One major difference. Redhad has money and corporate customers behind it. They can pay for employees to continue support it 5-7 years out. Ubuntu is backed by Canonical. I don't know any exact numbers, but I'm pretty sure they have a few bucks to spend on people.
Theft requires two things.
1) The thief must take something.
2) The victim must be deprived of the item the thief took. You're exactly right, other than for the fact that you're wrong
Congress (controlled by Democrats) has one of the lowest approval ratings ever at present.
What?! Congressional approval is nearly double what it was before the 2006 elections. There isn't much room between 2% and 4%, so it can still be one of the lowest approval ratings ever.
That's why the impeachment proceedings are generally going after Dick first. If you get him first, then you can go after Bush on the same materials.
You know who then becomes president? Whoever Bush selects (and I think the Senate confirms, but that's a relatively unimportant detail) to replace Cheney as Vice President.
If the Democratic party hadn't guaranteed Iowa, Nebraska, South Carolina and Nevada first shot at the presidential primary, this wouldn't be an issue. There are actually states with laws about being before everyone else. I believe New Hampshire has a state law that they must have the first primary election, and Iowa has a law about having the first caucus. If anyone needs an example of how screwed up the election system is, just run the thought experiment of some other state passing a law about being the first primary in the country and how it would be impossible for both that state and New Hampshire to follow its own law.
I believe Nebraska and Maine are the only states that can split their electoral votes. All other states award all of their electoral votes to a single candidate.
I live in a country that had a US-backed military dictatorship for about 20 years because the US felt they should "save" us from a leftist president. I think you're gonna have to be a bit more specific than that.
if you want to go down the "corporate evil" route, Microsoft is far more evil than Sony, so BD wins by default.
BD is not a "Sony" format, anymore than Cell is a "Sony processor"; they're just part of the committees. I just wanted to see what those two statements looked like side-by-side.
copyright is not property you moron. are you so stupid as to equate an mp3 with the same value as your own house? If an mp3 file is as valuable as your house, remind me never to live in your neighborhood.
or for starters, and one of my favorite come-backs against people who believe in "The Genesis Creation story" as holy writ This-is-what-really-happened-and-you're-going-to-h ell-for-doubting-it... "Which Genesis creation story.... Genesis 1 or Genesis 2?" go read them, it's rather amusing... they contradict each other. The two versions of the story of creation in Genesis aren't as contradictory as you seem to be implying. If you really want to nail the people that read the story literally, ask them how the world was created in six literal, 24-hour solar days when the sun wasn't even created until the fourth day.
It's not hard to show that the global average temperature increased from (for example) 2005 to 2006. There are tons of measurements from those two years that can be used to calculate averages. The problem is that there isn't very much reliable data from more than a century or so ago. I think the worst people are the ones at the extremes. There are people that say it's completely impossible for humans to affect the climate, even though humans have impacted nearly every other aspect of the environment that we've touched. At the other end, there are people that claim to have proven that humans are causing global warming and that anyone who questions it is a complete idiot. If you've proven it, where are the repeatable experiments that are accurately matched by your theory? People that speak in absolutes tend to be the bane of science.
Unfortunately, none of those reasons have the same "omg we all gonna die!" impact. It's a shame that environmental issues have been turned into a partisan political pissing match instead of a rational discussion about what can be done to fix all of those very real problems that you listed.
Its to late. Their already lots of comments. I assume there here to ad there inciteful comments. Don't loose you're cool if they contain alot of grammer errors. Fixed that for ya.
Fascism (as an extreme of capitalism) and Communism (as an extreme of socialism) are independent of authoritarianism and libertarianism. You can have both fascist dictatorships, such as Nazi Germany, and communist dictatorships, such as the USSR and China. In theory, you could have a libertarian, capitalist government (everyone, including corporations, are pretty much allowed to do whatever they want while the government sits around doing nothing) or a libertarian, socialist government (you pay taxes, and the government gives out money to help people but otherwise stays out of people's personal lives). The Political Compass is a good site to check out.
You're assuming that all channels have equal monetary value. If you only watch 5 or 10 obscure, unpopular channels, your cable bill might go down. Otherwise, all of those less well-known channels that you never watch are essentially free anyway. With the amount of television that I usually watch, I end up paying about $1/hour, which I think is pretty reasonable for the channels that I watch.
