The one that fell was with Safari 5.0.3 I have heard. With Safari 5.0.4 the hack wouldn't have worked and 6 weeks of work would have gone down the drain. Good thing the machines weren't updated right before the contest.
It is a form of socialist government. The other 2 being democratic socialism where there is a democracy with the government owning the means of production and private property or marxism. There are some who will debate whether fascism is actually falls under the umbrella of socialism as well.
"Blackwell gives some clarity, describing three branches of socialism:
To characterize the socialist left, we perhaps need a threefold distinction, between Marxism, democratic socialism, and social democracy. . . . Democratic socialism shares the Marxist belief in the prime importance of bringing the means of production into social ownership but adds the view that this change can be secured by democratic means [instead of Marx's revolution]; social democracy shares the democratic socialist's commitment to democracy, but rejects the primacy of ownershp which both the Marxist and the democratic socialist hold as central, and defines socialism largely in terms of redistribution and greater equality within the context of the mixed economy. ("Social Democracy," pp. 484-85, italics and bold added)"
Social democracy is not mumbo jumbo. It is merely more terminology which accurately reflects where we are in our evolution now.
As to all governments being social, that has little to do with the descriptor of a social democracy. You could say a totalitarian regime is social or a collective is social. The way you phrase it has little actual meaning.
Your assertion that there is plenty of effort to stop giving social security is unfounded.
Nobody has paid more than they are getting except the wealthy. Most people have paid less at this point than what they will receive. This has only been amplified over time.
Politicians will never abolish either program since they are popular. Both democrats and republicans are socialists. The only non-socialists I see are the libertarians whom I largely agree with, but they are a fraction of a fraction. Their ideas have more pull sometimes, but they have next to zero political power.
In the purist definition we are now a social democracy. Both republicans and democrats are socialists being that they support and vote to to continue social security and medicare and we have a redistributive tax policy and have had for as long as most people currently alive have been voting. So the hypocrisy of the socialism label is astounding.
I wish both sides would just own up to their socialist tendencies and quit demonizing what most people here actually are in favor of if they rubbed 2 brain cells together now and again.
In the purist definition we are now a social democracy. Both republicans and democrats are socialists being that they support and vote to to continue social security and medicare and we have a redistributive tax policy and have had for as long as most people currently alive have been voting. So the hypocrisy of the socialism label is astounding.
Most Americans are socialist too. I don't see any mad rush to give back social security checks or turn down medicare for a free market solution.
gross overvaluation of fetal stem cells (which have little actual medical value --------------- But fetal stem cells have medical value. Your basic premise already starts out with a gross falsehood.
Liking good products you feel you can rely on isn't equatable with dangerous religious tendency, it is sensible. You obviously have a strong animosity for the company of Apple, but to equate those who buy apple products as equivalent to religious zealots is a bit off base. Saying the people who like apple products is the worst factor of any having to do with apple just is plain crap. -------------- Faith is the poor cousing of reasoning, and drives people to do some really awful things. -------------- I mean really? C'mon what really crazy things are those who want to buy apple products doing. Sheesh my friend.
my old pjbox still rules for sound. no expandibility, but oh well. with a 60 gig drive in it currently, I can put my entire mp3 collection on it. If you want audiophile level sound get an old pjbox. Nothing these days can touch it.
Of course, it is rather large, can't do video, photos and takes forever to load up with music (USB1.1).
The iPod is a fine machine. I haven't liked some of the other mp3 players I've played around with. A friends sansa I was playing with was cheap crap. And not nearly as intuitive. The iPod hits the sweet part of the market. It is more like an appliance than the other mp3 players. So people buy them because they are easy to use and easy to understand for the average user. iPods integrate with many more things on the market.
Relying on anything-but-ipod to pull your info from obviously comes with a pretty clear slant.
The US had a pretty robust array of rail systems before we got the idea that the car was the American dream. The current paradigm has worked for America. The push for high speed rail is a realization that the interstate system as it is now will be a dying beast as we run out of oil in the next 35 or so years.
Must move on. Better get started.
btw.... love riding the rails in Europe. It was awesome and a real pleasure. Rail done right!
China has the fastest super computer. US rail system sucks. US internet is throttled.
It isn't about invention. It is about continuing innovation. 3rd world countries are just going to do an end around while we think we are so great. To be great we have to innovate.
You may never have too. You will probably die before oil is completely gone. But my kids and grandkids won't be so lucky as you. Their world will not have the same level of individual transportation autonomy propped up by pumping energy from the ground. They will only have what they can collect from the sun, not what has been built up for millions of years.
No average americans will afford to drive cars in 50 years. Peak oil has been reached and it is estimated that we only have a max of 30-40 years of oil left and that is only going to get more expensive. Even given other energy sources coming online, the big fat cheap battery has been depleted.
