Yes, even that is distracting, not only to the presenter or speaker, but more importantly, to the other people who are there to participate in the meeting, discussion, or presentation.
What if that crackberry message or cell phone call is from a multi-million dollar client or to let you know a mission critical production server is down?
That boring presentation on sales figures for 2007 isn't very important now is it... In the cut throat dog eat dog of business world, you cannot have but interruptions. Things change minute by minute and if you every minute you miss that information you could be loosing buttloads of money for the company.
(Truth be told... I don't like to work in such high stress environments, but I know of them and have supported people via contract for them)
Just like the fact people like to decorate their slave boxes... Err... I mean cubicles, people actually like working with fancy high-tech OS technology that they see like the ones in the movies. The affect might wear off after 2,000 hours at working the same dead end job day in and day out, but if it feels like you are on the deck of the enteprise while doing Excel spreadsheets you might feel better about coming into work on time.
First you got a "buildup phase", followed by a very fast "breakthrough" phase, which slows down again, till the process settles on a plateau.
Where is the plateau? Even in the Dark Ages, technology still advanced. (Albeit it was more on the lines of masonry, shipbuilding, arms and weapons manufacturing). A mounted armored knight in the 1200's was comparably better armed than a Roman Legionaire in 100AD.
But I suggest you read his book... I don't agree with everything he says or that a singularity will happen like he says, but he does point out the model of advancment isn't tied directly with a technology itself but all technologies.
In my view, a farm plow might lead to better production that leads to more free time and economic benefits and money gets put on other technologies that latter lead to mass production in factories which leader to further economic benefits and more investment in technologies that eventually lead to more investment into technology.
I remember in the early 1990's there wasn't much of a computer industry. Now most of the poeple I know have some related job to it. Technology generates more jobs which generates more movement in the economy (you know like people with jobs buying new iPods and new computers) which leads to further economic growth. Secondly, technology amplifies productivity in the work place. Not only in the manufacturing arena, but also in corporate offices... From the copiers, to email, to blackberries (heck there are specialists here that handle just those at my work), to server, to the vacuum cleaner repairs, to everything else.
In my view computers haven't even stopped to take a breather since 1994 (when I got my first 486) the evidence is right here in front of us. I bought my first cell phone in 2002. Black and white lcd bulky thing... Yet in 2004 I had a full VGA color slim flip phone.
Sure we might not see StrongAI or a singularitan even, but to say technology isn't improving at a drastic and accelerating rate is just silly.
Well we have flying cars, but I doubt we will see them take off... Errr... No pun intended.
The reason we don't have flying cars today is the highest unnatural cause of death in the United States is car accidents. Could you imagine what would happen if a drunk driver go into a vehicle that could fly 10,000 ft at 300mph into a building or other cars?
So flying cars and jet packs aren't a reality because of humans inability to control moving vehicles with 100% no-accident rate. Once we have pure AI driving our cars it might be more feasible, but we are looking at 2020 at the earliest.
Might I point out that more money is probaly put into the cell phone, telcom, and computers industry than all the world's space programs combined.
The reason we aren't seeing great advancments in our space and nuclear programs is that they are highly centralized and are at the whim of select few if they get funding or not.
However, when technology is decentralized... As in everyone can have a cell phone, broadband, and a computer within their means then those types of technology will advance faster at an accelerating rate. (I hope I don't sound like Kurzweil).
Not everyone can go to the moon... But most everyone in the western world can have an Xbox360. May not mean everyone is going to get one... But more than enough to cause rampant R&D into that industry.
Trust me... I'm shocked myself. I remember a time when we didn't have cell phones, computers with hard drives (I miss my old IBM pc jr), internet, 4-7 channel TVs, and every thing else that is happening now... And I'm only 27.
Things are happening at an accelerating pace... Short of a world disaster or economic depression lik ethe 1930's I doubt we will see a slow down.
Basic math skills will show that the vast majority of Muslims are not involved in this radical behavior.
Not to Goodwin this thread or anything, but...
It only takes a handful of radicals to lead a greater moderate majority into doing some of the worst atrocities of all time. Just because the majority is moderate, doesn't mean that they will go along wiht the extremists.
