I didn't say he was far left but far too left... one is rather more relative to the other, since one implies what I think is "not too far left" as opposed to what I think is, say, the "center" or whatever...
I think it depends on what we consider "left," and I think we probably consider that differently.
But we can start with the proposed health care (especially the "public option," the new taxes, the government-official-decides-what-plan-is-approved type approach, and the outspoken "these are steps towards getting single-payer health care").:)
At this point, I refuse to visit your salon.com links due to bias.;)
But seriously... it seems that you think the "idea" of Obama - which I will agree was wishful thinking at best and at worst simply lies - is the "real" left/liberal view?
If so, then liberals are have been misled... in other words, they voted for the "real" left/liberal view, and the conservatives voted against it. It so happens that Obama is turning not-as-left as the left wanted, and still too-left for the right. So in the end, still nobody is happy.
And either way, the left-vs-right argument is still there. You appear to take the position that Obama is not nearly liberal/left enough and I think he is far too liberal/left - as well as most Democrats. I am basing my judgment on votes and bills. Conspiracy theories aside, how is it I am confused about him?
Obama's biggest crime is that people expect miracles from him, but I can't blame him for that
Er... we can't? Even if he is the one that promised them (and didn't - and still doesn't - take great pains to mitigate the belief)?
he was completely unable to admit that he'd been wrong
And Obama is capable? So far, I haven't heard them admit their wrong. Even unemployment and the stimulus not working as expected... they weren't wrong, it's just that "the economy was worse than we thought it was." In other words: it's Bush's fault. Blameshifting is not an admission of wrong.
At least he doesn't seem to think the Constitution is the right place for laws about marriage.
That depends on who is writing the Constitution and how much emphasis you place on the family unit being the core of society and all that. It's perhaps a political discussion, but neither thinking it is nor thinking it isn't is "wrong." Not sure if you were saying it is or just giving your opinion that it isn't:)
it was some kind of show of weakness to ever admit to a mistake
I still haven't heard the Obama administration admit a mistake on something as simple as job creation/saving counts. Plenty of news reports about it, but no word from the White House. Obama announced the success; it has since been proven to be wrong. I have heard nothing from Obama about it...
In general, it seems to me that Bush was the one more willing to accept responsibility, whether for good or bad. If you think he was bad, he at least appeared to be willing to responsible for what you thought was so bad. Obama doesn't seem to want to be responsible for anything until after it turns out good. How is that strong leadership?
I suppose that's fair enough. I guess I don't see anything wrong in trying to get rid of bloat/bugginess while making it eas[y][ier], though.
(in general, I agree X isn't the culprit... whether or not X can be improved on is a question, of course, but I agree with the general feeling that X isn't as bad as lot of people try to say it is).
And subsequently released the numbers from the President himself on what, national TV or something? (I don't watch TV, so I just get it from google news).
OK, so there were mistakes. OK, so they weren't checked. I can understand the first and ALMOST understand the second. Jumping on the numbers without checking and declaring success from the President himself is something that should be complained about.
I'm not sure this is the same government I want running my health care:)
I hope the government isn't trying to "gain" $100k in "business." As far as I know, the government doesn't earn a living except by taxes. I sure hope they aren't drumming up more business.;)
Obama voted what, 99% with the Democratic party in his two years as senator? And he seems most in line with the Democratic party as President. His appointed officials are almost all Democrat and he has campaigned for two Democrat governors.
Most of what Reagan "stood for," so to speak, are things that Democrats do not stand for. I don't see how Obama could be anything remotely resembling "right" or Reagan. Center? Perhaps... maybe "whatever is popular at the time" would be better. But Reagan or anything with "right" seems pretty crazy. Either that or the majority of both liberals and conservatives are completely confused about him.
I should mention that I don't necessarily think Bush is an idiot... but if you believe Bush is an idiot, then you should also believe Obama isn't all he is cracked up to be, either. I didn't vote for Obama and don't think he's that great, but he's even surprised me with what he's been doing - or what his cabinet/administration has been doing - as opposed to what he said he would do. Especially when it comes to not having "politics like usual" and "change," which seemed to be the number one reason people voted for him, by and large.
I don't agree with all of what Bush did, most definitely... but I'm not sure he was any worse than Obama has been so far, as far as dishonesty and idiocy. If anything, to me, it's looking like Obama is winning those contests at the moment.... or at the very least, he looks more like a talking-point puppet than a decision-making (change?) President.
