If you want to vote for a conspiracy theorist, more power to you. But it's kind of dishonest to present him as a mainstream libertarian when he's the tinfoil type.
I agree that the government should not be actively encouraging homeschooling, but they shouldn't be discouraging it either. Homeschooling isn't so much a problem when parents are using it to give their child a better education than they might receive in a public school, but if the primary goal is to prevent their children from being "indoctrinated" (i.e. taught about evolution, or sex ed, etc.), then it's not necessarily going to be positive.
Homeschooling as an alternative to a crappy public school is not a bad thing for students, but it is bad if it's an alternative to a real education.
"Winner takes all" is not a just outcome. What is needed is a diplomatic process to reach mutual agreement, with concessions on all sides if necessary. Oh but that requires effort.
Have you ever tried to reach a consensus with 300 million people? You can't, which is why we elect Congress to do it for us. And no, not every voice will be heard, but that's why we have an independent judiciary that is charged with protecting the rights of the minority.
Obama's chief economic adviser is Austan Goolsbee, Yale and MIT alum who's a University of Chicago economics professor. I think he might pass for competent.
It's great that this has discrete graphics, but does anyone honestly expect this to do much when it's running a low-power single-core CPU like Atom? I love the idea of a netbook that can play games, but a single-core Atom is just not up to snuff. It might be worth a look if they threw in one of the new dual-core Diamondvilles, but these things are even underpowered for some flash games.
You can find the videos on Youtube. She probably doesn't sound that scary to anyone who was raised in a modern evangelical church (like myself), but if you step outside of that experience it sounds a little odd to hear someone call the Iraq War and the building of a natural gas pipeline "God's will."
Anyway, here are the videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k84m2orSOaM
His point has nothing to do with whether or not one should follow traffic laws. Do you think that the police should be able to randomly bug cars and then issue them citations based on the data they logged?
Yeah, I thought the same thing when I saw this. SanDisk's original SSDs were already being blown away by other first-gen SSDs, and every new one that comes out just makes them look even worse. Vista is just a convenient (and popular) whipping boy.
He has a 125-delegate lead in pledged delegates and 113 in superdelegates, so the lead including supers is 238. Even if Hillary was somehow able to get all outstanding superdelegates to support her, she would still need around 60 Obama delegates to switch to her. That would be incredibly unlikely unless Obama is caught with a dead girl or live boy.
Leaving race out of the issue, how many republicans do you think would vote for someone named Barack Hussein Obama.
I can't speak for anyone else, but this Republican will be voting for him. And if this is your reason for not supporting him, do you honestly think that Hillary Clinton would have garnered any more Republican votes? If we could harness the hate that Republicans have for the Clinton family, we could probably produce enough energy to finally wean us off of foreign oil.
He said that they have nice-looking, well-designed cases. If that's all it takes to make a computer "special," then my computer is special from "common" PCs as well. Macs have the same hardware as PCs: the same CPUs, the same RAM, the same hard drives, etc. Yes, they might be better quality than a bargain-basement Dell, but so is my custom-built PC. There's nothing inherently better hardware-wise about a Mac, and the only substantial difference is the OS.
If you mean the Nationalists/Kuomintang fled to Taiwan then you are accurate. But they weren't the only 'leadership' of China during WW2. The Communists contributed more to the defeat of the Japanese than the Nationalists did. The Communist leadership was also engaged by the Western Powers during this period -- Stillwell in particular spoke highly about the Communists and their resistance towards the Japanese. So it's a bit of a mistake to say the 'leadership' of China during WW2 fled to Taiwan -- part of the leadership did. The part that actually resisted the Japanese stayed behind.
I think you should read up a little on this. Both the Nationalists and the Communists fought against the Japanese, but it was the Nationalists who were fighting the major battles, while the Communists were fighting more of a resistance/guerrilla war. I'm sure that the US was engaged with both sides, but the officially recognized government was the KMT. So saying that the "leadership" fled to Taiwan might be kind of technically true, but not really accurate.
only a quarter of them have ever encrypted files on their computers.
I fail to see a problem with this. The real question is how many files that you would actually want or need to encrypt are encrypted? I've never encrypted files on my computer, but I also don't have anything that's particularly secret or sensitive on my PC.
(Ditching their thumbstick for a IBM-style keyboard stick would probably be enough to send me reaching for my wallet.)
I really don't understand why more companies don't offer a TrackPoint clone on their laptops. They're much better than touchpads, both from a convenience standpoint (you don't have to move your hands from the typing position) and accuracy-wise. They would be even more useful on these subnotebooks that don't have room for a full touchpad, especially the HP 2133. An HP 2133 refresh with a VIA Isaiah CPU and a nipple pointer would be too good to pass up.
Thanks, I think this is actually my problem. It is indeed an EVGA card, and I had no problems with it under XP. I never thought it might be a vendor-specific problem, but I guess I should have looked there.
I have some weird problem with my 7900GT with Vista where it goes nuts if I plug in the supplemental power cable. Without it, the card at least outputs correct video, but it dials back performance if it can't draw enough current. When I plug in the power cable, it boots up fine, but when the nVidia drivers load, my screen goes nuts like it's not syncing properly or something.
The latest generation of Intel processors, at least, have pretty decent stock cooling. They're pretty quiet, and even allow for a pretty high overclock, if you're into that sort of thing. I have to agree with you on the video cards, though. They're generally awful both at cooling and being silent. I always try to either find a video card with a non-stock cooling solution or just buy my own Zalman cooler.
