This Texan says . . . FUCK WINDPOWER! You fucking jackasses in the NE and left coast are ruining our fucking country side. While a few farmers are benefitting form this raping, the scenery suffers and it requires just as much carbon energy because the wind doesn't ALWAYS blow the way you liberal fucktards do.
It's not going to happen now that you explained it to death, and then picked apart its corpse for good measure.
It's even worse, the OP didn't qoute who he was belittling so now his correction stands out there like a naked British royal, and the horsebeater who replied to that also cuts of his nose to spite his face in laughing at this guy's expense because noone knows what the first guy was talking about. You sir, however, have rightly decimated the second party. I will fall victim to your folly as well, for I am criticizing and commenting without having any context of the original idea put forth for comic value.
Besides, do we really want every funding bill to come out of Congress vetoed?
Yes! =). We can spend money on defense, but other than that let the states fend for themselves. I mean srsly a 3 TRILLION DOLLAR BUDGET! 3 FREAKIN TRILLION DOLLARS! WTF! $3,000,000,000,000.00 I guess when you look at it that way . . . it doesn't look too bad. Congress thinks that they have to pass a whole lot of legislation that should be passed at a state or local level, when really I'd be just as happy to see them sitting in there doing nothing all day.
$3,000,000,000,000.00 just checking, yup it's still a lot.
If you'd watched enough Stargate you would know that it is spelled Goa'uld, Tok'Ra, and Teal'C. You geek license is hereby suspended until you have completed all 10 seasons again, can name the four races, and know who Dan Shea is.
sometime, some day people are going to realize that trading freedom for security gets neither. it is no longer the case where there is a potential for abuse, it IS being abused. your house can be searched without warrent [sic], your calls logged and now an overabundance of security cameras. all of this because some batshit terrorists decided the WTC had to go and now we all pay for it with our freedoms. I am sorry but to me it is plain stupid to sacrifice what made america great just to feel safe against something that has a lower probability of killing people than chocking on food.
Calls have always been logged, ever since there have been telephones. How do you think the phone companies made their money? And if you think that the government can go in there and take the logs without a warrant, then in soviet America the telephone logs you! You don't need to worry until the government threatens to take away your 2nd amendment rights (Oh wait, Hillary Clinton - D. NY DOH!!!). A Colt DA.32-20 may not be the scariest handgun in the world, but it will get the job done.
Oh god that was funny! Other ships ARE just full of white folks. After they click off the viewer other captains probably just shake their head and tell jokes behind Picards back.
The crops we use for Biodiesel are not viable alternatives to fossil fuels - we should begin growing hemp - it's much more suited to that kind of application seeing as how you can get 4 crop cycles to every 1 crop cycle of corn. HempCar
Am I a looney who wants them to legalize marijuana? Sure! But there's greater uses than smoking it.
In China you are only allowed to have 2 children for the good of the state. No reliance on self. If I want to have 10 kids and I can support them through my own work here in the US, more power to me. Hell, I don't even have to support them, the government "pays" for that (through taxation of the upper income earners (not the wealthy, because they don't pay income taxes - only capital gains tax (which your congress and senators won't raise because they know that's where the real money is for themselves and for campaign contributions)) But a communist state has no private ownership - you may have money in the bank and own land, but the Government owns your freedom to choose how many kids you have, what kind of car you drive, how much you will make, which business can be in business, what information is accessible to you - all in the name of the good of the state, and what happens to your ownership when you die over there? What does the state take away? If you have no control over something after you're dead via a will, did you ever have control of it? I know there are people who in the US that would love to exert this kind of control to make the society in their own image, but it's a lot harder to make draconian laws of the magnitude that the Chinese people are subject to.
To sum it up you are just looking at a feudal system - the people with power and the people without. And we have it here too - the Kennedy's have been in political power for so long they are like "royalty". The Kennedy administration was called "Camelot"? WTF is all I gotta say.
Prisons aren't meant to rehabilitate, they are meant to punish. Like AlcAnon Members know, you can only rehabilitate yourself, no one can do it for you. Prison should be a shitty place so that people who end up their want to reform their ways.