Let's take a big event in the bible, Jesus's crucification. Now through the bible (or anywhere else) try to find out the year he died. Compare that to any of the roman leaders at the time, who had deed recorded by historians. For another example, compare there is a difference in a literate, scientific society, there is a big difference in when Elvis died according to historians or his most devoted fans. Are their opinions equally valid in your mind? The problem with that example is that by the time Elvis died (and was born for that matter), especially in the United States, there was highly organized record-keeping, not to mention the huge amounts of media coverage. Go back a thousand years and you'll find that the exact years of birth and death are rarely known for famous people and completely unknown for the vast majority of common people.
As for the rest of your post, I would guess that you aren't very familiar with the Torah, books of Prophets, or books of Writings. The sections that describe the Hebrews as the Chosen People aren't actually as numerous as you seem to think. Like I said already, there's a huge amount of very dry, boring descriptions of families and neighboring tribes. Go ahead and try reading it sometime. Let me know if you can do it without falling asleep.
Is the difference between a history book, which tries to represent historical events and a bible, which tries to represent spiritual philosophy, really that hard to comprehend? You haven't really read the Old Testament, have you? Yes, there is a fair amount of spiritual philosophy in it. There are also vast amounts of rather boring historical and genealogical information. I would say that the only stupid people are the ones that aren't capable of reading the Bible and separating the plausible and implausible.
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Theft requires two things.
1) The thief must take something.
2) The victim must be deprived of the item the thief took.
You're exactly right, other than for the fact that you're wrong
What?! Congressional approval is nearly double what it was before the 2006 elections. There isn't much room between 2% and 4%, so it can still be one of the lowest approval ratings ever.
You know who then becomes president? Whoever Bush selects (and I think the Senate confirms, but that's a relatively unimportant detail) to replace Cheney as Vice President.
I believe Nebraska and Maine are the only states that can split their electoral votes. All other states award all of their electoral votes to a single candidate.
Why would they let you install a new operating system on their computer?
Sorry, guess I forgot the tags.
This message posted from a PC running Ubuntu.
I'm registered as a Democrat, but I still try to be fair.
It's not hard to show that the global average temperature increased from (for example) 2005 to 2006. There are tons of measurements from those two years that can be used to calculate averages. The problem is that there isn't very much reliable data from more than a century or so ago. I think the worst people are the ones at the extremes. There are people that say it's completely impossible for humans to affect the climate, even though humans have impacted nearly every other aspect of the environment that we've touched. At the other end, there are people that claim to have proven that humans are causing global warming and that anyone who questions it is a complete idiot. If you've proven it, where are the repeatable experiments that are accurately matched by your theory? People that speak in absolutes tend to be the bane of science.
Unfortunately, none of those reasons have the same "omg we all gonna die!" impact. It's a shame that environmental issues have been turned into a partisan political pissing match instead of a rational discussion about what can be done to fix all of those very real problems that you listed.
Fascism (as an extreme of capitalism) and Communism (as an extreme of socialism) are independent of authoritarianism and libertarianism. You can have both fascist dictatorships, such as Nazi Germany, and communist dictatorships, such as the USSR and China. In theory, you could have a libertarian, capitalist government (everyone, including corporations, are pretty much allowed to do whatever they want while the government sits around doing nothing) or a libertarian, socialist government (you pay taxes, and the government gives out money to help people but otherwise stays out of people's personal lives). The Political Compass is a good site to check out.
You're assuming that all channels have equal monetary value. If you only watch 5 or 10 obscure, unpopular channels, your cable bill might go down. Otherwise, all of those less well-known channels that you never watch are essentially free anyway. With the amount of television that I usually watch, I end up paying about $1/hour, which I think is pretty reasonable for the channels that I watch.
Won't the real utopianfiat please stand up?
As for the rest of your post, I would guess that you aren't very familiar with the Torah, books of Prophets, or books of Writings. The sections that describe the Hebrews as the Chosen People aren't actually as numerous as you seem to think. Like I said already, there's a huge amount of very dry, boring descriptions of families and neighboring tribes. Go ahead and try reading it sometime. Let me know if you can do it without falling asleep.