Didn't you see the Wikileaks thing about how Saudi Arabia is running out of oil? The slide has begun. Maybe that is why people are looking to try to head off problems before the cataclysm.
If I were in the executive branch and responsible for helping to craft the budget one of the things I would propose is a 5 to 10-year moratorium on all foreign aid. ------- Good thing you aren't in a position of power. Talk about a power vacuum to make the US even less of a player in world events. But perhaps it is best to go back to being isolationist like we were before we became a super power. We should just let China and a bunch of other countries play power brokers for the rest of this century.
----I laugh when I hear puff pieces about of schools or hospitals using an iPad. How exactly do they scribble notes on their tablets? --------- I'm not sure that is how they will be useful as giant magnadoodles. Adding the ability to scribble could enhance things and certainly creative apps would be made to make use of the feature set, but in the instance of hospitals, prescribing medicine or updating peoples charts is less prone to errors if it can be done without the doctor "scribble".
Last year a bunch of school kids did this same thing I think. I told my nephew about it so his class could try the same thing. I have read multiple stories about this process so it isn't really new. Have your kids school organize a bake sale or something to raise money. Purchase the stuff. DIY
There should be no tiering. No phone companies own the internet or the data. The fact that they throttle users usage is criminal. They make money off of what should be freely available. The internet is the citizens data highway.
By throttling data, they are not serving their users interests. They should be expanding their capacities because future demand will be thousands of times greater than it currently is. Getting stuck in an old paradigm hurts their company and hurts their subscribers in the meantime.
For the 98% of the population they just want something basic that they don't have to think about..... kind of like a toaster. For those with a fetish for customizing, optimizing and open-ness.... there are custom ROMs and Rooting for the Android or jailbreaking for the iPhone.
Some folks don't like the roadblocks.
But as Sinclair Lewis so aptly put it "Standardization is excellent per se.......I get a better tool for less money, and I know precisely what I'm getting, and that leaves me more time and energy to be an individual in."
Slashdot Mirror
The one that fell was with Safari 5.0.3 I have heard. With Safari 5.0.4 the hack wouldn't have worked and 6 weeks of work would have gone down the drain. Good thing the machines weren't updated right before the contest.
It is the price you pay for in any store and not on sale.
It is a form of socialist government. The other 2 being democratic socialism where there is a democracy with the government owning the means of production and private property or marxism. There are some who will debate whether fascism is actually falls under the umbrella of socialism as well.
"Blackwell gives some clarity, describing three branches of socialism:
To characterize the socialist left, we perhaps need a threefold distinction, between Marxism, democratic socialism, and social democracy. . . . Democratic socialism shares the Marxist belief in the prime importance of bringing the means of production into social ownership but adds the view that this change can be secured by democratic means [instead of Marx's revolution]; social democracy shares the democratic socialist's commitment to democracy, but rejects the primacy of ownershp which both the Marxist and the democratic socialist hold as central, and defines socialism largely in terms of redistribution and greater equality within the context of the mixed economy. ("Social Democracy," pp. 484-85, italics and bold added)"
Social democracy is not mumbo jumbo. It is merely more terminology which accurately reflects where we are in our evolution now.
As to all governments being social, that has little to do with the descriptor of a social democracy. You could say a totalitarian regime is social or a collective is social. The way you phrase it has little actual meaning.
Your assertion that there is plenty of effort to stop giving social security is unfounded.
Nobody has paid more than they are getting except the wealthy. Most people have paid less at this point than what they will receive. This has only been amplified over time.
Politicians will never abolish either program since they are popular. Both democrats and republicans are socialists. The only non-socialists I see are the libertarians whom I largely agree with, but they are a fraction of a fraction. Their ideas have more pull sometimes, but they have next to zero political power.
Representative speaking only of national elections of course. Most state and local elections are more purely democratic.
We are a social democratic republic with a representative component on a national level. (One could call it redistributive in a sense)
In the purist definition we are now a social democracy. Both republicans and democrats are socialists being that they support and vote to to continue social security and medicare and we have a redistributive tax policy and have had for as long as most people currently alive have been voting. So the hypocrisy of the socialism label is astounding.
I wish both sides would just own up to their socialist tendencies and quit demonizing what most people here actually are in favor of if they rubbed 2 brain cells together now and again.
In the purist definition we are now a social democracy. Both republicans and democrats are socialists being that they support and vote to to continue social security and medicare and we have a redistributive tax policy and have had for as long as most people currently alive have been voting. So the hypocrisy of the socialism label is astounding.
Most Americans are socialist too. I don't see any mad rush to give back social security checks or turn down medicare for a free market solution.
gross overvaluation of fetal stem cells (which have little actual medical value
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But fetal stem cells have medical value. Your basic premise already starts out with a gross falsehood.
The rest I can agree with.
