It's been a long time since NASA has been about anything besides number crunching and throwing cash (numbers in a bank account) at any problem, rather than using reason, intuition, and creativity, as a real scientist should. It seems the future of space will have to come from the private sector. Go Richard Branson!
If a candidate really wants to get elected, they should be using World of Warcraft rather than Second Life. WoW has a MUCH bigger community than Second Life, and WoW actually takes on important issues like war, diplomacy, the afterlife, and demon attack.
Neocon globalists can satisfy their international bloodlust on battlegrounds, and cowardly Democrats can hide behind their tanks and pets when a confrontation happens. Disgusting political mudslinging campaigns can be replaced with a simple duel in front of Orgrimmar.
There's nothing "shit town" about Rochester. After all, they founded:
1) the biggest newspaper chain in the country (Gannett)
2) the oldest and biggest camera company in the world (Kodak)
3) the best telegraph company (Western Union)
4) the best photocopier company (Xerox)
5) the best lens company (Bausch & Lomb)
Rochester is one of the most culturally developed cities in the U.S. The best music school in the country (Eastman School) and optics school in the country (at U of R) are in Rochester. Three major religions were founded in Rochester (The Church of Latter Day Saints, Seventh Day Adventism, and Spiritualism). Rochester has one of the oldest jazz/brass scenes in the country (Chuck Mangione, Cab Calloway), and is responsible for women's rights (Susan B. Anthony). Do you hate all the outsourcing of manufacturing? Well Rochester is the home of America's last great apparel brands that still makes clothing locally (for the most part): Hickey Freeman.
Also, Rochester has the second highest number of patents each year (after Silicon Valley). Some major inventions include:
1) film, and the Kodak camera (by George Eastman)
2) the machine gun (by Josephus Requa)
3) the automobile (by George B. Selden)
Rochester also has the best bar / late night food in the country. Top that!. Hey speaking of reasearch at the U of R, the University of Rochester has the most powerful laser in the world (the Omega), so watch what you say or you'll be vaporized. Worried about all these wars going on? Well, you should know that our military's satellite imaging goes through Rochester (from a former Kodak subsidiary), since Rochester's the imaging capital of the world.
It's disgusting how people label a great city as a "shit town" for not having a starbucks on every corner. Open your eyes, jackass.
This is why in the old days, people had archers on their battlements ready to fire at anyone who approached. Marketing people and those who aid and abet them would be taken out immediately. And using zoom wouldn't keep them safe from a longbow.
Sounds to me like they'll sue for unfair competition by alleging that you misappropriated trade secrets. That's probably what they'll do. If that's the case, your new employer will probably get you a lawyer to defend you and itself.
OS: Mac OSX
Office: openoffice.org or neooffice
Outlook: mail.app and iCal (but not Thunderbird as it's the sux0r)
Browser: Camino or Firefox
Time to phase out Microsoft.
I don't think anyone takes MSN or Microsoft Imaging or Windows Media Player or other Microsoft products all that seriously, so I won't bother.
Maybe Google has become so popular because the dot com generation likes the trademark, "Google," which seems to be rapidly going generic, with its more and more frequent use as a verb (e.g. "Allow me to google that young lady from accounting. Methinks she has performed in many a racy film!").
Instead of trying to figure out what to do with the ruined value of American currency, shouldn't the focus be on stopping and reversing inflation? The steps we need to take to do this are:
1) paying off the national debt (and stopping foreign aid, to help do this)
2) nationalizing the "Federal" Reserve into the U.S. Treasury (the Federal Reserve is a private bank with the sole authority to print money, and they're manipulating interest rates at the expense of Americans to make their shareholders rich)
3) putting low caps on interest rates and money lending to stop usury. Too much money lending and money changing gives greater access to capital, which seems nice in the short run, but the increased spending causes prices of everything to go way up (especially real estate, tuition, and other major expenses) but at the same time, people go deep into debt just to get their basic essentials, no matter how much they work. Furthermore, our banks lend out more than ten times as much money as they actually have, which creates a virtual economy doomed to collapse.
4) putting caps on bank consolidation. With all of the banks merging, their wealth is now globalized instead of being localized to benefit their communities. And furthermore, this gives them the power to manipulate legislation with lobbying, rather than putting effort into providing better services.
