Hillary's blind hyper-ambition will put McCain in the White House in 2008. An ugly floor fight at the convention will fracture and humiliate the Democratic party, while McCain just sits back on a pile of cash letting them do all his mud-slinging for him. And in the Fall, even in the wake of a hugely unpopular war and despised president, another Republican will waltz into office with his bible and rifle in hand.
Wasn't it bad enough that her husband spent 8 years undercutting and selling-out the liberals in his own party? Must she now be a Brutus as well? IS Chelsea already planning how SHE is going to fuck us over too?
There is no "thankfully" to it. This pretty much ensures an ugly floor fight which will fracture and humiliate the Democratic party and put John McCain in the White House. It's truly amazing just how far Democrats will go to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Even in the face of the most unpopular war since Vietnam and the most hated Republican president since Nixon, the Democrats still can't pull it together for a win. And even when they do win (as they did in 1992, 1996, and 2006) they immediately fracture, cave-in, sell-out, and generally squander any potential for any real improvement thanks to their laughably weak party discipline.
Frankly, I wish they would just go the way of the Whigs (and take the Republicans with them while they're at it). This country desperately needs a REAL party for liberals, libertarians, and progressives. And God knows neither the undisciplined, spineless Democrat party nor the bible-thumping, war-mongering Republican party are truly serving the people.
...bad for the party. While Clinton and Obama continue to squabble and waste $ fighting each other, McCain will have months to raise money and slowly pound away at both of them (using their own attacks against one another for ammunition). The smart thing to do right now would be for Obama and Clinton to form a unified ticket (with either Obama or Hillary as vice president), but they're both too ambitious and proud for that (typical hyper-ambitious) politicians.
Sometimes I really hate being a Democrat. Sitting back and watching party leaders who seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory time and time again can make you want to weep.
I can answer that question. I used to live in a region right here in the U.S. that had excellent railroad infrastructure but a very poor road infrastructure. It was eastern Kentucky.
Want to guess how well it worked out? Type in "poorest region in the U.S." into Google and look what consistently comes up at the top.
Roads are WAY more important than rails, believe me.
I'm curious to know more about your world--where infrastructure such as roads aren't ABSOLUTELY VITAL to even the most basic economic development. Here in mine; no roads = no industry, no jobs, no development, no hope. No company in their right mind is going to locate their business in any place where there isn't at least a basic transportation infrastructure. And no individual with any sense would live in such a place if they didn't have to (excepting the Ted Kaczynski nutball types).
Roads, electricity, sewage, and plumbing is where you START. If you can't provide those, all the internet access in the world isn't going to help your village (at most, it may help particularly talented individuals to GET OUT of their village).
I would just like to add that I don't even OWN a television, independent cinema is the ONLY cinema as far as I'm concerned, and I wouldn't be caught dead in an SUV.
My anti-phishing mechanism is called "Firefox" and it's much easier than manually typing every goddamn URL I go to just because I can't let go of the crap-ass Safari browser.
I use Firefox and never had any trouble with it. The harsh truth is that Safari sucks ass and pretty much always has. It lags way behind even IE, much less Opera and Firefox.
The great thing about the aperture grille for TV's was that it allowed the Wega line to do 16:9 anamorphic squeeze (giving you as much as 33% more resolution on anamorphic DVD's) back when no other U.S. TV line could do it (and at a bargain price too).
Much as I despise Sony (goddamn their rootkits and DRM), I have to give the Sony Wega TV line kudos. They were easily the best bargain on the U.S. market just a few years ago. They were the only line at the time that did 16:9 anamorphic squeeze (thanks to the innovative Trinitron screen) and their picture quality was top-of-the-line--and all at a price that was on par with everyone else's cheapo models. I bought my Wega 27" inch in 2002 for around $500 and it blew away the much pricier Toshiba models at the time (which had good picture quality but couldn't do anamorphic). Even now, after I've went to HDTV, I still use it in one of my bedrooms. For years the thing ran virtually 24 hours a day and the picture is still as sharp today as when I bought it.
There's a difference between being a figurative dirty girl and being a literal one. Seeing Cally covered in grease is sexy until you have to smell her too.
As someone who edits digital video, I wouldn't buy a machine without one. Mini-DV is still the best consumer/prosumer video format for SD video and Firewire is absolutely the best way to interface a Mini-DV camera with a computer. Not sure about HD video, but Firewire would probably be useful for that too (since most agree that it's faster than USB 2.0).
IF a company can't be constantly selling you NEW products (as opposed to just updates for the old) and using new fear tactics to do it, how can they grow? The AV market basically stagnated, so they started to introduce their new software (to fight phising, adware, etc.) as stand-alones or supplements. Why just incorporate it into your stagnating existing product when you can introduce a whole new line?
The problem there is that (like Cally), she seems to look dirty and unshowered most of the time (particularly when she's drunk and in full Starbuck slut mode). Seeing her naked might just bring more attention to the caked-on grime.
I always gathered that Helo was a little on the "himbo" side (a male ditz). Not sure if that's also true of the actor that plays him, but there are several scenes that come to mind that seemed to indicate that Helo just just isn't that bright. I think this is the reason he comes off as a simpleton (with a bit if childlike innocence in his morality).
Cheap plastics (most of them) tend to off-gas all kinds of nasty stuff over time (including formaldahyde, adipates and Phthalates). This would likely cause the signitures to fade or peel off long before the plastics themselves began to break down.
