this is the woman who was the architect a proposed healthcare plan that would make it ILLEGAL to see a private doctor of your OWN choosing. I can't take seriously any current stand regarding the protection of any U.S citizens' right to anything.
She's not interested in your rights, she interested in empowering the government to dupe you into giving away all individual decision-making to it. Her idea of an ideal society can bee summed up here:
"Give me your soul and I will take care of you."
How many times will this model have to fail before people finally get it. When will people realized that the government cannot even take care of itself, let alone you. Governments exist to govern, not to be your nanny.
I don't want anyone taking care of me.
I don't want Social Security.
I don't want Medicare. It's a crime that Medicare is forced upon you when you turn 65. You cannot even opt out of it without losing coverage from your private health insurance.
I don't want to pay income taxes that nearly 50% of the population DOES NOT pay. At the very least, I should be paying the same percentage of my income now as I did when I was making 20k a year. I want me and my money to be left alone to prosper in the free-will, free-market society that the founders of this country intended to created.
I don't want to be forced to send my daughter to a government school based on my zip-code. I should be able to opt-out, take my property taxes, and put that towards sending my daughter to ANY school I choose based on whatever criteria I want. My daughter has Down Syndrome, and I cannot divert my taxes to pay for the private schooling she is going to require. Government school will want stick her in a room with kids having various disabilities and give them crayons to eat.
If I wanted to live in a socialized country, there are plenty of other countries in the world that would be more than happy to take my paycheck. I want to take care of myself and my family how I see fit. Not allowing me to do that is a violation of my civil and human rights.
This is why I will never vote for a Democrat at any level. If Republicans want to spy on me, let them. I have nothing to hide. Just let me live my life. Freedom is more important to me than privacy.
Republicans support the freedom that Democrats fear. I only wish Republicans would quit worrying about who marries whom and who kills their baby. If you want to kill your baby, fine. That's one less of your loser line to infect the world. If you want a gay marriage, great. That's one less child being born into this screwed up world. Stop worrying about what other people do with their lives...it doesn't have anything to do with you.
We need to libertarian wing of the right to take control of the party. The Losertarians need to get off their collective pompous horse-asses, dump their loser third-party and start making change in the mainstream party. There has been too much focus on these evangelical nutjobs. We need to lock them in the closet. They are morons that will vote Republican anyway. We all need to stop listening to all the political posturing and start using some common sense.
No one is forced to buy a phone from a wireless provider, but it is certainly cheaper to do so. Still, it would be nice for the iPhone to come out as the first phone marketed as an independent mobile phone.
Unfortunately, most people don't realize you can actually by a phone separately. They probably wouldn't understand what to do if they just bought an iPhone from the Apple store.
Blaming crime on income inequality is no different from blaming murder on the exsitence of guns. It all comes down to personal responsibilty.
It's not income inequality that causes crime, it's peoples' obession with what everyone else is doing instead of worrying about themselves. The financial health of most people in the U.S is of their own making...this includes the richest and poorest people among us. There are exceptions at both ends. Some people are born into wealth and some into poverty. I don't care what anyone says, there is no excuse for any person in the U.S to be living in poverty except by their own choice. Whether it be having more kids than you can afford, not learning a skill or trade, not going to school...whatever it is, for 99% of people, it's their own fault. The remaining 1% is pretty much reserved for people with some sort of mental or severe physical disability. If you can wake up in the morning and dress yourself, you have no excuse.
Stop worrying about executive bonuses and CEO salaries...it's none of your business unless you're a shareholder. Worry about taking care of yourself.
Whether or not there is a law is irrelevant. It's still airport and/or airline policy to require proof of identity. Policies and rules don't require law to back them up unless they are in directly conflict with existing law.
The court is correct that requiring proof of identity does not violate any law or civil right. There is no civil right that allows a person to travel on an airplane flying under FAA regulations without providing identification.
Now, if only we could get the same ruling on voting.
Drawing amniotic fluid is extremely risky to both mother and fetus. That is why amniocentesis is only done if absolutely necessary. My wife had one around 20 weeks gestation. Not only is the procedure extremely painful, she went through two weeks of uterine cramping. She had to take two weeks off work to recover.
Poking a hole in the uterus of a pregnant woman is not something to take lightly. This article makes it seem like a trvial procedure, which is certainly is not.
Why should Apple make their products more affordable to YOU when there are plenty of other people willing to pay the current price? Maybe you need to pay more attention in your college economics class? Maybe then you will actually graduate and get a job that pays you well enough to afford one. Clearly, Apple does not provide a product that suites your particular needs, so get over it.
