What's odd is that everyone does that! So they're actually taking ears away rather than adding them. They must be stuck somewhere in the past before we all had TV remotes.
I don't know why I'm responding, since you're a hard core Republican (so was my Grandma which is why I know I'm wasting electrons), but
I voted in the 2008 election for a mainstream candidate, McCain precisely because he was the lesser of two evils (a view unfortunately confirmed by subsequent history).
Obama's far from the best President we ever had; we needed an FDR but unfortunately there are none these days. But your comment comes on the day THE IRAQ WAR IS OVER.
After bleeding jobs since Bush was elected (he was the only President in history to leave office with fewer jobs than when he first entered the office), we finally not only have job growth (albeit still weak), the unemployment rate dropped a percentage point, and I think probably will drop two or three more at least by next year's election.
Have a look at recessions and who's President during them. It used to be "guns or butter", that Republicans brought peace and recession, while Democrats brought war and prosperity. Any more, the Republicans bring us war and recession. Do you really think McCain would have helped the economy despite his being a Republican? Do you believe that if McCain had been elected that the Iraq war would be over? If McCain had won would Bin Laden be dead?
We still have Gitmo, but give him some creadit for trying to get rid of that unamerican abomination. We still have the PATRIOT act, SOPA and all that is going through, but you actually believe those things would be different under a Republican?
When is the last time a Republican balanced the budget? Hint: not in my lifetime, and I'll be 60 next year. The only balanced Federal budget I saw was under Clinton.
Personally, I'd rather third parties like the Libertarians or Greens get enough influence to matter at the national level
The only way that's going to happen is if you start voting for them. Did you waste your vote by casting it for McCain? Of course not, and I didn't waste mine by voting for the Libertarian (or Green, I voted Libbie because McKinney's batshit crazy) who doesn't want me in jail for smoking pot. To vote for someone who wants you in prison is insane, and I refuse to vote either R or D for that reason (among others).
So in other words, the choice has been "framed".
Yes, and you're a fool for believing the Demublican mantra of "a losing vote is a wasted vote". That's an incredibly stupid premise that everyone seems to accept.You're helping frame it.
I'm not going to cast a vote for a non-Republican unless the Republican candidate is similarly harmful
I guess that's this election, then, because none of the current Republican candidates is fit for office -- especially the front running hypocritic liar, a man who divorced his wife while she was dying of cancer, who went after Clinton for Clinton's affair while he was having one himself, who decrys lobbyists even though that's what he's done for a living himself. The man is an amoral sleazebag, and the world would be better off if he'd never been born.
How in the holy hell could anybody vote for that guy? God help America if Gingrich wins. He could possibly be the only person on earth who could be a worse President than Bush.
It's not quite that rosy. If a black man punches me in the face, it's misdemeanor battery. If he calls me a fucking redneck honkey before he hits me, it's a felony hate crime. In either case the only damage is my bloody nose. The only difference is a few uttered words.
Every violent crime, especially murder, has hate behind it. You don't kill someone unless you hate their guts and/or are insane.
With a limited government (note I didn't say *lack of government*), the nobility has a much shorter sword to threaten the populace with.
By "populace" you must mean "the corporations". Limited government means no environmental regulations... bye bye clean air and water. It means fewer banking regulations... say bye bye to your money. It means fewer safety regs (as in OSHA). Say bye bye to your brother who just died in a preventable industrial accident.
Taking away government's teeth takes away its ability to protect you from the powerful. This is exactly what the rich want. Sorry, but you've been fooled by the rich and powerful into championing their cause while harming yourself. Foolish, very foolish. But one expects a fool to act foolishly, and a non-1%er in the tea party is a damned fool.
Can't believe this still needs explaining on slashdot...
Well, you were responding to someone who doesn't know what the shift key is for. The guy's entire comment was wrong and completely lacking in factuality. He has the idea that all analog media had totally inadequate dynamic range, while digital's is unlimited. It's true that CDs have better dynamics than LPs and cassettes, but that doesn't hold true for all media, and in fact LPs' dynamics were, in fact, very good; so good that some CDs remastered from analog source have less dynamics than their old LP counterparts did.
