Karl Rove didn't invent wedge politics. For instance back in the last 60s and early 70s, Nixon's campaign advisers successfully used it to put him in office twice. Even after the Watergate scandal broke.
Regardless of ones party affiliation, it ought to be obvious that she's not qualified to be President. Hell, she's not even qualified to be VP. I mean she doesn't even know what the VP does, let alone possess the necessary ability to articulate it.
You're honestly suggesting that they're going to back down after an election win? They're specifically stating that they want to grid lock congress and keep the President from achieving anything. Implicit in that is that winning the 2012 Presidential race is more important than improving the lives of the voters.
Ugh, please no, do not want. As if things aren't confusing enough as it is. The last thing we need is to keep track of whether candidate C is slightly less evil than candidate D who is slightly better than candidate B. Americans have a hard enough time keeping track of two options, giving them more is not going to make for better results.
You really think it's that much different than the other systems? Sure we have two parties, but they're much more diverse than any party you find under a parliamentary system. The main reason why we have such trouble is that the voters vote for morons and individuals that promise to lock up the process and cause it to become a circus.
Unfortunately, that's the case in 48 out of 50 states. In WA and IA there's methods in place which prevent the winners from drawing the districting lines to favor themselves. Here in WA we have a bipartisan committee which proposes the districting changes every 10 years subject to a legislative approval.
IA is a bit different in that they're, IIRC, using a non-partisan committee to draw the lines.
Both ways are great because they make it more difficult for a party to write itself a majority. And when taken with our new to two approach to primaries, you should see a government here in WA that's significantly less partisan and more focused on actually solving problems.
The rest of the country could do that, as it's only been in the last 30 years that we changed our districting committee to a bipartisan one.
Not going to happen anytime soon. Had they lost the midterms soundly they might have changed course. But the morons in an effort to encourage bipartisanship decided to reward the party that was responsible for most of the failure to act in a bipartisan way. You've even got leaders that are specifically saying that they're not going to do anything that might appear favorable to the President so that they can win in 2012.
With that big reward they got for bad behavior, I wouldn't recommend holding your breath for them to realize how insane their ideas are and moving more towards the center.
One of Carter's biggest problems was that he let the Republicans have their way too frequently. Clinton had that problem as well, but was a better politicians and could maneuver around that.
At this stage what we really need is for the Democrats to grow a spine, and tell the Republicans to put up or shut up. It's getting really old hearing the same tired talking points in response to every issue that comes up. Even more so when the talking points involve doing the same things which led the the problem that they're trying to fix.
There has never been a communist state in the history of the world. They all had at least 2 classes and in no case did the workers really control the means of production and the wealth that it generates.
That's a myth, doing so would ruin them worse than it would ruin us. We do still have the capability to produce our own food, water and energy. Well, excluding most of our oil needs.
OTOH were they to do that they would majorly piss off most of the developed world.
Because free trade isn't about free trade so much as it is a tool with which the rich can bludgeon the poor into working for less than their labor is worth.
This is exactly the sort of situation that Marx was concerned by. The Bourgeoisie forcing the Proletariat to compete with each other to suppress wages so that the Bourgeoisie could have more money.
To be honest, white makes it look pretty hideously ugly. Sure that's not what I base my buying decisions on, but it seems fugly like those gen 1 iPods.
I'd better shut up about that before Steve focuses his reality distortion field on me.
Because when a major retailer does that it makes it much harder to get published. You can make what you like of it, but when a retailer like Amazon declares something to be banned from their bookshop, it makes it significantly harder for a writer to get published. Get several major bookshops in lock step on it, and you're more or less banned.
Sure you can self publish, but that's a lot harder if you don't have the exposure through a major chain, and you're going to have to do it without an advance to allow you to focus on it exclusively prior to publishing. You also probably won't have money for a professional editor.
Yes we should be concerned. If they're blacklisting without qualification it could make it very hard to distribute materials for fighting domestic violence, rape and molestation on their site. Instead of materials that are aimed at promoting such activities.
I'd go Nook. It has DRM but it's not mandatory. You can access anything you like off any computer running Linux, OSX or Windows. It supports epub which is the industry standard. You can load anything you wish via USB as well as copy pretty much anything that isn't DRMed off.
But, I don't think that any ebook reader at this point has an open source firmware available. And I wouldn't expect there to be any time soon. But with the way that Nook works, I don't personally see any need for that anytime soon. But it is based upon Android so it should be within the realm of possibility to give it an open source firmware.