When the Nazi Party began in the 1920s, it averaged 2000 members. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, party membership had risen to 2.5 million. In 1945, when the Nazi Party was disbanded, official membership rolls listed a total of 8.5 million.
Note, Germany had a population of 60+ million people during the war.
I'm not going to compare Islam with National Socialism though... They are not even close and Nazism is probaly the worst thing this planet has faced, but what I am trying to say is that small groups of radicals and extremists can get the avrage Joe out onto the streets killing people left and right.
This isn't just political parties and religions either... But more or less human nature. Check out the Milgram Experiment.
I agree with you. But the same goes for the US. In the cold war - we went from scratch to repeat moon landings in ten years.
May I remind everyone that the US was able to create a space program as quick as it did because of Operation Paperclip and the help of the Nazi V2 researchers like von Braun. Without these guys I'd doubt we'd have beaten ths Soviets (of course the soviets happened to 'borrow 'quite a few of their own scientists during their occupation of easter Europe so it still might have not been them first).
Any Western "implementation" of capitalism is terribly flawed, ask your libertarian friends about it. Yet it works, while socialism doesn't. Think about it.
National Socialism works wonders for an economy. Way better than invisible hand capitalism.
However, they failed on military front... and maybe that was good thing considering what National Socialism is.
Q. What does the announcement about Intel-based Macs mean for Virtual PC for Mac?
A. Virtual PC for Mac Version 7 is still the best emulation solution for users who have PowerPC-based Macs, but it does not run on Intel-based Macs. We are working with Apple to determine the feasibility of developing Virtual PC for Mac for Intel-based Macs. Virtual PC for Mac is highly dependent on the operating system and hardware and will require additional development to run on Intel-based Macs.
So as of now it is a wait and see, but I bet I know what Microsoft is up to. I bet they will drop their apple native line apps and just have people buy Virutal PC 8 and buy a windows version. Hey if it works it works...
I got it because I liked my friends iPod. Not because of an ad.
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When your normal user has his mind set on performing a specific task (Such as installing the newest spyware-ridden p2p-downloader) you can popup a big red button and naming it "explode", the user will press it if he thinks it will get him closer to performing the task. Putting up a dialog and ask for the root password is for normal users only an obstacle to get by.
Hrm... I didn't know windows had root accounts. Unless you mean Administrator, but from my understanding most people don't have to worry about typing their password in to install that spyware. All you to do is make sure ActiveX is running (which is should be by default) and then point your IE to the appropriate or non-related website and *bam* all that software is install right away no hassle for you:)
Who needs fancy buttons and second guessing admin passwords that the end user may or may not have.
How do you propose that websites detect the use of an adblocker? (Without seriously degrading the user experience)
Easy, turn your content into flat image files and host them http://doubleclick.net/ so that *.doublick.net/* ad block wild cards will block out the desired content. Err... Well... As long as you don't think that having to read pages of jpegs to be a dragrading experience.
Then what do you propose as a way the companies that deliver the websites you visit and block ads from should cover the costs they have for serving their content to you, plus a little profit ?
You know that big lump of color advertising in the middle of the Sunday newspaper?
Well... I throw that out too without looking at it.
Do you know what I do when a crappy commercial comes on the tube?
Yeah... I change the channel.
Do you know I do when a commerical comes on the radio?
I... err... Well there doesn't seem to be any ads on my iPod. I guess I could put them there, but maybe that is why I stopped listening to the radio on the drive to work.
Truth of the matter is I am an advertisers worst nightmare and I don't really go that far in refusing to view ads.
Its not because I don't like the idea of advertisments, but if the advert interupts my stream of entertainment or causes annoyance... I tend to find a way to stop it or I find another mehtods of entertainment.
Billboards, related ads to entertainment, and entertaining ads will get my eyes and ears.
Obtrusive, non-related ads, and annoying ads will get my immediate disintrest.
Entertainment and information with the ads is just as important as the content... Otherwise if I can't shut out the ads, I'm going to shutout the content.
Why isn't there the same support for Invader Zim? That's what I'd like to know.
No.
