Then you are one of those with a non-literal interpretation of the bible. You should try to keep in mind that there are a great number of people out there who take exactly what is said as the absolute truth in a very literal way. They think God is a man, but perfect and omnipotent, that adam was made from mud, and that eve is a rib bone. They fear snakes as satan manifested on earth, the whole ball of wax.
I do not share those beliefs, but they are not at all uncommon.
Did anyone else ever play a little playground game my friends and I dubbed "launch?" Basically, what we did is this:
1. Find a small person on the playground. Place them at the end of a teeter-totter/see-saw 2. Find a larger kid, have him stand on the fulcrum. 3. Small child wraps arms and legs around his/her end as tightly as possible. 4. Larger child runs out to end of see-saw, catapulting child A
The goal of the game was to not let go, lest you go flying into the air and down onto the ground rather painfully. It was great fun.
I've always wondered why I don't see those beautiful merry-go-rounds and teeter-totters in playgrounds anymore:(
Yes, please do. Lets continue to compare and contrast things that either show that you don't like how photoshop implemented a feature, or how you cannot find a feature vs. how GIMP is missing features completely.
Software is so far behind hardware at the moment, it isn't even funny. I mean, have you played WoW lately?
Besides, I hate to bust people's bubble who play FPS games on their fancy gaming rigs, but the highest framerate your puny consumer LCDs can get is 60fps. Anything more is dropped due to the 60hz refresh rate.
Maybe for some people, jobs aren't the #1 issue, and we are voting on other issues. Perhaps to someone, what is important is different from what is important to you. So, with that said, I will be voting neither as a geek nor as a working class schmoe. Instead, I'll be voting as a lover of freedom interested in preserving my personal liberties. Other people will be voting as lovers of safety and the status quo interested in having their life led for them. Yet others will be voting on issues such as abortion, etc.
But no, I will not vote as you tell me to either way. I will vote the way *I* feel is important because it isn't your decision to decide what is the matter with my vote.
Disk saves still go to the HDD, it just keeps all the files loaded into local memory. So, a power failure is no more or less catastrophic assuming you regularly press CTRL+S.
The telecoms have immunity right now anyway because congress is a bunch of pansy-assed no-gooders who refuse to do anything that counts. For instance, lets see them address state secret priviledges -- ohh, that's right, there will not *ever* be a successful lawsuit against the telecoms until that one gets addressed.
Need I remind you of a previous *CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRTY* into the NSA that went something like this:
Congress: NSA, you are under investigation for some bad illegal shit! NSA: Oh, ok. Congress: Give us access to your secret files proclaiming your guilt, now! NSA: I'm sorry, you do not have security clearance for that. Congress: Golly gee, ok investigation over. Now, back to this bill on why my district needs $300,000 to help study the effect of prolonged exposure to tree sap on surfaces of operating tables in a hospital, run by my good friend (insert good friend's name here).
If you think this is funny, then read the God Damned News and Wake the Fuck Up.
Yes, you are right. The constitution does give us specific capabilities to deal with a government that has become too big and powerful to be corrected. It involves the right for you and I to have a gun.
However, I would much rather try to swing popular support to someone like Ron Paul, who espouses personal freedom and constitutional values, than begin a second civil war in this country. I mean, at the end of the day, we all live pretty good lives here in the USA -- the battle being fought is for the future. We are trying to reverse a decline, not pull the country out of the gutter.
So, I will continue to support people like Ron Paul who voice a pure and respectable ideology rather than sleezy politicians who are concerned with being caught doing something crooked rather than trying to do The Right Thing.
The reason you give them another voice to follow is because it is much easier to join up with another member of congress on an idea -- to let the other person be the guy who gets the bad rep when things go wrong -- than to try and convince your own wormy slimy politician rep to try and do something original like vote against a popular bill.
Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Ron Paul. That seems to be the correct answer to all these issues that keep popping up.
And yet he's viewed as a kook. What's that you're saying now? It's a damn shame he doesn't have Reagan's charisma, because it would be a tremendous step in the right direction if Ron Paul could sit in the Oval Office for a few years.