Perhaps in the past where a book store would service a portion of a cities demand, but these days such things tend to have a cascading effect. When Walmart demands a change in order to gain access to their 10% market share of the music business labels tend to fold and make the changes. It definitely is a big deal and it's going to get worse as long as corporations are allowed to be big and make those sorts of editorial decisions.
If it's a small retailer that wants to do it, that's really not that big of a deal.
I'd recommend reading up on Walmart and the effect that their music buying preferences have had on popular music. They're a huge retailer of music and refuse to carry music which has a warning label on it. It gets bizarre at times like when they refused to carry Nirvana until they changed the names of some of the songs. Didn't actually change the songs, just the names, dropped the warning and were able to be carried. Most artists aren't that lucky and have to compromise their artistic integrity in order to live up to Walmart's rules or release an alternate version.
You know, you can improve your handwriting. Apart from some people with learning disorders, pretty much everybody can improve their handwriting. It's just a matter of practice and attention to detail. You're not really supposed to be writing so much material that you can't keep up with the lecture. At very least you can leave out vowels and abbreviate.
It's not the same. Online classes have been available for quite a while, and they only work for a subset of the students. Sure it can be effective, but for most students it isn't adequate.
Lectures are optional. They've been optional for as long as I can recall, once you hit college they don't make you show up for class. Sure it's going to bite you in the ass at some point, but they don't make you show up for lectures.
Thing is that they shouldn't have to ask. They've paid for the class and shouldn't have to ask that others stop distracting them. It's common courtesy that you not do things which distract others from learning.
Laptops wouldn't be a problem if they didn't distract other people. Personally, I found it really annoying when I was in college and there'd be a couple of people tapping away on laptops during class. I can only imagine how bad it is now with a larger number of people doing so.
OTOH, if they're using an interface that doesn't make any noise, I'm not entirely sure what the problem is.
Yes, and with good reason. It's not just focusing, it's that your eyelids stay open for longer periods of time than they normally would. Ever notice after a long period of time playing video games how your eyes sometimes burn?
Additionally, if you're not sitting at an appropriate distance you can cause a bit of strain as well.
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Karl Rove didn't invent wedge politics. For instance back in the last 60s and early 70s, Nixon's campaign advisers successfully used it to put him in office twice. Even after the Watergate scandal broke.
Regardless of ones party affiliation, it ought to be obvious that she's not qualified to be President. Hell, she's not even qualified to be VP. I mean she doesn't even know what the VP does, let alone possess the necessary ability to articulate it.
You're honestly suggesting that they're going to back down after an election win? They're specifically stating that they want to grid lock congress and keep the President from achieving anything. Implicit in that is that winning the 2012 Presidential race is more important than improving the lives of the voters.
Ugh, please no, do not want. As if things aren't confusing enough as it is. The last thing we need is to keep track of whether candidate C is slightly less evil than candidate D who is slightly better than candidate B. Americans have a hard enough time keeping track of two options, giving them more is not going to make for better results.
You really think it's that much different than the other systems? Sure we have two parties, but they're much more diverse than any party you find under a parliamentary system. The main reason why we have such trouble is that the voters vote for morons and individuals that promise to lock up the process and cause it to become a circus.
Unfortunately, that's the case in 48 out of 50 states. In WA and IA there's methods in place which prevent the winners from drawing the districting lines to favor themselves. Here in WA we have a bipartisan committee which proposes the districting changes every 10 years subject to a legislative approval.
IA is a bit different in that they're, IIRC, using a non-partisan committee to draw the lines.
Both ways are great because they make it more difficult for a party to write itself a majority. And when taken with our new to two approach to primaries, you should see a government here in WA that's significantly less partisan and more focused on actually solving problems.
The rest of the country could do that, as it's only been in the last 30 years that we changed our districting committee to a bipartisan one.
Not going to happen anytime soon. Had they lost the midterms soundly they might have changed course. But the morons in an effort to encourage bipartisanship decided to reward the party that was responsible for most of the failure to act in a bipartisan way. You've even got leaders that are specifically saying that they're not going to do anything that might appear favorable to the President so that they can win in 2012.
With that big reward they got for bad behavior, I wouldn't recommend holding your breath for them to realize how insane their ideas are and moving more towards the center.
One of Carter's biggest problems was that he let the Republicans have their way too frequently. Clinton had that problem as well, but was a better politicians and could maneuver around that.
