You wouldn't happen to have a rocket that can get there on you would you? And a ship with a life support system that can support a crew for several years, and a drill that can drill through dozens of miles of ice? If so, we can leave tomorrow. My schedule's good.
The sad thing is that the health care program he created is probably actually worse than nothing at all. It's just a big handout to insurance companies. It pisses people off with insurance mandates. And it doesn't even guarantee coverage. All it has *really* guaranteed is that now we'll never have a true single-payer government-backed system in the U.S. Thanks to that hand-out to the insurance industry, we just lost our best, and likely last, chance at the superior (and cheaper) kind of system they have in Canada and the UK.
Did you really think you could threaten the powers-that-be and not have them turn the full force of the government they control on you at some point? Did you really think that just because they supported protests in the Middle East that they would tolerate them HERE against THEMSELVES? Come on.
It's not exactly a secret that Mossad and the IDF were the chief suspects in the creation of Stuxnet. They were even publicizing their new cyber-warfare IDF division not too long before Stuxnet emerged. So I doubt Israel considers this a big secret. In fact, they may well want to publicize the "Threaten us and we can blow up your centrifuges" message it sends.
These are pretty conventional corporate appointments, which leads me to wonder how much longer the Steve Job's aura will last. I think they would have been better off appointing a very charismatic figurehead as CEO (as the *public* face), and then letting the business folks quietly run the show behind the scenes. It's hard to believe that fans will one day cry like their daddy died when Tim Cook or one of these corporate insiders leaves. And Apple has always relied on a certain degree of devotion from their fans (I'll resist the cult comparison) and an image of hipness.
None of those accurately convey the concept. And when that's the case, we sometimes invent new terms. We've done that from the beginning of human language. Are you suggesting we stop?
Not only will they make it, but they'll make it in 3D and charge you an extra $5 for some shit to pop off the screen. Then they'll release five different versions on DVD/blu-ray over the course of the next several years, followed by a full-on theatrical REMAKE--which will start the whole process all over again.
And you know what? As much as fans bitch about it, they'll still shell out their money for every single release (and probably buy the comic book version too).
For a second there I thought the Obama Administration (and government in general, for that matter) had a sudden attack of conscience and decency. For that second I actually got to believe that it was even *remotely* possible that a government official might actually take the side of the vast majority of citizens and consumers in America, as opposed to functioning exclusively as the slavering lapdog of corporate America. In a brief instant I got to see what the U.S. might look like if we were an actual democracy instead of just a poorly-disguised corporatocracy.
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Man, that company has really went downhill.
You wouldn't happen to have a rocket that can get there on you would you? And a ship with a life support system that can support a crew for several years, and a drill that can drill through dozens of miles of ice? If so, we can leave tomorrow. My schedule's good.
It tastes like burning.
The sad thing is that the health care program he created is probably actually worse than nothing at all. It's just a big handout to insurance companies. It pisses people off with insurance mandates. And it doesn't even guarantee coverage. All it has *really* guaranteed is that now we'll never have a true single-payer government-backed system in the U.S. Thanks to that hand-out to the insurance industry, we just lost our best, and likely last, chance at the superior (and cheaper) kind of system they have in Canada and the UK.
Just fucking sad.
Don't worry, I'm sure he'll be giving us a fresh new round of bullshit promises in the Fall when he needs us to vote for him again.
Did you really think you could threaten the powers-that-be and not have them turn the full force of the government they control on you at some point? Did you really think that just because they supported protests in the Middle East that they would tolerate them HERE against THEMSELVES? Come on.
Fools! Didn't they see The Boys From Brazil?!?!?
It's not exactly a secret that Mossad and the IDF were the chief suspects in the creation of Stuxnet. They were even publicizing their new cyber-warfare IDF division not too long before Stuxnet emerged. So I doubt Israel considers this a big secret. In fact, they may well want to publicize the "Threaten us and we can blow up your centrifuges" message it sends.
what he did do was think of what he saw as perfection and not waiver from it
Yeah, him and Hitler.
If we had listened to Negative Nancys like you, we would never have gotten the flying car.
I don't even comment on /. anymore.
The hearings are just theater.
These are pretty conventional corporate appointments, which leads me to wonder how much longer the Steve Job's aura will last. I think they would have been better off appointing a very charismatic figurehead as CEO (as the *public* face), and then letting the business folks quietly run the show behind the scenes. It's hard to believe that fans will one day cry like their daddy died when Tim Cook or one of these corporate insiders leaves. And Apple has always relied on a certain degree of devotion from their fans (I'll resist the cult comparison) and an image of hipness.
I'm sure he'll be standing up to the RIAA any minute now....
gonna be soon.....
he's probably on his way....
just be patient.
plutocracy, oligarchy, and plutarchy
None of those accurately convey the concept. And when that's the case, we sometimes invent new terms. We've done that from the beginning of human language. Are you suggesting we stop?
The Department of Justice is part of the Executive Branch, not Judicial.
Not only will they make it, but they'll make it in 3D and charge you an extra $5 for some shit to pop off the screen. Then they'll release five different versions on DVD/blu-ray over the course of the next several years, followed by a full-on theatrical REMAKE--which will start the whole process all over again.
And you know what? As much as fans bitch about it, they'll still shell out their money for every single release (and probably buy the comic book version too).
Tire sealant.
For a second there I thought the Obama Administration (and government in general, for that matter) had a sudden attack of conscience and decency. For that second I actually got to believe that it was even *remotely* possible that a government official might actually take the side of the vast majority of citizens and consumers in America, as opposed to functioning exclusively as the slavering lapdog of corporate America. In a brief instant I got to see what the U.S. might look like if we were an actual democracy instead of just a poorly-disguised corporatocracy.
Well, it was a nice second.
Anyone who's got a rocket that will get to at least LEO is automatically accepted.
Hey, what happened to all the Apple fans saying the Motorola chips were better?
And Stephen Wright's is even funnier than that.
Hey, what happened to all the Apple fans saying the Motorola chips where better?
Or Starfleet's Lieutenant Commander Data as "data."
Hey, my girlfriend says three inches is perfectly normal!