I was going to pass on his current documentary based on his past films. I found them very misleading and him as very manipulative. He misrepresented facts and omitted facts which clearly contradict his very biased statements in his other films. Well I managed to see this one and am impressed. He was actually fair and unbiased. He let the facts speak for themselves. Teh actions of the insurance companies and hospitals pretty much spoke much better to the horrendous problems of our system than Moore ever could. His going to the US base in Cuba was kida stupid as well. Civilians can't get medical treatment at a military base or hospital usually so what did he expect? Did he expect them to open the doors to him? The only issue I had was with his statement that Cuba had world class medical care. That's a load and I knwo from first hand exp. I have family in Cuba and visit regularly. While it's not horrible it does not rate as first class. Maybe when compared to other latin american systems. There is a reason Fidel sought help from outside Cuba. Over all I feel this is his best and most truthful doc he's done to date. It was pretty angry after seeing how profit/money driven our system is. I may not agree with much of what Canada and France do but they have the right idea when it comes to medical care.
No they didn't do anything legally wrong. They were complying with Chinese laws and the deal they struck with the Chinese government. It think it's silly that people feel a company has the right to ignore laws if they don't agree with them. Just because something is legal here in the US and other nations doesn't mean it's legal EVERYWHERE. Yeah Chinese laws tend to crush freedoms but guess what? That's their right to do since it is their country. It's kinda like your neighbor feeling they are within their rights to enforce their own moral code on you in your own home. People need to remember China is a sovereign nation and can pass whatever laws they please no matter how wrong we may feel they are. If you con't want to follow the law in a country then simply don't do there. Don't do business there. But if you DO do business there you MUST follow their laws.
Not to mention pn a PC you can replace everything yourself much cheaper than simply buying a prebuilt NEW PC from places like Dell. I just built a system for a coworker. He went to Dells website and priced a comparable system and blew me away at how much I saved the guy. The same system prebuilt was double his cost. With Apple PC's you only have one vendor. It would be nice if they allowed Mac clones to be made. But this would be actual competition in the Mac market and this is still wishful thinking.
LOL!!! You are talking about upgrading a gaming rig. Very different than upgrading a work PC. You do not need PCIe or the other stuff. I still use my old PC for general computing. Sure if you wanna keep your rig current for games or anything dealing with Multimedia/CG then you will be pretty much replacing the whole damn thing depending on how old it is. If I had a Mac and my motherboard died I would be forced to take it to some Apple shop to pay tehn to replace it. Not sure how the Apple warranty works but possibly alse be charged for the replacement board. With a PC I can simply go to my local PC parts store, selectc froma huge range of replacment boards, and then install it myself. Anyway, most Mac folks I know view ANY kind of an upgrade are major surgery. It's silly I know. Popping in RAM or anything else can be a pain/challenge if you are looking at one of those compact cases be it a Mac or Windows/Linux box. I still remember those Packard Bell computers we all loved to hate. When I would come over to a friend's place to help with an upgrade I would flat out refuse to try if they had one of these. The few times I broke down and actually tried I had to fight the urge to give the damned thing the Office Space treatment. At the time that sucked but I can look back now and laugh.:)
Spoken like a true European with thier head stuck in the sand reading revisionist history. Fact is teh EU couldn't much against either the US or Russia if either or both decided to invade. The EU lacks teh military power to pose a real threat to either nation. You sound like Hugo Chavez and his crazy selfdelusional rantings about being able to stand up against a world power. Accept the world as it is and deal with your own issues at home. Oh yeah if the EU can take care of itself don't ask for our help next time some crisis breaks out. For a long time the US has sent it's troops to help when asked. Even at with protests of it's own people. We have been the police force of the world for a long time. I'd like to see how different the world would be if we kept our troops at home and let the world fend for itself.
