So you think the author is implying that apple can design interfaces based one what microsoft will do 3-4 years in the future? You go with that retro-causality thing, I'm just going to assume the author didn't mean that apple can break the laws of space-time.
You may hate me for saying this, but I walked up to a local target in Houston at 8am Sunday morning, stood in line for 40 mins, and was the 4th to last person to get one. From my estimates they had somewhere between 50 and 60 consoles.
My friend stopped at a Sears at a little before 9am(they open at 11) and was the 2nd person in line. An employee there said Sears did something to piss nintendo off and the store only had 2 consoles, with a choice of 2 games (Zelda and Avatar) and a wiimote as the only accessory.
So it's about punishing those who have the gall to disagree with you then is it? Which is what I've been saying. You are a huge hypocrite, its really amazing. There is no harm in outing gay people, outing only hurts if they vote for the other side? WTF kind of logic is that? Really, you are beyond reason here if you can't see that you have no right to out a gay person despite your egotistical argument that it doesn't matter because they are your enemy. Coming out of the closet is a huge event in a gay persons life and no one, not you, not Bill Maher, not I, have any right whatsoever to affect their life in such a way. Really, just lets just stop this conversation before you and your bigoted ilk disgust me even more.
And also you misunderstood me when I asked "hows that for hypocrisy?" I wasn't saying Kerry and Dead are hypocrites, no, I was saying that YOU are a hypocrite. Those who are supposedly for gay rights are outing gays. Now you may add an adjective to "gays" like "republican gays" or "hypocritical gays", but that doesn't change the fact that these people who you are supporting here, are outing gays. How anyone can reconcile that bit of hypocrisy is beyond me.
When can you show me gay republicans demonizing gays? or do you just assume that because they're your political enemy you can distort their views? Should I be turned in to the cops if I smoke weed but vote republican, even though you don't think smoking weed should be crime? What if the gay man thinks lower taxes and limited govt and foreign policy are more important than trying to get the state to allow two guys/girls to marry? There's not priorities allowed? Why are YOU judge jury and executioner for any gay person that YOU judge is a hypocrite? Where did you get such a right to be able to intrude on others private lives? Do you also support throwing oreos at black republicans and calling them racist names? Is any amount of demonizing and intruding allowed as long as they disagree with you on some point, as long as they are your enemy?
So their right to privacy, to live their life how they want, to not be persecuted by people like you for being gay all goes out the window because of what? because they are republican?
and why do democrats get a pass on this? Can you name me some democrats that are pro-gay marriage? Didn't John Kerry say he had the same position as Bush on gay marriage? Isn't the head of the DNC Howard Dean the guy that said, "The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says that marriage is between a man and a woman. That's what it says.".
So why only republican gays that "deserve" to get outed? Why only them that have no right to privacy? Because they are on the other side of the political spectrum, because they are not just your political enemy, they are your enemy. They are subhuman, and deserve no rights.
I would guess because certain "progressive" opponents are using the charge (how does one even disprove that they're gay?) to attack Mehlmen and the republican party as a whole. All and all it's very sad to attack someone because they are gay. I thought that crap was relegated to hateful "preachers" on the 700 club, but no, just like it's ok to throw oreos at black republicans and draw up your opponents in blackface, some liberals are finding overjoyous glee in attacking a man because of his sexual orientation, because he's on the other side in the political spectrum.
I don't think I'll ever watch Bill Maher again, for him to think that outing someone like this is ok and fair and "poignant"
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddmore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - MASS HYSTERIA!
There really has been too much mudslinging, but there are issues in the campaign, though you wouldn't know it from most media, because mudslinging sells them papers, not responsible coverage of the issues.
Note: I don't live in Virginia, so I haven't been following the race that closely.
And we all know how honest companies like MS are in pointing facts like that out. "Ya, we have 100million downloads so far! However, we only show about 15% of web users actually using it.... guess that means IE7 sucks. Oh well. Hey, why are all the shareholders selling or calling for our CEO to resign all of a sudden??"
wait, lets try that another way
And we all know how honest companies like Mozilla are in pointing facts like that out. "Ya, we have 100million downloads so far! However, we only show about 10% of web users actually using it.... guess that means FF2 sucks. Oh well. Hey, why are all the shareholders selling or calling for our CEO to resign all of a sudden??"
Hey, I love firefox and use it all the time, but still, you criticize MS for doing the same thing Mozilla does.
Yeah. Because businesses like paying license fees, taxes, tariffs, and duties, and having their goods embargoed.
No, but established, big businesses can pay them better, and keep track of them with their legal staff better than smaller or future competition. These create a barrier to entry that protects establish business, limiting competition.
Some politicians, however, do have a good understanding of technology.
The list of board members for the national Libertarian Party is no less geekish: a software engineer; a database consultant; an author of a book on Linux system administration; the CEO of a Web application company; and the creator of PocketMoney personal finance software for Palm handhelds.
"Can you find another political party with a tech-savvy board like this?" said Cory, the Libertarians' national chairman. "I can tell you it's not going to happen."
For New York lawyers who write frequently updated blogs, this could force them to make multiple (and potentially expensive) reports to the New York Bar every single day."
I'm no expert on Greenwald, but doesn't he live in Brazil or something? Would this still affect him? Is he still practicing NY law from another country? Or is it Thomas Ellers that live in NY while Greenwald lives in Brazil?
You gave Somalia as an example of purely humanitarian action on behalf of the US
No I didn't. I don't really care about altruism.
