've heard movie theaters described as junk food dispensaries with a big screen.
And that is a promotional issue. If a film like Wild got even a quarter the advertising budget The Hobbit did, you would see a lot more asses in those seats.
I watched Seven Brides For Seven Brothers recently. What a wonderful film; the technicolor cinematography so warm, the dancing sequences, particularly the fight at the barnraising, just absolutely astonishing. No CGI needed there, just lots of rehearsal and some stunning choreography.
Is it just me or did some of those Technicolor musicals just some of the most beautiful films ever made? Even if you don't like the songs and dancing, just the look of the films is extraordinary.
There certainly have evolved some rather sad trends. Average shot length in Hollywood films has plunged to the point that some films seem more like a jumble of barely coherent vignettes. I watch a Hitchcock film from the 1950s or a Sergio Leone film, and you see these incredibly long takes. I'm thinking specifically of the final standoff at the graveyard in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or the even more drawn out opening railway station scene from Once Upon A Time In The West. Men like Hitchcock and Leone were bold directors who made highly commercial films that challenged the viewer, and they weren't the only ones. Can you imagine The Godfather, or even moreso The Godfather II being made today?
You're right. Filmmakers, from the writers to the directors to the cinematographers to the editors and other post-production teams have become incredibly lazy, despite having budgets in some cases that would made the great filmmakers of past generations spin. A movie like Psycho, for instance, was made with Hitchcock's TV crew, and not his usual movie team. The awful remake probably cost, in adjusted dollars, ten times as much, and, apart from any other flaws, the actual quality of the filmwork was dreadful.
Good movies are still being made, some on budgets so low that a shoestring would be an improvement, but mainstream Hollywood is just turning into one homogeneous steaming pile of dreck.
I see. So there should be consequences for acts of vandalism, other than the parents can "mend" his ways.
We wouldn't want the poor whittle kiddies having to face consequences. That make might them sad pandas.
And the rich flee, along with their capital. Heck, you don't even have to kill them. Just watch what is happening in Greece. If the anti-Euro zealots get in and go back to the drachma and a sovereign debt default, anyone with two Euros to rub together will be pulling their money and assets out of Greece post haste; in other words the rich will flee to brighter shores; leaving Greece with a worthless currency, no capital, and severely hampered in its ability to do business internationally.
I think we need to do more to make sure the ultrarich are playing by the rules, and that the rules aren't stacked in their favor. But this idea of yet another French revolution, where we go hang the aristos and put yet another pack of Jacobins in charge, doesn't exactly sound like a path to prosperity for all to me.
It's good solid Libertarian philosophy; you have the freedom to starve... or burn up in a flammable river. All that counts is that no one has to pay taxes or have to answer to anyone else.
Libertarianism is the philosophy of the sociopath.
Paying your taxes is no more theft than being required to drive within the speed limit is an infringement.
Christ you Libertarians really are just as deluded and swirdly eed as the Communists and the Anarchists. Your faith in the free markets is touching... about as touching as a band of stone age hunter gatherers believing tossing virgins into volcanoes will bring good harvests.
Does horizontal gene transfer count? Bacteria have been swapping genes for billions of years, and via viruses, this has and is happening with other kingdoms of life as well.
And what will all our fine corporate interests do when they run out of wage slaves?
I would suspect plain old lifespan. Tablets don't get carried around as much, and thus tend to last signifcantly longer. Smart phones take a lot more abuse, so I'm wagering average lifespan isn't much more than two years.