Spoken like a true European with thier head stuck in the sand reading revisionist history. Fact is teh EU couldn't much against either the US or Russia if either or both decided to invade. The EU lacks teh military power to pose a real threat to either nation. You sound like Hugo Chavez and his crazy selfdelusional rantings about being able to stand up against a world power. Accept the world as it is and deal with your own issues at home. Oh yeah if the EU can take care of itself don't ask for our help next time some crisis breaks out. For a long time the US has sent it's troops to help when asked. Even at with protests of it's own people. We have been the police force of the world for a long time. I'd like to see how different the world would be if we kept our troops at home and let the world fend for itself.
So I guess I invade people's privacy almost everyday when I goout and take phots in the neighborhood and happen to get shots of open windows in the background when shooting my little girl chasing our cat. Get real people. How is it invasion? Is she someone google would want to spy on? Sounds a bit paranoid to me. Peopel leave teir windows and/or blionds open all the time. Peopel who walk by have a clear view of the inside of the house. Why doesn't she go after all the peopel who pass her open window while on a stroll for invasion of privacy?
On the surface this sounds like a good business decision. Saving lots of cash on licensing. BUT can they get support for that alternate office application? If so then by all means go for it. If not, I think the minister of education needs a bit of educating.
The point of the article was that if more peope actually tried to use their bandwidth we'd learn the ISP are promising more than they could provide. So what if you paid for what you use. A broadband router wich provides a neighborhood with cable broadband access is a good example. Your average user doesn't take advantage of even 1 Mbps access. The cable companies have been banking on this for a ling time. Now what would happen when more peoepl in that neighborhood started to use more of thier pipe? What if they all started doing this around the same time? Their connections would slow to a crawl as they are over taxing the router. I know this because when I worked for Time Warner Cable in southern california this is exactly what we were seeing. So even if everyone was doing as you do have to and pay for any downloads beyond your monthly allowance you'd have the same issue.
Sorry but you are wrong and really should do some research bofore speaking on a topic you obviously don't know anything about. My father was a diabetic. His body produced insulin just not enough.
Speaking as someone who's been a juror I am detecting some sour grapes. Yes I didn't want to be sitting in court for almost a week. Sure it sucked but guess what? I took my job as juror seriously. I understood the future of someone was placed in our hands. Yes there was one person that fit your description as an apathetic juror but the rest of us were able to get over ourselves and do the job. There are ways to explain a very technical subject to a tech illiterate. I did it all the time during my stint as technical helpdesk rep. I was able to explain to an 80 year old how her PC spoke to the internet and and have her comprehend enough empower her troubleshoot her own issue. If I can do this I'm fairly confident this lawyer will be able to explain the technical side of the case to the jurors. I doubt they Jury will be filled with 80 year olds. Another thing that made me take the case I was sitting in on seriously was the hope that if I ever found myself having to deffend myself in court I would have a Jury that would take the job just as serious as we did. Not everyone sherks their responcibilities.
Do you really think they will allow the whole season to be sold at the same time the season starts to air? LOL!!! A few words for you... Torrents, e-Mule, and other file sharing goodness. I wouldn't mind being forced to watch the ads if I were streaming the show directly from their sites. But being forced to watch the ads on an On Demand service kids defeats the whole purpose of the service. I for one would stick to recording the shows while I'm gone then watched them later. What a joke.
Actually the answer is most likely no. I used to work for Time Warner Cable and we disabled the record feature on all On Demand channels. While i worked for Time Warner Cable I lived in a COX Cable area and they did the same thing. So I think it's safe to assume this is standard practice.
Nope. Not w/o some genetic engineering. This is onlt one of the many pieces og genetic baggage we need to shed to make the human race a rational one as a whole.
Ummm... I fail to see this as a problem. One word. Masturbation... The crew doesn't have to have sex with each other. Give them the correct equipment and they can take the issue firmly in hand and deal with it.
This is hilarious!!!! So he got arrested over this? Come on now... When I was a kid I wrote a pretty dark piece in my English class and was praised for my use of metaphor and vivid imagery. They didn't call the cops on me or send me to see the school shrink for a heart to heart. They took my piece for what it was. This essay was just him venting. If they think this is bad they'd most likely die of fright if they were able to read the REAL thoughts of the students. For the most part I feel this kids essay was a critique of his school and society. Nothing here should be raising any red flags. The stuff he put to paper is the same stuff kids say when they talk to each other. This poor kid has learned that when someone asks him to be open it really means "only say nice things." How pathetic.