As a friend of several independent aritists that distribute via iTMS, I can tell you that before iTMS, they could not make any money or get wide distribution of their music. Most independent artists don't have the money to distribute their music. While iTMS doesn't provide much in the way of revenue, it is a major distribution channel for them.
I think Jobs has nothing to worry about. Aero is utter crap. I've been using Vista for the past week or so and the entire interface seems "incomplete" somehow. The learning curve for Vista is pretty steep. Everything is awkward and MS has actually made Windows harder to use. Just navigating the ile system is bizarre. There are more steps to get to anything. Don't even get me started on Office 2007. My wife is a pretty skilled Office user and she couldn't do anything with Word 2007. I've been looking for a setting to get the 2003 interface back, but I don't see one. You can't make this kind of drastic change to the interface of the most widely used office suite in the world. It's absurd.
There is no way we will be deploying either product to our users at the office anytime soon. It would kill the productivity of our company immediately. There are some cool IT management features in Vista, but the change in the interface negates all of them.
Your entire post is irrelevant because Apple, like most companies, care about growth. Growth is growth, regardless of how others are growing. Apple's market cap is larger than Dell's and only has a fraction of the market penetration in computer sales. I call that a success. Apple is selling more computers and generating more revenue than it ever has. The fact that they only have 5% (or less) of the computer market doesn't change that. It actually makes Dell look bad. In the end, it's two different business models.
More whining reporters. No reporter is required or forced to reveal their sources. However, that doesn't absolve them criminial investigation or other consequences. Freedom is not free. Sometimes that price is jail time.
I'm tired of reporters thinking their press pass makes them immune to the law. These are the same people chiding government officials and businesses for doing the exact same thing.
the fake Air Jordans from K-Mart back in the day. And when Air Jordans were out of style, K-Mart kept on trying to sell them. You can probably still buy them.
iPod haters were already saying that the market was saturated with iPods and Apple's time was over...so how is Zune going to fare any better? You can't have it both ways. Zune is simply not a compelling product...especially when the iPod is still "hip".
Whether intentional or not, I think it was BRILLIANT that Apple did not release the true video iPod at this last event. The fact that it wasn't released will have many holding off on buying a Zune. Especially with the mystery surrounding the iTV and how the forthcoming iPod will interact with it. If the Zune was really that great, they wouldn't have had to adjust the price. This clearly demonstrates Apple's influence in the marketplace...even over MS.
There are 3 different VW solutions. One is a generic input in the glovebox that can be with any portable device. The second it the VW iPod adapter that also runs into the glove box. There is a third one that replaces the CD changer in the center armrest. This one actually has a dock that you sit your iPod into.
The two iPod specific solutions allow you to marginally control from the headunit, but no tag info is displayed.
I agree with you. Apple is in a bit of a catch-22 here. They need to maintain control of the term "iPod" without it becoming "genericized". I'm not sure this is possible, but I think they have a responsibility and legal requirement to try.
Would Coca-Cola not go after some company making millions off selling an iCokeWrap? Would the same people bemoaning Apple's tactics here also have a problem with Coke doing the same thing.
There's nothing wrong with informal use of a popular brand name to refer to something. Here in the South, everything is Coke....much to the dismay of Pepsi. I've also lived in other places where people use Pepsi generically. However, I can't create my own cola and market it as Coke-a-Pepsi and expect to get away with it. That is essentially what all these Pod-widget companies are doing. They are intentionally using "pod" in order to make more money. Had the Zune or Zen been the dominant player, we'd have a bunch of Zen-widgets all over the place and Creative would be the big bully here.
Clearly some of these companies may have helped contribute to the popularity of the iPod, but I don't think it's necessary to incorporate the name of another product into your own company name. It's a dumb business move. If you have a good product, you shouldn't need to do that anyway.
Corruption has nothing to do with any political party. Corruption is an individual choice and to say that "Republicans are corrupt" is to show how ignorant and bigotted you are.
I hate to tell you this, but MOST Republicans are not right-wing Christian bible thumpers. Nor are most Democrats gay baby-killers. The problem right now is that the loonies on BOTH sides have the loudest voice right now and the faces of both parties do not accurately reflect that of a majority of the voters.
We're all screwed because we're going to up with two extreme choices for president in 08 if we don't get our sh*t together. Right now, I don't see anyone from either side that I want sitting in the Oval Office. The politicians have us too busy fighting each other to stop and see that they're all a bunch of f*ck-ups.
I'm generally not one for third parties, but maybe it's time someone reasonable stepped up from the exisiting ranks and ran as an independent. I'm really not looking forward to another 4-8 years of this insane polarization amongst the populous.
