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QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 26, 2006 -> 04:12 PM) Not really. BETA was an inferior technology with inferior product support. VHS was adopted by everyone, while only one brand was offering BETA. Its the same as laser disks. Actually BETA was a superior technology. So much so that variants of BETA were used by professional media until digital video became standard in the last five years. Betamax offered a longer record time (3 hours to 2 hours for VHS) and better picture resolution and quality on a standard blank tape. However, Sony refused to license out the technology hoping to keep and create a standard. Unfortunately for Sony, it only would have worked had Toshiba or JVC (which ever one invented the VHS format) done the same.

I bought the cheapest computer at Best Buy. Emachines with monitor and printer for 380 dollars. It runs a little slow because the RAM is underpowered - but otherwise seems to work fine.

The Hemingway one is by far, my favorite.

There's plenty of relevant people on the left. Just nobody mocks them.

What I don't understand is that if oil companies drill oil out of the ground themselves, refine it themselves, and sell it themselves... why are they dependent on a market price?

I was just about to post that.

I don't like the Cubs. But I can understand if you like both teams. I have a National League team that I mildly enjoy watching too. And the Yankees/Mets rivalry can get pretty intense too. At least it can in my office.

Apparat as in Apparat Organ Quartet?

Nope its not. This is one area where we need to just muscle our expertise in.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 26, 2006 -> 09:43 AM) Oh come on. This man "mocked" Bush. If he had "mocked' the esteemed Revereand Jackson, you all would screaming racism. Why is one acceptable and one not? A person in the public eye is still being mocked. I don't have any problem with people mocking Jesse Jackson. People here do it all the time. I get sick of it, because it seems like people on the right who need a target - can't even find anyone relevant to smack around anymore. Seriously, Al Sharpton makes much more sense to mock - at least he had a reality show.

That's great. Cheney says a lot of things. Not all of them are true. Authorization to declassify information is not something that needs to be classified. Show us the executive order giving him the privilege.

It's a disaster waiting to happen again. If the concrete fill that surrounds the reactor breaks open, the explosion and radiation release will be worse than before.

Now Kap, that is absolute bulls***. To say big oil doesn't profit from high oil prices is absolutely wrong when ExxonMobil made the highest quarterly profits in US business history last year when oil hit 70 dollars a barrel. You're acting like the oil companies only make money on the gasoline part of the equation. The problem is that if you free float the resources that a society needs to function in an unregulated market, sometimes you find a situation where the cost of those resources finds your country held economically hostage. There has to be a better way to ensure our resources at a reasonable price for our needs. Part of that is moving away from dependence on foreign oil - something that could have been partially accomplished if Clinton or Bush had the balls to seriously raise the CAFE standards in the last 14 years. But part of it has to do with the way the resources are distributed.

Bush's speech is GOP desperation to be honest with you. Although I think Schumer has a point. We need to look at a way where Oil industries can profit while the resources we need to make our society operate don't hold us hostage economically.

Yeah, well - he's got a million or two of those. The rest of the 20 million a week that he had have gone elsewhere. In other news Opie and Anthony's XM show is now being simulcast in Howard's old NYC spot.

From what I read, the instructor probably knew that Jenna was in the class. But did it anyway. He isn't getting fired, she's just not gonna be taking his class anymore. And I thought the club was in LA.

It would give some immediate relief and help prices rise more evenly than a shock for consumers who it hurts most.

My friend, a Sirius subscriber, said something very radio industry like the other day. "Howard isn't cut out for satellite radio." I did a double take and then he said something that makes sense. On regular radio, he's the granddaddy of shock jocks and challenging convention in every sense. In the world of satellite, everyone swears and everyone talks about naked chicks - and he's just another one of them.

Um, I missed the green. Perhaps you forgot about Harriet Miers, Brownie, Michael Chertoff, Donald Rumsfeld...

It's a temporary rollback. 60 days.

The proposal you heard was a temporary 60 day repeal of the Federal Gas Tax which would be funded by a matching temporary 60 day rollback of gas company tax incentives. It was introduced by Senator Menendez, of my state in New Jersey. And given that these companies are getting record profits from record high prices, it seems appropriate that maybe huge tax breaks aren't necessary for a couple months.

I think they are trying to stop attrition and I guarantee you Sirius is doing the same. This has less to do with Sirius competition and more to do with trying to hang on to the people who are getting the three month trial subscriptions with their new cars.

Actually he really only wrote lyrics for Theholybible and part of Everything Must Go.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 25, 2006 -> 09:00 AM) That happens because urban planners in the mid to late 20th century were all of the mind that cars were the way to go EVERYWHERE. Turns out maybe they were wrong. Sprawl is killing us. And cities like Dallas, LA, and others that are basically just endless suburbs, have no incentive to increase density. Even if you put in mass transit, everything is too spread out, so it will take decades (if it ever happens) for the city to mature enough to condense around transit locations. There is no easy solution, but one thing that can work is to put in mass transit options and push businesses to build near them (via tax incentives or TIF zones or whatever). Denver has been doing that, and their light rail has been wildly succesful, even though Denver has some sprawl issues as well. That and automakers basically bribed cities which had really good transportation systems in the 30s and 40s to dismantle them. The LA tram lines for example.

George Bush has the right to declassify information. The Vice President only has the right to classify information unless given express written consent by the President.