Sorry but I don't think the problem is bullies. They have been around since we started hanging out in groups as a species. When I was a kid I had to deal with my share of bullies. The ones who would not hear my words listened VERY intently when I spoke with my hands. Teaching kids to run away from and/or avoid confrontations is a disservice. School is a microcosim of the real world. It's here where we learn how to deal with various social and moral situations. These lessons just as important as the academic lessons. Some could say they are much more important than the academics. If we do not let kids learn to deal with their own conficts here we will have young adults being released into society who are lacking much needed social tools. My parents understood this very well. When I would come to my father with my bully issues he simply told me to face them. He taught me how to read them and know which ones I had to get physical with and which ones I could reason with. He never punnished me for sticking up for myself or for someone else. He DID let me have it if I was the one who stired the pot. Children do not need to be sheltered from the ugly side of life. They need to learn what to do when faced with it. My friends and I say we are witnessing the pussification of our youth.
Love the wishful thinking you demonstarte here. A lot of people use Windows because:
1) It's the OS they use at work
2) Their friends use it
3) They want more software options than is offered by the many flavors of Linux and OSX
4) They want to be able to play modern video games
5) They want to run a mainstream OS
The only people who would benefit from moving to an alternative OS are those who do only the very basic of things like email, web browsing, and word processing. Linux would be idea for them due to the price (free). BUT since Lunix usually requires a tech savvy person to install and set up properly it's not something for Joe Average to tackle. For Joe Average who needs something that works out of the box with very minimal, if any, tweaking needed, the only real alternative option is an Apple box. Now I know Dell offeres Linux on boxes but I'm not sure what kid of support they offer so if they do properly support the Linux boxes they sell then Linux and OSX may be the same in the out of the box functionality.
I hear the myth of "A lot of people use Windows not by choice but by the virtue of it's what came with their computer and they don't care to investigate alternatives [even if it's to their benefit]" being thrown about as if it were a fact. If you dislike MS or Windows then just come out and say it. Please don't try to support your dislike with BS. It tends to be misleading.
Well I have shelled out $250 for SteelBatallion on my XBOX. I have shelled out $2000 on a new gaming and graphics workstation primarily for the comming crop of DX10 games. So yes there are gamers out there who are more than willing to spend money on this.:-) But does it really matter? By next year hopefully nVidia and ATI will have finshed final versions of their Vista video drivers. And since MS is going to stop shipping XP sometime next year most new PC's will ship with Vista preinstalled and with budget DX10 cards. All these peopel sound like I did when Win95 came out. I was perfectly happy with my DOS. I was dragged kicking and screaming into the Windows world. Like it or not, Vista will inherit the XP market.
OK I have to call BS here. If you bothered to look at the drivers they are labled as BETA drivers. SLI is not supported under Vista even in the new April driver release. I have a GeForce 8800 GTX and have been testflying Vista as a dual boot. Vista so far has been running great for me. Granted I have 4 gigs ram, a powerful graphics card, Overclocked 3.4 Ghz dual core CPU, and gobs of hard drive space but I haven't seen any of these stability issues people are screaming about. Based on your post you sound like someone who jumped in blind and was expecting too much. Think about that. Vista is still basicly a beta OS. The driver support still isn't there and there are still no Vista apps out there. There is no reason to run Vista yet. At this point it's a toy.
Funny thing that. Much like our knowledge of ancient human history, the further out we look the less reliable our knowledge is. So yes scientists will use words like possibly, likely, perhaps, maybe, and so on because we really can't know until our technology improves to the point where we can make more reliable direct observations and measurments. People forget that the majority of our knowledge of the physical universe is theory.