You obviously don't think so, but a lot of the people who end up in prison simply lack the decision making framework to decide whether what they are doing is right or wrong; their socialization is such that they think that their behavior is perfectly socially acceptable. Taking something from someone who is smaller than you? Can they do anything about it? Then it's fine. And so forth.
This is such garbage - even if they are unable to distinguish that what they did was wrong, what does that matter when it comes to everyone else having to obey the law. "I killed your whole family last night but I didn't know it was wrong", granted we're not talking about murder here but we are talking about fraud. You do the crime, you do the time.
So notionally, attempting to establish that decision making framework and allowing re entrance to society could be a lot cheaper than feeding and housing someone for years and years. The trick is making it work, and convincing the yahoos that they probably don't want everybody else's morality smacked down on them(which would seem to be consistent with wanting your morality smacked down on everybody else)
SO MUCH TRIPE!!! What is the rule of law if not the collective morality smacked down on those that break the law. I mean we all have to live by it, you can't make special allowances for one person - unless you think it's okay to defraud people, if so let's change the law to make fraud legal! I can defraud better than anyone!
Well, if it's in New York state, they would require actually two people sitting there manually charging you every time you pass each way instead of automating it.
I am my own sysadmin. I LOVE my sysadmin! It's those pitiful other people in the office that wouldn't know firewire from usb. They're the ones who really suck.
Actually, the next time we go to mars the lander should plant something hardy, like a cactus, to see what happens.
A cactus would be a good start but what about a Mesquite Tree, the tap root of a mesquite tree can burrow up to 175 feet in search of water. We can teraform any planet we want with the help of the almighty Mesquite Tree!
But on the subject, I'm sure they'll find a way of hating "Hi-Definition" radio, too.
HD radio is actually an acronym for hybrid digital. The station continues to broadcast the analogue signal but if you have a digital radio receiver you can hear something more similar to mp3s on up to four bands on 1 frequency. The signal is clearer than regular analogue and has no static. It's pretty cool because they can even broadcast IDE tags so you can look at your Radio if you have a display and see what's playing.
This isn't stupid, it's both the right thing to do, and may help land the big one.
Besides, even Republicans hate Cheney. He's an easier target.
What is the big one you are refering to? Evidence that will impeach the president? I doubt very much that there has been any action taken by the president that has not come from consitutional power. He's a man of honor. I know he's an odd duck and you can think him an odd duck, but I seriously doubt that he's done anything that should give the congress grounds for impeachment. And as far as trying to impeach Dick Cheney, it's again a witch hunt. The democrats ran on nothing last year and got voted in on nothing. Now, for fear of complete embarrassment at not being able to do anything in congress, they strike up one witch hunt after another. Cheney's actually my hero. He's quiet, calm, collected, well spoken, and brilliant. I doubt you'll see Republicans who know what Cheney is about throw him under the bus. I know that he probably wouldn't want the office but I would be glad to see him as President.
Earth Grown Athletes would still win Basketball contests due to the bone compression their Gliese 581c breathren would face due to the gravity. But yeah tons of dwares =) would be cool!
so, it's very clear that 'bringing democracy' never, never was a priority in the middle east, it's all about oil, and it always will be. Peace will come when we switch to hydrogen/solar/wind/fusion.
If indeed we did begin to support the revolutionary movement in Iran in the hopes that we would have a better climate to negotiate for oil then yes it was about oil. But if Carter's thirst for a cheap and easy negotiation resulted in the present regimes, then we have Carter to blame for the unrest in the area that has formed terror organizations. Keep them in poverty, due to state control of oil, under dictators, you betcha you're going to have some revolutionaries. The problem with these terrorists is that they are the equivalent of backwater hillbillies, that don't have any clue how to fight for a better country and a better life only how to fight and die because they're depressed and their leaders are telling them they'll be in heaven.
I failed out of my computer science major my first year of college so while I understand what you're saying about databases, I'm not qualified to comment, HOWEVER I have been using a Mac since OS X came out (G4 Powerbook) with iTunes v. 2 I think it was, by v. 4 it had grown into a burdensome music application (which i believe was due to the addition of the store) now we're on v. 7 and they tacked on more bloatware that is fun to look at but can get old after a while and when it comes down to it you want your music to play. It's not a simple matter of indexing a library, it's trying to make that indexing look suavé. I'm a Mac user, and I get a lot out of my computer when using it for 3D rendering from a terminal, but as far as normal user applications go, they work and they're fairly solid and easy on the eyes, but they're aimed at an average user, not someone who is going to be indexing 750 GB of music. Enter Linux -- What do you need the computer to do? Have a really cool look and cool feel while playin my cool tunes? Or index 750 GB of music and launch them faster. So use the code that does exactly what you want it to do and nothing else. As far as trying to explain this stuff to my pointy-haired boss . . . forget about it!
