Are you saying the state is somehow a surrogate for a divine creature?
What is an alter of state?
Simply thinking the government can do something useful some times does not seem very equivalent to the reverence worshipers bestow on all powerful all knowing deities who created the universe or portions of it at least depending upon ones dogma. There is a false equivalence it seems to me, but perhaps I just don't understand enough.
So what regulations are causing the consolidation of media brands?
I have this question too and I'm not sure you were specific on regulations which have resulted in media consolidation. It seems like the market is resulting in media consolidation. I would be interested in a regulation that you know of which might cause media to consolidate.
Seems plausible. Certainly Thomas Jefferson's "Freedom from Monopoly" part of the bill of rights might have come in handy for our country to keep the balance of power more toward citizens, which is what the founding fathers were attempting to do with the Constitution. Our constitution is about defining the relationship between the ordinary citizen and their government and setting up a feedback loop.
Somehow this has once more gotten a bit out of whack. Maybe we need another constitutional convention to re-align power back to the citizens again.
Libertarianism devolves into pure Socialism? How so? The philosophy and economics of Libertarianism is often rather different from pure Socialism whatever that is. So ultimately, I don't understand what you are talking about.
Neither do I understand how your synopsis of the paucity of Libertarian Academics is the result of something being proved by political scientists. Proved? What has been proved? In my experience, very little in life is "proved", so I think I might need further elucidation as to what this proof is.
Also I don't get your absolutist statement about never seeing a Libertarian President. Perhaps you could be right that there will be no libertarian president, but perhaps not... that is why there is a future and it is not necessarily written in stone. Who knows how the future unfolds.
"any group of Libertarians only serves to divide the Democratic voting power." The above statement could be made about any group of voters. The more parties, candidates etc., the more diced up the voting will become. What is your point?
"you have been swept up in a trendy movement that will have no political effect that will benefit you"
??? People generally have a certain political bent because they agree with the philosophy and goals of the group. Not sure how being in a political movement has no political effect to benefit the person in the movement. The benefit is in being with a like minded group. Also as the number of people swells, the group gains political power to enact the kinds of things which they approve of. Small motivated groups of people often move the ball of politics.
People certainly seem to be just cogs rather than citizens these days. I wonder how the array of different founders of our great nation would view the amount of money in our political system. Would they see correlations with how the aristocracy functioned? Would they be confounded? Would they have written the constitution differently knowing how things would be turning out?
Obama seems to be favoring corporations and seems to be a bit of a corporatist as Ron Paul once stated. But I don't think Obama is favoring a theocracy exactly. Where do you find he or democrats favor theocracy? Do you have any examples that would show this to be true?
They could just run a reality TV show where they combed through peoples emails to dig up dirt for the show. A real live Peyton place from every corner of Australia. Should make for fascinating TV!!!
Toll roads are such a lame thing. I can't stand them with all of their toll plazas that cost a bunch to build and maintain and wasted money staffing them.
Will this approach pester people also? I wonder how penny-ing people to death will work.
A solution needs to be found to maintain good roads.... not sure this is the solution.
If there were thousands of such events that Lampooned not just Muhammed, but all religious trappings, each year.... would this sort of lunacy of attacking people over cartoons become less common? If the scope of the event was big enough would become more of the norm throughout the world? Seems like killing people over imagery should be what is not tolerated in a civilized world. That sort of thing is what needs to be extincted.
Transparency... what does this have to do with Transparency?
It is called strait forwardness. Nothing hard to understand about "If this comes to my desk, I will veto it!" That is as plain spoken as things can get.
1. Mac App Store 2. Mac App Store and identified developers 3. Anywhere
Seems like if you only had the Mac App Store checked then there would be no threat. Even if option 2 was selected, it seems like it might be fairly safe if the developer's are not trying to infest a computer. Obviously, option 3 would allow for all kinds of mayhem.
Plus if you have your machine set to only install from the app store, doesn't it have some sort of handshake problem? I don't know how it all works, but I know when I install a new version of the OS on a Mac it only lets installs through the app store work by default. You have to disable that feature to install "Trusted" apps from outside of the App Store environment. You can also choose to wing it and allow all apps you find to install if you click the right check box.
Seems like placing an application in the app store that has this "Extra Content" might be a bit problematic. Perhaps not, but has there been any apps from the Mac App store with extra code to side load a program onto a Mac?
I have XP with my games, Win 7, and Tech Preview 10.xxx on my iMac using parallels. One of the best ways of running windows in my view. Speedy and you can set things up as you need them. My XP is only for old games and works really well for that. Don't need it for browsing or iTunes.
It seems that since iTunes is a conduit through which people organize and utilize content from Apple, the software would be a priority since how users experience the content is important in creating more users. Making iTunes cumbersome or poorly functioning would seem to be directly a threat to the money flow.
iTunes is very convenient for playing all of my movie content from the DVD's I have ripped on my Apple TV. Dump videos into iTunes. Organize them the way you want them. Play the movies smoothly off of the Apple TV pulling content from iTunes home sharing.
Very simple. Glassy Smooth. Brainless functionality for my kids and my wife.
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How exactly does one worship at a alter of state?
Are you saying the state is somehow a surrogate for a divine creature?
What is an alter of state?
Simply thinking the government can do something useful some times does not seem very equivalent to the reverence worshipers bestow on all powerful all knowing deities who created the universe or portions of it at least depending upon ones dogma.
There is a false equivalence it seems to me, but perhaps I just don't understand enough.