At this stage what we really need is for the Democrats to grow a spine, and tell the Republicans to put up or shut up. It's getting really old hearing the same tired talking points in response to every issue that comes up. Even more so when the talking points involve doing the same things which led the the problem that they're trying to fix.
There has never been a communist state in the history of the world. They all had at least 2 classes and in no case did the workers really control the means of production and the wealth that it generates.
That's a myth, doing so would ruin them worse than it would ruin us. We do still have the capability to produce our own food, water and energy. Well, excluding most of our oil needs.
OTOH were they to do that they would majorly piss off most of the developed world.
Because free trade isn't about free trade so much as it is a tool with which the rich can bludgeon the poor into working for less than their labor is worth.
This is exactly the sort of situation that Marx was concerned by. The Bourgeoisie forcing the Proletariat to compete with each other to suppress wages so that the Bourgeoisie could have more money.
Considering what they're trying to accomplish it would probably be easier to make everything illegal that isn't specifically made legal.
To be honest, white makes it look pretty hideously ugly. Sure that's not what I base my buying decisions on, but it seems fugly like those gen 1 iPods.
I'd better shut up about that before Steve focuses his reality distortion field on me.
I was disappointed that it wasn't included. Perhaps they've been bitten and are now shy.
Because when a major retailer does that it makes it much harder to get published. You can make what you like of it, but when a retailer like Amazon declares something to be banned from their bookshop, it makes it significantly harder for a writer to get published. Get several major bookshops in lock step on it, and you're more or less banned.
Sure you can self publish, but that's a lot harder if you don't have the exposure through a major chain, and you're going to have to do it without an advance to allow you to focus on it exclusively prior to publishing. You also probably won't have money for a professional editor.
Yes we should be concerned. If they're blacklisting without qualification it could make it very hard to distribute materials for fighting domestic violence, rape and molestation on their site. Instead of materials that are aimed at promoting such activities.
I'd go Nook. It has DRM but it's not mandatory. You can access anything you like off any computer running Linux, OSX or Windows. It supports epub which is the industry standard. You can load anything you wish via USB as well as copy pretty much anything that isn't DRMed off.
But, I don't think that any ebook reader at this point has an open source firmware available. And I wouldn't expect there to be any time soon. But with the way that Nook works, I don't personally see any need for that anytime soon. But it is based upon Android so it should be within the realm of possibility to give it an open source firmware.
Perhaps in the past where a book store would service a portion of a cities demand, but these days such things tend to have a cascading effect. When Walmart demands a change in order to gain access to their 10% market share of the music business labels tend to fold and make the changes. It definitely is a big deal and it's going to get worse as long as corporations are allowed to be big and make those sorts of editorial decisions.
If it's a small retailer that wants to do it, that's really not that big of a deal.
I'd recommend reading up on Walmart and the effect that their music buying preferences have had on popular music. They're a huge retailer of music and refuse to carry music which has a warning label on it. It gets bizarre at times like when they refused to carry Nirvana until they changed the names of some of the songs. Didn't actually change the songs, just the names, dropped the warning and were able to be carried. Most artists aren't that lucky and have to compromise their artistic integrity in order to live up to Walmart's rules or release an alternate version.
Check out the second paragraph http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/stores3_2.html
You know, you can improve your handwriting. Apart from some people with learning disorders, pretty much everybody can improve their handwriting. It's just a matter of practice and attention to detail. You're not really supposed to be writing so much material that you can't keep up with the lecture. At very least you can leave out vowels and abbreviate.
It's not the same. Online classes have been available for quite a while, and they only work for a subset of the students. Sure it can be effective, but for most students it isn't adequate.
Lectures are optional. They've been optional for as long as I can recall, once you hit college they don't make you show up for class. Sure it's going to bite you in the ass at some point, but they don't make you show up for lectures.
Thing is that they shouldn't have to ask. They've paid for the class and shouldn't have to ask that others stop distracting them. It's common courtesy that you not do things which distract others from learning.
Laptops wouldn't be a problem if they didn't distract other people. Personally, I found it really annoying when I was in college and there'd be a couple of people tapping away on laptops during class. I can only imagine how bad it is now with a larger number of people doing so.
OTOH, if they're using an interface that doesn't make any noise, I'm not entirely sure what the problem is.
Yes, and with good reason. It's not just focusing, it's that your eyelids stay open for longer periods of time than they normally would. Ever notice after a long period of time playing video games how your eyes sometimes burn?
Additionally, if you're not sitting at an appropriate distance you can cause a bit of strain as well.