Everyone knows the world didn't exist before "recorded human history". The world is melting, the world is melting!! It MUST be true! The devil in the White House is to blame! Iran and Venezuala must save the world from the fiery devil melting the world!
Am I the only that thinks this submission is a lame non-event? Do nerds even care about Gentoo anymore? Some tech-writer couldn't follow instructions to install an operating system and that is a surprise? Why am I writing in questions?
All of the these "social networking" sites suffer the same affliction. They are all just another source of ad revenue for marketers and the people running the sites.
Most people don't even know what DRM is...or care, so it's unlikely that has little bearing on whether or not music is purchased from iTMS.
The main reason is that the encoding quality sucks. I've purchased a few things, and it's just terribly low quality. I'm not an audiophile at all, but there is a clear difference between what is sold on iTMS and a 128kb AAC file encoded from one of my CDs.
The second reason is that people still want the hard media. People need something tangible when spending money.
Who's going to enforce CC? We've already told MS that their Windows EULA is an unenforcable joke, so now were going to get all upity about a license no one's ever heard of??
Frankly, MS bashing is played out and has basically taught everyone that software licenses mean nothing. Too bad for CC.
2) the first Gulf War never ended, so #1 is irrelevant to Iraq
We are only allowed to fight sovereign nations even if attacked?
One thing that everyone seems to forget is that our orginal mission in Iraq has already been completed AND was a success - the toppling of Saddam. The people we are fighting now are the ones who started the current action. What is going on now has little to do with our orginal mission, other than preventing non-Iraqi forces from taking over the country. We are trying to help Iraq get it's government in order and all these "terrorists" are trying to prevent it by attacking us, Iraqis, and anyone else who gets in their way. I'm tired of people trying to blur the lines between what we started out doing and what is going on now.
As far as the wiretapping goes. The reason this passed is because it was legal all along. This is only reaffirming that. All the Democratic politicians knew this from the beginning. All their crying was nothing more than an attmempt to get people all riled up as usual, then vote the way they know they need to. This is par for ALL politicians.
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this is the woman who was the architect a proposed healthcare plan that would make it ILLEGAL to see a private doctor of your OWN choosing. I can't take seriously any current stand regarding the protection of any U.S citizens' right to anything.
She's not interested in your rights, she interested in empowering the government to dupe you into giving away all individual decision-making to it. Her idea of an ideal society can bee summed up here:
"Give me your soul and I will take care of you."
How many times will this model have to fail before people finally get it. When will people realized that the government cannot even take care of itself, let alone you. Governments exist to govern, not to be your nanny.
I don't want anyone taking care of me.
I don't want Social Security.
I don't want Medicare. It's a crime that Medicare is forced upon you when you turn 65. You cannot even opt out of it without losing coverage from your private health insurance.
I don't want to pay income taxes that nearly 50% of the population DOES NOT pay. At the very least, I should be paying the same percentage of my income now as I did when I was making 20k a year. I want me and my money to be left alone to prosper in the free-will, free-market society that the founders of this country intended to created.
I don't want to be forced to send my daughter to a government school based on my zip-code. I should be able to opt-out, take my property taxes, and put that towards sending my daughter to ANY school I choose based on whatever criteria I want. My daughter has Down Syndrome, and I cannot divert my taxes to pay for the private schooling she is going to require. Government school will want stick her in a room with kids having various disabilities and give them crayons to eat.
If I wanted to live in a socialized country, there are plenty of other countries in the world that would be more than happy to take my paycheck. I want to take care of myself and my family how I see fit. Not allowing me to do that is a violation of my civil and human rights.
This is why I will never vote for a Democrat at any level. If Republicans want to spy on me, let them. I have nothing to hide. Just let me live my life. Freedom is more important to me than privacy.
Republicans support the freedom that Democrats fear. I only wish Republicans would quit worrying about who marries whom and who kills their baby. If you want to kill your baby, fine. That's one less of your loser line to infect the world. If you want a gay marriage, great. That's one less child being born into this screwed up world. Stop worrying about what other people do with their lives...it doesn't have anything to do with you.
We need to libertarian wing of the right to take control of the party. The Losertarians need to get off their collective pompous horse-asses, dump their loser third-party and start making change in the mainstream party. There has been too much focus on these evangelical nutjobs. We need to lock them in the closet. They are morons that will vote Republican anyway. We all need to stop listening to all the political posturing and start using some common sense.
That's about all I have to say.
No one is forced to buy a phone from a wireless provider, but it is certainly cheaper to do so. Still, it would be nice for the iPhone to come out as the first phone marketed as an independent mobile phone.
