You should check the names of the list (almost 200 strong).
Many were members of mafia families who donated directly to Bill Clinton, also a matter of direct public record which you can fact-check within 30 seconds.
Next time, instead of living in fantasy land, try Google.
I'm a right-wing loon if I think criminals shouldn't hold cabinet positions? The company Hillary was running was found to have broken the law. Everyone else went to jail. A judge ordered her to turn over court documents, she refused, and everyone let the matter slip because why should she be held accountable to the law?
And Obama isn't holding people to higher standards. He has been appointing people with known corruption issues, and then in many cases standing behind them.
Obama made a campaign promise not to appoint any "Washington politicians or lobbyists" to cabinet positions. He appointed Daschle, who not only didn't pay taxes, but is a Washington lobbyist, who lied about being a Washington lobbyist. Obama said that he supported the appointment either way.
I don't want to start a flame war, but again, if you think one party is evil and the other isn't, then you are probably naive.
I'm a liberal by political beliefs, but I am here to tell you that I have seen a disgusting media spin trying to tell you the past 8 years that all Republicans are evil, and all Democrats are perfect. I work for a newspaper, and I am saddened by the lack of any objective journalism is today's society.
How many cabinet members did Bush have with corruption issues? Bush was an idiot with hard-line values, but he wasn't evil.
The Clintons took money from mafia families and pardoned mafia members and large federal drug traffickers. Both Clintons took money from the Chinese government illegally. Both have shown a blatant disregard for the law.
You're saying Democrats aren't evil because they support welfare, but that view is extremely naive. Bush increased social spending programs, lowered the cost of medicare for senior citizens (which the Democrats fought him on until Ted Kennedy told Congress to drop the partisan bickering and try to do right by the citizens for once), and doubled foreign relief packages for impoverished nations (again which Dems in Washington fought him on because they didn't want Republicans to have an apparent political victory).
Furthermore, our current system of welfare is broken. I believe we need aid agencies, but welfare shouldn't be a lifestyle. That doesn't help anyone. We need massive welfare reform so that welfare becomes a transition program that addresses the issues that stop people from working (be it a lack of transportation, lack of affordable day care, drug addiction, lack of training, etc). Yet oddly enough, it only seems to be Republicans that try to push for said programs while Dems seem to advocate for constantly handing out blank checks.
And don't get me started on corporate welfare, which both parties are very guilty of as of late.
I am curious how and why you think only one party is evil. Again I think you are likely just woefully uninformed.
This is what I keep telling everyone. If you think one party is perfect, and the other is evil, then you are naive. Everyone in Washington is looking out for their own interests, and a good chunk of them are corrupt along both party lines.
Obama appointees who had to resign, the list so far:
* Bill Richardson: grand jury investigation for influence peddling
* Tom Daschle: tax evasion
* Nancy Killefer: tax lien on home for failing to pay unemployment tax for household workers
* Judd Gregg: political differences over stimulus plan
* Annette Nazareth: reason unspecified
* Caroline Atkinson: reason for withdrawal not specified
* Sanjay Gupta: reason unspecified
People who haven't withdrawn, but have had major issues:
* Hilda Solis: husband has 16 years of tax liens against his business
* Tim Geithner: tax problems
* Gary Locke: potentially-suspicious fund-raising history [michellemalkin.com]
* Ron Kirk: failed to pay $10,000 in back taxes
* Hillary Clinton: Whitewater (which apparently she is above the law on).
Will Vivek Kundra be next on the list? Kundra's company was just raided by the FBI.
Add to that how Obama promised to be transparent, but has yet to do so, how he is covering up Bush's email scandal, and Obama actually INCREASING the domestic spy program, and you see that so far Obama isn't much better than Bush.
Dev interviews and on the forums. It came up specifically because it was a difference between FO1/FO2 and Bethesda's past titles like Morrowind and Oblivion.
Everyone assumes web design is as simple as it was 15 years ago, when it reality it has gotten extremely complex. People just tell you to make a web page do something, and they expect you to work like a good little monkey.