Digital broadcast TV doesn't have any more dynamics than analog broadcast TV did. The "loud commercials" problem is no worse than it was back in the analog days.
15 years sounds like an extremely harsh punishment given the circumstances.
ESPECIALLY considering that a man convicted of 11 felony counts of corruption, including selling Obama's Senate seat, got only a 14 year sentence. A friend who drove a cab was killed by an armed robber, who spent only two years in jail.
That's also open to abuse, because how do you determine who qualifies for state funding?
Easy, if you can actually get on the ballot, you get funding. The hard part, which public financing wouldn't change, is getting enough signatures on the ballot petition to actually get on the ballot.
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Darn, once again I'm reminded of an Asimov story I can't remember the name of. It concerned a spacecraft manufacturer (with two heads and four legs) hiring a detective to find out why people are dying in the ships that are supposed to be indestructable. Turns out that they got too close to a black hole and the gravity gradient tore them apart.
OK so when banks go under it's mainly because of the overwhelming number of defaults. Whose fault is that? Partly the banks, partly the dishonest bastards who think the world owes them a living. Well, fuck you, I'm not covering your dishonesty. Get out and get a real job, one that pays real money, and BUY the stuff you want instead of putting the burden on those who WORK for what they have.
You had me up to that point. Such ignorance! You're not getting credit without an income, unless the bank president is your dad.
What Happens When Supermassive Black Holes Collide? by Fraser Cain on February 29, 2008
As galaxies merge together, you might be wondering what happens with the supermassive black holes that lurk at their centres. Just imagine the forces unleashed as two black holes with hundreds of millions of times the mass of the Sun come together. The answer will surprise you. Fortunately, itâ(TM)s an event that we should be able to detect from here on Earth, if we know what weâ(TM)re looking for.
Most people don't have those things and the ones that do are still less likely to have these things in the place you'd brig this "beer cooler". I don't see many folks at the club with full size DSLRs hung from their necks.
I don't see many people with beer coolers in bars, either.
Hell, I even met my actual meatspace wife online on an atheist think tank. She used to be a tongue speaking lunatic Pentecostal, but is also now an atheist.
You'd be surprised how many athiests and especially agnostics there are in church, who are only there because they're expected to be, or to be seen by others. I would guess that she never really was that religious -- once you meet God it's pretty hard not to believe in him.
The lead singer for a band that epitomized monetizing music and you somehow think him being Jewish has any bearing on the matter.
His point was that it furthers a negative stereotype. He wasn't bashing Jews, he was bashing Gene Simmons for making his race look bad. Hell, if I were Jewish I'd probably make the same remark. The fact is that there are jerks of all races, and if you're a stereotypical jerk, regardless of race or stereotype, you're making your own people look bad.
Nonsense, cheap tape recorders from the 1960s had automatic gain control. It's old tech, and it's simple tech, and it works. This law shouldn't cause anybody any problems.
It would be nice if there was a dynamics compresion button om remotes, though. Movies these days have too much range for apartments; you have loud, blaring music, then speech so soft you can't hear it. It would be nice if you had a dynamics limiter/compressor with an on/off button.
To see this cosmic event happening before our eyes. I know that it has already happened and we are seeing the light from the event finally reaching our eyes
But that's no different than seeing anything else. You cannot see the present, you can only see the past. That sunset? Eight minutes old. That red dot in the sky they call Mars? It's ten to twenty minutes in the past. That coffee cup you're reaching for? It's the image of that cup from the tiniest fraction of a second ago.
Seeing that event that happened so long ago is no different than seeing the sun from eight minutes ago, or the coffee cup from a tiny fraction of a second ago.
My guess is that half have access, but don't care. My 80 year old dad falls in that camp, as do a lot of middle aged and younger people I know.
My maternal grandfather still used the outhouse even after my uncle built a bathroom on his house. "I went seventy years without indoor plumbing and I don't need it now!"
With Dad it's "I went eighty years without a cell phone and the internet and I don't need them now!"
I fear becoming like that. But it explains perfectly why so many don't have the internet -- they don't want it. It's something brand new that they don't understand and are actually a little afraid of.