I really wish I had mod points right now because you stole what I was going to say =) . Releasing a product that has to continually be patched because of it's verbosity is not my idea of a good product. When I switched to apple the only time it really screwed up is when I did something that taxed the system, and the software that was built in was like the AM/FM radio in your car. You turn it on and it works. What you are seeing in the bugginess of new hardware/software is simply greed. There hasn't been a better computer since unix.
Do you really support holding all kinds of productive people off the market, dependent, deep in debt at an unnecessarily young age to avoid the horrors of insufficient Shakespeare appreciation?
Dude you're a genius!
I've never met a child that wasn't interested in their surroundings. When I hear of something that I don't know about, I usually go out and check it out myself. Living in a culture that is so connected to massive amounts of information, there are certain things in life you can't avoid. It does seem to me though that there is an intentional slavery being imposed by spreading the common knowledge that you HAVE to go to college. What ever happened to apprenticeships, and if they (corporate/financial/governmental america) REALLY wanted this country to boom they'd be trying to get kids into college by the age of 14. I know that not all children could learn the necessary things at that speed, but we have a generation (to which I belong) of sh!t for brains, cram full of useless propoganda and very little education. If capitalism is so great, start them early. Get them producing incomes as soon as they are able. That's American exceptionalism.
I agree with what you are saying about actors outpricing themselves, but as a CGI artist, CGI is not cheaper. One frame in Monster's Inc took 90 machine hours to render. That's a lot of friggin power and time. It's not the same, I know, but when you consider employing graphic artists that work on compositing one explosion, unless there's some magical formula out there that I don't know about it takes quite some time to get it looking good enough to where you don't laugh and walk out.
I grew up in a live theatre surrounding and work in the video production business now, and there are EXTREMELY! creative ways to cut budgets to pieces which if there were good producer/director teams out there, that's what they would do. CGI should only be used when you are trying to do something that can neither be composited, or done with SFX.
As far as set building goes, again director/producer's can get creative. I bet one of the cheapest movies to make (excluding talent) was the bourne identity stuff. On location shooting with a well trained group of grips and lighting technicians, and the shots weren't even "beautiful". So minus what you had to pay Damon, that could have been a very lucrative production. "Bourne looks through scope, shot of the street, shot of this and that. .." I guess that's all.
This is why XM really hit a chord with me. You can listen to a wide variety of music, not just 4 genries. You can listen to a station 6 hours and not hear the same song twice. And you can listen without commercial interruption!!
Not to sound like a Hybrid Digital Fanboi for FM radio, but single radio frequencies can send multiple streams. So you can have 106.5 channel 1 2 3 4, now maybe with the technology curve (hardware gets cheaper eventually) and putting demand on radio stations (they are in your local towns) you might hear something different on any number of those other stations, like Radiohead songs that aren't Creep. Plus these stations are local so you can call them and make suggestions, especially since they are the "public airways" they are using =). These next few years are going to be a doozy with respect to the technology consumer. BLU-RAY/HD-DVD the move to HD tv, Introduction of HDFM, XM and Sirius (they're going to die if the FCC does not let them merge) not to mention DRM integrated into hardware.
I love Terrestrial Radio, because I love to think I can go down to Radioshack (I really wish there were some other place to get jacks and transistors) buy me some parts and plug it to some speakers and hear music or news or talk w/o breaking the law. In my head this is really turning into one of those "free" arguments (free as in freedom & free as in beer). Open source all technology, and watch it grow as well as our understanding of it. I need more coffee.
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This Texan says . . . FUCK WINDPOWER! You fucking jackasses in the NE and left coast are ruining our fucking country side. While a few farmers are benefitting form this raping, the scenery suffers and it requires just as much carbon energy because the wind doesn't ALWAYS blow the way you liberal fucktards do.