As for Darfur noone is stopping the US from intervening, your point?
Well we are a little busy with other stuff around the world. Would be nice to see the rest of the world act without us doing most of the work.
The reason we can't interfere is because we give Khartoum veto power.
And I'm saying that's just an excuse. But do you seriously believe that if the world ever intervenes in darfur, that the US won't be the ones spearheading the effort and contributing the most resources? I wish I would be proven wrong, but I don't think I will be.
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So you think the author is implying that apple can design interfaces based one what microsoft will do 3-4 years in the future? You go with that retro-causality thing, I'm just going to assume the author didn't mean that apple can break the laws of space-time.
I think it was just a sidekick. And she probably just tried her same password, 'slut', and got lucky.
You may hate me for saying this, but I walked up to a local target in Houston at 8am Sunday morning, stood in line for 40 mins, and was the 4th to last person to get one. From my estimates they had somewhere between 50 and 60 consoles.
My friend stopped at a Sears at a little before 9am(they open at 11) and was the 2nd person in line. An employee there said Sears did something to piss nintendo off and the store only had 2 consoles, with a choice of 2 games (Zelda and Avatar) and a wiimote as the only accessory.
Are there any EA games that haven't taken a steady slide down in quality in the last few years? I haven't bought a madden or NCAA game since 03.
So it's about punishing those who have the gall to disagree with you then is it? Which is what I've been saying. You are a huge hypocrite, its really amazing. There is no harm in outing gay people, outing only hurts if they vote for the other side? WTF kind of logic is that? Really, you are beyond reason here if you can't see that you have no right to out a gay person despite your egotistical argument that it doesn't matter because they are your enemy. Coming out of the closet is a huge event in a gay persons life and no one, not you, not Bill Maher, not I, have any right whatsoever to affect their life in such a way. Really, just lets just stop this conversation before you and your bigoted ilk disgust me even more.
And also you misunderstood me when I asked "hows that for hypocrisy?" I wasn't saying Kerry and Dead are hypocrites, no, I was saying that YOU are a hypocrite. Those who are supposedly for gay rights are outing gays. Now you may add an adjective to "gays" like "republican gays" or "hypocritical gays", but that doesn't change the fact that these people who you are supporting here, are outing gays. How anyone can reconcile that bit of hypocrisy is beyond me.
When can you show me gay republicans demonizing gays? or do you just assume that because they're your political enemy you can distort their views? Should I be turned in to the cops if I smoke weed but vote republican, even though you don't think smoking weed should be crime? What if the gay man thinks lower taxes and limited govt and foreign policy are more important than trying to get the state to allow two guys/girls to marry? There's not priorities allowed? Why are YOU judge jury and executioner for any gay person that YOU judge is a hypocrite? Where did you get such a right to be able to intrude on others private lives? Do you also support throwing oreos at black republicans and calling them racist names? Is any amount of demonizing and intruding allowed as long as they disagree with you on some point, as long as they are your enemy?
So their right to privacy, to live their life how they want, to not be persecuted by people like you for being gay all goes out the window because of what? because they are republican?
and why do democrats get a pass on this? Can you name me some democrats that are pro-gay marriage? Didn't John Kerry say he had the same position as Bush on gay marriage? Isn't the head of the DNC Howard Dean the guy that said, "The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says that marriage is between a man and a woman. That's what it says.".
So why only republican gays that "deserve" to get outed? Why only them that have no right to privacy? Because they are on the other side of the political spectrum, because they are not just your political enemy, they are your enemy. They are subhuman, and deserve no rights.
Hows that for hypocrisy?
I would guess because certain "progressive" opponents are using the charge (how does one even disprove that they're gay?) to attack Mehlmen and the republican party as a whole. All and all it's very sad to attack someone because they are gay. I thought that crap was relegated to hateful "preachers" on the 700 club, but no, just like it's ok to throw oreos at black republicans and draw up your opponents in blackface, some liberals are finding overjoyous glee in attacking a man because of his sexual orientation, because he's on the other side in the political spectrum. I don't think I'll ever watch Bill Maher again, for him to think that outing someone like this is ok and fair and "poignant"
You might be right (see Larry Summers). Very sad when political correctness trumps science.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"? Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling! Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... Winston Zeddmore: The dead rising from the grave! Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - MASS HYSTERIA!
it's as if a million /.'ers heads exploded at once, and then silence.
There really has been too much mudslinging, but there are issues in the campaign, though you wouldn't know it from most media, because mudslinging sells them papers, not responsible coverage of the issues.
Note: I don't live in Virginia, so I haven't been following the race that closely.
270+ comments and yours is maybe 1 of 5 that isn't some reactionary polemic or a tired joke about 1984. Thank you.
I guess the -1 troll mod is broken.
I'm no expert on Greenwald, but doesn't he live in Brazil or something? Would this still affect him? Is he still practicing NY law from another country? Or is it Thomas Ellers that live in NY while Greenwald lives in Brazil?
GP must be new here.
I like to visit My Election Analysis for good frequently updated predictions. It's a bit of a cross between a blog and Electoral-Vote.com
Well we are a little busy with other stuff around the world. Would be nice to see the rest of the world act without us doing most of the work.
And I'm saying that's just an excuse. But do you seriously believe that if the world ever intervenes in darfur, that the US won't be the ones spearheading the effort and contributing the most resources? I wish I would be proven wrong, but I don't think I will be.