So what regulations are causing the consolidation of media brands?
I have this question too and I'm not sure you were specific on regulations which have resulted in media consolidation.
It seems like the market is resulting in media consolidation.
I would be interested in a regulation that you know of which might cause media to consolidate.
Seems plausible. Certainly Thomas Jefferson's "Freedom from Monopoly" part of the bill of rights might have come in handy for our country to keep the balance of power more toward citizens, which is what the founding fathers were attempting to do with the Constitution. Our constitution is about defining the relationship between the ordinary citizen and their government and setting up a feedback loop.
Somehow this has once more gotten a bit out of whack.
Maybe we need another constitutional convention to re-align power back to the citizens again.
Libertarianism devolves into pure Socialism?
How so?
The philosophy and economics of Libertarianism is often rather different from pure Socialism whatever that is. So ultimately, I don't understand what you are talking about.
Neither do I understand how your synopsis of the paucity of Libertarian Academics is the result of something being proved by political scientists.
Proved? What has been proved? In my experience, very little in life is "proved", so I think I might need further elucidation as to what this proof is.
Also I don't get your absolutist statement about never seeing a Libertarian President. Perhaps you could be right that there will be no libertarian president, but perhaps not... that is why there is a future and it is not necessarily written in stone. Who knows how the future unfolds.
"any group of Libertarians only serves to divide the Democratic voting power."
The above statement could be made about any group of voters.
The more parties, candidates etc., the more diced up the voting will become.
What is your point?
"you have been swept up in a trendy movement that will have no political effect that will benefit you"
???
People generally have a certain political bent because they agree with the philosophy and goals of the group.
Not sure how being in a political movement has no political effect to benefit the person in the movement. The benefit is in being with a like minded group.
Also as the number of people swells, the group gains political power to enact the kinds of things which they approve of.
Small motivated groups of people often move the ball of politics.
People certainly seem to be just cogs rather than citizens these days.
I wonder how the array of different founders of our great nation would view the amount of money in our political system.
Would they see correlations with how the aristocracy functioned? Would they be confounded?
Would they have written the constitution differently knowing how things would be turning out?
Obama seems to be favoring corporations and seems to be a bit of a corporatist as Ron Paul once stated.
But I don't think Obama is favoring a theocracy exactly.
Where do you find he or democrats favor theocracy?
Do you have any examples that would show this to be true?
No?
You me no its not hyperbole or no not everyone does it?
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Brilliant. It was almost as if it was planned.??!!!?....!
Nice to force companies to have to spend more money spontaneously to hang on to this data.
Nice clandestine tax on an entire industry.
They could just run a reality TV show where they combed through peoples emails to dig up dirt for the show.
A real live Peyton place from every corner of Australia.
Should make for fascinating TV!!!
Toll roads are such a lame thing.
I can't stand them with all of their toll plazas that cost a bunch to build and maintain and wasted money staffing them.
Will this approach pester people also?
I wonder how penny-ing people to death will work.
A solution needs to be found to maintain good roads.... not sure this is the solution.
If there were thousands of such events that Lampooned not just Muhammed, but all religious trappings, each year.... would this sort of lunacy of attacking people over cartoons become less common?
If the scope of the event was big enough would become more of the norm throughout the world?
Seems like killing people over imagery should be what is not tolerated in a civilized world.
That sort of thing is what needs to be extincted.
Transparency... what does this have to do with Transparency?
It is called strait forwardness.
Nothing hard to understand about "If this comes to my desk, I will veto it!"
That is as plain spoken as things can get.
Who knew the movie Idiocracy was real.
In security it says:
Allow Apps downloaded from:
(3 check boxes)
1. Mac App Store
2. Mac App Store and identified developers
3. Anywhere
Seems like if you only had the Mac App Store checked then there would be no threat.
Even if option 2 was selected, it seems like it might be fairly safe if the developer's are not trying to infest a computer.
Obviously, option 3 would allow for all kinds of mayhem.
Plus if you have your machine set to only install from the app store, doesn't it have some sort of handshake problem? I don't know how it all works, but I know when I install a new version of the OS on a Mac it only lets installs through the app store work by default. You have to disable that feature to install "Trusted" apps from outside of the App Store environment. You can also choose to wing it and allow all apps you find to install if you click the right check box.
Seems like placing an application in the app store that has this "Extra Content" might be a bit problematic.
Perhaps not, but has there been any apps from the Mac App store with extra code to side load a program onto a Mac?
I have XP with my games, Win 7, and Tech Preview 10.xxx on my iMac using parallels.
One of the best ways of running windows in my view. Speedy and you can set things up as you need them.
My XP is only for old games and works really well for that.
Don't need it for browsing or iTunes.
Still work on these older devices via their browsers and airplay to apple TV.
Not too inconvenient I would think for those in the apple techosphere.
Can't support everything forever.
Source?
With a need to mask your ip of course.
It seems that since iTunes is a conduit through which people organize and utilize content from Apple, the software would be a priority since how users experience the content is important in creating more users.
Making iTunes cumbersome or poorly functioning would seem to be directly a threat to the money flow.
iTunes is very convenient for playing all of my movie content from the DVD's I have ripped on my Apple TV.
Dump videos into iTunes. Organize them the way you want them. Play the movies smoothly off of the Apple TV pulling content from iTunes home sharing.
Very simple.
Glassy Smooth.
Brainless functionality for my kids and my wife.
Actually, I think over time there is bit loss to media and all data that is stored and transferred.
Forever is a long time.