5) decrease paper money. Paper money was originally issued as a ticket by which to retrieve one's gold from a bank. Paper money today is meaningless, and hence can rapidly lose value. Coins made of metals will at least bear the value of their metals, even when threatened with inflation, and thus helps to keep American currency from losing all value.
6) stop Bush's plan to make a pan-North American currency with Mexico and Canada. You'll have to Google this one to find out more.
The initiative is bullshit. Bullying is a good thing. Kids need to learn to toughen up. Every time you pamper them, you're turning them into cowardly, sniveling sissies.
If this goes through, pretty soon we'll be hearing about how Sealand is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons, and how it sponsors terrorism and is the cause of instability in the region, and how funds from Pirate Bay support IRA attacks on Northern Ireland, and how al qaeda is connected to Sealand, and how Sealand rapes and kills its own people (which is the ONLY reason why its population is so small), and how the people of Sealand really want democracy and we have to give them that chance.
We already know what happens when you thwart the international bankers. Expect to see the head of Pirate Bay to be paraded in front of cameras in a show trial and then thrown to his competitors for a lynching.
That's a ridiculous argument. You say that outsourcing jobs means that people in other countries "have money to purchase OUR goods and services," but you ignore the fact that they are no longer OUR goods and services, and that they're not THEIR goods and services. If you buy an "American" product now, the money you spend gets exported to pay workers in foreign nations, while the American middle class gets nothing. A handful of global bankers make the most money off of this system by taking as much money as they can from everyone else, but the rest of America suffers as more and more American wealth is exported. Meanwhile, our government deals with the troubled economy by borrowing more and more money, and printing more money, so that the American public loses even more by inflation and has to go into further debt itself because the prices of everything (houses, transportation, food, etc.) keeps going up.
Our globalized policies are the worst thing for our nation and people.
Those aren't all from last year, but I'll give you that there a few good ones on that list. The greater majority, though, is utter crap, some poorly crafted, and others simply degenerative non-art.
The only way to do that is to break the stranglehold that international bankers have over the art of film. I think HD production and digital distribution is a good start.
I never attack Christianity, you dolt. The point was that Christianity (or other religion) and science are not mutually exclusive and can co-exist without this ridiculous war between them that the media is giving so much attention to. If you're going to attack me for an attack that I didn't make, please read my posting more carefully before making an ass of yourself in public.
Actually, Jesus told the Jews that they worship the Devil, and their own salvation could be through him. It's in John, New Testament.
But what was appropriate for Palestine of 2000 years ago, and what was appropriate for post-Constantine Rome, may not necessarily be relevant to society today. It's a cultural choice.
As for the ideals that this country is based, though the enormous cultural influence of Christian Europe cannot be denied, the national religion of the United States is embodied in 1) The Declaration of Independence, and 2) the U.S. Constitution, which, in essence, declare that our gods are Reason and Intuition. Ultimately, our greatest national virtue is liberty, because each individual knows deep down what is right and what is true, and, with the use of reason, and can use that wisdom to determine how to act in accordance with what is right. That's why the truths set forth in the Declaration were "self-evident" rather than "sacred" or "divinely ordained," because in the 18th Century, the new Americans realized that divinity is accessible through knowledge of one's self, rather than through moldy old books or a European priesthood.
The same is true for science, in that the major breakthroughs occur usually by Intuition / imagination which is applied to observations by Reason (though many other breakthroughs are made purely by accident). Science is not a purely numerical approach to empirical data, as athiestic scientists tend to believe, nor is discovery the result of begging a God for answers via prayer. Though we may choose to approach our hypotheses or interpret our results through the filter of a cultural worldview, and though this helps us to keep focused, we can maintain religion through its spirit rather than its doctrine, and keep our mind's open when pursuing science, and likewise, real scientists should never be so closed minded as to accept only the material, mundane world, especially since ALL of science is theoretical anyway (if you don't believe me, try going through a physics major. you'll see. it's all very arbitrary.)
That's exactly right. The only people who think that science and religion are mutually exclusive are people without imagination, and such people should be crucified, burned at the stake, and ridiculed in scientific journals.
You're right, and there's good and bad in most professions, but I think the attention should be a bit less on the cops and more on their supervisors who fail to stop the bad apples.
