Well, I daresay CEO in this case refers to the guy who answered the phones and hired three or four guys off the street to install videocameras. You can be President and CEO of any company as long as you own it.
And if that were the case in the US, I'm pretty sure he'd also be arrested.
Surely you aren't suggesting Barack Obama is not politically savvy? 18 months ago he was a face in a crowd, who's since gone on to become the first black President of the United States. He may be many things, but politically unsavvy he is not.
In fact, but suggesting he actually puts thought in on his words before speaking (or his thoughtfulness), is one of his most appreciated traits according to the polls.
Americans are pretty tired of the shoot first, ask questions later (if at all) act.
One small dissent to the above... It was the Dreamcast that got the game console right. The PS2 was a glorified DVD player for it's first six months. The nintendo 64 was good too.. but it was no Dreamcast.
Slightly off topic, but I have this same question about the 'Natal' interface supposedly coming out for the xbox 360 soon. the ads show kids with their arms out as if driving a car or holding a rifle, or even swinging a fishing pole. In what world am I going to want to race a car for ten minutes straight having to hold my arms out and steer without a wheel?
And would you bring that up in an interview at your new prospective employer?
Interviewer: "Well Stargoat, the interview has gone well, do you have any questions for me?" Stargoat: "Actually just one, do you have free coffee? And an unfiltered internet that I can browse at my leisure while I'm at work, regardless of what type of site it may be? Sometimes you can get some great coding ideas from seeing how youjizz.com implements their flash video player." Interviewer: "Ah.. well, don't call us, we'll call you."
This summary is suggesting that our bodies house 110,000,000,000,000 cells total?
Why do I find that hard to believe? 110 TRILLION?? really?
Could i see some math on that please?
Well, even George Washington had a military draft, and he even shot soldiers for sedition (or something like that). Of course, that was before the Constitution was written.. but with the Revolutionary war so fresh in everyone's mind, I'd be surprised if Military Draft was considered illegal under the Constitution even from the time of its original writing.
Apparently the Mississippi River ran backwards after the 1811-12 earthquake on the New Madrid (yes the earthquake and aftershocks lasted for months or years by most accounts) caused a 30 foot uplift in the KY bend of the Miss. River and dammed it up, causing a huge series of lakes in KY to form.
One could only imagine if that should happen again, and dam up the river near St. Louis or Memphis... it could wash away the city.
First of all, I'm not sure it's been conclusively determined that radioactive decay is precisely what heats the Earth's core, and secondly, why would stopping continental drift be a bad thing?
Actually, the latest procedures do not allow for formatting and degaussing anymore, it must be destroyed. Furthermore, I was also referring to FOUO classified levels as well, which it is very well likely that we will not be privy to for another couple of decades, which by then, another 2 or 3 Administrations from now will make the Bush era look golden by comparison...IF our economy and the dollar last that long.
By your last bit there, I'm guessing you are of the impression that if our economy collapses then we won't have 2 or 3 administrations at all?
Do you really think America will more or less collapse into anarchy in the next decade or two? How old are you? People have been saying that every decade since the 1700s, and we survived a Revolutionary War, Civil War, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights movement, and any number of corrupt and inept Presidencies. America is plenty resilient, as I think the Bush years taught us.
I don't necessarily disagree with your thoughts on subsidies. The problem is that the market system is so fragile, so precariously balanced that it is easily pushed over with the slightest meddling.
The problem is, we can't get rid of government. It is a reality that people need governing, and there are certain needs a large government fulfill that simply cannot be provided by market forces. The common defense, food and care for the destitute or permanently disabled, education regardless of birthplace or the wealth of your family: A moral society should gladly provide those things and more I've not thought of I'm sure.
The problem is, purely driven market forces do not, and cannot account for non-selfish applications of wealth and power for those who have no ability to repay the service. Effectively it would let people starve if they couldn't afford food, let people die if they couldn't afford medical care, and basically allow our common defense to be handled by mercenaries with the best guns in the world who really would be able to hold the country hostage for higher wages completely at will.