Since he obviously won't win, then the next best thing you can do is write to your representative and senators *with snail mail* and voice your support for RP's ideals. Yeah, it probably won't help much, but at least it will make them paranoid. Perhaps they'll infringe your rights less just so they can save their own skin down the line when the shit hits the fan.
It is obvious that blind people pose a unique security risk to the infrastructure of the United States. Because of the possibility of further acts of terrorism by blind people with the unique skills that particular condition seems to bestow, I am hereby widening the scope of the Patriot Act to also include all communications that could be linked in secret court to that individual. Therefore, warrants will no longer slow down the process of keeping America safe. Our citizens can rest easy knowing that we will protect them from our blind terrorist phriggin overlords.
Also, I'm happy to announce that our courts will have regular internal audits to insure compliance with federal mandated procedures. If the individual(s) associated with the court feel they have overstepped the authority granted to them, they will have the opportunity to possibly reign it back in should they feel it is necessary to avoid corruption.
No, this is 100% Fed-Certified Grade-A bullshit. Why? Because this is a green light for the crooks in power to continue doing this kind of thing. And what kind of trial do you think you will get with the evidence collected?
Guess what, you won't be tried. Ever. You will be held so that they can illegally solicit more evidence from you through nefarius means such extradition out-of-country, or just a secret location somewhere in Washington. Did I mention that the illegal solicitation of further evidence means you will be chained up in a dungeon for 10-15 years with no legal recourse whatsoever being exposed to God-knows-what kinds of "interrogation techniques?"
when I ask, "Do you think the constitution is an outdated, unimportant document now?"
It amazes me all of his detractors that call him an extremist who is blindly supporting some outdated, irrelevant document -- people who then complain about this stuff being passed. Don't you realize that this is the kind of thing Ron Paul would stop?
Just because there are a LOT of stocks that are over-valued, it does not make them any less over-valued. I haven't looked it up, but I'd wager that most of the top investment brokers right now are staying away from all three of those companies.
I wonder what percent of the people rating my post "overrated" lost their shirts in the dot-com bubble bust. Well, of those that were old enough to own stocks then, anyway.
look up microsoft look up oracle look up pfizer look up walmart look up yahoo
Ok, now, look at each of their P/E (Price to Earnings) ratios. This is the value of how much money they earn vs. how much the total cost of their stock is. Old-school corps, like utilities and such, generally have a p/e of like 8-13. Some newer companies can have up to like 18 or so and it is 'ok.'
Now, look at yahoo, and explain to me exactly how my post is overrated? What miracle strategy do you think they will have to TRIPLE their earnings so that their stock isn't artificially inflated, much less worth *33% MORE* than MSFT offered? At $40 a share, you'd be talking about a P/E of like 90.
We are talking about a deal that instantly infuses into the Yahoo shareholders' bank accounts more money than the company would earn in 20 years. It IS long-term benefit, and they ARE idiots to reject it.
Insiders think it is worth $40? Who the hell are they fooling? Themselves, obviously.
That means they don't make money. At least not compared to the already-inflated value of their stock. The value of their shares should be down in the single digits right now based on their income -- a P/E from 15-20 would be much more reasonable. Microsoft comes along and offers to buy them out for an amazing amount of money, and they turn it down?
Refusing this deal borders on illegal, assuming their job is to act in the interests of their shareholders.
I believe that not only are there alternatives, there are far superior devices. In fact, many people all over the intarwebs have posted phones and such that they find vastly superior both in software support and basic included functionality.
If you don't vote, then your opinion doesn't count for much, does it?
Why don't you quit blabbermouthing for "insightful" posts on slashdot, and instead do something that makes a difference like try to get the man some delegates! I mean, damn, what the hell.
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Then you are one of those with a non-literal interpretation of the bible. You should try to keep in mind that there are a great number of people out there who take exactly what is said as the absolute truth in a very literal way. They think God is a man, but perfect and omnipotent, that adam was made from mud, and that eve is a rib bone. They fear snakes as satan manifested on earth, the whole ball of wax.
