We can avoid leaks. BP cut corners A LOT, big ones too and it fucked everything up. Perhaps this is a clear argument for GREATER GOVERNMENT REGULATION.
This has good parallels to the economy actually. Lowered government regulation led to stupidity which lead to massive failure. And when the democrats tried to pass stuff to stop it from repeating, even basic sensible shit the GOP tried to block it. This would be more of the same. Obama COULD push for fixing this problem as well. But it would hit the news as "Socialist leader dictates overbearing rules on how private corporations run their business". And he wants to be 'bipartisan/centrist' to bridge the divide between left and right... not really working out but its hard to blame him for that. Repeatedly annoying the right wouldn't help though.
Yeah it sucks that he wants to have impact instead of just being bold. With the political climate in the change he CAN'T just switch the states to Canadian style or British style health care. He'd be crucified... perhaps even literally. At best if he tried that he wouldn't get assassinated or impeached. It wouldn't pass and he'd lose any political power he had.
GDP/capita is a pretty stupid way to measure power. Quatar has a GDP/capita of $84,000. Almost double the US. Luxembourg is around 80k. And do remember the US is just the aggregated economies of all the states right.
"...a lot of people out there who THINK they need a large vehicle.."
Really, the biggest savings in America to be had are convincing people to give up their giant trucks and SUVs of all kinds. If you aren't uprooting trees with your truck on a weekly basis you don't need a vehicle where the HOOD is 3m off the ground.
Exagerated example (The owner is a pitcher, he could probably drag a small stadium around with the thing.)
If this pushes the states to change units it would convince many thousands of people to look into being more fuel efficient and could result in many millions of dollars saved.
But then America is still trolling the rest of the planet by using imperial so I doubt they'll be switching anytime soon.
We have that too but the rating system is actually a meaningless scam. They give the sticker to whoever pays them enough. Having a governmental system would make sense but then that'd never fly in America.
Fine point taken. In ancient history the bible is sorta useful in figuring out stuff. BUT simply because they threw in a few historical bits doesn't mean that the mainstay magical mystical bits are true as well.
We have the means to fuck things up for ourselves on a global and permanent scale.
If you can point to a beaver that could gather ALL of the trees into one massive dam that could breach and wipe out the entire species then I'll take it back.
A strict belief in science absolutely conflicts with a strict belief in God.
'Strong Atheism' is actually really 'strong science'. It basically means that you only believe things which can be proven, disbelieve things disprove and side with likelihood on everything in between. It is really really anti-science to believe anything in the bible. The likelihood of God and all that of being right is abysmal. There are tons of contradictions (which qualifies as proof by contradiction in the scientific world). Much of it is untestable much of it is vague and the majority open to interpretation. All of the opposes science.
If you approach the bible with an open scientific mind you'd rate its likelihood of being true around the same or lower than the lord of the rings or a dragonlance book. Ranking the bible more realistic than LOTR shows religious belief to contradict with scientific thinking.
I don't believe in God, I do believe in evolution and I think wiping out species is bad. Don't see any conflict at all.
It is short sighted to kill off species in the least, they can provide benefits we are currently unaware of. Also ethically killing millions/billions of critters when it could be easily avoided seems a bit harsh. I might rate humans above gerbils but I wouldn't want to wipe them from the face of the planet...
Politicians also grabbed onto it to get votes from racist white folks. Saying that black people + pot = rape and a bunch of other nonsense. At that point not banning pot would be like being 'soft on crime'.
The irish system also provides a good example of why it is a stupid system.
The lisbon treaty showed that the general populace is stupid and wont vote for things that are overwhelmingly good for them. And then a few months later proved your 2 points.
The ignorant think 2012 is scarier than global warming. I wish they could put it off its only been a handful of years since 2000. Don't people get sick of doomsdays?
The blank media tax acts as a buffer against mafiaa type idiots. We can point to it and be like 'look, we have stuff to stop copyright' then tell them to fuck off. Without it we'd lose lots of free arguments.
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If you go mac -> windows you might have to replace the computer which is fused to the monitor and all the parts inside, thought the last bit has more to do with an inability to upgrade i suppose. Also fused are the speakers. Need a new mouse too. Anything that uses firewire likely does not support windows and firewire ports are relative rare on PCs. You may have to replace the router.