1) Because Vasquez would do better if he made an R rated Johnny the Homicidal Maniac cartoon for HBO or slightly bleeped version on Adult Swim. 2) Because Nick Studios doesn't really exist anymore. 3) Because adult Swim would be better for the new series of Invader Zim, but see reason #1.
That is awfully shortsighted and I can't help but think that people that think like you will eventually die off and be replaced by people who don't mind people living forever.
Since, only people who believe that living forever is ok will be around... But seriously people change their mind and what if we still had great minds around today. You are thinking that society improves just by people dying off. Well that is not the case... Society improves by medical, scientific, and technological advancements, not by social doctrines.
No one had to die for Newton, Shakespeare, (and I would have to say that after Cromwell and the puritans took over after the Elizabethans died off that literature and art pretty much died in England for a time), Mozart, Beethoven, and Einstein to come along.
It was pure social and economic reasons and not because a turnover in society. People change their mind given enough stimulus and information.
Hell... Wouldn't it be better if those people were around today? I'm still sure Newton would have loved to have all the tools our scientists have today.
Actually, this may be more of a myth than anything, but there are film reels of soviets training dogs for the action.
Apparently, the Germans got wind of it before this was put into practice and Panzer crews killed anything that looked like a dog on contact. There was also the problem that the Germans used gasoline for their tanks and the Soviets used disel which produces slightly different smells so the dogs weren't that effective on own because they were trained on soviet tanks.
What I'm not willing to listen to is, "George Bush is a big liar and he's destroyed the country and that's a bad thing!" My response to people who come up with these kinds of lines is usually, "OK, what specifically is wrong, and how would you fix it?" The usual response to this is that he's a liar and he's destroyed the country and he needs to be removed.
I think the problem that I have is that he is ruining our long term goals.
Don't get me wrong... I voted for Bush in 2000 and abstained in the 2004 election because I didn't like the other side. I actually changed my political party from Republican to independant.
I wouldn't call him a liar, but he either had his facts wrong which means he is incompetant or had an agenda to skew the facts for going to war in Iraq 2003.
Do you realize, that this goes against all of our previous doctrine of first strike of all our presedients.
Yeah, we invaded Panama and Iraq previously, but these were reactionary measures to provocation.
We aren't supposed to be the bad guys. We are supposed to be non-involved unless forced to play our hand.
This has been our policy for over 200 years! Now, we are faced with a possible civil war in which if we pull out we are damned and we don't we are damned as well with the population of Iraq turning on us. It's the Vietnam scenario all over again.
Secondly, we still haven't found Bin Laden nor helped Afghanistan rebuild.
If it was me in the Whitehouse... I'd would have given Pakistan an ultimatium to hand him over or else we invade. Without the war in Iraq we had a blank check and morality on our side to do whatever we needed to do to get him. Now we are seen as a bigger enemy and more as a nation with an agenda.
Some of you might disagree with this, but do you remember the Bush speech where any nation that harbors terrorists would be targeted? We'll we aren't doing that now... That was bothers me about the Bush administration. They are not even trying to do what they said they would do.
And as far as running this country into the ground... What about our almost 8 trillion national debt? I thought being a republican was about being conservative... And not spending our nation into the ground like a Democrat!
I think the only solution we have now is to stick it out until Iraq can keep itself from becoming a vassal of Iran.
Then we will have to distance ourselves from Israel and cut ties with them. After that find alternative fuel sources and pretend the Middle east doesn't exist. That is pretty much our only hope for the future now with dealing with the middle east.
Otherwise, I think homeland security is a waste of money...
We don't need to spend billions of dollars on security on a threat that may never happen and the only thing we needed to do was lock the doors of our airliners to prevent 9/11 from happening again.
And whatever happened to the land of the brave. I'm wiling to die for my freedom, but why are we being cowards about the whole terrorism issue. If we have to live in fear and pass laws like the Patriot Act. Then why bother at all?
I think Bush, Nixon, and Regan were the last real republicans. The guy in the whitehouse is a pretender. But that is my opinion...
Oh and I want to mention this... The whole Dubai Ports incident was to make it so the Republicans in congress can distance themselves from the President so they can have a chance to win the elections come fall. Whether this was a setup by the President or just something the congress critters did on their own... I don't know.