I do not share those beliefs, but they are not at all uncommon.
Did anyone else ever play a little playground game my friends and I dubbed "launch?" Basically, what we did is this:
:(
1. Find a small person on the playground. Place them at the end of a teeter-totter/see-saw
2. Find a larger kid, have him stand on the fulcrum.
3. Small child wraps arms and legs around his/her end as tightly as possible.
4. Larger child runs out to end of see-saw, catapulting child A
The goal of the game was to not let go, lest you go flying into the air and down onto the ground rather painfully. It was great fun.
I've always wondered why I don't see those beautiful merry-go-rounds and teeter-totters in playgrounds anymore
Unless you are Christian and believe that God made man in His image.
Want me to go on?
Yes, please do. Lets continue to compare and contrast things that either show that you don't like how photoshop implemented a feature, or how you cannot find a feature vs. how GIMP is missing features completely.
Software is so far behind hardware at the moment, it isn't even funny. I mean, have you played WoW lately?
Besides, I hate to bust people's bubble who play FPS games on their fancy gaming rigs, but the highest framerate your puny consumer LCDs can get is 60fps. Anything more is dropped due to the 60hz refresh rate.
Maybe for some people, jobs aren't the #1 issue, and we are voting on other issues. Perhaps to someone, what is important is different from what is important to you. So, with that said, I will be voting neither as a geek nor as a working class schmoe. Instead, I'll be voting as a lover of freedom interested in preserving my personal liberties. Other people will be voting as lovers of safety and the status quo interested in having their life led for them. Yet others will be voting on issues such as abortion, etc.
But no, I will not vote as you tell me to either way. I will vote the way *I* feel is important because it isn't your decision to decide what is the matter with my vote.
Disk saves still go to the HDD, it just keeps all the files loaded into local memory. So, a power failure is no more or less catastrophic assuming you regularly press CTRL+S.
in a few years, perhaps longer, he will be reborn to lead the xenu empire on its glorious crusade.
sorry, couldn't resist.
The telecoms have immunity right now anyway because congress is a bunch of pansy-assed no-gooders who refuse to do anything that counts. For instance, lets see them address state secret priviledges -- ohh, that's right, there will not *ever* be a successful lawsuit against the telecoms until that one gets addressed.
Need I remind you of a previous *CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRTY* into the NSA that went something like this:
Congress: NSA, you are under investigation for some bad illegal shit!
NSA: Oh, ok.
Congress: Give us access to your secret files proclaiming your guilt, now!
NSA: I'm sorry, you do not have security clearance for that.
Congress: Golly gee, ok investigation over. Now, back to this bill on why my district needs $300,000 to help study the effect of prolonged exposure to tree sap on surfaces of operating tables in a hospital, run by my good friend (insert good friend's name here).
If you think this is funny, then read the God Damned News and Wake the Fuck Up.
Yes, you are right. The constitution does give us specific capabilities to deal with a government that has become too big and powerful to be corrected. It involves the right for you and I to have a gun.
However, I would much rather try to swing popular support to someone like Ron Paul, who espouses personal freedom and constitutional values, than begin a second civil war in this country. I mean, at the end of the day, we all live pretty good lives here in the USA -- the battle being fought is for the future. We are trying to reverse a decline, not pull the country out of the gutter.
So, I will continue to support people like Ron Paul who voice a pure and respectable ideology rather than sleezy politicians who are concerned with being caught doing something crooked rather than trying to do The Right Thing.
This is a story of what's wrong with the current methods of music distribution.
The reason you give them another voice to follow is because it is much easier to join up with another member of congress on an idea -- to let the other person be the guy who gets the bad rep when things go wrong -- than to try and convince your own wormy slimy politician rep to try and do something original like vote against a popular bill.
Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Ron Paul. That seems to be the correct answer to all these issues that keep popping up.
And yet he's viewed as a kook. What's that you're saying now? It's a damn shame he doesn't have Reagan's charisma, because it would be a tremendous step in the right direction if Ron Paul could sit in the Oval Office for a few years.
