I started typing a comment and had to go to the restroom and when I got back---"Windows recently installed a critical security update, requiring a restart."
Free markets favor small businesses because they aren't slow and big...they can actually get the job done. Big businesses benefit greatly from a market that makes it difficult to start a new business.
Japan is becoming a nation of old people because they embraced zero-population growth theory while taking advantage of technology that keeps people around longer.
Can the old Japanese people handle the ride on a train that fast? Perhaps the maglev trains will be good for shuttling the geriatric care droids around.
You don't have to abandon the constitution to get change. There is a clearly established amendment procedure, half of which is being ignored. If the federal government were to allow the states to call a constitutional convention as provided for in Article V, an entirely new document might emerge. This would be perfectly constitutional, created the same way the Constitution supplanted the Articles of Confederation. So, basically, let's use the established mechanisms for change instead of just changing things by ignoring the law.
Yeah, human behavior has a hard time getting past the dictator phase.
I read The Communist Manifesto and in it he says a proletarian dictator is needed to implement the communist utopia initially. The problem is that no dictators have ever been willing to give up their power once they get it. None, zero, zip. It never happens.
Great idea in theory, but it will never work as long as it's implemented among human beings.
A bunch of people on here keep saying 'Oh well, USB won the war' but they forget about DV and HDV camcorders. I can't load video from camcorders with USB 2.0, no matter how many wars it wins.
They can't pretend that nobody uses the macbook for video editing...I wouldn't mind so much if they made a 13.3" macbook pro with the proper ports but they aren't doing that.
With the on-location journalistic and documentary work I do, I can't lug a 15" notebook around, it's just not practical.
Until they offer a compact notebook with a firewire port, I'll keep using my old macbook. They'll get their head out of their 4$$ eventually, probably about time I need to upgrade.
All the NSA/FBI/CIA/ABC SOUP need to do to access our personal data is get some punk kid to hack our accounts. They don't get in trouble themselves, but get to use all of the evidence in court.
Illegally obtained evidence, no matter who does the obtaining, should be banned from the courts. If not, we might as well kiss our 4th Amendment goodbye.
But, as usual, we are almost all blinded by Republican vs Democrat politics so badly that we can scarcely see the threat to our freedoms a foot in front of our faces.
Politicians and teachers tell everybody that math and science are the way to go. Not every student wants to work in math and science, nor should they.
When a student who's interested in writing (technical or otherwise), small business, history, art/photography/video production, graphic design, military, and all the other useful things out there is told they would be better doing math and science, they go along and fail at it.
What we need to do is let the other students pursue their other interests and leave a greater allocation of resources to the students interested in math and science. This way we'll get better math and science students and better students of all other kinds.
The university I am attending does just that, they offer a 'Math for Non-Math Majors' course that is all applied, everyday math. Students who really want to pursue advanced math can still do it, and they aren't drug back by uninterested students in their classes.
I really wish my high school had something like that. I slept most of the time in my math courses and got A's because the instructor was too busy trying to get the uninterested students to focus. I know a few of the uninterested students now and they are successful contributing members of society who almost never use the math they learned. The educational system wasted their time and mine by forcing them to study math and science.
Many people on here are falling all over themselves to defend their favorite political party.
Democrats:
"He found illegal stuff, so it's OK." or
"No real harm done, it's an innocent prank."
Republicans:
"He broke the law!!! OMG, throw away teh key!"
"It doesn't matter what he found."
Somehow I imagine things would be the exact opposite if somebody hacked Biden's e-mail.
So, for partisan Democrats it's OK to violate privacy if you're sure somebody did something wrong. For Republicans, the whole Christian forgiveness thing goes out the window because their favorite candidate was harmed. Free Barabbas anyone?
It's funny how people abandon their principles so fast when it comes to politics.
How do you think Democrats get Republicans to agree to the massive domestic spending? (Hint: it's the same way the Republicans get the Democrats to agree to massive war spending...)
The reserve numbers keep going up because they keep finding more and more of the stuff and nobody is burning it.
