that's the reason why we didn't have robust public option for Healthcare, because Obama and the congress are bitches of the megacorporations. beyond hot-button issues, the core problem of either republican or democratic party is that they serve the Oligarchs, not the people. This is why the bailout proceeded against the wishes of the majority (started under Bush, continued under Obama who is just another Bush).
The solution is to throw the bums out, and not to replace them with more bums from the same two flop houses.
the mono framework is inferior crap, F-Spot regularly crashes and often brings down x display manager with it.
you MS shill boys are amusing. Microsoft has done so much evil over the last 20 years, stifling innovation and competition, and you want to pretend it's professional and balanced to treat them as a normal company.
maybe the state can come and put them in adult diapers and feed them from a nipple too
reminds me of the uproar last week over some celebrity cunt using "rape" as a euphemism for privacy violation by paparazzi. oh, the insensitivity! we're degenerating into a bunch of wussified pansies with giant chips on our shoulders searching for something by which to be gravely offended.
so what, the 1% of U.S. electricity that comes from refined oil products is insignificant. In the power generation industry where I used to work, we called those little chicken-shit oil burners "popcorn poppers".
it is a fallacy to continue to believe man can do more than a robot in near-earth space. Anything a human can do could have been by remote control. We've made the space program extremely wasteful by bothering to send humans. Some also believe the nonsense that humans in space help us toward the goal of colonizing space, but the truth is that the means we support humans in space now have nothing to do with how a self-sustaining colony would operate and in fact only degrade human health such that long term existence in space would be impossible. Incredible the tens of billions of dollars we've burned to no purpose.
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I've only seen half of one Lost episode in my life, and I thank you for confirming my determination that it would have been an utter waste of life to watch.
had to laugh at "unless you live in a hatch somewhere" phrase in the article, seems to me that would describe the viewing audience. well ok, I'm just as bad, I love anime, waiting for Black Lagoon OVAs, 8th episode of Hellsing Ultimate, Shana third season, etc.etc.
remote control is also possible. The jobs the air force have in mind don't require such ability, and the savings of not having resource-wasteful human beings is enormous.
"We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. " -- Dwight D Eisenhower, 1961
but that's also what the "liberal progressives" who control the U.S. education system do also, and I happen to believe they are even more evil and bad than the conservatives of Texas (who I'll admit are also wrong).
The mainstream teachings of the causes of most major wars are wrong, the driving forces behind economics are wrong, who really wields power.....all bullshit served up by the bucket in the public schools.
"rewriting history" is just accusation against someone that doesn't believe your incorrect version of history. The federal government doesn't get to say what history is, neither do you.
bah, other mega-corporations with lawmakers in their pockets also rule the world, and as for religions of executives in the banking cartel in western civilization, there are muslims, christians, atheists as well as jewish people.
hardly, that's just local people deciding how their local schools will be. I find the DOE to be even more like the Taliban, trying to force a political agenda and philosophy on the whole nation. The DOE should be eliminated, the federal government abolished from children's education.
Four years ago slightly over half of the 60-69 year olds were online in the U.S. So yeah, still a major chunk that weren't. But give it five more years, when the 72% of the 50-59 (in that 2006 report) get there and also there are new recruits....
But to bolster your argument, that still means in about 2016 there could be 25% or so of the 60-69 who get their information Not From The Internet, perhaps from TV or radio or newspaper
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that's the reason why we didn't have robust public option for Healthcare, because Obama and the congress are bitches of the megacorporations. beyond hot-button issues, the core problem of either republican or democratic party is that they serve the Oligarchs, not the people. This is why the bailout proceeded against the wishes of the majority (started under Bush, continued under Obama who is just another Bush).
The solution is to throw the bums out, and not to replace them with more bums from the same two flop houses.