Chen wasn't even running this time, and we definitely do not want a thorn in the side of China. He already pissed off the US by trying to join the UN, among other things. We also don't want a war between two hugely important trading partners, even if it meant we could sell them weapons. And our military foothold in East Asia is in Japan and South Korea. Neither China nor Taiwan have any say over that.
But then I learned Obama's been attending a "hate whites" church for the last 15 years, and now I'm not so sure. It would be like if I attended an all-white, segregated, anti-black church ever week for many years, and then claim I'm not racist.
Where is everyone getting the idea that this is a racist, anti-white church? I don't get the "America hating" accusations either, but at least there's a starting point (the "God damn America" statement). But honestly, what did Rev. Wright say that makes you think he hates white people? He said some pretty nutty things about AIDS, but nothing that said that black people are superior to white people, or that he hated white people. He complained about discrimination by white people, but that's hardly racist to say.
Also, the church is not segregated, even if it's predominantly black. If we called every church where 90% of the people were of one race "segregated", then 95% of American churches would fit that definition.
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If you want to vote for a conspiracy theorist, more power to you. But it's kind of dishonest to present him as a mainstream libertarian when he's the tinfoil type.
I agree that the government should not be actively encouraging homeschooling, but they shouldn't be discouraging it either. Homeschooling isn't so much a problem when parents are using it to give their child a better education than they might receive in a public school, but if the primary goal is to prevent their children from being "indoctrinated" (i.e. taught about evolution, or sex ed, etc.), then it's not necessarily going to be positive.
Homeschooling as an alternative to a crappy public school is not a bad thing for students, but it is bad if it's an alternative to a real education.
He also speaks to all Americans who believe:
That there is an imminent worldwide conspiracy to form a one-world government;
That the 9/11 attacks should be re-investigated to determine whether or not the US government was involved;
And that "the South was right in the War Between the States."
Have you ever tried to reach a consensus with 300 million people? You can't, which is why we elect Congress to do it for us. And no, not every voice will be heard, but that's why we have an independent judiciary that is charged with protecting the rights of the minority.
Obama's chief economic adviser is Austan Goolsbee, Yale and MIT alum who's a University of Chicago economics professor. I think he might pass for competent.
Speaking of male enhancement, I'd like to know the Cardiff Giant's secret. I saw it as a child, and I've felt inadequate ever since.
It's great that this has discrete graphics, but does anyone honestly expect this to do much when it's running a low-power single-core CPU like Atom? I love the idea of a netbook that can play games, but a single-core Atom is just not up to snuff. It might be worth a look if they threw in one of the new dual-core Diamondvilles, but these things are even underpowered for some flash games.
Is that some sort of sexual innuendo?
You can find the videos on Youtube. She probably doesn't sound that scary to anyone who was raised in a modern evangelical church (like myself), but if you step outside of that experience it sounds a little odd to hear someone call the Iraq War and the building of a natural gas pipeline "God's will." Anyway, here are the videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k84m2orSOaM
Aww, man, I shot Magomed in the face!
And good luck with upgrading the storage on this one, it has a PCI Express minicard SSD instead of a standard SATA drive.
His point has nothing to do with whether or not one should follow traffic laws. Do you think that the police should be able to randomly bug cars and then issue them citations based on the data they logged?
Yeah, I thought the same thing when I saw this. SanDisk's original SSDs were already being blown away by other first-gen SSDs, and every new one that comes out just makes them look even worse. Vista is just a convenient (and popular) whipping boy.
He has a 125-delegate lead in pledged delegates and 113 in superdelegates, so the lead including supers is 238. Even if Hillary was somehow able to get all outstanding superdelegates to support her, she would still need around 60 Obama delegates to switch to her. That would be incredibly unlikely unless Obama is caught with a dead girl or live boy.
He said that they have nice-looking, well-designed cases. If that's all it takes to make a computer "special," then my computer is special from "common" PCs as well. Macs have the same hardware as PCs: the same CPUs, the same RAM, the same hard drives, etc. Yes, they might be better quality than a bargain-basement Dell, but so is my custom-built PC. There's nothing inherently better hardware-wise about a Mac, and the only substantial difference is the OS.
What moron rated this post a troll?
Thanks, I think this is actually my problem. It is indeed an EVGA card, and I had no problems with it under XP. I never thought it might be a vendor-specific problem, but I guess I should have looked there.
I have some weird problem with my 7900GT with Vista where it goes nuts if I plug in the supplemental power cable. Without it, the card at least outputs correct video, but it dials back performance if it can't draw enough current. When I plug in the power cable, it boots up fine, but when the nVidia drivers load, my screen goes nuts like it's not syncing properly or something.
The latest generation of Intel processors, at least, have pretty decent stock cooling. They're pretty quiet, and even allow for a pretty high overclock, if you're into that sort of thing. I have to agree with you on the video cards, though. They're generally awful both at cooling and being silent. I always try to either find a video card with a non-stock cooling solution or just buy my own Zalman cooler.
Chen wasn't even running this time, and we definitely do not want a thorn in the side of China. He already pissed off the US by trying to join the UN, among other things. We also don't want a war between two hugely important trading partners, even if it meant we could sell them weapons. And our military foothold in East Asia is in Japan and South Korea. Neither China nor Taiwan have any say over that.