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I was going to pass on his current documentary based on his past films. I found them very misleading and him as very manipulative. He misrepresented facts and omitted facts which clearly contradict his very biased statements in his other films. Well I managed to see this one and am impressed. He was actually fair and unbiased. He let the facts speak for themselves. Teh actions of the insurance companies and hospitals pretty much spoke much better to the horrendous problems of our system than Moore ever could. His going to the US base in Cuba was kida stupid as well. Civilians can't get medical treatment at a military base or hospital usually so what did he expect? Did he expect them to open the doors to him? The only issue I had was with his statement that Cuba had world class medical care. That's a load and I knwo from first hand exp. I have family in Cuba and visit regularly. While it's not horrible it does not rate as first class. Maybe when compared to other latin american systems. There is a reason Fidel sought help from outside Cuba. Over all I feel this is his best and most truthful doc he's done to date. It was pretty angry after seeing how profit/money driven our system is. I may not agree with much of what Canada and France do but they have the right idea when it comes to medical care.
No they didn't do anything legally wrong. They were complying with Chinese laws and the deal they struck with the Chinese government. It think it's silly that people feel a company has the right to ignore laws if they don't agree with them. Just because something is legal here in the US and other nations doesn't mean it's legal EVERYWHERE. Yeah Chinese laws tend to crush freedoms but guess what? That's their right to do since it is their country. It's kinda like your neighbor feeling they are within their rights to enforce their own moral code on you in your own home. People need to remember China is a sovereign nation and can pass whatever laws they please no matter how wrong we may feel they are. If you con't want to follow the law in a country then simply don't do there. Don't do business there. But if you DO do business there you MUST follow their laws.
Not to mention pn a PC you can replace everything yourself much cheaper than simply buying a prebuilt NEW PC from places like Dell. I just built a system for a coworker. He went to Dells website and priced a comparable system and blew me away at how much I saved the guy. The same system prebuilt was double his cost. With Apple PC's you only have one vendor. It would be nice if they allowed Mac clones to be made. But this would be actual competition in the Mac market and this is still wishful thinking.
It may be easier to buy a new PC but that option may not be so easy on the bank account. Know what I mean?
LOL!!! You are talking about upgrading a gaming rig. Very different than upgrading a work PC. You do not need PCIe or the other stuff. I still use my old PC for general computing. Sure if you wanna keep your rig current for games or anything dealing with Multimedia/CG then you will be pretty much replacing the whole damn thing depending on how old it is. If I had a Mac and my motherboard died I would be forced to take it to some Apple shop to pay tehn to replace it. Not sure how the Apple warranty works but possibly alse be charged for the replacement board. With a PC I can simply go to my local PC parts store, selectc froma huge range of replacment boards, and then install it myself. Anyway, most Mac folks I know view ANY kind of an upgrade are major surgery. It's silly I know. Popping in RAM or anything else can be a pain/challenge if you are looking at one of those compact cases be it a Mac or Windows/Linux box. I still remember those Packard Bell computers we all loved to hate. When I would come over to a friend's place to help with an upgrade I would flat out refuse to try if they had one of these. The few times I broke down and actually tried I had to fight the urge to give the damned thing the Office Space treatment. At the time that sucked but I can look back now and laugh. :)
Spoken like a true European with thier head stuck in the sand reading revisionist history. Fact is teh EU couldn't much against either the US or Russia if either or both decided to invade. The EU lacks teh military power to pose a real threat to either nation. You sound like Hugo Chavez and his crazy selfdelusional rantings about being able to stand up against a world power. Accept the world as it is and deal with your own issues at home. Oh yeah if the EU can take care of itself don't ask for our help next time some crisis breaks out. For a long time the US has sent it's troops to help when asked. Even at with protests of it's own people. We have been the police force of the world for a long time. I'd like to see how different the world would be if we kept our troops at home and let the world fend for itself.
Spoken like a true European with thier head stuck in the sand reading revisionist history. Fact is teh EU couldn't much against either the US or Russia if either or both decided to invade. The EU lacks teh military power to pose a real threat to either nation. You sound like Hugo Chavez and his crazy selfdelusional rantings about being able to stand up against a world power. Accept the world as it is and deal with your own issues at home. Oh yeah if the EU can take care of itself don't ask for our help next time some crisis breaks out. For a long time the US has sent it's troops to help when asked. Even at with protests of it's own people. We have been the police force of the world for a long time. I'd like to see how different the world would be if we kept our troops at home and let the world fend for itself.