Idiot or not, not everyone thinks Obama all he was supposed to be cracked up to be, especially foreign diplomacy at the moment. But I guess that's probably China's fault, just like the economy is Bush's fault, the bad health care is doctor's fault, the problems with journalism today is conservatives' (talkshows especially) and Fox News's fault, and the problem with education is religion's fault (nevermind that early American education was because of religion, not in spite of)...
In other words, all problems faced right now are anyone but Obama's fault. According to the Obama administration.
Bush is an idiot, but Obama is apparently helpless while at the same time the morning star of hope.
Yes, I'm being very cynical and probably will be modded flamebait because cynicism is only ok if one is cynical about Bush or Religion, at the moment. I guess I'm cynical about cynicism.:)
But for those of us who know what we're doing, X is still pretty cool.
Hmm. That sounds like computers from quite a while ago. That sounds like one of the main reasons people use Windows (you don't have to know what you're doing and edit a bunch of configuration files to get it working properly). It doesn't even sound like your sig - "FreeBSD Just Works for me."
If I can't install X easily and have it run relatively efficiently without bloat and unresponsiveness, then X - or the package manager - needs to be fixed. Being too complex/customizeable and making people waste time trying to configure it properly are issues that need to be addressed. Most computer users are just that - computer users, not computer configurators. Or whatever. hehe.
So when Obama (or his administration, etc....) gets wrong information and reports it, it's the local districts fault/whoever-reported it's fault.
When Bush gets wrong information and reports it, he obviously knew about it (he was President, after all!) and shamelessly lied about it to the American people and should be hung for it.
Oh well. Bush actually made decisions and took responsibility for things and did more than play golf during a time of war. Obama can barely make up his mind about what country to be in when the 20th anniversary party of the Berlin wall coming down occurs. I have yet to see Obama make a "decision" to do anything but campaign/advertise for the Democratic party, even taking part in state elections. I don't recall Bush campaigning for Republican governors on federal taxpayer money during a time of war, as though getting a Democratic governor in two states is more important than fighting a war in Afghanistan (or winning the war, anyway)...
And yet, I presume you listened to mainstream media (CNN, ABC, etc) when they all decided that they didn't like Bush.
So in other words, your argument: I like Obama, and hotair (and similar journalists) doesn't. Therefore, hotair (etc.) are wrong and I won't listen to them, because they obviously don't know the truth.
I am not so sure that the mainstream media who obviously like Obama are "fair" and "unbiased" in their "reporting" of things. And it actually shocks me that CNN and ABC ran stories about the "jobs" created/saved not really being created/saved... on a large-scale, I might add, not just a few here and there. It got very, very, VERY little reporting though. In fact, Sarah Palin is getting far more [bad] publicity from the media than the false job reports. Hmmmmmm. A former governor that lost as a VP candidate is getting more coverage than the Obama administration's recovery.gov apparently lying about jobs created/saved by the much-debated stimulus package? I'm sure it's because the media likes Palin and just wants to be nice to her.
Unless it's the Bush administration, in which case all were evil genius's that knew everything. Obama and his administration, on the other hand, are well-intentioned never-lying non-politician politicians. From Chicago. Infinitely more trustworthy.
It could be that there are a lot of Chinese speaking people that don't live in China. Possibly. And they might use Windows. Statistically, they likely do.:)
But you can keep a laser focused on something a lot easier. Light moves a whole lot faster than a supersonic missile. If you think of it as a "photon machine gun," it's a lot easier to keep the "bullets" hitting the target when your bullets fire rather rapidly and can move at the speed of light. One second of laser-shining-on-a-moving-object can't be TOO hard.
Or her Vista SP^H^H^H^H^H Win7 Aero desktop effects.
Joke, obviously... but Win 7 with Aero effects runs fine on my old Dell E1505 laptop, which doesn't have a super duper video card. It's an ATI Mobility X1400 (256mb).
No, I was asking if there was an improvement on my top range two generation old graphics card. They are only matching it with this new low-end card, in other words... so the main gain, it seems, is power consumption.
I remember having a not-so-ancient 2D video card that was fairly small. The Diamond Monster 3D [Accelerator] card that I got later, on the other hand, was pretty large:)
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Inch by inch.
I didn't say he was far left but far too left ... one is rather more relative to the other, since one implies what I think is "not too far left" as opposed to what I think is, say, the "center" or whatever...
I think it depends on what we consider "left," and I think we probably consider that differently.
But we can start with the proposed health care (especially the "public option," the new taxes, the government-official-decides-what-plan-is-approved type approach, and the outspoken "these are steps towards getting single-payer health care"). :)
In Soviet Russia, they have beeing doing it for some time now.