Ignoring all of this though there is still massive software lock-in. Most apple stuff is mac only which is a pretty clear lock-in since the market is obviously worth their time being 9x bigger than the one they are in. But the stuff that does make it across helps support apple. Ipod -> Itunes -> Quicktime + Safari(maybe). Quicktime hijacks audio controls (or used to.. i can't imagine it still does) so that it controlled the master volume which you couldn't change without opening quicktime. Router -> apple computer or at best apple software. Iphone -> itunes + phone app same with the touch and pad. Safari -> quicktime. Quicktime -> safari.
So what? You can customize where you end up when you open the drive. U3 disks do just that, they keep their important stuff that they don't want users touching on a separate invisible partition. Simple. So you can allow people to stick all their music in the 'root' of the drive if they want. 'apps' for the thing could work that way too just by detecting file types.
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MS has office for mac. Everything else isn't MS owned besides from the OS. Apple leverages every product to support every product. The cost of leaving apple ramps up in lock step with how much you own.
Buy an ipod and unless you are a tech guy you are locked into itunes. If you use itunes for more than transfering shit and buy their stuff you are locked into their DRM (they still have drm for movies i believe). One poster a minute ago suggested that itunes on windows was problematic, to have it work properly you should use a mac. Also it does things like install quicktime and safari though patches (something else a non tech geek wouldnt notice)
If you buy a mac to make itunes run properly you've screwed yourself even more. Every weird ass firewire accessory you get will be worthless if you ever want to go back to windows. Mac wireless routers and mac sans. You've switched totally over to mac. To leave them you need to replace everything you have software and hardware. (An exaggeration in some areas but certainly worse than going pc->mac). Windows crap at least attempts to follow standards (even counting ie6). Apple makes up its own shit so that only apples can use it and so that appler's can't switch away.
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We can avoid leaks. BP cut corners A LOT, big ones too and it fucked everything up. Perhaps this is a clear argument for GREATER GOVERNMENT REGULATION.
... not really working out but its hard to blame him for that. Repeatedly annoying the right wouldn't help though.
This has good parallels to the economy actually. Lowered government regulation led to stupidity which lead to massive failure. And when the democrats tried to pass stuff to stop it from repeating, even basic sensible shit the GOP tried to block it. This would be more of the same. Obama COULD push for fixing this problem as well. But it would hit the news as "Socialist leader dictates overbearing rules on how private corporations run their business". And he wants to be 'bipartisan/centrist' to bridge the divide between left and right
Yeah it sucks that he wants to have impact instead of just being bold. With the political climate in the change he CAN'T just switch the states to Canadian style or British style health care. He'd be crucified ... perhaps even literally. At best if he tried that he wouldn't get assassinated or impeached. It wouldn't pass and he'd lose any political power he had.
GDP/capita is a pretty stupid way to measure power. Quatar has a GDP/capita of $84,000. Almost double the US. Luxembourg is around 80k. And do remember the US is just the aggregated economies of all the states right.
"...a lot of people out there who THINK they need a large vehicle.."
Really, the biggest savings in America to be had are convincing people to give up their giant trucks and SUVs of all kinds. If you aren't uprooting trees with your truck on a weekly basis you don't need a vehicle where the HOOD is 3m off the ground.
Exagerated example (The owner is a pitcher, he could probably drag a small stadium around with the thing.)
If this pushes the states to change units it would convince many thousands of people to look into being more fuel efficient and could result in many millions of dollars saved.
But then America is still trolling the rest of the planet by using imperial so I doubt they'll be switching anytime soon.
We have that too but the rating system is actually a meaningless scam. They give the sticker to whoever pays them enough. Having a governmental system would make sense but then that'd never fly in America.
Putin? or possibly Medvedev... Historically Chernenko, Gorbachev, Reagan....
Fine point taken. In ancient history the bible is sorta useful in figuring out stuff. BUT simply because they threw in a few historical bits doesn't mean that the mainstay magical mystical bits are true as well.
We have the means to fuck things up for ourselves on a global and permanent scale.
If you can point to a beaver that could gather ALL of the trees into one massive dam that could breach and wipe out the entire species then I'll take it back.
A strict belief in science absolutely conflicts with a strict belief in God.