Unfortunately, most people don't realize you can actually by a phone separately. They probably wouldn't understand what to do if they just bought an iPhone from the Apple store.
Blaming crime on income inequality is no different from blaming murder on the exsitence of guns. It all comes down to personal responsibilty.
It's not income inequality that causes crime, it's peoples' obession with what everyone else is doing instead of worrying about themselves. The financial health of most people in the U.S is of their own making...this includes the richest and poorest people among us. There are exceptions at both ends. Some people are born into wealth and some into poverty. I don't care what anyone says, there is no excuse for any person in the U.S to be living in poverty except by their own choice. Whether it be having more kids than you can afford, not learning a skill or trade, not going to school...whatever it is, for 99% of people, it's their own fault. The remaining 1% is pretty much reserved for people with some sort of mental or severe physical disability. If you can wake up in the morning and dress yourself, you have no excuse.
Stop worrying about executive bonuses and CEO salaries...it's none of your business unless you're a shareholder. Worry about taking care of yourself.
Whether or not there is a law is irrelevant. It's still airport and/or airline policy to require proof of identity. Policies and rules don't require law to back them up unless they are in directly conflict with existing law.
The court is correct that requiring proof of identity does not violate any law or civil right. There is no civil right that allows a person to travel on an airplane flying under FAA regulations without providing identification.
Now, if only we could get the same ruling on voting.
I just spent all weekend getting two-way video working between my new iMac and Tivo.
Drawing amniotic fluid is extremely risky to both mother and fetus. That is why amniocentesis is only done if absolutely necessary. My wife had one around 20 weeks gestation. Not only is the procedure extremely painful, she went through two weeks of uterine cramping. She had to take two weeks off work to recover.
Poking a hole in the uterus of a pregnant woman is not something to take lightly. This article makes it seem like a trvial procedure, which is certainly is not.
Why should Apple make their products more affordable to YOU when there are plenty of other people willing to pay the current price? Maybe you need to pay more attention in your college economics class? Maybe then you will actually graduate and get a job that pays you well enough to afford one. Clearly, Apple does not provide a product that suites your particular needs, so get over it.
As a friend of several independent aritists that distribute via iTMS, I can tell you that before iTMS, they could not make any money or get wide distribution of their music. Most independent artists don't have the money to distribute their music. While iTMS doesn't provide much in the way of revenue, it is a major distribution channel for them.
I think Jobs has nothing to worry about. Aero is utter crap. I've been using Vista for the past week or so and the entire interface seems "incomplete" somehow. The learning curve for Vista is pretty steep. Everything is awkward and MS has actually made Windows harder to use. Just navigating the ile system is bizarre. There are more steps to get to anything. Don't even get me started on Office 2007. My wife is a pretty skilled Office user and she couldn't do anything with Word 2007. I've been looking for a setting to get the 2003 interface back, but I don't see one. You can't make this kind of drastic change to the interface of the most widely used office suite in the world. It's absurd.
There is no way we will be deploying either product to our users at the office anytime soon. It would kill the productivity of our company immediately. There are some cool IT management features in Vista, but the change in the interface negates all of them.
Your entire post is irrelevant because Apple, like most companies, care about growth. Growth is growth, regardless of how others are growing. Apple's market cap is larger than Dell's and only has a fraction of the market penetration in computer sales. I call that a success. Apple is selling more computers and generating more revenue than it ever has. The fact that they only have 5% (or less) of the computer market doesn't change that. It actually makes Dell look bad. In the end, it's two different business models.
More whining reporters. No reporter is required or forced to reveal their sources. However, that doesn't absolve them criminial investigation or other consequences. Freedom is not free. Sometimes that price is jail time.
I'm tired of reporters thinking their press pass makes them immune to the law. These are the same people chiding government officials and businesses for doing the exact same thing.
the fake Air Jordans from K-Mart back in the day. And when Air Jordans were out of style, K-Mart kept on trying to sell them. You can probably still buy them.
iPod haters were already saying that the market was saturated with iPods and Apple's time was over...so how is Zune going to fare any better? You can't have it both ways. Zune is simply not a compelling product...especially when the iPod is still "hip".
Whether intentional or not, I think it was BRILLIANT that Apple did not release the true video iPod at this last event. The fact that it wasn't released will have many holding off on buying a Zune. Especially with the mystery surrounding the iTV and how the forthcoming iPod will interact with it. If the Zune was really that great, they wouldn't have had to adjust the price. This clearly demonstrates Apple's influence in the marketplace...even over MS.