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Admittedly, I haven't tried it super recently, but I had more-than-one-app-trying-to-access-sound-device problems with OSS last time I tried it...
Microsoft lets you install unsigned code as well.
Without being admin/having to go through the UAC thing?
view/hear/produce multimedia, and entertain myself with a smidge of eyecandy
Well, the "hear" bit is debatable at times. ;)
(well, in my experience, ALSA works pretty well... but the push to move to a very buggy pulseaudio seems stupid...)
At this point, I refuse to visit your salon.com links due to bias. ;)
But seriously... it seems that you think the "idea" of Obama - which I will agree was wishful thinking at best and at worst simply lies - is the "real" left/liberal view?
If so, then liberals are have been misled... in other words, they voted for the "real" left/liberal view, and the conservatives voted against it. It so happens that Obama is turning not-as-left as the left wanted, and still too-left for the right. So in the end, still nobody is happy.
And either way, the left-vs-right argument is still there. You appear to take the position that Obama is not nearly liberal/left enough and I think he is far too liberal/left - as well as most Democrats. I am basing my judgment on votes and bills. Conspiracy theories aside, how is it I am confused about him?
Obama's biggest crime is that people expect miracles from him, but I can't blame him for that
Er... we can't? Even if he is the one that promised them (and didn't - and still doesn't - take great pains to mitigate the belief)?
he was completely unable to admit that he'd been wrong
And Obama is capable? So far, I haven't heard them admit their wrong. Even unemployment and the stimulus not working as expected... they weren't wrong, it's just that "the economy was worse than we thought it was." In other words: it's Bush's fault. Blameshifting is not an admission of wrong.
At least he doesn't seem to think the Constitution is the right place for laws about marriage.
That depends on who is writing the Constitution and how much emphasis you place on the family unit being the core of society and all that. It's perhaps a political discussion, but neither thinking it is nor thinking it isn't is "wrong." Not sure if you were saying it is or just giving your opinion that it isn't :)
it was some kind of show of weakness to ever admit to a mistake
I still haven't heard the Obama administration admit a mistake on something as simple as job creation/saving counts. Plenty of news reports about it, but no word from the White House. Obama announced the success; it has since been proven to be wrong. I have heard nothing from Obama about it...
In general, it seems to me that Bush was the one more willing to accept responsibility, whether for good or bad. If you think he was bad, he at least appeared to be willing to responsible for what you thought was so bad. Obama doesn't seem to want to be responsible for anything until after it turns out good. How is that strong leadership?
I suppose that's fair enough. I guess I don't see anything wrong in trying to get rid of bloat/bugginess while making it eas[y][ier], though.
(in general, I agree X isn't the culprit... whether or not X can be improved on is a question, of course, but I agree with the general feeling that X isn't as bad as lot of people try to say it is).
and the failure here is that no one checked it.
And subsequently released the numbers from the President himself on what, national TV or something? (I don't watch TV, so I just get it from google news).
OK, so there were mistakes. OK, so they weren't checked. I can understand the first and ALMOST understand the second. Jumping on the numbers without checking and declaring success from the President himself is something that should be complained about.
I'm not sure this is the same government I want running my health care :)
I hope the government isn't trying to "gain" $100k in "business." As far as I know, the government doesn't earn a living except by taxes. I sure hope they aren't drumming up more business. ;)
He is a right-center Reagan worshiper.
I somehow am not sure Reagan would like this.
Obama voted what, 99% with the Democratic party in his two years as senator? And he seems most in line with the Democratic party as President. His appointed officials are almost all Democrat and he has campaigned for two Democrat governors.
Most of what Reagan "stood for," so to speak, are things that Democrats do not stand for. I don't see how Obama could be anything remotely resembling "right" or Reagan. Center? Perhaps... maybe "whatever is popular at the time" would be better. But Reagan or anything with "right" seems pretty crazy. Either that or the majority of both liberals and conservatives are completely confused about him.
I should mention that I don't necessarily think Bush is an idiot... but if you believe Bush is an idiot, then you should also believe Obama isn't all he is cracked up to be, either. I didn't vote for Obama and don't think he's that great, but he's even surprised me with what he's been doing - or what his cabinet/administration has been doing - as opposed to what he said he would do. Especially when it comes to not having "politics like usual" and "change," which seemed to be the number one reason people voted for him, by and large.