If you'd watched enough Stargate you would know that it is spelled Goa'uld, Tok'Ra, and Teal'C. You geek license is hereby suspended until you have completed all 10 seasons again, can name the four races, and know who Dan Shea is.
I'm crying man!!!
Oh god that was funny! Other ships ARE just full of white folks. After they click off the viewer other captains probably just shake their head and tell jokes behind Picards back.
The crops we use for Biodiesel are not viable alternatives to fossil fuels - we should begin growing hemp - it's much more suited to that kind of application seeing as how you can get 4 crop cycles to every 1 crop cycle of corn. HempCar
Am I a looney who wants them to legalize marijuana? Sure! But there's greater uses than smoking it.
anecdotal evidence
In China you are only allowed to have 2 children for the good of the state. No reliance on self. If I want to have 10 kids and I can support them through my own work here in the US, more power to me. Hell, I don't even have to support them, the government "pays" for that (through taxation of the upper income earners (not the wealthy, because they don't pay income taxes - only capital gains tax (which your congress and senators won't raise because they know that's where the real money is for themselves and for campaign contributions)) But a communist state has no private ownership - you may have money in the bank and own land, but the Government owns your freedom to choose how many kids you have, what kind of car you drive, how much you will make, which business can be in business, what information is accessible to you - all in the name of the good of the state, and what happens to your ownership when you die over there? What does the state take away? If you have no control over something after you're dead via a will, did you ever have control of it? I know there are people who in the US that would love to exert this kind of control to make the society in their own image, but it's a lot harder to make draconian laws of the magnitude that the Chinese people are subject to.
To sum it up you are just looking at a feudal system - the people with power and the people without. And we have it here too - the Kennedy's have been in political power for so long they are like "royalty". The Kennedy administration was called "Camelot"? WTF is all I gotta say.
Prisons aren't meant to rehabilitate, they are meant to punish. Like AlcAnon Members know, you can only rehabilitate yourself, no one can do it for you. Prison should be a shitty place so that people who end up their want to reform their ways.
GOSH DAMN I NEEDS SOME MOD POINTS!!! I almost spit coffee on my keyboard!
An apple may not look like a PC, but you open it up and it'll begin to look real familar to you (except for the lack of disorganized cables).
It's a good thing servers can't scream . . . that would be a frightening thing.
I am my own sysadmin. I LOVE my sysadmin! It's those pitiful other people in the office that wouldn't know firewire from usb. They're the ones who really suck.
HD radio is actually an acronym for hybrid digital. The station continues to broadcast the analogue signal but if you have a digital radio receiver you can hear something more similar to mp3s on up to four bands on 1 frequency. The signal is clearer than regular analogue and has no static. It's pretty cool because they can even broadcast IDE tags so you can look at your Radio if you have a display and see what's playing.
What is the big one you are refering to? Evidence that will impeach the president? I doubt very much that there has been any action taken by the president that has not come from consitutional power. He's a man of honor. I know he's an odd duck and you can think him an odd duck, but I seriously doubt that he's done anything that should give the congress grounds for impeachment. And as far as trying to impeach Dick Cheney, it's again a witch hunt. The democrats ran on nothing last year and got voted in on nothing. Now, for fear of complete embarrassment at not being able to do anything in congress, they strike up one witch hunt after another.
Cheney's actually my hero. He's quiet, calm, collected, well spoken, and brilliant. I doubt you'll see Republicans who know what Cheney is about throw him under the bus. I know that he probably wouldn't want the office but I would be glad to see him as President.
Earth Grown Athletes would still win Basketball contests due to the bone compression their Gliese 581c breathren would face due to the gravity. But yeah tons of dwares =) would be cool!
SBC bought ATT not to long ago and are now using the ATT name.
If indeed we did begin to support the revolutionary movement in Iran in the hopes that we would have a better climate to negotiate for oil then yes it was about oil. But if Carter's thirst for a cheap and easy negotiation resulted in the present regimes, then we have Carter to blame for the unrest in the area that has formed terror organizations. Keep them in poverty, due to state control of oil, under dictators, you betcha you're going to have some revolutionaries. The problem with these terrorists is that they are the equivalent of backwater hillbillies, that don't have any clue how to fight for a better country and a better life only how to fight and die because they're depressed and their leaders are telling them they'll be in heaven.