That isn't the same feature, and it hasn't fixed my problem. The BOOTIMG file is corrupt, but amazingly enough the new "Startup Repair" tool detects no problems.
A full repair install would replace that file, but they removed the repair install option.
Expansion packs don't sell on Live, and MS had completely controlled how we are delivering a supposedly multi-platform experience. Even though open-ended play after the ending is a feature that we promised, it will only be delivered on Microsoft's platforms, with the purchase of DLC. And after you purchase the three pieces of DLC, you will have spent almost as much as you'd spend on two huge expansions, but you'll get far less content.
At least Microsoft is happy, and we're going to pretend that our PS3 customers basically don't exist.
Please read what I posted. I won't use the final retail version either, because the final retail version won't have this feature either, and I won't be able to repair those.
When administering thousands of PCs, the ability to do a repair install when you get some file corruption (bound to happen) is vital.
That is not the same feature that was removed from XP. You did not read what I posted. There are repair features, which attempt to auto-detect select problems and repair them.
The ability to do a "repair install" was removed, which reinstalls all the Windows file while preserving your registry, user accounts, settings, etc.
The "Repair" feature in 7 fails to detect any problems, even though at boot, it says BOOTIMG is corrupt. A repair install would replace that corrupt file with a working one, but that option no longer exists.
No, actually I'd prefer a system like Linux where I can boot to a LiveCD and do a chroot, but Microsoft isn't about to do that.
I'd prefer a system like Linux where I can stop at init level 3, and repair some low-level aspects of the OS, but Microsoft isn't about to do that.
The automatic repair tool on the DVD (and boot partition) is supposed to detect problems and fix them, but it can't detect any problems, despite the fact that when my computer boots, it starts to load Windows 7, and then says something like BOOTIMG is corrupted.
The Repair Install would replace that with a working file, except that option has been removed. Is there any good reason to remove that tool? No.
This simply is not correct. I thought maybe it was hidden, or in a different place. Microsoft's support confirmed the option was removed, and a Microsoft Evangelist yesterday confirmed that it will not return.
I'd like you to please point me to information that shows where this repair option exists, given that it doesn't.
No, I've booted to the disc, and there is no repair install. Microsoft's support confirmed this option is completely removed and won't be returning. I was also talking to a Microsoft Evangelist yesterday at an Exchange 2007 demo yesterday, and while he said it is an issue he gets a lot of feedback and complaints on, it doesn't look like Microsoft will ever add it back.
I don't think I'll install the RC or the retail product. My Windows 7 partition appears corrupted, and it won't boot. In XP I could do a repair install. With Vista and 7, the option for a repair install was removed. Is there any good reason for this?
I won't run an OS that I can't repair if I need to.
I can certainly understand why AT&T doesn't want you to use Skype to circumvent using minutes if overage charges are their business model. However, they already grossly over charge on data, and many companies seem to be shifting to a $99.99 unlimited everything plan.
Frankly, I think if you asked AT&T if they'd be happy if most of their customers paid $99.99 a month, they'd be thrilled, because it is vastly more than they pay now. And at the same time, if consumers have an unlimited everything plan, they why restrict how they use it? If they want to use Skype to call, as opposed to a normal phone call, then let them.
Be the first company to have the smarts to enable your consumers, and watch consumers to flock to you.
Doesn't Diablo III play itself? Diablo I and Diablo II are technically the best selling computer RPGs of all time, though I use that term loosely. You just click, hope for random loot drops, and click some more. And now Diablo III, you don't drink potions because that is too complicated. So you just click, while mana and life basically auto-replenish. Clearly this was a game that needed to be even simpler.
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Listing facts is trolling, where as unfounded personal attacks with no facts to back them up is untrolling?
Please enlighten me how the parent list is untrue in any facet.
It isn't a conspiracy theory but a matter of public record.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_Bill_Clinton
You should check the names of the list (almost 200 strong).
Many were members of mafia families who donated directly to Bill Clinton, also a matter of direct public record which you can fact-check within 30 seconds.
Next time, instead of living in fantasy land, try Google.