The promises are largely meaningless and empty.
http://www.osnews.com/story/21858/FSF_Microsoft_s_Community_Promise_Empty_
the mono framework is inferior crap, F-Spot regularly crashes and often brings down x display manager with it.
you MS shill boys are amusing. Microsoft has done so much evil over the last 20 years, stifling innovation and competition, and you want to pretend it's professional and balanced to treat them as a normal company.
maybe the state can come and put them in adult diapers and feed them from a nipple too
reminds me of the uproar last week over some celebrity cunt using "rape" as a euphemism for privacy violation by paparazzi. oh, the insensitivity! we're degenerating into a bunch of wussified pansies with giant chips on our shoulders searching for something by which to be gravely offended.
mostly out of favor nowadays
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
so what, the 1% of U.S. electricity that comes from refined oil products is insignificant. In the power generation industry where I used to work, we called those little chicken-shit oil burners "popcorn poppers".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_incarceration_timeline-clean.svg
it's a big business, and also helps the ongoing transition to a police state.
it is a fallacy to continue to believe man can do more than a robot in near-earth space. Anything a human can do could have been by remote control. We've made the space program extremely wasteful by bothering to send humans. Some also believe the nonsense that humans in space help us toward the goal of colonizing space, but the truth is that the means we support humans in space now have nothing to do with how a self-sustaining colony would operate and in fact only degrade human health such that long term existence in space would be impossible. Incredible the tens of billions of dollars we've burned to no purpose.
goatse man, is that you?
fedora fucked up my data. fedora 9...worst....fedora...release....ever!
some hp executives sure have owned yachts, one even had to pay involuntary manslaughter fine in France for yacht collision.....
his is not the most powerful position in the world, he is manager of a local branch office
no, but it explains why the ride will always be at least a little bit bumpy
and that's still operating at a higher level than what you have just done with your comment
I heard Alan Turing sucked at being a boyfriend
I've only seen half of one Lost episode in my life, and I thank you for confirming my determination that it would have been an utter waste of life to watch.
had to laugh at "unless you live in a hatch somewhere" phrase in the article, seems to me that would describe the viewing audience. well ok, I'm just as bad, I love anime, waiting for Black Lagoon OVAs, 8th episode of Hellsing Ultimate, Shana third season, etc.etc.
just as a tiny example, the public schools teach in the elementary grades that the U.S. Civil War was started and fought over slavery.
remote control is also possible. The jobs the air force have in mind don't require such ability, and the savings of not having resource-wasteful human beings is enormous.
putting people in space add huge unnecessary expense to a job that can be done by machine.
"We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. " -- Dwight D Eisenhower, 1961
but that's also what the "liberal progressives" who control the U.S. education system do also, and I happen to believe they are even more evil and bad than the conservatives of Texas (who I'll admit are also wrong).
The mainstream teachings of the causes of most major wars are wrong, the driving forces behind economics are wrong, who really wields power.....all bullshit served up by the bucket in the public schools.
the version of history taught by most public schools is incorrect also. I'm only saying the people of Texas have a right to do what they are doing.
"rewriting history" is just accusation against someone that doesn't believe your incorrect version of history. The federal government doesn't get to say what history is, neither do you.
bah, other mega-corporations with lawmakers in their pockets also rule the world, and as for religions of executives in the banking cartel in western civilization, there are muslims, christians, atheists as well as jewish people.
hardly, that's just local people deciding how their local schools will be. I find the DOE to be even more like the Taliban, trying to force a political agenda and philosophy on the whole nation. The DOE should be eliminated, the federal government abolished from children's education.
Four years ago slightly over half of the 60-69 year olds were online in the U.S. So yeah, still a major chunk that weren't. But give it five more years, when the 72% of the 50-59 (in that 2006 report) get there and also there are new recruits....
http://www.oasis-project.eu/index.php/lang-en/component/content/24?task=view&cat=14
But to bolster your argument, that still means in about 2016 there could be 25% or so of the 60-69 who get their information Not From The Internet, perhaps from TV or radio or newspaper