Yes it is and yes it does. What's more, it's ripe for discussion, and discussion is what most folks come here for. That, and to laugh when someone gets a "+3 insightful" for an offtopic comment. And, you know, if the subject doesn't interest you, simply don't click the link.
As to the actual topic, if there's an applicant with no credit history I see nothing wrong with it; it might help a person get a credit hostory. OTOH if I've been faithfully paying all my bills on time, social networking shouldn't matter at all.
Then there's the danger of "He tweeted that he was at an Occupy protest. No loan for HIM!"
That's one big reason why I'm ignoring Kindle and looking at the Nook. Of course, I may just forego an e-reader completely; I have a notebook and may get a tablet. With a tablet I see no use for an e-reader.
I have it on my notebook. It's better than previous versions in many ways, but still has a long way to go. Examples: the setting to shut off the "tap to click" bug (they call it a feature) isn't in Control Panel. Control Panel itself is a mess; they went backwards with it. XP's was better. It takes a hundred mouse clicks to change anything, and that's after hunting for it because it's so illogically laid out. You have to boot it at least monthly for its Tuesday patches, and more frequently to update other software. When you do reboot it, you have to reopen all your apps and documents. And unless you're leaving your computer wide open you have to enter a password when you boot. And no matter what you do on your computer, you must do it the Microsoft Way.
Linux (at least kubuntu and Mandriva) have none of these disadvantages. It took a month for me to find the "tap to click" setting in Win 7, less than five minutes with kubuntu.
Because the studies have shown that these activities are nothing like a telephone conversation. Gees, where did all you anti-science people come from, anyway?
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What's odd is that everyone does that! So they're actually taking ears away rather than adding them. They must be stuck somewhere in the past before we all had TV remotes.
I don't know why I'm responding, since you're a hard core Republican (so was my Grandma which is why I know I'm wasting electrons), but
I voted in the 2008 election for a mainstream candidate, McCain precisely because he was the lesser of two evils (a view unfortunately confirmed by subsequent history).
Obama's far from the best President we ever had; we needed an FDR but unfortunately there are none these days. But your comment comes on the day THE IRAQ WAR IS OVER.
After bleeding jobs since Bush was elected (he was the only President in history to leave office with fewer jobs than when he first entered the office), we finally not only have job growth (albeit still weak), the unemployment rate dropped a percentage point, and I think probably will drop two or three more at least by next year's election.
Have a look at recessions and who's President during them. It used to be "guns or butter", that Republicans brought peace and recession, while Democrats brought war and prosperity. Any more, the Republicans bring us war and recession. Do you really think McCain would have helped the economy despite his being a Republican? Do you believe that if McCain had been elected that the Iraq war would be over? If McCain had won would Bin Laden be dead?
We still have Gitmo, but give him some creadit for trying to get rid of that unamerican abomination. We still have the PATRIOT act, SOPA and all that is going through, but you actually believe those things would be different under a Republican?
When is the last time a Republican balanced the budget? Hint: not in my lifetime, and I'll be 60 next year. The only balanced Federal budget I saw was under Clinton.
Personally, I'd rather third parties like the Libertarians or Greens get enough influence to matter at the national level
The only way that's going to happen is if you start voting for them. Did you waste your vote by casting it for McCain? Of course not, and I didn't waste mine by voting for the Libertarian (or Green, I voted Libbie because McKinney's batshit crazy) who doesn't want me in jail for smoking pot. To vote for someone who wants you in prison is insane, and I refuse to vote either R or D for that reason (among others).
So in other words, the choice has been "framed".
Yes, and you're a fool for believing the Demublican mantra of "a losing vote is a wasted vote". That's an incredibly stupid premise that everyone seems to accept.You're helping frame it.
I'm not going to cast a vote for a non-Republican unless the Republican candidate is similarly harmful
I guess that's this election, then, because none of the current Republican candidates is fit for office -- especially the front running hypocritic liar, a man who divorced his wife while she was dying of cancer, who went after Clinton for Clinton's affair while he was having one himself, who decrys lobbyists even though that's what he's done for a living himself. The man is an amoral sleazebag, and the world would be better off if he'd never been born.