But we will see more of this towards election... But for gods sake. I can't believe how many other Republicans are blindly following Bush. No democrat has done what he has done on this scale... (in fact no Republican either)
Proportional representation, abbreviated PR, is a "multi-winner" electoral system whose use tends to make elections result in groups of votes being represented in proportional fractions in some body of representatives, such that x% of votes are represented by x% of representatives. Proportional representation is also used to describe this intended effect.... This system is used in Israel (where the whole country is one closed list constituency), the Netherlands (open list) and for elections to the European Parliament in the United Kingdom (closed list) as well as in Finland using multi-member districts and open lists.
Basically, this is what the US needs to have a real democracy where we have more than just 2 choices. It is quite better than an electoral college. However, I doubt the power that be and apathy of the general public would allow such change to occur.
What will happen is that my tax dollars will be used for that and that my friend is just wrong. I don't care how you roll it up and try to smoke it.
Right now, your tax dollars are funding things from road construction, to educating children, to feeding lazy welfare persons, to corporate CEO's free lunch with a government contract, to a bridge to no where in some other state than yours, finding the cure for cancer, to a million dollar missle landing in a families home in the middle east, to sending a man to mars.
You sir have no idea what your money is being spent on. Nor can you hope to control it.
These things may be very good in your eyes, waste of money, or supporting something that you morally object to.
The best solution in my view is to attempt to pay as little tax as possible... Which is something we can control with good accounting.
I'd rather return to the "No Standing Army" policy of individual state militias that can be called up to defend our borders in the event of a real declared war.
I like to go back to American government circa 1790's as much as the next person, but Militias have no place in a world that Total War exists. By the time the nations borders are stormed, if there are no standing armies with caches Tanks, Jets, and ballistic missiles then there will not be enough time to counter the invasion.
There is no way to plead ignorance for those who improperly accessed the site.
Right, but from my understanding they are seizing a corporations computers and not the journalists. (I'm assuming the newspaper incorporated for tax and legal reasons)
If one of your employee violates the law or EULA it does not hold the corporation liable nor vice versa with its shareholders. Individuals in the corporation can be prosecuted for wrong doing and the corporation can be fined for wrong doing, but they are two exclusive entities.
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Yes, even that is distracting, not only to the presenter or speaker, but more importantly, to the other people who are there to participate in the meeting, discussion, or presentation.
What if that crackberry message or cell phone call is from a multi-million dollar client or to let you know a mission critical production server is down?
That boring presentation on sales figures for 2007 isn't very important now is it... In the cut throat dog eat dog of business world, you cannot have but interruptions. Things change minute by minute and if you every minute you miss that information you could be loosing buttloads of money for the company.
(Truth be told... I don't like to work in such high stress environments, but I know of them and have supported people via contract for them)
From ages 15-25, we spend most of our time trying to impress women, which leaves less time for videogames, sports and other pursuits.
What is this "impress women" you speak of? I find your ideas intruging and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Just like the fact people like to decorate their slave boxes... Err... I mean cubicles, people actually like working with fancy high-tech OS technology that they see like the ones in the movies. The affect might wear off after 2,000 hours at working the same dead end job day in and day out, but if it feels like you are on the deck of the enteprise while doing Excel spreadsheets you might feel better about coming into work on time.
First you got a "buildup phase", followed by a very fast "breakthrough" phase, which slows down again, till the process settles on a plateau.
Where is the plateau? Even in the Dark Ages, technology still advanced. (Albeit it was more on the lines of masonry, shipbuilding, arms and weapons manufacturing). A mounted armored knight in the 1200's was comparably better armed than a Roman Legionaire in 100AD.
But I suggest you read his book... I don't agree with everything he says or that a singularity will happen like he says, but he does point out the model of advancment isn't tied directly with a technology itself but all technologies.
In my view, a farm plow might lead to better production that leads to more free time and economic benefits and money gets put on other technologies that latter lead to mass production in factories which leader to further economic benefits and more investment in technologies that eventually lead to more investment into technology.
