I do that. I donate at every level I can, from a few bucks in the homeless guy's cup on the street to meals on wheels (Which is getting the shaft from some serious mismanagement these days, BTW), to the American Cancer Society and everything in between. I even volunteer my time to feed the homeless when I can.
If I thought everyone did what I do with their money, I wouldn't have a problem with tax cuts, etc. I know they don't. I know lots of people who donate to charity only for the tax write-off. Therefore, I think those higher taxes are indeed a good thing.
He was argumentative with Giuliani because Giuliani was (follow me here) lying. Giuliani has become as much of a partisan hack as Begala, Carlson, Carville or Novak. If you bullshit on TDS, Stewart calls you on it. No more, no less.
Did you see the show where he had Marc Racicot on? He was rather civil to him, as he was to a lot of people on the right.
Perhaps you should consider your own bias before you call someone else on thiers.
Lastly, I just want to say that there are a small number of people who take their "news" from Johns show. They take what he says as fact. Most are younger (18-25) year olds, that will have their eyes opened when they get their first "real" paycheck and see how much is taken out in federal and state taxes.... Yes they are ignorant of the fact that he follows another "satire" show, because they don't watch that other show. They tune in to his show and take it as news.
This is so much bullshit. For someone with a sig like yours (Ben Franklin's line about giving up liberty for security and deserving neither, just in case you decide to change it...) to say something along those lines while all kinds of civil liberties are being trounced on by the man that's "giving you tax cuts" (at the expense of a shitload of social programs, no less) is a sad statement on where we are today as a nation.
Stewart's political views are not hidden in his jokes. He's very open about his views. But he's also tired of the political hackery on both sides and he's said and shown as much on many occasions.
And before you accuse me of being one of those "young punks" who's never gotten a real paycheck, I've been a CTO for the last year and a half and if they want to take more of my money and the money of people like me out in taxes, more power to 'em. I'd much rather see that money go to the public good than have another one of my colleagues blow his bonus on another new Bentley
It's not Stewart's job to ask significant questions on his comedy show.
And hell, at least Kerry had the balls to show up on The Daily Show. We'll never see commander bunnypants sitting next to Stewart while he's still in office.
Amen. If I have to hear this gripe from one more "hardcore" gamer. I'm gonna scream. When's a MMO gonna reward me for working at my job 60+ hours a week and then going out and getting thoroughly trashed every Saturday night? That's a helluva lot more work than sitting around clicking the same buttons over and over again grinding out some uber character so I can lord over the newbs with the latest gear that I'll have to replace every time a new expansion comes out.
University.. You mean that place where professors that didn't know anything outside of campus life tried to brainwash me with liberal and communist ideals?
Yeah, who needs to drop a few large for brainwashing from universities when you can get it for free from Fox news and righty talk radio?
The Bush administration has been a litany of failures. He hasn't turned the recession around. Now of course, my personal experience is no scientific study, but I know a lot more unemployed people than I did before Bush took office. I also know a lot more employed people with higher degrees who have had to take jobs in retail because they needed to pay the rent and couldn't rely on their savings anymore.
The war in Iraq is a joke and we're on our way to the bloodiest month ever in that country. We are NOT safer here in the US than we were before this ill-advised adventure, we've turned world opinion against us and pissed of a lot of people we didn't have to. The next major attack on American soil has gone from possible to inevitable because of Bush and his cabal of armchair generals.
And I am an American. A New Yorker that lost a hell of a lot more on 9/11 than a false sense of security.
Unfortunately, for a lot of people, the best of this movie was, indeed, lost in translation. Those of us that have lived and worked in Tokyo or another foreign city get a lot more out of it. There were a lot of little moments that, without the context of having been in a place where you really don't fit in completely, will fly right over a watcher's head.
Not that I'm making excuses for the movie, but the themes in it definitely work better when one has context.
One of my clients has a daughter at a private high school here in NYC that's doing the same thing. Language lessons as mp3s, file transfer and the like.
There's a lot of this kind of stuff going on. More power to the people coming up with it.
Instead of laughing about how noone will use this, try to come up with how you could make it secure and usable instead.
Why? The parent has no stake in making this work and honestly, I don't see why anyone would want to do this. I like my laptop and the way I've configured it and customized it. PersonaIization is what makes a lot of peoples' machines what they are. don't want to have to resort to using some random public terminal somewhere.
Here's an slight corrolary, I ran out of the house without my cellphone yesterday. I needed to make a call, realized I'd forgotten my phone and then ran around for the next 10 minutes looking for a payphone that wasn't either broken or covered in mystery spooge. Rest assured that most of these public terms will probably suffer the same fate. At least in the larger cities.