Natural gas is a very good option, in fact the best option for internal combustion. All combustion reactions produce CO2 and H20. Natural Gas (CH4) only releases CO2 and H20 upon combustion...no other chemicals like sulfur, mercury or other similarly nasty chemicals to have in the air. It's a big improvement over petroleum-based fuels.
Just like the world of advertising and marketing, image is everything. McCain can't figure that out and will probably lose unless Obama makes some big mistakes.
Good propaganda doesn't necessarily win people over with facts and figures, it uses emotions and myths. The myths of hope and change are working on people and he should stick with that. If you support him stay with that.
I really think Obama is better off to not let people know him that well. Every time somebody from talk radio starts digging they find shady characters. Dig too deep and you find telecom immunity problems.
If you really want to help Obama stay with what is working. The people in his campaign know what they are doing.
But with the Mac I can install Adobe Creative Suite CS3. I tried Ubuntu with GIMP, Cinelera and the other open source solutions, but they didn't do what I needed them to do. Adobe's going to have to release for Linux and then I'll be all over it like white on rice.
In my company Google Apps is the most reliable thing we use. Microsoft products are my biggest headache. We have clients that need their work done and I don't have any more time to waste on these crappy machines. We will be switching to Apple for all mission-critical machines in the next three weeks.
If my MS computers could have only 3 hours of downtime a quarter I would be really happy. I used to work for an IT company and they primarily used MS servers for their clients. Big mistake. MS products are a nightmare. Their clients would have been happy with 3 hours of downtime instead of days and days down dealing with MS server issues. I would only avoid cloud computing if there were serious concerns with privacy or hacking.
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I started typing a comment and had to go to the restroom and when I got back---"Windows recently installed a critical security update, requiring a restart."
Federalizing...good rarely comes from federalization. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Free markets favor small businesses because they aren't slow and big...they can actually get the job done. Big businesses benefit greatly from a market that makes it difficult to start a new business.
Two wrongs do not make a right. Both Bush and Obama are dirtbags.
What's next, praise for the security provided by the PATRIOT Act? This wired article wreaks of bovine excrement.
I don't do blue, I use as much transparency as possible. That way my desktop background dictates the look.
Perhaps it would be best to send families. People going alone would go nucking futs...assuming they aren't already.
Japan is becoming a nation of old people because they embraced zero-population growth theory while taking advantage of technology that keeps people around longer.
Can the old Japanese people handle the ride on a train that fast? Perhaps the maglev trains will be good for shuttling the geriatric care droids around.
You don't have to abandon the constitution to get change. There is a clearly established amendment procedure, half of which is being ignored. If the federal government were to allow the states to call a constitutional convention as provided for in Article V, an entirely new document might emerge. This would be perfectly constitutional, created the same way the Constitution supplanted the Articles of Confederation. So, basically, let's use the established mechanisms for change instead of just changing things by ignoring the law.
Yeah, but if macs go bad I can buy something else...harder to accomplish with gov't.
Yeah, human behavior has a hard time getting past the dictator phase.
I read The Communist Manifesto and in it he says a proletarian dictator is needed to implement the communist utopia initially. The problem is that no dictators have ever been willing to give up their power once they get it. None, zero, zip. It never happens.
Great idea in theory, but it will never work as long as it's implemented among human beings.
A bunch of people on here keep saying 'Oh well, USB won the war' but they forget about DV and HDV camcorders. I can't load video from camcorders with USB 2.0, no matter how many wars it wins.
They can't pretend that nobody uses the macbook for video editing...I wouldn't mind so much if they made a 13.3" macbook pro with the proper ports but they aren't doing that.
With the on-location journalistic and documentary work I do, I can't lug a 15" notebook around, it's just not practical.
Until they offer a compact notebook with a firewire port, I'll keep using my old macbook. They'll get their head out of their 4$$ eventually, probably about time I need to upgrade.
I'll gladly put up with the occasional outage...it's better than the almost weekly MS Exchange bugs on a crappy MS Windows Server system.
Or it might be because the government policies favor large corporations, believing that it will somehow benefit the lowly slave workers.
This would include the practice of requiring large employers to provide healthcare. This benefits the corrupt insurance industry massively.