I remember in the early 1990's there wasn't much of a computer industry. Now most of the poeple I know have some related job to it. Technology generates more jobs which generates more movement in the economy (you know like people with jobs buying new iPods and new computers) which leads to further economic growth. Secondly, technology amplifies productivity in the work place. Not only in the manufacturing arena, but also in corporate offices... From the copiers, to email, to blackberries (heck there are specialists here that handle just those at my work), to server, to the vacuum cleaner repairs, to everything else.
In my view computers haven't even stopped to take a breather since 1994 (when I got my first 486) the evidence is right here in front of us. I bought my first cell phone in 2002. Black and white lcd bulky thing... Yet in 2004 I had a full VGA color slim flip phone.
Sure we might not see StrongAI or a singularitan even, but to say technology isn't improving at a drastic and accelerating rate is just silly.
Well we have flying cars, but I doubt we will see them take off... Errr... No pun intended.
The reason we don't have flying cars today is the highest unnatural cause of death in the United States is car accidents. Could you imagine what would happen if a drunk driver go into a vehicle that could fly 10,000 ft at 300mph into a building or other cars?
So flying cars and jet packs aren't a reality because of humans inability to control moving vehicles with 100% no-accident rate. Once we have pure AI driving our cars it might be more feasible, but we are looking at 2020 at the earliest.
Might I point out that more money is probaly put into the cell phone, telcom, and computers industry than all the world's space programs combined.
The reason we aren't seeing great advancments in our space and nuclear programs is that they are highly centralized and are at the whim of select few if they get funding or not.
However, when technology is decentralized... As in everyone can have a cell phone, broadband, and a computer within their means then those types of technology will advance faster at an accelerating rate. (I hope I don't sound like Kurzweil).
Not everyone can go to the moon... But most everyone in the western world can have an Xbox360. May not mean everyone is going to get one... But more than enough to cause rampant R&D into that industry.
Trust me... I'm shocked myself. I remember a time when we didn't have cell phones, computers with hard drives (I miss my old IBM pc jr), internet, 4-7 channel TVs, and every thing else that is happening now... And I'm only 27.
Things are happening at an accelerating pace... Short of a world disaster or economic depression lik ethe 1930's I doubt we will see a slow down.
Not to Goodwin this thread or anything, but...
It only takes a handful of radicals to lead a greater moderate majority into doing some of the worst atrocities of all time. Just because the majority is moderate, doesn't mean that they will go along wiht the extremists.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_G
Note, Germany had a population of 60+ million people during the war.
I'm not going to compare Islam with National Socialism though... They are not even close and Nazism is probaly the worst thing this planet has faced, but what I am trying to say is that small groups of radicals and extremists can get the avrage Joe out onto the streets killing people left and right.
This isn't just political parties and religions either... But more or less human nature. Check out the Milgram Experiment.
I agree with you. But the same goes for the US. In the cold war - we went from scratch to repeat moon landings in ten years.
May I remind everyone that the US was able to create a space program as quick as it did because of Operation Paperclip and the help of the Nazi V2 researchers like von Braun. Without these guys I'd doubt we'd have beaten ths Soviets (of course the soviets happened to 'borrow 'quite a few of their own scientists during their occupation of easter Europe so it still might have not been them first).
Any Western "implementation" of capitalism is terribly flawed, ask your libertarian friends about it. Yet it works, while socialism doesn't. Think about it.
National Socialism works wonders for an economy. Way better than invisible hand capitalism.
However, they failed on military front... and maybe that was good thing considering what National Socialism is.
A completely solid state camcorder can't work without optical zoom.
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No real camera man uses the built in auto-focus.
According to Microsoft
So as of now it is a wait and see, but I bet I know what Microsoft is up to. I bet they will drop their apple native line apps and just have people buy Virutal PC 8 and buy a windows version. Hey if it works it works...
And yet you bought an ipod.
I got it because I liked my friends iPod. Not because of an ad.
When your normal user has his mind set on performing a specific task (Such as installing the newest spyware-ridden p2p-downloader) you can popup a big red button and naming it "explode", the user will press it if he thinks it will get him closer to performing the task. Putting up a dialog and ask for the root password is for normal users only an obstacle to get by.