I am sure you don't advocate those positions, just as I don't advocate nationalizing every business in America and controlling all the means of production. But there has to be a place for some of this.
Absolutely, while the idea of Onlive or one of the other on demand gaming services is the holy grail for a gamer, I will believe something like this is possible when I see it.
However, when it becomes possible, it will take off like nothing you've ever seen.
I think you may be, you might want to get that checked out at a publicly funded socilized medical center.
Or do you honestly believe you have rights which are not afforded to you by the will of the people in the country of your residence.
Inalienable human rights and all that is great, and thanks to the Constitution our government abides by those. But if the Constitution said at the age of 65 every person gives up their land and possessions to their nearest related 25 year old. we would do that... What is a right in your mind has very little to do with actual reality unless you vote and get enough of your fellow citizens to vote with you.
But wait.. what if he did do it for 34 hours by manipulating the clock he was watching and copying to move at 70.5% normal speed, then sped his video up to complete in exactly 24 hours?
Holy smokes! I am an ARTISTE! (Mainly because I took his idea, your idea, and put them together, so now I can claim it was all my idea). ART!!!
I played around with this a bit before, and I'm pretty sure you aren't playing against (or with) another person. Because it is an addictive little game. And going as fast as you can you get flustered and add odd things to pictures, or misspell words. And after a while (a week or two while bored at work) my 'partner' would start spouting my same crazy answers from days before, or misspell words the exact same way I did.
I'm pretty sure they are just training their image tagging programs.
I can see the argument there, but still. Those who have contributed less overall (in terms of real dollars) will still be equally covered by the military and other government programs.. is this not taking one person's tax dollars and subsidizing someone less capable of paying for it? Wouldn't the free market effectively provide for an equal measure of military protection according to each persons ability to provide for that protection? Where is this line drawn?
Seems to be some folks attitude to universal healthcare too.
Except it's not universal healthcare. It's "universal what-uncle-sam-thinks-you-need care". The future of government run health care is the future of unelected bureaucrats deciding whether or not your treatment is "cost effective". Care that may have saved your life might not be covered if it doesn't meet the cost benefit analysis. The best and brightest will have less incentive to enter medicine when their salaries and reimbursements are slashed by Uncle Sam in an effort to rein in costs....
I'm sorry, but how is the government deciding what you need any different than the insurance company deciding what you need? Or have you never had to fight an insurance company to get a bill paid before? In my experience, insurance companies are MUCH more tight fisted than the government.
Right, because the 'free market' is doing a lot to keep the prices of broadband stable and/or falling right now. And the fight against net neutrality is just a mass hallucination suffered by eating too many organic yogurt covered whole-wheat bagels for breakfast by marxist socialist nazi liberals.
Ummmmmm.... so taxes are completely unlawful? Because I am having a hard time imagining a situation where you or I pay a tax, and that tax money isn't used to help someone who paid less taxes than us. School tax? Support the military? Welfare of any sort? Corporate Welfare? Paying government salaries? Building roads?
All these things could potentially be used by or used to better the life of someone other than myself.
In your view is there such a thing as a lawful tax?
Also, I realize that you may well be a rightwing extremeist, and in that case, I'm sure your mountainside compound completely cut off from electricity and public road access is a great tax shelter and I applaud you for living up to your own principles.
I don't know which is funnier, the fact that you guys seem to think Google is the only way to use the internet (Much like my grandmother thought AOL was the only way to use the Web) or that the guy claiming to value privacy so much is, according to his signature, longing for a return to the halcyon days of the Patriot Act, Warrantless Wiretapping, and Not Requiring Consent to Release Medical Records
Seriously, have you no sense of cognitive dissonance?
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Well, I daresay CEO in this case refers to the guy who answered the phones and hired three or four guys off the street to install videocameras. You can be President and CEO of any company as long as you own it. And if that were the case in the US, I'm pretty sure he'd also be arrested.