Yes, we're a nation of laws, but the cops need to do their jobs and not get themselves beat up or killed because they're afraid of being sued by the crooks. And a punch in the face is really not such a big deal when you deserve it. The judge and jury have decision over the person's future, but the constable on patrol is also empowered by the State to exercise his own judgement and apply necessary force to bring the situation to a resolution. The duty is on the police departments to train the cops to use such force to incapacitate unruly citizens without causing them permanent injury.
What's so unreasonable about that? Sometimes people need a good punch in the face (or three), and who better than the police to do it? It helps to stop people from being whiny, cowardly worms.
Yes, it's called promoting a trademark. I'm surprised other companies haven't caught on. I'm particularly disappointed with the large, older companies that ignore trademarks completely and coast on their patents and their business clients while ignoring the consumer market. They don't seem to realize that their business clients will grow old and retire and the new generation will not know or respect them. Look at Xerox, for example. Who was the genius there who decided not to enter the computer printer market for the average consumer? Now people associate printing with HP (and maybe Canon or Epson) but not so much with Xerox. Poor, poor business sense.
Well don't get giddy. This is the sort of thing that keeps the cost of lawyers up. If lawyers were able to advertise like a normal business than the overpriced, big firms would have to compete with every lawyer who just wanted to help people out at a fair price. Then maybe they'd have to charge less than $500 / hour. God forbid!
If the disgusting, greedy, self-serving, ignoble, traitorous music industry cared at all about adding something positive to its community, it would have already worked out a scheme of blanket licensing for P2P downloads, that would allow P2P services to operate legitimately by paying monthly flat fees, in the way that venues pay for blanket public performance licenses from ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. But unfortunately, all these monopolists care about is economics and control. It's disgusting that this sort of people control the art and culture in this country. Why didn't they go into banking or finance where they belong? Also, they don't know the first thing about art, and any good artists they sign is either through luck, or by buying up small labels that haven proven successful.
The problem I had in college was usually the opposite. The students wanted to learn, but the professor would bring in the set of notes he had made 10 years earlier in a word document and then scroll down the notes, reading off of them, as if that constituted teaching, meanwhile paying no attention to the students' interest or progress.
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It's been a long time since NASA has been about anything besides number crunching and throwing cash (numbers in a bank account) at any problem, rather than using reason, intuition, and creativity, as a real scientist should. It seems the future of space will have to come from the private sector. Go Richard Branson!
That's why gangs should be rounded up and slaughtered.
If a candidate really wants to get elected, they should be using World of Warcraft rather than Second Life. WoW has a MUCH bigger community than Second Life, and WoW actually takes on important issues like war, diplomacy, the afterlife, and demon attack. Neocon globalists can satisfy their international bloodlust on battlegrounds, and cowardly Democrats can hide behind their tanks and pets when a confrontation happens. Disgusting political mudslinging campaigns can be replaced with a simple duel in front of Orgrimmar.
There's nothing "shit town" about Rochester. After all, they founded: 1) the biggest newspaper chain in the country (Gannett) 2) the oldest and biggest camera company in the world (Kodak) 3) the best telegraph company (Western Union) 4) the best photocopier company (Xerox) 5) the best lens company (Bausch & Lomb) Rochester is one of the most culturally developed cities in the U.S. The best music school in the country (Eastman School) and optics school in the country (at U of R) are in Rochester. Three major religions were founded in Rochester (The Church of Latter Day Saints, Seventh Day Adventism, and Spiritualism). Rochester has one of the oldest jazz/brass scenes in the country (Chuck Mangione, Cab Calloway), and is responsible for women's rights (Susan B. Anthony). Do you hate all the outsourcing of manufacturing? Well Rochester is the home of America's last great apparel brands that still makes clothing locally (for the most part): Hickey Freeman. Also, Rochester has the second highest number of patents each year (after Silicon Valley). Some major inventions include: 1) film, and the Kodak camera (by George Eastman) 2) the machine gun (by Josephus Requa) 3) the automobile (by George B. Selden) Rochester also has the best bar / late night food in the country. Top that!. Hey speaking of reasearch at the U of R, the University of Rochester has the most powerful laser in the world (the Omega), so watch what you say or you'll be vaporized. Worried about all these wars going on? Well, you should know that our military's satellite imaging goes through Rochester (from a former Kodak subsidiary), since Rochester's the imaging capital of the world. It's disgusting how people label a great city as a "shit town" for not having a starbucks on every corner. Open your eyes, jackass.