Liking good products you feel you can rely on isn't equatable with dangerous religious tendency, it is sensible. You obviously have a strong animosity for the company of Apple, but to equate those who buy apple products as equivalent to religious zealots is a bit off base. Saying the people who like apple products is the worst factor of any having to do with apple just is plain crap.
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Faith is the poor cousing of reasoning, and drives people to do some really awful things.
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I mean really? C'mon what really crazy things are those who want to buy apple products doing. Sheesh my friend.
my old pjbox still rules for sound. no expandibility, but oh well. with a 60 gig drive in it currently, I can put my entire mp3 collection on it.
If you want audiophile level sound get an old pjbox. Nothing these days can touch it.
Of course, it is rather large, can't do video, photos and takes forever to load up with music (USB1.1).
The iPod is a fine machine. I haven't liked some of the other mp3 players I've played around with. A friends sansa I was playing with was cheap crap. And not nearly as intuitive.
The iPod hits the sweet part of the market. It is more like an appliance than the other mp3 players. So people buy them because they are easy to use and easy to understand for the average user. iPods integrate with many more things on the market.
Relying on anything-but-ipod to pull your info from obviously comes with a pretty clear slant.
I went to the blog site and it wouldn't accept my post.
Hmmmmm.
http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/02/grafchokolo.html#comment-form
http://www.gemm.com/c/search.pl?field=ARTIST+OR+TITLE&wild=Z-Rock+Hawaii&Go!.x=0&Go!.y=0
Gemm.com.
great site to find any old strange records.
The US had a pretty robust array of rail systems before we got the idea that the car was the American dream. The current paradigm has worked for America. The push for high speed rail is a realization that the interstate system as it is now will be a dying beast as we run out of oil in the next 35 or so years.
Must move on. Better get started.
btw.... love riding the rails in Europe. It was awesome and a real pleasure. Rail done right!
Correct not all influence can be purchased, but some can.
Do you think cutting all foreign aid at once would be stabilizing for the world or destabilizing?
6 year form now we will be seeing $10/gallon. That will change how people feel about it all.
China has the fastest super computer. US rail system sucks. US internet is throttled.
It isn't about invention. It is about continuing innovation.
3rd world countries are just going to do an end around while we think we are so great.
To be great we have to innovate.
You may never have too. You will probably die before oil is completely gone.
But my kids and grandkids won't be so lucky as you. Their world will not have the same level of individual transportation autonomy propped up by pumping energy from the ground. They will only have what they can collect from the sun, not what has been built up for millions of years.
No average americans will afford to drive cars in 50 years. Peak oil has been reached and it is estimated that we only have a max of 30-40 years of oil left and that is only going to get more expensive. Even given other energy sources coming online, the big fat cheap battery has been depleted.
Didn't you see the Wikileaks thing about how Saudi Arabia is running out of oil? The slide has begun. Maybe that is why people are looking to try to head off problems before the cataclysm.
If I were in the executive branch and responsible for helping to craft the budget one of the things I would propose is a 5 to 10-year moratorium on all foreign aid.
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Good thing you aren't in a position of power. Talk about a power vacuum to make the US even less of a player in world events. But perhaps it is best to go back to being isolationist like we were before we became a super power. We should just let China and a bunch of other countries play power brokers for the rest of this century.
----I laugh when I hear puff pieces about of schools or hospitals using an iPad. How exactly do they scribble notes on their tablets?
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I'm not sure that is how they will be useful as giant magnadoodles. Adding the ability to scribble could enhance things and certainly creative apps would be made to make use of the feature set, but in the instance of hospitals, prescribing medicine or updating peoples charts is less prone to errors if it can be done without the doctor "scribble".
Oh... and here is a more interesting blog about it.
http://antimatter15.com/wp/2011/01/the-ambiguity-of-open-and-vp8-vs-h-264/
Last year a bunch of school kids did this same thing I think. I told my nephew about it so his class could try the same thing. I have read multiple stories about this process so it isn't really new. Have your kids school organize a bake sale or something to raise money. Purchase the stuff. DIY
I read this a while back and found it thought provoking.
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/01/googles-dropping-h264-from-chrome-a-step-backward-for-openness.ars
There should be no tiering. No phone companies own the internet or the data. The fact that they throttle users usage is criminal. They make money off of what should be freely available. The internet is the citizens data highway.
By throttling data, they are not serving their users interests. They should be expanding their capacities because future demand will be thousands of times greater than it currently is. Getting stuck in an old paradigm hurts their company and hurts their subscribers in the meantime.
I concur with jo_ham.
For the 98% of the population they just want something basic that they don't have to think about..... kind of like a toaster.
For those with a fetish for customizing, optimizing and open-ness.... there are custom ROMs and Rooting for the Android or jailbreaking for the iPhone.
Some folks don't like the roadblocks.
But as Sinclair Lewis so aptly put it "Standardization is excellent per se.......I get a better tool for less money, and I know precisely what I'm getting, and that leaves me more time and energy to be an individual in."