Surely you aren't suggesting Barack Obama is not politically savvy? 18 months ago he was a face in a crowd, who's since gone on to become the first black President of the United States. He may be many things, but politically unsavvy he is not.
In fact, but suggesting he actually puts thought in on his words before speaking (or his thoughtfulness), is one of his most appreciated traits according to the polls.
Americans are pretty tired of the shoot first, ask questions later (if at all) act.
One small dissent to the above... It was the Dreamcast that got the game console right. The PS2 was a glorified DVD player for it's first six months. The nintendo 64 was good too.. but it was no Dreamcast.
Slightly off topic, but I have this same question about the 'Natal' interface supposedly coming out for the xbox 360 soon. the ads show kids with their arms out as if driving a car or holding a rifle, or even swinging a fishing pole. In what world am I going to want to race a car for ten minutes straight having to hold my arms out and steer without a wheel?
Seems like that would be killer on the arms.
And would you bring that up in an interview at your new prospective employer?
Interviewer: "Well Stargoat, the interview has gone well, do you have any questions for me?"
Stargoat: "Actually just one, do you have free coffee? And an unfiltered internet that I can browse at my leisure while I'm at work, regardless of what type of site it may be? Sometimes you can get some great coding ideas from seeing how youjizz.com implements their flash video player."
Interviewer: "Ah.. well, don't call us, we'll call you."
This summary is suggesting that our bodies house 110,000,000,000,000 cells total? Why do I find that hard to believe? 110 TRILLION?? really? Could i see some math on that please?
Well, even George Washington had a military draft, and he even shot soldiers for sedition (or something like that). Of course, that was before the Constitution was written.. but with the Revolutionary war so fresh in everyone's mind, I'd be surprised if Military Draft was considered illegal under the Constitution even from the time of its original writing.
Apparently the Mississippi River ran backwards after the 1811-12 earthquake on the New Madrid (yes the earthquake and aftershocks lasted for months or years by most accounts) caused a 30 foot uplift in the KY bend of the Miss. River and dammed it up, causing a huge series of lakes in KY to form.
One could only imagine if that should happen again, and dam up the river near St. Louis or Memphis... it could wash away the city.
First of all, I'm not sure it's been conclusively determined that radioactive decay is precisely what heats the Earth's core, and secondly, why would stopping continental drift be a bad thing?
Actually, the latest procedures do not allow for formatting and degaussing anymore, it must be destroyed. Furthermore, I was also referring to FOUO classified levels as well, which it is very well likely that we will not be privy to for another couple of decades, which by then, another 2 or 3 Administrations from now will make the Bush era look golden by comparison...IF our economy and the dollar last that long.
By your last bit there, I'm guessing you are of the impression that if our economy collapses then we won't have 2 or 3 administrations at all?
Do you really think America will more or less collapse into anarchy in the next decade or two? How old are you? People have been saying that every decade since the 1700s, and we survived a Revolutionary War, Civil War, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights movement, and any number of corrupt and inept Presidencies. America is plenty resilient, as I think the Bush years taught us.
I don't necessarily disagree with your thoughts on subsidies. The problem is that the market system is so fragile, so precariously balanced that it is easily pushed over with the slightest meddling.
The problem is, we can't get rid of government. It is a reality that people need governing, and there are certain needs a large government fulfill that simply cannot be provided by market forces. The common defense, food and care for the destitute or permanently disabled, education regardless of birthplace or the wealth of your family: A moral society should gladly provide those things and more I've not thought of I'm sure.
The problem is, purely driven market forces do not, and cannot account for non-selfish applications of wealth and power for those who have no ability to repay the service. Effectively it would let people starve if they couldn't afford food, let people die if they couldn't afford medical care, and basically allow our common defense to be handled by mercenaries with the best guns in the world who really would be able to hold the country hostage for higher wages completely at will.