Find her (or him) something they like to play, that appeals to their sense of style or whatever.
My ex plays Planetside and strikes fear and anger in the hearts of everyone she puts a couple of sniper rounds into. Hell, most of my SOs have become gamers once exposed to the right game, whether it was a RTS, a Sim, a RPG or even a FPS. You've just got to find the right combination.
Apple gives some Apple computers away, and they are celebrated on Slashdot for their generosity.
Microsoft gives some Windows computers away, and they are scorned on Slashdot for their monopoly.
While admittedly, Apple's donating computers is certainly a marketing move, to compare it to Microsoft's donation of 'doze boxen, usually in lieu of paying some fine for one of their many misdeeds, is a bit disingenuous.
Nice try though.
Gates foundation gives billions to 3rd world countries, and it doesn't even make a slashdot story.
Why should it? Did the billions to 3rd world countries foster some technological happening that would fall under the catch-all, "news for nerds"? Probably not. But again, thanks for playing. The Gates foundation should be donating to third world countries, hell anyone with that sort of money should be doing what they can to improve the lot of the less fortunate. But that's running into offtopic territory.
Not video, so much as a color menu screen with appropriate graphics for whatever artist's song happens to be playing.
The menus are nice and I like the industrial design on the thing, Sony knows their shit in the ID department. Alas, as has been said elsewhere, the ATRAC kinda kills it. Drop that, give me the 20 hour battery life, and we're good to go.
Will it be an iPod killer? probably not, but it'll definitely turn a few heads.
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I do that. I donate at every level I can, from a few bucks in the homeless guy's cup on the street to meals on wheels (Which is getting the shaft from some serious mismanagement these days, BTW), to the American Cancer Society and everything in between. I even volunteer my time to feed the homeless when I can.
If I thought everyone did what I do with their money, I wouldn't have a problem with tax cuts, etc. I know they don't. I know lots of people who donate to charity only for the tax write-off. Therefore, I think those higher taxes are indeed a good thing.
And what, pray tell, does that have to do with the quality of the show or the truths it speaks?
Oh right, nothing at all...
He was argumentative with Giuliani because Giuliani was (follow me here) lying . Giuliani has become as much of a partisan hack as Begala, Carlson, Carville or Novak. If you bullshit on TDS, Stewart calls you on it. No more, no less.
Did you see the show where he had Marc Racicot on? He was rather civil to him, as he was to a lot of people on the right.
Perhaps you should consider your own bias before you call someone else on thiers.
Lastly, I just want to say that there are a small number of people who take their "news" from Johns show. They take what he says as fact. Most are younger (18-25) year olds, that will have their eyes opened when they get their first "real" paycheck and see how much is taken out in federal and state taxes.... Yes they are ignorant of the fact that he follows another "satire" show, because they don't watch that other show. They tune in to his show and take it as news.
This is so much bullshit. For someone with a sig like yours (Ben Franklin's line about giving up liberty for security and deserving neither, just in case you decide to change it...) to say something along those lines while all kinds of civil liberties are being trounced on by the man that's "giving you tax cuts" (at the expense of a shitload of social programs, no less) is a sad statement on where we are today as a nation.
Stewart's political views are not hidden in his jokes. He's very open about his views. But he's also tired of the political hackery on both sides and he's said and shown as much on many occasions.
And before you accuse me of being one of those "young punks" who's never gotten a real paycheck, I've been a CTO for the last year and a half and if they want to take more of my money and the money of people like me out in taxes, more power to 'em. I'd much rather see that money go to the public good than have another one of my colleagues blow his bonus on another new Bentley
It's not Stewart's job to ask significant questions on his comedy show.
And hell, at least Kerry had the balls to show up on The Daily Show. We'll never see commander bunnypants sitting next to Stewart while he's still in office.
Amen. If I have to hear this gripe from one more "hardcore" gamer. I'm gonna scream. When's a MMO gonna reward me for working at my job 60+ hours a week and then going out and getting thoroughly trashed every Saturday night? That's a helluva lot more work than sitting around clicking the same buttons over and over again grinding out some uber character so I can lord over the newbs with the latest gear that I'll have to replace every time a new expansion comes out.
Nah, that's Payforsure. Microsoft's new, innovative way to make sure you pirate...err, fine consumers pay for your wonderful open standard WMAs
Thanks Kosh...
University.. You mean that place where professors that didn't know anything outside of campus life tried to brainwash me with liberal and communist ideals?
