It just so happens that Liu Xiaobo was/is an ardent supporter of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which probably gave the USA even more cause to support him. I don't understand how on earth you can give a peace prize to someone who supports war. What a joke.
SD content looks pretty much the same as a regular TV imo. I'm not much of a gamer so I can't comment on that. I haven't really tried to sell my CRT but I can't imagine I would get too much for it if I did. I feel like I've gotten my money's worth out of it though, since I've had it for about 7-8 years now.
I do also have a flat panel 1080p monitor from benQ as well, which does have hdmi. But it's only 24" and my CRT is 30" so I still use the CRT for general purpose TV and movies.
I've had an older CRT HDTV for years, that doesn't have HDMI inputs. I'll be damned if I have buy a new TV just to get HDMI. Although it's only 1080i/720p it still works fine...
The only two reasons to buy intel are if you need to use less power or if you want the heavy lifting of a thousand dollar cpu for intense computation or benchmark ego masturbation.
Or if you enjoy Mac software or intend to develop iOS apps.
I used an e71 for a while and Nokia's hardware is second to none. They still make the best keyboards you can get on a phone. I wish my Droid's keyboard was made by them. I might actually be interested in buying a Nokia that was running something other than Symbian.
Hmm it seems to me like you are the one who is confusing the two. You cant seriously claim that moving a relatively few troops from one country to another and calling Iraq "done" is a reasonable definition of withdrawl. Obama is still willingly in the midst of two wars and will be for a long time. There is no denying that simple fact.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Giving the prize to enthusiastic warmongers just totally destroys the credibility of someone who is supposedly trying to promote peace. And there are more than a handful who have won the prize in the past 100 years, many of whom I didn't even list. You can't be promoting wars and be for peace at the same time. This is the purest example of orwellian doublethink.
2009 BARACK OBAMA - escalator of Bush's wars, clearly has made them his own.
1919 Woodrow Wilson - drug the US into the first world war based on lies, despite running on keeping US out.
1925 Austen Chamberlain - British war imperialist who opposed Irish independence.
Charles Gates Dawes - For his collecting war reparations from Germany
Lots of other warmongers on the list, which I'm too lazy to add. There might be a few who honestly deserved it but there are more than a few who led campaigns that are the exact opposite of peace.
It's not up till November. So there should a few decent choices by then. My city is supposed to have Verizon and T-mo 4g. As long as it works at my office downtown I will be happy.
Not sure I agree with you there. Seems to me like government is the one who forces me, through the threat of violence, to purchase their substandard "services" through involuntary taxes. Not the people sitting in boardrooms. Apple has never forced me to buy their iPods.
They've done it before too. It's called "social security numbers". I really doubt identity theft would be such a bad problem if the government didn't encourage their use as a catch-all ID number for everyone.
perhaps someone show go tweet some support for Wikileaks. would love to see the state department renig on their promise if that were to become the most re-tweeted.
So you think in a true marketplace we'd still have multiple carriers? I somehow doubt it.
Yes, I think we would, because that's how it was with the standard utilities before they became monopolized by the government. I don't know how everyone can get away with claiming we have a free market in telecom when we haven't for over 100 years. We never even gave it a chance. There used to be 200 electric companies in my section of Ohio. It's a simple matter of history. You can even see that on the wikipedia page for Ohio Edison.
For much of its history, AT&T and its Bell System functioned as a legally sanctioned, regulated monopoly. The fundamental principle, formulated by AT&T president Theodore Vail in 1907, was that the telephone by the nature of its technology would operate most efficiently as a monopoly providing universal service. Vail wrote in that year's AT&T Annual Report that government regulation, "provided it is independent, intelligent, considerate, thorough and just," was an appropriate and acceptable substitute for the competitive marketplace.
The United States government accepted this principle, initially in a 1913 agreement known as the Kingsbury Commitment.
We accepted government consolidation and monopolization of the utility companies under the assumption that it would be better to have regulation than competition. Then it somehow gets blamed on free market competition. Well, I think it's safe to say it was a dismal failure...
A modicum of due diligence would help you, poor misguided coward. The SEC didn't bother to start investigating Enron until after their shares had already plummeted by 83% in one year.
Enron collapsed as soon as we discovered they were doing wrong. That was the whole point. Nowadays, the wrongdoers get bailed out by taxpayer money, and keep on doing wrong without repercussion.
AT&T and Time Warner exist in their current form solely because of government regulation, consolidation, and franchise of past utility companies, under the guise of "natural monopoly". Government is still the reason there is no competition. If it wasn't for that, there would still be several competing utility companies in my town.
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It just so happens that Liu Xiaobo was/is an ardent supporter of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which probably gave the USA even more cause to support him. I don't understand how on earth you can give a peace prize to someone who supports war. What a joke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#Political_views
Good point. This guy could have lost a lot more had he gotten a traditional marriage and divorce in the USA.
Hmm, I didn't mind that so much. That Humilton guy was kind of a douche, imho.