Since he obviously won't win, then the next best thing you can do is write to your representative and senators *with snail mail* and voice your support for RP's ideals. Yeah, it probably won't help much, but at least it will make them paranoid. Perhaps they'll infringe your rights less just so they can save their own skin down the line when the shit hits the fan.
It is obvious that blind people pose a unique security risk to the infrastructure of the United States. Because of the possibility of further acts of terrorism by blind people with the unique skills that particular condition seems to bestow, I am hereby widening the scope of the Patriot Act to also include all communications that could be linked in secret court to that individual. Therefore, warrants will no longer slow down the process of keeping America safe. Our citizens can rest easy knowing that we will protect them from our blind terrorist phriggin overlords.
Also, I'm happy to announce that our courts will have regular internal audits to insure compliance with federal mandated procedures. If the individual(s) associated with the court feel they have overstepped the authority granted to them, they will have the opportunity to possibly reign it back in should they feel it is necessary to avoid corruption.
I hear they are doing horribly.
No, this is 100% Fed-Certified Grade-A bullshit. Why? Because this is a green light for the crooks in power to continue doing this kind of thing. And what kind of trial do you think you will get with the evidence collected?
Guess what, you won't be tried. Ever. You will be held so that they can illegally solicit more evidence from you through nefarius means such extradition out-of-country, or just a secret location somewhere in Washington. Did I mention that the illegal solicitation of further evidence means you will be chained up in a dungeon for 10-15 years with no legal recourse whatsoever being exposed to God-knows-what kinds of "interrogation techniques?"
when I ask, "Do you think the constitution is an outdated, unimportant document now?"
It amazes me all of his detractors that call him an extremist who is blindly supporting some outdated, irrelevant document -- people who then complain about this stuff being passed. Don't you realize that this is the kind of thing Ron Paul would stop?
Expert - noun - a has-been drip
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Just because there are a LOT of stocks that are over-valued, it does not make them any less over-valued. I haven't looked it up, but I'd wager that most of the top investment brokers right now are staying away from all three of those companies.
I wonder what percent of the people rating my post "overrated" lost their shirts in the dot-com bubble bust. Well, of those that were old enough to own stocks then, anyway.
here's a quick lesson in economics:
http://finance.google.com/
look up microsoft
look up oracle
look up pfizer
look up walmart
look up yahoo
Ok, now, look at each of their P/E (Price to Earnings) ratios. This is the value of how much money they earn vs. how much the total cost of their stock is. Old-school corps, like utilities and such, generally have a p/e of like 8-13. Some newer companies can have up to like 18 or so and it is 'ok.'
Now, look at yahoo, and explain to me exactly how my post is overrated? What miracle strategy do you think they will have to TRIPLE their earnings so that their stock isn't artificially inflated, much less worth *33% MORE* than MSFT offered? At $40 a share, you'd be talking about a P/E of like 90.
Long-term benefit? Excuse me?
We are talking about a deal that instantly infuses into the Yahoo shareholders' bank accounts more money than the company would earn in 20 years. It IS long-term benefit, and they ARE idiots to reject it.
Insiders think it is worth $40? Who the hell are they fooling? Themselves, obviously.
Their P/E is 62. *SIXTY-TWO*
That means they don't make money. At least not compared to the already-inflated value of their stock. The value of their shares should be down in the single digits right now based on their income -- a P/E from 15-20 would be much more reasonable. Microsoft comes along and offers to buy them out for an amazing amount of money, and they turn it down?
Refusing this deal borders on illegal, assuming their job is to act in the interests of their shareholders.
No alternatives to the iPhone?
I believe that not only are there alternatives, there are far superior devices. In fact, many people all over the intarwebs have posted phones and such that they find vastly superior both in software support and basic included functionality.
nice. Posting for a workstation graphics card.
On a 32 bit version of windows.
If you don't vote, then your opinion doesn't count for much, does it?
Why don't you quit blabbermouthing for "insightful" posts on slashdot, and instead do something that makes a difference like try to get the man some delegates! I mean, damn, what the hell.