So I guess I invade people's privacy almost everyday when I goout and take phots in the neighborhood and happen to get shots of open windows in the background when shooting my little girl chasing our cat. Get real people. How is it invasion? Is she someone google would want to spy on? Sounds a bit paranoid to me. Peopel leave teir windows and/or blionds open all the time. Peopel who walk by have a clear view of the inside of the house. Why doesn't she go after all the peopel who pass her open window while on a stroll for invasion of privacy?
On the surface this sounds like a good business decision. Saving lots of cash on licensing. BUT can they get support for that alternate office application? If so then by all means go for it. If not, I think the minister of education needs a bit of educating.
Oh, we were also running out of IP addresses.
The point of the article was that if more peope actually tried to use their bandwidth we'd learn the ISP are promising more than they could provide. So what if you paid for what you use. A broadband router wich provides a neighborhood with cable broadband access is a good example. Your average user doesn't take advantage of even 1 Mbps access. The cable companies have been banking on this for a ling time. Now what would happen when more peoepl in that neighborhood started to use more of thier pipe? What if they all started doing this around the same time? Their connections would slow to a crawl as they are over taxing the router. I know this because when I worked for Time Warner Cable in southern california this is exactly what we were seeing. So even if everyone was doing as you do have to and pay for any downloads beyond your monthly allowance you'd have the same issue.
"Diabetics are UNABLE to produce ANY insulin"
Sorry but you are wrong and really should do some research bofore speaking on a topic you obviously don't know anything about. My father was a diabetic. His body produced insulin just not enough.Speaking as someone who's been a juror I am detecting some sour grapes. Yes I didn't want to be sitting in court for almost a week. Sure it sucked but guess what? I took my job as juror seriously. I understood the future of someone was placed in our hands. Yes there was one person that fit your description as an apathetic juror but the rest of us were able to get over ourselves and do the job. There are ways to explain a very technical subject to a tech illiterate. I did it all the time during my stint as technical helpdesk rep. I was able to explain to an 80 year old how her PC spoke to the internet and and have her comprehend enough empower her troubleshoot her own issue. If I can do this I'm fairly confident this lawyer will be able to explain the technical side of the case to the jurors. I doubt they Jury will be filled with 80 year olds. Another thing that made me take the case I was sitting in on seriously was the hope that if I ever found myself having to deffend myself in court I would have a Jury that would take the job just as serious as we did. Not everyone sherks their responcibilities.
If these number are real then well AMD is having one hell of a bad year so far....
Do you really think they will allow the whole season to be sold at the same time the season starts to air? LOL!!! A few words for you... Torrents, e-Mule, and other file sharing goodness. I wouldn't mind being forced to watch the ads if I were streaming the show directly from their sites. But being forced to watch the ads on an On Demand service kids defeats the whole purpose of the service. I for one would stick to recording the shows while I'm gone then watched them later. What a joke.
Actually the answer is most likely no. I used to work for Time Warner Cable and we disabled the record feature on all On Demand channels. While i worked for Time Warner Cable I lived in a COX Cable area and they did the same thing. So I think it's safe to assume this is standard practice.
Nope. Not w/o some genetic engineering. This is onlt one of the many pieces og genetic baggage we need to shed to make the human race a rational one as a whole.
Ummm... I fail to see this as a problem. One word. Masturbation... The crew doesn't have to have sex with each other. Give them the correct equipment and they can take the issue firmly in hand and deal with it.
This is hilarious!!!! So he got arrested over this? Come on now... When I was a kid I wrote a pretty dark piece in my English class and was praised for my use of metaphor and vivid imagery. They didn't call the cops on me or send me to see the school shrink for a heart to heart. They took my piece for what it was. This essay was just him venting. If they think this is bad they'd most likely die of fright if they were able to read the REAL thoughts of the students. For the most part I feel this kids essay was a critique of his school and society. Nothing here should be raising any red flags. The stuff he put to paper is the same stuff kids say when they talk to each other. This poor kid has learned that when someone asks him to be open it really means "only say nice things." How pathetic.