:)
Hrm... I didn't know windows had root accounts. Unless you mean Administrator, but from my understanding most people don't have to worry about typing their password in to install that spyware. All you to do is make sure ActiveX is running (which is should be by default) and then point your IE to the appropriate or non-related website and *bam* all that software is install right away no hassle for you
Who needs fancy buttons and second guessing admin passwords that the end user may or may not have.
How do you propose that websites detect the use of an adblocker? (Without seriously degrading the user experience)
Easy, turn your content into flat image files and host them http://doubleclick.net/ so that *.doublick.net/* ad block wild cards will block out the desired content. Err... Well... As long as you don't think that having to read pages of jpegs to be a dragrading experience.
Then what do you propose as a way the companies that deliver the websites you visit and block ads from should cover the costs they have for serving their content to you, plus a little profit ?
You know that big lump of color advertising in the middle of the Sunday newspaper?
Well... I throw that out too without looking at it.
Do you know what I do when a crappy commercial comes on the tube?
Yeah... I change the channel.
Do you know I do when a commerical comes on the radio?
I... err... Well there doesn't seem to be any ads on my iPod. I guess I could put them there, but maybe that is why I stopped listening to the radio on the drive to work.
Truth of the matter is I am an advertisers worst nightmare and I don't really go that far in refusing to view ads.
Its not because I don't like the idea of advertisments, but if the advert interupts my stream of entertainment or causes annoyance... I tend to find a way to stop it or I find another mehtods of entertainment.
Billboards, related ads to entertainment, and entertaining ads will get my eyes and ears.
Obtrusive, non-related ads, and annoying ads will get my immediate disintrest.
Entertainment and information with the ads is just as important as the content... Otherwise if I can't shut out the ads, I'm going to shutout the content.
Why isn't there the same support for Invader Zim? That's what I'd like to know.
No.
1) Because Vasquez would do better if he made an R rated Johnny the Homicidal Maniac cartoon for HBO or slightly bleeped version on Adult Swim.
2) Because Nick Studios doesn't really exist anymore.
3) Because adult Swim would be better for the new series of Invader Zim, but see reason #1.
That is awfully shortsighted and I can't help but think that people that think like you will eventually die off and be replaced by people who don't mind people living forever.
Since, only people who believe that living forever is ok will be around... But seriously people change their mind and what if we still had great minds around today. You are thinking that society improves just by people dying off. Well that is not the case... Society improves by medical, scientific, and technological advancements, not by social doctrines.
No one had to die for Newton, Shakespeare, (and I would have to say that after Cromwell and the puritans took over after the Elizabethans died off that literature and art pretty much died in England for a time), Mozart, Beethoven, and Einstein to come along.
It was pure social and economic reasons and not because a turnover in society. People change their mind given enough stimulus and information.
Hell... Wouldn't it be better if those people were around today? I'm still sure Newton would have loved to have all the tools our scientists have today.
Write the couple years of "no DRM" off to "marketing", and enjoy the heavily DRM'ed future...
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever." - O'Brien (George Orwell's 1984)
Actually, this may be more of a myth than anything, but there are film reels of soviets training dogs for the action.
Apparently, the Germans got wind of it before this was put into practice and Panzer crews killed anything that looked like a dog on contact. There was also the problem that the Germans used gasoline for their tanks and the Soviets used disel which produces slightly different smells so the dogs weren't that effective on own because they were trained on soviet tanks.
What I'm not willing to listen to is, "George Bush is a big liar and he's destroyed the country and that's a bad thing!" My response to people who come up with these kinds of lines is usually, "OK, what specifically is wrong, and how would you fix it?" The usual response to this is that he's a liar and he's destroyed the country and he needs to be removed.
I think the problem that I have is that he is ruining our long term goals.
Don't get me wrong... I voted for Bush in 2000 and abstained in the 2004 election because I didn't like the other side. I actually changed my political party from Republican to independant.
I wouldn't call him a liar, but he either had his facts wrong which means he is incompetant or had an agenda to skew the facts for going to war in Iraq 2003.