I'm a right-wing loon if I think criminals shouldn't hold cabinet positions? The company Hillary was running was found to have broken the law. Everyone else went to jail. A judge ordered her to turn over court documents, she refused, and everyone let the matter slip because why should she be held accountable to the law?
And Obama isn't holding people to higher standards. He has been appointing people with known corruption issues, and then in many cases standing behind them.
Obama made a campaign promise not to appoint any "Washington politicians or lobbyists" to cabinet positions. He appointed Daschle, who not only didn't pay taxes, but is a Washington lobbyist, who lied about being a Washington lobbyist. Obama said that he supported the appointment either way.
I don't want to start a flame war, but again, if you think one party is evil and the other isn't, then you are probably naive.
I'm a liberal by political beliefs, but I am here to tell you that I have seen a disgusting media spin trying to tell you the past 8 years that all Republicans are evil, and all Democrats are perfect. I work for a newspaper, and I am saddened by the lack of any objective journalism is today's society.
How many cabinet members did Bush have with corruption issues? Bush was an idiot with hard-line values, but he wasn't evil.
The Clintons took money from mafia families and pardoned mafia members and large federal drug traffickers. Both Clintons took money from the Chinese government illegally. Both have shown a blatant disregard for the law.
You're saying Democrats aren't evil because they support welfare, but that view is extremely naive. Bush increased social spending programs, lowered the cost of medicare for senior citizens (which the Democrats fought him on until Ted Kennedy told Congress to drop the partisan bickering and try to do right by the citizens for once), and doubled foreign relief packages for impoverished nations (again which Dems in Washington fought him on because they didn't want Republicans to have an apparent political victory).
Furthermore, our current system of welfare is broken. I believe we need aid agencies, but welfare shouldn't be a lifestyle. That doesn't help anyone. We need massive welfare reform so that welfare becomes a transition program that addresses the issues that stop people from working (be it a lack of transportation, lack of affordable day care, drug addiction, lack of training, etc). Yet oddly enough, it only seems to be Republicans that try to push for said programs while Dems seem to advocate for constantly handing out blank checks.
And don't get me started on corporate welfare, which both parties are very guilty of as of late.
I am curious how and why you think only one party is evil. Again I think you are likely just woefully uninformed.
This is what I keep telling everyone. If you think one party is perfect, and the other is evil, then you are naive. Everyone in Washington is looking out for their own interests, and a good chunk of them are corrupt along both party lines.
Obama appointees who had to resign, the list so far:
* Bill Richardson: grand jury investigation for influence peddling
* Tom Daschle: tax evasion
* Nancy Killefer: tax lien on home for failing to pay unemployment tax for household workers
* Judd Gregg: political differences over stimulus plan
* Annette Nazareth: reason unspecified
* Caroline Atkinson: reason for withdrawal not specified
* Sanjay Gupta: reason unspecified
People who haven't withdrawn, but have had major issues:
* Hilda Solis: husband has 16 years of tax liens against his business
* Tim Geithner: tax problems
* Gary Locke: potentially-suspicious fund-raising history [michellemalkin.com]
* Ron Kirk: failed to pay $10,000 in back taxes
* Hillary Clinton: Whitewater (which apparently she is above the law on).
Will Vivek Kundra be next on the list? Kundra's company was just raided by the FBI.
Add to that how Obama promised to be transparent, but has yet to do so, how he is covering up Bush's email scandal, and Obama actually INCREASING the domestic spy program, and you see that so far Obama isn't much better than Bush.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080812
Dev interviews and on the forums. It came up specifically because it was a difference between FO1/FO2 and Bethesda's past titles like Morrowind and Oblivion.
Everyone assumes web design is as simple as it was 15 years ago, when it reality it has gotten extremely complex. People just tell you to make a web page do something, and they expect you to work like a good little monkey.
That isn't the same feature, and it hasn't fixed my problem. The BOOTIMG file is corrupt, but amazingly enough the new "Startup Repair" tool detects no problems.
A full repair install would replace that file, but they removed the repair install option.
Please try reading next time.