There are 3 different VW solutions. One is a generic input in the glovebox that can be with any portable device. The second it the VW iPod adapter that also runs into the glove box. There is a third one that replaces the CD changer in the center armrest. This one actually has a dock that you sit your iPod into.
The two iPod specific solutions allow you to marginally control from the headunit, but no tag info is displayed.
I agree with you. Apple is in a bit of a catch-22 here. They need to maintain control of the term "iPod" without it becoming "genericized". I'm not sure this is possible, but I think they have a responsibility and legal requirement to try.
Would Coca-Cola not go after some company making millions off selling an iCokeWrap? Would the same people bemoaning Apple's tactics here also have a problem with Coke doing the same thing.
There's nothing wrong with informal use of a popular brand name to refer to something. Here in the South, everything is Coke....much to the dismay of Pepsi. I've also lived in other places where people use Pepsi generically. However, I can't create my own cola and market it as Coke-a-Pepsi and expect to get away with it. That is essentially what all these Pod-widget companies are doing. They are intentionally using "pod" in order to make more money. Had the Zune or Zen been the dominant player, we'd have a bunch of Zen-widgets all over the place and Creative would be the big bully here.
Clearly some of these companies may have helped contribute to the popularity of the iPod, but I don't think it's necessary to incorporate the name of another product into your own company name. It's a dumb business move. If you have a good product, you shouldn't need to do that anyway.
Corruption has nothing to do with any political party. Corruption is an individual choice and to say that "Republicans are corrupt" is to show how ignorant and bigotted you are.
I hate to tell you this, but MOST Republicans are not right-wing Christian bible thumpers. Nor are most Democrats gay baby-killers. The problem right now is that the loonies on BOTH sides have the loudest voice right now and the faces of both parties do not accurately reflect that of a majority of the voters.
We're all screwed because we're going to up with two extreme choices for president in 08 if we don't get our sh*t together. Right now, I don't see anyone from either side that I want sitting in the Oval Office. The politicians have us too busy fighting each other to stop and see that they're all a bunch of f*ck-ups.
I'm generally not one for third parties, but maybe it's time someone reasonable stepped up from the exisiting ranks and ran as an independent. I'm really not looking forward to another 4-8 years of this insane polarization amongst the populous.
Everyone knows the world didn't exist before "recorded human history". The world is melting, the world is melting!! It MUST be true! The devil in the White House is to blame! Iran and Venezuala must save the world from the fiery devil melting the world!
Am I the only that thinks this submission is a lame non-event? Do nerds even care about Gentoo anymore? Some tech-writer couldn't follow instructions to install an operating system and that is a surprise? Why am I writing in questions?
It also doesn't mention how to fuel the engine...what happens when it runs out of gas?
Also, shouldn't they be making these run on bio-diesel?
and they don't care about the internet. For most people, there much more important things to worry about than a series of invisible tubes.
All of the these "social networking" sites suffer the same affliction. They are all just another source of ad revenue for marketers and the people running the sites.
Most people don't even know what DRM is...or care, so it's unlikely that has little bearing on whether or not music is purchased from iTMS.
The main reason is that the encoding quality sucks. I've purchased a few things, and it's just terribly low quality. I'm not an audiophile at all, but there is a clear difference between what is sold on iTMS and a 128kb AAC file encoded from one of my CDs.
The second reason is that people still want the hard media. People need something tangible when spending money.
Who's going to enforce CC? We've already told MS that their Windows EULA is an unenforcable joke, so now were going to get all upity about a license no one's ever heard of??
Frankly, MS bashing is played out and has basically taught everyone that software licenses mean nothing. Too bad for CC.
Blasphemer!!
With all those ads, you'd think they could have have splurged on a prettier, more slick interface.
1) not true
2) the first Gulf War never ended, so #1 is irrelevant to Iraq
We are only allowed to fight sovereign nations even if attacked?
One thing that everyone seems to forget is that our orginal mission in Iraq has already been completed AND was a success - the toppling of Saddam. The people we are fighting now are the ones who started the current action. What is going on now has little to do with our orginal mission, other than preventing non-Iraqi forces from taking over the country. We are trying to help Iraq get it's government in order and all these "terrorists" are trying to prevent it by attacking us, Iraqis, and anyone else who gets in their way. I'm tired of people trying to blur the lines between what we started out doing and what is going on now.
As far as the wiretapping goes. The reason this passed is because it was legal all along. This is only reaffirming that. All the Democratic politicians knew this from the beginning. All their crying was nothing more than an attmempt to get people all riled up as usual, then vote the way they know they need to. This is par for ALL politicians.
I honestly can't see anyone paying $800 for this. It's not even that slick-looking, nor the specs overly impressive.