I am sure you don't advocate those positions, just as I don't advocate nationalizing every business in America and controlling all the means of production. But there has to be a place for some of this.
Absolutely, while the idea of Onlive or one of the other on demand gaming services is the holy grail for a gamer, I will believe something like this is possible when I see it.
However, when it becomes possible, it will take off like nothing you've ever seen.
You, sir, are a loony.
Ummmmm.... are you insane?
I think you may be, you might want to get that checked out at a publicly funded socilized medical center.
Or do you honestly believe you have rights which are not afforded to you by the will of the people in the country of your residence.
Inalienable human rights and all that is great, and thanks to the Constitution our government abides by those. But if the Constitution said at the age of 65 every person gives up their land and possessions to their nearest related 25 year old. we would do that... What is a right in your mind has very little to do with actual reality unless you vote and get enough of your fellow citizens to vote with you.
But wait.. what if he did do it for 34 hours by manipulating the clock he was watching and copying to move at 70.5% normal speed, then sped his video up to complete in exactly 24 hours? Holy smokes! I am an ARTISTE! (Mainly because I took his idea, your idea, and put them together, so now I can claim it was all my idea). ART!!!
Should that be the case: Then THAT, my friend, is ART!
Also, I would imagine he only painstakingly did this for 12 hours, no need for 24
I played around with this a bit before, and I'm pretty sure you aren't playing against (or with) another person. Because it is an addictive little game. And going as fast as you can you get flustered and add odd things to pictures, or misspell words. And after a while (a week or two while bored at work) my 'partner' would start spouting my same crazy answers from days before, or misspell words the exact same way I did. I'm pretty sure they are just training their image tagging programs.
I can see the argument there, but still. Those who have contributed less overall (in terms of real dollars) will still be equally covered by the military and other government programs.. is this not taking one person's tax dollars and subsidizing someone less capable of paying for it? Wouldn't the free market effectively provide for an equal measure of military protection according to each persons ability to provide for that protection? Where is this line drawn?
Seems to be some folks attitude to universal healthcare too.
Except it's not universal healthcare. It's "universal what-uncle-sam-thinks-you-need care". The future of government run health care is the future of unelected bureaucrats deciding whether or not your treatment is "cost effective". Care that may have saved your life might not be covered if it doesn't meet the cost benefit analysis. The best and brightest will have less incentive to enter medicine when their salaries and reimbursements are slashed by Uncle Sam in an effort to rein in costs. ...
I'm sorry, but how is the government deciding what you need any different than the insurance company deciding what you need? Or have you never had to fight an insurance company to get a bill paid before? In my experience, insurance companies are MUCH more tight fisted than the government.
I would mod this up if I could.
Right, because the 'free market' is doing a lot to keep the prices of broadband stable and/or falling right now. And the fight against net neutrality is just a mass hallucination suffered by eating too many organic yogurt covered whole-wheat bagels for breakfast by marxist socialist nazi liberals.
Ummmmmm.... so taxes are completely unlawful? Because I am having a hard time imagining a situation where you or I pay a tax, and that tax money isn't used to help someone who paid less taxes than us. School tax? Support the military? Welfare of any sort? Corporate Welfare? Paying government salaries? Building roads?
All these things could potentially be used by or used to better the life of someone other than myself.
In your view is there such a thing as a lawful tax?
Also, I realize that you may well be a rightwing extremeist, and in that case, I'm sure your mountainside compound completely cut off from electricity and public road access is a great tax shelter and I applaud you for living up to your own principles.
Dude, seriously, we are WAY past 1984, and well into the realm of Brave New World now. And we have been for decades.
I don't know which is funnier, the fact that you guys seem to think Google is the only way to use the internet (Much like my grandmother thought AOL was the only way to use the Web) or that the guy claiming to value privacy so much is, according to his signature, longing for a return to the halcyon days of the Patriot Act, Warrantless Wiretapping, and Not Requiring Consent to Release Medical Records
Seriously, have you no sense of cognitive dissonance?