All the NSA/FBI/CIA/ABC SOUP need to do to access our personal data is get some punk kid to hack our accounts. They don't get in trouble themselves, but get to use all of the evidence in court.
Illegally obtained evidence, no matter who does the obtaining, should be banned from the courts. If not, we might as well kiss our 4th Amendment goodbye.
But, as usual, we are almost all blinded by Republican vs Democrat politics so badly that we can scarcely see the threat to our freedoms a foot in front of our faces.
Politicians and teachers tell everybody that math and science are the way to go. Not every student wants to work in math and science, nor should they.
When a student who's interested in writing (technical or otherwise), small business, history, art/photography/video production, graphic design, military, and all the other useful things out there is told they would be better doing math and science, they go along and fail at it.
What we need to do is let the other students pursue their other interests and leave a greater allocation of resources to the students interested in math and science. This way we'll get better math and science students and better students of all other kinds.
The university I am attending does just that, they offer a 'Math for Non-Math Majors' course that is all applied, everyday math. Students who really want to pursue advanced math can still do it, and they aren't drug back by uninterested students in their classes.
I really wish my high school had something like that. I slept most of the time in my math courses and got A's because the instructor was too busy trying to get the uninterested students to focus. I know a few of the uninterested students now and they are successful contributing members of society who almost never use the math they learned. The educational system wasted their time and mine by forcing them to study math and science.
Many people on here are falling all over themselves to defend their favorite political party.
Democrats:
"He found illegal stuff, so it's OK." or
"No real harm done, it's an innocent prank."
Republicans:
"He broke the law!!! OMG, throw away teh key!"
"It doesn't matter what he found."
Somehow I imagine things would be the exact opposite if somebody hacked Biden's e-mail.
So, for partisan Democrats it's OK to violate privacy if you're sure somebody did something wrong. For Republicans, the whole Christian forgiveness thing goes out the window because their favorite candidate was harmed. Free Barabbas anyone?
It's funny how people abandon their principles so fast when it comes to politics.
How do you think Democrats get Republicans to agree to the massive domestic spending? (Hint: it's the same way the Republicans get the Democrats to agree to massive war spending...)
That The Anointed One and Captain America are both involved in this...
So why not have natural gas hybrids?
I had mod points I was going to use for this discussion but they didn't have a 'not true' option.
DOE Reserve Estimates
The reserve numbers keep going up because they keep finding more and more of the stuff and nobody is burning it.
Natural gas is a very good option, in fact the best option for internal combustion. All combustion reactions produce CO2 and H20. Natural Gas (CH4) only releases CO2 and H20 upon combustion...no other chemicals like sulfur, mercury or other similarly nasty chemicals to have in the air. It's a big improvement over petroleum-based fuels.
Just like the world of advertising and marketing, image is everything. McCain can't figure that out and will probably lose unless Obama makes some big mistakes.
Good propaganda doesn't necessarily win people over with facts and figures, it uses emotions and myths. The myths of hope and change are working on people and he should stick with that. If you support him stay with that.
I really think Obama is better off to not let people know him that well. Every time somebody from talk radio starts digging they find shady characters. Dig too deep and you find telecom immunity problems.
If you really want to help Obama stay with what is working. The people in his campaign know what they are doing.
But with the Mac I can install Adobe Creative Suite CS3. I tried Ubuntu with GIMP, Cinelera and the other open source solutions, but they didn't do what I needed them to do. Adobe's going to have to release for Linux and then I'll be all over it like white on rice.
In my company Google Apps is the most reliable thing we use. Microsoft products are my biggest headache. We have clients that need their work done and I don't have any more time to waste on these crappy machines. We will be switching to Apple for all mission-critical machines in the next three weeks.
If my MS computers could have only 3 hours of downtime a quarter I would be really happy. I used to work for an IT company and they primarily used MS servers for their clients. Big mistake. MS products are a nightmare. Their clients would have been happy with 3 hours of downtime instead of days and days down dealing with MS server issues. I would only avoid cloud computing if there were serious concerns with privacy or hacking.
Shouting in a bar can actually get you somewhere, just ask Hitler.