How in the holy hell could anybody vote for that guy? God help America if Gingrich wins. He could possibly be the only person on earth who could be a worse President than Bush.
It's not quite that rosy. If a black man punches me in the face, it's misdemeanor battery. If he calls me a fucking redneck honkey before he hits me, it's a felony hate crime. In either case the only damage is my bloody nose. The only difference is a few uttered words.
Every violent crime, especially murder, has hate behind it. You don't kill someone unless you hate their guts and/or are insane.
With a limited government (note I didn't say *lack of government*), the nobility has a much shorter sword to threaten the populace with.
By "populace" you must mean "the corporations". Limited government means no environmental regulations... bye bye clean air and water. It means fewer banking regulations... say bye bye to your money. It means fewer safety regs (as in OSHA). Say bye bye to your brother who just died in a preventable industrial accident.
Taking away government's teeth takes away its ability to protect you from the powerful. This is exactly what the rich want. Sorry, but you've been fooled by the rich and powerful into championing their cause while harming yourself. Foolish, very foolish. But one expects a fool to act foolishly, and a non-1%er in the tea party is a damned fool.
Can't believe this still needs explaining on slashdot...
Well, you were responding to someone who doesn't know what the shift key is for. The guy's entire comment was wrong and completely lacking in factuality. He has the idea that all analog media had totally inadequate dynamic range, while digital's is unlimited. It's true that CDs have better dynamics than LPs and cassettes, but that doesn't hold true for all media, and in fact LPs' dynamics were, in fact, very good; so good that some CDs remastered from analog source have less dynamics than their old LP counterparts did.
Digital broadcast TV doesn't have any more dynamics than analog broadcast TV did. The "loud commercials" problem is no worse than it was back in the analog days.
15 years sounds like an extremely harsh punishment given the circumstances.
ESPECIALLY considering that a man convicted of 11 felony counts of corruption, including selling Obama's Senate seat, got only a 14 year sentence. A friend who drove a cab was killed by an armed robber, who spent only two years in jail.
Fifteen years is way too long.
That's also open to abuse, because how do you determine who qualifies for state funding?
Easy, if you can actually get on the ballot, you get funding. The hard part, which public financing wouldn't change, is getting enough signatures on the ballot petition to actually get on the ballot.
Abuse the moderation system? Hell, most of the comments I've seen in this thread are offtopic, yet they get modded up anyway.
I wish they'd bring the old metamoderation system back.
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Boot record, record used to start an operating system
Document for administrative use
Business record of economic transactions
Medical record of a person's medical history and treatments
Service record, usually associated with military service
Minutes, a summary of the proceedings at a meeting
Public records, information that has been filed or recorded by public agencies
Docket (court), the summary of proceedings in a court (US)
A transcript is a verbatim record of some proceedings, in particular a court transcript is a record of a law court case or similar procedure
Recording (real estate), the act of documenting real estate transactions
Criminal record, a list of a person's criminal convictions.
Anything which is recorded in writing or otherwise for future reference
World record, an unsurpassed accomplishment or statistic
Winâ"loss record (pitching), the number of wins and losses a baseball pitcher has accumulated
Archaeological record, the body of archaeological evidence
State commonly refers to either the present condition of a system or entity, or to a governed entity (such as a country) or sub-entity (such as a province or region).
Darn, once again I'm reminded of an Asimov story I can't remember the name of. It concerned a spacecraft manufacturer (with two heads and four legs) hiring a detective to find out why people are dying in the ships that are supposed to be indestructable. Turns out that they got too close to a black hole and the gravity gradient tore them apart.
OK so when banks go under it's mainly because of the overwhelming number of defaults. Whose fault is that? Partly the banks, partly the dishonest bastards who think the world owes them a living. Well, fuck you, I'm not covering your dishonesty. Get out and get a real job, one that pays real money, and BUY the stuff you want instead of putting the burden on those who WORK for what they have.
You had me up to that point. Such ignorance! You're not getting credit without an income, unless the bank president is your dad.
Say, what happens when two black holes collide?
When I'm curious about something I google it.