The best science fiction is always used as a tool to explore the current issues of the day. Whether it's aliens subbing for commies in the 50's, or cylons standing in for terrorists in the 1st season of the new Battlestar Galactica, using science fiction always lets you take a step back from the subject and explore it indirectly in a way that you never could if you made a show that deal with it directly.
The worst for me is the theater. I wish I had a nickel for every time I've went into some R-rated movie only to find some dipshit parents who decided to bring the whole family out to see the slasher-flick-du-jour (including at least one baby with the lung capacity of a deep water diver and the attitude of a Hollywood diva). Makes me cry for the future of my beloved gene pool.
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Wasn't it bad enough that her husband spent 8 years undercutting and selling-out the liberals in his own party? Must she now be a Brutus as well? IS Chelsea already planning how SHE is going to fuck us over too?
Frankly, I wish they would just go the way of the Whigs (and take the Republicans with them while they're at it). This country desperately needs a REAL party for liberals, libertarians, and progressives. And God knows neither the undisciplined, spineless Democrat party nor the bible-thumping, war-mongering Republican party are truly serving the people.
Sometimes I really hate being a Democrat. Sitting back and watching party leaders who seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory time and time again can make you want to weep.
Want to guess how well it worked out? Type in "poorest region in the U.S." into Google and look what consistently comes up at the top.
Roads are WAY more important than rails, believe me.
Roads, electricity, sewage, and plumbing is where you START. If you can't provide those, all the internet access in the world isn't going to help your village (at most, it may help particularly talented individuals to GET OUT of their village).
I would just like to add that I don't even OWN a television, independent cinema is the ONLY cinema as far as I'm concerned, and I wouldn't be caught dead in an SUV.
My anti-phishing mechanism is called "Firefox" and it's much easier than manually typing every goddamn URL I go to just because I can't let go of the crap-ass Safari browser.
I use Firefox and never had any trouble with it. The harsh truth is that Safari sucks ass and pretty much always has. It lags way behind even IE, much less Opera and Firefox.
The great thing about the aperture grille for TV's was that it allowed the Wega line to do 16:9 anamorphic squeeze (giving you as much as 33% more resolution on anamorphic DVD's) back when no other U.S. TV line could do it (and at a bargain price too).
Much as I despise Sony (goddamn their rootkits and DRM), I have to give the Sony Wega TV line kudos. They were easily the best bargain on the U.S. market just a few years ago. They were the only line at the time that did 16:9 anamorphic squeeze (thanks to the innovative Trinitron screen) and their picture quality was top-of-the-line--and all at a price that was on par with everyone else's cheapo models. I bought my Wega 27" inch in 2002 for around $500 and it blew away the much pricier Toshiba models at the time (which had good picture quality but couldn't do anamorphic). Even now, after I've went to HDTV, I still use it in one of my bedrooms. For years the thing ran virtually 24 hours a day and the picture is still as sharp today as when I bought it.
He should have replied "It wasn't a defeat if you were English."
There's a difference between being a figurative dirty girl and being a literal one. Seeing Cally covered in grease is sexy until you have to smell her too.
As someone who edits digital video, I wouldn't buy a machine without one. Mini-DV is still the best consumer/prosumer video format for SD video and Firewire is absolutely the best way to interface a Mini-DV camera with a computer. Not sure about HD video, but Firewire would probably be useful for that too (since most agree that it's faster than USB 2.0).
IF a company can't be constantly selling you NEW products (as opposed to just updates for the old) and using new fear tactics to do it, how can they grow? The AV market basically stagnated, so they started to introduce their new software (to fight phising, adware, etc.) as stand-alones or supplements. Why just incorporate it into your stagnating existing product when you can introduce a whole new line?
The problem there is that (like Cally), she seems to look dirty and unshowered most of the time (particularly when she's drunk and in full Starbuck slut mode). Seeing her naked might just bring more attention to the caked-on grime.
I always gathered that Helo was a little on the "himbo" side (a male ditz). Not sure if that's also true of the actor that plays him, but there are several scenes that come to mind that seemed to indicate that Helo just just isn't that bright. I think this is the reason he comes off as a simpleton (with a bit if childlike innocence in his morality).
Cheap plastics (most of them) tend to off-gas all kinds of nasty stuff over time (including formaldahyde, adipates and Phthalates). This would likely cause the signitures to fade or peel off long before the plastics themselves began to break down.
The best science fiction is always used as a tool to explore the current issues of the day. Whether it's aliens subbing for commies in the 50's, or cylons standing in for terrorists in the 1st season of the new Battlestar Galactica, using science fiction always lets you take a step back from the subject and explore it indirectly in a way that you never could if you made a show that deal with it directly.
Senator John McCain introduces proposal for a multi-year, $50 billion initiative to purchase Sikorsky helicopters for our military.
Are there juke joints and dance halls in this town? Because I'm not living there otherwise.
Depends on how bratty the kid is.
The worst for me is the theater. I wish I had a nickel for every time I've went into some R-rated movie only to find some dipshit parents who decided to bring the whole family out to see the slasher-flick-du-jour (including at least one baby with the lung capacity of a deep water diver and the attitude of a Hollywood diva). Makes me cry for the future of my beloved gene pool.
You'd better make sure and strap parachutes on them if you plan on doing that on my plane.
I'm just glad to finally have a place here in the 21st to buy Mom's Old-fashioned Robot Oil. There's a little love (and Ethylene glycol) in every can.
I wonder if the French Canadians secretly resent having to go to a school called Waterloo.