"The Free market would have most people working 16 hour days 7 days a week"
It would have them working this only if they wanted to. Government really has no business telling a consenting adult that they can't choose to work longer hours and earn more money.
"Spoken like an old web page designer who hasn't seen what the web can do."
Just because you can do it, does it mean you should do it? Bad web design has proliferated because it is so easy to do dark-purple-on-black or light-green-on-orange. But do those who do this ever bother to look at what they have created? The Web should be like an ebook reader. I doubt very much the ebook readers have inchworm-on-pumpkin color schemes and nasty funky fonts. The designers tend to remember the concept of readability more the web designers.
Flash is too accessible to designers. It simply has no place at all in UI design, where its main porpose seems to be to get users to frantically hunt for tiny "Skip Intro" link in order to bypass the terrible and slow and entirely unnecessary flash animation at the front of the page. Putting Flash on the frontpage of your site iss a nice way to tell the users go to to hell: the "brick and mortar" equivalent is to have goatse and tubgirl mannaquins in a clothing store window.
It has a place, and that is limited to online games, online video, cartoons or other such "content".
The site IS poorly designed. I just went to it. I'm not blind, but it is less than the easiest to read the "light gray on white" characters found on the top, and further down, the moronic dark blue on medium blue section. Nice area at the bottom with the dark gray on medium gray too. All that's needed is a better website.
Ever glance at their job application terminals? The mouse device is built into the right side, basically rendering it unusable to anyone who is left handed. They don't even care about a simple and cheap standard like "built-in mouse devices go in the center in the front.".
The liability shield would be needed much less if we could block those blatantly frivolous lawsuits. You know, the guy who jumps off a ladder and then successfully sues the ladder company, or the lady who spills coffee in her lap and then successfully sues the company that sold her the coffee. The lawsuits that don't pass the smell test....
"Flash-only sites are crap, and a blight on the internet, yes. But how often have problems been really SOLVED by adding new laws?"
Yeah, we all know how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made discrimination problems worse. And who needed that Emancipation Proclamation anyway? Unnecessary government intervention in private market matters.
"Why not raise it across the board? Googling for "CAFE mpg 2000" and "CAFE mpg 2006" is revealing."
Why not leave it to the car buyers entirely? I don't begrudge car buyers who go "through the loophole" to get SUVs because CAFE forces car companies to build little fimsly unsafe low-capacity cars that nobody wants.
"The endless attempts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge are not "running away", either"
They should not run away: the drilling is a great idea. However, I support extremely rigid limitations on the impact above ground in ANWR.
"Their [China's] emission levels are also increasing about three times as fast as in the US."
Thank you so much, Kyoto Protocols. China is striving hard to meet reach the higher levels of emmissions that you mandate for it! Success is around the corner!
"Media control by corporations making deals with incumbents for more media power has ruined the competition between the media and the government"
Liability laws and other situations encourage any but the smallest businesses and organizations to organize into a corporation. You'd be surprised at how much of the media is run by a corporation: including "Democracy Now".
"When they already called for his resignation outside "election season" (whenever that is, now that Republicans do nothing but campaign their entire term)?"
Both parties abuse the power of incumbency to campaign; neither is worse than the other. That's why I lean more and more toward the idea of a term limit of one single term.
"The likelyhood that simple RF is how advanced cultures communicate is ludicrous"
No offense, but you have no idea what you are talking about. We cannot generalize based on a set of ONE. We have no idea at all if it is likely OR unlikely that aliens would use radio, just like we have no idea if there are any aliens or not and what they are like.
You are not near as bad, however, as the guy who knew so much (based on a sample of one) that he was able to generalize that the only viable life form for any alien civilization was a two-armed two-meter-tall biped with one head that had hair on it. I think he watched too much "Star Trek."
"Most importantly, don't skimp on a website. Consumers take seconds to decide if they're going to do business with you based on your site."
If you skimp on the site, it won't take too many seconds to load. Look at www.google.com. Pretty skimpy, right? I understand it is an extremely popular page. Then go to www.msnbc.com. A slow-loading ugly colored jumble. I don't think they skimped here. That's why I never go to the site except to point it out as an example of how not to do a site.
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"The Free market would have most people working 16 hour days 7 days a week"
It would have them working this only if they wanted to. Government really has no business telling a consenting adult that they can't choose to work longer hours and earn more money.
"Spoken like an old web page designer who hasn't seen what the web can do."
Just because you can do it, does it mean you should do it? Bad web design has proliferated because it is so easy to do dark-purple-on-black or light-green-on-orange. But do those who do this ever bother to look at what they have created? The Web should be like an ebook reader. I doubt very much the ebook readers have inchworm-on-pumpkin color schemes and nasty funky fonts. The designers tend to remember the concept of readability more the web designers.