Most people don't have those things and the ones that do are still less likely to have these things in the place you'd brig this "beer cooler". I don't see many folks at the club with full size DSLRs hung from their necks.
I don't see many people with beer coolers in bars, either.
Hell, I even met my actual meatspace wife online on an atheist think tank. She used to be a tongue speaking lunatic Pentecostal, but is also now an atheist.
You'd be surprised how many athiests and especially agnostics there are in church, who are only there because they're expected to be, or to be seen by others. I would guess that she never really was that religious -- once you meet God it's pretty hard not to believe in him.
The lead singer for a band that epitomized monetizing music and you somehow think him being Jewish has any bearing on the matter.
His point was that it furthers a negative stereotype. He wasn't bashing Jews, he was bashing Gene Simmons for making his race look bad. Hell, if I were Jewish I'd probably make the same remark. The fact is that there are jerks of all races, and if you're a stereotypical jerk, regardless of race or stereotype, you're making your own people look bad.
Nonsense, cheap tape recorders from the 1960s had automatic gain control. It's old tech, and it's simple tech, and it works. This law shouldn't cause anybody any problems.
It would be nice if there was a dynamics compresion button om remotes, though. Movies these days have too much range for apartments; you have loud, blaring music, then speech so soft you can't hear it. It would be nice if you had a dynamics limiter/compressor with an on/off button.
To see this cosmic event happening before our eyes. I know that it has already happened and we are seeing the light from the event finally reaching our eyes
But that's no different than seeing anything else. You cannot see the present, you can only see the past. That sunset? Eight minutes old. That red dot in the sky they call Mars? It's ten to twenty minutes in the past. That coffee cup you're reaching for? It's the image of that cup from the tiniest fraction of a second ago.
Seeing that event that happened so long ago is no different than seeing the sun from eight minutes ago, or the coffee cup from a tiny fraction of a second ago.
My guess is that half have access, but don't care. My 80 year old dad falls in that camp, as do a lot of middle aged and younger people I know.
My maternal grandfather still used the outhouse even after my uncle built a bathroom on his house. "I went seventy years without indoor plumbing and I don't need it now!"
With Dad it's "I went eighty years without a cell phone and the internet and I don't need them now!"
I fear becoming like that. But it explains perfectly why so many don't have the internet -- they don't want it. It's something brand new that they don't understand and are actually a little afraid of.
Bullshit, I take pictures in Felbers with my phone all the time. It has no flash, and the pictures come out as good as any other indoor picture.
Yes it is and yes it does. What's more, it's ripe for discussion, and discussion is what most folks come here for. That, and to laugh when someone gets a "+3 insightful" for an offtopic comment. And, you know, if the subject doesn't interest you, simply don't click the link.
As to the actual topic, if there's an applicant with no credit history I see nothing wrong with it; it might help a person get a credit hostory. OTOH if I've been faithfully paying all my bills on time, social networking shouldn't matter at all.
Then there's the danger of "He tweeted that he was at an Occupy protest. No loan for HIM!"
That's one big reason why I'm ignoring Kindle and looking at the Nook. Of course, I may just forego an e-reader completely; I have a notebook and may get a tablet. With a tablet I see no use for an e-reader.
Thanks, I'll have to have a look at them. I'll bet Leila would like a lot of them.
I have it on my notebook. It's better than previous versions in many ways, but still has a long way to go. Examples: the setting to shut off the "tap to click" bug (they call it a feature) isn't in Control Panel. Control Panel itself is a mess; they went backwards with it. XP's was better. It takes a hundred mouse clicks to change anything, and that's after hunting for it because it's so illogically laid out. You have to boot it at least monthly for its Tuesday patches, and more frequently to update other software. When you do reboot it, you have to reopen all your apps and documents. And unless you're leaving your computer wide open you have to enter a password when you boot. And no matter what you do on your computer, you must do it the Microsoft Way.
Linux (at least kubuntu and Mandriva) have none of these disadvantages. It took a month for me to find the "tap to click" setting in Win 7, less than five minutes with kubuntu.
Because the studies have shown that these activities are nothing like a telephone conversation. Gees, where did all you anti-science people come from, anyway?