mattboston - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Two words (Score 1) 3709

by mattboston on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @08:39PM (#25654067) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins US Presidency

Level Headed,

Does every wrong need to be met with another wrong?

Or can we draw a line, and say "enough - time to fix the problems and reclaim the American Dream for our children and ourselves"?

I love how people keep saying that we all deserve this "American Dream" like there is some rule saying that everyone is entitled or going to have it. Has anyone seen the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness". Christopher Gardner: It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that? There is nothing guaranteed in this country. But you are given a chance to try and achieve it. It will not be handed to you on a silver platter and you are not entitled to other peoples money, you need to get off your fat ass and earn it for yourself.

Google Introduces Gmail Paper 134

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 01, 2007 @07:37AM from the finally-i-can-be-pc-free dept.

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nacturation writes "Everyone loves Gmail. But not everyone loves email, or the digital era. What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman? Now with Gmail Paper, you can request a physical copy of any message with the click of a button, and it'll be sent to you in the mail. Photo attachments are printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip. And it's totally free: the cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements printed on the back of every print."

Google Using Pre-Katrina Imagery on Google Maps 242

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 31, 2007 @03:46PM from the errr-huh dept.

Thirdsin writes "CNN reports that images of lands devastated by Hurricane Katrina have been replaced on Google's map service with pre-Hurricane Katrina imagery. Now a subcommittee from The House Committee on Science and Technology has asked CEO Eric Schmidt for Google's motivation behind the imagery switch. '[Congressional subcommittee chair Brad] Miller asked Google to brief his staff by April 6 on who made the decision to replace the imagery with pre-Katrina images, and to disclose if Google was contacted by the city, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey or any other government entity about changing the imagery. "To use older, pre-Katrina imagery when more recent images are available without some explanation as to why appears to be fundamentally dishonest," Miller said.' It is worth pointing out that images from Google Earth have not been changed."

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