Expansion packs don't sell on Live, and MS had completely controlled how we are delivering a supposedly multi-platform experience. Even though open-ended play after the ending is a feature that we promised, it will only be delivered on Microsoft's platforms, with the purchase of DLC. And after you purchase the three pieces of DLC, you will have spent almost as much as you'd spend on two huge expansions, but you'll get far less content.
At least Microsoft is happy, and we're going to pretend that our PS3 customers basically don't exist.
This far superior alternative can't detect a corrupted boot image and replace it, where as a full repair install replaces all corrupted files.
How is that far superior?
I think the only open aspect of the iPhone is an API for developers to produce apps on that platform.
Please read what I posted. I won't use the final retail version either, because the final retail version won't have this feature either, and I won't be able to repair those.
When administering thousands of PCs, the ability to do a repair install when you get some file corruption (bound to happen) is vital.
That is not the same feature that was removed from XP. You did not read what I posted. There are repair features, which attempt to auto-detect select problems and repair them.
The ability to do a "repair install" was removed, which reinstalls all the Windows file while preserving your registry, user accounts, settings, etc.
The "Repair" feature in 7 fails to detect any problems, even though at boot, it says BOOTIMG is corrupt. A repair install would replace that corrupt file with a working one, but that option no longer exists.
The feature is already missing from Vista, and no corporate customers have demanded that it be put back enough to actually have the feature put back.
No, actually I'd prefer a system like Linux where I can boot to a LiveCD and do a chroot, but Microsoft isn't about to do that.
I'd prefer a system like Linux where I can stop at init level 3, and repair some low-level aspects of the OS, but Microsoft isn't about to do that.
The automatic repair tool on the DVD (and boot partition) is supposed to detect problems and fix them, but it can't detect any problems, despite the fact that when my computer boots, it starts to load Windows 7, and then says something like BOOTIMG is corrupted.
The Repair Install would replace that with a working file, except that option has been removed. Is there any good reason to remove that tool? No.
This simply is not correct. I thought maybe it was hidden, or in a different place. Microsoft's support confirmed the option was removed, and a Microsoft Evangelist yesterday confirmed that it will not return.
I'd like you to please point me to information that shows where this repair option exists, given that it doesn't.
The repair install option was available in the XP Beta as I used it. It has been present since Windows 2000, but disappeared with Vista apparently.
No. I am aware of the reporting features within the OS (which I can't boot to) but I was not aware of a Microsoft bugzilla.
Vista, a non-beta OS also has the feature removed, and the final retail version of 7 won't have the feature either.
I won't run an OS that I can't repair.
No, I've booted to the disc, and there is no repair install. Microsoft's support confirmed this option is completely removed and won't be returning. I was also talking to a Microsoft Evangelist yesterday at an Exchange 2007 demo yesterday, and while he said it is an issue he gets a lot of feedback and complaints on, it doesn't look like Microsoft will ever add it back.
I don't think I'll install the RC or the retail product. My Windows 7 partition appears corrupted, and it won't boot. In XP I could do a repair install. With Vista and 7, the option for a repair install was removed. Is there any good reason for this?
I won't run an OS that I can't repair if I need to.
I can certainly understand why AT&T doesn't want you to use Skype to circumvent using minutes if overage charges are their business model. However, they already grossly over charge on data, and many companies seem to be shifting to a $99.99 unlimited everything plan.
Frankly, I think if you asked AT&T if they'd be happy if most of their customers paid $99.99 a month, they'd be thrilled, because it is vastly more than they pay now. And at the same time, if consumers have an unlimited everything plan, they why restrict how they use it? If they want to use Skype to call, as opposed to a normal phone call, then let them.
Be the first company to have the smarts to enable your consumers, and watch consumers to flock to you.
Doesn't Diablo III play itself? Diablo I and Diablo II are technically the best selling computer RPGs of all time, though I use that term loosely. You just click, hope for random loot drops, and click some more. And now Diablo III, you don't drink potions because that is too complicated. So you just click, while mana and life basically auto-replenish. Clearly this was a game that needed to be even simpler.
A societal division between those who wear pants and those who don't.
Regardless, the comment was facetious and meant to be interpreted as one from a mad man.