'Strong Atheism' is actually really 'strong science'. It basically means that you only believe things which can be proven, disbelieve things disprove and side with likelihood on everything in between. It is really really anti-science to believe anything in the bible. The likelihood of God and all that of being right is abysmal. There are tons of contradictions (which qualifies as proof by contradiction in the scientific world). Much of it is untestable much of it is vague and the majority open to interpretation. All of the opposes science.
If you approach the bible with an open scientific mind you'd rate its likelihood of being true around the same or lower than the lord of the rings or a dragonlance book. Ranking the bible more realistic than LOTR shows religious belief to contradict with scientific thinking.
I don't believe in God, I do believe in evolution and I think wiping out species is bad. Don't see any conflict at all.
It is short sighted to kill off species in the least, they can provide benefits we are currently unaware of. Also ethically killing millions/billions of critters when it could be easily avoided seems a bit harsh. I might rate humans above gerbils but I wouldn't want to wipe them from the face of the planet...
Politicians also grabbed onto it to get votes from racist white folks. Saying that black people + pot = rape and a bunch of other nonsense. At that point not banning pot would be like being 'soft on crime'.
They can do both.... spreads the word with the case too, in fact I should go dl it now.
No, he HAS to say it.... please
The irish system also provides a good example of why it is a stupid system. The lisbon treaty showed that the general populace is stupid and wont vote for things that are overwhelmingly good for them. And then a few months later proved your 2 points.
The neocons/republicans WERE partially successful in dooming the planet....
I was thinking of going there and selling super super steep loans to be paid back to me after the supposed end of the world. Easy profit.
The ignorant think 2012 is scarier than global warming. I wish they could put it off its only been a handful of years since 2000. Don't people get sick of doomsdays?
AFAIK it isn't illegal to be hispanic.
The blank media tax acts as a buffer against mafiaa type idiots. We can point to it and be like 'look, we have stuff to stop copyright' then tell them to fuck off. Without it we'd lose lots of free arguments.
If you go mac -> windows you might have to replace the computer which is fused to the monitor and all the parts inside, thought the last bit has more to do with an inability to upgrade i suppose. Also fused are the speakers. Need a new mouse too. Anything that uses firewire likely does not support windows and firewire ports are relative rare on PCs. You may have to replace the router.
Ignoring all of this though there is still massive software lock-in. Most apple stuff is mac only which is a pretty clear lock-in since the market is obviously worth their time being 9x bigger than the one they are in. But the stuff that does make it across helps support apple. Ipod -> Itunes -> Quicktime + Safari(maybe). Quicktime hijacks audio controls (or used to.. i can't imagine it still does) so that it controlled the master volume which you couldn't change without opening quicktime. Router -> apple computer or at best apple software. Iphone -> itunes + phone app same with the touch and pad. Safari -> quicktime. Quicktime -> safari.
So what? You can customize where you end up when you open the drive. U3 disks do just that, they keep their important stuff that they don't want users touching on a separate invisible partition. Simple. So you can allow people to stick all their music in the 'root' of the drive if they want. 'apps' for the thing could work that way too just by detecting file types.
MS has office for mac. Everything else isn't MS owned besides from the OS. Apple leverages every product to support every product. The cost of leaving apple ramps up in lock step with how much you own.
Buy an ipod and unless you are a tech guy you are locked into itunes. If you use itunes for more than transfering shit and buy their stuff you are locked into their DRM (they still have drm for movies i believe). One poster a minute ago suggested that itunes on windows was problematic, to have it work properly you should use a mac. Also it does things like install quicktime and safari though patches (something else a non tech geek wouldnt notice)
If you buy a mac to make itunes run properly you've screwed yourself even more. Every weird ass firewire accessory you get will be worthless if you ever want to go back to windows. Mac wireless routers and mac sans. You've switched totally over to mac. To leave them you need to replace everything you have software and hardware. (An exaggeration in some areas but certainly worse than going pc->mac). Windows crap at least attempts to follow standards (even counting ie6). Apple makes up its own shit so that only apples can use it and so that appler's can't switch away.
Lol, "You can avoid the lock in annoyance by buying a Mac and then buy only Apple products"?
+1 funny
Thats stupid, people have used floppy disks. Tell them it works like that and you are done. Files are easy. Allowing for both is easy and even better.