SD content looks pretty much the same as a regular TV imo. I'm not much of a gamer so I can't comment on that. I haven't really tried to sell my CRT but I can't imagine I would get too much for it if I did. I feel like I've gotten my money's worth out of it though, since I've had it for about 7-8 years now.
I do also have a flat panel 1080p monitor from benQ as well, which does have hdmi. But it's only 24" and my CRT is 30" so I still use the CRT for general purpose TV and movies.
I've had an older CRT HDTV for years, that doesn't have HDMI inputs. I'll be damned if I have buy a new TV just to get HDMI. Although it's only 1080i/720p it still works fine...
It's a promising concept. But from the reviews I've seen, their implementation of Linux is pretty severely flawed. :(
So I'll be waiting for next year.
Or if you enjoy Mac software or intend to develop iOS apps.
Any guesses as to whether these congress liars support the USA's foreign aid given backing the same dictator over the past 30 years?
I used an e71 for a while and Nokia's hardware is second to none. They still make the best keyboards you can get on a phone. I wish my Droid's keyboard was made by them. I might actually be interested in buying a Nokia that was running something other than Symbian.
I don't think it's nuts. It's only $70 more than the 32gb 3g ipad. And it's got faster hardware and dual cameras. Pretty comparable imho.
Hmm it seems to me like you are the one who is confusing the two. You cant seriously claim that moving a relatively few troops from one country to another and calling Iraq "done" is a reasonable definition of withdrawl. Obama is still willingly in the midst of two wars and will be for a long time. There is no denying that simple fact.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Giving the prize to enthusiastic warmongers just totally destroys the credibility of someone who is supposedly trying to promote peace. And there are more than a handful who have won the prize in the past 100 years, many of whom I didn't even list. You can't be promoting wars and be for peace at the same time. This is the purest example of orwellian doublethink.
2010 LIU XIAOBO - ardent supporter of President Bush's wars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_xiabo#Political_views
2009 BARACK OBAMA - escalator of Bush's wars, clearly has made them his own.
1919 Woodrow Wilson - drug the US into the first world war based on lies, despite running on keeping US out.
1925 Austen Chamberlain - British war imperialist who opposed Irish independence.
Charles Gates Dawes - For his collecting war reparations from Germany
Lots of other warmongers on the list, which I'm too lazy to add. There might be a few who honestly deserved it but there are more than a few who led campaigns that are the exact opposite of peace.
So they will probably be fine in the long run.
Most apps that I find useful rely on having an internet connection. Games might be the only exception.
It's not up till November. So there should a few decent choices by then. My city is supposed to have Verizon and T-mo 4g. As long as it works at my office downtown I will be happy.
3g is done. I'm waiting for a good 4g phone when my Droid's contract runs out.
Not sure I agree with you there. Seems to me like government is the one who forces me, through the threat of violence, to purchase their substandard "services" through involuntary taxes. Not the people sitting in boardrooms. Apple has never forced me to buy their iPods.
They've done it before too. It's called "social security numbers". I really doubt identity theft would be such a bad problem if the government didn't encourage their use as a catch-all ID number for everyone.
perhaps someone show go tweet some support for Wikileaks. would love to see the state department renig on their promise if that were to become the most re-tweeted.
I started off really low, in the middle of the dot com bust. Still haven't made it up to 87k yet. :(
Yes, I think we would, because that's how it was with the standard utilities before they became monopolized by the government. I don't know how everyone can get away with claiming we have a free market in telecom when we haven't for over 100 years. We never even gave it a chance. There used to be 200 electric companies in my section of Ohio. It's a simple matter of history. You can even see that on the wikipedia page for Ohio Edison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Edison#Ohio_Edison
It's important to know that it doesn't say WHO consolidated them. That's because we all know the government is who did it.
Even on the AT&T page, we can even see that on A Brief History: The Bell System
http://www.corp.att.com/history/history3.html
We accepted government consolidation and monopolization of the utility companies under the assumption that it would be better to have regulation than competition. Then it somehow gets blamed on free market competition. Well, I think it's safe to say it was a dismal failure...
A modicum of due diligence would help you, poor misguided coward. The SEC didn't bother to start investigating Enron until after their shares had already plummeted by 83% in one year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/business/sec-opens-investigation-into-enron.html
What was the government doing the whole time Enron was stealing all this money? Hmmm?
Enron collapsed as soon as we discovered they were doing wrong. That was the whole point. Nowadays, the wrongdoers get bailed out by taxpayer money, and keep on doing wrong without repercussion.
AT&T and Time Warner exist in their current form solely because of government regulation, consolidation, and franchise of past utility companies, under the guise of "natural monopoly". Government is still the reason there is no competition. If it wasn't for that, there would still be several competing utility companies in my town.
http://mises.org/journals/rae/pdf/RAE9_2_3.pdf
It's easier to control companies. Just don't purchase their services. There is a reason Enron doesn't exist anymore...