This is why in the old days, people had archers on their battlements ready to fire at anyone who approached. Marketing people and those who aid and abet them would be taken out immediately. And using zoom wouldn't keep them safe from a longbow.
Sounds to me like they'll sue for unfair competition by alleging that you misappropriated trade secrets. That's probably what they'll do. If that's the case, your new employer will probably get you a lawyer to defend you and itself.
OS: Mac OSX Office: openoffice.org or neooffice Outlook: mail.app and iCal (but not Thunderbird as it's the sux0r) Browser: Camino or Firefox Time to phase out Microsoft. I don't think anyone takes MSN or Microsoft Imaging or Windows Media Player or other Microsoft products all that seriously, so I won't bother.
Maybe Google has become so popular because the dot com generation likes the trademark, "Google," which seems to be rapidly going generic, with its more and more frequent use as a verb (e.g. "Allow me to google that young lady from accounting. Methinks she has performed in many a racy film!").
Instead of trying to figure out what to do with the ruined value of American currency, shouldn't the focus be on stopping and reversing inflation? The steps we need to take to do this are: 1) paying off the national debt (and stopping foreign aid, to help do this) 2) nationalizing the "Federal" Reserve into the U.S. Treasury (the Federal Reserve is a private bank with the sole authority to print money, and they're manipulating interest rates at the expense of Americans to make their shareholders rich) 3) putting low caps on interest rates and money lending to stop usury. Too much money lending and money changing gives greater access to capital, which seems nice in the short run, but the increased spending causes prices of everything to go way up (especially real estate, tuition, and other major expenses) but at the same time, people go deep into debt just to get their basic essentials, no matter how much they work. Furthermore, our banks lend out more than ten times as much money as they actually have, which creates a virtual economy doomed to collapse. 4) putting caps on bank consolidation. With all of the banks merging, their wealth is now globalized instead of being localized to benefit their communities. And furthermore, this gives them the power to manipulate legislation with lobbying, rather than putting effort into providing better services. 5) decrease paper money. Paper money was originally issued as a ticket by which to retrieve one's gold from a bank. Paper money today is meaningless, and hence can rapidly lose value. Coins made of metals will at least bear the value of their metals, even when threatened with inflation, and thus helps to keep American currency from losing all value. 6) stop Bush's plan to make a pan-North American currency with Mexico and Canada. You'll have to Google this one to find out more.
The initiative is bullshit. Bullying is a good thing. Kids need to learn to toughen up. Every time you pamper them, you're turning them into cowardly, sniveling sissies.
If this goes through, pretty soon we'll be hearing about how Sealand is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons, and how it sponsors terrorism and is the cause of instability in the region, and how funds from Pirate Bay support IRA attacks on Northern Ireland, and how al qaeda is connected to Sealand, and how Sealand rapes and kills its own people (which is the ONLY reason why its population is so small), and how the people of Sealand really want democracy and we have to give them that chance. We already know what happens when you thwart the international bankers. Expect to see the head of Pirate Bay to be paraded in front of cameras in a show trial and then thrown to his competitors for a lynching.
That's a ridiculous argument. You say that outsourcing jobs means that people in other countries "have money to purchase OUR goods and services," but you ignore the fact that they are no longer OUR goods and services, and that they're not THEIR goods and services. If you buy an "American" product now, the money you spend gets exported to pay workers in foreign nations, while the American middle class gets nothing. A handful of global bankers make the most money off of this system by taking as much money as they can from everyone else, but the rest of America suffers as more and more American wealth is exported. Meanwhile, our government deals with the troubled economy by borrowing more and more money, and printing more money, so that the American public loses even more by inflation and has to go into further debt itself because the prices of everything (houses, transportation, food, etc.) keeps going up.
Our globalized policies are the worst thing for our nation and people.
Those aren't all from last year, but I'll give you that there a few good ones on that list. The greater majority, though, is utter crap, some poorly crafted, and others simply degenerative non-art.
The only way to do that is to break the stranglehold that international bankers have over the art of film. I think HD production and digital distribution is a good start.
I never attack Christianity, you dolt. The point was that Christianity (or other religion) and science are not mutually exclusive and can co-exist without this ridiculous war between them that the media is giving so much attention to. If you're going to attack me for an attack that I didn't make, please read my posting more carefully before making an ass of yourself in public.