Yeah, who needs to drop a few large for brainwashing from universities when you can get it for free from Fox news and righty talk radio?
You're joking, right?
The Bush administration has been a litany of failures. He hasn't turned the recession around. Now of course, my personal experience is no scientific study, but I know a lot more unemployed people than I did before Bush took office. I also know a lot more employed people with higher degrees who have had to take jobs in retail because they needed to pay the rent and couldn't rely on their savings anymore.
The war in Iraq is a joke and we're on our way to the bloodiest month ever in that country. We are NOT safer here in the US than we were before this ill-advised adventure, we've turned world opinion against us and pissed of a lot of people we didn't have to. The next major attack on American soil has gone from possible to inevitable because of Bush and his cabal of armchair generals.
And I am an American. A New Yorker that lost a hell of a lot more on 9/11 than a false sense of security.
Unfortunately, for a lot of people, the best of this movie was, indeed, lost in translation. Those of us that have lived and worked in Tokyo or another foreign city get a lot more out of it. There were a lot of little moments that, without the context of having been in a place where you really don't fit in completely, will fly right over a watcher's head.
Not that I'm making excuses for the movie, but the themes in it definitely work better when one has context.
One of my clients has a daughter at a private high school here in NYC that's doing the same thing. Language lessons as mp3s, file transfer and the like.
There's a lot of this kind of stuff going on. More power to the people coming up with it.
If they had went with the Athlon 64, this wouldn't be an issue now.
You're right. The issue would be all the apps that had to be tweaked to work with X86 rather than PPC.
Slightly bigger problem than supply line issues.
What I wonder, though, is whether the system would implode if the people at both ends held up a mirror to the screen.
It's like photocopying a mirror. You go back in time.
Instead of laughing about how noone will use this, try to come up with how you could make it secure and usable instead.
Why? The parent has no stake in making this work and honestly, I don't see why anyone would want to do this. I like my laptop and the way I've configured it and customized it. PersonaIization is what makes a lot of peoples' machines what they are. don't want to have to resort to using some random public terminal somewhere.
Here's an slight corrolary, I ran out of the house without my cellphone yesterday. I needed to make a call, realized I'd forgotten my phone and then ran around for the next 10 minutes looking for a payphone that wasn't either broken or covered in mystery spooge. Rest assured that most of these public terms will probably suffer the same fate. At least in the larger cities.
That's the bit where he fights Roy Jones Jr. Jones gets in a good line after that fight is over.
Find her (or him) something they like to play, that appeals to their sense of style or whatever.
My ex plays Planetside and strikes fear and anger in the hearts of everyone she puts a couple of sniper rounds into. Hell, most of my SOs have become gamers once exposed to the right game, whether it was a RTS, a Sim, a RPG or even a FPS. You've just got to find the right combination.
Shamblers I can deal with, it's the deep ones and the occasional shoggoth that worry me.
It doubles as a Fallout modded case...
Isn't that still politically incorrect?
Yeah, but less so than the original term, "Tardquakes".
Hey Mike, shouldn't you be out looking for the next technological bandwagon to jump on and drain the life out of?
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What are you doing trolling
Notice the smiley.
Jeez, that's what I get for rushing for the off-the-cuff joke...
Macusers are sooo touchy. =)
For the irony impaired, I've been using Macs since the SE and I'm typing this on my brand new 15" Albook
Because some people are so emotionally set against using one mouse button that working at 40% efficiency is a decent tradeoff? =)
Apple gives some Apple computers away, and they are celebrated on Slashdot for their generosity.
Microsoft gives some Windows computers away, and they are scorned on Slashdot for their monopoly.
While admittedly, Apple's donating computers is certainly a marketing move, to compare it to Microsoft's donation of 'doze boxen, usually in lieu of paying some fine for one of their many misdeeds, is a bit disingenuous.
Nice try though.
Gates foundation gives billions to 3rd world countries, and it doesn't even make a slashdot story.
Why should it? Did the billions to 3rd world countries foster some technological happening that would fall under the catch-all, "news for nerds"? Probably not. But again, thanks for playing. The Gates foundation should be donating to third world countries, hell anyone with that sort of money should be doing what they can to improve the lot of the less fortunate. But that's running into offtopic territory.
Not video, so much as a color menu screen with appropriate graphics for whatever artist's song happens to be playing.
The menus are nice and I like the industrial design on the thing, Sony knows their shit in the ID department. Alas, as has been said elsewhere, the ATRAC kinda kills it. Drop that, give me the 20 hour battery life, and we're good to go.
Will it be an iPod killer? probably not, but it'll definitely turn a few heads.