Do you realize, that this goes against all of our previous doctrine of first strike of all our presedients.
Yeah, we invaded Panama and Iraq previously, but these were reactionary measures to provocation.
We aren't supposed to be the bad guys. We are supposed to be non-involved unless forced to play our hand.
This has been our policy for over 200 years! Now, we are faced with a possible civil war in which if we pull out we are damned and we don't we are damned as well with the population of Iraq turning on us. It's the Vietnam scenario all over again.
Secondly, we still haven't found Bin Laden nor helped Afghanistan rebuild.
If it was me in the Whitehouse... I'd would have given Pakistan an ultimatium to hand him over or else we invade. Without the war in Iraq we had a blank check and morality on our side to do whatever we needed to do to get him. Now we are seen as a bigger enemy and more as a nation with an agenda.
Some of you might disagree with this, but do you remember the Bush speech where any nation that harbors terrorists would be targeted? We'll we aren't doing that now... That was bothers me about the Bush administration. They are not even trying to do what they said they would do.
And as far as running this country into the ground... What about our almost 8 trillion national debt? I thought being a republican was about being conservative... And not spending our nation into the ground like a Democrat!
I think the only solution we have now is to stick it out until Iraq can keep itself from becoming a vassal of Iran.
Then we will have to distance ourselves from Israel and cut ties with them. After that find alternative fuel sources and pretend the Middle east doesn't exist. That is pretty much our only hope for the future now with dealing with the middle east.
Otherwise, I think homeland security is a waste of money...
We don't need to spend billions of dollars on security on a threat that may never happen and the only thing we needed to do was lock the doors of our airliners to prevent 9/11 from happening again.
And whatever happened to the land of the brave. I'm wiling to die for my freedom, but why are we being cowards about the whole terrorism issue. If we have to live in fear and pass laws like the Patriot Act. Then why bother at all?
I think Bush, Nixon, and Regan were the last real republicans. The guy in the whitehouse is a pretender. But that is my opinion...
Oh and I want to mention this... The whole Dubai Ports incident was to make it so the Republicans in congress can distance themselves from the President so they can have a chance to win the elections come fall. Whether this was a setup by the President or just something the congress critters did on their own... I don't know.
But we will see more of this towards election... But for gods sake. I can't believe how many other Republicans are blindly following Bush. No democrat has done what he has done on this scale... (in fact no Republican either)
I just hope Rudolph Giuliani runs in 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_represe
What will happen is that my tax dollars will be used for that and that my friend is just wrong. I don't care how you roll it up and try to smoke it.
Right now, your tax dollars are funding things from road construction, to educating children, to feeding lazy welfare persons, to corporate CEO's free lunch with a government contract, to a bridge to no where in some other state than yours, finding the cure for cancer, to a million dollar missle landing in a families home in the middle east, to sending a man to mars.
You sir have no idea what your money is being spent on. Nor can you hope to control it.
These things may be very good in your eyes, waste of money, or supporting something that you morally object to.
The best solution in my view is to attempt to pay as little tax as possible... Which is something we can control with good accounting.
"There are no plans at this time to make a Macintosh compatible version."
Guess that means I'll stick with WoW. kthxbye.
What if you could run it in Darwine or dual boot your intel mac into Winxp?
Well then it would be a moot point, but as of now you can't... So we won't...
But maybe we will...
That or hope Virtual PC 8 runs at full speed.
I'd rather return to the "No Standing Army" policy of individual state militias that can be called up to defend our borders in the event of a real declared war.
I like to go back to American government circa 1790's as much as the next person, but Militias have no place in a world that Total War exists. By the time the nations borders are stormed, if there are no standing armies with caches Tanks, Jets, and ballistic missiles then there will not be enough time to counter the invasion.
There is no way to plead ignorance for those who improperly accessed the site.
Right, but from my understanding they are seizing a corporations computers and not the journalists. (I'm assuming the newspaper incorporated for tax and legal reasons)
If one of your employee violates the law or EULA it does not hold the corporation liable nor vice versa with its shareholders. Individuals in the corporation can be prosecuted for wrong doing and the corporation can be fined for wrong doing, but they are two exclusive entities.