Actually, Jesus told the Jews that they worship the Devil, and their own salvation could be through him. It's in John, New Testament. But what was appropriate for Palestine of 2000 years ago, and what was appropriate for post-Constantine Rome, may not necessarily be relevant to society today. It's a cultural choice. As for the ideals that this country is based, though the enormous cultural influence of Christian Europe cannot be denied, the national religion of the United States is embodied in 1) The Declaration of Independence, and 2) the U.S. Constitution, which, in essence, declare that our gods are Reason and Intuition. Ultimately, our greatest national virtue is liberty, because each individual knows deep down what is right and what is true, and, with the use of reason, and can use that wisdom to determine how to act in accordance with what is right. That's why the truths set forth in the Declaration were "self-evident" rather than "sacred" or "divinely ordained," because in the 18th Century, the new Americans realized that divinity is accessible through knowledge of one's self, rather than through moldy old books or a European priesthood. The same is true for science, in that the major breakthroughs occur usually by Intuition / imagination which is applied to observations by Reason (though many other breakthroughs are made purely by accident). Science is not a purely numerical approach to empirical data, as athiestic scientists tend to believe, nor is discovery the result of begging a God for answers via prayer. Though we may choose to approach our hypotheses or interpret our results through the filter of a cultural worldview, and though this helps us to keep focused, we can maintain religion through its spirit rather than its doctrine, and keep our mind's open when pursuing science, and likewise, real scientists should never be so closed minded as to accept only the material, mundane world, especially since ALL of science is theoretical anyway (if you don't believe me, try going through a physics major. you'll see. it's all very arbitrary.)
That's exactly right. The only people who think that science and religion are mutually exclusive are people without imagination, and such people should be crucified, burned at the stake, and ridiculed in scientific journals.
You're right, and there's good and bad in most professions, but I think the attention should be a bit less on the cops and more on their supervisors who fail to stop the bad apples.
Yes, we're a nation of laws, but the cops need to do their jobs and not get themselves beat up or killed because they're afraid of being sued by the crooks. And a punch in the face is really not such a big deal when you deserve it. The judge and jury have decision over the person's future, but the constable on patrol is also empowered by the State to exercise his own judgement and apply necessary force to bring the situation to a resolution. The duty is on the police departments to train the cops to use such force to incapacitate unruly citizens without causing them permanent injury.
What's so unreasonable about that? Sometimes people need a good punch in the face (or three), and who better than the police to do it? It helps to stop people from being whiny, cowardly worms.
Yes, it's called promoting a trademark. I'm surprised other companies haven't caught on. I'm particularly disappointed with the large, older companies that ignore trademarks completely and coast on their patents and their business clients while ignoring the consumer market. They don't seem to realize that their business clients will grow old and retire and the new generation will not know or respect them. Look at Xerox, for example. Who was the genius there who decided not to enter the computer printer market for the average consumer? Now people associate printing with HP (and maybe Canon or Epson) but not so much with Xerox. Poor, poor business sense.
well you COULD go to court by yourself (unless you're a corporation). Pro se reprsesentation is allowed, and law libraries are free.
Well don't get giddy. This is the sort of thing that keeps the cost of lawyers up. If lawyers were able to advertise like a normal business than the overpriced, big firms would have to compete with every lawyer who just wanted to help people out at a fair price. Then maybe they'd have to charge less than $500 / hour. God forbid!
If the disgusting, greedy, self-serving, ignoble, traitorous music industry cared at all about adding something positive to its community, it would have already worked out a scheme of blanket licensing for P2P downloads, that would allow P2P services to operate legitimately by paying monthly flat fees, in the way that venues pay for blanket public performance licenses from ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. But unfortunately, all these monopolists care about is economics and control. It's disgusting that this sort of people control the art and culture in this country. Why didn't they go into banking or finance where they belong? Also, they don't know the first thing about art, and any good artists they sign is either through luck, or by buying up small labels that haven proven successful.
The problem I had in college was usually the opposite. The students wanted to learn, but the professor would bring in the set of notes he had made 10 years earlier in a word document and then scroll down the notes, reading off of them, as if that constituted teaching, meanwhile paying no attention to the students' interest or progress.