You have forgotten what it's like to be a shortsighted kid. The inability to look past the now is a trait of being a kid/young adult.
Sorry but I don't think the problem is bullies. They have been around since we started hanging out in groups as a species. When I was a kid I had to deal with my share of bullies. The ones who would not hear my words listened VERY intently when I spoke with my hands. Teaching kids to run away from and/or avoid confrontations is a disservice. School is a microcosim of the real world. It's here where we learn how to deal with various social and moral situations. These lessons just as important as the academic lessons. Some could say they are much more important than the academics. If we do not let kids learn to deal with their own conficts here we will have young adults being released into society who are lacking much needed social tools. My parents understood this very well. When I would come to my father with my bully issues he simply told me to face them. He taught me how to read them and know which ones I had to get physical with and which ones I could reason with. He never punnished me for sticking up for myself or for someone else. He DID let me have it if I was the one who stired the pot. Children do not need to be sheltered from the ugly side of life. They need to learn what to do when faced with it. My friends and I say we are witnessing the pussification of our youth.
Love the wishful thinking you demonstarte here. A lot of people use Windows because:
1) It's the OS they use at work
2) Their friends use it
3) They want more software options than is offered by the many flavors of Linux and OSX
4) They want to be able to play modern video games
5) They want to run a mainstream OS
The only people who would benefit from moving to an alternative OS are those who do only the very basic of things like email, web browsing, and word processing. Linux would be idea for them due to the price (free). BUT since Lunix usually requires a tech savvy person to install and set up properly it's not something for Joe Average to tackle. For Joe Average who needs something that works out of the box with very minimal, if any, tweaking needed, the only real alternative option is an Apple box. Now I know Dell offeres Linux on boxes but I'm not sure what kid of support they offer so if they do properly support the Linux boxes they sell then Linux and OSX may be the same in the out of the box functionality.
I hear the myth of "A lot of people use Windows not by choice but by the virtue of it's what came with their computer and they don't care to investigate alternatives [even if it's to their benefit]" being thrown about as if it were a fact. If you dislike MS or Windows then just come out and say it. Please don't try to support your dislike with BS. It tends to be misleading.
Well I have shelled out $250 for SteelBatallion on my XBOX. I have shelled out $2000 on a new gaming and graphics workstation primarily for the comming crop of DX10 games. So yes there are gamers out there who are more than willing to spend money on this. :-) But does it really matter? By next year hopefully nVidia and ATI will have finshed final versions of their Vista video drivers. And since MS is going to stop shipping XP sometime next year most new PC's will ship with Vista preinstalled and with budget DX10 cards. All these peopel sound like I did when Win95 came out. I was perfectly happy with my DOS. I was dragged kicking and screaming into the Windows world. Like it or not, Vista will inherit the XP market.
OK I have to call BS here. If you bothered to look at the drivers they are labled as BETA drivers. SLI is not supported under Vista even in the new April driver release. I have a GeForce 8800 GTX and have been testflying Vista as a dual boot. Vista so far has been running great for me. Granted I have 4 gigs ram, a powerful graphics card, Overclocked 3.4 Ghz dual core CPU, and gobs of hard drive space but I haven't seen any of these stability issues people are screaming about. Based on your post you sound like someone who jumped in blind and was expecting too much. Think about that. Vista is still basicly a beta OS. The driver support still isn't there and there are still no Vista apps out there. There is no reason to run Vista yet. At this point it's a toy.
Funny thing that. Much like our knowledge of ancient human history, the further out we look the less reliable our knowledge is. So yes scientists will use words like possibly, likely, perhaps, maybe, and so on because we really can't know until our technology improves to the point where we can make more reliable direct observations and measurments. People forget that the majority of our knowledge of the physical universe is theory.