Flash is too accessible to designers. It simply has no place at all in UI design, where its main porpose seems to be to get users to frantically hunt for tiny "Skip Intro" link in order to bypass the terrible and slow and entirely unnecessary flash animation at the front of the page. Putting Flash on the frontpage of your site iss a nice way to tell the users go to to hell: the "brick and mortar" equivalent is to have goatse and tubgirl mannaquins in a clothing store window.
It has a place, and that is limited to online games, online video, cartoons or other such "content".
Are the cops questioning Stephen King?
"Serving Asians does not place an additional cost to the restaurant."
Why, because they tend to be a little shorter and are thus easier to roast?
"yet imply that the two are related"
Both are civil rights issues, so they are related.
Genetically-engineered machine pageant? Ah. Just make sure to let me know when Number 6 shows up for the swimsuit competition segment.
The site IS poorly designed. I just went to it. I'm not blind, but it is less than the easiest to read the "light gray on white" characters found on the top, and further down, the moronic dark blue on medium blue section. Nice area at the bottom with the dark gray on medium gray too. All that's needed is a better website.
Ever glance at their job application terminals? The mouse device is built into the right side, basically rendering it unusable to anyone who is left handed. They don't even care about a simple and cheap standard like "built-in mouse devices go in the center in the front.".
The liability shield would be needed much less if we could block those blatantly frivolous lawsuits. You know, the guy who jumps off a ladder and then successfully sues the ladder company, or the lady who spills coffee in her lap and then successfully sues the company that sold her the coffee. The lawsuits that don't pass the smell test....
If it ends up banning flash from being a part of web site's UI, it's got my vote.
"You say that now, but I'm sure you'll sing a different tune if you go blind or deaf."
"Georgia, Georgia, The whole day through Just an old sweet song Keeps Georgia on my mind...."
"Flash-only sites are crap, and a blight on the internet, yes. But how often have problems been really SOLVED by adding new laws?"
Yeah, we all know how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made discrimination problems worse. And who needed that Emancipation Proclamation anyway? Unnecessary government intervention in private market matters.
"Not to sound insensitive to those with disabilities, but why not simply let the market push the matter?"
Just like the market solved Jim Crow. No intervention by the government necessary at all.
"Why not raise it across the board? Googling for "CAFE mpg 2000" and "CAFE mpg 2006" is revealing."
Why not leave it to the car buyers entirely? I don't begrudge car buyers who go "through the loophole" to get SUVs because CAFE forces car companies to build little fimsly unsafe low-capacity cars that nobody wants.
"The endless attempts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge are not "running away", either"
They should not run away: the drilling is a great idea. However, I support extremely rigid limitations on the impact above ground in ANWR.
"Their [China's] emission levels are also increasing about three times as fast as in the US."
Thank you so much, Kyoto Protocols. China is striving hard to meet reach the higher levels of emmissions that you mandate for it! Success is around the corner!
"Media control by corporations making deals with incumbents for more media power has ruined the competition between the media and the government"
Liability laws and other situations encourage any but the smallest businesses and organizations to organize into a corporation. You'd be surprised at how much of the media is run by a corporation: including "Democracy Now".
"When they already called for his resignation outside "election season" (whenever that is, now that Republicans do nothing but campaign their entire term)?"
Both parties abuse the power of incumbency to campaign; neither is worse than the other. That's why I lean more and more toward the idea of a term limit of one single term.
Google Buys Apple.
"If it fails, test yourself for Vulcan blood."
I thought I scrubbed it all off! I'll be more careful next time.
Yes, we know Fox News never has reports or correspondents that criticize the current administration.
Sorry, that one was new to me. I'm the only person in the world who didn't really like this movie.
"The likelyhood that simple RF is how advanced cultures communicate is ludicrous"
No offense, but you have no idea what you are talking about. We cannot generalize based on a set of ONE. We have no idea at all if it is likely OR unlikely that aliens would use radio, just like we have no idea if there are any aliens or not and what they are like.
You are not near as bad, however, as the guy who knew so much (based on a sample of one) that he was able to generalize that the only viable life form for any alien civilization was a two-armed two-meter-tall biped with one head that had hair on it. I think he watched too much "Star Trek."
"Most importantly, don't skimp on a website. Consumers take seconds to decide if they're going to do business with you based on your site."
If you skimp on the site, it won't take too many seconds to load. Look at www.google.com. Pretty skimpy, right? I understand it is an extremely popular page. Then go to www.msnbc.com. A slow-loading ugly colored jumble. I don't think they skimped here. That's why I never go to the site except to point it out as an example of how not to do a site.
Was wondering, but was not sure. Many forget that Iraq is entirely an Asian nation.