I failed out of my computer science major my first year of college so while I understand what you're saying about databases, I'm not qualified to comment, HOWEVER I have been using a Mac since OS X came out (G4 Powerbook) with iTunes v. 2 I think it was, by v. 4 it had grown into a burdensome music application (which i believe was due to the addition of the store) now we're on v. 7 and they tacked on more bloatware that is fun to look at but can get old after a while and when it comes down to it you want your music to play. It's not a simple matter of indexing a library, it's trying to make that indexing look suavé. I'm a Mac user, and I get a lot out of my computer when using it for 3D rendering from a terminal, but as far as normal user applications go, they work and they're fairly solid and easy on the eyes, but they're aimed at an average user, not someone who is going to be indexing 750 GB of music. Enter Linux -- What do you need the computer to do? Have a really cool look and cool feel while playin my cool tunes? Or index 750 GB of music and launch them faster. So use the code that does exactly what you want it to do and nothing else. As far as trying to explain this stuff to my pointy-haired boss . . . forget about it!
I really wish I had mod points right now because you stole what I was going to say =) . Releasing a product that has to continually be patched because of it's verbosity is not my idea of a good product. When I switched to apple the only time it really screwed up is when I did something that taxed the system, and the software that was built in was like the AM/FM radio in your car. You turn it on and it works. What you are seeing in the bugginess of new hardware/software is simply greed. There hasn't been a better computer since unix.
I've never met a child that wasn't interested in their surroundings. When I hear of something that I don't know about, I usually go out and check it out myself. Living in a culture that is so connected to massive amounts of information, there are certain things in life you can't avoid. It does seem to me though that there is an intentional slavery being imposed by spreading the common knowledge that you HAVE to go to college. What ever happened to apprenticeships, and if they (corporate/financial/governmental america) REALLY wanted this country to boom they'd be trying to get kids into college by the age of 14. I know that not all children could learn the necessary things at that speed, but we have a generation (to which I belong) of sh!t for brains, cram full of useless propoganda and very little education. If capitalism is so great, start them early. Get them producing incomes as soon as they are able. That's American exceptionalism.
I agree with what you are saying about actors outpricing themselves, but as a CGI artist, CGI is not cheaper. One frame in Monster's Inc took 90 machine hours to render. That's a lot of friggin power and time. It's not the same, I know, but when you consider employing graphic artists that work on compositing one explosion, unless there's some magical formula out there that I don't know about it takes quite some time to get it looking good enough to where you don't laugh and walk out.
." I guess that's all.
I grew up in a live theatre surrounding and work in the video production business now, and there are EXTREMELY! creative ways to cut budgets to pieces which if there were good producer/director teams out there, that's what they would do. CGI should only be used when you are trying to do something that can neither be composited, or done with SFX.
As far as set building goes, again director/producer's can get creative. I bet one of the cheapest movies to make (excluding talent) was the bourne identity stuff. On location shooting with a well trained group of grips and lighting technicians, and the shots weren't even "beautiful". So minus what you had to pay Damon, that could have been a very lucrative production. "Bourne looks through scope, shot of the street, shot of this and that. .
Not to sound like a Hybrid Digital Fanboi for FM radio, but single radio frequencies can send multiple streams. So you can have 106.5 channel 1 2 3 4, now maybe with the technology curve (hardware gets cheaper eventually) and putting demand on radio stations (they are in your local towns) you might hear something different on any number of those other stations, like Radiohead songs that aren't Creep. Plus these stations are local so you can call them and make suggestions, especially since they are the "public airways" they are using =). These next few years are going to be a doozy with respect to the technology consumer. BLU-RAY/HD-DVD the move to HD tv, Introduction of HDFM, XM and Sirius (they're going to die if the FCC does not let them merge) not to mention DRM integrated into hardware.
I love Terrestrial Radio, because I love to think I can go down to Radioshack (I really wish there were some other place to get jacks and transistors) buy me some parts and plug it to some speakers and hear music or news or talk w/o breaking the law. In my head this is really turning into one of those "free" arguments (free as in freedom & free as in beer). Open source all technology, and watch it grow as well as our understanding of it. I need more coffee.