I don't agree with all of what Bush did, most definitely... but I'm not sure he was any worse than Obama has been so far, as far as dishonesty and idiocy. If anything, to me, it's looking like Obama is winning those contests at the moment.... or at the very least, he looks more like a talking-point puppet than a decision-making (change?) President.
Idiot or not, not everyone thinks Obama all he was supposed to be cracked up to be, especially foreign diplomacy at the moment. But I guess that's probably China's fault, just like the economy is Bush's fault, the bad health care is doctor's fault, the problems with journalism today is conservatives' (talkshows especially) and Fox News's fault, and the problem with education is religion's fault (nevermind that early American education was because of religion, not in spite of)...
In other words, all problems faced right now are anyone but Obama's fault. According to the Obama administration.
Bush is an idiot, but Obama is apparently helpless while at the same time the morning star of hope.
Yes, I'm being very cynical and probably will be modded flamebait because cynicism is only ok if one is cynical about Bush or Religion, at the moment. I guess I'm cynical about cynicism. :)
But for those of us who know what we're doing, X is still pretty cool.
Hmm. That sounds like computers from quite a while ago. That sounds like one of the main reasons people use Windows (you don't have to know what you're doing and edit a bunch of configuration files to get it working properly). It doesn't even sound like your sig - "FreeBSD Just Works for me."
If I can't install X easily and have it run relatively efficiently without bloat and unresponsiveness, then X - or the package manager - needs to be fixed. Being too complex/customizeable and making people waste time trying to configure it properly are issues that need to be addressed. Most computer users are just that - computer users, not computer configurators. Or whatever. hehe.
Gollum was pretty good, IMO.
So when Obama (or his administration, etc....) gets wrong information and reports it, it's the local districts fault/whoever-reported it's fault.
When Bush gets wrong information and reports it, he obviously knew about it (he was President, after all!) and shamelessly lied about it to the American people and should be hung for it.
Oh well. Bush actually made decisions and took responsibility for things and did more than play golf during a time of war. Obama can barely make up his mind about what country to be in when the 20th anniversary party of the Berlin wall coming down occurs. I have yet to see Obama make a "decision" to do anything but campaign/advertise for the Democratic party, even taking part in state elections. I don't recall Bush campaigning for Republican governors on federal taxpayer money during a time of war, as though getting a Democratic governor in two states is more important than fighting a war in Afghanistan (or winning the war, anyway)...
And yet, I presume you listened to mainstream media (CNN, ABC, etc) when they all decided that they didn't like Bush.
So in other words, your argument: I like Obama, and hotair (and similar journalists) doesn't. Therefore, hotair (etc.) are wrong and I won't listen to them, because they obviously don't know the truth.
I am not so sure that the mainstream media who obviously like Obama are "fair" and "unbiased" in their "reporting" of things. And it actually shocks me that CNN and ABC ran stories about the "jobs" created/saved not really being created/saved ... on a large-scale, I might add, not just a few here and there. It got very, very, VERY little reporting though. In fact, Sarah Palin is getting far more [bad] publicity from the media than the false job reports. Hmmmmmm. A former governor that lost as a VP candidate is getting more coverage than the Obama administration's recovery.gov apparently lying about jobs created/saved by the much-debated stimulus package? I'm sure it's because the media likes Palin and just wants to be nice to her.
Unless it's the Bush administration, in which case all were evil genius's that knew everything. Obama and his administration, on the other hand, are well-intentioned never-lying non-politician politicians. From Chicago. Infinitely more trustworthy.
It could be that there are a lot of Chinese speaking people that don't live in China. Possibly. And they might use Windows. Statistically, they likely do. :)
But you can keep a laser focused on something a lot easier. Light moves a whole lot faster than a supersonic missile. If you think of it as a "photon machine gun," it's a lot easier to keep the "bullets" hitting the target when your bullets fire rather rapidly and can move at the speed of light. One second of laser-shining-on-a-moving-object can't be TOO hard.
Of course. I will willingly volunteer to shoot the laser at something to analyze the results. ;)
Or her Vista SP^H^H^H^H^H Win7 Aero desktop effects.
Joke, obviously... but Win 7 with Aero effects runs fine on my old Dell E1505 laptop, which doesn't have a super duper video card. It's an ATI Mobility X1400 (256mb).
No, I was asking if there was an improvement on my top range two generation old graphics card. They are only matching it with this new low-end card, in other words... so the main gain, it seems, is power consumption.
I remember having a not-so-ancient 2D video card that was fairly small. The Diamond Monster 3D [Accelerator] card that I got later, on the other hand, was pretty large :)